Crant's Royal Guard Knights are essentially a top military organization directly affiliated with the royal family.
It is composed of the descendants of many nobles. When it was first formed in the past, the so-called Royal Guard Knights were actually just an organization with a handsome name for balancing power. In order to enhance its control over the domestic nobles, Crant's royal family ordered the nobles to send their male heirs over the age of sixteen into the Knights to serve the king for ten years.
The claims are grand, but in fact these "knights" are just hostages used by the royal family to restrict the nobles so that they dare not resist.
For a period of time in history, this organization became a prison-like thing for nobles to throw their unfavorable second sons into. This even gave rise to a common saying among the Krant folk: "Those who join the Royal Guards Knights They are all unwanted children." - But this is already a thing of the past. With the decline of the royal family's influence decades ago and the rise and prosperity of the Monroe Territory, today's King Crant once again wants to When the power was back in their own hands, other nobles who couldn't stand the fact that Duke Monroe had the cake all gathered together to form this new Royal Guard Knights.
Composed of the royal party, with excellent cohesion and extremely high combat effectiveness, the current Krant Knights have the advantage of being united as one, but the disadvantage is precisely that they are too united.
"..." Henry looked at Donald in front of him and said nothing.
In April, Monroe is getting increasingly hot and unbearable. The sun's rays, which appear at around 8 a.m., shine until noon. If you step directly on the masonry road without wearing shoes, the soles of your feet will be burned very quickly.
The Sage wears newly made plate armor. In the southern style, it is made of light brown animal hide that is not easily heated. In contrast, its northern counterparts usually tan it to black. Mira stood behind him. The cunning girl used the tall sage as a shield to hide in the relatively less hot shadow.
Krant's chief mage stood in front of them, and beside him stood a group of Guards knights whose faces were red and sweating because they were standing in the sun wearing plate armor.
"Please, Your Excellency, please help me." Donald spoke for the second time, but Henry did not look at him. Instead, he glanced at the knights around him.
As we have said before, the advantage of the Royal Guards Knights is unity, and their disadvantage is also unity - to use a derogatory term, it is xenophobia.
——Henry and Mira during this time. They are all placed under military control just like any non-King Guards-related personnel still remaining in Monro.
In other words, they were placed under house arrest.
While Herman's side was carrying out various actions in full swing, the two sages who had helped Sheriff Vega and even the royal capital to protect themselves were put under house arrest. This seemed to Mira It's a bit incredible. But Henry had expected this.
We have mentioned that everything that happened in Avenella last autumn, if it were not for Prince Edward who wisely entrusted everything to the sage and trusted him wholeheartedly, even if he was indeed in Avenella at that time, Vennella, even if he did have knowledge that could change everything - the outcome still wouldn't be the same.
And what is happening now is exactly this.
Although Henry helped Herman, and just a few words awakened his blind spots and provided a direction for investigation, what the Earl did afterwards was not to reuse him vigorously. On the contrary, after you have the ability to conduct your own investigation. Herman excluded Henry and Mira and even sent elites to monitor them around the clock.
The reasons are actually very simple if you think about it carefully: First, Henry and Mira's origins are unknown, they are outsiders, strangers. Herman knew nothing about them, and even Vega, who initially asked for their help, did so only because he had no way to do it.
As for the Grand Leader of the Royal Guards Knights, who has the power to conduct an investigation on his own and has sufficient resources and manpower, there is naturally no need to rely on the power of such an unknown guy.
The first reason comes from the two of them, but the second reason comes from the differences between Herman and Edward.
Herman was more conservative. More stable and older.
The young Prince Edward worked hard to change his country but was unable to start. Even if he did have the ability to judge the authenticity of the sage, he would choose to give it a try and trust the other person. Apparently it was also because of the youthful, energetic and all-or-nothing adventurous spirit.
In comparison, Herman is actually more like Henry's late friend Bernie Cleveland.
The same age, similar status, middle-aged leaders who act decisively - this kind of people prefer that things are completely under their control. They hate those whose abilities and brains exceed their own. They hate variables and are thoughtful. Step by step - and all of this resulted in Henry and Mira being excluded from the entire investigation circle of the Royal Guards. There is no right to speak, and even movement is restricted.
——Until today.
"Your Excellency's identity... This junior has learned through investigation that you have been offended many times before. Now, in order to avoid more bloodshed and sacrifices, please don't be offended and help us." Donald clasped his hands and bowed solemnly. , he used common language this time. Henry knew what this guy was planning. He deliberately spoke in words that Mira could understand, so that the girl would also become interested and put pressure on him from another angle.
'What a young man's trick...' The sage sighed in his heart. The questioning meaning in the bright eyes of the Luoan girl beside him did make him feel a little difficult, but Henry would not change his mind just because of this. For a person, whether he intends to do something or not has been decided from the beginning.
"Go to your side first, and then tell me everything clearly." Henry nodded, and Donald took a long breath at this time.
"Thank you, sage."
As he said this, several Krant knights next to him immediately looked at each other because of this title.
If ordinary people mentioned this title, they would just think it was a joke. But the person who said this was not the highest-ranked magician in the entire Five Kingdoms, but he was certainly the most knowledgeable magician. When such a person spoke, Henry immediately became unattainable in their eyes.
With just a hint of awe, the group of people quickly arrived at the caravanserai.
Herman, who was frowning, had been waiting for a long time. A series of bloody attacks launched by Grand Duke Monroe's family caused the death of hundreds of people on this side with only dozens of troops. The number of reserve troops urgently applied for from the royal capital. More, and the grand commander also corrected his previous mistakes and popularized the coping skills about the black bracelet for every soldier.
Among the newly arrived soldiers, there were more long-range attack archers and crossbowmen, and at the same time, heavy crossbows capable of penetrating breastplates were placed on the avenue - Herman was very cautious. But even with more adequate preparations, he was still reluctant to take action.
A bad premonition always lingered in his mind, as if he had forgotten something very important but could not remember it. The anxious feeling prevented the middle-aged earl from having a good night's sleep for several days in a row. He also looked haggard. However, he had long been accustomed to all this and did not take it to heart. He just continued day after day. Sun and Earth studied the information desperately. Try to find any missing parts and discover new clues to resolve the worries within you.
From a tactical level, Herman can actually clearly understand what happened in the past few days.
First, they took advantage of the opponent's disarray and dispersed their troops throughout the city. He gathered all the soldiers in his hands and used his local advantages to defeat them one by one, easily eliminating 60% of the Duke's remaining troops in Monroe City.
After that, they fought steadily. Even though they encountered a scattered attack by a small group of elite soldiers equipped with black bracelets with interference spells, and lost hundreds of soldiers as a result, they did not completely collapse because of this - on the contrary, the opponent If they choose to fight like this, even if they do have the ability to fight one against ten, compared to their own side who can continuously obtain supplies from the nearby Xilin, the surrounding Monroe family, which is blocked, is just sitting on nothing. So this kind of war of attrition is extremely detrimental to them.
These elite soldiers can be armed with a large number of black rings. If they do not disperse to attack their own garrison but instead assemble a whole brigade, with their superb combat effectiveness and mysterious and evil interference spells, they will go directly to the headquarters and kill them with beheading tactics. It is not difficult for him and his team to leave the remaining army without a command, thus throwing the situation into chaos and regaining the initiative.
——No, they may not even need to force the attack. Black sand was found at the accident site where dead bodies were strewn, and Herman realized that it was fine lead sand without even investigating. They are used with leather bags of appropriate size. Apparently these elite soldiers put the black rings in the leather bags filled with lead to seal them before taking them out when they were about to use them.
The discovery of this evidence proves that these elite Monroe soldiers may have used the ring for more than an hour at all. They could travel lightly and take a long route and then sneak up on them-no matter which method. Throwing these elite soldiers out to fight to the death like a waste, and then there is no follow-up, this is extremely difficult to understand in Herman's opinion.
His bodyguard knights might optimistically laugh at the fact that the Duke of Monroe's family has increasingly no successors, and they don't even know how to fight a war. But the Grand Leader, who is always thoughtful, would not be like this.
He will make a decision after fully considering every possibility. Herman is as stable and rigorous as a mountain - but he still cannot see it all clearly with his own mind. In the end, in the end, he still has to rely on him. Henry didn't quite trust him.
The person who dispatched was Donald, not Herman himself. On the one hand, he knew that Henry would be able to judge the fact that he was under house arrest with his mind. At this moment, he had to humbly ask the other party for help. Obviously, he still couldn't lose face.
On the other hand, it was because Donald seemed to have discovered something a few days ago and asked Herman very seriously to ask him for help.
The court mage who knew many things said so, but fearing the other party's ability, Herman was still weighing the gains and losses. It was not until today that he could no longer carry it alone, that he made a compromise.
"..." During the few days when Henry and Mira were under house arrest and just repeated monotonous study and practice every day, what happened and the progress they made were briefly summarized, which was different from just understanding a few words. The Luoan girl was thinking, and the sage immediately held his forehead with a "pop" after hearing this.
"Of course they are not that stupid, His Excellency Count Hermann..."
"The reason why the Monroe family has repeatedly made actions that you think are stupid is because their target was not you from the beginning!"
"Whether it's the scattered troops that you can easily take down, or the elite soldiers with bracelets that are separated instead of gathered together and die at once as if they are wasting away, these things all have an ulterior purpose!" Henry said this , everyone in the venue tilted their heads and looked at him, including Vega and Franco.
"As for the leather bag filled with lead sand that can be worn for a long time without being absorbed by the magic circle and killed by the magic circle, don't you still know what they want to do..." The sage sighed: "The lead sand can isolate Magical power, this is not just as simple as preventing the magic circle from taking effect immediately, any spell cannot detect the existence of the bracelet—"
"Ugh!" Herman's eyes widened, as did everyone else who realized what the sage was referring to.
"Spreading your forces is the first step. It makes you think you have an opportunity, and what do you do in this situation?"
"Bring in more troops to ensure you can definitely win."
"After being attacked and losing hundreds of troops, what you will do if you follow this line of thinking is to mobilize more equipment and soldiers. These soldiers-" Henry turned his head and looked at Herman, the head of the royal guard of the Krant family, looked directly at him with a blank expression, and the sage continued slowly: "Where are they all transferred from..."
"Xilin..." Herman was not a fool. He immediately reacted and loudly ordered his men: "The Monroe family's target is the royal family. Quick! The whole army retreats! Send a letter to the Knights headquarters and let them know." They immediately went to investigate the refugees who were evacuated to Xilin and our captured soldiers! Immediately!!"
A powerful roar echoed in the caravanserai, followed by chaotic and dense footsteps. Henry sighed. Several people standing around him had shocked faces, and the sage once again He said slowly: "If you want to go straight into the tiger's den and solve all this in Monroe, why don't they..."
He said this, while Herman clenched his fists, stared at the sage who was much taller than him, gritted his teeth for a long time before squeezing out a few words: "If I... from a Choose to believe your words from the beginning..."
The Grand Leader's words stopped here. He was in a complicated mood at the moment and could not utter any more words.
"Trust is a very heavy thing, Your Excellency Earl." Henry said this, and Herman nodded heavily towards him as if he had finally made up his mind, and then looked back at Vega and Fernando. Ronco then turned around and announced loudly.
"I declare that the command of the Royal Guards Knights in Monroe is given to the mercenaries Henry Meyer and Sir Vega Dandelik! Leave five hundred soldiers and auxiliary personnel behind, and the others will follow me back to Si Forest!"
A loud roar echoed through the afternoon streets.
Like a war drum kicking off the coming battle. (To be continued.)
ps: r: I changed the cover and no one noticed, which is really sad.
