Can Arknights dream about the Knights of the Round Table?

Compared with the coats worn in private actions at that time, the red dragon today wears the formal attire of a monarch. However, it is not the common robe that highlights the cultural characteristics of the country, but the blue and silver colors that imply the coexistence of force and power as the founder. The ceremonial armor is engraved with many scale patterns and fire patterns that are characteristic of the Drac race. It is exquisite and gorgeous, yet solemn at the same time.

The Dragon Emperor, who was leaning against the throne and looking at the white wolf with one hand on his chin, although his face was as calm as water, still had an aura of calm and self-restraint; just the gaze alone made her feel a creeping panic, as if The sense of fatal crisis being targeted by some unnatural behemoth made Rita almost unable to resist the instinct of survival and activated the power given by her bloodline.

Fortunately, she finally avoided farce by bowing her head and taking a knee.

"The Stormtroopers will obey your orders, Your Majesty."

These were Rita Scamandros's first words after bowing to the two dragons.

"Please save our motherland Victoria." This is the second sentence.

After all, long before she could remember, Victoria's last king, the Lion King, was pushed to the guillotine. The throne has been vacant ever since, and Rita did not rely on family help to enter the industry, but relied on her own efforts to work hard. She became the captain of an elite front-line special force such as the Stormtroopers; as a result, she seriously lacked the knowledge required for specific situations. She could only follow the vague parts of her childhood memories to do some etiquette for meeting the king.

Of course, other people like the Great Flame True Dragon, Emperor Ursus, etc. would have been displeased with such a slightly offensive remark and ordered the guards on the left and right to fork it out of the hall; even the kinder Io It was time for Leta to let out a kind chuckle at this moment and start to talk about him - no ruler would like other people's semi-forced requests, especially when the other person is such a young and reckless guy.

However, Ozwald is not actually a person who cares much about rules. Many times, the aristocratic etiquette for him will only stop at his love affair with Tallulah Viviana, or in public situations where all outsiders are present; plus this The identity of the visitor was special, so he didn't care about the white wolf's recklessness.

"why?"

As a request to Rita Scamanderos, Ozwald's answer was even more simple and clear, and he asked directly:

"Why should I save Victoria, just because I am a drak? Just because I am the leader of the red dragons?"

ps: I can’t stand it anymore because of this new activity.You Rutland thugs are such a fucking bunch of thugs!damn it! ! !

This new activity made me fully aware that in a war, the local people should be killed first, and all the people should be killed before the enemy comes.Otherwise, where is your mother while I'm killing the enemy and you're wandering around like a rat?ah!

The most annoying thing is that it’s my responsibility to escape and retaliate, so I should start a fucking fight and kill all these blathering people.

Each and every one of them had the guts to be blinded by the hail of bullets and bullets from me and the other side. They were running around so hard that they couldn’t even see the sky under your mother’s feet. They were thinking about your statue the whole game, praying, praying, praying. !Are you praying for a horse?

Damn it, when Oswald and Therese start a full-scale war, we might as well just build a concentration camp in Londinium or some other place to manage these civilians in a unified way; this way we don't have to worry about them being on the battlefield. He was accidentally injured while running around.

Just build one railway line to go in.

To prevent criminals from trying to sneak out...ah, I mean sneaking in, what do you think?

Turn the pond water: 62 The white wolf and the red dragon meet again

【why】

Before coming here, Rita Scamandros had prepared a lot of plans for this meeting; she had imagined various possibilities, including the red dragon being angry or disdainful.

But it was only now, with a calm and meaningless tone, as if discussing the natural need for human beings to breathe, that caught Rita off guard.

Speaking intuitively, the White Wolf could feel that the Red Dragon would most likely not be persuaded by him.

But for the sake of the motherland, she could only nod her head and continue her work of persuasion, which was no longer possible.

"Yes, Your Majesty Ozward, I am here to ask you to save our motherland; I ask you as Drac and as the emperor to lead us to defeat the invaders of Kazdare and survive this disaster. .Everyone in Victoria is eagerly awaiting your arrival."

"Really? I can't see." Ozwald hummed twice, but the expression on his face remained unchanged: "It's just a group of betrayers and accomplices, let them all die."

This sentence made Bai Lang widen his eyes.

"Why did you say that?!"

"Because the Lion King who destroyed our Drak's royal court and slaughtered our people and almost wiped us out, he took that position in the eyes of the people."

Ozwald answered word for word: "It is true that Drac and Aslan have been the only two royal families to equally share Victoria's inheritance since ancient times. However, apart from the overt and covert struggles between the two families themselves, it is ultimately decided who will take over." The crown holds the black staff and knocks on the door of the Holy King's Western Assembly Hall. Whoever gets the flower is chosen by the people from Victoria."

It was the Victorians who chose Frederick III's son to become king based on their admiration for his monstrous achievements. It was the Victorians' strong support for Aslan in the past hundred years that gave them the absolute power to gradually control the right to speak. Power - and it was this that ultimately led to Drac's demise.

At this point, every Victorian who ever sang the praises of Frederick III and his son, every Victorian who ever had a cult of Aslan in his or her heart, was indirectly complicit in Aslan's murder of Drake During the operation, he helped them sharpen their butcher's knife. ． ．accomplice!

"Not to mention your last name is Smandelos, Miss Rita."

Ozwald looked at the girl in front of him with interest, smiled and reminded her: "You are a white wolf, do you remember?"

Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Rita Scamandros family followed Aslan Pasha to the Kingdom of Drac and defeated the dragons bred in the mountains. This gave rise to today's Victoria and a thousand-year-old kingdom. Earl White Wolf.

[-] years ago, the most powerful white wolves also participated in the final annihilation of the declining Drak court as the lion's most loyal supporters, and were responsible for the hunting work for a long period of time until they became the last ones. The lion king of Victoria died under the guillotine.

"Besides these, I killed another wolf 12 years ago, in Casimir."

Because the two people who were enemies and despised each other at the time didn't even bother to tell each other their names, Ozwald still doesn't know the identity of the wolf other than the surname Scamandros, so he can only tell the truth. Rita gave Rita a rough description of the guy's physical features.

And Rita recognized it. It was a cousin who was very close to her.He was once the best in the family and the most likely to succeed his father's position as earl. He was a general in Victoria's army at that time. He had not been seen again after a mission more than ten years ago - everyone said that he was fighting with Gao. Lu Zandang died in the battle, covering the retreat of her companions at the cost of her own strength and life, and practicing her loyalty to the emperor to ensure the completion of the mission; for this, a grand funeral was held, and she and her brothers and sisters cried a lot. sad.

Now Rita knows who her cousin's real killer is,

Just like she now knows that her cousin's mission was not to fight the remnants of Gaul.

"The wolf said to me at that time [It's your turn, the deposed king of extinct heirs and extinct species!]" Ozwald imitated the hunter's tone and read in a low voice, and then the smile at the corner of his mouth became happier: "Look, Miss Rita, as he said, I am already an extinct and deposed king in the eyes of the people of Victoria. Even Tracy’s statement that he sent the stormtroopers to Xiaoqiu County is a dead person... This Victoria , who else thinks I’m alive? Miss Rita~~

Why can you, as a killer, ask us, the ethnic groups you slaughtered, to protect your followers who help you kill? "

"...I, I don't know, Your Majesty...Father, he, he never said this to me..."

Kneeling down in front of the Dragon Emperor's throne, White Wolf murmured to himself, not daring to look directly at the red dragon's figure.

She wasn't lying; Rita Scamandros had indeed never known before that her family and the lions had destroyed the Court of Drak and launched a long hunt for it.But as Victoria who is proud to be born in Victoria, the more she loves her motherland, the more she feels when facing the remaining red dragon at this moment. ． ． ．pain

How calm Oswald is about his time here makes Rita feel so ashamed at this moment.

"Don't you know? Ha...then forget it."

After glancing down at Tallulah, who was looking down at Tallulah who was a little sad because she felt the same way, and casting a comforting look at her, Ozwald exhaled forcefully.

He used this to adjust his voice so that the emotion attached to it would be as less intense as possible, so as to avoid the fear of being accused after she heard it.

"I don't intend to blame you, young white wolf; I just want to tell you, and these groups headed by you - we (we) are very tired, tired of this long-lasting war with no winner. Especially after I have done a lot of things that need to be done for this, I don’t want this chain of hatred to continue to extend into the future. I hope that it will only end here and draw a line between me. period."

"Similarly, maybe the original builder of Londinium was Drac. At that time, we did have the responsibility and obligation to protect it, but for my tribe (Drake) now, the land of Victoria has long lost its original glory. Glory and responsibility; what is left to us is only hatred, death and injury, betrayal and sorrow that last for hundreds of thousands of years."

"The Red Dragon no longer needs to bear anything, because there is no land that belongs to us here. We are already the losers expelled and exterminated by this country - so listen up, future Earl White Wolf."

Ozwald read the other person's surname word by word, in order to emphasize the difference between the Victorian nobles represented by the other person and his own Britain.

"Let me say it one last time, Drake will no longer protect [outsiders] like the Victorians who did not swear allegiance to me."

"...Yes, but we are also willing to be loyal to you. Just like Xiaoqiu County...Your Majesty." There is no way to argue or deny the words from the red dragon's mouth. Rita's current belief is the same as Her words were the same, shaking violently, dry and hollow: "As long as you take action, Victoria will still respect your throne."

"Ah~ of course, you can do that. Miss Rita Scamanderos."

As if he was really moved, Ozwald stretched out his hand pretending to be happy, eager to embrace the bright future promised to him by the girl in front of him.

But the words coming out of his mouth were so despairing.

“Let the earls and marquises of every county fall before me, kiss my boots, and offer up their power;

Let the people of Victoria everywhere shout my name, and cut off everything that has ever belonged to Victoria to swear allegiance to me;

Let the eight Dukes, who are paying close attention to the direction of the storm in Londinium at this moment, and are preparing to take this opportunity to make further progress, hand over their troops and come to the throne of the Dragon Emperor to confess their crimes and be killed! "

"In this case, I will save Victoria who is in dire straits."

Ozwald held his head high, looking down happily at the speechless White Wolf's daughter in front of him, and whispered with full of mockery: "Because as you know, as an emperor, I will naturally protect my subjects, let them They are safe from suffering under my wings.”

Hearing these words, Rita pursed her lips a few times as if all her energy had been drained from her body.

But no matter whether she gave up or not, Ozwald never gave this young and flawless white wolf a chance to speak again.

The time for foreign guests to be received by the Lord of Britain was now over.

"Ah~~ No need to say more, just do it quickly, Rita Smandelos; I believe that with your eloquence, you will be able to convince the earls, dukes, and all the people of Victoria just like you convinced me today. .”

"Paladin, my scales, it's time to take this Earl's daughter of Terra's hegemony away."

After a pause, Ozwald did not forget to add:

"Don't forget to prepare a good high-speed land speeder for her. After all, she will travel all over Victoria next!"

Turn the pond water: 63 The white wolf and the red dragon meet again, part [-]

After Rita Smendros's lost figure was half-dragged and half-dragged out of the throne room by the paladin, Tallulah, who had never spoken a word, stepped up the steps with her slender legs, wearing high heels. The sound of collision between the bottom and the ground came to Ozwald's side.

If she only talked about her own personal likes and dislikes, Tallulah actually couldn't bear to see such a true soldier who loved his motherland reduced to such a miserable situation like a lost dog, and even this reminded her more or less of that man. The old Wendigo and Bodrokas, who protected her as a daughter, couldn't bear the past of being loyal to Ursus but being abandoned by Ursus.

But after all, Tallulah Atrias is also a drake after all, the daughter of Edward Atrias; therefore, even if it is only for her dead father and for the Ozawa whom she loves so much now, De Artolis; For the suffering and injustice that the red dragons had suffered in Victoria, the dragon girl could not say even a word of mercy at this moment.

Now all she could offer was sympathy, and that was limited to Rita Scamandros, one of the few innocents among the perpetrator's race.

"I can see that this girl is very disappointed with Oz that you abandoned Victoria."

"Maybe there will be resentment. Generally speaking, when people have their dreams or hopes shattered, they will have similar emotions. It can be regarded as a self-protection mechanism."

Ozwald nodded, and while replying casually, he reached out and pulled Tallu into his arms, holding her and sitting on the throne.

"But other than that, dear, let me tell you the truth from my heart; this Miss Rita actually dares to use her identity as a white wolf to beg me to meet, which makes me unable to do anything. Unexpected.”

You know, starting from the upheaval when the last emperor, the Lion King, was guillotined, life was not easy for the nobles loyal to the royal family, especially the military nobles.

In particular, even the Archduke of Cumberland, who was loyal to Aslan and was known as the "Eternally Noble Cumberland", could not save his life.I left with my master, leaving only orphans and widows, which led to the current decline of the Nuo family.

It was also because of this lesson that forced Count Scamandros, who had the blood of battle flowing in his body, to live in a low-key manner in a fringe city like Caraton, which was not even his own territory. many years. ,

After all, even today, the "White Wolf"'s reputation in the army still has considerable influence, which makes many earls and even some dukes jealous of him; because of this, whenever he shows a little bit of limelight and shows even the slightest ability, Any action that could be used as a reason to criticize someone might bring disaster to the whole family... For the sake of his family, he could only let the world see an old wolf that had lost all its teeth and claws.

"Of course, I guess this Miss Rita has not been home to see her father for many years. Otherwise, with the guidance of her father who knows how to protect herself wisely, she would not have acted as recklessly and stupidly as she did today."

Ozwald said to Tallulah with emotion on his face.

To be honest, he was really scared, for God's sake!She is the daughter of Count White Wolf!

A white wolf that could be said to have started a thousand years ago and ended nearly 30 years ago, and participated in Aslan's war against the dragons from beginning to end, actually dared to face the ruler of a country ruled by red dragons. Are you using her status as Count White Wolf as a reason for meeting her? !

If it were a normal Draco sitting in this position and hearing her request to meet, would Rita Scamandros be able to maintain her minimally recognizable and relatively intact shape [returning] a few days later? Returning to her father is very debatable... Well, even if it were Edward, a dragon that was so friendly to people that it could be regarded as innocent, he couldn't turn a blind eye when it came, and do more and be less extreme. .

That is to say, he, Ozwald, is here; and it is also thanks to the fact that he once personally fought a white wolf that participated in the night of genocide, and finally tortured and killed the defeated former, releasing a lot of the hatred.

So after thinking about it, I can only say that this Miss Rita Scamanderos is frighteningly upright, and she only cares about her motherland and has no personal feelings.

"But having said that, Oz, you will actually save Victoria, right?" Tallulah reached out and poked the red dragon's cheek, and said with a smile: "After all, this is who you are."

"Huh, wrong! I didn't save any Victorians."

Ozwald curled his lips and argued: "I was just in the process of conquering the Victoria Empire, establishing the British hegemony and clearing out the remnants of the Tikaz Empire. I saved some homeless people out of righteousness and within my ability. It’s just a person.”

“It’s just that there are a lot of [homeless] people, right~~”

"Tsk."

"So, Oz, are you going to start gathering the soldiers?"

After such a simple fuss, Tallulah calmed down her relaxed expression and asked with some concern.

Leaving aside the Victoria force group represented by the Eight Great Dukes for the time being, the Sarkarz, dominated by Tresis, who occupy Londinium, and Britain will eventually collide. The outbreak of this war is almost certain.

And as long as there is a war, soldiers will be needed.

When peers are restrained from each other in order to prevent natural disaster-level devastation caused by the unscrupulous actions of human legends like Ozwald, the number of ordinary soldiers becomes particularly important.

But the problem is, even if the various elites and imperial guards that Britain currently has, such as the Yeti Squad, Shield Guards, and Paladins, are added together, there will be more than a thousand people. Calculating their strength, they can only produce a rough group army of [-] soldiers. The effectiveness of levels, even limited by the number of people, is definitely not as good as the strongholds that a real group army can seize. After all, there are only so many people, and it is impossible to cut half of them and go out to see another place.

And how many Sakaz are there?When Tracy came to Victoria, there were close to [-] elite members of the imperial army. Now that he has become King Xuan of Qi and aroused racial sentiments, a hundred thousand is considered a small amount.In this case, even if the red dragon's [-] forbidden troops Kai Wushuang kill all these imps, after the killing, Londinium will have long been reduced to ruins because they cannot stop the opponent's strategic actions. The Sakaz imps They also killed more people... What's the point of fighting a war that only resulted in ruins for a long time?

Not to mention that there are indeed paladins in the Sakaz group who can suppress the British Forbidden Army just like the Lord of the Royal Court controls the Round Table, such as the Pardoners and the Royal Court Race.

Therefore, in order to avoid a huge disadvantage in the war situation by then, Britain must be able to invest more troops and expand its army.

But the problem is that Britain set sail for less than two years. Although the residents there are quite happy because of the policies implemented by Red Dragon, the overall time of settlement is still too short.

Their sense of belonging to Britain is far from enough to voluntarily defend their homeland and join the war, let alone go to war against what they consider a "foreign country".All that can be done in this situation is that Xu Yiwei's situation is not much different from that of other families, including Kazdaele. The enthusiasm and morale of the soldiers mobilized by this are extremely unstable and completely unable to reconcile. A firm parallel to the former.

Moreover, even if the troops can be mobilized in this way, their training level is still a huge hidden danger.It's not like just letting a group of civilians who only know how to farm and cook and have trained intensively for several months to pick up super-advanced weapons can be called an elite force. That thing can only be called a mobile treasure chest!

Perhaps 90.00% of the free people living outside the mobile city have experience in holding weapons and fighting, but those are more for hunting, protecting themselves and other reasons, and non-combat daily life is in the minority for them - not everyone has it. Just like the Sakaz brats, they didn't even have a name for themselves and were already running around as a member of a small group like a mercenary group with swords, bows and crossbows!

Fighting for survival and fighting for a living may seem similar, but they are actually fundamentally different.

Not to mention that the main force of the opponents in the offensive and defensive battle of Londinium will be as good as or even better than the elite troops. The professional elites who follow Traces and the troops of the King of the Royal Court.

In this case, if the quality is not up to standard, rashly organized quantity is of no use; and it may have the opposite effect of reversing the balance.During the time when they were getting to know each other in Londinium, Ozwald saw some of the Blood Demon King's methods as a "vampire".

"If it were just for the victory of the war, I do have a method that can be 100% successful, but it is too unreasonable and convenient; I am worried that after I use it, I will not be able to resist the temptation of this [quick] ...Making it a different kind of drug." Ozwald bit his lips worriedly: "The shortest way to success is to take the long way around."

"So, do you want to accept help from others? For example, the Earl of Cambridge." Looking at the troubled Ozwald, Tallulah did not question his decision, she just accepted it and gave some constructive suggestions.

In the process of dealing with the historical issues left in the County of Knoll and constantly looking through the British records and archives, she happened to see the memo included in the memorandum by Osward about the story of Alex, the son of the Earl of Cambridge, in Casimir. Records of invitations issued by Germany.

"Generally speaking, the resources in the hands of an academic city count alone may not be able to satisfy us. If it is a count responsible for border defense, it may still be feasible."

"But, maybe there will be unexpected surprises?" Tallulah kissed Ozwald's cheek and smoothed his troubled eyebrows: "Oz, you said that you control the possibilities. Exist; you will instinctively combine the various random numbers that already exist to make them appear as you need. Isn’t it?”