I, the Lord of the End

Chapter 61, Sid on Mercenaries
The center of Wolfsburg, the Hoffmann-von-Bussen mansion, the temporary residence of the Tribunal.

Ulrich, the guard of the temple, was sitting behind the table, looking at a bag full of Wallace gold coins with flying lions on the front and Archduke Roboute's photo sticker on the back, his face was livid.

After receiving the real-name report letter from the Silver Hand family of the light elf yesterday, Ulrich, as the temple guard under the command of the judge, took this situation very seriously and immediately sent someone to find out whether there was anything wrong.

Normally, gods belong to gods, and mortals to mortals. The Tribunal of the Church of Heaven should not arbitrarily intervene in such local aristocratic affairs. Girls are given extremely severe warnings and punishments, and the Church of Heaven has sufficient reasons to intervene.

Furthermore, if it is a report letter from within the Holy Empire, it is fine. The key point is that it is a report letter from the Silver Hand family of the light elves. This kind of matter has a particularly important international impact and has a particularly bad impact on the official image of the Holy Empire. Therefore, it is almost useless within the Church of Heaven. Thinking about starting an investigation now.

The evidence is solid, it is true.

What made Ulrich even more angry was that a large bag of Wallace gold coins was found directly from Baron Stefan's luggage bag, brand new.

Brat, you don't even pretend to be, do you?
"Aren't you willing to admit your crime? My baron?" Ulrich shouted at the baron across the table.

Stefan was tied to a chair, and because of the hangover, fright and interrogation, he was caught when he couldn't exert his model-level strength at all.

"Now admit that, according to Jupiter's will, we can be given a lighter sentence."

"My grandpa will come to save me." Stefan said, "You wait."

"This has nothing to do with your grandfather."

"He will come to my rescue."

"My Baron, O Libra of Jupiter, have you no repentance for the series of mistakes you have committed?"

"You wait, wait until my grandpa comes, you are all dead." Stefan leaned forward, his crazy and spiteful eyes stared at the guard badge on Ulrich, he grinned, The stench and the smell of alcohol sprayed on Ulrich's face overnight: "Look at your badge, it's not easy to be a temple guard, hehehe, it's a pity, it will leave you soon gone."

After that, Stefan maintained his attitude of being a ruthless repeater. No matter what Ulrich said, Stefan would always say that.

The temple guards had no choice but to press him down and lock him up first.

However, within a few minutes, the noisy voices came from far to near.

"Who, who caught my grandson, stand up for me!" Earl Orlando led a few wolf champion warriors and broke through the door in a rather arrogant manner. The cloudy old eyes spurted out monstrous anger, and he pushed the paladin guarding the door away: "Where is my grandson Stefan, I want to see him!"

It's coming, it's really coming!Ulrich quickly stood up and said solemnly: "Your Excellency, your grandson is suspected of rape and accepting bribes from foreign forces. We have conclusive evidence based on..."

"FNNDP!" Orlando slapped Ulrich on the face directly, and the old count was furious: "Who said that? Who said that my grandson committed a crime? How dare you arrest my people on the territory of the wolf ?”

"We have evidence." The temple guard stood up covering his face, and he was also angry: "God will not forgive such a person."

"What evidence? This can be regarded as evidence. You saw him committing a crime with your own eyes? That eye? Are you on the scene? Why do you arrest my grandson if you are not?" Earl Orlando motioned for more soldiers to come in, and he grabbed Ulri Xi's collar: "My grandson can't be a criminal. How could my Orlando Wolfe's grandson be a criminal? I'll give you a chance now. There is still room for redemption."

"I can swear to Jupiter that everything your grandson did is true, and the bag on the table is the evidence we found." Ulrich was also angry, because someone dared to break into the courtroom to get the evidence. people?
"Evidence?" Orlando pushed Ulrich away, and he felt a thump in his heart when he opened the bag.

"That's the evidence."

"This is evidence of a hammer." The old man grabbed the bag violently, and roared with his hands on his hips: "What kind of evidence is carrying some foreign exchange on me, my grandson, I know it myself, I was with him in the hotel yesterday Together, why didn’t I see any gold coins? Do you know how hard my grandson works? When I drink at the bar, what is he doing? He is studying in the room!”

"How can a child who loves learning so much be the criminal you say?"

In the end, the old man became more and more confident as he spoke. He pointed at Ulrich's nose: "I think you are the corrupt person who accepted bribes from foreign forces and tried to slander my outstanding son of the wolf! is the evidence."

"Come on, catch him." More wolf champion warriors rushed in and pinned the temple guard Ulrich to the ground. Badge of the Imperial Guard: "You don't deserve to wear this, you wolf scum, wait for justice."

In any case, the guard of the temple did not expect that things would turn out like this. He was about to justify that Earl Orlando punched him in the face again: "There are all witnesses and evidences. When it comes to the court of my principality, let me see what else you have. Sophistry, please remember, the Falcon Code will never wrong a good person, but it will never let a bad person go, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it in the court of my principality."

The grandson was rescued.

The temple guard who was knocked down saw the contemptuous smile on Baron Stefan's face.

Say it, my grandpa will come to save me.

"take away!"

The wolf champion warriors escorted Stefan and Count Orlando out of the Hoffmann-von-Bousen mansion.

The old man was about to scold his grandson for his stupidity, and at the same time ordered to find out who killed his grandson, someone stopped in front of them.

Hutten, Inquisitor of the Empire, and Neustedt, Priest of Heroes.

"Someone actually dared to take someone from the trial court, my lord, you are so brave." The judge was expressionless, but everyone could feel his monstrous anger. Under his order, the religious warriors They blocked the road.

"In the name of Jupiter, even if Grand Duke Gerhardt is here today, don't think about it, warrior of the Inquisition Court! For Jupiter, for the Holy Empire!"

"In the name of His Majesty Nicholas, for the evil wolf, and for the Holy Empire!"

Rush in the street.

……… I am the dividing line of a family………

The next day, on the mountain road leaving Wolf Castle.

A group of heavily armed black eagle guards escorted a luxury carriage, slowly advancing along the road in the Gray Rock Mountain Range.

Today is the day of autumn hunting, and Celeste and Sid took advantage of the opportunity to escape from the manor and came out for autumn hunting with twenty or thirty black eagle guards.

Putting on a full set of black vulture royal vibrating gold full-body plate armor, a crimson heraldic cloak, and coiling up her gorgeous silver-white hair, Celeste, the imperial daughter of the empire with a compelling heroic look, looked at her Sid, who kept giggling on the opposite side, couldn't help kicking Sid's leg from under the table with the toe of his black military boots: "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at what happened yesterday, my lord." Sid expected that his real-name report letter would have a good effect, but he didn't expect it to be so good.

Just yesterday on the streets of Wolfsburg, the fierce conflict that caused 3 deaths and 22 injuries cast a horrifying shadow on the city in late autumn. Orlando, Earl of the Wolf, Hutten, the judge of the Empire, and others openly appeared on the street There was a big fight, and blood flowed all over the ground.

This is a very bad conflict and bloodshed between secular and religious forces, and if it is not handled properly, it will lead to very serious consequences.

However, this gave the imperial daughter an excellent excuse to intervene in local affairs. Celesty immediately seized this hard-won opportunity to personally arbitrate the conflict between the two factions. Facing the threat of the imperial daughter from the Central Dynasty, Both sides had to take a step back.

The court forgave Earl Orlando's offense but still detained Baron Stefan. Judge Hutten took a tough attitude and demanded that the nobles must have an explanation for this.

The Earl of Orlando, on the other hand, was in a state of desperation and rushed to prepare for the wedding. He sent people to chase Sergeant Major Booker on horseback overnight, and was forced to agree to the arrangement of the queen—Stefan directly married the girl he violated.

This is the verdict given by the princess, which can be reluctantly accepted by both emotionally and rationally, and there is still a law to follow.

The people of Wolfsburg immediately praised Celesty for being wise, decisive, impartial and selfless. The nobles had nothing to say, and the religious forces also looked at this previously unknown beauty for the first time.

"You also think I'm doing the right thing?" Seeing Sid's smirk, Celeste couldn't help blushing. She was satisfied and a little bit that she could seize this opportunity to finally extend her influence. Small complacency.

"You caught this timing very well. I thought I needed to remind you, but it turned out that I didn't need it at all." Sid nodded seriously, and he immediately made a compliment: "Your Highness, we people are like stars , guarding you like the sun!"

Can't this guy be more sincere?It's so fake it couldn't be more fake!A black line appeared on the forehead of the Imperial Princess, and the original iceberg-like state could no longer be stretched, so she could only immediately pick up the black tea to cover her slightly raised mouth.

I finally found a chance to let this kid know my level.

Unfortunately, the attention of Sid, who was talking coquettishly, was not on the princess. What he was really happy about was that after this incident, the attention of the trial court was diverted, and now the attention of judge Hutten All efforts are being made to collect Stefan's criminal evidence and the upcoming wedding.

Be safe, for now.

Seeing that Sid was still smiling and not speaking, the princess of the empire suddenly sighed and restored her cold look: "My brother once told me that the status of a monarch depends on the strong and persistent tension between various groups and the opposition of interests. , I used to half understand it, but after yesterday's incident, I began to understand."

"Then did your brother tell you that once someone climbs to the position of ruler and maintains it for a certain period of time, then the position will force him to accept the inherent laws, making him gradually distance himself from all other groups and classes in the whole society, Even far away from his origin and the group that supported him?" Sid said casually: "That is, there must be a Lich King."

Inherent law?Gradually stay away?There must be a Lich King?

Celesty only felt that these occasional words from Sid's mouth were not only intriguing, but also meaningful and beneficial. After chewing for a while, she felt that there was simple but profound political art in them.

He is like a golden mountain, waiting to be further explored by himself.

"Cracking~" The carriage was driving on the mountain road, and both of them were silent. Sid was thinking about what to do next, while Celeste was thinking about how to continue to tap her personal talent.

"Your Highness, is it still okay?" Sid asked suddenly.

Celeste was stunned for a moment and understood what Sid meant, and she couldn't help showing a disappointed look on her face: "It still doesn't work, every time I feel that I'm about to succeed, it's... just that there will be a violent pain in my stomach." The pain, the power of sublimation will fade away automatically."

Yes, after a lot of sparring during this period, Celesty has already learned from Sid how his royal blood sublimates.

Sid's royal blood sublimation is completely different from what the royal family has known so far.

According to Celesty's knowledge, whether it is the old emperor or her two elder brothers, the way they initiate the sublimation of the emperor's blood is to concentrate all the power of the Romani blood on a certain part of the body, causing qualitative changes through quantitative changes, and finally complete the emperor's blood sublimation. Blood sublimation.

But Sid is not like this. According to Sid, the sublimation of his royal blood is to release the golden blood from the heart to control its spread to the whole body to complete the sublimation.

Celeste tried the royal method but failed once, so with a mentality of giving it a try, Celeste tried Sid's method.

It really works!Celeste has covered the surface of her body with the power of sublimation several times. The best time, the power of sublimation of the royal blood has spread to her thighs, and golden runes appeared on the surface of the velvet pantyhose.

But in the end it failed.

She doesn't know what's wrong with her, but there is no doubt that Sid's method is more useful. Every time she is closer to success, the iceberg beauty seems to be in a good mood. For the first time, she took the initiative to find a topic: "Speaking of it , when you were a mercenary before, did you accept any commissions like this kind of investigation?"

"Of course I took it."

"How exactly?" The villain was like a sponge, trying to get more out of Sid.

"How to do what?" Sid squinted his eyes: "More than 95% of the investigations I took over were investigations that suspected that the other half had cheated and asked me to help find evidence."

"..." Celeste trembled slightly, and the princess tried her best to control her expression. After a full minute, she continued to ask: "What about ordinary commissions? As a mercenary intermediary, what do you have?" Is it important?"

"Of course there is." Sid also continued casually: "As a mercenary intermediary, you have to pay different attention to different clients. It seems to be trustworthy and secure enough. At this time, we have to raise the price to make them pay more, and at the same time tell them to leave everything to me. If they have any opinions, it is easy to make them succumb by threatening them appropriately."

"If you encounter a commission similar to mine from the little nobleman of Iquis, then you must carefully ask the mission conditions and content and record it, then judge the difficulty one by one, and try to let the other party feel my level through language and showing my appearance , it is allowed to earn a little less in this situation, long-term vision."

"So that's how it is." Celeste's noble purple eyes shone brightly, and she leaned forward with her hands on her cheeks: "Then what if you face a great nobleman? What would you do when you face Nobili?"

"Nobili's commissions are rare, and generally I can't accept them at my level, but if there are, it's not difficult. Pay attention to asking for instructions and reporting on everything. Only the employer's volition is enough. Pay attention to doing as much as possible in the commissioning. Dilute your own influence, just be a sounding board, try to make the employer feel that everything is under his control, let him feel the thrill of micro-manipulation and the sense of accomplishment of sitting in a castle and winning thousands of miles away." Sid laughed Said: "For example: the position of the crossbowman is moved forward by 5 meters, and the spear and shield are tilted back by 15°."

"Nobili's list just needs to be remembered, it doesn't matter whether you can win or not, it doesn't matter whether you can complete it, the important thing is to let the Nobilis feel the fun of the operation, enough fun, they will pay .”

"Pfft~" As soon as Sid finished speaking, the imperial princess who was as cold as stars on a snowy night finally couldn't hold back anymore, she covered her face with her hands, and couldn't help laughing out on the spot: "Hahahahahaha! It's funny, it's funny, Sid, you crafty fellow!"

"Hahahaha~" Celeste's happy laughter filled the carriage, and even spread outside the carriage.

The black eagle guards looked at me blankly, and I looked at you. This was the first time they heard such a happy laughter from the iceberg-like princess.

Is the one sitting inside really the princess?
On the way, Sid made one set of flirtatious remarks, and some meaningful words appeared from time to time. Celesty only felt that this investigation trip seemed to be more fun than the manor.

They stayed overnight in the small town of Kilt on the road, and the next day Celeste ordered to go directly to Cogne Castle deep in the Gray Rock Mountains. The Black Eagle guards naturally advised, but the guard captain and Ye With Sir Hill absent, they could not resist Celesty's orders.

Under the gloomy sky, Cogne Castle, located in the mountains and valleys, appeared in front of everyone.

The investigation begins.

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