Secretary of the Devil's Castle

Although the shadow demon who triggered the detection magic smartly did not choose to release magic to resist, but as an existence that was directly discovered by the detection magic, the area he was in naturally received special attention. A fireball exploded beside him, and it was too late to dodge immediately. He just had time to cry out in pain, and he and his companions were overwhelmed by dozens of spells.

Sensing the wave of spells coming from the city wall, Tiffany's long ears trembled, and she looked in the direction of the United Army with a little distaste, "Tsk tsk tsk, I really persevere, I have only been here for a week, and they only come here at night. There have been [-] or [-] sneak attacks, don’t you know what it means to give up? Well, it shouldn’t affect the activities much.”

"Hiss—! After all, don't shoot, it hasn't grown well yet."

The wound on Tana's shoulder was slapped by Tiffany, and she grinned for a while. Seeing this, Tiffany curled her lips and said, "Come on, you're not a child, isn't it just a hole? It's not that I didn't help you heal—but you should pay attention recently, don't rush to the front like you have no brains, I am not very proficient in healing magic, and the dragon's anti-magic ability is too strong, It neutralized most of my magic effects. Although it helped you recover a lot, if you move too much, there is still a big risk that the wound will open again."

"I understand, I will try my best."

Tana moved her shoulders and nodded in satisfaction after finding that it did not affect the activity, and then smiled heartlessly at Tiffany, "But I can't guarantee that I won't be passionate, after all, you You know, I'm furious."

Tiffany stared at Tana for a long time before sighing helplessly, "I knew I couldn't count on your self-control, okay, I'll pay attention to you, and knock you down if necessary—— So, Tana, do you see something wrong with them?"

Hearing what Tiffany said, Tana's face became serious, "Ah, it's really not right, although they are indeed united, but their fighting style has a sense of violation, like... …not caring about the same as everyone else. Maybe that makes sense, after all, they would love to die for each other, but it's a big problem that they don't even care about their own lives."

"You mean, not only do they not care about other people's lives, they don't even care about their own lives?"

Tiffany raised her eyebrows, "Then why did they unite to attack the empire? Are you looking for death if you have nothing to do?"

"Who knows."

Tana rolled her eyes and didn't answer Tiffany's words, because she was also troubled by this question. If these demon kings even wanted to attack the empire regardless of their own lives, wouldn't they just be idle and looking for death?

You must know that apart from the fact that the empire wants to overthrow and unify the entire Demon Island, there is no direct conflict between the demon kings and the empire, not to mention things like hatred—it can’t be that all the demon kings present have blood feuds with the empire, right? ?

Moreover, the demons who can occupy a place in the Devil Island must be as indifferent as they are, and as selfish as they want. If they even want to cause trouble for the Cairns Empire at the cost of their own lives, then what else can they do except their brains are trapped by the door? Besides playing around, Tana really couldn't think of what these demon kings were going to do.

In fact, the wound on Tana's shoulder was caused by one of the demon kings self-exploding, and his territory is even far away from the southernmost point of the demon island, separated from the empire by hundreds of thousands of miles, so that the empire has no information about him. Very limited, but such a demon king blew himself up just to cause a slight injury to Tana. Is this still a demon?

"The load of the magic energy crystal is too great, and it may not be able to last for too long. His Majesty the Demon King means that the fortress can be abandoned, and the preservation of vitality is the top priority."

Hearing Tiffany's voice in her mind, Tana nodded secretly, then took a deep breath, several magic circles of different sizes appeared in front of her or more precisely in front of her mouth, beside Tana The mages were also applying buff spells to her one after another. Huge magic power gathered in her throat, and then a mouthful of scorching breath that was amplified layer by layer was sprayed towards the coalition army, which was announcing the official start of the empire's counterattack.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely, on the other side of the battlefield, an ancient orc of the lion tribe put down the binoculars in his hand, after thinking for a while, he pretended to cough, then pulled out the saber at his waist, which was more decorative than practical, and shouted Said: "All warriors, for the Cairns Empire, for His Majesty the Demon King, follow me, the Grand Duke of the West, Sivis Anderson, and charge!"

With a roar from Sivis, the noble private army occupied most of the army and began to approach the battlefield ahead. Their purpose was to bypass the forward of the army and outflank their rear. It is a perfect strategy to lose and gain the greatest military exploits at the least cost.

This was not instructed by Ender, but a tactic chosen by Sivis himself, because Ender gave him great autonomy.

But Sivis's thoughts have been seen through by Ender. He deliberately gave Sivis autonomy, and soon Sivis will know that sometimes the bitter fruit he planted has to be swallowed even with tears in his eyes. go down.

The team led by the brown-haired lion pierced the flank of the coalition army like a sharp knife, which greatly relieved the pressure on the fortress that was directly responding to the impact.

"Hmm—isn't that bad?"

Tana, who was standing on the city wall like a Valkyrie, squinted her eyes and looked at the team that was rushing left and right in the enemy's formation in the distance, "Let's support it for the time being—Mage team, prepare elemental magic, don't ask for power, but It has to cover as much space as possible!"

When the fighting on the border was fierce, the academy in the Demon King City finally ushered in the holiday.

After packing her luggage, Patty got into the carriage home with some excitement. She took out a shiny golden badge from her arms. The badge was engraved with the profile of a woman. The shape of the horns can be recognized as Fatalia's face, and this badge is also Fatalia's personal logo.

"Oh my friend……"

Patty held the badge in her arms, her face brimming with happiness, "This holiday, can I invite the princess to come to my house as a guest?"

The journey home is always far away, but this is just a feeling. In fact, Patty's hometown is very close to Demon King City, almost on the dividing line between the eastern part of the empire and the hinterland of the empire, so soon Patty can see own hometown.

Sharpland is not very big, and most of the land is occupied by farmland, and the Viscount Sharp actually ruled only a few small villages around, and the commerce here is not developed, but fortunately, he can support himself Self-sufficiency, occasionally missing supplies can be purchased in the city next door, and the folk customs are simple.

Through the window of the carriage, Patty looked at the endless plain under the night sky, with a happy smile on his face.

In fact, she hadn't returned to Sharpe for two years. Since Patty was sent to school in Demon King City two years ago, every time she wanted to go back, she would be told by her father to study hard and not miss home, and then she couldn't go back.

Although Patty knew in her heart that her father was doing it for her own good, she did miss her hometown a little bit. She kind of missed the small castle, the small village that she could see from the window, the familiar smell of the earth, Uncle Bowen and Ge Aunt Li is gone.

And of course her father.

This time when she came back, it could be said that she did not wait for her father's reply after sending a letter, and she got into the carriage directly. I am afraid that she would give her father a lot of shock, right?After all, Patty, who has always been a good girl, is so active this time.

But of course, who made Patty really want to invite Fatalia to be a guest at home?

Thinking of her father's surprised and helpless expression, Patty couldn't help laughing again. She kicked her feet in the carriage and hummed softly. This song was taught to her by her mother, although At that time, she was only a little over one year old and less than two years old, but the amazing thing is that this song has remained in her mind. Obviously, if there is no portrait, she probably doesn't even remember her mother's face.

Ah, it's close, it's close, I can already see the shadow of the village, as long as I pass through the village, I will be my home, but...why there seems to be no lights in the village?

Patty's eyes widened in surprise. According to her impression, although it's already night, it shouldn't be too late to see a light at this time. After thinking about it for a while, Patty just thinks it's everyone today. Go to bed earlier.

The carriage stopped at the door, and Patty got out of the carriage dragging a box that was a bit too big for her size, then turned around to pay the driver, and gave an extra five copper coins as a tip by the way.

The gate of the castle opened slowly, and the Uncle Bowen that Patty was familiar with—the old waiter in this castle, a man who looked about 50 years old stood at the door, with a slightly stiff smile on his face, " Ah, welcome home, miss."

Bowen was stunned for a while, and then replied slowly: "Master Viscount, I went out to inspect the village, and I haven't come back yet. Ge Li has already fallen asleep. Do you need me to wake her up?"

Patty quickly shook her head, "No, there's no need, let Aunt Geli have a good rest, anyway, I'm on vacation now, and I still have a lot of angles to see Aunt Geli, it's a pity that Dad went out at such a time ..."

"Yes, the master is out."

Bowen repeated again slowly, and then picked up Patty's suitcase, "Miss, shall I take you back to your room? You haven't been back for a long time, I don't know if you still remember the way."

Patty laughed in surprise, "What are you talking about, Uncle Bowen, I remember the way to my home clearly no matter how long I go out."

"... yes, miss."

Seeing Bowen's back going away, Patty shook his head and followed.

Maybe they still need to tidy up before they can invite Highness Fatalia to come down as a guest.

Chapter 61 Respective tasks

"Good morning, Father."

"Good morning, Fatalia, did you sleep well last night?"

"It's okay, at least energetic."

Fatalia rubbed her eyes, opened the chair and sat down, then stuffed a cookie into her mouth, "How's the battle going on at the front?"

"As always, the border forts have been abandoned, the army has retreated to the secondary line of defense, and the coalition forces have entered the border. They have even given up their retreat completely, and don't care whether we will double-team them."

Ender propped his chin on the back of his hand and said so, his eyes flickering non-stop, but Fatalia paused, and then said: "This is not normal."

"Yeah, this is not normal. In fact, there are even more abnormal things."

As Ender said, he snapped his fingers, and a faint blue virtual map appeared in front of Fatalia. It was the map of the magic island, and then one red dot after another appeared on the magic island. An area will be dyed simultaneously, and the area representing the Cairns Empire is outlined in blue, and soon, the red and blue areas occupy most of the entire Demon Island, leaving only a few pieces Places are not colored, and the size of those places is invariably larger than the area occupied by a single red dot, but smaller than the Cairns Empire.

Obviously, those red dots represent the demon kings who participated in this war.

"Currently there are 57 demon kings on the island besides the Cairns Empire. Among them, five are at the tenth level, one is at the eleventh level, and the rest are trash fish who have not reached the realm of the gods. Now, Those miscellaneous fishes have all started to attack the Demon King City, but according to the intelligence, there should be no connection between them."

"This……"

Fatalia frowned deeply, "It feels like someone is manipulating them behind the scenes."

"I also feel this way, but judging by common sense, this is impossible."

Ender shook his head and denied Fatalia's idea, "Even if I can't control so many demon kings at the same time, you must know that the soul is too precise, short-term control is okay, if it is controlled for a long time like now With such a large number of demon kings, let them fight a large-scale battle... I really can't do it."

"Is that so?"

Fatalia bit her thumb, then looked at Ender, "What are you going to do?"

"I plan to go to the front line to see for myself."

Ende said lightly: "Actually, all the words I just said are just a foreshadowing for this sentence."

Fatalia glanced at Ender and said calmly: "Father, there is no need to explain to me what you want to do. After all, you are the devil king of the Cairns Empire, and I just want to fulfill your wish."

"This is..."

Ende scratched his cheek, "It's not just like that, the situation in the east has changed recently, and some of the people I sent to the east have lost contact, so I'm going to draw your attention, isn't that Viscount Sharp's daughter Have you sent an invitation letter? It just so happens that she is a noble lady in the east. Although you don't expect to find anything in a viscounty, you can also go and observe the situation in Sharpe - of course, the most important thing is to have fun. Or the first friend you mentioned."

"It's probably just someone you can talk to. You can't expect me to build friendship with those ladies who are full of aristocratic etiquette. We are not in the same way. Chatting with Patty is just that she doesn't have the stench of those aristocratic ladies. That's all."

The fork in Fatalia's hand stopped for a moment, and then she put a piece of meat into her mouth as if nothing had happened, "But lost contact... Well, I will pay attention, just need to pay attention to the sharp collar?"

"Just focus on the sharp collar."

Ender leaned back on the back of the chair, "I will assign people to other places. As an imperial princess, it's not good to run around for such a trivial matter."

Fatalia scratched her head, "Okay, listen to you."

"Then, it's settled."

Ender stood up, and the maid next to him put on a robe for him, "I'll go first?"

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"No need, the battle on the front line is quite fierce, I want to get there as soon as possible, anyway, I don't need to eat."

"OK then."

Watching Ender's back disappear into the corridor, Fatalia bit her fork and thought for a while, then said to Favna, "Favna, help me get the letter from the study, it's Pa From Dee."

"Yes, Master."

Favna bowed slightly, and quickly brought a pale pink letter with Viscount Sharp's article on it. If you get closer, you can smell a little incense, but I don't know if Patty dyed it on purpose.

"Dear Your Royal Highness Fatalia Cairns, you are safe. It has been more than a month since we last met, and my college has also ushered in a holiday, and I finally returned to my hometown after a long absence. It just so happens that the weather has been cool recently, Sharp The scenery is very good, so I invite you to come here as a guest.—Patty Sharp with great anticipation."

"Huh."

Touching her chin, Fatalia snorted softly from her nose. The words in this letter are not very gorgeous, and it can even be said that it does not conform to the habits of nobles at all, but the meaning in it is quite clear.

Flipping through the envelope in her hand, Fatalia stuffed another grape into her mouth, "Friend...Favna, what do you think of a friend?"

Favna's voice was still indifferent: "Master, the definition of a friend is someone who has a good relationship, is like-minded, has a common language and communicates frequently, has a deep friendship, and feels comfortable when getting along. The specific situation needs to be judged by the master."

"Well, Favna is still the same, so do you think the two of us are friends?"

Hearing Fatalia say such words suddenly, Favna's eyes widened slightly, but because Fatalia was sitting on a chair with her back facing her, Favna didn't know for a while. Whether Fatalia's words were serious or casual, she opened her mouth slightly and was about to say something when she heard Fatalia speak again.

"Sorry Favna, we probably don't count as friends, after all...our relationship is much closer than that."

"……Yes Master."

……

After breakfast, Fatalia got into the carriage with Favna and Tan En, ready to go to Sharp.

"Your Highness, what kind of person do you think Miss Patty is?"

On the way, Tan En, who was sitting in front of the carriage driving the carriage, suddenly asked Fatalia curiously. Fatalia raised her eyelids, rolled her eyes and replied, "Not a very smart child."

"Uh...not a very bright kid?"

Tan En choked suddenly, saw Fatalia sighed, and continued: "If the child was smart enough, he wouldn't invite me. It is a kind of invitation for a lowly viscount to invite me who is an imperial princess." Passing over, this will cause hatred in the social circle. Although I don't care about this small matter, other nobles will definitely gossip behind their backs, and Patty will definitely be squeezed out... Originally, I didn't intend to accept Patty. I was invited by you, but since the war happened to break out, the liquidation against the nobles will be much earlier, so maybe she won't have to worry about this kind of problem soon?"

"That's it."

Tan En couldn't help laughing, "Your Highness, you are really a gentle person."

"Gentle, me?"

Fatalia looked at Ender in surprise, but unfortunately the broad figure was blocked by the carriage, "No, I'm not gentle, I'm just...reasonable, that's all."

She then shook her head again, to get rid of distracting thoughts, and then took out a stack of documents, "Let me see...the three missing people, Eugene Baker, Charlie Shears, Mark Sean...do you think so?" ?”

Looking at the young man with freckles on his cheeks and a conspicuous break in his eyebrows in the upper right corner of the profile, Fatalia touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Tan En didn't look back, but he also noticed that Fatalia was flipping through the information, so he quietly slowed down, "Oh, the road in this place is not very good, there is actually a pothole in the middle of the road."

Not far away, you can already see the village getting closer and closer. Fatalia and her party are about to arrive at their destination. In Viscount Sharp's castle, Patty is lying in front of the window, with her hands on her cheeks, and the corner of her mouth is shaving happily. smiling, waiting for Fatalia's arrival with full anticipation.

And in the hall of the castle, a young man with pale skin, gloomy temperament, handsome appearance but with a gloomy temperament sat on the sofa with a gloomy face. With a cup of hot tea, he added two petals of Kelsey to the teacup. The man rubbed the center of his brows, his face a little ugly, "Paddy's friend... is she actually the princess of the empire? Fatalia Keynes... "

On the other side, Tana and the others, who have already abandoned the border fortress and deployed in another city, are still struggling to resist the attack of the coalition army. Fortunately, although they have abandoned that border fort, there are not many such fortresses in the empire. , or because of the rapid expansion of the empire, there are too many similar fortresses in the empire, and it is not a big deal to give up one or two, but it is still a big blow to the morale of the soldiers.

The war has lasted for a month, and the high-intensity battles exhausted the twelve generals. Among them, Tana, who often charged into battle, was already covered in wounds, new wounds piled up with old wounds, and there was hardly any good parts to be seen. On the other side, Tiffany's magic power was almost dried up, and she was meditating with her eyes closed, trying to recover, while the other people's condition was not much better.

However, the opponent suffered a huge loss. After a month of hard work, twelve of the 51 demon kings have been killed, including three demon kings of the ninth rank. Even Karon has already hated the battlefield, and those soldiers, More than [-]% of them have been buried forever on the land of Cairns Empire.

boom!

Suddenly there was a loud explosion on the city wall, and the soldiers resting on the wall almost instinctively grabbed their weapons and jumped up, urging their tired bodies, squeezing the last bit of physical strength to prepare to meet the enemy. Tiffany, who had closed her eyes and meditated, opened her eyes, and Tana, who was sitting in the corner, hammered the floor out. There was a crack, "Is this group of guys really endless?"

"If you have the strength to complain, how about hammering their heads?"

Tiffany complained, and then dragged the staff up the city wall, the tip of the staff scratched the ground and made a harsh friction sound, she half-opened her eyes and watched the incoming army, raised the staff and began to chant, "The water of origin, the dark earth, the howling wind, the bursting fire, the foundation of the world, the theorem of all things, the four elements that build the world, endow destruction, endow creation, let everything take a new look in the reshaping of the root Return in appearance——Elemental Quartet Origin Bombing!"

Red representing the flame, green representing the wind, yellow representing the earth, and blue representing the source of water, magic circles of four colors emerged beside Tiffany, and then converged in front of her staff, when their centers converged at one point At that moment, more and more magic circles appeared beside Tiffany, and a huge magic circle formed by the same four-element magic circle appeared under her feet. These layers of magic circles intersected together, Coupled with the four magic circles in front of Tiffany's staff, this makes her look like a weird fort.