Camelot Dawn

He gave all his loyalty, affection and life.Now, listening to Arthur's voice in his ears, he felt that even if he had to go down the mountain of swords and fire for the guy in front of him in the next second, he would be willing.

After the ceremony, everyone in the hall left, and Arthur left his new chief alone.

"What's wrong?" Lancelot asked.

Arthur was standing two steps higher than him, looking down at him with a serious and solemn expression.Lancelot couldn't help wondering what was important.However, what Arthur asked was: "Lancelot, do you still remember the day the Scottish Royal Palace collapsed, and you were buried underneath?"

"Of course." The blond knight nodded, he would not admit that Arthur's solemnity made him want to laugh.

His Majesty the King continued: "Very well, then you can probably remember what happened after you were pulled out by me. I want to know now, did you do it in a serious manner?"

Lancelot said again calmly of course.Arthur raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and he stretched out his hand, pulling Lancelot to his side.Now that they were at eye level, Arthur said flatly, "Do it again."

Lancelot asked: "Can you tell me what the hell is going on here?"

Arthur said, "I need to strengthen my resolve."

So Lancelot stopped talking, and kissed Arthur's lips as reverently as he kissed his hand just now.Arthur pressed his hand to the nape of his neck, deepening the kiss.

The sunlight left a bright white mark on the marble floor, and the bright reflection made the entire hall seem to be shrouded in a halo, which was a bit hazy and unreal.Merlin stood at the door of the palace, Lancelot couldn't see him, but Arthur could see him clearly.He remembered what Arthur had said to him before the ceremony:

"I think one month of thinking is enough for me to make a correct decision without regret. I admit that I am afraid of fate, and I am in awe of those who can change it. Fate is very domineering, and those who resist will have no good results. I have never dared to say that I am one of these great men, and I never will be. If it was my destiny to be killed by Lancelot, then it was also his destiny to kill me. It is impossible for me to defy the fate of two people, so I choose to accept this result. I dare not say that I have no fear in my heart, but I have made such a determination.

"I'm pretty sure I don't regret it. On the contrary, if I force myself to distance myself from Lancelot now, I'm sure I'll regret it from the time he leaves me until I die."

——This is the real bad omen, Merlin thought, looking at the two people on the steps.

The author has something to say: Hello everyone, it is 7:6 on Saturday, July 25th... OTZ, I really want to follow the rhythm of updating every Saturday.

So what, because "Heart of Blazing Blood" is also undergoing a full-text overhaul, so the update here may be delayed for a while, and there will be no pitfalls.

This chapter is a www that is not in the manuscript and is considered a style transition.In the next chapter, you can officially enter the Gallic roll mode hhh Hilarion is about to appear, and General Sadan is also coming to play soy sauce again.

I hope you will continue to support and enjoy reading :)

☆, imperial envoy

At the same time, the clouds of war are brewing over the Roman Empire.If it breaks out, it will be a very, very comical war.As for the origin of this funny, we have to think about it in the long run.

In 230 Camelot, five years after the unification of Celtic Britain, a scandal broke out at the Roman court.Emperor Lushashi's younger sister, Imperial Princess Horosia, is found to be having an affair with a lowly court guard.After Lu Xiashi learned about it, she immediately locked up Horosia, forbidding her from meeting her lover, and executed the guard without her knowing.Holosia struggled and resisted for many days in the confinement, and when she finally saw her brother again, what she waited for was the news that her lover had been killed.The princess's heart is like a rose that withers in an instant, nothing can attract her anymore, she can't wait to follow her lover away.

When Lu Xiashi appeared in the confinement room for the third time, she frowned tightly. "Horosia, the hunger strike has been overused. You should show repentance instead of getting angry with me—then I'll let you out."

Holosia was already exhausted from hunger. She curled up in the corner, rolled her eyelids, and said dryly, "I don't want to ask for your forgiveness, and don't let me go out. Just let me fend for myself, Emperor His Majesty!"

"How is it possible!" Lu Xiashi raised his voice involuntarily, and frowned more tightly. He tried to adopt a soft way, "How can you talk like this! You are my sister, Horosia, how could I let you go! "

Holosia expressed her disapproval with a slight sneer, and then said nothing else.

Lu Xiashi stood at the door, very embarrassed, and he tried to make a final persuasion: "You have to understand, these things will pass. Not only because you have the possibility of falling in love with others, but also because when you marry a rich man Nobility—even if there is no love between you—when you live a rich and stable life, you will understand how unnecessary it is to be crazy about love when you are young. A happy marriage must first ensure a rich life, a Can the court guard give it to you? He will ruin your reputation first. I am your brother, Horosia, and I will always think of you. If you will forget that youth and live, you will someday realize I'm right."

The princess curled up in the corner of the room, was silent for a while, and then said weakly: "Brother, do you still remember that when I was 14 years old, you and my father wanted to marry me to the Vandal prince? That time I was chased by the Visigoths. Kill, almost die."

Lu Xiashi obviously also recalled the situation at that time, and the tide of guilt overwhelmed him, even after many years: "Oh, of course I remember, Horosia, I'm sorry..."

"...I knew then." She interrupted her brother with a wave of her hand, "You men who hold power don't understand love at all."

"I'm not going to continue my hunger strike," she said, "I'm going to live and prove to you that I'm right, too."

Although Lu Xiashi felt a little puzzled by her words, at least he understood the first half of the sentence.That's enough, as long as he knows that this sister doesn't intend to involve so much of his energy so that he can deal with difficult military and political affairs, that's enough.

However, within a few days, he appeared in front of Horosia again.This time he put away his good temper, his fists clenched and his face scowling.

"Horosia," her name was squeezed out between her teeth, "you wrote this thing?!"

A crumpled letter was thrown on her, and Horothea picked it up and looked at it. The handwriting was beautiful and graceful, but the parchment was stained with soot, dust, and blood, and was torn to pieces.And at the end of that letter, her name was written squarely. "Didn't you see it?" She reached out and tapped the signature.

"It's really you..." Lu Xiashi walked around in the same place for a few times, and then suddenly said, "You are treason!" He yelled at her.

How dare she write to Hilarion and say that if he would get her out, she would marry him!Anger surged and burned in Lu Xiashi's chest, like the magma roaring under the volcano, what did she think of his brother?What did she think of herself!However, Horosia was still able to calmly take care of her hair at this time, and asked him with a normal expression, "Has this letter been to Visigoth?"

"Of course," Lu Xiashi's expression was very twisted, "this time it came back with the Visigoth army!" That's why it was so tattered.

The instigator probably guessed this, she sat down in the corner, raised her head and showed a sweet smile to Lu Xiashi: "You probably don't know, Your Majesty the Emperor? I also wrote the same letter to Attila. "

She happily enjoyed her brother's dramatic expression changes, and burst into earth-shattering laughter when Lu Xiashi slammed the door away.She seemed to stop laughing until she was out of breath, and there were two distinct tear stains on her expressionless face. "Let me just say," she wiped away her tears numbly, "Which of your Majesties understands love?"

Fortunately, Attila did not act immediately like Hilarion.Although he is also a barbarian in Lu Shashi's eyes, he behaved much more civilized than Hilarion in this matter. He sent a well-worded reply letter (Lu Shashi was sure that it was his secretary Constance Chous), declared his intention to marry Horosia, and demanded Gaul as a dowry.

——It’s really more civilized than Hilarion, at least not directly.In this case, Rome temporarily avoided the situation of fighting on two fronts.Lu Xiashi can let Attila go first, and deal with the Goths in the west wholeheartedly.

Hilarion, king of the Visigoths, is a very real person.When he received this letter and was about to send troops, his subordinate and commander Sadan Germanik showed a look of "your head was kicked by a donkey" and said: "You don't really intend to rescue Her?" Although the generals all agreed that their majesty should marry a wife and have children when he is old enough, it is definitely not the target.

Hilarion glanced at him. "You got kicked in the head by a donkey."

Afterwards, Sadan really felt that his head must have been kicked by a donkey.How could he be so whimsical that he believed that their majesty, who has always been very realistic and profit-oriented, would save a princess who was trapped in the cabinet because of a letter-he would obviously use this as an excuse to go to Rome to grab a fortune, just like now .

The Visigothic heavy cavalry descended like tigers, and Rome's defenses collapsed one by one.The joy of revenge in Holosia's heart gradually dissipated, and in the gloomy cell, the premonition that she might make a big mistake made her face paler and duller day by day.

Hilarion conquered Rome.Holosia paced back and forth in the small room like clockwork, her face was ashen, her long hair lost its luster, only her eyes shone with extraordinary light like all those who were deep in thought.In a hurry, she thought of a remedy that she might try.

"I want to see King Sigoth!" She urged her guards eagerly, "Go and tell Lu Xiashi, let me see him!"

Lu Xiashi surrendered to this sister before she compromised with Hilarion at the negotiating table (the barbarian's conditions were ridiculously high).Forget it, he thought hopelessly, and he didn't know what the girl was planning, what if it worked.

On the day of seeing Hilarion, Horosia dressed up meticulously, but she still couldn't hide the haggardness she had accumulated in recent days.As she walked towards Hilarion and her brother, she quietly observed the Visigoth king whom she had never met.

Hilarion was thin, that was Horosia's first impression.His jaw is sharp and angular, and the bones on the back of his hand can be clearly seen when he moves his fingers a little; the arch of his eyebrows and the bridge of his nose cast deep shadows on his face, like a Greek marble statue.He has long straight red hair, which makes his face very pale, and makes his emerald eyes very impressive.In her eyes, this tall, fair-skinned, red-haired, green-eyed young man was full of barbarian temperament from his appearance.

Will he be willing to marry himself?Holosia was very confused.

But she bravely spoke up: "King Visigoth, I am Princess Herosia. Your arrival made me free, so I also fulfill my promise: I will be your wife. Since there is an in-law relationship , Our two countries should be repaired for a long time, so you don't ask my brother for anything except my dowry." After she finished speaking, she didn't dare to look at Lu Xiashi's reaction, and could only force herself to stare at Greece Ryan.

And Hilarion suddenly felt like laughing because she was staring at her like a tiger.

——What to do, this plot is really familiar.

Holosia didn't know him, but he knew Holosia.When the little princess was 14 years old, on the way to marry another country, he almost killed her.Because the Vandal king who planned to let his son marry Herosia at that time, in order to complete this high-profile marriage, he did not hesitate to kill his daughter-in-law who had just passed the family for a year-the Visigoth princess Turkma-Ursili Ya, Hilarion's own sister.

Hilarion always remembers the scene when Turkma got married. She wore a luxurious wedding dress and walked down the stairs of the castle, followed by her maids. Her subjects threw flowers to send her away, and the petals spread from the top of the stairs to the ground. .She waved goodbye to Hilarion, the corners of her eyes rising in a smile.She said at the time: "Sean, when you become king, you won't have to worry about the fire in your backyard. At that time, with me as the queen, Vandal will be your closest friend."

As a result, a year later, she was accused of disloyalty by the Vandal King Lemonosos, cut off her nose and ears cruelly, and sent her body back to Visigoth.

It was all for the imperial princess named Herosia.

Now, Hilarion looked at Horosia who said she was going to marry him. She was about the same age as Turkma back then, and she couldn't help but remind him of the past.That was a thorn in Hilarion's heart, or his reverse scale.

So he turned to Lu Xiashi with a smirk and said: "Your Majesty, you must not want to lose such a lovely sister. If you increase my annual tribute to 3500 pounds of gold, I will leave her to you." .Otherwise, I’ll sack Rome to the last penny before sunset tomorrow.” With that, he stood up, walked around Horusia and left—without even looking at her.

Behind his back, Lu Xiashi and Horosia looked at each other, and the blood faded from both faces.After looking at her brother for a while, Holosia knelt down on the ground with a plop, covering her face and weeping.

And that's not the worst.The next day, urgent news came back to Rome from the eastern frontier, detonating panic in the entire Eternal City.

——Attila finally got tired of waiting, and Xi Zheng came to ask for Herosia's "dowry".

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It was the early summer of Camelot 230 when Amferopol set foot on the British Isles.The island has a pleasant climate, beautiful scenery, and the vast wilderness and quiet countryside are refreshing.Sitting in the carriage, he almost thought that this was another world besides this world.It wasn't until the carriage drove into the city streets of Camelot that he felt the smell of fireworks that he hadn't seen for a long time.He stared at the scenery outside the window with some trepidation, thinking that he was busy with war and preparing for war every day, but the people here lived as if they didn't know what war was.But he also knew that the fact that the British Isles had just been united through a war made him feel even more novel.

Camelot's palace is located on the hillside, pulling out the hustle and bustle of the world, and pulling out the poetic feelings.The carriage carried the distinguished guests up the mountain and stopped outside the palace wall.Amferopol was asked to get out of his chariot and walk to the main hall. His entourage on horseback wanted to raise objections, but he stopped them.He obediently got out of the car, and his entourage got off their horses too, and the group followed the guide and walked in.

The guide stopped in front of the heavy door of the stone hall.Then, with a ray of sunlight streaming out, the door of the Stone Hall of the Round Table opened in front of Amferopol.There was no meeting in the stone hall at this time, and the huge room looked empty and deserted, but the bright sunlight coming in from all directions made people feel extremely warm.There were several figures standing in the room. At the intersection of the sun, a black-haired young man in Amferopol turned around, with a strange light and shadow in his golden eyes.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time—Honorable Mr. Imperial Envoy." The black-haired young man said politely but all teasingly.

After the short meeting, the imperial envoy Amferopol was taken down to rest, and the gate of the stone hall engulfed him.In the quiet room that was restored for a moment, Arthur looked around and said, "Come and talk freely, gentlemen. What do you think of the news he brought?"

"I don't think this is our war." Merlin folded his hands on his chest, leaned back against the edge of the table, and squinted at Kai. "What do you think, Lord Knight Commander?"

The red-haired young man sat on a chair, keeping a distance from Merlin.Hearing that Merlin was the first to ask himself, he raised his eyebrows with undisguised sarcasm: "It's rare that we agree, great" mage." Then he turned to Arthur, "We just ended a war five years ago, and now The restructuring of Scotland has just started to improve, and the whole country has not yet fully recovered. At this time, the army will complain, and the treasury will not know whether to agree or not.”

"What's more," Merlin added, "the army that the envoy said is separated from us by Rome, Visigoths, and the sea." He smiled coldly and silently, "Who gave him confidence and convinced him that we Will help him?"

Arthur nodded and concluded, unsurprisingly, "So obviously we won't. Then it's easy - we just have to figure out how to explain it to him. Obviously," he smiled. Turning to Merlin, "It would be most appropriate to entrust this task to the Archmage, right?"

Merlin raised his head and looked at him motionlessly with a disapproving expression of "Are you planning to push your affairs to me again?"Arthur bathed in such gazes as if nothing had happened, and waved his hand feeling good about himself: "Get out, Kai. This is the end of our two missions."

Very well, Your Majesty.Arthur was delighted to see Merlin move his mouth like this.

Having made up his mind to send Amferopol home, Arthur happily went to North Castle to find Lancelot.But when he arrived at the place, he was told by Roland that his husband had just left to see His Majesty and had to go back to South Castle. He forgot to ask Roland the reason in his haste.

The two almost missed it in the castle, but Arthur had sharp eyes and saw Lancelot walking down the corner below at the corner of the stairs. The latter looked down and didn't see him.Arthur quickly stopped him, Lancelot stopped and looked up, and the two looked at each other across a flight of stairs.

Even today, the blond knight still maintains a polite wording and tone: "Why are you looking for me, Your Majesty?"

Arthur shrugged: "I heard you were looking for me."

Lancelot smiled, and walked up: "Yes, and it was almost a waste of time." When he walked up to Arthur, he gradually put down his smile, "I heard that Rome envoys to ask us for help."

Arthur was taken aback: "... Kai told you?" His movements were faster than his own?

"No," Lancelot shook his head, "The envoy came by himself." Seeing Arthur's eyes waiting for an explanation, he speculated, "Maybe he found out that I was the chief of the Knights from some sources, and he decided to Come find me."

Arthur frowned, he didn't expect Anferopol to act like this.What is this for? "Then you must have heard what I have heard," said Arthur.

Lancelot nodded: "Yes. And I want to know your plan." He looked directly at Arthur and said.

"I refuse." Arthur replied frankly without hesitation.

Lancelot nodded, which seemed to be the expected result, but his expression was still darkened imperceptibly.Arthur was sure he still had something to say, and sure enough, Lancelot spoke again, but his tone seemed hesitant: "Your Majesty, I have no intention of participating in the decision-making of major events, nor do I want to force you to change your decision for me. I just want my thoughts to be reflected in your ears."

Arthur said "I'm listening" with his eyes.

Lancelot nodded as if encouraged: "I want to say that personally, I very much hope to participate in this war. I hope to go to Gaul."

Arthur reflexively wanted to ask why, but as soon as he uttered the word "for", he realized the reason: "... Gaul is your hometown." He used an affirmative sentence, and he looked at Lancelot with a certain expression some changes.

Lancelot nodded and added calmly: "And the Rogeris family are Franks, the place where they lived for generations is about to be invaded..."

"The Rogeris family?"

Hearing Arthur repeating this phrase, Lancelot was stunned for a moment, then shook his head as if in disbelief: "I didn't mention it to you...well, Rogeris is my family name, my My father was the monarch of a small Frankish state. That state is gone now."

"What's wrong with it?" Arthur asked.

Lancelot replied calmly: "It was wiped out by the Visigoths 30 years ago. After that, the local people lived in the borders of the two adjacent great countries, or scattered blindly in unmanaged areas-but even So, I still want to go back and have a look," he said helplessly, "when it is about to be invaded again. Last time I fled to Scotland in embarrassment, this time I always hope that I can do something-this is also human nature. "

Arthur thought he should show it, but every emotion he could think of—regret, understanding, sympathy—seemed a bit off here.So he could only repeat Kay's rhetoric dryly, but luckily Lancelot didn't dislike them.

"I know," he waved his hand generously, "I can't ask the entire knight order to act for one of my wishes, I just think I should at least tell you a little bit." As he spoke, he bent his eyes with a smile , turned around and walked down.Arthur stood on the stairs for a long time, always feeling uncomfortable, but he knew he hadn't done anything wrong.It was a rush to start a new war now, he believed Lancelot understood; but it just didn't feel right to him.

It seems that he is a little cruel, he thought angrily.

But it doesn't.Another voice in my head said.

But I still feel very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable.Lancelot could at least laugh, but he couldn't even laugh.

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When Arthur went to find Merlin, the latter had already efficiently written the paperwork for Anferopol to bring back to Lu Xiashi, and was about to hand it over to him the next day and send him away.Merlin handed over the document to Arthur for review. In his eyes, this was a very normal process. However, after Arthur finished reading it, he asked casually: "Merlin, I remember that when I first came to the throne, you proposed to ask for credit for the high school." Lou?"

Merlin was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, in the long-term plan in the future, there is indeed an opportunity to attack Gaul."

Arthur put the drafted paper aside. "Just this time."

Merlin showed a look of surprise, he was neither prepared nor imagined for this decision.He seemed to be implying Arthur to give him an explanation, but Arthur didn't say anything, just repeated: "It's a good opportunity to send troops to Gaul by participating in the coalition forces."

Early the next morning, His Majesty the King called an emergency meeting of the Knights, and Merlin and the imperial envoy were invited to attend.Sitting behind Arthur, Merlin's gaze was poked on Arthur like an awl—why did he change his mind suddenly or privately?Kay should have stated his interest in front of Arthur.He looked at Kai, and the knight leader obviously didn't expect this sudden meeting.

Then his gaze inadvertently passed Lancelot.He saw the blond knight's restrained joy in the same astonishment as the others.During the voting session, he read the nervous message from Lancelot.

Then he understood everything.

The result of the vote made Anferopol heave a sigh of relief, while Merlin remained silent.After he understood why this was happening, he could only feel the anger in his heart unabated.Lancelot's dazzling blond hair became the most obtrusive thing in his eyes at this time.He watched Arthur officially issue the war mobilization order, some knights responded enthusiastically, and the imperial envoy opposite smiled.The meeting ended in an enthusiastic atmosphere. He filed out with the crowd, dutifully sent Anferopol to the door, and expressed his positive attitude towards the upcoming cooperation by the way.

After doing all this, he turned around and wanted to ask Arthur for clarification, but he just ran into the scene where Arthur was hugged by his chief knight.Merlin instantly dismissed the idea of ​​looking for Arthur, and turned his head hard to leave.

Due to the change of plans, Anferopol postponed the date of departure for a few days so that he could have time to discuss the details of the cooperation with Arthur.So by the time he left he was in Camelot a week in all.

"I admire your generosity and foresight. From now on, I will always look forward to meeting you again in two weeks." Amferopol said to Arthur when he left the palace.

Then he boarded a ship to bid farewell to the British Isles and returned home via Visigoth.When passing through Toulouse, he incidentally informed Hilarian of Lu Xiashi's plan to form a coalition army.He told the Visigoth king that a group of Celtic reinforcements would come across the sea in two weeks. At that time, they would form a coalition against Attila under the leadership of Rome together with the mainland barbarian countries that had received the notice earlier and promised to form an alliance. .

Hilarion asked: "Who will command the coalition formed?"

Amferopol told him: "Governor of Gaul, Your Majesty." His expression was somewhat meaningful.

The author has something to say: The timeline jumps to five years later, and this is the beginning of the main content of the Gallic volume. Let us say hello to General Sadan who came out to make soy sauce again! XDD

So seeing that the author spends so much time writing about the Roman Visigoths, everyone should know that they will be a plot clue in the Gaul volume. so...be careful to remember the names of these people ww

In fact, the time when the Roman Empire fell in history was much later than what the author wrote in the article, but for the sake of the plot, the history was compressed.The Vandal kings, Visigoth kings, Roman princesses, and the upcoming Governor of Gaul in this volume are all historical archetypes. Interested students may wish to guess who their archetypes are.

Regarding the name of the Roman emperor, such a literary translation is not my original one, but comes from "The Death of King Arthur" translated by Huang Sufeng, in which there is a volume dedicated to Arthur and this poem named Lucias—actually Lucias— The story of the Roman emperor.Of course, at the time set in my article, the Roman emperor at that time should be Valentinian.However, in order to use the translated name that the author likes very much, he set Lu Xiashi as the son of Valentinian, which tampered with history again hhh

Regarding the Rogeris family, this is not made up by me. It is also from "The Death of King Arthur", and it should be mentioned in some chapters about the Holy Grail in the second half.In this article, the background of this family is not small

The two things about Princess Horosia are true, and the information can be found.Attila really used such a strange reason to attack Gaul, and a princess of Visigoth was killed by such a strange reason...

Finally, please look forward to the appearance of the Governor of Gaul in the next chapter!

[ps, the author will go to a meeting outside the city on the 26th, and come back on the 30th. This meeting is very important and the pressure before the meeting is relatively high, so it is likely that it will not be updated from today until the 30th. 】

☆, the heart of a child

Councils on the war were held in the Temple of Bellona, ​​a centuries-old tradition in the Roman Senate.At the meeting, Amferopol put forward the proposal that Gaul Governor Derangel-Gaudentius should form and lead the Roman-Barbarian coalition to resist the enemy in the east, which was unanimously approved by everyone.In fact, this has long been a certainty, and everyone has a consensus in their hearts that the Senate's meeting to grant military power is just a formality-military preparations have already begun.After the meeting, the first thing Anferopol did was to meet the person he recommended.

The family background of General Derangel is somewhat complicated.His father was a Roman cavalry commander who was promoted to general by virtue of his military exploits, and his mother was a Visigoth nobleman.For some reason that Derangel didn’t understand, he was sent to Visigoth to be raised by his uncle when he was a child, and he stayed there for 17 years, which made him very fond of the customs and customs of Visigoth. Familiar with him; when he was young, he was sent to the East as a proton, which also allowed him to have early contact with Attila.Now, he has become the Governor of Gaul in Rome, and all his early experiences have been put to good use - because the main duty of the Governor of Gaul is to deal with these barbarians day in and day out.

Now the general was not at all surprised by the news that Amferopol had brought. "Well, I see. Now there is one more thing," Derangel didn't look at Anferopol when he spoke, and he didn't put down his pen until he signed the order at hand, "I need someone who knows how to A secretary dealing with barbarians." He looked at Anferopol twice, "I think you are good. Are you interested?"

Amferopol folded his arms a little amusedly: "I am a member of the Senate after all, Mr. Governor, this secretary is very expensive."

Drangel looked at him in surprise: "...you still want me to pay you?"

Anferopol glanced at the other party with a little sorrow, but his sorrow was not received by Drangel, so he waved his hand as if giving up: "Forget it, the emperor has already guessed that you will have such a plan, he Jurisdiction over me has been transferred to you. When will you leave?"

The Governor of Gaul tidied up the items on the table, stood up and walked around the table: "I have nothing to do, and Rome is not my daily office area. Now go and say goodbye to my wife, and I can leave immediately."

"...Okay," Anferopol admitted that he was defeated by this guy, "wait for me, we can start after lunch today."

Derangel opened the door, and the two walked out one after the other.In the corridor, Amferopol suddenly said without warning: "Do you still remember Hilarion?"

The blond general next to him gave him a strange look. "of course I remember."

"I told him that day that the coalition forces would be under your command, and he was no exception," said Anferopol.

"And then? What did he say?" Derangel asked casually, looking ahead.

Anferopol gave a dry laugh: "He is too lazy to say anything."

"Sure enough." Derangel was not surprised at all.After a while, he whispered to himself again: "I don't even remember the year and month when I last had a conversation with him as a non-enemy."

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After Amferopol was packed and taken to Gaul by the governor, Arthur also landed on the northwest coast of Gaul as promised.He brought a large army composed of troops from England, Wales and Scotland, and the entire Knights of the Round Table came out. This is probably after their Celtic ancestors left the European continent and split in the British Isles. The largest military operation organized by the nation.

After entering northern Gaul, Amferopol immediately got in touch with them, and the two sides communicated with them as quickly as possible, and then part of Arthur's troops entered the battlefield.At this time, more than ten days had passed since Attila issued the declaration of war. After breaking through the layers of defense deployed by Drangel in the northern part of the empire, the Eastern Cavalry finally arrived at the gate of Gaul.Thanks to the previous lines of defense that slowed him down, Rome and its newly assembled alliance partners had some preparation time; but this time was not much after all, and it was even more hasty for Arthur and his foreign troops. As soon as it landed, it went into battle.

According to the governor's instructions conveyed by Amferopol, Arthur must first send people eastward through the city of Metz to intercept the enemy troops trying to bypass the Drangel's line of defense by using roundabout tactics.This task is not difficult to complete, presumably the governor wants them to warm up first, and to check their combat effectiveness by the way, Arthur thought.

So both he and Lancelot treated this small-scale battle with a very serious attitude.The only small episode in the whole process was that when they passed the city of Metz from outside the city, Lancelot gestured to the city from a distance and said: "This used to be Luo