"trouble?"
Veronica tightened her fur coat tightly, revealing the slender curves of the women's legion under the coat, which was the same as the light brown background color of Cruz's winter uniform—the same shade of Cruz's famous brown rock. She walked to Brando, passed him, lifted the felt, and looked out warily-the icy wind howled, causing everyone in the tent to fight a cold war. The lady put down the felt, turned her head, and said with a serious expression: "The following things are told to you, you can only listen with your ears and close your mouth to me, everyone is."
"There are three hundred soldiers in this camp, but starting today, the food reserves will only be enough to support next week."
Brando suddenly understood why Veronica had to be so solemn. If the news were to spread, I was afraid it would cause a commotion. This is because the army Veronica brought is the elite of the Cruz people. If it is the private soldier of the nobleman, it may not be impossible to cause a riot. In terms of tactics, the Cruz people call the food that is enough to support an army to maintain a week as a basic reserve. Normally, the army participating in the war consumes two basic units of food a week, and the number of troops stationed is relatively small. Less than four basic units means that an army that can still fight must consider whether to retreat. There are less than two units, and that is a situation that needs to be fixed in a difficult situation. Less than one unit of the army has not rioted yet, either means that the commander has suppressed the news too well, or that this army is very elite, or both.
However, Veronica participated in the last jihad and is a long-famous general of the Cruz people. She will never make low-level mistakes on this issue with the title of Goddess of War. Brando seemed to immediately guess why the Cruz people are facing the current dilemma, and he asked somewhat clearly: "Is part of your food missing—?"
"How do you know!?" Veronica turned her head abruptly, her frowning brows suddenly relaxed, but they frowned again. "Do you know anything, Brando?" she asked suspiciously.
"Don't you know what lives in this snowy field? Didn't I ask Aloz to remind you?" Brando was equally puzzled.
This snowy field is the nest of the damn Frost Drake, and this kid is so immortal that it happens to be a famous foodie, and it is very timid, only stealing food from travelers, it stays in this forest all year round. As well as doing this business on the shores of Lake Valendon, skilled in business, ordinary people are easy to get recruited if they don't pay attention. Of course, in addition to being proficient in this line. This Frost Dragon itself is also a good hand at sap and black knives. In short, it will never fight you head-on.
If there are any sinister and contemptible adjectives, then they must be specially designed for it.
"Aloz?" Veronica thought for a while before remembering the delicate doll-like girl with Mephistopheles, but the only impression that the latter left her was probably a stinking one all day. Little face, she didn't understand how Brando would let a little girl deliver such an important message to herself: "She?"
When Brando saw Veronica's expression, he knew what Aloz had done. No, she might have forgotten about it a long time ago. "That guy..." He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake. He should have let someone more reliable, such as Antitina.
Brando had to repeat the rumor about the dragon on the lakeside avenue.
Veronica walked back to her place, glanced at the parchment map, and threw the hare fur on her hand onto the table—the table was actually a pile of boxes. "You mean, it was the young dragon who stole our food? But it was the rations of three hundred people for nearly two months, and three carriages."
"Dragons always have some mysterious spells. If it deliberately hides its traces, it is not difficult to not be discovered by you." Brando is also a little helpless. If a dragon wants to steal your things, it is really difficult to handle. .
"It's really surprising that the dragons actually said that their noble spells are used for stealing. This... is a little different from what I saw in the book." A girl in white in the corner suddenly said, Brando actually I noticed her. The girl has a cute baby face, a white scholar's hat on her head, her eyes are blue like sea water, she is wearing a robe, and there are two blood-red crosses on her shawl, and she wears a pair of gray squirrel skins. Gloves, holding a thick book, and a small brass cross hanging on the bottom of the bookmark between the pages.
"Sorry, I didn't question your words, I just felt curious—" Seeing Brando's gaze swept over, the girl quickly explained with a smile.
"This is?" Brando read some self-confidence factors from the other's clear and transparent eyes. The girl is obviously not good at concealing her own thoughts. Although she tried her best to be approachable, she still gave it to the Eruins present. A feeling of being treated as a barbarian.
This is the superiority of a typical Cruz noble, but the superiority hasn't turned into arrogance. It must be a child who left home for the first time.
"Shiduo, she is a descendant of the Marquis of Thun, and she is now studying in Saint-Ebersson. She is a clever child, and she is very talented, Brando, you will love her. There are wizards from the Mithril Society. With her talent, I hope she can enter the White Tower for further training." Veronica did not scold the girl for interrupting, but looked at the other party with a relieved look and said, without concealing her love.
"St. Ebson's College? Bougain?" Brando said in his heart, it is indeed a great talent to be regarded by the people of silver, and of course, he is also lucky enough. He asked: "Marquis Thun? Is it the Thun the conqueror who crossed the sea in the battleship of the dragon head to conquer Xeverian?"
"It is the ancestor." The girl's eyes lit up slightly, and she probably did not expect that there were also people in the Eruin who could tell the origin of her family, especially the legend of her ancestors who conquered the Chevilian region. She has always longed for her and is also the pride of the family .
"This is to treat Eruin as an uncivilized area." Brando knew what she was thinking when she saw Shiduo's eyes. He took a look at the other party’s attire. The cross on the white shirt was a typical blood cross emblem—the blood cross was a prestigious academic organization in Cruz, and its status was a bit similar to Eruin’s Royal School of Geography, but the blood cross. There will not be such young members, presumably honorary apprentices.
"Then who is this?" Brando looked at the corner of the tent. He had noticed this man who had been quiet and did not speak. The other man was wearing a coat made of mink fur and a uniform underneath the coat, but the silver was clear. There is no family emblem on her breastplate, only an eagle emblem. This outfit looks a bit like a mercenary, but the brand new deerskin boots under the plaid trousers and the gems on the hilt prove that the other party must be extraordinary.
This is a calm man. As soon as Brando walked into the tent, he saw him and Shiduo standing behind Veronica, but unlike the frivolity and curiosity of another scholar, this one was older. The young man never spoke, but looked at them sharply in the dark. His silence made Brando feel a trait of a soldier's reticence.
But until this moment—
"Lenaret? Aurelius." Before Veronica could speak, the young man replied loudly in a cold tone, as if he could be proud of the surname. After he answered, he closed his mouth and resumed his previous silence.
Oh it's you! When Brando heard this name, he thought that the other party could indeed be proud of this surname, because it once belonged to a man with the name of an eagle, and the word associated with it was the empire and the supreme power-His Majesty the Emperor.
But Brando was unavoidably thinking of Laurenna and Feralas in his heart at this moment, for no other reason, because the other party was the eldest grandson of the bitter Lord who was recklessly killed in Feralas’ dreams—the grandson of the Great Emperor Grantodia. .
His Majesty the future emperor.
Brando also didn't expect the future legend to appear in front of him, and at such a young age, he couldn't help but look at each other more. As if noticing his look, Veronica showed a playful smile on her face: "I don't need to introduce it now, little guy."
Brando smiled bitterly, of course it didn't have to be. The Cruz nobles have the ancient precepts of sending their children out for a long journey, but this tradition has long been not followed by most families. Because of assassinations and accidents, too many outstanding descendants died in the experience, but the Cruz royal family is really courageous. .
"Dragons are high in the eyes of us mortals, but they also have many quirks, as if they have an almost paranoid greed for wealth. As far as I know, this time we are going to face a cowardly young dragon. It chooses Sneak action is not the nature of the dragon, but the character decision." Brando continued.
"The timid dragon? It's really interesting. The teacher really didn't make a mistake. You can see this complex world clearly only when you go out." Shi Duo exclaimed in surprise after hearing this.
"Don't despise it just because you are timid, no matter how you say it, the dragon is a terrible opponent. Even if it is just a young dragon, the same is true. The timid person dare to easily squeeze the ant to death." Brando warned. .
"That's right." Shi Duo nodded to him politely.
"This guy..." Brando was a little speechless.
Veronica heard something in his words, squinted her eyes and asked: "Brando, listen to what you mean, can you find it?"
"I don't have the ability to track down giant dragons. That's the job of the elven dragon hunters in Exotuk, but I just happen to know where it is hiding." Brando smiled slightly.
"Do you know where it is hiding?" Veronica's green eyes lit up. She turned her head and couldn't help but praised: "You really didn't disappoint me, little guy, it seems that there is nothing to stop me. you?"
"You're absurd, I'm just a fluke. Don't forget, I have a good relationship with Grand Duke Lantonilan, and Duke Vieiro does not reject alliances with me. They are the masters here. This young dragon is here. I have lived in this area for a long time, and the locals cannot be ignorant of it." Brando replied humbly.
However, Veronica seemed to be really overwhelmed by the incident. She still looked at Brando admiringly: "Brando, you make me regret it-I mean your age, hey, if you are willing to join What a great Cruz Empire."
"Don't I also stand with the Legion Commander now." Brando was overwhelmed by the hospitality of the Legion Commander, but he couldn't choose to become a noble Cruze anyway. He chuckled and moved away cleverly. The topic.
"Humph." Veronica snorted slightly, expressing dissatisfaction with Brando's perfunctory answer. She picked up the map on the table, shook the dust on it, and asked: "Where is the dragon? Place, it seems we have to catch it before it uses all of our food for its belly."
"Legion Commander, are you planning to leave now?" But compared with Veronica's ups and downs, Brando looked calmer.
"Huh?" Veronica looked back at him puzzled: "Of course, we can't hold on any longer. I don't know how long this matter can be kept secret. I have already ordered a reduction in food rations, but this It's just a short-term strategy. Sooner or later, people will be able to guess it."
She suddenly stopped and asked, "Brando, do you have any other ideas?"
Brando nodded: "Actually I brought you a message."
"The news? Good or bad? If it's good news, just tell me. If it's bad news, forget it, there is enough bad news, just let it be set aside." Veronica stunned. , Took out the captain's willful reply, she walked to the back of the table and took off her long sword from the shelf.
Brando looked at the woman a little helplessly: "Before we came here, we found the trail of Anlek."
The movement of Veronica's hand froze. She put down her sword with a click, turned her head, her emerald eyes shimmering, looked at Brando somewhat weirdly and asked, "Are you here to bring me the gospel today, little guy?"
"It seems that the Temple of Flame is really burnt to the fragments of this batch of portals." Brando looked at her, but replied to himself.
"You guys... They, no, of course we are in a hurry. Do you know how much the empire has lost this time? There is also a part of your credit. Don't be too proud. Someone will ask you to settle the account." Veroni When Ka saw Brando smile, he knew what he was thinking.
Brando glanced at the other two people. Lenaret was silent and unmoved by his words with Veronica, sitting there like a sculpture; while Shiduo held the book in both hands and looked at him with curiosity. In Cruz, Brando is now a household name.
Have the Cruz people ever suffered a defeat since the last holy war
"Let's talk about it." Veronica asked.
Brando told the story of the hunter girl again. When she heard Pea’s experience, Veronica didn’t show much sympathy on her face. She just said coldly: “Anglek is seeking death. road."
In the end, she turned her head and asked carefully: "You said that the girl followed all the way to this neighborhood, which means that her brother is still alive, and she left a mark all the way to tell you that Anlek had passed through this area." She With a confused look: "But what is the connection between these two things? Do you want to say that Anlek is also heading towards the nest of the young dragon?"
"That's the case, Lord Veronica, in order to avoid leaking the news before coming here, there is one thing I didn't tell you." Brando replied, "You already know that Anlek's trip is for the heart of the dragon. Come, but you didn't know that the dragon's heart was in the glacier of Despair, guarded by the young dragon."
Veronica was taken aback for a while.
"So you have some conspiracy, right?" She stared at Brando and asked.
What a conspiracy! But Brando nodded, "Whether it is an adult dragon or a juvenile dragon, it is not so easy to deal with, and Anlek may not dare to say that he is quite sure, so I suspect that they will go to a place first."
"Where?"
"Hibernator Temple."
When Veronica heard the name, it seemed as if she had been pricked by a needle, and the emerald green pupils in her squinted eyes showed a dangerous light: "I've heard of this place, you won't tell me those'things' Are you still alive?"
Of course still alive.
The wolf Axis was only temporarily sealed and fell into the sleep of a demigod, not to mention her heirs. The wolves at dusk chased the father of the giant, Milos the Frostweaver. After a great battle, the god of the frost giant fell here, and the blood of Asis also flowed on the snowy field, and filthy creatures were born from it. Those dark heirs were later sealed up, but they were still sleeping in the hibernator's temple.
Anlek definitely couldn't deal with a young dragon. His only chance was to release the heirs of Asis. Brando almost immediately guessed the Duke's thoughts.
But the other party definitely didn't know what he was about to release. It was not the complex bloodlines in the wolf disaster, but the true pure-blood demon wolf born in the blood of Asis, the true chaotic creature.
Opening the Hibernator's Temple also opened the way to the most central team instance of the frost-stained forest labyrinth.
Fortunately, Brando knew that it was a time-based seal. Unless it was opened from the inside, Anlek was destined to be disappointed. However, he had an idea, this idea not only made Anlek go home empty-handed, but also suffered a big loss.
To say that this idea is a conspiracy, it seems that it is not completely unreliable.
Seeing his look, Veronica knew that this young man was already confident, but it was not when she was discussing the action plan. She chose to trust him, but she also said: "It looks like you have already figured out what you should do, but I still have a question-"
"Um?"
"What is the heart of the dragon in your mouth, I thought it was the heart of the dragon?"
"Well..." Brando was somewhat innocent: "I don't know either."
"What!?" Veronica immediately showed a murderous look.
"Master Veronica, you know too," Brando glanced at the big book in Shiduo's hand: "Much of the wizard’s knowledge comes from books. Before you actually saw it, you It is rare to know what it is, you don’t think my experience is so rich that I have seen everything, do you?"
"Huh, sly answer." Veronica glared at him: "Don't think I don't know where you are hiding from me, you should go to rest for a while, and wait for me to gather the others."
Brando was staring at him in a cold sweat, and he didn't expect Veronica to really see that he was lying. It’s just that he didn’t panic about the origins of Dragon Heart, but he didn’t tell the Legion Commander that the reason he knew all this was not from a book, but from a person with the same name as this world. only games.
This is something that can't be explained, isn't it
Brando didn't intend to entangle on this issue, he simply saluted the female army captain, turned around, and prepared to leave with the others.
But unexpectedly, at this time, the poetry behind him followed closely, and before Brando lifted the tarp of the tent, he shouted: "Mr. Brando."
Brando looked back.
"What, it's just a little curious. Mr. Brando, you are the most knowledgeable Eruin I have ever seen. Do you really know the life habits of the Dragons?" Shiduo asked in a low voice curiously.
But Brando always felt that the other's innocent eyes were a little suspicious.
"No, I don't know." He shook his head altogether. There are some things you can never tell this kind of preconceived and unworldly little girl, especially if the other party is still a stubborn scholar, a female scholar: " I'm just hearsay. I also heard that dragons especially like human maidens and will plunder beautiful maidens back to their lair-do you know?"
Shiduo's eyes widened, her blue eyes were like sapphires, she looked at Brando with shining eyes, "Mr. Brando, you can really be joking, I or I have never heard of this..."
"So smart," Brando thought to himself.
The girl hesitated for a while, then asked: "Mr. Brando, I heard that you are a descendant of the Highland Knights? I heard that the Cartiers still maintained their traditions, marrying stepmothers and daughter-in-laws as wives. I heard that after you die And the soul is not purified in the flames, but the bones are condensed, put in a jar, and then buried on both sides of the road? Are these true?"
Brando looked at this guy a little weirdly, and then stunned for a moment before replied with a stern face: "Yes, not only that, but we still keep the habit of drinking blood, and if we don't agree with a word, we can draw a knife and kill. In our place, women can do it. There are many men, and men can also have many women, how about it, are you scared?"
Shiduo was stunned, her face was full of incredible colors, and the girl stared at Brando with her open mouth.
"Excuse me," Brando looked at him, and added: "What I said before is a lie to you—"