Pendor Calendar 357 October.
Lion City.
This is the first time Kavira has come to this city known as the 'center of the mainland'.
But she was disappointed.
Because she did not see the legendary prosperous scene, she only saw wounded people everywhere and countless haggard residents who had struggled in the mire of war for a whole year.
The city wall is still tall, but somewhat dilapidated, and the traces left by trebuchets and wall-cutting carts are clearly visible.
There are no merchants in the city, nor any nobles in bright clothes or angry horses. They must have all run away...
Only lean warriors and ragged civilians were still walking through the wide streets in the city.
It seems to be the same everywhere. Once war breaks out, only civilians cannot escape and have nowhere to escape.
It's a shabby city, but it's still relatively clean.
Perhaps, without the nobles, the city will be much cleaner...
After all, poor people will not throw away anything edible or usable, even dead branches and leaves will be collected as firewood.
In addition, it is during the war, and the excrement of humans and horses has been collected as city defense supplies. There are no shops on the streets, and there are no people in the pubs. Naturally, there will be no vomit or various residues...
Kavira suddenly remembered what Sir Roland said - there is no garbage in the countryside, everything has a purpose; only big cities have so much garbage, because life in the city does not comply with the laws of nature.
Sir Roland is indeed a wise philosopher.
Kavira thinks.
Even Lion Lake City, where Sir Roland is located, looks more reassuring than Lion City - because there are 'New Dawn Knights' patrolling everywhere on the streets of Lion Lake City.
In Lion City, most people have sad faces and hurried steps.
Either they were making weapons or repairing city defenses, everyone was very busy.
The tall palace doesn't look very gorgeous. Isn't it a golden palace in the legend? Why are there only mottled stone walls now?
Where did all that gold go?
On the contrary, Fleur-de-lis outside the palace is still open, but it makes the palace, which seems a bit simple and even dilapidated, even more deserted.
There were not many attendants in the palace, and there were also very few maids. The guards at the door were quite energetic, but they did not look like Imperial Guard who was wearing silver armor as Kavira imagined.
Most of the guards wore red inlaid armor, carried long bows, and carried shields. They seemed to pursue practicality rather than beauty.
Kavira sighed with some regret - she took the initiative to invite her to come to Lion City to deliver the message. She didn't expect that what she saw was such a simple city.
At this time, Kavira is waiting for the summons of Lionheart Queen Amy outside the throne room.
"Miss Kavira, His Majesty agrees to allow you to participate in the imperial meeting, please come with me."
A burly guard opened the door and waved to Kavira.
"Your Excellency Sigismund, Sir Roland asked me to say hello to you..."
Kavira bowed.
That guard is Sigismund--he currently serves as Lion City Defense Commander.
"Ha... as long as you don't point that long knife at me again... come with me and put the weapon on the stand."
Sigismund shook his head and pointed to the weapon rack in the throne room.
"I'm sorry... It was a misunderstanding at the time. I thought you were the Vanskery pirate... After all, you were fighting side by side with that 'Calamity Seeker'."
Kavira glanced at Sigismund's lower body, and then inserted her long knife into the weapon rack.
The long sword was very strange. The long shaft was equipped with a broad blade that was more than a foot long and as wide as the palm of your hand. The broad blade extended out a sharp sword tip, and the overall shape was irregular.
At the same time, there is a sharp thorn on the back of the broad-blade knife - just like an ordinary long-handled broad-blade knife, with two sharp thorns pulled out from its two flat, edgeless positions.
This should be regarded as a strange-shaped halberd. It can stab, slash, and chisel like a sword.
This is Kavira's unique weapon, which was picked up from 'Thunder Ridge' outside Lion Lake City.
This 'Thunder Ridge' is actually the place where Li Ang disappeared. This is the name given by Sir Roland, saying it is to commemorate the brave Duke of Long River Town.
But Kavira has actually never met Li Ang. She has only heard some stories about Li Ang from Roland.
For example, defeating Three Prophets, strangling Gatu people, or triggering thunder and tying the devil with chains to bear the lightning strike.
Sir Roland never lies, he said it was all what he saw with his own eyes.
Kavira feels that a warrior who can be so respected by a saintly person like Sir Roland should indeed be a legendary hero.
However, after the legendary hero disappeared, Lionheart Kingdom was a little miserable.
Last August, after it was confirmed that Duke of Long River Town was missing, several other countries declared war on the Lionheart Kingdom at the same time. Like a piece of plump fish, everyone wanted to take a bite.
Now, all the lands west of Lion City, Harlingosburg and Vulpine Town have all fallen one after another.
Right now, Lionheart Kingdom only has the eastern region and Northern Bay left.
Sir Roland established the New Dawn Knights regiment at Lion Lake City, and then worked with Leofric Earl to set up a defense line at Vulpine Town. Sir Forster provided them with logistical support at Lion Lake City;
Silver Hand Knight Order is guarding Harlingosburg, and Calamity Seeker Gondor is also there;
While Lion City is commanded and defended by Lord Godric, Sigismund is appointed as Lion City Defense Commander and obeys the command of Godric.
Everyone worked together and finally saved the central axis of the Lionheart Kingdom, so that Lion City was not cut off.
Coupled with the "support" of the Bacchus Empire, the entire country has continued to resist throughout this year, and the war has never stopped for a moment.
Kavira joined Sir Roland's team from Lion Lake City in August last year.
At that time, Kavira went to Lion Lake City from Fieltzwe's Kurum village. She was the army cook hired by King Vidis.
But in Lion Lake City, Kavira experienced an unbearable disaster - on a thunderstorm day, she was abused by a group of Vanskery pirates in Lion Lake City in a courtyard in the city.
If a young and beautiful woman encounters a group of drunk Vanskery pirates, probably everyone can understand the kind of abuse she will experience.
But it wasn't Sir Roland who saved her, but she herself saved herself.
Those Vanskery pirates were subordinates of King Vidis, and Kavira was mistreated when Lion Lake City was besieged by Fallen One - this is also inevitable during wars. A group of pirates who believe that they are destined to die will do anything when they are desperate.
Seriously speaking, Li Ang also bears a certain amount of responsibility. If he hadn't led Vidis to Lion Lake City to fight against Aigrem, Kavira would not have suffered such a disaster.
But Kavira is not looking for life and death like ordinary girls.
Even after being mistreated, she continued to provide food and wine to the pirates.
After they were all drunk, she tied up all the guys, castrated them all, and then watched them bleed to death - two of them stopped bleeding midway, and she stabbed them again at the same location.
At that time, Kavira did not have a long knife for cutting people.
Later, Vidis evacuated Lion Lake City, and Kavira met Sir Roland's team.
At that time, Li Ang had just disappeared, and Sir Roland came to Lion Lake City to clean up the mess.
When he saw her, she was being harassed by another rogue - the pirates had torn her clothes before, and she was standing naked in the rainstorm.
She wanted the heavy rain to wash away the humiliation on her body.
But her embarrassed look attracted some malicious peeps...
Sir Roland drove away the scoundrels who harassed her, and drove away everyone who tried to get close. He also asked all the soldiers to leave, leaving her alone in the courtyard in the rain, and gained her final dignity.
When she walked out of the courtyard, Sir Roland was still standing outside, with her back to the courtyard door.
At that time, Roland said to her gently, "Madam, I heard about you... Maybe Goddess Astaria gave those Vanskery people to you as a test of your courage, and you bravely weathered the difficulties, which is very admirable."
Kavira burst into tears on the spot.
Her hometown of Kurumu Village is a fishing village along the coast of Fieltzwe. The girls in the fishing village certainly have little education, and most of the men there are relatively barbaric. This is the first time that Kavira has encountered an aristocratic man speaking to her in such a polite way.
Moreover, she knew that if she returned to her hometown, the men around her would point fingers at her and even do more evil things.
She also knows that from now on she will face more violence and malice. Most men will no longer give her any respect, and it will be difficult to find a real partner.
But Sir Roland still regards her as a distinguished lady and is always polite.
Dignity is priceless.
Kavira has since become a follower of Sir Roland.
However, Roland did not want the girl to go to the battlefield and did not accept Kavira as a warrior, so she became Goddess of Justice's priest apprentice just like Elano.
After that, Roland took Kavira to the place where Li Ang disappeared, which is 'Thunder Ridge'.
At that time, Amy had just issued a search order of "see the person alive or the body dead", and Roland also wanted to try to find any clues.
This search was a real dig, and the entire Thunder Ridge was almost leveled.
No clues related to Li Ang were found, but Kavira found a long knife.
This long knife was originally supposed to be a very high-quality broad-bladed broadsword, which was a flat-head machete with a long handle.
But when Kavira found it, its blade had been shattered and melted together with some messy fragments - this was probably caused by thunder, because the wooden pole was fine and looked particularly strong.
Although this was a broken weapon, Kavira felt it was very handy, so he carried it on his back.
Later, she had a little conflict with Calamity Seeker Gondor.
Gondor is actually here to help - he also wants to find Li Ang.
But Kavira thinks that Gondor is also a Vanskery pirate. She hates pirates, hates all pirates, and hates all Fieltzwe people!
If Vidis hadn't walked so fast, Kavira would have even poisoned the food and castrated all of Vidis's army one by one!
As a result, Gondor was forced to fight with Kavira.
What's outrageous is that Gondor is no match for Kavira!
To be precise, Gondor, who was unwilling to hurt anyone and was restrained, was no match for the broken long knife - Gondor tried to fight off Kavira's weapon, but cut off his own weapon when it hit the long knife!
The long knife that looked messy after being struck by lightning turned out to be extremely sharp.
If Sigismund hadn't rescued people in time, Gondor would have been almost castrated - in fact, Sigismund was almost castrated by Kavira for saving people, because he also looked like the Vanskery pirate...
But fortunately, no real accident was caused, but from then on Kavira had its own name - the eunuch.
The long knife was later re-polished and became an exclusive weapon tailor-made for Kavira - the long knife for cutting people.
Her long sword is basically designed to pick out the opponent's lower three lanes... It is quite a deterrent to men. Although her martial arts is not very good, no one dares to challenge her in a duel.
So at this time, Sigismund doesn't even dare to walk in front of Kavira...
"Your Majesty, Miss Kavira is here."
Sigismund turned sideways and pushed open the door of the imperial conference room.
There were only four people sitting at the round table.
Queen Amy is sitting in the first place, without a crown, his face is haggard, but his eyes have become extremely sharp.
On her right is Godric. Godric wears a golden brooch on her chest, a brooch in the shape of a lion waving its claws - that is 'King's Hand', which is the honor of Prime Minister.
But Prime Minister's position may not have brought him any benefits. In this year, he has changed from a head full of black hair to a gray-haired temple.
On the left side of Amy is Alina. She still has the same bookish look, but she no longer smiles and is a little silent.
The last person is Eric. There is a thick record book in front of him. But he is not a secretary. There is no secretary in the current imperial meeting...
Eric is now the Noble Council general manager of the Lionheart Kingdom - actually the logistics manager.
"Kavira, please sit down."
Amy's voice was very indifferent. She probably hadn't laughed for a long time, "Did Sir Roland encounter any trouble? Is Vulpine Town unable to withstand it?"
"No, no one attacked Vulpine Town. Sir Roland asked me to bring this letter. This is a trophy obtained from a heretic..."
Kavira also became serious. She took out a paper roll from her arms and handed it to Godric: "At the same time, he thinks that those heretics seem to be taking orders from a little girl!"
Godric unfolded the scroll and read, "At the end of October, Her Majesty Denise will personally lead the army back to Lion City, so be prepared."
"Is it gone? Who wrote it to whom?"
Eric asked a little strangely.
"No, I don't know who wrote it to whom. But Denise is only ten years old this year, how can she lead the group?"
Godric turned the note over and over, checked it several times, and put it on the table with a puzzled look on his face.
Denise is the little daughter of Ulrich, the one born by Ailian and the queen. That child is now made king by Brennus... Of course, it is not recognized by the nobles.
But if Brennus conquers Lion City, then Denise will definitely be recognized by many nobles...
The so-called orthodox and rebels mainly depend on who has the biggest fist.
"I did see a little girl appearing among the heretics from a distance... I don't know if that is the Denise you mentioned--that's why the teacher asked me to come over and tell you personally."
Kavira gestured to his chest. "It's about this high. If you were ten years old... it should be about the same."