Chapter 110 Promotion and Undercurrents

"Lord Hamilton, the 'materials' mentioned on the note are naturally the children they commissioned the major gangs and pirates to forcibly abduct. If my guess is correct, this Black Flame Church you mentioned is obviously preparing something very important to them recently."

"You are right, Ryan, I will report this matter to the county immediately." Hamilton nodded, he also felt the same way.

The case of missing children has become more and more frequent recently, and the mastermind behind it is about to be revealed, it should be this Black Flame Church.

At this time, a messenger came over and reported: "Mr. Sheriff, Knight Lloyd and his men have arrived at Stewin Farm. What do you think, should we go there, or should we ask Knight Lloyd to come here?"

"Have all the children been rescued?" After listening to the report of the messenger, Hamilton did not make a direct decision, but turned to Ryan and asked.

Ryan nodded and said, "All rescues were successful, no one died, no one was injured!"

"Very good! Then we will go to Stewin Farm to meet Knight Lloyd and his men." Hamilton waved his hand, obviously in a good mood.

"By the way, messenger, immediately report to Viscount Hamadi, the sheriff of the county city, and tell him that we have destroyed a secret base of a cult and rescued dozens of children."

"Yes, sir!"

With the arrival of Knight Lloyd, the entire Stewin Farm suddenly became lively. The farm was surrounded and carefully searched by the guards of Habsburg Manor who came with him.

Ryan even saw his familiar swordsman Humbert.

However, it seemed that the other party had never thought that the person standing next to Hamilton, the sheriff of Shelter Gold, who was also wearing knight plate armor, would be Ryan. Of course

, this was also because Ryan was wearing a knight's faceguard. In addition to the narrow T-shaped slit for the eyes and mouth and nose to breathe, outsiders could not see the true appearance of the knight in the faceguard through the slit.

Therefore, Humbert naturally could not distinguish Ryan.

And Ryan did not intend to "shock the whole audience" and run to greet Humbert to give him a "fright".

As a secret Black Flame Church base, Stewin Farm should have found many clues about the Black Flame Church, but Mort's fire burned all these traces clean.

This also made the "little note" that Ryan found from Mort very meaningful and even more valued by Hamilton.

Ryan did not stay at Stewin Farm for too long. He returned to Shining Gold Town with the night watch team escorting the children.

On the way back, Ryan finally had time to check the system prompts:

[Your skill Giant Bear Swordsmanship has been improved, experience value +86]

[You have experienced a battle, Night Watcher professional experience value +42]

[Your skill Giant Bear Swordsmanship has been improved, experience value +278]

[You have experienced a battle, Night Watcher professional experience value +142]

[Your skill Giant Bear Swordsmanship has been improved, experience value +326]

[You have experienced a battle, Night Watcher professional experience value +172]

[Your skill Giant Bear Swordsmanship has been improved, experience value +359]

[You have experienced a battle, Night Watcher professional experience value +205]

The dense system prompts almost filled the screen.

From the initial sparring with Lagre, to the battle with the heavy hammer man, the subsequent one-on-six, and the final battle with the Black Flame Monk, after summing up, the experience value rewards are not too generous.

The professional level of the Night Watch and the professional level of the Giant Bear Swordsmanship have both passed the halfway mark. The professional level of the Night Watch has reached level 4 (593/1000), while the Giant Bear Swordsmanship has reached level 5 (1049/2000).

Just as Ryan returned to the town of Shining Gold,

Willen took his daughter and found Hamilton, who was still handling follow-up matters at Stewin Farm, and said, "Sir, I request to resign from the position of captain of the Night Watch. I am deeply sorry for my negligence in the whole incident."

"If it weren't for your timely arrival in the end, blocking the black-robed man, and Ryan successfully saving all the children, I think I would feel guilty for the rest of my life."

With that, Willen bowed deeply.

Hamilton groaned in silence. Seeing this scene, his mood was also complicated.

He also has children. From the perspective of a father, there is nothing wrong with Willen's approach.

But unfortunately, he is a captain of the Night Watch.

Hamilton nodded and said, "Okay! Willen, I promise you. By the way, do you have any recommendations for the position of captain of the Night's Watch?"

"Thank you, sir. I recommend Ryan and Matteo. Of course, I prefer Ryan. Although he has only joined the Night's Watch for a short time, his strength is obvious to all. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be able to rescue all the children so smoothly this time."

Willen was really grateful to Ryan.

And after experiencing this incident, he felt that he had neglected his family too much before. Now he can spend more time with his daughter Abby and his family. It is a kind of happiness.

After returning home, Ryan soon found that Lagre and Anna were missing from the house.

"Mint? Where is your sister Anna?" Ryan couldn't help asking his sister who was playing with the greyhound.

"Sister Anna and Sister Lagre are at Sister Anna's house next door. They are cleaning the room and said they will stay there at night."

"Huh?" Ryan felt a little empty when he heard it.

Since the incident with Blackbeard, Anna has been living in his own house, and it seems that she has gotten used to it.

But think about it, his room is full, if there is Raglei now, there will be no room.

In addition, the threat of the Hyena Gang has long ended, it is understandable for Anna to go back to live, and with Raglei's force, it is more than enough to protect Anna.

Ryan thought about it, and did not go to find Raglei, but returned to his room.

Lying on the bed, Ryan was still thinking about the battle with the Black Flame Monk.

He won that battle by luck.

Thinking back carefully now, Ryan was sweating coldly. If the Black Flame Monk had not been injured by Hamilton at that time, he would have absolutely no chance of defeating him.

No, not only could he not defeat him.

He would probably be beaten and run away, and even his life would be in danger.

With the opponent being stabbed in the abdomen, his movement speed and flexibility were almost the same as his. It is conceivable how fast the opponent would be if he was not injured.

His killer move might be easily dodged by the opponent.

"I still have to improve my strength!" Ryan murmured.

Soon, Ryan, who was tired for a day, fell into a deep sleep!

For the next two days, the town of Shining Gold was peaceful.

Ryan finally learned Lagre's shield skills, which were displayed on the Night Watcher panel. Skill: Shield Defense lv1.

At the same time, Ryan has also spent the past few days refining some of his enemy-facing skills from the previous battles, and he feels quite rewarding.

In addition, with Lagre's careful teaching, Ryan's shield defense has improved rapidly. Just now, it has reached shield defense level 2 (124/300).

It's good to have someone to practice with.

This reminds Ryan of the time when Claire was here, when he learned the giant bear swordsmanship by himself, and he also made rapid progress.

With Lagre's sparring, his one-handed swordsmanship and shield defense also change every day.

It seems that because of the Black Flame Church's stronghold, the county city has not sent a team to investigate the evil spirit knights, which makes Lagre a little depressed.

Early in the morning of the third day, Ryan received a notice from the guards, saying that Hamilton asked him to go to the office.

This made Ryan a little confused. Could it be that there was news about the Black Flame Church so soon?

Walk into Hamilton's office.

Although the office was filled with the smell of healing potions, Hamilton was dressed in a noble hunting suit and was handling things in high spirits. Obviously, destroying the stronghold and killing the Black Flame Monk made Hamilton quite excited.

"Ryan, sit down."

"I asked you to come here for one thing. I plan to promote you to the captain of the Night Watch." Hamilton said to Ryan with a smile.

A study on the second floor of the Habsburg Castle.

There was no knocking on the door, but the door was suddenly opened.

This made Dennis in the room very dissatisfied. When he was about to scold the person who came, he looked up and his pupils shrank.

"Father, father!" Dennis didn't expect that it was his father who opened the door. When he stood up, his voice was trembling and he looked afraid.

His father, Kuros Norman, was a retired lieutenant colonel of the Dragun Empire Navy. Many of his styles of doing things were like those of the Imperial Navy, vigorous and strict.

He had suffered a lot since he was a child. This time, he finally came to the Habsburg Manor under the pretext of pursuing Claire and escaped from his father's clutches in a short period of time. Unexpectedly, because of Ruels' death, his father actually came in person.

"Follow me." The burly middle-aged man had a pair of sword-like eyebrows, which made people feel more powerful. He glanced at his son and said coldly.

Dennis had no idea of ​​resisting, nor did he refute or even say a word. Instead, he followed the other party obediently and walked to the gate of the manor.

The two came to the gate of the Habsburg Manor and saw that a black carriage had been waiting for them early. There was a striking black and gold-rimmed two-headed wolf pattern on the carriage, which was Norman's family emblem.

After getting on the carriage, Baron Norman took out a file and handed it to Dennis without saying a word.

Dennis was stunned at first, then woke up, took it immediately, and quickly flipped through it in front of Baron Norman.

At the first glance, Dennis couldn't help but exclaimed: "This is the farmer's son Ryan."

Then he looked up in surprise and looked at his father. He didn't expect that his father would start investigating the farmer's son Ryan who killed Ruels so quickly.

But Baron Norman still had no expression on his face.

This made Dennis feel uneasy. He knew what his father meant. He wanted him to finish reading the other party's materials first.

In addition, his father at this time was the most terrifying, because he suppressed the anger in his body, like a volcano about to erupt.

As Dennis read through the information, he became more and more frightened. Many of the information was the first time he saw it.

". Cleared out the fishmen in the Glimmer Lake."

". Promoted Ryan to the elite of the Night Watch."

". Killed the crystal lizard and beheaded the injured digging stone monster in the Elim Mine Incident."

". Ryan was highly valued by Hamilton, the sheriff of Shimmering Gold."

The recent information about Ryan can be said to be extremely detailed, as if it was copied directly from the Night Watch archives in the county town.

There is no record of Ryan killing the Black Flame Monk two days ago in the archives. So it seems that this information should have been obtained three days ago.

"Have you finished reading it?" Baron Norman's low voice sounded in the closed carriage.

"Yes." Dennis nodded.

"I asked my former navy colleague to help me get this a few days ago."

"Although Ryan's strength is not yet a formal knight, he is definitely not just an elite Night Watchman. I judge that his strength should be at the level of a third-level knight attendant, or even a quasi-knight!" Baron Norman said in a deep voice.

"What? How is this possible? It has only been more than a month since Claire found him. How could he improve so quickly?" Dennis looked horrified!

"Just more than a month? Did Claire take the initiative to find him?" Dennis still told Baron Norman some news that he didn't know, which surprised Baron Norman.

"This should be impossible." Baron Norman said after thinking for a while.

After all, in more than a month, practicing the breathing method from zero to a quasi-knight, this kind of talent is simply incomprehensible.

"Really! Father, I saw Ryan more than a month ago. He was thin and looked just like an ordinary person!" Dennis explained with a blushing face.

"If it is true as you said, then his knight talent is higher than the strongest genius in our Meister County. Do you know what this means?" Baron Norman frowned.

"Does it mean that he will be promoted to knight soon?" After thinking for a while, Dennis looked at the baron with a puzzled look.

"Wrong! The other party may have discovered from Rules's relics that Rules came from the Norman family. If this kind of genius is given more time to grow, it means that the other party will be a big trouble."

Dennis suddenly woke up! "Then father, you plan to take action yourself."

But Dennis was interrupted by Baron Norman before he finished speaking.

"Wrong! The other party's identity is sensitive, and it is not appropriate for me to take action. Phil Kratz will take action directly one day soon."

Phil Kratz?

Why is this name so familiar?

Dennis couldn't help but think about it. He was sure that he must have heard of this person.

"Black Sail Pirates?" Dennis couldn't help but whispered.

He remembered that Phil Kratz was the deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates. Not only did he have the strength of a senior knight, he was especially good at archery. He was a rare sharpshooter among pirates and was nicknamed "Bloody Shooter".

When his father was in the Imperial Navy, he had favored some pirate groups, and these pirate groups would also take extra care of the Norman family's merchant ships. The Black Sail Pirates were one of them.

As if knowing that Dennis had figured it out, Baron Norman slowly revealed a secret: "Phil Kratz, the deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates, once owed me a big favor."

"They had a plan before, and they would unite multiple pirate groups in the near future to launch a robbery on several small towns in Mayest County."

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