"What?"
Charles, who make complaints about the extreme court of the court, is holding on to the constant twitching of his lips.
"Miss Lina asked me to tell you that it was just a small accident and will never delay the formal wedding." Charles whispered, "please don''t worry. Just concentrate on the ceremony as planned."
"... I see."
Charles said no more, and then turned away.
"What''s the matter?" Lucian looked at the leaving court manager and asked curiously.
"Nothing... There''s something wrong with Isaac." Lauren, who pulled the corners of his mouth, smiled unchanged.
When I met my fiancee, I suddenly got an inspiration and went to find his little wizard. Not only did he fail to bring people back, but he also plunged into the "new discovery"
Loren really doesn''t know how to explain this kind of thing in one sentence from beginning to end.
The grey pupil shrugged his shoulders indifferently. In his opinion, nothing strange happened to Isaac - it''s better to say that this guy can get married smoothly, which is the first strange thing in the world.
If there is anything strange, it is the celebration itself; It was clearly to celebrate the victory of the eboden war, but the black haired wizard was fully armed. He even reminded himself to bring weapons before coming, just in case.
Isn''t this celebration as simple as it seems? Someone is going to plot against it, or even assassinate Lord Loren?
The grey pupil boy couldn''t help thinking about it. Azores, the assassin of the heavenly palace, the running dog of the Church... Countless possibilities linger in his mind.
Until a dull thunder interrupted his thinking.
"Boom..."
With the heavy and slow sound of the door shaft, the door of the red blood Castle palace opened slowly.
Outside the door, there was a roar of people!
Although only Byrne''s thirteen leaders and 300 nobles and envoys from all over the Empire were really invited nominally, this does not mean that Charlotte will give up such a good opportunity to improve the reputation of the Turin family and even publicize Byrne.
During the whole celebration, free food and wine were provided everywhere in red blood castle; As a celebration venue, Byrne cathedral will also open its doors to share the joy of victory and receive the glory of the Holy Cross.
In the crowded stream of people, a road less than three people wide is reserved; Heavily armed, with shields and spears, the Byrne Knights did their best to maintain order and push back the crowd behind them.
Looking at the inexplicably familiar picture in front of him, the memory of the black haired wizard seems to go back to the day when Charlotte "fought back" and became Duke Byrne three years ago.
This is not what I asked for, or even what I wanted, nor what I chose.
But since fate has to stand on its opposite, it should accept its challenge calmly.
"... dear Lauren, if you really win, I will give you what you have always wanted but never been able to get..."
What exactly is what I always wanted, but never got?
Lauren didn''t mean to doubt - not to say he didn''t believe it at all, but Brandon wouldn''t deceive himself in such a thing, because it was not good for him at all.
"Lucian."
Breathing calmly, the dark haired wizard whispered without turning his head back:
"Come on, we can''t be late."
"Yes."
The grey pupil boy nodded hard.
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When Lauren stepped into Byrne Cathedral through the tide of people, the hall was already crowded with figures, whispering words and whispering voices filled every corner of the church hall.
Members of the Earl family of Bain''s 13th leader, well-known knights, principalities and even the heavenly palace, congratulatory messengers from the church, high-ranking principality officials
The 300 people in one hall are arranged according to the positions arranged in advance.
Neither Loren nor Charlotte is going to treat this ceremony as a simple celebration or "Midsummer Festival banquet", just hold a luxury banquet to entertain all guests, which is useless except to show off their financial resources.
So what they have to do is to spread Byrne''s will, or Loren Turin''s will, throughout the whole empire through this ceremony.
On the one hand, it is to make further use of the victory of the eboden war and improve Byrne''s reputation; On the other hand, it is also to unify Byrne''s ideas, improve Byrne''s cohesion, and let them really understand what Loren wants to do and what Byrne wants to do in this elf war.
The black Duke was unable to let Byrne people understand his idea, so he ended up betraying his relatives. Charlotte certainly knew this lesson.
As she said, with this victory and the emergence of the dragon, Loren''s reputation in Byrne has reached an extremely high level. Now no matter what he says, Byrne people who are keen on and worship heroes will agree.
"Lord of Byrne, Lord of Turin, son of the knight king, Duke Loren Turin arrived!"
With Lucian''s cry, there was a sudden silence in the church hall.
Or joy, or pride, indifference, indifference... Countless faces change color one after another, and turn their eyes to the figure of the dark haired wizard.
The scene in front of him reminds Loren of connord''s coronation ceremony. The only difference is that he is standing in the crowd, and the supreme emperor of the empire is standing here.
The dark haired wizard without turning back walked through the crowd to the main altar under the statue of the Holy Cross; The count of Byrne, led by the Countess of red blood castle, was the first to come up.
"Knights of Byrne, come forward --, swear allegiance to your master --!"
After stepping into the hall, Charles, the Duchy manager who waited early, took over the "work" of lucerne and carried out the traditional ceremony of Bain with a solemn look.
These are the "traditional activities" that have been carried out countless times before. Even each count has practiced alone more than once, according to the order set since the era of the knight king; The thirteen earls came forward in turn, no more and no less.
Although this habit of "following the rules" comes from the kingdom of sakran, the sense of ceremony full of mystery and solemnity is also very suitable for Bain people''s love of banquets.
Charlotte took the lead in getting out of the crowd, gave Lauren a standard knightly salute in a black and red long skirt, and didn''t forget to secretly stare at him.
The expressionless Lauren could only raise her eyebrows and resist a smile.
Followed by guy angert, the Earl of Rock Castle, and Tris Eckert, the Earl of fury castle; As the old people left over from the black Duke era, they are also the knight commanders that Loren can count on most.
Ur salald, the Earl of flaggun castle, Cedric ilandir, the Earl of broken sword tower, and Ganis baus, the Earl of loyal soul castle, are the three gatekeepers in the north of Bain and the core generals of the Heavy Infantry Corps;
Bell lanmallos, the Earl of Lake City, anvin regrell, the Earl of white horse peak, and ED gerant, the Earl of glory tower, the three lords in the East, West and south of Gongwei red blood castle, who adhere to the Byrne tradition, have always been entrusted with important tasks in the cavalry.
William Gallaghers, the Earl of the twin towers, and Orkney Gareth, the Earl of the rainbow bridge, are the two extremes of the Byrne people today, and they show their faces without hesitation.
The count of gallihess, known for his piety and stubbornness, was very dissatisfied with the contradiction between Loren and the Holy Cross Church, and gave a "casual" cold hum when saluting;
The count of Gareth is very eager for wizards and alchemy. After hearing that the wizard of eboden withdrew into Byrne, he always hopes to rebuild the wizard tower under the leadership of the count of rainbow bridge. He even looks at Loren with a somewhat flattering look.
With a gentle face, Aton glenwell, the count of storm castle, half bent, led and held Boone bosiwar, the count of qiaowang peak, who was only five years old, and saluted the black haired wizard.
Bolino bosiwar, the Earl of qiaowangfeng of the previous generation, died in the Centaur war. As a result, the small bosiwar family could not find a suitable successor for the time being, so bolino''s five-year-old son could only inherit the title directly.
This result made Lauren very sad, but also very helpless - under Byrne''s knighthood, the main force of his Duke''s army was formed with each count as the core; No count of qiaowang peak who can fight means that the combat effectiveness of Byrne''s Hussars will be greatly reduced.
The bosiwar family, who looked up at the peak, obviously knew this, so there was no opposition when Loren implemented the new military system; This time, the "count" came forward to show their "support" for the Duke to a certain extent.
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly stagnated when the "little bosiwar" bowed and stepped down with the help of Glenville, the Earl of storm castle.
"Dong --!!"
In the hall, all the Byrne Knights smashed their swords on the ground at the same time.
"Everybody -"
The voice of the dark haired wizard echoed between the circular vault and the marble walls of the church hall, clearly reaching everyone''s ears.
Thirteen earls - up to Eckert, the Earl of fury castle with white temples, down to bosiwar, the five-year-old Earl of qiaowang peak, looked solemn at the same time.
"I am very grateful to you for accepting my invitation to participate in this victory celebration ceremony." the black haired wizard said in a deep voice, "but as you expected, the purpose of this ceremony is not just to celebrate victory and triumph."
The audience was silent, and everyone''s eyes looked at Lauren''s every move very naturally, waiting for what he wanted to say next.
Facing those eyes, the black haired wizard snapped, "because the result of that war is far from being called victory!"
As soon as the voice fell, the originally happy atmosphere suddenly became much colder.
"Yes, we used less than one-third of the enemy''s troops and an almost defenceless city to slow down the enemy''s invasion; we greatly thwarted the front of their attack..."
"But in the same way, we also lost eboden, the largest and only outlet of the Empire, and gave the initiative of this war to our enemies!"
"I don''t want to alarmist, nor do I want you to fear our enemies." after a short meal, Loren said coldly: "but if we are in this war, if we have any luck, if we have any ideas other than uniting to defeat the invading enemy, please don''t forget..."
"The distance from eboden to Bain is far less than the distance from the Azores kingdom to the Empire!"
Everyone... Especially the earls and Knights of Byrne, looked a little ugly at once.
It''s too light to say "threat" in the words of the black haired wizard.
Only the Countess of fury castle looked the same - he saw the Azores army with his own eyes in eboden and analyzed it with Loren, so it was clear that Loren''s statement had been eased as much as possible and gave a little confidence to the Knights present.
The truth is far more terrible than this.
"The enemy can organize 100000 combat troops within the scheduled time, and prepare sufficient transportation equipment to put this army on the battlefield across the sea with 100% combat effectiveness... And as far as I know, this is probably less than one sixth of their combined strength!"
"Even if the enemy completely squeezed the power of the whole country and even the whole race, which was close to the war of ''National invasion'' and ''great immigration'', what kind of unity and unity are needed to complete such a move?"
"Therefore, the gap between us and the Azores is not weapons and equipment, not the number of top combat power, or even the combat power level under the same force - but that they can complete such mobilization, we, the Empire... Impossible!"
Loren''s statement is very direct and hurtful. After seeing the cavalry Legion assembled in red blood castle and Boye''s imperial legion, the Earl of angry Castle always thought that even if the enemy was really strong, it could not be stronger than the United Empire
But he had to admit that Loren was right - faced with an army with mobility comparable to Boyi nomads, discipline similar to sakran''s "black wall", and quality and combat power comparable to Bain knights.
Being wary of powerful enemies is his instinct as commander-in-chief; What made him more alert was that the vast majority of Byrne knights and earls had not realized this, and even simply thought that "Byrne won, and the long ears were nothing".
This is the most terrible.
"Everybody, the enemy has sounded their horn. Now it''s not a question of whether to start a war, whether to start a war or not, and whether to meet it; war is already in front of us!"
The black haired wizard took a deep breath: "therefore, from today on, in the name of the Lord of Byrne and the Lord of Turin, I call on the Knights of Byrne to abide by the oath you promised: be absolutely loyal to me and Loren Turin, follow me, trust me, and win the war that determines the fate of Byrne and even the empire with me!"
"I object --!"