Throne Steps

In the south of the Raetia Federation, on the outskirts of the Huatzburg Swamp, the southwestern garrison training ground.

Harder held his rice bowl in one hand - or a small basin, if you like - as he walked among the soldiers.It's mealtime right now, and the soldiers are bustlingly gathering together to line up to receive the meal. It's normal for me to hit you and you to step on me.However, even in such a crowded place, the soldiers insisted on making way for Harder bit by bit, making him walk smoothly to the corner of the cooking place like an oil droplet that does not dissolve in water, and picked a path. sit down at a table and start eating.

When he sat down, not to mention that no one was at the same table as him, even the tables and chairs around him were "inaccessible".With Hader as the center, a subtle quiet zone appeared in the lively cooking place.Some of the soldiers who were sitting around before Harder’s arrival still ate their own food with “dignity” in mind, but they were almost “silent as cicadas”. .

Harder made no comment on the oppressive atmosphere that was not conducive to appetite, he just swallowed his food whole, without tasting any flavor at all.The fingers of his right hand are inflexible and can only be easily grasped, so he uses an iron spoon to scoop food.At first he was able to swallow it in one gulp and then another, but after eating a little bit, he seemed impatient with this time-wasting way of eating, so he increased the amount and speeded up, making the eating scene as tense as going to a battlefield.

His eating looks are really ugly, his snake swallowing appearance can almost make anyone who sees them feel as if they are choking.But those present were all ordinary soldiers, and even many recruits who had been in the army for less than a year, no one dared to raise any objection to this unappetizing scene.I just hope that this evil star will leave after eating a full meal, and stop staring at people with his snake-like eyes.

It wasn't until Hader left safely after eating that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"I was scared to death, he just glanced at me!" A soldier who was sitting near Hader patted his chest exaggeratedly, "I thought he was going to punch my internal organs!"

The companion squinted at him: "If you have the ability, you can say this in front of him, and see if he can kill you."

The joking soldier paused: "Farewell."

Harder has neither a strong background nor super talent, and even lost his fighting spirit due to his past experience, so he became famous only recently.But obviously, this fame doesn't really have much positive impact.It is precisely because of this fame that Harder, who was originally only a nobody in the barracks, seemed to have returned to the era of black boxing in an instant.

If it is said that he won the non-talented gymnastics championship and the individual comprehensive competition in the military competition, it just made him admire; then the episodes he tossed in these two competitions really made him almost unbeatable in the Southwest Garrison. We all know.

Things are simple and fairly simple.During the physical competition in the non-talented group, a second lieutenant who also participated in the competition had a dirty mouth. He verbally mocked Harder, who had reached the semi-finals all the way as a dark horse, and even made some dirty tricks. tricks.If it is said that Harder has become a mess in the underground arena before, the unclean method is really not a big insult to him.It's just that the officer had heard something about Harder's life experience from some sources, and he blurted it out at the scene of the much-anticipated military competition.

Harder entered the underground arena for his family.Although this desperate behavior still did not restore the tragedy that spread to the whole family, for Hader who is now like a duckweed, the former family is the last thought he guards in his heart, and the ridicule of his life experience touches his reverse scale. .The military officer directly angered him in the gymnasium arena, and he also hit him hard on the spot, colliding with the opponent with the belief and violence of "only the victor can survive" in the underground arena.

The officer was actually a member of a half-noble family, so he couldn't stand it no matter where he had seen such a desperate scene.But before he really realized that "it's over before we have to admit defeat", Harder almost broke his right hand when he got into a ball with him.

If Hader hadn't lost his source of fighting energy in the arena below, I'm afraid the officer's meager source of fighting energy would be destroyed by him.

This fight ended with Hader winning, and the others felt that Hader's shot was harsh at best.No wonder the officer actually found fault afterwards and insisted on killing Hader in the individual comprehensive competition.

The individual comprehensive competition, simply put, is a competition to snatch tokens in the Huatzburg swamp.In order to increase the competitiveness, the army also let the contestants in the same batch each bring a token, which can also be included in the total at the end.I don't know whether it was a coincidence or an arrangement, Harder and the officers who offended him entered the Huatzburg Swamp in the same batch.Five days later Harder came out, and the officer was nowhere to be seen.And the pile of tokens that Hader threw out were all originally brought by the same batch of competitors, and most of them came from the officer's acquaintances.

Everyone counted and found that none of the people who had been branded by Hade came out.Because there were too many people, and Harder didn't say what happened to them, the army had no choice but to ignore the past tradition of not finding people if they couldn't get out, and silently ordered a team of elite soldiers to go to Huatzburg to find them. up.

In addition to the Warcraft with a crystal nucleus of the "Lord", there are many other hidden dangers in the Huotzburg Swamp.When the search and rescue team came back, the only answers that could be handed over were some fragments of bitten corpses. The charge of "murder" was immediately pointed at Harder's head, but Harder was quite indifferent: "I remember that soldiers with military merits have immunity, and two individual championships—is it second-class merit?" Military merits can be recorded without fighting The pattern is a bit stupid, but in a relatively peaceful era, no one would have a bright future if it wasn't so neat.Harder didn't care about this at first, but now that it's useful, he unceremoniously used it as a shield.

In fact, if they were to go to a court-martial, everyone would not be able to produce evidence that Hader was the murderer.After all, there are so many monsters, and there are only obvious bite marks on the corpses. Who dares to say that Harder killed them—there are so many of them?

There is a legend in the "workshop" that when someone recognized the corpse's ankle as a friend of an officer, Hader once dismissed it with a little regret: "If I knew it, I would chop it up and throw it into the swamp to feed the 'Lord'."

And Harder's name in the lower arena back then quietly spread from nowhere - "Fierce Beast" Harder.

Harder rinsed his bowl casually, and was about to go back to his tent when the orderly of the main tent came over: "Lieutenant Harder, Major Gaia, please go to the main tent now."

"Now?" Harder hooked the corners of his mouth, showing an indistinct smile, and immediately overflowed with hostility, "Put the bowl first, okay?"

He used interrogative sentences, but he got into his tent without waiting for the other party to answer.The orderly stood upright at the entrance of the tent, as if he was on guard with his eyes fixed on him.After a while, Hader came out, glanced casually at the messenger, walked straight to the main tent without saying a word.

The orderly followed him two steps away.

When he arrived at the main tent, Harder discovered that Major Gaia had called more than one soldier, and the leaders present were not limited to Major Gaia, a plain young man.Looking around, the dozen or so people present are all outstanding performers in the military competition. No matter magicians, soldiers or ordinary people, they all wear military uniforms, and they all stand or sit separately, and they will not show timidity in front of the big leaders.

In addition to the white-white Major Gaia who is not like a soldier, there are two other majors in the leadership group.One of the two majors is a magician, but he has been "reborn" after being tempered by the life in the military camp. At least he looks more like a soldier than the little boy.Sitting on the main seat was a rather serious middle-aged man with the gaze of a superior. He was the colonel.

This tent is full of people with a higher level of fortitude than ordinary soldiers, so even seeing Hader join them in the tent, it is just a little bit more fearful, not like the ordinary soldiers in the previous cooking field. The soldiers also dispersed.

Hader was the last to arrive here.As soon as he came, the leaders spoke directly.Firstly, Major Gaia, who summoned everyone by confessing his name, once again praised everyone’s previous performance in the military competition, and speciously incited everyone’s patriotism. The other majors beat the side drums to imply that Here comes the chance for real military exploits.After this series of foreshadowing, the colonel spoke again, telling the real mission content.

——It was actually the vanguard of the attack!

The southwest garrison is the nearest garrison base to Suoyang, so it is naturally more sensitive to Suoyang's "quasi-independence" behavior than the army in other places.But even if they have marched to the Huatzburg Swamp and stationed, that does not mean that they can adapt to all the southern wars.Suoyang is located on the border, and the folk customs and power are very different from those in the interior, and the way of fighting is not very clear.The soldiers originally thought that this military competition was just a prelude to cleaning up Suoyang, and it would take a while to sing the main song. Who would have thought that as soon as the military competition ended, people would be sent to beat Suoyang?

Logically speaking, shouldn't it be that the royal court issued a decree to send troops, everyone rested their spirits, and then marched out and crushed away with great arrogance?

Now we only ask some excellent military players with decent skills to lead the troops as guerrilla vanguards. Isn't this because they have no morale, and second, they are not prepared, and they are all trying their luck in the dark?

In fact, what everyone thinks is not bad. It is the Rose faction that has been seriously dragged down in the royal court game, so they have to push the fire of "reversing the military order".Although Suoyang was small, it was really difficult to strike, because everyone always ignored whether it was round or flat, and now he suddenly wanted to punch him with his fist, and he didn't know where to strike.Rose Color knows this very well, and it turned out that it was also the idea of ​​"rehearsing first, and then asking for money for rest when the military order is almost forced, and finally crushing it hard".Unexpectedly, the color of navy blue insisted on inserting a stick in the army of "prospective in-laws", and the first step was to lead the "game of military orders".If they really got the military order before the southwest garrison rested, it would not be difficult for the navy blue color to add people to the southwest garrison to gain reputation, and it might even take away most of the military merits.

The color of rose is difficult for Suoyang to fight, and worried that the color of navy blue will win this game. It is the time when "the enemy is facing the enemy", so we have to send someone who may be more useful to Suoyang to find out the bottom line, and it is best to pick up the leak directly .

To put it bluntly, this group of young pioneers who are not really the core of the military fight against Suoyang. It is of course best to take advantage of it, and it will not hurt the vitals if it is damaged.

However, these young people are in a military camp with no news, so they don't really know how to point people's minds. In addition, the military orders are so overwhelming that they cannot resist, so they can only express their understanding.