Chapter 1167
When the entire group returned to the barracks, the solemn and solemn atmosphere was as substantial, as tense as a tomb; so that even the Byrne Knights who came to greet them had their faces Can't see any smiles.
Because today is the day of the funeral.
Three days of rest, three days of cleaning, three days of searching...Ten days, I finally found all the corpses of the dead that could be found and confirmed.
Knights are easier to handle. Even the poorest Knights have their own coat of arms and exquisite armor. As long as they are not burned out and the people they know are still alive, most of them can be confirmed; and overwhelming majority Soldiers who are illiterate...the only thing that can determine their identity is the roster.
Counting the severely wounded and dead, the total number of confirmed dead soldiers is 8,000-this number is far less than dozens of times the actual number of deaths. No fewer than eight thousand deserters died in their hands.
When the frontal Legion, composed of the elite of the empire, returned to the team and counted, only 100,000 Legion remained in the early 60,000.
The total number of the back-line reserve forces that died in a surprise attack by the Azores was at least three times this number.
But in the end, all the people who were found, had names and surnames...only 8,000 people.
There are nobles, there are soldiers; there are wizards, there are priests; there are youngsters, there are old people; there are heroic dead, and there are timid deserters...
Now, they are all There is no gap, lying together equally.
There are ten times as many as their dead, and the enemies on the battlefield are turned into ashes under the breath of the three giant dragons in the exploding fire sea, and disappeared.
Many veterans from the countryside of Sackland, after hearing that Brandon ordered the giant dragon to burn the battlefield, they all expressed emotion that there will be a good harvest in this land in the coming year.
The only good news is that the plague finally did not break out—burning the battlefield, dredging the waterways, draining the flooded area, relocating the Legion resident...everything everyone can think of, ensuring sanitation and wounding. Our living conditions minimize the possibility of disease outbreaks.
There are also a lot of contradictions in the middle; Sackland Legion is fortunate, the rest of the army from all over the empire almost have their own way of life, and they are not very accepting of coerciveness." Hygiene Campaign", the small-scale commotion continued, which caused Brandon a headache.
However, relying on the victory over the Azores and the coordinating suppression of the dukes, the commotion did not turn into a riot. Brandon even took this opportunity to bring many of the military forces of Sacland Legion The doctrine was placed in the army of each Duchy.
Originally, it was just a unified operation that was troublesome, but it eventually evolved into a military system reform.
The Twelfth day when the Azores invasion ended, after all night negotiations, negotiations, communication and quarrels, Brandon and the princes led, and the Duchy counts finally came up with a pass. The military system of all armies throughout the empire.
Since from now on, after 14 generations, all the armies of the empire will finally be reorganized and reorganized according to the same set of military system, and will follow the same set of military orders, no longer distinguishing each other.
Of course, it will take a long time to complete this thing, even several years; but the seeds of change have been planted, and all that is left is to wait for it to sprout quietly.
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Standing over and dismounting, the Loren entire group walked towards the center of the barracks where the giant dragon stayed; the soldiers around were seeing clearly After the silhouettes of the audience turned around, respectfully stepped aside.
They stared at the silhouette of the black hair wizard, expressing their respect for the person who ended the war in a silent way.
The plan to lurch Eboden City is a secret that only a few people know, but all the soldiers on the battlefield that day saw the giant dragon rising into the air and the nine rising of Eboden City. Awn star.
They don't know what happened, but anyone can guess that it must have something to do with the Duke of Byrne...or the wizards of Byrne; without them destroying the city of Eboden, the war would not end.
The open space surrounded by Legion veterans and Knights has long been piled up with hundreds of piles of firewood of different sizes. Eight thousand warriors who died in action were silently, regardless of Lying on top of each other.
Sackland, Byrne, Elman...The nobles and Knights from all over the area were clustered around, standing under their respective flags, like a six-pointed star guarding the pyre in the center of the clearing.
Brandon, who had returned early, was dragged by Ulrich Wiertz, and the two serious-faced people discussed in a low voice;
Nolan Erd kept with him The scimitar grandfather has nothing to say, but looking at Sarika Jonah’s impatient expression, you know that he is just asking for boring;
Only the one-armed female elf Liya Leaning on the pile of firewood, he lowered his head and looked at something.
Charlotte and Loren looked at each other tacitly, and turned to leave with Lena in the direction of the Byrne banner.
The female elf who noticed the footsteps of a black hair wizard raised her head subconsciously, her eyes flushed and her expression was a bit lonely.
"Have you found it?"
Although you can guess the outline as soon as you see her expression, Loren couldn't help but ask.
Sure enough... the lost female elf shook her head and threw the thing in her hand to Loren-it was a holy cross pendant, silver-plated, and very delicate.
"Only it...Only this." The female elf quietly opened the mouth and said: "I dug it in the most intense place of their fighting. The Knights of Lothar swore and said this It is the relic of Aaron Knight."
"Then there is nothing else..."
"No, except for this, the surrounding debris has been burned to ashes and coke. , I can’t tell at all." The female elf with red eyes stared at the pendant in Loren's hand:
"And...I have never seen Aaron carry this with him."
Loren could hear a touch of sourness in her voice, a touch of complex and indescribable sourness.
She blames herself and blames herself for nothing. She can only look at the dead self of her friend one by one.
"I have...heard such an understanding of'death'."
Loren, who spoke suddenly, made the female elf slightly open her eyes in surprise.
"The first death is when you are killed-the living life withers and turns into a cold and rotten body." Loren played with the holy cross pendant in his hand. , Staring at the female elf:
"The second time was at your funeral—the cry of relatives and friends, the sadness, the prayer of the priest, your soul ascended into the kingdom of the Holy Cross...Uh, Of course, those who don't believe in the Holy Cross will go to other places, in the way...they think."
The black hair wizard's awkwardly explained expression made the female elf unable to help but slightly lift her mouth.
"The last death was when you were forgotten by the last person who remembered you." Loren stared at the female elf's eyes, step by step closer:
" When you forget the appearance of Aaron, forget about him, forget everything he has done, then... when the last trace of his memory in your memory, to you, is faded away..."
"He really died."
The female elf stared blankly at the black hair wizard who walked in front of her, and at the eyes that suddenly became serious.
The next second, those eyes softened again.
"even more how...Even if you haven't seen it, it can't prove that this is not something Aaron Knight has." Loren shrugged, grasping the female elf's hand and stuffing the pendant in:
"Just like before I arrived in Deep Forest Castle, I didn't know that you were still living there, I had never seen Morning Star Forest, nor had I seen the big tree wall, let alone a group of brave and brave people who used lance to fight ogre. Warriors..."
"But it’s just that I don’t know. Is it because I don’t know that you don’t exist anymore?"
"Of course not...like this Like the pendant, everyone knows that Aaron Knight is a devout believer of the Holy Cross, so there is a small pendant hidden in his body. There is nothing strange about it."
Black hair wizard: "The most important thing, isn't it that we have to remember him forever?"
The startled Liya slowly lifts the head, glanced at the pendant in her hand, and then sighed.
"Loren Torino, you..." The female elf raised her gaze and looked at Loren:
"It's so boring."
Huh?
The black hair wizard was taken aback, and his smile froze on his face.
This is really beyond his expectation.
"Next time you want to comfort others, don't go in such a big circle." The female elf with a soft snort gave him a dismissive glance: "Not everyone likes to listen to you. Nonsense, this trick of you is only useful to Ai Yin alone."
The voice fell, and the female elf turned around coolly, leaving only the black hair wizard...and the pendant tightly held in the palm of her hand. .
"Dame Lothair is right. Loren sometimes likes to go in circles."
Suddenly Brandon walked to the crowd, crimson's gaze shifted towards Loren: "But you are right... Those soldiers, Knight, those warriors who sacrificed for the empire, when we forget them, is when they really die."
"So everyone... We can never forget them, forever!"
As the voice fell, the princes nodded and bowed in salute.
"In order to achieve this goal, I think it’s time to change the old rules of the past-no longer just build monuments and sculptures for the Knights who died in battle, but everyone...all for the empire Those who sacrifice should enjoy this honor."
"Even if we don’t know their name, age, and family, we must engrave the battle flag of his army on the stone tablet, so that latecomers Knowing... they have been here and will stay here forever."
"We want them to understand that there is such a group of people...In order to make them appear alive in this world, we chose to sacrifice ourselves; and we... All of us who are alive, owe them endless kindness forever!"
Brandon's voice echoed in the center of the clearing. It was not big, but it was big enough for people to hear.
The whispering crowd stopped their voices, holding their breath nervously, their eyes focused on Brandon...their emperor.
For the first time, the voice of the "shameful prince" gained power.
"I want them to know that the giant monster hunters of Arles are bravely blocking the front, and let them know how the Archduke of Arles is not afraid of Ishiya, in the flames and the most ferocious Azov The elves are fighting;"
At that moment, Loren "inadvertently" noticed that the expression of Nolan Erd, Grand Duke of Arles, became very interesting.
"I want them to know that Lothar’s archer is fighting side by side with the elves of the ancient wood forest—these warriors who have blocked tens of thousands of ogre and Azore’s elves on their own, they Needless to say, their actions and sacrifices proved their promise and proved that they are the real Guardian of the Western border of the empire;
"I want them to know how heroic and fearless the Elmans are. They are small, but they are the only Swordsman in the empire who can face the Azores."
Yuli Wirtz, who was silent, tightened the hilt of the sword around his waist.
"We want the great green sea, the reputation of the Boyi Hussars to be heard throughout the empire, and let the empire know that there are such a group of brave horseback people and their brave female grandfather."
Salika Jonah is lightly snorted holding the "Iron Cavalry" long knife in her arms, proudly tilting her chin.
"We want the empire to know that there is such a group of Sackland people... They have lived in the countryside full of soil and farmland for half their lives, but they have achieved feats that the nobles in the cities and palaces could not accomplish; Let them know that Byrne is not just the hometown of Knight. Their farmers are as brave and as brave as their Knight!"
"Finally, we have to let them know that the entire empire I know that it is a group of wizards...it are the wizards who have been suppressed, excluded, despised and oppressed in the past hundreds of years, and saved the Sackland Empire that did not bring them any benefit!"
Suddenly Looking back at Brandon, the red eyes and the black hair wizard looked at each other:
"I want to let them know that the era of heroic Sovereign will end here; starting today, everyone...everyone is Fighting for the empire, those who sacrificed and dedicated to the empire... are all heroes!"
"No matter he is a civilian or a nobleman; a Knight, a soldier; a servant of the Holy Cross, or a wizard —— The Sackland Empire will treat them equally."
"Your deeds will be remembered in the empire, and your existence will be kept in the book; there is no distinction between merits and deeds."
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"This is the first decree issued by me, Brandon II, your emperor; it is also the promise I made to you, Brandon Desalion, that the empire will no longer be It’s just the empire of the nobles, but the empire of you, us, everyone!"
"The old age has been scattered ashes and dispersed smoke during the invasion of the Azores; the new age is ours In front of everyone, just today, right now, under the rule of the fourteenth generation."
As the voice fell, the princes raised the burning torch in their hands and lighted the nearest Pile of firewood.
"Long live the emperor————!!!"
"Long live the dragon driver——————!!!"
Mourning The funeral became a sea of cheers at the moment the fire blazed into the sky; the crying warriors showed their loyalty to their new emperor in a roaring way, officially announcing the arrival of the fourteenth generation.
Amidst the thunderous cheers, the expressionless female spirit Spirit General threw the pendant into the fire and watched it melt and burn.
The look of reluctance, as if sending away a friend.