Gerd asked, "Did you ask anything?"
"No, this guy refuses to cooperate. He just wants us to kill him with a knife and give him a happy life."
After answering Gerd, Lynn said to Charimir who turned his face to the other side, "You want to die, but I won't let you die. Do you think you can take the answers in your head to the grave if you don't cooperate? What a joke!"
"It seems that no one in Duchy of the Curved Coast has ever seen the world, otherwise why don't they even know magic?"
Hearing that his motherland was being looked down upon, Charimir instinctively glared, but he happened to meet the Axii Sign gesture made by the demon hunter.
Charimir felt as if he had been hit hard on the back of the head by an invisible baseball bat. His brain was in chaos, and his angry expression gradually became dull.
A few seconds later, Lynn asked, "Who are you?"
Charimir answered dully, like a marionette being controlled by others.
"Charimir and Kalong Town in Karon are my fiefdom."
Kalong Town?
A name I've never heard of.
But it doesn't matter. The North is so big and there are so many unknown small towns.
Lynn Don't dwell on this issue.
"What are you and your people doing here at Skellige Isles?"
"According to the order of Her Highness Helena Lange Hall, the Duchess of Duchy of the Curved Coast, the witcher Gerd is captured and brought back to the principality for trial. If the witcher resists, he can be executed on the spot."
"Are you the only one who carries out this order? Is there anyone else?"
"There is no principality army nearby, but there is a Nilfgaard squadron. If the progress is not smooth, we can seek support from the Nilfgaard fleet."
Originally Lynn just asked casually.
In fact, he didn't think that the duchess would send two heavily armed troops to arrest a mere witcher.
Unexpectedly, there will be unexpected gains.
"Wait a minute, where did this Nilfgaard fleet come from? Also, how could you collude with the Nilfgaard people?"
"The reason why Her Highness the Duchess was able to win the civil war was precisely because the Nilfgaard people secretly contributed money and effort. Therefore, this time when the Nilfgaard people were in need, Her Highness the Duchess sent us to assist the Nilfgaard people in completing their mission."
Lynn frowned.
It is still 1252, and there are still eleven years left before Nilfgaard launches its Northern Expedition in the original plot.
At this time, the Nilfgaard army should not appear in the north, let alone perform any confidential missions in the north.
"What mission?"
Next, after some questioning, Lynn learned a shocking secret:
A few months ago, Princess Pavetta of Cintra and her husband were preparing to leave Skellige Isles by boat, but they suddenly encountered a storm at sea, and no one survived.
This accident brought the relationship between the islands and Cintra to a freezing point. In order to ease the relationship between the two countries and wash away the shame, the King of the Islands led the fleets and main forces of the major families and went south to invade Nilfgaardian Empire, looting villages and towns along the coastline.
Because they thought that the sea storm that destroyed Princess Pavetta of Sintra and Prince Husband Doni was very abnormal.
I suspect it is the magician group of Nilfgaard.
But the usurper emperor who ruled Nilfgaard never issued an order to assassinate members of the Cintra royal family.
Being scapegoated for no reason makes everyone unhappy, let alone the emperor.
The wrath of an ordinary man can only cause blood to splash for five steps, but the wrath of an emperor will bleed thousands of miles.
But the empire's strength lies in its economy and army, not its navy.
They are no match for a decisive battle with the Archipelago fleet, and the Archipelago people are good at plundering, and the Skellige longships are also more flexible and lighter than the Imperial ships.
If there are few Imperial ships, they will be surrounded by enemy forces. If there are too many Imperial ships, the enemy will retreat early.
So the Navy Department made a bold decision:
Stealing a home.
Through the eyewitness information of the survivors on the coastline and the analysis and judgment of the archipelago's economy and military, the admiralty staff believed that the main forces of the major families in the archipelago should have been mobilized, and there were not many fighting troops left on the main island.
Therefore, they decided to send a squadron to attack Skellige Isles over a long distance and pay back double what the people of the Islands had done to them.
However, a squadron fully loaded with troops could easily attract attention, so it had to be broken into parts and sent to the northern seas several times.
When encountering Northern Kingdoms's merchant ships along the way, they deliberately flew the flag of the archipelago and attacked the merchant ships, thereby damaging the relationship between the archipelago and Northern Kingdoms.
But in fact, the shapes of imperial ships and Skellige longships are very different. If you are careful to distinguish them, it is easy to see the clues.
It can only be said that when life and death are at stake, it is difficult for most people to calm down. After being provoked or even attacked, it is even less possible to defend or excuse the other party.
It is because of this that when Lynn went from Novigrad to Harborside District, the captains were unwilling to go to Skellige Isles.
Currently, Nilfgaard's squadron is docked in the port of Duchy of the Curved Coast, and their assistance mission is to detect the most empty family among the major families in the archipelago for the Nilfgaard people after solving the demon hunter Gerd, so that the Nilfgaard people can complete the robbery.
After Charimir and his men were sent to Skellige Isles, they split into two groups. While searching for traces of Gerd, they secretly inquired about the true and false status of each major family.
In the end, through the intelligence they collected, Charimir believed that the most suitable target was the city of Earl Torgil on Little Skellige Island.
The reason is that Earl Torgil belongs to the same family as Bran Tursek, who now rules the archipelago.
If Tuirseach Clan's home city is captured, even if it is just a separation, the morale of the archipelago fleet will be greatly reduced, and the archipelago fleet will end the robbery early and embark on the return journey.
However, he has not had time to report this news to Nilfgaard people.
Because Charimir plans to take personal revenge first.
After listening to Charimir explain all the information they knew, both Lynn and Gerd looked solemn.
Neither of them expected that it would be involved in the battle between the islands and Nilfgaard.
In fact, if the two of them killed Charimir now and walked away, they would naturally be far away from this vortex.
But neither Lynn nor Gerd has any intention to do so.
Because if they do this, they themselves will be able to protect themselves wisely, but Earl Torgil and the people in his city may be in danger.
No matter in the past life or in this life, Lynn never thinks that he is a legitimate guest.
Objectivity is important, but if it concerns the interests of one's own country, then the word objectivity has to be taken a step back.
In this world, although Skellige Isles is not his motherland, he is a northerner, so naturally the northern position takes precedence.
What's more, he is familiar with the plot, but he knows very well the urinary nature of Nilfgaard people.
They claim to be civilized and advanced, but in the end they don't even do anything anthropomorphic.
To be honest, unless he was the origin of the old City of Golden Towers Zhengri Lunqi, he really couldn't understand the benefits of being in Nilfgaard's perspective.
As for remaining neutral, that is even less possible.
In the future catastrophe that will sweep across the entire north, there will be only fighting and death, no surrender, and no neutrality at all.