Lord Harland.

Chapter 3 Ironhorn Herd
Hearing Morgan's words, Li Cha's heart moved.

"I have been in this world for six years and have been under the protection of the elders. It seems that this time my father arranged for us to capture the iron wildebeest. He should want us to gain some experience."

Kent is Richard's eldest cousin, ten years older than him. Unlike Morgan, the lucky one, Kent also has no awakened knight blood.

After ten years of hard training, he has just completed the professional advancement.

His talent is very ordinary.

After advancing, Kent did not join his father Soros' mercenary group, but entered the Sixth Battalion of the Northern Army.Served as the deputy captain of the scout squadron under William.

In the Dawn Continent, it is divided into four classes from top to bottom.

The highest level is the hereditary nobility, whether it is the king at the top of the pyramid or the lowest hereditary baron belongs to this level.

The second class is the professional families, which are mainly middle and low-level military officers and low-level civil servant families.

The Harland family has now grown to the apex of this class.If you further accumulate enough military merits, you can become a hereditary nobleman. If you take a step back, you may fall into the ranks of ordinary free citizens.

The third class is the class of free people, mainly urban residents, handicraftsmen, and small and medium-sized farmers.Free people want to cross the class, unless there is a great opportunity, otherwise they can only work hard, and very few people succeed.

In the past twenty years, there have been no more than [-] families in Heihe Castle who have advanced from free people to professionals, and if it is enlarged to the entire northern region, there are only a few hundred families, like a carp leaping over a dragon's gate.

With a population of several million in the northern border, ordinary people and advanced professionals can be said to be one in a million, which is even more difficult than Li Cha's previous test for top2.

At the bottom is the slave class, including serfs, labor slaves, and noble private slaves. Slaves have no freedom in life, and the chance to change their destiny is even rarer.

In this world of extraordinary power, class solidification is extremely serious, and those who can cross classes can be called outstanding people.

Black River Fort is located at the northernmost part of the Dragon Canyon and is the residence of the Northern Legion.

The Kingdom of Grant has been operating in Heihe Fort for many years, and there are hundreds of villages dotted around it, with a total population of 50 million in tens of thousands of square kilometers. It is the core territory of the royal family in the north.

The Knight Academy is located in the middle of the Dragon Canyon, [-] kilometers away from Heihe Fort.

Richard and Morgan joined Hayden and rode fast horses for two days before arriving at Black River Fort.The four professionals Kent, Powell, Roland, and Soros have been waiting for them for a long time.

Hayden is Richard's third brother and his half-brother. He is two years older than him. He also failed to awaken the knight blood. He entered the Grant Knight Academy for three years and is a middle-level soldier student.

Powell is Richard's uncle, he is already a second-tier soldier, and after retiring from the Northern Army, he opened a tavern in Fort Heihe.

Roland is Soros' brother-in-law. He is just 30 years old, but he has already become a Tier [-] professional, playing for the Wild Lions.In terms of talent alone, he is better than Soros, enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with William.

After William became an advanced professional, the Harland family has undergone earth-shaking development.Relying on William's back support, the two brothers entered the Northern Legion successively and successfully advanced to professional status.

Jumped up to become the top family under the hereditary nobility.

"The reason why I took you deep into the Eagle Mountains and into the range of activities of the orc tribe this time is to increase your experience in fighting the enemy, apart from capturing the iron wildebeest.

We northerners will encounter orc invasions every few years. If we don't know the enemy well, it will be difficult to save our lives in the war.Every northerner needs the experience of facing the war. "

Uncle Soros patted Li Cha on the shoulder, and gave a few words of earnest advice.

Chenxi calendar 3252, February [-]th.

The seven rested for half a day, and left Black River Fort overnight to prevent leaks, and entered the depths of the Eagle Mountain Range.

The time for this operation is already spring. After a long winter, the forest is no longer particularly cold, but there is still thick snow in the shade.

There are hardly any villages in the mountains, and there are very few signs of human activities. After entering the Eagle Mountains for half a month, Richard couldn't even find the hunter's hut.

Everyone carefully searched the animal path, and suddenly Powell said in a low voice: "Be careful, it's the excrement left by the earth dragon beast, and this place is not far from the earth dragon beast's lair."

"How big is the hunting range of the earth dragon beast?"

"Sixty kilometers from the lair is the territory of the Earth Dragon Beast."

The second uncle Powell is a retired old scout, and used to be the squadron leader of the reconnaissance squadron of the Fourth Brigade of the Northern Army.He not only has excellent detective skills, but also has a very unusual natural sense of smell, and can smell odors that ordinary people cannot detect.

This talent has allowed him to turn dangers into blessings and avoid fatal dangers several times.

Earth dragon beasts are high-level monsters, adult earth dragon beasts are seventh-level monsters, and some powerful male earth dragon beasts can even grow to ninth-level monsters.

Even if there are two mid-level professionals in the team, there is still the risk of annihilation when encountering adult dragon beasts.

"Roland, go and have a look at the tallest tree in the west. The others leave here as soon as possible. Everyone wipe some of the earth dragon beast's feces on their bodies to prevent the earth dragon beast from smelling strange."

Many monsters have the habit of hibernating, and the same is true for earth dragon beasts.

Earth drakes in spring are very dangerous and extremely aggressive. They will kill any prey that breaks into their territory.

But the earth dragon beasts in spring are also very valuable. The glands in the mouth of the earth dragon beasts will secrete dragon marrow fluid in spring, which can be used to refine extraordinary potions containing dragon blood, and assist sixth-order knights to break through the realm.

Today, if there is a knight above the seventh rank leading the team, there will be a chance to hunt down the earth dragon beast and get the dragon marrow liquid.

Soros is only a fifth-level fighter, not a bold and brain-dead man, and he is either a son or a nephew by his side. He dare not provoke the dragon beast at all, and directs everyone to avoid danger.

The luck of the seven people was not bad, and they were not discovered by the earth dragon beast when they left.

After wandering in the depths of the forest for more than ten days, from February to March, I finally found the footprints left by the iron horned horses. After following the animal trail for three days, the thirteen iron horned horses were already looming.

The iron horned horse is a low-level monster, and the adult male horse is usually a second-level monster, and some strong horse kings occasionally grow into a third-level monster.

Mares are usually first-tier monsters, and very few of them can advance to second-tier or third-tier.

This group of iron wildebeests is relatively small, and there is no third-rank horse king.

According to Powell's observation, there are four stallions that have reached the second rank, four ponies that have not yet grown up, one of the remaining five mares is a second rank, and the remaining four are first rank.

The monsters have rough skin and thick flesh, and they can also use blood spells. In frontal combat, their combat effectiveness is usually stronger than that of fighters of the same level.

Although this group of iron horned horses did not have intermediate monsters, their number was double that of Li Cha's seven.

If there is a little carelessness, the staff of the seven will be reduced.

The two families of William and Soros have more than a dozen children in total, and only Richard and Morgan are worthy of training.

Morgan has awakened the blood of knights, and Li Cha's talent is also extraordinary.

If the two are lost here, even if the iron wildebeest is captured, the two families will lose their future.

Besides, Soros also loves his son and nephew, so of course he would not choose to act recklessly.

"Uncle, if we fight head-on, I'm afraid we have no chance of winning?"

Soros nodded slightly, and said confidently: "The most difficult part of this operation is to find the horse herd. Once you find the horse herd, it will be very easy to capture the wildebeest."

(End of this chapter)