Chapter 273 Bridget and Eddiz
After nightfall, a Singal rider on a yellow horse arrived at the military camp.
He rode his horse to the vicinity of the military camp. Some soldiers sounded the alarm and shot arrows at him. He then dismounted and raised his hands in surrender. He was then taken to Li Ang's tent by patrolling soldiers.
"Lord Leon, your soldiers almost shot me to death... Can you please let me go?"
The Singal rider complained, then turned and glared at the two soldiers who were escorting him behind him.
"You rashly rode your horse close to the military camp. To be honest, you're still alive only because of the damn patrol sentry tonight... Klose, go replace the outer defenses and bring back the outer patrol sentry tonight and give him ten military sticks! He actually allowed someone to ride a horse and get within a hundred meters of the military camp..."
Li Ang gave the order with a gloomy face, then turned to look at the rider: "Who are you? What do you want to do with me?"
The lord asked this because he knew that this Singal rider was not Ramon's subordinate.
Ramon's men would not complain to Leon, and they would notify Leon first - Ramon's men had been carrying out various secret activities for a long time, and they were all cautious and would not be as reckless as this Singal rider.
"My name is Ediz, Lord Leon, you don't have to punish the scouts outside. I knocked one out... Well, he was actually patrolling diligently a mile away..."
The Singal rider looked a little embarrassed. "It was Lord Ramon who asked me to contact you in Toba, but I felt that the contact information he gave me was too cowardly. I don't like doing such shameful things... He asked me to imitate the call of a wild cat."
This was indeed the agreement between Ramon and Leon. Ramon's men would call out in a fixed rhythm, and Risadiran and Wendy, two Noldor with keen hearing, could hear it from two or three miles away.
"What? You call being cautious cowardly? I feel like you're alive today just because of luck..."
Li Ang looked at Ediz and said, "Let's get down to business first. I'm not interested in your personal preferences."
"Lord Ramon asked me to tell you that there is an abandoned secret door on the west side of Toba City. Your army can enter the city from there... Now that Bahad Khan Kadan is not here, there are only a few Desha Windriders and some new soldiers guarding the city. You can quickly capture Toba City, and the Desha Principality will soon become a vassal of the Kingdom of Sarleon again..."
Ediz began to explain the situation quickly, and it felt like he had memorized it, and he spoke very fluently.
As he spoke, he approached the lord.
"Let D'Shar become a vassal ? ... Ha, did Ramon really say that?"
Leon looked at Edizi with a forced smile, then picked up a 'Silver Hand' in front of him and asked back while putting it on.
In the shadows behind the lord, Risadilan had begun to move quietly, and silently went behind Edizi.
There was obviously something wrong with what Ediz said.
Leon and Ramon agreed to auction the throne of Bahad Khan. How could Ramon say such a thing?
And Ramon doesn't need to help Leon capture Toba City - Leon doesn't have this requirement, he just needs Ramon's spies to provide information.
In fact, Leon doesn't necessarily have to capture the city immediately. He can stay outside the city for a few days, send scouts farther away, and defeat the Desha lords who come to rescue Toba City one by one.
After all, the ultimate goal is not to capture the city and territory, but to eliminate the living forces loyal to Kadan, so that the throne of Bahad Khan can be truly auctioned.
Ramon must have placed his spies in Toba City, but Ramon would never let his men take Le Ang through any secret passages or secret doors - unless Le Ang had this request, otherwise someone like Ramon would not help Le Ang make a decision.
Ramon is good at gambling, but he is not a gambler. He will not actively add any uncertainties to his plan, and he will not act on his own without prior notice.
So...there must be something wrong with Ediz.
Is something wrong with Ramon?
Or, did something happen to the men Ramon sent to Toba City?
"Lord Li Ang, I am just a messenger. Now that the message has been delivered, it is time for me to leave..."
Ediz seemed to sense that Leon's eyes were unfriendly, and he began to look back towards the door of the tent, as if he was preparing to run away.
"You haven't even taken me to see the secret door yet... You want to leave now? Ediz, you're not good at acting, and you're not Ramon's subordinate... Who asked you to come?"
Leon stood up, stretched his shoulders, and stood in front of Ediz.
"Master Li Ang, I don't understand what you are saying..."
Ediz looked at the spiked arm armor on Leon, seemed a little hesitant, and his eyes were dodging everywhere.
"Then I'll have to inconvenience you a little bit..."
Risadiran suddenly appeared from the shadows, grabbed Aidiz's arms and twisted his hands behind his back.
Li Ang simply used his gloved hand to touch Ediz all over.
"Huh... He really didn't bring any weapons? Lisa Dilan, search him for any poison."
Le Ang took two steps back and took off his arm armor - this was Klose's equipment. Le Ang's arms were not that thick, and he couldn't tie the arm armor stably at all.
It is only worn temporarily to prevent assassination.
"He doesn't have any poison on him, but he does have some hallucinogens... but this stuff shouldn't be used to harm you, sir."
Risadiran was well acquainted with the poisons used by assassins—he carried several with him himself.
But Ediz obviously would not use poison. The small ball of hallucinogenic drug he carried with him was actually an ointment made of opium mixed with spices. It needed to be heated with a pipe before it could be inhaled, so it certainly could not be used to harm people.
"Noldor elves?! Don't throw away my things... Let me go, you pointy-eared bastard! I won't be a cowardly killer, I'm really just here to pass on a message..."
Seeing Lisadilan throwing away the ball of opium like garbage, Ediz struggled and started shouting.
"Edizi, who are you working for? Since you don't intend to murder me, I can give you a way out - but at least you have to tell me who is planning to trick me into attacking the city through that so-called secret door?"
Leon looked at the ointment on the ground, then looked at Edizi - it was obvious why Edizi was here. This guy probably used this task to exchange for the black thing on the ground.
"...I can't betray my employer...even though he's a jerk, I'm not!"
A trace of struggle flashed across Ediz's face, but he didn't say anything in the end.
"Well, then, forget it..."
Leon seemed very reasonable and asked gently, "It seems that you are a respectable person...but why would you work for someone like Bridget?"
"I owe him a lot of money... Wait! How do you know I'm working for Bridger..."
Ediz had been staring at the ball of opium and was originally answering casually, but then he reacted and turned to look at Leon.
He didn't mention Bridget...
"It's just a guess... You are a Singalian , not Ramon's subordinate. And you have this thing on you, so of course I can guess that you are Brigi's subordinate... Since you know that Ramon is my friend..."
Li Ang shook his head and smiled: "Ramon will naturally tell me about Bridget, a charlatan who uses poison to control his men."
"My Lord, I went to bury him..."
Lisadilan had already tied Ediz's hands. Seeing that the guy had an embarrassed look on his face but was gritting his teeth to pretend to be tough, he sneered and dragged Ediz out.
"Wait... Pointy Ears, wait! Lord Leon, I am no longer working for Bridge... I am really just here to pass on a message, really."
Seeing that Lisadilan was really planning to bury him, Ediz became anxious.
"You have to say something useful... Otherwise, keeping a useless drug addict is just a waste of food..."
Li Ang maintained a gentle attitude and worked well with Lisa Dilan, one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.
"Bridge and his troops are in Toba City. He accepted the employment of Bahad Khan Kadan and wanted to lure you to that secret door for an ambush. That's all I know... Lord Ramon's men were captured by Bridge... and have died in Toba City."
Ediz confessed quickly: "My Lord, I have decided to leave Bridget, really. I just can't stand his disgraceful behavior..."
Brigi calls himself the "Desert Prophet" and claims to have received inspiration from the gods to exterminate all unclean and evil spirits in the Desha territory.
He declared to his followers that evil spirits had no regularity and could only be identified by his "divine eyes" and could only be made to appear by divine revelation...
Once he identifies someone as a so-called evil spirit, all humans and animals will be reduced to ashes, and all property will be "dedicated to the gods" - this guy probably combined the practices of the Knights of the Dawn and the Ghazi Temple, and then developed his own set of "purification" logic.
However, he certainly did not believe in the goddess of justice or the horse god Wata.
The mysterious religion that Brigi believed in advocated sacrifice and dedication, which was said to allow one to go to heaven after death.
In this religion, any ritual requires enlightenment from a prophet - in fact, it is the use of highly addictive psychedelic drugs to create hallucinations, such as opium or other similar drugs that can cause rapid addiction.
After this, Bridget will be able to control or enslave his men for a long time.
Before every war, he would deliberately stop taking medication to cause his men to become addicted to drugs.
These drug addicts would become quite crazy when fighting, and Brigi had won many victories with this, and even forced some small tribes near Singar to surrender to him.
Speaking of which, Bridget actually has a grudge against Ramon - if Ramon wants to cooperate with Leon, he will naturally tell Leon about his enemies and possible enemies.
He probably has some relationship with the mercenary leader Fruz who was once killed by Ramon. Anyway, all the Singal women who cheated people under Fruz are now under Bridge.
Moreover, many of those vixens were selected by Bridget to accept some mysterious challenge.
The challenge was said to have been inspired by Bridget himself when he was hallucinating from taking drugs, but no one knows the specific content of the challenge, not even Ramon.
But Ramon said that all the Singal temptresses who successfully challenged would be called "omen seekers" by Brigi and become his trusted guards.
This was clearly a heretical act, so Ramon mentioned it to Leon.
However, Cardin actually hired such a guy and let him enter the capital city of Toba?
Isn’t he afraid that all the people in Toba City will become drug addicts?
Or... Cardin just wanted this?
"I think there is no grudge between me and Bridge, why would he want to hurt me? I don't believe he is just trying to help Cardan defend Toba City..."
Leon felt that a despicable person like Brigitte was definitely not that noble, and Cardin should have only hired him to defend the city, not to become the Caliph of D'Shar. Logically speaking, Brigitte had no need to take the initiative to cause trouble for the Sarleon army.
"Lord Leon, Bridget doesn't want to kill you. He wants to capture you alive and then control you with poison, and then control your army..."
Ediz turned his head again and stared at the lump of opium paste on the ground: "In fact, all his troops came from this way..."
"I see... Ediz, you probably don't believe in Bridge's mysterious religion, right? How did you become addicted to drugs?"
Leon looked Ediz up and down and confirmed that he was a real Singalian - most Singalians did not believe in God, and the dinar was the highest justice, this was what Ramon said.
"Well... I was deceived by some seductresses. It's not a very glorious thing, so let's not talk about it. But I have really decided to leave. I want to get away from this kind of life..."
There was an obvious look of embarrassment on Ediz's face. It seemed that he had been badly deceived by those vixens before.
"I really want to believe that you left Bridget...but the thing on the ground makes me doubt that you may not have left so completely..."
Leon shook his head at Ediz: "But if you can help me kill Bridge, then maybe I can get you completely away from this thing and return to a normal life."
"Alright, Lord Leon, I know I will be buried here if I don't agree... I really don't want to rely on poison for my whole life, but it's really hard to control myself when the addiction strikes."
Ediz gave up struggling, turned to Leon and sighed: "But, Lord Leon, Bridge has nearly two thousand people in the city. And he is recruiting more people, and many criminals have joined his army. It is not so easy to deal with him now..."
It seems that Edizi himself really wants to return to normal life, but he doesn't have much confidence in killing Bridge.
“He recruited the D’Shar people in Toba? He could actually convert the D’Shar people who believed in Mata to heresy?”
Leon was a little impressed by Bridge's ability. This was something that neither the Knights of the Dawn nor the Inquisitor of the Tribunal could do.
"Most of the Deshar people in Toba don't really believe in Wata... In fact, I think they only believe in dinars, just like the Singalians."
Ediz shook his head: "Lord Leon, how do you plan to deal with Bridge?"
"Don't you owe him money...how much do you owe him?"
Leon asked about Ediz's debt.
