Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 284: The Too Calm Information Dealer

Looking at the baron whose face was unclear due to the light and shadow of the map across the desk, Chesca felt a little confused.

If she saw it correctly, Lori's expression was a little weird, as if there was a hint of disgust mixed with amusement.

Chesca, who had always been quite familiar with his own baron, could not judge for a moment what Lori's attitude was towards the two factions of the Church of the Earth.

Generally speaking, Lowry's preferences are extreme, and even if he has to tolerate the presence of certain guys due to some circumstances, he will not control his disgust.

Therefore, no matter how ridiculous the things those people he hate do, Lowry will only become more annoyed and will never seriously find them funny.

If he can be amused, then Lowry basically won't really hate him.

It was the first time that Chesca felt that Lowry would be in such a complicated and helpless state of mind as he was at this moment!
Could it be that there are some internal situations of the mages that only they themselves understand?

Although mages and priests basically do not consider themselves the same kind, to a knight like Cheska, there is actually not much difference.

Aren’t there many kinds of knights?
Some have thick health, some have high agility, but when they use skills, don’t they all rely on the blood and energy of flesh and blood, and the knight core formed by that energy and blood?
Whether it's a wizard or a priest, although the sources of their skills are very different, don't they all consume mana when using them?

The method that can prevent the mage from using his skills can often also restrict the priest... this is the most critical point.

As a knight, there is no need to distinguish those subtle differences, you just need to know how to fight.

So, Chesca quickly gave up exploring those deeper things... She just wanted to know the result and remember the judgment criteria that Lori mentioned this time.

She pointed at the towns that Handel had not been involved in. "What I want to know most now is whether the information dealer related to Scroll Mountain directly stayed away from these towns, or... just didn't take Handel with him."

Lori nodded: "Indeed, this is very important."

There are many famous intelligence agencies in this world, but in fact everyone is well aware of the vague shadow of the temple behind these agencies.

Only these intelligence dealers with church backgrounds could develop to this point.

There will definitely be some major countries, but they would never dare to take the lead.

They will definitely be beaten up, and even their allies will not let them go.

But, as long as it is related to intelligence agencies, you cannot be sure that a person belongs to only one church.

It is common for intelligence dealers to work for more than one country under the name of the church.

This kind of thing will not actually be severely cracked down by various countries.

After all, despite their preferences, the more forces these intelligence dealers mix with, the more blurred their positions become.

What I fear most are those people who appear to accept all kinds of money, but in fact they are serving a specific country.

Generally speaking, the way to deal with these captured intelligence dealers is basically the same as Lowry's... clean them up and send them out of the country with courtesy.

But if he is the kind of person who basically hides his own spy under the guise of an intelligence dealer, he has been locked up for decades because the church he is openly affiliated with is not easy to mess with.

It is normal to be executed secretly.

However, there are actually very few such people.

Even a king like Travis, who has many loyal subordinates, would find it difficult to find such a subordinate...but his way of dealing with people is more pleasing to the eye, so many intelligence dealers with complicated identities are willing to give him some face.

Therefore, the White Dragon King has always been well-informed, but basically he can only touch upon those secrets that "only smart people know".

But the major churches are terrifyingly well-informed.

Moreover, although these intelligence dealers backed by the major churches will accept the "money temptation" of many kingdoms, there is a bottom line that no one will easily cross... that is, serving two churches at the same time.

Even the Scroll Mountain and the Earth Church, whose strength is very different.

The Chamber of Commerce of Auchinson was able to openly create its own town that was like a "country within a country" in the inner area of Vargas, which was opposite to its own position... There was no way that the Vargas royal family didn't know about it.

After all, even outsiders like them can see it at a glance.

Although Vargas is not as powerful as O'Kinson, he is definitely not to the point of surrendering to O'Kinson.

It is even more impossible that they are a hostile faction.

Therefore, this so-called Savage Chamber of Commerce belongs to the Church of the Earth in Okinson rather than Okinson.

Although the internal struggle is fierce, the Church of the Earth is still able to remain united against the outside world... The fact that a church that has been torn apart like this still has a bottom line must be due to the intervention of gods.

The God of Earth does not care about the disputes among his followers, but he will definitely arrange for the right "Son of the Earth" to sit in the arbitration position. Rather than arbitration, it is better to say that these schools are directly suppressed so that their academic differences do not turn from verbal battles to physical fights.

The first king of Okinson had the same identity.

Even though he established his own country and had his own favorite school of thought, he would never make any unfair judgments... After all, everyone knew that the one who made the judgment was not him.

Therefore, not all of the high priests and priests who originally existed in the Earth Church Temple of Okinson served the king.

That temple is naturally divided into two parts.

Some of them only obey the will of the God of Earth from beginning to end. Although they use the same symbol as the school to which the royal family belongs, they are not the same faction.

Therefore, even if they blatantly set up the naturalist grey wolf emblem in the reformist country with the white wolf flag, it would not cause any hostility.

As for how to distinguish between believers of gods and those of the School of Nature, the Church of the Earth has their own set of secret rules.

It is difficult for outsiders to see, and at most they can infer it from the results.

However, if you think that you can rely on so-called careful observation and reach out to test if you sense something, you will definitely die without a burial place. Even if you can escape, you will be hunted down by the entire Earth Church.

The Church of the Earth is very disgusted with this kind of thing.

Naturally, Lori didn't want to delve into other people's privacy. The reason why he and Cheska were so persistent in pursuing this matter was, of course, that they wanted to know whether Scroll Mountain and the Church of the Earth were colluding with each other!
The intelligence dealer could treat Handel like this, even insisting on sending him safely to the Scroll Mountain, it must be because he made an oath before God... in the name of the God of Knowledge.

So, as long as Handel completed the deal with him, he must fulfill his promise.

An intelligence dealer who can achieve this level must be a loyal believer of the God of Knowledge.

Otherwise, how could he not take advantage of the loophole?
Such a person, when it is impossible for an intelligence dealer to serve two gods at the same time, if he could enter the territory of the direct followers of the God of Earth and escape easily, there must be something wrong.

It's not that he's not secretive enough.

A devout believer certified by God is just a fanatical fan holding an exclusive cheering stick in the eyes of devout believers of other gods.

Even if this person is not wearing the special cheering clothes, it would still be terribly eye-catching if he holds this cheering stick and sits in another fan's base.

That is the only green spot in the sea of red... Even if you don't hate it, you will reject it.

Of course, if it was the opponent, then going in would just be asking for a beating.

Even if they aren't, generally speaking, you'd ask the person to leave... unless you turn off the light on the cheering stick.

But for someone who is so devout that he can almost be described as a fanatic, turning off the lights is tantamount to denying his identity as a fanatical fan. Even if he is grabbed by the limbs and thrown out, he will definitely hold on to his own light firmly.

Of course, serious fans basically understand these rules and will basically not do such provocative things.

There is only one exception.

It means that the two main characters have some intersection, and they plan to carry out an alliance activity that lasts long enough and is sincere enough, such as a short-term group activity that suddenly comes out... Although everyone's cheering sticks still have their own colors, when it is necessary to cheer for this group, the cheering sticks will also flash their intermediate colors... such as yellow between red and green.

Even if the two sides eventually part ways, the fans' cheering sticks will return to their original colors, and the believers who were attracted when the two sides formed an alliance will have to choose between the red and green colors split from the yellow, but at least during the cooperation period, the yellow light will be the most popular.

Yes, both sides allow it to exist.

Only in this way can an intelligence dealer from Scroll Mountain get enough subsidies from the Church of the Earth... Don't forget, these two were penniless before going up the mountain.

But Handel obviously lived a very leisurely life in Vargas... Not only did he stay in a decent hotel, but even when he was on the move, he purchased a place in the caravan and traveled in a spacious carriage.

In this icy and snowy situation, even if the grass in Vargas will not be damaged by the heavy snow, the road will definitely be very difficult to walk on.

The caravans that were able to travel freely were basically driven by Vargas horses that had been eliminated from the front line.

But just because these horses are not suitable for combat does not mean they are incapable.

It is conceivable what level the Chamber of Commerce must be that can use the Vargas horse-drawn carriage as a means of transportation.

It would cost a huge amount to get a seat in a luxurious carriage in a Chamber of Commerce team like that.

With Handel, even if the intelligence dealer had the ability, he would not be able to catch many valuable prey in the snowy mountains.

The amount of money they have is far more than normal... If it were just other intelligence agencies in Scroll Mountain, they wouldn't be able to escape with so much funding.

It’s not a question of whether you want to or not, but whether you can.

(End of this chapter)