Vanessa's tone turned into goodwill: "Your problem lies in the lack of confidence in the king of the human kingdom, and the human kings are also worried that the organization of the Assassin League is independent of their own control, right?"

Many generations of leaders of the Assassin League have studied this issue, and Duke Ravenholdt is also aware of the crux of it, so he nodded very slightly.

Vanessa looked regretful: "So, Your Excellency Duke, what you are doing now is incomprehensible. On the one hand, you are firmly guarding the duke title that Alterac gave you, and on the other hand, you want the Assassin League to maintain its own status." independence."

She pointed at herself, then at the other side: "I have the right to inherit Alterac, Alterac and Lordaeron have a common monarch, you are the duke appointed by Alterac, we are naturally friends, you Using the deterrence and resources of the Assassin Alliance to obtain the dukedom, what will your thieves think? Can they smile and watch your descendants occupy this dukedom, and do they also have the virtues of humility, honesty, compassion and bravery?"

Thieves definitely don't have these virtues. In fact, few paladins can fully achieve them. Duke Ravenholdt looked into her eyes carefully.

There are more talents recruited, and now Vanessa is not like recruiting old Fording at the beginning, and she is emotionally brewing and moving. I recruit you to save face!

"Actually, we can cooperate. The previous things will be written off. I will pay and you will do some tasks for me. If you have more urgent needs, I can even give you a piece of land for the Ravenholdt family to live in Lordaeron. Settling down, your children and grandchildren can build castles, own their own manors, wear their own family crest, and become real nobles, not the poor family members of the former leader of the Assassin League..."

The obvious thing is to buy, her rhetoric can be said to have no technical content, but it has to be said that people of this era are accustomed to this.

The old man is determined and dedicated to the Assassin League, but he still has weaknesses, and his descendants are weaknesses.

"The Assassin League's asking price is very high." He had to find a way for himself to appear less humble.

Vanessa smiled: "Lordaeron has enough money to hire you."

Duke Ravenholdt was no longer as confident as before. He tentatively asked, "What do you need us to do? Assassinate Cirvanas?"

She shook her head and refused: "I think it is very difficult for the League of Assassins to assassinate Sylvanas, that can be discussed later. I know there are Forsaken thieves working under you, I don't need you to assassinate Sylvanas, you just Just report her whereabouts to me."

Where Cirvanas is, is the route of her army. The value of this information is immeasurable. She also sent human thieves to investigate, but after all, it is not as convenient as the identity of the Forsaken.

Duke Ravenholdt didn't think of military action for a while, let alone Vanessa's plan to ambush Sylvanas. His thinking was still in the stage of assassination and being assassinated. He is a thief, not a general, and there is no need to go There are great limitations in thinking about what strategies and tactics to study.

After thinking about it, I thought it was not difficult at first.

But then I felt that I was thinking too simple, and I must not have seen through the other party's true intentions.

"What exactly do you mean, what do you want to do?" Without asking clearly, he would never agree rashly, and there was a vague sense of negotiating conditions.

Vanessa took out a map and motioned the old man to look carefully.

"The land in Alterac is barren, and bandits are rampant in the territory. You don't want your descendants to deal with a group of bandits every day, do you?"

How fresh! Duke Ravenholdt has reached the pinnacle of this profession, and he knows the virtue of thieves too well.

Vanessa drew a circle on the lower right side of Alterac, near the Kingdom of Stormgard: "This is Dunholde Castle, and the land around this belongs to Lordaeron. As Lordaeron's Regent, I can seal the Ravenholdt family here and clear out the syndicate thieves in the castle. You can print your own family emblem here, and I will give you the number of the Eighth Legion. It's up to you Recruit no more than eight thousand soldiers."

This is also her helpless move. Dunholde is located at the junction of Lordaeron and the Kingdom of Stormgarde, which is too far away from her core ruling area. In the Kingdom of Stormgard, there was an unknown dutiful son named Galen Trollbane. He also killed his father and became an undead.

There are undead, humans, orcs, and ogres in the Arathi Highlands. The situation is extremely chaotic, and the products are not rich. It can be said that they are of little value. In order to stabilize the territory, Vanessa simply sealed off the land and finished.

Duke Ravenholdt, who brought his own dry food, could guard the frontier for her. If he could, the land would be his. If he couldn't, Vanessa could find someone else to take advantage of her. Anyway, she had nothing to lose.

"You...are you serious?" With such a large piece of land, two or three generations of people who don't fight hard for the kingdom in peacetime are useless. Duke Ravenholdt feels that the pie is a bit too big, and he is afraid that he will be stuffed to death. .

But I have to say, very tempting.

The headquarters of their Assassin League was not far from Durnholde Castle, and he was well aware of the problems there.

"What if I can't hold this Durnholde Castle?" he asked.

Vanessa spread her hands, saying that she had no choice but whether she could keep it or not was entirely up to her.

Duke Ravenholdt is very entangled. If he is an empty duke, he will definitely not be able to hold this land, and the legendary thieves will be useless.

But if you want to mobilize the resources of the Assassin League~lightnovelpub.net~ It seems possible to use the resources of the organization for your own benefit? He weighed quickly in his mind.

Without further ado, Vanessa took out her quill and wrote a carefully worded fief certificate, legally transforming Duke Ravenholdt, an empty duke of Alterac, into a real duke of Lordaeron. , the fief is Dunholde Castle.

The syndicate thieves in the castle, and later repairing the castle and organizing the people to reclaim the land, all these things need to be resolved by himself. This is also the practice of feudal lords, and the king does not care.

After that, I wrote a letter of appointment for the commander of the Eighth Army of Lordaeron. The name of the commander of the army is empty, and anyone can fill in it. The Kingdom of Tomgard pulls people at will.

Two slaps, affix your own seal, and the matter is settled.

Vanessa put the two documents on the table, and then drew the ceremonial sword from the wall, and then asked Duke Ravenholdt with her eyes, old man, have you considered it?

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