"Lord Count Deharus......"

"Huh?"

"Did you foresee anything?"

"Of course."

"Can you tell me a little bit about it?"

"Of course...... No! Hey, Viscount Norne, I found you really interesting. I'm asking you, why did you make a noise to me after a while? Am I acting too approachable? ”

Count Deharus's tone was rather casual, as if he were chatting with the children of an acquaintance next door. If it was a local nobleman in the Misty Lake area, he would definitely be trembling now, lest the lord would say the opposite. But Fang Qiuling was not a native of the Misty Lake region, and he was not even a native of Elune, so he didn't know much about the habits of Count DeHarus himself, so Count DeHarus's nonchalant tone would only make him casual as well.

"Well...... I wonder if we can talk about it openly. ”

"Huh? Are you serious? ”

"Of course, Lord Count. I, Viscount Norne, have always been serious. ”

Fang Qiuling rubbed his cheeks vigorously in front of Count Diharus, and then put on an expression of "I am serious" and "I am serious".

"Ha, haha......" Count DeHarus laughed, the pickiness and dissatisfaction in his eyes disappeared without a trace unconsciously, "Okay, you Viscount Norn, you are really a lot of courage!" ”

"No, I haven't been very bold."

"Ha, you stinky boy still say that you don't have the guts? Oh! It's okay if you want to talk, as long as you agree to marry Alina, then we are a family, and we can talk about anything. Even if you want the title of Deharus, it's fine. ”

“…… Lord Earl! "Alina is so young, it's definitely impossible to marry her home. Fang Qiu Ling righteously expressed his refusal, "I have emphasized it several times in Xia, and there are already people I like in Xia." ”

Count DeHarus also said without hesitation: "It's okay, I'm ...... I'll relax the conditions and let her be big or small, as long as she follows you. ”

Fang Qiuling was completely speechless, and it took a long time to squeeze out a word from between his teeth.

"No way!"

The smile on Count Diharus's face remained unchanged, and he was quite eloquent: "Okay, if you don't marry, you won't marry, and I won't force you." Alas...... Really, how can Alina say that she is also a young lady of the earl's family, as if she suffered a lot if she married her...... Oh, she learned something from you, that should be okay, right? ”

"This—this can be ......."

Rejected Count Diharus's request for marriage, and then refused...... Wait a minute!

Fang Qiuling found that he had been tricked again. Count DeHarus once again tricked him with the face-saving effect, which caused him to slap himself in the face.

Count Diharus, who was already full of smiles, smiled even more at this moment: "Okay, then it's decided!" Viscount Norne, Ronald and Alina are in your hands. It's still the same sentence, hit what should be beaten, and scold what should be scolded. From today onwards, no, from now on, the Deharus family is the staunchest ally of the Norn family! ”

With that, Count DeHarus stood up from his chair and stretched out his right hand to Fang Qiuling very formally.

The aristocrats of Karthhas rarely shook hands, because they believed that shaking hands was a merchant etiquette, and had the meaning of "the transaction is completed", "money and goods are clear", "equality and reciprocity", and so on. The aristocracy always expects to get more for less, so the handshake is not popular among the nobles.

Count Diharus took the initiative to extend his hand, which meant that he was treating Fang Qiuling people with an equal attitude. It has the meaning of "alliance" and "common advance and retreat".

Each member of the Deharus family is worthy of their title of nobility. In the First Kuroshio War, they took the lead and used their lives to buy time for the civilians of the Misty Lake to evacuate. They shepherd one side and adhere to the norms of the classical aristocracy. Such a family is worthy of deep friendship.

Fang Qiuling was silent for a moment, then straightened out his clothes, and also officially stretched out his right hand.

"Thank you, Lord Earl, for your trust in the Norn family. I can't make a promise, but I will do everything in my power to ensure the safety of the descendants of the Deharus family. ”

"Ha, it's a completely unreliable feeling." Count DeHarus smiled self-deprecatingly, but then he nodded, "Okay, that's all!" ”

The two hands were clasped together.

Sitting down at the table again, Count DeHarus asked directly:

"What are your plans, Thulick?"

"Intended?"

"Yes, what do you think of the undead? What are the countermeasures for the army of the undead in front of you? ”

Count DeHarus grabbed the bottle and glass from the table, and threw it at the large map on the table, seemingly casually. However, when the wine bottle and wine glass fell on the map, Fang Qiuling immediately noticed that Count Diharus was using the wine bottle and wine glass as a military flag, posing for the current military strength of the Mist Lake.

At the beginning of the state, the main threat to the Kingdom of Karthus came from the north. The Duchy of Eders in the north has always had its eye on the Kingdom of Kartha, hoping to turn the kingdom into a province of the Duchy of Kaltha. In the next two to three centuries, the two countries were in a state of chronic war, with an average of one skirmish every ten years or so, and a major war in about half a century. For example, the Twilight Moon War more than 30 years ago, this is a great war once in half a century.

In order to prevent the invasion of the Duchy of Eders, most of the military, financial and material resources of Karthas were concentrated in the northern provinces of the kingdom. As a frontier province in the western part of the kingdom, the Misty Lake region does not border the Duchy of Eders, so it will not face a direct threat from the Duchy of Eders. However, the absence of the threat of the Duchy of Eders does not mean that the Misty Lake region is a paradise where you can live and work in peace, you must know that the north of the Misty Lake is the deciduous forest, and the most famous specialty of the deciduous forest is ...... Well, the worst "specialty", orcs.

Orcs are intelligent creatures, they have their own language, aesthetic views that belong to their own ethnic characteristics, and they also have unique customs and habits belonging to their ethnic group. However, their level of civilization is still in a semi-civilized state, and their behavior is not only vulgar and rude, but also extremely bloodthirsty.

Scholars generally agree that orc brains only think about three things most of the time. First, is this thing edible? Second, can this thing be "hey"? Thirdly, is this thing worth beating?

Eat everything you can eat. Don't worry about having a bad appetite and don't worry about diarrhea. Orcs are not picky eaters and eat everything! I'm so hungry that I even eat my own people!

What can be "hey", of course, is as "hey" as possible. Men and women, eh...... The topic of orcs is too heavy to be suitable for children or adults, so scholars usually choose to skip it directly.

The last one, orcs are simple-minded and have always been accustomed to speaking with their fists. Whatever you can eat, eat it again! Anyone who can "hey" will knock it over first and then "hey". Of course, if that's always the case, the orcs will have no friends. Actually, in fact, the orcs don't have many friends, they just have servants and reserves......

In addition to admitting that he is unlucky, he also needs to tighten the windows and doors of his home. Don't let this evil neighbor break into your home. And the "gate" of the misty lake area is the Fallen Leaf Pass.

As Fang Qiuling knew through the "Elune World", most of the army in the Misty Lake was concentrated on the line from Wuxi Town to Fallen Leaf Pass, and there were only a small number of Town Guards and Foggy Knights in other areas. This deployment is very clear, it is to stop the orcs from going south.

The Fallen Leaf Pass is an important and only barrier to the north of the Mist Lake. Once the Fallen Leaves Pass is lost, the Misty Lake area can be said to be completely undefendable, until the rift fortress on the eastern border of the region. The entire Misty Lake region will become a paradise for orcs.

How many orcs are hidden in the deciduous forest? The answer is uncountable. Every year, the defenders stationed at Fallen Leaf Pass take the initiative to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the orcs in the forest. Year after year, day after day, the defenders of Fallen Leaf Pass will invest a lot of manpower and material resources every year, and every year many brave soldiers will be killed in the battle to encircle and suppress the orcs, but the number of orcs has never decreased.

The orc camp that burned white last year has been seen this year...... Hey! Why are there more tents? Wow! The number of high-level orc warriors is also higher!

Guarding the Fallen Leaves Pass will prevent the orcs from moving south, and will ensure the overall stability of the Mist Lake area. Of course, there is no way for the orcs who have slipped into the Misty Lake area by trail, and it is impossible to block all the roads.

Such a military layout would have been fine in the past, but at this moment the undead launched an offensive from the western coastal area. There were not enough garrisons and no precipitous natural hazards to defend, so the western coast of Mist Lake changed hands almost instantly.

The first wave of the undead army's offensive was all launched by elite troops. Even with a large army, it would be difficult for them to hold the west coast with the combined attack of several ghost ships. What's more, in addition to the ghost ship, there are also the "Jaw of Death" wizard group, the "Frostflower Dance" knight group, the "Fallen" wizard group, and many other undead elite troops in the first wave of offensive......

Not long before Fang Qiuling arrived at Wuxi Castle, the siege battle of the undead army had just ended. The victorious side was undoubtedly the defenders of Fog Castle, and they won a lot. However, the undead army launched an attack on Fog Castle, which represented the complete fall of the line from Op Harbor to Fog Castle. There are several towns between Port Opp and Fog Castle, and the fate of these towns speaks for itself.

The invasion of the Dark Nation Mamo is different from the previous undead scourges.

In the past, undead disasters were caused by individual necromancers or necromantic creatures, and only a few brave men were required to carry out the decapitation operation. Kill the culprit of the leader, and the undead disaster will collapse without a fight.

But the situation at the moment is very different. The army of the undead in the Dark Realm is led by the necromantic of Mamo, and the elimination of the commander of the undead legion will certainly suppress the offensive of the undead army, but a new necromantic commander will soon succeed him. Moreover, there is no situation where the undead army "does not know the soldiers" and "the soldiers do not know the generals", and the death of individual necromantic commanders is not painful for the entire undead army at all. ”

Count DeHarus asked Fang Qiuling what his plans were and what countermeasures he had, but in fact his purpose was to find a way to defeat the army of the undead. But Fang Qiuling thought about it for a long time, and finally found that he didn't seem to be able to give any useful advice......