Can't I develop my own character?

If Avik died, people would still say that this was murder to silence him.

But it would be a different story if Casradi came out to testify afterwards, so Ryan's most urgent task was to quickly hook up with Casradi and use his eloquence to persuade the other party to temporarily cooperate with Maganna.

At least from Casradi's point of view, if she wants to take control of the three cities, she must eliminate the second prince's forces.

She couldn't find anyone else except Maganna.

"Ah~ Look at what's going on. Everything still depends on my Grandpa Ryan to work hard."

While muttering, Ryan called Bloody Clothes and prepared to show his loyalty to welcome the return of Her Royal Highness the Princess.

"Sir, where are we going?"

"Leave the city secretly, without firing a gun."

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The second update is 6k! Today's update is 12k, let's keep working hard after dinner!

Chapter 65 Ryan: Don't worry, Princess. Charlie is absolutely loyal to us! [6k]

Sneak out of the city, keep your voice down, Princess, don't look back, it's me.

Ryan didn't plan to wait here any longer. Plans could not keep up with changes. The Grand Duke was impatient. Now that things had come to this, success or failure depended on this one move.

In fact, it was a good thing that Maganna burned the city. Her great strength could create miracles and break the current deadlock in the southern border in one fell swoop. Otherwise, it would be disadvantageous for them to continue to drag it on.

Moreover, without Kosotoya in the future, Ryan will be able to better hold power in his hands.

The premise is that Casradi is still alive and Maganna is at ease.

Then there is only one solution - if he comes to power, everyone will trust him, right?

But it is definitely not enough for him to just wear the blood-stained robe. In a one-on-one fight, Ryan is not inferior to him. Even if a second-level transcendent comes, he can easily defeat him. Are you kidding? My main character is a blood knight. Don’t you think it’s awesome?

But to create such a grand scene, unless he and Xue Yi both have the professional characteristics of the Blood Knight, there is no chance at all.

So before Ryan set off, he went to the Dihuo Gang.

The only gang that can still be considered a "force" in Berman City today is the reorganized Dihuo Gang. Regardless of the quality of these gangsters, they at least have a large number of people, and one very important point is that they have firearms.

The entire Dihuo Gang has more than a hundred guns, and Ryan asked Jack to help get a batch of them. The latter's family is a wealthy businessman who is in the mineral business and has channels to get these things.

In addition, Ryan also brought a group of sheriffs from the police station, a total of 200 sheriffs, all equipped with guns.

In the end, this haphazard princess-rescuing team totaled five hundred people, and every one of them had to have a penis.

Well, the team members are a little strange.

What is military-bandit cooperation?

The members of the Dihuo Gang never thought that one day they would be able to work together with the sheriffs, and the sheriffs had never expected this, so they stared at each other all the way, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

The people of Dihuo were all core members carefully selected by Ryan. Although they were unwilling to cooperate at first, after Ryan asked Xueyi to use a little trick and brought up the big project that "Xia Li" was cooperating with him, the three small leaders immediately stated that the entire Dihuo Gang would obey the mayor's orders.

"I'm a talented person too, is this even possible?"

On the speeding train, Ryan looked at the people in the other carriage who were still glaring at each other and shook his head helplessly.

It is indeed dangerous to use gang forces, and it is easy to give rise to gossip, but as long as Casradi can be brought back, everything will be fine.

Even though they are just thugs, they have guns in their hands. A musket greatly raises the limit of human combat ability. As long as a person can shoot, he can exert his combat effectiveness.

But no matter what, even though they both hold guns, there is still a big difference between gangsters and soldiers.

There is a gap in training, a gap in psychological quality, and a gap in discipline, so Ryan does not expect them to charge head-on. This kind of team can only launch surprise attacks.

While thinking, Ryan opened the game interface.

Switch to 'Shari'.

In the picture, 'Xia Li' has already started killing.

This was an assault by a force of about 300 men, light cavalry, and the pursuers obviously intended to use the mobility of the cavalry to search and divert the enemy, buying time for the arrival of the majority.

The idea was feasible, but Jonathan arrived with the Fire Covenant, and these extraordinary people played an important role in the battle with the cavalry.

Who says that the speed of uncensored videos is necessarily slower than that of censored videos? Who understands?

Even if a superhuman only has two legs, he can still outrun a horse. Although not all of them can do so, the addition of Jonathan and others undoubtedly made the plan of this light cavalry fail.

Ryan discovered that the blood mercenaries seemed to be more effective when the blood knights reached the second level. The blood mercenaries summoned by 'Xia Li' from the pool of blood actually had horses and could fight on horseback!

Maybe it’s because I haven’t tried this before, or maybe it’s the effect of advanced technology.

In any case, Arima's blood mercenaries began to charge on the battlefield, and the scene became weird for a while.

The blood-red cavalry chased after the light cavalry. Seeing the bloody men rushing towards them, the cavalry were all scared and had no intention of fighting.

"Oh my god! What exactly is this girl's job?"

Jonathan didn't quite believe the story that others had told him yesterday about 'Xia Li' killing everyone. How could she have stopped a huge army by herself?

But now he gradually believed it.

"Your Highness, where did she come from?"

Seeing that he had nothing to do, Jonathan retreated to Casradi's side and asked at the same time.

Casradi shook her head calmly: "Jonathan, don't ask too much about her background, and don't deliberately make it public."

She had already ordered the officers in Berman City not to spread rumors. After all, 'Charlie' was a member of the army. As for who sent her there, no one knew, and who she was loyal to, no one knew.

How dare Robert and others say anything nonsense?

A self-aware little Camilla tends to live longer.

When Jonathan heard this, he thought it was Casradi's trump card and stopped asking questions.

In the end, the 300-man cavalry was quickly beaten back, with more than half of them killed or wounded, and they finally fled in a panic.

"The power of the Blood Mercenary summons should increase as their levels increase. I wonder if I can lift them after I kill those Outer God summons."

It is hard to say which one is better between the Blood Mercenary and the Soul Singer in terms of soul control. The latter can control powerful wild monsters, but the Blood Mercenary can be summoned infinitely and can stand up again after death. This ability is especially important on the battlefield.

But then again, with such large-scale use of supernatural powers, it is impossible to continue concealing the existence of supernatural beings. The boundary between the inner world and reality seems to be becoming blurred.

"Speaking of which, according to the official explanation, the mysteries gradually revived during the Golden Dawn era, and the transcendent broke through the barriers of reality. Does this mean that the transcendents will be able to leave the otherworld in the future?"

Times have changed. Since the end of the ancient era of gods, countless years have passed. The development of scientific and technological civilization has gradually gained momentum, but in fact many of today's technological products originated from the other world.

For example, the design of the musket was born from the gunsmith, and the things bestowed by the gods were imitated in reality. Pistols, rifles, cannons and even trains are said to come from the other world.

Ryan had a vague feeling that the so-called 'other world' was far from as simple as the extraordinary people knew.

...

"Everyone, rest where you are!"

On a plain in the Kosothoa territory, Kasradi shouted loudly to the exhausted soldiers.

It is now 3:15 in the afternoon. They have experienced three ambushes in total. The pursuers' encirclement once almost completely surrounded them, but they finally broke out successfully.

"Rob, how many of us are left?"

"Princess, there are less than 800 people left."

"Eight hundred..."

Casradi sighed softly.

He died so quickly.

You know, there were a total of two thousand people who came to support Berman City at the beginning. After they finished the rescue battle and left yesterday, the number was still one thousand six hundred.

As a result, there are only 800 left.

Among them, some new recruits escaped secretly. Rob told her about this, but Casladi did not order to hunt down those new recruits.

She could understand that it was difficult to ask people who had just joined the army to fight desperately.

But now Casradi felt a little regretful, wondering if it would have been better for him to stay on the mountain and not come down.

Taking advantage of geographical location to arrange defensive battles will be much more effective than engaging in skirmishes on such plains.

After all, these soldiers in Berman City are really a bit... Alas, I don’t know how to say it. Is this the quality of the army on the border of the empire?

Casradi really didn't know this before. She had never had any contact with the military. She only knew that the Royal Legion was very powerful and Maganna's Iron Blood Legion was feared by everyone. But she didn't know that the combat effectiveness of the armies of most noble territories was not even half of that.

Otherwise, how do you say that practice makes perfect?

"Your Highness."

At this time, Jonathan came over and whispered, "The latest news is that the city of Kosotoya was breached by the Iron Blood Legion."

"What?" Casradi was startled. "Did Maganna send someone again?"

"No...it's those who were previously stationed in Berman City."

"Only about two thousand people..."

Casladi frowned. How did they manage to capture a city with only two thousand men, and with several thousand more defenders?

She had to admit that in terms of military ability, she was indeed far inferior to Maganna.

"They burned the city down," Jonathan continued. "But before the burning, most of the citizens of Kosothoa had already left, leaving only those who followed Avik."

"..."

Casradi's eyes flickered.

Jonathan knew what she was thinking. That was what the news said, but it was unrealistic for everyone to evacuate when the city was burning. Besides, there were so many things. It could be said that he was worthy of being the Iron-Blooded Grand Duke. They were fighting a battle, while the other side was fighting a war.

"Your Highness, it now appears that these attackers are definitely not from Magna."

"Of course I know, but it's pointless. I wanted to wait for her to prove her innocence and send people to deal with the attackers, but I never thought Maganna would take such a ruthless step and burn Kosotoya directly. I can't guess what she'll do next, so it's hard to count on that guy. The most urgent thing is to find a way out."

"I just looked at the map. The nearest train station is about an hour away from here if everything goes smoothly. However, it's likely under control, so the risk is very high. If we go west, we'll reach the town of Kada. The nobles there are likely loyal to the Empire. We can go there to rest for a while before making our next plan."

The battle has been going on for so long that the supplies are a little behind schedule. After all, they didn't bring much with them in order to rescue the princess quickly.

But Kasradi was worried that going to Kada Town would bring danger to the people there. Once the attackers discovered them, a battle would likely kill everyone in the town.

Jonathan didn't say anything. He just gave the plan, and it was up to Casradi to decide.

"If neither of these two works, there is one last solution." Jonathan hesitated.

"any solution?"

"To the city of Kosotho."

Kasiladi frowned: "Go find the Iron Blood Legion?"

"Yes, as long as we can reunite with the Iron Blood Legion, we won't have to worry about being pursued."

"But it could also be a case of a sheep entering a tiger's mouth."

Casradi rubbed his temple.

She was not worried that Maganna would kill her, but there was an even worse outcome, which was that she would be imprisoned or controlled by the other party and become a puppet to achieve the other party's ambitions.

"I really am... walking on thin ice, on the edge of an abyss."

Casradi gave a wry smile.

Jonathan opened his mouth, wanting to say something comforting, but he couldn't think of what to say.

Everyone, human or ghost, is showing off, as long as the princess is getting beaten.

There is no way, this is the battle for the crown prince, cruelty is the reality, otherwise why would he stop Ryan from being loyal.

At this time, 'Xia Li' came over.

"Your Highness, I have something important to tell you."

Casradi glanced at Jonathan, who understood and left.

"what's up?"

"Master Ryan contacted me not long ago."

"Oh?" Casradi's eyes lit up. "What did he say?"

She didn't know why, but she always felt particularly at ease when she heard Ryan's name.

"Lord Ryan asked the princess to go here."