In terms of the strategy of "negotiation", Camilla's behavior at this time can be called "stupid" - because showing off her trump card at the beginning of the negotiation is equivalent to giving up her initiative completely and letting others slaughter it.

It was not that she had thought of going to tug-of-war with Roddy, or talking about it and distracting his energy. Then she immediately brought up the topic of "Nefi" after discussing certain other conditions... But when Roddy's pursuit and efforts for his ideals, Camilla no longer wanted to communicate with him in a "bargaining" way.

Because Camilla admires him—this is an emotion from the heart.

"The Holy Society will probably set me as a 'arbitrary' sooner or later. If they knew my current situation, they would probably continue to use me-so... I decided to believe you."

Camilla let out a light breath. After knowing Roddy's experience, even if he just looked at his calm eyes, Camilla always felt like she was facing the elder of the "Holy Society" and felt a little stressed inside.

“I’m glad to hear you make this decision.”

Roddy did not directly answer her request, but sat down slightly, and said with a serious expression: "The Holy Society will inevitably become enemies with me - what Elson has in the city is more attractive to the 'Holy Society' than anything, so the best way is to not let anyone know what is going on here."

"If you just 'missed', they will definitely continue to send people here to investigate. So I wonder, can you make the Holy Council believe that your team is here...get nothing?"

Camilla immediately understood his intention, thought for a while, and replied, "There is a way."

"That's it."

Roddy nodded, but there was still nothing to talk about Naife. Camilla was a little hesitant, but her intuition told her... Roddy's reply just now meant that he had agreed to his request.

But he neither made a vow nor gave himself a verbal affirmation. Is this okay?

This hesitation only happened for a moment. Camilla nipped her lower lip and then made a choice: "I will write a letter to you before noon."

After saying that, she turned around and left without asking any more.

Roddy did not intend to stop her, but was a little stunned. To be honest, Camilla and Nefi's quirky personalities are very different, and their styles are quite different. However, when they show hesitation because of their choice, they are almost exactly the same...

In a trance, Roddy seemed to see the back of the cute smile, jumping away, and his heart suddenly hurt a lot.

He did not make any promises to Camilla, because no "vow" was more important than his firm belief in his heart - Roddy was not looking for Nefi for the sake of his oath, he had to do much more than he had.

*******

As noon approached, the soldiers from the inner city had already assembled and were ready to go to war again.

Three months ago, Roddy brought forty knights and eighty husbands into the city. After experiencing the defense battle outside the Pashar Demon Tower, the number of people in this team inevitably reduced by twenty-four people - but this amazing "war loss ratio" was built from excellent weapons and armor, a large number of intermediate potions and scrolls. They almost overdrawn their bodies several times during the battle, so that within three days after the battle, 80% of the soldiers completely lost their ability to move, and Akasha even took a full week to recover.

However, such fierce battles can improve the combat power and willpower of soldiers than a hundred training sessions: the entourage who originally had only level four on average was all increased to level eight at this time, while the basic level of the knights jumped directly to level 13 on average.

Including the attribute bonus brought by the equipment, their combat effectiveness at this time is nearly ten times stronger than when they were in Nolan Village!

Such a level has surpassed more than 80% of the "knights" enfeoffed by the kingdom, and is even stronger than the private knight guard of the Great Lord.

"Cross and move forward!"

In the sun, all the soldiers were walking towards the edge of the inner city with the command. This was not about to leave the city, but their destination was the "temporary cemetery" where twenty-four dead soldiers were buried.

"stand at attention!"

Under the order, all the soldiers remained solemnly - at this time, all the living people in Elson City were standing in the queue, including Nata, Akasha, Camilla and others, all silently looking at the simple tombstone in front of them, each with their own thoughts.

Roddy stood at the front of the queue and did not express any thoughts or passionate declarations. He just gave a silent military salute, then turned around and said softly: "A stone tablet will be erected here, and all those participating in this battle will be left on the stone tablet."

There is battle and sacrifice. If you want to get it, you must lose it. For the death of a soldier, guilt itself is meaningless, and what Roddy can do is such a simple promise.

A promise to keep in history.

"Prepare to set off."

He took a deep breath and gave the order to leave the city.

Camilla came over and handed him a secret letter, carefully explained the way it was passed to the "Holy Council". Then she turned her eyes to the infantry who was about to leave, and said, "If it goes smoothly, it may take two months to go from here to Mogra Village... and it seems that it has only been two days since we know it."

Roddy sighed a little, but didn't know how to answer - when he thought of Nefi, he would remember that Camilla, who could not tell in front of him, had the identity of "a future mother-in-law".

Now there is no conflict between the two, but Roddy thought about it carefully and felt that if he wanted to communicate normally with Camilla, he should not be too attentive at the moment. So his attitude at this moment regarded Camilla as a friend he could talk to.

"I try to come back within half a year. During this period, there will be a lot of orders and support materials. If you can help, I hope you can help."

After Roddy finished speaking, he pointed to the library in the distance and said, "I found the ruins of Wagra in Jingyu Forest, where there are some precious isolated books. There may be more analysis of this city. I don't know if they can help you get rid of the comfort and limitations of the "Guardian", but... even if there is a glimmer of hope, you should try it."

Hearing these words, Camilla's eyes widened slightly, and her heart suddenly accelerated? - Although she had gradually accepted the fact that she was imprisoned here, her desire for "freedom" never faded. Roddy said this to give her a hope and told her a fact from the side: he did not want Camilla to stay here for the rest of her life.

"Okay, it's time for me to leave."

Roddy looked at the excitement in Camilla's eyes, but she sighed in her heart - she must be better off if she survives than being plotted against by Turing in another history...

Camilla was so reserved that she did not wave goodbye, but simply said "goodbye", and then stood there, watching him leave.

Seeing this, Akasha quickly caught up with Roddy, blushed and said something. Then she stuffed a scroll in her hand into his hand, followed the team all the way to the outer city, and finally stood on the city wall tower, rubbing her red eyes, and shouted loudly about Roddy's words reluctantly, until the back of the last soldier disappeared into the forest outside the city, her slightly thin face inevitably dyed a layer of loneliness...

In such a huge city, there are only forty-two living people left.

Akara waved his hand and controlled the Dead Legion to guard the city walls, and walked silently back to the inner city. Without Roddy, every minute and every second seemed to be a torment... Akasha looked at the huge Pashaul Tower, and when she looked away, she found that there was a library beside her.

She looked up at the sun in the sky, feeling that reading should be able to waste a lot of time, so she walked in.

*******

And in the distance, Roddy, as the city lord, has embarked on a new journey at this time.

Roddy had already made detailed arrangements for the next plan: he needed to assist Duke Angmar to solve the troubles of the nobles. When the crisis of Everta disappeared, he set out to the village of Mogra in the south of the kingdom to find the "rechargeable crystal" and return to Elsen City before September.

This is because Roddy knew that the Kingdom would encounter an unprecedented "cold flow" in 589 - half of the area of ​​the Kingdom of Jieshi would be affected by blizzards all over the sky, countless civilians were frozen to death due to insufficient preparation, and the population losses were heavy...

Roddy didn't want to be trapped in the south of the kingdom, so he had to hurry up as quickly as possible.

“Speed ​​up!”

The snow had melted, and the soldiers' steps in the forest were a little muddy. They would occasionally look back at the huge wall, with pride and a little worry in their hearts.

This is a city that is destined to be peaceful, and everyone knows it.

*******

Elson City fell into silence, and Roddy's team gradually moved away, but at the other end of this newly rejuvenated forest, a two-meter-long viper was struggling desperately, whistling and turning its white abdomen over.

Its body twisted and wrapped into a ball, and the outstretched snake letter was trembling desperately. The vicious triangular eyes were at this time without any focus, because it had no idea what it had encountered!

The struggle gradually stopped, and the viper lies on the ground with her belly twisted and turned, and at first glance it seemed to be dead - but just as its body stopped trembling, a vague black shadow flew out of the shadow and covered the viper's body.

In an instant, the already staggered snake eyes burst out with blood-red light, and then its body regained its ability to move. However, the first thing this viper did when he "awakened" was to stare at the direction of Elson City, without hiding the amazing resentment at all.

But in the end, it did not crawl towards the city, but went out of the forest in a clumsy manner... Occasionally, it seemed that the vague "hiss" sound of the viper could be heard, as if it was announcing that it would return here one day.

[This volume is approaching the end, tomorrow should be the last chapter of this volume. By the way, I will write a summary of the first three volumes & million-words tomorrow. Also, tomorrow is my wife's birthday, which is probably updated later.] From the perspective of the "negotiation" strategy, Camilla's behavior at this time can be called "stupid" - because showing the trump card at the beginning of the negotiation is equivalent to giving up the initiative completely and slaughtering others.

It was not that she had thought of going to tug-of-war with Roddy, or talking about it and distracting his energy. Then she immediately brought up the topic of "Nefi" after discussing certain other conditions... But when Roddy's pursuit and efforts for his ideals, Camilla no longer wanted to communicate with him in a "bargaining" way.

Because Camilla admires him—this is an emotion from the heart.

"The Holy Society will probably set me as a 'arbitrary' sooner or later. If they knew my current situation, they would probably continue to use me-so... I decided to believe you."

Camilla let out a light breath. After knowing Roddy's experience, even if he just looked at his calm eyes, Camilla always felt like she was facing the elder of the "Holy Society" and felt a little stressed inside.

“I’m glad to hear you make this decision.”

Roddy did not directly answer her request, but sat down slightly, and said with a serious expression: "The Holy Society will inevitably become enemies with me - what Elson has in the city is more attractive to the 'Holy Society' than anything, so the best way is to not let anyone know what is going on here."

"If you just 'missed', they will definitely continue to send people here to investigate. So I wonder, can you make the Holy Council believe that your team is here...get nothing?"

Camilla immediately understood his intention, thought for a while, and replied, "There is a way."

"That's it."

Roddy nodded, but there was still nothing to talk about Naife. Camilla was a little hesitant, but her intuition told her... Roddy's reply just now meant that he had agreed to his request.

But he neither made a vow nor gave himself a verbal affirmation. Is this okay?

This hesitation only happened for a moment. Camilla nipped her lower lip and then made a choice: "I will write a letter to you before noon."

After saying that, she turned around and left without asking any more.

Roddy did not intend to stop her, but was a little stunned. To be honest, Camilla and Nefi's quirky personalities are very different, and their styles are quite different. However, when they show hesitation because of their choice, they are almost exactly the same...

In a trance, Roddy seemed to see the back of the cute smile, jumping away, and his heart suddenly hurt a lot.

He did not make any promises to Camilla, because no "vow" was more important than his firm belief in his heart - Roddy was not looking for Nefi for the sake of his oath, he had to do much more than he had.

*******

As noon approached, the soldiers from the inner city had already assembled and were ready to go to war again.

Three months ago, Roddy brought forty knights and eighty husbands into the city. After experiencing the defense battle outside the Pashar Demon Tower, the number of people in this team inevitably reduced by twenty-four people - but this amazing "war loss ratio" was built from excellent weapons and armor, a large number of intermediate potions and scrolls. They almost overdrawn their bodies several times during the battle, so that within three days after the battle, 80% of the soldiers completely lost their ability to move, and Akasha even took a full week to recover.

However, such fierce battles can improve the combat power and willpower of soldiers than a hundred training sessions: the entourage who originally had only level four on average was all increased to level eight at this time, while the basic level of the knights jumped directly to level 13 on average.

Including the attribute bonus brought by the equipment, their combat effectiveness at this time is nearly ten times stronger than when they were in Nolan Village!

Such a level has surpassed more than 80% of the "knights" enfeoffed by the kingdom, and is even stronger than the private knight guard of the Great Lord.

"Cross and move forward!"

In the sun, all the soldiers were walking towards the edge of the inner city with the command. This was not about to leave the city, but their destination was the "temporary cemetery" where twenty-four dead soldiers were buried.

"stand at attention!"

Under the order, all the soldiers remained solemnly - at this time, all the living people in Elson City were standing in the queue, including Nata, Akasha, Camilla and others, all silently looking at the simple tombstone in front of them, each with their own thoughts.

Roddy stood at the front of the queue and did not express any thoughts or passionate declarations. He just gave a silent military salute, then turned around and said softly: "A stone tablet will be erected here, and all those participating in this battle will be left on the stone tablet."

There is battle and sacrifice. If you want to get it, you must lose it. For the death of a soldier, guilt itself is meaningless, and what Roddy can do is such a simple promise.
To be continued...