From pioneer lord to king

Chapter 182 The Shocking Changes in Linton County 【4K】

Xiyue cleared away her pursuers neatly. Her strength had already been honed in battles, big and small, so there was no problem in having more than one enemy.

"You haven't answered me yet, why did they chase you down?" Xiyue asked Gray Moth while checking the identity of the person who came.

"I didn't know, it's too dangerous outside, let's go back quickly." Gray Moth lied very naturally, and then said something very surprising.

Xiyue raised her eyebrows and said jokingly, "Why, don't you want to run away?"

"What is running away, I just came out for a stroll, hurry up, there is still a wave behind." Gray Moth said righteously.

Yes, Gray Moth suddenly felt that it would be good to hang out with Ryan, this world is too dangerous.

and……

He subconsciously glanced at Xiyue's shoulder, there was a mass of scorched black marks, it was an injury suffered in the battle, although it was not serious, it still moved him very much.

Since he was a child, no one thought highly of him. When he was a child, he was an illegitimate child with a lifeless fate. When he grew up, he was a thief who was shouted and beaten by everyone.

To put it bluntly, no one cares about his life except his old mother who died early.

And when he was in a dangerous situation, Xiyue actually stood up alone, which really moved him. He hadn't experienced this feeling of being cared for for many years...

Gray Moth is sensational alone in her heart, and if Xiyue finds out, she will definitely tell him "overthinking".

Let alone him, Xiyue will help even an ordinary person who is not familiar with them. This is the spirit that a great adventurer should have, and it has nothing to do with Gray Moth himself. unfamiliar.

After the two returned to the camp, Gray Moth fell asleep. He slept very peacefully this time, and had a very strange dream. In the dream, an old man with a goatee asked him kindly if he wanted to When he's "walking".

Gray Moth didn't know what "walking" was, cursed "Made Cane" and went back to sleep in his dream, but he didn't notice that the bell he picked up was flickering with fluorescence...

The counter-insurgency campaign has come to an end, and the coalition forces of the aristocrats can begin to retreat only after the remnants of the rebels are wiped out.

Things were going well, and Ryan and the others silently began to calculate the return date. They had been out for more than half a year, and they were all homesick.

At the same time, a person who should not have appeared quietly returned to Linton County before them. This person was the long-dead Baron Brace.

After Ryan confirmed his death, he planned to take his body away, but he didn't expect to be ambushed in Bald City, and discarded the body during his escape.

No one expected that Bryce, who was so dead at the beginning, would actually "live" again...

Blaise was wearing slightly worn clothes, with a stiff expression, walking mechanically, except for the occasional flash of light in his eyes, he was no different from a walking dead.

He avoided the inhabited areas along the way, and returned to the barony like a ghost. The officer guarding in front of the city gate looked downcast and didn't recognize him for a while. He stretched out his hand to ask for "filial piety" to him.

Blaise raised his lowered head, and the officer finally recognized who was standing in front of him. He was so startled that he lay down on the ground, not daring to breathe.

But he just glanced blankly at the officer on the ground and walked towards the castle. The officer only felt that he had saved his life, and he didn't have the mood to ask why his lord behaved like this for a while.

He has no flaws in his identity. Although the soldiers guarding the castle were curious about why he came back in this form, they didn't have the courage to ask. They could only secretly guess that he might have lost the battle on the front line.

It was the old butler in the castle who first noticed that Blaise was abnormal. He had served the family for three generations. He had watched Blaise grow up since he was a child, and he was very familiar with him.

Brace, who behaved too abnormally, he could naturally find something was wrong.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, he was about to announce this discovery to the public quietly, but Blaise grabbed his arm first.

The old butler was nervous and wanted to find an excuse to leave, but saw a strange smile on Blaise's face, and his eyes turned into scarlet swirls.

The old butler's body trembled uncontrollably. He wanted to shout for help, but his throat seemed to be strangled, and he couldn't make any sound at all.

Soon, the old butler's body became icy cold.

Blaise dumped his body into the well and began to feast on his gluttony.

In just one night, everyone in the castle turned into walking dead...

People outside the castle didn't know about all this, because the only one alive who had witnessed all this was a fat mouse.

There is no need to say much about the origin of the mouse, and the cultist is Quinn the Faceless Man. He used evil methods to extend Blaise's arm before and planted a seed in his mind, and now, the seed sprouted up!
The people of Lintonshire don't yet know that a crisis is brewing...

In the dimly lit room, Quinn sat on a luxurious seat wrapped tightly, while the original owner of that seat—Brace was kneeling in front of him with blank eyes.

"Hmph! Those idiots have long said that this method will not work, but they want to gamble with the background of the council. Now not only is one of the evil artifacts lost, but the soul of the Holy Master is also destroyed. It is really stupid."

Quinn put his hand down from Blaise's forehead, and cursed the idiot several times in his heart.

Although he was also a member of the Evil God Apostle Council, the success or failure of the rebellion plan was only known in Blaise's memory just now.

When Blaise died, the decisive battle hadn't started yet. The reason why he had these fragments in his memory was because he "witnessed" the whole battle before receiving Quinn's instructions to come back and implement the new plan.

"That idiot of the second executive, if he listened to the opinion of the chief executive and fully supported the nightmare plan, how could there be such a disastrous failure?

What a shame now that such a perfect boarder has to be exposed in order to cover the council. "

Quinn looked at Blaise, his tone full of regret.

That's right, Blaise is indeed dead, and it is the existence in his mind called "Nightmare" that controls his physical activities.

Ryan has also come into contact with this thing. When the orcs invaded Kanar for the first time, he used the power of dragon crystal excessively and caused a coma.

And the cultists intend to take advantage of the void and plant a "nightmare" in his mind, so as to achieve the goal of controlling Ryan and even the entire territory.

It's a pity that they didn't know the existence of Dragon Crystal. The "Nightmare" they carefully cultivated was KO'd by a shock wave from Dragon Crystal before it took root, and the plan fell through immediately.

Quinn was the only survivor among the cultists at that time. Because of the failure of the mission, he was stripped of his face by his master and became the current faceless man, enduring unimaginable pain every day.

Not reconciled, he set his mind on Blaise, and it was much easier to deal with this guy, but he planted a "nightmare" in his mind with a little trick.

"Nightmare" was like a seed at the beginning, and it didn't have any special performance. During the period of boarding the host, it would continue to devour his spiritual power to grow.

When Blaise died, it was the time when "Nightmare" matured, which was an excellent time for it, because at this time the host's soul was in a defenseless state.

It directly swallowed Blaise's soul, occupied the magpie's nest by itself, and became the new "Baron Blaise".

Since he has digested the memory fragments in his soul, he is no different from Blaise, but his behavior will appear very uncoordinated, because "Nightmare" is still learning how to control this body.

The second executive that Quinn said was the unlucky guy who summoned the evil god to descend in the decisive battle and was finally beheaded by Douglas himself.

The power structure of the Evil God Apostle Council is not the same as that of other churches. Their highest authority is the parliament, the highest leader is the Great Speaker, and there are different numbers of members.

They control the supreme power of the apostolic council, responsible for developing the council, making future decisions and the like.

However, unlike other parliamentary organizations, although the speaker and members have decision-making power, they do not have executive power. The decisions they make must eventually be delegated to the executive, and they have full authority to implement them, and members of the parliament are not allowed to intervene.

The executive officers are all powerful priests, and their number is not fixed, there are more than a dozen of them in the most glorious time, and none in the worst time.

The most interesting thing is that although the evil god is unique and supreme, the evil god that each executive is loyal to is different.

Because the evil god is a complex composed of multiple wills, generally speaking, it is a split personality, or multiple splits.Each personality represents a different will.

For example, the second executive officer, the personality he is loyal to is "blood and violence", so he led and contributed to this massive rebellion in order to please the evil god.

The chief executive Quinn is loyal to is loyal to the protagonist "Nightmare and Darkness", and they do not advocate the use of direct rebellion to achieve the purpose of the parliament - the destruction of the world.

So, they used a trace of the blood of the evil god to cultivate the first "Nightmare", which is the mother body.

With the help of "Nightmare", they host powerful extraordinary people, or nobles with actual fiefdoms, and finally achieve the goal of controlling a country or even the world.

This plan achieved excellent results in the early stage, but was quickly stopped by the parliament because the resources invested were too large, and it was difficult to achieve the final goal in terms of the poor predicament of the parliament.

That's why there was a plan proposed by the second executive officer to directly launch a rebellion, use the southern border as the foundation, and finally swallow the entire territory of the Kingdom of Tistan and even the entire continent.

The people in the parliament were taken aback by his rhetoric, and finally unanimously decided to reduce the investment in the "Nightmare" project and invest most of the resources in the "Rebellion Project".

Obviously, the strength of this unlucky bastard who had blown out the cowhide but failed to do so not only consumed the foundation accumulated by the parliament for many years, but also made the Grand Duke of the South Realm aware of their hiding place.

In order to protect the lair from being discovered, the bigwigs of the parliament finally remembered this chess piece that was almost abolished by them. They planned to do something to attract the attention of the Grand Duke of the Southern Territory and create opportunities for them to transfer the lair.

This is also the reason why Quinn said it was a pity, because the boarders who were chosen to be exposed were abandoned children and were to be abandoned.

The "Nightmare" project has struggled to develop over the years, and the quality has also been uneven. It is very rare for the perfection of growth to reach the level of Blaise. As long as it is given time, it can become a "real" Blaise, but now it has to be treated as an abandoned child. give up.

"It's a pity, your title is too low, you are only a baron. If you have a viscount fiefdom, I will protect you in front of the executive officer no matter what I say." Quinn shook his head regretfully.

"Now that the castle is completely under control, we need to find an opportunity to make the next step. The bigger the movement, the better, so as to attract the attention of the Grand Duke of the South." Quinn rubbed his chin and began to plan the next move...

In September, the weather has gradually turned colder, and Kanarling is about to usher in another bumper harvest. During this time, the farmers working in the farmland are all smiling.

"Hey hey hey..."

Under the setting sun, a group of soldiers dressed in neat military uniforms and carrying brand-new weapons were running neatly on the spacious concrete road. They were all young men, and their shouts were full of vigor.

The leader was Hans. Today was a day for routine training, so he took the soldiers of the city defense battalion, the third battalion, out of the city early in the morning for field training, and he has not returned to Doman City until now.

Today's Doman City is a bit more lively than before, because the consul Hevian has been strictly implementing the policies set by Ryan, and is working hard to expand the population of the territory.

In less than a year this year, he has used various means and channels to increase the population of Kanna Territory by thousands, enriching the small towns and Doman City a lot.

During Ryan's absence, De Lai was the supreme military commander of the entire collar. He has never slacked off. Not only did he train frequently, but he also eliminated a group of unqualified soldiers and recruited a group of recruits, so he often sees recruits recently. The silhouette of training outside.

"Master Hans, you are back, and the commander of the legion is calling you over." As soon as Hans returned to the station, a young officer stepped forward to inform him.

"Well, okay, I'll go right away." Hans agreed, but he felt a little puzzled in his heart. After all, it has been quite peaceful recently, and Drey hasn't looked for him alone for a long time.

He saw De Lai in the office, and the other party was looking at something intently, with the word "Chuan" squeezed out of his brows.

"Master Legion, what do you want from me?"

De Lai looked up at Hans, sighed and said, "Come and see this."

Hans took a note strangely, and saw that it recorded in detail everything that happened in Brace Castle, including part of Quinn's follow-up plan.The final signature reads Rat Caller.

"This... this is simply too absurd, how is it possible?"

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(End of this chapter)