Chapter 149 Chief Knight

After handling the affairs of the territory, Linde received a raven from Bitter Bridge, indicating that the escort team of Fortimo and Joel had passed Bitter Bridge a day ago. According to their traveling speed, it would only take a day or two. You can reach Changye Town at the intersection of Tengshi Avenue and Rose Avenue.

So Linde took Glory alone, put the dragon eggs in his backpack, and headed to Long Night Town to wait for the escort team of Fortimo and Joel.

The reason why he did not leave the dragon egg in Tengshi Town was because he needed to use dragon runes to maintain the dragon egg almost every few days. Once the interval was too long, the effect of previous maintenance would also disappear. It would take several days to go to the Great Wall of Despair. Months of time, which forced him to take the dragon egg with him.

Now the intersection of Tengshi Avenue and Rose Avenue has become the most prosperous place nearby. In the early days, Nymeria settled some of the recruited refugees and the original residents of Tengshi Town here to build a town.

Originally, this town was only used to serve passing caravans, allowing them to have a place to spend the night. However, as Tengshi Avenue extended to Green Valley City and then to Shengxia Hall, this fork in the road became particularly important.

The original small town turned into a large town. Linde also built a fortress here. Nymeria also sent Wenda the White Deer here to serve as the fortress and town manager, which gave the town its name.

Linde did not enter the town, but waited in the fortress outside the town. After completing the inspection, Bailu Wenda came to see Linde wearing armor.

"Aren't you going to take some people with you?" Bailu Wenda asked a little surprised when she saw that Lind was alone.

"I'm not going to fight, so why should I take people with me?" Linde shook his head and said, "Besides, High Court will send people there, so I don't need to do anything extra." As he said that, he suddenly thought of something and asked White Deer Wenda Said: "Has Sparks been in contact with you recently?"

White Deer Wenda shook her head and said: "There has been no contact for more than a year. The last contact was when you went to Dorne. You don't have to worry about her. As long as the royal forest still exists, she will be fine."

Linde frowned and said, "I want to find something with her. Do you know any way to contact her?"

Linde had already been to the Royal Forest several times after finishing his patrol of the territory. He wanted to see Huo Huo and learn about the situation on the day of the fire in Summer Hall and the situation of the female dwarf she rescued. In the end, he found nothing, even if He deliberately aroused the power in the dragon rune and made a big noise in the Royal Forest, but he was not able to make the Son of the Forest Spark appear. It felt like the Son of the Forest Spark was no longer in the Imperial Forest.

Bailu Wenda shook her head and said, "I'm sorry, sir, it was Sparks who found me all the time, rather than me taking the initiative to contact Sparks."

"Did Sparky say anything the last time you saw her?" Linde asked again.

Bailu Wenda thought for a moment and said, "She asked me to help her take care of her garden. She wants to go on a long trip to see her friends."

"Friends?" Linde frowned. He did not continue to ask Bailu Wenda about Sparks' friends. Presumably, Bailu Wenda would not know about it.

In addition to the Children of the Forest themselves, the people who can be regarded as friends by the Children of the Forest include the Green Seers and other people who respect nature. In the entire Seven Kingdoms, there are only two places where the Children of the Forest are rumored to exist. One is Thousand Faces Island in the center of the God's Eye Lake. As well as the swamps of the Neck and the virgin forest on the west side.

On the way to the Great Wall of Despair, he would pass through these two places. Linde felt that if he did not see Sparks in the Royal Forest, he might ask Glory to help him search there when passing by these two places to see if he could Can't find spark.

Linde did not wait too long in Changye Town. The escort team arrived at Changye Town half a day later.

There are about 500 people in this team. Except for 400 prisoners, the others are soldiers responsible for escorting. Perhaps because of the previous accident, Vilas was a lot more careful this time. Not only did he send There were enough escort soldiers, and two famous sword masters in the River Bend, Fortimo and Joel, were also assigned to escort them.

After the escorted prisoners were sent to the cells of the Evernight Town Fortress and imprisoned, Fertimo and Joel were guided by their servants to Lind's room.

"Lord Fotimo, Lord Joel, long time no see!" After seeing the two of them, Lind saluted the two who came over.

"My lord, long time no see." Fertimo returned the greeting, his behavior not as casual as before, and he looked more respectful.

On the contrary, Joel Fohua still looked casual, raised his head towards Linde, and said: "Boy Linde, don't even think about me calling you Earl."

Linde also smiled and nodded, and said: "With our relationship, there is no need to be so formal. Lord Fotimo, you don't need to be so formal. You can just call me Linde as before. After all, We still have a month or two to spend together, and it will be uncomfortable if we are too formal.”

Joel turned his head and raised his eyebrows proudly at Fertimo, then stretched out his hand and said, "I just said, this kid hasn't changed. I'm willing to admit defeat and take the money."

Fertimo rolled his eyes at Joel, took off a money bag from his waist, and threw it to Joel.

After Joel took the money bag, he threw it to his attendants and said, "Tell those guys that I, Uncle Joel, are treating you today. You can drink as much as you want."

Fertimo frowned and said, "We have to go on the road tomorrow. If they are drunk..."

Joel said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. If they are drunk, just let the prisoners carry them. It won't delay their journey." As he said, he pointed at Lind and said: "Not to mention that we have more people here. There is a chosen one who can defeat a thousand, and those prisoners will not do anything to seek death even if they have a little bit of brainpower.”

As they spoke, several people entered the house. Lind asked the servants to prepare some drinks and food. Joel and Fertimo also took off their armor with the help of the servants.

Seeing that Joel's identity badge had changed from the golden crane of the Klein family to the golden rose of the Tyrell family, Lind couldn't help but smile and said: "I didn't expect you, Lord Joel, to be working in Highgarden. Did you think you would be the captain of the bodyguard at the Klein family in Red Lake for the rest of your life?"

Hearing Linde's words, Joel couldn't help but roll his eyes. It seemed that Linde's words touched his taboos. Then he curled his lips and said, "It's really boring to talk to you. You poke at other people's pain points every time. People don’t know how to answer.”

Fotimo on the side smiled and said: "He was driven away because when Count Allister Florent was visiting Red Lake with his family, he crawled into Mrs. Melaya Klein's house. He was caught and raped in his bed by Count Allister, and he escaped. He was later expelled by the Crane family, and wanted by Count Florentine. Finally, he could only seek asylum in the High Court. "

Linde had been dealing with matters in his own territory before and rarely cared about the affairs of other territories in the Reach. He did not expect to suddenly hear about such a big scandal.

However, after carefully recalling the information about Count Allister and Lady Melaya of the Florentine family, Lind couldn't help showing a strange look on his face, and said to Fertimo in a confirming manner: "What you said Count Florent, is he Count Florent of Brightwater City?"

"Yes." Fotimo obviously knew what Linde was thinking now, and couldn't hide the smile on his face.

Joel, on the other hand, lowered his head and drank, his face full of embarrassment.

Lind hit the point very directly and asked: "Isn't Lady Melaya, Count Florentine's wife, an old woman?"

"I just told you, talking to you is really boring." Joel drank the wine in the glass in one gulp and asked the waiter to fill it up again. Then he looked at Linde with great dissatisfaction and said, "That is a mature woman. And she is a very attractive mature woman..."

"It's a pity that it's almost rotten due to overcooking." Fortimo stabbed it in time.

Joel didn't say anything more and could only lower his head and drink.

"I didn't expect you, Mr. Joel, to be so kind." Lind sighed, and then asked: "After you were wanted by Count Florentine, you did not escape from the Reach, nor did you flee to me for refuge. Is it because of Lady Olenna that I ran to Highgarden?"

Hearing Linde's words, Fortimo finally couldn't help laughing. Joel also stared at Linde with a look of shame and annoyance. From the looks of the two of them, it was obvious that Linde was not the only one who made such a guess. Man, there may be similar rumors among the noble circles in Highgarden.

With some laughter, the relationship between several people gradually returned to normal, and the previous identity barriers quickly disappeared.

Afterwards, they talked about the things around them recently, and their relationship had become much closer.

Moreover, Linde also learned some news from the High Court from Fotimo's words. For example, on the surface, the High Court and Dorn had a stalemate over the previous cancellation of the marriage, and the relationship had deteriorated. But in fact, the High Court There have always been letters and so on between Court and Sunspear.

However, the one that Fortimo mentioned the most was Willas, because after Willas was paralyzed, Fortimo, the coach of Highgarden, became Willas's guard captain, so when Willas served as a law enforcement officer in Highgarden, He was always watching from the sidelines.

Because Villas is always able to make fair judgments that satisfy both parties when dealing with some family incidents, so with the nickname "Just Golden Rose", the Duke of Metz also feels that Villas has something to do. It was good for Vilas, so Vilas was appointed as the law enforcement officer of the High Court, responsible for handling various disputes in the High Court.

And Villas also gained a lot of reputation because of his fair handling of every incident, making up for the reputation he lost due to some weird behaviors after he was paralyzed, and even exceeded it, so that he still requires all rivers to The lords of the Bayland gathered the condemned prisoners to Highgarden and then sent them to the Great Wall to serve as night watchmen. The lords of the Bayland did not object.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that the lords of the Reach found that this method was very suitable for dealing with some troublesome people who could not be killed but did not want to see them. Therefore, not all of the prisoners sent to the Great Wall were Death row prisoners, and some were unlucky people who were considered a thorn in the side of their respective lords.

For Vilas, he only needs to increase the strength of the Great Wall of Despair. As for whether there are innocent people among the people sent there, he actually doesn't care.

Through Fortimo's story about Willas, Lind can already feel that Willas's vigilance against the White Walkers has gone deep into his bones. Everything he is doing now is to defend against the White Walkers from the land of eternal winter. .

Fortunately, Vilas remained rational and did not do anything too crazy or do anything beyond his capabilities.

After a night's rest, High Court's escort team continued to march north along Rose Avenue, but this time there was one more person and one beast in the team.

What is interesting is that among these prisoners, many are believers of the Seven Gods. When they are resting, they will come to Linde and kneel down to Linde to confess the evil deeds they have done in the past. They seem to regard Linde as the Seven Gods. A monk from the Church of God.

However, Linde did not forgive their sins like the monks did. Instead, he listened quietly to what they said and looked at them calmly. Usually, each of these extremely evil people would cry bitterly under Linde's gaze. Just like a child, after they finally calmed down, they would lean over and kiss Linde's instep, and then leave silently.

"You are becoming more and more like a magician!" Joel, who witnessed all this, said with disdain: "I think you should put a wooden box in front of you, and everyone who confesses to you should put in a copper plate , maybe the copper coins you get will be able to build a castle soon."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Joel, your proposal has no value at all." Linde deliberately showed a proud look and said: "My Summer Hall Castle and Miracle Port do not need to spend money. The church is willing to pay for it for me." All the construction costs, and I have so much money that I don’t even know how to spend it. Only you, an adult, can appreciate this small amount of money.”

"It seems that the rumors are right. All the treasures that the Iron Islands snatched from the Western Territory fell into your hands." Fortimo also looked at Lind with envy and said, "You lucky guy, next All the expenses on the road are borne by you.”

On the road, the three of them all liked to pass the boring time with sarcastic bickering.

The team soon passed through the royal forest and arrived at King's Landing.

The escort team stayed outside King's Landing for several days, because after King Robert learned that Lynd had come to King's Landing, he called Lynd over, and then took Lynd back to the Kingswood to hunt.

At the same time, he also asked Lord Jon Arryn to extract some prisoners from the cell and give them to Fertimo, and send them to the Great Wall together.

Although it has only been almost a year since the counter-rebellion war, King Robert's figure has been seriously out of shape. The fat on his chin has accumulated several layers, and he can no longer look as handsome as he was a year ago, and his body has swelled. For several laps, the previous armor could only be barely worn.

However, being out of shape does not mean that his combat power has been weakened. He can still swing the heavy war hammer.

While hunting, he proposed to fight with Linde again, but this time he did not force Linde to use the sword of the lost knight, but asked Linde to use the broad-bladed half-sword.

The final result is self-evident. Linde did not hold anything back. When Robert launched the attack, he used his agile steps to avoid Robert's attack, and then put the broadsword half-sword against Robert's heart. , defeat the enemy with one move.

Afterwards, Robert simply asked the Kingsguard, including the fearless Barristan, to besiege Lind. The result did not change. Except for the fearless Barristan and Robert, who cooperated with each other and fought back and forth with Lind. Outside of the round, everyone else was taken away by Linde's move, including the Kingslayer.

After the incident, King Robert lamented Lynd's strength and was satisfied that Lynd did not hold back during the battle because of his status. So after returning to King's Landing, he summoned the courtiers and canonized Lynd again in front of the courtiers. , this time, Lind was canonized as the chief knight of the Seven Kingdoms.