Chapter 139 Solving Hidden Danger
After chatting with the commander of the Purple Dragon Legion and the War Mage Captain, Brian found a familiar knight walking next to Obert Jinyu.
"Lord, do you still remember me?" The young knight put his helmet under his arm and said to Brian with a smile, "I didn't expect you to hide it so deeply."
< br>"Let me introduce you again. I am Alek. I am very happy to serve under the lord." The young knight took off the iron gauntlet and extended his right hand to him.
"Welcome to join." Brian looked at the handsome young paladin, responded with a smile, and stretched out his hand to shake his hand.
This person was a Tomu paladin whose strength reached the third level who unexpectedly appeared when he, Graal and others were dealing with the Haunted Man at the banquet.
As the true god, one of the three gods of justice, Thom is a stern, upright and unyielding god, and he is also the good god who is most active in fighting evil forces.
At a glance, Brian discovered that at least five of these purple dragon knights exuded a unique sacred aura.
Even without the detection spell, he could still detect that they all had paladin as their basic profession, and then advanced to become a purple dragon knight.
In their player group, the paladins who become the Purple Dragon Knights can continue to improve the level of the paladins without stopping there.
Although the Purple Dragon Knight, who advanced from the Paladin, can be said to be a model of discipline and strong martial arts. While inheriting the professional abilities of the Paladin, he also gained advanced abilities.
But when Brian was just establishing his territory, he did not want to have too close contact with this group of lawful and good paladin order.
Otherwise, when he saw this paladin for the first time, he would immediately be tempted to recruit him.
Then, Brian led the group of men towards the Rock Bunker.
The rock bunker is located on a hill overlooking the entire town. There is a garrison barracks in the courtyard of the castle. There is no problem in housing more than 500 people.
There are also stables, an armory, a blacksmith shop and storage rooms in the courtyard, and there is even a small chapel of Bane.
However, he has sent people to demolish this chapel, which can be set up as a prayer room for these paladins.
The main reason why he arranged this was because this castle was not that attractive to him and was just a temporary place to stay.
Because after he builds the wizard tower, he will live in the tower. What's more, there will be a manor more luxurious than the castle in another dimension.
So, he originally planned to leave this castle to the Purple Dragon Legion and the Battle Mage.
In this case, they can still have time to train as many warriors as possible.
If you think about the worst, even if Mokou Town is breached, he still has the rock bunker, the strongest internal defense line, to resist.
Among the major kingdoms and many territories in this world, many sieges failed because after taking the city, they found that the lord's castle inside was more difficult to attack than they imagined, and they were eventually driven away The reinforcements attacked from front to back and besieged him to death.
At the beginning, if he had not let Grall pretend to return to the Zhentarim and let the Dragon Skeleton Mercenary Group act as internal agents to help them open the gate of the castle, even if he had more manpower, he would not be able to defeat the castle soldiers and the Even if there was enough food, he would not be able to occupy it quickly.
Looking at the team behind him, Brian knew that the addition of more than 500 new troops had finally alleviated the town's manpower shortage,
After all, he occupied Mokou Town for only a few days. During this period, he unprecedentedly restored freedom to nearly 2,000 slaves.
In this case, the most serious problem faced is how to manage them and let them complete their work honestly according to the planned plan.
At this time, in addition to arranging the town's defense and internal patrol teams, he also spent most of his manpower managing them.
Now, he can let the Purple Dragon Legion take over the work of city defense and patrolling outside the town, while a group of mercenaries from Salo, the former leader of the Dragon Skeleton Mercenary Group, and newly recruited adventurers will be responsible for The defense of the city.
Gral's caravan will also free up a large number of manpower to keep the trade in Mokou Town going.
As a group of people walked through the central street of Mokou Town, Brian suddenly noticed that a group of more than 20 people were walking towards them.
The leader of the man is very strong, his body is shining with gold, and he wears a lot of gold jewelry. He looks like a nouveau riche who got rich overnight.
At the same time, out of his keenness in magic, Brian also discovered that six of the ten fingers of this strong man were wearing magic rings.
This allowed him to immediately recognize the identity of this person: Philip, the president of the Eagle Chamber of Commerce, a confidant of Prince Selant of Cormyr who had been placed in Mokou Town.
Then he thought for a moment and guessed the purpose of the other party's coming here.
The Dead Rat Gang, a sewer force secretly controlled by the Eagle Chamber of Commerce, was uprooted by him yesterday.
The next day, he sent someone to notify the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and asked him to release all the slaves in the manors and mines under his name within three days, and then hand them over to Mokou. After taking all the land and resources owned by the town, he took his people and got out of Mokou Town.
He had long expected that the other party would never agree to his seemingly unreasonable but reasonable condition.
He is the ruler of Mokou, the town he reclaimed from the Zhentarim.
In this case, everything in the entire town belongs to his property. If the merchants and slave owners who settle here are unwilling to surrender to him, they will be greeted by a ruthless butcher's knife.
And that's exactly what happened.
In the process of Brian taking back the land and resources, the bodies of anyone who tried to resist were hung on wooden racks in the Punishment Square and allowed to be eaten by crows.
It was his tough and ruthless attitude that made all the surviving merchants and slave owners in the town reluctantly hand over their territories and occupied resources.
Because in essence, these people are also his spoils.
But only the Eagle Chamber of Commerce has remained indifferent.
Brian knew the power behind this chamber of commerce, so he chose to wait for the superficial order of the town to temporarily stabilize before choosing to use him to scare the monkeys and tell all those who were convinced and dissatisfied what the consequences would be if they resisted.
The elimination of the Dead Rat Gang in the sewers was the first warning he gave Phillip.
He had no choice but to do this. After all, this town had been ruled by the evil forces led by the Zhentarim for ten years, and it was rotten to the core.
It is impossible and he does not have that much time and patience to rely on his personal charm to make these people change their ways like Graal and follow him wholeheartedly one after another.
In this case, the most efficient way is to cut through the mess quickly.
Brian noticed the smiling president of the Chamber of Commerce walking straight towards the Purple Dragon Knight Obert Jinyu.
Seriously speaking, Philip belongs to Prince Serante, and his Mokou Town and these Purple Dragon Knights and Battle Mages are under the jurisdiction of Duke Raul of Arabe City.
He knew about the conflict between Prince Cerante and the Raul family, so when he saw the president showing favor to the commander of the Purple Dragon Knights, he guessed that the other party was probably preparing to reveal his identity. .
In this case, no matter what, it would be impossible for him to openly deal with the Eagle Chamber of Commerce and seize all his property and land.
Because they all belong to the Kingdom of Cormyr, doing so is undoubtedly a naked challenge to the authority of Prince Selant. If Brian's prediction was correct, the prince had not yet completely revealed his intention to usurp the throne, and should still be helping King Yazen V who was on an expedition to the Dragon Coast to manage the kingdom's internal affairs.
At this time, his wings have not yet hardened up. If he wants to fight against the City of Shadows, he needs to rely on the Kingdom of Cormyr behind him in many places.
And it is impossible for him to solve this hidden danger cleanly.
The Eagle Chamber of Commerce will be like flies, constantly breeding maggots from dead bodies, and then the maggots will give birth to flies.
Even when he was dealing with the City of Shadows, it was possible to stab him in the back.
After thinking about this problem, Brian's eyes showed a hint of coldness.
An issue that Philip ignored was that although a few people in Mokou Town knew that he was Prince Celant, the other party had never made this identity public.
Brian can just pretend that he doesn’t know.
“The people from the Eagle Chamber of Commerce refused to surrender and tried to resist.”
Just when Philip was about to approach everyone, Brian gave a cold shout and ordered everyone: “Now , in the name of the lord of Mokou Town, I will kill these rebels on the spot!”
"Purple Dragon Guards!" Obert Jinyu drew his sword without hesitation and shouted loudly.
The fifty Purple Dragon Guards lowered their spears and moved closer to the more than twenty people from the Eagle Chamber of Commerce, surrounding them.
"What do you want to do?! I am." The smile on Philip's face suddenly froze and turned into unbelievable shock.
"Pfft!"
Before he could finish his words, with a sharp thrust, the Chamber of Commerce guard closest to him was stabbed into the back by the Purple Dragon Guard's spear. The newly drawn sword slipped from his limp hand, and the bloody spear tip pierced from under his ribs, penetrating the leather vest and armor.
Before the sword hit the ground, the man was dead.
Purple Dragon Knight Alek personally slashed the throat of another guard with his sword.
A stream of blood splattered.
The other guards were also caught off guard and were killed on the spot by the Purple Dragon Guards.
Philip, the president of the Eagle Chamber of Commerce, looked at the sudden change. He immediately pulled out his weapon, turned around and swung his sword, a sword light burst out, and he forced back the two Purple Dragon Guards who were thrusting towards him.
Immediately afterwards, he activated the teleportation spell on the ring without hesitation, and with the magical aura emerging, he seemed to be about to break out of the encirclement in an instant.
However, just when he was about to disappear, a battle mage wearing a purple cloak stretched out his finger, and a lightning whip with jumping electric light hooked Phillip's ankle.
The war mage pulled hard, and waves of lightning surged out from the crackling lightning. Philip exclaimed, his body convulsed and shook, and he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
Alek took the opportunity to attack in front of him. His first sword cut off Philip's right wrist that subconsciously raised to resist, and his second sword split him alive from his shoulder to his sternum.
Philip wailed and died on the spot.
"Detain his soul." Brian, who had been watching with cold eyes from beginning to end, gave an order.
When he met with the War Mage, he noticed that one of these spellcasters was a War Mage who was proficient in the necromancy school.
Detaining a soul is as simple as eating and drinking for the wizards of the Necromancy School.
Hearing Brian's instructions, the war mage captain Marik winked at a war mage behind him who was proficient in the necromancy school.
The latter immediately took out a gray gem, murmured a spell, and stretched out his finger.
An almost invisible gray soul was forcibly pulled out of the corpse and screamed into the battle mage's gem.
Brian took the gem, nodded slightly, and put it away.
From this efficient battle, we can see how strong the execution ability of this group of people is.
This made him very satisfied. After all, what he liked most was this kind of disciplined and powerful army, which was easy to deploy and saved worry and effort.
The main reason why he chose to imprison the soul of the president of the Eagle Chamber of Commerce was to confirm one thing.
If what he expected was true, at this time Prince Selant had already begun to contact the followers of Bane, the god of tyranny.
So, he was very curious about whether Philip, who was Prince Celant's confidant, knew about this.
If he really knows, then he can use some means to force him to confess, and then use this as evidence to remind Duke Raul of Arabe City to be prepared in advance.
In this case, it might be possible to prevent the Kingdom of Cormyr from becoming a divided kingdom after the false king Selant seized the royal capital Susal City after the Dragon Rebellion.
As a reborn person, Brian naturally does not want the Kingdom of Cormyr to suffer the same fate again.
After all, since he returned to the surface from the Underdark, he has been receiving favors from Cormyr, without the Purple Dragon Seal Ring given to him by Hesiah and her trust in him.
Leaving aside the fact that he could not capture Mokou Town, even Duke Raul of Arabe City could not establish a relationship so easily, let alone gain the support and allegiance of the Purple Dragon Knight and the War Mage.
If his power truly grows, Cormyr will also become his support and cooperative ally in conquering the Eno Oak Desert.
Although he knew that the Dragon Worshipers were studying the Dragon Madness Lock in the Dragon Well in the Sunset Mountains, he still had self-awareness and knew very well that with his current ability, it was best not to provoke or affect these people. A group of cultists.
The reason why the current situation on the mainland seems to be calm is mainly due to the checks and balances between the various forces.
If he reveals the conspiracy about the Dragon Worship Cult intentionally or unintentionally, many forces from the good camp are likely to swarm him.
In this case, the mutual restraint balance may be broken, causing the future timeline to be completely beyond his expectations, resulting in unknown accidents and disasters.
For Brian, the biggest hidden danger in Mokou Town has been solved by him.
He must seize the time to prepare for the counterattack of Yinhun City, and must not run away casually.
(End of this chapter)