There should have been a lot to say when they met, but Nata didn't talk about it. She only had a faint curiosity about this former suitor - the wood elf village had changed too much in two years, and Lando, who might have been hunting all his life, had now become a market manager with a proud face, and this change of fate made Nata sigh in her heart.

But after the emotion, she still has her own things to do. Lando's emotional intelligence is not high, and he didn't see the coldness behind Nata, but instead raised the various goods in his hand as if showing off: "Let's go, I'll call a few people, let's have a good meal, there is also the unique bacon of Hollier City, the taste is much better than the ones we made before!"

"You don't know, do you? Now all the wooden houses in the village have been almost renovated, and everyone has been assigned comfortable houses! There is also a fireplace in winter, which is so good that my fireplace has been specially remodeled for barbecue - I'll call them now, and let's have dinner together!"

Lando has a lot more words than before, and Lando in Nata's memory is also a silent guy. But time has changed everything, and dealing with the smugglers all day long has made Lando inevitably a philistine.

With the outstanding appearance of the wood elves, Lando has won the favor of many human women during his occasional trip to Hollier City. These women had a hard time resisting the handsome appearance of the high elves, and Lando finally didn't resist the desire to communicate deeply across races... When he discovers that it is so simple to make a woman give her body, the wood elf will naturally start to use his advantage to gradually seek thrills. He has seduced other people's wives, and he has also been with the mistresses of nobles, in short, in the past two years, Lando's life has changed dramatically.

He walked out of Elsa Village, carried away by the prosperity and desires of the human world. Now that she saw Nata again, Lando didn't expect Roddy to follow her for the first time, but she was thinking crookedly by inertia.

But Nata had been in the intelligence service for so long that she was all too familiar with what was behind Lando's words. Her brow furrowed slightly, but the boredom in her heart was quickly suppressed—Roddy had said that people are changing. I've changed a lot, and so has Lando. If you don't like it, don't force the conversation.

"I still have some things, let's go back and make an appointment. ”

Nata waved her hand, but she didn't immediately turn around and leave. She knew that her current "role" was just an ordinary wood elf returning home, not the head of the intelligence department, so she continued, "There are a lot of caravans these days?"

"Actually, there was a lot less before, I heard that the war had just ended, and many caravans had only recently started to operate, and it had been deserted for more than a month. ”

Lando tried to invite Nata to the party, but the latter politely declined, and at the same time, the seemingly casual question made him say a lot. Finally a distant commotion interrupted Lando's entanglement, and Nata turned her head to see that a new caravan had entered the village. Lando was immediately intrigued when he saw it, because it meant that he could earn more bribes.

Therefore, he stopped asking Nata, and went straight to the other party under the pretext of leaving.

Nata exhaled and shook her head... She didn't know if the situation was good or bad for her people. But if you think about it, if the current trade routes were not opened, the wood elves in the village might have to endure the threat of famine.

A lot of the problems come after you've had a full meal. But if they don't have enough to eat, what difference does they have from wild beasts?

The village is three times larger than before, but it is over in twenty minutes. Instead of returning to her cabin, she put on her hood and slowly entered the tavern in the village for the human caravans. I walked up the stairs to the room on the third floor, and after unscrewing the door, a voice came from inside the room: "Didn't you eat? I asked the front desk to send two people in advance." ”

"Okay, thanks. ”

Nata thanked her casually, and Nora, who was lying in her armchair holding a copy of "The Age of Karen", rolled her eyes: "Really, just the two of us, what are you polite?"

"Get used to it. ”

Nata sat down at the small dining table in the suite, took off her warm fur coat and began to eat. The hotel was actually one of the CIA strongholds. To the outside world, this room seems to be just an ordinary suite, but it is actually the local intelligence headquarters. Behind the bookshelves on the wall is a secret door, and inside is the office where all kinds of documents and information are handled.

It stands to reason that it should be very busy here, but in reality, both of them are relatively idle at the moment.

"Speaking of which, doesn't the Prime Minister have any opinion about you?"

"Huh?"

Nata looked up, "Why do you say that?"

"From the beginning to the end of this war, so many people have been honored and deserved. But you were thrown into such a remote place from the very beginning, you see, even the blacksmiths of Elson were commended. ”

Nora raised the newspaper and awarded two medals herself, although this was a well-deserved reward for participating in the action, Nora always felt that Nata was much stronger than herself, and she had such doubts in her heart.

"It's not about getting medals. ”

Nata's heart was unwavering. It never occurred to her that she was doing these things for any reward - those medals and the like were worthless in Nata's eyes. In fact, it would be rude to talk about this topic rashly as someone else, and it would even be provocative, but Nora has a simple personality, and instead of making Nata disgusted, she will feel relieved to ask such a question.

"What about Sodrore?"

"After the last battle, it was said that the military district system was to be perfected, and it is still on the temple side. However, I heard him say that there will be a holiday around the New Year, and he should return to Parl when the time comes. ”

"Then you must take leave to accompany him then, right?

It's not uncommon for a wood elf, a Tevelyn, two non-human races to talk about various topics in the room. But after Nata finished eating, Nora turned to work: "Is there any feedback on the news?"

"After spreading it for so long, there are indeed some replies, but most of them are the poor mercenary teams. ”

Tevelyn was a little strange: "The kingdom is united, will the people of the Holy Church risk coming?"

"After the last loss, they will definitely be a lot more cautious, so the only thing we have to do well this time is to make everything as realistic as possible. ”

Nata packed up her plate, opened the hidden door behind the bookshelf, and whispered, "This time we must get rid of those crazy people of the 'Holy Order'." ”

Nora didn't speak, she knew that the last time the Holy Society did it in the Hellchino Magic Tower, it almost made Roddy disappear forever. Nata can't see anything on the surface, but the hatred in her heart for this group of people is probably deeper than anyone else.

At the same time, in the eastern part of the kingdom of Karen, the town of Pukari.

After the complete destruction of the "Pit Viper Cross", Roddy let the "Rosicrucian" take over the dioceses of the country. However, the "Temple" had just suffered a near-collapse last year, and there were not enough bishops to recover the dioceses, so some of the marginal areas are still "borderlands".

Of course, this "ownerlessness" is religious, and now all the territories of the kingdom belong to Sally I without exception. And now there is no other concept of "lords". Some of the titles began to become popular - now for cities and regions, the term "so-and-so" is no longer used, but "so-and-so province".

The term "province" was quickly accepted, and the current governors of the provinces were referred to as "governors"—the official positions that replaced the lords, determined by decrees issued by the cabinet themselves. Most of the current "governors" are lords of their former territories, and they have most of the administrative power over the province, but they have to rotate their real power, but they are much smaller than before. In addition, the cabinet has also issued a series of incentives and punishments to evaluate the performance of "provincial governors", and all "provincial governors" will not always stay in one province in the future, but will have to rotate with each other and have term limits.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is a centralized control of local power. Whether it is the governor or the other nobles, under the noses of Sodrol and the intelligence services, they can only grit their teeth and admit it. The common people were talking about it, but there were also those who thought that the kingdom would fall into chaos.

(End of chapter)