Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

"By the way, what were you saying just now?"

Having dealt with this confidently arrogant drow, Li Wei turned his gaze to Heather beside him.

"It's nothing."

Heather released the hand she was holding, silently turned her body, which had just taken half a step, took a deep breath, and regained her composure.

Well, she admitted that she had overestimated this human enough, but she didn't expect what he did to still be so shocking.

This was a drow high priest proficient in spider transformation, who usually required at least a hundred drow warriors to barely deal with, but now she was as weak as a chick.

She was instantly killed with just one move...

"To be honest, I thought she was going to unleash some big move, so I waited with some anticipation for her transformation, but that was it?"

The lord came to the drow's body, looking at the beautiful headless corpse, seemingly lamenting the demise of a beautiful flower, shaking his head with a clucking sound.

"Drag her out and burn her, lest she uses some necromantic resurrection magic."

Li Wei waved his hand, and an orc barbarian immediately dragged the corpse away, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.

When dealing with a priest proficient in spells, one can never be too careful, after all, she could even control spider transformation, so it's hard to say what other obscure spells she might know.

"Madam Flynna, I presume that Fugero has many things to report to you, and Queen Ashe, your warriors need a leader at this time."

Li Wei turned his gaze to the two outsiders in the tent, although his face was full of smiles, his intention to send them away was obvious.

This Highcliff Castle lord definitely had some little secrets, but Flynna didn't delve too deeply, everyone has secrets, and if she had to investigate everything, she wouldn't be able to do anything else.

The elven queen was not too familiar with this Highcliff Castle lord, not to mention he had brought troops to support them, so she didn't have any intention of probing.

The two bid farewell and left the tent.

"Clear the area!" Li Wei snapped his fingers crisply.

At a crucial moment, Zart could also distinguish the importance of the matter, clicked his heels together, gave a salute, and immediately turned and ran away.

A moment later, fully armed Highcliff Castle warriors ran over in droves, surrounding the tent three layers deep, trying to prevent even a fly from entering.

Fede archers began to occupy the high ground, drawing their bows and nocking arrows, their sharp eyes like eagle eyes scanning all directions, a snow bird that had just flown overhead was instantly shot down, spinning as it fell.

Following closely were the hobgoblin squads that had just joined Highcliff Castle, patrolling around like the wind, their iron hooves thundering as they landed.

In just under ten ounces of time, the initial chaotic sounds of assembly had disappeared.

Land Goblin Layton looked at all this, sincerely sighing: "Lord, your subordinates are truly too elite, only now do I finally understand what humans mean by 'orders are carried out without fail'."

"Your group of centaurs is not bad either, at least they are much stronger than other wildlings." Li Wei also glanced at the surrounding centaurs with some surprise.

Although they couldn't be said to be carrying out orders without fail, they at least had the beginnings of a qualified army.

"I once bought basic military books from human merchant caravans." Layton said with some regret: "Later I wanted to buy some more advanced ones, but they refused to sell them no matter what."

Although it had awakened its past life's wisdom, its intelligence far surpassed its own kind, but this didn't mean it was omniscient and omnipotent, awakening its past life's wisdom only raised its lower limit, its upper limit still needed to be learned and supplemented.

Li Wei didn't expect this land goblin to be so studious, which changed his impression of it quite a bit, after all, he, Lord Li, was the only one in Highcliff Castle who was studious and burning the midnight oil.

"This is normal, the Duke of the North has always been extremely strict in controlling the wilderness, although it has relaxed a lot in recent years, ironware and books containing important knowledge are strictly forbidden from circulating into the wilderness."

"When we return to Highcliff Castle, you can read whatever you want."

"Thank you, Lord." Layton's face showed a hint of surprise, and he gave a very respectful salute.

The lord nodded, then stepped into the tent and sat down in the main seat with a golden horse and a big knife: "Now let's talk business."

Looking up, from left to right in the tent were Sam, Gus, Layton, and Heather, who had just joined Highcliff Castle.

As for Zart and Meer, they were standing on his left and right with their heads held high and chests out, acting as his two henchmen.

As for the other three drow priests, they were currently being held in the elven tribe and had not been brought over.

Li Wei looked at Heather, "I heard from Gus and the others that you used the Primal Blood Crystal to unite the leaders of these wilderness tribes."

This was also the reason why Li Wei cleared the area, he was the only one who knew about the Primal Blood Crystal, whether it was Fugero, Skye, or Flynna, they were all kept in the dark.

Before they could interrogate the news from other prisoners, he only needed to seize the Primal Blood Crystal first, and even if they found out afterward, they could only sigh in vain.

After all, everyone knows the principle of first come, first served.

He had scanned the drow elf a few times just now, with that little bit of cloth, let alone hiding the Primal Blood Crystal, it was practically see-through.

As for things like spatial rings, there was even less of that.

Although spatial equipment does exist in this world, it is very rare, not everyone can have it.

Almost everyone knew that Li Wei had spatial equipment, and he didn't deliberately hide it.

If there were any fools who dared to covet his spatial equipment, the lord didn't mind letting them understand what a sting operation was.

This question caused not only the lord, but also Gus and Zart to look over with fiery gazes.

The former had come here for the Primal Blood Crystal, as for the latter, after interrogating the Primal Blood Crystal from the pig-headed man, Zart had been constantly thinking about it.

Now its strength growth had begun to enter a plateau period, it really wanted to improve.

Therefore, it had to turn its attention to other external objects that could improve its strength, preparing to advance side by side with the "Gift of the God of War".

"Actually..." Heather, who wanted to say something, looked at the hopeful people and could only say cautiously: "If you are talking about this Primal Blood Crystal, we do have it."

She got up and took the initiative to come to a corner of the tent, took out a blood-red crystal from a wooden box.

This tent was occupied by Ilya alone, her things were placed inside, they were all in cahoots regarding the Primal Blood Crystal, so they knew where it was placed.

Gus's heart couldn't help but beat violently, his eyes fixed on this red crystal.

It had never thought that the thing it had always longed for would one day be so close to it.

The lord walked forward, took it in his hand and looked at it for a few seconds, then shook his head and laughed, throwing it to Gus like throwing garbage.

This scared the burly centaur, who hurriedly caught it as if it were a treasure, then couldn't help but glance at the lord resentfully.

How rich is he, he really doesn't treat treasures as treasures, does he?

Gus had always heard that the humans in the south were so rich that they used food to feed pigs, while its tribe was still worried about food, and today it finally saw it.

"This is not right, when we first saw this Primal Blood Crystal, we could clearly feel the blood boiling, and the effect of improving bloodlines was almost the same."

Layton approached and observed for a while, frowning, now this blood crystal looked no different from an ordinary red crystal to it.

"Are you saying like this?" Heather smiled mysteriously, and a subtle light instantly fell on everyone.

In the next moment, everyone felt hot all over, with a feeling of blood boiling.

"This is a castrated version of the Bloodthirst Technique, it only gives people the feeling of blood boiling, so there are almost no traces of spellcasting."

Looking at the stunned centaur and land goblin, Heather explained.

Zart smacked his lips, feeling a little regretful, he didn't expect it to be a fake.

"Hahaha, this wilderness coalition was actually tricked empty-handed, tens of thousands of people fought until their brains were gone for a red crystal that is everywhere."

The lord slapped his thigh, laughing until tears almost came out.

It was really hard to imagine that this war was actually fought over a red crystal worth at most a few gold coins.

If this was known by those historians, they would definitely record this battle that shamed the wildlings in the annals of history for thousands of years, enough to make them unable to hold their heads up for decades.

"Damn it!"

Gus also understood, smashed the crystal in his hand hard on the ground and shattered it into pieces, roaring like thunder.

Just for this thing, it lost hundreds of the bravest warriors of the tribe here, and now it has become someone else's subordinate, how could it not be angry?

It only hated that it didn't give the dead Enke a few more knives, it was this minotaur who found it in the first place, vowing that there was a Primal Blood Crystal.

"Then what about Enke? If it didn't take the Primal Blood Crystal, why would it be so loyal to you, and even actively help you confirm the existence of the Primal Blood Crystal?"

Although Layton was also a little disappointed, it was still okay, he asked.

In fact, the reason why they were so convinced of the existence of the Primal Blood Crystal was because of Enke, a local wildling, otherwise how could they believe the words of a group of drow elves?

"Its cub got sick, and only we could cure it, and it just happened to be a qualified father." Heather smiled ambiguously, without continuing to say, but everyone knew what happened next.

"Isn't it your fault that its cub is sick?" The lord remained skeptical about this.

After all, how could there be such a coincidence in the world, everything just happened to coincide.

"Lord, your wisdom is as vast as the sea." Heather took the opportunity to compliment.

"Okay, all the wildlings have been played around by you drow, you really deserve the title of deceivers." Li Wei's words were neither demeaning nor praising, but Heather naturally took it as praise.

Things were clear, this was a huge scam, deceiving tens of thousands of people to fight to the death here, fighting until their brains were gone.

And these drow were sitting on the sidelines reaping the benefits.

If it wasn't for him turning the tide, these elves from the Underdark would have really succeeded.

Having solved the scam of the Primal Blood Crystal, Li Wei waved his hand, and the tense alert disappeared in the blink of an eye, Zart took people to distribute the spoils of war again.

It is said that the weather in summer is unpredictable, but in the lord's opinion, winter is no less, it was obviously snowing heavily last night, but today it is a sunny day.

It's just that this meager warmth can only give people a little psychological comfort, and can't melt the accumulated snow on the ground at all.

Having successfully solved the wilderness coalition, the elves of the Wind Whisper tribe did not show joy on their faces, but instead each had a sad expression.

They can be said to have suffered heavy casualties in this war, and those familiar companions will never be able to get up again in this snow.

"Lord, we have arranged a suitable place for you to rest, although those tree houses may be a bit short for your subordinates, but if it's just for rest, it's definitely enough." An elf forced a smile on his face.

The lord didn't mind, after all, they had just lost many people, it was already good enough that their tone was kind, it was difficult to ask the other party to greet them with a smile.

Lord Li Wei directly led people to the camp allocated to them, this war had been fought for half a month, whether mentally or physically, everyone except him felt tired to varying degrees.

They needed a good place to rest well.

"Brother-in-law, we lost more than eighty people in this war, sixty of whom were logistics auxiliaries, most of whom were lost in the Shadow Forest, and the other twenty were Highcliff Castle warriors."

Meer followed him, reporting the situation in all aspects.

"Give some compensation to the families of those sixty auxiliaries, if they don't have any, then forget it, Highcliff Castle is responsible for supporting the families of those twenty Highcliff Castle warriors, if there are children, focus on cultivating them..."

Li Wei sighed, and then carefully instructed the matters.

Don't look at the fact that Highcliff Castle only lost double digits compared to the Thorn Legion and Wind Whisper elves who lost thousands of people.

But you must know that Highcliff Castle only has six or seven hundred people including cooks and auxiliaries, and these losses have reached one-tenth.

Li Wei even remembered the name of each of those fallen Highcliff Castle warriors, but now they have fallen to the ground forever.

All he can do is treat his relatives and descendants well.

The elven tribe provided rich food for the allied warriors, roast pork, wine, various fruits, it can be seen that they are quite rich,

Li Wei walked into the spacious castle, sat down with a thud, picked up a lamb leg, and began to feast.

While eating, he nodded, the elves deserve to be perfectionists, they strive to make everything perfect.

The lamb leg in his hand was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, almost no spices were added to cover up the mutton smell, but one bite only had the most simple and mellow meat fragrance, which was the best thing he had eaten in this battle.

"Sir Li Wei, thank you for extending your hand and pulling us back from the brink of hell."

Ashe got up and took the initiative to express her gratitude.

"It's nothing, I think no one can sit idly by and watch the peace-loving and beautiful elves disappear from the world."

Li Wei wiped his mouth and nodded slightly.