The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 143 Wine is sacred
"I believe Sir Maximus has already informed everyone of Her Highness the Duchess's situation. I, Damien de la Tour, thank you all for coming."

Damien bowed to everyone.

Everyone returned the greeting.

"You've come a long way, so we should have let you rest well and sent someone to escort you to Beauclair the next day. Unfortunately, we've encountered a difficult situation right now."

"I heard that demon hunters are experts at tracking clues. Is that true?"

Damien looked at the witcher with eyes full of anticipation and eagerness.

Lynn and Geralt looked at each other.

Then Lynn came forward to negotiate.

"That depends on how old the clue is. If it's from within a few days and hasn't been deliberately cleaned up, we might still be able to find something."

Damien's tense expression relaxed slightly, and then he spoke again in a heavy tone.

"The Principality has recently experienced a number of serious cases of missing persons, with hundreds now missing. The impact of these cases is extremely serious. The entire population of Toussaint is now in a state of panic. Even traveling merchants are reluctant to come to Toussaint these days."

“If there were no traveling merchants bringing the fine wines from the Principality’s wineries to other parts of the continent, those wineries would find it difficult to survive, and the economy would suffer a severe blow, leading to a series of unpredictable consequences.”

Linn frowned slightly.

The situation has developed to such a serious level.

"Have you found anything? There's no way there isn't a single witness."

Damien said indignantly.

"If there were witnesses, it's impossible that they still don't know whether that bastard is a man or a woman."

"I know you two masters must be very tired after the long journey, but I still want to trouble you two to work harder for a while."

"Masters, please go to the crime scene we discovered yesterday. Any clues you can find could be a breakthrough in solving these multiple disappearances."

Since the other party has said this, Lynn and Geralt can't just refuse.

Anyway, we're just going to the crime scene to take a look, it won't take much time.

"Then please lead the way, Captain."

……

"Captain, you didn't send anyone to guard the crime scene?"

When the group left the pass and approached the site of the attack...

Lin En, who was walking in the team, suddenly asked a question.

Damien looked confused. "We've already buried the bodies. All that's left is a caravan and some cargo. But who would want to take that?"

Lynn stopped talking and looked at Geralt.

Apparently the latter noticed it too.

The two men simultaneously drew the steel swords on their backs and rushed forward like two ferocious dire wolves.

Damien and Maximus were a beat slow to react.

It was not until the two witchers had rushed several steps away that they realized that perhaps the witchers had discovered something they had not noticed.

So he quickly took the soldiers and followed.

There was a caravan parked on the forest path.

There were several arrows stuck in the caravan.

Several scavengers were rummaging around the caravan.

It turned out that Damien and the others left yesterday after burying the dead.

But they overlooked one point.

This caravan and the cargo on it are shining treasures in the eyes of scavengers.

When the scavengers saw the two demon hunters holding steel swords and the Duchy Guards rushing out right after them, they were frightened and fled in all directions.

But even if they were fleeing, they couldn't bear to abandon the goods they had found on the caravan. Damien quickly gave the order, having the soldiers split up and give chase.

Although the soldiers were wearing armor, these scavengers were all pale and thin. It was obvious at a glance that they were starving and had no strength.

So the soldiers quickly caught up with the scavengers.

"Master, please spare my life!"

"Please, have mercy!"

"I won't dare to do that again. All these valuable things are for you!"

Damien was furious when he saw the scavengers surrounded by the soldiers.

Even if he didn't understand how the witcher tracked the traces, he knew that it was all over now.

With this bunch of people doing this to you, you can't see anything.

Damien put his hand on the hilt of his sword and shouted, "Aren't you from Toussaint? Where are you from? Tell me!"

In recent years, there have been no natural disasters in Toussaint, and war has never come to this paradise.

Even in the recent heinous missing persons cases, there has been no news of any village being razed to the ground.

Therefore, these scavengers were definitely not from Toussaint, but refugees from outside.

The scavengers looked at each other, but no one dared to answer.

Just kept begging for mercy.

At this time, Maximus' tone slowed down a little.

"If you are willing to confess honestly, we may consider showing you leniency. But if you refuse to cooperate, we will have no choice but to treat you as robbers and send you to the gallows."

A man who looked like the leader said hurriedly.

"I say, I say, my Lord Knight, we are not from Toussaint. We... are refugees from Nasir."

Maximus rolled his eyes.

Seems to understand something.

Before 1232, Nasser was an independent kingdom, but was later annexed by Nilfgaard and became a province of the Nilfgaard Empire.

The Nasser nobles and people who dared to resist were either killed, fled, or became slaves.

Nasir's territory was granted to Nilfgaardian nobles, officers, and non-commissioned officers who performed well in the war.

The rest was left to Nasser's capitulationists.

In fact, although the Nilfgaard Empire is the most powerful empire in the known world and history.

But in fact, this country was far smaller than this a few decades ago.

The earliest Nilfgaard Empire consisted of only the capital, the City of the Golden Tower, and the land near the Alba River.

All subsequent territories were conquered by force and expanded rapidly.

Just like they did to the Nasir people.

But don't get me wrong, surrendering to the Nilfgaardians doesn't mean you'll get to drink really good juice.

The Nilfgaardians spared the lives of the surrenderers, not because they were truly merciful.

Rather, it is to maintain local rule so that they can exploit the local people more efficiently.

The Nilfgaardians never truly viewed the areas they conquered by force as part of their larger empire.

Even though the occupied areas had become a province of the empire, they still behaved like guests.

There is no construction, no planning, only brutal plundering.

In short, it means treating the occupied areas as colonies.

It is for this reason that uprisings often break out in the provinces occupied by Nilfgaard.

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