Chapter 21 Dilemma
Bastille War Room.
"A villain! Bastard! A bunch of idiots! A bunch of waste!" Old Bodon was furious and slapped the command table with a bang.
Before this, Old Borton had already been mentally prepared, but he did not expect that the situation would be worse than he expected.
A squadron knight-level sharpshooter said that he would be gone. He worked hard and spent thirty years to accumulate, and he is only a school guard, and he is still one-tenth of the unknown. Anyone will feel heartbroken. He now has torn Benson's heart with his hands.
"You are no longer a thing here. Abel, take him to take a hot bath, have a full meal, have a good sleep, and be at your own risk." The middle-aged man next to Old Bodon, holding a civilized stick and dressed in a gentleman, picked up the sheepskin scroll that Old Bodon threw away, and brushed the dust on it with great elegance.
"Happy to serve, Lord Sir." The old housekeeper named Abel brought the dusty archer messenger down. After serving in Bastille for nearly twenty years, he naturally knew the weight of the middle-aged man named Klester in front of him.
Anyone who seeks life in Bastille knows that Old Borton has two right-hand men, Klester, the fox and Erikson, a very popular saying is "It's better to offend Borton than to call him a fox."
If you offend Old Borden, you will be dead. Those who make a living in Bastille are destined to be locked on their belts. They are very frank about life and death, but if you provoke Klester, you will often be worse than death.
It is said that those half-in-law, half-silly, and neither human nor ghostly guys on the streets of Bastille are his masterpieces.
Kleist had not followed Old Borton for a long time, only for more than a decade, but when it comes to the person Old Borton trusts the most, Schellist had no other two.
Even the sons of Old Borton have never received the trust of Old Borton. Now 80% of the government orders in Bastille are not the hands of Old Borton, but Christ.
Klester's life experience is also talked about, and the other party seems to have emerged out of thin air. Some people say it is from Valletas, the king of Byron League.
Some people also say that he comes from the westernmost part of the mainland, and is tens of thousands of miles away from Gemini Island.
Some people say he was a bandit who committed a crime.
Some people also say that he is the heir to the great nobles who failed to fight for power.
Everyone was convinced of the last point because he not only had profound knowledge, but also had a perfect and impeccable aristocratic style. If he had not been trained since childhood, ordinary people would not be able to do this.
In the words of aristocrats, the temperament of aristocrats is revealed from the bones. Even if they wear poor clothes, their words and deeds are superior. Even if a poor man puts the most luxurious clothes on him, he is still a shiba product.
Some of Klester's behaviors also proved this in disguise, and he likes to call him Sir Klester.
Sir Klester's voice was unique, and every sentence was filled with an aria, as if the opera stage lines were: "It's really arrogant, but the other party did catch our pain. He, Ajel Clark, is not a great figure, but we cannot ignore the fourth heir to the Feren family."
Another man beside Old Borton said with disdain: "The fourth heir of the bullshit is, unless all the three brothers above him are dead, he will have his share. He is purely an ignorant, now he is favored by the old duke and has become a virtue. Once the old duke is summoned by the Lord, he is capable of living for three years. What's more, now he is trapped in the mountains and waiting for us to send troops to rescue him? What do these idiots think? Ajel is also a nobleman and a soldier-knowing person. How could he make such a low-level mistake? Now he makes such a foolish suggestion? I really think those mountain people are just a group of dough, and let alone the people pinch it flat and round? He knows how big the Andys Mountains are? How many mountain people in the Andys Mountains are? It really angers them, let alone a mere school guard, even our Bastille is overwhelmed by them."
At the end, his voice was like a thunder, almost roaring. This person was nothing but someone else, but Erikson, another loyal subordinate of Old Borton.
A person is like a nickname, and his height and width are far superior to ordinary people. His whole body is like a pile of muscle mass. His leather armor is broken and it seems to explode at any time. The most unique one is his lush hair. He is wearing a cow horn helmet. He looks at it with a sudden look and is just like a bull.
His nickname does not only come from his appearance, but also because of his origin, Erikson was not a Byron, but from the Odin orcs branch of the Odin prairie outside the Broken Estuary Mountains. He is a genuine cattle orc.
People who don’t know the orcs, when they hear the orcs’ names, the first thing they think of is the images of various wild beasts. In fact, they are very wrong. As the product of the crazy test of the Andes Empire warlock, the Odin Orc used the Kentana barbarian as a template, and then savagely integrated the various talent genes of the beasts.
Most Odin orcs still maintain 90% of their human characteristics, only a small number of them become beastly, and some mixed-race children have no beastly characteristics. Except for the high point and strong point, they are not very different from the Byrons. What is used to distinguish their internal races is not appearance characteristics, but racial talent. Erikson's racial talent is the power of the barbarian bull.
Once activated, his power will increase by 30% in a short period of time. Don't think that the proportion is small. Erikson is good at power. Once he activates his talent, he is like an angry wild bull, unstoppable.
I don’t know if it’s coincidence or inevitable. People with the more beastly characteristics have stronger natural abilities, and vice versa. Therefore, in recent years, Odin orcs have paid more and more attention to maintaining beastly characteristics. Just like those nobles, they began to marry purposefully to maintain the purity of the next generation.
It is a very strange thing that a purebred Odin orc appears on the land of the Byron League, especially it is reused, which is even more strange. In the eyes of every Byron, Odin orc is synonymous with barbarity, bloodiness and madness.
Only dead Odin orcs are good orcs, otherwise even with shackles, Odin orcs will not be safe.
Bull Erikson followed Old Borton far longer than the weird fox Kleister. When Old Borton pioneered Bastille, he was already following the other party.
If Klester is Old Borton's think tank, Erikson is the sword in Old Borton's hand, and he will hit him wherever he points. Even though thirty years have passed, he is still extremely sharp.
Klester's face always had a constant smile, "How do you think General thinks to deal with this matter?"
"This is not simple. Just pretend that this letter does not exist and let those idiots die on their own in the mountains." The bull Eriksen gave a simple and crude method.
In fact, it is basically impossible to hear the suggestion of thrusting out of his mouth. Most of the Odin orcs have IQs below the passing line, because the warlocks of the Andes Empire used them as a biological warfare machine.
Those crazy warlocks believed that the lower the IQ, the more beastly the more barbaric healed, and the higher the combat power, the more he was. This argument is not wrong. The Andes Empire was almost defeated by the Odin Orcs who were backfiring.
"If things are really that simple, the city lord won't have to get angry like this. It's not scary whether it's the fourth heir of the Feren family or Ajel. What's scary is the old duke."
Instead of refuting Erikson, it would be more appropriate to say that it would be better for Old Borton to hear it. "This old duke has been thinking about our Bastille for a long time. It's just that the city lord has always been loyal and honest, and the other party can't take it. If the fourth heir of the Feren family dies in the mountains and we ignore it, it will become a real excuse. At that time, the old duke will propose to control Bastille under his own hands, and no one can pick out half of them."
Old Borton's face changed, and it was so gloomy that water was about to drip. "Do you think this was the old guy's intentional plan?"
The more you think about it, the greater the possibility. The old thing that Lao Bodon mentioned was nothing but someone else, the object of his loyalty, the supreme ruler of the Manyu army, the contemporary patriarch of the Feren family, and the Duke of Feren Borg Slav Feren.
Time can change many things. It can not only turn a strong and powerful young man into an old man, a warrior into a coward, but also a wise man into a fool.
The former desert lion has long lost its wise and powerful force, but the desire for power has never weakened at all, and it is even more prosperous, trying to control everything in its own hands.
The Manyu Army leader has been in turmoil for more than ten years, saying that it was the rebellion of the local nobles, but Old Botton did not see a real power of the local nobles. More importantly, the land that was enfeoffed returned to the hands of the Feren family. Now the Manyu Army leader has unprecedented centralization.
Before we knew it, Bastille had become the largest force independent of the Feren family. It not only had the largest noble private army, but also had a treasure trove of Bastille, which kept spraying money out.
If Old Borton was smart, he would hand over the Bastille and the military power in his hands, whether to go to the royal capital or the capital, he would be a silly lord, and the old duke would never be stingy with the title of a hereditary count.
However, power cannot be given up just by letting go, especially Bastille was created by Old Borton with great effort, and it is even more impossible to hand over it easily, even if the other party is his own loyalist, so the relationship between the two parties is very tense now.
The Duke of Feren has never used strength to Bastille, not only because he is worried that once he uses troops to Bastille, it will have a certain impact on the slave trade and gladiatorship under the Manyu army. Another reason is that he has not found a suitable excuse.
Even if Duke Feren is the supreme ruler of the Manyu army, if there is no legitimate reason, he cannot casually take back the enfeoffed territory.
If you do it too much, it will cause uneasiness among all local nobles, and join forces to rebel in small ways. Once you surrender to other military leaders, it will be troublesome.
Chapter completed!