Chapter 40: Hillary's Hidden Feelings
"Your Excellency Knight, are you really unwilling to accept the friendship of our Wind Bird Family?" In Wolf City, Viscount Marven looked at Yifei opposite with an angry face and asked.
"Your Excellency, if your Wind Bird Clan brings friendship, how can our Wild Wolf Clan refuse, but are you bringing friendship?" Hearing Marven's question, Yifei asked with a strong suppression of the anger in his heart.
"Your Excellency Knight, he's just a pariah!"
"Hehehe, he is not a pariah, he is the family knight of our wild wolf family, I hope your Excellency will not insult the glory of our wild wolf family!"
"Very well, Your Excellency Knight, please remember your choice for today!" Viscount Marven left angrily.
Seeing Viscount Marven's departure, Yifei didn't even mean to stand up and send it off. Hmph, the friendship of the bullshit Wind Bird family, he actually wanted to hand over Robinson to himself, he really thought he was a person.
Robinson and the others are the banners he finally erected, just like a daughter buys horse bones, the five of them are horse bones, and with the existence of the five of them, his power has expanded so rapidly now.
If he handed over Robinson to the Wind Bird family today, then the integrity he had built up with great difficulty would collapse in an instant, not to mention whether anyone would come to him in the future, and even those who had already taken refuge would definitely no longer believe him.
Looking at the territory that is now thriving, only a fool would choose that ethereal, illusory friendship and cut off his roots.
"Whoa..."
"Your Excellency, Knight Hillary is out asking to see your lordship!" At that moment, a guard walked in and spoke.
"Let him in!"
"Hillary, meet your lord!" After a while, Hillary, dressed in armor, strode in.
"Arise, my knight, what good news have you brought today?" Looking at Hillary with a happy face, Yifei asked with a smile.
"Your Excellency, the Blood Wolf Clan wants your protection." Hearing Yifei's inquiry, Hillary said respectfully.
"Blood Wolves? Tell me, my knight, about them! Yi Fei asked with some curiosity, for so many days, there have been various large and small thief groups joining the Wild Wolf Family, Robinson and the others just compiled them according to his instructions, and then counted the number of people, and sent the statistics book to Wild Wolf City.
And only this time, Hillary actually came to Wolf City in person, just to report to him, presumably the blood wolf clan is a little different from other thieves.
"My lord, the blood wolf clan ......" Hearing Yifei's inquiry, Hillary told the situation of the blood wolf clan.
The Moffett family? After listening to Hillary's words, Yifei read in his heart, and suddenly his wrist flipped over, and there was an extra parchment roll in his hand.
This parchment scroll was the last letter from the Violet family, and it was noted that the families had objected to his promotion to the title at the Council of Elders.
After reading the contents of the parchment scroll, the corners of Yifei's mouth couldn't help but show a smile, it turned out to be you, the Moffett family.
"Hillary, do you know how many of the Moffett family's private troops are stationed near the Annaba Mountains?"
"If you go back to your lordship, the Moffett family has three legions stationed in the Annaba Mountains, about nine thousand people." Hillary Clinton said with some concern.
Although he was very grateful to the adult in front of him, he didn't dare to guarantee the ticket, and the adult in front of him was willing to offend the Moffett family for their cheap lives.
In the Empire, the Moffett family is one of the top ten families in the Empire, especially in the southern province of the Empire, where the Moffett family is the king.
More than 9,000 people? Hearing Hillary's words, Yifei suddenly froze, this number is a bit large!
"Hillary, tell me about the Moffett family!" Yifei scratched his scalp and asked.
Those who are familiar with him know that once Yifei scratches his scalp, he is considering the other party's suggestion. But Hillary didn't know this at all, he looked at Yifei's hesitant expression, and couldn't help but become a little pessimistic, it seems that the adult in front of him doesn't want to offend the Moffett family.
But he still told what he knew in detail, as a knight of the family, no matter how selfish he was, he would still put the family first.
The Moffett family, one of the top ten families in the empire, is the secret king of the Sark Province, with 30,000 family knights and hundreds of thousands of family private soldiers...... After listening to Hillary's introduction, Yifei compared it in his heart, and now his strength is like an ant and an elephant compared to the Moffett family.
Thinking of this, he remembered the news sent by Luo Qi, and couldn't help but be a little worried, such a big family turned out to be hostile to him.
"Hillary, do you know the Violet family?" At this time, Yifei asked again.
"The Violet Family? My lord, are you asking about the Saint-Violet family? Hillary asked, confused.
"Yes, that's them."
"My lord, the Saint Violet family is also one of the top ten families in the empire, just like the Cachiro family and the Kailan family...... In the same way, their ancestors were once the ten paladins under the command of the great Emperor of Thorns......" Hillary gave Yifei a general idea of the history of the empire.
After listening to Hillary's words, Yifei was suddenly frightened and his little liver thumped, I'll go, why can't the other ten families get along with him except for the Violet family, is he so hated?
Something is wrong, I haven't dealt with them before, there shouldn't be so much hatred between the two, there should be some misunderstanding in the middle. Thinking of this, Yifei couldn't help but analyze it in his heart, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he had caught something, so he hurriedly asked.
"Hillary, what about the relationship between these ten families?"
"They are all a bunch of despicable, shameless, untrustworthy moths, like a pack of mad dogs, today you bite me, tomorrow I bite you......." Hearing Yifei's inquiry, Hillary said with great hatred.
Looking at Hillary's expression, Yifei suddenly felt very strange, this knight of his own was a little strange, wasn't he just a thief leader, how could he know so much about the nobles of the empire?
"Hillary, can you tell me where you came from?" This is Yi Fei suddenly asked softly.
"My lord, are you ......" Hearing Yifei's inquiry, Hillary was stunned for a moment, and immediately looked at Yifei without speaking.
"Hehe, if you feel embarrassed, then forget it, I'm just curious, why do you, a mercenary captain, know so much about the affairs of the upper echelons of the empire!" Seeing that Hillary didn't speak, Yifei said with a smile.
Hearing Yifei's words, Hillary looked up at Yifei, and from his eyes, Hillary saw only curiosity, but no malice.
He hesitated for a moment, then suddenly knelt down in front of Yi Fei and said respectfully, "My lord, please forgive me for deceiving you before. “
"Oh, my knight, get up, I don't care about your past. All I know is that from that day on, you have been members of our wolf family, and I just hope that my people will be able to come over a little happier in the future. If there's anything you need my help with, I'd love to hear from you! Yifei helped Hillary to her feet and said very sincerely.
Although at first he had the idea of looking for cannon fodder to co-opt these thieves, but after a period of contact, people can be ruthless, and he still has some feelings for these loyal subordinates.
Hearing Yifei's words, Hillary's eyes suddenly became a little hazy, and he spoke in a very low voice about his situation.
“…… Those shameless guys, they colluded with the orcs and betrayed the intelligence of the army, but they blamed our Shilang family for the defeat of the war......"
After listening to Hillary's words, Yifei understood what was going on, in order to amass wealth, the upper-class nobles smuggled weapons to the Orc Empire for huge profits, but Hillary's father, who was stationed in the border fortress, was a qualified soldier, and of course he couldn't get used to this kind of behavior of the enemy.
So a specially arranged war broke out, and the doomed side, that is, Hillary's father, was erased from his knighthood and sent to the gallows because of this defeat.
After understanding this, Yi Fei suddenly understood why those families were hostile to him, maybe he was like Hillary's father, blocking the wealth of those nobles.
At the same time, he also understood why the orcs had stationed so many troops in the Kajid Mountains, but they only sent a few thousand low-strength militia over.
Yifei didn't know that those families didn't treat him like this at all in the elders' meeting, the reason was very simple, they just didn't want to look at the rival Violet family, and Yifei was just an ant in their eyes, an ant with a special identity.
As for why the orcs didn't send an elite army, the reason was simpler, because of those barbarians, this is why the empire did not build a large military fortress here in the Khajidian mountains.
With the barbarians in the Khajid Mountains, the Empire does not have to worry about orcs sending large armies to raid the Empire from the Khajid Mountains.
And the barbarians only live in the form of tribes in the Khajid Mountains, without a unified leader, as long as they do not invade their homeland, they rarely come out to invade the empire on a large scale, and occasionally some tribes come out to rob, just because some nobles offend them.
In the eyes of the barbarians, the orcs are aliens, while the humans are just more cunning and hateful.
For all this, Yi Fei, who first came to the other world, was not clear at all, but at this time, he had a decision to take refuge in the blood wolf clan.