Chapter 350: Rand tries to find the traitor with the blessing of the Torch Goddess

After Rand received Tanner's letter.

After dealing with some territorial affairs that required his decision, he set off for Man Yue Territory.

There is a traitor in Man Yue Territory!

This must be paid close attention to.

Traitors are like cockroaches.

When you find the first cockroach in your home, it means that your home is already full of cockroaches.

The same goes for the inner ghost.

When the first traitor is discovered, it is very likely that the entire Full Moon Territory and even the Crescent Moon Territory are already traitors.

Maybe some of the traitors have already climbed to a higher position in the hideout.

Must be thoroughly investigated!

It just so happened that the blessing of the Torch Goddess had inexplicably turned into (reached its limit) recently. I could use the perception ability bestowed by the Torch Goddess to check where the traitor was.

Rand planned to first conduct a thorough investigation of Man Yue Territory, which was expected to be the hardest-hit area, and then look at other places.

For example, Crescent Moon Harbor, New Moon Territory, and Crescent Moon Territory.

Sitting in the familiar Centaur carriage.

Rand crossed his arms, pondering how to deal with the traitor.

At this moment, the Centaur suddenly pulled out a small bow from his harness, bent the bow and drew an arrow, and shot a moose that tried to rush onto the road to the ground.

The whole action was smooth and flowing. After shooting the arrow, the Centaur fixed the small bow on his back again.

The carriage didn't even slow down during the entire process.

Elsa, who was originally nervous and had already drawn her dagger as a guard, now put the dagger back into the scabbard at her waist.

Centaurs are natural archers on horseback. Unfortunately, Rand doesn't have many of them.

Not very capable of forming an army.

Therefore, the main job of the territory centaurs is to pull the carriage and act as carriage guards.

After shooting the arrow, the Centaur driver spoke in the standard continental language: "Lord God's Messenger, the roads have indeed been a bit uneasy recently. The beasts are a bit agitated, and there are also magical beasts and monsters appearing."

Rand nodded, "I see. I'll arrange for someone to clear the road."

The Centaur driver shook his head and said, "My Lord, that's not what I meant. What I meant is that you can assign us more work. Thanks to your grace, we have such a good life. We can do more, such as patrolling and dealing with these restless beasts."

"?" Rand was stunned.

He always felt that the Centaurs had enough work to do. They only had one day off a week, and usually had to pull carts or do other work.

Go to work very early, but leave work not early.

There are actually no complaints about the difficulty of the work, long working hours, low wages, and even hope to work overtime? There are actually people who are willing to work overtime like slaves.

Rand asked tentatively, "Are you the only one who thinks so, or are there many centaurs who think the same way as you?"

The Centaur said, "Everyone has the same idea as me. In fact, we wanted to mention this to you a long time ago, but we didn't dare to disturb you."

The Centaur Driver thought Rand was too kind.

Some centaurs come from ruins, some come from the Underdark, and some are monsters from the wild.

Before they were recruited by Rand, their lives were not much different from those of ordinary monsters.

Because they are more threatening than ordinary monsters, they will be expelled or hunted first by the surrounding human lords.

Until Rand showed up.

What did Rand bring to them? It was the gospel of the Mother Goddess!

It is warm housing and delicious food!

And there are stable jobs that can save money! Sometimes they can even go to the tavern to taste the legendary gift of God - blended juice! They are very grateful to Rand.

Especially after seeing the miserable lives of other monsters who were not worthy of the gift of Rand's Messenger, I was even more grateful.

For this they wanted to give Rand more in return.

After listening to the Centaur's answer, Rand was silent for a moment, then said: "I will make work arrangements and transfers later. After confirming the intention, a Centaur patrol team will be established. The Centaur team will have a number."

To be honest, Rand felt a little guilty about exploiting the centaurs like this, and he didn't completely believe what the centaur driver said.

After all, what if he was just trying to flatter himself and was willing to make his own people work overtime? So Rand planned to investigate his willingness first.

…

There were no more accidents on the road after that.

Rand soon arrived at the town of Full Moon Territory.

Taner, who had received the news in advance, was already waiting at the gate of Full Moon City.

Rand dismounted.

Said: "Have you discovered the traitor?"

Taner nodded: "And there must be a traitor that I haven't caught yet."

Rand said he understood.

The traitor must be investigated thoroughly, but Rand is not particularly annoyed by the appearance of the traitor.

Because this means that his power has reached a certain level.

If Rand was still the original baron, no force would spend the energy to plant a mole or spy in his territory.

In fact, ordinary earls do not have this qualification.

Now that a traitor has appeared in the Rand territory, it proves that Rand's power has attracted the attention of certain major forces.

Rand was very happy to be recognized.

He will not be lenient towards the traitor.

"I came in person," Rand said. "The Mother Goddess gave me the ability to distinguish between loyalty and treachery."

Although this ability was actually a gift from the Torch Goddess, Rand couldn't say so.

After all, he was a messenger of the Mother Goddess sect. Could it be that the great Torch Goddess had given him the ability to perceive? What would Taner, a loyal follower of the Mother Goddess, think? At this time.

Taner suddenly became nervous.

how so.

He is the traitor.

Is this the end of my four years of hard work and cautious career as an insider?

He finally became the general of the den, was he going to be a prisoner? Rand noticed Taner's nervousness.

But Rand did not doubt anything, on the contrary he understood it very well.

After all, a miracle is about to be performed.

Rand activated [Blessing 6: Favor of the Torch Goddess]

As the blessing was activated, Rand's perception began to extend.

The perception range brought by the blessing is not infinite, but at least people nearby are visible to Rand.

The most common ones are colorless, which symbolize ordinary people without a camp.

Most common townspeople and villagers are this color.

They tend to be pro-Rand, willing to pay taxes to Rand and obey Rand's rule, but they will not be classified as part of Rand's camp.

Because if their lord changes in the future, they will not resist as long as he does not do too much evil.

In addition, merchants coming and going, adventurers not recruited by Rand, and passing travelers are all of this color.

Then there’s the fiery red.

Fiery red means that members of Rand's camp, patrolling soldiers, clerks in the administrative office, missionaries, and the higher-ups in the hideout are all of this color.

They are Rand's allies or supporters.

Of course, there are also a small number of villagers and citizens who are fiery red.

Finally, there is a very small amount of gray-black ashes.

The gray-black figure closest to Rand is...

?

Why Tanner?

Rand was horrified.

Seeing Rand looking at him with such a shocked expression.

Taner was completely desperate.

He is finished. He will become a prisoner or even be executed.

Although Taner felt that the kind-hearted Rand would take his contributions and hard work into consideration and would not really do anything to him, his future was definitely ruined.

No one would trust a person who had been a traitor! No matter how much they planned, they had never expected that Rand the Rand Envoy might receive the blessing of God.

It turns out that the road of being a traitor has no end. I hope Fenris can pass on his dream.

Then Taner heard Rand say: "This blessing doesn't work very well. It seems that we still have to use normal means to find a way to find the traitor."

Rand was a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that his attempt to perform a miracle would fail.

He estimated that he might have misunderstood the blessing of the Torch Goddess's favor.

For example, maybe the determination of the faction is not based on Rand, but on the Torch Church?

It is understandable that Taner was judged to be in the hostile camp.

After all, Tanr is a renegade paladin.

Although the Novices did not care much about it, Taner did defect from the Torch Church and join the Mother Goddess Sect of Talland.

Taner's understanding of the original teachings of the Mother Goddess Sect is much deeper than that of him, a messenger of God.

As for the possibility that Taner is the mole?

It's so funny. It's better to believe that Rand is the Holy Son of the Torch Church.

At least he could recite a few words of the Torch Church's teachings.

Taner was relieved.

It seems that the gods’ ability to interfere with this world is not that strong at the moment.

I'm so lucky.

Rand walked down the street.

Tanner followed behind Rand.

Since his identity as a traitor will not be exposed, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Rand continued to use Blessing 6 to observe the streets of the Full Moon Territory city.

There are also some gray and black people.

But Rand did not order them to be arrested, nor did he say that he had discovered something through the blessing of the Mother Goddess.

Just note it down secretly and observe it slowly later.

Now that I have discovered that my understanding of Blessing 6 was wrong, I need to pay more attention to it so as not to wrongly blame a loyal minister.

White snowflakes began to fall from the sky again.

But spring is coming.

The falling snow won't last long.

Rand took Taner and Elsa for a stroll around the city.

Ellie and Olenna were in the hideout preparing for their wedding and did not come to Man Yue Ling.

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As for Lysa, she came to receive the full moon, but when she was free, Rand didn't know where she was.

I strolled from morning to meal time, and after meal, I strolled again until evening.

After dinner, we strolled around for a while under the cover of night.

Finally finished touring this not-so-big city.

Finally, Rand, Taner and Elsa arrived at the office in the Full Moon Territory.

"What's going on in Crescent Moon Harbor?" Rand asked.

"It is progressing steadily." Taner said, "There were enemy spies and insiders who wanted to sabotage the port construction, but I discovered and dealt with them in time, and they did not affect the port construction."

Rand said he understood.

Then he asked, "The traitor we caught earlier, was he from the New Holy City?"

Taner nodded.

Rand had already thought about it when he came: "Sending a spy here might be to find out our weaknesses. Maybe they will take some action in the near future."

Taner nodded again.

Rand looked at Elsa: "What do you think?"

Elsa spoke up: "I think it might be the other way around."

Rand and Tanr looked at Elsa.

Elsa is also a senior executive in the den and has rich life experience, so her opinions are also worth referring to.

Elsa is also the head of the den's intelligence department.

All spies and insiders sent out by the hiding forces are responsible to Elsa.

Elsa's understanding of the external situation may be more profound.

"I think the New Holy City is now full of cowards who only know how to have fun. They send out moles and spies just to deal with things."

Rand did feel that the Knights General of the Torch Church in the New Holy City were not courageous people.

Or perhaps their courage had been used up when they split the Torch Church.

But would they, after being provoked by him like this, only send out some insiders to deal with the voices within the forces and ignore the rest?

After Elsa said this, Rand still thought it was possible.

Ever since they abandoned the original principles of the Torch Church, they have used the Torch Church's high efficiency in dealing with evil spirits to make money from the southern countries.

This is a good way to make money while lying down.

Since you are already making a lot of money without doing anything, it is very likely that you will lose the courage to make progress.

After all, they have been provoked by Rand so much, but no specific announcement has been issued until now.

It's as if nothing happened.

Rand discussed with Taner and Elsa and thought what Elsa said was the most likely.

Then the threat from the Torch Church in the New Holy City will not be that great.

As for the issues of the Kingdom of Bolun and the Kingdom of Lensa.

The Scourge is going to build a city of the dead, and the impact of the undead tide during this period will be much smaller.

Then the Kingdom of Bolun and the Kingdom of Lensa will most likely take action.

The Frost Moon Kingdom "developed" their land while they were busy dealing with the undead tide and the gold mine war, and now it is likely to retaliate.

Rand once again asked Taner and Elsa what they thought.

Rand rarely makes an immediate and independent decision on such a wide-ranging issue.

He has great faith in the wisdom of his companions.

Elsa and Tanner are both outstanding people.

Their opinions always inspire Rand.

Although calling them partners doesn't seem quite appropriate.

"I'm not sure about the Kingdom of Lensa, but the Kingdom of Bolun will definitely retaliate." Elsa and Taner agreed.

Rand's subordinate "Unknown Knight" killed the second prince of the King of the Kingdom of Bolen, and Rand also destroyed the group of assassins who came to assassinate him.

As for Rand's current Earldom of the Moon, most of the land he occupied was originally the land of the Kingdom of Bolen.

The Kingdom of Bollen lost all its dignity.

Now that I have time, I will definitely take revenge on Rand.

Even the gold mine war would not have a higher priority than revenge on Rand.

And that is.

The problem with the gold mine wars.

The Triangle Alliance and the Round Table Alliance of the Southern Kingdom have already paid too many sacrifices for the gold mine war.

Now, after experiencing another wave of undead that can be called a natural disaster, the national strength of the Southern Kingdom will be greatly reduced.

Although the gold mine war deepened the discord between the two alliances.

There were countless frictions in the wars between them.

But can they really continue to sustain the losses from the gold mine wars?

Rand believed that the two alliances of the Southern Kingdom now had the possibility to sit down and negotiate.

Although a few years ago, the Torch Church mediated between them in this way.

If we had accepted mediation, avoided the war, and developed the gold mine together, I don't know how much profit we would have made by now.

Unfortunately, there is no if, and the gold mine war may not end as Rand speculated.

But there is a high possibility that the Kingdom of Bolen will retaliate.

Get ready now.

In the candlelight at night, Rand began to discuss military plans with Tanner.

As for military affairs, Elsa did not participate much in the discussion, only occasionally making a comment.

…

And at this time the Kingdom of Bolan.

He was indeed planning revenge against Count Rand of the Moon Phase.

At night, the palace in the capital of the Kingdom of Bolen was still brightly lit.

The King of the Kingdom of Bolun, who had white hair and beard but was very strong, sat on the throne.

Holding the trident, a sacred artifact passed down from generation to generation in the Kingdom of Bolun, he stared at the ministers of the Kingdom of Bolun with sharp eyes.

"Are you sure that the undead are starting to gather in one direction?" The King of the Kingdom of Bolun asked, stroking his long beard.

The minister in charge of intelligence stepped forward and answered, "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Very good!" The king, who looked very majestic, laughed. "Then the death of that little Rand boy is approaching."

The king of the Kingdom of Bolun certainly knew that the tide of the undead was shrinking, and he must be planning something.

Stopping the Scourge Cult's conspiracy now will definitely be a decision that is more beneficial to the future.

But who will go?

Who will organize human forces?

This is obviously not possible.

Then let's wait until the Scourge Cult's conspiracy is revealed.

It will depend on which country will be unlucky at that time. Anyway, they don’t think that bad luck will happen to themselves.

At least they're not willing to pay the price upfront.

Therefore, the King of the Kingdom of Bollen decided to get rid of his enemy Rand who killed his son first.

The handling of Rand's affairs also received the support of nearly half of the nobles and ministers in the country.

That's enough.

As a king, he has enough authority to wage war as long as the majority of people do not oppose it.

"In your opinion, how many troops do we need to mobilize?" the King of the Kingdom of Bolun asked the Minister of Military Affairs.

The Minister of War himself did not support the war.

He is the Minister of War, but he feels that if he doesn't stop the undead's unknown conspiracy now, he should rest and recuperate.

But now it seemed certain that there was no way of stopping the king's revenge.

He also understood the pain of the King of Bolun Kingdom losing his son.

Therefore, he did not raise any objections, but simply replied: "If it can be fast enough, so fast that Count Moon Phase cannot react in time, then a few knight groups will be enough. If it is not fast enough, then we must consider the support of the Frost Moon Kingdom, and at least three large legions will be needed."

One large legion of the Kingdom of Borun consists of 5,000 people, and three large legions consist of 15,000 people.

In fact, there is a possibility that it will evolve into a national war.

If it turns into a national war, more troops will be needed, but the Minister of War did not mention it.

The Minister of War felt that if the situation developed to that point, they would have to give up the war and negotiate peace.

The Kingdom of Borun, which has been experiencing war, cannot pay such a high price.

Tomorrow's update may also be a little late.

(End of this chapter)