—4E, 201, Last Seed, 28th, 19:00—

Emilia didn't make it to the Rift Valley in the morning, as the "Blades" had to entertain her.

As a former royal guard, the Blade Warrior Branch of Skyrim Province has not seen the royal family members of the Empire for a long time after lurking, and can only understand the surrounding situation through intermittent contact with the Empire, and when they heard that Her Royal Highness the Princess came to Skyrim for the purpose of "countering the rebellion", although they had doubts about whether the princess could do such a big thing, they also looked forward to meeting her one day to continue to perform their duties, so it was normal to be a little excited.

Perhaps due to the influence of the leader of this team, Delphine, many of the Blade Warriors used to disguise themselves were associated with taverns and inns, and while the drunkards were talking, it was likely that the hostess who was silently cleaning not far away had taken those words to heart.

The other part occupies some mines that produce "ebony mines" to provide minerals for comrades to craft weapons and equipment, which is not valued, and there is no need to talk about the mines that are not officially mined, if there are beasts or robbers who want to occupy the magpie's nest, they will only turn into corpses, and the registered ebony mines, the blade warriors will dress up as ordinary miners, such as the "Red Belly Mine" near the "Shure Stone".

The name of this mine comes from the "red-bellied frost spiders" entrenched in the hollows in its depths, this "insect infestation" is not enough for the lord to send troops to destroy them, but it is not something that the miners can solve with a mine hoe, and finally the mine owner ordered the miners to bypass the nest of these spiders and continue to mine, but he must not have imagined that there is an underground base of blade warriors deep behind the spider's nest, of course they have the strength to deal with those spiders, but it is obviously better to use them as a natural barrier.

Emilia and Parasos entered the underground base by dressing like a mine worker, cutting down a few spiders with a short memory as they passed by the spider's nest, and entering the base by the way other "smart" spiders got out of the way, and they went straight through a hidden passage like Delphine.

In Palathos's eyes, this underground base disguised as a mine cave is not suitable for Her Royal Highness to live in, but it is enough if it is only used as a stronghold for secret forces.

"So, why did Her Highness the Princess and the Scout Captain of the Sharp-Eyed Eagle come all the way to the Rift? If you want to overturn that sewer city, I can do my best to help. Delphine said at the time.

“…… Overturned? Emilia was looking at the piles of ebony mines, and wondered.

"That's right, more than half of the nobles who support Stormcloak live in Rift City, and the Black Thorns family also provides a lot of military support for their army, if they can control Rift City, it will be equivalent to choking Stormcloak's neck, and this war will only take a few weeks to end." The more the Blade Captain spoke, the more excited she became, and she almost immediately put it into action.

“…… No way. The princess shook her head.

"Ah, indeed, if the Empire's direct forces directly occupy and control a city in Skyrim Province with a legitimate lord, no matter what their true purpose is, it will cause the lords of other cities to have bad associations, and if we do, we will probably face a unified siege of the remaining seven territories after taking Rift City." Delphine sighed.

"Isn't that very clear to you?" Parasos snorted, "And there is no doubt that he can 'control' Rift City." ”

"If you've been involved in the Great War between the Empire and Somo, you know I'm not exaggerating, we have contributed to many major battles, sometimes even the main force," Delphine said, changing the subject: "So, if Her Royal Highness has any requests, please be sure to ask for them, and we will do our best to achieve them for you." ”

“…… Craft an ebony armor for Parry. Emilia thought for a moment before answering.

"Huh?" Caught off guard, Palashos only uttered a puzzled onomatopoeia.

Ebony is an ore that is harder than steel, but only as light as wood, although the armor and weapons made from it are better than steel in terms of protection and attack, but because the weight is too light, many combat methods that require their own weight as an auxiliary cannot be used, and the most suitable weapons for it are only bows and arrows and daggers, so why does the princess want to change to ebony armor now?

"Ah...... I see," in contrast, Delphine's gaze instantly sharpened, and she looked Palacus up and down: "It seems that although you are ordered to protect the princess, you have no idea what she wants to do, and this leather armor is simply a failure." ”

It's so easy to say, Palasos thought, if it's okay, he will go to save the death row prisoner, he will have a snack at any time, he will chase after General Tulius take the doughnut all the way, he heard that Toig needs treatment, he took the initiative to collect materials, and easily disrupted the summoning ceremony of the Queen of Wolfheart, and after learning that Erikul was a member of the Thieves' Guild, he rushed straight to the Rift, who knows what Her Royal Highness wants to do?

"Hehe, you just think about it slowly, our blacksmith will make you a set of armor that fits, and until then, the princess will be entertained by me." Delphine left with Emilia straight away, and Palacos smiled bitterly at the end of a few strong, round-waisted blacksmiths.

However, that was half a day ago, and at this time, wearing a newly created but deliberately worn ebony armor, carrying an ebony bow on his back, and a somewhat curved ebony sword hanging from his waist, he was walking towards the main gate of Rift City not far away.

Her Royal Highness the princess was naturally nearby, just by the faint aroma of doughnuts, she didn't accept too many things from the blade warriors, except for snacks and some miscellaneous items, only an ebony dagger, Palashos was very much in favor of this, although the princess's skills were the same as using daggers of any material, but ordinary iron daggers were really a bit out of place.

Rift City, Cross Dagger, City of Thieves and Crime, City on the Sewers, Land of Black Thorn Mead, the capital of the Rift Territory has many titles, but none of them are related to hospitality, and at the same time, it is also the only city in Skyrim Province that collects city taxes, watching the two guards react to his approach, Palasos somewhat understood what the princess meant by changing her armor.

The city doesn't care if you're a spy for the Empire at all, it only cares about the money in your pocket and whether you're strong enough to keep them, or even increase them.

If a guy who is obviously a scavenger on the battlefield wants to enter the city, although he doesn't have to pay too much in the city tax, he will encounter all kinds of trivial and troublesome things such as theft, fraud, and planting in line with this identity.

As for Princess Emilia, she almost never appears in front of ordinary residents, and her whereabouts are even more mysterious, so even if Storm Cloak's spies in Dugu City report that there has been no news of the princess for a long time, no one would have thought that she would run into the hinterland of the Storm Cloak control area.

Although it was only speculation, if Her Royal Highness could really control the second most important city in the Stormcloak power, Ulfric Stormcloak's face would definitely look good.

Click-thump-th-clad slam-clad sh-th-clad sh-th-clad bushes burst out, carrying a long sword completely unprofessionally in his hand, though only a glimpse, but Palassos could confirm that, with the beauty of the sword, it was definitely not something the fellow could afford.

Seeing Palasos, the man's eyes lit up and he rushed over, and directly stuffed the long sword into his hand: "Help me get it, I'll pay you when I come back!" ”

Although Palacos had more than a dozen ways to avoid taking the sword, he was now playing the role of an "adventurer", a person who had no such thing as "fear" at all, and would only seek to maximize the benefits of anything, so Palasos took the sword and watched the man cross the road and rush into the woods on the other side.

“…… Give me. The princess's voice sounded at her side, and there was a faint pull from the sword, and Palasos let go, and then saw it disappear into thin air.

The scout captain was guessing what the trap was with the sword, and the mystery had been directly uncovered by the arrangers - three men in steel armor who looked like mercenaries stepped out from behind the bushes, all staring at him, and shouting "That guy who stole the sword is coming this way." ”

"Sir, have you seen ......" Although it appeared that they were chasing someone, several steel-armored mercenaries faintly surrounded Palashos, and the leader slowly spoke as he glanced at his outfit.

"No, get out!" Palasos directly pulled out his ebony sword and aimed it at the mercenary leader: "You dare to play this trick in front of me?" ”

"Friend, watch your tone, we're tracking down a dastardly thief who apparently passed through here, but you said you hadn't seen it," said the mercenary leader smugly, "We have reason to suspect—"

Obviously, this is the way Rift City acts, even if it is an obvious crime, but as long as there is an excuse for the past, the guards will choose to stand by and watch coldly, if there are really fools who go to the guards afterwards, they will not get any results, such as the gate guards of Rift City not far away, they are watching this side with a completely indifferent appearance.

Poof! "Ouch!"

The "despicable thief" who had rushed into the woods on the other side suddenly rushed back and fell directly to the ground, with the exquisite long sword still on his back, and the mercenary leader was stunned for a moment.

"Oh? Suspect what? Palasos pointed his sword at the mercenaries and pointed at them one by one, "Go on?" ”

Although he didn't know how Her Royal Highness did it, it seemed to mean that he was going to let them go, Palasos thought boredly.

"-I suspect he didn't run far!" Several mercenaries rushed over to set up the "thieves" and turned to leave, apparently their operation failed.

Perhaps swayed by something that parasos had shown in this farce, the two gate guards had no intention of collecting money when he entered the city.