Chapter 193 New Situation(2/3)
Lann wants to try to get their support in advance and gain more military strength.
That's why he has the current action: "I want to use these drawings as the beginning of the friendship between Sintra and Mahakan, and I just want to meet the elders. As for the matters that follow, I will discuss in detail."
The machete scratched his beard: "I can't go back to Mahakan, like Zoertan and I. But I know more people than him, so I can help you pass this meaning to your companions who are still in Mahakan."
The machete words are not shirkable. Mahakan is an extremely closed and conservative place, but young dwarves yearn for freedom. Therefore, there is a custom that after a dwarf's fiftieth birthday, he can leave Mahakan and experience it in human civilization for a year. However, if he does not come back before the expiration of the 365-day period, he will be removed from the clan roster forever.
Now the machetes, Zoertan and Yarpan, whom Lann know, are dwarves who have been removed from the clan. However, the rules are dead and the feelings are immortal. They can still contact their former relatives and friends to build a bridge for Lann.
Even if the dwarves do not welcome human visitors, these lost armor forging techniques from the mirror master should be enough to serve as a stepping stone.
The machete put away these equipment drawings as if they were treasured.
"So." Lane took out a bottle of Towson's specialty red wine, "I think I need to toast at this time."
The two underground leaders who had great gains agreed.
The dwarf doesn't seem to like wine very much, but the beggar king likes it very much.
"Speaking of it," the beggar king touched the diamond in his arms and suddenly said, "Biography of Eternal Fire, Bishop Hmelfat, had suggested that Eternal Fire and all the underground forces of Novigri form an alliance. He also set up a general framework. I wonder how he is now?"
"He is dead, with Calemani." Schappelle said coldly, "We will not be an alliance, we just need it. I will allow you to exist only because you did not disturb the lives of citizens, and even effectively helped the lowest people."
The beggar king was not angry when he heard Shapele's words without any politeness. Instead, he took off his hood and smiled: "You have indeed changed a lot."
At the end of this, the beggar king and the machete did not greet Lanen again, and they left quickly in business.
Then came Schappelle, who came here mainly to take the lead and later needed to patrol the city to appease the masses. The recent spread of faith has been surprisingly effective.
Soon there were only Lane and the others left in this underground conference room.
"Is there something wrong?" Kayan suddenly saw Lane turn toward him and asked strangely.
Lane nodded.
Today, he arranged the gangsters and solved his affairs at Novigre. After that, he wanted to take Prince Orphere to the Cattle Castle, and then handed over the mission of Ougeld with Vizmir II.
Yes, in addition to the mirror master, Ogilde also has another task of eating one fish and two fish. Lane has to get this experience.
After going to the Niubao, he headed towards Haji Fortress.
But Novigrey is very big, and there are still some things that Lann likes to have not taken away yet, so Lann wants to take this opportunity to give Kaian some precautions.
"In this city, there are many strange races and humans with special abilities, which I want to subdue. These include the Bu Mengren who can independently perform dream divination, other transformants like Shapele, and even small earth spirits, succubus, etc.."
Lann looked serious: "If you meet them, without hurting others, I hope you can release your kindness on my behalf, rather than killing them for bounty or something. In my eyes, their value is far more than those dozens and hundreds of kroners."
Kaiyan's face was a little confused, but he still responded: "You are very different from the princes and nobles I have met before. You seem to like these messy things especially... But the nobles have a bit of strange hobbies. I understand what you mean, don't worry."
Lanen shook his head: "Kayan, you know my witch hunter sect plan. I want much more than that. If the witch hunter wants to establish a base in Sintra, then he will have to wipe out the reputation of the witch hunter being slandered. I am doing this now."
"And Novigre is the largest city in the north, and the news here will spread throughout the northern border. I hope you can reshape the image here and reverse the prejudice of the world, even if it is only a small part."
Hearing Lann's words, Kayan's face was slightly unnatural: "In fact, most of the reputation of the witch hunter was defeated by our cat sect."
Lanen of the Griffon School smiled and said, "Of course I know, so I hope that people can see a different cat."
Kaiyan thought about it and said that he could think about Lane's previous request to show mercy to his subordinates of the inhuman race, and then he could respond after a while, but he was really unconfident about the current expectation of breaking prejudice.
"It will be difficult, Lane. The reputation of the witch hunter is not just because of our own loss, warlocks, nobles, and politicians, which are also fueling the fire and putting in the wrong. Otherwise, you griffins would not end like this."
Lanen knew it in his heart: "So this time I pulled the Eternal Fire and ended up helping, with them in your actions, it will be much smoother. And I have another help..."
Kaiyan showed a curious look when he heard this.
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Novigrey City, in the courtyard to the south, in the Foxson Theatre.
The actors are rehearsing the repertoire. The troupe was almost disbanded in a disaster. Even though it was condolences of eternal fire, it was still a drop in the bucket for them who wanted to get back on track as soon as possible.
The condolences fund can help them maintain a basic life and avoid being displaced, but it is far from enough to restore their former glory.
The old troupe who had lost a large number of actors even suggested that they merge into other troupes on the spot, but in the end, the troupe's star Irena Renad, disagrees with the public and retains the troupe's personnel as much as possible.
Not only that, because of his performance in standing up in the previous riots, Irena was also elected as the leader of the Foxson Theatre.
When Lann and Kayan came here, the troupe was training new trainees to join the troupe. You can also see everyone rehearsing new repertoires not far away.
Almost half of the actors dressed in knights, wearing lion emblems with armor, waving wooden swords and singing lines loudly. Not far away, there are many children playing and playing, among which the king of children has blonde hair.
"I'm a person who was thrown out by a lion!" This sentence won him the envy and support of all the children in the troupe.
Kaiyan happened to hear this and couldn't help laughing.
Irvine saw Lan En standing out in the crowd and his eyes lit up. He casually explained to the people around him and ran over.
Looking at the crowd of actors in front of me who are like the monkey version, even Lane's current expression management was a little embarrassed.
"Ms. Irena, although I really want you to help me create a few repertoires, but now... "Lan pointed to the actors who are rehearsing, "It really made me a little 'too surprised'."
A few days ago, Lane went to the theater by looking for Dudu's reasons and used money to help them overcome difficulties. The art form of drama can not only rise to royal banquets, but also sink to the street square, but also cleverly mix private work in it. It is simply not suitable as a means of publicity.
When Lane suppressed the riot, he had already planned to take the troupe under his command, and the Foxson troupe was desperate for it and hit it off.
To Lann's reaction, Irvine covered his mouth and chuckled: "These are originally planned plays. Sintra, Temolia, Redania, you can leave praiseworthy deeds wherever you go. You are simply the protagonist of poetry and drama. I don't know anywhere else, and half of Novigre's poets and theaters have to thank you for supporting them."
Lane chuckled.
After the greetings, Yixian came to the topic: "Did you come here today to share some stories other than rumors to enrich our plays?"
As far as social is concerned, Irvine is very smart. Lane will definitely make a profit after funding the troupe, but what can the troupe do? Only act, write scripts and perform according to the requirements of investors.
But Irving said that it was Lane who provided stories to help the troupe enrich the plays, and things changed from helping the troupe to help the troupe, which made it very comfortable to communicate.
Lann likes to communicate with smart people the most.
Currently, there are few artists on the mainland who are willing to promote witch hunters. The most famous one is Geralt's close friend Dandrien. 90% of the nickname "White Wolf" belongs to him.
At this moment, Lane also began to tell the stories of the once magnificent witch hunters he knew.
The story of the series of betrayals of the cat-sected wolf school being back-stinged again, the inspirational story of the rogue of the lion scorpion school being enlightened by Tosent, the inspirational story of devoting one's religion since then, the sad story of the pioneer of the griffin school who was killed by human greed after slaughtering the dragon, and there are more legends of unknown glory and sadness that witch hunters...
These twists and turns and intense stories made Irna fascinated.
"But these stories lack the necessary factors to become the 'finals'." Although the stories are good, Irvine gave a professional opinion against them. "They can make people sigh, but they are difficult to make people happy and discuss them spontaneously. We need stories that happen around us, or stories that are immersive enough."
Irving burst out in his eyes: "Those stories that can be spread on the streets and taverns are the best stories. Love and swords are eternal themes - for example, you."
"There will be a story that will happen around you soon." Lane pointed to Kaiyan.
After a series of subsequent discussions, the themes of Lann and Kayan will become the main theme of the Foxson Theatre in the future.
Lann's "Knight Princess", "Destroy the Country Fight", "Restoring the Country Journey" are the finale; Kaian, in the city, entrusts to provide materials to the troupe in real time, and strives to create the image of "our good neighbor witch hunter" and related stories.
Before leaving, Lane specifically reminded Kaiyan: "Don't care about money. Try to exempt the remuneration when encountering poor families. The money I left for you is enough for you to spend a long time. If not enough, please contact Shapele or contact me for it."
"We'll be like this in the future?"
Lann thought for a while: "At least this is what it is now."
"What if someone blames the debt or even blackmails me or something?" Kaiyan knew how unreasonable the unreasonable people were in this era.
Lane said he had already prepared: "'Lannister, you must pay if you have any debts.' Go to Shapele, and he will deal with them according to the pagans."
When the cat witch hunter heard this, he suddenly looked forward to it. Should he take the initiative to find a rogue or something to practice?
Looking at Kaian's sudden desire to try, Lanan rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.
In fact, in terms of choice, it would be more stable to leave a more stable snake witch hunter in Novigre. For example, Koglim.
But they were not happy. Only Kaiyan, who was contracted by the [Minister] panel, was willing to accept his request, and only the [Minister] would give him experience when doing tasks.
But Kaiyan was originally a rational cat, and there was also the [Minister] panel, Eternal Fire, and the theater troupe helped him take care of him. There should be no accident...
I don’t know what the reputation of the witch hunter will become here when I come to Novigri next time.
Lann shook his head and was about to set out to deal with his last thing in Redania.
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Two days later, the cattle castle.
The Iron Cavalry of Sintra rolled in and stopped in the outer city of the Academy City.
It seemed like yesterday that Dikoscher was waiting at the city gate in brightly colored silk clothes, and greeted him at the same time as Lann arrived. It was obvious that he had received news of Lann's whereabouts.
"Compared with the last time, there seem to be a few fewer people behind you." Dikoscher looked at the cavalry behind Lane.
Lann looked serious: "They got the ending of the military."
When hedging against the Wild Boar Army, the Sintra cavalry died.
"I'm sorry." Dikoscher politely lowered his head and observed two seconds of silence.
Then he looked at the newly appeared Reso and others in the team, and his eyes were curious: "But there seemed to be a lot of new faces?"
Lane nodded: "I am an earl, so it's reasonable to collect a few followers?"
Dikoscher looked at the amber snake eyes of the witch hunters and smiled: "Of course."
Lann paused, showed a curious look, and suddenly said, "Why didn't you see Ms. Philiba this time?"
Indeed, at this moment, Dikoscher's shoulders were empty and there were no birds in the sky.
To be continued...