Act 139: The Witch's Rebellion II
Roman is usually not very interested in witches' affairs, and rarely takes care of them, but there is a former witch queen's pact spirit White Mist beside her, and Bai Mist believes that Miss Merchant is the inheritor chosen by the witch queen, and she is the person who will rule the entire witch kingdom in the future, as for the current witch king, in her opinion, he is just a usurper who holds the seal on her behalf - in fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement, after the death of the witch queen in history, there is no designated successor, and the power of the witch lineage is kept by her maid during her lifetime, became the titular 'regent', and later after the First Age, few people even mentioned the word regent, and directly used the title of the witch king, but the witch has a long heritage, and many witches in the country of Bunosson still know about this past.
In this case, of course, Bai Wu can't allow the witch to lose power, but Miss Merchant's interests and hobbies are all in business, she can't persuade the other party, so she has to copy the knife herself, as a pact spirit who has lived for thousands of years, she actually did similar things when she was by the witch queen's side, and now in the face of these 'juniors', she is naturally familiar with it. With her unique origins, she quickly subdued Babasha and her people, and turned a series of eyeliners into the witches who had taken refuge in Brando's favor.
In this way, as soon as the unstable dìng factor appeared among the witches, the white mist grasped the news and woke up Roman. Although our merchant lady never cared about her nominal subordinates, she knew how important these witches were to Brando, so she put aside her own affairs and rushed over, so that she ran into Flo.
According to the news that White Mist learned, this time the main changes in the witch camp were Anvi and the witches of the Cup Moon, and she and the witches of the Sword Moon were introduced by Babasha to Brando, and they were the first witches to join Valhalla. Brando listened to Roman's description and remembered the two women. He couldn't help frowning deeper and deeper, he thought that the witch was just a small move, but he didn't expect the problem to be even stricter than he imagined, and even the witch who joined him first had a different idea, not to mention the wall grass that joined later. Moreover, White Mist also specifically mentions Anwei's origin, and the main range of activities of the witches of the Sword Moon is in the north of Eruin. There are actually many Cruz people in this witch tribe, and they have a deep connection to the witches of Anzeruta, and in fact the witches who later joined him in the area of Silver Bay were introduced by Anvi.
The Silver Bay region is east of Anzeruta, where there is a series of loose principality city-states, almost all of which belong to Cruz and St. Osor, and there are several long-established witch traditions, and Brando had hoped to bring them closer to these small states and open the passage from Eruin to St. Osor, with the aim of pinning down Cruz. But now that Anne has fallen to the Silver Queen, these witches are naturally unreliable.
Fortunately, in the news that White Mist obtained, the witches of the Sword Moon family had not been affected, and Brando remembered the middle-aged witch named Kurul - when he first met the other party, the other party barely impressed him, only remembered that it was a tall and thin middle-aged woman, wearing a hood all day long and showing her true face, as if she had no interest in anything, and she was also indifferent when she first came to meet him, the titular 'dark dragon', under the introduction of Babasha. Not as enthusiastic as Anvi - even if it's just on the surface.
Brando subconsciously tapped the table with his knuckles, and suddenly became a little curious about the witch. The Witch of the Moon of the Sword is not like the Witch of the Latter Moon to which Babasha and the Sugar Jar belong. As the first witch to join him and witness him display the 'power' of the dark dragon, the people of Babasha's clan are almost his natural allies and the most reliable subordinates, and there is almost no possibility of betrayal, but the witches of Sword Moon are different, and their relationship with them is more distant. Not even as good as Anvi and her people, Brando couldn't help but wonder why it was Anvi and not Kurul who were the first to defect at this juncture.
Is it because Kurul and her people are too sluggish to come to their senses? Brando shook his head inwardly, feeling that this reason would not convince him. Now that the story of the Silver Queen is spreading across the continent, it is spreading from Metz, Cloak Bay, and Ludwig at an alarming rate, and now that even in areas south of Faenzan and the Great Glacier, there is no reason for the Kurul clan to ignore the return of the Dark Dragon? What's more, they are still the witches most closely related to this incident.
Then the question arises, what is it that makes Kurul and her people fearless and not at all worried that they have taken refuge with the wrong person?
Seriously, in fact, Brando himself thinks that the queen who is now far away in the imperial capital may be the inheritor of the real dark dragon, because he himself has never thought of using this identity at all, in his opinion, Odin is Odin, he is himself, although he has received the inheritance and power from the dark dragon that the world says, but so what? As the Queen of the Wind said, there is no good or evil in power, what matters is the person who uses it, he is the power of the dark dragon, but he is still Brando.
The path he wants to take has always been his own path, not the path of the so-called Dark Dragon, and in fact he has never wanted to change the whole world.
In that case, Brando really couldn't find a reason why Kurul and her people were so confident in her, maybe it was hidden too deeply, or maybe there was another reason. But whatever the reason, this middle-aged woman's strange appearance attracted his attention, and at this moment he already had the idea of wanting to see the other party, but not now-
Brando waited quietly for Roman to finish, and after Miss Merchant's finished speaking, she was a little surprised to find that he didn't say anything, so she couldn't help blinking her eyes and asked curiously, "Brando, what are you going to do?" ”
Brando glared at the eccentric businessman, and replied a little angrily: "These are all your subordinates, and now that there is such a big mess, you still come to ask me what to do?" White Mist often told me that you don't care about things at all, and now it seems that you are not wrong. ”
Roman was a little embarrassed, and defended himself: "I...... I'm not interested in them, they're all coming to me—no. It's to take refuge in Brando. Besides, I don't want to be the king of witches, and the aunt who was buried at the bottom of the mountain is really, I just want to learn her fun witchcraft, and she didn't say hello to me, so she made me a witch queen. The white mist is annoying, my aunt was not as fierce as her before-"
Brando heard that there were a few black lines on his head, what did it mean to 'I just want to learn her fun witchcraft', the witch queen knew that Roman called her the aunt who was buried at the bottom of the mountain, and it was estimated that she would be angry and alive immediately. Besides, Bai Wu, a spirit who has lived for thousands of years, was forced by this businessman to be unable to deal with the junior in person, and was said to be 'too fierce', and I don't know if Bai Wu will secretly cry alone at night. I don't know if this is the so-called unknown person, anyway, Brando thinks that the witch queen chose the merchant lady in front of him as her inheritor. It must have not been thought out of any thought, and of course it could also be because of the impatience of waiting too long, and the merchant lady happened to bump into it.
Of course, Brando forced himself to retract this ridiculous idea, and said to Miss Merchant in a cold sweat: "Forget it, I know, it's not your fault, you can go and get your business in peace, and let the witch let it go first." I have my own arrangements, so you can contact your regular customers with peace of mind. ”
It was heard that Brando would not hold her accountable. Roman couldn't help but be a little happy, and hurriedly said 'oh' and stood back obediently. She at least has one good thing, that is, she has great trust in Brando, although Brando has never said how she wants to deal with this matter, but in Roman's heart, as long as Brando has agreed. Then there will certainly not be a little bit of a problem. She thought that she had caused trouble again, and she was still a little panicked in her heart, for fear that Brando would trouble her, but now that she had escaped, Miss Merchant's heart couldn't help but dance again. I don't seem to be worried about the current situation at all.
As for Brando's asking her to contact the fir leader's old patrons in the empire, in fact, this was her job, she knew that Brando was now privately contacting the nobles in the north of the empire - long before the outbreak of the holy war, there were many big merchants in the empire who had trade ties with Eruin, and Eruin and Cruz originally had an important route in the Shining Sea, and later after Brando made his career in the fir leader, this route became busier and busier, Even before and after the Ampesel War, it surpassed the momentum of the first commercial port in the south. At that time, although there had been hidden friction between the empire and Eruin, the business dealings with the fir lords were never broken, and Romantong Guò was an outstanding example in the field of commerce, and she also got acquainted with many big merchants in the empire, otherwise she would not have been specially invited to the legation as a well-known merchant for the silver queen.
Although Brando has always been skeptical of this so-called invitation-
However, with the disappearance of the emperor's eldest son, the situation within the empire became increasingly tense, and the exchanges between Brando and the empire - especially the merchants of Ludwig and Metz's generation were shrouded in a thick political color, after all, you must know that in this era, generally speaking, the big merchants and the big nobles are not separated, and the output of the lord of the manor usually has to be profitable through commerce, so many business tycoons actually have the shadow of the nobility behind them, or they are nobles, such as Brando himself is the lord of the fir lord, At the same time, he is also the de facto head of the Fir Collar Seven Seas Chamber of Commerce, and Roman is just acting as his fiancée.
In fact, such combinations are not uncommon in all parts of the mainland, and the nobility either sells by themselves or through guò agents, so the trade between countries often has a deep political color, such as the simple commercial exchanges in the early stage of the development of the fir collar, but it is an individual phenomenon. After the disappearance of the emperor's eldest son, Brando, Veronica, and the commander of the Black Legion, Mangrove, had actually reached an alliance, Veronica mainly roamed the imperial capital, seeking supporters in the center of power, Mangrove ran Ludvig as a model and banner for the military aristocracy, and Brando began to consciously contact the nobles of the north - mainly through the channel of Guò Roman, to exert influence from the commercial level, and seek more allies.
This plan has been carried out for quite a long time, almost half a year now, and the results achieved are quite fruitful, after all, the Metz and Ludwig regions were originally the traditional sphere of influence of the military aristocracy, and the fir collar to which Brando belonged only played a role of threading the needle, a role that Veronica and Mangrove could not complete under the nose of the Silver Queen. But that queen probably never dreamed that the lord of a small kingdom thousands of miles away would dare to calculate herself.
Today, it's harvest season for Brando.
Brando watched Miss Merchant's roll her eyes and stand back without saying a word, knowing what was probably going on in her heart, he shook his head slightly, although the witch's turmoil was still a trouble for him, it was actually not the most important thing at the moment. After he calmed down, he actually had a plan in his heart, and among the three major witch inheritances that took refuge in him, at least two of them stood on his side, and the remaining one couldn't make any waves. The woman named Anvi, the current inheritor of the Witch of the Cup Moon, is not an outstanding figure in history, but she is quite famous, but she is famous because she is the stepping stone of the famous arrogant - the supreme witch Mikaya, I didn't expect that in the two lives, this woman has not grown at all.
History has its inevitability after all, Brando suddenly remembered this sentence, and couldn't help but think of his appearance as the little girl in Reshallow Water.
He shook his head, banishing the thought from his thoughts, before looking up at Flo. It's just that before he could speak, the cold young lady of the wild elf had already preemptively said:
"My lord, what I'm going to say is pretty much the same as Miss Roman, but with a different audience."
Speaking of this, Flo paused slightly, she stared at Brando, and said slowly as if she hated iron:
"I'm talking about the Cruz."
…… (To be continued......)