[Chapter 213 Intelligence Agency and the Winter Navy]

According to Cecil’s description, the so-called Lost Land is where some dark elves who betrayed the Evernight Empire and gave up their beliefs and race were exiled. The dark elves

living in the Lost Land are a group despised by all dark elves.

“Is that so!”

David planned to find an opportunity to ask Raines later, maybe he could get more information about the dark elves from the missionary.

At the moment, he kept chatting with Cecil, and learned from him how powerful the Evernight Empire was. At the same time, he also learned that the black ship that Cecil had previously driven used an energy called “dark energy” as its energy source.

“Dark energy?”

“Dark energy is the greatest technology in the history of the dark elves!”

Although Cecil’s words were not very clear and detailed, David still roughly understood that this energy called dark energy is the energy obtained by the dark elves using special technology to transform various energies including arcane. The

purpose, of course, is to facilitate their own use.

The use of this energy has involved all aspects of the Eternal Night Empire, in addition to ships, there are also cars. This is why the two dark elves were not surprised to see the cars transformed by the Autobots, but just thought the appearance was special. In the Eternal Night Empire, similar things are often seen.

David touched his chin unconsciously, and a sense of wonder rose in his heart: According to the brother and sister, the civilization of the Eternal Night Empire far exceeds the human countries in the east of the Brunnia continent, why has it never moved eastward?

“We dark elves are a peace-loving race and will not start a war casually.”

“…”

Watching Cecil making a peaceful speech, and the female dark elf of Enid also nodded solemnly to express his agreement, David decided not to continue to ask about this topic.

He began to ask the brother and sister the purpose of this trip!

Speaking of archaeology, the brother and sister immediately became much more energetic, especially Cecil, who always maintained his personal image and even spoke in a steady tone and polite words.

At this time, he showed some youthful vitality: “I have been interested in history since I was a child. After years of study, I became an archaeologist, exploring historical records that have been lost for various reasons.”

According to Cecil, he became a scholar after he became an adult, and then painstakingly studied various historical texts, and almost memorized all kinds of historical materials recorded in the Eternal Night Empire.

The result of reaching this level is that he accidentally discovered that there are conflicts and many faults in many historical records, and even various errors in them.

This is a normal thing for historical records, but Cecil suddenly felt that as the best historian of the Eternal Night Empire (self-proclaimed), he had the responsibility to improve and repair these historical materials.

So Cecil embarked on the road of archaeology. So far, he has done very well and excavated a lot of “lost” and “lost” historical information. Some of the information guided him to the East, where he might be able to dig up more information.

“So, Enid and I came here together.”

“Is this your original destination? Didn’t you just want to come to the east?”

“Yes, the northern end of the eastern part of the continent, where there is a mountain that reaches the sky.” Cecil directly stated his destination, which was the peak in the north: “The clues I found over the years reveal part of the history of the dark elves before the establishment of the Evernight Empire.”

According to Cecil, a long, long time ago, the entire Brunnia continent was ruled by the dark elves, and there were no humans at that time.

But later, fierce conflicts broke out among the dark elves, and humans took advantage of the situation to rise, so some dark elves retreated to the west of the continent and established the Evernight Empire.

Other dark elves also dispersed to various places. The information he found showed that some powerful dark elf “traitors” retreated to the mountains in the northeast of the continent.

“…”

For some reason, David suddenly thought of the two altars he had discovered at the beginning. Could it be that they were left by the dark elves?

He continued to chat with Cecil. Because they gradually became familiar with each other, Enid also began to join the chat, but David was unable to ask more from the brother and sister.

The brother and sister were not sure whether there were dark elves on the northern peak.

The two of them just followed the clues to find it. As for humans… the dark elves did not have many records about humans. They just described them as a backward, barbaric race that liked to fight among themselves. They took advantage of the internal strife of the dark elves to occupy the eastern part of the continent.

“…”

These were not the original words of the brother and sister. They were the information David carefully sorted out. Even so, he noticed that the faces of the two dark elves were rather strange. They might feel that the dark elves’ evaluation of humans was too embarrassing to say in front of a human.

After chatting for a while, seeing that it was almost noon, David invited the two dark elves to the restaurant for dinner.

After asking in advance whether the dark elves had any taboos in diet, the arduous task of cooking was handed over to Jonah.

Jonah was an excellent chef. After coming to Winter Town, in order to adapt to the situation in Winter Town, he learned and created new dishes based on the tastes of the people in Winter Town.

Fortunately, the dark elves had no taboos in diet, and the brother and sister also expressed their desire to try the special food of humans here.

At the dinner table, in addition to David, the lord of Winter Town, Laura, an archaeologist, was also there, chatting with Cecil about archaeology.

“After lunch, I’ll take you to visit Winter Town.” Because they had a common topic, Laura immediately expressed her willingness to serve as a guide for the brother and sister and take them to visit Winter Town together.

Of course, Laura also secretly winked at David, as if to say, “See how I can help you get more information!”

When lunch was over, when Laura led the pair of dark elves to stroll around, Edwin Van Cleef appeared in front of David in time.

Back in the office, David, who was drinking tea and eating the fruit Helen sent as dessert, asked about the situation of the black ship.

“My lord, there are indeed some weapons on the black ship, but most of them are self-defense weapons carried with them, and the number is not large.”

“Cold weapons or hot weapons?”

“It looks like cold weapons, my lord.”

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Van Cleef did not touch those weapons, so he didn’t know if these seemingly normal swords had anything special.

“How is Raines arranged?”

“I have recently recruited some new people, one of whom is called Wilcox, who has approached the missionary.”

“Oh!”

David had thought of forming a professional intelligence department at the beginning. In fact, this department has already taken shape and has gradually started to operate under the command of Van Cleef.

It’s just that the name has not been officially decided. David thought of a few names in his spare time, such as MI9, Hammer Bureau, Wolf’s Den, etc., but he always felt that they were not to his liking. It is estimated that in the end, it will be very traditional to put up a sign of Winter Intelligence Bureau.

“Do you think I should set up an observation and warning post on the other side of the Winter River?” In the past, his attention has always been on the east and south. The vast surface of the Winter River gave him an illusion that no threat would suddenly emerge from this direction.

But the appearance of the dark elf brother and sister sounded the alarm for him. He paid too little attention to this direction.

“Yes, sir!” Van Cleef also felt that the defense of Winter Town in the west was too weak. In the past, it could be said that there was no “hostile force” in this direction, but the reality is that anyone and any force could appear from this side.

After all, they haven’t even done a good job of investigating what’s on the other side of the Winter River.

“We have to start the navy.”

David likes to do things one by one, finishing one thing before dealing with another, but the reality is that when you want to deal with things one by one, more things will pop up to distract your attention.

Especially as a lord, he must start to learn and adapt to dealing with multiple things at the same time, otherwise he can’t become a qualified ruler.

After Van Cleef left, David went to find James Norrington first.

This former Royal Navy Commodore did not just spend his days in Winter Town after coming to it, quietly waiting for David’s “recruitment”, but used all the available time to enrich himself.

Since he came to Winter Town and saw all kinds of strange things, he knew that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Winter Town, he had to learn a lot of new things.

Elizabeth and Will also gave him similar advice: If you want to become an important member of Winter Town, you must learn a lot of new things, and relying on past skills is definitely not enough!

So in addition to learning the common language of Brunnia (there were no props for learning languages at that time), Norrington learned all kinds of new knowledge.

Just like Fording in the past, in addition to reading books, Norrington also began to get in touch with video games, movies, television, animation, etc., so that his tactical theories would not be outdated, and at the same time he would have a more intuitive understanding of advanced weapons.

Therefore, when David found this Royal Navy Commodore again, he was no longer a Royal Navy Commodore who came to the Age of Sail, but a former Royal Navy Commodore who was addicted to video games…

Fortunately, Norrington did not forget his original intention. He was addicted to these things in order to gain a foothold in Winter Town, so when David found him, Norrington took the shortest time to tidy up his personal image, put on clean and tidy clothes to prepare for the test from the Lord.

“Test? What test?”

“My Lord, are you not going to test my professional ability?”

“You are the only naval commander in the entire Winter Town. There is not even a fisherman who can fish except you. Do I have anyone else to use besides you?”

“…”

(End of this chapter)