The mage arrives

"Oh, you didn't even know my identity before you yelled like crazy?"

Captain Bart sternly said: "Hmph, I don't care who you are! If you dare to touch our Haiwen Fist mercenary group today, you will die tomorrow! We work for the Aldrich family, the king of Haiwen, understand? Let me go, or..."

"Otherwise, what about? Spit me again?" Gordon narrowed his eyes slightly.

In places far away from the administrative center of the empire, it is not uncommon for such bad and stupid things to run wild with their backing.Facing this very typical scum mercenary, Gordon was not interested in talking nonsense with him, and directly took out the scroll of "Mind Detection".

He chanted the spell proficiently, and extracted the magic energy stored in the scroll in the form of words.By the time the parchment scroll turned to dust, the spell had already taken shape in his hands.

Gordon ejected the entangled purple-blue magic energy, and shot it into the opponent's forehead.

A thread of pure violet-blue magical energy connects Captain Bart's memory with Gordon.

In an instant, Gordon received a lot of messy shallow memories.

Gordon frowned instantly: "Well, drinking, fighting, robbery, murder, rape... Your life is really 'colorful'."

Captain Bart felt as if a door had been opened in his brain, as if all the memories could be read at will by the black-haired and black-eyed cold mage in front of him.

The scene of my accomplice being tortured to death by that gloomy-eyed long-haired man just now is still vivid in my memory, and now I have encountered this kind of thing again.Captain Bart couldn't help but began to tremble.

Seeing the other party's paler and paler expression, Gordon knew that the time had come, and now he could read the key information hidden deeply in the other party's mind.

"Tell me. What is the main job of the Haiwen Fist Mercenary Group?"

"Uh..." Captain Bart's cheeks trembled, and cold sweat broke out.He felt that a strange force was drilling into his mind, constantly destroying the psychological defense he had built with great difficulty.In front of the arcane power, this strong man is like a child who has no strength to restrain him. No matter how he resists, he will only gradually fall.

"We... our Fists of Haven mercenary group, serve the Aldrich family. Suppress dissidents, crusade against barbarians, and do a lot of dirty work. For example, capture slaves for the mines and forest farms run by the Aldrich family. "

"Sure enough, it's exactly what I thought." Gordon nodded, "What is that Aldrich family, let's not talk about it for now. Let me ask you, are Douluo and Mrs. Dinah captured by your Fist of Haven mercenary group?" Woke up?"

Captain Bart bit his lip.Shake your head wildly.Trembling and sweating profusely.He wanted to resist the power of the spell, but it was in vain. In the end, he couldn't help but confessed everything.

"Two nights ago, a group of foreigners checked into the 'Big Cup Liquor' hotel. They were either strong men or beautiful women, all of whom could sell for a lot of money. So I Decided to do this business. Attacked the group of people with drugs, and then imprisoned in the abandoned temple in the town. As soon as you arrived in Manvine Town, you began to ask around where those people were going, so after discussion, we mercenaries The regiment is going to wait for you to leave before escorting the slaves to the Black Iron City on the Haiwen Peninsula and handing them over to the Patriarch."

"Homeowner?"

"Abel Aldridge."

Gordon's mind was still clouded with suspicion.After obtaining Haiwen Peninsula as his fiefdom, Gordon also put in a lot of effort, reading all the official documents and reports of the empire related to this area every year, but he never saw Abel Aldrich the name.

"Tell me about the Aldrich family." Gordon ordered.

Captain Bart's face twisted and struggled again.But in the end, he still couldn't resist the power of the spell, and poured out everything he knew in his stomach.

Abel Aldridge was an entourage of Earl Barbato Sterling, the special administrator appointed by the empire to govern the Haiwen area 11 years ago.He was just a centurion commanding a hundred soldiers, not a big man.But after the death of Count Barbatos Sterling, Abel Aldrich suddenly rose up.

He got the support of the most powerful Kurts in the jungle area of ​​the Haiwen Peninsula, and it only took him one year to fully control the two cities on the Haiwen Peninsula: Black Iron City and Cloud Sea City.Afterwards, the Aldridge family quickly grew in size by virtue of smuggling trade such as iron ore, silver ore, logs, and tobacco, and became the supreme ruler of the Haiwen Peninsula, known as the King of Haiwen.

"You mean smuggling silver mines? There are silver mines on the Haiwen Peninsula?" Gordon asked.

According to the official introduction of the empire, the only mineral resource on the Haiwen Peninsula is an open-pit iron mine outside the Black Iron City, and the quality is not very high.

Captain Bart answered honestly: "As early as three years ago, the prospecting team of the King of Haven discovered a silver mine in the hilly area west of Black Iron City. The ore produced there is extremely high in purity and quality, and There are also abundant mithril associated mines. In addition, the iron ore in the Haiwen Peninsula is not a so-called lean mine, but a rich ore with a large scale and high output, and there are also a large number of associated meteoric iron ore."

Gordon gasped.He did not expect that the Haiwen Peninsula, which should have been barren, actually had such two high-quality mineral deposits.

"The empire knows nothing about these things?"

"Every three years, the empire will send a special administrator to the Haiwen area. As long as the special administrator is obedient and keeps his head down, then there is no problem. But if you are restless and want to make a If something happens, it won't be long before you die."

"This king of Haiwen can have the power he has today, so he should have many allies?"

Captain Bart answered honestly: "The Frey family who ruled Vine Town, as well as the pirates on the Steam Sea, all have a deep connection with Abel Aldrich."

"Very good, I understand. I didn't expect that under the rule of the Earl of Haiwen, there is such a powerful king of Haiwen. It's really interesting. It seems that the future life will not be boring."

When Captain Bart heard this, he suddenly realized: "You are Gordon Freeman, that mage! And that woman who almost killed more than 20 of my subordinates in the blink of an eye must be your sister, the battlefield angel Xie Ou Na!"

"You only guessed it now, but it's too late." Gordon shook his head.At this time, the duration of the "spiritual detection" has expired, and the purple-blue energy line connecting the two people suddenly disappeared.

Gordon left the basement and called Woodrow over: "These fellows from the Fists of Haven mercenary group are useless, kill them all."

Woodrow's style of handling business was as crisp as his spear skills, and he got the job done quickly.

Then, except for the injured Chuck, Gordon summoned all the other four retainers.

"Assemble all the soldiers stationed outside, and then quickly enter the town to raze the abandoned Sea Goddess Temple in the northwest, and not one member of the Fist of Haiwen Mercenary Group will be spared."

"My lord, what if the guards in the town want to stop us?" Yang Qi asked sharply.

Vine Town is the territory of the Frey family. According to the laws of the empire, when nobles pass through the fiefs of other nobles, the number of private soldiers brought by the earls and titles cannot exceed 300, and only 50 people can enter the city.

"Haven's Fist mercenary group was able to capture Douro and Mrs. Dinah's party of more than 50 people in this town. I don't believe that Sir Mendoro didn't know about it. According to known information, the Frey family You and the so-called King of Haven, Abel Aldrich, have long been in cahoots. You just need to resolutely carry out my orders, and anyone who dares to obstruct him will be killed."

"Yes, my lord!" The four replied in unison.

Having experienced the brutal Battle of High Rock City, they have already become the most valiant warriors in the flames of war.Now it is no difficulty to deal with a group of mercenaries who are only good at bullying the weak, as well as low-quality town guards.It's just a warm-up for the future battle.

After receiving the order, [-] soldiers who were formerly elite soldiers of the Redstone Legion and are now private soldiers of the Freeman family immediately got up and lined up and poured into Vine Town.

The residents of the town looked at these soldiers with bright armor and tough faces, and had no idea what happened.Some people seemed to have a premonition that something big was about to happen, and immediately ran back to their homes, and then closed the doors and windows tightly.Others ran to inform the mayor, Sir Mendoro.

When Gordon arrived at the gate of the abandoned temple, two hundred soldiers had already surrounded the place.

These warriors wearing fine steel chain mail, equipped with a round shield, a long sword, and a military crossbow are called "Redstone Guards" in the Redstone Legion.All of them are all-rounders, carefully selected from ordinary soldiers, whether it is siege or field battle, whether it is defense or offense, they can complete the task excellently.They have few disadvantages except that they are not good at riding horses.

After the Battle of High Rock City, the head of the Legion, Earl Renalin, died, and the Redstone Legion, which suffered a large number of casualties, almost fell into a state of half-disbandment.This legion, which was established only because of the support of Grand Duke Rob Antello, was in trouble because of the shrinking power of the Antello family.

It is also because of this that among the hopeless Redstone Legion, 500 of the remaining 200 Redstone Guards are willing to follow Gordon to the south.

After Gordon received this group of soldiers from Faliya, he immediately announced that he would retain their title of "Redstone Guard".They then promised land for their families on the Haven peninsula.

Although these measures did not allow the Redstone Guards to die for Gordon, the new lord, at least they stabilized the morale of the army and made them a usable military force in Gordon's hands. (To be continued..)