"Calm down and tell me in detail what's going on. ”

In the camp of the homeless settlement, Duke motioned for the guards to bring a cup of hot water to the middle-aged homeless man to warm up and calm down.

It's just that in the warm room, drinking hot water makes him shiver uncontrollably.

"Yes...... It's the hunting party of the old men under the mountain, they ...... They're in the mountains!"

He drank two bowls of water in a row to appear slightly better, and he didn't speak smoothly about what he knew.

"Ah, my name, my name is Keno, and I am an outcast who lives in the mountains to the west. ”

As soon as he started, he suddenly introduced himself with some restraint, making Duke frown, and such an unthemed way of speaking made him a little annoyed.

"Okay, Keno. In order to calm Keno's emotions, Duke had to gently follow his words and remind him from the side, "Let's continue to talk about the hunting party, what did you just say about the lord of the mountain?"

"Ah, yes, yes, we're talking about the hunting party......" he was silent again, "it's Viscount Stern down the hill." ”

"Viscount Stern?"

Duke and Vlavic looked at each other, they were no strangers to the name, and they had spent a lot of time paying attention to his news.

Unexpectedly, this time he directly bumped into the other party, and he actually organized a hunting team to target the homeless, and Duke didn't know how to react for a while.

"They went up the mountain for about a week, and at first it was just a normal winter hunt......," Kino didn't notice the subtle changes in the hearts of the two big men in front of him, and still said to himself, "until one of the companions was too hungry to run to the camp and throw something, they began to turn the finger on us hiding in the mountain." ”

According to Keno, the trip of the displaced people is not unjustified, and it can only be said that Viscount Stearn's punishment method is too radical and cruel to bear.

And his actions like this are not only aimed at the main culprit, but his scope of attack is directly extended to all the displaced people, which is beyond the scope of what a normal person would do.

"Your Excellency, please save us! We are willing to be slaves in the Northern Fortress, just let us live, and we can do without anything else, my lord!"

Seeing that the two big men who had been given high hopes by him began to be silent, Keno finally knew that things did not seem to be as simple as he imagined, so he began to kneel on the ground and cry again, but Duke was guarded by guards and did not dare to hold his legs and cry like he had just done.

"Look at this thing......"

"Lord, let's ask this gentleman to go to the back camp to rest for a while. ”

Duke wanted to ask Vlavic what he thought, but he interrupted him before he could start talking, wanting to take Keno out first, not wanting him to hear the intimate content of the discussion that followed.

Hearing him say this, Duke immediately willingly asked the soldiers on the left and right to take Kino out and settle him first, and then negotiate with Vlavic himself.

Keno, who didn't dare to speak anymore, didn't resist, probably knowing that no matter how much he cried, he probably couldn't change the true determination of these masters.

So he bowed his head as if he was fated, and let the two soldiers carry him out of the room slightly, and never said anything more.

At this time, Duke and Vlavic were left in the room, so Duke immediately asked, "What is the truth of this matter?"

In the bottom of his heart, he still didn't believe that this kind of thing would happen like treating people as prey.

"It's not uncommon, especially in a remote place like the North. Vlavic wasn't too surprised by this kind of thing, "Of course, the hunting party is usually targeted by some 'useless people'. ”

"Useless people?"

"It's just that outcasts like Keno, prisoners of war who can't be exchanged for ransom, and crippled slaves, who can't continue to create value, may end up being for the pleasure of the aristocracy. ”

This introduction to this phenomenon caused Duke to fall silent, and finally he realized that the world he was living in was after all different in terms of values and morals.

"So are we going to go to them? These outcasts ......."

"Of course you have to save, isn't your plan to take these people in as the labor force of the future? ”

To Duke's surprise, Vlavic, who originally desperately wanted to avoid conflict with Viscount Stearn, unexpectedly agreed to save the outcasts, even though it was easy to annoy Viscount Stern as the leader.

"I didn't expect you to answer so crisply, Vlavic. ”

"I feel compassion for all the moments of life. Vlavich said a very noble word, but quickly changed the subject: "Of course, I mean to use some less risky methods, we try not to offend Viscount Stern, after all, now is not a good time to fight." ”

"Is there any other way to protect these people than for me to bring someone to protect them?"

In Duke's simple idea, the best way to rescue these outcasts was to bring someone to protect them, and then personally negotiate with Viscount Stearn.

When the time comes, it will be good to spend some money or pay some other price to replace these homeless people, and it is estimated that Viscount Stern will also sell his face as a duke, although many times his name is not loud.

"If that's the case, it's counterproductive. Vlavich quickly poured cold water on Duke, "Viscount Stearn's personality is soft and hard, and he is very obedient and irritable, if you use the title of duke to suppress him, he probably won't talk to you anymore, and it is very likely that a direct conflict will break out at that time." ”

"This ......" Duke didn't know what Viscount Stern's personality was, but only thought of these plans based on his own experience, "then what should we do?"

At this time, Vlavich came up with another piece of news that surprised Duke: "I have heard that the Kino family is running down the mountain trail at night, and their settlement is not very large, and I think that with the person in charge of them, I can take them all down in one night without being discovered." ”

It sounded like a great deal of possibility, but he asked the question: "So ...... who is going to negotiate with you?"

It is not easy to find people under your own command who are connected to the displaced people, and it is a big problem in terms of trust.

"We have already asked him to rest in the back camp. ”

Vlavich said quite naturally.