The special profession of the police is not applicable in this world, most of the nobles rely on the city guards to maintain law and order, and some have sufficient financial resources, so they form night watchmen or night watchmen to patrol the streets at night, Shepard is naturally no exception, one of the daily tasks of the city guards is to maintain law and order, and collect information and report it to the earl's court.

After all, this is a world where strange people walk everywhere, and there are many freaks like dogs, and it is difficult to guarantee which strong person or special talent will pass by in a low-key manner one day, if the good luck is found, maybe you can invite you to settle down, as long as it is not a catastrophe to take refuge, it is more beneficial and harmless.

The clerk repeated the names of the lord, and after a little apprehension, he saw that the Earl had no other orders, and then withdrew with the other man.

Shepard turned his head to look at Rachela, smiled and comforted a few words, Rachela knew that her husband didn't want to talk in detail, so as he changed the topic, and after chatting for a while, she felt tired, Shepard saw her yawn, took a cup of milk tea made next to her and drank a cup of it alone, which made her rest at ease and walked to the study upstairs.

A maid was sent to deliver the message, and Shepard waited in his study, and after he had drunk the second glass of rum poured by the maid, Tommar hurried over.

"My lord, your faithful Tommar is at your disposal." Maybe it's because he's been flattering for too long and sometimes can't turn around, and the count's majesty is increasing day by day, Tommar will subconsciously tone down when he's nervous, and others have some criticism of his behavior, but fortunately, Shepard understands him and won't belittle him because of it.

"Tommar, I have an important matter for you to do, and when this is done, I will personally propose to Baron de Garter for you, haven't you always liked his eldest daughter?"

Shepard gave the matter a moment of order, and suddenly promised.

Tommar was overjoyed at first, and immediately said nervously: "My lord, I am your loyal knight, and it is my honor to serve you, but you asked me to pretend to be an adventurer to ......"

Shepard laughed, "Merit will be rewarded, and punishment will be punished for mistakes, these are nothing," he handed a stone with many lines carved into Tommar, and said, "You put this stone away, and when the time comes for me to tell you, crush it, and I will rush over it as soon as possible." ”

Tommar did not dare to say more, and departed with joy and sorrow as the Count had commanded.

Seeing the departure of the knight who was the best at acting under his command, Shepard secretly said in his heart: "Tommar is a natural awakening bloodline, his potential is not weaker than Sidney, and he is my disciple, although he is not pious enough, and he is a little smoother, but he is just right to do this." ’

Originally, I still wanted to do it myself, but since I have subordinates, I naturally have to make full use of it, otherwise the commander will have to charge into battle by himself, whether it is a man or a god, it is boring to do it, and those children of the plot, Long Aotian, like to enjoy the glory of the spotlight, and they can't experience the fun of manipulating the chessboard behind their backs. ’

He chuckled a few times, and drank the crystal liquid from the glass in his hand, the wine that the nobles were accustomed to drinking was bitter and unto his taste, far less than the rum with honey that he liked.

……

Bloucester City, Adventurer's Tavern.

The Adventurer's Guild has branches in various places, ranging from the adventurer's hall that specializes in serving adventurers, including food, housing, and training, to the lame tavern owner in the rundown tavern on the street and alley, all of whom may be members of the Adventurer's Guild.

This is a loose organization with power in most of the human civilizations on the continent, and such coverage and area also make it impossible for the Adventurers Association to become a powerful organization like the Red Robe or the Beast Hunter, but instead the branch presidents and other powerful figures in various places, which are equivalent to the princes of the divided side.

After the war in Bloucester City, part of the ruins of the city lord's palace were demolished and a main road leading to the south and north was built, because of the special reasons in the history of Bloucester City, there was no special inner city and castle in the city, and even the location of the Earl's Palace was not in the center of the city.

This main road is divided into the east and west of the city, and the Count of Prell ordered people to set up a checkpoint in the middle of the main road, and build a low wall to the east and west, so that the city of Bloucester is divided into four parts, the city, the nobles, the rich and the commoners, and the adventurer's tavern is located in the market, near the south gate.

A few merchants who came here from the city of [Ruitawen] in the east were chatting about what they had seen on the road, but their faces were a little happy for the rest of their lives: "The sound that day was so terrible, I thought it was an earthquake, or some kind of dragon was about to attack us." ”

"Yes! My legs were weak, my horse was startled on the spot, and the guards who had been with me for a long time were so frightened that they couldn't hold their weapons. ”

"Hey, I don't know what's going on......"

These merchants are often out and have a lot of dealings with adventurers, so they like to rest in the taverns of the Adventurers' Guild, which sighs for a long time, and naturally some adventurers hear the chat and come over to ask.

A stout, long-bearded dwarf jumped on the jumping bench and shouted, "Are you talking about the earthquake in the [Sylminster] forest?" ”

One of the merchants was surprised: "Did it happen in the [Schillminster] forest?" We felt the earthquake on our way to Blouce, but we didn't know where it happened. ”

A good deed had already gathered around, and they also shouted: "Your news is not good, there was an earthquake in the forest of Sylminster a week ago, the ground shook the mountains, many adventurers in the forest were injured, and even a druid village living there died a lot!" ”

Someone shouted, "That's right, my friend escaped from there after the earthquake, and it is said that an ancient ruin suddenly appeared, the ground collapsed, and countless giant trees fell!" My friend saw the black air and the undead appeared! ”

Someone next to him questioned: "The ground has collapsed, how did your friend see the undead?" How come I heard that someone heard the dragon's groan, and saw a ghost dragon flying in the sky! ”

"You're, aren't you? How many adventurers enter the Forest of Sylminster every year, I have never heard of a dragon graveyard! ”

In the corner of the tavern, Shepard, wearing a traveler's cloak, was drinking ale alone, and there were a dozen adventurers who seemed to be chatting at a few tables next to him, in fact, they were all the guards he brought out, and at this time the tavern was getting more and more noisy, and it was too strange for these people to sit here without moving, and the few tables close to the outside immediately had guards who consciously joined the adventurers who were chatting louder and louder.

After only a while, someone inquired into the content of the adventurers' arguments, sorted it out and reported it to Shepard: "Lord Earl, a week ago, there was an earthquake in the [Schillminster Forest] next to the [Snowflake Mountains], it is said that hundreds of acres of forest collapsed, and even a druid tribe living in seclusion in the forest suffered heavy casualties, and some people heard the dragon's groan, and saw the undead creatures suspected of being ghost dragons or ghost dragons flying over the forest. ”

Shepard waved his hand, and the guard consciously returned to his seat, and he took a sip of ale, but his heart was clear.

'It seems that the dragon tomb in the forest of Sirminster has been discovered, and from the perspective of time, it was Morel and his party who did it, right? is worthy of being the son of the plot, and sure enough, he has his own plot aura, he doesn't have anything to do, and he immediately stimulates the plot as soon as he comes. ’

[Gregory's Grief] is also one of the biggest plot quests near Tesser, but unfortunately there are not countless players to hunt and kill the undead now, although the dragon lich's piece of dragon crystal fell into the hands of Morel and them, and the curse naturally fell on their heads, but the dragon tomb that has been hidden for thousands of years does not know how many undead dragons and servants will be awakened, fortunately, the forest is sparsely populated on three sides, and the snowflake mountains in the east are also very steep, except for [Rita Bun] This time it is unlucky, It shouldn't be too bad, there are a few epics and a legendary druid in Rita Haven who live in seclusion, and it must be inevitable that the loss will fall, and the fall is unlikely. ’

"Well, the matter of the Dragon's Tomb is not expected to be hidden for too long, but since the journey is too far, I will not go to this troubled water, Tommar has already followed my orders to pretend to be an adventurer to join Morel's team, with his acting skills, it should not be discovered, and when his signal comes, it will be time for me to leave." ’

The hood blocked most of Shepard's face, and also hid the smile on his face: "Although I don't believe that everything will develop like in the game in the previous life, but there are some key points that can't be avoided, although the ancient temple guarded by the green dragon Takulalk is nothing valuable, it can attract many adventurers, and I want to develop Bloucester City, naturally the more prosperous the better, the green dragon can't be missed, and when Tommar's news comes, I finally have the opportunity to slay the dragon once, and in my previous life, I organized a group to kill it, I haven't drunk dragon's blood soup in this life. ’

The people in the tavern became more and more noisy, but no one noticed when the dozen or so people in the corner quietly left the tavern.

Back at the Earl's Palace, Shepard hadn't drunk half of his cup of hot tea, when the cavalry captain of the city guard hurried over with military information, these cavalry patrolled the main roads in the county, and also had some tasks to convey emergency military information, after all, this continent was full of dangers in the wilderness, and there were no conditions for setting up a post station.

Shepard took a sip of milk tea, frowned and flipped through the report in his hand, swept it over with a glance, and then looked up at the cavalry captain: "The beasts of the Broken Tooth Mountains are migrating?" Is it huge? ”

The cavalry captain saluted: "Yes, my lord, the village next to the mountain range was lucky not to collide with the migrating beasts head-on, but just what they saw, there were more than a dozen beasts, and the total number of them was thousands of migrating south, and the reason is not clear." ”

Shepard was also a little puzzled, random plots like beast migrations often lead to regional announcements, but the Broken Tooth Mountains are high and forested, and the beasts in them rarely leave the mountains, let alone such large-scale migrations.

He sighed, asked the cavalry captain to step back, called a personal guard over, and said casually: "Inform the clerk to issue a conscription order in the name of the Earl's Court, calling adventurers to find out the reason for the migration of the beasts in the Broken Tooth Mountains, and recruit another group of adventurers to migrate the villagers near the mountains." ”

There are always things that the militia can't do, and it's not necessary to send out regular troops, such as the migration of beasts, if the nobles don't want to leave the people behind, they will recruit adventurers to do it, because these people are used to it, and they are very good at communicating with those stubborn and conservative villagers.

Half a day later, the conscription order and bounty of the Earl's Court were also hung on several bulletin boards and the taskboard of the Adventurers' Guild, and naturally there were people who were interested in this to take over the task, but among them was the young blacksmith who made ornaments and swords for the Earl's Court, and knew some swordsmanship.

……

Somewhere in the Forest of Verdas.

Tommar was very nervous to follow the men and three women in front of him, one of them was a succubus known for his evil, but fortunately, this succubus usually looked no different from a human woman, and this believer of the god of light could still bear to walk with her and continue to disguise his identity.

It was a very painful thing to walk in an ancient forest with a long history like the Forest of Verdas, but Tommar had never imagined that the life of an adventurer would be so wonderful and hard after this period of trial, and he couldn't help but think of his manor in the county of Prell, and the noble lady with a pair of plump papayas and a hearty and generous personality that the Count had promised to marry him.

Despite his sleek temperament, Tommar's loyalty was always high under the influence of faith and fear of the Count's authority, even if he was asked to pretend to be an adventurer to join a team of adventurers of unknown depth, and Tommar, who had not yet been corrupted by aristocratic life.

It's just that since joining the team of four Morel, he never thought that life would be so unpredictable, and before the team set off, there were inexplicable people to provoke Morel, who was difficult to deal with at first glance, and people dared to tease the three women with their own characteristics, and as a result, the furious Morel cut off a person's arm on the spot, attracting the city guards, so that they hurriedly left Bloucester City.

Later, they originally wanted to go to [Port Mullan] through the road south of the Broken Tooth Mountains, but halfway through, they encountered the migration of wild beasts in [Zero City], and many caravans were trapped in the city.

The tide of beasts has not yet receded, and there are inexplicable people who hit the idea of the three women, Morel was furious again, and a strong caravan fought hard, as a result, there was a holy warrior next to him who lost a [Detect Evil], and in an instant, the evil aura on the head of the succubus covered several black and red murderers next to him, and the original weapon fight suddenly became a siege of justice against evil, and the two sides fought a big battle, Tommar survived by luck, and escaped from Zero City with Morel and several people.

Fortunately, he still remembered his position during the battle, gritted his teeth and helped the four of Morel, but made Morel think that he was affectionate and righteous, took him with him, and suddenly said that he was going to the Verdas Forest, but did not say what he was going to do.