A baby dragon has built a nest outside the Novice Village

Chapter 29: Distant Mountains
Yuanshan Castle is a small castle belonging to the city of Sagat.

This castle is located in the southeast of the territory. There are no special products around it, only a few ordinary villages that produce wheat.

Those minor nobles who were granted this castle as their territory basically had to live in poverty for the rest of their lives.

The current owner of the castle, the seventh-level ranger Fleming, is working at his desk. Last year's income was very ugly, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the normal operation of the castle.

"My lord, Knight Karala has left."

A guard came in to report.

The lord who was working at his desk raised his head and glanced at the guard.

"understood."

Just now, an order came from the city of Sagat to transfer one-third of his troops, as well as the seventh-level wanderer Karala stationed there.

There was something strange about that guy, and Fleming didn't like him, so it was better to transfer him away.

"But we still have to find a way to appease them."

"What can we do?"

"what is going on?"

In order to save money, Fleming only recruited less than 100 militiamen, but maintaining the basic defense work around the castle every day required at least 500 people. Fleming was already short of manpower.

Many old farmers have fled to the border with their families, and those villages probably lost their harvest this year. Fleming did a simple calculation and found that the castle's income this year would most likely be worse than last year.

"We still have to maintain the patrols. We can't just leave the civilians alone. The castle guards don't have to be too strict. Spread the people out."

Fleming now regrets that he should not have accepted the invitation and become a lifelong peer who cannot even inherit the title.

He was looking at the two villages on the map that had become ruins.

The guard went out and conveyed Fleming's orders.

Soon, there were only twenty or thirty militiamen left in the castle, sparsely standing at their sentry posts.

Rumors about the undead creatures around also reached Fleming's ears several times, but these were probably stories made up by the old farmers themselves.

But Fleming felt a little uncomfortable about the one-third of the troops being transferred away along with him.

"The patrols haven't reported any undead attacks either."

He had begun to miss the past. The old days were always so good, with lots of money and freedom, and no drawbacks except that they were a little dangerous.

And now, these manpower will have to be reduced by one third.

Fleming felt a dull pain in his knee.

He had sent troops to check the two suddenly occupied villages and found no monsters. The only unusual thing was that the soldiers felt the atmosphere in the village was a bit eerie.

"An old injury is starting to flare up again."

Although this castle is poor, it is located at the intersection of several roads. Behind it is a road leading to the city of Sagat.

The strategic location here is very important. The city of Sagat stationed 500 regular troops here to assist Fleming in controlling this area.

"I was once an adventurer..."

Whenever the weather gets cold in winter, his old knee injury starts to flare up.

"Wait! It's not winter."

Fleming noticed that the surroundings were getting abnormally colder, so he turned to look out the window. Then he saw several ice sculptures, which were soldiers standing guard on the city wall.

Without thinking too much, he rushed to his side. On the wall there hung the longbow that had accompanied him in his twenty years of adventure.

It was too late for Fleming to discover the abnormality. The ice had already climbed up the bow. The moment his hand grasped it, the whole bow shattered and turned into ice chips on the ground.

With a creak, the door was pushed open from the outside.

A silver-haired elf girl walked in.

"Where's Karala? He doesn't seem to be here?" "Karala has been transferred and is not here."

The silver-haired girl tilted her head.

"It looks like the situation over there is even worse than I thought. Even the people here have been transferred away."

Fleming's hand quietly reached for the dagger at his waist.

"That's good. It will be much easier for me."

The silver-haired girl was still talking to herself when Fleming suddenly jumped up, pulled out his dagger, and then stopped.

"Feel sorry."

This was the last information he received before his mind was frozen.

"You are not someone who deserves to die, but I am sorry that I do not have the energy to manage the prisoners right now."

The elf girl pressed her index finger on the ice sculpture in front of her, which was still in a sprinting posture. Then she gently exerted force, and the ice sculpture slowly fell down, hit the ground, and shattered.

"call……"

Savrina let out a long sigh. She didn't like this feeling.

But the mission had to continue, so she turned around silently and left the room.

"There are still two key strategic locations left. We need to help them take them out."

Savrina's mission is to clear these heavily guarded strategic locations and completely paralyze the military presence of Sagat City in the southeast.

"Maybe we can go even further than planned."

The town of Ilek is a transportation hub in the southeast. The original plan was to block the transmission of information outside the town, but now it seems that they may have a chance to directly control this key hub.

"The Shadow Crow Mercenaries are gathering."

At this time, the knight in the city of Sage had just received this message.

"Shadow Crow is also going to abandon their so-called traditions and enter the arena? Well, the more fiercely they fight in the capital, the better."

At first, he didn't pay much attention to it, just thinking it was a sign that Shadow Crow was preparing to leave.

Until he saw the details of the Shadow Crows' gathering in the appendix of the report.

"What's going on? Are these shadow crows targeting me?"

In this appendix, the assembled Shadow Crow mercenaries were almost undisguised, marching towards the city of Sagat at the fastest speed. The two nearest "wings" were less than a day's journey from the southeastern border of Sagat.

"Come here, pass on my order. Order all standby troops in the southeast to move towards the border, establish a defense line, and block Shadow Crow's people."

The Jazz rang the bell on the table and gave orders to the soldiers who came in.

"It's impossible because of those Raven Guards. Shadow Crows will not confront a kingdom city head-on just for a few Raven Guards."

The knight was not particularly worried, even though the southeast direction was relatively empty now, and the local troops would definitely not be able to defeat Shadow Crow if a real fight broke out. However, as long as Shadow Crow did not want to become the enemy of the entire kingdom, they could only be blocked at the border.

"But why on earth would Shadow Crow do this?"

After calming down, Jazz began to think about the whole incident.

He recalled the beginning of the conflict. It all originated from a piece of intelligence that someone from the royal capital was investigating something near the city of Sagat.

The source of that information was somewhat suspicious, but he did follow this information to capture the Shadow Crow Guard who was investigating the source of the undead around the city of Sagat.

The Raven Guards were at a very early stage of their investigation, with no access to any substantial evidence, and there was nothing to worry about except that there seemed to be a fish that slipped through the net.

"Wait a minute, there's a fish that slipped through the net."

According to the action report, the fish that escaped the net seemed to be a petite girl, and among all the heirs of the Shadow Crow Mercenary Group, the princess who was closest to him was a petite girl.

“I was taken advantage of.”

(End of this chapter)