They even understood the Duke's rebellion against the Empire and were unconditionally loyal to their lord.
The Far North is different from other places.
It is here that the lord system is still maintained.
As the saying goes, the master to whom my master is loyal will not be my master.
The vassal's first allegiance is to their lord, and then to the empire behind the lord.
The empire turned a blind eye to the barrenness and famine in the Far North for hundreds of years, allowing the Silver Duke to maintain his position as lord here for generations, and ensuring the loyalty of the Silver Shield Legion.
So at this moment.
There was a trace of anger in Duke Silver's heart.
It doesn't matter if the earl of the North rebels against him. After all, the identities of the two parties are not much different, so this is expected.
But there is also a rebellion within the Silver Castle.
This is an unforgivable sin!
…
However, after hearing Duke Silver's explanation, the messenger did not continue to be aggressive and seemed to accept this statement.
He walked forward and stood beside the bed.
"It seems that the strength of the ice and snow elves is indeed extraordinary. They can actually make the legendary invincible Silver Duke bedridden for several days. But I heard that during that battle, you also let an elf escape into the mainland. This responsibility,
Has the Duke thought about how to bear the burden?"
Looking at the weak man lying on the bed, the messenger had disdain in his eyes.
But after saying this.
The two people who secretly observed him felt shocked again.
Xu Shuo, who was standing by the window, remained calm, but his thoughtful eyes fell on the messenger.
Released an elf?
The battle report sent to the royal capital from the north was clearly - the elves who came out of the extreme northern mountains had been killed.
Although it was not said how many ice elves actually walked out of the Far North Mountains, it was not said that any elves escaped.
However, this kind of false report cannot be hidden for long.
Although Duke Silver was pretending to be seriously injured, his face remained expressionless after hearing this, and he just looked at the messenger who was close at hand.
He did not answer this but asked: "I wonder where the messenger came from?"
"Of course it's a Frankish city-state."
The messenger said with a stinky face: "It's because you failed to guard the Far North Mountains that I was sent to this remote mountain area. It's so cold that there are actually bandits on the road. There is indeed a group of barbarian mobs here!"
When he scolded him, no one in the north showed any displeasure, which made the housekeeper feel embarrassed.
The Franks city-state is the closest city-state in the Eastern Continent to the Northland.
It makes sense when you think about it.
The messenger was able to reach the Silver City-State within six days after the Warcraft Army incident. It was difficult to do so from the royal capital, but if people were transferred from the nearest city-state, they could catch up.
So, the purpose of this messenger's trip is already clear.
He's not here to be a spy.
Nor is it to bring orders from the royal capital.
He's just -
He just came here specifically to die.
Therefore, the king does not need to send a special messenger, and the messenger does not need to be smart and steady, because he only needs to be able to bring trouble to the Silver City-State.
Either the Silver City-State is hindered by trouble.
Either the Silver City-State couldn't bear it anymore and killed the messenger directly to reveal its intentions.
Of course, all this is based on the fact that the Silver Duke has rebelled.
In the end, the king did not suffer any losses.
The Duke of Silver lowered his eyes: "It is indeed my fault for poor management of the North, but I am also unable to do what I want now. I don't know what instructions there are from the royal capital."
The messenger gathered up his fur cloak and curled his lips and said: "I heard that the Duke is seriously injured and has not recovered. His Majesty the King has sent me here to take charge of the Silver Shields for you and continue to guard the Far North Mountains."
——As expected, it’s still for the Silver Shield Legion.
The Silver Duke pretended to look embarrassed: "Then I wonder how long the messenger will be kept in custody?"
The messenger sneered: "It depends on what your Majesty wants."
In fact, although the messenger is also interested in the Silver Shield Legion, he is not interested in this far north at all.
if you can.
He hopes to take this powerful legion directly to the Franks city-state after the incident is over!
However, His Majesty the King did not have any further instructions on this. He just asked him to take charge of the Silver Shield Legion first, and the rest will be discussed after the Silver Duke's injury recovers.
It's just that he didn't convey the subsequent meaning.
Because as a viscount, he could now stand on the head of a duke and feel proud, the messenger felt a sense of pleasure in his heart!
Look at this room full of people who only dare to be angry but dare not speak!
Duke Silver sighed and said: "In that case, I will first hand over the Silver Shield Palm Seal to the envoy for safekeeping."
As he spoke, the Silver Duke winked at the butler on the side.
The housekeeper understood, and with a sad expression on his face, he went to the closet in the corner of the bedroom and took out a silver-white jade sculpture of an eagle and falcon.
He got the Silver Shield Palm Seal so easily.
No matter how arrogant the messenger is, he still feels a little suspicious at this moment.
He rubbed the cold palm print on his hand and saw the golden laurel leaf logo of the San Varro Empire engraved on the base, confirming that it was a real palm print.
At this time, Duke Baiyin coughed a few more times and said: "The three thousand troops in the martial arts field would also like to ask the envoy to lead the team to the Far North Mountains immediately. Those monsters are watching eagerly and launching attacks at all times."
The messenger looked unhappy: "There is no need for you to order me. Since the Duke is seriously injured, he should rest well during this period."
After finishing speaking, he seemed to be anxious about something, turned around and left the bedroom with his entourage.
…
The steward sent him outside the castle.
Logically speaking, the messenger should stay at the Silver Castle during this period, but the other party refused this request and just stayed at the City Station.
After returning to the inn.
The messenger waved away the others, looked at the silver shield palm print again, and then took out a golden osmanthus leaf badge from his arms.
He pressed the blood from his fingertips to the back of the badge, a magic rune flashed through, and the badge lit up.
"Sir, I have obtained the Silver Shield Palm Seal."
The messenger spoke to the badge and explained in detail the journey from entering the Northland to the Silver Castle, including the Silver Duke's status and the other party's reaction.
Although he couldn't find out any information.
But he can convey everything he heard and saw in a comprehensive way.
…
…
After the messenger left.
The entire Silver Castle quietly closed its doors and windows.
The Duke of Silver looked at the steward standing aside with a chill all over his body: "When I ordered the troops last night, did you find any suspicious behavior around the castle?"
"Your Majesty the Duke, I have never discovered it." The butler said with a frown.
"Inside the city."
"nor."
"If you can't find the traitor before tonight, then I will treat you as a traitor."
"..."
The butler's face was full of helplessness.
After the Silver Duke finished speaking with a cold face, he stood up, picked up the armor and fur coat from the hook, put them on, and walked towards the window sill.
On the tower outside the spacious window, a black shadow fluttered down and its silver-gray beast eyes looked into the bedroom through the half-closed curtains.
Then he looked at Xu Shuo who was standing by the window.
The snow sculpture tilted its head.
Duke Silver came over at this moment and reached out to open the heavy window.
Cold air rushed into the bedroom instantly, and the fire in the wood-burning fireplace flickered and danced a few times, but it stood firm in the cold wind.
"卍~"
The snow sculpture gave a small cry.
Xu Shuo looked at Duke Silver.
The latter said: "He should be the only one sent by the royal capital, but when the messenger came to the castle, a ten-man team went to the Far North Mountains and met with the Silver Shield Legion stationed at the foot of the Eiger.
"
Xu Shuo thought thoughtfully: "Are you back?"
Duke Silver shook his head: "Not yet, they seem to have known for a long time that the messenger would get the silver shield palm print, so they were waiting there for the messenger to go."
After saying this, Duke Silver paused.
He looked at the young man thinking and asked, "So when will you take action?"
Xu Shuo smiled and said, "Let's wait until all the people in this group meet up at the foot of the Far North Mountains. It would be best to catch them all in one go to avoid any mistakes or omissions."
After hearing this, the Duke of Silver did not continue to ask what his solution was.
Anyway, if it doesn't work, just kill them randomly.
…
In the afternoon.
The traitor who turned the whistle on was found out.
The Silver Castle is located in a corner of the city, backed by snowy mountains, and the martial arts field is set up on the edge of the city, so that the usual nighttime military training will not cause any noise in the city.
There are no floor-to-ceiling buildings around the edge of the city, so you can see everything at a glance.
Therefore, if the informant was not a spy from outside the castle, he could only have been from inside the castle.
What's more, the informer seemed to have accurately said that the person who was at the martial arts arena last night was the Silver Duke.
Unless the other party knows that the Silver Duke is not seriously injured.
The housekeeper checked inside and found a maid.
"Your Majesty the Duke..."
The maid knelt on the ground with a pale face, her forehead pressed against the floor covered with thick blankets, her whole body trembling, and she did not dare to raise her head at all.
Duke Silver looked at her expressionlessly: "I remember you are the granddaughter of old Ethan. Before old Ethan passed away, he sent you in."
The maid's back stiffened, probably because she didn't expect that she would be remembered by the Duke.
"I want to know whether the Silver Castle is not good for you, or how much benefit it has given you, so that you are willing to take risks to cover up and betray me." Duke Silver asked calmly.
"I don't have... Your Majesty the Duke..."
The maid suddenly raised her head, but when she touched those cold silver-gray eyes, she suddenly couldn't utter a word of excuse and felt a sudden chill all over her body.
She looked to the side and realized there was another person in the study.
Apart from that, there are no extra people.
The housekeeper who sent her here just now is not here either.
The cold wind from the north blew in from the tower.
The maid was trembling. She knew that there might be no room for improvement in this situation, and she had already been sentenced.
This is not an interrogation, just a simple declaration.
After realizing this fact, the maid's emotions suddenly burst out.
Her eyes were red and she gritted her teeth and shouted: "I don't want to stay in this place anymore! I don't want to stay in this place forever where there is only endless snow and endless war!"
The Silver Duke was stunned upon hearing this.
The other party's emotions seemed to be real and not some pretense or excuse.
He looked into the maid's eyes and asked, "So you want to leave here?"
The maid also looked at him: "Yes, I want to leave!"
"I understand."
The Duke of Silver said expressionlessly: "But why would you rather trust outsiders than the Northland that has raised you for generations? Nor do you trust that your lord will take you away after this incident?"
The maid bit her lip and shed tears.
"You won't... you will just let yourself go..."
The Silver Duke was slightly startled.
He looked at the maid and met those light gray eyes.
The other party also has the silent elf bloodline and is a native of the North.
But most human beings actually don't like to live forever in a place where they can't see flowers blooming all year round, in a barren and desolate place where there is always ice and snow.
Today, most of the indigenous people in Silver City-State.
In fact, they all moved here to resist the elves and monsters. The descendants of the Silver Shield Army are also the subjects of the Silver Dukes for generations.
The Duke of Silver, who has been stationed here for thousands of years, wants to leave here, let alone the other people who are also trapped here.
…
The maid was taken down again.
The Silver Duke did not give the other party an answer to that question, but he was lost in thought at the moment.
Xu Shuo leaned to the side and said: "So what you are thinking about now is how to leave the North with the hundreds of thousands of people in the Silver City State, right?"
Hearing this, Duke Silver was noncommittal: "You don't have to leave the North, you just need to stay away from the Far North."
The harshest environment is definitely the Far North.
Half of the year it snows and the other half hails.
For example, Castle Castle also belongs to the Northland, but the climate there is far less severe than here, and you can even often see green grass and trees.
The Silver Castle is in the far north.
This is a city-state that was originally established to resist monsters. It is only a dozen kilometers away from the Far North Mountains. Looking from a high place, you can see the rolling mountains and the non-stop wind and snow all year round.
Being with snow all day long.
Be with the monsters all day long.
It is also accompanied by the endless war.
Duke Silver suddenly sighed: "I probably know the meaning of completing that thing."
[Side mission: Let the Silver City State no longer be attacked by Warcraft.]
Side missions appear along with character cards, so this is also linked to the character's wish, but the character does not simply want to solve the crisis of World of Warcraft.
This is the wish of a lord for the sake of the people of the entire territory.
Even in order to get that character card, he had to move the entire Silver City State out of the Far North.
"So?" Xu Shuo tilted his head.
"What else can we do? Just migrate directly after this incident. It just so happens that the elves are gone, so the existence of the Silver City-state in the far north is not that important." The Duke of Silver said calmly.
"That's it? I thought you were just going to get crazy right now and mobilize the entire population for the Silver City State." Xu Shuo said with a smile.
"Not that much."
The Silver Duke twitched the corner of his mouth.
It's better to finish the camp mission now.
…
…
It's approaching evening.
The messenger also made some moves.
He planned to go to the Far North Mountains to express his condolences to the Silver Shield Legion, express his current identity, and then deploy a plan to guard the mountains.
Hear the news.
The Silver Duke sent a Silver Knight to lead the messenger to the Silver Shield Army's station in the Far North Mountains.
then……
Along the way, this knight took the opportunity to express how loyal their Duke was to the empire, how much he loved the Far North, and how much he hated those monsters.
And then when the messenger gets extremely impatient.
He also said secretly: The northern land is barren, and I wonder if the royal capital can allocate more military pay.
The messenger sneered upon hearing this.
After talking for a long time, it turned out that it was just for money and food.
"How can His Majesty's thoughts allow us to comment? I will report the situation in the North truthfully, but please don't mention it again."
The messenger glanced contemptuously at the knight.
Xu Shuo, half of his face covered by the mask, smiled and stopped talking.
…
The fast horse ran across the familiar ice field, heading towards the mountains ahead in the endless white land of ice and snow.
There is no heavy snow today, only cold wind.
In the pale sky thousands of miles high.
Occasionally, a flock of northern wild geese passes by, and a snow sculpture does not seem out of place among them.
On the back of the snow sculpture, the Silver Duke squinted his eyes slightly, lowered his body and was hidden in the black feathers, and shuttled through the misty clouds condensed with frost.
