"Ed, the horizon seems to be burning."

"Yeah, I saw it."

Fang Zhu gently blocked his hair like dead grass with his hands, and blinked his eyes gently. The dark eyes were reflected in the golden and red flames that soared into the sky. The rolling clouds there were like a huge pillar of smoke spreading in all directions.

The thick clouds above the head drooped low over the airship, as if you could reach it with a stretch of your hand.

Luo Hao's hand pressed on the side of the ship was squeaking and shaking with the board below. The back of his hand seemed to be covered with a layer of fire ashes, gray, but it was actually just sand. The fat man raised his hand and grabbed it, but he only grabbed the sparks floating in the wind, spread out his palms, and left a few embers in his palm, which disappeared in the wind in an instant.

Luo Hao raised his head, looked at the golden red light in the sky, and asked, "What is that?"

Fang Zhu shook his head gently.

In this direction, you can only see the dark red light between the clouds. Perhaps it was the fire light reflected on the ground, and neither of you cared too much.

At this moment, the door of the cabin was pushed open again. The former president of the Southern Alliance walked up with a longbow on his back, stood between the two, pressing his collar with one hand, and watching the scene silently.

Ye Hua suddenly turned around and asked, "I heard you have thought of a solution."

Fang Zhu nodded slightly.

"So, what are you going to do?"

Fang Yu turned around and looked at the King of Rangers.

In the hearts of the free callers in the southern border, the other party is the former president of the alliance, the ten kings, the top callers, and even the sustenance and beliefs, and the leader. He has organized more than one battle. At present, this is a dangerous scene in his opinion, but perhaps it is nothing in the eyes of the other party.

Although in his heart, the Seven Seas Brigade will definitely become the best adventure group in the future, which was his promise to Miss Scape. But now that has not happened yet. What will he use to command a ten king and a top caller, as a little unknown young man?

He thought for a while before speaking, "... He may have to fight the Sha Thief head-on later, Master Ye Hua, you--"

Ye Hua smiled and interrupted, "I'm very good at this, so Ed, you just need to tell me where to go and who to kill, that's enough."

Fang Yu looked at the other party in surprise.

But Ye Hua seemed to know what he was thinking, gently patted his arm, then looked away and looked into the distance. "Ed, everyone has some things they expect, and I don't know if you can reach the level I hoped one day. But this does not mean that you must do anything, nor does it mean that you have any responsibility to whom-"

"...Because, you will eventually walk your own path, a path that no one has walked... It is also a path that all of us have walked..."

Ye Hua smiled faintly and looked at him. "And your only responsibility is your responsibility for the identity of the convener. Do you understand this?"

Fang Yu nodded gently. Protecting his own conscience is the conscience of protecting oneself and being a human being - having greater power and having more responsibilities, this is the consensus of the pioneers.

What an age it was, mankind had already established such a consensus. Strength and responsibility were always placed at both ends of the balance, and the value of the existence of the Star Gate Declaration may be to protect the glory of human civilization.

When the two worlds first come into contact, they were destined not to return to the wilderness, to the long river of history of plundering and leading beasts to eat people.

Because when it moves forward, it will never return to the origin of barbarism.

Never-

"So this is your promise to me," Ye Hua asked softly: "Is it right?"

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment.

But for a moment, he nodded silently again, and this time he became much more serious.

"...You may not succeed. My fellow travelers in the past are now only a few... Some of them are actually not inferior to you and me..." Ye Hua always had a calm smile, but there was a hint of loneliness between the smile, "But in you, I have seen some shadows of myself in the past..."

"Actually, I guess Odin is the same. Although they are in the guild, this does not mean that everyone agrees with that idea." At this point, he changed his subject: "Odin took you away from Dulun that day, and then he should have taught you a lot of things after that..."

Fang Yu nodded silently.

A hint of funnyness flashed in Ye Hua's eyes: "Although I don't know what Odin taught you, he definitely can't teach you how to become a qualified team leader. After all, perhaps only KUN and others are better than me in this regard. Unfortunately, that person is not here - not to mention, he doesn't agree with our philosophy."

He paused: "So, let me let you get used to it first, how to issue orders."

Fang Yu heard this and opened his mouth slightly.

He did not resist the concept of freely selected candidates, because freely selected candidates are more or the successors of pioneers, and they still maintain their original intentions, but they always have some resistance to that statement.

Do the free-chosenators really need a flag?

Does he really have the qualifications to take on this flag?

Or, is anyone really qualified to take on this flag?

But he suddenly realized that the real flag was actually in everyone's heart.

Because as long as you have such a concept, you will gather under this banner. Whether Ye Hua or anyone, you don’t need to be designated or qualified to be designated - but the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. One day, someone will always come to this point. Just like this former president of the Southern Alliance at this moment.

It was at this moment that Luo Hao, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, then said, "I found that place."

Fang Yu immediately looked in that direction, and hesitated in his heart, and he only spoke firmly:

"Land in a quarter of an hour."

"Let Miss Afifa get off the boat, Parker, you're responsible for taking care of this and keep in touch with us."

"Mr. Alfonde, Pasha, you guys prepare too."

The half-length man jumped up, looked at the burning royal city, and nodded silently.

...

Rupert's voice was a little hoarse: "Sir Aipal, please take people to block the gap in the west, and you must not let the sand steal the tower."

Facing the serious face of the eldest princess, the knight with a look of smoke nodded silently and walked towards that direction with the person. Rupert looked at the backs of everyone leaving, and his hand holding the sword trembled slightly.

The people sent out at this moment were actually just making a final attempt. The sand thieves have already broken through every key pass, and it is only a matter of time before they can fully break through the defense line.

She looked back and saw Alef bringing out all the remaining guard forces in the Casan Palace and saying that she would come to support her. To be honest, she did not agree with this approach. It was not safe to hand over the people behind her to the palace at this moment. Among the so-called princes and ministers, there was only one of Seishel who was trustworthy.

But at this time, the eldest princess didn't care about so much. What's more, a crown prince, the future King of Istani, came to the front line and fought side by side with everyone, and brought a lot of support, which more or less aroused morale, and allowed the originally precarious defense line to hold on for a while.

But this effect has continued to be quite weak until now.

Questak's inner city has two lines of defense. The first line of defense has been disrepaired and its military equipment has been loose, and it has fallen into the hands of the Shaji. The second line of defense is composed of twelve towers, which has been supported for a while. The two sides repeatedly tug and witness around the three most critical towers. It was not until the surrounding seven secondary towers fell one by one, and two of the three important towers fell into the hands of the Shaji king.

The remaining one now becomes the center of this battlefield. She asked the knights to regain the gap to the west in order to delay the time of the tower's fall. Once the tower is lost, the last line of defense in the inner city will soon be declared a mistake. What they will face will only be the continuous influx of enemies.

Those enemies are not even worthy of being called humans, they are just a group of human-shaped beasts.

But Princess Rupert was not sure whether the sent out work. She looked forward silently, and the news that came back from the last tower was cut off ten minutes ago. She even had a vague premonition in her heart. If the thieves had already broken through the defense line, then where should Questak go?

But the anxiety in the eldest princess's heart was reflected in Tianlan's eyes at this moment-

The little girl was struggling to drag the Paladin's body down from the top of the city. When she returned to search for the other party's lost sword, she returned to the top of the city and suddenly became stunned in that place.

The direction Tianlan stared blankly was the last fortress on the battlefield originally called the "Matsu Tower".

There, there were originally flags belonging to the Android Knights and the palace guards, but now there was only a black thief left, crossing the front that originally belonged to the Great Princess - there were densely packed like countless ants, rushing towards the inner city.

Where is His Highness the Princess?

Looking at this scene, Tianlan suddenly became a little dizzy, and a terrible thought instantly surged into her heart.

The inner city is lost.

And behind it, there is only the unguarded Casan Palace.

With a sound, the sword in her hand fell on the top of the city, and there was still the last hope left in her heart, and it suddenly extinguished like sparks.

The belief that she had always believed in was that at every critical moment, Brother Ed would definitely descend from heaven to solve all the troubles. Just as they were in Dorifin and on Fenris Island and everything they experienced later, at every critical moment, they could always turn the situation around and turn danger into danger.

But now, even if Brother Ed comes back, what can you do?

She knew in her heart that everyone's only hope was that the inner city had not yet been lost, and that waiting for the regiment commander to return would have a chance to reverse the situation. But now it was too late, and the sand thief had broken through the last line of defense, and the sand king would not be able to lead the army back before noon arrived.

The only opportunity left to block the sand thieves' offensive pace was also lost at this moment.

Tianlan just wanted to cry at this moment. Of course, she didn't blame the others for coming back too late, because everything was just because she was too incompetent. Miss Atira, Big Cat Man and Brother Ed were not here, Boxes and Luo Yu and others were not here, and Jita was not here, so she had no choice.

Even if you can help everyone get the time to reverse everything, you can't do it.

Miss Silvede and Brother Ed's cousin, they were just logistics personnel in the Seven Seas Brigade, and they were real combat players, but they did nothing at the end.

On the contrary, she had always been complacent about the title of "steward", which seemed a bit ridiculous at this moment. She knew very well in her heart that without herself, Miss Aitela could still manage all this clearly.

Everyone just accommodated her.

Tianlan stared blankly as the sand thief in the distance passed through the tower and rushed towards the city wall in this direction.

But at this moment, she did not feel a trace of fear, nor did she want to turn around and run away. Instead, she silently gritted her teeth and picked up the Paladin's sword on the ground.

The respectable Mr. Knight and His Highness the Great Princess all died here to protect her.

Now, it is her turn to protect others. Even if she is weak, if she doesn’t even have the courage to try it, how can she be considered a member of the Qihai Brigade?

Do you have to choose to escape every time you face such a situation in the future?

When it's time to escape?

Tianlan thought about all this silently and held the long sword in his hand tightly.

But what she didn't notice was that at this moment, a flash of light flashed across the clouds behind her.

...

The airship has not yet fully entered Questak's airspace, but everything that is happening in the city has basically come into view.

Fang Zhu looked at everything that was happening below with expressionless expressions, and the sand thief who was crossing the tower in the distance. Looking at this height, there were only countless black spots.

"The inner city is lost."
To be continued...