broken world

On October [-]th, more than a month later, the city of Vulture was still besieged and had not yet been broken.

The frontier star field left Valle and led [-] warships to guard, and Gilfies took Yang Xiaoli to the city of Vulture in Barbarossa.

A grand victory ceremony awaits them?

No, that's another battle waiting for Yang Xiaoli.

...Hopefully this is the last pitched battle.

For the assassination in Vulture City, Yang Xiaoli thought of several countermeasures: for example, she would sneak in with a ring-shaped miniature beam gun like Ansenbach, or send the weapon to the ceremony venue through other means, and take it out in the chaos...

Each of these countermeasures has more or less flaws, and there is no way to be foolproof.

So the silver-haired woman on the Barbarossa bridge kept frowning.

Are you worried about Admiral Mercaz?Gilfies couldn't help but speculate like this.

When Barbarossa was approaching the City of Condors, a fleet of about [-] nobles joined forces to block between the Gilfies fleet and the City of Condors.

Today's United Noble Army is nothing to be afraid of, and the strength of the Gilfies fleet is far greater than this small fleet of [-] ships. However, when the opponent's flagship appeared on the bridge of Barbarossa When she was on the screen, Yang Xiaoli was more surprised than ever before——

"Atlantis! Father!" Yang Xiaoli almost covered her face and wept with joy.

"Your Excellency Gilfies, the other side requests communication."

Gilfies nodded, the bridge screen switched to the communication interface, and Merkaz's slightly tired face appeared on the screen:

【"I hand over this broken body to Your Excellency. It doesn't matter what you want to do with me, but please be lenient with my subordinates."】(Note 1)

Gilfies accepted the famous general of the empire as a first-class general, and Merkaz's remnant troops were temporarily incorporated into the Gilfies fleet. However, due to other considerations, Merkaz could not continue to carry Art Landis, but can only ride Barbarossa with Gilfies.

This is a rare reunion for the long-lost "father and daughter".

"Miss Mercaz and Admiral Mercaz must have a lot to say." Gilfies sympathetically arranged the time for them to talk alone.

In the lounge, after Schneider went out and closed the automatic door, Yang Xiaoli lowered her head guiltily, with an attitude of asking you to blame me and I will definitely admit my mistake.

Velibur Juhim von Merkaz had actually given up planning to scold her when he saw that she was well, so he just said in a very soft tone: "You can't take such risks again in the future. .”

Yang Xiaoli wanted to brazenly agree, but when she thought about the upcoming assassination against Reinhardt, if she did not take the risk again, the empire would lose a benevolent general, and the alliance would also lose an envoy who could maintain long-term peace with the empire... …

Yes, peace.Both she and Minghong understand that if one side of the alliance and the empire is extremely weak and the other is extremely strong, then the result will be that the strong side destroys the weak side, but what if the strength is equal?

Long-term peace would be best.

Therefore, for the sake of the upcoming long-term peace, Siegfried Gilfies cannot die in the city of vultures.This is also Ming Hong's plan.

Yang Xiaoli thought for a while and said, "This...let's start next month."

"next month?"

"What I mean is that the Vulture City has not yet been completely captured, and there are too many mutation factors. Therefore, when the Battle of Lipshouddt is really over, there should be no place for me to take risks. "

Merkaz reluctantly accepted his daughter's capricious and unreasonable demands. How could he know what kind of mutation would happen in the city of Vulture at that time, and that mutation almost involved the empire in a dangerous storm...

And Shirley von Merkaz was the only one who saved that disaster.

Not long after, [the sporadic resistance finally came to an end, and the City of Vultures was completely controlled], Reoenthal and Mittermeier ascended the last bastion of the powerful nobles, which heralded the arrival of a new era.A future for the blonde overlord, or who?No one could see clearly, not even Yang Xiaoli herself.

However, what she could feel now was the hostility from Reinhardt.

When Merkaz and his party set foot on the City of Condors, they did not receive the expected warm reception. Instead, they were sent to the prison in superalloy handcuffs like other prisoners of war, and accepted Reinhardt's referee.

"This is unfair..." Yang Xiaoli protested.

Merkatz comforted her with a wry smile: "No, this just shows that the Marquis of Rohenkram is a person who can distinguish right from wrong, Weistatt's credit belongs to Shirley von Merkaz, and Willie Burr Yuch M von Merkaz is just a failed sinner. The two must be distinguished."

Yang Xiaoli covered his hand and refused to let go: "If I want to go to prison, then I will go with my father."

Merkaz objected: "No need, with Schneider here, I shouldn't suffer any abuse in prison. Don't worry too much." Merkaz turned around and was taken away by the sergeant sent by Reinhardt.

On the way back to her room, Yang Xiaoli was so angry that she even started thinking about the danger of letting Reinhard die in Vulture City. At this time, a figure slowly approached her from behind...

In the command room of Vulture City, Gilfies made a just statement: "Please, Lord Reinhardt, order the lifting of the imprisonment of Admiral Mercaz."

The blond overlord looked elsewhere: "Have I asked your opinion? On the matter of Merkaz."

"No, but when Merkaz led his subordinates to surrender to the subordinate, the subordinate had promised to ensure their safety."

"Gilfies, let me ask you again, have I asked your opinion? Regarding the disposal of Mercaz."

"No, but Lord Reinhardt..."

"Enough, Gilfies, since you have claimed to be a subordinate, then you also understand that the relationship between you and me is just that of a subordinate and a superior. Is it necessary for a superior to ask his subordinates for instructions when giving orders?"

Gilfies was left speechless.He thought carefully about what offended Reinhardt, but after much deliberation, only Wistatt...Miss Merkaz persuaded Lord Reinhardt with sharp words, but it also offended Master Reinhardt virtually. Reinhard's majesty, that's why...

In fact, Gilfies' speculation is very close to the truth.

Reinhardt did not agree 100% with Oberstein's proposal. In fact, he also instinctively rejected whether to allow the massacre of 200 million innocent people in Weistat, not to mention the fact that there were so many women and children among them.

But when he had already suppressed this feeling of repulsion and was about to accept this fact, the woman who called herself Shirley von Merkatz actually used the military dynamics of the Allied Army to put pressure on him.

Could it be that I had to agree to rescue Weistat because I was afraid of the alliance sending troops?

Reinhardt had such thoughts.

So next, when Oberstein brought up the "second harmful theory" again, Reinhardt naturally linked his dissatisfaction with Weistat with Merkaz's surrender.

"Order to arrest Merkaz, and decide what to do with him later." Reinhardt didn't intend to execute Merkaz, he just wanted Gilfies, Shirley von Meyer Katz understands who is the real master of the empire.

Oberstein quite agrees with this approach: "In any case, Admiral Gilfies has received unprecedented support in Weistat, and Merkaz chose him as the object of defection, not the Marquis of Rohenkram himself. For Your Excellency..."

"Well, Oberstein, there is no need to repeat yourself."

Compared with worrying about the "second person", Reinhardt cared more about how that Shirley von Merkaz would beg him to release Merkaz.

Make her understand who is the only one she really owes her allegiance to.Yes, the only one!

The blond overlord was determined to win.

However, Shirley von Merkaz, who had always worried that her father was above everything else, did not come to beg him until the victory ceremony was held in the City of Condors.

At the entrance of the hall where the victory ceremony was held, there is an instrument specially used to detect the carrying of weapons.

Yang Xiaoli passed through the device that resembled a modern security gate and passed through smoothly.

But Gilfies didn't go so smoothly, he was ordered to disarm the beam gun before he could enter.

【"I'm the first-level general of Gilfies, can't I bring weapons in?"

"Even Admiral Gilfies is not an exception. This is an order, I'm sorry."

"I see. Forget it, it doesn't matter."】(Note 3)

The look of disappointment was reflected on the face of this red-haired hero. Although she knew that she had a mission, Yang Xiaoli couldn't help but persuade her:

"This is only temporary, sir."

Gilfies looked a little helpless, "Really? Miss Mercaz."

"Well, it's temporary. I can guarantee that the Marquis of Rohenkram will soon order the restoration of this privilege that only belongs to His Excellency Gilfies." Of course it will be restored, but Siegfried Gilfies is Trade your life for this posthumous privilege.

No matter how many privileges, no matter how much glory, bestowed on a dead person, at most it would only offset Reinhardt's sense of guilt.

If you really cherish this red-haired friend, you should not be shaken in any way. What is the "second harmful theory", after Reinhardt loses Gilfies, he will find that mastering the universe is far from being replaced Bring back the life of this dear friend.

If Reinhardt was given a chance to make a new choice, would he choose to use the universe in exchange for Gilfies' life?Or... with his own life?

!

Yang Xiaoli was terrified by this thought.

This kind of fear is not only from her, but also from a person named Ming Chen.

【Note】

Note 1: Chapter 9 of the second volume, what Merkaz said when he surrendered to Yang Weili. ←← I really can't figure out how to write it.Although the city of vultures is basically built.