Chapter 828, Ostermark
Old World, late March 2513 in the Imperial Calendar, the capital of Ostermark Province, Bekafin.
For the empire, the province of Ostermark is a province with a relatively low sense of existence, but it is indeed one of the most important and oldest provinces of the empire. There is a lot of evidence that the ancient human wizard empire used to be here Had a glorious but brief reign.
It’s just that for the residents of the province of Ostermark, no matter how glorious the ancient human wizard empire was, it was a long, long time ago. The concept of Ostermark was really formed about a thousand years ago in the imperial calendar. After the Age of Disaster, a tribe named Ostergos established some villages and strongholds in the northeast corner of the empire today. This land is located in the northeast corner of the empire, south of Kislev, north of Sylvania, To the west of the northern section of the Roof of the World is a province consisting of two large black forests and a large wasteland in the middle.
At the time of the rise of Charlemagne, the Ostermark region was already a formed tribe, and it was also an ancient and savage and warlike tribe. At that time, the king of Ostergos was named Adelhard, and he was committed to bringing the entire region All the loose tribes are integrated together to fight against the ever-invading greenskins, beastmen and trolls, so the people in this area are inherently savage and tough, and have a strong sense of unity and unity. Far stronger than division.
At that time, the province of Ostermark was facing a terrible greenskin invasion. King Adelhard managed to concentrate all his forces to hold on to several strongholds, but the people here still could not survive the greenskin invasion, so Adelhard Delhard sent an envoy Gagarin to Rickdorf to ask for Charlemagne's support. At that time, many people in the Carolingian tribe thought that the ghostly place of Ostermark was too far away from Rickdorf, but Charlemagne resisted. The public argued that he personally led an army of thousands of people to support Ostermark, and smashed the head of the green-skinned warlord headed by him with a hammer.
After the Greenskins were driven to the other side of the Roof of the World, the human coalition cheered for victory, the province of Ostermark announced to join the empire, and King Adelhard gave up his crown and called himself the Elector. In the Battle of Blackfire Pass in 1999, a group of ax men from the province of Ostermark joined the battle and played a key role in the decisive battle against the Greenskins.
At this very moment, in a villa in Beccafin City, Ostermark Province, the last dozen or so female councilors of the Garland Council, who were the fruits of this incident, were sitting in the villa for a meeting. It was Ostermark It is also the seat of the Ostermark Union Parliament. Interestingly, it was originally only the economic center of Ostermark. The Brenwasser River flows through here, exporting a large amount of wood, pottery, and livestock to all parts of the empire , earn huge profits.
The important branch of the Garland Council was established here, because the main supplies of the Sky Dome were basically raised from Bekafin City, and there would have been a female congressman stationed here to be responsible for the allocation of supplies, but the previous Garland Assembly This makes the place completely vacant. After Aurora and others are teleported here, they can only live here temporarily. Most of them are injured or their magic power is exhausted. They need time to rest, and what to do next,
The witches were divided into three factions.
One faction is headed by Teresa. The sorceress believes that the only way out for them is to go to Brittania to join Ryan and ask the King of Knights to take them in. Judging from the relationship between Ryan and the Garland Council, Ryan will definitely take them in. they.
This faction was supported by about half of the witches.
The other faction is headed by the legendary sky witch Adriana. This witch does not want to go to the Knight Kingdom, because there is already another faction headed by Veronica in the Knight Kingdom, and the Lake God Witch Mo The prophets of the lake god headed by Jaina, so she thinks, wouldn't it be a third-class or even a fourth-class person to seek refuge in Britannia at this time? They should try to find an imperial elector to join or go to Kislev to seek refuge with the Ice Queen. She urged everyone to go to Ostland to seek financial support from Elector Vamir. .
The third faction is headed by Aurora, the only remaining sanctuary witch among the survivors of the Great War. She is hesitant about what to do and remains neutral for the time being. The final choice, now we should see if there is any other choice. The Jialan Council has been an "independent" spellcasting organization since its establishment, so don't bow down unless it is absolutely necessary.
Now, in the open-air courtyard of the villa in Bekafen City, the Jialan witches who survived the catastrophe are discussing what to do next. Ice Witch Aurora, Legendary Ice Witch Teresa, Legendary Sky Witch Adriana, and Legendary Beast Witch Anne-Lorak.
The weather in Ostermark is as dark and desolate as the land here. Although it is not as cold and uncultivable as Kislev, the dark atmosphere always hangs over here, and the sun looks very dark under the forest and mountains. Faint, the melting snow plunged the whole city into a gray and brown muddy environment. Even the capital of the province has a small population. Councilwoman Garland sat together, staring at each other in silence.
They still haven't been able to accept the fact that Skydome has been destroyed and the Garland Council no longer exists.
Everyone looked very weak, because they all more or less overdrawn the power of blood or vitality in the battle of Sky Fortress. Teresa was even more tired. His tone was very sleepy: "It's not an option for us to stay here. It won't help us. What we need now is a good and safe rest environment, and the hope of rebuilding the parliament. Only Ryan can give us this."
"I agree with your first half, Ms. Teresa." Adriana said: "But we don't need to surrender to the Kingdom of Knights. You are the courtiers of His Majesty Ryan, but we are not. He already has many magic advisors around him." Being able to provide him with magical answers, I don't see any need for him to treat us kindly, and even if he is willing to accept us, we are bound to become his vassals, which is not what we want, or at least not what I want .”
"However, we have already suffered such huge changes and losses. If we cannot unite again at this time, how can we rebuild the Garland Council?" Teresa said very wearily: "Chairman Margarita used Life buys us the chance to escape, if you're going to stand on your own, Adriana, go ahead and let's see what happens?"
"I don't intend to stand on my own, but I don't want to be a vassal!" Adriana knew Teresa was pointing a hat at herself, and she said impatiently: "Ms. Teresa, you are from a wizard family. Enjoying all kinds of preferential treatment, all the roads have been paved by you, and you have hit the big luck, but we are not like you, I doubt whether your knight king will accept us sincerely."
"We don't know if you are sincere or not." Aurora spoke up. The sanctuary witch still maintained her mature and beautiful demeanor, but her spirit was also a little haggard. She shook her head: "But for now, Adriana, Kid We can't go to Slev, as long as you have a little understanding of the situation in that country, you know that this choice is unlikely."
"Then, Ostland?" Adriana also knew that Kislev's country was in turmoil.
"Elector Vamir will be very happy that he has an extra female courtier, maybe you can be ranked in the top ten?" Teresa said impatiently: "He has ten illegitimate children! This is still admitted! What do you think? Will he admit you?"
Adriana fell silent.
Aurora finally decided to speak, and the sanctuary witch shook her head: "There are actually not many choices left for us, everyone, we all know that the south of the empire is dominated by the Royal Wizarding Academy, and even in the north, our influence The force is also limited to Nordland, Hawkland, Talabek and Ostland."
After thinking about it for a while, Aurora felt a little unwilling again. Does she really want to surrender to Ryan? The sanctuary witch always felt unwilling to give up, and she simply said: "Well, let's go to see the Speaker of the Ostermark Alliance and the Elector of Bekafen, His Excellency Wolfram-Hertwig, and ask him if he If you are willing to take us in, then we can negotiate again and compare the conditions. If not, it will not be too late for us to leave for Britannia, but everyone, please remember that at this time, the most important thing is To be united, we must keep advancing and retreating together.”
After Aurora said this, everyone had no opinion. Teresa was a little anxious why Aurora didn't choose to stand with her at this time, but seeing her mother's warning eyes, she didn't say anything in the end.
Everyone was very tired. After lunch, Aurora and Teresa both took a nap, but they still felt very sleepy. It was just a mission, so they had to set off to the Elector's Palace in Beccafin.
The sky is gloomy, the buildings are gloomy, and the mood is also gloomy. Teresa and Aurora, two mature and beautiful witches, are particularly conspicuous walking on the road in clothes that are much more gorgeous than the locals. I glanced at the mother and daughter, but there was no particular hostility, because the Ostermark bloodlines are very complicated. The harem of the first elector, Adelhard, almost included women from all the provinces of the empire. Here For this reason, people in China do not reject intermarriage with people from other places, so they are not as hostile to foreigners as in many places.
(Of course, the Ostermarks particularly dislike the Rick-collars, especially the Rick-collar men who like to seduce young local women, known in Ostermark as "Rick-flies")
Walking on the road, Aurora and Teresa didn't have much to say. They hadn't recovered from this huge change. Before they arrived at an iron-gray elector's palace, Aurora noticed that Auster The elite army of the Mark Union, the Death Skull Army, is stationed here. This army was established in the vampire war, and it performed extremely well in the battle against the three vampire counts. Prince Martin completely defeated and killed the last vampire count Manfred von Carstein. This elite team is famous for using black and red banner coat of arms, wearing a skull mask, fighting to the death, extremely tough and especially good at dealing with undead Behemoth is famous all over the world.
"Daughter, go up and report your name and title." Aurora looked at the death-skull army staring at them expressionlessly, and said to Teresa: "We all know who Her Excellency Hertwig is. , It’s useless to report my name.”
"Yes." Teresa took the initiative to go up, reported her name and her title, and asked to see His Excellency the Elector Wolfram-Hertwig.
The Death Skull Army is an army that hates magic. At first, they were a little hostile when they saw the witch appearing here, but when they heard Teresa had another identity besides the Garland Councilor, they didn't dare to neglect, and immediately went in to report.
Two minutes later, the soldiers of the Death Skull Army trotted out: "Your Excellency the Elector welcomes your arrival, please come in."
Teresa didn't feel anything, Aurora sneered in her heart, thinking that Ryan's name was still useful, and the name of this wild son-in-law was simply a passport to the old world.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help feeling a little sad.
The Palace of the Elector in Bekafin is not as magnificent as imagined, it looks very rough and simple, and just like this province, it looks monotonous, gray, brown, red, except for the personal coat of arms of the Elector and his personal coat of arms. Except for a little bit of purple on the guards, everything is so monotonous. Teresa noticed that all the men in the court had thick mustaches, and the attendants brought them to a very simple reception room with simple wooden furniture. , and signaled them to wait for a while: "Please wait a moment, two, Your Excellency the Elector is finishing the alliance meeting, and he will come here to see you as soon as he is over."
"Okay, thank you." Aurora nodded.
The province of Ostermark is different from most of the provinces of the empire. The electors here are not hereditary - the hereditary electors have been in the imperial calendar from 1999 to 2000. All of them were wiped out, including all noble families and civilians in Mordheim. Only the Charlemagne Sisters had received the oracle of the God of Man and hid in the monastery deep in the ground in advance to escape the catastrophe. After the destruction, the remaining provincial cities, strongholds, and villages of Ostermark united to form the Provincial Union Parliament, and the speaker generally also served as the Marquis of the Elector.
"The current Elector of Hertwig is the speaker. This speaker is famous for vigorously defending the interests of the common people and the middle class. He often spends his energy on dealing with the corruption and greed of the nobles in the territory. He hates the nobles, The church and the Knights, let them keep their duties, strictly prohibit corruption and exploit the lower class, and protect the interests of the common people and the middle class, he has repeatedly emphasized that the justice of the nobles is not the justice of the common people." Aurora said to Teresa The story of the elector.
"If it were in another province, Hertwig would have been pulled down by the nobles from the throne of elector. However, Ostermark has a special political system. Here, civilians and middle-class people occupy a large number of seats in the Union Parliament. , so Hertwig’s actions not only did not shake his position, but made his position more stable, the common people loved the elector, and Ostermark was thriving under his rule.”
Before the words fell, there was a burst of deep laughter from outside the room. The Elector Hertwig walked into the reception room with two attendants, and he spoke to Teresa with a very surprised expression: "Oh, Moore Come on, Ms. Teresa? Why are you in a country place like ours? It's been almost ten years since we last met in Brunswick? Anyway, you're very welcome, what's your business?"
"Hello, Your Excellency Hertwig, we are in trouble." Teresa quickly stood up and said, "We need your help."
The elector sneered in his heart, thinking that these witches would only bring trouble.
He doesn't have to give the face of the Garland Council, because his court magic advisor is from the Imperial Academy of Wizardry.
However, Hertwig had to give the face of the Knight King "The Pious" Ryan Malcador. He was very clear about Teresa's identity. .
Thinking of this, the elector nodded enthusiastically, motioning for Aurora and Teresa to sit down: "No problem, what difficulties have you encountered? What do you need me to do for you?"
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