Chapter 46 The Duke’s Decision

 Perhaps he already believed what he said about the Seven Gods, so Varys didn't feel anything strange when he heard Lind mentioning things about gods.

  Afterwards, the two discussed how to meet and communicate in the future, and Wallis prepared to leave.

  However, when he reached the place where he had just entered, he suddenly stopped and his body tensed up, as if he had been frightened.

  Then, a shadow lynx with white fur and black patterns was seen slowly walking out of the shadows, and while walking, it let out a low growl towards Varys, and would pounce on Varys at any time.

  "Glory." Linde scolded Shadow Lynx.

  The originally extremely aggressive shadow lynx immediately became much docile and no longer regarded Varys as a target. However, when it walked past Varys, it still bared its teeth threateningly.

  Glory walked directly to Linde's feet, rubbed his neck against Linde's calf for a few times, then raised his head vigorously, stuck out his tongue and licked Linde's hand, then put his head on Linde's hand, signaling to Lin that De rubbed its head.

  Linde rubbed Glory's head, causing it to purr happily. Then Linde ignored Wallis's presence and checked Glory's current physical condition.

  Perhaps due to the absorption of the energy of the resentful souls in the dragon's lair, Glory's body was more than twice as big as before. When he straightened up, it was almost flush with his knees. He could no longer put it in his cloth pocket. in.

  Its fur has also become very shiny, the white ones are whiter, the black ones are darker, and the patterns have become more angular, especially the patterns on the head vaguely showing an irregular skull shape, which makes it look like It looks even more evil.

  "Is it the shadow lynx you got in the royal forest?" After the danger was resolved, Wallis also breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Glory curiously, asking, "Is it really the female shadow lynx that sent you to me?" Is it for you?"

  "No." Lind shook his head and said, "It was given to me by a son of the forest."

  "Son of the forest?" After hearing this, Wallis was stunned, as if he thought of something, and said: " I have heard of her. She often appears in the villages around Yulin and gives medicine to some patients. Many people regard her as a god and perform sacrifices to her."

  "God?" Linde was also a little surprised, but When I think about the magical abilities displayed by Spark, the Son of the Forest, it is not incredible to be regarded as a god by the farmers and peasant women in the villages around the Royal Forest.

  Wallis looked at Glory, then at Lind, and said leisurely: "Did you know? The albino shadow lynx in Asia is regarded as the messenger of the night lion. It will always accompany the night lion and the son of the daughter of light. The Emperor." After saying that, he paused again and said: "By the way, Sir. I don't like magic, nor do I like gods. Please don't tell me these things next time."

  After that, there was not much more. Seeing Lind's reaction, he turned around and walked into the passage he came from.

  After hearing this, Lind couldn't help but frown, and took Wallis's taboo to heart. He then grabbed the back of Glory's neck, raised it in front of him, and looked into its dark eyes. He muttered: "Human Emperor!"

  The tournament to celebrate the birth of the heir to the Baratheon Dynasty ended successfully, and the final winner was somewhat beyond people's expectations.

  Neither Jaime Lannister the Kingslayer nor Barristan the Fearless, but a foreign knight from across the Narrow Sea from the Alliance of Free Cities.

  This knight's name was very convoluted, with a large number of pronunciations that could not be pronounced in common language, so the translator had to simplify his name into two pronunciations, namely the two pronunciations at the front of his name, called Bahrain.

  However, the Bahrain knight disappeared after the game, and along with him disappeared his 50,000 gold dragon prize money.

  Many people think that this Bahrain knight must be in trouble, but they don't know who was lucky enough to get the 50,000 golden dragons in the end.

  After the tournament, warriors, knights and mercenaries from all over the country left one after another. However, the departure of these people did not mean the end of the chaos, but more like the spread of the chaos.

  Because, only a small number of these warriors gathered in King's Landing were employed by caravans traveling from various places and could leave with the caravans. Most of the others could only leave at their own expense. During their time in King's Landing, He spent so much time and alcohol that he had already spent the last copper on his body, and his trouser pockets were cleaner than their faces.

  In this case, except for a very small number of knights who value honor, other mercenaries, warriors and wandering knights have played the role of bandits. Although they dare not rob King's Landing and its sphere of influence, when they are far away from King's Landing, When the time came, they became unrestrained.

  Because of this, nobles from all over the country who originally came to King's Landing to participate in the martial arts tournament all received letters asking for help from their respective territories, forcing them to leave King's Landing early and rush to their respective territories to eliminate the bandits.

  The Tyrell family also received reports of a large number of bandits in the Reach, but they did not panic. After all, the bandits in the Reach have never subsided in the past year. Now there are just a few more, and they are increasing. From the Duke of Leer's perspective, this is not a bad thing, because with the emergence of new bandits, bandits will inevitably fight each other for territory, which will actually make various regions more stable.

  However, this does not mean that they will just leave these bandits alone. Now they have planned to focus on eliminating these bandits, because just yesterday they had negotiated some business deals with King's Landing, the West, the Riverlands, the Valley and the North. Contracts, these business contracts can make the nobles of the Reach a lot of money, and can also restore the business to normal in the Reach, but the prerequisite is that the bandits and the remnants of the Long family in the Reach can completely disappear.

  The bandits south of Kuqiao were easier for them to deal with. After all, the lords of each territory could cooperate with each other to eliminate them. However, the bandits in the mountainous and hilly areas north of Kuqiao and up to Yulin were very difficult to deal with.

  There are a large number of caves and dense forests where people can hide in this area. No one knows how many people are hiding in this area. Even if a large army is sent to encircle and suppress them, they can hide in the royal forest and come out after others leave.

  Moreover, there are many savage tribes here, and the encirclement and suppression troops may have already started fighting with the savage tribes before fighting the thieves.

  At the meeting, Maester Morath proposed to form three troops. Two of the three troops were composed of the Tyrell family and other lords of the River Bend. They were mainly cavalry and numbered about 500 people. They were responsible for traveling back and forth. Patrol the Rose Avenue, and establish outposts at several key points on the Rose Avenue. Some soldiers are stationed for a long time, specifically responsible for the safety of caravans coming and going on the Rose Avenue, and also provide some safe places for the caravans to rest at night.

  In addition, a capable knight was responsible for forming the other troops. The Tyrell family and various lords only contributed part of the military expenses, and the remaining military expenses were raised by the knights themselves.

  This team of troops is stationed north of Kuqiao and is responsible for clearing out bandits until the bandits are completely wiped out.

  After listening to the proposal of Maester Moraes, some nobles questioned: "Would anyone be willing to do this kind of job that requires money and effort, and risks life and death?"    

  "Of course someone is willing to do it, because the knight who completes the mission of clearing up will be heavily rewarded." Duke Tyrell took over the words of Maester Moras and said: "I will give out a manor and village as a reward to make him a worthy person." Producing knights."

  After hearing Duke Tyrell's words, many nobles in the tent realized that the Duke and others had obviously discussed it in advance, so they all agreed with the proposal.

  At the same time, when they heard the conditions offered by Duke Tyrell, they all couldn't help but take a deep breath, and they couldn't help but feel excited on their faces.

  You know, except for a few people who own territories in the tent, most of the others are just court nobles in Highgarden. Although they also have a little power, compared to the real lords, they are still far behind, just like civilians. The same gap as the Cavaliers.

  Although a manor and a village are not very valuable things, and they may even need to invest a lot of money to operate them after owning them, but after all, they are territories, territories that can be passed down, and territories they dream of.

  However, after being excited, they quickly calmed down. No one dared to step forward and take over the task because they all knew how dangerous the task was.

  These court nobles have more or less access to some information. They know that Kuqiao once tried to send troops to wipe out the bandits in that area. They sent more than 500 people. In the end, only more than 100 people escaped back to Kuqiao and King's Landing City. Storm's End also sent thousands of people, but not a single hair was found. They just killed a few wild deer and returned to the army.

  If the High Court can give full support, send troops, send people, and provide sufficient military expenses, then they may have the opportunity to clean up some bandits and cooperate with the other two patrol cavalry on the Rose Avenue to make the trade road smooth, and then unblock it. It is possible to complete the task.

  But now the Duke has made it clear that he will only provide part of the military expenses, and even the manpower must be prepared by himself. This will undoubtedly make this task more difficult. If they take over, they will only die.

  His eyes swept over the palace nobles who bowed their heads in silence. A hint of anger appeared on Duke Tyrell's face. Then he ordered the attendants beside him: "Go and gather all the knights in the camp. I hope that some of them can Satisfy me." With that, he turned to look at Fortimo and asked, "What about you? Sir Fotimo, if you don't give it a try, it will just give the Klein family an extra piece of land?"

  "Duke Sir, not being greedy is a rare quality in me." Fotimo smiled. In fact, he also wanted to take on this task, but he knew very well how dangerous this task was. If he failed, what would happen to their lineage? It was undoubtedly a fatal blow to Klein. He could only choose the safest method to preserve the family's strength instead of rashly expanding.

  Moreover, for him, even if he does not take on this task, it will still benefit the Klein family, because Linde is more suitable for this task than him, and Linde's relationship with him is enough to ensure that Linde becomes the After having a knight, the Klein family can get a foreign aid.

  While discussing the suppression of bandits in the Duke's camp, Linde on the other side of the camp drew the last piece of the Homeless Knight's full-body armor, rolled it up, put it into a hollow wooden shaft, and handed it to the Wallis faction outside the tent. Let the little bird come and send it to Varys.

  Yesterday, during his meeting with Varys, he tried every means to form a partnership with Varys. This was one of the biggest gains for him in coming to King's Landing.

  Because Varys is here, he can at least understand the situation in King's Landing. What's more, he can also understand the situation in the Seven Kingdoms. And the most important thing is that Varys can help him obtain the information under the Red Keep at any time. Dragon bones, so that he doesn't have to worry about not having enough dragon bones to consume in the Dragon Feast Ceremony.

  Although he influenced Wallis's judgment through some true and false words, Wallis will definitely doubt his words after he calms down, so he needs to use other methods to stabilize and deepen the relationship between the two. relation.

  When Lind was thinking about how to deepen his relationship with Wallis, he felt Glory rubbing against his feet, raising his head to lick his palms from time to time.

  Linde touched Glory's head and led it out of the tent. At this time, people outside the tent looked at Linde in horror, or to be more precise, at Glory.

  The reason why they were so frightened about Glory was entirely because Glory's current state was so weird. Glory's size had more than doubled the night before yesterday, and today, its size had doubled again. Although it was smaller than It's still a long way from an adult shadow lynx, but it's almost the size of a small pony.

  They had never heard of any beast that could grow so much in a short period of time, so during the day, there were rumors that someone saw a monster with white fur and black stripes appearing near the dragon's lair the night before. With so many people buried in the past, there must have been countless resentful souls. Coupled with the legend about the albino shadow lynx, many people in the camp speculated that the reason why Glory changed like this was because it swallowed the resentful souls in the dragon's lair. So I am more afraid of glory.

  After hearing these rumors from Raul, Linde couldn't help but admire the imagination of these people, which allowed them to discover the truth.

  He didn't explain this to Glory, but just let it go. It wouldn't hurt to add some mystery to him now.

  What he is most concerned about now is what kind of changes have occurred in Glory's body. He has been conducting many tests since returning to the camp the night before yesterday.

  During the test, he found that Glory's strength and speed had been greatly improved. Although Glory's size was still far behind that of an adult Shadow Lynx, it was no longer a problem to deal with an adult warrior like Raul head-on.

  In addition, Glory has also become a lot smarter. He can understand some of Linde's orders and is more obedient. He will not bite people indiscriminately without Linde's orders, but people who approach rashly will still bite him. threatened by it.

  The most important change is that Linde can from time to time give orders to Glory through a spiritual connection from a distance, and can even possess Glory like a shapeshifter and use Glory's eyes to observe the surrounding situation. The only regret is that this kind of change-like The shaper's state is uncontrollable.

  Although he had discovered so many changes in Glory, Linde still felt that there were still changes in Glory that had not been discovered, so he decided to take Glory into the surrounding woods to continue testing.

  "Lord Lind, wait a minute." Just as Lind was about to leave the camp, a voice suddenly came from behind him. Lind turned around and saw that it was Duke Tyrell's attendant.

  "What's the matter?" Linde asked.

  The attendant respectfully saluted Linde and said, "Your Majesty, the Duke, wants you to go to the main camp."

  Linde nodded and was about to leave, but stopped again, and then asked, "Is it just me?"

  "No, my lord, there are other knights, knights throughout the camp," replied the squire.

  (End of chapter)