Chapter 40: The Origin of the Night's Watch
Sitting on the chair and watching Lillian swing while throwing the "little flutter" with her hands around in the air, the stroke rabbit is also up and down in the swing.
It's a pleasure to see extraordinary.
The steam gun in his hand is very in line with the style of this world, and he has played addictively extraordinary and fired a few shots in an empty warehouse, and there is not much recoil except for the "bang" air explosion.
I still miss the smell of gunpowder burning, and I have time to buy a powder gun to comfort my lonely heart.
James Benson, who was sitting opposite Extraordinary, took a sip of fruit tea, except for seeing Extraordinary who was shooting a gun in the empty warehouse, he felt that this was an ordinary teenager, but the eyes that rubbed the body of the gun and fell into memory were not what such a young teenager should have.
"Hehe, it was just a misunderstanding, I was sitting on the bench and taking a nap, and suddenly I saw a magic light curtain hanging over Lilian, and I couldn't help but shoot. ”
"It's good that you were on the right track, otherwise I wouldn't have been in the hospital in the Church of Light, Mr. James. ”
Extraordinary retracted his thoughts, and there was still some resentment in his tone.
"Hahaha, huh. Taking a big sip of fruit tea, Benson laughed awkwardly.
"However, extraordinary, I didn't expect you to be a magician, or a light magician, but why not in the church but in the Underwriters Association?"
James Benson didn't get off the hook.
"Oh, I'm an insurer first, a magician second, and a family heir. ”
Extraordinary is not a child anymore, the first time they meet, it is a big taboo, and the sealing ring on his hand was sent back to the golden space when the wall was facing each other just now.
"Oh, Lord Sheriff, why didn't you see Madame Zun?"
Extraordinary saw the corner of Sheriff Benson on the opposite side with a wry smile on his lips, and did not answer his own question, it seems that this is another story.
"I'm sorry, please forgive me for the offense. Extraordinary nodded in salute, but saw the sheriff wave his hand absently.
"It's nothing, by the way, listen to your accent you're from the South?"
In this way, the harmonious visit to the neighbor began for the first time, and with the exchange between the two, especially some strange and strange concepts, the sheriff suddenly felt that the young man in front of him was not an ordinary person.
While the two were chatting passionately, a maid suddenly walked into the garden and whispered a few words in the sheriff's ear.
"I'm sorry, but I'm going to take care of some work matters. You can enjoy the flowers in this garden and play with Lilian, and if I can't come back for a while, I can leave on my own, sorry again, my dear neighbor!"
Extraordinary watched Benson go to the antechamber to meet the guests, and himself watched the sheriff's rough handiwork in the garden.
After playing with Lilian for a while, Lilian, who was sleepy, was taken away by the maid for a nap, and Extraordinary was ready to say goodbye and go home.
Looking at the ladder standing on the wall, wouldn't it seem rude to walk home from there?
As soon as I entered the corner arch of the antechamber, I heard the roar of Sheriff Benson from the living room.
"A bunch of idiots who only know about ale, how many days have it been, is it so hard to find someone?"
Extraordinary felt that it was rude to rush in like this, and he was in a dilemma, but he glanced at it and saw the situation before deciding.
Sheriff Benson sat in a round-backed chair made of white beechwood, with a young man in the uniform of the City Watch standing in front of him, a few pages of paper strewn across the floor.
"But my lord, that's the 'Night Watch,' and York City is so big, and our intelligence capabilities in the rubble are not as good as those of the bartenders in the taverns. ”
"Anthony is no longer a night watchman, he is a 'betrayer' who has betrayed his oath and his country. ”
"Since the tavern has the ability, then go to the tavern to buy information!"
"Yes, yes. The young defender bowed his head in agreement, and stopped talking.
"Anything else?"
With Benson's unkind tone, the young guard stepped forward and bent down to take out a page from the pile of papers on the ground and handed it to Benson.
"There was another case of theft by a nobleman, and the method of theft was similar to that of the new 'male and female thieves'. ”
"Go and check, look for witnesses, develop more 'gophers'. ”
"Yes, sir!"
It wasn't until the guard walked away and Benson pondered with the official document in his hand that Extraordinary pretended to have just arrived.
"Ahem, oops, Sheriff Benson, where are you?
"Huh?"
Benson, who looked up, paused visibly and remembered, the new neighbor.
"Oh, extraordinary, aren't you gone yet?"
"Well, it's nap time for Lilian, I'm here to say goodbye!"
"Oh, I was going to have you lunch today. I'm so sorry!"
Just as he was about to send him to the door, the official document in his hand had not yet been put down, and when he saw that he was about to reach the door, Benson opened his mouth.
"Extraordinary magician, I'm sorry to keep treating you like a child. ”
Although the magician is not particularly rare, it is not a handful of cabbage.
Extraordinary overheard the information just now, and combined with the sheriff's eyes on buying meat at the vegetable market, he trembled a little.
"It's alright, Sheriff. Oh, by the way, are you in trouble?"
"As the sheriff of the rubble area, of course, he takes the security of this area as his own responsibility, and there are a lot of trivial matters. ”
It's still pretentious, and it seems that this sheriff is not an upright person.
"Oh, my lord, I don't need to send it, I'll just go home by myself. ”
I'll send it to my house again.
"That's right, extraordinary, you are also a part of the rubble area now, and there are two small things in the rubble area that you need to pay attention to in the past few days!"
That's the right thing, and the extraordinary listens.
"Anthony the Night's Watch is in Yorktown, maybe in the rubble! ”
That's it? What profession? What combat effectiveness? The key is whether this Anthony is fat or thin, tall or short, you don't even say.
"There have been two aristocratic thefts in York City in the past few days, the victims are all nobles, and the thieves are a man and a woman, who should be intermediate thieves. ”
Yorktown is so big, and as you said the guard just now, you won't necessarily come to the rubble area, will you?
"Okay, Sheriff, if there is anything abnormal, I'll call you on the ladder as soon as possible!"
It's because I'm a gopher, and this Benson is also very bad.
Looking at the owner who walked into his door, Dosta was messy for a moment.
Isn't it in the garden?
After messily cleaning up a lunch, Extraordinary told Dosta the information he had received at the dinner table, asking him to pay attention to it, since he lived here, for his own safety and the safety of others.
Extraordinary feels like a noble person.
After lunch, the little girl should have fallen asleep on a lounge chair in the garden.
"Ding"
With such a ring in his mind, the extraordinary sleepiness was brought into the golden space.
Underneath the identified task, another row of small print appeared.
"Anthony's choice was completed by insurer Cordo Extraordinary. ”
"Bonus: Blank. ”
"Punishment: Unknown. ”
, is this the advantage of a big city?
In the past, one insurance contract mission was all you had, but now there are one side quest after another.
The point is not knowing what the reward is, not knowing what the punishment is.
The unknown is the great horror.
However, the central idea of this task is clear.
It's related to Anthony, the "night watchman".
Ran to the basement floor, where half of Dosta's training ground was, and Extraordinary sat on the ground waiting for the troll training to end.
"Extraordinary Lord, is there something wrong?"
Sitting on the ground extraordinary, looking up at the huge troll, this himself has not grown a few centimeters, why does he feel that Dosta is growing taller every day?
"Dosta, do you know the Night's Watch?"
The orc trolls know too well that, as a native orc, Dosta has a natural hostility towards the Night's Watch.
Orcs live in polar ice fields, and vast ice fields border the Four Kingdoms.
Orcs are savage, powerful, bloodthirsty, and cruel.
This is the unified cognition of the border people of the four kingdoms, and it is also the cognition of the entire human race and the entire ethnic group.
In particular, the race war more than a thousand years ago made the once powerful orcs withdraw from the vast grasslands, forests and plains in the north, and retreat into the polar ice fields.
In the millennium since, the orcs have attempted many wars to return to the warm and rich South.
The first barrier between orcs and humans, the ice barrier.
The second barrier is the night watchmen of the great powers.
The name "Night's Watch" is the name given to the Northern Legion during the Holy Romon Empire.
After the fall of the empire, the kingdoms retained the title of "Night Watch", a legion of honor.
"Extraordinary Lord, the Night's Watch are crazy people who are as cruel to orcs as they are to humans. ”
The early night watchmen were death row prisoners of the Empire, where they were not only freed but also given the title of nobility if they achieved extraordinary deeds.
Danger and opportunity coexist.
But regardless of the other three kingdoms, the kingdom of Orlanto has not pardoned a single night watchman, let alone canonized a nobleman, for fifty years.
"Is it because there has been no war between the human race and the orcs in fifty years?"
"There are reasons for this, but the bigger reason is that there are already too many nobles in the country, you know, the kingdom of Orlanto must be canonized on the battlefield. ”
"I know this, and now the viscount seems to be able to exchange gold coins, right?"
Including the homeless family that Dulu led to see, in this extraordinary impression, the word "homeless" has been seen in public school textbooks.
Baron Sissel is really a good man, not to mention how rich the territory is, whether there are mines or not, I have never seen homeless people there.
Perhaps the outcasts were expelled by the sheriff before they could enter the territory.
Based on Dosta's description, Extraordinary has a rough idea of the origin of the "Night Watch".
To sum it up: these people have no faith, they are powerful, they are very murderous.
In addition, many people in the "Night Watch" believe in the Lord of Darkness, and there are countless dark skills of all kinds.
Don't touch it, if you do, you're dead.