Warhammer Divine Throne

Old world, Empire, Prince Rick, a common village in the west of Rick.

The mid-winter season in January is still full of ice. In this season, the villagers hide in warm rooms, enjoying the fire and the aftermath of the Winter Veil Festival. Every household closes the door tightly. Travelers can only Saw the smoke rising high.

Rick collar is wealthy. Even in winter, there are many militia teams that spontaneously organize patrols in the village.

Rickling and Ivyling are the richest provinces in the empire. There are the largest number of self-cultivating farmers here. Farmers only need to pay taxes to the emperor or elector, and the local lords can only collect trade. With tax and poll tax, self-cultivating farmers cultivate their own land, and then sell agricultural products in the village market or town market to make profits and accumulate wealth.

But because of this, the self-employed peasants will not be protected by the noble army. This is not like Brittany. Whenever a serf encounters a threat, he only needs to ask the Knights for help. If the Knights are not Special circumstances are usually dispatched, and this rule has not changed much for thousands of years.

The empire is different, especially in the wealthy Rick, the nobles pay less attention to the life and death of the self-cultivation farmers. Some aristocrats even hope that the self-cultivation farmers will die so that they can occupy the land of the self-cultivation farmers.

In this case, the self-cultivators must arm themselves to protect themselves, or...hire an army to protect themselves.

In the wind and snow, a Demon Hunter riding a thin horse approached.

He has some unnatural paleness on his face. He carries Two Swords behind his back, a two-handed steel sword, a thin silver sword, and short-handed guns hanging around his waist. He wears a set Brown scale armor with a pointed top hat on his head.

Demon Hunter is obviously heavy, at least his thin horse is a bit unstable. In the wind and snow, Demon Hunter rode his thin horse to this ordinary village.

He looked a little anxious. After arriving at the door of the village, the Demon Hunter immediately got off his horse and splashed a piece of snow on the ground.

"It's Demon Hunter!"

"Demon Hunter is here."

"Perhaps he can leave the work to him."

The villagers whispered and discussed the arrival of a Demon Hunter.

The empire is more familiar with Demon Hunter than Brittany. The villagers hate Demon Hunter for abusing power from time to time, looking for traces of corruption and corruption, and hope that Demon Hunter can help them solve various problems. Questions and hidden worries, this makes the villagers' sense of Demon Hunter very complicated, they will give a good face when they need them, and when they don't need them, they can't wait for them to get out.

Demon Hunter has traveled abroad all the year round. He has never experienced all kinds of blindness and discrimination. This is already commonplace for him. He didn't think much about it, just moved towards the sign in the village. Go.

Several notices were posted on the sign, saying that someone in the town was buying piglets.

The Emperor Karl-Franz is recruiting a transport team.

Hemgart urgently needs a group of sewer cleaners, and the price is favorable.

Demon Hunter looked anxiously for a while, and finally saw a reward order underneath.

"Fifteen kilometers away from the Rickwood Forest, wild beasts have appeared. It is very likely that wild beast tribes are active. The village needs manpower to investigate the activities of the wild beast tribes. In case, if you can bring back the first level of the wild beast, the bounty will be added 30 gold marks."

"Bounty, fifteen gold marks."

Demon Hunter lightly out With a sigh of relief, he tore off the notice among the onlookers of many villagers.

He found the head of the village. The head of the village is a middle-aged man with gray hair. He is standing at the door of the largest house in the village. He is wearing a thick woolen clothes and a soft hat. , Many strips of cloth hang down on his body.

"Excuse me, did you post this notice?" Demon Hunter came to the village chief and handed a reward notice.

"Yes, this was released by the village, do you want to do it?" The village head shrugged, his attitude towards Demon Hunter was not very good, but he barely maintained a communicative situation: "If you want to do it I can send someone to show you the direction. If you don’t do it, please post the notice back to the bulletin board."

"I do." Demon Hunter said quickly: "Since I have taken the notice, I will take it. Entrusted."

"But you still want to bargain?" The village chief shook his head and said, "Everyone says Demon Hunter is greedy and is a demon who eats people without spitting out bones. Come on, devil. You want to talk about it. What conditions?"

"Fifteen golden marks are too few. Normally, this task requires at least twenty golden marks." The scar on Demon Hunter's face looked very fierce, but his tone Relatively small, he tried to bargain with the village chief.

"That was the previous price, now it is the price." The village head's expression was relatively flat, he moved towards Demon Hunter and said: "Fifteen gold marks, a lot, enough for you to spend three months "

"Can you get more?" Demon Hunter tried to bargain: "In winter, weapons become cold and muskets are not easy to use. I need to take a lot of risks to enter the forest. This is also for For the safety of the village, I need more money to make adequate preparations and maintain equipment."

The village chief looked at this Demon Hunter. He first set his eyes on Demon Hunter and then at him. The equipment and scars on his body are nodded: "Well, considering that you have to risk your life to enter the forest to deal with wild beasts, the village can give you three more gold marks, but you must leave before sunset tomorrow. ."

"The deal...and." Demon Hunter nodded and agreed, and he seemed to hesitate to speak.

"What else is there?" The village head had already turned around, so he had to turn back: "What else do you want?"

"I haven't had anything since noon yesterday. I have eaten..." Demon Hunter is a bit sorry, he is very hungry, the money has been spent, and there are only a few pieces of brown bread left on him, he wonders if he can pay for it first.

"What is your name?" the village chief asked suddenly.

"My name is Eber and I am from Hemgart." Demon Hunter said.

"Mr. Ebel...how can you complete the task if you don't have enough food? In this way, I will let the hotel in the village get you some food first, and the fee will be deducted from your commission."

"Okay!" Eber was very grateful to the village chief for his sensibility, and he nodded gratefully: "Thank you very much."

"Thank you, you don’t need to think of me. The heretics and chaos believers can just be caught." The village head turned around again, wanting to go back to the house.

At this time, there was a rush of horseshoes at the door of the village, and the village chief had to turn around again, and he felt a little dizzy.

The experienced Demon Hunter Abel immediately realized that a nobleman must have appeared.

At the gate of the village, a group of noble Knights riding high-headed horses are entering the village. The leading nobleman is riding a pure blood essence spirit war horse, wearing the silk gown of the great Breton nobleman and White fox fur coat, holding a lightning surging Warhammer, the Holy Grail Knight badge hung on his chest.

Beside him are two richly decorated Rick guards wearing silver plate armor.

Iron cross, skull, and laurel crown, the Knight regiment badge composed of these three patterns is enough for guards anywhere in the empire to immediately release.

Sure enough, the village chief, who was still indifferent just now, immediately changed his face. His mouth was wide and his face was full of flattery and admiration. He was leaning on a wooden cane. Jotting all the way, kneeling in the snow: "Very, very, very welcome! The emperor’s guards! Welcome to the village of smirk."

"Hello, village head, we are ordered by the emperor to escort VIPs Arrived in Hemgart, stay here today to pack up your two best houses." A Rick guard said arrogantly, and he took out two of them printed with Karl-Four from his arms. The Golden Mark with Langz’s head was thrown directly in front of the village head, and he motioned to the village head to get up: "Hurry up."

"Yes!" The village head said in a loud voice, he was excited and stopped. I took the Gold Coin with unbearable excitement, and ran all the way from the snow, shouting hoarsely: "Rick guard is here! Rick guard is coming to our smirk village with the emperor’s mission. That’s it!"

"Wow~" The entire small village was just like the Midsummer Festival. All the villagers came out. More than 300 villagers scrambled to watch the two Rick guards. Cheering and saying hello around the entire group, many villagers even kneel down and try to offer some exquisite handicrafts.

The two Rick guards just smiled and waved to say hello. They conveyed the emperor’s will, condoned the villagers’ production, and at the same time asked the villagers and nobles if they had collected taxes indiscriminately.

The status of the Rick Guards in the empire is similar to that of the Holy Grail Knights. They are not only one of the core forces of the empire, but also have the power to monitor various places and send news directly to the emperor’s ears. Since its establishment Since then, they have followed the emperor to fight the evil endlessly, which has won them the respect and love of the civilians.

"At least on the surface, people here are living well." The Rick guard moved towards Ryan who walked beside him said.

After the Winter Veil Festival, Ryan, who is thirty-one years old, has become more and more calm after his marriage. He has a little less youngster impulse and sharpness, and has more of the real nobles. Precipitation.

"I'm surprised that you would actually give the villagers money." Ryan cocked his mouth when he heard the words: "When I was in Nord, the Kingdom Knights were lucky to live in farmers' houses."

"Ludwig the savior taught us that everyone is entitled to be paid for his own labor, at least in the Rick and Ivy in the south of the empire." Rick banned speaking. Wei was actually still a recruit. He was called Rudolf Lichtenstein, the first wife's eldest son of the Duke of Lichtenstein, and was sent to Rick's guard.

"Yes, in other words, only in the southern part of the empire." Another Rick guard said: "In fact, the northern part of the empire is still a popular saying, "Where are you from? Get used to being who'. If you were born a farmer, you will be a farmer for a lifetime. If you are born a nobleman, you will be a nobleman throughout your life."

This Rick guard recruit is called Wagner-Schmidt. The two recruits were sent by Emperor Karl to escort Ryan until Hemgart reached the border of Axe's Pass. Although they were two Knight recruits, Rudolf took eleven Knights, and Wagner also took five Knights. , Plus the servants of Suria, Veronica, Teresa and Suria, it can be described as a large group of grandiose cavalry.

"I always thought that only Brittany could distinguish serfs and knights so strictly." Teresa rode on a blood essence spirit war horse, and the cold female warlock asked curiously.

"Different places are different, Ms. Trovik." Rudolph was not so enthusiastic in the face of Teresa. The son of the duke’s family is noble: "Many nobles don’t like it. This rule, because it hinders their financial path, they always obstruct outward devotion but inner opposition secretly, and always oppose Ludwig Your Majesty's teachings, but we must thank the savior. Without him, you would be impossible. Just and honorable on the street like this."

The imperial nobles still have prejudice against wizards. The nobles need the power of wizards and fear the power of wizards, whether it is Teresa or Veronese. Card, they are not certified wizards by the Imperial Family Wizard Academy.

So why do wizards aspire to be the chief wizard of the Imperial Family, because that is a symbol of status and status, which represents the trust of the emperor and the respect that wizards desire.

The elegant and poised Suria spoke, and the countess burst into a moving smile: "He is a great emperor. Without him, the old world would have been destroyed in the Chaos invasion."

"I'm glad we have reached an agreement, Mrs. Suria." Rudolph laughed understandingly, and he noticed Demon Hunter Eber standing in front of the village house: "Gosh, the chaotic minions have spread. Are you here? I actually saw a Demon Hunter!"

"Oh! It's Abel! Long time no see!" Ryan has the sharpest eyes, and when he sees Demon Hunter's silhouette, he reveals With a smile, the earl turned over and got off his horse and came to Eber’s body, patted Eber’s shoulder: "Mr. Eber, long time no see."

"Long time no see, Lord Earl, fortunately Yes." Demon Hunter greeted him very bachelor, he forced a polite smile, and shook hands with Ryan.

"What is Demon Hunter doing in this village?" Rick Guard Rudolph said with a loud voice, "Did you discover the heresy or accept the commission?"

"I accept He is not the kind of Demon Hunter that is governed by the church. Archbishop Vekma’s subordinates are in charge of many Demon Hunters. These Demon Hunters have the right to supervise the nobles of the empire, but Ai Burr didn't. He joined the Demon Hunter guild-a loose guild.

"Very well, I wish you a happy mission." Wagner did not want to say more to Demon Hunter.

The nobles do not like Demon Hunter either.

"What commission?" Ryan was interested instead.

"About..." Eber was about to talk about the commission, but Ryan noticed the paleness of his face and the sound of gu gu in his stomach. The Legendary powerhouse was obviously still hungry. Belly, it seems that his life is really not easy, Ryan said with a smile: "This is not a place to chat, let's talk about it under the warm fire and delicious food!"

"I agree!" Rudolph raised his hand, and Rick's guard recruit loudly said: "Let's go, let's go to the hotel and see what to eat!"

Twenty minutes later, at the Butterbeer Hotel in Grim Village, beside the warm fire, there are five people sitting on simple tables and chairs, Ryan, Suria, Rudolf, Eber and Wagner. The rich aristocratic Knight is obviously Not comparable to Demon Hunter, Ryan took out a dozen Silver Coins and let the hotel boss cook a table of good dishes, fragrant broth, a basket of barley bread, delicious stews and refreshing butter beer.

"So... there are traces of wild beast tribal activities found in the Rickwood Forest 15 kilometers away." Ryan touched the chin, he moved towards Eber asked: "You accepted the commission from the villagers? You plan to investigate the wild beast tribe? But you have only one person. This is really a dangerous task. What about your companion? The one called Zule?"

" Jule has returned to the corner of Thar fortress for the winter...The fortress is in a hidden corner of the gray mountain range on the side of Hemgart." Eber added: "Repairing and maintaining my equipment has already spent my savings. It has to be clean, so just after the Winter Veil Festival, I will come out to find a commission, otherwise I will starve to death."

"Is the wild beast tribe?" Ryan thought for a while, and he went on Said: "Since we are here, let Karl-Franz and his Rick take a favor!"

"Alber, leave this to you, you enter Investigate the wild beast tribe in the depths of the forest, and then find a way to lure them out."

"This time, let us clean up these disgusting chaos!"