Longhowl Fortress.
"It's unimaginable that there's no one here... Where have all the people here gone?"
Milgan Kilik looked around in the messy castle, but he didn't even see a dog.
"It is said that people from Lion Knight Order took you to Kaineburg... Lionheart Kingdom gave up here before and handed over this castle to Three Prophets, so I asked you to come here."
Inna replied, he looked at Temple of Order on the top of the mountain in the distance, took off his helmet and silently saluted.
"Don't you have no faith? Why do you still salute to the temple?"
Milgan looked at Inna, a little confused.
"That's where I was born. Two hours ago, I just buried my mother's bones there...Milgan, it's not that I have no faith, I just don't believe in God. But I firmly believe that I can still enter Valhalla in the future--I now understand a truth..."
Inna shook his head and looked at Milgan and smiled.
"What's the point?"
Milgan was even more confused. He obviously didn't understand what Inna meant.
"People need faith, but they don't need gods - in fact, it's just the opposite. It's the gods that need people, and they need a lot of people... Moreover, they both need people to die for them, but in different ways..."
Inna said blasphemous words, and the word he used was 'them'.
"...Inna, shut up, I think you will go to hell..."
Milgan was obviously a little timid, and he looked around.
Saying such things these days is basically tantamount to heresy, and there are hundreds of Heroine Warriors around them - these female soldiers are the most devout believers of Sea Gods.
Fortunately, these female soldiers couldn't understand the Pender language they spoke.
"You probably don't understand, Milgan, actually you are the one who has no faith..."
Inna smiled mockingly.
"... I am now Sea Gods's loyal servant!"
Milgan was silent for a while, looking rather annoyed.
"Yes, when you were at Lion Territory, you were the servant of Goddess of Order; when you arrived at Vanskery, you became the servant of Sea Gods... If you go to the Amara Continent in the future, will you become the servant of Snake Worship Cult Aziz Dahaka again?"
Inna grinned. "You believe in as many gods as you have deceived women..."
Milgan's face darkened, but he was unable to refute, and he didn't get angry.
Although Inna would taunt him from time to time, the 'provoking' Inna's temperament was so unpopular - in Milgan's opinion, if it weren't for such a lousy mouth, how could this handsome guy with good skills become a fugitive regicide?
He's such a nice guy, why does he have to have a mouth...
Alas, but now I need his mouth again.
"Winata!!"
Suddenly a female warrior shouted loudly on the city wall.
All Heroine Warriors took out their axes and looked outside the city.
"They said there were enemies..."
Inna translated it for Milgan.
"I have realized this situation..."
Milgan quickly climbed up the wall and took a look. "Is it Fieltzwe's troops? Ha, those are not enemies, just...Inna, raise the white flag!"
"You plan to surrender to this army? This is not my father's army..."
Inna also went up to the city wall and took a look, but did not make any move. Instead, he shook his head.
"Of course we have to surrender. Isn't that what we originally planned?"
Milgan pointed outside the city. "Although Lord Gondor is not here, this is 'Red Sword' Aiding Earl, a great lord who is stronger than your father. Shouldn't you surrender to him?"
This is indeed their plan - to control Longhowl Fortress, and then defect to Fieltzwe, with Inna's adoptive father 'Calamity Seeker' Gondor as the introducer.
In this way, Milgan can become the lord of Fieltzwe and also have the base of Longhowl Fortress.
Although there are no residents in Longhowl Fortress, at least the city defense is complete, and this is indeed Three Prophets's territory. Heroine Warriors can have a proper explanation.
This allows Milgan to always lead the female warriors to 'search for Three Prophets and lift the curse of Queen'.
As long as he has soldiers in his hands, and they are female soldiers, Milgan firmly believes that he can turn around again.
"Oh? Surrender to Aiding Earl, and then your life and death will be decided by him? Is this really your plan?"
Inna shook his head with a half-smile, "Milgan, you may not know, Aiding Earl always sleeps in Queen Angus's bed every time he goes to Vanskery island... Oh, maybe he has never been able to sleep in that bed..."
"Hey... is this happening?"
Milgan took a breath of cold air. Although he was not sensitive to politics, he responded extremely quickly to matters between men and women.
Since Aiding Earl is also the man Queen Angus 'favors', then Milgan definitely cannot surrender to Aiding...
Aiding Will he regard himself as a love rival?
If you surrender to him, you might get two ounces of flesh cut off!
"Prepare for war! Guard Longhowl Fortress...Inna. Are you sure your father will come here?"
Milgan asked Inna a little worried.
He knows that Gondor must have nothing to do with Queen Angus. After all, Gondor is not the person of Vanskery.
"Of course, my father will be here in a day or two...Milgan, let's change our equipment, your blue armor is too conspicuous..."
Inna nodded. When it came to the battle, he no longer mocked, but instead considered Milgan's safety.
Milgan's blue heavy armor looks too obvious on the city wall, and it is indeed easy to be attacked by concentrated fire.
This is why Milgan can always trust Inna.
When facing danger, Inna has indeed been thinking about Milgan.
As for the usual harmless ridicules, they are just Inna expressing his true thoughts to his friends - only such things can be said to friends, at least that's what Milgan thinks.
So Milgan returned to the city wall, exchanged armors with Inna, and patted Inna on the shoulder. "Be careful."
"I'm commanding the female warriors from behind..."
Inna shrugged and said that he would not go to a conspicuous place.
Outside the city, Aiding Earl's troops have begun to accelerate.
I don't know what order Aiding gave, but all the troops started to attack the city without even saying hello.
"It looks like Aiding really wants to kill me!"
Milgan laughed ferociously, drew his sword and stood on the top of the city.
Anyway, he is indeed a brave warrior.
In fact, the battle was not fierce at all.
This is not because the combat effectiveness of both sides is not good. In fact, the troops on both sides are elite and have very strong combat effectiveness-Milgan here is Heroine Warriors, and Aiding Earl is Queen Angus's Imperial Guard.
Queen's Guard are also all female soldiers, but these women are tougher than most men in battle. They are called Queen's Guard Ruffians and are good at using various axes, including throwing axes.
The reason why the fight was not intense was mainly because Queen's Guard and Heroine Warriors knew each other...
Moreover, the troops on both sides did not have crossbows - there were no crossbows in the siege battle, and they were all acquaintances, so naturally it would not be intense.
Heroine Warriors shouted at each other and soon stopped.
Milgan saw that Inna had tried his best to shout and command the female warriors, even exposing himself at the top of the city, but it still seemed to have no effect - Heroine Warriors instead climbed down the city wall and stopped fighting.
On the top of the city, only Inna and Milgan were left.
Those Queen's Guard outside the city also stopped and looked, as if they were trying to distinguish something.
Afterwards, I don't know what hatred they had towards Milgan, but almost all Queen's Guard started throwing axes at Milgan...
As a result, Milgan at the top of the city faced an overwhelming barrage of flying axes!
The number of axes flying towards him made Milgan feel like it was dark!
No matter how good your skills are, no matter how thick the armor on your body is, there is only one result in this situation - being hit by countless axes and being covered with bruises.
"***! What the hell..."
Milgan is not dead yet, at least he still has the strength to curse.
But he definitely wouldn't live long - he fell upside down from the city wall into the city, with at least a dozen flying axes embedded in his body, and three fatal wounds on his chest.
But Inna was unscathed.
"... Why is this?!"
Milgan doesn't understand why the guards only threw axes at him?
"Milgan, I'm sorry, I was just following orders. You are best at dealing with women. Now that you die in the hands of so many women, it is the best destination."
Inna stroked the dirt on his armor - he was wearing Milgan's blue heavy armor.
"I..."
Milgan probably understood, but he couldn't finish the curse in his mouth. A large stream of blood came out of his mouth. He looked at the city gate with dull eyes and stopped moving. His throat was rolling, but he couldn't make a sound.
Inna turned around, the city gate had been opened, and several Queen's Guard entered Longhowl Fortress.
"Yes, they just wanted to kill me... These are the guards of Queen Angus. They dare not attack you. Your armor is very conspicuous... but it is safe. Goodbye, Milgan."
Inna reached out and stroked Milgan's wide eyes downwards.
It's of no use, and I still can't rest in peace.
Aiding Earl entered Longhowl Fortress and nodded to Inna: "Well done..."
"We must arrange Heroine Warriors and Queen's Guard separately to prevent them from talking too much to each other."
Inna also nodded towards Aiding Earl: "So, I will leave here temporarily, Uncle Aiding."
Aiding laughed and patted Inna on the shoulder, "Yes, you can go to High Cliff Fortress to support King Vidis. You are now the lord of Fieltzwe, Inna."
"...King Vidis may not think so, Uncle Aiding, but I do want to swear allegiance."
Inna shook his head, summoned Heroine Warriors and left Longhowl Fortress first.
A few minutes later, there was a burst of exclamation outside Longhowl Fortress - the female guards finally discovered that they had killed the wrong person. Queen's 'favorite concubine' Milgan was actually thrown to death by them...
These guards must be homeless now...
They came out to retrieve Queen Angus's 'favorite concubine', but this beloved concubine died in their hands. If Vanskery comes back to Queen Angus again, Queen Angus might eat them!
On the road outside Longhowl Fortress, the Heroine Warriorss also sighed silently - Milgan brought them out to find Three Prophets, with the purpose of 'lifting the curse of Queen'.
But now that Milgan is dead, this means that their mission will be difficult to complete!
Naturally, they cannot go back if they fail to complete the task. They are not familiar with the place. At the moment, they can only consider how to survive under the leadership of Inna, and then try to complete the extremely difficult task of 'killing Three Prophets'...
If nothing else, they won't be able to find any Three Prophets until they learn the Pande Continent common language.
After they learn the Pande language... it will take at least a year and a half to speak it. Do they still want to return to Vanskery at that time?
Inna Not sure.
But he can at least be sure that within a year and a half, these female warriors can only follow him now.
Because, Inna really wants to find Three Prophets.
However, it is not because of love that he wants to find Three Prophets now.
But because of hate.
He already knows that his mother died at the hands of Three Prophets.
Although Three Prophets claimed that it was suicide, he found a skeleton wearing a nun's robe in Longhowl Fortress's Temple of Order, as well as the corpses of young children on the ground.
When he saw all this, he was with his biological father Ols.
Li Ang specially asked Ols to go to Longhowl Fortress to find out the truth - ever since he found out that the name 'Cersi' belonged to a fat cook who specialized in destroying corpses, Li Ang didn't believe anything Three Prophets said.
And everything that happened to Longhowl Fortress was really completely different from what the prophetess who called herself 'Cersi' said.
Sister Clancy did not fall off the cliff, and all the ribs on her chest were broken, and they were all broken inwardly like they had been hit by a battering ram.
This could not be suicide. This was a fatal blow to the chest with a huge force, and only one blow was used - only Three Prophets could hit a person's ribs like this.
As for Anna, that beautiful girl, it is now certain that her skin was used by Three Prophets simply because she was beautiful, and it was easier to conceal her identity as an orphan girl from a noble family.
Inna can now answer the question Li Ang asked him - is it Anna's skin or soul that you love?
Skin.
Yes, that's the honest answer.
Of course, maybe there is some other bond involved - maybe this is a natural connection between mother and child. Anna was raised by Sister Clancy. Inna may be able to see what his mother used to be like from Anna.
That's why he falls in love at first sight, but that's not true love.
Now, Inna wants to find Three Prophets and kill them - he said the same thing to Milgan and these Heroine Warriors.
He never lies.
Including to Aiding Earl, he did not lie, he really wanted to swear allegiance.
However, the object of allegiance is not King Vidis.
Inna knew that he was not a smart person, but he was sure that Li Ang was definitely a smart person, a person a hundred times smarter than his adoptive father.
After all, Calamity Seeker Gondor has struggled for half his life, and now he is just the lord of Nagasu Castle.
And Li Ang, after three years of struggle, has become the grand duke of the Lionheart Kingdom - not even just a grand duke...
Inna now knows who he should follow - whoever has the same aspirations as him should follow.
The hatred between Three Prophets and Three Prophets is the common appeal.
The person he really swore allegiance to was waiting for him more than ten miles away from Longhowl Fortress.
"Lord Li Ang, Aiding Earl is actually a good person, if you can..."
Inna begged Li Ang in a forest.
"Inna, I just want to use the minimum force to trap Aiding. He is much safer than you. But your adoptive father... are you sure you can convince Gondor?"
Li Ang shook his head, a little undecided.
"After all, he is my father who has raised me for more than ten years. I know him... Although he doesn't like King Ulrich, he will not have any grudge against you and Her Majesty Sonad. And he has no pursuit of territory. What he likes is life on the sea. He is a born captain."
Inna said with certainty, "You said you have a Meitengheim ironclad ship - he dreams of becoming the captain of the ironclad ship!"
"Child, this is not what Lord Li Ang is worried about. Let's go, let's go with you to meet that Calamity Seeker."
Ols stepped forward and patted Inna on the shoulder.