The news of Qiao Gendigang’s invasion of the empire was a bit too shocking, and everyone needed some time to digest it. After the four inner court knights left, the others also dispersed. Metissa, Charles and others had to prepare for the possible battle that might be faced next. The other members of the envoy had their own concerns and were persuaded by Brando. Back, only Yuta remained by his side. The head of the mercenary was the nominal guard commander of the White Lion Guard accompanying the envoy, and needed to stay and wait for Brando's order.
But besides that, there were two uninvited guests, Qi Ya did not see anything, and still stayed aside with interest. The Duke's daughter didn't seem to plan to leave.
After everyone left, Qiyala asked, "Hey, what are you thinking of?"
Brando glanced at the little girl: "What are you doing here?"
"Why can't I stay here?" Qiara said, "You haven't answered my question yet."
"Of course it's to solve the trouble, didn't I say it earlier?"
"Huh, I can guess it even if you don't tell me," the little girl replied triumphantly: "But you really intend to stand aside with the Cruz people?" She looked at Brando curiously, because of the scarce Cruz descent. , Her eyes appeared natural light blue, transparent like glass.
"Now we have common interests, why not?" Brando replied.
"That's true, but it doesn't fit your style a bit."
Brando was a little funny, and couldn't help but deliberately squeeze her: "Ms. Qiyala, I have been with you for less than a month, and I spent more than half of the time hiding in the carriage. What kind of behavior do I have? , Do you understand it clearly?"
Qiyala glanced at the Duke's daughter on the side: "Arbitrary, self-sufficient—"
"Stop!" Brando watched the Duke's daughter move, as if he wanted to speak, and hurriedly called for a stop. He was already two years old.
Qiyala grinned: "What's the matter, although I don't know why, but I always think you hate the imperial people, at least you won't say such awe-inspiring words-what is the loyal alliance of the imperial, this kind of thing is even in other things. The nobles are just talking, I don't believe your nonsense."
Brando gave this little girl from the Westfah family a little surprised. She was actually not much bigger than the daughter of Goran-Elson, but the two of them looked like one was already an adult, and the other was an adult. Still a genuine loli, of course Qiara still has the childishness of a girl, but compared to the latter, it is at least the difference between heaven and earth. He did not expect that the other party was really observing him, and even said his mentality. Nine does not leave ten. If the person who speaks is someone who is familiar with him, or a person who is observant like a senior, then he may not be surprised at all, but the one who speaks is a small thing.
"How is it, terrified?" Qiyara looked at him: "Actually, it's not a big deal. You guy's city mansion is written on your face. It's not difficult at all. In fact, I know a lot of things, why? So, do you want to make a deal with me?" She looked at Brando and replied confidently: "You guys definitely didn't come to the empire for holy war, at least not only, you don't have to lie to me, tell me I don’t believe it. In short, what you want to do must be troublesome. Although you guy has a good judgment on the general situation, but your brain is too dull. The layout and the ending of chess are equally important things. Even the latter can often determine success or failure. If you ask me, maybe I will help you with kindness."
Brando looked at the arrogant man: "Then I really want to thank you."
"Actually, you don't have to. You can see that you are very stubborn, and you must not be able to look down to ask this lady," Qiyala said again: "But we can make an exchange, or you can tell me the knowledge inheritance of Buja people. , Can I help you make suggestions?"
Brando looked at the little loli showing the fox tail, and couldn't help shaking her head. This was not the first time. The other party seemed to have knowledge of his vain Buga. But now he was not in the mood to tell the bedside story to this little girl, so he had to answer casually: "The knowledge of the Buga people can't be finished in a short while, their knowledge recorded in the scriptures can be filled with white pagodas. I'm afraid that when we leave the empire, I haven't finished the beginning with you. Trades are fair, and I won't do unfair trades."
"It's okay!" Qiara blurted out, "I'm going to live with you for a long time anyway."
"Huh?" Brando looked at the guy inexplicably.
Little Lori patted her cheek lightly, and hurriedly changed her words: "I mean I can live with you for a while, why, don't you welcome a lady as a guest?"
Brando looked at the little girl from head to toe, and didn't see where the arrogant had contact with the lady.
At this time, a real lady, Grand Duke Vieiro’s daughter finally waited for the opportunity to interrupt the unnutritious conversation between the two, and asked: "Earl, did you know about the roots of Joe?"
"What's the matter?" Brando noticed the suspicious look of the Duke's daughter, and was slightly taken aback.
"It's what's happening right now, did you know it?" The Duke's daughter stared at Brando. She had wanted to ask this question since before-when Brando and Rogers and others said that, she I remembered Brando’s promise at the beginning-although he had had an affair with the Cruz people before, if he could really take care of the situation at this time, what he did before would not cause him trouble, but would Become his glorious emblem, an aristocrat who will neither succumb to the power of the empire, nor abolish justice due to private enmity, and distinguish between right and wrong. Coupled with his performance in this war, one can imagine whether in the empire or How much prestige and reputation this will bring to him in the kingdom.
But what made the Duke daughter start to feel a little frightened in his heart is how he guessed all this? How did you expect Qiao Gendigang's offense? How did you expect the empire to be in trouble
If this is a pre-arranged layout, it would be too scary.
Brando glanced at Eunice, as if he expected what the other party was thinking, and nodded simply: "Yes, Miss Eunice, it was actually I who contacted Qiao Genigang to make the people of the underground and the Lion of Toquinine form an alliance. Then they ordered them to attack the empire. You know, I have an earth sword in my hand. Although it is broken, it can still be used. I have seen them in the ring of trade winds earlier, and they cried and called to let I was going to be their warchief and said that I would marry the saint to me, but based on the principle of not intermarriage between different species, I rightfully refused, right—have you seen their saint ?"
The Duke’s daughter stared at the Lord Earl, but the more she listened, the more ridiculous she became, and finally realized that the other party was only teasing herself: "You..." At last she could only snorted bitterly, knowing this guy in her heart. I will never tell the truth to myself.
On the side, when Uta heard Brando talking about the saint of the Lion Man, he finally couldn't help but chuckle, thinking that the lord himself was too serious, and those words just now were going to be heard in the ears of the Lion Man. , I'm afraid that the enemy of Toquinine of Golden Mane tomorrow is not the empire, but the new head of the envoy of Eruin. She chuckled and caused Brando to take a look here. He hadn't seen his beauty mercenary captain like this. Uta almost immediately realized his gaffe, and hurriedly reduced his mind and lowered his mind. The head blamed his lord.
Brando’s words were absurd, but in fact they did not deny the doubts raised by Euni. The Duke’s daughter understood the meaning contained in it after a little thought. She has always been frightened and frightened these days, but the current situation seems even more serious. It was broken, but it more or less gave her a glimmer of light-at least it seemed that their envoy leader was not so unreliable. How many people said he was a lunatic, but how many people expected him to be today
She was silent for a moment, as if she had a little confidence: "Master Earl, what you said to those Cruz people, is it true?"
"I talked a lot with them, and there are inevitably some nonsense," Brando replied, "but which paragraph are you asking?"
The Duke's daughter gave him a blank look: "You said you can restore the situation, isn't it a joke?"
"Not all," Brando replied, "Miss Euni, this is the beginning of a huge war. There are very few things we can control in this war. Seriously, at least until now, we have not We, the outcome of this war will not change much."
The Duke’s daughter widened her eyes again. She understands diplomatic etiquette, but knows nothing about military matters: "But you still tell them that?"
Qiyala couldn't help but chuckle when she listened to the conversation between the two.
"Miss Euni," she replied, "This is the cunning of this guy. In a war, any factor will affect the outcome of the war, but the key is how much it affects. Of course he can restore the situation, but The key is to save it to what extent. This is not very easy to say. No one is a god in the sky and can pack a vote for this kind of thing."
"So you are lying to them?" The daughter of the Duke felt that he was going to take back his previous thoughts again. That is the inner court knight of the empire, the spy of the royal family, what is the difference between this and lying in front of the empire's supreme one
"It can't be called a lie. We can indeed get away. I just tried a way to give them a little confidence. After all, it is their duty to defend the empire, not ours. We stayed and helped them. Brando replied: "Don't worry, no one knows how bad the situation will eventually be, or how good it will be. We really don't have to beat Joe Genjigan, but we just need to do better than others. Now, as for what happens then, it depends on what we say."
The Duke’s daughter finally has a clue, which seems to be no different from foreign affairs, because they are all the same shameless: "Earl, what are you going to do next, will the mission be dangerous?"
Brando shook his head this time, and he couldn't answer this question. Just as Nimesis said, history has brought everyone back to the same starting line. Qiao Gendigang's participation in the war has completely changed the one he knows. history. Qiao Gendigang is not a real country, maybe it can only be called a kingdom. It is a general term for the underground world. In the dark underground, only the lord, the city lord, the patriarch, and different ethnic groups live together to form a big and small Xiao Lingluo’s scattered forces, he still doesn’t know which lords or lords were in contact with the Toquinine Lion, but Brando had a vague premonition in his heart that the invasion was not simple. .
Qiao Gendigang’s power composition determines that its lords rarely launch large-scale military operations, but if the current situation is as he expected, it is a rare move in the underground world, and it may not only include the actions of a few lords. , But Brando felt that this idea was a bit too absurd, even he couldn't accept it.
There is also a thick mist in front of him waiting for him to clear away, the familiarity with history is quietly disintegrating, and what is left to him is the experience of two lives.
Brando replied in a low voice: "I have a vague idea, but I have to wait for confirmation; before that, we have to minimize conflicts with them, but we still have to break through. If you accidentally fall into those underground creatures In the encircled circle of people, then we can’t do anything."
"Break through," the Duke's daughter asked: "Which way to break through?"
"It's best to break through the inland sea."
"Inner Sea?"
Brando nodded.
The snow on Anzeruta’s mountains melted to form rivers. These rivers flowed westward through many duchy, into the Sea of Dead Moon, southward into the territory of Eruin, and finally into the shining sea, while the northward rivers formed the inner Land rivers, these rivers flow through the north of Andzlova, gradually washing out a hilly area, which is today's floating cloud hilly area. One of the most famous is the Galaxy, which traverses Andzlova and opens up the Valley of Silver. The southern part of the valley is called the Vargos region, which includes large and small towns such as Vargas and Hemlock. To the north is the Bear Lake area, where the river forms a lake on the hilly terraces of this place, and then flows eastward under the obstacle of the Shortmane Mountains, into a huge inland lake.
And this lake is what Brando called the inner sea—the inner sea of the empire.
The Imperial Inland Sea is also called the Sublime Inland Sea. It itself is a huge inland lake, but it spans dozens of regions and the lake water has extremely high salt content, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the sea. The lofty Inland Sea starts from Cape Bay in the west, reaches the Metz area in the north, and reaches the Shortmane Mountains in the east. It is next to the Evergreen Walkway, and to the south is the end of the Rokozi Plateau, a fertile alluvial plain. The entire sublime inland sea almost divided the empire from east to west and south to north, but it gave birth to the most glorious civilization of the Cruz people. The countless ports and cities dotted along the coast have kept this huge empire in the past thousand years. Closely connected among them, in a long time, the entire inner sea has almost formed the most prosperous and elite region of the empire, the continuous southern Great Plains, the prosperous Cape Bay, and the shipbuilding town of Bandy Lun. , There is also the empire's heart of the region-Violet Valley.
It can even be frankly stated that if the entire empire is a sophisticated magic machine, the sublime inner sea is the magic core of this machine. It provides the empire with a steady stream of abundant power and energy, materials, manpower and money, and even more Government orders from the center of the empire are passed to all corners of the empire through this inland sea.
The lofty inner sea, on the west of the floating clouds and hills, reveals a corner of the entrance of the galaxy. Brando knows that there is a port called Ruen. Sa is standing north and south, and if Asa falls, then this port will be the last springboard for the empire to counterattack into Andzlova in the future. Of course, it is impossible for Qiao Gendigang to let go of this port, but the problem is that Brando can be sure that the opponent’s attack center will definitely be Asa and not Ruen, because it is in the Violet Valley to the west and north of the Evergreen Walkway. The Huaye Ling is stationed with a large number of local legions, not to mention the Crimson Legion in the Wilderness of the Four Realms. If they can’t take Asaph in the shortest time, then even the Golden Mane Lions of Toquinin have fallen. The Rokozy-Broken Sword Mountain Range defense line will also be blocked by Vargos by the imperial legions from all quarters who have heard the news. At that time, if you want to seize Asaph again, I am afraid that you will have to pay a tragic price.
Conversely, after taking Asaph, dealing with the small port of Ruen is a matter of catching turtles in the urn. At that time, even if the Cruz people reacted, it would never be possible for the army of the Violet Valley to swim across the lofty inland sea. Support Luen
When Ruen fell, the imperial navy lost its landing fulcrum. The center of the war could only return to Asaph, and the empire had to break through land. Obviously, this is what the underground people of Qiaogendigang want to see most. matter.
The Duke’s daughter seemed to understand Brando’s thoughts, but her gaze fell on the map. There were at least three regions from Vargos to Ruen. Obviously, the journey would not be too smooth. It doesn't only need to experience what kind of breakthrough.
"This road is not easy to follow," Unlike the silence of the Duke's daughter, Qiara asked directly: "Qiao Gendigang has already walked in front of us, are you sure to break through their blockade? ?"
Brando shook his head slightly, grasping based on certain information, but at this moment, all they can do is wait-I believe that soon, the exact news will come back. From Vargos to the Bear Lake area, where did Qiaogendigang’s army advance during this day? Did the imperial troops stationed there, especially the private armies under the nobles, resist, or even flee? Wherever he fled, this is all the information he needs.
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