Chapter 45: Redstone Fortress (6)
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As the most important military fortress in the western part of the Rohan Empire, the Red Stone Fortress was an important town in the western border of the entire Rohan Empire before the rise of Andoson, but now it is only a military fortress and no longer has the functions of a town in the past. biquge.info But the urban system built over hundreds of years has still preserved and is still rejuvenating its youthful power.
In the past, the Red Rock Fortress was an important gorge leading to the Lost Forest for the Rohan Empire's merchants, and many caravans would stop here, and even because the Andosen Territory often encountered demonic attacks, many caravans moved the Chamber of Commerce to move Andosen back to the Redstone Fortress.
However, the Chambers of Commerce must have felt that they had made a wise choice, especially since the news came that Andorson had also been attacked by dead creatures, and everyone who stayed in Redstone Fortress considered themselves lucky. It's just that the nature of the merchants made these members of the Chamber of Commerce realize that now is still the time to make a fortune, which leads to why when Chen Kai and them arrived, a large number of merchants stood at the gate of the Red Stone Fortress to greet them.
Of course, instead of welcoming Chen Kai and them to the Redstone Fortress, they did not celebrate the group's escape from the clutches of death, but asked Chen Kai if they had any goods to sell. These merchants accept almost everything, from means of subsistence to works of art, from jewellery to household items, and so on. Especially when these merchants knew the identity of Chen Kai and their travelers, their eyes almost never left their backs, that is, the location of their backpacks.
It's a pity that when Chen Kai saw the purchase price of these merchants, he immediately dismissed the idea of selling the goods, because he felt that he was black enough to reduce the price of the goods by at least seventy percent, but these merchants were even more black-hearted than Chen Kai, and they only gave the purchase price of the original price of the goods. For such a price, as long as Chen Kai is not stupid, he will not sell it, as for the other party to press him in the background, sorry, it seems that Chen Kai's backstage is also very hard now. At least after seeing the thousands of players holding weapons behind him, these indigenous traders discouraged the idea of buying and selling. Especially when several players heard that the heads of dead creatures in the Redstone Fortress could not be redeemed for huàn rewards, they directly threw out the skulls in their backpacks that they intended to exchange for gold coins, and more than 3,000 skulls were stuffed into the backpacks by these players. Originally, it was intended to be exchanged for experience or gold, but the commander of the redstone fortress did not offer a bounty. The quartermaster even said that the heads could be purchased for the price of one copper. But where can those players endure such insults, if you don't give a reward, forget it, the skulls we worked so hard to get were purchased at such a cheap price, so the angry players directly followed Fei Yun's prompts to build those skulls into Jingguan. The appearance of thousands of heads being built up made those businessmen who were peeping in the dark run away directly, although they felt that they were very ruthless, but now it seems that Chen Kai and they are even more ruthless than these businessmen.
Especially the poor quartermaster, because those players had built thousands of skulls into a kyokan almost in front of him. This initially annoyed the quartermaster, but gradually the annoyance turned into fear. In the end, it became fear. Because Fei Yun and the others put all the skull faces towards the gate where the quartermaster was in order to fix this quartermaster, the feeling of being stared at by thousands of black holes would make everyone feel terrifying. What frightened this quartermaster the most was that Fei Yun also flashed his knife at him from time to time when they were building the Jingguan, which made the poor quartermaster suffer a lot of intimidation.
But it's just a threat, after all, Chen Kai and the others still have to stay in the Redstone Fortress for a while. Although with Viscount Andosk as a guarantor, Chen Kai would not be arrested as soon as he entered the Redstone Fortress. But as long as the nobles of Andorson did not cancel his wanted warrant, then the red light on his back would not dissipate. It can be said that the sad Chen Kai can only enter the church of the Dawn Temple in the fortress after entering the redstone fortress, because as long as he walks outside and sees those civilians, he will be thought to be bad people, and then the kindness value will fall down.
Seeing Chen Kai's situation, Xu Fei and they had nothing to do but sympathize, although the presiding officer of the Dawn Temple Church of the Redstone Fortress was also angry at Chen Kai's treatment, but he was only a high-ranking priest and could not influence the upper echelons of the Redstone Fortress, so that the commander of the Redstone Fortress, Count Markrachi, could cancel Chen Kai's wanted warrant. The only thing he could do was to let Chen Kai stay in the church and accept the protection of the Dawn Temple, but this was a good thing for Chen Kai. At least he didn't have to worry about being called into battle again. Due to the fact that the civil function of the Redstone Fortress itself has been transferred to Andorson, all the temples in the Redstone Fortress are very small, and usually only a few military officers come to pray, so most of the temples are just church-like buildings. However, this kind of church is really much larger than the church in reality, at least at the level of Notre Dame Cathedral, and even larger than Notre Dame Cathedral.
At least Chen Kai has his own independent prayer room in this church, and of course it is also a part-time resting place. However, this prayer room was the largest prayer room in the entire church, because Chen Kai's huge physique allowed him to stay in such a prayer room, and in order to maintain his respect for the gods, Chen Kai could not stand up here. Can only be half-kneeling. Of course, it is also a loss that Chen Kai is a star knight, a profession that belongs to the knight of divine grace. Changing to an ordinary knight of the Dawn Temple is estimated to be the life of an ordinary prayer room, and it is even more impossible for the high priest named Keqia to scold Chen Kai in front of Count Markage in the Redstone Fortress.
In fact, Chen Kai didn't know that the current commander of the Redstone Fortress, Markrachi, was having a headache over Chen Kai's wanted warrant. He couldn't stop spitting in his heart and scolded the upper nobles of Andorson for being pigs. Not only did not find Bill? Polly, a traitor to the Empire, is even wanted by the Grace Knight of the Temple of Dawn. In Makratsch's opinion, the upper-class aristocrats of Anderson are completely pig brains, and the brains are all made of tofu.
"These idiots! Bastard! Stupid, your head is full of shit! How could they want the Knights of Grace in the Temple of Dawn! Even if the other party is only a sixth-order professional, he is also the future pillar of the Dawn Temple! Markrats stood in front of Viscount Andosk and roared loudly, and the several legion commanders sitting below him, including the leader of the Mage Tower, all looked at each other and fell silent.
"Uncle Markratche, don't lose your temper, those guys are either dead or have fled to the interior of the Empire, so let's think about how to clean up the tails they left behind!" Viscount Andorsk sat under Markrats in a noble dress, although his family was weakened in Andosen, but even farmers were rich and noble, as a noble family that had been inherited for hundreds of years, Viscount Andorsk included his uncle.
"If they don't die, I'll kill them all! Not only did not find Bill? Polly, a traitor, also lost the city of Andosen! I'm sorry. Viscount Andosk I'm not talking about you, you've worked hard enough! Those refugees brought your deeds, and if it weren't for you, I guess there wouldn't be so many refugees who retreated to Redstone Fortress right now! Markrach's words made Viscount Andosk very ashamed, in fact, he was almost a drag on people in the future, although he always felt that he was the future guide of the Andosk family. It's a pity that his own strength is too bad, and his strength that has only been of the fifth order so far is almost like cannon fodder in Anderson's battle. If Chen Kai hadn't carried him all the way, it is estimated that Viscount Andosk would have died in the dungeon long ago.
"Ahem! Count Makratsch, let's think about the Lord Berkner first! I'm sure this must be the Bill who betrayed the Empire? Polly's conspiracy is aimed at provoking discord between the Empire and the Temple of Dawn. That's why he sent the wanted warrant directly to various cities in this way. The problem now is that we must deal with this matter before the Dawn Temple is angry, after all, it is a matter of offending the other party to want a Divine Knight, and this Divine Knight's Divine Grace Knight still has a lot of credit for Anderson. This will not only make the Temple of Dawn angry, but also many soldiers angry because the person with merit is wanted. An apparently dog-headed military officer sat next to Viscount Andosk and spoke slowly, his words echoed by many people.
"But now more than a dozen surrounding cities have received Bill? Wanted warrants issued by Polly this bastard. What do you say we should do? "Markratch knows very well what the consequences will be if this matter is not handled well, the wrath of the Temple of Dawn is too far for him, even if the temple is really angry, there are emperors and noble senates above him. Because Bill, the lord of Andorson? Polly was in the Noble Senate to Andorson, so Markratz was not in a hurry at all. He was anxious that Chen Kai, a person who had made meritorious contributions in the battle to defend the city, was wanted, and if the matter got out, it would be a very big blow to the morale of the troops in the Red Stone Fortress. At a time when the Redstone Fortress might be attacked by the undead, Markratch would never allow such a thing to happen, and as for Chen Kai's wanted in other cities, it seemed to him that the situation he was facing now was completely insignificant.
"Lord Earl! In fact, this matter is easy to solve, that Lord Berkner is a traveler, and as a nobleman of the Hansting Empire, he cannot enjoy the meritorious title of our empire, so just send him a little bounty. The only trouble is that we have to get rid of the wanted warrant on him. And it has to be eliminated from all the cities that have received the wanted warrants, but as long as you do the first step, I think you can make sure that the other side will not spread rumors that are bad for the army, and you can put all the blame on Bill? Polly, because of his treasonous guide, the meritorious soldiers were treated unfairly! When these few words were finished, the whole council hall fell silent, and many noble commanders patted their heads and shouted that they had not thought of it, in fact, this was a very simple question, but the problem was complicated, including Count Markratsch.
"Alright! Baron Zaf did as you say, and as for the wanted notices in other cities, I personally wrote to the lords of those cities to ask them to help cancel the wanted notices, and as for the bounty of Lord Berkner, don't be too stingy. Be as generous as possible! After all, the other party is a nobleman of the Hansting Empire. Don't let the Hansting peasants look down on us in the Rohan Empire! When Makrats's words reached everyone's ears, Andosk couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, and the Hansting farmer in Makrats's words actually belonged to the contempt that the two sides called each other in the early days of the Rohan Empire and the Hansting Empire. At that time, Hansting, like the Rohan Empire, was an ordinary principality. It's just that one is a principality engaged in agricultural production, and the other is a principality engaged in herding, and the two sides are at odds with each other in the last century. So much so that many Hansting people called the Rohan people grooms at that time, and the Rohans became Hansting people farmers. It's just that this title now only exists among some great nobles who have been handed down for thousands of years, and Markratsch's current emergence of such a sentence also proves the history of his family's inheritance from the side.
"Yes! Dear Earl! In a burst of sycophants, the daily assembly of the Redstone Fortress came to an end, and the one who should have handled military affairs ran off to deal with military affairs after leaving the council hall, and even if there were undead wandering outside, he couldn't stop him from walking.
It was only less than half a day before Chen Kai received his convulsion fee, which was a bounty from Count Markrac. To reward him for his efforts in commanding battles in Andorson. Of course, it is better to say that it is a bounty than a reward, because the baron named Zaf did not give Chen Kai any gold and silver coins, but gave him a set of horse harnesses. Looking at the unusually familiar vest in front of him, Chen Kai became extremely depressed, because this vest was none other than the rohan iron horseman's vest draped on Ral's body. It's just that compared to the harness that Chen Kai draped on Ral's body, the harness he got now is more glamorous, because it is golden throughout.
"Nima! Not really! Lao Tzu's armor is brilliant enough, and now this harness is so brilliant. How can I enter the battlefield in the future! "Everyone knows that the brighter you wear on the battlefield, the greater the chance of being attacked, and everyone knows that the more prominent you are, the more powerful you are, even in battles against the undead and demons. Chen Kai could imagine what it would be like when he put on such a vest for Ral and then put on his double-headed lion armor and enter the battlefield, those demon commanders, undead commanders, and even the commanders of hostile forces would treat him as a wave and rush over to destroy him together. But this set of vests made it difficult for Chen Kai to put down, because it was too special, too powerful, and too good.
It's not just that the defense is more than twice as high as Chen Kai's original horse harness. The defense of the entire set of harness has reached 1300 points, and it is still in the state of not counting spell protection. Not only that, the spikes on the harness also have a certain degree of aggression, especially the two spikes on the guard plate on the front chest of the war horse, in Chen Kai's opinion, once used when the war horse is charging, it is estimated that it can instantly pierce a shield. In fact, Chen Kai didn't know that these two spikes were made with a special process, and they were powerful enough to penetrate steel plates up to three centimeters thick, and it was only that the speed of the war horse was 50 kilometers per hour, and the power would be even more terrifying with the sprint speed of Ral.
So after a period of entanglement, Chen Kai finally replaced Lal's harness. At the same time, he thanked the Baron Zaf with some knick-knacks brought from Andorson. Looking at the baron's smile as he left with the artwork he had purchased at a low price from Andorson, Chen Kai slowly returned to his prayers. Although he didn't get any information, Baron Zaf's arrival meant that his wanted warrant would be cleared soon, as it was just a gesture of goodwill from the commander of the Redstone Fortress. Of course, not long after entering his prayer room, Chen Kai came out of it, holding a small bottle of water from the Holy Lake in his hand, which was a gift he planned to give to the high priest Ke Qiya, because if it weren't for the other party, it was estimated that it would be impossible for Chen Kai to get the goodwill of the commander of the Redstone Fortress.
Don't look at Chen Kai's profession as a star knight who belongs to the Divine Grace Knight sequence, but he is only a sixth-order knight chief, and only a great knight can be called a real Divine Grace Star Knight. The sixth-order Star Knight was the only one in the Dawn Temple, although Chen Kai was the only one. But it was not enough for the Dawn Temple to find trouble for him in the Rohan Empire. It can be said that without the help of Kechia. Not to mention that Chen Kai received a show of favor from the commander of the Redstone Fortress, it is estimated that it will take a long time for his wanted warrant to be lifted.
It's just that when Chen Kai gave a thank you gift, he didn't get the attention of the priest. Obviously, Priest Keqia didn't know how precious something Chen Kai had given him, he just regarded it as an ordinary bottle of holy water. However, the old priest didn't care about the weight of the gift, in fact, he went to Markratch to make trouble not only to help Chen Kai, but more to raise the momentum of the Temple of Dawn in the redstone fortress to attract believers. There are not as many followers of the Lord of Dawn in the Rohan Empire as the Goddess of Life, which means that the specifications of the Temple of Dawn in the Redstone Fortress are not as high as those of the Temple of Life, which is a very severe blow to the priest of Kochia, who is determined to develop the church into a temple. Therefore, he tried his best to increase the popularity of the Dawn Temple, so that more people could believe in the Lord of Dawn.
When Chen Kai left the prayer area where Ke Qiya was, the red wanted light on his body began to gradually dissipate, and Chen Kai finally breathed a sigh of relief after checking the system. Because his wanted was canceled, he was finally able to wander around the Redstone Fortress in the open, if the army of the undead could give him time to wander around the fortress.
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