For the Iron Princess Yalusel who suddenly appeared outside the city of Iliaba, Irebes obviously couldn't ignore it, let alone any neglect or disrespect.
After all, the other party is a member of the royal family of Cormyr, the biological daughter of the legendary King Assan IV, and she is also a powerful warrior and Purple Dragon Knight. She has commanded an army to defeat powerful enemies more than once.
Therefore, in order to avoid causing any diplomatic crisis and to find out what Her Royal Highness the Princess wanted to do, Irebes finally chose to invite the other party into the city first and receive her in the hall of the lord's mansion that had just been captured, which was also the castle.
The other party.
As soon as they met, she noticed the pride exuding from Yalusel, and the wildness hidden under the beautiful and elegant image of "princess" in the eyes of most people.
Yes!
It’s just wild!
Because the half-elf paladin noticed that the armor on the opponent's body did not have any decorative patterns or gorgeous gem embellishments. It completely followed the principles of pragmatism and defense first, and it even looked a bit ugly.
This is undoubtedly a serious violation of women’s nature to love beauty.
Very clear and obvious slashing and puncture marks can be seen on the armor's shoulders, abdomen, neck guard and other locations.
This shows that Yalusel is not the kind of commander who simply stays behind, but is a warrior who dares to lead his men to charge into the enemy.
Only generals who are always on the front line would have so many scars on their armor.
Especially those sharp eyes, which give people the impression of an unsheathed sword, full of aggressive momentum, enough to impress anyone who sees it.
The most important thing is that she didn't have the slightest air or reserve of a princess. She strode forward like a man, opened her arms and gave Aribes an almost rough bear hug, and greeted with a smile: "Good evening, from far away.
Friends from Neverwinter in the North, I am very happy to meet a young female commander like me in a place like this."
"Nice to meet you too, Your Highness the Princess."
As a paladin who symbolizes purity, justice and kindness, Aribes' movements are obviously a little stiff, and she seems to be very uncomfortable with such an overly intimate behavior when they meet for the first time.
However, out of politeness, she did not push the other person away, but allowed him to touch her cheek.
After the mutual greetings were over, Yalusel immediately asked impatiently: "If you don't mind, can you introduce me to the current situation?
The fact that your army can appear here must mean that it has routed or even defeated the army of Zhentil Castle, right?
Where are Fozol Chamberi and his army now, and how many soldiers are left?
Can you mark it on the map for me?"
It has to be said that the Iron Princess's enthusiasm for war and battle really shocked Aribes. She quickly explained with a wry smile: "I'm sorry, things may be a little different from what you imagined.
In fact, I don't know what the battle situation is like at Baldur's Gate. I was just a partial force sent by Lord Soth to recover important towns along the Chongsa River.
We started from the small town of Naxikai and pushed eastward along the Urden Trade Road, recapturing the occupied Greennest Town, Beldask, and Asbravin along the way. We just captured the city of Iliaba more than an hour ago.
According to Lord Soth's order, we should continue to liberate the Trade Road eastward all the way to the town on the Dragon Coast that was captured by Zhentil Castle.
But unfortunately, in the river dock warehouse in Iliaba, I found a large amount of resources and wealth that Fzoll Chambery plundered from the West Heartland region.
This means that if he knows the news, he will definitely try his best to get these things back.
Therefore, I decided to give up my original plan of marching eastward and stay here to wait for help.
I believe that once Mr. Soth wins the decisive battle, he will rush over as quickly as possible to help.
When the time comes, attacking from both front and back, the evil forces in Zhentil Castle will be severely damaged, making it impossible for them to take back the wealth and materials they looted.
By the way, I haven’t asked why you suddenly appeared here with your army?
Is the Kingdom of Cormyr also ready to declare war on Zhentil Keep?"
Hearing these words, Yalusel couldn't help laughing immediately.
"Hahahaha! To tell you the truth, my father has long wanted to send troops.
It's just that all kinds of troubles in Cormyr have been constant and there is no way to deal with it.
But now...
He was persuaded by Lady Lyra of Waterdeep City to cut off Fuzor Chambery's escape route and ask him to vomit out all the materials and wealth he looted from this land without even thinking of taking it away.
My father gave me a fleet and wanted me to intercept it at sea.
But compared to fighting at sea, I prefer a head-on showdown on land.
Therefore, I handed over the command of the fleet to another count, and took more than 300 elite knights to land from the Boscu Bridge on the border, bypassing the eastbound city and arriving at Iliaba.
It was originally planned to launch a raid to seize this place, and then use it as a base to cut off the retreat route of Fort Zhentil.
I didn’t expect that you would take the lead one step too late.”
"So... you want to join forces with us?"
Aribes's eyes shone slightly, as if she understood what the Iron Princess was thinking.
Because she also plans to fight a blocking battle here to consume Fuzoul Chambery's vitality as much as possible to ensure that he can no longer pose a threat to the cities near the Dragon Coast to the east.
"That's right! And I really want to know from you about Lord Soth and his legendary adventures on the west coast of Faerûn."
As he spoke, Yalusel's eyes burst with naked and undisguised curiosity.
After all, she had obtained some relevant information from other intelligence agencies in the palace and from Laila, and suddenly she became very interested in this young man who was close to her own age.
Whether it’s his identity as a chosen one among multiple gods, or his ability as a planeswalker that can freely travel between different planes and even time and space.
In addition, the Iron Princess also learned about the process of going to the bottomless abyss to rescue the goddess of wealth, Watkin, from Bonita, the legendary purple dragon knight who returned home to visit relatives some time ago.
This is why she did not stay at sea, but led more than 300 knights to go all the way to Iliaba, an important town on the Sa River.
Aribes smiled and responded: "Of course, no problem.
However, I don’t know much about Mr. Soth, so I’m afraid I can’t satisfy all your curiosity.
And after traveling for such a long time, I think you and your knights are also hungry.
How about we talk while we eat?"
Yalusel nodded without thinking: "Of course! On behalf of all the Cormyr knights, I thank you for your hospitality. In addition, please be sure not to treat me as a princess, just as an ordinary cavalry commander.
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Soon, these two young female commanders, both of whom had very high command abilities and military literacy, headed to the restaurant side by side.
With the arrival of more than 300 elite knights of Cormyr, Erebeth obviously has the confidence to fight against the elite forces of Zhentil Castle.
You must know that these knights are not ordinary guards or militiamen who may not even have LV1 warrior level, but aristocratic knights with at least LV5 warrior and LV1 Purple Dragon Knight professional levels.
In the Kingdom of Cormyr, which implements a feudal system, they not only have noble titles and fiefs, but many of them are sons or daughters of large noble families without inheritance rights.
Therefore, when these three hundred knights are actually put into the battlefield, the role they can play is equivalent to three to four thousand people or even more.
This also means that Aribes does not need to worry about his low-quality soldiers being unable to withstand the fierce attacks of the dark guards of Bane Church, which will eventually lead to a great rout.
……
Zuo Si apparently still doesn't know about the episode that is happening in the far east.
In other words, he is still busy dealing with something much more important than that.
As the night passed, the sun once again rose from the sea level, bringing light and heat to the whole world. Baldur's Gate, which had been partying all night, finally became a little quieter.
Many drunken civilians were lying in the streets and alleys.
Some of them hugged each other and kept mumbling something, while others held various animals, wine bottles, tables, stools, vases and other messy things in their arms.
Some even lie on their own vomit and excrement and fall asleep unconscious.
The chest covered with black hair and the white buttocks were so openly displayed in front of the public.
In short, this picture alone can definitely help those who have not developed the habit of drinking to stop drinking.
If it happened in modern society on earth, then when these people wake up, they may die on the spot, and they must consider changing to another planet.
But these are not the point!
The point is that under the instigation of those maritime merchants, more than 20,000 people gathered at the entrance of the High Hall, the central palace of Baldur's Gate, shouting that they wanted to join the commercial empire Amn and become a port city under its command.
Such a large battle would naturally not disturb the representatives from various towns in the North who had held a banquet all night.
Including Alustriel, everyone walked up to the balcony of the upper floor and looked down at this extremely spectacular and shocking scene.
Piergalen, the public lord of Waterdeep City, showed an expression of disbelief. He turned around and stared at Kelben, who was also the lord, as if asking how this was done.
After all, this is a total of 20,000 people!
To be continued...