Chapter 327: Battle Within Specifications (4/14)
The Thorsilver Brotherhood and the Morgan Consortium have a secret deal.
Only two days after the chief of the guard made a request, Mrs. Morgan's letter was replied to.
Mrs. Morgan's reply, except for Natalie. CΓ©line's life deeds, character traits, and even a small charcoal sketch is attached. At the end of the letter, Mrs. Morgan also added a sentence: Natalie. Celine is a respectable woman, and if you can, please help her if you can. Also, Carlos. His Majesty Barov has already gone south, and if he has any other orders, please ignore my request.
Yesterday, Brian. Copperbeard led the men back to the Seryin Outpost, sipping ale as he boasted about his adventures in the Black Stone Abyss. Although the chief of the guard was for Brian. Brass whiskers smacked the black oil and blended into the enemy's interior and won a lot of money by playing the Gwent card. The information brought back by the copper beard had to attract the attention of the chief of the guard.
The Black Iron Dwarves of Darkforge want to do something to the orcs.
The terrain of the scorching canyon is a flush toilet, surrounded by a circle of cushions, and a large pit in the middle.
Although the orcs are brave, they don't have a rusty brain and run to the tunnels and mines of the melting pot to fight a tunnel battle that is more terrifying than the city street battle on the home of the Black Iron Dwarves. So, the orcs kept their supply lines safe in the Scorching Canyon with a fortress and a companion sentry patrol. To put it simply, the orcs don't care who has the final say in the Scorching Canyon, as long as the supplies from the south can be transported north smoothly.
While the orcs were right to think so, the black dwarfs weren't. There is only one Haonan in the scorching heat, and that is my black iron Haonan...... That's probably what it means.
As a well-deserved head snake in the Scorching Canyon, the Black Iron Dwarf did not instigate the orcs when the orcs were at their peak, but the gains outweighed the losses in the fight, and they chose to avoid it temporarily. And Orgrim, the great chief of the tribe who lost the battle in the north, and this matter reached the ears of the black iron dwarves, and the black dwarves felt that if the humans could fight, we would not be able to fight? It's time for those greenskins to see the horrors of being dominated by Black Iron!
Dagran. Thoreson's command, General Angover, is planning a massive campaign to expel the orcs from the Scorching Gorge.
If it weren't for Brian. Copperbeard came up with the idea that this guy was the younger brother of King Magni of Ironforge, a brilliant explorer who liked to brag but never lied about his business, and the chief of the guard almost wanted to throw him in prison for espionage.
The Black Iron Dwarves are going to war with the Orcs!
You copper-bearded dwarf, the sworn enemy of the black iron dwarves!
Inexplicably, he took humans to sneak around the melting pot and actually walked to the Dark Furnace City!
And then this kind of military action plan at the top secret level of the state was heard by you, ah!
It's neither scientific nor magical, but Brian. Brass whiskers have done it.
The chief of the guard who was already preparing to reject Natalie because of Brian. Copperbeard's intelligence decided to take over the task.
The reason is simple, drop by.
The orc's fortress is stuck in the outer perimeter of the ashes, using the sea of ashes on one side and the sinkhole cliff on the other side, the orcs only use the north and south sides to lay it out.
And the ghostly terrain of the scorching canyon made the captain of the guard want to follow and chase this war between the orcs and the black iron dwarves, so he can only march from the side of the sea of ashes.
For the victory of the Union, for the rise of Alterac, for King Carlos. Barov. Black Iron Dwarves and Orcs are both enemies they will face in the future, and the Captain of the Guard feels that he must have first-hand information. Otherwise, when Your Majesty asks in the future, what is the combat effectiveness of the Black Iron Dwarves, what are the tactical characteristics, and what is the way of fighting, will the captain of the guard rely on conjecture and pompous boasting to answer?
The more he thought about it, the more the chief of the guard felt that the value of watching this war was very high.
However, the Sergiin Sentinels have a lot of eyes, and the news that the Black Iron Dwarves are going to war with the Orcs is still top secret. Well, accept Natalie. Selene's commission gave the chief of the guard an excellent excuse.
"Five hundred gold coins? Why don't you grab it! β
Natalie was overjoyed to hear that the chief of the guard had agreed to accept the assignment, but when she heard the offer of remuneration, she instantly turned her face.
Even if it's a war year, even if it's a scorching canyon where birds don't, five hundred gold coins! How many supplies can I buy!
"I have provided you with twenty fully armed warriors, even if we encounter the wolf cavalry patrol of the orcs, we can defeat the elite head-on, and I myself will also go with you, five hundred gold coins, which is already a friendship price."
The chief of the guard felt inexplicably aggrieved, a bounty mission of the Brotherhood of Thorsilver is the starting price of a few thousand gold coins, and he is already a friendship price in the friendship price, Natalie, what do you mean by looking at the scum.
"I just want a guide......"
Take two deep breaths, Natalie. Celine calmed down, looked helplessly at the chief of the guard, and recounted her request.
"I just want a guide who knows the terrain and can take me on a journey through the Sea of Ashes. I'm just going to recover the stolen property, the traitor may be dead, and even if he is alive, he is no match for me. I need guides, survival advisors, not the twenty heavily armed mallets you call them...... I mean elite soldiers. I think the two of us have a disagreement in understanding and cognition. β
"It seems that there are quite a few differences in our understanding and cognition. I don't know where you got the courage and confidence to avoid orc patrols every time, where you got the pride and determination to go to the Sea of Ashes to play treasure digging with just one guide, and where did the strange logic make you question the judgment of experts in areas you are not good at. β
"I've been back and forth many times, and I've ...... every time."
"Listen, this is as a thank you for selling me the potion, after telling you this, we will both clear up. The terrible thing about the Sea of Ashes is that it is an enlarged ash jar. In the scorching plains, drinking water is obtained by drilling deep wells, and the long years of rainless weather make it impossible for volcanic ash and dust to turn into mud. The name Sea of Ashes is not a literary statement, but an objective description of the facts. There, one wrong step is a predicament of ashes. If you're lucky, you'll step on the real thing just by sinking into it knee-deep, and if you're unlucky, the crack hidden under the ashes dozens of meters deep will swallow you back, and you may have explorers find your dried corpse in a hundred years. That hellish place is not something that can be visited by two people, and without a well-prepared team, if you go, you will be sent to death. β
With that, the chief guard turned to leave, he and Natalie had only known each other, had had a supper together, and that was all, and this alone was not enough for the chief guard to take the lives of the brothers to accompany her.
What's more, the chief of the guard has always felt that Natalie's words are not full of truths, as if she is hiding something.
"Wait."
Natalie called out to the chief of the guard.
"I, I, I...... I can't get five hundred gold coins. β
"Huh?!"
The head guard turned his head in surprise.
After hesitating for a long time, Natalie took out a delicate suitcase the size of a human head, opened it with tedious means, and then turned around to present the contents to the chief of the guard.
Inside, there were three fist-sized moonstones and two metal ingots that glowed with clear light
"I couldn't travel with that much gold with me, so I swapped out all the money for magic materials that were easy to carry. Each of these moonstones and real silver ingots is worth a thousand gold coins, and you'll have to find me five hundred gold coins in change. β
The chief guard was amused, what is this called...... (To be continued.) )