Chapter 237 Qohor’s Dilemma

"The Ancient One? What is this?" After reaching a new contract with the one-horned giant turtle, Lind also left Na Sa Star with satisfaction. However, on the way, he couldn't help but be confused and asked Marwin.

Marwin thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "I have seen similar titles in the slate books of the ancestors. This is a collective name for some ancient beings, such as Garth the Green Hand, Brandon the Builder, and the First Ren Storm King Jianchou Du Lun. In some books, they are also called the beings closest to gods. "As he said, he looked at Linde and said, "Just like you now."

Ordinary people might feel happy after hearing such praise, but Lind frowned slightly, because he really knew the current situation of Garth the Green Hand and knew that he was bound in the Heart Tree of High Garden. As for the Builder Bu The situation of Langdon or Storm King Duren is probably similar, or even worse.

As Linde obtained the character template of the Unknown King, his heart also began to change. He had greater ambitions and desires. Being bound to one place and becoming a guardian spirit-like existence was not what he wanted. result.

The two of them still took the small boat they bought from Norvos and went south along the Lorne River and entered Dagger Lake.

Linde did not immediately go north to the Qinn River. Instead, he wandered around Dagger Lake and learned about the river conditions in Dagger Lake. Since he had decided to rebuild Na Sa Star, the river pirates in Dagger Lake must be Problems he needed to solve.

Although in terms of scale, the river pirates here cannot be compared with the pirates on the Stepped Stone Islands, if you want to completely clean up the river pirates here, the difficulty should be higher than the pirates on the Stepped Stone Islands.

The reason why Linde was able to clear out the pirates on the Stepped Stone Islands so quickly and take control of the Stepped Stone Islands was entirely because he gradually forced the pirates on the Stepped Stone Islands to gather together, fight him in a decisive battle, and finally eliminate them in one fell swoop. The main force of the pirates was formed, and the sporadic pirates scattered on the islands were quickly wiped out without external aid.

But the river pirates in Dagger Lake are different. Their scale is much smaller. The scale of Udawu is unique in Dagger Lake. Under normal circumstances, a group of river pirates does not exceed ten boats at most. Like a hyena, it will surround its prey when it encounters it, and it will scatter when it encounters danger. It is almost impossible to confront a strong enemy head-on.

And the more important point is that most of these river pirates are fishermen from villages around the Lorne River, Qin River and other rivers. If you want to completely clean up the river pirates, you can only sweep all the villages on both sides of the river.

But even so, Linde still has many ways to deal with these river pirates, but it will take a little longer. If the old man in the river can help, it will be easier.

After learning a little about the situation of the bandits in Dagger Lake, Linde did not stop here anymore and went directly north from the Qinn River to Kehol.

Compared with going down the river, going upstream was undoubtedly much slower. Linde no longer used telekinesis to control the boat. After all, it was still very difficult for him to use telekinesis to resist the thrust of the river.

So when he was at Dagger Lake, he directly snatched a sailing flat-bottomed boat from the river pirates, and then created a strong wind to blow them upstream.

As they entered the Qinn River, there were more and more ships on the river. In addition to the fishing boats of the fishermen on both sides of the river, the most encountered ships were the cargo ships of the Kohol Craftsmen Association.

In Qohor, although the power is divided into three parts, it is the Craftsmen's Association that really controls the economic lifeline of Qohor. Nearly 80% of all income in Qohor comes from the Craftsmen's Association, and within the Craftsmen's Association, the Blacksmiths' Guild The income ratio is as high as over 80%, so the importance of the Blacksmith Guild to Qohor is self-evident.

However, in recent years, the Blacksmith Guild in Qohor has been having some troubles. The reason is that the Summer Hall has directly snatched more than 90% of the weapons market from them. The Blacksmith Guild barely relies on high-quality weapons and various types of armor to survive. In charge of the operation of the guild.

The blacksmiths of Qohor have not never thought about taking back the weapons market, but in the face of the ultra-low prices of weapons produced in Summer Hall, all their efforts were in vain.

As far as high-quality weapons are concerned, the weapons specially crafted by the blacksmiths of Qohor are indeed much better than the assembly-line weapons made by the Shengxia Hall's hydraulic forging device, but compared with the mass-produced ordinary weapons, the gap between the two is not that big. The sales price of weapons in Summer Hall is only one-third of the weapons in Qohor. In the face of such a huge price advantage, that little gap naturally disappears.

Because the weapons dumping in Midsummer Hall has cut Kohol's overall income in half, it has also directly led to a significant reduction in the various funds of the Mage Association and the Black Goat Church. Therefore, no one in Kohol City should be interested in Linde now. Having a good impression, the Soyd family's intention to take action on Linde's magic armor may be more or less related to this.

Driven by the strong wind, Linde's boat traveled very fast, so fast that even the sailors on the Kohol cargo ship they encountered were shocked, and some careful people on the boat could see Linde's movements clearly. The figure saw the sword of the lost knight worn by Linde on his waist.

With such an abnormal boat, such an obvious decoration, and the recent news circulating, some well-informed businessmen in Qohor also vaguely guessed Lind's identity, and felt that Qohor would be very lively this time.

It is no secret that Linde from the Summer Hall came to the Essos continent. Since the news from Braavos came out, many interested people have gradually speculated on the route that Linde took to the Essos continent, such as He had previously disguised himself as a lion knight, etc., and also deduced that his purpose should be to go for the magic armor of the Koholsoid family.

After all, Lind is recognized throughout Westeros as the person who truly masters the mysteries of magic. For a long time, Lind has only had a pair of magic swords and no magic armor, which makes people feel imperfect. Now, the Soyd family has created Now that magic armor is out, Linde might also be interested.

However, except for some of the senior officials of Qohor, others did not know the relationship between the magic armor and Lind, nor did they know that Lind came to Qohor not only for the armor, but also to cause trouble.

So when they guessed Linde's identity, they also used their own means to immediately pass the news back to Kohol that Linde had come to Kohol.

When Lind's boat sailed to the confluence of the Chinn River and the Undercurrent River and passed by the abandoned Rhoynar city-state of A Noi, the news of his arrival had spread throughout the city of Qohor.

Regarding his visit, the three major ruling elites in the city of Kohor all had different opinions. The Craftsmen Association was naturally extremely repulsive. They wanted to kill Linde and seize back the market. How could they welcome Linde's visit?

The Black Goat Church remains neutral. Although Lind is called the Chosen God of the Seven Gods and the incarnation of the Storm God, there is no Seven Gods Church in Qohor, and the Temple of the Storm God does not exist. They are more concerned about the powerful forces that are right in front of them. Temple of the Lord of Enemy Light.

Moreover, the Black Goat Church’s funding mainly comes from believers’ donations and local taxes. Kohol’s taxes have been greatly reduced due to the decrease in the income of the Craftsmen Association. This will not have a big impact on them, so they have no need for Linde’s arrival. idea.

On the contrary, the people from the Mage Association welcomed Linde's visit very much.

On the intellectual level, Lind is regarded as a forerunner of magic by the people of the Qohor Wizards Association. Many wizards, witches, and shadowbinders regard him as a spiritual mentor. If they were not able to leave Qohor for various reasons, Perhaps he has gone to Linde's territory.

Now that Lind has arrived, it is simply a grand festival for those in Qohor who are obsessed with mysterious powers.

However, when the three ruling elites had their own thoughts about Linde's arrival, some people who knew something about magic armor came to the Soyd family, one of the largest families in Qohor.

"Now that Lind Terra has come to our door, how are you going to solve it?" the high priest of the Black Goat Church asked directly to the patriarch of the Soyd family, Kos Soyd, who is also a priest of the Black Goat Church. road.

The High Priest of the Black Goat Church is just like the Archbishop of the Church of the Seven Gods. The moment he becomes the High Priest of the Black Goat Church, he has to abandon his previous identity and name. His status and rights are also the highest in Kohor, even if he becomes the High Priest of the Black Goat Church. Now he questioned Kos Soyd, who was also a priest, in a very rude manner, and the other party did not dare to have any dissatisfaction with him.

Kos Soyd answered honestly: "The things are placed in the mine now. When Lind Terra comes, we can just return them to him."

Hearing Kos's answer, the high priest immediately showed an incredible expression on his face, and then looked at Kos up and down as if he was looking at a fool, and said: "Do you know what you are talking about? Priest Kos, your brain Could it be that the river of ashes has been filled with black water? You actually said that you can just return it to him. Is it possible that someone has robbed something from your home and waited for you to find it all over the mountain and the other person told you to just return it to you? Will you give up?"

After what the high priest said, Kos's face became a little ugly. He actually didn't think about what to do. He just answered casually. He didn't expect that it would cause such a big reaction from the high priest.

"Actually, this matter cannot be entirely blamed on the Soyd family. If there were not some people instigating it, I think the Soyd family would not dare to do such a thing." The president of the Mage Association is a A wizard from Qarth named Boya Satyr. He once lived in the Temple of the Immortal for a long time and drank the water of night shadow for a long time. This made his skin, lips, and nails appear dark purple. And the eyes turned black.

The reason why he left the Immortal Palace was because he received a prophecy that the Immortal Palace would be destroyed by fire and the immortals would also be swallowed up by the flames. He was afraid of the prophecy of the destruction of the Immortal Palace, as well as the decay and decadence of the wizards. Dissatisfied with life, he voluntarily gave up his seat in the Temple of the Immortal, gave up all rights in Qarth, came to Qohor alone, and joined the Mage Association.

Later, relying on his powerful illusion and prophecy abilities, he quickly gained power and status in the Mage Association, and eventually became the president of the association.

For some unknown reason, he had a very bad relationship with the Craftsmen's Association, and his meaningful words just now were directed at the Craftsmen's Association.

After hearing the wizard's words, the people in the Craftsman's Guild couldn't help but frown, but they did not refute, but looked at the president of the Blacksmith's Guild next to them.

Feeling the gaze falling on him, the president of the Blacksmith Guild had an annoyed look on his face, and couldn't help the irritability in his heart. He said to the people around him: "The person who persuaded the Soyd family to intercept the magic armor was... It’s not just me, you all are also involved. Don’t you covet the magical secrets in the armor? Now something happened, Lind Terra came to the door, but you all forgot as if you had lost your memory. Those words I said in front of Lao Kos, you blame me for encouraging him to intercept the armor, you..."

"Okay, now we are not discussing who is to be blamed and who is not to be blamed, but how we should deal with Linde Terra." The high priest of the Black Goat Church intervened in time to interrupt the president of the Blacksmith Guild to prevent them from completely falling out. He broke up, and changed the topic back to business.

"What else can be done? You can compensate as much as you want." Boya Sati directly gave his thoughts.

Kos Soyd looked at the wizard Boya with a strange look on his face and said, "Lord Boya, do you mean to compensate him with a piece of Valyrian full-body armor?"

The wizard shrugged and said, "I think there should be no other way to calm his anger."

"Are you crazy? Do you know how much a complete piece of Valyrian steel armor is worth? Even if you sell all the assets of your Mage Association, you still can't buy a piece of Valyrian steel armor! "Kos couldn't help shouting, and turned to the other dignitaries of Qohor present, and said, "What's wrong with you? Lind Terra is just a person, not a god. Our ancestors faced Dos back then. Did they surrender to the Rak invasion? No, they did not surrender, but fought to the end and finally defeated the Dothraki. But what about us now? We are just facing one person, and one who has not come outside the city. People just raised their hands and surrendered. I really can’t believe that this happened in the heroic city of Qohor.”

Listening to Kos Soyd's roar, most of the native Qohor people looked embarrassed, while others didn't feel anything at all.

"But Lynd Terra is not a Dothraki." In the silence, Boya Satyr suddenly said: "The Dothraki are like weeds in the Dothraki Sea in front of him. You know he pretends to be When the Lion Knight passed through the disputed land, how many Dothraki died in his hands? At least five thousand people, all of them were killed by him. Do you know that the Crow who is entrenched in Dagger Lake cannot be wiped out. How did Dawu die? They were all frozen to death and turned into ice sculptures. They haven't thawed yet. You actually want us to fight against a god-like existence with such power. I didn't know it was you. Crazy, or am I crazy?" He looked at the others around him and said, "Or maybe we are all crazy!"

When everyone heard these words, they fell into silence again, but compared to the silence just now, the silence at this moment seemed much quieter.