The young man named Thebes was the envoy who went to York to negotiate with the Sunset Empire, which had invaded his own territory, and this young man was also the only remaining male royal compatriot of the generation of the 12th Ranster Empire, the Prince of the Leinster Empire. His Highness Rancester. As for the rest of the male compatriots............ Needless to say? Of course, they all hung up in the process of competing for the throne, and the female compatriots are similar, except for 2 princesses who only came of age a few years ago, the rest should either marry the duke of their own country for politics, or marry the prince of another country, or like most of those compatriots, died in the process of competing for the throne.

At the age of 30, he killed his father and ascended the throne as the emperor, after about 2 years of imperial civil strife, 5 years of hard work and 3 years of inland expansion, Lance 12, who had just run 40 this year, was making great plans and preparing to vigorously expand the army to continue to annex several kingdoms, when the news of the fall of Yorkland reached the ears of this king in front of all the ministers and earls in the court, and as predicted, when this matter came out of the mouth of the imperial intelligence director, the faces of everyone present instantly sank, Even the surrounding guards could see a layer of frost on the face of Lancet 12 sitting on the throne.

As the 10-year-old Randster 12 is no longer the young man he was when he first ascended the throne, with the tempering of the years, the Rance 12 has become a full politician at this time, so after a few seconds of contemplation, he immediately asked which country was the person who attacked the Purple Rose Collar of Randster? What if? What happened to the Purple Rose family?

But the intelligence director's answer made the hearts of everyone present sink, and the anger that was originally burning was also blown out by the oppressive atmosphere around him: "Your Majesty! It's the mysterious empire on which the sun never sets! I'm sorry that my spies can't get any information into my hands other than that, because the Sun Never Sets Empire has a strong cavalry force, and the first and last elite spy to escape told me that by the time he escaped, Maradoga City and the other two towns had been occupied one after another, and the Purple Rose family ............. probably had been more than lucky. At present, from the mouths of the refugees, soldiers, and spies who escaped, we can only collect and integrate the information about the strength of the Imperial Army: 1. They have extremely powerful naval combat units, and even their naval combat units are mixed with powerful and huge sea monster troops; 2 Powerful siege troops, because it was revealed from the refugees that at the moment of the battle, the defensive belt of the port area of the city of Maradoga was destroyed by a large number of flying stones and giant javelins; 3 The Marine Army was well-armed, it was supposed to be a professional army, and it had cavalry units that could quickly move to other places, and the defenders of Sal and Puerto Lodo were surrounded by well-equipped cavalry and could not go to the city of Maradoga. Your Majesty, this is specific information, but I guarantee that it is not all information, and even the gold content of this information may not even be 10%, because the Sun Never Sets Empire is really too mysterious to us, even the merchants and spies who went to the first coastal city in its northwest - London City have not seen their real military strength" (so far, all the people of the King Continent believe that London City is not the main city of the Sun Never Setting Empire, but just a coastal trading city comparable to its main city)

Quietly looking at the extremely heavy materials in his hand, Lancet 12th Shishun felt that a huge crisis was looming over himself and even his country. Heavy infantry in armor with strange weapons, archers in light chain mail and long wooden bows, and cavalry with horses and men wrapped in armor and chain mail. From this small number of words alone, the Lancet Empire knew that perhaps, the greatest enemy of the Empire for hundreds of years would finally appear today.

In the ensuing discussions with the ministers and nobles, the Randster Emperor finally accepted the method that most people agreed on: nominally sending envoys to negotiate, and secretly preparing to assemble troops for a counteroffensive. But the people present also thought that the luxury goods and even paper sold by this mysterious empire have been sold wildly in the country to provide funds for this mysterious empire, but everyone present did not know whether it was a tacit understanding or discussed in advance, and did not advance this problem, and then, Emperor Lanster also attached great importance to this mysterious enemy country as a reason, and sent a cousin who was loyal to him when competing for the throne, as for the real intention, perhaps only Emperor Lanster himself guessed.

Thebes is not a very smart politician, but also a daring gambler, this is also for what he can in the battle for the throne of the Lancet 12 who was not optimistic about Lang before, and it turns out that he was right, so for some reason, when Thebes knew that his brother was going to send him to the enemy country to negotiate, he did not react much, but very obediently arranged and bowed, said goodbye to his wife and children and left the imperial city, Although he had been told before leaving that it was a mission to die, because Ranster wanted to use the death of the prince to aggravate the crimes of the empire on which the sun never sets, so as to make the whole country hate the empire, Thebes did not say anything, but said, "Maybe I have to change my title." Then he left the prince's palace, and of course no one noticed that there were two more figures in the carriage in which Thebes was riding.

"This, is it really Marado, no, is this really York City, which was captured just two weeks ago?" However, when Thebes came to York, he did not find an officer to inform the administrator of the place as the normal procedure and asked him to notify the envoys of the Lower Lanster Empire to come, but asked the soldiers guarding the carriage to remove the standard of the envoys of the Lanster Empire on the carriage and enter the city of York as a small caravan.

In the course of the ensuing, Thebes, together with his cronies and guards, toured the city, which seems to be a habit of Thebes, because wherever he went, Thebes would stay in the city for a few days as an ordinary merchant and leave after a few days.

After a day of visiting, Thebes, after staying in one of the best taverns in the city, and after enjoying a sumptuous dinner, left the tavern as is customary, went out for a walk alone, and after passing a noisy little bar, looked around and found that there were no suspicious people, Thebes entered the noisy tavern, and sat down in front of an old man with a scumbag face.

".......... long time no see, Your Highness."

"yes, long time no see, Duke Purple Rose."