Chapter 109
Eanred spoke as he tried to understand the thought process of Duke Norman, "I guess Duke Norman is betting on Prince Hector and the fact that North-frontier Town is land-locked on all the sides and has no access to the outside world without that port for trade improves his position for war . Well, personally I too prefer Hector becoming the king or that guy Charlie as I know for one that he is quite a sinister guy . Felix becoming king would create a lot of chaos unless Lukav is dead . If Felix is successfully able to kill Lukav then I guess there won’t be any questions . "
Lionheart said as he heard them, "As far as I know they would at most only get the weapons . Not the blueprints and they would have to research them for soti before they can even imitate the lowest quality of the ballista . So We don’t need to worry about them getting their hands on Ballista . "
Eanred spoke, "From the way that Count dealt with this situation, it seems that he knew that he would be eyed like prey and hence he made a deal with us at such a crucial mont . However, I would have still hidden that weapon like the Lorr Family until it was really necessary to show it to others, The thing about Lorr was that they weren’t able to hide it from and hence our predictions . However, that Count sotis might seem naive but he is quite cunning like the situation this ti where he bought archers so early when he wasn’t even sothing big and hid those ballistae for so long . I guess he prepared for a lot of ti before taking his actions . However, he sotis seems a lot naive when he tries to openly show his disrespect to the radiant church or the previous encounter where he chose to save a slave over keeping relations with Evan and Duke Fjord . Well, value only lies to the beholder I guess he has planned sothing . "
Luke asked confusingly, "Master, why do you think that he had sothing in his mind?"
Eanred spoke as he thought, "I guess it is because of my instincts and years of experience . Because if he was a fool he wouldn’t have been able to make so many connections in such a short amount of ti . "
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Duke and John were at Tornwall’s Workshop .
Duke then asked John, "What do you think would happen at Riverside town . As you don’t seem distressed I guess you are either pretty good at hiding your emotions or you have sothing planned already . "
John thought and replied, "Well, I think either Hector’s n will be able to successfully kill Evan and the bla will fall on us or Jake will kill Evan and the bla will still fall on us so I don’t care either way . I would rather start to prepare our naval fleet against the onslaught of Duke Fjord . As we earned a lot of money recently, I bought quite a few old ships from Marquis Ray . So ships will be remodeled according to my preferences . However, we still need to secure our passage to sea as we are already being targetted by Prince Hector via that pussy baron . As for my emotions, well even I don’t know if I am good at controlling them or not . However, I am soone who likes to think of solutions rather than worry about my problems . Killing Evan won’t affect us much as when it cos to naval warfare, we will have a complete edge on them with our ballistas at least for so ti . I have already found a naval admiral for our sea fleet, I guess you will be able to et him later on and if you are curious the only thing I can say is that he was previously a sea pirate who used to raid big rchant ships . So rather than worrying about the outco of the event at Riverside town, I would instead start to prepare our naval prowess against the onslaught of Duke Fjord as it would be the worst situation based on the events taking place . "
Duke smiled and curiously asked John, "By revealing so much information to , aren’t you worried about betraying you now or in the future?"
John spoke in a carefree manner, "Well, I won’t worry if it is future and as for the present, my instincts tell that you can be trusted . and there is this thing called mutual interests that wouldn’t make sense for you betray . Well, mostly it’s the instincts . Lets head to the testing site, you will be able to see that weapon first hand in our testing fields . "
Tornwall arrived and greeted Duke, "Welco to Duke, we have already made the preparations for the testing . "
Duke was confused as he asked Tornwall directly, "I heard that Forgemaster Tornwall is a slave, where is your mark? Are you really Tornwall or soone imitating him?"
Tornwall rubbed his nose as he said, "Actually, Lord freed from my slavery just a few days ago because of my previous performance and I guess he trusted a lot and of course I won’t betray the trust that Lord has shown . "
Duke was quite surprised after hearing this and looked at John as he nodded which confird it .
John explained in a serious manner, "Well, Tornwall is one of the important mbers of my administration and a lot of officials were feeling pretty low since Tornwall was a slave however at the sa ti he had a lot of authority so they proposed to free Tornwall and I too felt that my most important n shouldn’t be slave as this would reflect badly on so I released him from slavery . Well, I am only looking for an opportunity to free Taylor as well . "
Tornwall then comnted, "That’s true, this has also solved the awkward problem of other conservative guys who felt conflicted as I was a slave but at the sa ti, I had a lot of achievents so they wanted to respect for my achievents . However, I think a lot of officials have changed their behavior towards slaves after watching Jake previously fight Marcus and realizing their own positions on what would have happened if they as commoners were against him where Lord decided to support their n . "
Duke then looked at John and Tornwall as he said, "You guys should be careful as the dwarven kingdom is the east aswell is sending their spies to this town from now on as they heard about the ballista and wanted to confirm its existence . This can also be confird by the fact that they have increased their forces and patrolling in the eastern sea of Aelius Kingdom . I guess they might have already smuggled so ships full of spies towards Aelius . "
Tornwall’s face changed as he heard about the Dwarven kingdom because he knew that a lot had changed after that conspiracy all those years ago .
He thought, ’I guess I still can’t escape them, however, I am glad that I choose to follow Lord John as he would surely protect his n . ’
Duke whispered to Tornwall, "Your Lord might not know your entire background and past but I know it . Aren’t you worried about involving him in this ss . "
Tornwall spoke gravely, "Well, I trust him and he trusts and if it cos down to the matter of existence for Lord’s domain then I won’t hesitate to use my life . However, I am confident that we will only prosper here at North-frontier town . I know he will beco a great King known by everyone in all the realms . The very fact that he treats everyone equally is his biggest trait and that will be his biggest asset in his kingdom . "
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