MTL - Age of Empires From Scratch-Chapter 213 Intelligence Agencies and the Winter Navy

  Chapter 213 Intelligence Agency and Winter Navy

  According to Cecil's description, the so-called Lost Lands are places where some dark elves who betrayed the Eternal Night Empire, gave up their beliefs, and race were exiled.

  The dark elves living in the Lost Land are a group despised by all dark elves.

   "That's right!"

  David plans to find an opportunity to ask Raines later, maybe he can get more information about the dark elves from the missionary.

Right now, he is still chatting with Cecil non-stop, and learned from the other party how powerful the Eternal Night Empire is, and at the same time, he also knows that the black ship that Cecil was driving earlier used a kind of energy called 'dark energy' energy as an energy source.

   "Dark energy?"

   "Dark energy is the greatest technology in the history of the dark elves!"

Although what Cecil said was not very clear and detailed, David still roughly understood that this kind of energy called dark energy is obtained by the dark elves using special technology to transform various energies, including arcane magic. energy of.

  The purpose, of course, is to facilitate your own use.

  The use of this kind of energy has involved every aspect of the Eternal Night Empire, except for ships and cars. This is why the two dark elves were not surprised to see the car transformed into a car by the Autobots. They just felt that the appearance was rather special. In the Eternal Night Empire, similar things are often seen.

David touched his chin unconsciously, feeling a little strange in his heart: According to the brothers and sisters, the Eternal Night Empire is far more civilized than these human countries in the eastern part of the Brennia continent. Not heading east?

   "We dark elves are a peace-loving race, and we will not start wars casually."

   "..."

  Seeing Cecil's peaceful remarks, and Enid's female dark elf solemnly nodding in agreement, David decided not to pursue this topic further.

  He began to ask the purpose of the trip!

  When it comes to archeology, the brothers and sisters immediately become much more energetic, especially Cecil, who has always maintained his personal image and even speaks with a steady tone and polite words.

At this time, I showed a bit of youthful vitality: "I have been interested in history since I was a child. After years of study, I became an archaeologist, exploring those historical records that were lost due to various reasons. .”

  According to Cecil, he became a scholar when he was an adult, and then painstakingly studied various historical texts, and almost memorized all kinds of historical materials recorded in the Eternal Night Empire.

  The result of reaching this level is that he accidentally discovered that there are conflicts in many historical records, as well as many gaps, and even various errors in them.

   This is a normal thing for historical records, but Cecil suddenly felt that, as the best historian (self-proclaimed) of the Eternal Night Empire, he had the responsibility to improve and restore these historical materials.

So, Cecil embarked on the road of archaeology, and he has done a good job so far, excavating a lot of "lost" and "lost" historical information, some of which lead him to the east, where he may be able to dig more much information.

   "So, I came here with Enid."

   "This is your original destination? Didn't you simply want to come to the East?"

"Yes, at the northern end of the eastern part of the continent, there are peaks that reach the sky." Cecil bluntly stated his destination, which is the peak in the north: "The clues I have found over the years reveal that the establishment of the Eternal Night Empire part of Dark Elf history."

  According to Cecil, a long, long time ago, the entire continent of Brunnia was ruled by dark elves. At that time, there were no human beings.

  But then fierce conflicts erupted within the dark elves, and human beings took advantage of the situation to rise, so some dark elves retreated to the west of the mainland and established the Eternal Night Empire.

  Other dark elves also scattered to various places. According to the information he found, some powerful dark elves 'traitors' retreated to the mountains in the northeast of the mainland.

   "..."

  For some unknown reason, David suddenly thought of the two altars he discovered back then. Could it be that they were left by the dark elves?

  Continue to chat with Cecil, and Enid also started to join the chat because of getting familiar with each other, but David failed to ask more things from the siblings.

   Regarding whether there are dark elves on the northern peak, neither brother nor sister is very sure.

  The two of them just followed the clues to find them. As for humans...the dark elves don't have many records about humans.

   "..."

These are not the exact words of the brothers and sisters, but the information that David carefully condensed and sorted out. Even so, he noticed that the faces of the two dark elves were rather strange. It may be that he felt that the dark elves' evaluation of human beings said in front of a human. It was so embarrassing to come out.

   After chatting for a while, seeing that the time was approaching noon, David invited the two dark elves to the restaurant for dinner.

   After inquiring in advance whether the dark elves had any taboos on diet, Jonah was handed over the arduous work of cooking.

  Jonah was an excellent chef. After coming to Cold Winter Town, in order to adapt to the situation in Cold Winter Town, he learned and created new dishes after adjusting according to the tastes of everyone in Cold Winter Town.

  Fortunately, the dark elves have no taboos on food, and the brothers and sisters also expressed their desire to try the special food here.

  At the dinner table, besides David, the lord of Cold Winter Town, Laura, an archaeologist, was also there, chatting with Cecil about archaeological matters.

   "After lunch, I will take you to visit Cold Winter Town." Because of the common topic, Laura immediately expressed that she was willing to act as a guide for the siblings and took them to visit Cold Winter Town together.

  Of course, Laura secretly gave David a wink, as if to say, ‘See how I can get more information for you! '.

   When lunch was over, when Laura led the pair of dark elves for a stroll, Edwin Van Cleef appeared in front of David in time.

  Backing to the office, David, who drank tea and ate the fruit Helen sent as dessert, asked about the situation of the black ship.

   "My lord, there are indeed some weapons on the black ship, but most of them are self-defense weapons that are carried with you, and the number is not many."

   "Cold weapon or hot weapon?"

   "It looks like a cold weapon, my lord."

  Van Cleef didn't touch those weapons in order to avoid alarming others, so he didn't know if there was anything special about these normal-looking swords.

   "How did Raines arrange it?"

   "Recently, I recruited some newcomers, and one of them, Wilcox, went to approach the missionary."

"oh!"

  At the beginning, David thought about forming a professional intelligence department. In fact, this department has already taken shape, and it has gradually begun to operate under the command of Van Cleef recently.

It’s just that the name has not been officially decided. David thought of a few names in his spare time, such as MI9, God’s Hammer Bureau, Wolf’s Nest, etc., but he always felt that he didn’t like it. It is estimated that he would end up with a very traditional Winter Intelligence Bureau. Shop sign.

"Do you think I should set up an observation and guard post on the other side of the Winter River?" His attention had been on the east and south before, and the vast surface of the Winter River gave him an illusion that he would not There is some threat popping up from this direction.

   But the appearance of the dark elf brothers and sisters sounded the alarm for him, and he paid too little attention to this direction.

"Yes, my lord!" Van Cleef also felt that the defense of Cold Winter Town in the west was too weak. In the past, it could be said that there were no "hostile forces" in this direction, but the reality is that anyone and any force may come from appear here.

   After all, they haven't even investigated what is on the land on the other side of the Winter River.

   "The navy has to do it too."

  David likes to do things the same way. After finishing one thing, he will deal with another one. But the reality is that when you want to deal with things like this, more things will pop up to distract you.

  Especially as a lord, he must start to learn and adapt to handling multiple things at the same time, otherwise he cannot become a qualified ruler.

   After Van Cleef left, David first went to James Norrington.

  The former Royal Navy Commodore, after coming to Cold Winter Town, has not been dawdling around, quietly waiting for David's 'recruitment', but using all available time to enrich himself.

  Since he came to Cold Winter Town and saw all kinds of weird things, he knew that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Cold Winter Town, he had to learn a lot of new things.

  Elizabeth and Will also gave him similar advice: If you want to become an important member of Cold Winter Town, you must learn a lot of new things, and it is absolutely not enough to rely on past skills!

  So Norrington, in addition to learning the Common Language of Brennia (there were no props for learning the language at that time), was learning all kinds of new knowledge.

  Just like Fording back then, in addition to reading books, Norrington also started to get in touch with video games, movies, TV, animation, etc., so that his tactical theory would not be out of date, and at the same time he would have a more intuitive understanding of advanced weapons.

   Therefore, when David found this Royal Navy Commodore again, he was no longer a Royal Navy Commodore from the age of sail, but a former Royal Navy Commodore who was addicted to video games...

Fortunately, Norrington has not forgotten his original intention. He is obsessed with these things in order to gain a firm foothold in Cold Winter Town, so when David came to him, Norrington took the shortest time to sort out his personal image and replace it Put on clean and tidy clothes and prepare to meet the test from the lord.

   "Test? What test?"

   "My lord, aren't you going to test my professional ability?"

   "You are the only naval commander in Cold Winter Town, and there isn't even a fisherman who knows how to fish except you. Is there anyone else I can use besides you?"

   "..."

  (end of this chapter)