While each piece on the board has its own usefulness, they are ultimately pawns and can only be used by humans. It can be used for attack, or for defense, or it can be discarded or sacrificed. If you want to get rid of the fate of being a chess piece, I am afraid that you can only use the edges and corners of your body to tell the chess player, and remind the opponent every time it is used, that it is a chess piece that cannot be controlled, until one day it is finally no longer considered a chess piece in repeated battles.

This is what Fidel thinks when he returns to the cabin and sees Ludwig and Jasmine playing, and it is also his thinking about the chess pieces again - Ludwig won four consecutive games against Jasmine, even if the last two were helped by all his subordinates who could play chess, she would not be able to win, and the calm Ludwig seemed to regard Jasmine as a pawn to be manipulated.

Mercenaries in this era have always been seen as pawns, and these guys with swords in their hands and legally armed individuals have become the most powerful offensive pawns. They are mercenary, but they are desperate for their lives, and they want to use and sacrifice them, and I am afraid that only the best players can use them freely. As for Fed, he had already realized this truth when he left the Papal States, and the mercenaries were just pawns to be used. He understands more that in this mercenary era, as long as a mercenary group has use value, the things they can obtain are also endless, as if the relationship between them is a bit like business, equivalent exchange.

It's just that after experiencing the defeat of the Principality of Mageni, Fei De has a new idea about the potato mercenary group and his own positioning - why mercenaries can only be chess pieces, even the most powerful mercenary group is only the best chess piece? Maybe one day, the chess pieces will really dominate the chessboard, not those chess players hiding behind; maybe one day, there will be no more chess players in this era, and the chess pieces will be able to control their own destiny, independent and free.

Fei De has been able to recall what the Mercenary Guild said lately, and perhaps this is the ultimate goal of the Mercenary Guild, which hopes to one day be completely independent of external forces. Before disembarking, Fidel agreed to Ludwig's plan, a "radicalization plan" that would be thrown into the hands of the opposing chess player as a pawn.

Twenty-six chests of gold were brought off the ship, and the bars covered with iron crates required four men to pick them up at the same time, and none of the mercenaries who greeted Fed at the harbor could have obtained such a large amount of gold in just one boat trip.

"Commander Fidel," Ludwig's arms were exposed in the cold air, and Lyudmila behind him was not wearing much thick clothes, "I will contact you at any time, and more intelligence and information will be handed over to you as soon as possible... As for those treasures that may exist, feel free to dig in. With that, Ludwig turned and walked up to the cabin, and his confidant Lyudmila left with him, without even looking at Fidel.

After seeing the important people of the Winter Kingdom leave, the person in charge of the mercenary house came over as soon as possible, and there were three local officials of the Ice Painting Port beside him, but obviously these people had been "dealt with" by Ludwig, and they just silently followed behind the person in charge of the mercenary house, not daring to say more.

"Captain Feide, if you need anything in the future, please feel free to tell me, we will all obey... Listen to your arrangement with Captain Field, and absolutely cooperate. ”

"That's good. ”

Feder walked to the mercenary house with boxes of gold, and the civilians of the Winter Kingdom on the road were cautious, and the children were hiding behind their mothers, as if these civilians knew something terrible. After this meeting with Ludwig, it became a matter of pleasure to dig for treasure anywhere in the Ice Painting Harbor. But now Fid was not thinking about Constable's work, but about the internal struggle of the Kingdom of Cosse. When they first chose the Winter Country, Fei De and his subordinates had imagined the opportunity they might encounter, but they didn't expect this opportunity to come so quickly, and this opportunity was indeed the contradiction between the commoners and the nobles in the Winter Kingdom, as they imagined at the beginning.

The captains behind Fide have their own thoughts, some have been waiting for this opportunity and want to use it to show their strength, while others think that the potato mercenary group is not suitable to be involved in this contradiction, especially Ludwig's ulterior motive plan, which is definitely a very dangerous plan, which will only put the potato mercenary group in a dangerous situation.

However, what the captains did not expect was that as soon as Fei De returned to the dormitory, he immediately gathered important subordinates and said a countermeasure plan that no one expected.

"This time we're not going to be pawns, we're not going to be at the mercy of Ludwig or Ampwer or Constable, we're going to change our role. When Fidel saw Vittorio at the meeting with his sister Mary's support, he was more confident in speaking his mind.

The other captains were stunned, some captains realized that their identities were pawns for the first time, and some didn't know how to change, after all, as mercenaries, they had long been accustomed to collecting money to do things, obeying others, and the freedom and voice they had in the potato mercenary group were already very large.

Fei De exhaled a long breath under the gaze of everyone, and said slowly: "It is only a matter of time before the nobles led by Ampwer send someone to contact us, with Ludwig's character, he will not expect it, and he will definitely have reservations about us, because in his eyes, we are just pawns to play with." But this time the real chess pieces are not us, but the-for-tat commoners and aristocrats, and this time, we want to be chess players. In one breath, Feder said the words he had thought of and organized all the way back from the ice sea. These words kept thinking about Fidel's mind repeatedly, and until the moment he finished speaking, Feder was still thinking about something, something about identity and character.

Vittorio, who had kept his head down, slowly raised his head, his eyes shining as if something could grab all his attention. The few captains had already understood what Fidel meant, and they either looked down in thought or couldn't hold back their excitement and exchanged opinions in whispers. Feder took these expressions into his eyes, knowing that his ideas would be carried out because his men were trusted companions.

All the captains left the meeting room excited, and they received one of the most valuable gifts since they arrived, which was the plan that Captain Feder had parasitized on Ludwig. Vittorio didn't say anything, but Fidel could sense in the other party's eyes that this plan was enough to make the other party regain their strength and stop dwelling on the defeat of the Duchy of Magini.

Selena stayed in the conference room after everyone had left, and she hadn't said anything about it.

"Captain Fidel, do you remember what you discussed with me in Dumu City when I joined the Potato Mercenary Regiment. ”

"Of course I do. ”

Selena's dress was still the same as the first time she met Fidel, a capable and decent female knight, "Now the potato mercenary group has grown a lot, but I have always had a doubt..."Fide and Selena looked at each other, there is no class difference between a mercenary and a knight, this kind of equality is extremely rare.

"Speak. ”

"Captain Fed, you... Do you have a clearer goal?" Selena's tone was flat, and her gaze was soft, and such a question would make people feel relaxed.

"You once wanted me to determine the direction of the Potato Mercenary Group, and now the Potato Mercenary Group has become what it was originally envisioned, but our goal has not been achieved. The goal that Feyder was referring to was exactly what he had come to after a long conversation with Selena all night – to take root in one place, to be stable rather than to wander.

Selena nodded, "Commander, do you remember, then the plan you proposed to us..."

"That might be the real stability. ”

"Is it because that meeting of the Mercenary Guild affected you, the head of the group?"

"If the Mercenary Guild really wants to accomplish that goal, then why can't we do it. For me, the true power is exactly what it was planned, and that is the mountain that our mercenary group can eventually reach, and even our fate. ”