After the "Pathfinder" engineering team entered the Black Forest, envoys representing the Anzu royal family and the Eastern Territory finally arrived in Cecil City.
In the Baishui River Pier Square, the newly built inland river express passenger ship "Wave Breaker" smoothly approached the trestle under the guidance of the tractor beam. The springboard extended from the ship side to the solid and stable cement bridge deck. Cohen Rowe Lun walked down first.
He glanced back and saw that the huge beast in the water, which was a mixture of steel and wood, driven by some kind of magic mechanism, and was very fast, had fallen silent at this moment, and the flag representing the Cecil family was on the ship. The sky above his head was fluttering in the wind, and half of the messengers who followed him out of the boat were staggering.
Frankly speaking, this strange ship called the "Magic Mechanical Ship" actually sailed very smoothly, but obviously many people still got seasick, looking at the swaying gentlemen. , Cohen knew that they might no longer be able to compete with the Cecil people with their proud eloquence in a short period of time.
He didn’t know if this was the deliberate arrangement by the Southern Duke.
On the dock, Gawain still chose to personally greet these envoys from the north, representing the royal family and the east.
He led a group of officials from the Government Affairs Department to stand at the end of the honor guard and the red carpet. He looked at the deputy head of the Royal Knights with the surname "Lauren" walking towards him, with a faint smile on his face. smile.
"Hail you, the great guardian of the South, the founder of the kingdom," Korn Loren put his hand on his chest in front of Gawain and bowed slightly, "I come to you by order of the blood of Morn. In front of us - the kingdom needs your strength."
Gawain nodded. The deputy leader of the knights with the same name as a young mage researcher in the territory spoke tactfully and cautiously. He used " The name "Blood of Morn" is used instead of the word "royal family", which obviously refers to the two "Princes of Morn" in the Royal Capital and the Eastern Territory at the same time.
Probably because of this tact and caution, he was able to become the "leader" of this special team of messengers.
This special team of envoys nominally represents the "Ansu Royal Family", but in fact only half of them are from Saint Sunil, and the other half are representatives of the Eastern Territory. They are in the team They don't necessarily hold any specific positions, but they symbolize the camp to which they belong. The establishment of such a nondescript "mixed mission" should be one of the conditions for a temporary truce between the royal family and the Eastern Territory, but such a mixed mission cannot assume the true responsibility of an envoy.
Cohen Luolun is a blood member of the Luolun family in the East. However, for the sake of family stability, he gave up his inheritance rights in the family many years ago and became a royal noble. This special status "royal family" "Noble" should have lived in embarrassment for some time in the past, but now that the civil war in the kingdom has been suspended, both warring parties need a qualified person to represent them on a mission to the south, and this royal noble has once again become useful.
Gawain did not say anything about this, but just followed the topic: "I have received the elf messengerThe letter I brought, it is my duty to serve this country. ”
After a polite word, he looked Cohen Roland up and down: “Mr. Deputy Leader, this should be our second meeting.” "
"Yes, the last time was two years ago, when I served as the escort of Her Highness Veronica," Cohen Loren nodded, and looked at the bustling streets around the dock square with admiration. Scene, "I must admit that the changes here are so amazing that even if I saw it with my own eyes, I would not recognize it. ”
It seems that everyone who has been to the Southern Territory will express the same emotion after visiting here again. Gawain has long been accustomed to this. After a few brief greetings, he still took these envoys with him as usual. After arriving at the Qiu Palace, which is dedicated to receiving guests, there was a routine reception banquet.
The banquet was not grand, and some of the envoys who were still seasick obviously did not have much appetite to enjoy the fine wine and food at the banquet. Others were also tired from the journey and wanted to rest quickly. Therefore, after a few etiquettes, the formal reception banquet was over. Those members of the mission whose greatest role was to serve as the "camp background" were taken to rest by the waiters. , and Cohen Loren, who was on a mission, requested to meet Gawain alone as soon as the banquet ended.
In the lounge next to the Qiu Palace banquet hall, Cohen sat on the dark red leather sofa, sitting tall. Wen sat opposite him.
Amber, who served as the "surface guard", stood behind Gawain's chair with a serious look on his face.
A few words of courtesy. After the sexual conversation, Cohen got down to business: "Your Majesty the Duke, half of the materials specified by the elf have been prepared and will be shipped to the south in the near future, including the consumption of the engineering team itself and the first batch of magic materials. I wonder how your preparations are progressing here? "
Gawain smiled: "While you are busy discussing who should be sent, my people are already preparing to build a road across the Black Forest. "
"...Now that the matter has come to this, we are willing to admit the short-sightedness and prejudice of the nobles in the royal capital. Your vigilance against the wasteland is correct," Cohen heard the irony in Gawain's words, but He accepted these sarcasms calmly, "We know that the kingdom is encountering some problems now. The problems are huge and may even make you feel disappointed, but please believe that most nobles are hoping that the situation will develop in a good direction. "
Gao Wen looked at Cohen Luolun quietly for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Who do you mean by these words? Is it Silver Castle? Or the Eastern Territory? "
Cohen Lauren met Gawain's gaze: "...I only represent everyone who hopes Ansu will be peaceful and prosperous. ”
“This is an empty talk. "
After a brief silence, Cohen Roland suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I have some private words to say, please keep others away. "
Gawain looked calm, but Amber, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but speak: "Hey, your request is a bit too much. This is..."
"It doesn't matter. "Gawain raised his hand, interrupted Amber, "You guys, please step aside - I'm curious about what the deputy leader of the Knights wants to say."
Amber curled her lips and said to the nearby waiters and guards He waved and left the lounge with everyone.
Then after two seconds, he walked back invisible and stood next to Gawain, winking and making faces at Gawain.
Gawain ignored the half-elf's actions, while Coen Luolun, who was sitting opposite, could not see Amber in the invisible state at all. The deputy captain confirmed that there was no one else around before he raised his hand. He reached into his arms and took out a letter sealed with a magic talisman.
"Please forgive my little concealment - I have nothing private to say. I am here to deliver a letter to you."
"Letter?" Gawain asked. This time he was really surprised. He picked up the letter curiously and guessed who had written a secret letter to him. Moreover, this secret letter was obviously kept secret from the entire envoy group. Before this moment, I was afraid that only Cohen Roland himself knew of its existence, "the mark of the royal family..."
The seal of the letter was printed with the sword and shield emblem of the Anzu royal family.
Gawain cast a questioning look at Cohen Laurent, who bowed slightly: "The people on the throne of Silver Castle send their regards."
The Silver Castle's Sitting on the throne at the moment is Ansu's nominal crown prince, Wales Morn.
This is a bit interesting.
Gawain calmed down his unexpected emotions, waved his hand to break the talisman on the envelope, and took out three neatly folded pieces of letter paper. Amber, who was standing next to him, immediately used an exaggerated expression. He turned his head to the side to show that he would not peek.
"Salute to you, the founder of the kingdom. I am talking to you as the heir of the Morn bloodline. This should also be the first conversation between us - regrettably, it Separated by a piece of paper and half a kingdom, I can only choose simple and straightforward language as much as possible, in order to let you understand my attitude and my true intentions as much as possible.
"I. Know of the existence of the Mithril Oath Tablet.
"I know your inheritance qualifications."
The beginning of this letter has already shocked Gawain.
He concealed his surprise with a calm face, and looked up at Cohen Loren sitting opposite, but there was no expression on the other person's face, and there was no way to tell whether the deputy commander knew. The contents of the confidential letter.
Gawain calmed down, lowered his head and continued to read the rest of the letter.
After this, Wales Morn did not continue to discuss the special "emergency inheritance qualifications" of Gawain and other first-generation Grand Dukes. Instead, he turned to talk about the aristocratic situation within the kingdom and the intricate royal capital. The relationship between nobles tells the story of the restraint, surveillance, balance and friction between various feudal territories.
Of the three pages of letter, Wales used two pages to say these things, and in these two pages, he almost made it clearIt describes the characteristics of all the actual nobles of the contemporary Ansu Kingdom, and even clarifies the general genealogy of these powerful nobles.
Even the best masters of heraldry, the most knowledgeable aristocratic historians, and the most senior palace advisors would have a hard time fully understanding these extremely complex things, let alone summarizing them in detail. Develop a system and finally condense it into two pages of letter paper - this requires not only extraordinary wisdom, but also long-term research and observation, as well as capturing and combining key points from massive amounts of information. The special gift of information.
Gawain took a breath, Wales Morn could not be a mediocre and mediocre royal family as rumored.
He saw the end of the letter.
“...Duke Cecil, you should have realized that the kingdom you and your comrades created seven hundred years ago has experienced changes over the years, just like the bare wilderness. An exquisite and luxurious city was built on it, and the blood of those simple, simple, and upright pioneers in the past has evolved into such a large and complex group...
"It is like this It is as huge and gorgeous as the Silver Castle, but under the dome it hides countless dark secret passages and dirty corners. It is also like a ball of thread that has been entangled for a long time. It is difficult to separate even a straight line from it. More difficult.
"My brother - you know who I mean - he saw this early on and tried to unravel, or destroy, the ball of thread in his own way, To clean up the turmoil accumulated in this kingdom for seven hundred years, he did not hesitate to take risks.
"Unfortunately, he is also part of the thread like me.
"Fortunately, you are outside the line.
"Welsh Moon, descendant of Charlie Moon, salutes you again. "
Gao Wen looked at each letter on the letter paper word by word. At the end of the letter paper, he saw a line of words written in a special font:
"After reading "Immediately burn"
As his eyes swept over the letters, the three pages of letter paper immediately burned.
Gowen quietly watched the letter papers burned to ashes, and the ashes were burned to ashes. The arcane flame that lit up immediately was completely decomposed into basic elements, and even the best mystic could not restore it. Then he looked at Cohen Loren: "You are loyal to Wales Morn. "
"His Royal Highness has left Silver Castle for twenty years, but there are still a small number of royal nobles who are loyal to him. "
"Do you know what he said in the letter? "
"I don't know that prying into the master's letters is not what the knight did. "
Gao Wen looked at the deputy leader of the knights quietly for a while, then withdrew his gaze and said unhurriedly: "You can return to life after you go back, just say that I know it. "
Cohen Loren stood up and bowed in the most standard knightly manner: "Yes. ”