The two guards guarding the door quickly bowed their heads and saluted.
Aaron had a cold face and didn't respond at all.
Then, he came to the dungeon at the bottom of the castle.
There were many people imprisoned in the cold, dark dungeon at this time.
Especially in the innermost position, inside the thick iron fence, two demon hunters covered in bruises appeared in large letters and were tied to a wooden frame.
Jaeger held a red-hot soldering iron in his hand and withdrew his hand with half-hearted interest.
"My Lord Count."
Aaron bowed slightly and saluted.
Nothing wrong!
Jaeger is already an earl at this time!
As for Rudd? After the former Viscount fell into the river and drowned due to drunkenness, several of his sons also had accidents.
Then, his brother Jaeger became Viscount Lancaster!
After this war madman came to power, he immediately began a new round of demands for surrounding territories, and then expanded his territory to become the Earl of Lancaster, who played an important role in the entire Rogge Kingdom!
As a well-known herbalist in the territory, Aaron was naturally recruited by the Earl.
After all, Jaeger has been recruiting various bachelors and herbalists in order to study the power of witchers.
As long as those who prove capable will be promoted and reused by him, they will even be rewarded!
It must be said that he is a qualified leader and has a certain degree of leadership charisma.
As a free citizen in the territory, it would be strange if he refused.
Aaron then applied for the job together with other herbalists, and gradually stood out. Of course, many talents also emerged among the other herbalists and bachelors.
Aaron controls his own excellence and maintains it at the top level, without being irreplaceable.
"Aaron. I specially left two demon hunters as your experimental subjects."
Yeager said indifferently: "You and Stryker can use the auxiliary medicine they want to make to increase the success rate of the trial again. As long as you succeed, I will reward you heavily."
He still trusts Aaron and Stryker.
These two herbalism masters not only improved the success rate of his demon hunters' advancement, but also helped him become a master demon hunter.
But actually
Aaron has hidden 17 or 18 unique skills and more!
It can be regarded as a good example of beating workers to defraud the boss!
"This. In addition to using demon hunters as experiments, I also need secret information from various schools, especially the Shadow Dragon School! It is said that the founder of this school is one of the oldest demon hunters. They may know more
!”
Aaron looked troubled.
"The Shadow Dragon School is indeed in some trouble. But this time I also eliminated their master demon hunter. Don't worry, the relevant information will be sent to you soon."
Jaeger smiled.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I believe that there must be a higher realm than the master demon hunter!"
Aaron's eyes seemed to sparkle with ambition.
Under Jaeger, he mainly studied issues beyond the master demon hunter.
In fact, in secret, he is constantly absorbing the knowledge that Jaeger has obtained from the classics of various schools, and occasionally uses his subordinates as test subjects. Jaeger seems to be happy to see the results.
As for Stryker? He is another master of herbal medicine. Because his research directions overlap, he can be regarded as Aaron's direct competitor.
Because of this, the relationship between the two of them is not very good.
Among them, there are also reasons why Jaeger deliberately provoked it.
Letting the subordinates divide into several factions and fight with each other is also an ancient ruling wisdom of a feudal prince.
But Aaron doesn't care, as long as there are enough resources to support his research.
Relying on Jaeger's foundation, he had completed all preparations for his attack on Red Mountain.
Not only that, through the gains from annihilating the major demon hunter schools this time, we will have more confidence to attack the Blood Prison in the future.
"Lord Jaeger!"
At this moment, Stryker, who was wearing a gray robe, an iron ring necklace, and few hairs on his head, also arrived: "Demon hunters from other schools are extremely precious resources. They cannot all be given to Master Aaron. I have
Shangzheng has an experiment, once it succeeds."
"Ahem!" Aaron coughed: "Master Stryker, your experiments always have accidents. Such a precious sample cannot die in your hands."
"You!" Stryker glared at Aaron. He was also very dissatisfied with this Aaron, thinking that the other person was full of decadent craftsmanship and did not understand the value of his unconstrained thinking at all.
"You two don't have to fight. There will always be samples."
At the critical moment, Jaeger came out to smooth things over. He did not want the overt and covert fighting among his subordinates to exceed a certain limit.
And are there very few demon hunters from other schools?
He was planning to train a few teams of demon hunters from outside the Viper School to use as a special operations team.
At that time, there will be as many test samples as you want!
Aaron and Stryker looked at each other and lowered their gazes.
After Yeager left, Aaron and Stryker exchanged some words of bickering with each other, and then separated.
In fact, he felt that this bad old man was very bad! He was not as brainless as he appeared on the surface. Maybe he deliberately wanted to have a bad relationship with him.
Sigh. Who makes the boss not like the people below him to mingle with each other?
'These days, no one should treat anyone as a fool.'
Aaron sighed as he walked out of the dungeon.
Lancaster Castle has a large interior and a nice garden.
At this time, several young people were competing in the garden.
They are all Jaeger's children - in name only.
For the demon hunter lord, if he wants to dominate the world, heirs are ultimately a big problem.
A vassal without heirs cannot guarantee the descendants and rights of his vassals.
Childlessness reduces loyalty!
As a hero, Jaeger will naturally not ignore this.
A long time ago, it was announced that his wife and her lover had given birth to many children, and they had all been raised in the castle.
It’s just that the mortality rate of midwives is a bit high
"Seamus, you lost again!"
At this time, in the garden, a young man in his twenties was knocking a young man to the ground with a wooden sword, laughing loudly.
Seamo was knocked to the ground with unwillingness in his eyes.
After all, it’s not that he doesn’t feel sorry for his son. Yeager is practicing wolf education, or raising gu.
Encourage your sons to fight among themselves, and then compete to identify the best among them.
As for how many of them died or were crippled, he didn't care at all.
Aaron smiled at these teenagers and said hello.
Children need to be nurtured from an early age.
Although it is not used now, it certainly has advantages to show kindness to future heirs.
'Jaeger is not a good monarch.'
'Once he becomes murderous, he will definitely kill me, even if it's just to keep a secret.'
'So. After a certain number of years, do you want to fake death and escape?'
‘Then. Then he would join the service of one of his sons and continue to enjoy the life of a dozen workers?’
Aaron is really reluctant to part with the research environment here.
Relying on a large number of captured witcher inheritances, his new witcher meditation method has been mostly completed.
There is even a chance of passing the Red Mountain Trial and being promoted to Master Demon Hunter.
But the 'Blood Hell' that followed was a realm completely imagined.
To reach this point, he needs more test subjects and more support!
‘The resources of an earldom are no longer enough’
'I need more resources!'
Kingdom of Rogge.
Fred III, in his seventeenth year on the throne.
The old king who ruled the kingdom died of illness, leaving only a seven-year-old child.
After a trip to the royal capital, Jaeger came back with the fire of ambition in his eyes: "This is the best opportunity!"
He has been waiting and patient.
Previously, the expansion of the Lancaster family had already made many established nobles in the kingdom dissatisfied.
They claim to be ancient aristocrats, possessing noble blood, long history and traditions, and are completely different classes from the nouveau riche of small aristocrats like Lancaster.
As for the common people below the minor nobles?
Sorry, that's not a human at all!
In Eastern terms, Lancaster, a small noble from a poor family, has been suppressed by the powerful nobles and has been vaguely restricted, with no room for development.
As for the real ordinary people from poor families in ancient times, they were not worthy of attention.
It's the same no matter what.
In order to break through this restriction, any diplomatic means are useless, and a war of blood and fire must be passed!
At this time, Aaron also noticed this.
He decided to help Jaeger so that the other party could invest more resources in him.
So, he found Jaeger.
"Lord Earl, the latest type of black iron potion has been developed!"
In the room, Aaron is reporting on the progress of his work.
"What?"
Jaeger stood up in surprise and looked at Aaron.
"Through the classics of various schools, I have developed a balanced black iron potion. After taking it and becoming a demon hunter, the physique, strength, and speed will be 1.5 times that of ordinary people, which is quite balanced and weakened.
Here, the success rate has increased to about 50%!"
Aaron said: "At the same time, I also improved the basic tempering potion, making its medicinal properties milder and the required herbs less precious."
These are the basis for cultivating demon hunters on a large scale.
"good!"
Yeager banged the table excitedly: "I will give you ten people to train and test. Once you succeed, I will appoint you as the chief bachelor!"
For him, the weakened version of the Balanced Demon Hunter is the best soldier to form the Demon Hunter Legion.
As for those original demon hunters, they can serve as captains or even special forces.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Aaron made an excited face.
In fact, he didn't have any trouble at all about it.
He even knew that, with his stimulation and a little secret reminder, Stryker would soon catch up and give Jaeger a big gift as well.
That is the speculation about a higher realm than the master demon hunter.
You must make Stryker's reputation greater, surpass your own, and then hide under the other party's glory.
Fred IV, in his second year on the throne.
Earl Yeager of Lancaster directly launched a rebellion.
His army of demon hunters was unstoppable, defeating the king's army with a small number and a large number many times.
Finally, the demon hunter army invaded the royal capital and captured King Fred IV.
Jaeger directly appointed himself as the prime minister of the kingdom, and then ordered the remaining nobles who had raised troops to retreat, taking the opportunity to divide these nobles of the kingdom.
In the end, they were defeated one by one calmly.
Five years after Fred IV ascended the throne, the entire Rogue Kingdom had surrendered to Jaeger.
And the reputation of his powerful demon hunter army spread even outside the kingdom.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he violently forced Fred IV to abdicate, passed the crown to himself, and established the Kingdom of Lancaster!
The royal capital.
In order to celebrate the establishment of the Kingdom of Lancaster, the new king Jaeger I specially held a tournament.
Wandering knights from all over the kingdom can show their skills here, and the champion can obtain a virtual fief.
This caused the Royal Capital to become more lively than before, and the people coming and going were full of business opportunities, making the merchants of the Royal Capital make a lot of money.
Aaron got off the carriage, threw out a gold coin, and threw it to the girls on the carriage.
The girls smiled sweetly and blew him a kiss.
"Master Aaron, by the order of His Majesty the King, you will live in the institute from now on."
Two expressionless demon hunters came to Aaron and said in a cold voice: "Because there are foreign spies and assassins, from today on, the two of us are responsible for protecting your safety."
"OK."
Aaron didn't seem to feel anything about it and accepted the arrangement calmly.
"This Jaeger most likely wants to kill the donkey. No, bah bah bah, I'm not a donkey."
The institute is a renovated former school in the Kingdom. It has very good facilities and a large library.
In order for these scholars to study as much as they can, Jaeger even moved the royal collection here.
Inside the library.
Two demon hunters guard the door like sculptures.
Aaron pulled out an old and yellowed "Noble Articles and Royal Bloodline Map" and read it with great interest.
In fact, he has completed most of the research using what he gained from Yeager's wars in the north and south over the years.
At this time, I was already thinking about how to exit the game gracefully.
Hmm. A fire that leaves only a burnt corpse is enough.
Anyway, with the miserable criminal investigation techniques of this era, is it possible to identify that the charred corpse was not his?
At this moment, Stryker, who was also accompanied by a demon hunter bodyguard, walked in from the library.
He looked at the books on the shelf, and then at the old yellowed volume in Aaron's hand: "Master Aaron, are you looking at such a rotten thing?"
"Actually, many interesting things can be discovered by tracing the bloodline of nobles and kings."
Aaron laughed.
"I'm not interested in these. After completing his great deeds, our king has set his sights on a warlock. Maybe soon we will be able to get a warlock as a guinea pig, and that's mine!
