Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 157

When all forces in the North and South are busy writing a new chapter in the political struggle, in Aedian, the Protector of the Kingdom is doing a big thing besides normal country building.

Destroy the mountain and cut down the temple.

Kaedwen, before being annexed by Aedirn, was the largest country in the entire Northern Realm.

However, although it is said to be the largest, a large part of the country is actually wilderness.

It is full of unruly villages and nomadic tribes, and only the wars of the Kaedwenian Lord can draw these people out to fight.

After Aedirn annexed Kaedwen, the locals were not impressed by the new government at all.

Therefore, the Yadian government is basically in a state of being uncontrollable, and when it is most conscription, it will recruit some strong men from here.

But now, the situation has changed.

The most striking feature of the Kaedwen Wasteland is that what you see is either a vast wilderness that stretches as far as the eye can see, or an endless wild forest.

But at this moment, in the forest, two men wrapped in fur clothing are walking one after another.

"Recently, my mother-in-law has increased her request for offerings. Alas, if this continues, when will it be the first time? If this continues, we may have to go to other villages to abduct children."

A person's face is full of sadness, which shows how much trouble his mother-in-law's request has brought to him.

"Hey, are you crazy? How dare you complain about your mother-in-law? Are you not afraid that your head will be eaten off by her maid?"

The other person's face was filled with fear immediately, as if that person had said something scary.

"Yes, yes, you are right, I actually made such a mistake, damn it, thanks to you, old friend."

The other person reacted immediately, and slapped himself a few times after saying these words, chanting things like "Don't blame the mother-in-law" and "Don't blame the mother-in-law".

At this moment, a dozen or so riders walked up to them. These people had obviously been sleeping in the open for a long time, and there were obvious signs of use on their cloaks.

Seeing that it was an outsider, the two of them stopped talking.

The riders, led by a man and a woman, stopped at two locals, and the man asked them.

"Gentlemen, is Monty continuing in this direction?"

The two of them did not speak. Facing outsiders, the locals were hostile and wary.

Generally speaking, it is absolutely impossible for them to speak, but that is the general situation.

After flicking the two gold coins with the faces of the Lord Protector and the King printed on both sides into the hands of the two locals, their attitudes changed immediately, and the expressions in their eyes also changed.

"Yes, both of you, that's how you go."

The person who complained just now said immediately.

"Okay, brothers, let's continue, and when we get to that place, we will rest."

Following the words of the male rider, everyone moved and surpassed the two locals.

"This group of people came at this time... don't let them find out. Those Adian people have been talking about cracking down on evil sacrifices recently. It's good that they can beat them down. If they can't, it's not us who suffer. "

"Hey, don't worry too much. Although our place is indeed remote, there are many outsiders who have come here. Well, don't think so much, just focus on how to deal with the sacrifice."

And when two locals were talking about these riders, the riders were talking about them too.

"Why don't you ask more questions?"

asked the horsewoman,
"You haven't seen those people being more vigilant, so it's better to ask as little as possible. And it's too troublesome. I don't understand their dialect very well, so I won't have to worry about it for a long time."

The male rider replied with a look of fear of trouble.

"And we don't need to figure out so much information. Isn't everything that should be clear? We can do whatever we want at that time."

"I still think that we should ask for more information. In any case, it is always good to know more information. This is also the management of our actions. In the past, when I was encircling Scotaiata in the countryside, the most important link was to obtain information from local people , Many times, what is recorded in the report is not absolutely useful, and when the action actually starts, we can only rely on ourselves."

The female rider continued to insist on her point of view, her tone was earnest, full of her own experience.

"Okay, okay, when we get to Monty, let's just ask again. It's a place where business travelers come and go, and we should be able to get a lot of news there. However, I have to take a good rest, so you go .”

The male rider obviously didn't want to argue with them, so he just said it perfunctorily.

The female rider wanted to get angry, but in the end she held back her anger. The important thing now was the task, and this guy's rudeness could only be put aside.

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At night, in the depths of a wild forest, a clearing in the woods.

There are several huge standing stones standing in this open space, and there is a smooth stone slab in the center of the open space, on which are placed the sacrifices of this sacrifice, the eight children who were stunned.

The children, the oldest not seven years old, and the youngest five, were all now garlanded and dressed in their best clothes.

The adults were talking in low voices in this sacrificial field, some of them had some resentment in their tone, but they quickly shut up under the restraint of their companions.

Because that mother-in-law may appear at any time.

Finally, amidst a burst of melodious music, the Lord came.

The first ones to appear were the low-ranking witches under the command of the mother-in-law. The breasts of these "women" slumped on their fat bellies like lumps of tumors.

There are also two skeletons on their heads, holding a guard of honor in their hands, which is full of skulls and dead rats.

But all of this is still not as terrifying as that face. They have no lips, and their gums are so naked in front of people. That face is also extremely ugly, and some people have nails running through it.

However, these terrifying pilgrims added up, and the level of terror cannot be compared with the mother-in-law.

It was a woman sitting on a throne made of skulls and corpses, and the throne was carried by hundreds of evil spirits.

The strange thing is that instead of chattering, these noisy little things behave very quietly.

Wearing a peaked hat, she has grown to an extremely terrifying size, and is full of greasy fat, and her eyes are full of desire for flesh and blood, especially children's.

This is Granny, the uncrowned king of the region.

The mother-in-law's team appeared directly in the forest like this, and the forest seemed to unknowingly opened the way for this team.

Everyone lowered their heads humbly and reverently. No matter whether they were dissatisfied with or hated this mother-in-law in their hearts, they could only do so at the moment.

Because everyone knows that if you don't, you'll just become part of the mother-in-law's throne.

Granny Yaga, that's the name of this monster.

She appeared here very early, and she was active here before the arrival of humans.

In the age of the elves, the elves cautiously kept a distance from these powerful existences in the wilderness, and the two sides lived in peace.

But the expansion of human beings broke this balance. However, at first, the two sides got along fairly peacefully. Humans provided Jaga with food, and Jaga fought monsters for human beings.

But gradually, this remnant's appetite became bigger and bigger. At first, she asked for more food, then whole pigs and cows, and finally, people.

After realizing the tenderness of the child's meat, she became obsessed with this feeling. She kept eating the child, and in the end, she ate herself from a beauty to a big fat pig.

It's not that the locals didn't resist it, but whether it was tribal warriors or demon hunters invited from outside, in the end they all added food to Jaga.

In the end, the local people had no choice but to submit to Yajia's despotic power and offer her children, whether they were their own or those that were stolen or bought.

But Jaga's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and she is demanding more and more from the villages under her control.

Up to now, it has developed to the point where each village has to donate eight children for each parade.

The so-called grand parade is a parade that Yaga will conduct in her own jurisdiction every year, accepting sacrifices from various villages, and cleaning up those beasts that cross her boundaries.

Going back to the present, seeing those children, Yajia just waved his hand, and those children who had fainted stood up, but they were like puppets being manipulated.

They walked behind Jaga, and only then did many people notice that the place was full of puppet-like children.

"Damn, uglier than I imagined, I miss my wife."

In the forest, a person whispered, his tone full of nausea.

"Shut up, compared to this, you'd better keep your hands steady and blow that ugly woman's head off."

Another voice immediately scolded, this is a female voice.

The owner of the voice was very angry at the sudden sound of the person in front of him. Did he have no brains?Don't know if this is easy to spot?

But since he has already spoken, he can only be urged to fire quickly.

In the open space, Jaga waved her fat fingers, and the evil spirits immediately began to turn the direction of the throne.

Also at this moment, a gunshot rang out.

"boom!"

The bullet mixed with anti-demon gold and silver flew towards Granny Yaga's head with fierce force.

Granny Yaga's reaction was very sharp. It was not the first time she faced such an assassination, so she casually created a protective shield around her.

But the next moment, the shield was shattered, and the bullet hit her head.

Yajia felt a huge pain, that kind of pain made her want to die, piercing her heart, but now she is more shocked, what the hell, when did her magic become so weak?
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

The next moment, gunshots sounded like firecrackers, hitting Jaga and her followers.

And they were beaten into sieves almost in an instant, and those wicked ghosts who carried the throne suddenly recovered their nature, and started running away chattering.

As for the children who were like puppets being manipulated, they all fell to the ground.

All this happened so fast, it happened so quickly that when Jaga and her men were all killed, most people didn't realize what was going on.

Everyone's hearts are now filled with excitement and fear. The excitement is that the damn monster is finally dead, and the fear is the existence that suddenly killed these monsters.

Some who had been out as soldiers knew it was the sound of musketry and were calmer because of that, but others were not.

At this moment, two figures came out from the surrounding forest, and at the same time, there were more than a dozen soldiers holding muskets, all of them were wearing magic-resistant golden armor.

"Ahem, everyone." The man said, "I'm Viato, working for the Protectorate's government. I'm here this time to solve this monster, and now, with our efforts, this monster already dead!"

Facing Viator's words, everyone hesitated for a while, looking at each other, and finally, led by a few veterans, they started cheering all at once.

In any case, the bastard Yajia was indeed dead, and the lump of fat was lying there lifelessly, so they finally didn't have to sacrifice their children.

Seeing this, Viator secretly heaved a sigh of relief, he was worried about the silence just now.

Then he began to enjoy the praise of the villagers. For the villagers, it was very happy that the monster that had troubled them for a long time was finally dead.

Layla at the back cast a disdainful glance at this guy, and then led several subordinates to study the monsters that had been killed.

They still have to write reports, they have to turn in samples, and there is a lot of paperwork.

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Destroying mountains and destroying temples, this is a large-scale operation to clean up the evil cults in the countryside. It aims to reshape the social order, execute all these monsters that have oppressed mankind for hundreds of years, and restore the world to a bright future.

This is an external statement. As for the most fundamental idea, it is very simple.

The essence of cracking down on these rural beliefs is to reshape the prestige of the government and allow the government, a role that has always been missing in the countryside, to intervene.

And the vacancy left after the rural faith was hit can allow churches like Eternal Flame and Cliff to intervene, and the church can occupy these grassroots.

At present, the cooperation between the government of the Protector of the Kingdom and the Eternal Flame and Cliff Church is continuously strengthening. These two churches can basically be said to have formed an alliance with the Protector of the Kingdom.

Needless to say, the Church of Cliff, ever since Herme revealed his status as a divinely favored one, the Church of Cliff has basically become a comrade in the trenches with him.

As for the Eternal Flame, since his exchange with Archbishop Chape, the Eternal Flame has basically been on his chariot.

Right now, Aden Protectorate is browsing the reports from various places.

For this operation, Herme dispatched a very exaggerated force. Almost half of the active Aden army has been mobilized, and will also mobilize militias from various places depending on the situation.

Of course, sometimes there will be empty running. After all, sometimes the so-called monsters are just a group of people pretending to be ghosts.

After the Second Northern War, many new religions emerged in many places in the north, and they took advantage of the uneasiness and turmoil after people experienced drastic changes to make a fortune.

There was even a saying that circulated for a while: "If you want your son to be rich, let him be a priest."

But pretending to be gods and ghosts is pretending to be gods and ghosts, but this kind of people are generally very rich, and confiscating their assets is also worth the cost of the action.

In general, there are many resources released, but the harvest is also very good.

However, even the Lord Protector, after seeing so many evil sacrifices of all kinds, couldn't help but sigh at the chaos of demons dancing in the north.

The number of these ghosts and monsters is really too exaggerated.

And the types of belief in ghosts and ghosts are also different.

Some of them show a mutually beneficial relationship with the locals. This is the most difficult to solve, because the locals will really fight with you, and many times they can only pretend not to see it.

Some rely on magic to create fear among the residents, and then provide harvests so that the residents cannot do without themselves, so they can only continue to offer sacrifices.

This type is relatively easy to solve. There are always a large number of people who hate the monsters that oppress them, and they only need to use force to eliminate them.

Some are pure exploitation and oppression, which is the best solution, just march in and blow their heads off with magic gold and silver bullets.

The types of monsters are also various, most of which are the remnants left in this world after the convergence of the celestial spheres, but there are also examples of vampires (low-level vampires) occupying the territory to collect blood taxes.

The most outrageous example that Hemei saw was that a group of evil spirits used the broken telescope they found to create the "eternal god" with projection effect, in order to exploit the villagers to make offerings.

Anyway, every time he saw these documents sent up from various places, the Protector of the Kingdom would only feel amazed.

Then he ordered that these documents be assembled and sent to the archives of Wengerburg.

He ordered that these should be carefully preserved. This is a cherished example of sociology. Maybe a scholar will write a research report on folk beliefs based on these reports.

But now, what Herme was reading was the report sent by Viator and Leila.

The report itself is nothing special, a powerful remnant was attacked by musket fire, and then died just like that.

What's interesting is that Layla wrote a lot of reprimands against Viator, for his laxity, which is all kinds of hatred.

It looks like the kid is getting slack.

With Herme thinking this way, it seems that this kid should be beaten, lest he make a big mistake sometime.

There are not many young people he has trained who are worthy of great positions, and he doesn't want Viator to be unable to be appointed because of mistakes early on.

Herme attaches great importance to the cultivation of the next generation, which is the key to his continued control of the country.

It's a pity that there aren't many that can be used in it, so Viator's ones are precious.

Throwing this document aside, the Lord Protector looked at the next one, a report from Vizima, sent by Aedirn's spies there.

Seeing this report, Herme smiled.

The above content is very simple, in fact, one sentence:

A gray-haired witcher, presumed dead, arrives in Vizima.

The roulette wheel of fate began to spin again.

(End of this chapter)