The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 315: Nilfgaard? You mean the country that doesn't do anything anthropomorphic?
Gerd asked, "Did you find out anything?"

"No, this guy refused to cooperate. He just wanted us to kill him with a knife and give him a quick death."

After answering Gerd, Lin En turned to Chalimir, who had turned his face away, and said, "You want to die, but I won't let you. Do you think you can take the answers in your head to the grave by not cooperating? What a joke!"

"It seems that the people of the Curved Coast Principality have never seen the world. Otherwise, how could they not even know about magic?"

Hearing his country being despised, Charimir instinctively glared, but happened to meet the hand gesture of the Axis seal made by the witcher.

Chalimir only felt as if he was hit hard on the back of the head by an invisible baseball bat. His brain was in chaos and his angry expression gradually became dull.

After a few seconds, Lynn asked, "Who are you?"

Charlie's wooden answer made him seem like a puppet being controlled by someone.

"Charimir of Kalon, Kalon Town is my fiefdom."

Kalon Town?
A name I've never heard of.

But it doesn’t matter. The North is so big, there are so many unknown small towns.

Lynn didn't dwell on this issue.

"What are you and your people doing in the Skellige Islands?"

"By order of Her Highness Helena Lange-Hall, Duchess of the Curved Coast, arrest the witcher Gerd and bring him back to the duchy for trial. If the witcher resists, he may be executed on the spot."

"Are you the only troops carrying out this order? Are there others?"

"There are no Duchy troops nearby, but there is a Nilfgaardian fleet. If things don't go well, we can seek support from the Nilfgaardian fleet."

Originally, Lin En just asked casually.

In fact, he didn't think that the Duchess would send two fully armed troops to capture a mere witcher.

Unexpectedly, there would be an unexpected gain.

"Wait, where did this Nilfgaardian fleet come from? Also, how did you end up colluding with the Nilfgaardians?"

"Her Highness the Duchess was able to achieve victory in the civil war thanks to the Nilfgaardians' hidden financial and human resources. Therefore, when the Nilfgaardians needed her this time, Her Highness the Duchess sent us to assist them in completing their mission."

Lynn frowned.

It is still 1252, and there are still eleven years before Nilfgaard launches a large-scale northern expedition in the original plot.

The Nilfgaardian army should not appear in the north at this time, let alone carry out any secret missions in the north.

"What mission?"

Next, after some questioning, Lin En learned a shocking secret:

A few months ago, Princess Pavetta of Cintra and her husband were preparing to leave the Skellige Islands by ship, but they suddenly encountered a storm at sea and no one survived.

This accident brought the relationship between the Islands and Cintra to a freezing point. In order to ease the relationship between the two countries and also to wash away the shame, the King of the Islands led the fleets and main forces of the major families to invade the Nilfgaard Empire in the south, and looted villages and towns along the coastline along the way.

Because they thought that the sea storm that killed Princess Pavetta of Cintra and King Doni was very abnormal.

I suspect it was the work of the Nilfgaardian sorcerers.

But the usurper emperor who ruled Nilfgaard never ordered the assassination of any member of the Cintra royal family.

No one would be happy to be blamed for no reason, let alone the emperor.

The anger of an ordinary man can cause blood to splatter five steps away, but the anger of an emperor can cause blood to flow for a thousand miles.

However, the Empire's strength lay in its economy and army, not its navy. It was no match for the Archipelago Fleet in a head-on battle. Furthermore, the Archipelago people were skilled in plundering, and the Skellige longships were more maneuverable and lighter than the Imperial vessels.

If the Empire has too few ships, it will be surrounded by the enemy; if the Empire has too many ships, the enemy will retreat early.

So the Navy Department made a bold decision:

Steal home.

Through the eyewitness intelligence of survivors on the coastline and the analysis and judgment of the economy and military of the archipelago, the staff of the Ministry of the Navy believed that the main forces of the major families in the archipelago should have been dispatched, and there were not many soldiers left on the main island.

Therefore, they decided to send a squadron to the Skellige Islands over a long distance to repay the islanders for what they had done to them.

However, an entire fleet fully loaded with soldiers would easily attract attention, so it had to be broken up into smaller units and sent to the northern waters in several batches.

When they encountered merchant ships from the northern countries along the way, they deliberately hung the flag of the archipelago and attacked the merchant ships, thereby destroying the relationship between the archipelago and the northern countries.

But in fact, the shapes of Imperial ships and Skellige longships are very different, and it is easy to see the clues if you are careful to distinguish them.

It can only be said that in a life-or-death situation, it is difficult for most people to remain calm, and after being provoked or even attacked, it is even more impossible for them to defend or excuse the other party.

It was because of this that when Lin En was in the harbor area of ​​Novigrad, the captains were unwilling to go to the Skellige Islands.

Currently, the Nilfgaardian fleet is docked in the port of the Principality of the Arc Coast, and their assistance mission is to help the Nilfgaardians find out the emptiest family among the major families in the archipelago after eliminating the witcher Gerd, so that the Nilfgaardians can complete the theft.

After being sent to the Skellige Islands, Charimir and his men split into two groups, searching for Gerd's whereabouts while secretly inquiring about the strengths and weaknesses of the major families.

Finally, through the intelligence they collected, Charimir believed that the most suitable target was the residence of Earl Thorgil on the island of Little Skellige.

The reason is that Earl Thorgir and Bran Tursek, who now rules the Isles, belong to the same family.

If the Tursek family's home city is captured, even if it is just a division, it can greatly undermine the morale of the Archipelago Fleet and force the Archipelago Fleet to end the looting early and embark on the return journey.

However, he had not yet had time to report this news to the Nilfgaardians.

Because Charimier planned to take personal revenge first.

After listening to all the information Chalimir had told them, Lynn and Gerd both looked solemn.

Neither of them had expected that it would be involved in the conflict between the Archipelago and Nilfgaard.

In fact, if the two of them killed Chalimir now and left, they would naturally be able to stay away from this vortex.

But neither Lynn nor Gerd had any intention of doing so.

Because if they did so, they could protect themselves, but Earl Thorgil and the people in his city would be in great danger.

Whether in the past life or this life, Lynn never considered himself a rational person.

Objectivity is important, but when it comes to the interests of one's own country, the word "objectivity" has to be put aside.

In this world, although the Skellige Islands are not his homeland, he is a northerner, so naturally the northern position takes priority.

What's more, he was familiar with the plot and knew the nature of the Nilfgaardians very well.

They claim to be civilized and advanced, but in the end they don't do anything anthropomorphic.

Honestly, unless he was from the Old Golden Tower City's Sun Wheel Banner, he really couldn't understand what the benefits of putting himself in Nilfgaard's perspective were.

As for remaining neutral, that is even more impossible.

In the future catastrophe that will sweep across the entire North, there will only be fighting and death, no surrender and no neutrality.

(End of this chapter)