Chapter 1005 (2/2)

”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 --!”