Above Crusad's gate, large purple flags painted in the shape of bows, arrows and trees were placed in a row, rustling in the wind.
Elizabeth stood at the edge of the gate, raised her head, and looked at the vast wilderness of Horli Kingdom. She was wearing a pure black gown with a white flower on her chest. Her thin cheeks were motionless in the wind, looking extremely cold. Behind her, several soldiers were waiting quietly not far away, their backs straight.
"All the garrison in Crewe Town have fled. As long as you send troops, you can occupy it now." Suddenly, a figure appeared from the stairs, walked slowly, and reported calmly.
As the man spoke, he stopped beside several soldiers. Then, he reached out and tapped the soldiers on the shoulders and winked at them. Seeing this, the soldiers nodded knowingly, turned around and left the top of the gate without saying anything.
Elizabeth also turned around.
"I don't know how to thank you..." She said slowly, "Miles, without your infiltration, I think no matter how many troops we had, we would not be able to break through the defense of Crusad Gate. The Wood family owes Just a favor from you.”
Hearing this, Miles smiled incredulously.
"The Duke's last wish, of course, I will go all out to repay your family's kindness to me in the past."
Elizabeth also nodded, thoughtfully: "Yes, my father's last wish..."
"I'm afraid even he didn't expect that the Duke had prepared so many things, which were not really revealed until after his death." Miles sighed softly, then suddenly lowered his head and said, "Miss Wood, I'm sorry about your father's death." Passed away, no one could have predicted that things would turn out this way.”
Elizabeth came back to her senses, but her face did not appear sad because of this, but quickly returned to calm.
"Thank you, but... call me Duke Elizabeth, I am no longer the little girl I was before."
Miles raised his eyebrows, seeming a little surprised, but did not object.
Following Elizabeth's words, the city gate slowly opened directly below the two of them. Soldiers waving purple flags rushed out, shouting "Fight for the Wood family", and rushed toward the abandoned town of Crewe.
The two of them looked towards the direction of the battlefield. After a while, the flag belonging to the Wood family was planted in the town of Crewe. So, they looked back.
"Are you going to find him?" Elizabeth turned to look at Miles.
"Yeah." Miles smiled and said casually, "If it weren't for him... If it weren't for his academy, I might have completely turned into an undead, or simply stayed in the world on the other side of the rift forever. They spent so much time It took a lot of effort to revive me, but now... he seems to be in some trouble, and I can't just sit back and watch."
Elizabeth heard this and nodded.
She turned her gaze back and continued to look at the town of Crewe - or at the wider Horli Kingdom. Her lips were pursed and her expression was firm, but at a certain moment, a little confusion seemed to flash in her eyes.
"Help me send him a few words." She didn't know what she was thinking, but she suddenly said, "The era of the church has finally come to an end. Both I and my dead father are very grateful to him for his efforts. .Also...give this thing to him."
As she said that, she took out a diamond ring from her pocket, turned around and threw it to Miles.
Miles caught it and looked at it with a frown. The ring looks very old, and there are even scratches in some places, but the workmanship is extremely exquisite. There seems to be a vague name engraved on the inner ring of the ring. It must have been worth a lot of money at the beginning.
"This... what should I say to him?" He couldn't help but raise his head and asked.
"Just give it to him, and he will understand." At this point, Elizabeth lowered her head and thought for a moment, then muttered to herself, "Maybe he doesn't understand..."
"Um?"
Elizabeth quickly raised her head and waved her hand: "No matter what, just give him the ring."
"All right… "
Miles put away the ring and nodded. He turned around and walked straight to the edge of the door, jumped down, and quickly disappeared from Elizabeth's sight.
So, in the end, Elizabeth was the only one left at the gate. She looked at the flying flag on her right, suddenly closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, her eyes became as cold and hard as before.
The news of the fall of the gates of Crusad spread like the plague. But this time, looking at the family emblem printed on the military flag, everyone knew that the army occupying the gate had a background, and that the great nobles of the Horli Kingdom had not been completely exterminated.
No one knew what was going on, but soon, Wood's army issued its own manifesto - revenge. Duke Colin died tragically in a church raid, and his only daughter, Elizabeth Wood, an exiled mage, officially declared to inherit her father's title at this moment. She raised an army and returned to the kingdom to take revenge on the church.
It sounds like this story is a bit too legendary, as if someone had deliberately arranged everything to be like this.
But... In any case, this is good news for most people in the Hori Kingdom. They do not want to see the church continue to occupy the royal capital, and they do not want the kingdom in civil strife to be invaded by foreign enemies. A Duke of the kingdom who leads the rebellion is what most people are looking forward to at the moment.
But at the same time.
Benjamin's reaction was more of surprise than expectation.
"Crusade Gate? This is too sudden. The defense of that place is so formidable that even heavy troops may not be able to defeat it. How could it be breached like this?" He looked at the report handed over by the person in charge of the ANBU, Immediately raised doubts.
He still remembered that when he occupied the gate, he played countless tricks and tricks. In the end, he only relied on teaching himself to be careless to successfully occupy the place. Why now...that indestructible fortress seems like anyone can break it
"I don't know, but... they seemed to have captured it very quickly, and the movement was very small. The only possibility is that there was a rebellion within the gate defenders, or... someone can complete an almost unbelievable task and sneak in from the outside. Get in."
Benjamin shook his head and rubbed his temples gently.
Wood family…
When delivering the news of Elizabeth's death, Benjamin knew that she might come to Horli Kingdom in a fit of emotion. But he really didn't expect that Elizabeth would come with such fanfare. If I remember correctly, she seemed to have established a mercenary group in Freeden, but... what the Hori Kingdom is facing now is not a mercenary group, but an army!
Where on earth did she get the army