The gray sandstone broke away from underfoot and rolled down along a cliff tens of meters high, with only a few withered shrubs along the way. Sebasti hurriedly stopped his feet, raised his head with lingering fear and looked forward. The lofty mountains over a dozen miles were all shades of gray, and the mountain roads as thin as sheep’s intestines stretched between the patches of gray. The road is the famous withered road in the east of Karasu.
The young man was holding a donkey and he didn't understand. The people who walked with him, including those uncomfortable souls, said in private: The end of their journey is a place of fertility, but everything they have seen in the past few days More and more desolate.
He left Rosalin with his adoptive father, originally intending to go to Jiufeng. Who knows that by accident, he came to this completely strange foreign land. Although it doesn't matter as long as it is a good place, everything he sees now seems to be in the imagination. Diverge.
The forest extending eastward in the northern lowlands of Karasu ends here. In the year of the cave beast, when the blood rod swept the eastern part of Karasu, there was a war with the Highland Knights here. The secret technique of the undead wiped out all the vitality in the canyon, forming the scene seen today.
Adeni wrinkled her delicate nose, frowned and looked at Naquel who was saying goodbye to Andrea and others not far away. She smelled the rich breath of death spreading here from the air.
"Mr. Naquel, from here to the south is the Grey Mountain Road. There is a path leading to Westminster, and after passing through the forest, you will reach the northern end of the vast desert. From there, you can return to Rubin. "
Freya took a folded map from Nassin and handed it to Naquel.
"Miss Freya, Ms. Bai Wu, and Mr. Nashin, the children of the desert will never forget the grace of others. I will tell the elders word by word about this." Naquel held his chest with his hands. , Gave everyone a confession of Rubin.
"It's serious, it's serious." Na Xin waved his hand again and again. Because of the long journey, the smuggler's Na Xin's dark skin has already exuded a deep brown, and his cheeks have sunk deeply because of the sun.
"It is not easy to persuade the whole clan to migrate north," Bai Wu stood on a towering rock, looked at the golden elf condescendingly, but replied in a cold and arrogant tone: "And even if it succeeds. , It will also be a long process."
"We will return as soon as we get back to Rubin," Naquel replied, "Bring the Sword of Wisdom to Eruin in the shortest time."
"That's the secret that the tombkeeper has kept for generations, right?" Andrea asked.
"Mr. Brando proved that he was the person in the prophecy. We went east to Rosalin to fulfill this prophecy. The elders are wise people and they will make correct judgments."
Bai Wu nodded then.
Adeni pulled her deputy aside and asked in a suspicious voice in a low voice, "Hey, Naquel, do you like that woman!"
Naquel glanced at her.
"You know who I'm talking about is that Miss Andrea, so young and beautiful."
"Ha," the Cavaliers laughed, "Sir Captain is jealous."
"Shut up, you idiots," Adoni said with gritted teeth watching these people burst into flames, "I just care about my teammates. After all, this is impossible. Think about it. You are an elf, Naquel. Besides, Miss Andrea is not a desert citizen. Her hometown is not in the desert."
"Yes, Naquil," the knights sang in unison, "Naquil, you can't live up to that certain sensitive and slender girl's heart."
"What are you talking about!" Adeni jumped up with anger, drew out the sword and chased after her, and the knights burst into laughter and disappeared.
Andrea looked at these guys with a smile. "Miss Adeni is really a kind-hearted girl, you can see her feelings for Mr. Naquel." She whispered.
Na Xin nodded quickly in agreement. Of course he knew that the girl in front of him looked young, but she was a powerful warrior, or the leader of a group of similarly powerful warriors. In Wagtail Strait, this kind of person is not powerful. The lord is at least a hero.
Bai Wu said disdainfully: "The feelings of ignorant mortals."
"Yes, great and wise Lady Baiwu." Andrea replied with a smile.
"Humph-"
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There was a buzzing discussion in the hall, and everyone looked different. Some people talked loudly, some people whispered their heads to each other. The hole cut in the stone was inserted with a burning torch. The light of the torch was bright and dark, making the contours of everyone present look extraordinarily deep.
The atmosphere was extremely solemn. At a long table placed in the middle of the hall, some people had already stood up, looking red and a little excited, and the chairs were pushed aside, falling down in all directions. But the people who were still sitting there seemed particularly silent.
The Duke of Golan-Elson sat on the head in a bearskin coat. The cold air from the Dead Frost Forest is going south along Lake Valen. Before late autumn, the weather has quickly turned cold. It is said that snow has begun to fall in Vieiro in the north and the northern part of Lantoniland, and in Braggs, there is also The scene of early winter.
Over the past year, the temperature in Eruin has been somewhat abnormal. Everyone can clearly perceive the shortening of summer and the prolongation of autumn and winter. Except for the areas of Tonigel and Jeandenell, which seem to have been prepared for a long time, food is available in most areas. There have been reductions in production to varying degrees, but fortunately, the Second Black Rose War did not spread to areas other than Golan-Elsen and Karasu, so farmers can still make ends meet.
It is said that in the north of Eluin, across the Dusky Star Strait, the climate in many places in the Yinwan area is more abnormal, and even some places have rare long nights and long days. The grain harvest of several small principalities is completely absent, and in Black Moon After the crash, the panicked refugees swarmed into the places that could be maintained, and destroyed the only order.
These rumors have intensified the panic in the southern border of Eruin to varying degrees. Now rumors are spreading that there are rumors that unknown enemies in the north are invading the territory of the civilized world. Although this rumor is unproven, it also makes people smell a sense of uneasiness. .
Thinking of these annoying things, the Lord Duke shrank his neck, seeming a little unconscious.
"Look at the good things our princess has done and negotiated with the undead. Now they have to send troops into Eruin. It's an inch. I said earlier how can those evil guys be trustworthy?"
"I saw that she was just a little girl with a weak personality. She was not like her father at all. In the time when the first king was reigning, Eruin would never be reduced to this point!"
"She wants to go back to Anlek's old road, but it's because the untouchables who Tonigel had fortunately poured her some ecstasy soup all day long. What knowledge can those guys have? A bunch of chenchens who saw money with their eyes open. I heard that Madara spent a lot of money buying these people."
The crowd was in an uproar upon hearing the words, and the accusations immediately fell on the Tonigel-the "mistress" of Count Denell, and the number one thug of the Count-now there is Freya who has the title of Valkyrie in private. In her body, of course, the nobles who were deeply afraid of this only called her "the loyal dog of the Lord Earl".
And Nimesis and Overwell, who have long fallen to the side of the princess, must be dubbed the title of'traitor'.
But few people accuse Brando himself, because most of the people present understand that Brando is the grandson of the sword-sage Darus, and there are highland knights and dark tower wizards behind him. And the Highland Knights line is already aloof in Eluin, not to mention the historical origin and status of the Cardiloso family is much higher than that of the families behind most of the people present.
They dared to blame the royal family and the princess unscrupulously, but few people dared to point fingers at the traditional power of the kingdom. Even among the people sitting here, most of them were just the spokespersons of the old aristocratic powers.
Everyone knows this.
But almost everyone gritted their teeth towards that'cold-blooded butcher's female butcher', as if their hatred for this emerging power was completely pinned on the lady of the staff. In comparison, Brando, who has never been in the country, must' Innocent' much.
"Maybe it was this demon woman who bewitched the grandson of the old Marshal Cardiloso behind her back. I heard that she did a lot of sensational things in Tonigel. She was just the daughter of an inferior person from a little noble. This kind of people are mostly narrow-minded, and they can do such things."
"I heard that she also urged Her Royal Highness and Prince Haruze to abandon the throne so that the ambitious figure from the north can take over the south. Maybe this woman has some ulterior ties with that one behind her."
"Is there such a thing?"
Some people apparently haven't heard about the reopening of the Ampersel Peace Conference.
"It is true that the envoy of His Highness Levin Onesson has now arrived at Firwood Castle. I heard that he plans to betroth his sister, the little princess of the Westfah family, to the Lord Earl. It's not that some agreement was reached behind the scenes, how could there be such a thing?"
"Never let her play tricks here!"
There was a commotion among the nobles in the hall. The battle of Ampersel determined the situation of the confrontation between the north and the south of Eluin. However, the hatred between the nobles of the north and the south is far from being eliminated. This hatred can be traced back to the era of the coup d’état in December. A large number of royal party members were persecuted and assassinated in the court struggle—and in the south, Vieiro, Golan-Elson, and Lantonilan were the headquarters of the royal party. This shows the depth of hatred between the North and the South.
These old royal party members can even tolerate the sudden rise of Tonigel and Brando in the political arena of the kingdom, but they will never sit back and watch the northern forces rule Eruin again. Because that may mean a new cleansing and suppression, even if there is only such a possibility, they will never sit back and watch.
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