Chapter 22: The Exploration of the South

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"Thank you," Cecil thanked Andy, his words undisguised with joy

"It's just borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, if you want to thank you, just wait until you meet your teacher, maybe the next time you see him, he will already be a powerhouse at the level of the Holy Domain."

Cecil's heart suddenly sank, the purpose of Mentor Collins going out this time was to impact the strong people at the Sanctuary level, unlike Cecil's own player template, the aborigines always have to face such a big difficulty as the Heavenly Tribulation when they hit the Sanctuary level, which requires the strong to gamble their lives to achieve. Cecil couldn't help but pray in his heart for his mentor, hoping that the mentor would be able to clear the level smoothly.

Andy saw the uneasiness in Cecil's heart, and said to him: "Don't worry, Teacher Corinth is a strong-willed person, I heard from the mentor, he was close to the Sanctuary class 20 years ago, and due to a special incident, he sank for 20 years, and only recently did he cheer up. The tutor said that the reason why he cheered up may have something to do with you, the student. ”

Cecil just smiled when he heard this, "I hope the teacher can cheer up." ”

However, Darcy and Talis's teacher, Roinert, was afraid that there would be a time of ruin, and the mentor had been living in self-reproach these days, and as a former knight of the Duke's retinue, it was an honor for him for the Duke to give him his son, but he did not expect Darcy to die under his rule. Although death is inevitable as long as it is a mission, Darcy's death is difficult for the champion knight to accept. Although the duke did not blame him explicitly, the self-blame was enough to crush the knight. Andy said.

Cecil fell into silence after hearing this, he can completely understand Roinert's mood, originally the old leader sent the child to you to be gilded, but the child died here, so what kind of mood Roint is Cecil can fully imagine.

Andy ignored Cecil's mood and said: "And your former fiancée Talis, originally the task that day was to find Talis to complete it with him, but after knowing that Teacher Collins found you, he was afraid that Talis would be embarrassed, and Darcy took the initiative to take over the task from Teacher Ronert. So in a way, Darcy can be said to have died in his place, so Talis may not be able to get out of the sadness for a long time. ”

Cecil suddenly felt a little uncomfortable when he heard Andy talk about these two people, as if Darcy was completely doing a loss-making business to save himself, so many people were heartbroken and sad when he died, but what if it was himself who died? I'm afraid that only the old butler and the maid of Yashan can shed a few tears, and if you stand in the perspective of a third party, I'm afraid Cecil himself will think that Darcy will think how stupid it is to save him, but he is the party after all, and this feeling makes him feel very uncomfortable.

"I don't want to talk about this matter, anyway, what I want now is to complete the task given to me by the earl, if you want to go to the south with me to practice, we will go to the horse shop tomorrow to meet." After Cecil finished speaking, he didn't look at Andy at all, and walked directly in the direction of his mansion.

Andy looked at Cecil's back, and suddenly laughed a little in his heart, he is usually a person who doesn't talk so much, how can he say so much today, it seems that this Cecil has changed not only his mentor, but even he is quietly being changed by him, this person, it's very interesting.

Cecil and Andy went to the horse shop in the royal capital early the next morning, hired two horses, and slowly went south. The territory of the kingdom is vast, and there are only 5 human countries in the setting that is about the size of the real world Eurasia, so the territory of each kingdom is definitely not small. The two of them rode for a whole month before they reached their destination.

Originally, Count Cassikud should have sent a letter to the local acting officer Henry, asking him to greet the two men, but the earl's relationship with Henry has become increasingly cold in recent years, coupled with the king's intentional or unintentional support for Henry, Henry's attitude towards the earl has become increasingly domineering. has become the most unruly of the 12 acting officials. In last year's tax return, the income from the earl's domain was only 30% of the earl's father's life, which was the old territory of the earl's family, not the earl's territory after his military exploits.

It stands to reason that this kind of assassination is strictly forbidden by the kingdom, but it is a pity that the acting officials nominally belong to the direct subordinates of the nobles, and their lives are also owned by the nobles. For hundreds of years, such a rule of the game has been formed, the great nobles will kill the disobedient representatives, and as long as the king does not think that the nobles are too much, he will never interfere. In any case, under this system, the king could still find a way to drive a wedge between the new deputy and the nobility. This is also the unspoken rule that has been generally followed for hundreds of years after the great game in the early kingdom, and there is no special reason that kings and nobles will generally stick to this bottom line without breaking the tacit understanding between the two sides.

Cecil first inspected his own territory by inspecting the territory, and Cecil and Andy secretly came to Cecil's manor as a lord to inspect it, and Cecil only owned one of the 30 manors in the entire Kent County. The entire estate has 300 hectares, all of which are planted with morning wheat. It was the autumn harvest season, and the smell of wheat in the rice fields was fragrant, and Cecil couldn't help but be a little intoxicated.

Andy stabbed Cecil and said, "Do you see any problems?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with the wheat," Cecil said.

"Who told you about these wheat!" Andy was clearly annoyed that Cecil wasn't in the situation

"I just estimated that the annual income of this manor can reach about 50,000 gold coins."

"80,000 gold coins!" Cecil was taken aback. "But my annual income is only 10,000 gold coins, and I have to pay half of the tribute to the earl."

"If normally, you should receive 40,000 gold coins, then if the earl keeps half of it and gives the remaining half to you, you will have no problem getting 20,000 gold coins every year." Andy said.

"What do you mean to say that the acting official deducted 70,000 gold coins! That's too bold, isn't it? Cecil said

"Don't forget, it's not just the acting officer, the earl is also the one who handles it." Andy said again

"The Count will detain me too?" Cecil exclaimed.

"The world is as black as a crow, and these years are basically layers of deductions, and the roads are stuck. Who can be an exception. ”

Cecil couldn't help but stick out his tongue, it was really as black as a crow in the world, "I used to think that the Count took care of me, but it turns out that he is also cheating on me." ”

"It can't be said that the Earl doesn't take care of you, because the Earl is not a pit, and being able to pit you shows that he doesn't want to abandon you, and he confiscates your territory and doesn't pit you, isn't it the same?" Andy's mouth is like a knife

"How can you, a high-ranking mage, be more troublesome than a knight like me? You're not at all like I thought you would. Andy's recent behavior is too much like an old fritter, and Cecil part-time wonders if this Andy in front of him is still the taciturn little mage he saw for the first time.

"Don't look at me like that, we dragon warlocks don't strictly belong to Kabrada, even a century ago, Kabrada was still hunting down us dragon warlocks, until Sara appeared, she defeated the 7 city lords of Kabrada at that time, and our clan could integrate into Kabrada. Our family has been in the market for thousands of years, mingling with all kinds of rogue thieves and robbers, which is also a so-called evidence that those mages slandered our warlocks for evil. Therefore, we have seen more of these black and black methods in officialdom. Andy saw Cecil's confusion and said a lot in one breath.

"Defeated 7 of the lords of Kabrada!!" Cecil's eyes widened in shock. "You're not bragging, every one of the city lords of Kabrada is far above the average legend, and no one even objects to say that they are demigods, is your ancestor so powerful? Your future is limitless. ”

This news made Cecil feel very shocked, Cecil never expected this Sara to be so strong, thinking that Andy, who is also a dragon vein warlock, might become such a bull figure in the future, Cecil couldn't help but be a little in awe of him.

"I don't know if Sarah's legend is true or not, and the archmages of Cabrada don't take the initiative to talk about it at all, so our family, in fact, is my father," Andy paused and continued, "I don't know if his one-sided statement is true or not. And not all dragon warlocks can become Sara, since Bokab retained this bloodline, there are at least 1,000 dragon warlocks in history, and only Sara has reached the awakening. I can't imagine having her accomplishments. ”

Cecil put away these delusions for the time being and returned to the present, he and Andy hurriedly ran to a few more estates, and found that they were all similar, it seemed that Henry had seriously eroded the interests of Count Cassikud, and it seemed that Cecil had to go into the city to contact Henry.

While Cecil was thinking about his thoughts, a burst of cries rang out in the distance of the manor. Cecil looked in the direction of the crying and saw a group of men dressed as guards beating up a farmer. There was also a group of farmers watching

Cecil walked closer and saw clearly, it turned out to be a favorite plot, the bully bullying the poor Cecil is his favorite, Cecil saw that although these guys in guard suits were vicious, but in fact, they only had the physique of level 10 ordinary people, and if he was not careful, he could get rid of them in seconds. Suddenly, it was like going up to take care of the suspicions. was grabbed by Andy.

"Don't be too impulsive, you guy, let's ask clearly"

The two of them found the onlookers next to them to understand the situation, in fact, it was very simple that the farmer John lost money in the casino, and then borrowed a loan shark, and then he owed a lot of debts, and the land here belonged to the earl, so he didn't even have to mortgage the land, so he could only mortgage his daughter Jenny. This is a creditor who has come to rob people.

"This Henry is not an ordinary arrogance," said Andy, "as a substitute official to open a casino is already against the rules of the kingdom, and he dares to rob the people's daughters, doesn't he know that the tenant farmers here are the precious manpower of the earl?" It's really unscrupulous to dare to do such a thing. ”