363 The Old Battlefield of Phocles (Part I)

Uncle Locke took a long puff of his pipe, and the smoke slowly puffed out of his nostrils, covering Uncle Locke's face.

"I think back then, I was also a hot-blooded young man, and I also used the sword to punish the evil and eliminate the evil, but the wind was too noisy that day......"

"Speak human words!"

Isu interrupted Uncle Locke's "remembrance" silently, as far as he knew, although Uncle Locke had been a soldier before, he did not participate in the great battle led by Vorcres, and then somehow became a caravan leader, but he only ran through the trade route from the snow to Vorcres, and never went to the old battlefield at all!

"You're not giving old Locke face," Sean leaned over and said in Uncle Locke's voice, "Young man, you don't respect my past!" ”

"Fuck off!"

Uncle Locke raised his hand and smashed a pipe on Sean's head, snorting unhappily a few times before looking at Ysu again.

"Don't talk about these useless things, what is the old battlefield, you should know, right?"

"Isn't it the biggest battlefield between the Empire and the Stormcloak during the Civil War? I heard that there are a lot of undead over there, so I'm going to go there to practice. ”

Isu was a little puzzled, it had been nearly three years since the civil war of the Blood Clan was suspended, shouldn't the existence of the old battlefield have become common sense?

According to Isu's understanding, the old battlefield is located in a wilderness to the east of the Phocles Domain, which was once the fiercest battlefield of the Empire and the Storm Cloak War during the Civil War, and the two sides have successively invested more than 40,000 troops on this battlefield, accounting for two-thirds of the total strength of the entire Phocles battlefield!

The fierce battle is naturally accompanied by a large number of deaths, even if the victorious side after each battle will collect the corpses, but there are still thousands of corpses buried in the ground, the strong smell of death hovering on the old battlefield, and within a few months after the end of the civil war, countless corpses crawled out of the ground, turning into undead and wandering on this former battlefield.

And because the civil war has not ended, there has been a rebellion of the blood clan, and since then, the entire Skyrim Province has been in a state of war, and no one pays attention to the "small problem" of the undead on the old battlefield, so that after the Battle of Dawn a year ago, this area has completely become a land of the undead, and the power of death has been rooted here, even if various orders have come here to purify the undead for a year, the power of death will still give birth to new undead.

And because the power of death is too strong, and even shields the power of the sun, the undead wander on the old battlefield all day long, and there will be no difference in strength because of day and night.

"Undead?"

After listening to Isu's understanding of the old battlefield, Uncle Locke and Sean on the side both pouted, and Sean even patted Esu's shoulder, with an expression of looking at a stupid roe deer: "I think, with your thoughts, it's better to learn from me to be a running businessman." ”

"What else but the undead?" Isu wondered, "Could it be those small forces that specialize in collecting undead materials on the old battlefield and make a living by reselling materials?" ”

"Small forces?!" Sean exclaimed exaggeratedly, "You must have learned about the situation through your family's book collection, right?" ”

"Ahem, sort of......"

Isu coughed awkwardly a few times, and said vaguely, if you regard Silent City as a family force, it is not wrong to say so, after all, the information of Silent City is more detailed and more real, if you go to the tavern to collect intelligence, at most at his level, you can hear some trivial things in the city and the surrounding areas, as well as some "big events" that have long been mixed with rumors, and there is no way to use it to screen suitable "leveling" locations.

"Your family's books are good, they are indeed small forces," Uncle Locke nodded, but then changed his words: "But the so-called small forces are also for your family, for the Sharp Arrow Chamber of Commerce, they are local forces worth looking at, and for our single caravan, then we must befriend each other and abide by some of the rules they set!" ”

"And for you, a lone ranger......"

Uncle Locke took a puff of his pipe, and the meaning of his words was self-evident.

"That ......"

Isu's heart suddenly became bitter, and he originally thought that he had found a good place for novice leveling, but in the end, he found that this place had been chartered by several big guilds.

"There's nothing to hesitate about, I'll take you to the old battlefield for a walk when the time comes."

Uncle Locke smacked his pipe and grinned.

"Uncle?"

"I'll have to hand over some of the lame man of Vorcris and take a trip to the Rift Valley, but you're going to come with me to Rift Valley."

Uncle Locke waved his pipe, but his indifferent tone made Isu's heart feel a little moved, but Sean, who was usually doing all kinds of things, worried: "Rift Town's words...... We're not strong enough, are we? ”

Isu also nodded in agreement, the Rift Territory is not like other territories in Skyrim Province, the current Rift Territory is completely a place outside the law, with lords manipulated by others, no effective laws, and even in addition to a lord guard of more than 20 people, there are only some militia groups organized by the people, in addition, there is not even a decent army, just relying on the conventions and customs between the major forces to maintain stability on the surface, and the filth between those small and medium-sized forces in the secret is simply countless.

In that kind of place, if you don't have enough strength, then it's useless to have the power behind it, because many times you don't know who launched an attack on you, even if you are lucky enough to escape, you don't know who to retaliate against.

"It's okay," Uncle Locke still looked heartless: "There is a stronghold of Silent City near Rift Town, let Sean inform him when the time comes, let the brothers of Silent City take over, let's not go to Rift Town, just notify the local merchants directly, and trade in the stronghold." ”

"Useless ......" Sean was suddenly deflated, looking loveless: "You didn't read the letter a few days ago, right?" All the uncles and uncles have gone on missions, and the rest of the demon army has stayed in Silent City, and I heard that it is not the Shadow Blade people who are now stationed in the Rift Town stronghold, but the Silent Blade of more than a hundred people. ”

"Silent Blade, that's a bit of a problem......"

Uncle Locke also frowned, the Shadow Blade, the Silent Blade, and the Demon Army are the three major armed forces of Silent City today, and the rest are second-line forces such as the City Guard, the Support Corps, and the "Foreign Hire Army".

Among the three major armed forces, the Shadow Blade is subordinate to the intelligence agency of the Silent City, and belongs to the absolutely neutral faction, in the absence of the city lord, it only obeys the orders of the Silent City Council, and the Silent Blade is the largest fist of the Silent City to the outside world, but in the process of expanding its power, it has absorbed a lot of scattered people, so that the army is full of mountains, and the Demon Army belongs to the descendants of the Silent City, maintaining external deterrence with an average strength that exceeds the standard, and generally does not participate in the battles of various factions.

In essence, the Demon Army is equivalent to Soya's descendant troops, and the relationship with the Arrow Chamber of Commerce is naturally very close, while the predecessor of the Silent Blade is the reserve of the Demon Army, and then it became an independent army, although it can be regarded as the same as the Arrow Chamber of Commerce, but it has nothing to do with it today.

Moreover, among the three main factions within the Silent Blade, one of them advocated the complete merger of the Sharp Arrow Chamber of Commerce into the Silent City to serve the Silent City.

There are also quite complaints about this in the Chamber of Commerce, but it was just suppressed by the senior executives of the Chamber of Commerce such as Old Dai Wen, and with the efforts of the high-level leaders of both sides, no armed conflict broke out, and the Sharp Arrow Chamber of Commerce can continue to be a relatively independent attitude and become a collaborator of Silent City.

It's just that if the caravan of the Sharp Arrow Chamber of Commerce encounters the soldiers of this faction on weekdays, it will rarely be withheld for various reasons, so that most of the people in the Chamber of Commerce are now extremely wary of the soldiers of the Silent Blade, and even many guards draw their swords directly as soon as they see the emblem of the Silent Blade, and they no longer support and help each other as before.