The cold wind swept through the cracked land of the plateau, and the sparse grass and trees swayed, and they bowed to the cold and stern monarch. Fawaz stretched out his snow-white claws to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky, and the thin claws stretched out from under the fluff, flashing with a cold light. It raised its head, and its blue eyes reflected the whole northern sky and the earth, and it was such a picture, the northern mountains of Anzeruta were like a giant gate, lying at the end of the sky, above the open alluvial plains, the rivers were like glittering ribbons, the rivers flowed into the distance, into the undulating mountains, heavy gray shadows, curved curves, all gathered in one point.

There was a fortress, the last portal to the Evergreen Walkway.

Fawaz stared silently in that direction, not knowing what thoughts were spinning in his mind, as the cold wind shook the brass-ringed snow-white beard of the king of beasts. It turned its head, and the heavy armor draped over its body made a crisp sound: "Change the flag." Standing behind this wise and martial lion king were two rows of tall golden-maned guards, but in the crowd, there was an old lion man with a long staff and a red robe, and he bowed his knees and asked tremblingly:

"Now? My Honorable Majesty? ”

Fawaz raised a finger, its sharp nails flashing with a sharp cold light, and it shook it slightly: "Don't call me Majesty, Naze, only that person can call me Majesty." She is the king of a thousand realms, the king of kings, she is the light of day, the color of night, she has long foreseen in the psalms that she will reign over the world, and now she has returned, with the gospel of eternity and the salvation of the lion people. You and I serve her as we serve our father. ”

Modesti stared at the lionman's camp, a cold narrow light in the cold-blooded animal's vertical pupils, and she immediately saw patches of black flags rising from the endless camp, replacing the golden lion's mane banner that was like an ocean. "Hehehe," the she-black dragon chuckled twice. "It's an honor to witness the advent of such an era."

She spread her hands upward, and patches of black flags slowly rose behind her.

Above that banner, the emblem of Asgher shone brightly.

On the eve of the Year of the Sword Prayer Day, the lionmen of the Golden-Maned Toquinine passed through Rokozy, the fortress group of the Broken Sword Mountains, and the army of Jogandigan captured the last fortress to the south of the Four Realms, Asaph, and the two armies converged at the southern end of the Evergreen Walkway, and then announced the change of banner at the same time. The black Imperial Battle Banner, the symbol of the dark dragon Odin. After disappearing from the earth for a thousand years, it has finally reappeared on this land.

The remnants of the Cruz fleeing north, the knights and the nobles, had the privilege of witnessing the birth of this history-changing moment.

The news was brought to the north, and it was soon discovered that Her Majesty, the supreme queen of the Empire, had the same banner as the Templar army on her side, so a rumor spread under the spread of those who had a heart, thousands of years later. The King of Darkness has returned, and she is the King. She is also the Father, who is the light that rises from the darkness, the master of the previous age, who has returned, bringing with her the glory and redemption that has passed, and who will put an end to this lie.

The whole of Vaynd shook.

It's as if there's a tacit understanding. The Red Legion and the Wind Elves ceased fighting at the same time in the Four Realms, but then the elves fell into a stagnant silence, and the Wind Queen Temple did not even say anything for a while, the temple went up to the Holy Seat to the main priest, and the royal court went up to the emperor down to the ministers. They collectively lost their voices, as if a terrible taboo lay in front of them, making them tremble as if they were walking on thin ice, and they did not dare to speak lightly.

At Faunzan, the Sanians slowed their southward advance, and the nobles of the free city-states looked at each other at a loss. The Church of Light, which had long been secretive of the dark dragons, suddenly summoned all the regional bishops to the White City and reactivated the Holy Council, which had been abandoned after the War of the Sages, but just when there was speculation that the Church was going to send troops south to punish the mad queen, the supreme of Faenzan, the Emperor of the Empire and Pope Gloria II, sent an edict to silence the boiling north.

'The Knights of the Silver Horse retreated north of Alkash, all armies within the empire were not allowed to move south, the Holy Council was temporarily closed, and no one was allowed to discuss the shape of the south within the Templars-'

Thus the Holy Council, which had been reopened seven hundred and sixty-two years later, seemed to come back to light, and died just as quickly after a brief resurgence, during which it lasted only twelve days, and the Faunzans nicknamed it the 'Council of the Decameron'.

After a series of events, the only result left was that the entire civilized world fell into a collective silence, as if the upheaval that had taken place in the Cruz Empire was just an illusion.

"Bang-"

Duke Wei Na slapped the envelope heavily on the table, his shaking hands proving how high the anger in his heart was, the elder generation of imperial ministers looked around like a lion, and roared: "What good will it do them to let this situation continue to deteriorate!?" "The generals around the sand table had different faces, some were furious, some were dazed, and some showed panicked looks, just three days ago, the queen's army had invaded Simez, and the sequence of mountain people and witches appeared in her army in a clear banner, and on the border of civilization, it is said that many people have observed strange human races, and everyone knows that it is the Miner people who have returned.

Now rumors that Her Majesty is the dragon of darkness have long been spread, and she has not looked old since she was fifteen years old, is this not the most direct proof? People originally hoped that the Temple of Flame would stand up and preside over the overall situation at this chaotic juncture, but now even the Temple itself has been divided into two factions, and the two voices are fiercely clash in the intellectual circles of the empire, making it impossible to distinguish who is right and who is wrong, but as the situation on the battlefield has become more and more biased towards the Queen's side, many of the wall grasses have fallen to the scholasticists, and as for the northern nobles on which the conservatives depend, life is getting worse day by day.

Many of the conservative aristocracy were originally royalists, standing on the side of the legitimate heirs, and since the silver queen began to attack the princes around her, they have been separated from them. As the Silver Queen's actions become more and more insane, they thought that these offending actions would quickly lead her into rebellion, especially since she reactivated the Senia and called herself the Dark Dragon. The whole north was in jubilation, and at that time they could even imagine that soon Faenzan and St. Oshor would send troops to intervene, and maybe even the sage who was far away in the ring of the world would intervene.

It is well known that the world order established after the Battle of the Sages is the cornerstone of mortal civilization. Anyone who tries to shake this cornerstone is against the entire civilized world. And at this moment, the already crazy queen Xià is standing on the opposite side of the entire civilized world.

Her fate can be imagined.

The northern nobles celebrated, thinking that victory was already in sight, but the ensuing facts shocked them and even overwhelmed them. The silence of the Temple of Light and the Temple of the Queen of the Wind made their hearts fall to freezing point, and they even wondered about their own worldview, what was wrong with this world? However, the silence of one side often means that the other side is more arrogant, and the nobles of Cloak Bay, who were still hesitating, joined the queen's camp in an instant. The Imperial fleet, which had always been controlled by the Templars, also fell into the arms of the scholastics, and the sudden change of arms between the lion men and the army of Qiaogan south of the Evergreen Corridor suddenly made the entire north fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness.

Although the White Legion stuck in the north of the Evergreen Corridor has not yet expressed its position, the world knows their relationship with Her Majesty the Queen, in fact, the nobles on the Ludwig side have long since reported no hope to East Mez, and they are even estimating the speed of the White Legion's march, because the news from all directions has long been lost, they can only guess that the port of Fatan may have fallen at this time. It's just that I don't know what the Mosaic Collar can support, but the Grand Duke of Mosaic is still under house arrest in the imperial capital. Presumably, it is impossible to rely on his two daughters for too long.

As a result, Ludwig was alone.

To add insult to injury, due to the disappearance of the emperor's eldest son in Eruin, the military nobles have lost their moral footing, and if it weren't for the Silver Queen's identity as the Dark Dragon to lead the Templar split, they would have become a group of traitors and thieves by now.

in the crowd. An old man in a holy robe sighed, and Duke Wei Na looked at him and said angrily: "Bishop Randall, tell me about it, are those damned tree chicks and the Yankees still have the mentality of profiting from fishermen. Don't they understand what kind of juncture they have reached? How could it be that the mad woman, who claimed to be the Dragon of Darkness and wanted to restore the rule of the Minor, was blaspheming the sacred covenant and yet they turned a blind eye! ”

Randall smiled bitterly: "It's not their fault, you and I are both witnesses of the last holy war, and we should understand what happened at that time...... It's really that what I saw at that time was so bizarre that people had to wonder. ”

"But you still stand here," the Duke interrupted him heavily, "instead of throwing yourself into the arms of the traitors, which shows that it is their weakness that shakes up." ”

"Old man, I can't say that, and I can't prove that I made the right choice, it's just that I don't want to betray the faith I've believed for so many years."

"There is no right or wrong in history, only victory and defeat," the Duke waved his hand impatiently: "It has been a thousand years since the people of Black Iron took over this world, and the Battle of the Sages has been a thousand years old, is history a thousand years wrong because of this?" It's just nonsense, such a statement that only a madman would believe, at least I will never admit it, and I will not let the dark madwoman succeed! ”

"You're right, old man," Bishop Randall sighed again, "what are you going to do now?" ”

"It's troublesome," Duke Wei Na rubbed his forehead: "Militarily we are in a very disadvantageous position, that crazy woman has a steady stream of hole cards in her hand, those messy things don't know from that mess to come out of that and beat us back one after another, there is still an army of lionmen in the south, and those underground, but I am most worried about the Imperial fleet in Cloak Bay, if they go to the North Sea to block the shipping lanes, then this battle really can't be fought." ”

This made all the people in the tent frown, this is also the most realistic thing, militarily the northern nobles who originally controlled most of the military strength of the empire were defeated by Her Majesty the Queen, and they were about to lose the entire Simez, and the defection of the imperial fleet gave them a fatal blow, and now most of the supplies in the north come from the northern sea lanes, if the imperial fleet goes to the north to block this supply line, then this battle really can't be continued.

Duke Wei Na patted the map heavily and said, "I plan to ask the dragon clan for help. ”

"Dragons?"

"This is a solution," Bishop Randall shot two fine lights under his eyelids, "the dragon was also involved in that incident back then, and now that the three-headed rebel dragon has appeared on the ground with great fanfare, the dragon clan will definitely say something about it, at least let Qiao Gendegang withdraw his troops unilaterally, otherwise there are three dragons on the enemy's side, and the threat to us is too great." ”

Duke Wei Na nodded. "That's not the point, old man," he added faintly, "Dragons aren't stupid, they've been making moves for a long time, and they've probably been aware of this qiē a little earlier than we knew." As far as I know, they sent an envoy to the empire before the madwoman was ready to act, but the envoy did not arrive in the imperial capital, so to speak, a step too late, and if the timing was correct, the envoy must still be in the empire. ”

"Envoy?" Bishop Randall looked up with some surprise: "Why haven't I heard about this, who is that?" ”

"I also got the news by accident, because the first contact of the dragon clan was actually the eldest son of the emperor, which shows that they don't trust the crazy woman, as for which envoy they sent, I don't know, but I only know that it should be a silver dragon."

"Silver Dragon...... That's a lot of specs. ”

"This shows that the dragons attach great importance to it." Duke Wei Na replied.

"Then we'll have to find this envoy quickly."

"I've already arranged for someone to find it, but unfortunately I don't have a clue yet."

Perhaps it was the Duke's mention that inspired Randall's train of thought, and the bishop suddenly said, "What about the Buga? Their positions are often the same as those of the dragons, isn't there a little bit of expression? ”

Duke Wei Na was slightly stunned, as if he had been told something on his mind, and his face became a little strange: "Speaking of these slippery heads, they have something to say......"

"Slippery? Something to say? Bishop Randall didn't notice his old friend's face: "What do you mean?" ”

"And it came to pass, I also remembered about the Buga two days ago, and then found out that they had withdrawn all the diplomats just before the mad woman did it, but ......" the Duke hesitated for a moment, and continued: "But I have left a letter, which seems to mean that it does not support what the mad woman did, and hopes that we will stand our ground......"

"We stand our ground, they take advantage of it for nothing, those damn wizards." The crowd in the tent immediately began to curse.

"To put it bluntly, I still want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight," the bishop frowned: "But the Buga people have been in the world for thousands of years, they shouldn't be so naïve, can't they see that we are not the opponent of Her Majesty at the moment, and if we continue like this, we will lose sooner or later." ”

"Don't forget that isolation from the world has always been their strategy." Duke Wei Na replied lightly.

Randall nodded, but he always felt that it was not that simple. It was at this time that a messenger opened the door and walked in: "Lord Duke, letter." ”

"Letter?" Duke Wei Na was slightly stunned, glanced at the reply letter from Faenzan and St. Ossol in his hand, and asked with a frown, "Whose letter?" ”

"I don't know, sir, but the letter is from the direction of Port Fatan."

"Port Fatan?" The duke was stunned for a while before remembering where this place came from, not because this place was too small, but because he really didn't expect it, he pointed to the letter and asked: "This is the letter from the White Legion, what are they doing with the letter, hehe, do they want to defect?" ”

There was a lot of disdain and sarcasm in it.

But the messenger shook his head honestly: "No, my lord, I'm afraid it's not the letter from the White Legion, it's the Eruin who sent it. ”

"Eruin?"

Now Duke Wei Na was really stunned.

…… (To be continued......)