The winter of the year when the Black Rose War broke out was unusually cold, and the air in the gray sky seemed to be frozen into powder and fell one after another.
Gelt lurked all night in the bushes on the top of the mountain, almost frozen.
He stretched out his hand to catch the powder that fell from the sky, the palm of his hand was slightly cold, and the ice crystals melted in his hand-it was snowflakes. The young man who was still wearing his cyan string mage apprentice robe that seemed to change for thousands of years raised his head and looked at the sky.
Snowing.
The first snow this year.
He couldn't help but think of the frequent conversation between Lord Charles and the young lord, mentioning the situation in the north, the fate of the Grand Prince's coalition army and Her Royal Highness...
"The war in the north is still after the first snow—"
Gelt himself was just a noble heir from a family of little gentry. His hometown was in Karasu, which belonged to a remote part of the kingdom. Although he was a noble family, his knowledge was limited, and he could only watch the big men live their lives.
It's finally better than the average person, but the recent years have also deteriorated year after year.
Jert came out to take a risk, he knew very well in his heart that it was to change his own destiny. He systematically learned magic for a period of time under a wizard teacher, and communicated with the teacher to understand the outside world—the chaotic world of this era has a fatal attraction for young people like him.
The chaos seems to be full of opportunities.
So after the death of the mentor, Gelt embarked on the journey of his dreams.
But his luck was not as good as he had imagined. Several companions from similar backgrounds he met died of illness during the trip. They had to take a rest at the firs and then consider whether to return or move on.
Unexpectedly, encountering this incident again, Grudin killed all his companions, and the desperate Jerte only wanted to stay and die with the nobleman.
But sometimes fate is so changeable.
On that night he met the young lord, participated in the battle, and was fortunate to follow the opponent after that, and then he became the first member of the wizarding group under Shire.
As Charles’s deputy, he had the opportunity to participate in the discussion between Brando and the wizard’s resignation—of course, young people couldn’t get in the mouth—the two talked about the situation in the north and the black rose of Bramanto. The invasion, talk about Cruz.
The vision of the Lord Lord made Jerte seem to have seen a whole new world, the kind of height he had never thought of before.
It was also something that his first mentor had never discussed with him.
At that moment, Jelt knew that he might have seized the opportunity, and the road to realize his dream was near or realized.
Since then, he has become a wholehearted Brando supporter, and this time he went to Pallas to inquire about intelligence, which he applied voluntarily.
However, it just so happened that the scout team needed someone who was proficient in spells, so he was selected for granted.
For this reason Charles also complained to Brando, saying that he had taken one of his capable deputy.
But Jerte didn't regret it. He felt that instead of staying in obscurity with the adult, it was better to come out and attract the other party's attention with practical actions.
He is a person who yearns for adventure, otherwise he would not leave home and come here.
The young man stared at the sky and thought for a long time, and finally came back to his senses. Then he rubbed his hands-he didn't dare to move too much, so as not to attract the attention of the sentry below.
From the top of the hill, he looked at a gray-yellow tent in the forest below and the camp with people coming and going.
Then he heard a rustling noise coming from behind, his companion was on guard in that direction, and there was a voice that was clearly his own. Of course, there was another possibility.
Gelt tensed his nerves immediately.
"Chinese cabbage… "
A strange password came from the woods, and it is said that Charles taught them.
Gelt immediately relaxed, he was his own, and he turned around and replied: "Muscle lettuce—who is it?"
"Ma Youfu."
Gelt recognized that the name was another apprentice wizard on the same team. That guy had only a nickname but no name—this name was given to him by the lord.
What a runaway guy, Jert couldn't help but think so.
"Jerte, how about it, is the Palais knight camp down here?" The wizard apprentice in a gray robe walked up to the cat, squatting next to him and whispered: "But the mouse said, there is no Camp—"
"This is not Pallas' camp."
Gelt shook his head.
"No?" Ma Youfu was taken aback.
The young man nodded slowly. He moved his frozen limbs a little: "They are mountain people."
"Mountain people?"
"Aren't they fighting with Pallas—?" Ma Youfu asked in surprise: "Why are they here? Could it be that they are planning to invade at this time? That's really God's help for us!"
But Gert shook his head, not that simple: "The mountain people have many branches, and they may be coming for us."
"what?"
"You, are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. I know them better than you. Okay, let's pass the message to the collection team. We are going to retreat," Jellt replied, "It's snowing, and we can't hide people here. We have to change our clothes. come over."
Ma Youfu looked at his companion and nodded.
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"Mountain people?"
The snowflakes in the sky became denser.
Not long after leaving the south gate, Brando ran into a mercenary head-on, who was an elementalist—the young man recognized him—Charre's men.
At Brando's request, Charles selected those who have the ability to cast spells from mercenaries and adventurers-wizards who know some tricks, third-rate elementalists, liars, witch doctors who pretend to be ghosts, and a large number of apprentices-to form A so-called wizarding group.
Because Shire, a wizard in the golden realm, was there as a signboard, this move did not take much effort. Even many wizards voluntarily left the mercenary group to join the so-called wizard group; although this matter was once at the head of each mercenary group It was criticized, but because Brando was backing him, he didn't really encounter any trouble.
And Brando knew that the advantage of concentrating the use of spellcasters had already been proved by both players and NPCs in the later wars. Of course, Shire complained to him more than once that these people were not worthy of being called the "wizard group". It’s not that it’s better to be a hodgepodge of people with three religions, but Brando doesn’t care, at least in his opinion—
This is the first formed wizard group under his hand.
What's more, there are many talented people among these people. If they are trained a little, it will be no problem to form the backbone of the wizarding association in the future. It's a pity that although Charles has the strength of a teacher level, he has no experience in training apprentices, so this so-called wizard group currently seems to be an empty shelf.
However, it is not completely useless. These spellcasters with even a little strength more or less follow a certain instructor, or at least have been apprentices for a period of time, and there are even academics who come from courses. They have one thing in common.
That is all literate hyphenation.
So Brando, Antitina, Tiger Sparrow, and Charles usually use these people to process intelligence and some paperwork. Obviously the person he encountered now was one of the so-called "intelligence department" of Tiger Sparrow.
Regarding Brando’s question, the elementalist nodded: "Yes, my lord, Lord Charles asked me to tell your lord that you may need this news urgently. This information was sent back by the'people in the north', and it said It's related to the mountain people—"
Those people in the north
Brando was stunned for a moment to remember that he did let the Tiger Sparrow and Reto organize manpower to infiltrate the Pallas area in order to gather news of the assembly of the Count De Nell's army.
Tiger Sparrow is solely responsible for this matter, but he also knows the specific plan. Charles asked his third-rate wizards or apprentices gathered from mercenaries to mix into these scout teams and pretend to be adventurers. Send a message back.
The method of sending back the message is also very simple, but this method was proposed by him himself, the animal messenger. Of course, this is actually not a new method, but a method of using the demon. The Cruz people had used this kind of information in the November War as early as the year of the cave beast, but there are very few people in this era. Thinking of sending wizards to the front lines, this method is far from spread in this era.
But it wasn't until the outbreak of the Black Rose War, a few years later, when the first magic wave arrived, and the number of people possessing wizarding talents increased day by day, and this method gradually spread.
In the latter part of the war, this was already a very mature method. But at that time there was already a more stable alternative-for example, with the help of magical equipment, but Brando did not have this condition now, so he thought of this'earth method' for the first time.
With the animal messenger transmitting information, the scope of an apprentice’s transmission of information is about one day and one night. In theory, the information is transmitted back one station through the station. The information that used to be delayed by almost a week can now reach the firs in an instant. collar.
But now Tiger Sparrow and Shire have limited manpower, especially those who have the ability to cast spells and are familiar with scout skills are even rarer. Therefore, the eyeliner team has actually established two or three so far.
Therefore, their surveillance of Pallas Knights was actually quite limited, and Brando hadn't expected that this level of surveillance would get useful news so quickly.
But now, it seems that those nobles still look down on their mobs.
Perhaps they have paid enough attention to them as opponents in the war, but outside of the war, Pallas still neglected to guard against them.
But this is easy to understand. Although Brando does not have much manpower now, he uses more methods than the regular army of Eruin. Although he himself did not realize this, traditional soldiers like Sir Pallas have a headache to deal with. .
Put wizards on the front line as scouts? In the eyes of the nobles, does this kind of thing seem to be done by humans
Only Brando who is accustomed to this approach will take it for granted. In fact, when he first proposed this idea, it was not only the conservative Antitina, but even Charles was taken aback.
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