She Chooses To Destroy the World

Chapter 20: The current state of the capital.

Since the promotion ceremony of the special mercenary, the nobles in the royal capital have been discussing this very interesting matter.

Redhead Allen, a third-level mercenary belonging to the Mercenary Guild, was promoted to a special mercenary because of his outstanding performance in the mission. However, during the promotion ceremony, he showed his long hair and declared that he was actually a woman. Her master, the undead Roma, the most famous mercenary in the country, also proved her gender and said that in order to take responsibility, he voluntarily resigned from the title of super mercenary and left the mercenary guild to make a living.

The people in the Mercenary Guild certainly didn’t like to see such a scene, as if they were all fools who were played by a little girl. But they had to admit that girl’s status as a super mercenary. Because several special-grade mercenaries have unfortunately lost their lives during the mission recently, they have just lost the Silver Helmet Dewitt, who has a good chance of being promoted. Currently, there are only five or six special-level mercenaries on the register, and they are completely unable to meet the needs of the entrusted people.

The worst thing is that the most famous undead Roma among the special mercenaries now announced his resignation in public, which really put them all together. Undead Roma has no debts, and they can’t force him to stay. If they fired the red-haired Allen, it would be equivalent to the loss of two special mercenaries at once, especially one of them was their signature. This kind of loss was beyond the mercenary guild, so the decision makers had to pinch their noses to admit her qualifications as a special mercenary, and sent people to persuade Undead Roma not to leave.

After some negotiations, Undead Roma finally gave in, agreed to continue to maintain the title of special mercenary, and proposed to help the mercenary guild train third-level mercenaries, improve their survival rate on the battlefield, and increase their growth into special mercenaries. opportunity. The condition is that the mercenary guild must give him allowances every year, and he cannot be required to accept uninterested tasks. As for the red-haired Ellen, she also revealed her real name-Alice while revealing her gender. She was slender, but she carried a giant sword behind her back, which left a deep impression on people. Therefore, after the promotion ceremony, people gave her a new title that was louder than before, calling her “Great Sword Alice.”

This incident made the princes and nobles who love to watch the excitement in the royal capital a lot of fun, and soon someone spread the story to the palace, making His Majesty the King laugh.

In fact, the king had long regarded the mercenary guild as displeasing to his eyes. In his opinion, at least half of the internal wars in the whole country should be blamed on the mercenary guild. There is evidence that they will provoke conflicting nobles to war, and then provide mercenaries to both sides at the same time. If His Majesty the King had enough power, he probably would not allow such an organization to exist.

But the existence of the mercenary guild has its own meaning.

First of all, they paid a large amount of taxes to His Majesty the King every year, which greatly made up for the emptiness of the treasury; secondly, friction between the nobles could consume their combat power and prevent them from accumulating enough strength to threaten Wang Ji. Moreover, the Mercenary Guild also promised that in the event of a war in Wang Ji, they will give priority to providing mercenaries to His Majesty the King at the lowest price. With these guarantees, even His Majesty the King would not easily tear his face with the Mercenary Guild.

Of course, if possible, His Majesty the King would prefer to capture the Mercenary Guild in his own hands. Or at least know a little more about it. But the sky is not what people want. Although His Majesty the King sends out many spies every year, his tentacles have never been able to penetrate into the mercenary guild. The Mercenary Guild’s current principal is Earl Rachel, who is like a three-headed giant dog guarding the gates of hell, completely blocking the secrets of the Mercenary Guild behind him.

Not to mention the behind-the-scenes boss, Earl Rachel’s identity is already subtle enough. He came from a very old family, his family tree is extremely complicated, even more than twice the genealogy of His Majesty the King. When the dynasty was changed, Rachel’s family was able to retain the original fiefdom and title by swearing loyalty to the new king. Their territory is in the north, and they have very little communication with other places. It is said that they believed in a very old sect before, and after the establishment of a new country, they claimed to start worshiping the **** of light and built a temple in the territory. But with the rise of the new dynasty, the upstarts generally regarded them as infidels and rarely interacted with them.

Count Rachel himself left the family territory at a very young age and came to live in the royal capital. He often enters and exits the temple, and every time he gives a large amount of donations. In order to show his generosity and kindness, His Majesty reserved a place for Earl Rachel in the palace. The earl expressed his gratitude to His Majesty for his kindness, but he didn’t go to the court often. I don’t know when he had become the helm of the mercenary guild, and the roots of the mercenary guild grew longer and longer, eventually covering the whole. The country, no one can pull it up.

This person is like a shadow behind the light, another king on the back of the king.

No monarch can tolerate the existence of another king in his own country. For a long time after His Majesty ascended the throne, he made no secret of his dislike for Earl Rachel. Later, His Majesty the King grew older and began to learn not to put his likes and dislikes on his face, so he never mentioned the name of Earl Rachel again.

Earl Rachel didn’t seem to regard the king’s disgust as something that required special attention. However, he himself has humbly stated that if there is really such a monarch in the shadow of the kingdom, it is definitely not him, he is just the steward and janitor of that king. This statement seems to be giving way, but it is confirmed that there is indeed such a person.

Even the **** of light must endure the statue of the king of the dark night, Ludenier, standing behind him. Even if His Majesty is dissatisfied with this, he must be patient.

In any case, seeing the mercenary guild deflated this time, more or less let your Majesty Longyan rejoice. In order to prove this pleasure, the king deliberately summoned the heroine in this farce to see what kind of character it was. However, someone later said that the female mercenary and her master were both people who had been abandoned by the gods and were not suitable for face saints. His Majesty the King considered that such a meeting might make the high priest dissatisfied, and it might also bring some undesirable effects, so he had to dispel this idea.

Although His Majesty the King is the endorsement of the God of Light in the world, he still has to rely on the power of the high priest in many places. The current high priest is the uncle of His Majesty the King, who also inherited the blood of the God of Light. He gave up the right of succession to the lower ranked throne in order to gain the power to influence the country from another aspect. The high priest used to be the king’s tutor when he was young, and the king had great respect for him. All in all, it is not worth irritating the high priest for such a trivial matter.

The king’s decision greatly disappointed the nobles who were curious about this incident. The king did not have anything interesting all year round. It was a pity that the king had to meet such a thing, but had to give up because of this. His Majesty the King is the vane of popular fashion in the capital. His Majesty has stated that he will not be summoned, and it is not easy for ordinary nobles to invite people to the house.

However, the social circles’ curiosity about the girl continued unabated, and various rumors about her circulated extremely widely. It just so happened that His Excellency Etienne, the deputy priest of the temple in Podzta, was visiting the royal capital recently. I heard that the girl was from Podzta. Many good ladies and ladies ran to ask him if they had ever seen that girl. A girl named Alice.

The handsome young deputy chief replied with a smile:

“This name is quite common, even if I have seen it, I don’t know which one it is.”

Some people are satisfied when they get such an answer, while others like it more and are not so easy to dismiss:

“But that girl has red hair. Red hair is not so common in Potzta, right?”

The deputy chief priest still laughed, and refused to say a word. The talkative ladies were melted by his charming smile, and they couldn’t remember what to ask.

The ladies didn’t know that the smile of your vice-priest was the shield that hid his heart. Long before they asked him questions, he had asked himself many times in his heart why things were going in this direction.

Perhaps compared with the power of the gods, the power of a priest like him is still too weak.

There was a bit of anxiety in His Excellency Etienne, but he remained silent about it and never revealed it to anyone.

After meeting Alice in the tavern, he also thought about looking for her again, but at that time he was in a critical period of competing for the deputy chief, and could not be distracted or caught by others. Etienne’s most powerful opponent in competition for the deputy chief priest is the nephew of the chief priest of the Royal Capital Temple. The opponent is older than him and has been a temple priest for two years. Regardless of seniority or background, he has a lot of advantages. Etienne can only rely on the local contacts he has accumulated over the past few years. To maintain this advantage, he must be cautious in his words and deeds, and must not act rashly.

Later, he got his wish and became the deputy chief priest. To put it in exaggeration, he was almost taken to this position by the ladies and ladies of Podzta City, after all, the other party’s qualifications were much higher than him. But of course the final word was Poztar’s chief priest. He said that he was familiar with Etienne and it would be more convenient to work together.

When he first became the deputy chief priest, he had many things to do, and he had no time to think of the red-haired girl. When he remembered to look for her, the tavern had been demolished.

Such a tavern is like a passage between the light world and the dark world in the city. Once it is demolished, the people who have worked in it will quietly disappear and return to the shadow side.

Etienne occasionally thought that maybe he was doing something wrong to help her conceal it.

But this thought is just a flash of thought. Although he thought so, he didn’t regret it much. At the time, the priest of the Podzta Temple had warned him that he was too soft-hearted to be the chief priest, and kindness was sometimes a sin. He kept it in his heart, but he didn’t take it seriously.

The priest of the Temple of Potzta regarded Etienne as a disciple, and now he came to the capital according to the suggestion of the priest. The chief priest of the royal temple has been in poor health in recent years and is considering giving up his position. Therefore, the deputy chief priests of the temples from all over the world are summoned to the royal capital. The chief priest of Potzta thought this was a good opportunity and strongly urged him to visit the capital.

Etienne didn’t expect much to become the chief priest of the royal temple. After all, he just defeated the nephew of the chief priest in the competition of the deputy chief priest of Pozta a few years ago, and the chief priest saw that he would not be too pleasing to the eye. Moreover, although there is only one word difference between the deputy chief priest and the chief priest, they are actually thousands of miles apart. Many people have been in the position of deputy chief priest for ten years and have not been promoted. He is less than twenty-five years old, just now The young man who had been the deputy chief priest in the field for three years coveted the position of the chief priest of the Royal Capital Temple, which seemed a bit too ignorant to others.

But there is no harm in taking this opportunity to accumulate some contacts. Therefore, he also joined the social circle of the royal capital and appeared in various salons. You know, many noble families have members who hold important positions in the temple, leaving an impression on the noble ladies in the royal capital, and it is always the easiest step of entering the body.