Chapter 302 Nora's Breakup
"No problem!" Ken nodded immediately. "What do you want to hear?"
Xius narrowed his eyes: "First tell me where you all went."
"Okay, Lord, we were found by Finnel at the harbor of Riften this time. She brought us to Castel. Before that, we almost circled the Storm Ocean!"
"Circling the Storm Ocean?!"
"Yes, at first we followed your instructions and went to Blood Harbor first to drop off Josh and his men. They took the goods they had on credit to Blood Harbor to sell, and we continued to head north."
Josh, Hughes almost forgot his name. He bought a batch of soap and a ship on credit from Hughes. It happened that Hughes wanted to build up some power, so he gave him a very relaxed policy.
Actually, he should have been in Blood Harbor for half a year. Josh's plan was to sell soap in Blood Harbor and set up a Chamber of Commerce. However, Castel disappeared. After so much turmoil, no one knew what happened to him.
"Then we stopped again near the North Border and dropped Mr. Isaac and several others off. Josh kept in touch with us afterwards, but we didn't get in touch with Mr. Isaac again."
Hughes nodded. Isaac used to be Chloe's deputy, managing logistics in the Fire Moth.
At that time, Castel had just begun to build an intelligence network, and Isaac went to the mainland in the name of the Chamber of Commerce. Now half a year has passed. If everything goes well, he should have a certain amount of power, right?
After all, Isaac is a dual-path transcendent.
Hughes was deeply impressed by Isaac, a taciturn man who always spoke to the point.
He judged Castell's development based on administrative efficiency. Even Hughes was surprised by this theory. With his meticulous observation and careful logic, he was born to be an intelligence agent.
Find a chance to try to contact him, who knows what kind of surprise he will bring to Castel.
"After this stop, we headed directly to the North, where we met Nora - she had not yet broken with the Silent Temple at that time."
"Wait, Nora broke up with the Temple of Silence!?" Zeus opened his eyes wide.
This was something he had never expected. Nora was willing to risk her life to cooperate with Zeus for the mission of the Temple of Silence and to find a place for the refugees in the North.
She could have thought that Hughes was a cultist at that time, but even so, even if she had to wear heavy armor to the appointment, she did not give up.
Would such a devout believer, or an extraordinary person, break away from the Temple of Silence?
She is not even afraid of death, so what else can make her betray?
No. Xiu Si suddenly frowned.
Or maybe it was the other way around. What if it wasn't her who betrayed the Silent Temple, but the Silent Temple who betrayed her? "Tell me more about it."
Ken scratched his head. "We don't know much. When we went there, the relationship between the two sides was pretty good. At that time, she gathered a large number of refugees and wanted to leave the North, but was entangled by the three dukes of the four northern territories. In the end, she had no choice but to take the refugees and hide in a forest to protect herself."
"Why would the Dukes of the North stop her? If she takes the refugees away, it will be good for those people's territories, right?"
"This" Ken scratched his head, he was better at mechanical technology and his understanding of the situation was still superficial.
Jeremiah spoke in a low voice: "Because the people of the Temple of Silence are with the refugees."
"The Silent Temple escorted the people of the White Crow Principality to flee from the north. The original controlled area was almost completely abandoned, which means they must have carried a large amount of property."
Hughes frowned.
Although the Silent Temple took the money and moved to the south, they are not easy to deal with.
The Templar priests wearing heavy ice armor were not even afraid of the Imperial Royal Army, so how could the archdukes in the North defeat them? All of them were suppressed by the Queen. If they had not surrendered quickly, they would have been defeated by the Queen in one wave.
How dare they?
"refugee."
Jeremiah whispered.
"Of course, they don't dare to cause trouble for the Silent Temple, so they targeted the refugees. These refugees are the Silent Temple's core base, and the Temple will never give up on them."
Xius nodded suddenly, and then a flash of anger crossed his face.
It would have been fine if this group of vampires did not take in the refugees, but they also forcibly held the refugees and threatened the Temple of Silence.
At that time, in order to receive the refugees as soon as possible, Nora set out in a hurry without packing everything, but ended up being harassed by them in the north.
"What happened next? Why did they break up?"
Jeremiah shook his head. "I don't know about that. I heard in Riften that after the Queen's death, the Silent Church was taken in by the Empire, and several churches united to manage the Empire."
The Temple of Silence was taken in by the Empire, but Nora broke with the Temple of Silence for some reason?
This. "How is Nora now?"
"I heard that they are still organizing resistance in the North. She and the refugees are hiding in the woods. They have become a source of worry for several dukes in the North."
Xiu Si's expression became serious. "Then we have to contact her as soon as possible. I once made a promise to her to allow refugees from the North to stay in my territory. Now is the time to fulfill my promise. I will organize a fleet to go to the North."
Jeremiah raised his head with a slightly complicated expression.
He was not sure how he felt about this lord. It was difficult for him to understand why Hughes was willing to send a fleet across most of the Storm Ocean just for a verbal promise.
But at least he was willing to keep his promise.
With Jewel Bay destroyed, Jeremiah's pirate ship no longer had a harbor to dock.
Xiusko had promised to hire him in the future and give him a bigger ship. Maybe it would still count? No, there was no need to expect so much. It was enough for Castel to let the Black Pearl dock. This was the last pirate ship in the Storm Ocean. Jeremiah would always be with her, no matter how big the ship was.
Jeremiah glanced at Ken from the corner of his eye.
Of course, it would be even better if you could add a steam engine to it.
Ken then interjected with some interest: "We also brought back some refugees!"
"You brought refugees with you too? Didn't those lords refuse to let them go?"
"They don't dare to stop the Pirate King's ship!"
Xiu was speechless. This meant that these dukes dared not touch anyone except the refugees. "The pirate kings are all on the sea, so what are these land lords afraid of?"
Jeremiah snorted coldly, "The Pirate King is on the sea because the Queen and her Royal Army are on the mainland. Those Grand Dukes? They just surrendered to the Queen quickly enough."
Why does it feel like the Queen is dead, but her fame can still be used to intimidate these nobles?
Hughes sighed.
"And what happened next?"
"Later, we met the Prince."
(End of this chapter)
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