[Chapter 252 Tilan Shadow Guard]

My name is Ulysses, and I am a guard knight of the Tilan Kingdom’s Guard Knights.

But this is just the superficial identity. My real identity is a member of the Tilan Shadow Guard!

The Tilan Shadow Guard is an organization that is completely loyal to His Majesty the King and completely hidden in the shadows. It is the key to the stability and strength of the Tilan Kingdom!

It is no accident that I can become a Tilan Shadow Guard, because I have been raised and educated by the Tilan Shadow Guard since I was sensible. Becoming a Tilan Shadow Guard is my destiny.

And I am very happy about this!

After years of study and training, I became a formal shadow guard, and at the same time obtained the superficial identity of the Guard Knight. My main job is to ensure that if there is any bad tendency within the Guard Knight, His Majesty the King can know it at the first time!

This task is very boring. I feel that I have no chance to play my years of study and training, but I still work hard to complete the tasks assigned to me by my superiors until I receive more important tasks!

That day, I reported as usual: The Guard Knights are all normal!

This time, what awaits me is not the usual simple response, but a new task.

Great! The important task I have been waiting for for many years is finally here!

I was looking forward to it. I couldn’t wait to get the task content and related information in a secret place according to the code I knew, and then I couldn’t wait to rush back home.

During this period, I had to find a reason to turn down the invitations of my colleagues in the Guard Knights and the enthusiastic greetings of my neighbors. After taking precautions, I entered the secret room and opened the enchanted protection information.

I looked at the task content first, and I found that this task didn’t seem too difficult. I just joined the mission led by Earl Sutton-Stewart with the help of my identity as a guard knight.

Of course, I know Earl Sutton-Stewart. He is a very famous figure in the royal capital. It is said that the beautiful women he has slept with can be lined up from the capital of Tiran to the coast of the Sodulunma Empire. He is really an enviable guy.

However, as the younger brother of Her Majesty the Queen, Earl Stewart will not have any trouble as long as he does not do anything harmful to the Kingdom of Tiran and just sleeps with ordinary women.

My mission is not to investigate this Earl, but to follow the delegation to Winter City in the northern plains to investigate all the intelligence information about Winter City in detail.

Winter City, Baron Glamorgan… Oh, now he is an Earl!

He is a super lucky guy, and some even call him the luckiest man since the birth of the Kingdom of Tilan.

Now, this lucky Earl has been favored by the goddess of luck, and His Majesty the King is actually going to marry the beautiful Princess Sophia to that guy.

Damn! It’s really jealous!

For a moment, I really wish I were the Earl of Glamorgan! But I’d better take a look at other information first!

Along with the mission requirements, the information sent to me was also collected by the Kingdom and the Tilan Shadow Guard through various channels. This information is to give me a basic understanding and cognition of Winter City.

I know very well that when these information are handed to me

, they also come with another task: verification! Is the actual situation of Winter City as recorded in the information? How accurate is it? What are the differences? How big is the gap? I need to investigate all this!

It looks like a very challenging task. I am looking forward to it…

Joining the mission is not a big deal for me. My superiors have already prepared for me. I don’t need to be special in the mission. I just need to complete the work of the guard knight step by step – guarding the princess or the earl.

There is nothing to worry about along the way. As we approach the northern plains, the weather is getting colder and colder. Even if we wear thick battle robes and cloaks, the cold wind is still unbearable… I also want the warm accessories that the princess wears… We are in the northern plains.

What a hell of a place. The wind here is even more unbearable than before. In addition to being cut by a knife, the wind seems to penetrate from all directions. Even if I have plugged all the gaps in the armor with cotton cloth, I still feel the wind blowing into the armor… Is

this the Snowfield Castle? It is such a simple fortress. The orcs can’t even take down such a fortress. It seems that it is not worth paying too much attention…

I was wrong! The inside of the Snowfield Castle is so beautiful? So clean? I feel that the main road of Snowfield Castle is cleaner than the palace of Tiran. Did the Earl of Glamorgan specially have people clean it up to welcome Her Royal Highness the Princess?

Those heavily armored winter knights and those huge metal puppets, the Winter Knights, a unit that was thought to be just a joke, seem to be not what everyone imagined, just a product of the country lord’s self-entertainment…Anyway

, the house in Snowfield Castle is very warm, it is said that it is because the heater is installed. I feel like I am alive again. It is so comfortable here. I have rarely had a good sleep since joining the mission…

This vehicle called a truck is not very comfortable to sit in, but it runs really fast.

Looking at the other guards knights in the car, everyone is amazed at the speed of this vehicle. Everyone thinks that if the soldiers can take this vehicle when they go to war, they can reach the battlefield faster and more easily, and they can leave more energy to deal with the enemy.

I also agreed, and at the same time realized that Winter City, with this kind of vehicle, could control a wider area with fewer troops…

Arriving at Winter City, I finally saw the so-called Winter City.

Recalling the records I saw in the data: Winter Town is just a small town under construction, with incomplete infrastructure and only a few wooden houses. Although Baron Glamorgan is building his own town, it will be difficult for Winter Town to be truly built without a few years.

Looking at the city with countless beautiful houses in front of me, I think the shadow guard responsible for investigating Winter City should be fired!

Could it be that all these beautiful houses in front of me were built this year? Winter City does not have so many craftsmen who can complete such a large project in such a short time!

Just as I was thinking about how to report my colleagues’ dereliction of duty, the team had arrived at the accommodation arranged for us by Winter City.

Winter Hotel?

It sounds like a cliché name, but the environment here is very good. Earl Glamorgan of Winter City even arranged comfortable rooms for all the accompanying personnel including me.

Even an ordinary guard knight like me only lives in a double room with another guard knight, instead of a large group of people crowded in the barracks – to be honest, if the barracks in Winter City and the barracks in Snowfield Castle have similar environments, I think living in the barracks is a very good hospitality. I didn’t expect to receive such a good treatment.

The Earl of Glamorgan is really a generous and friendly lord. Only such an excellent lord is worthy of marrying Princess Sophia!

I sat on the comfortable bed for a while. It was the first time for me to sit on such a comfortable bed. I felt like I was sinking into it.

After sitting quietly for a long time, I got up and looked at the “bathroom”.

When the waiter introduced to me what these things were used for and how to use them, I found it a little hard to accept when I knew that the toilet was actually in the room, but now… I

drove Mike out. This guy has been in the bathroom for a long time. I don’t know what’s so good about it?

After solving some necessary problems, I observed quietly for a while. The filth was really washed away by the water, and there was no smell.

What a magical facility, and the washbasin, where did all the water come from?

And that glowing thing called “electric light”, it’s really convenient, I wonder if I can buy some electric lights and install them in the secret room? After

a good night’s rest, the comfortable bed made me a little reluctant to get up, but there was still a lot of work to do today, so I still sat up with my super will.

Looking at the bed next to me, Mike was also awake, lying there with his eyes wide open, and had no intention of getting up.

Tsk! It’s really embarrassing for the guards!

I got up and washed up. I have to say that the bathroom is really convenient. I don’t even have to go out of the door to solve all kinds of problems.

And those dirty things were also cleaned up. I wonder where they were “sent” to? Is it underground? Won’t it be full? Maybe someone specializes in cleaning these things? After

tidying up my equipment and appearance, I pulled Mike out of the bed, rode on the warhorse that had also rested well and followed closely behind the carriage carrying Her Royal Highness the Princess and the Earl, and I looked carefully at everything in Winter City.

Winter City, it’s really clean!

Even though we were near the farmland where civilians lived, we didn’t see any garbage or muddy roads. I found that even the inconspicuous alleys were paved with beautiful stone slabs.

This was incredible. Even if Winter City was just a small town, it was no small project to pave the entire town with stone slabs, not to mention that Winter City actually occupies a large area.

Especially those main roads, which were frighteningly wide!

I kept all this in mind and continued to follow the team to “visit” Winter City.

Because I was right next to Her Royal Highness, I was lucky enough to hear a lot of information, including how many farmlands Winter City currently had and how much food these farmlands could produce each year.

What are the functions of garbage and wastewater treatment plants? What is the water system? What is the power plant used for?

These introductions solved my doubts, and there seemed to be more and more things to report!

I also learned that Winter City was so clean because of the request of the Lord, the Earl of Glamorgan. The Lord even formed a security team to catch those residents who littered and urinated everywhere.

It’s really exaggerated. Those guys who were caught were so unlucky that they ran into a lord with mysophobia.

After visiting the Winter Camp, I realized that living in Iron Tree Castle is the worst!

(End of this chapter)