Chapter 836 (1/2)
LUT infinitki:
After three years of long waiting and repeated missions of investigation, raid and monster hunting, I finally won the trust of Lord Baron Turin, Duke of Byrne, and Lucian, captain of the wings of the sky (demon hunter Corps), and led the team to perform an important latent mission alone.
Target, Yunling Kingdom, the capital of dwarves, Yunfeng peak.
After the silver helmet mountain war, which won the great reputation for the Duke of Byrne, the fall of the dwarf fortress had an unprecedented impact on the reputation of the supreme king; The peace that had been hard to maintain was completely torn apart.
Each dwarf fortress has declared its independence, and even they claim to be the 'Supreme king of Yunling'; They constantly attacked each other, but because of the inconvenient transportation in the mountains, and because they blocked the passage between the fortresses, it was impossible to fight on a large scale; The form of war is basically limited to looting, destruction and scolding in the air.
Even with the support and assistance from Byrne, the reputation of the dwarf supreme King (or ”original” supreme king) has plummeted in the case of the division of the kingdom. Not only does the decree not reach the peak, but it is not easy to use even in the cloud peak.
Facing the direct influence of the Empire, such a chaotic situation is that the ”secret silver trade” is completely cut off, and the Holy Cross Church can no longer get a kilogram of secret silver; But at the same time, Byrne relied on food and material assistance to exchange a staggering number of Mithril ores from the supreme king, totaling more than two to three times the annual ”Mithril trade”.
Therefore, even if the Empire had any way to immediately end the dwarf's civil war, it could not get any compensation from Mithril ore, because they really couldn't even take out a piece of ore.
In addition to the sudden decline of the supreme King's reputation, another reason leading to the civil war involves the corrosion devil, the ”by-product” of the battle of silver helmet mountain three years ago.
Inside the wings of the sky, this name is used to call the humanoid creatures eroded by the Holy Blood potion - they have no pain, no desire, and may not even have senses, but they have strong vitality. Most of them can stop only by cutting off their heads, and a few can still move except they are blown to ashes.
After the war of silver helmet mountain, more than 100000 corrupting demons entrenched in the fortress began to spread out, a small part wandered in the green sea, and the vast majority scattered among the mountains of Yunling kingdom.
These monsters, which are small in number but powerful in fighting power and vitality, make the roads between the fortresses extremely dangerous; In the case of internal division, the dwarves can't completely eliminate them at all. They can only defend their fortresses, which further aggravates their division.
However, Captain Lucian, or Duke Loren Turin, believes that there are not only these reasons for the long-term unrest in Yunling Kingdom, but the result of deliberate promotion by some forces behind it.
Dwarves are a highly militarized race. Once they are unified and put into battle, they will be the most powerful war machine. Civil war and division will seriously weaken the strength of this war machine.
At present, the supreme king still holds the cloud peak and confronts with the rebels. Under the situation that the corrosion devil is rampant and all fortress channels are blocked, this confrontation is expected to last for a long time.
My task is to investigate the reasons why Yunfeng peak has been unable to restore the rule of Yunling Kingdom, as well as the identity of the possible culprit behind the scenes, so as to prepare for the Duke's next plan.
A night watchman who is always loyal to the Empire;
From Carl Colin.
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After writing the last word, Carl Colin carefully put away the charcoal pen and parchment, hesitated to obliterate the words ”prepare for the Duke's next plan”, and then put them into the stationery barrel he carried with him; After confirming again and again, he took a long sigh of relief and rubbed his eyes tired.
He has done similar things countless times in the past few years.
Three years ago, after the night watchman who had been mixed with Byrne was discovered, the Duke of Loren Turin not only did not get rid of or imprison himself in the dark, but acquiesced in reporting the situation and progress of the mission to the night watchman after each mission;
Similarly, the night watchman leader LUT infinite, who was aware of the problem, seemed to acquiesce in this fact. He never mentioned his exposed facts, but always assigned various tasks to himself.
In the past three years, an endless stream of heretical groups have kept the Holy Cross Church busy; The ”Ghoul tide” broke out in lottel, and the ogres in the ancient wood forest became uneasy again;
The Principality of Arles suffered the most ferocious giant monster invasion in a century. The northern ice sheet werewolves went south on a large scale, killing villages and even besieging fortresses; The boa Hussars in the green sea are still cleaning up the remnants of the ”Centaur war”, and eboden's ocean fleet has not been heard from yet.
The turbulent situation made the sky palace and red blood Castle reach a tacit understanding to some extent.
I can let you go, but I can't say it; You have to stop when things get big, because I have to intervene.
In the past three years, this kind of ”tacit understanding” between the two sides has solved countless events - sudden monster tide, heretical groups mixed into the village, eroded people suspected of evil god Apostles... Countless.
However, the ”tacit understanding” is based on the premise that the current situation is turbulent, and the contradiction between the two sides is still extremely sharp; In addition to Byrne's rising reputation, they have almost taken a clear stand in the camp of his highness Brandon de sallion, while the imperial nobles in Saxony support crown prince Connor without suspense.
No one knows what his majesty Eckhardt II thought; But as he grew older, contradictions intensified day by day; It is only a matter of time before internal contradictions surpass external contradictions.
Carl Colin doesn't know how long this ”peace” walking on the wire can last, but at least now he can do something for this peace in his own way.
Even if it's really just a little
”What are you doing?”
The moment the words behind him sounded, Carl Colin instinctively moved.
”Ding --!”
The crisp mechanism sound was the sound of the sleeve sword popping.
Turn around, lift your elbow, suppress, capture.
make smooth reading.
”Dong --!”
In less than half a second, the figure who had just approached from behind was pressed under him, the sleeve sword against his throat, and his face still maintained the expression of half a second ago.
Only then did Carl Colin see the guy under his weight; A young baby's face was full of panic, subconsciously holding his hands over his head.
Carl frowned slightly.
Martin, the chief of the third phase of the wings of the sky, is one of the ten people who first passed the trial of master Dalton kand and captain Lucian, and a complete recruit.
Today's wing of the sky is no longer the 100 man team with only 96 people when it was founded. It has expanded its army twice in three years. After excluding the dead and missing, it has more than 300 people, nearly the size of a flag regiment.
The guy in front of him is the new recruit for the second expansion - no longer a veteran returning from the battlefield like himself or a warrior with certain wizard talent, but a highly talented apprentice selected by Dalton kand from the Turin wizard college.
The biggest ”feature” of this group of recruits is that they have no sense of soldiers. They always feel that they can make a splash when they are young, can't wait to prove themselves, and then die as quickly as fireflies.