Heart of the Castle

Chapter 127 The Viscount Castle's Conclave
On the same night when Li Wei and others were discussing the plan to expand the refugee camp, a dozen people were sitting around a long conference table in the meeting room of Viscount Lane's Castle, tens of miles away, discussing a lot.Most of these people are extremely burly, and the leather jackets they wear still have squeeze marks. Anyone who has experienced war will see that it is the trace of wearing metal armor for a long time.

Two rows of silver candlesticks were placed on the conference table, and four or five thick white candles were lit on each candlestick. The flames of these candles gathered together, illuminating the entire conference room as if it were daytime.

Viscount Lane sat at the head of the conference table, quietly listening to other people's discussions.Compared with half a month ago, this powerful Viscount looked much older, with a lot of white in his beard and hair, his face was deeply imprinted by exhaustion, and there was a thick blue-black around his eyes. The same sharp gaze remained unchanged.On his right hand sat an old scholar wearing a red robe and a gorgeous metal necklace on his chest, squinting his eyes slightly, leaning on the back of the chair half asleep.

The person sitting on the left hand side of the Viscount was speaking. This person was a burly knight who looked like he was in his prime and full of energy. He had a beautiful beard on his chin, but his face was very pale.Different from other knights, this knight's leather jacket is tied with a belt made of copper buckles, and there is a very conspicuous gold crossed double sword badge on the belt.

This is a status symbol that only the Grand Knight Commander can wear, and the name of this knight is about to come out.

There are only two great knight commanders in Viscount Lane's castle, one of whom is the highly respected Lord Herbert, who is over half a century old. Obviously, he does not match the age of this knight, so he can only be Will, who is known as a genius knight. The Grand Knight of Pus is long.

The reputation of this Wilps is very loud in Viscount Lane. His background is average, he is only the second son of a yeoman family, and he doesn't even have the right to inherit the land.However, Wilps has been very strong since he was a child, and he is well-known far and wide. When he was 12 years old, he began to serve as a shield servant for a wandering knight.Years later the Wandering Knight died in an adventure, and Wilps inherited his legacy—sword, armor, and horse—and embarked on the road to becoming a Wandering Knight.

No one knew Wilpus' career as a wandering knight, but when he returned to Viscount Ryan at the age of 25, he was already a high-ranking knight with a fighting spirit.Not long after returning to his hometown, he decided to serve Viscount Ryan and became one of the most powerful assistants under the command of the Viscount.

Except for the highly respected Lord Herbert, the high-ranking knights under Viscount Ryan were somewhat jealous of this young knight. However, after several contests, they all had to admit that unless Lord Herbert put on his armor again and mounted his horse Otherwise, it would be an impossible task to teach this young man a lesson in a fair duel.

The conference room was silent, only Wilps' voice echoed.The voice of this talented knight was very gentle and clear, but what he said made everyone in the conference room feel heavy involuntarily.

"...The entire territory of the territory is now mostly occupied by demons. Last week, I led a few attendants to Qingqi to go north. What I saw along the way was extremely terrifying and shocking. Burned villages were everywhere in sight. In the ruined manor, only the scorched ruins stood, all the farmland was trampled and polluted by demons, and the livestock were also doomed. A group of refugees from Kono Village and Zabotin Town, in a few days We were slaughtered by demons before, and all we saw were mutilated, rotten, bluish corpses, and we drove away groups of wild dogs and vultures, but there was no time to bury these unfortunate people." Wilp Si slowly recounted what he had seen and heard along the way. He sat on the chair with a straight posture, looking calm and gentle, but his hands clenched into fists on the table revealed that he was very excited.

"However, Lord Wilps, I heard that there are still some villages in the north who are insisting." A knight sitting at the bottom saw that Wilps' narration came to an end, so he politely raised an objection Opinion.

"The villages that are still persisting?" Wilps frowned and recalled, then he shook his head and said: "...There should be none. We rode lightly to the north until we arrived at the Heihe outpost. The most prosperous villages and towns along the way have been turned into Ruins, even razed to the ground. The sulfurous stench of demons is everywhere, unless you're talking about... Big Rock Village?"

"Dayan Village? Is that a place full of damned black market peddlers, thugs and bandits? Your Excellency the Viscount won't accept the management there at all! Even if it is occupied by demons, there is no pity!" A man with a neck almost as thick as his head The knight knocked heavily on the conference table with his fist, roaring like thunder.This knight wears the sword and shield badge of a high-ranking knight on his chest, and a epee of astonishing size hangs from his waist. He looks like a fierce general with a fiery temper.

"Knight Dickway, please stay calm. This is just my own speculation. I don't think that's what Knight Chester intended." Wilps said gently.

"Yes, Lord Wilps, Lord Dickway, the place I want to talk about is not Dayan Village, but a refugee camp." The knight called Chester looked a bit ugly, but he continued on.

"Is it the camp formed by those fleeing hillbillies? Don't be kidding, how can such a mob be able to withstand the attack of the demon army?" the high-ranking knight of Dikwei raised his chin arrogantly, "Let me If you want to guess, the only place in the north that can stand firm is the territory of Lord Oro. I have been to that place called Mine Village, and the defense facilities are very complete, which is not inferior to ordinary knight castles."

"Mine Pit Village has fallen, I saw it with my own eyes." Wilps said calmly, "But it seems that the devil didn't take advantage of it. I saw many new graves next to the ruins of the village. It should be The residents of Mining Pit Village have at least once defeated a demon attack, and then abandoned it due to the serious damage to the defense facilities and the large number of casualties."

Although Wilps did not personally witness the battle in Mine Pit Village, relying on guesswork, he was actually right about most of the facts.In fact, he also found several traces of violent burning near the mine village, one of which was particularly large, and it didn't seem to be the work of the great demon, the incinerator.

As for ordinary flames, that's even more impossible.In the middle of the largest burn mark, Wilps found two charred demon corpses. No matter what kind of demon, the ability to resist flames is very strong. Even some demon corpses will not be destroyed by ordinary flames. burned.

Could it be that a powerful magician passed by and intervened in the battle in Mine Village?

Wilps thought about it for a moment, but he quickly denied it.To be able to emit such a terrifying flame, the level of the magician must have exceeded level 10, reaching the level of a magister.Magicians of this level cannot be seen casually. Even in Wilps's ten-year adventure career, he has only seen a magister take action a few times.

"There is indeed such a refugee camp, and it has repelled several demon attacks, and every time the demons have been wiped out." Knight Chester stood up, insisting on his statement.

(End of this chapter)