Not a Witch

For example, to suppress some originally excellent people and support subordinates who are more loyal to themselves.

After the emotions in his heart gradually calmed down, Edron looked out the window again. It was already noon, and it was early summer, and the imperial capital was peaceful, as if the war-torn southern border was a far away place.

Yes, for the people who have lived in this bustling royal city for generations, other places are nothing more than insignificant countryside, so what does this have to do with them.As long as the glory of the empire remains, their status will always be firm and beautiful, and they don't have to worry about unnecessary things.

This is really a scene of envy and hatred.

After repelling the empire's legion for the time being, the 'Fairywood' organization gained rare time and confidence. Many originally neutral organizations and forces also began to send envoys to contact this newborn force.

In the south, many followers and noble descendants of the Baskar family also cheered and walked out of the forest again, and began to go to the side of the red dragon princess, and gathered around her again.

Among such a group of people, there is no shortage of knowledgeable and educated talents. Although they cannot be allowed to directly enter the high-level of 'Dryer Wood', they have greatly filled the original vacancies.

After receiving education and transformation, these people will serve as administrative personnel and quickly fill in each branch, and grasp the southern border step by step as soon as possible.

Finally, in order to celebrate this victory and set the organization's future agenda, they also decided to hold a short celebration to inspire people.

So far, the unified uniform of the army is also under intense production.

After a lot of discussion, it was finally decided to use white and green as the main color, with a little red clothing as the uniform.

Sacred and pure white dryas, living and lush leaves, attractive and delicious bright red berries, these three represent the matching of their respective colors.

Its military uniforms have changed from the previous depressive temperament that pursued chills to a cheerful and healthy color, which also represents the consistent concept of 'Dryswood', which is enlightened and fair.

In the bustling city, after several months of working overtime and preparing for production, we finally ushered in a rare rest.

The crowd gathered on the side of the street, playing their own tunes, watching the neat soldiers, one by one shouldering the muskets, walking through the white stone street under the tall street trees, and bursts of petals fell from the air, flying away amidst the cheers of the crowd. rotate.

On the temporary viewing stand, Lottie watched the knights in golden armor still go out with injuries, and wanted to stand up and let them go back, but was stopped by the girl next to her holding her palm.

"Let them come out and move around. This may slow the healing of the wound for a few days, but such a rare experience is what everyone desires." Lorraine Hill whispered next to Lottie.

"We need to find a new connection point, a shared good memory, so that we can go on together in the future."

Many descendants and entourages of the Baskar family were nobles in the past and ancestors, but is it necessary to keep them all out because of this?

No, no one is born right. Even if you made mistakes in the past, as long as you work hard to redeem and save, you may not be able to gradually change.

What kind of future is the future? Is it to strictly look at each other's identities to distinguish opposing groups, or is it just to judge each person's deeds and behaviors?

A person is not noble because of his origin and status, but only respected by his behavior and deeds.

"After all, we have to abandon all the prejudices of the past to create a new future."

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In the province of Oak, an army lined up with long snakes and was marching through the continuous mountains and forests.

They are well-equipped, with strong blood horses, armor and ordnance manufactured by precision workers, and the wagon carrying supplies makes a crackling sound when it walks.

In addition to the blood rose banner symbolizing the royal family, this army also has more golden mane banners.The flag is attached to the long gun shaft, with a three-edged spear tip on the head, followed by a golden mane gun tassel, and then the bear head flag painted with golden mane.

They are a powerful army directly under the general 'Bazel'. This 'Bazel' general is also one of the 'three victorious generals' who rose up in the empire's Western Expedition, and his reputation is second only to the former 'Darcy' ', known as 'Fearless Fury Bear'.

The other two of the "three victorious generals" are Darcy, the "pure iron general" and Severey, the "compromising blood general".

The three have their own characteristics. Darcy has iron-like will, discipline and strength, making it almost impossible to find any shortcomings. Bazel is extremely ferocious when he leads troops to attack. Can achieve strategic goals, never miss. .

Severe is famous for his wisdom and bravery, trying to reduce the loss without being ambushed, but sometimes it makes people feel that he lacks offensiveness, so he only ranks third.

The legions led by these three generals are the most solid and reassuring fulcrums on the battlefield, and they are also the key to supporting morale at the end of the expedition.

But as Darcy, the leader of the three victorious generals, was defeated and captured, the morale of the army gradually began to collapse, and then the situation took a turn for the worse, and the empire had to surrender and sign a peace agreement.

After it was all over, Darcy was freed by Clancia though, in exchange for the Empire's captured officers and warriors.But in the empire, he was attacked by the nobles of all parties, and the emperor who originally supported him had passed away, so he had to withdraw from the army and his whereabouts are unknown.

Today, the most prestigious generals in the empire are only Bazel and Sifley. If we count down, I am afraid that they are veterans who were quite old before the Western Expedition, but most of these people are veterans. The various factions of the aristocracy are not favored by the new emperor and the regent.

In the advancing army, an extremely strong general was riding on a pitch-black horse. He was like a bear, with an aura of majesty without anger. He was wearing a thick gold-bronze armor, with a bright yellow cloak painted on it. Side coat of arms of the bear's head.

Looking at the knights and soldiers of this army, the cloaks and smocks are also of this bright yellow color and pattern, and the style is very unified.

The barrels of the muskets on their shoulders are also thicker than ordinary firearms, and the barrels are plated with gold and copper, giving people a rough and powerful style. The cannons placed on the carriages are also much larger in caliber. Can fire more powerful shells.

This legion is called 'Golden Mane Bear' and it is one of the top legions in the empire. All kinds of ordnance in its hands are the latest sophisticated creations made by the alchemy workshop in the imperial capital, and its power is far superior to that of ordinary elite legions.

They are now dispatched by His Majesty the Regent to go to the south to suppress the rebellion, and the departure of this army has also made many people in the empire shut up again and stop talking about the south.

"My lord, the camp ahead has been set up, and we will repair it there today." On the field, a knight wearing full-coverage armor came to report.

Bazel looked at the spiers and tall city walls exposed in the distant mountains and forests, and nodded. At this moment, he saw that the soldier seemed to be hesitating, so he asked in a low voice.

"Anything else?"

"Uh, yes!" Hearing the general's words, the knight realized the mistake of hesitation and delay, and immediately answered loudly.

"Shortly after we set up camp, several witches came to our door and offered to help us."

"Witch, why are there still these people?" Bazel sat on a five-meter-high heavy horse and looked down at the knight, with disdain and disgust in his eyes.

Witches mostly originated from the Mercury Dynasty in the first era. Because of the strength of witches at that time, there were many worshipers and followers of women in the dynasty. These people were called "witches" to distinguish them from ordinary "wizards". Come.

Most of them are good at refining medicine, spells, and understanding hidden knowledge, but with the disintegration of the Mercury Dynasty and the rise of the magic sequence, these people's positions were gradually replaced by mages, and later on, many witches became mages, that is, masters. Repair the magic sequence, no longer fiddle with the undead sequence.

Nowadays, apart from the cold forests in the northern border of the empire, it is difficult to see groups of self-proclaimed witches in other places, and their image has thus become mysterious.

In Bazel's eyes, witches are the kind of liars who play tricks and manipulate people's hearts. These people make some prophecies, saying that they can see the fate and the future in order to make profits.

Bazel, who was born as a commoner, suffered a lot from this group of people when he was a child. His mother wasted a lot of family money because she trusted a street fortune-telling witch.

This made his father often quarrel with his mother because of this when he was a child, which also made Bazel even less fond of women, especially witches.

Seeing the annoyance in the general's eyes, the knight had to defend himself.

"Actually, I don't welcome such strangers into the army, but they said that they have a letter of recommendation from the Trey family, the Duke of Raven in the north."

The influence of the four dukes in the aristocratic circle is huge, and few people can not buy it. Hearing this, Bazel no longer held the knight accountable.

"Let's hang them out for a few days first, saying that I'm busy with military affairs and don't have time to see them."

"Yes, my lord." Afterwards, the knight with the gun rode his horse again and went to the front to make arrangements.

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The southern border, the city of mountain cherry blossoms.

It is rare for the 'Fairywood' organization to hold a general meeting nowadays, in which 6 high-level committee members, 37 middle-level committee members, and 436 junior-level committee members gathered.

Among them, the six highest ranks are 'Wu Ming', Gu Huasi, Ge Weier, Xia Lanlotte, Jia Lan, and Lu Bin.

Among them, Xia Lanrot and Geweier represent the original aristocratic forces in the southern border, Gouhuas represents some armed forces among the people, Jialan is supported by scholars and farmers, Lubin is the liaison between the revolutionary army and businessmen, and 'Nameless' It is the spiritual symbol of the organization.

In a newly built hall, people gathered around round tables layer by layer, listening and discussing together.

"The next step for the organization will be discussed," the moderator announced.

"It is recommended to speed up the progress and capture the capital of the southern border, Chixin Province." A knight in golden red armor stood up and spoke. He is a red dragon knight belonging to the Baskar family.

"If we can win that city, it will greatly boost morale, and at the same time, it will also guide those swinging middle organizations." Another person with round glasses also stood up. He was a businessman, Naturally familiar with the thinking of those organizations.

"The three 'Three Eyes' that focus on intelligence and assassination may continue to hide underground, but the 'Seven Rings' that represent the alliance of merchants will not be so calm. They must have the permission of the ruler to survive, otherwise the business will be destroyed. It has become a joke, and it has become an underground dark organization like the 'Three Eyes'."

"What about the 'Agate Stone'? It is said that some of them have participated in the chaos in the southern border recently." Another scholar in white and blue robes stood up. I have only heard of several organizations, but I am also very interested.

"The composition of 'Agate Stone' is the most complicated. You can't even see them as a whole. It's just because those people discussed them together for the convenience of memory and chanting in the past." A member who lowered the brim of his hat answered.

"'Red Jade' is a group of blood mages and swordsmen who worshiped the secret arts of the Red Empire, 'Green Emerald' is a group of scholars and gardeners who delved into the knowledge of elves and were passionate about plants, and 'Transparent Stone' is a group of , some hidden folk magic sequences are secretly inherited, but they are far from the schools of the two major mage kingdoms today, and the 'bone gold' are a group of strange guys who learn orc shamans and wild magic."

"Among them, there are many descendants of nobles in 'Red Jade' and 'Green Emerald'. Originally, they were well-known organizations in the southern border. Many nobles would even join them to learn some supernatural knowledge and practice sequences. However, the southern border is now in chaos. It's only half hidden."

"As for 'Transparent Stone' and 'Bone Gold', they were secret organizations from the very beginning. Among them, the extraordinary school is not known to outsiders, and there are only sporadic rumors about them. In addition, the investigation in the organization some time ago showed that 'Wolf Bone Alchemist Fang' is a small branch of 'Bone Gold'."

"Ah, is that the alchemy workshop that provided potions to the housekeeper and confused the former Viscount Wenlani?"

"Yes, in order to avoid being tracked by the empire, they invented a lot of secret things to obtain wealth, protection, and even power."

After hearing this information, people in the conference room who had never known it before were very surprised and began to discuss with the people around them, and the room became a little noisy for a while.

Although 'Dryer Wood' is a large organization now, most of its members were not high-ranking figures, so naturally they didn't know these secrets, but this time they opened their eyes.

Knowing that everyone was very curious, the meeting was suspended for a few minutes. After seeing that everyone's curiosity was satisfied, the host tapped the hammer on the table to silence the meeting room for the time being.

"Okay, let's continue to discuss whether to directly attack Chixin Province."

"First, let's talk about the information about Chixin Province."

"This is the largest branch of the province located on the south side of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range. The mountain range presents a huge slope of tens of miles on the ground. As the original main city of the Baska family, Farfna, is in the One of the highest peaks is built against the mountain."

"It stands to reason that it should be easy to occupy this city and province because Sir Sharanrot is also one of us now, but now a large number of legions from the Southern Empire have gathered here, and those who originally supported the Baskar family The forces have also been swept up and cleared many times, and now the Imperial Legion has even arranged a large number of residents to move many residents of the city to other towns to arrange for the legion to be stationed in it."

"Because it is built on the mountain, the terrain is extremely steep, and there are even many surveillance towers with burning lights. The fire towers built on these mountains are now equipped with giant crossbows and artillery, which will cause a lot of damage to the troops below. If we attack rashly, I am afraid it will cause great sacrifices, and we will no longer be able to deal with the empire's encirclement and suppression." This scholar said his opinion.

"But if we don't take Chixin Province at this time, our life will become even more difficult when reinforcements from the central part of the empire arrive, and the people will gradually lose confidence. The 'Golden Mane Bear' legion of the empire , has already set off, and now it is imminent, and there is no longer any delay."

After this passage was finished, the hall fell into anxious discussions again. Some people agreed to take advantage of this opportunity to attack in order to quickly expand the results of the battle, but some opposed it. Now the strength is not enough, and many provinces have just been won, so it is not stable If you attack rashly, you may be attacked from the rear.

Watching these members discuss fiercely, the top few people in the meeting did not speak easily. They often do not express their ideas at the beginning, which will greatly divert the direction of the meeting and make it difficult for different opinions to speak out .

Unless it comes to a moment when a decision must be made.

Lorraine Hill is also looking at the map in the middle of the moment and thinking. According to the information, the "Golden Mane Bear" army is exceptionally good, and many elite forces from the central provinces have also been mobilized to cooperate. There are more than 40 troops, and this is also the largest gathering of military forces in the empire since the Western Expedition.

Originally, it was necessary to cultivate for a period of time and digest it well, but the enemy would not give this time, because they also understood the key to this.

Now I have to make a choice, whether to attack Chixin Province, or to passively deploy conservative defenses to meet the war with sufficient resources.The girl's fingers stroked her hair unconsciously, her eyes fixed on the dark yellow map.

Maybe we don't have a choice.

Looking at the distribution on the map and the worst possible situation, Lorraine Hill made up his mind.

If, when the reinforcements from the empire arrived, the legion stationed in the southern border attacked from another direction, how would this side defend against it?Originally, the strength was not enough, and the troops were divided.

Chixin Province must be captured so that a barrier can be built on the east side of the territory to resist possible attacks, so that it can fully deal with the powerful army coming from the north.

But this time, I'm afraid I can't go to help out, because I have to be stationed at the headquarters and the front line to defend the northern army from going south at any time, and the task of attacking the east side requires another person to coordinate.

Thinking about this, she raised her head, her eyes slowly swept across the audience, and finally settled on a girl who was about the same age as her.

"I agree with the plan to attack Chixin Province this time. Lord Govath and Lord Sharanlot will be the main generals, and the rest will be assisted by multiple commanders and extraordinary people..."

Hearing this person's opening, Lubin first expressed his agreement, and 'Nameless' nodded, and Geweier and Guvas also agreed one after another. In this way, the discussion in the hall ended, and all members began to negotiate the next one. The problem is how many troops to send, what kind of supplies to prepare, and who will accompany, command, assist, and so on.

And at the end of this topic, 'Anonymous' made a rare opening, adding a name that is somewhat unfamiliar to everyone.

"I suggest that the moon-accompanying girl 'Luna' be an important collaborator for this operation."

Under the name of this adult, a young girl sitting at the back of the conference hall quickly attracted the attention of everyone.