Chapter 23: Madigan's Prophecy
"Tell me why you're here, and who is the owner of this camp?"
Juan collapsed on the ground, his face covered with sweat from pain, and looked up at Leon in a daze: "You don't even know who this camp is, so you attacked?" ”
Leon slashed his head with a hammer and smashed a dirt pit on the ground against Juan's head: "What the hell, I ask you or do you ask me?" ”
Juan shuddered, and his voice became rapid: "I'm wanted by the Lion Knights, come and hide...... This camp belongs to Master Forcher! Don't hit me...... I beg you ......"
Forscher's?
Didn't he say that it was built by the nephew of Duke Alma?
Oh yes...... In these days, illegitimate children are usually referred to as 'nephews'.
Leon patted his head, he actually ignored this detail.
While sending someone to build this camp on the edge of his father's territory to prepare, Forsher went to Fogcage City to get the Pioneer Lord Certificate, which was indeed a reasonable operation.
"Forschel is still on the West Coast...... So who is in charge of this camp? Also, how much do you know about Forscher's collusion with the Gatus? ”
Juan looked at Li Ang in a daze: "The current person in charge of the camp is me, but I just came here yesterday...... The previous person in charge returned to Lion Lake City yesterday. ”
Swallowing his saliva, and looking at the bloody hammer in fear, Juan continued to reply: "My lord, I only know that Master Forcher said that he wants to control the territory of Count Auden, and I also know that he has something to do with the Catu, but I really don't know the specifics at all...... I'm just a little person......"
Well, it makes sense.
At the level of a thug like Juan, there are really not many details that can be understood......
"And what's going on in Fletcher Village? Does Forcher already take control of the village? ”
Leon thought of the strangeness in the village.
"That village...... The captain of the militia patrol is our people......"
It's no wonder, the patrol must know everything, and the old village chief is probably also kept in the dark by the patrol.
Li Ang sorted out the external situation and decided to ask himself about it.
"When you were in Lion City, who ordered you to hunt me down?"
Juan's forehead was no longer sweating, but his face was still pale: "No one ordered...... My lord...... We're not targeting you...... This is due to the fact that the upper echelons of the organization once issued a bounty of 2,000 dinars to capture or kill a black-haired foreigner...... It's been almost a year since the bounty was posted, and it hasn't been withdrawn. ”
"Who gave the bounty? I'm not the only one with black hair and black eyes, right? Can you claim a bounty based on this trait alone? ”
Leon was puzzled.
Juan now looks like he knows everything: "The origin of the bounty is not something that a small person like me can know...... I don't know exactly who they're chasing. But since there is this requirement above, as long as it conforms to the image of black hair and black eyes, we will try it. That's two thousand dinars, after all...... If you can find the right master, you won't have to worry about it for the rest of your life......"
Sarah added on the side: "Even if you kill the wrong person, it doesn't matter to them...... Anyway, robbing outsiders is their daily business. ”
Juan grinned bitterly in flattery and nodded vigorously.
"Don't lie to me...... I've seen Forsher in the City of Fog Cages, and he doesn't seem to mean to kill me! What is the real reason? Who are you talking about at the top?! ”
In the Fog Cage City Arena, although Forcher had a bad attitude, he obviously didn't plan to catch him to receive the reward, otherwise he would probably not be able to escape from the Mist Cage City!
Seeing that Li Ang's face was not good, and he raised the hammer again, Juan shrank in fear and quickly replied, "I dare not lie to you!" Master Forcher is only our benefactor, and he is not a member of the Brotherhood...... As for the top level of the organization, the organization has always used secret messages to send orders, and we have never seen a real high-level executive. It's true! I swear! ”
It seems that this red brotherhood is very mysterious inside......
This is also right, it is normal for an illegal organization that integrates all the underworld acts such as killers, slave traders, robberies, and drug trafficking, and it is normal for high-level figures to be unknown.
But Li Ang was a little anxious, this kind of reward for no reason was more troublesome than the pursuit brought by those deep hatreds, and he didn't know what to solve at all.
"Do you really have no idea why?"
The mood is not very good, and staring at Juan's eyes, it is naturally becoming more and more unkind.
Juan hurriedly began to answer: "We guessed...... Guessed! It seems to be related to a legend...... Madigan's prophecy! Oh, and it might have something to do with the scarlet plague......"
Leon looked at Sarah suspiciously, he had just heard Sarah talk about this famous prophecy on the road the day before yesterday.
In fact, it's a story that is widely circulated in taverns across the mainland......
It is said that more than 100 years ago, a famous soothsayer named 'Madigan', that is, the god stick, once predicted that a hero would rule the Pander continent and rebuild that glorious ancient empire.
In fact, in Li Ang's opinion, this is normal, this is basically the daily flickering operation of the gods - the general trend of the world will be together for a long time, and sooner or later there will always be such a character.
In his previous life, Li Ang was also told by a fortune teller that he had an imperial appearance...... It didn't turn out to be a dead otaku......
But in this era, this god was quickly wanted by all countries - speech was not very free in this era, and Madigan's prophecy was basically a curse that the current rulers of the countries would be exterminated sooner or later.
So the consequences were severe, and Madigan was put to death for sticking to his prophecy.
He died in the Lion City, just below the tallest building on the continent, in what was once the square of the House of Lords of Pande, which is now King Ulrique's back garden, and it is unknown if it will be haunted.
Although he is a god stick, this attitude of sticking to his own ideas rather than death is at least worthy of respect.
So it would have been a sad and serious matter.
Then, as one after another 'heroes' who called themselves 'children of prophecy' appeared, Madigan's prophecy gradually became a joke.
The first 'hero' was an illegitimate knight who had taken over several villages with his strong swordsmanship and said that he would lead the people to rebuild Pande. But within a few days, all the he had done was revealed.
robbing caravans, raping women, plundering villagers, selling drugs...... He's done almost everything he's not seemly. Eventually, his body, or rather his skin, was found in the territory of Dexia, flesh and blood devoid of all the entrails, like a cicada.
The second was a slave trader who led many mercenaries to run rampant with Pande with great wealth, burning and looting along the way, capturing civilians as slaves. But it didn't take long to be dashing, and it was inexplicably wiped out under the Misty Mountain. It is said that he and his men were left with only their heads, neatly laid out in a small hill on the ice field, but not a single body was to be seen.
The third is a sorcerer, who calls himself the 'Son of Prophecy' by means of witchcraft, but in the end it turns out that this is a snake worship leader, brainwashing his followers all day long, and he also creatively created the first live broadcast in Pande's history - he trumpeted a mysterious drug that 'cures all diseases' at an illegal rally, and it is said that he earned tens of thousands of dinars in one ......
But probably because he had accumulated too much money, this anchor eventually attracted the encirclement and suppression of the Bacchus Empire. And it is said that his corpse is also very strange - his whole body is covered with green scales, and his eyes are also reptile-like vertical pupils, which are extremely hideous.
By now, the term 'child of prophecy' has become basically a swear word in the tavern. Almost all adventurers joke that the other party is a 'prophecy crumb', and the image of the hero is long gone.