Chapter 1175: 1157 position

Chapter 1175 1157. Position

“You would be wise to come directly to me, son.”

Aunt Nannick took Lan En around like a garden, walking around and talking.

"Oh?" Lan En said with an interested smile on his face, "You said so. It seems that Duke Seeward has made little progress in discriminating against others in recent years?"

"Kid, don't think that just because you have fought a few prestigious tough battles and done some great things, you can win everyone's respect. Don't be so naive."

Aunt Nannick stretched out her fat, wrinkled hands and plucked two marigolds from the bush, which were often eaten in salads.

He ate one by himself and handed the other to Lan En without looking back.

At the same time, he said to Lan En.

She looked like an old woman who would stuff snacks into the hands of her grandchildren and then chatter about them.

Lan En took the marigold obediently, put it in his mouth and chewed it.

"Hey, I'm not that naive, Mammy."

"That would be the best, because that would save a lot of avoidable disappointment," Nannick continued.

"You can't just judge a person's attitude by looking at the surface. Of course that old dog in Siward knows how good you are. If we really meet him, he might give you some basic respect."

"But no matter what he shows on his face, his true attitude towards you only depends on his position."

Lan En savored the fragrance of marigolds in his mouth, as well as the subtle bitterness of herbs.

"So at this stage, what is the position of the Duke of Elland?"

"Hey, you are much sharper than Geralt." Nannick looked at the young man in surprise. "Tell the truth."

"Shiward has been working hard to implement a policy in recent years. He wants to help the Knights of the White Rose obtain authorization from the Council of the Templars, so that every knight in the regiment can actually obtain enfeoffment."

The Council of Templars is an organization in Temeria that is responsible for managing the affairs of many knights.

Institutions like the Knights generally have higher combat effectiveness than ordinary soldiers, and many of them are young people with noble inheritance rights. Of course, they must be careful and troublesome to manage.

Therefore, it is normal to set up an organization specifically to deal with this matter.

In Toussaint, the "Land of Knights and Wine", although there is no formal military force due to policy and historical reasons, there is a cultural tradition of wandering knights.

In order to manage wandering knights, they have specially set up a 'Wandering Knights Guild'.

For example, the High Hill Castle that Foltest granted to the Ember Knights actually went through the process of the Templar Council.

This process would normally be normal for ten years, but the performance of the Ember Knights under Lan En's command on the Sodden Mountain battlefield was really not enough to be described as 'outstanding'.

It’s simply terrifying!

Therefore, with the prestige of the ‘Battle of Bengsodeng Mountain’, the approval time was probably the fastest since the founding of Temeria.

The review sent by Duke Seeward was a process that was ten years shorter than usual and constantly promoted progress.

If a student of Oxenfurt University and the recently launched ‘eradicating superstition’ movement heard this, they would probably think that this was the wild belief in fictitious gods by ignorant and backward believers.

But for Lan En, he thought of some kind of "strangeness" that Nannick showed when he came out of the cave greenhouse just now. As the most prestigious temple of the Melitelli faith on the continent.

If someone really dares to cause trouble here after eating the bear's heart, Lan En estimates that this person's fate will be very "unoptimistic".

"Then we'll feel at ease." The demon hunter shrugged and changed the topic, "As for business, what is the situation in the Pontar Valley?"

Nannick pulled Lan En slightly, and the two of them lifted their feet to walk around a small mess on the ground.

It was a pile of feathers and guano from poultry. It looked like the traces left when the priestess apprentices drove away the chickens, ducks and geese just now.

But in the lush gardens of the temple, these things will soon disappear on their own, becoming the fertility of the soil.

Speaking of this inland water transport artery of the four northern countries, Nannick's usually calm expression also frowned slightly.

"How much did Foltest tell you?"

"Not much." Lan En answered her, "But just these are enough to make people feel bad."

"That's true." Nannick nodded in agreement with the young man's statement, "If Foltest hadn't had to deal with a sudden conflict with the Nilfgaard Empire on the border, he would have definitely come here in person. "

"I know everything Hiward knows about this matter."

Nannick said it matter-of-factly, without any pride at all.

"After all, when those who fled outside the city of Elland, the first thing they thought of was the Temple of Melitelli. Who else would be willing to rescue people who had walked in the mountains for ten days and a half without any time to rest? "

"Dirty, smelly, skinny, and looks like it could bring bad luck. Hum."

Nannick couldn't be described as sarcastic, he just smiled in a 'seen a lot' tone.

"Then what happened to these people?"

Lan En's tone began to change from a leisurely conversation to a cautious and focused one.

He began to enter the working state of a demon hunter.

Nennik has known Geralt for a long time and even takes care of him like a son. Of course, he is also very familiar with the working style of the witcher.

So there was nothing uncomfortable about it.

"They were originally mountain people living in the Mahakam Mountains."

Nannik first explained to Lan the cause of the whole incident, or in other words: the cause of the incident being discovered.

"They live in the mountains working for the dwarves. Mahakam is a big mine, and the dwarves have not finished digging it for hundreds of years."

"Their current chief elder is a conservative named Hogg. He doesn't want the dwarves to leave Mahakam and enter the dangerous human world. But he doesn't have any objections to allowing a small number of humans to work in the mines."

"Not only does he have no objections, but Siward and Foltest also have no objections. After all, the gold earned by the mountain people from Mahakam still has to be exchanged for supplies in the human society below the mountain."

"Not only are they mining for the dwarves to make money, there are also a few hunters in the small villages of the mountain people who can get some meat in the mountains of Mahakam."

(End of chapter)