Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

After reading today's battle report and the territory's production status, Lind looked up and found that Lena was already fast asleep.

It looked like he had been sleeping for a long time. The quilt was kicked all over the place, he was drooling, and I don't know when a small piece of his clothes was lifted up. His right hand was scratching his belly, and he didn't look like he was asleep at all.

As a time traveler, what Linde could not tolerate the most was someone sleeping with their belly button exposed, so Linde, who had an obsessive-compulsive disorder, covered Lena with the quilt again.

Looking at Reina's leisurely sleeping posture, Linde remembered the sentence again: "Do you like it?"

This question may no longer need to be answered, as it has become a part of each other's lives.

At this time, Lena was sleeping on a camp bed temporarily set up in the camp tent, right next to Linde's office. However, it seemed to be no different at normal times. Lena seemed to have fallen asleep several times after listening to Linde's reports, and later she simply slept next to Linde's desk.

Her sleeping posture also changed from Sleeping Beauty at the beginning to more and more unrestrained, as if being next to Linde made Lena more and more relaxed.

Just like a cat, it is very alert and dare not fall asleep in the wild, and it maintains a fighting posture even when it falls asleep. However, after being adopted for a long time, its sleeping posture becomes abstract.

According to Reina herself, even in her sleep, as long as someone stepped into the range of her knight territory, she would be able to react immediately, even Reina's knights, so Reina would sleep and keep watch without any worries.

But this rule was completely inapplicable to Linde. Whether Linde was going in and out to get documents or helping to cover the quilt, Reina had no reaction. If the maid had not accidentally stepped into the tent while handing Linde the documents, Linde would have even wondered if Reina's knightly stance had become invalid.

After extinguishing the lantern, Linde walked out of the camp tent. The guards outside had been waiting for a long time.

"You have captured a strange prisoner, haven't you?"

"Yes sir."

The guard explained, "He was wearing a strange costume and blindfolded. He claimed to be a bard from the compilation school and came to us. We tried many ways to control him, including tying him up with ropes, locking him in a cell, and putting him in shackles, but he easily broke free."

The guards' descriptions became increasingly bizarre, and Lind, holding a lamp, saw the shackled bard in the cell.

"King! My noble king, it is an honor to meet you. I am your most loyal jester, Lucanus!"

When Lucanus, who was in shackles, saw Linde through the iron bars, he was extremely excited and saluted deeply, but in the process of saluting, the shackles blocked Lucanus's movement.

Seeing this, Lucanus retracted his hands and the shackles fell off, and then he continued to salute meticulously.

It was indeed very strange. Seeing this, Linde touched his chin and began to think. Lucanus's movements were somewhat similar to the bone-shrinking skill, but it was different from the bone-shrinking skill that Linde had seen in his previous life. Not only was Lucanus more smooth and did not require any preparation, but more importantly, this set of movements gave people the feeling that this body was not their own.

The body was like a toy to Lucanus that he could manipulate at will.

"My noble king, are you satisfied with your jester's first performance?"

Lucanus prostrated himself on the ground, as if he were really a jester.

"You must be mistaken. I am just a viscount from a remote area, not your king."

The servant brought a chair and Lind sat down easily.

Lind has always been on guard against bards. Most of the bards also work as spies, perhaps double agents, or more are ownerless spies. They are only responsible for collecting intelligence and then selling it. It doesn't matter whose information they steal or to whom they sell it.

If merchants can still be understood, after all, they only care about gold coins, then bards make it completely impossible to understand what they are thinking.

Although they collected intelligence, most of it was processed by the bards, making it difficult to distinguish the truth from the false. Moreover, they were not doing it for money. Sometimes they just wanted to instigate a fight between two nobles and kept releasing information to add fuel to the fire.

"No, you are my king. Your identity will not change because of your denial."

"But according to the investigation, weren't you a retainer of Wesker before? Are you planning to surrender if you lose the battle?"

Linde was actually a little confused. After all, the bard could have just run away, so why did he insist on staying with him?

"Because we were still very confused before. This world is about to set off a new storm, but we still haven't found the starting point of the epic. We can only keep expanding our goals and list all possible people as candidates for the starting point of the epic."

After listening to this, Lind became even more confused. What is the new storm? Where is the starting point of the epic?

As if he had seen Lind's confusion, Lucanus said, "My king, I am your jester, and I will tell you everything I know."

"I believe you have noticed that the demons have begun to walk out of the eternal frozen ground, the human empire has split, and the subsequent kingdoms have also begun to fall apart. The Angevin dynasty in the south has begun to reform, and the cultists are beginning to stir. As in the past, the alien races are waiting for the self-collapse of mankind and are preparing to start seizing the glory of mankind."

"And we, as witnesses of history, need to find the starting point of this epic story and witness this heroic epic!"

Lind roughly understood what the bard in front of him meant. The world was about to change, and they were responsible for recording history.

"So you thought Wesker would be the key to the turning point of history?"

"We still think he is. He is just a footnote in your hegemony, but also your most perfect stepping stone."

The fanaticism on Lucanus' face was undisguised, even a little crazy, like a fanatic.

"So what exactly are you bards? Are you only responsible for recording history? Then why do you want to be spies for the nobles?"

Originally, Lind thought that the bards were just a group of part-time spies who sang for money, but it seems that the bards in this world are not that simple.

"We bards are mainly divided into two factions, the epic writing school that I belong to and the historical record writing school that I belong to."

Lucanus seemed to know everything about Linde, and continued, "We compilers believe that we can add some of our own opinions when compiling historical materials to make this period of history more magnificent, so when we record it, we will choose to end up as retainers of some nobles and manipulate some dramatic plots."

"And the recordists, they're just a bunch of old-fashioned people, they're neither interesting nor loyal."

So that's why. No wonder those bards would add fuel to the fire meaninglessly, just to make the epics they recorded look more exciting.

"So you're going to fuck me too to add some drama to your epic recording?"

Seeing that this guy was really going to tell everything, Lind continued asking.

"No, you are different. You are not only a record in our epic, you are also our king. I have infinite loyalty to you. Of course, you can choose not to believe us, but our loyalty has nothing to do with whether you believe us or not."

"You've been calling yourself 'we' from the beginning. Are the bards of your faction a group?"

Lucanus did not hesitate and continued to explain: "No, humans have never been united, and the same is true for us bards. Even though we are all editors, each of us has a different king or protagonist, which has led to different branches. Most of the bard groups went to the Kingdom of Anjou in the south, because the new king there actively reformed, forged ahead, and reorganized the army. He is more likely to be the winner of the next period of history than the Kingdom of Capet."

"But our group is different. The body of Fulan is more likely to nourish new life, and heroes in adversity are more likely to attract people's attention."

"From now on, you will be the only king of our Lucanus branch, and we will provide you with all the intelligence collected by the Lucanus branch bards."