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2020-10-28 Author: Emperor Han Dynasty

Chapter 672, Luther Harken

The imperial general Alaric opened his mouth. He was half angry and half helpless. Looking at Fugan's disgusting but incomparably beautiful face, Alaric finally stated his conditions.

"First of all, save our Imperial soldiers, you must treat them like your own soldiers."

"If they can prove their loyalty and combat prowess, I will." Fulgan nodded in agreement.

"The second..." Alaric was about to speak, but Fulgan interrupted him roughly: "These are two conditions, not one."

"I didn't ask you to agree to this condition, you listen to me first." Alaric insisted, and he continued: "If a soldier wants to return to the empire, you must not stop it."

"I'm not going to stop, but I'm not going to provide ships, supplies, and security," Fogan replied.

"...Since that's the case, then I will order the imperial army to surrender to you. Remember, we surrendered to you and your Ash Legion, we didn't surrender to the Lizardmen!" Alaric hesitated, but still handed it over 's long sword.

"Okay." Fulgan accepted this condition. He took the long sword from Alaric's hand, and ignored the imperial general. The imperial army who received the order finally began to surrender to the soldiers of the Ash Legion in batches.

"You all go out and accept the surrender. Let me be alone for a while." Seeing that the rest of the people did not go out, the imperial general continued. Fugen's Phoenix Guards were still a little hesitant. Nodding his head, he knew: "Okay, let's go out, you can be alone for a while."

Gold Mage Karim has a very high status in the Ash Legion. He is not only trusted by Fulgrim, but also a high-level magician who is in short supply in the Ash Legion. He is a Sanctuary Elemental Mage. The fatal flaw of lack of wizards, so even the Phoenix Guards looked at him differently. Now that Mage Jin spoke up, everyone stopped talking, and they withdrew from the big tent one after another. Karim glanced at Alaric and withdrew as well. big account.

Finally, Fulgan completely accepted the remaining more than 3,000 Imperial troops, including a large amount of materials, systematically trained Imperial soldiers, the little food left, and the remaining 100 muskets, as well as looted Part of his wealth fell into Fugen's hands. After the lizardmen confirmed that the imperial army had completely disintegrated, the Skink Priest greeted Fugen and slowly retreated. Fugen sent over a dozen boxes. Pork thanks.

It took a while to break up the imperial army into his own army, and the commander of the Ash Legion sighed: "Felix?"

"Yes." The winged cavalry general came up.

"You and Fernando, go and cremate that General Alaric. You must remember to let his ashes return to the empire of the old world and be buried in the Moor Garden when you trade with the old world."

"Yes!" When Fernando Pilazzo and Felix Edmundovich walked into the tent, the imperial general Alaric had been dead for a long time. He took poison and died, leaving a letter before temporary , which reads Emperor Karl Franz personally, and also left a small bag of gold and gems, with a note that he hopes that the commander of the Forgan Army will find a way to return this bag of gold and silver to the old world and send it to his family. , leaving a contact address by the way.

"Legion Commander, what should we do?" With Alaric's relic, Fernando found Fugan.

"You can give this small bag of gold and precious stones to the Hadrian Chamber of Commerce and let them deliver it there. As for the letter..." Fulgan opened the wax seal on the letter without hesitation, and he simply browsed through it. Look at the content of the letter.

The content of the letter is very brief and scribbled. It euphemistically mentions that Lustria is not as safe and full of wealth as imagined, and it is very dangerous. plan, don't send people to the new world.

Fulgan understood why the imperial general left this letter, he gave Karim a wink, and Mage Jin immediately understood.

The contents of the letter have been suitably "polished" a little, and a wax seal has been reprinted, which will be placed in a large box full of treasures of gold and silver, and sent to Karl Franz As the last "loyalty" of the "dead" imperial general in front of the emperor's court, the sincere and credible commander of the Ashes Corps, Fugen, handed it over on his behalf.

"Clean up the camp as soon as possible, don't leave the army here, but the camp stays, we won't be back soon." Fugan ordered: "At most two weeks, we should go to solve another trouble."

"The vampire pirate king in eastern Lustria, Luther Harken."

…………I am the sincere and credible dividing line…………

Two weeks later, Lustria, Marauder's Shore, Marauder's Harbor, inside the stables.

Julius is diligently shoveling the horse dung of the pure-blooded elf war horse with an iron shovel. Because the pure-blooded elf war horse has a big temper and likes to run around, its horse dung can be pulled everywhere, and Julius cannot. Not shoveling **** behind two pureblood warhorses all day.

In addition to shoveling shit, Ryan's brother-in-law must also find ways to feed the pure-blooded elf war horse, clean the stables, and carry buckets to clean the stables. At the same time, he must also solve the breeding problem of pure-blooded elf warhorses, even at night. Being able to sleep in the thatched hay in the stables, pure-blooded elf war horses are very difficult to serve. Whenever they are interested, Julius must take them out for a walk.

Julius was full of complaints at first. He was an expeditionary knight at the peak of the legendary legend, the direct son of the Duke of Brittany, the first in line to inherit, and actually became a groom. How could he not feel humiliated? and frustration?

But Julius was rigid, stern and stubborn by nature, but he never shied away from challenges and tribulations. After the initial discomfort, the expedition knight would soon become a groom. Among the countless trials and tribulations of the Holy Grail expedition were insignificant. One of a kind, he gradually integrated into the role, and when recalling the revelation of the fairy of the lake, Julius began to understand the true meaning of the fairy of the lake on his third day as a groom.

In the hard work, time passed quickly, and two weeks passed like this. Relying on the breeding knowledge he learned from growing up with pure-blooded elf warhorses and the noble court, Julius exhausted himself. All the energy, the level of difficulty in this is that even Julius is often tired and sweating, because the feed and exercise patterns must be changed in each cycle during the breeding period, the recovery period, the strengthening period and the breeding preparation period. To make the arrogant and temperamental pure-blooded elf warhorse obedient without leaving any sequelae or developing a vicious habit was also a pain in the **** for Julius.

After a lot of hard work, Julius finally helped Fulgrim to successfully breed the two pureblood elf warhorses.

It was another early morning, when Julius was habitually early, he put on a dirty sackcloth, went to the river to pick up two large buckets of river water with his shoulders, transported it back to the stable for use, and then made a fire to cook rice. Breakfast is milk, bread and bacon, and the pureblood stallion's food is soybeans, peas, grass, corn, carrots, and some honey.

As for the pregnant pure blood elf mare, the carrot is more important. Julius carefully added some salt and tropical fruits, stewed the feed into a semi-paste, and then gave it to the mare.

When everything was done, the sky was already bright, and Julius could finally take a breath. He moved a chair and sat in the stable. He saw the two elf war horses gorging on their food, their tails hanging straight down and their nostrils hanging down. Relaxed, with his mouth open, with a smile on his face, Ryan's brother-in-law judged that the warhorse should like these foods. He breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his head to drink water.

"Well done." At this time, Fugan's voice came from outside the stable, Fugan stuck his head out of the stable and looked at Julius with a half-smile: "I didn't expect you to be a groom. talent."

"I will not disappoint the lady's expectations for me." Julius' face became hard again when he saw Fugen appearing: "You asked me to breed your warhorse, and I completed my task."

"Yes, you completed your task, and you did a good job." Fulgan still maintained his elegant movements, and there was a rare glimpse of appreciation in his eyes: "Very good, yes, as my subordinate, you will It has to be like this, or you don’t do it, if you do it, you do your best, this is the quality you should have if you want to be my opponent and my subordinates.”

"So, what's the matter with you?" Julius' face turned blue when he heard this. He was a knight. Does Fulgrim want him to be a groom for the rest of his life?

"Go clean yourself up and put on your armor, I don't want my hall to smell like a stable." Fulgan nodded slightly: "Come to the hall of my house after everything is over, we have a meeting to prepare for the next one. There's a war."

"……Yes."

Julius took half an hour to take a shower with the remaining large bucket of water, put on his armor and weapons that had been repaired and polished by the Ash Legion dwarf craftsman, and came to the lord's hall. Everyone was already there. Now, each of them with a cup of hot cocoa or coffee, obviously waiting for someone.

Seeing Julius come in, Fulgrim nodded: "Okay, let's start! Karim?"

"Yes!" Gold Mage Karim stood up, he walked to the center of the hall, and hung a roll of portraits on a large whiteboard: "Our opponent in this war is Luther Harken, the famous The Vampire Pirate King."

Julius frowned, and he carefully observed the task on the portrait. This was a vampire who looked like a human in his forties, with gray-white, shriveled, mid-part long hair. , Captain hat, hooked nose, wearing a black-red robe, wearing an eye patch, the eye sockets are deep, and the blood-red eyes are full of madness.

"Luther Harken was originally an officer of the kingdom of Lahmia among the kingdoms of the Nicohara Desert. It is said that he was once an officer of the blood dragon ancestor Aibo Wallace, serving as the harbour guard of Lahmia. and the bodyguard of the blood dragon ancestor, but it is said that he became a vampire during a series of turmoil in the Nicohara Desert and the Nagash Rebellion, but we don't know what happened after that." Master Jin pointed to the picture on the scroll. Character: "That's him, a vampire pirate."

"The second time Luther-Harken was found in a coffin on a human cargo ship, a group of barbarians who believed in Chaos looted the cargo ship, yes, those barbarians It was the Skokie tribe that we destroyed, the barbarians foolishly opened the coffin of Luther Harken and awakened him. After Luther Harken woke up, he woke up all the corpses and destroyed the barbarians, Then he took the cargo ship as his first pirate ship, and since then, he came to Lustria, awakened the corpses and wrecked ships in the ocean, and established his own undead fleet."

"It took hundreds of years for his undead fleet to grow and his army to grow in size, and Luthor assembled an army of zombies made from the corpses of pirates and sailors he had resurrected from around the world, and their During his lifetime, he manipulated a huge fleet of ships, so, greedy, he began to focus on the Lizardman Temple in the forest, wanting to get the wealth, secrets, and power left by the Old Sage."

"Obviously, the Slan Demon Toads will not sit by and watch this happen. A Slan Demon Priest cursed Luther-Hakon, causing his spirit to suffer a severe blow, his personality split into a dozen, and Constantly fighting for the control of his body, but even so, he still forcibly broke into a lizard man temple, and risked his own violent death to steal a slate bearing the prophecy of the ancient sage."

"So, our goal is to get this slate back?" Felix raised his hand.

"Not only that." Fulgan stood up, and he continued Karim's words: "Lord Crocker means that we not only want to take back the ancient sage's slate, but also try to solve Luther-Ha once and for all. Ken's threat."

"Where's the reward?" Halfling Happy picked up excitedly.

"One hundred sets of full-body plate armor and weapons with the divine power of the lizardmen, as well as all the treasures we seized from Luther Harken, the lizardmen promise to cleanse us for free." Fulgan stretched out a Root Finger: "But we can only succeed, not fail."

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became hot, and Julius thought about it for a while, and he took the initiative to ask: "Where are we going to fight Luther Harken? Also, how to guarantee the vampire pirate king Would you like to fight us?"

"This is indeed a problem." Fulgan nodded. "But the Lizardmen will assist us."

"Help us?"

"Well, as we know, Luther-Harken was cursed by the Slan Toad, and then again when he broke into the Shrine of the Lizardmen, so his mind and soul were in endless pain. He was always looking for a way to break the curse, and he always believed that there must be a Slann's secret treasure that could help him break the curse, so..." Forgan took out a gilded baton made of tropical hardwood and clicked On the sands of the Vampire Coast in eastern Lustria: "We can artificially bury the treasure provided by the Lizardmen under the sand, and this treasure will resonate with the slate of the Old One, and we have no reason not to believe it, Luther-Ha It will definitely appear with his undead fleet, there is only one chance."

"Understood." Julius no longer questioned: "I will also participate in this war."

"If you want to join too, remember to obey my orders." Fugen said lightly: "At critical moments, listen to me and swear in your lady's name."

Julius hesitated for a moment. He thought that his opponent was a vampire pirate. He didn't need to say anything about chivalry.

"Okay." Fugan didn't say any more, he immediately ordered: "Then, just follow the plan!"

"Our Ash Legion will be on the vampire coast, and we will meet the vampire pirate king for a while!"

"Yes!"

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Warhammer Throne - 712. Chapter 672

2020-10-28 Author: Emperor Han Dynasty

Chapter 672, Luther Harken

The imperial general Alaric opened his mouth. He was half angry and half helpless. Looking at Fugan's disgusting but incomparably beautiful face, Alaric finally stated his conditions.

"First of all, save our Imperial soldiers, you must treat them like your own soldiers."

"If they can prove their loyalty and combat prowess, I will." Fulgan nodded in agreement.

"The second..." Alaric was about to speak, but Fulgan interrupted him roughly: "These are two conditions, not one."

"I didn't ask you to agree to this condition, you listen to me first." Alaric insisted, and he continued: "If a soldier wants to return to the empire, you must not stop it."

"I'm not going to stop, but I'm not going to provide ships, supplies, and security," Fogan replied.

"...Since that's the case, then I will order the imperial army to surrender to you. Remember, we surrendered to you and your Ash Legion, we didn't surrender to the Lizardmen!" Alaric hesitated, but still handed it over 's long sword.

"Okay." Fulgan accepted this condition. He took the long sword from Alaric's hand, and ignored the imperial general. The imperial army who received the order finally began to surrender to the soldiers of the Ash Legion in batches.

"You all go out and accept the surrender. Let me be alone for a while." Seeing that the rest of the people did not go out, the imperial general continued. Fugen's Phoenix Guards were still a little hesitant. Nodding his head, he knew: "Okay, let's go out, you can be alone for a while."

Gold Mage Karim has a very high status in the Ash Legion. He is not only trusted by Fulgrim, but also a high-level magician who is in short supply in the Ash Legion. He is a Sanctuary Elemental Mage. The fatal flaw of lack of wizards, so even the Phoenix Guards looked at him differently. Now that Mage Jin spoke up, everyone stopped talking, and they withdrew from the big tent one after another. Karim glanced at Alaric and withdrew as well. big account.

Finally, Fulgan completely accepted the remaining more than 3,000 Imperial troops, including a large amount of materials, systematically trained Imperial soldiers, the little food left, and the remaining 100 muskets, as well as looted Part of his wealth fell into Fugen's hands. After the lizardmen confirmed that the imperial army had completely disintegrated, the Skink Priest greeted Fugen and slowly retreated. Fugen sent over a dozen boxes. Pork thanks.

It took a while to break up the imperial army into his own army, and the commander of the Ash Legion sighed: "Felix?"

"Yes." The winged cavalry general came up.

"You and Fernando, go and cremate that General Alaric. You must remember to let his ashes return to the empire of the old world and be buried in the Moor Garden when you trade with the old world."

"Yes!" When Fernando Pilazzo and Felix Edmundovich walked into the tent, the imperial general Alaric had been dead for a long time. He took poison and died, leaving a letter before temporary , which reads Emperor Karl Franz personally, and also left a small bag of gold and gems, with a note that he hopes that the commander of the Forgan Army will find a way to return this bag of gold and silver to the old world and send it to his family. , leaving a contact address by the way.

"Legion Commander, what should we do?" With Alaric's relic, Fernando found Fugan.

"You can give this small bag of gold and precious stones to the Hadrian Chamber of Commerce and let them deliver it there. As for the letter..." Fulgan opened the wax seal on the letter without hesitation, and he simply browsed through it. Look at the content of the letter.

The content of the letter is very brief and scribbled. It euphemistically mentions that Lustria is not as safe and full of wealth as imagined, and it is very dangerous. plan, don't send people to the new world.

Fulgan understood why the imperial general left this letter, he gave Karim a wink, and Mage Jin immediately understood.

The contents of the letter have been suitably "polished" a little, and a wax seal has been reprinted, which will be placed in a large box full of treasures of gold and silver, and sent to Karl Franz As the last "loyalty" of the "dead" imperial general in front of the emperor's court, the sincere and credible commander of the Ashes Corps, Fugen, handed it over on his behalf.

"Clean up the camp as soon as possible, don't leave the army here, but the camp stays, we won't be back soon." Fugan ordered: "At most two weeks, we should go to solve another trouble."

"The vampire pirate king in eastern Lustria, Luther Harken."

…………I am the sincere and credible dividing line…………

Two weeks later, Lustria, Marauder's Shore, Marauder's Harbor, inside the stables.

Julius is diligently shoveling the horse dung of the pure-blooded elf war horse with an iron shovel. Because the pure-blooded elf war horse has a big temper and likes to run around, its horse dung can be pulled everywhere, and Julius cannot. Not shoveling **** behind two pureblood warhorses all day.

In addition to shoveling shit, Ryan's brother-in-law must also find ways to feed the pure-blooded elf war horse, clean the stables, and carry buckets to clean the stables. At the same time, he must also solve the breeding problem of pure-blooded elf warhorses, even at night. Being able to sleep in the thatched hay in the stables, pure-blooded elf war horses are very difficult to serve. Whenever they are interested, Julius must take them out for a walk.

Julius was full of complaints at first. He was an expeditionary knight at the peak of the legendary legend, the direct son of the Duke of Brittany, the first in line to inherit, and actually became a groom. How could he not feel humiliated? and frustration?

But Julius was rigid, stern and stubborn by nature, but he never shied away from challenges and tribulations. After the initial discomfort, the expedition knight would soon become a groom. Among the countless trials and tribulations of the Holy Grail expedition were insignificant. One of a kind, he gradually integrated into the role, and when recalling the revelation of the fairy of the lake, Julius began to understand the true meaning of the fairy of the lake on his third day as a groom.

In the hard work, time passed quickly, and two weeks passed like this. Relying on the breeding knowledge he learned from growing up with pure-blooded elf warhorses and the noble court, Julius exhausted himself. All the energy, the level of difficulty in this is that even Julius is often tired and sweating, because the feed and exercise patterns must be changed in each cycle during the breeding period, the recovery period, the strengthening period and the breeding preparation period. To make the arrogant and temperamental pure-blooded elf warhorse obedient without leaving any sequelae or developing a vicious habit was also a pain in the **** for Julius.

After a lot of hard work, Julius finally helped Fulgrim to successfully breed the two pureblood elf warhorses.

It was another early morning, when Julius was habitually early, he put on a dirty sackcloth, went to the river to pick up two large buckets of river water with his shoulders, transported it back to the stable for use, and then made a fire to cook rice. Breakfast is milk, bread and bacon, and the pureblood stallion's food is soybeans, peas, grass, corn, carrots, and some honey.

As for the pregnant pure blood elf mare, the carrot is more important. Julius carefully added some salt and tropical fruits, stewed the feed into a semi-paste, and then gave it to the mare.

When everything was done, the sky was already bright, and Julius could finally take a breath. He moved a chair and sat in the stable. He saw the two elf war horses gorging on their food, their tails hanging straight down and their nostrils hanging down. Relaxed, with his mouth open, with a smile on his face, Ryan's brother-in-law judged that the warhorse should like these foods. He breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his head to drink water.

"Well done." At this time, Fugan's voice came from outside the stable, Fugan stuck his head out of the stable and looked at Julius with a half-smile: "I didn't expect you to be a groom. talent."

"I will not disappoint the lady's expectations for me." Julius' face became hard again when he saw Fugen appearing: "You asked me to breed your warhorse, and I completed my task."

"Yes, you completed your task, and you did a good job." Fulgan still maintained his elegant movements, and there was a rare glimpse of appreciation in his eyes: "Very good, yes, as my subordinate, you will It has to be like this, or you don’t do it, if you do it, you do your best, this is the quality you should have if you want to be my opponent and my subordinates.”

"So, what's the matter with you?" Julius' face turned blue when he heard this. He was a knight. Does Fulgrim want him to be a groom for the rest of his life?

"Go clean yourself up and put on your armor, I don't want my hall to smell like a stable." Fulgan nodded slightly: "Come to the hall of my house after everything is over, we have a meeting to prepare for the next one. There's a war."

"……Yes."

Julius took half an hour to take a shower with the remaining large bucket of water, put on his armor and weapons that had been repaired and polished by the Ash Legion dwarf craftsman, and came to the lord's hall. Everyone was already there. Now, each of them with a cup of hot cocoa or coffee, obviously waiting for someone.

Seeing Julius come in, Fulgrim nodded: "Okay, let's start! Karim?"

"Yes!" Gold Mage Karim stood up, he walked to the center of the hall, and hung a roll of portraits on a large whiteboard: "Our opponent in this war is Luther Harken, the famous The Vampire Pirate King."

Julius frowned, and he carefully observed the task on the portrait. This was a vampire who looked like a human in his forties, with gray-white, shriveled, mid-part long hair. , Captain hat, hooked nose, wearing a black-red robe, wearing an eye patch, the eye sockets are deep, and the blood-red eyes are full of madness.

"Luther Harken was originally an officer of the kingdom of Lahmia among the kingdoms of the Nicohara Desert. It is said that he was once an officer of the blood dragon ancestor Aibo Wallace, serving as the harbour guard of Lahmia. and the bodyguard of the blood dragon ancestor, but it is said that he became a vampire during a series of turmoil in the Nicohara Desert and the Nagash Rebellion, but we don't know what happened after that." Master Jin pointed to the picture on the scroll. Character: "That's him, a vampire pirate."

"The second time Luther-Harken was found in a coffin on a human cargo ship, a group of barbarians who believed in Chaos looted the cargo ship, yes, those barbarians It was the Skokie tribe that we destroyed, the barbarians foolishly opened the coffin of Luther Harken and awakened him. After Luther Harken woke up, he woke up all the corpses and destroyed the barbarians, Then he took the cargo ship as his first pirate ship, and since then, he came to Lustria, awakened the corpses and wrecked ships in the ocean, and established his own undead fleet."

"It took hundreds of years for his undead fleet to grow and his army to grow in size, and Luthor assembled an army of zombies made from the corpses of pirates and sailors he had resurrected from around the world, and their During his lifetime, he manipulated a huge fleet of ships, so, greedy, he began to focus on the Lizardman Temple in the forest, wanting to get the wealth, secrets, and power left by the Old Sage."

"Obviously, the Slan Demon Toads will not sit by and watch this happen. A Slan Demon Priest cursed Luther-Hakon, causing his spirit to suffer a severe blow, his personality split into a dozen, and Constantly fighting for the control of his body, but even so, he still forcibly broke into a lizard man temple, and risked his own violent death to steal a slate bearing the prophecy of the ancient sage."

"So, our goal is to get this slate back?" Felix raised his hand.

"Not only that." Fulgan stood up, and he continued Karim's words: "Lord Crocker means that we not only want to take back the ancient sage's slate, but also try to solve Luther-Ha once and for all. Ken's threat."

"Where's the reward?" Halfling Happy picked up excitedly.

"One hundred sets of full-body plate armor and weapons with the power of the lizardmen, and all the treasures we have seized from Luthor Harken, the lizardmen have promised to help us cleanse them for free." Fulgan stretched out a Root finger: "But we can only succeed, not fail~www.wuxiamtl.com~ The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became hot, Julius thought for a while, and he took the initiative to ask: "We are going to Where to fight Luther Harken? Also, how can we guarantee that this vampire pirate king will be willing to fight us? "

"This is indeed a problem." Fulgan nodded. "But the Lizardmen will assist us."

"Help us?"

"Well, as we know, Luther-Harken was cursed by the Slan Toad, and then again when he broke into the Shrine of the Lizardmen, so his mind and soul were in endless pain. He was always looking for a way to break the curse, and he always believed that there must be a Slann's secret treasure that could help him break the curse, so..." Forgan took out a gilded baton made of tropical hardwood and clicked On the sands of the Vampire Coast in eastern Lustria: "We can artificially bury the treasure provided by the Lizardmen under the sand, and this treasure will resonate with the slate of the Old One, and we have no reason not to believe it, Luther-Ha It will definitely appear with his undead fleet, there is only one chance."

"Understood." Julius no longer questioned: "I will also participate in this war."

"If you want to join too, remember to obey my orders." Fugen said lightly: "At critical moments, listen to me and swear in your lady's name."

Julius hesitated for a moment. He thought that his opponent was a vampire pirate. He didn't need to say anything about chivalry.

"Okay." Fugan didn't say any more, he immediately ordered: "Then, just follow the plan!"

"Our Ash Legion will be on the vampire coast, and we will meet the vampire pirate king for a while!"

"Yes!"

Updated, ask for a ticket!

(End of this chapter)