"Coach Frederi! It's you! Why are you here?"
This is the voice of Kloze, which seems a bit unexpected.
The lord looked at the burning wooden building and came to Kloze and Frederi.
Frederi has taken off his helmet. He looks to be in his fifties, but he still looks very strong and his eyes are bright.
The two Meitengheim people have already begun to chat with each other. Kloze knows Frederi, and he can even take the initiative to introduce it to the lord.
"Sir, Mr. Frederi is a member of Meitengheim Death Squad, a respected coach. I also received guidance from him when I was in the military."
Kloze seemed to respect the veteran, but Li Ang felt that Frederi seemed a little hesitant.
"Frederi, how come you are under Foucher?"
Frederi is still somewhat famous in Meitengheim.
He is a professional soldier, a veteran who has served in the Meitengheim standing army for half his life, and one of the coaches of Meitengheim swordsmen.
As a member of Death Squad, he has a high status in the military.
Unlike Kloze who became mercenaries in order to make a living, Frederi came to the Pande Continent with a mission.
A year ago, because his hometown Meitengheim (formerly Eisenberg Island) fell into famine and was invaded again by the Bacchus Empire, he and his Legion Commander were sent to Pendor as an envoy to perform trade missions.
But I don't know if Meitengheim people has the negative attribute of being 'easy to fall into the sea'. Anyway, Frederi, like Kloze, also suffered a shipwreck in the Pande Continent.
However, he did not encounter pirates on Fieltzwe, but encountered a storm on the coast of the Bacchus Empire in the south.
The mission originally planned to land at Imperial Port in the Bacchus Empire, but just the day before arriving at the port, the fleet deviated from its course due to a hurricane. Subsequently, their ship was broken into planks in the rough waves.
After drifting on the sea for a whole day, driven by wind and waves, Frederi finally took a few Meitengheim soldiers and landed with difficulty in the bay near Marasburg of the Bacchus Empire.
They lost most of their equipment, all their belongings, and supplies, and were all exhausted.
This was already miserable enough, but misfortunes never come singly. This team, which was already in dire straits, was attacked by Snake Worship Cult followers just after landing - the place where they landed happened to be near the lair of a group of Snake Worship Cult gangsters.
Frederi's envoy was dispersed by a sudden attack by a large group of Snake Worship Cult disciples. Fortunately, he was highly skilled in martial arts and was able to fight and escape along the way. He killed all the Snake Cult believers who were chasing him and barely escaped.
He didn't know where his other comrades had fled.
Or, maybe, he was the only one who survived.
His army was wiped out, his ship was destroyed in a hurricane, and he was left penniless, not even his armor - which he had thrown away after the hurricane.
He has no way out.
The only thing left is the sword in his hand and his rich fighting skills.
He became a money-hungry mercenary who accepted any mission - for an old swordsman who was forced to a dead end, nothing else mattered. He wanted to make money and he wanted to complete the mission entrusted to him by his motherland!
From Bax to Lion Territory, he has been running around in the prosperous cities of this continent, always taking on high-value tasks in a greedy way, and even some of them are black jobs that violate his own moral principles.
Because Frederi has never forgotten his mission - he is a soldier, his hometown is falling into war and famine, and he must bring food back to the motherland!
But half a year later, during the harvest season in October, he almost despaired.
Because he is not a noble.
It is not difficult for a skilled swordsman to make a living as a mercenary in the Pande Continent.
But no matter how greedy Frederi is, it is difficult for him to save enough money to purchase food in a short period of time. As a civilian, it is impossible for him to let the nobles sell large amounts of food to him.
Until he met Foucher half a year ago.
When he met Foucher, Frederi was drinking in Lion Lake City's pub to drown his sorrows.
At that time, Foucher already had a large number of manpower around him.
There were pirates, gangsters, and some other soldiers, more than three hundred of them.
Foucher only chatted with him for a few words, and probably only heard his name clearly, and then hired Frederi. He also promised that in half a year, he would provide him with a large amount of food during the next harvest season.
After learning that Foucher was the illegitimate son of Grand Duke Lion Lake City, Frederi felt that he seemed to have seen hope.
In order to complete his mission, Frederi became Foucher's bodyguard and followed the underworld brother to many places.
Lion Lake City, Mistveil City, Cliff Bay, Falling Bay, Raven City... Foucher took him to visit many big cities, all the way to the big cities in the north, all the way to Longsong Port of the Raven Kingdom.
In Frederi's memory, every time Foucher visits a city, the first place he goes to must be the city's pub...
But most of the time Foucher behaves very disappointed - he seems to be looking for someone or something, but finds almost nothing.
In Longsong Port, Frederi saw Foucher's particularly disappointed and depressed look, and also saw that this illegitimate child finally changed from normal to cruel.
Frederi said that Foucher spent several days searching the entire Longsong Port, but found nothing in the end. Then he kept yelling, "Where is the treasure box! Why is there no treasure box anymore!"
After that, the illegitimate son's temper became worse and worse, and his attitude towards others became worse and worse.
If he wanted to get something, such as supplies or women, Foucher also began to directly send people to rob them, and would often even burn down villages or kill people for fun.
These dishonorable practices caused a large number of soldiers to leave the illegitimate son, but more thieves and thugs joined Foucher's team.
As a soldier, Frederi naturally cannot accept such behavior. He has advised and threatened, but to no avail.
He also tried to rectify the discipline of the miscellaneous troops under Foucher, but all he got was scolding and rolling eyes - Foucher himself had no self-control, and the bandits and gangsters naturally followed the same example. There was no way to train a fundamentally rotten army like this.
Later, Foucher just used him as a bodyguard - the illegitimate son said more than once, "I didn't expect that the coaching ability was useless? If I had known that you, an old guy, were useless, I shouldn't have spent so much money to hire you and had to pay a large amount of food..."
Frederi was certainly aggrieved, but he did not defend himself, but endured it.
He had a mission, and every time he heard about food, he would think of the famine in his hometown, and the half-year period was not long. He just wanted to endure it until then and leave with the food.
In fact, before meeting Foucher, Frederi also knew the behavior of noble children like Pan De. In fact, most of them are similar. Foucher's evil deeds are not too special.
The last big city Foucher went to was Xiaolu City.
I don't know what news Foucher got from Xiaolu City's tavern. Anyway, he stopped running around since then. Instead, he took people back to Lion City and sent many pirates everywhere to look for some ruins.
Then, Lion City, Foucher met Sarah.
After just one meeting and knowing Sarah's name, Foucher vowed to 'get her' - these are Foucher's original words.
Maybe this is the power of love, but Frederi has never seen anyone fall in love with a woman so quickly.
Of course, Frederi also feels that it is normal for Foucher to fall in love at first sight with Sarah's appearance.
Probably just because Sarah is a noble, that's why Foucher didn't grab it directly as usual.
But what Foucher did was not much different from Ming Zhan - he first invited Sarah to his home to perform singing and dancing for two days, and then he showed his love to Sarah and said he wanted to marry her, not caring whether Sarah was willing or not.
After Sarah made it clear that he refused, Foucher unilaterally declared that Sarah was his fiancée - and as a result, Sarah fled immediately.
Foucher lost his temper for a long time over this, and kept saying things like, 'There was no quarrel, how could she run away' and 'I will always recruit her again in the pub', and his temper became more violent and his behavior became more and more unbearable.
However, the forced marriage to the bard did not follow up, because Foucher's father Duke Alma happened to let the illegitimate son go to Mistveil City to participate in the competition at this time.
In the arena, Frederi was injured a little while trying to save Foucher, who didn't know the heights of the sky, so he had to recuperate temporarily.
However, this illegitimate young master did not win the championship. He sprained his ankle and, like Frederi, could only recuperate at Fieltzwe.
They stayed at Mistveil City for a short time.
However, even with injuries on his body, Foucher still continued to struggle.
After barely being able to move, Foucher took him to Light Roar Bay and robbed a Barkley businessman - this was the only thing Frederi did under Foucher that he was willing to do.
Meitengheim is facing a second invasion from Barkley. It seems appropriate for Meitengheim people to rob Barkley's people, and Barkley's ocean-going merchant ship itself is not a simple trading ship.
After grabbing a musket and some gunpowder and lead bullets from Barkley, Foucher began to call himself Child of Prophecy. His temper became increasingly weird, and he was accustomed to killing people and robbing caravans or villagers.
Frederi clearly heard Foucher say, "Fortunately, this treasure chest does exist... but why can't Longsong Port find it?"
He didn't know what the treasure chest Foucher was talking about. In fact, most of the time he didn't know what nonsense Foucher was talking about.
At this time, the war between the Lionheart Kingdom and Bacchus Empire began.
Foucher is just an illegitimate child, so naturally a civilian will not participate in the war.
However, taking advantage of the relative emptiness of the villages during the war, he let his men plunder many small villages - even some small villages in his father's Lion Lake City jurisdiction.
This was probably for the purpose of robbing money.
Of course, it might also be for the girls in the village...
Maybe it's for something else - Frederi heard Foucher say that he wanted to 'create some refugees' in order to 'complete the task'...
But Frederi really doesn't understand, what kind of task would require 'creating refugees'?
Task posted by Crimson Brotherhood?
It is also possible that he knows that Foucher is the sponsor of Crimson Brotherhood.
The endless robbery, murder, rape and plunder lasted for two or three months. Fortunately, Foucher always took Frederi with him as a bodyguard, so this veteran did not kill innocent people with his own hands.
But Foucher didn't seem satisfied. He kept mumbling. "Why can't the soldiers be upgraded... Why can't we see bandits bringing refugees out..."
Frederi didn't know what Foucher meant by soldier upgrades, but he could understand that it probably meant improving combat effectiveness or something like that.
But without changing their equipment or arranging training, how could a group of bandits get any improvement?
Moreover, as a veteran who has been in the army for decades, Frederi knows very well that no bandit would run around with refugees?
Bandits only want to rob, and even if they want to take away people, they will only take away girls from the village, just like Foucher himself.
But at this time, Frederi no longer tried to persuade him - he had long been unable to stand what Foucher had done. He felt that Foucher was definitely not Child of Prophecy, and he just wanted to leave this lunatic who had no reputation at all.
But Foucher once again used grain to stabilize him - the harvest season is coming soon, and a large amount of wheat will mature soon.
After that, Foucher, who couldn't find the so-called 'refugee', seemed to still find the so-called ruins, but he found almost nothing in this ruins that he spent a lot of effort on...
Finally, Foucher, who was so disappointed that he cursed loudly, took his team to the vicinity of Gatu Grasslands, saying that Gatu people was an "experience package" and that he wanted to train an army to unify Pandor...
Frederi didn't understand what an experience pack was, and he didn't think Foucher had the ability to unify the continent, but they did meet Gatu people.
Then Foucher's miscellaneous army was severely punished by Gatu people - the miscellaneous army of nearly two hundred people was easily defeated by Gatu cavalry's less than a hundred people.
If Frederi hadn't blocked the pursuers with one man and one sword, Foucher might have died at the hands of Gatu people.
But when Foucher was so frightened that he turned pale, he was still mumbling words like "They didn't rush" or "How could they be so strong?"
Since then, Foucher, who had lost most of his manpower, finally stopped wandering around. He restrained his temper and kept saying "This is wrong, different" all day long, and then said that he wanted to "farm and develop".
He did find this farm and obtained a large amount of grain during the harvest season.
But the way he obtained food was very inhumane - Foucher directly led people to massacre the farm and occupied it.
But no matter what, there are indeed hundreds of thousands of pounds of grain that have just been harvested here. If it can be transported back to Meitengheim, it will be enough to tide over thousands of people.
Foucher also said that Frederi can transport the grain away. It seems that he has finally started to fulfill his promise.
In the next few days, Foucher seemed very quiet and kept studying how to make muskets - but apart from the underworld, the only people he had were pirates. These guys had no culture, and Foucher himself didn't even understand how steel was made.
But Frederi couldn't solve the problem of grain transportation... He didn't have so many carriages or ships. He couldn't transport the grain!
Just when he was at a loss, Li Ang brought someone here.
Li Ang has been listening quietly to Frederi telling his experience without any expression on his face.
But in his heart, there was already a storm - this Foucher... He knew that Longsong Port had a treasure chest, and he knew that Light Roar Bay had musket bullets!
In the game, Longsong Port does have a treasure box, and there is a Dragon Tear in the box, which is the Dragon Tear that is easiest for players to obtain. However, this box was probably found by Alaric of Drunkards' Brigade.
There is also a treasure chest in one of Light Roar Bay's boats, which contains a pack of musket bullets. This boat is obviously the one that was robbed by Foucher.
Foucher always goes to the pub first when he comes to a city - obviously, he is looking for friends in the game!
In the game, all NPC companions will appear in the tavern, and players will always go to the tavern first.
But Li Ang has long known that anyone can appear anywhere. There are not so many friends in the tavern, but there are indeed quite a lot of right and wrong...
Recruited partners will quarrel because of their different personalities, which will cause some partners to leave the team.
And just two days after Foucher "recruited Sarah into the team," Sarah ran away because he forced her to marry him, so he would say, "Why did he leave without a quarrel?"
He wants to forcefully marry Sarah, and he is probably just trying, because this is impossible in the game, but many players have had this idea...
As for the ruins of Griffin Knights's residence that Foucher has been looking for - that is a well-known ruins mission in the game. Players need to find a large number of refugees and supplies to complete the mission of 'rebuilding the ruins'. After completing the mission, they can obtain a hidden Knights' residence.
In the game, it is a private territory like a safe house and cannot be attacked.
But as long as you think about it with your knees, you will know that there is no place in the real world that cannot be attacked...
He looted the village to prepare 'refugees' and other 'mission props' to complete the ruins mission, and he probably also wanted to 'level up' along the way.
In the game, troops can be upgraded as long as they gain enough experience, and they will directly change their equipment after upgrading; and coaching skills can automatically allow soldiers to gain experience.
But the actual situation is that even if you have coaching skills, you must arrange training. Soldiers can only be improved through training and comprehensive replacement of equipment. This is the case with the Lord's army.
He said that Gatu people is an experience pack - indeed it is in the game, after all, most of the enemies in the game can only charge mindlessly.
But the lord has fought against Gatu people, and he knows clearly that Gatu people, who are good at riding and shooting and fearless in deadly combat, are not easy to deal with. They have strong tactical execution capabilities!
This Foucher is from this game...
Player!
Yes, only players can have this kind of thinking logic, and only players can know this and perform these incredible actions.
No wonder Duke Alma likes this illegitimate son. Probably Foucher is consciously maintaining the 'favorability' with the 'powerful lord' like in the game.
Foucher's poor performance in the Mistveil City arena may also be a player's thinking - he probably thought that he would not be injured in the arena at that time, right?
But how can reality be the same as in the game...
Moreover, Foucher is probably mistaken about one thing - he is probably indeed a player, but what about players?
In the game, when the player brings Lafayette close to Lion Lake City, Frederi will tell his story.