May 17, at sunset.

Nora, who had just arrived in Brental City, read the task instructions carefully. At this time, she was wearing pure black leather armor, with two daggers on her waist, and did not carry spare weapons on her back, but scrolls and small crystals inserted on her straps.

Behind her were the five members of the Intelligence Service, also dressed in black. All six agents, Tifflin, arrived in the city last night. They quietly climbed over the wall in the middle of the night. After obtaining information from the intelligence department, they had already arrived outside the Earl's Mansion in the center of the city.

Brental City is located 70 kilometers southwest of Lajena. It is located in a remote and small population. Because it is not a strategic road or a wealthy place, it is not included in the strategic offensive route of Everta. If it were based on the previous plan, Roddy would not have sent any troops to this place and directly guard the fortress west of Lajena, it would be enough to shock the nobles on both sides of the east and west.

However, the strength of the territory is one aspect. After thinking about it in all aspects, Roddy made a special trip to ask the ace agents of the intelligence department to come from Suvala, more than 300 kilometers away, to implement the "Tisifene Plan".

When the road and bridge from Dunker to Lajena was built, the unobstructed Ivota Infantry Division directly dispersed the enemy troops whose morale had collapsed because they did not get food in time. Trucks entered Lajena directly. Nora and her squad set out, each with three horses, and arrived here uninterruptedly. Now, Nora has confirmed that Earl Mur is in the mansion.

Earl Moore had never fought with Roddy, nor had he ever fought with Everta's troops. But in Roddy's memory, this Earl was one of the most powerful nobles in the Kingdom of Karen who could fight, and could even be said to be the general with the strongest combat capability.

Charles II was very talented, and not many of his men could be reliable in military terms. But once the Earl of Moore helped, it would be possible to turn defeat into victory, and causing enough trouble would definitely be possible.

Roddy knew that his strategic plan was not impeccable. In fact, it was similar to what Charles II judged. If he did not take down the kingdom overnight, the huge logistics system would become a burden in his eyes and could eventually lead to a trauma of defense... If he had another leader like Earl Mur who could conquer a warlike leader, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Fortunately, Count Moore was abandoned by Charles II last year and was "deprecated". But Roddy did not guarantee whether the other party would be put on hold forever. Therefore, in order to make a complete solution, he must extinguish all threats at the source.

Nora put away the map and parchment paper, looked at the tightly guarded mansion in the sunset again, and raised her hand and made a "move forward" gesture.

Lajena, dozens of kilometers away, was captured, and the defeated troops were scattered everywhere. Earl Mur obviously also received the news, so the guards of the mansion were twice as high as usual. However, without the enemy approaching the city, these people's nerves were not too tense.

All the six Tifflins were stealth masters. They knew silent stealth better than human thieves. The relaxed guards unknowingly exposed many blind spots of patrol, so these Tifflins easily broke through the outer defense line and entered the interior of the mansion directly.

To be on the safe side, Nora also drew a "anti-reconnaissance barrier" scroll and led everyone to continue to sneak into the interior.

The warning array in the mansion was never triggered. The six agents entered the mansion in two directions. The guards were alone, and the servants were silently twisted their necks one by one. When the two guardian knights on the second floor finally realized something was wrong, a series of magic-breaking crossbow arrows and the "Frost Nova" scroll thrown by Nora directly made them lose their power of resistance and were killed on the spot.

Some teammates wanted to kick open the last bedroom door, but Nora felt the violent elemental fluctuations. She quickly pulled her companions away with her eyes and hands. The next second, a large ice cone penetrated the door on the spot, and a large pit burst out of the wall behind her.

Teflin, who was rescued by Nora, swallowed. Before he could get up, Nora had already used her "acceleration" ability and rushed in during the opponent's casting interval.

Before the mage holding the staff could even see the figure of Tifflin clearly, the huge force hit the force field shield in front of him, making a loud "bang" sound-

Earl Mur in the room frowned and stood up, while a swordsman in soft armor beside him was about to join the battle.

Nora's hands had pulled out the scroll behind her at the same time. The two shields lit up in front of her blocked the attacks from the magician and the swordsman. However, before everything could continue, Count Mur suddenly spoke: "Stop."

The staff was cut off and the long sword was directly pulled away by Nora with his tail, the two were actually defeated, but Count Mur was very majestic, so the two immediately gave up resistance and retreated to the rear.

Some of the other agents following behind raised crossbows, some held weapons and scrolls. Even the magistrates would probably find it difficult to escape under such siege. Earl Mur looked at the group of people in front of him, and seemed to have expected them. He shook his head and said, "I have been waiting, either the letter from His Majesty... or the soldiers of Everta. Now it seems that you are better."

He turned his head and looked at it. The guards outside the mansion had no idea what was going on here and were still patrolling in sight. This scene made him quite helpless. He turned his head and Moore looked at Nora, who was still flashing with a shield light in front of him, and asked, "What do you need me to do?"

"The Prime Minister said: Earl Moore is a smart man and knows what to do."

Nora said this sentence according to the content of the mission. Earl of Moor nodded, then knelt on one knee without hesitation: "I... Lord Sikri, Mur Barras, are willing to escape from the rule of the Leicester royal family from then on and be loyal to Prime Minister Everta Roddy."

An once famous count, so easy to choose to change his flag, is probably hard for ordinary people to imagine. But as Roddy judged, Moore is indeed the person in the hostile camp who has the most accurate judgment of the situation.

When a person familiar with military affairs approaches, he will naturally not simply stay in his mansion and live a life of drunkenness and despair. Earl Moore's understanding of the front line is actually more detailed than that of Charles II. Because of this, he can know the horror of Roddy's army better than Charles II.

Because both sides have opened up the "generation gap" from the first day of the war's outbreak, one doubled the difference is enough to determine the outcome, and ten times twenty times the difference is, then there is no need to fight at all - the only chance of winning the royal family is just because the dragon clan is included.

But Earl Mur never believed that the Dragon Clan would help the royal family for no reason. If the other party really did this, the consequences would make him even more terrified...

There were not so many nobles in this era who sacrificed their lives for the so-called glory. Earl Mur is also an egoist - he is smart and not foolish. In the face of the current situation, he had already left a chance for Charles II, but unfortunately, the news from the other party was too late, and the road was cut off by Nora and others who arrived in advance.

Now, he will naturally make choices that suit his own interests.

Nora was not interested in Count Moore’s inner thoughts at all. Her philosophy was very simple: completing tasks is the first priority, and as for the others, they are all secondary.

According to the task instructions, she took out the metal wolf head emblem inserted on the letter paper and placed it directly in the other party's hand: "Please remember your oath, Lord Moore."

On that day, Brental City was planted with the wolf-headed flag of Iversta. Four hours after the change of flags, the messenger carrying Charles II's handwritten letter had just arrived...

But it's too late.

*******

May 18. The south bank of the Bordeaux River.

Viscount Boragorn staggered and almost knelt on the ground.

Hunger made his stomach feel like it was on fire. The world in front of him was dark and white. But once the hand holding the shovel stopped, the Everta supervisor in leather armor next to him would whip mercilessly...

He was taken out of the prisoner-of-war camp this morning to participate in the road construction. Originally, he expected more than 15,000 troops to be replenished and regrouped. Who would have thought that the cities of Lajena and Becolis would really fall. This blow directly caused the morale of the lords to collapse. In addition, the pursuers from the rear arrived, so many people didn't even fight, and they ran away and surrendered.

He still can't figure out the reason for this failure.

But now, he didn't have the energy to continue thinking.

His subordinates had been completely disbanded, and now none of the prisoners of war around him knew each other. Because they had been hungry for two days, they didn't even have the energy to communicate now, and they were barely moving like zombies. Boragorn felt that if he didn't eat, he would probably starve to death here.

The dignified Viscount, no one paid attention to his request for ransom. He really didn't understand what the Iversa army wanted to do.

Fortunately, within a few minutes, the supervisor finally shouted: "Hold your tools! Stand in the line! Come over to collect food one by one!"

When many people heard the word "food", they surrounded each other like hungry wolves. The consequence was that four or five supervisors slapped each other and the soldiers next to them directly smashed them with long sheathed swords. Only with the wailing sounds did people barely learn to maintain order.
Chapter completed!