Chapter 215
Chapter 215.
In the Southern Army’s camp, the four continued to discuss the future battle in a slightly tense atmosphere.
The middle-aged man was very annoyed with Mage Scott’s unruly behavior, but he couldn’t do anything about it and could only try to maintain the calmness on his face.
In the end the meeting broke up unhappily, Samar and the middle-aged man left the house, while the earring-wearing youth and Scott stayed behind.
They were going to have some internal mage discussions.
“Ugh …… Scott.”
The youth sighed, the flippant expression on his face disappearing.
“The lords in the hierarchy are already displeased with you, they’ve known for a long time that it was at your instigation that Samar attacked.”
“Hmph! Those pedantic old codgers, I don’t care what they think.”
“Then why were you greedy for credit before? Wasn’t it because you wanted to raise your status in the hearts of the lords?”
“You ……”
Scott was a bit furious at being spoken to.
“Hmph! Anyway, you burned down Jing Yao’s granary with a single fire, so you’ve already gotten a big credit for standing around and talking.”
A smile appeared on the youth’s face as he walked over to Scott’s side and patted his shoulder.
“Be patient, gold will always shine, don’t you have confidence in your proud enchantment spells?”
“How could I? I’ve always prided myself on being an Enchanter.”
“Yes, that’s the attitude to have, when the main force of Giles and Aldo’s royal family face off, you enchantresses will come in handy.”
“I didn’t expect you to take the initiative to take responsibility just now.”
“I don’t care to do the kind of thing that I dare to do, much less degrade myself to the point of letting a commoner take the blame for me.”
……
Under the persuasion of his companion, Scott’s face regained its confidence.
“I’ll take care of that in the future, and won’t interfere with Samar militarily. How are we progressing elsewhere?”
“Progress elsewhere?”
“Like the Gulf of Horns? And then the Northwest Bay? Didn’t Lord Barnett go to the Northwest Bay a few months ago to lay out his plans?”
The youth said with a bit of confusion, “Strange enough, Lord Barnett hasn’t been heard from in months, something couldn’t have happened, could it?”
Scott snorted, “Don’t be ridiculous, who else in this world could do anything to Lord Barnett? Besides isn’t this a common occurrence for him? He’s always been a loner, even if he hasn’t been heard from for a whole year it’s not surprising.”
Although Barnett had always looked down on them as Enchanters, Scott still recognized his strength.
The youth shrugged, “Let’s hope so, but there are still many powerful forces in this world that we don’t know about, isn’t the hellfire you encountered before?”
“Go on about the Northwest Gulf!”
“As Lord Barnett instructed before he left, we sent one of our spiritual companions there to work with the mortal forces he was developing there. The lords he has taken in are instead faithfully carrying out his pre-determined plans. Moreover, the largest lord over there, Duke Ferdinand, has been brought under control.”
“That means everything is going well, it looks like the Northwest Gulf will be in our hands sooner or later.”
“It’s hard to say, there’s still a large number of lords directly loyal to the Aldo royal family there, so I guess a battle or two is inevitable.”
“Any news from the Horned Bay?”
“The clash between the upper echelons of the nations and the Church has become inevitable, and our people have just lit a fire between them.”
“Oh?” Scott became interested, “How was the fire lit?”
“Kidnapping the wife and sister of the Archduke of Eaton, and then deliberately throwing them to the Church – that little girl has the potential to become a mage. “
“Now the Archduke of Eaton must hate the Church?” “That’s natural, originally the Horned Bay Alliance was planning to unite the countries against the Church, and now there’s a big help in the form of the Duchy of Eaton. But …… then something went wrong. “
“What mistakes?”
“Originally, we wanted to retrieve that little girl and return it to the Eton Principality, so that Eton and the Church could pull each other’s hatred again. But unexpectedly by the Eton side themselves snatched it back, there are a few compatriots in the process of intercepting the Church’s men and horses without news, I do not know which side was taken out.”
Scott fell into silence when he heard that a fellow member of the Secret Society had lost his life.
The youth asked somewhat strangely, “Hey! Why aren’t you talking anymore?”
“I said ……”
Scott hesitated a little, as if weighing his words.
“The ‘witch hunt movement’ …… in Horned Bay actually has people from our Secret Society fueling it, doesn’t it?”
Hearing Scott’s words, the youth’s expression became grim.
“Where did you hear that?”
“Everyone has been privately spreading the word!”
The youth turned away and was silent.
Samar remembered Scott’s usual likeness the one beside him as well?”
“That’s not true, the one is quite easy to get along with although he is a bit eccentric, but ……”
“But what?”
“I can still vaguely feel it, this one won’t even hide it, directly put “it’s your honor to talk to me” on his face, and not only to the ordinary people like this, to his men who are also mages, also not
“Is it true? Why? Why would the Secret Society persecute their own people?”
“Shut up!”
The youth suddenly bellowed.
“It’s all rumors! It’s all rumors! How could the Secret Society persecute fellow mages!”
Under his roar, Scott, who was a few years older, was surprisingly shaken.
Neither man spoke anymore, and a long silence fell over the room.
……
In another part of the barracks, Samar was walking with the middle-aged man from earlier.
“These mages are really more strange than one another!”
The middle-aged man complained, remembering Scott’s appearance just now he was furious.
“Mr. Messenger, you
His ego is well hidden though.”
What a good face.
“But they do wield great and mysterious power, ah! There was one interrogation of a captive that really opened my eyes, the other party’s lies, no matter how perfectly woven, were seen by them at a glance. There’s also that magical enchantment that can make an ordinary soldier fight ten against one, if we hadn’t encountered the legendary Hellfire, we’d be walking around the Thorn Fortress right now.”
“Yes, right now the Grand Duke still has to rely on them, and those of us who are subordinates have to accompany them carefully. By the way, that Hellfire you’re talking about, I’ve also heard the legend about it.”
Samar recalled the scene of that day and said with some trepidation, “That’s a powerful weapon that doesn’t lose to magic, how did Archduke Dodge get it? I haven’t heard about it before.”
The middle-aged man had a hopeful look on his face, “General Samar, if you are able to dedicate finding out the method of making Hellfire to the Grand Duke, that would be a great honor! It’s a weapon that would make even mages deflated, and it would also kill that Scott’s prestige.”
Samar nodded with a grave expression, “Well, this I naturally know.”
(End of chapter)