Pale Emblem

Chapter 164: Meeting Yog Again

Vice President Berg led the blue-skinned slave back to his temporary residence in Echo Town, which was a large rental house with a rectangular courtyard.

The ground floor is a shop, above it are multi-story houses, and there is a platform at the top. The courtyard in the middle of the large rental house usually has a well, and fruits, vegetables or flowers are planted, which can accommodate more than 200 people.

Large rental houses with courtyards are common in all city-states of the alliance. The owners usually rent out shops on the ground floor or houses on the upper floors to earn a stable income. When necessary, the owners can close the shops on the ground floor, and it will become a small castle that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Rich families will try to buy a large courtyard house in a prosperous town, or the owner of a large courtyard house must be a rich man.

The courtyard houses have military functions, and the wealthy people in the alliance also have their own private armed forces.

Of course, ordinary wealthy families are just "big" civilians in front of the famous and powerful families, and their private armed forces are not worth mentioning at all.

Clark led his army into Echo Town, and the original owner of this large rental house had to move out, leaving the house to Berg as a temporary base for the Adventurer's Guild.

Berg himself is also a wealthy man. He owns a similar courtyard house in Luoye City, and he and the owner of the house know each other.

Last winter, Berg accompanied the great commander of the Golden Oak family, Hullant, to the town of Brown to do some business. When passing through the town of Echo, they also stayed here and received a warm welcome from the host.

Afterwards, they went to the town of Braun, but clashed with Bartom of the Adventurer's House, so they had to live on a plantation outside the town.

As a result, when the Orc invaders came, Hurant fled with the Myne Sage overnight without even greeting Berg.

He was running for his life alone and nearly died on the way!

This time, Berg learned from his last lesson and brought a group of trusted servants and 34 well-trained barbarian slave soldiers to protect his safety.

His barbarian slaves occupied half of the large rented house and were on high alert, not allowing strangers to enter or peek.

Berg returned to his temporary residence. The two barbarian slave soldiers standing guard in the corridor immediately made way for him. When Berg led the blue-skinned barbarian slave in, they blocked the passage again.

Several rooms on the corner of the fifth floor of the large rental house are now occupied by Victor and his followers.

This was all 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 barbarian slaves who obeyed his orders, he was not loved and supported by them.

Rich slave owners do not have enough funds to train awakened ones and professionals, and their private soldiers are mainly dumb slaves bought through certain channels.

These barbarian slaves were illiterate, had their tongues cut off, and underwent extremely harsh training, but they were mainly controlled by relying on special drugs.

The dumb barbarian slaves are emotionally indifferent and absolutely obey the orders of their masters. They are more like tools, so they have no loyalty.

Vice President Berg does have some loyal and trusted servants around him, but unfortunately there are too few of them to elect their master as the leader of a force.

The vampire easily turned Vice President Berg into her "slave".

For her, she can only keep a maximum of three spiritual beings that are completely enslaved through powerful charm, and each "slave" will gradually gain extraordinary abilities, such as the mayor's steward Isaniel who masters the art of giant transformation.

Generally speaking, the vampire Christine needs those naturally powerful spiritual beings to serve as her "slaves". But Vice President Berg is worth her spending a precious quota.

Even though Vice President Berg indulged in pleasure and neglected exercise, causing his physical functions to deteriorate a lot, his identity and power were of great help to Victor and could bring them unimaginable conveniences.

Through Berg, Victor has completely clarified the personnel relationships on the Godore defense line, as well as Clark's true background and his strategic intentions.

Clark was not a general of the Alliance, at least not yet, and he had no practical experience in military command. He lacked confidence in fighting the Orc invaders and adopted a very conservative passive defense strategy, which was to avoid direct confrontation with the invaders.

To put it bluntly, he didn't dare to fight a tough battle.

This not only caused a huge conflict between Clark and the Flame Tiger Legion, but also caused complaints from the adventurer mercenaries.

The law of Luoye City stipulates that those who do not hold the position of general are not allowed to lead troops in battle. Clark's position in this military operation is actually the chief officer in charge of logistics, delivering reinforcements and supplies to General Bartru of the Flame Tiger Legion. However, the elite soldiers Clark brought were basically private soldiers of the famous families of Yinpanjiao, and he could not give the command of the reinforcements to General Bartru.

Clark plans to use Bartru's general title to earn military merit here, and then be promoted to a powerful general in Luoye City.

Bartlu was actively preparing for war on the Godore Line, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from Fallen Leaf City so that he could lead his army to attack, wipe out the Orc invaders, seize the fertile land in the Krill River Basin, and make great military achievements.

As a result, he waited for half a year and ended up meeting such a despicable slave trader.

Bartulu demanded that Clark unconditionally hand over all the reinforcements to him; Clark only agreed to hand over 3,000 new soldiers, and also asked the Flame Tiger Legion to attack on all fronts, while he led the elite reinforcements to support Bartulu in the rear. He was willing to pay Bartulu a huge sum of money for this.

The two sides negotiated and then parted ways unhappily.

The Flame Tiger Legion refused to take the lead, and Clark did not dare to attack rashly.

Fortunately, the Orc invaders voluntarily gave up the town of Braun, allowing him to get an advantage for free and find a reasonable excuse for passive defense.

In another 50 days, the real reinforcements from Luoye City, about 2000 elite soldiers, will arrive at the Godore Defense Line and be under the command of Bartru.

As long as Clark waits until that time, his goal will be achieved without having to fight a bloody battle with the Orc invaders.

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 the territory for the city-state and the alliance.

This was an important piece of information, because Victor only had 40 days at most to rescue the half-bloods held in Echo Town from Clark before the reinforcements from Fallen Leaf City arrived. In this regard, Vice President Berg helped a lot, but his status was not enough to make Clark release the half-bloods.

Clark has already charged the half-bloods from Brown Town with desertion. Even though everyone knows that this is a deliberate frame-up, if Clark wants to overturn the charges against them, he has to publicly admit his mistake.

Berg doesn't have the ability to make Clark, a famous family in Yinpanjiao, admit his mistake.

All he could do was to temporarily save the lives of those half-bloods and rescue the blue-skinned slaves.

"Great mistress, I brought back the blue-skinned slave you asked for." Berg dragged the blue-skinned slave into the corner room on the fifth floor. When he saw Christine, he said respectfully, "The situation just now was a bit dangerous. If I had been a step later, he would have lost his head."

Christine was now dressed like a female adventurer. Even the gray corset could not completely conceal her charm. She walked to the front of the blue-skinned barbarian with her straight long legs, circled around him a few times, and said in surprise, "Victor, this barbarian boy is also blessed by the power of fate. He can completely resist my natural charm."

Standing by the window overlooking the street, Victor waved to the gladiator slave Kent, signaling him to take over and continue monitoring the movements below. Then he walked to Christine's side, first sized up the blue-skinned barbarian, then shook his head and said, "Let him go."

Christine smiled and glanced at the blue-skinned barbarian, with a hint of regret in her charming expression.

She really wanted to use all her seductive 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. He couldn't help but shout in fluent half-elven language: "Veltok? You are Veltok... God, how did you become like this?!"

"By the way, I, I'm Yog... your good friend Yog, do you still remember him?"

Victor certainly remembered that although Yog was much taller now than he was a few months ago, his blue skin was still very impressive.

However, Victor never considered 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 Mayne. And all this was because Victor spoke up for him. But Victor did this mainly out of curiosity and a little sympathy.

Victor was ignorant at that time and had no idea what friendship was, so naturally he would not consider Yorg as a good friend.

Yog was not only not Victor's good friend, but in a sense he was even Victor's enemy, because he had now joined the Orc invaders, and attacked the Half-Elf adventurer team with them, but was captured and became Clark's prisoner.

A few days ago, Victor and his men contacted the messenger of the Rock-Splitting Orcs again. The messenger sent by the other side turned out to be Ingrid, the former leader of the barbarian slaves in the Braun Town Plantation.

Because Ingrid was favored by the power of fate, Christine did not attack her, and Ingrid did not recognize Victor's changed appearance.

She proposed a prerequisite for cooperation, which was to rescue the captured blue-skinned barbarians first.

As soon as Victor heard it, he knew 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 the orc messenger that he could rescue Yog, but he was willing to give it a try.

Apart from that, he had no more feelings about seeing Yog again, neither joy nor resentment, it felt like facing a stranger.

  Now, Yog could actually recognize Victor's changed appearance and voice, making Victor realize that this blue-skinned barbarian was really extraordinary!

Even so, Victor had no intention of reuniting with Jorg.

They were going to send Yog away tonight, and since time was tight, there was no need to create any more complications.

"You got the wrong person." Victor responded calmly, then he signaled Berg to untie the shackles on Yoger's wrists and asked, "Do you know a wild girl named Ingrid?"

Yog flexed his wrist and said frankly, somewhat embarrassedly: "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 Veltok.

Victor was of course surprised. He remembered that Ingrid was only a few years younger than Yog's shaman mother. She once took a knife and wanted to circumcise Yog herself, which scared Yog so much that he squealed like a pig.

How did Yog end up with Ingrid?

Victor instantly thought of the fact that Ingrid was protected by the power of fate, which meant that she had a status and a certain influence among the Orc invaders.

Since Yog and Ingrid are now husband and wife, Victor cannot reveal his identity to Yog, as that would be equivalent to telling Ingrid that the people of Braun Town are back and want to 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.

"Go to the next room and rest first. We will take you out to find Ingrid tonight. She asked us to rescue you."

Then, Victor arranged for an alchemist to take Yog to rest and keep him under strict supervision.

"Oh...oh, I understand, I understand, I understand." Yog seemed to suddenly realize something, and looked at Victor with gratitude, trying to communicate with him with his eyes.

An alchemist followed Victor's orders and forcibly took Yog away. Victor then turned around and said to his other companions angrily and helplessly: "What does this guy know? How can he recognize me?"