When the armored griffins of the Cecilians flitted across the sky, Count Uriel still had leisure to enjoy the view of the Crow Terrace. This highland once housed several sentry towers and a small fortress, which was one of the strongholds of Saint-Sunil. , but it has been destroyed by the flames of war at this moment. Among the scattered ruins, only the flag equipment left by the defenders hastily retreated and the torn corpses of the crystal cluster giants can be seen. The brand new flag is flying among these dilapidated ruins at this moment, bringing There is a wonderful beauty of contrast.
A cool wind blew over, and there was some strange smell from the battlefield in the wind. Count Uriel took a deep breath and said with a smile: "The past few days were really difficult, but fortunately, those difficult days are finally over."
"We didn't encounter any resistance. There are only a few seriously injured and dying monsters in this place," said a viscount next to him. "I'm afraid these achievements are not enough?"
"It doesn't matter, we can gather up these ready-made wrecks," Earl Uriel said casually, "Our king should be very busy in the future, and he probably won't have time to distinguish these trivial matters."
"Our new king..." The viscount next to him said with a chuckle, and then looked up at the sky curiously, "It's strange, why are those griffins wandering around here all the time?"
"That should be the griffin of Cecil." Count Uriel looked up at the sky. "Are they here to say hello to us?"
The armored griffin hovered over the crow platform for a while, then suddenly flapped its wings and flew obliquely into the distance.
Count Uriel narrowed his eyes, and after a while, a feeling of uneasiness finally emerged from the bottom of his heart.
He thought of Earl Lucre, who was executed by the king.
"It's a trap"
Earl Uriel roared in shock, but a sharp whistling sound came from afar...
The Crow Mesa was shrouded in an explosion like a sky-shattering earth-shattering, flashes of light continued, and clouds and mist rose into the sky.
Wales stood on the city wall of Saint-Sunil, watched all this calmly, and said softly after a long time: "He is really decisive."
And the people other than him, those who stood on the city wall and knew what was on the Crow Terrace, those noble children who supported the king, the soldiers who defended the city, and other people who were left behind by Wales for various reasons, all of them Watching the terrifying scene in the distance with shock and fear.
The crowd exclaimed, and there was chaos on the city wall. Some people rushed towards the king, wanting to ask for further orders, but Wales raised his long sword, and a magical voice resounded through the city wall: "Quiet inner court nobles, stay behind the guards, Follow me out of the city to meet Duke Cecil."
"Your Majesty!" an inner court nobleman exclaimed, "Absolutely not! They just bombarded the Crow Terrace, they just killed..."
"Do they know that there are noble knights on the Crow Mesa?" Wales asked calmly, "Do they know the order I gave in Silver Castle?"
"Your Majesty, this..."
"This may be a terrible misunderstanding, so it needs to be clarified in person," Wales said in an unquestionable tone. "In any case, the Cecilians saved the king's capital and wiped out the monsters on the plain. Their legion is on the Outside the city, we must meet."
The last words of the king woke up all the people present. Those inner court nobles who were in shock and fear realized who had the real initiative, and those who were smarter suddenly noticed it from Wales' abnormal attitude. Some facts, smelling a terrible, bloody truth that happened in the sun, after a short period of confusion, they found that they had no more choices.
Whatever the truth behind the bombardment on Raven Mesa, they must now go out of town to meet Cecil's army, as ordered by the king.
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"The meeting place is in Mill Town, which is already in ruins," Victoria said after finishing the magical communication with Duke Baldwin, turning to look at Gao Wen, "Wales and the nobles of the inner court have already set off."
Gawain nodded: "Let's go too."
His calm attitude even made Victoria feel an unspeakable fear, and the latter couldn't help but said, "Aren't you worried that it's a trap?"
"Worried, so I'll take a tank battalion but I don't think it's likely to be needed. Wells is a smart man, and Baldwin Franklin is even more so."
Victoria was taken aback for a moment, and then glanced at Raven standing not far away.
This terrible incident that happened in the sun was completed by a letter sent by the royal shadow guard. At first, Victoria thought why he didn't contact her directly through the magic message. After all, she had already arrived in Sansuan. The area of Neil was within the reach of magic communication, but soon she realized that the guardian of the western border knew her very well, and Baldwin knew that she would definitely not agree to this bold and extreme "conspiracy". Let her take a shot to stop this from happening.
The Duke of Baldwin, who is in charge of Ansu's business, may act like a businessman... Precisely calculate the greatest benefit for this country, and then do everything to achieve it... This point has always been trapped in Ansu's old fashioned Victoria in the aristocratic fence of the world will probably never be imitated.
Gao Wen had already stepped out of the command post, and Victoria quickly regained her spirits and followed, but before getting into the car, the Duchess of the North suddenly noticed that there was someone missing at the scene: "Where is that Miss Amber going?" gone?"
Gawain walked towards the magic vehicle parked in the camp, and said casually, "She's going to investigate something."
Deep in the camp, in a barracks tightly guarded by soldiers, a Magic Net terminal is humming, and the printing device connected to the terminal is constantly spitting out sheets of white paper, with a lot of text printed on the paper , as well as black and white pictures and detailed hand-painted emblems.
Amber was sitting next to the magic net terminal, flipping through the printed paper and showing a weird smile. The smile contained three points of satisfaction and seven points of ridicule.
"It's really a lot... It's really thanks to that Welsh can defend the city until today under the circumstance of being held back by such a group of people..."
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The Cecil Legion sent a guard to go to the ruins of the mill town outside Saint-Sunil according to the agreed time and place, and before they arrived, Wales had already arrived here.
There is no need to occupy and repair the ruins, which are almost only ruined walls. The legion of the cluster giants trampled it down and demolished almost all its buildings and walls. It seems that the only way to deal with it is to completely bulldoze and rebuild. Its the best means.
The Royal Knights sent here almost effortlessly cleared away the sporadic monsters wandering around the ruins, and then planted the Ansu flag on a piece of broken bricks and tiles.
When the rumbling cannon came from the direction of the Crow Mesa, the Knights stationed here silently. They had received orders not to leave this place no matter what happened, and if nothing happened to the Crow Mesa...
Their task is to intercept and kill the returning nobles here.
Ansu's flag flutters on the edge of the ruined town. The broken bricks and collapsed walls give off a desolate atmosphere in the sun. A silent knight order guards this piece of broken bricks and tiles. Welsh Moen He led the surviving nobles and soldiers loyal to him to stand outside the town, watching those ferocious and weird steel war machines drive into this open land.
When he saw those rotating tracks, the shining steel armor with floating shields, and the rail muzzle gleaming coldly in the sun, Wales could clearly feel that everyone around him tensed up, and heard several voices of throat drumming .
In fact, even he himself was inevitably emotionally shaken when he saw those chariots.
The door of the magic vehicle guarded by the chariot opened, and Gawain stepped out, followed by Victoria, the Duchess of the North, wearing a long white dress with an indifferent and distant face.
The nobles and knights beside Welsh were slightly agitated, but no one made any more movement. Victoria just stood quietly behind Gawain, even though she knew very well that she was still standing after Gawain bombarded the Crow Mesa. What does it mean to be around the other side.
She was fulfilling her promise to Gao Wen in this way.
The atmosphere at the scene was delicate and tense, and an unspeakable awkward silence enveloped everyone. Of course Gao Wen could feel this special atmosphere, but he just showed a faint smile and calmly walked towards the new King Ansu in front of him: "We We finally met safely, Your Majesty, but the atmosphere here doesn't seem to be very good?"
"Because we may need to clear up a terrible misunderstanding," Wales said, meeting Gawain's gaze, before the other noble could speak, "We need to talk, Duke Cecil."
Gawain stared at Wales for a moment, then nodded: "Of course."
The town has been destroyed, but it is not difficult to find a room where the king and the duke can consult their affairs. A strong chapel is the only building here that has not collapsed. After a simple cleaning, the chapel became A place where the two talk.
Except for Gawain and Welsh, everyone was blocked outside the church, including the nobles and guards who came with the king, the commander of Cecil's army, and Victoria who came with Gawain.
The scarred wooden door of the church creaked shut, and a ray of sunlight shone into the church through the cracked colored crystal window. In front of the collapsed statue and pulpit, Gawain stood opposite Wales.
Gao Wen looked at the surrounding environment: "I never thought that our first serious conversation would be in this kind of place."
"It's cleaner here than Silver Castle," Wales said with a smile, "at least there aren't so many pairs of eyes watching here."
"But there are a lot of eyes outside," Gao Wen said, "I'm curious, what are you going to do next."
"What about you? Have you considered that if this is a trap, if I just want to put you in an unjust situation and confuse you to bombard the Crow Mesa, if I just want to eliminate dissidents and keep the throne, have you considered being here? What to do in this situation?"
"There's nothing to consider," Gawain looked at Wales, "because political power comes from swords and guns."
Wales looked at Gawain in astonishment for a while, he was stunned for two seconds, and then suddenly burst into laughter.
The new king laughed loudly in the abandoned chapel, laughing without aristocratic demeanor, without concealment, and even out of breath, as if he had never laughed heartily once in the first half of his life. It was as if they were laughing together today, until a few minutes later, the laughter gradually subsided, he slowly straightened up, took a deep breath, the smile still remained on his face: "Yes, yes... You really are such a person... "
"Our generation is like this," Gawain unconsciously recalled Gawain Cecil's memory, and sighed, "Then what about you, what decision do you have?"
"Do you know that in the past year or so, various reforms have been implemented in the Holy Spirit Plains and the northern and western regions, and we have tried various things," Wales said slowly after calming down , "New-style factories, town management, new military drills, even new-style schools, and a new freeman system...all these are challenging the old order, but the two Dukes of Victoria and Baldwin have tried their best to Pushing them because we all believe that these things can make Anzu great again... ”
A faint noise came from outside the church. It sounded far away, but it seemed to be getting closer.
Wales turned his head and glanced at the closed door of the church, then turned back and continued: "But in the end, almost all reforms failed... The factory became a new means of amassing land, the military drills were almost ineffective, and the new system could not be achieved. Promotion, school... The school was not built at all. The only change is that the nobles in the royal capital are divided into reformists and conservatives who are fighting against each other. There are constant quarrels and internal friction...
"But you know what, this isn't the only time Ansu has worked for change.
"Before your resurrection, as early as ten years or even decades, we worked hard many times. Of course, I was far away from Silver Castle at that time. Strictly speaking, it was my father and the Dukes who defended the country who worked hard. Second-rate.
"Duke Silas Loren brought a reform plan based on Typhon.
"My father the king considered creating a parliament.
"The former Duke of the North introduced the Constitution of the Kingdom.
"The Grand Duke Baldwin introduced a new commercial policy.
"All failed."
The noise outside the church became more and more obvious, but it did not affect the conversation between Gawain and Welsh. Gawain nodded slightly: "I know part of it."
"I left Silver Castle, but I paid attention to all of this," Wales continued, "I have been thinking about it since a long time ago, thinking about what is hindering the transformation of the kingdom to a better direction is that we do not have enough wisdom People? But before Typhon implemented the New Deal, their scholars and advisors were no more than Ansu; is it because we lack enlightened nobles? But the king and every duke protecting the country are reformers, and those who support reforms in the aristocratic system have always been Existence; we are short of money? Lack of food? Lack of time? But in fact, there is not much difference between when Anzu started and when Typhon started reforming.
"Then what are we missing
"In the process of comparing with Typhon, I vaguely found some key points, but after the rise of the southern border, we imitated your new order to carry out more drastic reforms, and encountered more intense backlash and contradictions Afterwards, I think I figured it out...
"The problem lies in the entire Anzu system headed by the king, with the feudal lord system as the skeleton, and the land and serfs as the flesh and blood.
"I don't agree with Edmund and Duke Lauren, but now I have to say...they did me a favor.
"Duke Cecil, do you know what's the hardest part about making change work from the top down?"
Wales smiled and watched Gawain quietly.
But before Gao Wen opened his mouth, he had already given the answer himself.
"That is to overthrow yourself."
Wales strode towards the door of the church, and when the noise outside had turned into roars and shouts, he pushed the door open.
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