Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

"Haha, Earl, we can discuss these topics later. Let's deal with these good lads first."

Li Wei chuckled, changing the subject, "Although these injuries are nothing to them, we can't just ignore them."

Indeed, in this small melee against a larger number of formal knights, these strong men's results were remarkable. Almost no one was lying on the ground, which greatly boosted the Lord's reputation.

But the opponents were not just any small fry. These formal knights, trained in Battle Qi, were definitely not weak, and there were more of them.

Some of the High Cliff Castle men were also badly beaten, and now they are basically standing there gritting their teeth.

"Indeed, Sir Li Wei's subordinates are among the best in Deber, and losing even one would be intolerable," Earl Luke said with deep sympathy.

These Centaur warriors and incredibly strong Orcish warriors are all famous and powerful races. Even more rare is that Earl Luke saw in them the qualities that determine whether a legion can become top-tier—discipline!

This quality is even more important than individual bravery.

Why can't those wilderness races, whose individual bravery far exceeds that of humans, occupy a place in this land? It is because they lack this most important thing.

The tip of the iceberg of strength that this Lion Hunter Knight revealed today let them know that the rumors were not all fabricated.

Even more exaggerated is that in a small, emerging pioneering territory, these racial warriors number nearly a thousand. Such a large number of elites have all honestly obeyed this High Cliff Castle Lord.

This Lion Hunter Knight is truly worth his weight in gold!

Even an Earl may not have this kind of military strength.

This made Earl Luke's eyes become more and more fervent.

Li Wei felt a little uncomfortable, feeling that this fat old man might have some personal hobbies. After all, his appearance does make it easy to attract both men and women.

He quickly waved goodbye, "Gentlemen, please forgive me, I still have some private matters to deal with. After I solve them, I will definitely have a long talk with you all night."

The two Earls were not annoyed. After this Lion Hunter Knight showed off his muscles, even if he was only a Baron, he was enough to win their favor.

They smiled and bid farewell, and agreed to have a few glasses of rum if they had the chance.

"Phew, Master, we almost caused a catastrophe this time."

Only then did Skye finally speak, watching the departing crowd.

When Fureena left just now, she gave him a special look, which made him tremble with fear.

"Pfft."

The Lord turned his head and couldn't help laughing out loud.

This middle-aged knight with a resolute face and a burly figure actually had a panda eye.

"Old Skye, you're a Grand Knight, how can you be worse than my group of fools?"

"Don't mention it. Don't think my Battle Qi cultivation is higher than these bastards, but without using Battle Qi, I'm only a little stronger than them. Two fists are no match for four hands, and I accidentally got hit."

Skye looked depressed, touched his eye socket, and immediately winced in pain.

Alas, what is all this…

"Let's go back first."

Li Wei waved his hand and didn't continue to tease him.

In any case, High Cliff Castle had affected this knight.

As soon as he entered the warm room, with worried eyes looking over, a pair of small hands groped all over the Lord.

"Li Wei, it's all my fault. If I hadn't acted first, this wouldn't have happened." Bai Ruisi Tina's eyes were a little red.

When she heard those people insulting Li Wei, she couldn't help but take action, but she didn't expect it to directly lead to a brawl.

"These little bastards need to be taught a lesson, otherwise they will really think High Cliff Castle is easy to bully." Li Wei touched the little girl's head, comforting her, "Besides, I'm fine."

"Then what about this…" Bai Ruisi Tina looked at the Lord's clothes, which seemed to have suffered an unimaginable vicious attack.

"I have to say, this group of knights is indeed different, much stronger than those wilderness bastards." Speaking of this, Li Wei gritted his teeth with anger, took the wool coat handed over by the Goatman maid and put it on to cover the linen shirt on his body that had become rags.

Just like no matter how many ants there are, they cannot shake a big tree, these knights are also not the Lord's opponents, but they are really strong enough, rushing forward one after another without fear of death, and finally at the cost of being bruised and swollen, they successfully tore Li Wei's… only underwear into rags, and the perfect body like a marble sculpture loomed.

"Bu ji, bu ji!"

The little thing also circled around Li Wei anxiously, finally puffing out her cheeks and constantly waving her small fists, as if to help the Lord take revenge.

"With your small arms and legs, I'm afraid you'll be finished as soon as you go up." Seeing this little thing, Li Wei's mood instantly improved a lot.

Then he asked her to help treat Skye next to him.

Facing her old father's instructions, she didn't hesitate. A ball of green light emerged from her small hand, and with a gentle wave, it went towards Skye's injured eye socket.

Skye only felt a burst of coolness in his hot eye socket, which was very comfortable. He quickly came to the mirror in the room, and the dark eye socket was visibly fading and returning to normal. He couldn't help but exclaim, "Master, your magical beast is too strong. This magical effect is almost catching up with those low-level clergy members."

The real world roughly follows a common sense, that is, among magical beasts, the larger the size often represents the more magic contained.

Just like a hamster-like magical beast generally has magic that is at most tricks like spraying water, while those huge magical beasts often have big fireballs and ground thorn techniques.

This magical beast is about the size of a hamster, but the healing magic it casts is so strong.

"Of course." Li Wei rubbed Bu Ji's little head, giving praise.

In fact, suffering from Bu Ji's inability to speak, Li Wei didn't know what magic she knew.

Currently, he only knows that she knows healing magic and a kind of magic that allows him to never return empty-handed.

The former was when he was wrestling with the barbarians in High Cliff Castle, and this little thing took the initiative to cast it to heal him before he learned about it.

The latter was purely when he was fishing, and he couldn't catch a single fish for a long time. Just as he was preparing to comfort himself that it wasn't his fishing skills that were bad, but that the fish in the river had all gone home for dinner, she flew over and waved her small hand, hey, and a fish instantly took the bait.

This made him both happy and depressed.

Skye, who had recovered, quickly said goodbye and left, presumably to report to Fureena.

"You did a good job today, that's what a real man is."

Li Wei patted Mir's shoulder, giving affirmation.

This kid was beaten a lot because he was the first to go up to protect Bai Ruisi Tina, and he also took a punch to the eye socket.

However, the result of these scars is that Bai Ruisi Tina was not injured at all.

"Hehe, brother-in-law, this is what I should do."

Mir scratched the back of his head, smiling foolishly.

This was one of the few times he was praised by the Lord, making him feel that this beating was worth it.

"The knight who beat you has been severely punished by me. If there is no advanced clergy member to heal him, he will probably have to wear that pig's head for a few months, enough to make him lose face."

Li Wei has always been very petty. It's already good that he didn't make the other party unable to get out of bed.

But this time he did remember the Earl named斯特, this person was obviously not dealing with him for some reason.

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It must be said that the Maple Leaf Lake Barony is very rich. Although the banquet hall is not as good as Corinne's Duke's Mansion, it can be called luxurious.

Candlesticks hung on the walls, bringing bright light to the entire hall.

Long tables were placed on the smooth gray wooden floor, covered with red tablecloths.

Maids shuttled between the long tables like butterflies, serving delicious dishes in silver plates one by one.

Grilled bread, fresh milk, pine steak… and Northern specialty honey pumpkin casserole and a plate of fresh strawberries.

It can be said that these foods are definitely not worse than what he ate in Corinne, which made Li Wei's index finger move.

In some ways, this is definitely a banquet that an emerging Baron can't afford, and is likely to be borne by Laurentina.

He came with an empty stomach, after all, the banquet is for eating, drinking and having fun, and it would be an understatement to take the opportunity to slaughter Fujero.

"Sir Li Wei, here."

As soon as he came in, a man smiled and waved.

Li Wei walked over, because this time it was not a simple banquet, he did not bring Bai Ruisi Tina and the others.

"Has Fujero not arrived yet?" Li Wei sat down next to Earl Andrew, who was in his prime.

As the nominal protagonist of this banquet, Li Wei did not see Fujero's figure, but other nobles had arrived one after another.

"Presumably he is still dealing with something," Earl Andrew said casually, and then took the initiative to pour a glass of fruit wine for the Lord.

This made Li Wei "feel flattered". Don't look at his reputation being too loud during this period, but in the final analysis, he is only a Baron, and this Andrew Tili is a real Earl.

He has his own fertile fief and castle, and at least tens of thousands of soldiers, which can be regarded as a powerful Earl.

The old Earl Luke, who was anxious to marry off his daughter, was about the same. The two of them had at least 30,000 soldiers under their command.

These are all insider news that Skye revealed to him privately.

"Earl, you are too polite. It stands to reason that I should do it."

In fact, one thing that Li Wei is very puzzled about is why this Earl favors him so much.

It's okay to write letters to show his favor. He has never met him before, but he took the initiative to speak for him, which is not entirely explained by wanting to get to know him, the famous Lion Hunter Knight.

"I guess you want to know why." Andrew slowly sipped a sip of fruit wine. These wines were heated, and the warm liquid gradually warmed his slightly cold body.

"I really want to know." Li Wei nodded curiously.

Although he has a loud reputation, he is far from reaching the point where an Earl treats him so politely.

Just take the fact that there are at least six or seven Earls present, but only two Earls have a good impression of him.

Earl Luke at least clearly wants to take him, the Lion Hunter Knight, as his son-in-law, but Li Wei doesn't know what kind of thoughts this Earl Andrew has.

"Two reasons, first, to be honest, I admire your feat of escorting a Duke's heir to the Northern Border alone." Andrew looked at the Lord, as if looking at a kindred spirit: "Because I was the same back then."

He didn't say much, but Li Wei seemed to have seen him experience the same thing.

"Then what about the second?"

Li Wei knew that the second one must be the most important.

After all, people often like to whet their appetites.

Not to mention, the first one can only make this Earl Andrew feel like he has met a confidant, but it has not reached the point of standing by the Lord for this reason.

"Sir Li Wei, can you find anything different in the banquet hall?" Andrew stretched out his finger and pointed, asking an unrelated question.

"What's different?"

Li Wei looked up and carefully looked around. At first, he didn't pay attention. After Andrew's reminder, he realized that the seats between the nobles in the banquet hall were very interesting.

About 70% of the nobles, led by those few Earls, were clearly gathered together.

And on their side, a group of small nobles were gathered with Andrew and Luke.

"Do you know that there have actually been two major factions within the Northern Border in recent years?" He said without waiting for Li Wei to answer.

"Earl Andrew, it is difficult for me to see the surface of the water with my status." Li Wei shook his head.

Don't look at him as a noble, but the information channels of an emerging pioneering noble and these old nobles are not comparable at all. He even knows a lot of internal news through Skye.

Now that he has come to the Northern Border for only a few months, he is completely ignorant of the upper class here, let alone the secrets involving factional struggles.

"Don't tell me, there are also usurpers in the Northern Border?" Li Wei asked suspiciously.

He made up his mind that if Andrew dared to nod, he would turn around and report to Fureena.

People who appear at this time and affect Fureena's status are definitely harmful to him, and must be nipped in the bud.

"Cough cough." The wine in Andrew's mouth almost sprayed out, and he said with a wry smile: "Sir, your imagination is more abundant than the authors of those knight novels. Our Duke Fureena eliminated all competitors to ascend to the throne. Where did the usurpers come from?"

"Which two factions are there?" Li Wei waved his hand and realized that he was thinking too much.

It seems that reality is not as dramatic as novels after all.

"One side is the conservatives, who still believe in the Ice and Snow Goddess, and attempt to keep the Northern Border in its current state. The other side is the reformers, who are more inclined to the Holy Light Church and hope that the Northern Border can develop better under the new rules."

"Uh…"

Speaking of this, if the Lord still doesn't understand, then his brain has really been eaten by goblins.

"Which faction do you and Earl Luke belong to?" However, based on the idea of ​​seeing is believing, he still asked.

"The Duke's faction." Andrew drank a sip of wine calmly, his face full of smiles.

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