Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 114 113. The Wrong Demon Hunter

Count Steza was flipping through a document in his study.

A piece of information about the witcher - Lane.

He wears a pair of eye clips on his face.

This kind of glasses is different from the world of Lan En's hometown. They are not supported on the ears. Instead, they are clamped on the bridge of the nose by contracting angles like compasses.

Frowning and taking off his glasses, this handsome and powerful middle-aged man murmured thoughtfully.

"Not normal this mutant is not normal"

For a person like him, he can always know the details of what he wants to know in the kingdom.

Even things outside the kingdom, with the intelligence system supported by Nilfgaard, he can always get a general idea.

Therefore, even though the order to collect intelligence was issued only in the morning, he had already obtained a decent "book" at night.

That's Lane's details.

Such operational efficiency and operational results are at the top level in Temeria's official intelligence organization.

And Steza actually used Temeria's official intelligence organization.

Quite different from the speculations of many people who are far from politics, the truth in this world is often more complicated and absurd.

The political conflict between Earl Steza and His Majesty the King will not be as incompatible as most people imagine.

The fact is: Whether it is the earl or the king, their orders are transmitted through the bureaucratic system attached to the entire kingdom.

The conflict of political opinions between them will not lead the earl to establish another administrative system to confront the king.How is that different from breaking up Temeria?
The form of power confrontation between them is: competing for their own voice and control in various bureaucratic departments.

Of course the bureaucracy should listen to the king, but the earl's inheritance rights, funds, and blood inheritance are all there.

Feudal kingdoms cannot ignore these things.

Therefore, in Temeria's administrative system, there will always be departments ignoring each other, and even tearing each other down and hindering each other.

Because in these departments, the proportion of the king's voice and the earl's voice is different.

Even in the same department, there will always be internal disagreements because of this.

The boss of the department belongs to the king, but the second son belongs to the earl. What should the subordinates do when dealing with matters related to Nilfgaard?
Do you really think that the boss can take care of the second child just by saying a word?
Since ancient times, have there been fewer bosses who have been emptied by the second child?
In the end, don't you still have to pull out your own resources, backstage, and intelligence, and fight each other to compete.

Foltest was a formidable man, even Stessa would admit it.

But Count Stessa also knew in his heart that he would not be killed suddenly by the king.

Because what he now represents is not only a force, but also a trend of thought.

A trend of thought that moves closer to a "more civilized and advanced" social system.

As long as I am still alive, then the forces brought by these trends of thought are gathered around me, which is tangible and has a way to deal with it.

As long as Foltest releases the news that "Earl Steza has been suppressed" from time to time, the people will think that the trend of thought itself has been suppressed.

Put up a target, let this target represent a thought.Then the victory over this target is the victory over the invisible mind.

Foltest has mastered this technique extremely well.

But once he is gone, these trends of thought will spread wantonly because there is no one to lead them, and because there is no entity, they cannot be easily attacked.

The people and forces gathered by him and attracted by his thoughts will also be scattered like stars, scattered into the entire Temeria.

Become the "toxin" in the body of the giant Temeria. Subtle, indistinguishable, but harmful.

It is precisely because of this peculiar but logical political ecology that Earl Steza has the energy he has today.

In this magical Middle Ages, the relationship between the ruler and his subordinates is still trustworthy.

There are companies and shareholding systems in this world, but at the same time, there are blood line inheritance and oaths of allegiance.

Earl Steza used these social contracts to bind the interests of himself and his subordinates together, creating mutual trust.

The most important of these is the real money invested in his subordinates.

Stessa is well aware of the importance of offspring to humanity.

His major festivals every year will bring his subordinates and their families together.

During this period, he will almost extravagantly reward every child who studies hard.Give them encouragement, give them tangible rewards, and promise them a future where they can accomplish a lot as long as they learn something.

study law?OK!I happen to be able to insert someone in the legal department!

Study business?also good!The Ministry of Commerce is short of an intern recently.

Excellent martial arts?That's even better!The proceeds of several villages have been allocated to you, and you are only required to become a full-time knight who can wear armor and cut through battle formations!

He also severely punished every subordinate heir who let himself go.

He will tell them that he has prepared an extremely bright position and relationship for him in the future, but if you can't get it because you can't get it, then you deserve it!
At this time, the subordinates will be extremely proud and concerned to see their children being watched by him.

Each of his rewards elicits applause, and each of his criticisms elicits sighs.

Under the pitiful and pitiful gazes of their parents and uncles around them, those uneducated children will probably blush and cheer up.

Then, these families of nobles and business owners will get closer to Steza!

His bloodline, the rights he now possesses, the help he received from the Nilfgaard Empire, these already unbelievably strong capitals will only become bigger and more unfathomable in the future under his operation !
It is precisely because of this that Earl Stessa was able to extract so much information from the muddy pit of Waylon so quickly.

This is not all, more information is still on the way.

But just what he has already obtained is enough to surprise him.

What Staza studied by candlelight was a brief account of Lane's experience since his appearance.

The first time he appeared, he was taken out of a farmhouse naked by a demon hunter.

Thin skin and tender flesh, no setbacks, limp.

From the lines, Stessa could imagine the image of a troubled young man whose life was not bad.

Immediately afterwards, he became a demon hunter, participated in chasing down the demon hunter mentor, worked in Auriden, and encountered a cannibal case.
The events one by one are briefly marked on the timeline and presented on paper.

At first glance, it's not a big deal.

It's just rumors that demon hunters are trained from secret castles deep in the mountains, and then enter the civilized world to find work.

But this seems to be a temporary play, teaching on the road.

So much for the dramatic drama.

But after these scattered events are matched with the timeline, things start to go wrong.

How long did it take this demon hunter named Lan En to go from an amateur who couldn't even swing a sword to a demon hunter who could single-handedly destroy a camp of armed thugs? !

Is there two months? !

"Too fast to be abnormal!"

There was surprise in Steza's murmured tone, but it was more of a desire.

He really wanted to know, how did this kind of rapid progress, like sitting on a griffin, come about?
Can it be copied?Can it be applied on a large scale?

"Is it the witcher's potion?"

Since Steza decided to investigate Lan En, he would naturally not let go of the basic information of the demon hunter.

In this pile of information, there is a lot of information about the group of demon hunters.

The witcher's alchemy technique is something that even mages are curious about. In Earl Stessa's view, it is naturally unique.

"But it's not right either. Can you advance alchemy to this point in less than two months?"

He also has the information on Bordeaux. This is a barbarian who is not very proficient in alchemy.

Stella chuckled amusedly.

If it was because of the potion, then Lan En was an abnormally talented person in the field of alchemy.

If it wasn't for the potion, then Lan En is an abnormal person!
The earl took out a copy from the files, which contained Auriden's files.

Coincidentally, the noble who held the two-wheeled carriage race in Oridon was the Earl of Stessa himself.

That village can be regarded as his private plot.

According to intelligence, the relationship between the demon hunter and the villagers in this village is not bad, so there is a lot of room for fuss.

I just lost a good dog, so why don't I use it as a rein and domesticate a fiercer one?
The earl's fingers slid across the individual messages of each villager.

But just when his fingers were about to slide on the village elder's head, a young voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"Aren't these my friends?"

Earl Steza's eyes widened uncontrollably in the sudden shock, and his pupils contracted.

The next moment - "boom"!
That noble and handsome face was directly pressed against the desk by the pressure from the back of his head!
The facial features were being squeezed, squeezed by a pair of big hands stained with blood.

A silver roaring bear's head necklace slowly fell into the earl's restricted field of vision.

"Should I be honored to be able to see traces of friends from the country of Waylon in such a noble place?"

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(End of this chapter)