386 The so-called king of Hyven
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"Oh, you didn't even know my identity before you screamed like crazy?"
Captain Bart said inwardly: "Hmph, I don't care who you are!" If you dare to touch our Naval Fist mercenary group today, you will die tomorrow! We play for the Aldrich family, the King of Hyven, do you understand? Let me go, or ......"
"How else? Spit on me again? Gordon's eyes narrowed slightly.
Far from the administrative center of the Empire, it is not uncommon for this kind of unscrupulous, bad and stupid goods to run rampant with their backers. In the face of this very typical scum mercenary, Gordon was not interested in talking nonsense with him, and directly took out the "Mind Detection" scroll.
He expertly chanted incantations, draining the spell energy stored in words from the scrolls. By the time the parchment scroll had turned to dust, the spell had already taken shape in the hand.
Gordon ejected the purple-blue spell energy that was entwined between them, and shot them into the opponent's forehead at once.
A thread of pure purple-blue spell energy connects Captain Bart's memories to Gordon.
In an instant, Gordon received a lot of shallow memories of a mess.
Gordon's brows furrowed instantly: "Well, alcoholism, brawls, robberies, murders, "qiangjian"...... Your life is really 'colorful'. ”
Captain Bart felt as if a door had opened in his brain, and all his memories seemed to be readable at will by the black-eyed cold mage in front of him.
The scene of his accomplice being tortured to death by the long man with gloomy eyes just now is still vivid, and now that this kind of thing has happened again, Captain Bart can't help but start to tremble.
Seeing the other party's increasingly pale expression, Gordon knew that the time had come, and he could now read the key information that was hidden deep in the other party's mind.
"Sue me, what is the main job of the Fist of Haiwen Mercenary Group?"
"Uh-huh......" Captain Barth's cheeks twitched, and a cold sweat broke out. He felt that a strange force was burrowing into his mind, constantly destroying the psychological defense line he had built with great difficulty. This sturdy man was like a powerless child in the face of arcane power. No matter how much he resists, he can only gradually fall.
"We ...... We, the Fist of Hyven Mercenary Regiment, serve the Aldrich family, suppress dissidents, crusade against the barbarians, and do a lot of dirty work, such as capturing slaves for the mines and forestry farms run by the Aldrich family. ”
"Sure enough, it was exactly what I thought." Gordon's jaw. "I'll leave that Aldrich family at that. I ask you, have Duro and Lady Dinah been captured by your Fist of Hyven mercenary group? ”
Captain Bart bit his lip and shook his head frantically, trembling and sweating like rain. He wanted to resist the power of spells. But it was just in vain, and in the end, it was still involuntarily explained in full.
"Two nights ago, a group of out-of-towners stayed at the 'Big Cup Selling Wine' hotel. Their group was either a strong man or a beautiful woman, and all of them could be sold for a large price. So I decided to do this business and attacked the team with "miyao". He was then imprisoned in an abandoned temple in the town. As soon as you arrived in Vine Town, you began to inquire about the whereabouts of those people, so after discussion, our mercenary group is ready to wait for you to leave, and then escort the slaves to Black Iron City on the Hyven Peninsula and hand them over to the master. ”
"The head of the house?"
"Able. Aldrich. ”
Gordon's mind was still full of doubts. After acquiring the Haiwen Peninsula as his fiefdom, Gordon also put a lot of effort into reading all the official reports related to this region in the empire every year. But he never saw Abel. The name Aldrich.
"Tell me about the Aldridges." Gordon ordered.
Captain Bart's face contorted again. But in the end, he couldn't resist the power of the spell and poured out everything he knew in his stomach.
Abel. Aldrich was appointed eleven years ago by the Empire to govern the Hybon region. An entourage of Earl Stirling. He was just a centurion commanding a hundred soldiers, not a big man. But in Barbato. After the death of the Earl of Stirling, Abel . Aldrich, however, suddenly rose.
With the support of the most powerful Kuts in the jungle region of the Haiwen Peninsula, it took him only one year to completely control the two cities on the Haiwen Peninsula: Black Iron City and Yunhai City. Afterwards. With the smuggling trade of iron ore, silver ore, logs, tobacco, etc., the Aldrich family quickly grew and became the supreme ruler of the Haiwen Peninsula, known as the King of Haiwen.
"Smuggling silver mines, you say? Is there a silver mine on the Haiwen Peninsula? Gordon asked.
In the official presentation of the Empire. The only mineral resource on the Haiwen Peninsula is an open-pit iron mine outside the Black Iron City, and the quality is not very high.
Captain Bart replied honestly, "Three years ago, King Hyven's prospecting team found a silver mine in the hilly terrain west of Black Iron City. The ore produced there is extremely pure and of excellent quality, and there is also an abundance of Mithril associated ores. In addition, the iron ore of the Haiwen Peninsula is not the so-called poor mine, but a very large scale and extremely high production rich mine, as well as a large number of associated meteorite ores. ”
Gordon gasped. He didn't expect that the Haiwen Peninsula, which should have been barren, would have such two high-quality mineral deposits.
"The Empire doesn't know anything about these things?"
"Every three years, the Empire sends a special administrator to the Haiwen region. As long as the special administrator is obedient and obediently shrinks his head to live, then there is no problem. But if you are restless and want to do something, it won't be long before you die. ”
"If this King of Hyperven can have the power he has now, he should have many allies, right?"
Captain Bart replied honestly, "The Frey family, who rule Vinetown, and the pirates of the Steam Sea, are all related to Able. Aldrich has a deep connection. ”
"Good, I see. I didn't expect that under the rule of I, the Count of Haiwen, there would be such a powerful King of Haiwen. It's really interesting, and it seems that life will not be boring in the future. ”
When Captain Bart heard this, it suddenly dawned on him: "You are Gordon. Freeman, the mage! And the woman who killed more than twenty of my subordinates almost in the blink of an eye must be your sister, the battlefield angel Sheona! ”
"You've only guessed now, but it's too late." Gordon shook his head. At this time, the duration of the "Mind Detection" had already arrived, and the purple-blue energy line connecting the two people suddenly disappeared.
Gordon left the basement and called Woodlow: "These guys from the Fist of Hyven mercenary group are useless, kill them all." ”
Woodlo's style of doing things was as crisp as his marksmanship, and he got it done quickly.
Gordon then summoned all four of his retainers, except for the wounded Chuck.
"Let all the soldiers stationed outside gather, and then quickly enter the town, raze the abandoned temple of the sea goddess in the northwest, and all the people of the Haiwen Fist mercenary group cannot let go."
"My lord, what if the town's guards are going to stop us? YANG Qi. Sharpear asked.
The town of vines was the domain of the Frey family, and according to imperial law, when nobles passed through the fiefdoms of other nobles, the earldom could not bring more than 300 private soldiers, and only 50 could enter the city.
"The Fist of Hyven mercenary group was able to capture all the more than fifty people of Douro and Lady Dinah in this town, and I don't believe that Sir Mendolo didn't know. According to the known information, the Frey family and the so-called King of Hyperven, Able. Aldrich has long been complicit. All you need to do is resolutely carry out my orders, and if anyone dares to stop them, they will be killed. ”
"Yes, sir!" The four of them replied in unison.
After the brutal Battle of High Rock Castle, they have already been trained to become the most courageous warriors in the war. Now it is not difficult to deal with a group of mercenaries who are only good at being strong and weak, as well as the lowly town guards. It should be just a warm-up for future battles.
After receiving the order, the elite soldiers of the Redstone Legion, who were now the private soldiers of the Freeman family, immediately stood up and lined up and poured into the vine town.
The townspeople looked at these soldiers with bright armor and fierce faces, and they didn't know what was going on. Some people seem to have a premonition that something big is coming, and they immediately run back to their homes and close the doors and windows. Others ran to inform the mayor of the town, Sir Mendoro.
By the time Gordon reached the gate of the abandoned temple, two hundred soldiers had surrounded it.
Dressed in steel chain mail, armed with a round shield, a sword, and a military crossbow, these warriors are known as the "Redstone Guards" in the Redstone Legion. They are all generalists, carefully selected from ordinary soldiers, and can complete the task excellently, whether it is siege or field battle, whether it is defense or attack. Aside from not being good at horseback riding, they have few shortcomings.
After the Battle of High Rock, the Legion Commander Count Reinaren died, and the Redstone Legion, which suffered a large number of casualties, was almost in a state of semi-disbandment. It's only because of Rob. The legion, which was built with the support of the Grand Duke of Antelo, was in trouble due to the shrinking power of the Antelo family.
Because of this, among the remaining 500 or so Redstone guards in the Redstone Legion, who saw no hope, 200 were willing to follow Gordon to the south.
Gordon received the soldiers from Falia and immediately announced that he would retain their title of "Redstone Guard". They then promised to provide their families with land on the Haiwen Peninsula.
These moves did not allow the Redstone Guards to serve Gordon as a new lord, but at least they stabilized the morale of the army and made them a usable military force in Gordon's hands.