Chapter 162 Commission from the lord (this cat starts to grow fat for the winter)

   Not long after, a piece of news detonated the entire Skyrim province.

Rumor has it that in Sommer's castle, the north tower fortress used to hold the rebels and prisoners was burned down overnight, and the flames shot up into the sky. The ruins of the swallowed castle, and the corpses of Thalmer soldiers who were pierced by spears on the outside of the castle and erected on the snow.

  As for the prisoners, they are completely missing.

This naturally caused a strong shock in the empire. Soon, the soldiers were sent out to search, and some prisoners who were originally locked in the North Tower Fortress were re-arrested, and then tortured and interrogated. Everyone was taken aback-according to these prisoners, they didn't know what happened, they just fell asleep, and when they woke up, they found that they were no longer in the cold underground prison of the North Tower Fortress, but On the sunlit grassland.

  Because of this, these prisoners insisted that Talos had appeared and saved them, which made the soldiers of the empire bewildered, and some didn't know what to do. After all, this continent is indeed protected by gods. Although Talos' apparition sounds a bit nonsense, but...it seems not incomprehensible.

   After all, the facts are there. At that time, there was indeed no trace of prisoners escaping around the North Tower fortress. They seemed to have evaporated out of thin air. After that, these prisoners reappeared in the center of Skyrim Province. Unless these prisoners have grown wings and can fly, only miracles can explain it.

Not only that, after that, the fortresses of the Thalmer elves in various places in Skyrim Province were attacked. No one knew who attacked these places, but every Thalmer fortress was completely destroyed, and those Thalmer elves The soldier's body was also pierced by the spear and stuck on the ground, exactly the same.

   This immediately excited the people of Skyrim Province. In fact, even within the empire, they had a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards this matter. On the one hand, they naturally don't like the haughty appearance of Sommer's **** bean sprouts, but on the other hand, they are also worried that it will arouse Sommer's dissatisfaction.

  In fact, Ambassador Thalmor has summoned the king and demanded a thorough investigation of the matter, otherwise, the Thalmor elves will dispatch an army to completely destroy the empire!

   "Are we really going to wait, Mister Knight?"

  Sitting in the tavern, Guleya fiddled with the wine glass in front of her eyes anxiously, while Duanmuhuai nodded.

"That's right, destroying all the strongholds of Thalmer and killing the elves of Thalmor, all this is to encourage Thalmer to wage war. Once their army is assembled, then I can completely destroy it. A few Thalmor fortresses, there is no Not our goal, this is just a bait for Thalmer to kill them."

   "But the empire...are we really not going to talk to them?"

   "This is a matter of the Inquisition and the aliens, not the Empire."

   Duanmuhuai shook his head.

"I will not let the empire mistakenly think that I am on its side. The trial court protects human beings, not a certain regime. Basically, we will not take the initiative to intervene in local political disputes. If the empire can take the opportunity to stabilize Of course, the position is the best, but if the empire is incapable of being overthrown, we don't care...do you understand?"

   "...Yes, I see."

  Gu Leya is not stupid, as a princess, of course she understands what Duanmu Huai means. If Duanmuhuai contacts the empire, no matter what, he will form the impression that he is cooperating with the empire. And the empire is very likely to be domineering relying on the backing of the court, and the court will instead take the blame for the atrocities of the empire.

  That's why Duanmuhuai completely separated them, as the saying goes, you do what you do, and I fight mine. As Duanmuhuai said, the Inquisition protects mankind, not the empire, and the continued existence of the imperial regime seems indifferent to the Inquisition. If there were a better regime for humanity than the Empire, the Inquisition would not object to their overthrow of the Empire.

  Of course, the premise is not to collude with the Chaos Demon.

   "Deng thump thump——!"

   At this moment, the crisp sound of the piano sounded, Duanmuhuai turned his head, and saw a bard standing by the campfire, playing and singing.

   "The next song is dedicated to the fearless warrior!"

   As he spoke, the bard played and sang.

   "On the white wilderness of the sky, there is a wave of freedom.

  People gulped down ale, praising blood and glory.

  However, the jackals came after thinking about it, trying to destroy this lively banquet.

  The guests screamed and fled in all directions.

  The jackal is ecstatic and high-spirited.

   However, the great **** saw this group of wolves.

  His warriors descended from the sky in black steel chariots.

  They swung their weapons, skinned and boned the wolves, and left them dead.

  The skinny wolves ran away with their tails between their legs, not even daring to look back.

  Because they know that behind them is the butcher knife wielded by the gods! "

   Soon, the song ended, and at the same time, the guests in the tavern also raised their glasses and cheered happily.

   Duanmuhuai sat on the chair and nodded in satisfaction.

   "Well, that's a good song."

  In fact, this bard was spread after Thalmor's fortress was destroyed. The wolves in the ballad allude to the uninvited and annoying high elves like Thalmer. It is rumored that after learning about this poem, Ambassador Thalmer smashed his glass in anger.

   As usual, those Thalmer elves have already used various reasons to arrest the humans who dared to sing this song. But now that the Thormer Fortress has been destroyed, these arrogant and arrogant high elves only dare to curl up in the embassy tremblingly, and dare not even take a step away, for fear that the next one will be pierced by a spear and stuck in the snow. Own.

   This naturally made the people of Tianji Province applaud and applaud, which can be regarded as a fierce breath of anger.

  Amidst the cheers of the drinkers, Duanmu Huai saw the tavern owner approaching with a serious face. He came to Duanmu Huai's side and whispered.

   "Sorry to bother you, soldier, the lord has something to ask for you..."

"oh?"

  Hearing the message from the tavern owner, Duanmuhuai was stunned for a moment. Although there are adventurers on this continent, there is no such organization as the Adventurers Association. Generally speaking, if adventurers want to find commissions or jobs, they will go to the boss of the tavern, and these bosses will usually get some wanted or reward lists from the lord's subordinates.

The Falkreese where Duanmuhuai is currently located is one of the nine territories of Tianji Province. It is located in the deep mountains and old forests. Although the transportation is inconvenient, it is very suitable for recuperation. Therefore, Duanmuhuai waited for Sommer to start the war. He has been staying in Falkreath all the time. Of course, occasionally he will accept some commissions, go outside to kill some robbers, or destroy some wild beasts that the locals can't deal with. It can be regarded as having some fame here.

  It's just... What's the matter with the lord coming to him?

  Could it be that he intends to let him investigate the murderers who killed the Thalmor elves? Hahahahaha... No way?

   "I see, I'll go and have a look."

  Thinking of this, Duanmuhuai also stood up, took Guleya out of the tavern, and walked towards the lord's hall.

   After staying in Skyrim Province for so long, Duanmuhuai has already had a preliminary understanding of this land. To put it simply, it can be described in one sentence - the land is vast and sparsely populated.

  Take Skyrim Province as an example. Skyrim Province is divided into nine territories, ruled by nine lords, and these nine lords are responsible to the Supreme King of Skyrim-this name sounds grand, and it is a high-ranking official. And nine lords are equal to the mayors of nine cities.

  Basically, in an area under the charge of a lord, there are only two or three villages besides a central city. Each village has less than one or two hundred people, and the population of the city is slightly larger, but at most it is about a thousand people.

   It is conceivable that with such a small population, there are naturally not many soldiers. There are only a few hundred soldiers directly under the lord, and the security guards in each village are only dozens of people.

  In contrast, the population of the central city in the holy city where Lorena is located has as much as 50,000, and the villages and towns that radiate in all directions also have a population of 3,000 to 4,000.

  The combined population of the two central cities in Manalia is at least 100,000, not to mention the population of the surrounding villages and towns is at least about 1,000 to 2,000.

Although it is incomparable with modern metropolises with tens of millions of people at every turn, it can be seen that, at least in terms of the current level of civilization, Manalia and the Holy City are no different in terms of population or quality. It's all crushing the province of Skyrim - even the Empire.

   To put it simply, the current empire has a large territory. In fact, because of years of fighting, there are not many soldiers.

  The same is true for Falkreese. The total population of the entire Falkreese City is less than 3,000, and it is not even as large as the population of a school in the Duanmuhuai era.

   Soon, the two came to the lord's hall and met Sidgail, the lord of Falkreath.

Compared with the lords in other places, Sidgell is relatively young, and he looks about 20 or 30 years old. Originally, the lord of Falkreese was done by his uncle, but because his uncle is old, so Sidgere Deguerre became the new lord.

   Well, none of that matters.

   "Are you the rumored Iron Warrior?"

  Seeing Duanmu Huai, the young lord was also taken aback. He widened his eyes in surprise, looked Duanmu Huai up and down, and then nodded again.

   "I've heard a lot of rumors about you. I originally thought that the rumors would be exaggerated, but now it seems that they are not that exaggerated."

   Facing the lord's words, Duanmu Huai didn't say a word—this is the advantage of being fierce, and others believed that he had killed the dragon.

   Although he did kill.

   "Then, let's get down to business."

   Having said this, Sidgail restrained his expression, stared at Duanmuhuai seriously, and explained his commission.

   To put it simply, this is a commission about a small town he ruled - Rocks Town.

  According to Sidgail, a strange situation has appeared in Rocks Town since a few months ago. First, the corpses in the cemetery disappeared. Their graves were dug up, and all the corpses inside disappeared. And when the angry town residents tried to find the pastor guarding the cemetery for an explanation, they found that the pastor was also missing.

  After that, in order to find out the situation, the residents of the small town spontaneously formed a patrol team, patrolling in the middle of the night, but... someone else disappeared.

  So now, the whole town is almost in a state of panic. Every night, people closed their doors tightly and did not dare to go out, and they also sent people to Sidgeer for help several times in a row.

   "Although I also sent soldiers to check it several times, and suspected that it was the necromancer's fault, but there was nothing to gain. Not only that... Even my uncle was killed!"

   Speaking of this, Sidgell clenched his fist angrily, and slammed down the armrest of the chair—during the last patrol and search, Sidgele's uncle personally led the team as a military guard to investigate. However, on the second day after he came to the village, he was found quietly dead on the bed by the guards.

   "This is simply a provocation to Lord Syfric! We absolutely cannot tolerate this behavior!"

  Under such circumstances, of course, Sidgail would not choose to back down. It happened that he heard about the deeds of Duan Muhuai, the "steel warrior", so he called him.

"My request is very simple. Thoroughly investigate this matter and find out who is behind it! The murderer who killed my uncle has to be brought to justice! As long as you can complete this task, I will be in the territory of Sifric I will give you a piece of land! And appoint you a baron!"

  Look, it’s good to have a large land and few people, and the land is given away casually.

   It’s not worth much anyway, right?

   "I see, I'll check the situation."

  Although he didn't care much about the reward, Duanmu Huai was quite interested in this commission. After all, isn't such a story very interesting compared to dealing with robbers or wild beasts?

   "Mr. Knight, are we really going?"

   Walking out of the lord's hall, Guleya's complexion was a little pale. I have to say that the story Sidgail told just now really frightened her.

   "Of course, don't you think it's very interesting? And being idle is idle. Isn't it good to have such an interesting commission to pass the time? At least it's better than dealing with bandits and bandits."

"………indeed so."

  Duanmuhuai did not tell Guleya that the reason why he accepted this commission was that besides the interesting story itself, another reason was that it triggered the system's task prompt.

  【Stimulate the hidden mission "Dark Haze"】

  【Mission Objective: Investigate the secrets hidden in Rocks Town】

  【While you embark on the journey, you will not think that what you are facing this time is not an ordinary adventure】

   No, didn't you say it all?

  Looking at the system prompt in front of him, Duanmuhuai complained silently.

   But in any case, it is obvious that what happened in the small town of Rocks is obviously not that simple.

  (end of this chapter)