Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 439 Fortress
Rhodes rushed to the Glory Fortress in the south on the last day of July. He only brought [-] soldiers, and the remaining [-] soldiers were still receiving Baron's devil training in his territory.

Baron and the others didn't come with Rhodes this time. Rhodes felt that the battlefield was still too dangerous, and the territory needed to be managed by someone worthy of his trust, so he didn't let them come here together.

The steel factory in the territory has been built, and by this time tomorrow, he will definitely have an armored vehicle powered by a magic core.

When the imperial army encountered armored vehicles, they could only surrender or be crushed. Ordinary swords could not do anything to armored vehicles made entirely of steel.

The vast majority of mages can only feel desperate when facing armored vehicles. The core of magic power only needs to drive the tracks of armored vehicles to rotate. Able to maintain a powerful defensive magic circle.

Although Rhodes doesn't even have a blueprint of this armored vehicle now.

However, he has already told the chief scholar of this idea, and then the chief scholar led a large group of bachelors to start researching in this direction, and the results will definitely be produced by this time next year.

The soldiers at the gate of the fortress saw the flags hanging high in Rhodes' army, so they didn't even ask him, and let Rhodes lead the army into the fortress directly.

In less than a year, the walls of the fortress have been restored to their original state, and new houses have been rebuilt from the ruins of the city. However, the fortress looks very deserted and full of oppressive atmosphere.

Not long after entering the city gate, Rhodes saw a nobleman riding a war horse looking at him. He looked at least 60 years old, his hair and beard were all white, and he was missing an arm, but he still looked very have spirit.

"I am the Marquis of Forth in Winterfell Province, and you are the Earl of Rhodes, right?" the old man asked.

Rhodes still has some impressions of the Marquis of Foss. Ebony City is one of the territories of the Marquis of Foss, and the reason why the Marquis of Foss lacks an arm also has something to do with Rhodes.

The arm of the Marquis of Foss was broken by the dragon people. According to Baron and the others, he was asleep in the castle of Ebony City at that time.

Anyway, Rhodes thought that the dragon man should have realized that he was not dead, felt his aura, and then chased him to Ebony City, where he made a big fuss.

"That's right, I am. May I ask what you can do for me?" Rhodes replied.

"It's just to say hello to you." The Marquis of Foss replied: "The place the king arranged for you is the tower on the right of the south gate of the fortress. Don't run around these few days. We may leave at any time."

"Okay." Rhodes nodded, and then led the soldiers towards the south gate of the fortress.

The Marquis of Foss showed a thoughtful look in the direction of Rhodes' departure.

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The tower assigned to Rhodes is not bad. This tower is at the south gate, so there is no damaged position in the war last year.

After Rhodes and Slade explained a few words, they walked into the room on the top floor of the tower. Someone helped him organize the room in advance, which should be arranged by the king.

There was a map on the desk in the center of the room, and Rhodes sat on the chair and began to study the map.

This map should have been drawn recently, because this map used white paper produced in his territory.

Rhodes is quite familiar with the area south of the Fortress of Glory. After all, he has walked back and forth here many times. Looking at the map against his memory, he can find that there are many missing places on this map, and there are even some rivers and rivers. The hills are not marked on the map.

He put the map aside, feeling that he believed his memory was better, and then he took out a book of animal skins from the space ring.

This book records the life of an emperor of the Roman Empire. In addition, the book also records in great detail the process and details of several battles he commanded.

This was originally a biography, but it turned out to be one of the must-read books for mainland nobles to study combat.

Rhodes read a few books like this, and he felt that the people in the books were indeed very good at strategy and command, and he would definitely not be able to come up with those subtle strategies.

And in the end he also came to a conclusion that masters are afraid of mental retardation.

Every country has produced many powerful figures, and some of them were even close to unifying the entire continent.

When they have been regarded as the protagonists of the entire continent, at this time there will either be a nobleman who can only be reckless, and he will win them all the way. In the process, various unexpected coincidences will definitely occur, and these coincidences are also difficult to imagine. Very reasonable.Or either show up with a mentally handicapped teammate and help the enemy take him down.

However, no matter how powerful a person is, they often make many mistakes that only Rhodes can see because of the wrong common sense in this world.

After Rhodes looked at it for a while, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" Rhodes said while sitting on a chair.

Rudolph pushed open the door and said, "My lord, His Majesty the King invites you to attend a banquet in the castle at night."

"I see." Rhodes nodded.

It's still early now, if he goes earlier, he will be more hypocritical, it's better to go later.

Rhodes remembered the experience of attending someone else's banquet last time, that time he directly invited the host of the banquet to a duel, and then killed him in public.

This behavior is simply...

But he can be sure that he will not invite the host of this banquet to a duel.

Very sure.

Rhodes continued to study the book in front of him, and when he felt that the time was almost up, he rode his horse and rushed to the castle.

At a banquet held at this time and place, it shouldn't matter if you go in wearing armor.

Rhodes looked down at the scale armor on his body made of the scales of the golden dragon, and felt that the problem should not be serious.

After revealing his identity, Rhode walked into the castle with ease.

He has carried out assassinations and sabotage in this castle before, so he is quite familiar with this castle.

After entering the castle, he breathed a sigh of relief. Although most of the nobles came to the banquet in gorgeous dresses, there were still a few nobles wearing armor like him.

And he can also be sure that those wearing armor are the nobles who came to the banquet, not the guards responsible for protecting the safety of the nobles, because he saw the Marquis of Foss, whom he met not long ago, wearing armor.

Rhodes went up to say hello to the Marquis of Foss, because Rhodes only knew him among the people present, and although some other nobles were familiar, Rhodes couldn't remember their names at all.

After greeting the Marquis of Foss, he reached out and patted Rhodes on the shoulder: "Very well, I am very glad to meet a young man like you, we are all staying in the fortress now, except for sleeping Foreigners should not be allowed to take off their armor, and we value our own safety, our soldiers, and our country."

"Well, I think so too." Rhodes felt a little speechless after hearing this. He never expected the Marquis of Foss to say such a thing. It seems that he is a very old-fashioned traditional nobleman.

Rhodes didn't know why others took off their armor, he only knew why he came to the banquet wearing armor, because he didn't bring a tuxedo.

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(End of this chapter)