Blood Dragon

Chapter 140 The Second Miracle

Ashuruffat looked at her.When the little girl faced Ashuruffat's gaze, she felt like she could boil an egg on her face.But I don't know why, Ashuruffat's expression looks very calm, without any waves.

He gently lifted the little girl's skirt.As I said before, the inner part of the skirt has been glued to the wound by blood.She couldn't help letting out a cry of pain as she did so.

Ashuruffat lifted her skirt and handed the ends of the skirt to her hands.Due to being covered by the skirt, the little girl couldn't see Ashuruffat's specific movements, but she could feel the throbbing pain of her wound - that was the result of cleaning up the blood scab on her wound.Then there was a cooling sensation - the same one she'd felt before the cut on her hand.

Half of it was shyness, half of it was pain, which made her completely lose her sense of time, and she didn't know how long this process lasted.However, Ashuruffat finally finished the matter and put down the skirt.

"It's not bad." Ashuruffat said. "It should be fully recovered tomorrow."

"Fully recovered?" the little girl asked in surprise.It was only then that she realized that her hand - where it was a wound not long ago, had grown new skin.Although there is still some distance from "healing up", this speed... this is no longer a normal speed!

Although the little girl is still young, she also knows that there is no such miraculous medicine in the world.

"Just a bit of magic." Ashuruffat replied. "A magic that can speed up recovery," he said.

"You..." The little girl came back to her senses at this time, and suddenly found that Ashuruffat had no reaction at all, as if he had just done a very ordinary thing.This situation is completely opposite to what Luo Diya said.

"What's wrong with me?"

"You... have you seen it all?" the little girl asked in a mosquito-like voice, but she was too ashamed to look up at the other person's expression.

"I see." Ashuruffat smiled lightly. "Not much to look at, though. Is this a prank?"

He didn't see me as a woman at all, but as a child.The little girl suddenly realized this.At this moment, her heart was full of bad feelings, and she didn't know whether she should relax or be sad.

"Have a good dinner. By the way, before I came, I accidentally found a rabbit hole and caught a rabbit." Ashuruffat said while putting the ointment on the side. "Later, you can drink some rabbit broth. This is not a special treatment, but accidental luck."

"Ashrufat." The little girl raised her head. "Today I overheard the soldiers say...Byron's troops are much more powerful than ours, and the difference is three times. Our army's chances of winning this battle are slim..."

"If numbers could determine the outcome of a war, then the world would have been ruled by mathematicians long ago." Ashuruffat replied, smiling at the little girl. "There are miracles in everything, especially on the battlefield."

After Ashuruffat left, the little girl remained silent for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, a voice sounded from outside the tent, "Your Majesty, are you there?"

"Come in." The little girl replied.She sat down on the folding chair and saw four or five people filing in from outside.The leader was a lieutenant general of the Guards, named Luca.The little girl didn't know the few people who followed him, but she knew they must be middle-level or lower-level officers.

"Your Majesty, I heard that you... plan to take the road in the mountains?" Luca first saluted according to the rules, and then asked.

"Yes." The little girl replied without hesitation.

"But... I believe you already know that road... the condition is very poor. It may be barely passable for infantry, but it is definitely not passable for vehicles." Luka said. "Our army will fall into a state of logistical cutoff, and the artillery must also remain."

"I know." The little girl replied.

"Horses are also difficult to walk. If you must pass, there will be a lot of non-combat losses. Once the knights have no horses... it means that our army's combat effectiveness will be severely reduced. To put it bluntly, it is not an exaggeration to say that our army's combat effectiveness is halved. ’” Luka said.

"I believe so."

"Then, does His Majesty still maintain his original determination? Why didn't he hold a meeting to listen to everyone's opinions..."

"Of course I will stick to my resolution. As for why," the little girl looked at Luka's face with a serious expression as if she was attending a religious activity. "I can't tell you for the time being. I heard...a soldier should take obedience as his bounden duty, and not question the king's decision there. I have already decided on this matter, and there is no need to hold any military meeting."

"This..." Luca hesitated.He thought it was the little queen who made this choice, all because of a kind of stubbornness and persistence unique to children, a kind of unwillingness to admit mistakes.But right now, the situation seems to be different from what he expected.At least the little girl didn't feel any wavering in her body, and she didn't have that extreme obsession.On the contrary, she calmly admitted his opinion, and then insisted on her own point of view.That kind of confidence, that kind of calm should not come out of thin air.Is there any particular reason?

Having said that, the performance of this little queen is completely incapable of making people see her as a little girl, or even as a woman.Among other things, a girl wearing armor and marching on horseback... and the dinner plate next to the little girl at the moment... These are not things that a child who grew up in a deep palace and has nothing but blood can have.Her generous and heroic style is enough to make anyone put away contempt.

Luka was not optimistic about this war before, but now he feels that maybe he made a mistake.He vaguely made a guess, maybe this crusade was not as simple as imagined.Perhaps... within the Duke of Byron, there are already people who take care of the queen.

"If you have nothing else to do, you go down first." The little girl unceremoniously issued the order to evict the guests.But this is not because Luka offended her, but because Luka's action of looking at the dinner plate just now made her think of the rabbit meat soup promised by Ashrufa.She didn't want to discuss this topic any further, but felt that rabbit broth was more worth looking forward to.

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"This road is well built." The little girl looked at the ancient road under her feet and said.She seemed a little sluggish yesterday because of the pain, but now she's brightened up again.Only she knew that the wounds had all healed and there was no more pain.And it may be because of the non-stop riding for the past two days, she is far more comfortable driving the horse than before.

"Yes, it's a pity that the mountain roads are too easy to be destroyed." Baranka said. "Different from the plains, no matter how good and strong the road is, it cannot withstand the impact of the flood and the mud and rocks. What's worse is that the flood always washes along a fixed route. If it can't be restored immediately... soon The damage will be accumulated to an irreparable level. By the way, Your Majesty, ahead, there is the bend between the mountain peaks, which is the choke point of this road. That section of the road is completely destroyed, vehicles are impassable, and horses are also very difficult. Dangerous." When he said this, he pointed to the position ahead. "Barring a miracle, we're going to be ready to walk over the mountains."

"Unless it's a miracle..." The little girl repeated this sentence softly, and turned her head to look at Ashuruffat unconsciously.The latter was still riding on the horse calmly, as if he didn't notice it at all.

A loud noise could be heard ahead.Including the little girl, everyone unconsciously looked forward.It can be judged that the source of the noise is the forward of the army.

"What happened? Encountering enemy troops? Impossible." Baranka asked softly.He was just about to send someone to inquire about the news, but saw a horse galloping towards him.That's the orderly.

"Your Majesty, good news." The orderly waited until he couldn't get any closer before shouting. "The road ahead has been cleared for some reason. The soldiers all said it was a miracle!"

"Cleaned up?" Barranca asked in disbelief.

"Yes, let alone riding a horse, even passing a vehicle is no problem at all." The orderly said excitedly.

A short while later, Barranca confirmed the miracle with his own eyes.

Somehow—maybe an earthquake, maybe something else—the road caved in.The rocks that had originally formed obstacles—the rocks that had accumulated like small hills and could not be climbed—almost all sank below the ground, and the soil collapsed from the mountains on both sides, filling the ground quite flat.In short, this originally insurmountable obstacle has now become a natural flat land, connecting with the original road.

Of course, there are also some obstacles such as trees and boulders.But it can't stop the traffic anymore.

This mutation has not occurred for a long time, because it can be seen that the soil on the ground is still fresh, and no weeds or bushes have grown - which means that this mutation occurred two or three days ago, not longer .It's really incredible, even a well-informed person like Baranca can't help but be amazed.

"The whole army will continue to move forward." While Balanka was still sighing, he heard the little girl giving orders from behind.He looked back and found that the little queen at least didn't look surprised, as if she knew something long ago.

What's going on... Balanca was thinking in his mind.But he was the only one thinking about it.The soldiers below all cheered.This miracle boosted the morale of the whole army.

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"Essien, you were too impulsive last time." Cleo sighed, not knowing how to comfort his friend.

The two of them were still drinking in the same tavern as before.Although the Duke of Byron gathered a large army and appointed a large number of personnel this time, Essien was not among them.In other words, Essien is still in Fornoros City at this moment, responsible for guarding the warehouse.

"I understand your eagerness. Almost everyone thinks this is a battle that must be won. If you miss this opportunity, there may be no next time. But...you can't do that..."

Essien didn't answer, and surprisingly, Cleo noticed that the old depression had disappeared from his friend's eyes, replaced by a fierce, keen light.