I suppressed the weirdness in the shelter

Chapter 49 Overcoming difficulties together
After dinner, Wyatt finished all his affairs and it was time to meet with Duke Raymond.

It was still the familiar reception room, with the same types and quantities of desserts. The only difference was that this time only Duke Raymond was in the reception room.

Duke Raymond welcomed Wyatt, and the two sat in the same seats as before. After Wyatt took his seat, the heart-to-heart conversation officially began.

"I heard that Director Wyatt loves desserts. There was no such thing in Winterhold, but those children love it, so I found a dessert chef. Unfortunately, he doesn't know much. I hope it suits your taste."

"Let's talk business."

"Of course, I promised to tell you, but before that I want to ask you a question, what do you think of me now?"

Weird question, but Wyatt also had an answer to that question at this point.

If it was when he had just cured the evil resurrected child, Wyatt would have thought Raymond was a hypocritical guy, no different from those pagans.

But after marking the Fallen in Winterhold one after another, Wyatt felt that his understanding seemed too one-sided.

Judging from the attitude of the Fallen, if Duke Raymond is not a brainwashing expert, then he must have really won the trust of the Fallen.

If this is the military's working style, then they will maintain their original attitude and would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go.

But Wyatt is different from them, which is why Wyatt left the military.

He plans to wait and see.

Wyatt told Duke Raymond exactly what he was thinking, but the other party just laughed without disguising his feelings.

Fortunately, he kept his word and told Wyatt everything.

In the past month, not only has the pagan organization the Society of the Nativity been causing chaos within the Wasteland Territory, but there has also been another force.

They are a pagan organization that is also a force of "evolution", and their relationship with "evolution" is even closer than that of the Nativity Society.

Tree planters, they call themselves.

The Arborists organization has been much more well-behaved in the past decade or so, at least not as ostentatious as the Nativity Society. However, things have been different in the past month.

After preliminary inference, Duke Raymond believed that the Nativity Society was on the verge of collapse, and the tree planters lent a helping hand to the Nativity Society for various reasons.

As a result, the Society of the Rising seemed to have caught its breath and continued to run rampant in the Wasteland Territory. Their traces were even found at the foot of the Dragon Bone Mountains.

No one knows what they are planning, but the purpose of the Nativity must be revival. The real problem is the tree planters.

They have a longer history than the Nativity Society, a deeper foundation, and even have "evolved" apostles.

No one knew what the pagans at the foot of the Dragon Bone Mountains were planning. If they were just lurking there, then Duke Raymond really didn't need the help of the Fallen.

But the fact is that they will not stay quietly at the foot of the mountain.

Duke Raymond took out a well-preserved document and handed it to Wyatt.

Taking out the paper, Wyatt read all the text on it at a glance.

It's very simple, a notice letter, or a declaration of war.

The Nativity Society signed that they would launch a general attack on the Winterhold Fortress at the beginning of the month following the date of the letter.

"The Nativity Society is really brave... But Your Excellency, the Arborists will not give too much support to the Nativity Society, which is about to be destroyed. A pagan organization like the Nativity Society should not pose a threat to the Winterhold Fortress." "Indeed, if that's all, there's no need to mobilize so many troops. The key is that the scouts who were monitoring the pagans at the foot of the Dragon Bone Mountains sent back bad news."

Duke Raymond gestured for him to come in, and Wyatt realized that there was something else in the bag.

He reached in and finally found a few photos in the corner of the file bag.

The photo is very blurry, perhaps because of the emergency situation or because of equipment problems, but this does not prevent the photo from accurately conveying the intended information.

A dead tree with all its leaves lost, but the trunk is exceptionally thick, and the vines clinging to it are fat and a little abnormal, giving the impression of blood vessels in the blurry photo.

The dead tree looked familiar, and the photo was blurry, so it took Wyatt a while to remember it.

Contaminate the mother tree.

This is a special polluting organism on the "evolutionary" side. Once buried in the soil, it will quickly take root and sprout, and can be fully alive in ten minutes. After being put into use, it can produce polluting organisms continuously.

Depending on the growth stage of the polluted mother tree, the number and strength of the polluted organisms produced will also vary significantly. The highest-level polluted mother trees can even produce evil creatures.

This is a blessing unique to tree planters. It is hard to imagine that tree planters would be so generous as to share such technology with their colleagues.

This also makes people wonder whether the tree planters are seeking greater benefits.

"How's the battle going?"

"A small town near the Dragon Bone Mountains in the northwest corner of the Wasteland Territory lost contact ten days ago. I sent troops there and found a contaminated mother tree that was giving birth to a big one."

"Finally, we attacked this thing while it was in the process of breeding. Even so, we still lost half of our soldiers. In the end, we confirmed that this contaminated mother tree was breeding evil creatures."

A contaminated mother tree that has begun to breed evil creatures. Wyatt is well aware of how serious this matter is.

The tree planters must have made new progress in their research on contaminated mother trees, at least there has been a significant improvement in growth rate.

"Does the kingdom know about this?"

"No news yet."

"So you have no choice but to rely on the Fallen to deal with the pagans' general attack, and because of the previous battle, the reserves of the Holy White Stone in the Winterhold Fortress have run out."

"You are right, Commander Wyatt. This is the situation that Winterhold Fortress is facing now."

The combined attack of the two pagan organizations, the Tree Planters and the Society of the Nativity, has polluted the Mother Tree more powerfully than ever before. If the Society of the Nativity still has a trump card - such as a Son of God - then the battle situation will be even worse.

This should be the most serious incident in the Wasteland Territory so far, second only to the disaster that occurred seventy years ago.

The situation in the Wasteland Territory was worse than Wyatt had imagined.

Wyatt was thinking about how to deal with the situation when Duke Raymond, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly stood up.

He bowed deeply to Wyatt with a sincere attitude and asked:
"Director Wyatt, I know you are a powerful priest with an unknown background in Mayos City. I ask you to help the Wasteland Territory overcome this difficulty. For this, I, Raymond Conrad, swear by the honor of my family and the Duke of the North that from now on you will always be the benefactor of the Wasteland Territory."

Although the word "loyalty" was not mentioned in the oath of a duke, everyone knew what it meant.

Raymond Conrad, despite being charged with smuggling holy white stones, harboring fallen people, and suspected of infidelity, was determined to save the Wasteland Lord.

(End of this chapter)