Of course, Rhodes didn't care what kind of stupid punishment and treatment the poor creature in the black prison received. Early the next morning, Dassos hurriedly left the Land of Atonement with the investigation team and went to the Alchemist Guild to resume his life. Of course, Rhodes knew very well that the poor old alchemist might not be so easy to convince the Alchemist Guild to come up with so many materials when he went back this time. But he wasn't worried. Anyway, the agreement between the two sides has already been confirmed by the church, and if the Alchemist Guild wants to break the contract, then their credibility in the Dragon Soul Continent will also be ruined.

Although the Alchemist Guild's sudden arrival was a disaster for Rod, it also reminded Rod that he didn't care enough about the fortress. Especially in the case of Labis, Rhodes once again felt his own shortcomings - he even began to consider giving Labis a deputy. This is a very important thing for Labis, the girl herself is introverted, shy, and doesn't take the initiative to talk to people at all. This is not only manifested in daily life, but also in work. Labis needs a lot of materials to make alchemy props, but the girl is always embarrassed to ask Rhodes for it, but would rather pressure herself to find a way, and it is because of this that Labis will be caught up in the idiots of the Alchemist Guild and do such a thing. If someone had been there to help her, and to communicate with Rhodes if necessary, it would have been very difficult for that to happen.

Although it is easy to say, it is very difficult to find such a person, first of all, the other party must be a candidate who has won the trust of Rhodes, and it is best to be a female Xing. In addition to this, she needs good communication skills and the acumen to be able to perceive Labis's inner thoughts, and she must also have a certain combat power to be able to protect Labis in the event of an unexpected situation. Ultimately, the most important thing is that Labis must be able to accept her. And it is definitely not easy to get the introverted Labis to open her heart to accept and trust someone.

After listing these conditions, Rhodes found that there were no eligible members at all. At present, the Starlight Guild is still in its infancy, almost a radish and a pit, and it is completely impossible to find extra manpower. The Canary and Little Bubblegum may be able to stay in the stronghold for a long time, but they are not the kind of people who can sit down and spend a whole day in the alchemy workshop. And Bubblegum is responsible for training the mercenaries in the fortress, and also teaching the spirits about PvP combat skills. And the canary has to fill the void left by Marlene to keep the fortress running smoothly. Neither of them could pull out. As for Anne and Lijie, not to mention, they all have to follow Rhodes to fight north and south, and they can't get out at all. Seven loves are very idle, but considering her xing character, let alone being Labis's deputy, I'm afraid that the little fox will make Labis her puppet, which will be troublesome.

Although Christie is very close to Labis, her health has never been very good, and Christie is not capable of protecting herself and Labis. Although Celia is very suitable for the requirements, it is a pity that she is not a core card, and as a high-level summoning card, Celia consumes a lot of soul power. If you want to summon her out for twenty-four hours of uninterrupted maintenance, just three or five days like in Fiat, but to maintain it all the time is also a big burden for Rod's body. The Holy Sword card is not like the light snow, and the amount of soul power consumed to create Jing Ling is very considerable. In order to ensure his own safety, it was absolutely impossible for Rhodes to consume at least one-fifth of his strength every day to maintain Celia's presence in the outside world. What's more, the amount of power consumed to maintain the summoning spirit is also quite related to the distance, if Rhodes goes to the Golden City and leaves Celia here, then the soul power he needs to consume every day may not even be enough to sustain himself.

Thinking of this, Rod couldn't help but think of Marlene again.

Although most of Rhodes' time after returning to the fortress was devoted to resting in the Mercenary Guild, he also did not forget to pay attention to every move of the outside world. Through the intelligence network cooperated by Old Walker and the "Silent Blade", the intelligence from all over the world arrived on Rhodes' desk every day, so that he could learn about the current movements of the entire continent at the first time.

The civil war between the North and the South was still unfinished, and the troops sent by the reformists arrived in Karenster "without incident", much to the delight of the reformists. On the other hand, the Northern Royal Coalition Army, after forming a half-encirclement, has not made any major moves, but sometimes several legions will join forces to do siege exercises nearby—people who don't know the way of the road still think that they are here for military training.

But seeing this, Rod was already sure that the fish had taken the bait.

Although on the surface, Calenster's defenders were as many as 70,000, enough to compete with the 60,000 of the royal party. However, this is just a beautiful appearance on the surface, and an army of 70,000 people means that the amount of military rations to be consumed is also very considerable. Now the grain reserves in the south have been burned by Rhodes. There is not even food to harvest. In the past, in order to stabilize the country, the Southern Council had opened a warehouse to release grain, and the remaining grain was almost consumed to the bottom. And now, with a ration of 70,000 people, Rhodes really wanted to see where the Southern Council was going to conjure up so much food—Callenster was a very remote and barren city, and it didn't have that much reserves.

Through Old Walker's intelligence network, Rhodes has also learned that the envoy of the Council of Light has indeed arrived in the Golden City, but he has not seen the shadow of Archduke Lydia, and I heard that this archduke has heard the strange news of the melting of the frozen lake, so he went to the Cranmer area to enjoy the scenery and travel by the way......... As for when he will come back, I'm afraid only a genius knows the way.

Although there has not been a large-scale war between the two sides in this state, there have been many small-scale frictions. Rhodes had also heard a lot of rumors and deeds about Marlene leading the Senia family magic guide guards to repel the Southern Legion. Not only her, but in the current situation, several families in the Principality of Moon will send their heirs and henchmen to the front line to experience it, on the one hand, to hone themselves. On the other hand, it is also to express its attitude to the royal family, and as the largest family in the Principality of Moon, the Shania family is naturally in the spotlight.

Every time he heard the news about Marlene, Rod's mood was very complicated, he was very happy that Marlene could walk on the right path, with his understanding of the family of the great nobles of the Duchy of Moon, as long as Marlene could play a role in this battle, then his status in the royal party would naturally rise and become more and more stable. After that, Marlene should be able to join the ranks of the royal party in a very official capacity and make all the preparations for her succession to the Shania family.

Although for Marlene, her future is bright. But Rhodes was reluctant to let her leave at all, not to mention the intimate relationship between her and herself, Marlene's own ability is also a great help for Rhodes, as a natural talent born in the political world, Marlene not only has a unique talent for magic, but also has outstanding political abilities. The Starlight Guild was able to leap from a small group of less than ten people to its current size without falling apart, and a large part of the credit goes to Marlene. If she could, Rhodes really wanted her to be her deputy for the rest of her life. When the time comes, Marlene will do something, and he will do it if there is nothing to do······· …… Uh, that's a long way off.

But it's a pity that Rod can only think about such good things in his head, although Marlene likes him very much, and the relationship between the two parties has also gone beyond friendship. But Rhodes didn't think Marlene was the kind of woman who would be tied down because of this, she came out of the Shania family and was raised as an heir. As a qualified and out-of-the-box heir, it is absolutely impossible for Marlene to be like the one described in the poor ballad novel, "As long as I can follow you, I can abandon everything and nothing, as long as you love me, I will have no regrets.........······" This is simply playing tricks on children, and a mature person should understand his responsibilities. If Marlene really made such a choice, it would be really naïve——— but according to Rod's observation, with Marlene's Xing character, she would never have done so.

If it was Anne and Lizzie, it wouldn't be for sure.

"Hahh..............."

Raising his head and sighing, Rod put down the quill in his hand, looked at the mountain of documents in front of him, and shook his head helplessly. Without Marlene, a lot of things have become very troublesome. Although Marlene had set up a very complete set of procedures and rules for the entire guild before leaving, as long as she followed them, there would be no problem. But no matter how good the motherboard is, the CPU's xing can not go up, and it is in vain. Without Marlene's ability, in the final processing stage, even Rhodes and Canary, who have long been accustomed to managing guilds, will be a little scrambling——— they don't need to care about the players' food, clothing, housing and transportation in the game.

Forget it, it's useless to think about it now.

Thinking of this, Rod shook his head, tossed aside the shadow of Marlene that appeared in his mind, and then he reached out and picked up the bell on the table and shook it slightly. And with the crisp sound of the bell, the door of the study opened, and then, as always, Agawei moved her tentacles indifferently, and walked in, the two tentacles under her stretched slightly to the side, looking like a human lifting the hem of her skirt, and saluted Rhodes, and then asked unhurriedly, unhurriedly.

"Master, what do you command?"

"What is the current state of the fortress?"

Rod thought for a moment, then asked. Haijing Spirits are not bad at this, as elemental creatures, they have telepathic power with each other, and Agame, as the highest-ranking among them, can easily obtain the movements of most of the people in the fortress through other Haijing Spirits. Hearing Rod's inquiry, Agamevi first closed her eyes and was silent for a moment before she reopened her eyes and spoke.

"As it stands, everything is normal inside the fortress, but the magic guide structure you designed earlier is starting to be officially equipped today."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Rod raised his eyebrows.

"Take me to see it."

Then, Rod spoke.

On the vast grassland, the breeze gently stroked, driving the grassland to set off a ripple like a wave, and the whole grassland looked so quiet and peaceful under the sun. Soon, however, dozens of horses galloped across the prairie with a whistling voice, breaking the peculiar tranquility of the prairie. These cavalrymen raised their spears high, changed smoothly, organized a charging formation, and rushed forward, and the horses' hooves flew forward, and the rumbling sound echoed in the grassland. Countless grass clippings were swept into the air with the galloping horses and then scattered backwards in the breeze.

When Rhodes came to the grassland, he saw that the cavalry were intersecting and interchanging the original triangular formation of charging forward in an extremely flexible way, and in just a few seconds, they changed direction, but they attacked to the right without slowing down. And at this time, the cavalry led by the leader seemed to be aware of Rod's existence, and he suddenly whistled, and with this sharp whistle, the cavalry suddenly leaned to the side, and then rushed straight towards Rod.

The sound of horses' hooves came and went, as muffled as thunder. It's just dozens of rides, but at this moment, it gives people a momentum that seems to be rushing towards the face and can't resist and compete at all. But Rhodes was unmoved, he just put his hands behind his back and calmly looked at the cavalry who were charging at him.

Just as the cavalry was about to rush into the range of Rhodes' attack, they suddenly slowed down and then aligned in unison, as if they were robots programmed to cāo, and stopped at the same time within three steps. At this time, the cavalry led by the cavalry rode all the way to Rod's side, turned over and dismounted, and then lifted his black sè armor mask. The face of a man full of youthful vitality and vigor was revealed.

"Hello, Lord Rhodes."

"Looks like you're doing a good job, John. How does it feel? ”

Looking at the young man in front of him, Rod nodded slightly in response.

The young man in front of him was none other than John Brown, whom Rhodes had picked up from Parfield. Greer. After the mercenaries of the Starlight Guild left the front line of Parfield, John also took more than 60 people who defected to him to the stronghold of the Starlight Guild according to Rod's orders, but unlike the mercenaries, their identities were Rhodes' personal soldiers and retainers

Frankly, before coming here, John still had a lot of doubts and uneasiness about Rod, and in his opinion, a young nobleman, no matter how powerful, was limited. Otherwise, he would not have been so discouraged as to lead mercenaries into battle. But soon, the majestic fortress stunned John, and after the canary and the little bubblegum gave the young man a dismount, the doubts in his heart were finally completely dispelled, and he began to work for Rhodes wholeheartedly - to have such a large fortress and such a powerful subordinate by his side, the future of such a nobleman can be predicted.

And now, John himself feels the benefits of being a retainer of Rhodes.

"Very good, sir."

Hearing Rod's inquiry, an excited smile appeared on John's face, he stretched out his hand and knocked on the heavy black sè armor he was wearing, which was different from the half-body armor worn by cavalrymen for light action, at the moment John and his subordinates were wearing incomparably heavy full-body armor, from head to toe, it was tightly protected everywhere, not only that, but in their arm part, there was a sharp prismatic shield that spread out, and in front of it, it extended a section of the tip of a spear, On the back side of the shield, there are two conical spikes that are slightly thinner than the arms, and the sharp teeth extend from the back. This strange design made the cavalry look like monsters with teeth all over their bodies, and they couldn't even speak.

"To be honest, at first I thought this armor would be heavy, but I didn't expect it to be as light as leather armor, and it didn't feel inconvenient and inflexible at all! Not only that, but this strange weapon is also surprisingly useful, my lord, I really didn't expect you to be able to create such a thing! ”

John's excitement was not unreasonable, and as a man who had once been born in a noble family, he certainly would not be as stupid as those ordinary soldiers. After putting on this set of black sè armor and picking up the strange prismatic shield for trial, he immediately realized that this was not ordinary equipment, but an alchemical creation—this kind of thing was extremely rare in the market, let alone a large amount of equipment for soldiers. Even in John's impression, even the sharpest troops in the Southern Legion had never been treated so well!!

But now, when he had just arrived, the fact that this lord had given him such a valuable gift made John even more sure that he had made the right choice.

Seeing John's excited expression, Rod also nodded slightly. Of course he understood why John was so excited, this set of equipment was not imagined by Rhodes himself, but was invented by the Night Dragon Kingdom later, and the alchemy construction of the equipment was carried out in batches, it is not only lightweight, flexible, but also extremely lethal. The reason why the Dragon Kingdom of the Night was able to sweep the continent and rarely meet opponents after RI was also related to this set of alchemy equipment. However, when making it, Rhodes and Labis also took into account the differences between the undead and humans, and weakened and adjusted this armor to make it more suitable for human use.

"This set of equipment is still being fine-tuned, if you feel something wrong when using it, you can just ask it, and I will let Labis correct it...... · By the way, I said before, let you give this unit a name, have you thought about it? ”

"Of course, I've already figured it out, Lord Rhodes."

Hearing Rod's words, John couldn't help but puff out his chest proudly, and then spoke.

"I'm going to name my unit Black Sè Rose, what do you think?"

To John's surprise, when he heard his answer, the corners of Rod's mouth suddenly twitched strangely, and then his expression seemed to become quite complicated.

"Black sè rose?"

Rod raised his head strangely, looked at John, and then looked at the cavalry in black sè armor behind him——— uh, black sè he didn't understand, but that rose ............ Why did it make Rhodes feel so awkward?

If it's normal, it's okay, but when I think of going to the battlefield with them later, mixed in a group of "black roses", I don't know what Rod is doing, I feel a little chilled. He looked at John strangely and maliciously, and then muttered inwardly.

I only know that the old rascal of Garcia likes this mouthful, could it be that John, a young guy, also likes this tune? Otherwise, there are so many names in this world, why did he choose such a rose? Isn't it better to call a rose than a rose? This always reminded Rhodes of something not very pure and evil in his world... ……… Could it be that this young man still has such a hobby in his bones? This is really surprising news, if this is the case, I would have known that I would not have brought him back from the front line of Parfield, but left him there for the old fox Garcia, and maybe the two would have been able to "rub" some spark of enthusiasm.

“………… Lord Rhodes? Any questions? ”

Seeing Rod's appearance, John asked with some confusion. He thought it was a very good name—or rather, he wanted to break his head, and for so many days, he only thought of it. Although John had also gathered his subordinates to brainstorm, after all, this was their team, and it was naturally better to have a majestic name than anything else. But the results of the convening were not very satisfactory, as for the "Black Sè Rose" is not bad, those "Black Whirlwind" or something......... John was embarrassed to be in front of Rhodes.

"Uh............ Ahem. ”

Hearing John's somewhat confused question, Rhodes coughed awkwardly, then regained his composure and glanced at John and the cavalry behind him.

"I think the name is a little too soft, after the ri, we are going to charge, in the face of the enemy's sharp knife charging in the front line, what is the name of the rose is a little ··············· Well, this cavalry team, let's call it the Black Blade Guard, what do you think? ”

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