Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 53 Local Leader Wilder
Led by a young attendant, Ian and his party entered the 'Castle Hall' built of wood and adobe that was a bit more shabby than the Black Falcon Mercenary Castle of the Ward family.

"Welcome, Sir Lucian Lannister." Before entering the castle, Ian let Martha's niece Jenny Hyde, the proprietress of the Crossroads Inn, come in to inform the owner of the castle. Lost his own 'Sir Lucian' identity.

"I am Sir Wilder of the Reg family." But the first person to speak was not the owner of the castle, but the local knight leader Sir Wilder who was said to have seen the three-headed black dragon coat of arms on the bandit.

He was an older knight with a grizzled beard, but his body looked as strong as a lad in his twenties.With just one glance, Ian knew that this person should not be underestimated.

After Sir Wilde introduced himself, he pointed to the middle-aged tough guy beside him: "He is Sir Willy Ward, the owner of this castle."

Willie Ward looked at Ian's eyes looking at him, but nodded slightly stiffly, and didn't say much.

As cold as in the original book, Ian complained.

"Nice to meet you." Because Jane had already announced her name, Ian saved the introduction and just introduced the other servants, "These two are dog eggs and duck eggs," he said. Pointing to Luo Er and Case, "They are all commoners in the western region, and they are my servants."

"And those two outside are my servants' servants." This naturally refers to Bronn and Chiggen.

hiss~
As soon as Ian finished speaking, he heard the gasp of the two knights in front of him.

"Presumably Jenny has already told you the purpose of my trip?" Ian asked straight to the point without leaving time for the other party to marvel.

"Of course, Sir." Sir Wilder's attitude was enthusiastic, but the words he said were not so welcoming, "It's just that you may have made a trip in vain, because our operation is over."

Ian asked Jane to come in to inform that he came to help after hearing the news of their 'recruitment of foreign knights within a week', so Sir Wilder began to explain as soon as they met.

Ian looked around, and there were indeed only Sir Wilde and Sir Willy in this hall, and just now in Willy Ward's manor, apart from the two knights' attendants and less than 20 guards, he In addition, there is indeed no trace of a military build-up.

This makes Sir Wilder's statement particularly convincing, but if they have any large-scale actions, how could I not get any news?

"So what exactly did you do?" Ian chose to ask Sir Wilder directly.

"Sorry, this involves our secret." Wilder shook his head and refused to answer.

secret?Ian narrowed his eyes.

"You made me make this trip for nothing, and you don't even want to give me an explanation?" Ian was 'furious', writing on his face the arrogance that a 'Lannister' of his age should have, "I Can this be interpreted as an insult to myself?"

Sir Wilder frowned when he saw this, Mud, why did you provoke such a dude?Just when he was thinking about how to fool 'Sir Lucian', Ian spoke again.

"I've heard before that there is a bandit bandit called the 'Whitewall Ghost' near here, and they are looking for a copy of the restoration of the kingdom left by the former Earl of Whitewall for the descendants of the Blackfyre." Treasure." Ian stiffened his neck, with an angry expression on his flushed face,
"I originally thought that anyway, you have been looking for it for so long, so I should simply cooperate with you, but you dare to humiliate me!"

"We didn't, Sir Lucian. It's been several days since I made a request to Martha, and the operation has already ended today. It can't be considered that we are playing you?" Sir Wilde said. Twitching the corners of his mouth, resisting the urge to throw the other party out, he patiently explained.

"Since you don't welcome me, then I can only go to Harrenhal to deliver a letter to King's Landing," Ian and Wilder said separately, "It only takes less than a day for the raven to deliver my letter to King's Landing Zhan Uncle Tom's hand,
The elite of the Lannister family will arrive here in five days. If you can't find the so-called black fire treasure within this period of time, this treasure will have nothing to do with you. "

Sir Wilder's face darkened in an instant.

"Wait, sir," Wilder saw Ian turn around, and quickly stopped him, "I'm sorry we misunderstood your idea at the beginning, the operation I asked Martha to help find someone before is indeed over, but if If you want to join our alliance to find the Blackfyre treasure, we are very welcome."

"Oh?" Ian stopped and turned around, "Then how much can I take?"

"If we get the Blackflame Treasure in the end, you will get [-] to [-]% of the proceeds." Wilde gritted his teeth and said a bottom line number directly.

"This is blackmail!" Sir Willy looked at the leader of the alliance around him in shock, "When we cooperated with the Black Falcon Mercenary Group before, we only gave them 5% of the car, and they have a total of two hundred people! This guy [-] people will get [-]%?"

Sir Verry's temper has always been bad. In order to avoid offending others, Sir Wilder deliberately told him to speak less, and he has always done so, but this time he really couldn't take it anymore.

Sir Wilde shook his head slightly at Sir Viry, and then squeezed out a smile to Ian, "As you can see, this is the biggest concession we can make."

"Twenty percent of the income, if I report it to the family, I'm afraid the most I can get will not exceed this amount." Ian nodded with satisfaction.

This made Sir Wilde heave a long sigh of relief, but Ian's next sentence instantly made him raise his breath again.

"But sir, I am not pleased that you are not being honest with me."

"How do you say that?" Sir Wilde forced a smile again.

"If I'm right, the operation you asked Martha to help you find foreign knights to participate in didn't actually start? Moreover, this operation has already involved the key clues leading to the treasure."

"Why do you think so?" Wilder couldn't even squeeze out a smirk.

"Because of your attitude."

"My attitude?"

"The Treasure of the Black Flame is no secret in this generation, and all the mercenaries around here know it. And when I asked you what you did to recruit the 'Outlander Knights', tell me, then It's a secret, if that action didn't involve key clues to find the treasure, you shouldn't have anything to say about keeping it a secret, right?"

"This..." Sir Wilder swallowed, "is this too far-fetched?"

(End of this chapter)