After Sean finished talking to the refugees, he walked out of the refugee camp and happened to see Matthew riding a tan horse at the city gate.

At this time, Matthew was not wearing cloth, but an ordinary leather armor.

He carried a bow and arrow on his back, and a long black sword hung on his waist. The palm-sized black and white kitten was still lying on Matthew's shoulder.

However, at this time, the kitten was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed. The whiskers at the corners of his mouth were curled up due to his deep sleep, and he was snoring slightly.

But even though the kitten fell asleep, it was still firmly attached to Matthew's shoulder, showing no signs of falling off.

After Matthew left the city gate, he immediately saw Lucio and Sean.

So he dismounted and saluted Sean and Lucio:

"Sorry! Your Highness Sean, Your Excellency Lucio, I'm a little late."

"It's okay. The city defense troops have been assembled now. Let's get on the road. If you have anything to do, we'll talk as we go." Sean said as he got on the carriage.

"no problem!"

Matthew got on the horse and drove the horse to follow Sean's carriage.

When Lucio saw Matthew arriving, he gave the marching order to the city defense army.

For a time, dust was flying outside the south gate of Yohn City, and the army that was destroying the gnolls was marching towards the south road.

...

At the same time that Sean left Yohn City, in the royal capital of Palomia, more than two hundred kilometers away from Yohn City, Albert Violet, the Grand Duke of Lane, was sitting on the throne.

At this time, Grand Duke Lane was looking at an old man in gray cloth with a calm expression.

"You're back!" Archduke Lane's voice was quite calm, without any hint of joy or anger.

"I sent Sean back to Yoen City safely, and then I came back after receiving your magic message." The old man replied calmly.

"Sean...is he okay?" The archduke's tone was a little hesitant.

"He was seriously injured, but luckily he didn't die. When I left, he was still recovering from his injuries." The old man continued to answer.

After hearing the old man's words, Archduke Lane leaned on the back of his chair and seemed a little absent-minded for a moment.

The old man noticed Archduke Lane's expression, but he didn't speak and just stood quietly.

After a long while, Archduke Lane said: "I'm notifying you to come back this time because the troops of the Anjou Kingdom in the northeast have begun to gather.

You are the only strong man in the sanctuary in the principality, and I need you to go to Delphi Fortress to garrison."

"Then Sean..." The old man hesitated.

"Leave it to fate!"

After saying these words, Archduke Ryan seemed to have lost all his strength, leaned weakly on the chair, and closed his eyes weakly.

The old man frowned when he heard Archduke Lane's words and laughed twice.

"Zheng!" a voice sounded, and the old man left the place instantly, flew into the sky, and flew away into the distance.

At the same time, only a loud "bang" was heard, and the spire of Palomia Cathedral, the landmark building of Palomia, was broken into two sections.

A broken body fell from the top of the spire. His broken armor still faintly exuded the power of gold-level faith.

After falling to the ground, the gold-level paladin took his last breath and closed his eyes forever.

...

...

At this time, the army that was attacking the Jackals was still marching on the road to Hetan Town.

Geographically, Hetan Town is the same as Yohn City, both located on the banks of the Morning Star River.

But the difference is that Yoen City is located at the intersection of the main stream and tributaries of the Morning Star River, while Hetan Town is located on the tributaries of the Morning Star River.

In other words, Hetan Town is located upstream of Jon City.

The mouth of the Morning Star River is Kapur Port.

A Morning Star River connects Hetan Town, Yoen City, Kapur Port and a dozen other large and small villages and towns.

...

The road they were traveling on was built along the Chenxing River and was entirely dirt.

In architectural terms, it is - the plain soil is compacted...and then nothing more.

Most of the Yoen City area is plain. Except for a small slope of 50 to 60 meters high - Thorn Ridge, the road to Hetan Town is basically flat land, so marching is particularly convenient.

…

After marching for about an hour, Lucio said to Sean, who looked in pain in the carriage:

"Your Highness Sean, the distance from Yoen City to Hetan Town is about 156 lih.

Because the roads are all plains and there are roads that make it easy to march, my plan is to march 70 lih in two days, and destroy the jackals on the third day. What do you think?" (156 lih is approximately equal to 52 kilometers)

"It's up to you. I don't have any objections. It's up to you experts to decide on things like marching and fighting." Sean shook his head indifferently.

"By the way, Lucio. Are there any extra horses in the team?" Sean asked.

The reason why Sean asked this was because the road was in disrepair and the carriage was very bumpy.

After riding in the carriage for almost an hour, Sean felt like his internal organs were being dislocated.

Lucio looked around and said: "There are three or four spare horses. Your Highness Sean, do you want to ride a horse?"

"That's right."

After knowing that there were still free horses, Sean asked the coachman to stop, and then got out of the carriage.

In fact, Sean wanted to get out of the car and ride a horse half an hour ago, but he couldn't ride a horse, so he kept hesitating.

But thinking that his body might have muscle memory for riding a horse, Sean boldly got off the carriage, picked an idle yellow-maned horse and rode on it.

After riding the yellow-maned horse, Sean felt completely relieved.

His body really had muscle memory for riding a horse. Riding a horse was as easy as riding a bicycle in his previous life, which made Sean sigh in relief.

…

Matthew has also been paying attention to Sean. Seeing Sean's performance, he smiled and said: "Your Highness Sean, don't you often ride horses?"

"Of course, I haven't ridden for a long time, so I'm a little rusty, but my horsemanship is still good." Sean skillfully controlled the yellow-maned horse and kept pace with Matthew's horse.

As if disturbed by Sean's voice, the black and white kitten on Matthew's shoulder woke up from its deep sleep.

After waking up, the black and white kitten stretched out and rubbed his eyes in a very humane manner.

However, the kitten who had just woken up still looked confused.

Sean noticed the kitten's expression and liked it very much.

And he was now on Matthew's left side. He couldn't help but stretched out his hand to scratch the kitten's chin, and said to Matthew:

"This kitten is so cute! I will buy one in the future too!"

The kitten had just woken up and was still a little confused. Unexpectedly, Sean's hand scratched its chin from a sneak attack. The cat was stunned.

"Meow!"

With a harsh meow, the kitten jumped from Matthew's current shoulder to the other shoulder, and grinned at Sean, making a very "evil" expression.

But Sean doesn't think the kitten is vicious, but still thinks the kitten is cute!

If Sean had a mobile phone now, he would definitely take a photo of the kitten's current expression and post it to the Hearthstone forum with the text "I have sharp teeth and claws!" and he would definitely get a lot of likes.

Seeing that it couldn't scare Sean, the kitten patted Matthew with its front paw in dissatisfaction and motioned for him to help.

But Matthew didn't mean to help her, but just smiled and bent over.
Chapter completed!