While the two were talking, a servant knocked on the carriage door and reported, "Miss, the envoy group has arrived. They entered the city from the Stone Lizard Mountain Path. They were delayed for a while because of the martial law."
"Hmph!" The little girl knocked on the table in the middle of the carriage and said, "It seems that guy has arrived."
"Chiara, should we go?" The Count's daughter asked softly, but the little girl's attitude was firm. She quickly shook her head and said, "No, we will wait here. Let me see if that guy is boring."
Although the Count's daughter had a gentle look on her face, she was no fool. She could naturally tell that her companion was deliberately making things difficult for the Count. She could also vaguely guess the reason, and could not help but ask more worriedly, "Chiara, this isn't very good."
"Why is it not good?" The little girl pretended to be indifferent.
"But he is the leader of the envoy group after all …"
"So what? If that guy dares to scold me with a straight face, I won't go to the Empire." The little girl was very dissatisfied.
"You won't go to the Empire?" The Count's daughter showed a shocked expression.
"What are you afraid of, Yinide? When the time comes, you can stay at my house for a while. I will complain to my brother. Your father won't dare to do anything to us." The little girl replied.
The Count's daughter opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she knew that she could not persuade her companion. She could only sit there uneasily as if she had accepted her fate.
The carriage was quiet for a while. The two people each had different feelings as they waited for Brando's arrival. The Count's daughter only hoped that the Count would not vent his anger on her. She was worried about her gains and losses and could not help but be worried for a while. The little girl sitting opposite her did not seem to care. She gently tapped the window with her finger while looking at the scenery outside.
After Brando entered the city, he received a message from a servant. He already knew that the representatives of House Seifer and Count Graymountain were already in the city. However, he first arranged for the diplomatic group to stay in an inn in the fortress before heading to the appointed location alone. When he arrived at the agreed location, he saw the two carriages parked under the oak tree from afar, as well as two rows of servants standing beside the carriages. He walked over and revealed his identity to these people, thinking that he would be able to see the two representatives. However, he did not expect that the servant who passed on the message would walk back the way he came not long after he reached the carriages, bringing back a message with a poker face.
"The young lady heard that the Count is knowledgeable. In order to prove the Count's identity, she wants to test some of the Count's knowledge."
Brando couldn't help but be stunned. Was there something wrong with this noble lady's head? How could she verify one's identity like this? Could it be that the Princess's Royal Ring was fake?
He glanced at the carriage and thought to himself, "Forget it. After all, she is a member of the royal family — even though she is a former royal family — and she is a girl. It's not good to be too calculative." He could only answer patiently, "Please speak."
Chiyara's little face was almost pressed against the window. She said with a little pride, "I have long heard that the guy boasted of being knowledgeable. The rumors about him in the Southern Territory are amazing. I have seen a lot of people like him. It's just a golden exterior. To them, knowledge is just a disguise and gorgeous clothes. Let me expose his hypocritical appearance. Hmph, I will let him understand that the search for the truth is sacred and cannot be profaned."
The Count's daughter could almost see herself being punished for bringing trouble to her family. The small house where she was confined swayed in front of her. She asked worriedly, "What questions did you ask him, Chiyara?"
"Hehe," the little girl smiled slyly. She pushed her thick glasses and replied with some pride, "Nothing, just some ancient words."
Yinide stared at her suspiciously. She wondered if her companion would really be so soft-hearted.
Sure enough, the little girl said, "But these words were found on some stone slabs by a friend of my teacher. In order to unearth those stone slabs, my teacher and I stayed in the cold and boring Balta Plateau for a long time. My teacher is an authority in the field of ancient languages, but even he couldn't recognize all the words on those stone slabs. Just wait and see how that guy embarrasses himself. "
Yinide knew who the little girl's teacher was. She thought that since even the master couldn't recognize all the slabs, it wouldn't be embarrassing even if the Count couldn't recognize them. Of course, she didn't dare to say this out loud, in case the young lady changed her mind at the last minute.
Outside the carriage, Brando was taking a piece of paper from the servant. He glanced at the tadpole-like ancient words on the paper and couldn't help but laugh.
Isn't this the content of the ancient stone slabs?
The first clue of the War Slate —
These stone slabs were the clues he provided to Tulman, which allowed people to unearth them in advance in this era. It was fine if it was something else, but it just had to be the words on the stone slabs. The words on the stone slabs were once a hot topic on the forum. In the end, it was translated by a level 16 ancient language master in their guild who wore a + 3 language skill divine artifact — Necklace of Knowledge. He could even recite it with his eyes closed. He put down the paper and without even thinking, he said to the servant in front of him.
"Tell your mistress that the fragments of the sky fell to the ground with the collapse of the towering pillars. It recorded the whispers in the dust and wind —"
A few minutes later —
"Kiara, did the Count guess correctly?" Yinide looked at her companion worriedly. She had been staring at the contents of the paper for a long time without moving.
"He didn't guess." The little girl dropped this sentence and jumped out of the carriage. She pushed away the servant who came to support her and hurriedly ran out. Brando didn't expect that the person who came out of the carriage would be such a little girl who seemed to still be in the process of growing her teeth. In standard villain lines, she was a little girl with yellow hair who was still wet behind the ears. The other party was wearing a pair of thick bottle-bottomed glasses that didn't match her cute face. She looked at him with a frown and asked, "Hey, how did you recognize these words?"
Does she still care about aristocratic etiquette?
"This little lady, may I ask who you are?" Brando was a little unhappy at first, but when he found that the person who tested him was such a little girl, he was no longer angry. No matter how bored he was, he wouldn't be so bored as to argue with a child.
Kiara seemed to have realized her rudeness at this time, but she snorted softly and replied, "Count Dejiu is my father, Queen Anna is my aunt, my brother is Levin? Ornessen? Duke Seifer, you should know who I am by now, right? "
What kind of messy relationship is this? Brando looked at the arrogant little girl for a while before he sorted out his thoughts and asked, "You are the representative of House Seifer?"
"It's the former royal family," the little girl corrected, "More or less, but I don't want to go to the Empire. Can you persuade me?"
What a spoiled little girl, Brando thought to himself. He shook his head and said, "I can't persuade you. How about this, you go back first. The eldest son of the king is a generous person, he probably won't blame his sister." "Eh?
You're really strange, you actually call my brother the eldest son of the king. It's not proper for you to call him that, you know? Aren't you afraid that the princess will cause trouble for you? Oh, I know, "the little girl's eyes flashed, and she replied proudly," You don't care about that little princess at all, right? How about you support Levin to take the throne? The House of Covardo has already lost its sword, so it's natural for it to lose the throne. History is a cycle, and the House of Seifer is already at the time of its revival. Besides, my brother is much more powerful than that princess of yours. That little princess only knows how to sell herself for a good price, marry a good husband, and revive the House of Covardo. She's very superficial. The revival of a country can't be decided by just one family. How about it, I promise you that in the future, you won't just be a count, but people will call you a duke. "
If it was someone else who said those words to Brendel, Brendel would have definitely punched that person to the ground, unable to get up. But it was a little loli with a childish voice who was advising him in such a serious manner, he did not know whether to laugh or cry. This little girl had not even changed all her teeth, but she kept calling Gryphine a little lass, as if Gryphine, who was already seventeen years old, was still wet behind the ears in her eyes.
"Miss, if you don't want to go to the Empire, I can write a letter for you to prove that you're not feeling well. As for the rest, I'm really not interested in discussing it." Brando could only answer like this.
But the little girl didn't seem to appreciate it. She shook her head and said, "I'm fine. I don't need you to write a letter for me. Besides, you haven't told me why you can read those words. I must find a way to figure it out."
"Alright, as you wish." Brando shook his head. Didn't you say that you don't want to go to the Empire? How can you go back on your words?
But Chiyara seemed to see the disapproving look on his face. She snorted softly and said, "I don't want to go to the Empire, and I want to go to the Empire. There's no contradiction between that." After that, she turned around and ran back to the carriage. She rudely used her hands and feet to climb up the mountain and said loudly to the count's daughter who was sitting on the carriage, "Yinide, I've changed my mind. I'm going to the Empire. You go back alone."
"No need, Chiyara. I, I'll go with you." The count's daughter wanted to cry but had no tears. When did she say that she wanted to go back? But Chiyara's words finally made her feel relieved. Fortunately, at least she didn't have to go back home and be confined. Although she didn't know why the young lady suddenly changed her mind, the count's daughter couldn't help but have an indescribable good impression of the count Tónigel whom she had never met before.
Thank God, Martha was above. She secretly drew a god's mark on her chest.
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After Chiyara and the count's daughter returned to the team, the people who had been traveling for days enjoyed a rare night in the hotel where they could sleep peacefully. Although the incident of the viscount being burgled in the city caused an uproar, after all, it had nothing to do with them. Although the guards probably couldn't wait to arrest all the merchants who had some assets in the city and then claim that they had cooperated to commit the crime, and then confiscate their property, they didn't dare to provoke this team with a strong background.
The delegation stayed in Fort Tisco for half a day and a night, and set off early the next morning. It was said that the viscount didn't find the mysterious burglar until the end, so the area around the Gray Mountain was filled with the legend of a mysterious Nightingale for a long time. At first, the image of this Nightingale was like that of a god in the sky, but later, no one knew how she got involved with the Count of Tónigel. Some people even swore that they saw the count steal the viscount's things with their own eyes, as if he was there when Brando was committing the crime. Over time, the image of this Nightingale gradually spread to the image of a wise and astute little girl, but no matter which image it was, what they did was to rob the rich to help the poor, as if they couldn't find anything more meaningful to do every day, regardless of whether they had enough to eat every day.
As for the things that the viscount lost, there were many different opinions. Some said that it was a ton of gold, or a diamond the size of a fist. Some exaggerated said that it was evidence of the viscount's treason with the enemy. Most of the people who harbored such malicious thoughts had some kind of enmity with the viscount, but there was a general consensus that these things — if only they could get their hands on them, how good would that be? As it turned out, most people did not have the noble character to be a hero.
After leaving Fort Tisco, the diplomatic group headed north, but they did not enter Corvado. Instead, they crossed the border between the Grey Mountain and the Balta Plateau, braving the biting cold wind of the Iron Thorn Mountain Road as they approached the kingdom's border day after day. After leaving the Grey Mountain area, there were endless mountains. There were no longer any human settlements in the vast rolling mountains. Three days later, they passed by the vicinity of Winterclaw Fort. It could be said that they had bid farewell to the last area closest to civilization before reaching the Empire.
After that was the snowy region that no one set foot in all year round, a natural forbidden zone between the Empire and the Kingdom.
Haruz told them some terrible legends about this region, such as the soft sounds in the wind at night were the whispers of the undead on the plateau, and the terrible wolf-like creatures on the plateau. He and his sister had lived in Winterclaw Fort for quite a long time, so he knew some of the local folklore very well. However, these stories scared the ladies in the diplomatic group so much that they did not sleep well for a few nights. After that, Brando and the young prince became unwelcome guests in each carriage. For Brando, it was an unexpected disaster.
These days, Chiyara had been pestering Brando to find out why he knew the meaning of the ancient words. Of course, Brando could not come up with a lie like, "If you are all cavemen, then I am at least a homo sapiens from the future." However, during a casual conversation, when the little girl from House Seifer asked about his master, he, as usual, used the excuse that he learned from the Bugas. Unexpectedly, this excuse worked wonders. After that, Chiyara disappeared and hid in his carriage with the count's daughter all day long. It was only later that Brando found out that she was plotting how to steal the knowledge of the Bugas from him. This so-called truth made him want to cry, but no tears came out.
The others in the diplomatic group were not as hardworking as the eldest daughter of House Seifer. Except for Eko and the sergeant from Janilasu, most of the noble descendants who lived like princes began to complain since they entered Balta. Then, they began to fall ill one after another. The first one was the meatball, Mr. Effram. Because he was greedy for some unclean game — of course, he asked his servant to find a way to find it — he began to vomit and have diarrhea. Fortunately, there were still clerics in the diplomatic group who took a day or two to calm him down.
Then, it was the seven or eight year old little girl from Duke Grinoires's family who had a high fever. In the end, Brando, the leader, seemed to have played the role of a nanny. Although it sounded good to let the little girl hold his hand and call him brother with teary eyes, the price was that he did not sleep well for a few days.
After the diplomatic group crossed the last mountain on the border of Balta, everything seemed to have quieted down involuntarily.
Because everyone knew that the Fortress of the Black Sword was in front of them.
Since the beginning of the last era, that was the gateway to the Empire, the last checkpoint in the north of the kingdom.
Majestic mountains traversed the north and south, connecting the two kingdoms together. In the southeast of the Empire, there was a huge mountain range, part of the White Mountain Range. This mountain range traversed the entire southern part of Saint-ausol. At the end of the West, it crossed the southernmost part of the Wilderness of the Four Territories, forming an undulating mountain range. In the center of the mountain range, there was snow all year round, and there were even many large and small Black Forests. This was a paradise for archaeologists and explorers. The Derut Mountains were named after the first Wind Elf King. To the west of the mountains was the famous Anzeruta region. This name alone may be confusing, but it had another name — the home of the Highlanders, the home of the Longblade Lords. To the east of the Derut Mountains was the starry Abyssal Sea. Along the coast of the Abyssal Sea were duchies and kingdoms of various sizes. Antoburo was one of them.
To the north was the famous Wilderness of the Four Territories, the Four-leaf Grass Plains, the birthplace of the Wind Elves and the Cruz people. At the same time, it was also the place where the Sacred Covenant was made.
The Balta Plateau was just the southern tip of this famous mountain range. The mountain range gradually leveled off in the direction of the Corvado Plains, and together with the eastern end of the Broken Sword Mountains, it formed a famous mountain pass. This was the Fortress of the Black Sword.
On this day, the diplomatic group finally saw the insignificant fortress between the two peaks from the high ground. But everyone knew that when you really came to the fortress, you would be deeply shocked by the wall that was more than twenty meters tall.
That was the Imperial Wall.
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