Chapter 613: Captured
"Get out of here!"
Frederick sat helplessly in the carriage and looked at the two people in front of him.
The carriage was very large, with no chairs, soft cushions on the floor, and a refrigerator in the corner.
Count Ortiz was sitting at the other end of the car, and next to him was a girl who looked similar to her. The two of them looked at their prey triumphantly.
At first, the transaction between the two parties was successful. Wesson's army delivered vehicles and happy water, and Ortiz delivered food and a large amount of intelligence about the Kingdom of Madeira.
Just when Frederick thought the deal was over, he was drugged and paralyzed, and woke up in the carriage.
Ortiz said proudly: "I think I can get more credit by giving you as a gift to His Majesty Doss."
She pointed to the girl next to her and said: "She is my sister, an excellent pharmacist."
Frederick asked nonchalantly: "What do you want to do when you send me to the royal capital?"
Ortiz's poison locked up part of his strength, but they misjudged their own cards and acted with ease.
"What you do is your Majesty's business." Ortiz said with a smile, "I hope you can cooperate well, otherwise you will suffer a lot."
"Okay." Frederick said, "As long as you agree to my conditions, I will cooperate with you. Otherwise, you will get nothing if I commit suicide. The nobles in the east will only blame you when they bear the wrath of Wesson's army."
Ortiz thought about it and said, "No problem."
Frederick pointed to her sister and said: "I want you and her to accompany me on this journey."
The girl's face suddenly turned pale and she asked nervously: "You...what do you want to do?"
"Do you still have to ask?" Frederick had a bad smile on his face, "It's just like what you did with your sisters in the monastery."
"You were also excited when you peeked outside, weren't you?"
Ortiz immediately nodded and said: "Okay, that's it."
Word of Frederick and Ortiz's departure soon reached Eugene.
Eugene was not sure for a moment whether he had been kidnapped or whether he was going deeper behind enemy lines.
One night not long after, Ortiz's motorcade stopped in the wild, and everyone fell asleep or fainted.
Dennis and Dixon appeared on both sides of the carriage and knocked gently on the door.
Frederick pushed Ortiz away from him, lifted the curtains on the small window of the car door, and whispered: "Coming?"
Dennis asked Frederick: "Do you need help?"
Eugene prepared for the worst, so he sent two sword masters to contact Frederick. If the situation went wrong, he would immediately start fighting to save people.
Frederick said: "I will go to their royal capital to have a look, and then I will go back by myself."
"Let Eugene be careful. This time their king summons nobles should be a sign of a large-scale military attack."
Dennis said: "Understood, I will go back and report to the commander."
Frederick asked again: "How is the prospecting going?"
Dennis replied: "We found another abandoned mine and three unmined veins within five kilometers of the mine, and are preparing to open the mine to the new veins."
Frederick nodded and said: "Well, good job. As agreed, five points of profit will be yours."
Dennis and Dixon left quickly, discussing how much money they could make from the trip. That was a magic crystal mine. All he had to do was find the place deep in the mountain with the strongest magic power, blast out a mine tunnel with a sword, and then he would get five points of profit.
Eugene breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the report. He had been worried that the opponent would launch an attack while he was not on a stable footing, and now it seemed that he had enough time to prepare.
On the other side, not long after Dennis left, Ortiz woke up faintly.
"Why did I faint?" She immediately discovered the problem.
Frederick smiled and said: "It's not like you haven't fainted, so there's nothing to make a fuss about."
He said and pulled Ortiz over. Since he dared to cheat him, he must teach him a lesson.
As the convoy kept walking toward the west, there were fewer and fewer trees on the land, and the rivers it encountered became narrower and narrower.
During this time, the clouds in the sky were thick and gloomy, and kept drifting south, but it didn't rain.
In his spare time, Frederick asked Ortiz: "It's so gloomy these days, why doesn't it always rain?"
Ortiz took out a bottle of Happy Water from the refrigerator, drank half of the bottle in one breath, and replied: "It only rains when the clouds move south and north. It rains less.”
"Alas, there is always not enough rain in the west, but it is better than the constant rain in the east."
Frederick recalled that the terrain here was basically low-altitude hills. The mountains were not high enough to intercept the water vapor in the sky. It only rained when the north and south air masses converged.
The Principality of Wesson once conducted artificial rainfall experiments, releasing large-scale ice magic in thick clouds instead of dry ice. The effect was remarkable, but it was a bit expensive for Frederick and Dawn.
However, there are few droughts in the Principality of Wesson, and rainfall is mostly in autumn and winter, so artificial rainfall is not needed. This experiment was stopped after a few times.
Ortiz continued: "His Majesty Doss once offered a reward of five thousand gold coins to find a way to make it rain during this season."
Frederick said casually: "When the clouds are low, you can try lighting a fire to let the smoke go into the clouds. Maybe it can rain some."
Ortiz frowned and asked: "Will it really make it rain?"
Frederick shrugged and said: "Not sure, it has something to do with the clouds in the sky. I can only say that it may rain, but I can't guarantee it."
When studying artificial rainfall, some people mentioned whether particles in dense smoke could condense water droplets in clouds, and then they tried it, but the final result was not very good.
It doesn't matter if the wind is too strong, the clouds are too high, or the clouds are not thick enough. If the clouds are low and thick, it seems like it will rain without smoke. The final conclusion is that it is feasible.
Frederick just said it casually, but Ortiz remembered it in his heart.
When the convoy stopped in the evening, the entourage was setting up camp.
Ortiz was worried that his cargo would be spotted on the way, so he chose a less traveled route.
The ground was overgrown with shrubs and weeds. She had the grass cut and piled into a haystack as tall as a person. After finally lighting it, thick white smoke came out.
There was not much wind at this time, and the smoke column rushed diagonally towards the seemingly low clouds. At the same time, the smell of smoke also made Frederick and Ortiz's sister in the carriage so smelly that they rarely scolded Ortiz together.
An hour later, Ortiz's sister scolded her sister while nibbling cold and hard bread: "Are you an idiot? You can't make a fire to cook."
Then she turned to Frederick and said: "Baron Potter, kill her tonight!"
Frederick nodded and said: "No problem, I'll keep her until the rain stops."
(End of chapter)