rune hunter

Chapter 387

I have to say that when Dreyer regained his composure, his handsome aristocratic image could really bluff people, and El had to bow down in this regard.After coming out of the tent, the three men found a secluded place, got some barbecue and started drinking and chatting.

As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other. The friendship between men is actually very wonderful. Enemies who originally disliked each other may appreciate each other after a fight.Sometimes it's a sympathy for each other. If we get together to drink wine and vomit our bitterness, maybe we will become sympathetic to each other.

Dreyer falls into the former category, though he's the one who's been beaten.To be honest, El didn't have a good impression of this guy before, but compared to other southern nobles, the Kemal family can indeed be called kind, and he is also qualified to say that he is a man.As for Simaco, it belongs to the latter. As a sister-in-law, he and Dreyer have a lot in common.

Along the way, the team of exiles who "mopped up" the villages and towns along the way has already solved the problem of food supplies. Even if they don't get assistance from Lord Churkin, they can survive this winter.With El's current power, it is easy to find a few bottles of good wine, but in order to keep a low profile, the three of them still hid outside the camp.

"The Camille Wasteland is not a good place." Dreyer took a sip of wine, with an elegant and arrogant smile on his face, and said in a low voice: "I don't know if you have read the historical documents of the founding period of the Kingdom of Auckland. ...Miss Ranstadt should know, it's a cursed place."

She's an imposter who knows a fart——El sneered inwardly, but still asked with a look of interest on his face: "What's the problem there? Can it be better than your family in Dimiant?" Is the mess made more terrible?"

"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately! What is the trouble caused by my family?" Dreyer immediately became emotional when he mentioned this matter, waving a wine bottle and angrily said: "The brown earth hills have become what they are now. This ghostly appearance, at least half of it is the result left by the North Wind Sword Master back then. Just because our family has a problem with blood, are you throwing all kinds of sewage on our heads?"

"Stop complaining here, who doesn't know about the bad things about your family back then." Simako snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "Let's talk about the Camille Wasteland, I heard that the family of the wild boar lord Churkin has been stationed here for generations. The Thunder Fortress is there, and the Thunder Fortress is the most powerful military town in the Kingdom of Oakland, so there should be high-ranking priests there."

"The most powerful military town? Is it stronger than Eastalen?" El asked in disbelief.In his impression, the White Lion family, which was once regarded as a thorn in the side of the Oakland royal family and wished to get rid of it quickly, had a gold-ranked powerhouse sitting in the town, and it could already be called a pivotal force in this country.

In his imagination, the wild boar family, who are also descendants of the four northern knights, should not be much different from the white lion in military strength, but Dreyer now says that Thunder Fortress is the most powerful military town. Doesn't this mean that Does the wild boar family actually have far more military strength than Eastalen?
"It seems that you really don't know anything... But it's also true, except that members of our ancient family have to learn long and stinky historical knowledge since childhood, what's the point for ordinary people to understand these things?" De Lyle laughed at himself, took a sip of wine and continued:

"The Timberwolves, the White Lions, the Black Bears and the Wild Boars, the four knights who opened up the northern border back then, are essentially the four emerging warlord factions. The Timberwolves' Spike Fortress defends the northern ice sheets, and the White Lions stationed in the Yunlu Mountains in Istaron. The black bear defended the nomads on the grasslands in Lotterdam in the east, and the wild boars garrisoned the Thunder Fortress in the southwest to defend the Falcon Empire. Although the fiefdoms of the other three lords were also places of bitter cold, they were basically self-reliant. Only Thunder The fortress is a pure gold-sucking monster, consuming one-fifth of the tax revenue of the entire kingdom every year!"

"How could the royal family be so kind to solve the military expenditure problem for the local lord?" El asked in disbelief. In his impression, the Oakland royal family seemed to have been trying to die since the palace coup ten years ago. Unwavering.It's nothing more than abolishing martial arts, but actually handing over the entire northern land, people, and resources to the Cursed Sect, turning a blind eye to the spread of the plague, and actually pinning their hopes on the peace treaty signed with the dead.

As long as an ordinary person with a slightly normal mind is replaced, it is impossible to bring the country to this point, it is as disgusting as ****.El couldn't imagine that such a brain-dead royal family would still invest huge sums of money in the Thunder Fortress. Could it be that there is really something different there?
"In fact, if you have read the history of the kingdom, you should know that our country was once a part of the Falcon Empire. Before the founding of the first king of Auckland, his fief in the Falcon Empire is now Thunder Fortress—or Camille Wasteland.” Looking at the shocked expressions of the two, Dreyer smiled triumphantly.

"In fact, you can guess the later history without me telling you. When the first king opened up the land to the north, he discovered the current southern plain, and then gradually accumulated capital to establish his own country. Of course, this cannot be recognized by the Falcon Empire. Like Such issues involving power disputes that cannot be compromised must ultimately be resolved through war."

"The Falcon Empire sent a crusade army to fight against the first emperor's troops at the Thunder Fortress. In that war, multiple gold powerhouses on both sides fell, and the crusade army was finally wiped out, and what they left behind The product is the present Camille Wasteland.”

Dreyer reached out and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, handed it to the two people, and explained to El: "Look, we are now close to the border of the Camille Wasteland, and the soil here has changed from normal brown-black to It turned gray and white, like burnt ashes. This kind of land was originally unable to produce food. Compared with the fertile land in the southern plains, it can almost be said that birds do not lay eggs. After thousands of years of changes , this piece of land has barely regained the ability to cultivate, but it is still far different from what is behind us."

"Wait a minute, the Falcon Empire you just mentioned...couldn't be the Falcon Empire?" Simako, who was drinking heavily, suddenly raised his head and asked in surprise.

"If you're referring to the organizer of the famous 'Falcon Warriors Recruitment' in China in the past few years, that's the right one." Dreyer nodded.

"What do you mean, what do you mean? Recruiting warriors? Isn't that our enemy? How do you come to our side to recruit people?" El couldn't understand the charade between the two, and asked hastily.

"The territory of the Falcon Empire is five times that of the Oakland Kingdom, and it is considered one of the strongest in the human civilization world, but they occasionally show signs of convulsions." Dreyer said with a cold snort:
"The new female emperor of the Falcon Empire, Artemis II, is also known as the Hunter. She selects warriors throughout the empire and fights in the name of the traditional hunting conference of the empire. The winner in the end can get an unusually rich This kind of gladiatorial competition has lasted for fifteen or sixteen years. Many imperial lords went abroad to recruit strong people to participate in the competition through private channels. The rewards made everyone crazy about it."

"So they have dug people to our side? But is there any necessary connection between this and Thunder Fortress?" El asked a little puzzled.

"Now this annual gladiatorial competition has been upgraded to a carnival for the whole people of the empire. There are countless applicants. However, the strength of these applicants varies. In order to test their strength standards, an additional trial must be added before the competition. The mission." Dreyer's face changed, and he said seriously: "And this trial mission is to join the Empire Crusade Legion and attack the Thunder Fortress!"

Silence...

Delaire's words really startled Al and Simaco. One of them is a soil turtle in the mountains, and the other is the illegitimate child of a small family. They have never known the information outside the Oakland Kingdom.For them, if it weren't for the plague and natural disaster, those distant things would naturally be meaningless.

They never thought that even before the plague came, their kingdom never had real peace.The ancient empire far beyond the horizon, just because of the emperor's personal preference, could organize a crusade army to attack the fortress of his own country in a single event, and it has been going on for more than ten years.

If you think about it carefully, this is probably not a matter of more than ten years. The Kingdom of Auckland has a history of thousands of years, and the Falcon Empire has never forgotten this history.So in the past 1000 years, how many similar crusades have occurred?
As long as you think about it this way, you will feel that it is really a miracle that the Thunder Fortress can last until now.And the reason why the Oakland royal family invested one-fifth of the country's tax revenue, manpower and material resources here seems not difficult to understand.

"Hearing what you said, I suddenly feel confused about the future." El took a sip of wine and smiled bitterly: "I thought that bringing these troops there would make people look at me highly. If you say so, Isn't that as ridiculous as a juggling clown?"

"What you said is too much." Dreyer said with a crooked smile: "Back then, our Kemal family was not the same as a clown in front of the white lion. Every time we were pushed to the ground and beaten... But looking The entire southern aristocratic faction, we are the only ones who dare to persevere with you, and have the detached status now... before. So men can't be cowarded, they just do..."

"Who's scared, believe it or not, I'm going to fuck your sister!" El threw the barbecue on his face with his hands.

(End of this chapter)