Chapter 717 Secret Castle
The carriage left Pinghu Town and drove on a westward road. At first, the boulevard was wide and flat, but it became narrower and narrower. The branches on the right side of the road kept knocking on the carriage, making rustling sounds. However, the driver followed the rules of the carriage led by Randall and insisted on driving on the right side of the road. Even if the passengers in the carriage were the owner of this territory, the noble Count Randall, he did not invade the driving lane on the left.
A public carriage pulled by two oxen came towards him. The driver was very conscious. He stopped the carriage, jumped from the driver's seat to the ground, and took off his hat to the noble carriage. The passengers in the grid carriage were wondering why the public carriage stopped, but when they saw the noble carriage surrounded by more than a dozen fast bird light cavalry, they knew that a big man had passed by, and they stood up and bent down to salute on the right side.
Victor's car continued west along the tree-lined lane, and he never encountered public carriages along the way. Even farmers and two-wheeled freight trucks that were returning home became scarce. The carriages were gradually remote, and the farmland on both sides of the road was replaced by hilly pastures, and in the end, even the pastures were invisible.
In the evening, the carriage came to the end of the boulevard and drove into a sentry made of logs and blue bricks.
It is a division point between the wilderness on the west side of Randall Territory and the eastern administrative region. Because the irrigation system cannot cover the entire area, it belongs to the undeveloped wilderness of Randall Territory. It is usually rarely visited, with only the gathering points of forest rangers, lumberjacks and shepherds distributed near dozens of stream reservoirs.
There was no road ahead of the post, and Victor ordered his attendants to stay at the post and rode the swift birds with Nelson, Charlotte and six Gripen militias to continue heading west.
In this world where monsters survive, wild land means danger and follow the law of the Black Forest. Although Victor has controlled the entire territory of Randall, his sphere of influence also includes the southern section of the Skylark Mountains and the local area of the Lizard Everglades, with a total area of nearly 30,000 square kilometers. However, he still prohibits the territorial people from illegally breaking into wild land according to the lord's general rules. Once captured, he can be regarded as a bandit.
Usually, the "bandits" who break into the lord's field can be punished with up to three years of hard labor. There are two other statements about "bandits" who are not caught. Those who resist the arrest and are killed on the spot, or escape successfully, but are eaten by monsters, turning into a pile of feces that cannot be distinguished from whom.
In short, the "bandits" who broke into the lord's field often disappeared or disappeared, and even if they were in hard labor, they could die unexpectedly.
The wilderness on the west side of Randall's leadership has been circulating with stories of fierce wolves. Honest and honest people will not risk their lives to run in and stroll around, but some people who are determined to test are not afraid of death. They want to find something in the wild, and then they disappear.
There are alchemy crows in the sky as their eyes, and there are alchemy war mastiffs and alchemy militia patrols on the ground. Even if ordinary knights encounter these opponents, they will never come back. Only the great knights of the silver level can escape unscathed. However, looking at Nelson, you will know that since the attack of the Count of Jinlique fell, the Bear of the North has been on the church's silver edge list, enjoying the treatment of the silver knight, and reporting to the church when traveling.
The spies sent by major forces can only be ordinary people, or secret deceased soldiers. Alchemist militia caught several living people in the wild, used psychedelic potions to turn them into idiots, and then gave them to the dwarf Green as experimental material.
The pharmacy secret castle of Dwarf Green is built in a remote place near the Skylark Mountains on the west side of Randall. It looks like an ordinary forester's place to settle down. The log fence and several watchtowers circle a small stream reservoir, next to it is a small wooden house, barracks, warehouses and a three-story blue brick villa.
At the beginning, after discussion, Victor, Sylvia and Toffwen decided to give priority to the development of the Knights' secret technique of spiritual blood, concentrate on improving the spiritual potion "Knight's Despair", and adjust the "morning light" potion. As for the secret method of spiritual blood, the ordinary mind, staying at the primary level and giving up the study of source power, but in exchange, the pharmacy master, Dwarf Green, was sent by Yuanbao to Randall to develop spiritual potion that replaces the source power so that the primary mind warrior can reach the intermediate level.
This secretago was jointly established by the August family and the York family. Both sides sent pharmacists and apprentices to assist the short-lived Green, sharing resources and sharing results. Since the Randall family did not have a decent pharmacist, they could only leave a place to provide the secretago with daily life needs.
In fact, the Secret Castle of Psychology, built in Randall, is more like a product of Toffervan and Sylvia's pleasing Victor. On the one hand, the political system of the human kingdom is not ready to accommodate higher-level spiritual warriors; on the other hand, the source power is currently only present in the concept of Victor's hypothesis deduction. If ordinary people really had the so-called source power, the church would have studied it long ago, but no one had heard of anything like source power.
His Highness Randall wants to make trouble, so let him do it. The August royal family should always meet the small requirements of the guardian of the kingdom. Sylvia's idea is more pragmatic. Different schools of spiritual secret medicine can make the best progress, and it doesn't matter if there is no progress. Through this cooperation, the key is to let the pharmacists of the York family learn from the dwarf Green, and to improve the family's pharmacist's background.
Victor was really too busy and had no time to inquire about the specific affairs of the pharmacy secretago, and the research projects of the secretago were completely out of his control. Nicole would come over to see it, but she had no say in pharmacy research, so she could only copy the research records of the secretago.
Victor looked at the records provided by Nicole and found that they were all messy and improved formulas, which had nothing to do with the science of spiritual medicine. The barbarian captive was actually killed by the dwarf Green.
He had a sudden attack this time and planned to rectify the dwarf Green and the hot-headed pharmacists, so that they could understand that this was a secret castle for His Highness Randall, not a free and casual pharmacist.
Nelson was responsible for scaring them, and this guy had a fierce look.
The alchemy militia who acted as the scout of the secret castle would not hinder the master. When Victor rushed into the secret castle gate with a fierce momentum, the secret knights of the Chin Fort and the Rose Manor reacted. They saw that the uninvited guest was His Highness Randall, so they hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and stopped the guards from ringing the alarm bell.
However, Victor's attention was attracted by a man in the small square and did not respond to the greetings of the two senior knights.
Four burly guards were escorting an elderly prisoner to a cage made of fine iron, intending to put him in and hang it up.
The hanging cage is a cruel instrument of torture that tortures the body and mind of the prisoner, and is specially used to deal with enemies. In other words, the cage punishment belongs to the category of family lynching. The lord seizes the enemy he hates, locks it in a narrow iron cage, and displays it publicly to the family members. The prisoner cannot stand up in the cage and cannot lie down, so he can only curl up and let others watch it.
Due to the semi-open nature of the iron cage, the prisoner can interact with people outside, but he has no privacy. The comparison between the two parties will cause great harm to the prisoner's mind, thus amplifying the physical torture and making the prisoner in the cage feel in pain.
The lord generally allows the audience to pity the prisoner and provide him with some food and water; he also allows people to humiliate the prisoner, or even beat him with wooden sticks through the cage. As long as he is not beaten to death, the lord will not interfere no matter what the onlookers do to the prisoner in the cage. The mercy of the kind person or the humiliation and abuse of the vicious person will only make the prisoner feel that he is an animal, not a person. But compared to the tomb being torn apart, physically and mentally tortured, the most terrible thing is indifference. When people lose interest in the prisoner in the cage, he can only die of starvation in despair. His painfully twisted corpse is still trapped in the cage, hanging high, making the bystanders shudder.
The church strictly prohibits cage punishment. Victor has heard of it, but has never seen it. In fact, the real knight lords are not perverts with out-of-control mentality. Only the weak families of the Eastern League without any sense of honor will adopt this extremely inhumane punishment.
The prisoner in front of him looked ordinary, thin, pale skin without blood, and the cyan blood vessels on his arms were clearly visible. His childish face looked like he had just grown up. The tall and strong guard made his expression a little timid, but he obediently entered the iron cage, and took the initiative to close the cage door, and then sat in the corner with his knees in his arms.
Most people will inevitably struggle when they see iron cage torture instruments. The guards have to work hard to stuff the prisoner into the cage. Even if this young man has never heard of the terrible cage torture, it is impossible for him to survive the cold night with his thin clothes.
Victor raised his chin to the cage and asked, "What's going on?"
Two senior knights looked at each other, and the secret knight Kayvin from the Interior of the Yuanbao House said respectfully: "Your Highness, that was the death row prisoner Willy sent a month ago. He killed at least 47 people in the Northern County..."
"So fierce?" Nelson rubbed the stubble on his jaw, looked at the prisoner in the cage with interest, and frowned and said, "It's not like, he's obviously an ordinary person... thinner than an ordinary person."
"Lord Nelson, you don't know anything." Vaughan, the secret knight of Rose Manor, said: "Willie is normal during the day, but at night he becomes a demon, with great strength, quick movement, and bloodthirsty. It is said that he killed 11 soldiers who were pursuing him overnight in the Northern County, including an apprentice knight. Finally, the Minsk Fortress sent a knight to capture him."
"Your Highness, we have tried it." Vaughan turned to Victor and introduced: "After the sun set, Willy's changes were amazing. The secret guards of Rose Manor were not his opponents. Master Green suspected that he was a wizard and had never used him to test the potion. He put him in a cage at night, and when the sun rose the next day, Willy returned to normal and could still remember what happened at night."
Victor's eyes flashed and asked, "If he were a wizard, it would be impossible for Yuanbao to send it here as a test material. Is he a wizard?"
“…He does look like a wizard at night.”
Knight Kayvan looked back at the cage and said, "The priest of the Northern County Inquisition has been identified. Willy is not a wizard... The villagers who were persecuted by him call him "Night Demon", but he is actually a lunatic."
As the sun sets, the dim sky is filled with hazy purple. A cold wind blows into the iron cage, penetrates the body of the prisoner Willy, wrapping him tightly in his thin clothes, but still maintaining a dead silent silence.
Victor blinked his eyes and removed the Wind Elemental Insight. He had already confirmed that Willy was just an ordinary person with weak body. So what exactly caused the drastic changes in his body and mind that he needed to dispatch a formal knight to capture him?
Chapter completed!