Chapter 493 Visiting nobles (9)
The two of them looked at each other before Rose said, "It's the Adventurer Guild."
I looked at her with a brow raised when I heard this as I showed a confused look on my face.
Just based on this, I didn't understand what she meant.
Rose naturally knew that as well, so she explained.
"Viscount Teomold has been hiring adventurers from the Adventurer Guild as mercenaries. So they can do whatever they want in the town as a result of that. The three that caused the commotion were adventurers from the Adventurer Guild."
A look of understanding appeared on my face as I said, "So he doesn't want to offend the Adventurer Guild by punishing those three."
Rose gave a nod in response.
The Adventurer Guild, naturally this staple also existed in this fantasy world.
As the name suggested, it was a place where adventurers who were those that did quests for money gathered.
But it wasn't as official as one would think.
From what I could remember from the game, the Adventurer Guild was formed by a group of mercenaries and that was what they were at the core. They weren't formed by someone important like any other fantasy world and represented freedom.
Though the adventurers were quite free, that meant that they were free to offer their services to anyone that they wanted.
There was no central command that restrained all of the branches, so they were free to do whatever they wanted.
In this case, the adventurers hired themselves out as mercenaries for the local lord.
But the Adventurer Guild…was not a small organization.
There was a reason why the Adventurer Guild was able to spread all over the continent and build branches in different countries.
Alone, the Adventurer Guild branches weren't strong.
But the name of the Adventurer Guild was very powerful.
Viscount Teomold was planning to borrow that name to bolster his own forces.
Still, in this part of the continent, it wasn't as if the Adventurer Guild was powerful enough that one could ignore the local nobles. Not to mention, I was a count, I had a title that was even greater than Viscount Teomold's.
So the Adventurer Guild would not do anything to me as long as I didn't threaten their existence.
I was fully justified to demand the execution of those three since they threatened me.
However, there was an underlying problem with this issue.
It was that Viscount Teomold was hiring the adventurers from the Adventurer Guild.
Unless he was planning something, he had no reason to do this.
But I didn't have the information that I needed to make a proper judgement of this, so I turned back to Rose with an inquisitive look.
There was no need for me to say anything as she understood what I was asking.
With a sigh, she said, "It's not just him, even the other local nobles have been stockpiling their forces." After a pause, she looked at me with a strange look and said, "It seems that they've heard about the power struggle in the capital and are preparing for that."
In the end, it seemed like it was still related to me somehow.
After all, the power struggle that they were referring to was the death of the second prince.
It was impossible to hide such a large event from everyone, so it quickly spread that the second prince was dead.
On the surface, it was said that he had passed because of an illness, but everyone knew that he must have been killed because of a struggle between the princes.
So they knew that the succession war was heating up if even a prince was killed.
It wasn't strange that they would start bolstering their forces for what was about to come.
However…
I just didn't like the way that Viscount Teomold handled things.
After a long silence, I looked at Rose and Haley and said, "He seems too unstable for our plan…I want to replace him." Then after a pause, I added, "No, even before that, I just dislike this person and want him gone."
I waited to see what kind of reaction Rose and Haley would have to this.
To my surprise, both of them revealed smiles as if they were waiting for me to say this.
Rose came forward to take my hand as she said, "No matter what decision you make, we will always support you."
Haley took my other hand and nodded in agreement.
I had been afraid that they would try to talk me out of this, but now I realized that I had been foolish. From the very beginning, I should have trusted them to fully support me since that was how it was between us.
I fully supported them and they fully supported me, that was the relationship we had.
There were many things that I wanted to say, but I stopped myself from saying them in the end.
After all, saying too much would make this relationship impure.
The only thing that I had to say was, "Thank you."
Both of them looked at me with warm smiles.
The three of us just stood there and enjoyed this moment.
But it passed in the end as Rose's eyes turned cold and she said, "Besides, if we take him out now, we can turn him into an example for the rest. When the time comes, they won't dare do anything."
Haley nodded in agreement before saying, "Not to mention, we'll be able to clear our way into the other territories as long as we take over this place. It'll make our trading efforts much easier in the future."
It seemed that they had already planned on doing this, but they were just waiting for me to give the word.
Still, since I decided to do this, I wouldn't back down.
I looked at the two of them and said, "Alright, what's the plan?"
I didn't even bother coming up with a plan since I was certain that Rose and Haley had already come up with one.
Rose revealed a faint smile and said, "The plan is…"
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