Sword Sorcery

Chapter 17 Sigh
A moment later
"So that's how it happened. What happened this time is that you and Bruce killed 15 regular soldiers from the enemy country who attacked, plus a George who secretly rebelled, and then you rushed over to report the news?"

Viscount Steve sat on a brown wooden armchair. After listening to Aaron and Bruce's narration, he kept tapping his fingers on the desk in front of him. Everyone, including Butler Luke, was quietly waiting for his decision. .

After a while, Viscount Steve decided:
"Luke, go ahead and put all the staff on alert. The number of soldiers on duty in the castle will be doubled at night. In addition, everyone will be paid two months in advance, ready to fight at any time."

Luke nodded, but asked a question: "Master Viscount, those other villages are fine, as for Duolong Town."

Viscount Steve certainly understood the meaning of Luke's words, but he shook his head and denied: "It's too late, Aaron also said just now, they saw a war in Doron Town on the way here , It took at least 20 minutes until you and Aaron came to me."

"It's been more than half an hour by the time our side organizes people to rush over. The victory of this attack has been decided long ago. Besides, Yibeier and the others have dealt with Duolong Town-except for the castle. Judging from the level of understanding of the most important stronghold in hand, I am afraid that the fourth and sixth brigades stationed in Duolong Town are already in danger."

"Now, I just hope that as many soldiers as possible escape from them, return to my castle, and provide some capital for the next garrison of the castle. As for the idea of ​​sending people to Duolong Town for support, I don't need to mention it. Now, it must be 'a piece of meat beats a dog, and there is no return', a waste of the vitality in our hands."

After finishing speaking, Viscount Steve sighed deeply. It seems that he has given up hope for Duolong Town and completely abandoned it as an abandoned son.

However, Aaron heard other meanings from Steve's words, and couldn't help asking: "Master Viscount, are you planning to stick to the castle? With all due respect, this time it's not just Earl Bell, but the entire Karas Our side is absolutely unable to defend against the invasion of the empire."

"What nonsense!"

Viscount Steve interrupted Aaron's words: "The Karas Empire just took the lead in action, and the Kino Kingdom is not a bit vegetarian. During the Dawn War, the situation was much more critical than it is now. In the end, the Karas Empire Hasn’t the Sri Lanka Empire been repulsed by us?”

"As long as we persevere, follow-up support from the Kino Kingdom will definitely arrive. They will not allow the Karas Empire to swallow up our borders! As long as we persevere, we will be able to hold this place!"

Viscount Steve was full of confidence when he spoke, as if he had returned to the time when he participated in the Battle of Dawn. Even Luke next to him couldn't help but nodded and echoed——

"That's right, such a big movement in the Karas Empire, especially when their joint army is dispatched, must not be hidden from the Chino Kingdom. As long as we persist until the arrival of the kingdom's reinforcements, we will be able to defend this piece of land!"

Aaron frowned. Naturally, 1 people in his heart did not believe that the Kino Kingdom could stop the Karas Empire. You must know that the current Karas Empire is no better than it was at the Battle of Dawn six years ago. Over the years, the Karas Empire It has been annexing other surrounding countries. Although the Battle of Dawn did not swallow the Kino Kingdom, it can be regarded as weakening the Kino Kingdom's strength to a certain extent.

In particular, the Kino Kingdom has been in the false splendor after the Battle of Dawn in these years. The entire noble class did not think about making progress, but instead lived a life of vanity and oppressed the common people at the bottom, so that the bottom class complained.

Otherwise, the villagers would not have chosen to stand idly by when Aaron and the others fought with enemy soldiers. The reason is that Viscount Steve's heavy taxes and oppression over the years have caused resentment in the hearts of the civilians. It has been a long time, and finally broke out when enemy soldiers invaded.

Under such a big environment, if the Kino Kingdom can defend the invasion of the Karas Empire, Aaron has 1 doubts in his heart, but seeing the confidence of Viscount Steve and Butler Luke, Aaron It's not easy to say anything--

After all, Aaron is only a quasi-knight-level soldier, while Viscount Steve and Steward Luke are the decision-makers in the territory and the official knights with powerful power.

"Okay, let's stop this topic~!"

Viscount Steve clapped his hands, glanced at Aaron and Bruce who were covered in blood, and showed a hint of appreciation in his eyes: "You two have done a good job this time, you are worthy of being the elite soldiers under my Steve, Wait for you and Luke to receive half a year's military pay—according to the rank of the team leader."

After finishing speaking, Steve waved his hand: "Presumably after this bloody battle, you must all be exhausted, and you must miss your fragrant bed very much, right? Then I won't keep you any longer, there's nothing to do If so, go back and rest."

"Yes, let's go then."

Just when Aaron was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly remembered an important matter, and hurriedly said: "By the way, Lord Viscount, I don't have the next chapter of "Circular Cross Breathing Method" in my hand, so I want to borrow it from you." Take it."

There are three complete knight breathing methods in Viscount Steve's collection, namely "Circular Cross Breathing Method", "Horizontal Cutting Breathing Method" and "Steel Refining Breathing Method"-these three breathing methods have different emphases, but there is no The difference between good and bad in the true sense.

All the original manuscripts recording the breathing method are in the hands of Viscount Steve. On weekdays, as long as the team leader or quasi-knight-level person applies to the Viscount, the Viscount will give them the next part of the manuscript for viewing, so as to improve their strength in the future.

Hearing Aaron's request, Bruce glanced at Aaron quietly in surprise, because he still remembered Aaron's terrifying physical sensitivity when he killed three soldiers with a single sword in the village, and it didn't look like that at all. An existence that has just entered the quasi-knight level and has never practiced the second part of the breathing method!

However, Bruce wisely did not ask. Obviously, everyone has their own secrets. If he asked here casually, wouldn't he offend Aaron for nothing?What's more, this Aaron is really deep and thoughtful in the city, and I don't want to make any more trouble with him-it's better to try to please Aaron.

At this moment, Viscount Steve naturally didn't know what Bruce was thinking. Of course, he also thought that Aaron had just been promoted to a quasi-knight, and he hadn't had time to receive the next chapter of the Knight's Breathing Method——

So, Steve walked to the only two rows of bookshelves in the study room, took down a thick book, and handed it to Aaron: "This is the next chapter of "Circular Cross Breathing Method". Return it to my study, well, if you have nothing else to do, you can leave."

Aaron and others bowed and resigned.

After the figures dissipated, Steve turned around and looked at the scenery outside the window in a daze through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. After a long time, a faint sigh sounded——

"Hey"

(End of this chapter)