If you want to use one word as the first impression of Wawasika Fortress, then "white" would be the best choice.
Built 170 years ago with funding from the Sivalier people to resist the invasion of the Loans on the other side of the Grigori Rift Valley, this castle, like any other castle, used local materials. A large amount of easy-to-shape limestone produced in the Tambur Mountains serves as the main body.
Although it expanded the scope of the castle over more than a century, adding turrets, watchtowers and a series of other buildings, just like the name full of Sivalier style to commemorate the friendship between the two countries, the romanticism of the country of knights Never left the city.
The designer's ingeniously arranged small-angle inclined surfaces not only increase the castle's ability to withstand the threat of nearby landslides, but also make the castle's polished exterior walls reflect light beautifully when it is hit by the sun.
Set against the backdrop of mountains and dark green forests, the holy white castle looks like the light blooming from the palm of God's hand, hence the name Wavasika - meaning great white.
But even with such a shining name and appearance, the Wawasika Fortress itself is not easy to find.
The Kingdom of Avenella is located in the protruding part of the middle section of the Tambur Mountains. Compared with other countries on the west coast, it faces mountains and is also very close to the coastline.
This not only gives it the advantage of being easier to climb mountains to find all kinds of rare monsters and minerals that other countries do not have, but it also makes cities like Wawasika that are deep in the mountains difficult to enter.
Henry and his party stopped.
It is hard to say that it is not difficult to find a castle hidden in a rugged road. It is not difficult because you only need to know the direction and go straight forward. It is difficult because as you walk, you will find that there is no road ahead. , or go around and back to the same place.
But no matter how hard it was, everyone finally arrived at their destination.
The weather-beaten white castle sparkled in the morning sun. Henry looked at it, and then looked down at Luo An, who had the same color hair in his arms.
Mira was keenly aware of the sage's aura. She raised her little face, with a trace of doubt in her bright blue eyes.
"It's nothing, I just remembered something." Henry said with a smile. This castle was originally built to prevent the invasion of the Roan people, but when the Roan country fell 20 years ago, the millions of exiled people were also Escaped to the West Coast through here.
As things change, almost nothing in the world remains the same forever.
"Go-" Henry shook the reins and drove the horse forward to keep up with Bernie and the others in front.
The group of people approached slowly. Wawasika, who was originally very dazzling, became even more dazzling as he gradually approached. When the distance was close enough to see clearly the mountain lion emblem of the Avenella royal family on the door frame. , it has restored its original color, revealing a gray-white color surface that has accumulated a layer of thickness during years of mountain rain.
Because the huge city is a border fortress, there are not many civilians living in it. In addition, the rugged road and the few pedestrians make Henry's arrival so eye-catching. The sentries on the city wall noticed the group of people early, unexpectedly and unexpectedly. As expected, after approaching a certain distance, they sent a whole cavalry team to greet everyone.
This would seem a bit fussy on ordinary days, but Henry half-squinted his eyes and thought of some possibilities.
The two people who fell behind because of a slight pause looked at the cavalry team and Bernie and the others in front of them connected. After a few words, Bernie took something out of his arms. The other party immediately lowered his guard and clicked. He nodded and let the group go.
'As expected,' Henry thought with a slight smile. In a military town like Wawasica, a group of fully armed mercenaries covered in blood and dirt would inevitably be interrogated even if they wanted to enter the city on weekdays. Yes, but the sage never worried about this problem because he had guessed the identities of Bernie and the others early on.
No matter what they say, Avenella's soldiers will not stop their own family.
The blond captain nodded and led the team to start moving forward again, while the small group of cavalry stayed where they were and waited until everyone passed by before following back to the city.
Mila, who had white hair, attracted the attention of the cavalry to some extent, but now there were also a small number of Luoans in Wawasica, so their eyes did not stay long.
There was a crisp sound when the horse's hoof landed on the soft soil instead of the hard stone slab. The first impression Henry and Mira had when entering Wawasika was that the whole city was very dull.
The white-haired Luo An looked around nervously and curiously. All the people on the street were fully armed soldiers. The doors and windows of some houses that seemed to be for civilians were tightly closed. From the stone walls of the residences on both sides of the road, Judging from the dust on the bed, it may not be a matter of one or two days.
Groups of soldiers ran past, and the team slowed down. On the right side of the city gate, a group of Avenella soldiers wearing different clothes came over. Henry noticed that the armor on the leader was more ornate and engraved with complex colorful coats of arms - this was obviously an Asian A noble knight of Vennella.
Bernie dismounted and whispered something to the knight. The other knight kept nodding, and for a while his face showed a slightly excited look.
Mira was still looking around curiously, and the other team members also dismounted one by one. The two people in front were still talking, and Henry also turned over and got off the horse. He stretched out his hand to help Mira, but the stubborn girl insisted on getting off the horse alone.
This made Henry smile slightly, and the white-haired girl responded with the same expression.
The warm and harmonious atmosphere was broken by the cold metal in the next moment. The knight raised his sword and pointed at the tall black-haired sage and the petite white-haired Lolita and shouted: "Guards, arrest them."
The sudden change made Mira froze in place, but Henry's expression was just as calm as ever.
"Father?!" Ming Na, who had a strip of cloth wrapped around her head, said to Bernie in disbelief. Guards in full body armor holding spears formed a circle around the two of them.
"Please hand over your weapons." The knight wearing a green robe with ivy as his emblem said to the two of them seriously. Henry shrugged, and then took off the belt of the great sword in cooperation.
"Listen to them." He gently patted Mira's little head, and the white-haired girl reluctantly took off her dagger.
"So are those short knives." The two guards stepped forward and took over their weapons. The knight spoke again. Henry shrugged again, and then took off the armed belt around his waist.
"Put your hands up, don't try to resist in any way," the knight shouted loudly, while Bernie and Minna behind him argued for a while, and then the blond girl strode away angrily.
The leader of the team, as strong as a bear, furrowed his golden eyebrows and looked at Henry with a complicated expression. After a while, he came over, pondered for a moment and spoke.
"I'm sorry, you know, this is my duty." Bernie said in a sincere tone. Henry glanced at him, and then shrugged for the third time: "Sorry, I was distracted and wasn't listening, because I was working hard. I forgot you were ever my friend."
The sage's tone was calm with a hint of ridicule, and Bernie let out a long sigh and turned around to leave.
The sound of metal collisions and neat footsteps sounded regularly. Under the escort of a dozen fully armed soldiers, the two were locked into a musty dungeon.
Even the walls of the empty cell had a damp and cold atmosphere. The stone floor was only covered with a few dirty black rags and a pile of wheat straw, making it impossible to sleep peacefully. The thick wooden fence was tightly closed with iron locks, and Mira's feet softened and she sat on the ground in an instant.
"Why...why do they do this?"
The white-haired lolita's eyes were distracted, and the crisp sound of her muttering echoed in the empty dungeon where only the two of them existed.
Henry sat down next to her, and the girl turned her head to look at him unconsciously.
"Why did they betray us..." The childish and simple words were accompanied by big tears. Henry wordlessly reached out and touched Mira's little head, and then spoke slowly.
"because I"
His words were simple and clear, and Mira was stunned. Then she stretched out her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes. The back of her hands, which had become dirty from traveling for a few days, touched the tears and left a stain on her face, which the girl could see. Looks like a little cat.
"I am too dangerous for them, and there is a possibility that their purpose will be exposed. They are not willing to take a gamble and try to trust me, so they chose a safe and absolutely controllable method." The reporter talked about the reason for betrayal as calmly as if he were analyzing it from the perspective of a third party. As if infected by this calmness, Luo Anloli also stopped feeling sad and looked at him seriously.
"What's the purpose...aren't we here to report the invasion of Sivaliers?" Mira asked seriously. Her tendency to take the initiative to think about these issues made Henry's mouth curl up a little. After all, they are currently She had plenty of free time, and instead of crying, he hoped she could spend it thinking.
"That's just one of them, my lovely little Mira. It's just a new decision made due to new information after meeting us."
"Have you forgotten the first time we met them? At that time, they had been targeted by the Sivalier people, and they obviously had their own destination." Henry said this, and Mira Listening carefully, she was confused and didn't think too much at the time, but now that the sage mentioned it, she remembered a lot of details.
"There are also those knights and sergeants from Sivalier a few days ago. If they were just serving as sentries to inquire about information, they could have refused our entry and better concealed their identities."
"But instead of doing that, they chose to bring us in," Henry said.
"Although it is possible that they think we are going to Wawasika to inform us and must be stopped, but I personally prefer the second possibility." Mira listened intently to the sage's analysis, and then in her heart I began to seriously learn this way of thinking.
"Because firstly, those knights did not carry real heavy armor, and secondly, their number was very small, and there were no more Sivalier troops ambushing nearby."
"Even though they are all the elites of Sivalier, it is precisely because of this that they will not act recklessly. With this number and equipment, they chose to take decisive action when they encountered a group of us who were fully armed and not much smaller in number. It pretty much proves how important things like Bernie and the others are to the West Valliers.”
"It's so important that each of these elite warriors was informed of Bernie's appearance and fought to the death to get it back." Henry raised a finger and turned it around.
"...So, is it because of this 'important thing' that they betrayed us?" Mira was silent for a while, and then said in a depressed tone: "What is so important that a person can betray his daughter's savior? Woolen cloth."
She didn't seem to understand, and Henry shrugged.
"The same thing may have caused this entire war and the loss of hundreds of lives so far, what do you think?" The black-haired sage said in a relaxed tone, and Mira raised her head again The look of surprise on her small face was clearly evident.
"The clues can be connected together, as long as you pay attention to them carefully." Henry said to Mira with a smile.
"Why did Bernie and the others bring Minna and Lysa with them? We can see some clues from the fact that the clothes the three of them wore were obviously not suitable for traveling in the wild." He said.
"If we take into account that they knew nothing about the attack on the caravan, it can be concluded that Bernie and his party were chased by the Shivaliers. The Shivaliers attacked and occupied Ellen Post. Fort, the fact that the blockade is around is behind."
"And in connection with the recent statements made by King Ahibern II of Avenela several times in public, all these clues point to an item." Henry raised the index finger of his right hand: "An important item Items that are enough to start a war and be taken back.”
"The original charter of the Kingdom of Sivalier." The black-haired sage said, but this unfamiliar term only made the white-haired Loli confused.
"What's that?" she asked, and Henry smiled.
"That is the qualification to be a king, little one. In order to maintain the purity of the noble and royal bloodlines, every new-born noble child is recorded in the genealogy, and the charter of the Sivalier Kingdom is the foundation of the kingdom. The orthodox royal family of the current kingdom is clearly marked in it.”
"As we know, the royal family of Avenella and Sivalier have a kinship relationship that is constantly being cut off and confused, so Ahibern II, who claims that the throne of Sivalier also belongs to him, wants to get the charter. There’s no need to explain the reason.”
"..." Mira nodded, and Henry continued.
"Bernie and the others brought women with them in order to disguise themselves as ordinary tourists and sneak into Sivalier to steal the charter. A team composed solely of men would easily arouse suspicion, but if there are multiple women present, people will naturally think that this is just a man. A big family traveling together.”
"Once the original text of the charter fell into the hands of Avenella, Ashberon II had a grand reason to claim the throne of Silvaliers. Regardless of how King Philip II of Silvaliers reacted, a Bloody political turmoil will inevitably happen between the two countries." Henry said, and Mira nodded and continued his words - she acted completely unlike an 11-year-old girl at this moment. Wise and calm.
"So they chose to strike first." After the girl finished speaking, she sighed, and then looked at Henry deeply with complicated eyes: "I finally know why they chose to betray us. You know too much. There are too many, teacher, so many things can be inferred from just such inconspicuous information, no wonder they think you are dangerous."
Mira's title made Henry smile slightly, and then he tilted his head: "But isn't this kind of danger exactly what you yearn for, to become a person with a lot of knowledge."
He said, and the girl once again glanced at the sage with contempt: "Before that, I have to survive."
She said and Henry shrugged again.
"There's nothing to worry about. It's not over yet."
He said this, and the huge confidence contained in his calm words calmed down the uneasy mind of the white-haired Luo An. She looked seriously at Henry, who was sitting carelessly on the ground, silent.
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