Yiling Bernard Castle.
The setting sun slants across the mountainous city, covered in a deep red hue. The setting sun is late and the silhouettes of two or three people make this majestic pass even more majestic and desolate. The reflections of the peaks and mountains are cast on the city walls, towers, and corridors, and half of the wide atrium avenue is also submerged in shadow. It seems that these vicissitudes of buildings have become the same as the surrounding mountains. They have learned to listen quietly to the sound of time passing by, watching the people coming and going indifferently, not caring about who is in charge or the changes in the country.
On the walkway leading to the royal camp in the back courtyard, two members of the Royal Knights were walking talking and laughing.
"Hey, is that pretty woman just now Master Fei Yue?"
"Yes what's the matter?"
"Wow, isn't she very old? I didn't expect that she can still maintain her beauty and charm." The knight said with a lewd smile on his face.
"Isn't that right? Yesterday, I saw her and Prince Reza's daughter standing together. They really looked like a pair of sisters. At her age, it's not too much to be a mother to the prince's daughter, right?"
"Ha, how do you know she isn't?"
"Shhh! Don't talk nonsense. Be careful, the people from the Resa Corps will listen and tear your skin off."
"Tch, Your Majesty is here. I still don't believe that these Maine people dare to do anything to our Royal Knights."
At this time, on the barrel tower not far from them, there was a woman who listened to these dirty words coldly, with a scornful smile on her lips. She let the evening breeze blow through her frost-stained temples, gently raising her smile lines, and let the afterglow fall to reflect on her smooth cheeks.
"Falcon" Fetimo, who was running hurriedly on the city wall, was frightened by the scene in front of him. He suddenly stopped and stared at the woman a few steps away without saying a word.
"Here he comes." The woman did not turn around, but still stared at the mountains to the north.
"Yes." Fetimo replied softly. He was not wearing his usual pair of gold disc glasses today, and his hair, which was already approaching gray, was carefully taken care of. Looking at the woman's side face, he couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't seen you for several years, right? You are still the same as before. I am too old to see anyone."
"I have the impression that you have always looked like this all these years." The woman turned and looked at Fetimo with a smile, "Oh, maybe you have lost some hair."
"Fei Yue, we have been friends for decades. You don't have to be like this, right? I praise you a few words, but you also criticize me a few words?" Fei Timo said with a helpless smile.
"Yes, after you said that, I realized that decades have passed in just a blink of an eye." Master Fei Yue said with some emotion.
"Well, I can still vaguely remember the time when I was studying at Tide College. I had so many classmates and friends. Now that I think about it, I have only a few close friends. Some of them are no longer in this world." Fetimo recalled the past and also Then he sighed.
"I'm different from you. I don't have much contact with those classmates. I don't care if they die or not." Fei Yue said calmly.
"Yes, for a person as talented and persistent as you, how many people can fall under your eyes?"
"Are you mocking me?" Fei Yue asked, staring at Feitimo.
"No, I just feel a little ashamed. I often lecture those students, telling them to be dedicated and dedicated, but compared to you, I am still far behind after all."
"Why do I feel like there's something in your words?" Fei Yue glanced at Feitimo.
"That's not true. Maybe I'm getting older and more confused. In the past few years, I often ask myself, is the persistence of magic so important? Is it worth a magician to spend his whole life pursuing? ?I always felt that becoming a master like you and a role model for my peers is the path I should take. But I don’t know why, but there is a sentence that often echoes in my mind in the past few years, especially when I saw it recently After seeing the magic that the child performed, he began to doubt himself even more." Fetimo said.
Fei Yue looked at the afterglow in the sky, pondered for a while and said: "Most magicians only have an infinite desire for magic power, and their understanding of higher levels of material time and space is too superficial."
"You still remember this sentence..." Fei Timo looked at Fei Yue in astonishment.
"She should be regarded as a woman I admire more, but... I don't agree with the idea of getting married and having children." Fei Yue said, "By the way, how about his child? Now he is like his mother. Those things left behind, right?”
Fetimo nodded, "How should I put it? Alvin's kid looks a bit like her, but he's not like her at all."
"Don't say these mysterious words. I only know that he played my female student around." Master Fei Yue said angrily.
"It's not just the female students in your family, isn't it Master Piro's female students as well?" Fetimo smiled rather rudely at this time.
"Thankfully that little brat isn't here, otherwise I, as a teacher, would definitely teach him a lesson for my own student."
"You are already old, but you still have the same experience as children?"
"How about you become his teacher?" Fei Yue looked at Fei Timo with a playful smile.
"Oh, no, no, no, then you're kidding me. How can I withstand your beating?" Fetimo had a sad look on his face.
"Old Vulture, actually you shouldn't have come this time." Fei Yue smiled and her face gradually turned cold, "Why don't you find an excuse to stay in the academy?"
Feitimo felt a shiver in his heart, wondering, was she hinting at something?
Then he smiled and said: "After all, I am also at the level of a great mage. If I don't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to teach in the courtyard anymore."
Fei Yue smiled and said nothing more.
"Hey, what is that? Why is there smoke? Is it water leakage?" Fetimo said, looking at the royal camp not far away.
"It seems so." Fei Yue glanced at it as if she didn't care, "Before the war, the camp caught fire, which is an ominous sign."
"I have to take a quick look." Fetimo turned around and was about to walk down the city. Before he could take a step forward, he thought to himself: "If I die this time, I will just come to see her for the last time."
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Sail the coastline. It is a hundred miles northeast of Xituo City.
An army of more than 5,000 people was marching at full strength, stirring up bursts of smoke and dust. No one seemed to care about the dusky waves, and no one was greedy for the gorgeous glow.
"What are you rushing for? Calculating the distance, you must be in time." Alvin looked at Onian and asked puzzledly, then leaned closer to her and reminded her in a low voice: "You haven't seen these royal cavalry, all of them have pale faces. Bai, they are almost exhausted."
Alvin felt that O'Ni'an had been acting strangely these past two days, always feeling uneasy. Even though the Tingxiao people were killed so happily that day, O'Ni'an didn't show any joy.
"Where are your brothers? Why do you think there are two missing?" Onian didn't answer his doubts, but asked him about it.
"You mean Lai Wu and Chen Zhu? Of the two of them, one is constrained by his own father, and the other is seriously injured. It's quite difficult for them." Alvin teased with a smile.
"Is Laiwu the child of the Duke of Nanton?" Onian asked for no reason.
"That's right, don't you know?" Alvin thought to himself that with Onian's exquisite heart, he naturally knew the pedigree of first-class nobles like Salyuhi very well. Judging from the frown on her face, she must be thinking about other things.
"I remember, Chen Zhu should be the son of Duke Qian Xiao, right?"
"Yes." Alvin nodded, "Wait, what do you want to say?"
He also reacted very quickly. He immediately caught some clues from O'Ni'an's questions and frowned in thought.
"Don't you think it's strange? First, the two Dukes Nanton and Jisugi left the front line and led their troops to save Xituo City. Then Duke Qianxiao's son also stopped following us to the front line."
Alvin suddenly fell silent when she said this. In fact, he can think of 10,000 ways to refute her, but what he is best at is thinking about the worst side of things first, because this way he will be least hurt by the impact of reality. From the moment he doubted it, he seemed to have fallen into the abyss of darkness. He kept falling weightlessly, looking at the distant light at a loss. Like a goldfish, he opened and closed his mouth comically. No sound could be made.
Onian looked at Alvin at this time, bouncing on the horse, completely like a puppet.
"Now you know why I'm in such a hurry?" Onian said quietly.
"This doesn't mean anything. Maybe it's just that the Dukes are afraid of going to the battlefield? Plus, they feel sorry for their children, so it makes sense." Alvin said, and he himself knew that this explanation was too far-fetched. He still remembered what his father said about "a thousand-year-old tortoise and a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise." These tortoises made similar actions, which is worth thinking about.
"You've thought about it for so long and you just came up with such an explanation?" Onian said sarcastically.
"Then we'd better hurry up and leave as soon as possible." Alvin said with an unkind expression.
However, the urgent team stopped at this time.
The leaders, Alvin and Onian, looked at the burnt wooden trestle in shock for a moment.
"Oh, I remembered that when Tingxiao's mercenaries were surrounded and suppressed, more than a thousand people escaped." Alvin suddenly said, "They must have burned down the trestle because they were afraid of our pursuit. .”
"I also thought about too many things, and I forgot about this." Onian said helplessly.
Alvin dismounted and inspected the surrounding terrain, looking at the broad mountain stream to the west, with rapids flowing down directly into the Yaoyuan Sea to the east. This wooden trestle bridge originally spanned the mountain stream and connected two high slopes. Now it was burned and all the supports were destroyed, leaving only the wooden piles submerged in the water.
Just when he wanted to raise his hand to cast magic, he was stopped by Onian.
"what you do?"
"Build an ice bridge to get out, otherwise? More than 5,000 people have to cross, right?"
"Don't waste your magic power here. For such a big project, let the magicians from the mercenary group do it."
"Why?" Alvin asked strangely.
"I guess I won't be able to have a good rest in the past two days. You have spent your magic power now, and it will not be easy to recover. There are many dangerous situations to face when you arrive at the front line of Yiling Bernard." Onian said in a deep voice.
Alvin nodded, "It makes sense. You are still thoughtful."
So he rode to the rear of the team. The mercenary regiment from all directions had been marching behind the royal cavalry. He told Langyun to bring dozens of magicians to the front to build an ice bridge.
At this time, in Xituo City, the two dukes who were having a lively chat would definitely be anxious if they knew that these damn Tingxiao people would be so mean. These two people did not hope that the princess would miss the upcoming battle.
