Mount & Blade: Wind of War

Because he knows everything, he can do everything.

If what Atiman said is true, then the prophecy machine called "Belle" is simply a national treasure, although it has not yet been truly completed.

Atiman asked Rhodes to find a supernatural item that can enhance spirituality and complete a kind of sublimation ceremony for the prophecy machine Belle.

Rhodes now has one of these things in his hand, uh, strictly speaking, two: Rhodes' own iron-backed steel gun and Kress's bloodthirsty javelin.

However, Kress's bloodthirsty javelin may not be spiritual enough, but Rhodes' iron-backed steel gun is definitely enough, as long as he is willing to give it to Atiman to turn it into a piece of scrap metal, and then use it to create a machine that he doesn't know whether it is useful or not.

On one side are two famous generals and heroes with great potential, and on the other side is his own iron-backed steel gun. This painful choice made Rhodes frown and sigh when the three of them left and sat in the restaurant.

"Master, do you really want to recruit those two people? Sister Yamila is fine, but that old man Atiman is more like a liar no matter how you look at him! Otherwise, we can just recruit Sister Yamila and let Atiman die." Kress said this, hoping to comfort the master.

"If that old man Atiman is really a liar, how could he teach the talented Yamila? Although I don't like him either, this person should be really talented, and talented people have strange tempers."

While Kress and Raymond were talking to each other, various dishes came up.

The three people present were big eaters compared to ordinary people, so the dishes they ordered were particularly rich: crispy roasted lamb with herbs, rosemary skewers, thyme and lemon stewed chicken, basil pesto stewed noodles, lemongrass baked pork neck, lavender bread, these are the specialty dishes of the store, one of them counts as one, and they all ordered at least one.

"Well, no wonder people like to go to big places. The cooking skills of any restaurant are quite good. This braised noodles are really delicious!" Raymond praised after taking a bite of mutton and another big mouthful of braised noodles.

Delicious food can improve mood and relieve stress, and the skills of the chef in the capital really play this role.

After the meal, Cress went to the kitchen and spent a lot of gold coins to ask the chef to teach her a few specialties.

Cress explained that she wanted to cook for her master. Seeing that Cress was not going to open a store, the chef gave her a lot of money and was sincere, so he taught her a few dishes.

A week later, the reward for Rodhart of Lonely Mountain Castle came down: Duke of Lonely Mountain, tax exemption in the territory for 50 years, and annual financial allocation of 300,000 gold coins to eliminate the demon army of hell in the lower plane.

Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, five levels of nobility, even Rod himself did not expect that he would reach the top in one step, from a pioneer lord with only the status of a knight, directly promoted to Duke of Lonely Mountain, so that he would be equal to Daenerys.

However, this is also the intention of the cabinet, to use a newly promoted border grand duke to divide the huge influence of the Karasa family in the northern province.

Even if the Hart family of the Lonely Mountain Duke becomes a new national threat in the later period, it will be at least a hundred or even two hundred years later.

As for the fiscal appropriation of 300,000 gold coins, according to the usual routine of central fiscal appropriation, this money will be exploited layer by layer all the way, and it will be good if 200,000 gold coins can be left in the account in the end. Although it is also a large sum of money, the cabinet finance minister Marquis Angel has always been good at business. As long as this trade route to the orc forces is opened, the commercial tax revenue obtained by the country will even far exceed 300,000 gold coins.

This huge push of strong support can also be said to support the earlier and more stable output benefits of Lonely Mountain Castle.

Although he got everything he wanted during this trip to the capital, Rhode still visited Marquis Angel and Countess Emilian again and gave them generous gifts.

Countess Emilian accepted the gift, but Marquis Angel did not. He just asked Rhode to help him look for a suitable Hell Demon Queen in the wilderness.

Looking at Marquis Angel's fat face that had begun to turn blue, Rhode could not help but agree: "My lord, it is more important to take care of your body!"

"Alas, I have enjoyed all the glory in my life, and now I just want to indulge my desires and die in pleasure."

"...Okay, my good lord, I will try my best to find it."

Due to the abnormal improvement of spiritual perception during this period, when talking with Marquis Angel, Rhode can always feel something hidden under the surface.

"What did Marquis Angel sense? Has he been desperate and plans to indulge his desires and die in pleasure? Or is he defiled himself to protect himself? Or, this self-protection posture is also a kind of concealment, is he peeping at something he shouldn't have peeped at?"

This pool of water in the capital is really too deep.

Rhode's intelligence attribute is definitely one of the best among these emperors, ministers, princes, and princesses, but everyone has their own expertise. Rhode can peek into some information because of his extremely high intelligence, but even he can't see clearly.

"The capital is really not a place I should stay for a long time. Now that I have obtained what I want, I will leave here immediately after completing Atiman's mission. Conspiracies and tricks are indeed very useful in certain periods, but when the torrent of the times hits, what is the meaning of these calculations in front of swords?" When leaving the Marquis Jill's mansion, Rhode pulled the reins, turned his head to look at the magnificent and stale mansion, then shook his head and chose to leave.

Conspiracies and schemes are like so-called human relationships. Sometimes they are more useful than talents and many other things, but sometimes they are worthless.

"Lord Rodhart!"

Suddenly, someone called Rhode.

Rhode looked sideways and saw that it was Katie, a familiar female knight guard. Judging from the armor and long sword on her body, she should have been promoted.

"Lord Katie, why are you here?"

"Lord, please follow me. The little princess knew that you were leaving and clamored to see you. I was afraid that she would anger His Majesty, so I found an opportunity to come here."

As she spoke, Katie led the way for Rhode. Rhode also trusted Katie and followed her.

In a remote corner of the palace, chubby Anna stood behind the railing in an exquisite and gorgeous princess dress.

The moment she saw Rhode appear, the girl's chubby face lit up.

She was obviously a princess of a country and the apple of the emperor's eye, but she had only felt the unpurposed and unimpure pampering and love from a man with no blood relationship.

How ridiculous, how sad.