Chapter 663 - v4c46p2 The Growth of Valhalla (3) (1/2)

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The Growth of Valhalla (3)

“Yes. Wind Archers are a typical field force. Their greatest strength is their ability to be continuously invisible for short periods of time during a battle, or to stealthily move for long periods of time before a battle,” Monica replied. “However, the current Valhalla Wind Archers are also equipped with the Wind Archer armor that you designed yourself, my Lord. That is why they also have the ability to fly and glide for short periods of time-”

Lord Marsha!

Brendel could not help but feel pleasantly surprised after hearing this. It was easy to imagine how useful an archer who excelled at stealth would be on the battlefield. One of the major flaws of archers while they were out in battle was their lack of close-combat ability, as well as how easily they could be discovered. Normally, an archer formation would collapse as soon as they were approached by cavalry.

But Wind Archers were obviously completely different, as they did not even need protection. Once approached, they could immediately use the flight ability provided by the Wind Archer’s cloak to pull away, then use their invisibility to re-enter stealth and wait for the next shot.

G.o.d! Brendel could well imagine how terrifying that was, but the only problem right now was that there were still too few of them. Otherwise, they could come in very handy in this war.

At that train of thought, he suddenly thought of something else and turned back to ask, “Ferlarn, did you get another new message from Radner?”

“Not this time, my Lord.” Ferlarn’s expression remained the same as she replied, “This time it’s about a certain Madara Lord; a certain fellow over in Sillman who had been favored by Your Lords.h.i.+p had our messenger bring back the news. As Your Lords.h.i.+p had predicted, Madara’s Army has begun to converge on the Yulsong region.”

“Bloodstaff.” Brendel turned off the Lord’s interface with a ‘pop’ and stood up at once. “The Madara have already begun to move. The time to get Count Radner to depart should be soon too. It’s slightly earlier than I expected, but it seems that there must be some pressuring new development on Duke Arreck’s side.

“Her Highness asked when you were leaving, my Lord.”

“Her Highness?”

Brendel was startled, but then a sudden commotion broke out from one side of the square. He looked up just in time to see the princess and her party approaching from the side of the Moon Tower. Presumably, they had come to the plaza through the circular path in the hall in the center of the World Tree.

The princess pa.s.sed through the center of the plaza with a couple of female officers, and took a look at her own brother, who was bound solidly by the roots of the ancient tree. It was only then that Brendel realized that he had not warned her; the young prince seemed to have completely succ.u.mbed to the mighty power of the tentacles, his sword already separated. He kept ‘panting’ in a suggestive manner from where he was.

Princess Gryphine could not help but frown at this scene and shook her head gently.

She walked up to Brendel and inhaled before greeting him softly, “Mr.Brendel, you are still as spry as ever even though I have not seen you for a few days.”

“Your Highness… ” Brendel was a little embarra.s.sed. After all, he had tortured someone else’s brother – the future king of the kingdom – into this state. It would have been fine if the princess had not seen this, but he had not expected to cross paths with her abruptly without warning.

“I did not come here to say that, Count.” The princess shook her head. “I’ve come to say goodbye to you. By the way, I’d like to ask when you plan to leave for Viero?”

“Say goodbye?” Brendel was startled.

“I intend to return to Frada first. Oberwei and Lantonilan’s amba.s.sadors are still waiting for me there, and besides, Mr. Eikkel and his fiancée have sent word that they left yesterday for Vallendaren. Duke Lantonilan has given him full authority to act on Lantonilan’s behalf this time-” She paused. “So there’s not much time left for me.”

That was when it dawned on Brendel, and he fell silent. In fact, he already knew that the time was right when he received the news about the Madara’s movements from Ferlarn. Still, he did not expect the princess to come so quickly.

“Mr. Brendel, are you going to leave with me for Frada?” the princess asked again after pausing for a moment.

Brendel naturally wouldn’t refuse to travel with the eldest princess, but he hesitated and finally shook his head. “No, I will not be accompanying you, Your Highness. I have something else to do, so you can go ahead. I shall meet with you and the others at Vallendaren Castle later.”

Princess Gryphine peered at him. There was no surprise in her silver eyes; in fact, she already knew where Brendel was preparing to go, and she chimed in, “Are you going to take those Kirrlutzians with you?”

“Yes.” Brendel nodded. In a sense, the trip to the Stained Frost Forest Labyrinth was actually supposed to help the Kirrlutzians, so of course he had to take them with him. However, most of those Kirrlutzian Knights were draggers. He thought about it and replied, “I’ll just take Laurenna and her fiancé with me. Veronica would probably head there to meet me as well.”

“Will you make it in time?” the princess asked.

“I should be able to.” Brandao nodded.