"So, we are currently at an impasse."

In the room in the tower, several witches still haven't moved their positions. For them, several years have just passed in the blink of an eye.

Chrissy looked at the camps divided into several different colors on the chessboard, playing with her hair a little boredly.

Originally, she thought that several witches on her side would work together to stop or test Lorraine Hill. Unexpectedly, as things developed, some internal differences arose.

First of all, we have to talk about Cornos. This witch is the youngest of their group and the most naughty one. Her disruption this time also disrupted the plans of several others.

"It's a bit boring." Chris said like a fish in water, blowing bubbles about the boring life.

"Do you want Si Ye to interfere with them? If this stalemate continues, it feels like the empire is about to split."

"It has been split, right?" Tidais said with a slightly venomous tone. The phantom witch seemed to be in a much better mood recently, and was drinking coffee peacefully at the moment.

Seeing that Si Ye was still paying attention to the situation on the chessboard and did not answer her, Chris could only lie down on the sofa nearby in frustration. She wanted to go out and play.

"Where's Ayhekatri? I don't think you're worried at all. Are you looking away?" At this time, Tidais turned her eyes to the twin witch next to the chessboard. She was leaning on the back of the chair, although she was looking at her.

The chessboard, but my thoughts seemed to fly to other places.

"...Me, I guess." The twin witch didn't seem to worry about these things, or maybe the current situation wasn't enough to worry her.

The room fell into silence again. Chris stood up and went to the top of the tower to enjoy the wind and sun. At this time, the chessboard that had been stagnant for a long time also changed again.

Imperial capital, Titania.

After several months of stagnation, the gryphon army in the West launched another large-scale attack. This time the Raven Duke also responded in a rare way. The two sides seemed to have reached some kind of reconciliation and tacit understanding.

There was continuous artillery fire and gunfire, and the giant marble white lion crashed into the city wall like a chariot, breaking open the temporarily repaired part again.

After the gap was opened, the coalition forces from the Western Region poured into the city like a tide, and there were screams and sounds of fighting everywhere.

In the sky, the flying war dragon and the gryphon knights were fighting fiercely, and their scorching breath swept across the sky like a beam of light from time to time.

At the same time, the Northern Allied Forces also started taking action.

Pale bones struggled to rise from the ground, stacked layer by layer under the city wall like living creatures, until they formed a giant ladder of bones.

No matter how the defenders on the city wall bombed, used explosives, or magic, the ladder made of bones continued to be repaired, until soldiers from the north surged up like a tide and fought with the garrison on the city wall.

Under attack from two sides, Titania gradually became in danger, and the garrison in the city had to retreat step by step in the face of several times more enemies.

Arrows of various dangers are constantly rising, reporting losses and retreats in various places.

Just when the city was about to be broken, a tremor came from the distant land, and the bloody rose flag fluttered. A group of cavalry rushed out from behind Titania and rushed into the formation of the northern coalition forces that were attacking the city.

The momentum was cut off.

On the ground where snowflakes were flying, Elon Trey, the heir to Duke Raven, stood on horseback, looking at the tens of thousands of cavalry who suddenly rushed out in front of him.

"I didn't expect you to show up anyway. Darcy, what is it that makes you so loyal to the new emperor?"

"However, I am no longer interested in this question." Without waiting for the other party to answer, he waved his hand, and the raven knights behind him rushed out and went straight to the battlefield ahead.

These raven knights were dressed in blue and black metal armor, with black feather-like capes behind them. They roared fiercely as they accelerated their charge, dancing with the wind and snow.

As the direct guards under the command of the Duke of Raven, these Raven Knights are well-equipped and are composed of extraordinary beings above sequence five.

They are equipped with kite-shaped anti-magic shields with raven emblems, black dream lances, armor-piercing crow's beak hoes, and soul-killing spears. They are suitable for various combat scenarios and are the strongest city walls and iron walls in the history of the North.

After these Raven Knights rushed out, they directly collided with the Rose Knights at the front. Both parties were the most elite knights in the empire, and the battle fell into the most intense part from the beginning.

First, there was a relative charge between the two parties. The front row was directly pierced by each other's lances and fell off their horses. After approaching, the raven knights took off the armor-piercing crow's-mouth hoes from their waists and smashed them at those close to them like hammers.

of local knights.

Even though the armor on these Rose Knights was carefully crafted by the empire's craftsmen, it was still pierced by this specialized armor-piercing weapon.

The sharp and heavy hoe tip, like a crow's beak, pecked open the armor and nailed it into it. The Rose Knights who did not disdain to use such ugly weapons could only try to stab with their swords to attack the enemy's strong armor.

And this efficiency is naturally far inferior to these Raven Knights.

The nobles in the central part of the empire have lived in peace for too long. Even though they have abundant resources to build up their strength, their actual combat experience is inferior to those of the knights in the north.

The situation began to turn against the Raven Knights in the north. One by one, the Rose Knights had their helmets smashed open, and fell down with bloody heads, and then were trampled by the hooves of horses on the battlefield.

Among the rebellious troops, Darcy became the mainstay in the turbulence. He held a gun in one hand and rode a horse in the other, fighting in and out of the battlefield, maintaining the situation with difficulty.

Seeing this, Elon also picked up his lance and rushed towards the brave enemy general.

The trajectory of the gun blade and gun body in the air was a straight line, unbiased, like a meteor streaking across, rushing directly towards the figure on the battlefield.

In the flash of lightning, Darcy turned sideways to avoid the incoming gun blade, letting it pass under his arm. Then he fought back with his backhand, but was held up by the four nearby Raven Knights.

These raven knights are Elon's personal guards, and they are also masters of Sequence 6 and above. With their cooperation, even Darcy cannot defeat them instantly.

The bloody gun blade sliced ​​through armor and shields, forcing the approaching Raven Knights away, and then a small area of ​​​​the battlefield was briefly vacant.

"Darcy, actually I wanted to kill you three years ago, but unfortunately the Duke didn't allow it at that time." Elon held a long gun and looked at the man in front of him.

Then, he waved his gun, and the tip of the gun was pointed directly at the famous general of the empire, and then there was the sound of explosions in the air.

"You were promoted by the previous emperor Aimanke, but you didn't want to report back, betrayed repeatedly, and even attempted to kill the queen and prince. You are despised and disgusted. It is a great shame for the empire to have a general like you."

"Really, maybe it seems like this to you, because I ate a meal he gave me, then I will be loyal to him for the rest of my life and never betray him. Just because you are the masters and nobles of the empire, and you have the power to be kind.

that power."

"I don't agree with such things. In fact, after the death of Emperor Aimanke, have you ever understood what I suffered and what kind of abuse and humiliation I suffered?"

"You don't know and you don't care."

"So, stop talking about those old and decayed loyalties. If you think that I will be shaken by these words, it is simply a joke. I don't regret anything today, and I don't feel any guilt."

Faced with Elon's accusation, Darcy responded with a frown. He had long been tired of hearing the other person's words, and the only blow he had received in the past few years was when he was easily defeated by the girl in front of the unknown village in the east.

That was also his rare state of unbalanced mentality and inability to control himself.

"Really, then it seems that I can only teach you a lesson with the gun blade in my hand. What a pity. When I was in Emenas, I graduated a few years earlier than you, so I couldn't teach you a lesson, haha."

"If you are talking about the past events of Emenas, then I will make up for the regret on Weilin's behalf." Darcy's expression changed, and she poured power into the sacred spear in her hand, and then complex patterns appeared from the gun body.

, gradually spread to the entire gun body.

Immediately, the famous general jumped into the air, and like lightning, he flew into the air, and in the blink of an eye, he struck down directly at Elon Tray, who was protected by layers of knights.

When Emenas was a student, Weilin only won second place in the Winter Festival Competition several times. So who was the first place at that time? It was the chief of the Temple Academy at the time, Elon Trey.

This senior defeated Xing Liu and Wei Lin several times and maintained the title of the strongest in the college until graduation.

Many years later, the two Emenas graduates met again on the battlefield. Elon was no longer the academy champion in the past, and Darcy was no longer the unknown boy among the crowd who kept his head down while training.

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The red spear tip moved through the air like lightning. The stabbing and spinning were dizzying, and it kept attacking Elon Trey.

What responded to him was the equally fierce and turbulent black gun blade.

What Elon was holding at this time was the sacred spear that killed the witch back then. It had the power to strangle souls and penetrate space.

The royal relic in Darcy's hands also has equal effectiveness, but one is for the body, one is for the soul, one is for reaction and speed, and the other is used to attack unexpectedly by traveling through space from time to time.

Both of them are in the near-perfect stage of Sequence 7, only one step away from Sequence 8. They are of equal strength, and there is not much difference in talent.

The battle situation is rarely evenly matched, and the fight between the two sides is becoming more and more dangerous. The tip of the needle is like an extremely fragile scale. Once one side finds a slight gap or flaw, it can kill the other side.

Such a dangerous battlefield made it difficult for the knights from both sides to intervene, so they could only leave this area of ​​the battlefield empty, allowing the two to fight alternately, with red and frost flying and exploding, leaving various broken traces from time to time.

The situation on the north side of Titania reached a stalemate. The rescue cavalry dispersed the northern coalition forces attacking the city, making it difficult for them to win for the time being.

At this moment, on the west side of Titiania, priests in white robes held up the six-sided shield of the holy white to block the angry dragon's breath in the air. Then, with the blessing of spells, the soldiers below were like lions.

They flocked into the city like vultures.

After encountering resistance, a man in lion armor suddenly came out. He held a dazzling holy sword and slashed all the way, cutting a gap in the stagnant line, allowing countless soldiers to pour into Tiitai.

The streets of Nia.

It was not until this time that Titania began to fall into a real crisis.

The old order began to collapse, and various hooligans who did not dare to cause trouble in the past began to appear. They rushed into the homes of wealthy people who had long been jealous, and soon there were all kinds of crying and screaming sounds.

The allied forces in the west, the defeated legionnaires stationed in the city, the residents who wanted to escape the city, and the people who took advantage of the chaos to do evil, made the streets chaotic and full of noise.

The remaining civilians began to bow their heads and pray, praying that this dark moment would pass as soon as possible.

In the center of the Rose Palace, Elio stood on the top of a high tower, overlooking the city that was gradually falling and burning with war.

"I'm sorry, sister Anna."

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then jumped from the high tower of the Rose Palace.

The battle gradually spread in the city, flames burned, women and children cried, smoke and screams were everywhere, the sound of swords clashing sounded in every corner, blood flowed, and then condensed, turning into dark red patches, condensation

On the earth.

At some point, a cold white mist blew up in the city. It was so cold that the enemies who entered the city froze and turned into standing ice sculptures.

Heavy snow like feathers fell from the sky, drowning the sight, and kept drifting into this magnificent city.

Whether it's blood stains, corpses, scorch marks on the city wall, incomplete fairy decorations, beautiful buildings, etc., everything is covered by this white snow.

Long, transparent icicles slowly formed under the eaves, and the bone-chilling water droplets dripped slowly, splashing solid ice-colored flowers on the ground.
To be continued...