The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 55: Dangerous messenger mission

"No. 13 Rusty Water Street..."

The wandering child looked down at the letter of introduction in his hand and confirmed the location again: "It is indeed here."

"...Gerald's Dental Clinic?"

Delicious Wind Goose frowned slightly, looking a little ugly: "To be honest, I don't really want to enter a place like this... This will remind me of some not-so-good memories..."

"Come in, uncle, it's okay."

Lin Yiyi on the side advised: "How about I go up with the child and you stay at the door?"

"...that's okay, anyway, my body type tends to make people wary."

Delicious Wind Goose said in a deep voice.

This tall man with curly brown hair and strong muscles looked at the word "dentist" with obvious fear in his heart.

"I'll stay downstairs and look out for you."

The card game anchor, who looked particularly strong and good at fighting, quickly added: "After you enter, always pay attention to the forum and open the private post between the three of us. If I encounter an enemy here and If you are knocked down, I will send 11111, and you should know it well; if you encounter an enemy that cannot be beaten and needs your support, I will send 22222, and you will come down quickly to support. If I send 3333, you should not hesitate to jump out of the window. Run away or run off a path or something, but don't backtrack from here. Remember that?"

"Understood, uncle."

Lin Yiyi nodded and responded formally and seriously.

The wandering child also nodded cautiously: "I will protect Ah Gang...you should also be careful."

"It's not Ah Gang, it's Yiyi..."

The three most skilled players reunited in Fort Ross.

They had already easily completed the task that Annan gave them at the beginning - that is, the task of smoothly blending into Fort Ross.

But to be honest, this task is not easy. If you let those players who are not smart enough come over, the secret will be revealed easily.

Because it is completely different from Frozen Water Port... Roseburg is a serious fortress city. Not only is there a thick city wall, but there are also watchtowers, a giant black crossbow mounted on the edge of the city wall, and a strangely shaped arrow tower standing tall.

And there are even troops stationed here!

This also successfully answered the questions that players had before - why is Frozen Water Port, as a border city, not garrisoned in it?

Now they know.

It’s not that there are no troops stationed in Frozen Water Port, but that the entire Northern Sea Territory’s border defense troops are stationed in Fort Ross… while Frozen Water Port is completely exposed and is outside the scope of protection.

In other words, Frozen Water Port is just a "stepson".

Players also found some information in Fort Ross... At least a hundred years ago, Frozen Water Port was still part of the Principality of Winter.

Even until now... Grand Duke Winter has not issued a document to formally cede this land, he just pretends not to see it. In the previous war, the Kingdom of Noah, which occupied the Frozen Water Port, had no reason to return it without any reason. In this way, the two countries acquiesced in the wonderful existence of the frozen water port.

The players also got some information that they couldn’t understand:

The war between the two countries subsided not because they reached a balance of interests...

It's because of the "boundary shrinkage" that occurred in the Principality of Winter.

Players learned that outside the territory of every country in this world, there is a huge, invisible barrier that blocks a material curse known among the people as "grey fog".

A long time ago, the boundaries between the Kingdom of Noah and the Principality of Winter overlapped with each other. This has had a rather detrimental effect on the borders of both countries - but the center position of the border cannot be changed, and the border itself is roughly hemispherical. Once the barrier is actively contracted. This means permanent loss of a large amount of land.

So neither side of the two countries is willing to give in, and both sides hope that the other side will give in. Frozen Water Port was once the bridgehead of the Principality of Winter.

The war between the two countries ended forty-eight years ago.

To be precise, it was 1455.

The reason why the war ended was that there was an unknown problem with the Winter Principality's boundary, and a small area collapsed. In order to repair the barrier, the Principality of Winter was forced to reduce the scope of its territory, abandoning the frozen water port in the southeast, most of the Black Sea, and several small cities in the southwest. Expose them outside the barrier.

The frozen water port is luckier.

Because it is within the protection range of two barriers. After the Principality of Winter retreated on its own initiative, it naturally fell into the territory of the Kingdom of Noah.

In other words, we found an honest person to take over.

It is more miserable than those cities in the southeast. Because the southeastern part of the Principality of Winter does not directly border any country.

Of course, the residents are not stupid. They could either pack up their belongings, move north back to the inner boundary, and buy new property. Or cross the ocean and head to the United Kingdom south of the Principality of Winter. The United Kingdom also opened immigration channels as soon as possible and even sent several ships to pick up people.

After a few months, the cities in the southeast of the Principality of Winter were no longer inhabited and turned into silent dead cities.

The frozen water port on the other side has become more prosperous.

After the principality and the kingdom no longer had border conflicts, the relationship between the two countries improved rapidly.

The Kingdom of Noah directly dispatched troops and immigrants to the Frozen Water Port, opened several trade routes to the interior, and directly dismantled the defense facilities and city walls originally built by the Principality of Winter~IndoMTL.com~Only Preserve the former military port - after all, the edge of this dagger points inwards rather than outwards.

At the same time, the connection between the Principality and Frozen Water Port has not been severed. The Principality of Winter didn't seem to care that the Frozen Water Port fell into the kingdom's territory, but continued to transport goods continuously, and then sold them to the Kingdom of Noah through the Frozen Water Port as a transfer station.

As a result, Frozen Water Port has fallen into a very delicate situation. Because of the trade support of the Principality of Winter, its economy took off and developed rapidly, turning it into a quite prosperous port city. But in the eyes of many people here in the Kingdom, falling into the frozen water port of the Kingdom is as disturbing as a girlfriend who suddenly arrives at their door but still keeps in touch with her long-distance ex-boyfriend... …

Perhaps as early as that time, conflicts had already arisen between Frozen Water Port and Roseburg. But in any case, this cannot happen after "Don Juan Geraint" came to the Northern Sea Territory.

The players must prioritize saving themselves, so under their conservative investigation, two days have passed and they have not found any reason why the viscount might become an enemy of Don Juan. Even the vast majority of Roseburg citizens don't know that their new lord has arrived at the frozen water port...

This big boy, who is referred to as "kid" or "little rag boy" by players, may be because of his harmless baby face, or because of his very good luck, he accidentally picked up a child from the slums. A task arrived that made him suddenly vigilant.

—Sending a message to a "reclusive pagan."

Through the sunlight and the black paper tube, the child could vaguely see that this letter came from Mr. "Justin Kerney".

It can be known from the information published by players on the forum that... this person is the butler of Viscount Roseburg.