Chapter 802: Leaving Tausent
The method provided by Baron Renard, the liaison officer of the Niffergard Empire, was simple but absolutely effective, and it was absolutely impossible for Frigila Vigo to disobey the orders of the Nilfgard Empire.
For a moment, everyone had a smile on their faces, and they felt that it would not be long before they could solve the Knight of Light.
The Earl of Britta also stood up as the master, raising his glass, ready to say a message of congratulations on the improvised victory of their improvised alliance of Reflective Knights.
Everyone else also stood up and raised their glasses.
At this moment, the bell of the bell tower in the distance rang, and the whole person of Count Britta burst like a punctured bubble, and countless flesh and blood splashed out behind him, forming a line of flesh and blood more than ten meters, and the only thing left of him was the half of his body under the table still standing there.
Everything that happened in front of them was extremely sudden, everyone was stunned in place, and did not react for a long time, until a woman let out a scream of horror, everyone realized what had happened, and went crazy and died so much that they hid in a place that could be hidden, looking around in great horror, hoping to find something, and after hearing the screams, the knights and attendants of the guards outside also rushed in, and were stunned when they saw the flesh and blood all over the ground, and then looked for Count Britta in the crowd.
When these knights of the Count of Britta heard that the dead man was their master, they were all stunned, and for a moment did not know what to do.
After the panic, the nobles seemed to realize something, and they all said that they wanted to leave here, regardless of the knights' obstruction, one by one, drooping their heads, and walked out of the earl's villa one after another, and those knights only deliberately blocked, and did not dare to really stop these nobles, and at this time, there were also servants who went down to find the magistrate under the orders of the butler.
The great nobleman who was still competing with Count Britta for the leader of the Reflective Knights Alliance was now so frightened that his body was still trembling even when he was sitting in the carriage.
At this time, a nobleman who sat next to him had a good relationship with him said in a deep voice: "Did you say it was ...... just now?"
"Shut up!" the great nobleman turned his head sharply and glared at the nobleman viciously, and said, "Shut up, we don't know anything, we just attended a banquet, you know?
"I know, I know!" the nobleman nodded again and again, and said in response.
At the same time, there are not a few people who think the same way as this great nobleman, and these people are destined to have a hard time tonight.
While these nobles fled in panic from the Count Brita's villa, and the Count Brita's house was in chaos, on the hillside of the city of Bouckland, three or four kilometers away from the house of the Count of Brita, a towering bell tower stood there, and the big bell at the top of the bell tower had recently finished its last ring, informing the inhabitants of the city of Bouckland of the present time, and on the roof of the bell tower, Leo in armor stood on it, calmly looking in the direction of the Count Brita's villa, holding the king in his hand.
Killing Count Britta would be as easy for Leo as dealing with a bug, but he needed more than just Count Britta to die, he needed Count Britta to be able to get some of the guys to stop a little bit, at least before he and Sylvia left.
And the Count of Brita's act of holding a banquet in his villa just created the best opportunity for Leo, so the moment the bell of the bell tower was struck at his feet, Leo took advantage of the cover of the bell to solve the Count of Britta with a shot from the king.
In order to get the best effect, Leo also controlled the range of the bursting bullet, only shattering the upper half of Count Brita's body, and not affecting others.
After that, Leo stood on the tower and watched the people of the manor hide in panic, and then saw them leave the Count of Brita's villa like rats.
While he didn't know how much of an effect Count Brita's death would have, he was sure that at least until he and Sylvia left, the men wouldn't jump out and cause trouble again.
Back at the station, Leo briefly explained the situation of Count Brita, and Sylvia simply nodded.
The next day, the incident about what happened in Count Brita's villa quickly spread in the city of Boukland, and everyone knew that the upper half of Count Brita's entire body had turned into some flesh and blood, although there was no clear evidence, but almost anyone who heard the news thought that it was something that could only be done by spells, and in the whole of Bokland, the only person who could practice with such a powerful spell was Frigila Vigo.
For a time, all kinds of rumors were circulating in the market, and all the rumors were without exception indicating that Friengira and Count Britta had old grudges.
However, this rumor did not spread long before it was broken, because at the time of the death of the Count of Brita, Frigila Vigo was staying with the Duchess in Bowland Palace, and there were several loyal court officials together to discuss the second round of negotiations with Belhaven to redeem some of the civilians of Belhaven's territory.
After the rumors about Frigila stopped, a new rumor soon came out, but this rumor was not as widespread as the previous rumors about Frigila, and even caused the majority of the people to plan.
In this rumor, the protagonist has become Sylvia, the Knight of Light, and it also involves an alliance of Reflecting Knights of Light, the Count of Britta is one of the leaders of the alliance, and they want to deal with the Knight of Light, and seize various rights from the Knight of Light, and now this alliance is gradually disintegrating the Knight of Light's allies around the Duchess, so the Knight of Light started in advance and killed Count Britta as one of the leaders of the alliance.
After this rumor against Sylvia spread, everyone was stunned and then angry, not because they thought the rumor was false, but because they were angry that the nobles dared to form an alliance against the Knight of Light, whom they called the Holy Maiden, and for a time the death of Count Britta became a deserved thing.
As this rumor spread, someone has already proposed to the Duchess to investigate the organization of the Reflective Knights Alliance, and the Duchess has agreed to the investigation, and said that the investigation will be handed over to the Duke's Guard.
"Why are you spreading this as a rumor?" asked Leo after hearing the various rumors from Bowkland City, turning his head to Sylvia who was dealing with some papers.
"It's very simple, that's the only way I can really stay out of it. Sylvia smiled and said, "They would never have thought that such a rumor would have been spread by me, they would only think that it was spread by their internal people, and in a short time they would have to deal with both the Duchess's investigation and the internal personnel, so that they would not have extra time to think about other things." While what you did yesterday is enough to calm them down for a while, it's possible that some people will be hot-headed and do something stupid, so find something to do for them. ”
Leo frowned and asked, "How do you know that the Duchess will investigate the Reflective Knights Alliance? ”
"Leo, promise me that you will never enter politics. Sylvia looked at Leo, shook her head helplessly, and said, "I'm about to leave Towcente, even if I fight with those people for how long, when I'm gone, do you think those people will disperse? Regardless of the fact that the Duchess is like a vase, she can keep Touscent autonomous in front of the Niffergard Empire, and hold most of Toussente's power, her political acumen is not as simple as she looks. I think she'll break up the alliance before I leave. ”
In the next two days, the news of whether the Duchess had found the member of the Reflective Knights Alliance had not yet come out, but the punishment for Dandrion had already come out, and I don't know if it was because the Duchess was nostalgic or because of Friengira who said good things, in short, Dandrien's death sentence had been canceled, but he was no longer allowed to stay in Toussente, and he had to be escorted out of Towson by the Duke's guard in a few days, and he was permanently expelled.
Geralt had nothing to say about this result, and thought that this was the best outcome, and decided to leave Towson as well, but a sudden news made him have to give up escorting Dandrion away, and decided to leave for Ebin immediately.
This news was overheard by Geralt after receiving a mission, when he took a task to clear the monsters of the castle, after completing the task, he somehow wanted to explore the castle to see if he could find anything useful from it, but he strayed into an underground chamber in the castle, and found some magic devices in the secret room, and learned from the magic device that this is actually a secret stronghold of Wigofortez, and also knew the location of another secret stronghold of Wigofortez.
Now that he has determined the location of one of Wigofortez's secret strongholds, Geralt is still reluctant to stay in Touscent despite not knowing whether Ciri has been captured by Wigofortez, and decides to leave Touscent on the same day and go to that stronghold to investigate.
After getting Geralt's notice, Leo and Sylvia were naturally also together, but fortunately they were already ready, Sylvia also said that her dragon hunter armor and weapons were handed over to the Knights and the Church respectively, and she was now wearing another set of knight armor newly created by Leo, and it was also the only set of armor king blade armor among the four knights.
Among the armor of the four knights, because King Blade Kia Lan is the only knight who focuses on assassination, she needs to be silent and sensitive, so her armor is mainly leather, and her defense power is naturally not comparable to other armor.
However, Leo didn't completely follow the King's Blade Armor, because compared to the Dragon Hunter armor, he could use a lot more materials, so there were a lot more attempts to transform the armor, and after more than a dozen transformations, the King's Blade Armor was finally transformed into a set of armor composed of metal and petrified lizard skin, and the defense power was not much weaker than the metal armor, and it was more sensitive.
Although she had changed her armor, she didn't fully replace it with the Kingblade Knight's weapon, she used Leo's gold and dark silver shortblades as melee weapons, while still allowing Leo to craft another dragon lance.
Geralt's team all came to the Knights of Light's residence to rendezvous, and Friengira also arrived, but neither she nor Geralt spoke individually, only a few words to Sylvia.
After that, Sylvia brought out the best horses of the Knights, one for each person, so that everyone could reach their destination as quickly as possible.
Because the decision to leave was very sudden, there was no one in the Knights' station, and the ordinary people of Towson were even more unclear, which made Sylvia leave quietly, and the others lived very happily in Towcente, and even many people decided to come to Towsente to live in the future when they were old, so everyone was quite sad when they left.
However, the sadness did not last long, and everyone focused their attention on the road.
The Duchy of Touscent is surrounded by mountains, and this special terrain also allows the Duchy of Touscent to be like spring all year round, which is why the elves will build a kingdom here, but also because of this special terrain, the Duchy of Touscent can only rely on a few roads to connect with the outside.
There is also a waterway, the Yelena River, which crosses the mountains directly to the outside world as Medina, the largest confluent state of the Nifgaard Empire.
However, because of the cold wave, the Yelena River, which flows all year round, began to freeze, making the route impassable, although now as the temperature warms up, the ice on the river begins to melt and crack, but the route still cannot be opened, because walking on such a river, the broken ice can easily chisel a large hole in the bottom of the boat.
Although he couldn't leave by boat, Geralt still wanted to take advantage of the river, which he thought would be easier to walk along the river with clear directions than through snow-capped mountains and forests.
So, the group traveled south along the bank of the Yelena River, although in the process they encountered some sections of the mountain stream-shaped river channel without a river bank, and needed to take a long detour, but everything was still smooth and there was no danger.
During this journey, Sylvia also established good relations with Mirwa and Angoulan, taught them some combat skills, and asked Leodore to bring them a few bottles of healing potions for self-defense.
On the fifth day after they left Towcente, they finally came out of the mountains around Towcent and came to a fishing town called Verona in the upper reaches of the Yelena River.