Rose Empire

Count Rad said that he just wanted to stay away from Alphonse, and Charlotte felt the same way. She really didn't want to have any face-to-face contact with Alphonse anymore.

Charlotte has too many secrets, and Alphonse's way of treating others as a joke at any time makes her feel uneasy.

However, now that her grandfather has arrived, as a granddaughter, she certainly cannot keep silent about Al's side.

Lena, who had been leaning against Charlotte, felt something strange about her body. She asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Nothing..." Charlotte shook her head and answered Lena softly, but she was desperately thinking of a countermeasure in her mind.

In the darkness, Alphonse gradually approached, and every step he took seemed like a death drumbeat.

Finally, at the last moment, Charlotte thought of a possible solution. Her fingers trembled and she spilled the hot water used to go with the bread.

"Ah, how could you be so careless?" Lena exclaimed, taking out her handkerchief to help Charlotte wipe her skirt.

Charlotte brushed off her skirt, looked embarrassed, stood up, and said, "I'll go change my clothes."

After leaving the crowd, Charlotte whispered to Renee, "Bring me a mirror."

In a hut requisitioned from the villagers, Charlotte sat in front of the mirror, squinted her eyes and looked at herself, then activated her ability "Confusing the Mind".

"Confusing Mind" cannot modify memory, but it can guide thinking. This is the first time Charlotte uses "Confusing Mind" on herself, and she is not sure whether "Confusing Mind" can work on her, but there is no better way at the moment...

When Charlotte changed her clothes and returned to the campfire, King Alphonse was talking to Count Philips and Count Rad. The conversation between the three was not very lively. This was not surprising. With Alphonse's personality, it would be difficult for anyone to be enthusiastic when sitting with him.

Sitting down next to Lena again and smelling her body fragrance, Charlotte suddenly found it difficult to suppress the desire in her heart. She leaned close to Lena's ear and whispered something in it.

"Eh?" Lena looked around and responded in a low voice, "Is it a bit cold?"

"Just give it a try." Charlotte gently touched Lena's palm with her fingers, "Maybe it can still keep you warm."

Alphonse habitually glanced at Charlotte who had just returned, but his eyes did not stay there for long before moving away again, without even Charlotte noticing.

In Platinum City, the flames and chaos are still spreading.

Groups of nobles trapped in the Platinum City came to the palace to protest one after another, and Henry pushed all the protesting nobles to Queen Mother Mary.

Queen Mother Mary suddenly felt tremendous pressure.

Mary didn't believe how badly these nobles were bullied by the tribesmen and how afraid they were of the cruel war. The fact that these guys could come to the palace to cause trouble for her through the bloody battlefield was enough to show that they were more than capable of dealing with the war in front of them. The ones who were really wailing in the flames of war were the civilians living in Platinum City.

Under normal circumstances, Queen Mother Mary would not bother to pay attention to these nobles who were making trouble out of nothing, and would even question them why they had the energy to complain here when they didn't have the energy to help the city defense forces defend the city.

However, the situation was different now. The tribesmen in the city were let in by her father Alphonse. Although the news had not yet spread, it could not be concealed and would sooner or later be known to everyone. This made Queen Mother Mary very passive and she had to carefully deal with the dissatisfaction of the nobles.

"Queen, it's not that we don't want to stay where we are and wait for Count Marco to finish off these tribesmen. It's just that our homes and estates are outside the city. If we wait any longer, we're worried that our property will be looted by the tribesmen."

The leader, Lucheni Holoven, spread his hands and said.

Lucheni Holoven's words resonated with many nobles.

However, if someone else said that he cared about the property outside the city, Mary might believe it, but when Lucheni said this, Mary couldn't believe it at all. Who is Lucheni? He is Count Sugis. Sugis is one of the richest fiefdoms in the Oran Empire. Although Emperor Leopold did not allow his brother to inherit the throne, he did not treat him badly. Lucheni Hollowen can live a life of luxury just by relying on taxes every year. No one with a brain would believe that he cares about the houses and fields outside the city.

To put it bluntly, Lucheni was just taking advantage of the situation, and his ultimate goal was to establish his own voice in the core of the empire.

"Marquis Brown Lexman has led his troops to support Duke Marco. All you have to do is wait patiently for news of victory or the arrival of the griffins..." Queen Mother Mary wanted to calm the nobles down again.

However, Fernandez Pastor, the Duke of Bonan, who had been silent, spoke up: "Queen Mother, why don't you let me lead the troops out of the city?"

"This..." Queen Mother Mary looked at Fernandez in surprise.

"Duke Marco has confirmed that the tribal leader is in charge of the camp and has deployed troops. The location of the camp has also been roughly explored. I am willing to lead an elite force out of the city to raid the enemy camp and kill their leader. By then, the tribesmen will surely be defeated without a fight, and the war will end soon." Fernandez said.

Mary looked at Fernandez and noticed that the Duke of Bonan's eyes were bloodshot. Queen Mary immediately understood that Fernandez was already anxious because he had not been able to understand the situation of the Principality of Bonan. Although both Brown Lexman, who was steady and cautious, and David Boyan, who was leading the griffins back to defend the king, could defeat the tribesmen with a 90% chance of success, it was still too slow. The Duke was eager to return to the Principality of Bonan immediately.

Mary had no choice but to nod. "Okay, I'll give you 500 palace guards, and let Count Marco assign you 500 elite city guards. Do you think these troops are enough?"

"That's enough," Fernandez said without hesitation, "The enemy is now attacking the South Gate with all their might. The main camp must be unprepared, so we won't need too many troops."

Although Fernandez said that it was enough, Mary still ordered Lucheni and his followers to gather another 500 knights for Fernandez. Lucheni had just urged Mary to wipe out the enemy as soon as possible, so she could not refuse and could only accept it.

Together with Fernandez's own 500 trusted guards, Fernandez led 2,000 knights and galloped out of the city from the north gate, made a circle, and then headed straight for the tribesmen's camp.

Basha was in the camp at the moment, and as Fernandez said, he was now very alone. After ordering the Black Fire Army to break into Platinum City from the South Gate, Basha dispersed the other tribes and let them plunder Platinum City and its surroundings at will.

The remaining stragglers were simply unable to withstand the elite assault led by Duke Bonan himself.

"My friend, I don't want to run away for the time being. Now I'm afraid it depends on you and your students." Basha listened to the approaching sound of horse hooves and fighting, and smiled at the man in black robe beside him.

"I thought we had no chance to take action." The man in black robe nodded and said in a hoarse voice.

The man in black robes was called Bruce Kotick. This name was once well-known in Platinum City, because he was not only a well-known warlock scholar, but also a mentor who pushed the warlock faction to perfection. On the list of heretics published by the church, he was the biggest sinner.

Bruce Kotick stood up and turned around slowly. Behind him were a dozen black-robed people dressed similarly to him. These were all warlocks who, like Bruce Kotick, were labeled heretics by the church and expelled from Platinum City and even the Orlan Empire.

"Dear scholars, dear students, dear warlocks, please join me in using the simplest way to prove our truth to the world. Everything can be extraordinary!" Bruce Kotick said with his arms open.

“Everything can be extraordinary!”

One voice after another responded, some old, some young, some crisp, some hoarse, some low, some high, but what remained unchanged was the unwavering faith in the words.

Fernandez led the knights in charging bravely, and the six wings of light behind him displayed his strength without reservation.

Mary thought that Fernandez wanted to go to war only because he was eager to eliminate the tribesmen and find out the current situation of the Principality of Bonan. But in fact, Fernandez wanted to catch the guy named Basha more than to eliminate the tribesmen.

More than ten years ago, when Fernandez first met Basha, Basha was just the leader of a small tribe. He knelt on the ground and kissed Fernandez Pastor's toes just to beg for a little food and salt.

At that time, a tribe called "Stone Teeth" frequently invaded the Principality of Bonan. Basha promised Fernandez that as long as the Principality of Bonan gave him food and salt, he would help the Principality of Bonan to eliminate the "Stone Teeth" tribe. Fernandez thought this was a good deal, so he agreed. Basha also quickly eliminated the "Stone Teeth" tribe.

After that, similar transactions took place many, many times.

Over the past decade, Basha's tribe has continued to expand, but Basha has always maintained respect for the Principality of Bonan. Every year he would come to kneel before Fernandez, humbly calling everyone in the Pastor family his master, and promised that he would never violate the borders of the Principality of Bonan.

As Basha's tribe conquered and grew stronger, the western border of the Principality of Bonan gradually became peaceful. Until recently, no tribesmen came down the mountain to plunder for two or three consecutive years. Fernandez Pastor was once very proud of his choice to support such a tribesman force.

However, who could have thought that the dog-like thing would give him such a big surprise!

When Fernandez heard the tribesmen shouting "King Basha", his head was buzzing.

He caught Bashar, caught that dog-like thing, and made that guy understand what the price a dog would pay for offending its master!

Fernandez thought with gritted teeth as he fought.

In addition, Fernandez also wanted to ask clearly: Who is the traitor?

Fernandez didn't believe that these tribesmen alone could break through the Principality of Bonan. If they did, there would be only one possibility - there was a traitor who leaked the intelligence of the Principality of Bonan and even cooperated with the enemy's attack.

Swish!

Fernandez chopped down another tribesman with his sword. Red flames were jumping around him, and under these flames, Fernandez seemed to have endless power.

Right in front...

Fernandez looked at the tribesmen camp in front of him. In the darkness, he seemed to feel that the half-blood giant who had once knelt on the ground and kissed his toes was also looking at him.

Duke Bonan urged his horse to charge again, ready to crush the camp built by these barbarians.

However, at this moment, the horse suddenly stepped into empty air.

The battle-hardened Duke Bonan immediately noticed something wrong with his mount. He pushed off the horse with one hand.

After jumping off the horse, Fernandez did not feel his feet on solid ground, but his foot sank into his calf.

Is this quicksand?

Why is there quicksand?

Fernandez was confused and struggled to get out of the quicksand, but the more he struggled, the deeper he sank.

Behind Fernandez, panicked shouts and neighings of horses continued to be heard, and more and more knights fell into the quicksand.

Fernandez soon realized that these quicksands were not ordinary sands. These sands seemed to be sucking the strength out of his body, which reminded Fernandez of the empire's unique weapon - the Vulture Arrow.

Is this some kind of special extraordinary material?

Fernandez's doubts were destined to remain unanswered, because the sands seemed to surge with life.

"Damn! What is this!"

Fernandez raised his sword and chopped, but it was of no avail. The sand soon completely submerged Fernandez and poured into his body through all seven orifices. The luxurious and exquisite armor could not provide any protection for the Duke of Bonan.

Quicksand begins as ripples, which gradually turn into waves, and then into tides.

The mountain-like waves swept away everything on the battlefield, whether living or dead, whether enemy or friendly.

The sound of the flowing sand waves was like low thunder.

The Orlan Knights and the tribesmen fled in terror at this great power.

However, whether they can escape depends entirely on the mercy of the controller.

"what is that?"

Marco Lehmann stood on the city wall, staring blankly at the dark shadow in the distance.

The dark shadow looked like a mountain.

But the mountain is moving.

The mountain was gradually approaching the walls of Platinum City.

As it got closer, its outline gradually became clearer. The shape was that of a person. No, to be precise, it was the upper body of a person.

What kind of person is that? Just his upper body is taller than the city wall!

"Hiss, that's amazing..."

King Basha, who did not face the "mountain" or "man" directly, could not help but take a breath of cold air. He really did not expect that the black-robed people who followed him all the way would have such a big hand!

Suddenly, King Basha's heart moved slightly, as if he sensed something, and his eyes moved from that "person" to the direction of the Platinum City Palace.

"Give the order, gather all the troops, it's time for us to leave." King Basha ordered his close followers.

"Yes!" The attendant took the order and left.

At this time, the upper body of the mountain-like man had arrived in front of the city wall.

In the dim firelight, the figure raised his arms and clasped his hands together.

Marco Lehmann's heart was filled with alarm, and he quickly shouted, "Get out of the way!"

The figure swung his arms down and slammed heavily on the west city wall.

Rumble, rumble...

The earth trembled.

It was as if ripples were spreading out with the western city wall as the center.

Marco Lehmann felt like he was lifted up by the ground, then fell down heavily, almost passing out.

Just one strike seemed to destroy an entire section of the wall.

Under this terrible pressure, the morale of the city guards collapsed, and the soldiers fled down the city wall in panic, fearing that the man would smash the wall directly with one hit.

Fortunately, however, the second blow did not come.

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Volume 103: Chapter 92 Chapter The Snow Stops

The morning light is just breaking, and the heavy snow has stopped for a while.

The smoke and flames of war finally came to an end, and the residents of Platinum City, who had experienced an unexpected disaster in a daze, walked out of their homes trembling with fear. The complex emotions of being grateful for surviving the disaster, the heartache of material losses, and the sadness of loved ones being persecuted, will eventually subside, and many residents of Platinum City noticed a scene that shocked them.

A giant.

An incredibly large khaki giant was clinging to the west wall, its hands still in the posture of hammering the wall, and an extremely obvious crack appeared on the west wall of Platinum City. Although the giant was motionless at this time, it was able to give people great pressure just by standing there.

dang dang...

Outside the city wall, a group of slaves were hammering and chiseling at the ochre-colored giant.

Many respected imperial dignitaries gathered around the giant.

Brown Lexman reached out and knocked on the khaki giant. The sound was very crisp.

"This... looks like it's made of pottery?" said Brown Lexman.

"Yes," Marco Lehman nodded, "It looks very similar to the pottery on our dining table, but the guys we dine with can't destroy the walls of Platinum City."

"The tribesmen have such sophisticated rituals?" Brown Lexman looked up at the tall pottery giant, feeling a little bit unbelievable.

"This is certainly not the work of the tribesmen..." Marco Lehmann made a gesture, and a team of city guards carried up a dozen corpses.