Knight and Wand

Chapter 91: The Disappearance of Villania

It was just dawn. After washing up in the bedroom, Leon raised the bronze mirror for the first time in a long time and shaved his head with a comb.

The original owner of this body had hair that was not short to begin with, but it hadn't been cut for over two months and now it had grown even longer.

There was no one in the mansion who could do hairstyling right now, so he planned to find time to cut it short so that it would be more convenient to wear a helmet.

Leon casually stroked his hair in front of the mirror and noticed that the black gradient hair that was only about two centimeters long at the roots seemed to have grown longer?

If this goes on, will my hair turn from brown to black sooner or later?

Is this really a disease? I'll ask Miss Laura next time.

Thinking this in his mind, Leon stood up and left the room.

Seeing that Corvis seemed to have been standing quietly outside the door waiting for a long time, he took him downstairs to the backyard of the house.

He asked little Lina, who was keeping one of the keys, to open the heavy iron lock on the warehouse door.

Pushing the door open, one sees a room filled with military supplies, neatly arranged.

After more than a month of careful care by the servants in the house, the warehouse that had been emptied of clutter was now exceptionally clean.

Even the original windows have been sealed and nailed with thick wooden boards to prevent thieves from stealing.

The warehouse was facing the main door. More than a dozen sets of armor were polished and maintained to a bright shine and piled on mats. There were also some incomplete sets of armor parts in the corner.

Two knight kite shields, some round shields, and several Uriah bows were hung on the wall like decorative furnishings.

On the left side of the wall, in the front was a redundant long-handled halberd axe, and behind it were a dozen cavalry spears with cold and shining light standing closely and obliquely.

On the right side of the warehouse, more than twenty sheathed swords and armed swords were placed on the tool rack of the original carpenter's house, and ten Uriah long knives were placed around the wooden rack.

Leon was excited when he saw the dazzling array of weapons. This sense of hoarding really satisfied his hamster fetish.

Leon came to the right side, picked up a sword and pulled it out of the sheath. He could see a thin film of oil on the blade, which showed that it had been maintained not long ago.

He checked several swords in succession and found the same thing in all of them.

This was not surprising. Before he set out, he had asked Brian the blacksmith and Olivia to teach the servants at home how to maintain armor and swords as soon as possible.

Reality is not like in games where you can just leave your equipment there when you don't need it.

Unpainted armor and the blades of various weapons need to be regularly maintained to prevent rust.

Olivia's bill was very detailed, and the grease and ointment purchased from the town cost a lot of money.

Leon rummaged through the swords and picked out the one with the best appearance and center of gravity from the swords of the Kantadar squires, then turned around and gave it to his first knight squire.

"This one is pretty good. Of course, it's definitely not as good as the rune sword you lost. I hope you don't mind it." Leon smiled awkwardly.

"How could that be." The blond boy took the sword solemnly: "I will regard it as my life."

"Oh, don't be so serious. When I have money, I will give you a better one."

Leon recalled the hand-control magic that the other party had used. It was a pity that Corvis' magic sword was blown somewhere during the battle, but even if it was found, it would probably be destroyed and unusable.

As the blond boy said, his object manipulation magic generally has a limited control distance. Once the object exceeds the several-meter extension range of his own magic power, the object will be out of control.

Only by using magic items engraved with specific spell runes and having their own magic links can the distance, weight and even control accuracy of other object-manipulation spells be increased.

Leon guessed that the principle might be similar to the rune crossbow arrow he had picked up before.

Although such a small spell is not very threatening to the powerful wizard Atias, for ordinary enemies, the magic of manipulating objects is like the sword-wielding skills in fairy tales.

Even though it is far from being able to achieve the magic of taking someone's head from thousands of miles away.

He can control a flying sword within a field of vision of more than ten meters, and its power is scary enough to ordinary people.

Unfortunately, without the rune sword, Corvis can only rely on traditional methods to cast spells, and he certainly cannot fly the sword.

Without special magic items or the aid of a magic wand, he cannot manipulate heavy objects and can only defend against small objects such as daggers, darts, and stones.

But if it is a sneak attack, perhaps for mortals, this small thing that is difficult to detect and guard against may be more effective in killing than the rune flying sword.

Leon couldn't help but imagine what would happen if Corvis manipulated a thin needle and inserted it into the enemy's eyeball through the gap in the helmet visor.
I also thought of the blond boy's invisibility magic that hid his body.
It's really chilling.

Leon patted the shoulder of his younger brother in front of him with relief.

Fortunately, the other party is not only a trustworthy partner, but also a guard loyal to him.

If Olivia is his trump card against the army, then the boy in front of him is his trump card against a single target.

Although Corvis didn't have Olivia's extraordinary martial arts that made him unrivaled among the enemies, he couldn't even beat himself in hand-to-hand combat.

But if you have to deal with an enemy that you have to deal with secretly in the future, Corvis's unique skill will be extremely useful.
Putting aside the idea in his head, Leon took Corvis to the pile of armor again to find a suitable armor for him.

The blond boy's figure was much lighter and slimmer than himself, Azerien, and Lohak.

Piriano had never thought of training this young man to be a warrior. As a beautiful plaything for many years, Corvis was obviously not allowed to eat and drink a lot to develop his body.

The result was that even though Corvis was over 1.7 meters tall at the age of fifteen and not as petite as Olivia, it was still difficult for him to find armor that fit him.

After trying several sets in succession, Leon finally found that for Corvis' current body shape, the combination of plate chain composite armor on the upper body and scale armor robe on the lower body, like Olivia did yesterday, was more suitable.

Ignoring the boy's refusal, Leon and Lina helped him put on the mixed cavalry armor.

Watching him sling his sword, Leon looked up and down at his heroic young servant and was very satisfied.

The other person is just like that kid Azerien, with a handsome face. No matter whether he is wearing men's or women's clothes or armor and robes, he is pleasing to the eye and makes people admire him.

With the help of little Lina and Corvis, Leon also put on his knight's plate armor.

Just in case, he took down the kite shield from the wall and picked up a cavalry spear from the long weapons.

Unfortunately, there was no real lance. Among the defeated soldiers, only the captured Knight Kantadar had a lance left, but it had been damaged in the fight between the other side and Olivia.

Leon could only make do with the lances of the squire cavalry instead.

As for the halberd-axe specially made for the Knight of the Order of Arms, although it looks more powerful, it is too heavy.

This kind of special heavy weapon, at present, besides the kid Lockhart, only Olivia, with her amazing strength, can wield it freely.

Leaving the warehouse and placing the cavalry spears and kite shields on the loaded packhorses, he and Corvis mounted the two fat and strong ordinary Uriah warhorses that Hawke had brought.

Leon stopped torturing his black horse. The noble warhorse that had carried him and Corvis to escape with great effort now needed to be well fattened up at home.

When I left, I didn't see Olivia. Azerien arranged for her to take turns patrolling the territory these two days.

Azerien was patrolling the territory in the morning, and the girl in charge of the afternoon was probably still asleep early in the morning.

Leon finally returned to Selva after more than a month, but he couldn't have a good chat with Olivia, which made him feel a little regretful.

However, the journey to the front line is not far, and it will only take two or three days at most to go there and back. After I have dealt with the important matters, it will not be too late to tell the girl about my adventures and experiences along the way.

The two men and three horses were trotting along the broad road. Leon was bored and looked at the young attendant beside him.

After he accepted the other party's oath last night, he almost couldn't sleep. After thinking about it for half the night, Leon still couldn't figure out the other party's thoughts.

There was no need to hide this doubt from his friends. Taking advantage of the opportunity to chat, Leon asked the boy directly, "Corvis, why do you want to be my squire? Although I am honored to have your loyalty, if you expect a country knight like me to help you restore your country in the future, you are overestimating me."

"Restore the country? You misunderstood, my lord." The blond boy denied.

Leon waved his hand: "Don't call me that when there's no one else around. I'm happy to be your lord, but you're still my important friend. We're not talking about business now, just chatting as friends."

Looking at the other person's serious eyes, Corvis had no choice but to nod.

"Okay, Leon, if you insist."

The young man sighed and continued, "In fact, after so many years, I have already accepted the reality of the destruction of Villania. The land of my hometown was not only occupied, but also completely conquered.

Villania's misfortune is the misfortune of me and my family, as well as the misfortune of the royal family and the nobility.

But it is not the misfortune of the people of Villania.

Now, except for me, the last descendant, there are only a few surviving descendants of the Vilanian nobility who are still unable to let go of the memories of the past.

As for the people of Vilania, it is now impossible for them to abandon their comfortable life as Atias people and go back to the past to become poor mountain people again.

Even if I really have the chance to lead an army to try to retake my homeland, the first people to raise the black flag and point swords at me will probably be those former Veranians. "

"You mean, after the Kingdom of Vilania was annexed by the Atias Empire, people's lives became better?"

Leon listened in surprise.

To be honest, based on the preconceived information and experiences he had been exposed to, as well as the hostile stance he had taken when rescuing Ms. Elena.

He thought that the Black Empire would turn all the Vilanians into slaves.

"From what I saw when I followed Pilieno back to my hometown, the people are living much more prosperously than before. In one or two generations, they will proudly hold high the black flag of the empire and call themselves Atias."

With a wry smile, Corvis said, "Of course, royal descendants like me and other noble descendants who survived being enslaved are obviously not included in this list."

".In the history of Atias' rise, he conquered one kingdom after another on the Eastern Continent. In the current empire, how many people still remember the name of their ancestors' homeland?"

At the end of his speech, there was an inexplicable melancholy in Corvis' eyes.

“I pledge my allegiance to you and reveal my bloodline, not because I still have unrealistic fantasies about the past.

It is precisely because I have the opportunity to choose my life again now that I want to leave the past behind that I make my current choice with this identity.

Even if I have a chance to avenge my lost relatives from the Atias in the future, I will no longer dream of the past as the son of a king. "

After listening to the boy's story, Leon fell silent for a moment.

Honestly speaking, if the people of the East Continent who were conquered by the Mage Empire were ruled by the Magic Emperor, their living conditions would be much better than before.
Regardless of his current identity, from a God's perspective, Leon even admired the skills of those men in black.

If we can achieve the goal of only harming the nobles and the original ruling class on the road to conquest, rather than the lower-class people, we can greatly improve the people's living standards.

In Leon's view, the unification of the East Continent by the Black Empire was destiny.

After all, he is also a
Halfway through the thought, Leon pounded the saddle hard.

Oh no, I’m no longer a commoner now, I’m a fucking noble.

However, the Atias Empire was far away after all, and he would definitely not see that huge army set foot on the Western Continent to advance the historical process of this world in his lifetime. Leon suppressed his unfounded worries at the moment.

He looked at Corvis again: "In that case, why do you want to start over by becoming my servant?"

The young man blinked, looked at the master he chose to serve, and couldn't help but smile: "You are not playing dumb?"

“???” Leon turned his head, a look of black question marks on his face, not understanding what was going on.

"You saved me twice. The first time you gave me my freedom, and the second time you risked your life to save me from being hunted down."

Corvis said jokingly with a strange look on his face: "If I were a girl like Miss Olivia, I would probably want to marry you. Don't you take your life seriously?"

"It's not as exaggerated as you say. This is our first cooperation. I'm helping you mainly to save Ms. Elena."

Leon scratched his head: "As for the second time, I was also trying to save myself and my friends. It's impossible for that wizard to let me go after killing you."

"If you hadn't told me from the beginning that I could cross the spirit-like land, wouldn't you have been able to escape by just taking me far enough away and then abandoning me halfway, and running into the forest by yourself?" Corvis shook his head helplessly, "Why would you risk your life to save me?"

"This"

Leon lowered his head and thought about the feasibility of the plan mentioned by the other party.

After a long silence, he came back to his senses and said awkwardly, "Is there a possibility? I was too anxious at the time to think of the method you mentioned."

"You didn't expect it. Or you simply don't think that way?" Corvis smiled and did not comment.

"But whether it was unexpected or not, your actions have given me a second life, and I want to use this new life to serve you. Why not?"

The blond boy looked forward and continued, "To be honest, I feel a strange sense of security around you. I feel that no matter what difficulties I encounter, you will lend a helping hand without reservation.

I admire your character, but I am also worried that this kindness will be exploited by truly despicable people, so I want to stand by your side and be your sword and shield. "

Listening to the other party's praise, Leon's face became hot, but he was immediately shocked and turned to look at the boy: "Corvis, don't be angry when I ask you this, you don't like men, right?"

The blond boy saw the sudden fear in Leon's eyes and was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. "What are you thinking? I'm not a twisted and pathetic guy like Eamon. If I want to have that kind of idea about you, you have to tell me that you are a woman dressed as a man."

Leon finally let go of the unnecessary nervousness in his heart, waved his hand and said jokingly: "Then maybe in the next life, I'm far from being a man enough in this life."

Corvis said, "If that's the case, then it depends on my luck in reincarnation. Otherwise, in the next life, I might accidentally become a girl."

On the road, the two young men's hearty laughter was heard.

Going north along the road, they did not turn west at the fork in the road. There was no need to pass through the city of Farolis. Leon led Corvis directly along the avenue to the northeast.

This path leads to the Thornflower family's fortress in the east.

And through the nearest border pass, they can enter the war zone.

According to what Azerien and his companions saw and heard when they returned, nearly half of the territory of Mamor County has been occupied by Orland, and the largest city in that area is currently surrounded by the army of the Northern Kingdom.

It is said that if the strong city is captured, there will be nothing to prevent Orlando from annexing the vast county.
Leon couldn't help but speculate how much benefit his feudal lord could get from this war.

They marched forward without stopping, taking out the documents and passing through the fortress. Leon and Corvis only camped in the wild near their destination for one night, and on the morning of the next day, they arrived at the camp of the Orlando siege army.

Under the escort of scouts and surveillance, they arrived at the front-line military camp.

Looking at the huge wooden wall camp standing tall in front of us, stretching as far as the eye can see, and the teams of soldiers, laborers, merchants and craftsmen coming and going in it.

Looking at the various shops, street vendors' markets, and even dance halls along the way, Leon was amazed.

If I hadn't known that what was in front of me was a siege camp.

Leon thought he had arrived at a large developing town.

But the outline of the enemy city that he saw in the distance before entering, as well as the large-scale engineering equipment being built around the camp, told him everything.

It was as if the noisy scene in the town and the intense siege outside happened at the same time and in the same place.

(End of this chapter)