Chapter 698 (1/2)
Former... Wizard consultant?
If it were a cartoon, a huge question mark would appear on the heads of Lauren and Ayn.
At the same time, the ”upright” master asamai rarely showed a bit of embarrassment.
”I'm sorry to have lied to you before, young Duke.” he sighed and stood up helplessly. ”But otherwise, I don't think I can bypass those proud Sir Byrne and see you again.”
”It doesn't matter. Don't be too polite. Just call me Loren.”
Glancing at the little wizard next to him, Loren waved his hand, smiled and said, ”ayin and I follow the freswalker school, so strictly speaking, you are still our elders!”
”Let's talk about the current situation - you just said that the reason why you were captured was one of the reasons why the war began. What's the matter?”
Hearing Loren's question, master achamay's expression was suddenly uncertain. After considering it for a while, he carefully said: ”well... Duke Loren Turin, how much do you know about the story of your ancestor 'black Duke' Roland?”
”Er, I know a thing or two.” Lauren was stunned. I don't know why he suddenly asked this.
Master asamai nodded: ”well, you should also know something... Unknown about his first Centaur war?”
”It was the war provoked by Roland that led to the forced unification of the Centaurs and the invasion.”
The dark haired wizard raised his eyebrows. He guessed the meaning of the other party.
”And this half as like as two peas, what is the same?” he said with hesitant expression. His evasive expression was exactly the same as Ekt's description of the black Duke.
”As you know, Archduke Boye implements a rotation system. After Archduke Laszlo Varna, it will be the turn of the Jonah family - and the leader of this generation of Jonah family is very old, and the eldest and second sons have died young, and only one granddaughter can succeed.”
”Coincidentally, Varna has a very excellent grandson, who is the same age as the granddaughter of Jonah's family. Therefore, he feels that if his grandson can win a centaur war in exchange for reputation, he can...”
You can marry the granddaughter of the Jonah family and make your grandson the husband of the next Duke of BOI, right?
Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Loren shook his head... The Archduke Laszlo Varna has been trying to make the Varna family completely control the Principality of Boye since the age of the black Duke. He has occupied the Duke for so many years, but he hasn't given up?
What a stubborn old man.
The awkward atmosphere made the two people silent, clinked glasses with each other, drank them all in one gulp, and then sighed heavily.
”At the beginning, everyone regarded the war as very simple. The grand duke's grandson was also very famous among the Boyi nobles. With the grand duke's Secret support, he pulled up a large number of troops for the eastern expedition.”
Putting down the glass, master asamai shook his head: ”then... Then we found that things were not so simple.”
”The same as the Centaur war of the black Duke, they did recover their strength and complete the reunification again. The whole race could mobilize tens of thousands of troops to launch an invasion;
The difference from the last time is that this time the Centaur is not a temporary response, but prepared! ”
”Come prepared?”
”That's right!” ashamei said decisively, ”the Centaur race doesn't know how to smelt metal, let alone forge weapons and armor;
But this time, they were not only equipped with a large number of steel weapons, but also had a small number of projection instruments such as crossbow and Catapult - which was unheard of before! ”
”Who on earth is secretly supporting them?” the little wizard stared.
”Who knows, maybe the smugglers of the Empire, maybe the dwarves?” ashamei stalled: ”similar things are not new for a long time, but this time the situation is particularly serious.”