When he came to the imperial capital for the first time, Roy didn't know that just by passing by, he had already caused the city's undercurrents to surge and the situation to change.
He just wanted to rush to the north as quickly as possible.
When they were little country bumpkins, Roy and Tom's biggest wish was to come to the Imperial Capital one day.
In the eyes of young people, the imperial capital is the center of the world. They dream of becoming knights who are respected and loved by others, and they dream of walking into this great city of dreams covered in sunshine, bright clothes and angry horses.
If he had time, Roy would really like to stop.
He wanted to walk up Mount Imperial Power to see the emperor who had sworn sworn vows with his father. He wanted to see the place where Aleshia grew up. He also wanted to sit down with friends who had fought side by side but had not seen each other for a long time.
Chat.
For example, the royal knights Hugo and Punk worked together to save the civilians of Borabel.
For example, Philip, the heir to the Carré family, who once led the Red Leaf Knights to rush hundreds of miles to rescue, and together with him annihilated the Black Skeleton Bandits raised by Wenger.
For example, Mo Ya who once rescued and protected herself at the Grand Duke Adolf's banquet; for example, the companions and instructors of the First Training Camp who came to the imperial capital because of the training camp competition and practiced hard day and night; and for example, not long ago in the Abyss Demon
During the battle, Abraham and his twelve sworn brothers rushed to the rescue of Lulian...
However, Roy had no time to stop.
The situation in the north made him worried. What made him miss even more was Maler, the bandits, Oliver, Dad Ken, Constable Hans and all the Borabel people.
He spent the happiest period of his life in Borabel.
These people have long been his relatives, and they are his deepest roots in this world.
No room for error!
Therefore, after getting off the Sky Demon Ship, Roy immediately headed north.
The undead unicorn flew across the vast plains of the Imperial Capital, gradually leaving the majestic but turbulent giant city behind, becoming smaller and smaller.
Along the way, Roy discovered that the situation in the north was even worse than in the south.
The towns near the Imperial Capital were fine. You could still see fields and crops, and the order was still normal. The refugees walking along the road appeared to be in good order under the protection and control of the local magistrates and Imperial Guards.
But as soon as we left the plain of the imperial capital, we could see everything was devastated.
A large number of fields have been abandoned. Originally, the continent was barren and cold, and the fields produced little. Coupled with the looting and trampling of refugees from the south, the owners of these lands simply could not hold on until the next harvest.
Along the way, the farmers' houses were empty and dilapidated. The fences of the livestock farms were lying on the ground, and the fences of the farms were also full of holes. The roads were muddy and dilapidated, and many of the stone bridges over the rivers had been broken, and only trees were used.
A temporary bridge was built. Even the woods along the way were cut down by the refugees who set fires. There were traces of fires everywhere, and garbage and feces could be seen everywhere.
Although it is not a wasteland, Roy can fully imagine that when the refugees pass through these places, it may not be much better than walking in the Gobi Desert.
The further north you go, the worse the conditions you see.
A large number of dead bodies appeared on the roadside. These people either died of illness or were killed by bandits. They may even have been beaten to death by other refugees who snatched food.
In this area, no order or morality remains.
The only things running rampant here are bandits and plague!
Roy rode on horseback with a heavy heart. Among the large number of refugees heading south, there were almost no travelers heading north.
No madman dares to face these refugees with ragged clothes and green eyes. Because every step you take, you will meet different refugees, which means encountering different dangers.
You have no idea who will be able to pounce on you, drag you off your horse, and eat all your skin and bones.
The only people who dare to go north now are the caravans who have hired a large number of guards and mercenaries.
The armor and swords of the knights, as well as their strength, are no match for ordinary refugees. But even so, caravans often get caught in the begging and harassment of refugees. Once they are stationed, some people will try to steal something.
As for Roy, who is traveling alone, even if he is strong enough to protect himself, he will encounter a lot of troubles along the way.
Fortunately, the undead unicorn is no ordinary war horse.
For other horses, muddy wetlands, swamps, and mountain roads that are difficult to navigate are like smooth ground for this undead unicorn wearing the skin of a long-haired and thin horse.
This allows Roy to avoid crowded roads most of the time and take some off-the-beaten-track trails.
After leaving the Imperial Capital Plain, we entered the province of Ansos.
Roy didn't know much about this province, which was located in the north-east of the empire and part of which already bordered the Pompeii Empire. The deepest impression he had was on his own fiefdom.
Anthos is a province directly under the empire, and a large part of it is directly under the empire's royal family, the Solan family.
It was here that the Grand Duke Solan raised his troops and eventually established the Solan Empire, dividing the world between Pompeii and Philippe.
What Roy didn't expect was that this time, His Majesty Edward I would reward him with Byron County, which was among the richest in the territory, as a fief.
The Southern Cross Castle on the territory is also the origin of his title of earl.
However, because Byron County is located to the west of Ansos and is far away from his own route, he did not have time to visit it this time.
Roy couldn't help laughing as he thought about it.
He may be regarded as the most obscure nobleman in the empire. When others are granted territories, it is regarded as a supreme honor and a top priority for the family. Most people will mobilize as soon as possible to receive it.
No matter what happens, you should first send your own steward and a guard to put the territory under your control.
But since he was granted the title, he has never taken over the territory or sent people there. He even doesn't know any of the stewards or servants who have given him the title as a reward from the royal family.
In addition to his own territory, Roy also had two families in his impression of Ansos.
These two families both appeared in the war for mercenaries in Lulian not long ago. One is the Unicorn Pass family. This family and thirty families from other provinces of the empire formed a huge group.
power, intending to force Archduke Adolf and himself to submit.
The other family is the Sassoon family.
This family was the neighbor of Grand Duke Solan long before the founding of Solan. The relationship between the two families was very good. Later, when Grand Duke Solan launched an army, the Sassoon family was the first to join.
The ancestor of the family was an important general under Grand Duke Solan, and he had made great achievements in the battle to found the country.
Over the next hundred years, after the Solan royal family entered the imperial capital, the Sassoon family became the undisputed first family in the province of Ansos, whether it was Brad, the current provincial governor, or the Solan family who maintained a large amount of royal territory.
, we must respect the opinions of the Sassoon family on matters on this land.
The Sassoon family is also full of talents.
Especially today's General Sassoon is known as a tactical genius that only appeared in the empire for a century, and is recognized as the successor of Imperial Marshal Safin. The Lightning Knights under his command, before the entrance ceremony in Munich began,
Considered by countless mercenaries as the best choice.
Unfortunately, in the end, both the Parth family and the Sassoon family lost to Roy.
However, compared to the Viennese Furious Knights, Sassoon and his Lightning Knights were much more chivalrous. They insisted on completing the ceremony of entering the city, admitted their failure, and tried to contact Roy afterward.
Seek cooperation opportunities.
Roy heard that Sassoon had returned to Anthos.
Because it is the closest to the northern border, he and the aristocratic coalition of Ansos will also be one of the first to arrive among the empire's coalition heading north to fight against the enemy.
After three days of traveling all day and night, Roy had gone deep into the Tianhe Basin in the hinterland of Ansos.
After climbing over a mountain, Roy saw a dark forest like a black ocean.
This forest has been shrouded in the shadow of the surrounding mountains all year round, with only two hours of sunshine every day, and it is extremely cold at other times. Moreover, the forest will emit thick fog, and at night, the low temperature and the light of the torches cannot penetrate it at all.
The ultra-low visibility is enough to scare anyone away.
When humans conquered this place, it took them ten years to carve out a road through the forest.
This is also the only road in the dark forest.
Riding his horse down the hillside, Roy galloped towards the entrance of the dark forest.
Not long after he entered the dark forest passage, he suddenly heard the fierce clash of swords, screams and calls for help coming from the jungle on one side.
"Bandit?" Roy had a flash of thought and immediately denied it.
In today's world, there may be many bandits, but no idiot would choose the dark forest as the place to rob. The harsh natural conditions and the only road here are not suitable for thieves who come and go quickly and cunningly.
Only wilderness like the Lulian Desert is their paradise.
Roy gently pulled the reins, and Huobao galloped down the roadbed and into the forest.
Although it was sunny time now, as soon as he entered the forest, Roy found that the dark forest lived up to its name - with the edge of the forest as the boundary, the sunlight was completely blocked by the lush branches and leaves above.
In the shadows, it's extremely cold.
This kind of coldness is not the coldness of the ice and snow, but a kind of coldness that penetrates into the bones. There is no cold wind, but it feels like it is drilling into the body, and it seems that no matter how thick the clothes are, it can't stop it.
Roy added a magic shield to himself, patted Huobao's neck, and was glad that his mount was an undead unicorn.
If it were an ordinary war horse, it would probably be frozen as soon as it entered the forest.
Roy slowly rode his horse towards the place where the sound came from. After walking a short distance, crossing a small mound and passing through dense branches, he saw a tragic scene through the gaps in the trees.
I saw more than a dozen people and their horses lying dead on the ground. Every corpse was covered with white frost, the blood from the wounds had condensed into ice, and the horses were frozen hard.
And there were more than twenty knights who were surrounding and killing eight people.
These eight people all had no horses. Six of them were wearing the same armor. They were obviously guards. They were relying on a mountain wall to resist and protect a female mage and a man in the middle.
The female mage is not that old as the man, around twenty, and looks similar to herself.
As for the more than twenty knights who were besieging them, there were also seven or eight war horses. They were all supported by the knights' fighting spirit.
And these besiegers were all dressed up differently, some looked like free knights, some looked like mercenaries, and some looked like bandits or the guards of a certain business group.
However, after just a few glances, Roy realized that these people were obviously disguising their identities.
Not only did they know each other, but they also cooperated tacitly, and their formations and tactics were impeccable. Their attacks were also quite vicious, and they were obviously battle-hardened.
"Dreiser! Are you crazy? Aren't you afraid of revenge if you dare to ambush the young city lord of White Rock City?" Among the guards, an old guard with a white beard shouted loudly: "If you leave now, tell us who the mastermind is, and we will
I will put the past behind me and give you a large sum of money, as well as food and equipment!"
A middle-aged man in the besieging crowd sneered: "Mr. Marion, you don't have to waste your time. Do you think I will believe what you say? I'm afraid that if I let you go, you will die without a burial!"
"I can swear to it," the white-bearded old guard Marion said. He turned to look at the pale young man and said loudly: "Young City Lord can also swear to it!"
"Yes," the protected young man said, "Dreiser, Baiyan City has nothing to do with you. If this is a misunderstanding, you only need to tell us who the mastermind is. I swear, not only will I not pursue the case, but I will also punish you."
Power and wealth!”
"You?" Dreiser laughed: "The White Rock City State cannot protect itself now. Even the city lord is heavily armed. You, the young city lord, are just a puppet. This time I went to the Solan Imperial Capital and met so many people. You got
What? Didn't you just return empty-handed in despair?"
"As for power and wealth, you don't have to worry about it. Someone will give it to me naturally." With that, Dreiser stepped up his offensive and shouted: "Kill them!"
With the attack by Dreiser and others, the situation for everyone in White Rock City has become increasingly dangerous.
Roy's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard a familiar name on a map that he read several times every day.
"White Rock City, isn't that the city-state not far from Bandez?"
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. Miaomiao urged me to update, saying that book friends are worried about the verdict, and I feel very ashamed. I have been low on energy recently and haven’t been able to take care of it much. However, the plot design behind it has been completed and refined. I will rush to publish one chapter. I wish you the best.
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