From the perspective of "negotiation", Camilla's behavior at this time was completely "stupid". If she showed her trump card at the beginning of the negotiation, it meant that she had completely given up the initiative and was at the mercy of others.
It was not that she did not want to go over and argue with Roddy, or to distract him by talking about other things, and then bring up the topic of "Naifeh" after discussing some other conditions … But when she thought of Roddy's pursuit of his ideals and his efforts, Camilla did not want to use the "bargaining" method to communicate with him anymore.
Because Camilla admired him — it was an emotion that came from the bottom of her heart.
"I'm afraid that the Holy Assembly will label me as a 'traitor' sooner or later. If they know my current situation, I'm afraid that they will continue to use me — so … I've decided to believe you."
Camilla gently exhaled. After knowing what Roddy had experienced, even if it was just a pair of calm eyes, Camilla always felt that she was facing an elder of the "Holy Assembly". There was an inexplicable pressure in her heart.
"I'm glad to hear that you have made this decision."
Roddy did not directly answer her request. Instead, he sat up slightly and said with a serious expression, "The Holy Assembly will inevitably become my enemy. The things in Elsen City are more attractive to the Holy Assembly than anything else. So the best way is to not let anyone know what happened here."
"If you just 'disappeared', they will certainly continue to send people here to investigate. So I want to know, can you make the 'Holy Assembly' believe that your team has found nothing here? "
Camilla immediately understood his intention. She thought for a moment and replied, "There is a way."
"Then let's do it."
Roddy nodded. He still did not mention anything about Naifeh. Camilla was a little hesitant, but her intuition told her that Roddy's reply just now meant that he had agreed to her request.
But he did not make an oath, nor did he give her a verbal affirmation. Would this … be okay?
Such hesitation only appeared for a moment. Camilla gently bit her lower lip and immediately made a choice. "I will write a letter and give it to you before noon."
After that, she turned around and left without another word.
Rody did not have the intention to stop her. He was just slightly startled. To be honest, Camilla and Naifei had very different personalities. Their way of doing things was also very different. However, when they hesitated to make a choice, their hesitation was almost exactly the same.
In a trance, Roddy seemed to see the back of that of a beautiful smile and skipping away. His heart suddenly ached terribly.
He did not make any promises to Camilla because no 'vow' was more important than the firm belief in his heart. Rody was not looking for Naifei for the sake of a vow. What he wanted to do was far more than a vow.
*****
When it was almost noon, the soldiers in the inner city had finished assembling and were ready to set off again.
Three months ago, Roddy entered the city with 40 knights and 80 squires. After the battle outside the Pasha Magic Tower, the number of people in the team was inevitably reduced by 24. But this shocking "casualty ratio" was due to the excellent weapons and armors, a large number of middle-level potions and scrolls. They almost overdrafted their bodies in the battle. Three days after the battle, 80% of the soldiers were completely incapacitated, and Akasha had to rest for a whole week to recover.
However, this kind of fierce battle could increase the soldiers' fighting power and willpower more than a hundred times of training. The squires, who were originally only level 4, were now all around level 8, and the knights' basic level directly jumped to an average of level 13.
Taking into account the attributes brought by the equipment, their current fighting power was almost ten times stronger than when they were in Norland Village!
This level had already surpassed more than 80% of the "knights" in the kingdom. They were even stronger than the private knights of the great lord.
"Line up, advance!"
Under the sun, all the soldiers followed the order and walked towards the edge of the inner city. They were not going out of the city. Their destination was the "temporary graveyard" where the 24 dead soldiers were buried.
"Attention!"
Under the order, all the soldiers stood still. At this time, all the living people in Elsen City stood in line, including Natha, Akasha, and Camilla. They silently looked at the simple tombstone in front of them, each with their own thoughts.
Roddy stood at the front of the line. He did not make any speech or speech. He just silently saluted, then turned around and said softly, "A tombstone will be erected here. All those who participated in this battle will leave their names on the tombstone."
When there was a battle, there was sacrifice. If you want to gain, you must lose. For the death of the soldiers, there was no point in apologizing. What Roddy could do was to make such a simple promise.
A promise that would go down in history.
"Get ready to go."
He took a deep breath and gave the order to leave the city.
Camilla came over and handed him a secret letter. She explained in detail how to pass the letter to the "Holy Assembly". Then she turned her eyes to the infantry who were about to leave and said, "From here to Mogra Village, if everything goes well, it may take two months … but it seems that it has only been two days since we met."
Roddy sighed, but he did not know how to answer. When he thought of Naifei, he remembered that Camilla, whose age could not be determined, was his "mother-in-law".
Now that there was no longer any conflict between the two of them, Rody thought about it carefully. If he wanted to communicate with Camilla normally, he should not be overly attentive at the moment. Thus, his attitude at this moment was to treat Camilla as a friend that he could chat with.
"I will try to come back within half a year. During this period, there will be a lot of orders and support materials. If you can help, I hope you can help."
After Roddy finished, he pointed to the library in the distance and said, "I found the ruins of Wagra in the Forest of Silence. There are some precious, unique books there. Maybe there will be more analysis of this city. I don't know if they can help you get rid of the comfort and restrictions of a" guardian ", but … even if there is a glimmer of hope, you should try." “
Hearing these words, Camilla's eyes slightly widened, and her heart suddenly beat faster. Although she had gradually accepted the fact that she was imprisoned here, the desire for "freedom" in her heart had never diminished. What Roddy said was tantamount to giving her hope, and indirectly telling her a fact: he did not want Camilla to stay here forever.
"Well, I should go."
Roddy looked at the faint excitement in Camilla's eyes, but he sighed in his heart. She could survive, after all, it was better than the ending of being plotted against by Turing in another history …
Camilla reservedly did not wave goodbye. She simply said "goodbye" and stood where she was, watching him leave.
Akasha, who was not far away, hurriedly caught up with Roddy, said something with a red face, and then stuffed a scroll in his hand. She followed the team all the way to the outer city, and finally stood on the tower of the city wall, rubbing her slightly red eyes, and reluctantly shouted the words that Roddy could no longer hear. Until the back of the last soldier disappeared into the forest outside the city, her somewhat thin face was inevitably stained with a layer of loneliness …
In such a large city, there were only 42 living people left.
Akara waved her hand to control the army of the dead to guard the city wall, and silently walked back to the inner city. The days without Roddy by her side, every minute and second seemed to be a kind of torture … Akasha looked at the huge Pasha Magic Tower, and when she looked away, she found that there was a library next to her.
She looked up at the sun in the sky, and felt that reading should be able to kill a lot of time, so she had already stepped in.
*****
In the distance, as the city lord, Roddy had already embarked on a new journey at this time.
For the next plan, Roddy had already made detailed arrangements: he needed to help the Dukes Of Angmar solve the problems of the nobles, and when the crisis in Eiffta disappeared, he would set off for the Mogra village in the south of the kingdom, find the "Recharging Crystal", and return to Elsen City before September.
The reason for this was because Roddy knew that the kingdom would encounter an unprecedented "cold wave" in 589. At that time, half of the kingdom would be affected by a blizzard, and countless civilians would freeze to death because they were not prepared for it, and the population would suffer heavy losses …
Roddy did not want to be trapped in the south of the kingdom, so he had to hurry as fast as possible.
"Speed up!"
The snow had melted, and the soldiers' footsteps in the forest were a little muddy. Occasionally, they would look back at the huge city wall, with pride and a little worry in their hearts.
This was a city that was destined to not be peaceful, and everyone knew it.
*****
Elsen City fell into silence, and Roddy's team gradually went away. But at the other end of the forest that had just recovered, a two-meter-long snake was struggling desperately, hissing and turning its white abdomen over.
Its body was twisted into a ball, and the snake's extended tongue was trembling desperately. The pair of vicious triangular eyes were unfocused at this time, because it did not know what it had encountered!
The struggle gradually stopped, and the snake's body twisted and turned over, lying on the ground with its white belly. At first glance, it seemed to be dead. But when its body stopped trembling, a vague black shadow floated out of the shadow and covered the snake's body.
In an instant, the snake's stiff eyes bloomed with a blood-red light, and then its body regained its ability to move. But the first thing this snake did when it "woke up" was to stare in the direction of Elsen City, not concealing its amazing resentment.
But in the end, it did not crawl towards the direction of the city. Instead, it clumsily walked out of the forest. Occasionally, one could even hear the indistinct hissing sound of the snake, as if announcing that it would one day return to this place.
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