When he saw the dragon coming back, Bruce never expected that he would receive this surprise.
When he saw the dragon throwing down the thing, he subconsciously thought it was grabbing a "tongue" to report the enemy's situation.
When the thing fell on the city wall and groaned, Bruce pulled out his sword directly, and then he felt that the color of the thing's armor was a bit gorgeous.
Bruce made a bold guess: "Your Majesty?"
At this time, the dragon landed on the relatively empty city wall on the other side, scaring the guards patrolling the wall half to death. Then Wang, who returned to his human form, walked quickly towards this side holding the luminous stick.
Elizabeth went up to him: "Are you okay?"
The king also looked a little excited: "Okay! I also captured the emperor of Kuosania. Let me tell you, they set up a dense formation, used common protective acid to fight against the dragon's breath, and then shot arrows at me ."
Elizabeth grabbed Wang's arm: "What then?"
"I will rush directly towards their formation, using the weight and flight speed of the flying dragon. You know, right? The kinetic energy is equal to one-half MV squared!"
Elizabeth looked confused.
"Anyway, I have a lot of kinetic energy!"
Elizabeth: "What is kinetic energy?"
Wang: "That's it... you see, if you are killed by a bow and arrow, you are killed by the kinetic energy of the arrow. Kinetic energy is composed of speed and mass..."
Elizabeth: "Mass means...weight?"
"No, no, no, mass and weight are two concepts. The weight will be different depending on the gravity, but the mass is conserved, as long as there is no mass-energy conversion..."
Elizabeth smiled slightly: "I am a silly and sweet warlock. Please tell me in words that I can understand."
Wang scratched his head: "Okay, anyway, I rushed over. Do you understand this? Then many people were thrown into the air by me. Their mages had no time to use the Feather Falling Technique, so these people fell to death. I immediately I was about to distance myself and come from the sky again, when suddenly a paladin jumped up high and prepared to slash me with the Holy Slash!"
Elizabeth grabbed Wang's sleeve: "Then what should you do?"
"I blew." Wang said with a proud expression, "He was blown away! Because he couldn't exert force in the air. Unless he could fart against the air I blew, there was nothing he could do!"
Elizabeth was slightly surprised: "Fart?"
"Look, I knew you wouldn't care about me blowing a breath! But all in all, I didn't encounter any danger today. I prevented both the dissociation spell and the finger of death. Judging from the number of spells that were thrown at me, the enemy There should be only one seven-ring archmage."
Bruce glanced at the Archmage beside him: "If he attacks, it's up to you to deal with it."
"Leave it to the old man."
At this time, the emperor in gorgeous armor groaned, raised his upper body slightly, and looked around.
The bald eagle that descended from the sky transformed into a human form and stepped on the emperor who was about to get up. Xiaobai put his hands on his hips: "I stopped his resistance! I want meat!"
Bruce told Merlin beside him: "Take her to eat meat."
Merlin: "Please come with me."
Xiaobai walked away happily, leaving the emperor who was stepped on for no reason.
At this time, Cassander also came back, transformed into a human form and landed next to the emperor. Then he looked at the emperor's miserable state, turned to Bruce and said: "The emperor's troops were demoralized because of the dragon attack and the kidnapping of His Majesty. I left." By that time, the levy force had collapsed, and the paid mercenaries had not dispersed, but I think they no longer wanted to fight."
Bruce: "Mercenaries, sometimes fighting is just for fun. I guess tomorrow we will send the knights to have a friendly gesture with them, and the battle will be over."
There are many skills in the mercenary profession. Sometimes when there are a large number of mercenaries on both sides, the war will become a war game. After some official exercises, the losing side will simply surrender.
The losing noble will become a prisoner and continue to enjoy the noble treatment. There were almost no casualties throughout the war, and everything was conducted very appropriately. (*)
At this time, His Majesty the Emperor was lying on the ground and spoke: "I need treatment. You know, I am still the Emperor of the Empire."
Bruce pulled out his long sword with a cold face: "Do you think you are? I don't think you are anymore. His Majesty the Emperor died of excessive blood loss before the dragon captured him. This sounds very reasonable."
As he spoke, he took a step forward and raised his sword high.
However, the emperor seemed unafraid and even smiled.
Wayne grabbed his brother's long sword and held the blade directly with the gloves made of iron armor: "No, Your Majesty the Duke, you cannot kill a person who has given up resistance. My creed does not allow me to remain indifferent."
The emperor laughed loudly: "That's it, Lord Duke Langdon. Not only can you not kill me, but you must also entertain me with the etiquette of entertaining an emperor. Until the electors gather in your castle, strip me of my crown, and judge me my behavior.
"Indeed, I have failed militarily. But, young Langdon the Lion, your father had been planning for so many years just because he couldn't defeat me in court."
The king turned to look at the flag on the castle and said with a surprised look: "So your family's emblem is blue and white with a lion supporting a shield."
Emperor: "The white represents the Shield Road, and the blue represents the Lenlan River. The lions guarding the fertile land. This is the Langdon family. Fertile land, generous trade tariff revenue, and developed handicraft industry. Ah, how enviable it is. ah."
Bruce stared at his brother for a few seconds, then withdrew his sword with a look of regret, and then said to Merlin: "Send a formal document to all the electors, saying that we have captured the Emperor of the Empire, Duke of Steyr. Once more than one-third of them are captured, When the second elector arrives in Langdon City, we will convene the Imperial Great Council and will not wait until the expiration date."
On the other side, paladin Wayne Langdon prayed silently, let the holy light light up in his palms, and began to treat the emperor.
The emperor coughed violently.
Wayne suddenly reacted and shouted: "Call the pastor! Get ready to remove the disease!"
Bruce was silent for a few seconds before giving an order to the person next to him: "Call the priest over."
The emperor smiled again: "It's so nostalgic. I finally returned to the strategic field. I hope I can still be as good at dancing as before."
At this time, the king spoke: "With a remote and poor territory, you have made so many preparations, supported so many well-trained troops, and also found eight-ring and seven-ring archmages. I think you have done what you have done." That's fine. But fate is not on your side."
The emperor looked at the king, then at Elizabeth beside the king, and said with a smile: "You must be that amazing mage apprentice. The briefing Tang gave me explained the whole story. No matter how thorough the plan is, it is impossible to predict that something will happen suddenly. A guy like you is involved.
"Actually, I didn't lose to the young lion at all, but I lost to you."
Wang: "I can't say that completely. My teammates also contributed a lot. They are very reliable teammates and my good friends."
The emperor seemed to have heard something funny and laughed.
Wang looked at Elizabeth with a confused look on his face: "Where's the joke?"
Elizabeth: "He doesn't understand you, that's why he laughs."
At this time, the emperor's smile faded: "I heard, mage, you are solving the exam set by the legendary mage? Are you trying to track down the culprit that causes the current side effects of positive energy?"
Wang: "Yes."
Elizabeth wanted to pull him away, but she didn't have time.
The emperor continued: "I have information here, do you want to cooperate with me?"
Bruce frowned and opened his mouth to speak.
Wang Qianqian said: "You shouldn't have any information. The man behind the scenes obviously has no intention of getting involved in politics, so he just gave Erwin a magic weapon and arranged for him to do something that would not attract other people's attention.
"I speculate that he does not want to expose himself now. It is obvious that contact with someone as powerful as you is not in line with his style of conduct."
Emperor: "Are you so sure?"
"Of course, Erwin should have signed a prohibition contract with the mastermind behind the scenes. If you have contact with the mastermind behind the scenes, you will also have such a contract."
The emperor smiled and said: "I am the emperor of the empire. I can find someone to break this contract."
Wang nodded: "Of course you can, even Duke Langdon may have the ability to lift it. So the mastermind behind it will not come to you. No, it won't."
The mage said firmly.
At the end, he added: "I might as well hope that Duke Langdon will give me the resurrection scroll and let me resurrect Erwin. Then we can try to cancel the contract in his head."
Bruce seemed to finally be reassured and said with a smile: "You will get that scroll. I promise, as long as you fulfill our agreement."
The agreement, of course, was to copy the seven-ring magic dragon form to Archmage Langdon.
But the emperor didn't know, and he must have thought that there was some agreement of common interests between Bruce and the king.
Bruce clapped his hands: "No matter what, let us celebrate our victory today! Put this old guy in jail! Send the most reliable people to guard him!"
Wayne said: "I will personally guard him."
Bruce: "No, you have another job!"
Wayne said stubbornly: "No, I will personally guard him. I know you will find a way to poison him, my brother. I will try all your Majesty's food and stay by his side all the time."
Bruce smiled: "Well, my dear brother, I hope you will do what you say."
After saying that, he showed a sly smile, as if he was planning something.
Wayne continued: "It's also good for me to guard him. You can ensure that he can't tip off outsiders or make connections."
Bruce: "Yes, I know, brother."
At the end, he added thoughtfully: "I know."
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(*) This description of mercenaries and war games is based on reality, from Chapter 1 of Fuller's "War Guide": "The Thirty Years' War and the Italian Mercenary Captain".
As for the description of the paladin in this article, the paladin is just like this, dull and abiding by procedural justice. In "Wrath of the Righteous", there are only a handful of more flexible paladins like Sheela.
