Chapter 59: The Situation at Verteck (1)
Jim, who didn't know what to do, saw Glerint alone there, and was so anxious that he circled around him.
Unfortunately, the "weight of knowledge" that became the size of a full-length mirror was two or three times the height of the others, so he couldn't "steal" the seal and attract Glerint's attention.
Then he simply jumped over Glerint's shoulder to watch him operate.
"Did you find anything? Jim. β
Putting away the "weight of knowledge", Gleilint held Jim in the palm of his hand and habitually pinched the skin of the back of his neck......
Jim shook his long beard on either side of his mouth:
"It makes me want to steal it."
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Maybe this proves that it is more valuable?
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After a night's rest, Glerint and Joan bid farewell to Weiz and, led by Fitch the Extraordinary, set out on the road south to Vertke.
Feige is a mid-sequence extraordinary, Sequence Six. However, Gleilint did not know where he was in the extraordinary route, and could only be sure that he was not an "arbitrator" or a "lawyer".
He was a short man in his fifties, with simple facial features and a fairly high hairline.
He had the rank of "lieutenant colonel", but he did not wear a military uniform, but wore a costume with the characteristics of the southern continent.
According to his own words, his father immigrated to the Southern Continent before he was born, so he is a native of the Southern Continent.
On the west side of the ancient deep forest is the valley of the Pas River.
On March 5, the group of three and the coachman drove along the edge of the Paz Valley to Verteke in a special ox cart from the southern continent.
Although it is said to be a "special ox cart", its speed is only about 1/5 of that of a steam train. At this rate, it would take them about eleven or twelve days to reach Verteck.
At such a speed, if something unexpected happened to Vultek, it would be too late to shoot a telegram notification. Basically, by the time the first-level branch received the news, the entire city might have already been captured.
"So the Verteck branch has a special seal."
Feige explains:
"It's a Level 2 seal, it's numbered 2-07, and it's called 'Guiding Lantern'."
"Extraordinary beings who hold the 'guiding lantern' can use the spirit realm to pass."
"This will ensure that at least one extraordinary person will survive and relay the latest information to headquarters."
Many members of MI9 in the Southern Continent often refer to the "Ttnik Division I" as the "Headquarters", and the other three "Subdivisions II" simply as "Divisions".
With the help of the spirit realm?
Which poor "traveler" was this made into a magical item?
Hearing Feige's description, Gleilynt immediately guessed that the "guiding lantern" was made with the extraordinary properties of the "traveler".
Presumably, this lantern can't carry others through the spirit world, otherwise the headquarters will send a telegram directly to the captain to pick them up, which will be much faster.
"That's right, Mr. Feige."
"Can you tell us a little bit about the Verteck branch?"
"I'd like to know a little bit ahead of time, so we might be able to fit in more quickly when we get there."
Anyway, the journey was boring, so Gleilynt simply asked Feige to tell him more about Verteke first.
For this reason, he also spent 18 soles to buy 10 dry tobacco of relatively good quality for Feiqi.
Feiqi, who eats people's soft mouths, wiped the sweat from his face, nodded and said:
"It's my job."
Unfortunately, he is not a very good narrator, and the information he gives is quite chaotic and disorderly.
Through Feige's narration, Gleilynt learns that the city of Verteke existed as early as the Quaternary Age, when the Southern Continent was still ruled by the Byron Empire, founded by the Grim Reaper.
After the fall of the Grim Reaper, Verteke later belonged to the kingdom of Paz.
After the destruction of the kingdom of Paz by Rune and Intis about 200 years ago, Verteck, located in East Bairan, became one of the four colonial cities of Rune.
The main people of Verteck today are immigrants from the North World and their descendants, but there are also some indigenous and mestizos.
The city's army is made up of Rune soldiers and servants, and it's actually quite large.
Under the suppression of these military forces, the rebel forces launched in various small cities and villages did not have too strong anti-pit forces.
To the west, however, there were native forces that Rune was eager to conquer, and to the east, the unfriendly colonial forces of VΓΉsak. After the transfer of part of the forces from the two fronts, there were actually not many troops stationed in Verteke.
Sometimes it's inevitable that there will be a shortage of manpower.
As for the extraordinary power of the Verteke branch, Feige said it quite clearly.
"Because in other small cities and towns, we don't have a lower branch."
"So we actually have a lot of personnel in the Verteck branch, and it is for this reason that this attack on Verteke by the natives of West Bairon has caused us quite heavy losses."
He tore some dry tobacco and put it in his pipe, but he didn't light it.
"The resident Extraordinary Force of the Verteck Division has two Medium Rank Extraordinaires, and five to eight Low Sequence Extraordinaires."
Through the previous conversation, Glelynt knew that most of the people here were classified as low according to the ancient grading standards, and the sequences nine to seven were classified as low.
Considering that Verteck should not have a sequence five, then the "middle sequence" in Feige's mouth should be a sequence six.
This kind of allocation is indeed relatively high for MI9, which is not mainly combat-oriented.
"Before that damn group of natives attacked, Verteke had two captains and vice-captains, six ordinary members."
"After this battle, Kevin, the vice-captain of Sequence 6, was killed in battle, and he was a powerful 'judge'. In addition, four rank-and-file members were also killed. β
"The extraordinaires who stayed were the captain Morgan and the two ordinary players. There were two of them, one was a young man, Mick, and the other was Lady Athena. β
"Colonel Morgan is a veteran 'corrupt baron', and he is the only one who has overcome the surprise attack with his great strength and a few second-level seals of the division, and has protected Lady Athena, who is on the same path but one order below him."
Speaking of this, he laughed and said:
"I've heard that Colonel Morgan is secretly pursuing Ms. Athena."
"After this raid, they have noticeably become closer and seem to have come together."
"I've met Morgan a few times before, and he was a very selfish man."
But I have to say that in the face of love, he is a real man. To protect Ms. Athena, he even severed his right arm. β
"Maybe that's the price he paid for impressing Lady Athena."
After talking about the gossip, he said indifferently:
"As for Mick, it's a young man who has been favored by the god of luck."
He is the child of an Intijn immigrant couple who have only been in the Verteck branch for half a year. When the raid took place, he happened to be particularly lucky enough to go to Yorktown, outside the city, on a simple mission. β
"Although he is from Intis, his parents died for the colonization of the kingdom, so after Colonel Morgan reported to His Excellency Calvin, His Excellency agreed to include him exceptionally."
"By the way, his extraordinary way is to be a 'soothsayer.'"
Fortune teller!
Speaking of which, it is the first time that Gleilint has encountered the extraordinary person of this sequence who is alive in reality, the sequence where Klein, the protagonist of the original book, is located.