Great Elf Sage

Under the policy of the central aristocracy of England not to develop the northwest, Callan City is the last relatively prosperous city in the northwest of the United Kingdom. .biquge

Strictly speaking, this is not the northwest, but the junction of the northwest region and the central region. It is also because of its advantage as a transportation artery between the northwest region and the central region that Kallan City can maintain its only little prosperity.

Kallan City is a little noisy today.

Since the merchants and troubadours who returned from the northwest entered the city at noon, discussions have been ringing throughout the city of Kalan.

In a tavern somewhere, a man after a day's work drank ale and talked about the latest news to kill the boring days.

"Did you hear about it? What happened with Knox."

A man dressed as a hawker said to his companion next to him.

"Knox? What's there to say about that poor place?"

The companion showed no interest in the subject.

"You don't know that?"

Someone nearby heard their conversation and couldn't help but interject.

Seeing both of them looking at him, the man felt enlightened and continued after taking a sip of ale:

"Did the Kingdom of Knox know? Their last descendant has appeared, and he wants to take revenge on the central nobles of the United Kingdom!"

"Kingdom of Knox? Has there ever been such a country? I only know the province of Knox..." The vendor was obviously the type of person who was short-sighted but liked gossip.

"Hey! You don't know this. The Kingdom of Knox is what the province of Knox was called before it was merged into the United Kingdom!" The man who was originally not interested in this topic couldn't bear it when he saw that he happened to be talking about something he knew. Zhu opened his mouth and said.

"What a merger! That's invasion and occupation! Which of the current provinces in the United Kingdom was not conquered by the British army?" Men always like to take charge of national affairs, even though they themselves only receive the lowest salary.

"Isn't it? If those southern provinces weren't already powerful, in order to maintain stability, the great nobles of England would not recognize the name of the United Kingdom and would have changed their name to the English Empire long ago!" Another one The drunk man was attracted by this topic and spoke some difficult words that he had heard from his boss but that he did not understand at all.

More and more people were attracted around, and everyone was talking about random gossip. Some were talking about the current affairs of the United Kingdom, some were talking about the unofficial history of the great British nobles, and some were talking. The past of the Kingdom of Knox.

"So what happened in Knox?" The vendor who started the topic felt a little confused.

The insider who interrupted at the beginning was also a little helpless. He finally got some gossip, but the topic was distorted before it attracted attention.

……

At this time, in a market in Kalan City, a large group of people gathered around a bard to listen to his story.

"...The sage whipped up a gust of wind and flew into the sky. With a stamp of his feet, a red sun appeared. Five flaming dragons flew out of the red sun. The flaming dragon flapped its wings and covered it with flames. The whole sky..."

The troubadour was getting excited when he saw copper coins being thrown into his box one after another. He was very excited. Sure enough, this big news could bring him a fortune. It was not in vain that he spent a lot of money to follow the first batch of merchants. The team is back.

Just as he was about to continue speaking, a voice interrupted him.

"Is this all a lie? Not to mention the ridiculous joke that people can actually fly. Even the giant dragons have disappeared for thousands of years. Now there are only some mixed dragon species living on the continent. Are there creatures like giant dragons in the forest or mountains? I don’t know, they have already become extinct!”

The speaker was a middle-aged man dressed as an adventurer, and the scars on his exposed arms added to the persuasiveness of what he said.

The troubadour was a little angry. Isn't this ruining his own job? What's more, this is the real truth, I saw it with my own eyes!

"Sir, I understand your fear of unknown things and your poor knowledge as a little adventurer, but the residents of Kailong Mountain City saw this with their own eyes that day, so why do you How about judging it to be false because of your own ignorance?”

As an experienced bard, this level of shifting contradictions and Ming Dynasty innuendo can be said to be his specialty.

The onlookers were talking a lot, and the bard looked at the middle-aged adventurer with a somewhat proud look, but the expected anger did not appear.

"I'm sorry to tell you that I am not a little adventurer. I am Sorkin, the captain of the Silver Medal Adventurer Team 'Angry Hunters'. I am not the kind of young boy who is short-sighted and afraid of the unknown. ." The adventurer named Sorkin looked at the bard with sharp eyes.

"It's actually Sorkin, the captain of the 'Angry Hunters'!" Exclaims came from the crowd.

"I heard that their team has killed dragons before!"

"Isn't it? Otherwise, how can we become a silver medal adventurer team?"

The troubadour's face was a little ugly. This guy turned out to be a celebrity. It was all because he didn't know about him because he didn't belong to the generation in Kalan City. Otherwise, he wouldn't have deliberately used words to provoke him just now.

"But this matter has been witnessed by the entire Kailong Mountain City! If you don't believe it, ask the people who came from Kailong Mountain City today..."

The Troubadour tried to regain the advantage, but Sorkin once again interrupted him.

"You came to Kalan City on the same day. Who knows if you are in the same group? Are there not many businessmen and troubadours who lie just for a small profit?"

Sorkin's words resonated with the crowd of onlookers. The people who just gave the coins to the bard regretted it, and some were even thinking about getting the copper coins back from the bard's box.

"You..." The troubadour felt a million grievances in his heart at this moment. It was obvious that he had told the truth for the first time in a long time!

……

A corner of Kalan City, the castle of Lord Marquis Melos.

A young man dressed as a guard walked through the corridors, knocked on the door of a hall, saluted Marquis Melos who was sitting at the head, and then reported:

"Father, there are reports from all over the city, and the news from Kailon City has been temporarily suppressed."

Marquis Melos nodded, tapping the fingers of his left hand on the table. There was a piece of parchment shining with a faint colorful light on the table.

"Understood, let people continue to control public opinion and don't let this news spread, at least not in the Kalan City area." Marquis Melos said the next sentence in a low voice for some reason.

The young man opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

"Huh? What's wrong, Martin, do you have anything else to say?" Marquis Melos noticed his son's hesitation and asked.

"Father, do you think it is really necessary for us to waste so much manpower on the so-called 'prophecy' coming from the middle of the country? Besides, this is probably just a legend made up by someone who doesn't know who, even if we control it here Public opinion, but the merchants and bards from Kailon City will always spread this story from other places..."

Most of the non-English central nobles have no favorable impressions of the central nobles who rule the entire United Kingdom. Martin knows very well that his father, Marquis Melos, is one of them, but why did his father react to the prophecy that the central government suddenly sent urgently a few days ago? 'So you obey what you say?

He picked up a thick hard-cover book nearby and pressed the parchment underneath. After making sure that no parchment was exposed at all, Marquis Melos said:

"I don't care whether those rumors are true or false, and I don't care whether they will spread or not. As long as they don't spread in my territory, it is enough to explain to the central government."

Marquis Melos paused and continued:

"Martin, do you know how England, originally a small inland kingdom, gradually became the ruler of the United Kingdom that now dominates one-fifth of the Aslan continent?"

"This... is because of the slave freedom decree established by King William I of England a hundred years ago..." Martin recalled the content in the history books of the United Kingdom and answered the question of Marquis Melos, but before he could finish, Marquis Melos interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

"No! These are all said to deceive the civilians. There is only one real reason..."

Marquis Melos knocked on the hard-cover book holding the parchment on the table, and then said:

"...The English royal family has mastered a mystical profession that can predict the future!"

……

To be continued.