Volume I: The End of the Outlaw 118
On this day, while I was dozing off with nothing to do, Director Billier walked into my office.
"Check this person for me." He said.
"Who?"
"Count Farrell Nerta." He said.
"Who is he?"
"The people of the Stormwind Kingdom."
"Stormwind Kingdom?" I woke up from my slumber.
"Yes."
"What do you know?"
Biller handed me a piece of paper. "This guy just arrived in Stormwind."
"I didn't hear of such a guy in the Stormwind Kingdom." I looked at the introduction above and frowned.
"He is a nobleman of the Stormwind Kingdom, a great nobleman!" The Director emphasized the last word. "Although he has just arrived, he has already met the king, and it is said that he came here for two purposes, one is to do business, and the other is to hope that the king will support the king of the Stormwind Kingdom."
"He's already seen the king?"
"I've seen it."
"What else did he say?" I put down the paper in my hand with dense writing in it.
"No, I'm not at ease, so you check this person for me. I want to know everything about him. ”
"Then did he say anything about the Stormwind Kingdom?"
"There have been several large riots in the Kingdom of Stormwind." The director said and walked out.
"Riots?" I suddenly couldn't react in my head.
"The riots, according to him, were unusually great disasters, but he said they had been quelled before departure."
"Do we have an informant in Lordaeron?"
"No, so I told you to check it out. The details of this man, I want to record every word he says in your notes, even a fart at some point! ”
I walked out of the office just in time to meet Uther, who was exercising with Alsace.
"I heard that a duke has come from your distant homeland?"
"You're so well informed!" I mean
"I've heard rumors from them that this man is tall and good-looking."
"I haven't met him yet."
"According to him, the South seems to have been very unpeaceful lately."
"What's not going to be peaceful?"
"I don't know the specifics, it's said to be a riot. How are you doing......" I looked him in the eye and kept talking, but I couldn't seem to hear him continue to talk a little in my ears.
The future may already be here...... Stormwind riots...... This is not a riot! Definitely not!
After nightfall, Haley and I stood on the corner outside the official residence where Count Farrell Nerta lived. Haley, though only in her twenties, has been in the fog for more than five years. This girl looks okay, in addition to her big wavy blond hair is very eye-catching, her proud figure is also very in line with most men's aesthetics.
"I'll come back to you tomorrow morning." I gave her a meaningful look. Haley was temporarily placed in the mansion as a subordinate. During the few days this guy is here, Haley will be the old man's sweetest servant.
The next morning I went to the kitchen early to wait for her to report to me. It was still daybreak, and the servants had not yet gotten up. To my surprise, she was already there waiting for me.
"You're ...... so early," I said, closing the kitchen door. Haley sat there a little dazed, her eyes looking a little ...... Sluggish.
"Didn't you sleep well?" I looked at her, "That guy...... How to ......"
"Nope." There was no expression on her slightly tired face. The tone is also a little stiff.
I frowned. "Hey, what's wrong with you?" I reached out and put my arm around her shoulder.
"I just...... I feel a little weak and a little dizzy. ”
"Won't you...... It's only the first night! Hey, last night you made him ...... Well? I looked at her face. This girl is not ugly, if it is said that she must use her body to obtain information, she is not impossible, but this is generally the next policy. Her level of appetizing is much higher than that of most female love saints.
"So hard last night?" I tilted my head to look at her face.
"No...... No, it's not. ”
"And what's wrong with you?"
"I don't know. Last night...... Nothing was done. I was just...... Talked to him a lot. A lot...... He knows a lot of things. She seemed to be reminiscing.
"What did you say?" I was surprised and put my arm on her shoulder. "Chat? Talking about you like this? ”
"I told him a lot...... A lot of things. She looked me in the eye, but her gaze was still a little dazed.
"What did you say?"
"I ...... Say...... Said it...... He asked me a lot of questions. ”
"What did he tell you? What question does he ask you? "I asked a different question.
"He asked me who I was, where I was from, my parents, my hometown...... And my daily life. ”
"What did you say?"
"I'm not wrong...... I'm following the ...... No, he seems to have asked me again! ”
"Same problem? Ask you twice, yes? ”
She nodded.
"And what did you say?"
She was silent for a moment. "I can't control myself!" There was a hint of fear in her eyes.
"What do you mean...... You can't control yourself? ”
"He seemed to know what I was thinking...... I can't hide it at all. I can't control my thinking...... I don't know why I'm telling him about my ...... My life is ....... ”
Looking at Haley, who was a little distracted, I suddenly remembered the woman I had met.
I can't hide or delay in this matter in the slightest. I hurried to Bielell to report the situation.
"Was she drugged?" Biller said with a little surprise.
"Not really." I recalled.
"That's hypnotization?" He looked at me. "Have you ever seen this?"
"Hypnotized? Isn't she trained in this...... Sir. ”
"What did she say?" Billier didn't care about what I said.
"Listening to her description, it seems that she has said everything that can be said and cannot be said......"
Biller glared at me, his eyes full of anger. "If he has to go to the king today." I said, "I'll keep an eye on him." ”
The Mist is a special organization directly under King Minethir. Almost everything that the mist knew had to be reported directly to the king, and for today, Biller seemed to have other plans.
I changed into the clothes of a waiter and waited for the arrival of the count.
I was really shocked when I saw him appear at the castle, and I wondered why Bilier asked me to look up this guy by name. He estimated it to be at least two meters tall. His skin is brown, his hair is black, and his eyes are black. His facial features are angular, and under his high brow bones are a pair of deep eyes. His forehead is wide, but the traces of his bones are clear. His masseter muscles seemed to be well developed, and his thin, tightly closed lips made it seem that this was not easy to mess with.
He looked like Antonidas in the eyes...... The kind of feeling that can pierce you and see through you...... and a sense of oppression that makes people feel that he is very difficult to mess with.
Standing at the gate of the castle, I bowed to him, "Your Majesty still has some business to take care of, please take a break in the tea room." With that, I led him to the side of the room.
He didn't drink anything, just sat there quietly. I stood to the side and watched him quietly. And he seemed to turn into a stone, leaving me without the slightest hint of anger and ...... Something else.
"Your heart beats slower than normal." Suddenly, there was such a sentence. I was stunned for a moment and didn't react. Did he speak? Talk to me? What did he say?
"Are the slaves selected by the Lordaeron Kingdom all powerful guys?" He continued. "Or are you not an easy fellow?"
"You seem to have some secrets in you." He didn't look at me, he seemed to be talking to himself.
"Are you with the girl from last night?" He stood up and turned to look at my face. This was the second time he looked at me squarely.
"Sorry...... My lord...... What are you talking about? I frowned and looked very confused, just the kind of confusion that I didn't understand...... And, of course, apologies, the humble apologies that are gentle and honest and fearful.
His face was expressionless.
"Do you have any commands, my lord?" I try to be as natural as possible.
I looked into his eyes, and if it weren't for the qualitative leap in my mental fitness after the improvement of my physical fitness, his gaze might have caused me to run away.
The embarrassment was broken by a knock at the door, and when the king had time to summon him, I hastened to stretch out my hand and lead him to the king.
The King's Reception Room is located on the highest floor of the castle and has large floor-to-ceiling windows that offer a panoramic view of the city. King Minethil was standing at the window with his cat in his arms, as if thinking about something.
When we walked in, the king put the cat in his hand on the ground. "I've been waiting, Lord Nerta." He held out his hand and motioned for him to sit down.
He bowed slightly, and then sat down on a chair by the large table by the window. I quietly stood next to the bookshelf.
"Did you sleep well last night?" The king smiled.
"Honestly, it's not good, Your Majesty. I barely slept the whole night last night, and I'm still a little uncomfortable with the weather. ”
"Then I'll arrange for someone to burn the fireplace in your room tonight." The king said, "No wonder your complexion is different from that of the northerners, for the sun in your south is much more vicious." ”
"Yes, and it's much wetter." He said.
I listened to their gossip without a word, and I was trying to find the flaws in his words and the places that would arouse my suspicions.
"How old is King Ryan?" King Terenus finally got to the point.
"In the prime of life." He said.
"How many heirs does he have?"
"Only...... A son. ”
"There is only one child...... Well, at least there is a successor. The king smiled. Hasn't the Stormwind Kingdom been peaceful in recent years? ”
"Fortunately, there have been no sword soldiers in the past few years, and it's okay, but ...... This year there have been unfortunate riots. ”
"Riots?"
"Some of the bandits, especially in the eastern part of the kingdom, are annoyed. This group of people burned and looted and caused a lot of impact, but the king had already sent people to suppress it. ”
"But as far as I know, it's not as simple as you say."
"It's just a small problem, and it's not a big deal. In recent years, the kingdom has built a lot of buildings, and it has indeed cost the people and money. Although our king is well-intentioned, he is inevitably rejected and resisted by some vested interests. "What he said was light and light." Moreover, there are some fierce beasts in the eastern forests of the kingdom, including some gnolls who have been driven away for many years. ”
"King Ryan said there was a green-skinned guy." The king looked him in the eye.
King Lane? Did King Ryan write to Terenus? When did this happen? Green skin? Don't...... The orcs are already here? Orcs! In the past few years of my confusion, things have happened as before! Is the Dark Door really open?
"Greenskin, ha, Stormgard has those things too, doesn't it? I don't know if His Majesty has ever seen those tall monsters with fangs with his own eyes. The stuff that is called a troll. Didn't they have been messing with the elves for thousands of years? This group of things likes to hide in the forest, and the forests further south of the Stormwind Kingdom are all uninhabited places, so it's not surprising that it will appear again, King Baratheon is because of the monsters of the southern forest, this time in the east, I don't know how it mutated A small group of trolls that have not been discovered before. ”
I have an impression of what he said......
"But your king said that this time there was ...... It's very different from what it used to be. King Lane asked us to send troops to help, and he claimed that the attack was on a large scale. ”
"Before I came, I had seen a few green-skinned guys they just caught, and they were just a variant, no big deal. By the time King Baratheon died twenty years ago, most of the trolls in the south had been slaughtered. This time, the king is only worried that there may be a repeat of the mistakes of the past, after all, the prince is still young. ”
Terenus looked into his eyes and pondered for a moment. "Maybe we should help King Lane."
"I only want to thank King Terenus for his kindness and generosity on my own behalf." He stood up.
I'm waiting for the word to come out of his mouth, but that's the word.
"For the riot that there is no need to worry about......," he waved his hand, "perhaps the taxes of the kingdom are what my king should be more concerned about, and those vulgar mobs who do not know how to be grateful have rebelled precisely because of the years of civil construction. So I'm here to talk to Your Majesty about business, our southern spices! Mutual benefit. He stopped.
"It's not as serious as King Lane said, is it?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, of course it is. If it is really that serious, and there is a risk of the destruction of the kingdom, I think I should support the king the most, and ask Your Majesty to send troops to help restore stability to our country. But...... As you know, the kingdom has its own armies, and everyone knows what to do if they don't work. And if someone can help end this riot without harming themselves, of course, it is the most profitable. ”
In this man's mouth, the riot turned into a contest for kingdom power.
Terenus pursed his lips. "Your spices from the south are being exported less and less to the north."
"I brought an order for spices for His Majesty this time, is there anything better than fighting and killing and making my money bag bulge?"
He smiled, the first time I saw him smile! No, that smile actually made me shudder.
I suddenly wanted to say something...... But just as I was about to open my mouth, he turned his face! As we looked at each other, I felt my body lose its strength and a voice echoed in my head, and I couldn't open my eyes a little.