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Chapter 23 Go to the Royal Capital

The person who escaped from Cecil's nightmare was lucky, but unfortunate.

The burning houses, the earth corrupted by elemental power, the terrifying giants striding out of the fog of chaos, and the relatives and friends who died tragically under all this - everything entangled with every person who escaped from the sky like a nightmare. Even if he had escaped to the safe town of Tanzan, even with the protection of knights and soldiers, fear never faded from the survivor's heart for a moment.

Because even those soldiers wearing armor actually have few who can sleep peacefully in these few days.

Many people have to use alcohol to numb themselves. The poor people who can't even get drunk can only suffer. In addition, in this era, when they are refugee-like, they will inevitably be unable to have a good living environment, so the situation becomes even worse.

Not to mention maintaining order among the refugees, Knight Philip now feels a little overwhelmed even to keep those soldiers and make the soldiers report the situation regularly every day.

But fortunately, the lord returned safely and brought unexpectedly powerful pillars.

Outside Tanzan town, Rebecca looked at the leaders gathered in front of him, dressed in rags and haggard. Although Viscount Andrew did have basic resettlement and food distribution, the aristocrats of this era made extremely limited alms to the common people. It was already the Viscount's extraordinary kindness, far beyond his colleagues. Rebecca could not ask for too much.

And for those who escaped from Cecil, the appearance of the lord is a sufficiently effective heart-warming agent.

The civilians of this era did not have much awareness and psychological quality, and they were actually not very loyal to the lord. Although Rebecca was considered a kind and friendly lord (the main reason was that the little girl was not smart and could not learn the cunning and greed of her noble colleagues), she had only been in office for less than a year. Given the poor transmission of information, many lords did not even know what their lord looked like.

But the appearance of the lord is still an inspiration. For these poor people who have been in panic for many days, it is enough for someone to stand up and announce that they will continue to protect them. They do not care who their master is, nor what she looks like. The hundreds of years of feudal system have caused the common people to lose a lot of thinking ability, but they also make them very easy to satisfy. In Gao Wen's view, this is a cohesion based on ignorance and ignorance - which is indeed effective.

Only a small number of people came to see him off, and more people stayed in Tanzan town to take care of property or work for everyone's food. Rebecca looked at these people and wanted to say a few words, but she really didn't know what to say, so she looked at Knight Philip: "You still have to take care of these people. Knight, try to ensure that none of them are missing before we come back."

"I promise you with my oath!" Philip straightened his chest, "I will protect every citizen and every piece of property of the Cecil family!"

"Don't forget to tell you what you want to do," said Gowen. "Visson Andrew will provide the necessary help. You just send out those who are smart and skillful-legged and have good brains. You don't have to stingy about money. What they want to do is much more valuable than money."

"Yes!" the young knight replied loudly, but it was still hard to hide his confusion. As a person who lived in a closed era and specialized in martial arts, it was difficult for him to keep up with Gao Wen's idea. "But those things are really that important?"

"Of course it's important," Gao Wen laughed. "It's a rumor to say it's a big deal, and it's a public opinion effect. Don't underestimate these invisible forces. Once everyone starts talking about the same thing, even the king will feel restless."

After arranging, Gaowen and Rebecca boarded the carriage provided by Viscount Andrew. Those who were with them included Betty as a maid, the loyal Knight Byron, the super robber Amber, and the twelve family soldiers. These soldiers were not considered carefully selected, because there were only a dozen soldiers breaking out with Knight Philip, and the two who ran out with Gaowen and the others, the total number was less than twenty. In this case, they gathered up twelve fully equipped soldiers, which can be said to be the only remaining face of the Cecil family.

The mature and steady Hetty was left to maintain the situation here, but the "Aunt Hetty" obviously seemed quite worried about her niece's upcoming trip to the capital. She stood under the carriage and grabbed Rebecca's hand and repeatedly told her: "Be sure to remember your identity, don't insult the face of the Cecil family, but don't conflict with the nobles of the capital; be respectful when you see the king, don't break the rules; don't smash people with big fireballs, the king is no better than our countryside; when you encounter something you don't understand, don't hurry to answer, and discuss with the ancestors or the knights Byron, because every word you say will be speculated many times; the most important thing is to listen to the ancestors, especially when dealing with the nobles, you are not good at this, but the ancestors are the great dukes, and he understands..."

Gao Wen's heart became heavy as he listened to Hedy's explanation, because he really didn't understand...

Not only did he not understand, but the authentic Gowen Cecil actually didn’t understand. When the founding hero died, An Su was still in power. The palace rules back then basically revolved around drinking and cursing with the king in the court. I think today should be different from that time...

But in order not to completely drive the N-layer great-granddaughter who is already nervous, he pressed Hetty's shoulder to hand him a reassuring look: "Don't worry, I understand."

So in Hetian's heart-wrenching smile, the carriage carried Rebecca who knew nothing and Gao Wen who seemed to know everything on the surface drove onto the avenue to the royal capital.

At the same time, Knight Philip also sent people according to the arrangements before Gao Wen left.

Those who were smart people found in the leaders and those who were flexible and convenient in Tanzan Town, even a few gangsters and scoundrels who could be bought with a few copper coins. Dealing with these people made the young knights particularly awkward, and what these people did made the knights feel even more inexplicable - the only thing they had to do was to set out in all directions, go to every place where people gathered, go into bars, go into black markets, go into slums, and then brag with the locals.

It is best to find the passing bards and brags.

So in the following period, such scenes frequently appeared in the southern region: dusty foreigners appeared in various crowded places with strange accents, and said something similar with mysterious but swearing expressions:

"Hey, have you heard that? Something happened to the Cecil family in the south! The territory was destroyed by monsters and dragons! It is said that the dead souls underground were also alarmed. The legendary ancestor of the Cecil family lifted the coffin and rose up... You heard it right! It was the legendary Gowen Cecil who woke up from his long sleep! He must have destroyed those monsters...

"Hi! Why am I lying to you? This is a matter that people in the south are spreading. You can find out if you go to Tanzan or Linmu Town to inquire. And did you see my clothes? I escaped from the southernmost point. Let me tell you that I saw it with my own eyes when the ancestors of the Cecil family were resurrected!"

Almost everyone said the same thing, and they would finally swear that these bizarre things were seen with their own eyes - even if they were not the people sent out by the Knight Philip, the guys who spread rumors would probably say the same thing later.

If one person could gather all the rumors together, he would be surprised to find that when the ancestors of Cecil's family were resurrected, at least a thousand people stood in the tomb chamber to pay tribute - and there were ten thousand onlookers outside...

However, in this era, those who are able to do this will not pay attention to these rumors among the mud legs in the streets and alleys, and those who believe and spread these messages... they will not think too much at all.

In the carriage heading towards the city of San Sunil, Gao Wen was bored and thinking about how to face His Majesty the King sitting high in the Silver Fort in San Sunil.

He didn't know how much effect he could have made the Knight Philip do - in fact he didn't even have 30% confidence in it. This is a contradictory and ignorant world. The existence of magic makes many things look particularly convenient, even beyond the times, but supernatural powers such as magic are only in the hands of a few people. People in this world have not yet - or they think it is unnecessary - to transform magic into a wider productivity, so in that low-powered society, everything is incredibly behind.

Communication depends on roaring, transportation depends on walking, and rumors can spread quickly in a town, because tavern gossip can be said to be the only entertainment item for civilians to work, but it is difficult for news to be transmitted from one city to another ten times, because the desolate wilderness hinders most circulation behaviors, and there are also aristocrats in various places who have control over the circulation of their own territories - without the permission of the lord, civilians have to go from the village where they live to the village next door to the lord's village to buy a chicken and even risk being hanged!

The pass signed by the Cecil family and the Leslie family (the family of Viscount Andrew) can solve the problem of personnel circulation control, but cannot solve the difficulties other than that.

But making some efforts is better than doing nothing.

Gao Wen's purpose is very simple, that is, to spread the story of "Cecil's ancestor" as much as possible, the wider it is, the better it is. It cannot be just a secret known in the aristocratic circle, but should be a hot news among the common people and even the poor. If possible, it will even spread it into a strange story and a thriller story. In fact, those rumors are indeed developing in this direction.

These messages will be processed again and again during the dissemination process. Those superstitious and ignorant medieval people will add a lot of details to it according to their own understanding. Gao Wen does not care about the specific content of these details at all - he just needs to keep fermenting the news.

Then everyone will know that the ancestors of the Cecil family have been resurrected, and that legendary founding grand duke woke up when monsters attacked the kingdom...
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