Dear Broom Knight

Lowry glanced indifferently at the Gazars across the Qingyu River, their faces filled with ambition.

He was never the type to be ruthless.

Even when dealing a fatal blow, he had to convince himself first... Of course, those who openly opposed him were not within the scope of this persuasion.

He didn't care about his hands being stained with blood, nor did he care what would happen to the ordinary people who were forced to face ruin because their relatives were killed by his decisions; that wasn't his fault.

But Lowry didn't want to directly kill completely innocent people.

Perhaps it was the lingering influence of his past self, who only dared to swat mosquitoes and cockroaches, and at most, crush a rat to death through a garbage bag!

Therefore, before he planned to act himself, he would carefully investigate everything, if possible... And these few Gazars all knew what he was there to do.

Before Earl Gazar sent them as bait, he might have hidden the danger of this matter, but he did tell them that they were there to attack Lowry.

Their mission here, on the surface, was to test Lowry's attitude towards the Gazar branch families, but in essence, it was to provide cover for the outsiders who came to plot against Lowry.

Therefore, once discovered, they were likely to be implicated by Lowry's anger due to their small actions on the surface, and be cleaned up along with the nearby insect nest.

However, these people still felt they could take a gamble.

Although they were quite cautious, only daring to exchange some true gossip near the heavily protected insect nest, they still didn't understand why the Gazar barony had to seek assistance from outsiders even with the powerful Church forces, and still act so secretly.

They were in a small forest on the opposite bank of the river.

It was a natural forest, full of various tall northern trees.

Now it was autumn, the season when animals were active.

Therefore, even though they had cleared all the birds within a hundred meters of their area, they still didn't dare to do too much... After all, if the forest was silent, there would definitely be a problem.

They didn't think that Lowry on the opposite side was so incompetent that he wouldn't even notice that.

However, these people were still used to the arrogant days of the Earl Gazar's territory, and were not vigilant at all, daring to say anything.

They probably only considered the common rule of bootlickers: 'Everyone says it, so no one will betray.'

When Lowry heard them talking, he really had a particularly strange feeling... Even the most useless knight in Montes Castle wouldn't talk like that.

No, even the subordinates brought out by Barty, those fools whose ambitions were greater than their abilities, wouldn't behave like this.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe them as 'traitors who wouldn't survive three episodes' in old TV dramas.

Lowry always thought that this kind of person only existed in some artistically processed images!

However, monitoring them for the past few days, Lowry really felt like he had suffered a work-related injury.

From so much nonsense, he painstakingly summarized some things that sounded very much like 'the Empress of the Eastern Palace is making pancakes':

The reason why these people dared to come and gamble their lives was because they felt that Lowry's acceptance of the Gale Wolves must mean that he had ambitions, and that he needed the help of the Gazars to realize those ambitions.

This border baron must want to be promoted to earl and expand his social circle into the inland.

Otherwise, Lowry would not want this group of magical wolves that could only sign contracts with the Gazar bloodline.

After all, the people of the Gazar family all knew how much meat these wolves could eat!

On the other hand, those vassals of the Gale Wolves' vassals, giant wolves with only a little magical bloodline, could be used as mounts for the knights in their territory.

But, in their eyes, these giant wolves had many and high requirements, but their strength was just so-so.

At most, they were a little stronger than high-level horses, but their consumption was much greater!

Although those specially trained, high-headed horses with high load capacity were valuable and ate specially formulated feed, it was still cheaper than meat.

Even if they only ate rabbits, what a giant wolf ate in one meal was more than what a horse consumed in a day!

Moreover, as long as they carried the bloodline of magical creatures, they had to be fed some magical materials of the same type every once in a while.

For ordinary knights, even just the scraps of wind spar were a heavy burden.

Although knights received higher salaries, they had to raise their own mounts.

Considering the cost-effectiveness... except for those who were valued by Earl Gazar, ordinary people would definitely not raise these useless wolves if they couldn't get the recognition of the Gale Wolves.

Of course, those Gazars who had their own manors probably didn't care about these things.

After all, these giant wolves could also hunt for themselves.

But for ordinary branch families living in the city, where the fields and forests outside belonged to Earl Gazar and ordinary people didn't dare to enter easily, raising wolves was really difficult.

These people had been babbling about the price of fodder, the scarcity of fresh meat... After Lowry understood their calculations, he only felt his face turning green.

It was as if the Gale Wolves could offer the giant wolves they had painstakingly raised with both hands if they were willing... Had they considered that with their strength as beginner knights in their forties or fifties, they simply didn't have the qualifications?

It wasn't until he finally understood that the salary these guys received was actually not as good as the junior knights who had just been transferred to his knight order that Lowry suddenly realized... This was the kind of guy who was just muddling through.

Border nobles had always been generous to their subordinates. As long as they dared to raise a knight order, they would definitely be willing to pay, which almost made him forget that the inland nobles were completely different.

Their knight orders were used to increase their own prestige and suppress the resisting civilians. They were not used to protect the territory and guard their own family's lives.

It was only because the last war in the Northern Kingdom was less than a hundred years ago that all the territorial nobles were still raising their own knight orders.

Otherwise, if the country was stable for a long time, there would definitely be nobles who would reduce their military spending and simply cancel the formal knight orders, using attendants to deal with everything.

Of course, those knights who were willing to stay with the inland nobles and receive these basic salaries basically didn't have much talent.

Even if they could basically reach the step of a knight due to the advantages of their bloodline, that was it.

When the Royal Army recruited people, although the first element was talent, they would also observe the performance of these children in the early training camp.

No one would want the kind who obviously didn't want to endure hardship.

Everyone was here to find and cultivate partners who would live and die together in the future, and no one wanted to court death.

Therefore, inland nobles were more accustomed to hiring those great knights who had just come out of the Royal Army and wanted to find a suitable place to retire with high salaries.

Having one or two of them was enough to ensure that they wouldn't encounter accidents when going out.

These people from the Royal Army might not necessarily have a good temper, but they would definitely abide by their promises.

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Of course, there were also those who were cultivated by themselves. Earl Gazar attached great importance to them.

However, he had too many secrets, and most of his subordinates would not be sent to do those secret things.

Especially the Gazar branch families... For example, these few were obviously half-baked.

They were the kind who knew that their boss was not a good thing, but didn't know exactly what bad things he had done, but since there were benefits to be given, they would follow along as lackeys.

It was conceivable that such a living environment could not cultivate people with any insight at all.

Those benefits that these people were haggling over were things that Lowry couldn't even imagine... They were too worthless.

The conspiracies and tricks that Lowry had become accustomed to were completely unrelated to what these people were babbling about.

He really suffered a lot these past few days.

He really had no interest in picking out the only bits of listenable things from a pile of stories about who was having an affair with whom, and whose child was whose neighbor's.

Then, Lowry belatedly realized... he was able to be so bored and irritable without missing a single word.

Even the Lowry from four years ago couldn't do this.

Time was really a terrible thing.

Just realizing that he was indeed a real person, with only one life, and facing the so-called Great Era of Contention, he quickly matured.

If it had been before, when he had already decided to kill these people, Lowry would definitely not listen to those nonsense anymore.

However, Lowry, who really wanted to know what the Wealth Church was planning, still persisted this time.

The sense of crisis really made people grow easily.

Fortunately, even though these people were very careful, Lowry still found some traces from their words.

Including several Wealth Church camps that were only monitoring and had no intention of taking action at all, and the personnel from other churches who were silently observing these camps nearby.

None of these churches were good things.

Although no church other than the Wealth Church had taken the initiative to attack Ruth Kania's child, they had obviously made preparations to backstab each other.

Lowry turned around and went back into the house, quietly looking at the three-dimensional map on the desk that showed his entire territory, including the surrounding area.

Lowry had wanted to make this thing a long time ago.

He always remembered that in the famous Candlekeep Library in the Forgotten Realms, there was a vivid map of Waterdeep.

Not only could it zoom in and out to a specific address, but it could even observe who was in a certain building.

This required completely binding the entire map to the territory.

Ever since Lowry thought of this thing, he felt that he could do it too.

Especially since this world also had an awakening magic circle that could record the aura of his subordinates and people.

At most, he would just need to set up more magic circles in his territory. Did he lack these resources?

As the number of formal members of the knight order increased and their levels became higher and higher, he received many rewards!