Vice President Berg led the blue-skinned slave back to his temporary residence in Echo Town, which was a large rectangular rented house with a courtyard.
There are shops on the ground floor, multi-story housing above, and a platform on the top. The courtyard in the middle of the large rental house usually has a well, and is planted with fruits, vegetables or flowers, and can accommodate more than 200 people.
Large rental houses similar to the Sihe Courtyard are relatively common in various city-states in the alliance. The owner usually rents out the shops on the ground floor or the upper floors to earn a stable income. When necessary, the owner closes the shops on the ground floor, making it an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack building.
small castle.
Wealthy families will find ways to buy a large rental house with a courtyard in a prosperous town, or the owner of a large rental house with a courtyard must be a rich man.
The large rental houses in the Sihe Courtyard have military functions, and the alliance's rich men also have their own private armed forces.
Of course, ordinary wealthy families can only be considered "big" civilians in front of famous families, and their private armed forces are not worth mentioning at all.
Clark led the army to Echo Town, and the original owner of this large rental house had no choice but to move and leave the house to Berg as a temporary residence for the Adventurer's Guild.
Berg himself is also a rich man. He owns a similar large rented house with a courtyard in Luoye City, and he and the owner of this large rented house know each other.
Last winter, Berg accompanied Grand Commander Hurant, who was from the famous Golden Oak family, to Braun Town for business. He also stayed here when passing through Echo Town, and received warm hospitality from his host's family.
After that, they went to Braun Town, where they clashed with Bottom of the Adventurer's House, and had to live in a plantation outside the town.
As a result, the orc invaders attacked, and Hurant and the Myne Sage fled overnight without even calling Berg.
He ran for his life alone and almost died on the way!
This time, Berg learned the lesson from the last time and brought a group of trusted servants and 34 well-trained barbarian slaves to protect his safety.
His barbarian slave soldiers occupied half of the large rented house and kept strict security, not allowing strangers to come in or peep.
When Berg returned to his temporary residence, the two barbarian slave soldiers standing guard in the corridor immediately moved out of the way. When Berg led the blue-skinned slave in, they blocked the passage again.
Several corner rooms on the fifth floor of the large rental house are currently occupied by Victor and his followers.
This was thanks to Christine. She had just arrived in Echo Town and met Vice President Berg on the same day. To her surprise, Vice President Berg was not favored by the power of fate. Even though he had
Dozens of private barbarian soldiers obeyed his orders, but he was not loved and supported by the private barbarian soldiers.
Rich slave owners don't have that much money to train awakened people and professionals. Their private soldiers are mainly mute barbarian slaves bought through certain channels.
These barbarian slaves were illiterate, had their tongues cut out, and underwent very rigorous training, but they mainly relied on special drugs to control them.
The mute barbarian slave private soldier is emotionally indifferent and absolutely obeys his master's instructions. He is more like a tool man, so he has no loyalty at all.
Vice President Berg also has some loyal and trusted servants around him, but unfortunately there are too few such people to promote the master as the leader of a force.
The vampire succubus successfully turned Vice President Berg into her "slave".
For her, there are at most three spiritual beings that can be completely enslaved through powerful charms, and each "slave" will gradually acquire extraordinary abilities. For example, the mayor's butler Ethaniel, who masters the art of giant transformation, is an obvious example.
example.
Generally speaking, the vampire succubus Christine needs those naturally powerful spiritual beings to act as her "slaves". But Vice President Berg is worth her precious quota.
Even though Vice President Berg indulged in pleasure and neglected to exercise, causing his physical function to deteriorate a lot, his identity and power were of great help to Victor and brought them convenience beyond imagination.
Through Berg, Victor has completely clarified the personnel relationships on Godore's defense line, as well as Clark's true background and his strategic intentions.
Clark is not a general of the Alliance at all, at least not yet, and he has no actual experience in military command. He seriously lacks confidence in fighting the orc invaders and adopts a very conservative passive defense strategy, which is to avoid direct confrontation with the invaders.
duel.
To put it bluntly, he didn't dare to fight a tough battle at all.
This not only caused great conflict between Clark and the Flame Tiger Legion, but also caused widespread resentment among the adventurer mercenaries.
The law of Fallen Leaf City stipulates that no one without the rank of general is allowed to lead troops in combat. Clark's position in this military operation is actually the chief officer responsible for logistics, transporting reinforcements and supplies to General Baltru of the Flame Tiger Legion. However,
The elite soldiers Clark brought were basically private soldiers from the famous Yinpanjiao family, and it was impossible for him to hand over the command of the reinforcements to General Bartrew.
Clark planned to borrow Baltru's general rank to earn military merit here, and then be promoted to the powerful general of Luoye City.
Baltru actively prepared for war at Godore's defense line. He only waited for the reinforcements from Fallen Leaf City to arrive before leading an army to attack, wipe out the orc invaders, and seize the fertile land in the Krill River Basin to achieve great military exploits.
As a result, he waited for half a year to find such a despicable slave trader.
Baltru asked Clark to hand over all the reinforcements to his command unconditionally; Clark only agreed to hand over 3,000 new soldiers, and also asked the Flame Tiger Legion to attack across the board, while he led the elite reinforcements to support Baltru in the rear. He was willing to do this
Pay a huge sum of money to Baltru.
The two parties negotiated and then broke up.
The Flame Tiger Legion refused to take the lead, and Clark did not dare to attack recklessly.
Fortunately, the orc invaders voluntarily abandoned the town of Braun, allowing him to gain a free advantage and find a reasonable excuse for passive defense.
In another 50 days, the real reinforcements from Luoye City, about 2,000 elite soldiers, will arrive at the Godore defense line and be handed over to Baltruu's command.
As long as Clark waits until then, his goal will be achieved and he won't have to fight the orc invaders in a bloody battle.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It can be seen that Clark is self-aware, and the Fallen Leaf City Council does not expect him to defeat the orc invaders and expand territory for the city-state and the alliance.
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This is an important piece of information, because the time left for Victor is only 40 days at most. He must rescue the hybrid child imprisoned in Echo Town from Clark before the reinforcements from Fallen Leaf City arrive.
In this regard, Vice President Berg helped a lot, but his status was not enough for Clark to let those mixed-race people go.
Clark has already convicted the mixed-race people in Braun Town of desertion. Even if everyone knows that this is a deliberate frame-up, if he wants to overturn the charges they have been charged with, Clark must publicly admit his mistakes.
Berg didn't have such a great ability to make Clark, who came from a well-known family in Yinpanjiao, bow his head and admit his mistakes.
All he could do was to temporarily save the lives of those mixed-race children, and by the way, he saved the blue-skinned slaves.
"Great mistress, I brought back the blue-skinned slave you wanted." Berg dragged the blue-skinned slave into the corner room on the fifth floor. When he saw Christine, he said respectfully: "Just now
The situation is a bit dangerous, if I am a step too late, he will lose his head."
Christine was now dressed as a female adventurer. The gray waistband and cotton armor could not completely hide her charm. She walked up to the blue-skinned barbarian with a pair of straight long legs and circled around him.
After a few rounds, he turned back in surprise and said: "Victor, this barbarian boy has also been favored by the power of fate, and he actually completely resisted my natural charm."
Standing by the window and looking down at the street scene, Victor waved to the gladiator slave Kent, indicating that he would take his place and continue to monitor the movements below. Then he walked to Christine, looked at the blue-skinned barbarian first, and then shook his head and said: "
Let him go."
Christine pursed her lips and smiled, and glanced at the blue-skinned barbarian, with a hint of regret in her charming expression.
She really wanted to use all kinds of charm methods on this strange barbarian, but she was even more unwilling to go against Victor's will.
After the young blue-skinned barbarian saw Victor, his fearful expression gradually turned into surprise, and he couldn't help shouting in fluent half-elf language: "Viltok? You are Wiltok... God, how can you change?"
It looks like this now?!"
"By the way, I, I am Yog...your good friend Yog, do you still remember?"
Victor certainly remembered that although Yog was much taller now than he was a few months ago, his blue skin was impressive.
However, Victor never regarded this blue-skinned barbarian boy as a friend.
When they first met, Yog lived in the plantation in Braun Town as a barbarian slave and was taken care of by Mayor Myne. All this was because Victor spoke for him. But Victor did this
Mainly out of curiosity, and a little bit of sympathy.
At that time, Victor was ignorant and did not understand what friendship was, so naturally he would not regard Yog as a good friend.
Not only is Yog not a good friend of Victor, in a sense he is even Victor's enemy. Because he has now joined the half-orc invaders, and he also attacked the half-elf adventurer team with them, and then was accidentally captured.
, and became Clark's prisoner.
A few days ago, Victor and the others met again with the messenger from the Split Rock Orcs, and the messenger sent by the other party turned out to be Ingrid, the former leader of the barbarian female slaves at the Braun Town Plantation.
Because Ingrid was favored by the power of fate, Christine did not attack her, and Ingrid did not recognize the changed appearance of Victor.
She put forward a precondition for cooperation: first rescue the captured blue-skinned barbarians.
Victor knew as soon as he heard that she was referring to the barbarian boy Yog.
It's strange, why is Ingrid so sure that Yog is still alive?
Victor did not promise that the orc messenger would be able to rescue Yog, but he was willing to give it a try.
Apart from that, he had no more emotions about meeting Yog again, neither joy nor resentment. It felt like facing a stranger.
Now, Yog can actually recognize Victor who changes his appearance and voice, making Victor realize that this blue-skinned barbarian is really extraordinary!
Even so, Victor has no intention of getting acquainted with Yog.
They were going to send Yog away tonight. Since time was tight, there was no need to add any extraneous details.
"You got the wrong person." Victor responded calmly, then he motioned to Berg to untie the shackles on Yog's wrists, and asked: "Do you know a barbarian named Ingrid?"
Yog moved his wrist and said frankly, a little embarrassed: "Ingrid...she is my wife now."
Judging from his tone, he still believed that the tall and strong half-elf adventurer in front of him was his good friend Wiltok.
Victor was of course surprised. He remembered that Ingrid was only a few years younger than Yog's shaman mother. She once held a knife to circumcise Yog herself, scaring Yog into making pig noises.
How come Yog and Ingrid got together?
Victor instantly thought of the fact that Ingrid was protected by the power of destiny, which showed that she had a status and a certain influence among the orc invaders.
Since Yog and Ingrid are now husband and wife, Victor cannot identify himself in front of Yog. That would be tantamount to telling Ingrid that the people from Braun Town are back and will cooperate with the orc invaders.
This is ridiculous.
Ingrid simply couldn't believe that Victor really wanted to cooperate. Instead, he suspected that the so-called cooperation was a huge trap.
"You go to the next room to rest first. We will take you out to find Ingrid tonight. She asked us to rescue you."
Immediately, Victor arranged for an alchemical demon to take Yog to rest and keep him under strict supervision.
"Oh...oh, I understand, I understand, I understand." Yog seemed to suddenly realize it, and looked at Victor with gratitude, wanting to communicate with him with his eyes.
An alchemist demon descendant followed Victor's order and forcibly took Yog away. Victor turned around and said to his other companions angrily and helplessly: "What does this guy know? How can he recognize me?"