The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 168: Those northern rednecks just look down on you, but your colleagues in Toussaint want you dead.
Lynn came out of Reso's hotel room with satisfaction.

Reso has agreed.

He would follow Lynn to the north when he left.

But this does not mean that he will follow Lin En forever.

If Lynn cannot pay the salary as agreed.

Or maybe what they actually saw didn't match the pie Lynn painted.

They will be very disappointed in Lynn and will leave forever.

Lynn completely understood this.

Even though his grand plan is to revive the Witcher, he also has to take into account the short-term interests of others.

If even short-term benefits cannot be achieved, how can long-term benefits be achieved?

Since Reso and the others are willing to follow me, this is already an excellent result.

As for the rest...

He didn't lie.

Once they get there, they'll know.

Next, Lynn rushed to his next destination - Tynesell's armory.

During Tynesell's absence, the store had a backlog of orders.

Therefore, the first thing Tynesell did when he returned to the armory was to take a shower without even taking a rest. He immediately started working hard.

At this time, Tynesell learned from the clerk that Lynn had arrived, and he quickly put down the work at hand and walked out.

After a brief greeting, Lin En directly stated the purpose of coming to see the Elf Blacksmith Master.

"Master Tynsell, what do you think of the North?"

"Ignorance and backwardness, the history of the North is filled with just two words: cannibalism."

The Elf Blacksmith Master's face was full of disdain.

However, his reaction was within the witcher's expectations.

In this era, information about places thousands of miles away mainly relied on travelers and adventurers in caravans and taverns who claimed to have been to the north, based on a mixture of exaggerated descriptions and imagination.

It would be good if one or two percent of this information is true.

Take war, for example.

Although wars often broke out between the northern countries, the intensity of the wars was generally not that great because the upper classes of each country had more or less some kind of in-law relationship.

In situations like this, the people in the north have also figured out their own way of survival.

When the army approaches, they will take their valuables and escape. If they cannot take anything away, they will hide it and come back after the division of benefits is completed.

But this is a war between the northern kingdoms.

It’s different in the South.

The reason why the Nilfgaard Empire was able to quickly annex other southern countries within a few decades was because of destruction.

Destroy everything.

There are no rules.

In order to reward the nobles, officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers who made contributions in the war, the empire needed to ask the former lords of the conquered areas to leave.

Of course, considering that their lives might become a problem after losing their land, the empire would be considerate enough to send them to the gallows so that they would no longer have to worry about their lives.

The newly-appointed lords who received the reward naturally could not work in the fields themselves, so the emperor issued another decree:
Any Nilfgaardian who settled in the conquered areas would receive 500 acres of land from the empire and be exempt from taxes for ten years.

And this is why the Nilfgaardian army destroyed everything wherever it went.

How can we accommodate the Nilfgaardian immigrants without killing all the people who originally lived on this land, burning down the villages, and looting everything?

Of course.

The Nilfgaardians did not consider themselves conquerors.

In their words, this is called injecting civilization and advanced genes into a barbaric and backward area. Although Tynsel is not a Nilfgaardian, or even a human, he is an elf.

But after all, he settled in the South for a long time.

He was influenced by the long-term propaganda and education of the Nilfgaard Empire.

Naturally, people tend to think that all northerners eat raw meat and drink blood, and are conservative and unconventional, and that the north is a barbaric land.

"So how do you feel about Toussaint?"

"Not bad. Although non-human races still face some implicit discrimination, at least I don't have to worry about my life safety."

This is true.

The massacres of non-humans that occurred in Toussaint were rare.

Of course, this was before.

Lin En, holding the script in his hand, knew that Toussaint would soon be faced with a bloody and brutal massacre.

And the master elven blacksmith before him would unfortunately die in that massacre.

"Then if I say, Master Tynesell, that you should give up everything in Beauclair and go north to start a new life and begin over again, would you be willing?"

Tynsell immediately shook his head and said as a matter of course, "Of course I don't want to. I'm doing well here, why should I go north?"

What kind of international joke are you kidding? !

He has already made a name for himself and established himself in Beauclair.

Now let him go to a strange place and start all over again.

Is he a fool?
The witcher expected the answer from the Elven Blacksmith Master.

But since Lynn came to Tynesell, he must be very confident.

So he smiled slightly and said with a confident smile.

"Master Tynsell, are you aware that Duchess Carolberta has regained her health thanks to the blessing of the Lady of the Lake?"

"I just heard from my employees that a witcher brought back the Holy Grail given by the goddess." Tynsel's eyes widened when he said this. "Wait, could that witcher be you, Master?"

Lynn originally wanted to explain to Tynesell.

After all, when he returned with the Holy Grail, this person was still trapped in the sewer.

But now that I've heard about it, that's better.

"Yes, it was me, but I brought this up not to point out anything. What I want to say is that the assassin who stabbed the Duchess and nearly killed her was an elf."

Lin En closed his mouth and watched the other person's face change from stunned, to shocked, and then to horrified.

It lost its color in an instant.

"what did you say?"

The witcher was very satisfied with the reaction of the Elf Blacksmith Master.

"Master Tynsel, you should know what this means. The Duchess was a supreme being in Toussaint, but now she is almost dead because of the attack of the elven assassin."

"If I've already said this, and you still don't know... or you're still unwilling to believe what's going to happen next, then let me shatter your illusions."

"Although Toussaint's persecution of non-human races is not as severe as Kaedwen's, those racists in Toussaint who believe in human supremacy are still secretly lurking."

"Once they know that it was the elven assassins who attacked the Duchess, they will definitely take action."

"Note that the actions I'm talking about here don't refer to how loyal they are to the Duchess."

"Instead, they will use the name of revenge for the Duchess and justice to satisfy their own selfish desires."

"Those human armorers who also wield hammers, but whose skills are inferior to yours, will smash your head with their hammers. Your armor shop will be looted by them, and your stores will be redistributed by them. You may not even be able to rest in peace after your death."

"Perhaps after the riots subside, your honor will be recognized by the Beauclair court, and the people of Toussaint will mourn you properly. Perhaps they can even use the day of your death as a festival."

"But are you sure this is what you want?"

(End of this chapter)