"What makes you think that I'm not your opponent? I once fought a duel with your brother Luo Jia for a long time before I was defeated. But now, I'm no longer the same person! "
Hearing Forgen's words, Julius' anger suddenly dissipated. He knew that he had been too agitated. Judging from Forgen's subordinates, Fernando Pilazo, a member of the Phoenix Guard behind him, and Master Arabien, who was sitting on his left with a jar in his hand and a golden scimitar hanging from his waist, were obviously Sanctuary Combatants. Judging from this, Forgen himself was not only a Sanctuary Combatant, but he was also very likely one of the best in the Sanctuary Combatants.
Julius knew that he was a little impulsive. Thinking of the Lady's teachings, he could not help but feel ashamed. As the son of Duke François, this should not be his emotion. It could only be said that he lost control of his mind. After all, as a devout believer of the Lake Fairy, Julius naturally could not tolerate Forgen looking down on the Goddess's oracle.
"Luo … Jia?" Forgen sneered. "Are you happy bullying a disabled person?"
"Disabled person?" Julius was stunned.
"At that time, Luo Jia had just … just recovered from serious injuries. His strength was only 50% of his peak." Forgen shook his head. "Moreover, Luo Jia is not a warrior. He is essentially more like a wizard. His strength has been greatly reduced after recovering from serious injuries. Due to the strong suppression of the Great Maelstrom and the Great Guardian, he did not dare to use magic against you because he could not control his own strength. He was very afraid of hurting you. Even so, you can't defeat a wizard and a knight in close combat. Do you still think you can defeat me?"
"… I won't take back my challenge." Julius thought carefully and made up his mind. His dignity and his pride did not allow him to regret. Even if he died in battle, he would not give up the duel!
"If you want to challenge me, you must at least be at your father's level." Forgen smiled. He gave Laing's brother-in-law a way out. "For now, you need time to grow. If you rashly challenge me now, you won't gain anything other than destroying all your confidence. Remember this duel for now."
At least have father's strength, right? Julius was silent.
"Work hard to become a Holy Grail Knight. If you can prove yourself one day, I will give you a chance." Forgen maintained his elegance and said lightly, "Since you want to help us, then I have a task for you. I have two pure-blooded Elven warhorses in my stable, one male and one female. Can I trouble you to help me solve the breeding problem?"
Julius's face turned from green, to white, and then to black. Thinking of the teachings of the fairy in the lake and the oracle, he finally nodded to show that he understood. Then, under the guidance of the servant, he got up and left the hall.
Watching Julius leave, Forgen closed his eyes. "He's still a child."
"He's too confident, so confident that he's arrogant. He probably thinks that there's no problem in the world that he can't solve with his own martial prowess. During the Holy Grail expedition, he must've solved everything with his sword." Karim, the Alchemist of Araby, gently stroked his beard. He was almost two hundred years old this year.
"There are only two endings for this kind of person," Felix, the general of the winged cavalry, commented.
"But no matter what, he's still my brother, the brother of Laing's wife, Suria." Forgen nodded slightly and looked at the door. "So I feel that it's necessary for me to pass on some life experience to this young man."
"The Holy Grail Knight doesn't seem to be as powerful as the legends say," Fernando Pilazzo, the deputy commander of the Ashes Corps, said.
Ever since this mercenary leader was recognized by Forgen and was influenced by his personality, he had decided to pledge his loyalty to Forgen. After the battle to protect Kroc, Forgen had obtained fifteen Children of the Emperor's genetic seeds from Kroc. He had selected fifty veterans of the Ashes Corps to participate in the test. Through the genetic symbiotic transformation in the lizardmen's incubation pool, which had been purified by the Emperor's supreme power, eleven of the fifty veterans had survived the transformation and became Forgen's children. These eleven people were named the Phoenix Guards by Forgen and became his personal guards.
Fernando Pilazzo was one of them. He had relied on the power of the genetic seeds to break through the shackles of the legendary realm and advance to the sacred realm.
"Back then, King Jafar of Araby thought the same as you," Karim said calmly. "So his head is gone. It's said that it's now inlaid with gold and silver and placed in the treasury of Brittany's capital, Culona."
Fernando's expression froze when he heard this. Just as he was about to defend himself, Forgen said, "Fernando, you've just entered the sacred realm, and your realm is not stable yet. You haven't met Julius's father. The Holy Grail Knight is very powerful, far more powerful than you. Even I can't take him down in a few moves. Don't underestimate him and let your guard down."
"Yes, Commander." Fernando immediately lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
"The power of the Holy Grail Knight can only be understood after fighting him in person. Normally, for a swordsman or a scimitar user, they will have one or two ultimate moves to end a battle. These ultimate moves are usually not used, but once they are used, the outcome of the battle will be decided in a short period of time. It's very draining on one's energy and stamina." Karim stroked his beard. "But if you really duel with the Holy Grail Knight, you'll find that every move he makes is such an ultimate move. What's worse is that these animals don't feel tired at all."
"I've been used." Forgen chuckled when he heard this. After a short moment of thought, he understood.
"Used?" Felix, the general of the winged cavalry, immediately frowned. He seemed to have realized something.
"The Lady of the Lake asked Laing's brother-in-law to come to me with good intentions." Forgen nodded slightly. He thought for a moment. "According to my inference, the Lady of the Lake meant for Julius to come here to receive experience and command. He was originally an expeditionary knight, and he had to undergo trials and tribulations during the expedition. This allowed him to get closer to the Holy Grail. As for why his attitude was so arrogant, I can imagine that this was definitely not the Lady of the Lake's original intention. It's just that Julius had further interpreted and extended his goddess's oracle, and he felt that he was here to be a deputy general and not an ordinary soldier."
"Then, wouldn't the Lady of the Lake understand that this serious, arrogant, and self-righteous expeditionary knight would cause a lot of trouble? If he wasn't Lady Suria's brother, we definitely wouldn't have let such a rude person go, "Fernando continued.
"That's why he chose me. The Lady of the Lake understood. She understood it too well." Forgen couldn't stop sneering. He held the hot cocoa in his hand. "How could a god not understand his followers? I guess He did this on purpose. The short and vague oracle would give Julius the illusion that He came to help us to save face. This arrogant attitude would cause conflict with me, and in the end, Julius would hit a wall, or even break his head and bleed. That's why I said that I was used. "
"If that's the case, it makes sense. The Lady of the Lake wanted to use you to knock down the arrogance and arrogance of this expeditionary knight. Otherwise, this flaw in his character would make him have no hope of touching the Holy Grail in his life." The gold mage Karim and Felix both understood.
"But it doesn't matter. After all, Julius is my sister-in-law's brother." Forgen was relieved after he figured out the cause and effect. "As a relative, it's necessary to give him a hand. This man is an excellent knight. A little training would be good for us, for everyone, and even for the Brittany."
"Felix!"
"Yes!"
"First, arrange for Julius to go to the stable and be a stable groom for a week!"
"Yes!"
The meeting was still going on in the hall when a Phoenix guard walked in from outside. After undergoing genetic symbiotic modification, this member of the Phoenix guard's height had grown from 1.7 meters to 1.9 meters. He first saluted and then said, "Commander, the lizardmen have sent a messenger here."
"Messenger? Is it from Hesotah's side or from Itaza's side? "Forgen shifted his attention away from Julius.
"It's from Itaza's side." The guard said, "The vanguard of the Empire's expeditionary force was completely wiped out by the lizardmen army led by the great white lizard, the champion warrior of Itaza, Brother Rock. Now, the lizardmen army has firmly surrounded the outpost of the Empire's expeditionary force on the coast. Itaza asks you if you want to take in these hot-blooded … human troops. If not, they will immediately begin their final attack."
"How many people are left in the Empire's expeditionary force?" When Fu Gen heard that the vanguard had been annihilated at full speed, he furrowed his brows, but when he thought about how humans would never learn without experiencing pain, he could only shake his head helplessly.
"More than two thousand vanguard troops have been completely wiped out. Currently, there are less than five thousand Empire troops left at the outpost." The personal guard continued to report.
"Sigh, I've already sent someone to warn them." Fu Gen pondered for a moment. "Yes, of course. We can never have too many people. Moreover, they are the Empire's army that has undergone systematic training. As long as these people are slightly reorganized, they will be able to display powerful combat strength. This will be very helpful to our next plan."
"Tell the messenger we want all of them."
"Yes!"
… I want all the section dividers …
At the same time, the outpost of the Empire's expeditionary force on the coast of Luscia had fallen into despair.
Ever since the Hunter General Erik Von Shankel led a vanguard of two thousand men into the forest, he had mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
At first, the Empire's expeditionary force thought that something had delayed them and did not pay much attention to it.
But as two days passed, both the Empire's General Alaric and Vanguard Richard felt that something was not right. The vanguard troops had only brought three days' worth of rations!
Quiet, too quiet.
Seeing this, Alaric immediately sent several waves of scouts into the forest to search for traces of the vanguard troops.
Similarly, not a single scout returned. The emerald green rainforest was like a giant beast that ate people without spitting out the bones, swallowing all the humans who tried to enter.
This time, the remaining Empire soldiers were unwilling to enter the forest no matter what. Many of the Empire's soldiers, who were terrified to the extreme, even kept shouting that they wanted to return to the Old World!
The Empire's General Alaric and Vanguard Richard tried their best to reduce the risk of the soldiers trying to escape. For this, they exhausted all their energy.
First, the food supply from the Ash Legion was suddenly cut off. Then, a crazy soldier of the empire suddenly appeared from the tropical forest. He was delirious and kept shouting, "We're finished!", "General Eric has been killed!", "We're all finished!", and other crazy things like that. He fled back to the outpost.
Alaric and Richard hurriedly sent people to capture the delirious soldier and interrogate him, but he only said these few words. After some speculation, the Empire's generals obtained a terrifying truth. The vanguard troops were completely annihilated, the Hunter General was killed, and the lizardmen ambushed them and killed everyone they saw!
"What do we do? What do we do now? "The Empire knew that they had no reason to not believe the soldier's words.
"Right now, we have three choices. First, we immediately break camp and lead all the troops south to fight to the death with the lizardmen." Alaric thought for a moment and said, "Second, we also break camp immediately and take a ship to return to the Empire along the sea route. Third, we immediately take a ship north to the territory of the Ash Corps and ask for their protection!"
"We know General Erik's strength very well. He led 2,000 people and took away half of the musketeers and all the hunters. I feel that even if we all go south, we won't be able to defeat the lizardmen!" Richard anxiously stomped his feet. He suddenly realized something. "Also, General Alaric, have you ever thought about how that guy escaped? The tropical forest is full of lizardmen and ancient beasts! "
"Wait … Wait, you're saying that madman, he's not …" The Empire's general thought for a moment and suddenly felt a chill all over his body. "He didn't escape at all?!"
"That's right. It's very likely that the lizardmen deliberately let him go and then followed him to find our foothold!" Richard anxiously finished speaking. He was already sweating all over. "Damn it, these jungle bastards, they won't even let go of our foothold!"
"Not good!" As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier from the Empire immediately rushed into the tent. "Not good, General, there are lizardmen everywhere. The enemy is coming from all directions! We're surrounded! "
Alaric and Richard quickly rushed out of the tent. Sure enough, the entire outpost had become an island in the middle of a vast sea of lizardmen. The lizardmen army was surrounded on three sides by the lizardmen army. The ancient beasts roared, and the lizardmen warriors and spirit lizardmen warriors were ready to move. The entire outpost was surrounded.
"Help!"
"Run, run quickly!"
"I don't want to fight anymore, I want to go home!"
The Empire's soldiers were already in a state of panic. The soldiers fought to be the first to board the ship and escape.
"Boom!" From the back of the lizardmen army's armored dragons, a few bright balls of light were shot out. A few of the Empire's ships were instantly hit by the balls of light. The side chords and the deck of the ships were instantly blown to pieces. The fastest ship was directly pierced through the cabin.
"Abandon ship, abandon ship!" The Empire's soldiers were shocked. They had no choice but to jump into the water. Some of them drowned on the spot. Most of the sailors and soldiers could only swim back to the shore. Their bodies were wet, and they hid behind the high walls of the outpost in fear, ready to face the enemy.
"Warrior Gorok, we have surrounded this group of humans. We are waiting for the Son of the Ancient Saint to arrive," the spirit lizard priest said to the giant white lizard.
"Roar!" The giant white lizard waved the big stick in its hand to show that it understood.
In this way, the lizardmen surrounded the Empire's army for two days. The expeditionary army was almost in a desperate situation. They lacked supplies of food and drinking water, and the Empire's General Alaric tried to lead the army to break out of the encirclement in despair. However, apart from losing soldiers and generals, there was no use. They were chased back to the last camp to wait for the final outcome.
However, it was strange that the lizardmen army seemed to be waiting for something and did not launch an attack.
It was not until the morning of the third day that the human fleet with the flag of the Ashes Corps crossed the Tarantula Sea and approached the shore.
The savior of humanity had arrived. The commander of the Ashes Corps, Fulgen, led the army and appeared in front of the Empire's expeditionary army. "My fellow humans, I have fought for your last chance. Will you surrender or die?"
"Traitor, scum who colluded with the lizardmen, scum of the mortal world, Charlemagne curses you!" Alaric understood. He immediately rushed in front of Fulgen, pointed at his nose and shouted, "Don't think that I will submit to you!"
"Oh, I admire your stubbornness. People of the Empire, because of you, all of you will die. Does that not matter?" Fulgen was very calm.
"…" The Empire's general did not speak. On the beach, more than three thousand soldiers of the Empire looked at him, waiting for his answer.
Alaric knew that if he gave the order to fight to the death, the Empire's soldiers would choose to persist until the last moment until they were all wiped out.
However, this was meaningless. They were all lives, more than three thousand fresh lives!
They were still young and should not die here.
"The commander of the Ashes Corps, Fulgen, is it?"
"Yes, that's right. It's me."
"Can you promise me something?"
"Please speak."
"I beg you …"
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