Chapter 12 Female Mage

"The Marquis isn't here?"

"Yes."

"Where is he now?"

In the center of the camp on the east side of Jinghu Lake, in the largest and most luxurious camp tent, a man and a woman were talking.

If Collin was here, he would immediately recognize that the half-kneeling man was the St. Heard family knight who had issued an emergency conscript order to the Firefox Mercenary Group.

The arrogant knight at the time now looks servile.

"Marquis, he..." Faced with the questioning of the woman in front of him, the knight seemed a little hesitant.

"Knight Bliss, if this issue involves military orders, you don't need to say it." The woman did not make things difficult for the Knight, and said softly.

This is a tall woman, wearing a slightly wide snow-white fox fur coat, with beautiful golden hair hanging down from her shoulders and back, and light and shadow flashing on her hair, as if she had some magic power, which made people dare not look closely, but they involuntarily addicted to it.

A translucent black gauze covered her face, but the elegance and nobility that penetrated into the bone marrow could not be concealed.

Her every move was irresistible.

This domineering temperament can only be possessed by a real nobleman.

However, the mage hat on her head and a purple staff in her hand indicate that this is a mage.

This is a bit strange.

Because, in the human empire in this world, aristocrats and mages cannot be regarded as mortal enemies, but they are also two kinds of incompatible creatures.

The reason is very simple - the mages have no faith.

In the eyes of these spellcasters, only the arcane truth is the eternal pursuit.

And the gods are just powerful mortals who have mastered the truth of the arcane.

Therefore, in the eyes of the noble knights who believe in the Lord of Glory, the group of mages is a complete blasphemer, and a heretic who should be burned to death on the stolen frame.

However, in the glorious empire where the nobles had absolute authority, although the mages were not favored, they did not suffer much persecution.

The reason is also very simple - the mages are strong enough.

Of course, a mage who does not believe in gods is the same as a warrior profession. The ceiling of its strength is level six, and there has never been a holy mage.

However, it is a little different from the warrior.

Even if the mages cannot enter the holy realm, they have a way to exert their strength above the holy realm.

This method is forbidden spells.

Sufficient preliminary preparations, expensive spell casting materials, and extremely terrifying costs can allow the sixth-level mage to release the forbidden spell.

During the most intense period of the struggle between the Radiant Church and the Mage Council, ten sixth-level mages joined forces to release the forbidden spell - [Stars Fall].

This terrifying forbidden spell wiped a city with a population of millions from the map!

Of course, the mages also paid an extremely heavy price for this forbidden spell.

Seven of the ten sixth-level mages died on the spot, and the remaining three died one after another within the next five years.

However, their sacrifice also made the church and the nobles deeply understand the terror of the mage, and eventually the two sides reached a certain degree of reconciliation.

However, the hatred left over from the thousand-year struggle cannot be easily resolved. Coupled with the irreconcilable contradictions in faith, the nobles and the mage are basically two strange forces.

Therefore, it is particularly strange that this female mage who can treat the St. Heard family knights respectfully and are suspected to be a great nobleman.

Knight Bliss breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the female mage did not continue to ask about the whereabouts of Marquis Charles.

But after hesitation, he again reminded: "Miss Vera, you'd better stay away from this camp as soon as possible. This place... is not very safe..."

"There is no safety on the battlefield." The female mage glanced at the knight in a strange way and said indifferently, "Since I have come here, I am ready for battle."

"No, you don't understand what I mean." Knight Bliss slightly emphasized, "I mean, here, it's very dangerous!"

The female mage's expression changed, and stared at the knight half-kneeled in front of her through the black veil and faced her, and asked in a narrow voice: "Knight Bliss, what is the mission the Marquis gives you?"

——————————

“My mission is to patrol the west camp and maintain order.”

Raymond Knight said to Colin.

The two of them were walking in the east camp, which was much quieter and solemn compared to the messy west camp.

However, it was a little too quiet.

Colin frowned and looked at the situation in the camp, his anxiety became worse.

"Only patrol and maintain order? Didn't you let you go around to keep watch?"

"No." Raymond shook his head, obviously with the same doubt, "It's not just our squad, I haven't seen any cavalry squad spread out to be a whistle cavalry."

Colin's brows frowned even more.

The importance of vision in war is self-evident.

But now, this camp stationed by Jinghu Lake has given up on inquiring about the surrounding situation.

This is simply a tactical suicide!

Apart from the possibility that Marquis Charles was an idiot commander, it only shows that the importance of this camp is very low.

Or, here is just a bait!

"The main force of the army is probably not in the camp for a long time." Colin asked Raymond as he looked at the too quiet camp on the east side.

"Yes, Master. The army has been leaving the camp these days, but they have not come back."

"So, the main force of the regular army has long left quietly. Now there are only the mercenary group and civilians recruited by the emergency conscript order. Of course, there are also down-and-out knights like you who have lost the lord."

"Yes, our real task is to watch those soldiers and prevent them from running around."

"It seems..." Collin said halfway, and saw a team of cavalry coming out of the center of the camp.

The person who was leading the white horse turned out to be a woman.

Moreover, Collin recognized the knight who was following her at a glance, who was the one who issued an emergency recruitment order to the Firefox Mercenary Group.

This is a big shot!

Colin, who had realized that he was in danger, immediately walked over.

Since you can't find Marquis Charles, then finding the big man in front of you should also help him get rid of his fate of becoming cannon fodder bait.

However, before Colin took a few steps, he was frightened by the harsh sound of the bugle.

"Woo--"

Colin suddenly turned his head and saw a group of birds startled from the woods in the north.

Then, a thin black and white line appeared at the horizon in the tremor of the earth.

The troll is here!

It seemed as if water droplets dripped into a boiling oil pan, and the entire Jinghu Camp immediately boiled.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Don't run around! Line up! Line up to meet the enemy!"

...

The officers' shouts were of no use at all, and the mob gathered in the camp on the west side were completely in a mess when they were suddenly frightened.

This is the consequence of not letting go of the watch. When the enemy attacks, there is no sufficient reaction time at all.

In fact, even if there is enough reaction time, it is impossible for the group of emergency recruited soldiers in this camp to resist the regular army of the trolls.

Colin knew very well that the next one would definitely be a one-sided massacre!

So he pointed to the woman who was running east in a hurry and said in a deep voice to Raymond:

"Let's go, let's follow her!"
Chapter completed!