Chapter 26: The Warrior
When the villagers heard the skeleton's "declaration" of traveling far away to study magic, they all felt ashamed, and felt that they and the others were too "villain-hearted". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the end, it was still the old man who started before, and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I misunderstood the magician, but I didn't expect the master to be like this...... Such an upright person, I apologize for our previous foolish speculation!"
The skeleton waved his hand indifferently and refused: "It's serious, I said, I'm just here to get the situation in recent years, and the rescue is just to ask you about the situation, if you really want to talk about it, it's just a mutually beneficial thing between us!"
Hearing the skeleton say this, the villagers were even more ashamed, especially the old man who was "talking" with the skeleton on behalf of the villagers, his face was even more embarrassed and ashamed, and finally he had to say: "The character of the magician is really upright, and it is different from the other 'warriors' adults I have heard about on weekdays!"
"Warrior?" the skeleton couldn't help but be stunned, this was the first time he had heard of such a group of people, and he couldn't help but be interested, and pretended to ask casually, "What, are they...... Not upright?"
"No, no, ......no," the old man waved his hand as if frightened, "the Warriors are like gods who protect our existence, how dare we insult the Warriors at will?
"Oh, is it?" the skeleton looked interested, "I've been studying magic for too long, so I can say that I am completely out of touch with today's society, and many market rumors are completely unclear! You know, I used to like to collect these rumors and comments from the countryside and the market! If you don't mind, can you tell me more about it? Besides, I also want to know the prestige and status of the 'warriors' among the people today!"
"This ......," the old man hesitated for a moment, and then said in a bit of a snort, "If this is heard by the other warriors, then ...... That's ......."
The skeleton was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Don't worry, it can get out of your mouth and into my ears, that's all!"
The old man secretly looked at the skeleton's expression, and when he saw that the skeleton insisted on listening, he cautiously asked the skeleton's opinion and said, "If so...... If there's something offensive about it, then you'...... You have to take care of it a little bit more!"
The skeleton instantly understood the old man's worries -- it turned out that these villagers were afraid that they would be angry with their "warriors" in their eyes!
"After all, in the eyes of the villagers, I, a 'magician', am also a member of the 'warriors', so casually talking about the actions of other warriors in front of me, a 'warrior', is probably the reason why they don't want to talk more! The skeleton was silently thinking in his heart, but on the surface, he said to the old man with a righteous and awe-inspiring expression:
"What are you talking about? Since I want to listen to these rumors, I am naturally prepared to hear bad words, and you don't have to worry about that!"
Hearing the skull's assurance, the old man's originally tight cheeks relaxed slightly, hesitated slightly, and then said in a humble tone: "Warriors, it's a group of ...... Well...... It should be a group of very powerful people! It is said that they gather in various cities, and in each city's 'Hall of the Brave' accept commissions from the human beings of the entire continent to complete tasks to receive rewards, it can be said that in their eyes, money and interests are the keys to drive their actions, there is no right or wrong, there is no good or evil, as long as there is enough remuneration, they can complete all the tasks for you! As for the specific regulations, it is not something that I, a small people, can find out!"
"All the tasks?" muttered to himself in his heart, more eager to find out and understand all the things about this group, because the skeleton faintly felt that perhaps through these self-proclaimed "warriors", he could more clearly explore the background and strength of this world.
In the face of the skeleton's silence, the old man obviously regarded it as "unhappy", and stood aside a little crampedly.
The skeleton that came back to his senses noticed the old man's uneasiness, but this time he did not gently soothe him, but took advantage of the old man's panic at this time to further "force" himself to ask the information he wanted: "Do you have any clue about the origin of the villains who attacked your village this time?"
"Of course, the damned Glot Kingdom is attacking us this time, who will attack us except them!" Hearing the skeleton mention the villains who attacked his village, the old man was angry and complained to the skeleton in a hateful voice, "Master Magician, don't you know that these guys from the Glot Kingdom are a bunch of scum, hooligans, and villains!" They always don't want to encroach on the land of our Duchy of Tantria and several surrounding duchies, and they rely on the fact that they are a kingdom and their strength and power are stronger than ours, so they always pick quarrels and provoke troubles, in vain trying to provoke wars, so that they can attack us openly! Master Magician, what a hardship we people from the small principality live! Even if they attack us, the people of our principality have to endure and cannot resist, for they are afraid that they will attack our principality directly under the pretext of attacking! Hey...... We're the people...... It's this damn ......" At the end, the old man couldn't stop crying.
The skeleton sensitively probed the two concepts of "principality" and "kingdom", in order to know the difference between the two and whether there were any other forms of state titles, the skeleton pretended to frown indignantly and asked: "Blindly retreating and forbearance is not the way after all, in the end, it is the interests of your ordinary people who will be harmed, don't the magnates of your principality consider or implement measures to protect your interests?"
"Measures?" the old man sneered, "Those guys, when did you ever care about the feelings of our 'lowly' people? Anyway, no matter what kind of persecution we receive, it will not interfere with their spending and drinking, and we should still eat and drink, and we who have been persecuted still need to pay taxes in full, and we will not be reduced or exempted from taxes at all, and we will still 'offer' to this group of moths!"
The old man calmed his anger for a moment and continued, "As for clinging to other powerful forces...... I seem to have heard such rumors before, saying that it was a marriage with a powerful family, but what the final result would be, it is not something that we ordinary people can understand! However, thanks to this rumor, coupled with the alliance between our principality and several surrounding principalities that were also oppressed by the Glot Kingdom, the Glot Kingdom was divided for a while. But I didn't expect that the good days had only been a few years, and they would come back again...... It's simply ...... It's just not going to give us a way to live!"
Listening to the old man's words, the skeleton couldn't help frowning slightly, because in the old man's words just now, the word "family" was mentioned, and it was obvious that this family was not a noble family representing various interest groups in the country, the reason was very simple, because it could suppress the violent and murderous Grote Kingdom, and its strength could be seen!
Although the alliance established between the Duchy of Tangelia and the surrounding principalities is also an impregnable wall to block the arrogance of the Kingdom of Grotria, the skeleton believes that since the Kingdom of Tangelia has invaded several principalities at the same time in the past, this shows that the Kingdom of Tangelia does not take these principalities into account at all, so now in the face of the alliance formed by these principalities, the Kingdom of Grote has no reason to suddenly be afraid of the Principality of Tantria, and even let go of the pace of invading the Principality of Tantria, which shows that the family that the Principality of Tantria wants to marry should be one"Big Mac", only in this way can the Kingdom of Grote give up the opportunity to advance and invade!
And now the Kingdom of Grotte, which has finally settled down, is suddenly about to move again, which means that something is likely to go wrong with the marriage, and even something is wrong within the family that the Duchy of Tantria wants to marry, plus the pursued knights that the skeleton saw through the "mirror image" of Potle in the Demon Emperor Castle before, the skeleton is sure that the girl who was protected by that group of knights is the root cause of the sudden "face" of the Glote Kingdom!