Transcendent Noble

"Master Nicole, I can't change food!" Faced with the aggressive family Dame, Blackburg Clerk Max argued hard.

Nicole’s bright apricot’s eyes flashed dangerous cold light, and he said coldly to Max: “I’ve been to the warehouse and it’s full of grain. If you dare to say that those are not grain, I’ll fight Lose your mouthful teeth."

Nicole’s hands are very beautiful, ten fingers are beautiful, white and smooth, but Max knows that these tender hands that can pinch water can easily bend the lance created by iron essence. He also knew that Nicole was not joking. Max swallowed hard, and said: "There are 12 million pounds of food stored in the warehouse, but we have no food to give to Viscount Victor’s citizens, not a single one!"

"So Saying that you are deliberately embarrassing Victor?! Who gave you the courage?"

Nicole is really angry. Victor’s rock brick technology is very important to the family. This is the consensus of the top of the family. Brick is too sensitive. If it weren't for the right time, she would never know the reason for it. A middle-level man like Max knew even a little bit of inside information. Nicole didn't believe that Max dared to make things difficult for Victor's leaders. He must have been instructed by a certain senior to do so. This kind of abandon one's benefactor after achieving one's goal made Nicole very angry.

Max shook his head and said, "Master Nicole, forgive me to speak bluntly, you are a noble and powerful Knight, but you don’t understand the family’s internal affairs. The family is already in a food shortage."

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"12 million pounds of grain, of which 6 million pounds of seeds must never be used. What we can use is the remaining 6 million pounds. But please note that the current population of Black Castle Town is 120,000 , These people’s daily ration is 200,000 pounds, and our food is only enough for 30 days."

"Yes, you heard that right, it’s not 300 days, not 100 days, but 30 days of trifling. As a family Knight, you probably don’t know that our servants in charge of internal affairs have already started to eat brown bread that is eaten by untouchables. This kind of crude food is made with flour made from rye and wheat bran. To be honest, I The first thing to eat this thing is to believe that the Seymour Street homicide is true."

The Seymour Street homicide, a perverted cook killed five poor wandering children, the nobles talked about it. Not the case itself, but the murder weapon used by the cook was actually black bread. Now, half of a brick-like brown bread on the table is more convincing than anything else. Nicole's imposing manner of overbearing has disappeared without a trace.

Nicole said uneasily: "Has the family been struggling to this degree?"

"The difficulty is yet to come. We have no food harvest this year, and we have to feed 120,000 people. , The caravan no longer comes to Black Castle Town. Fortunately, our neighbors are still supporting us, but they have also suffered disasters. We need to rely on the kingdom’s assistance for the next three years, but please trust my judgment, Royal Family will not let us Fully eaten." Max said sincerely.

Nicole was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "You are lying to me! The family has been providing food to Victor's people, can't you even squeeze out the ration for 20 days?"

Seeing that Dame was showing signs of rampage, Max quickly said: "That is different. We can provide food to those who stay in Black Castle Town, but we will never provide dry food to those who try to leave. The reality is like this. Those who are willing to stay, no matter how difficult it is, we still have to give them a bite of food, and whether those who are leaving have anything to eat, what does it matter to us?"

The York family needs enough labor to build the fortress. Farming and grazing, and those farmers who are left behind are not fools. Centaur Hills has become a pioneer. Whoever wants to suffer here will find ways to leave Black Castle Town. Only by firmly controlling the food can they stop this behavior. . This was originally the strategy of the York family: we are already very difficult, only those who join us will have food to eat, and those who are unwilling to join, please find a way out. The church acquiesced to the practice of the York family, and the lords in the western part of the kingdom would not accept these refugees. However, Nicole did not give up.

"Don’t want to fool me! The family wants to gather refugees who have nowhere to go, and Viscount Victor’s leaders are not refugees who are not taken in. You don’t know the relationship between Victor and the family. Right?"

Max said firmly: "That's not okay! Once this kind of thing spreads, there will be rogues inciting fools to go to church to trouble us. They don't care about the relationship between Lord Victor and the family. . I will never agree!"

Speaking, Max said cautiously: "Master Nicole, you must not forget your position and identity. If, Master Victor makes a request to the family , I will definitely arrange it for him. This is the favor of the nobles. But do you think that the nobles will use the favors for this kind of things? After all, those leaders are just lower-class people. And, among them, there are martial skills. It’s not difficult for a skilled guard to find something to eat in the wild. Of course, I will arrange for Mrs. Lilia a carriage and food commensurate with her identity, which is enough to preserve the decentness of Lord Victor."

Nicole I was convinced that she was a Knight after all, and she was born with an insurmountable gap with the lower-class people. If it wasn't for Victor, Nicole wouldn't care about this kind of thing at all.

"Return the horses and ox carts to them. Those are the property of Victor." Nicole lightly said.

"As you wish."

When Nicole's slender figure disappears outside the door, Max relaxed, if he just refuses Nicole's request, he will definitely be beaten injured badly with many teeth knocked out.

Outside the Black Fort, Nicole saw Lilia, and she said guiltily: "Lilia, I’m sorry. The family’s food is really not enough, I only get horses and ox carts back for Victor."

"This is really good! As long as you can bring these horses and cattle back to Victor, you will be very happy, thank you, Nicole elder sister. We will take care of the food by ourselves." Lilia was overjoyed.

Nicole took Lilia's hand and stopped talking, but finally only exhorted, "Be careful on the road."

"Well, I will."

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The mountain breeze of hu hu blew over Victor's body, giving him the illusion that he could fly at any time.

Victor's whole body is covered with azure black armor, and the surface of the armor is glowing with faint cold light, mysterious and cold, just like Knight from the netherworld. Victor didn't expect that the double silver full body armor made by Ant-Man Carapace would be so light that the overall weight did not exceed 16kg. Although the weight is light, the strength of this armor is surprisingly high. At the beginning, Gillian tried her best and did not cut off the body of the Ant-Man leader. This is enough to show the strength of the Ant-Man carapace. Even more how this armor is also fused with precious thorium. Now, it can resist the military heavy crossbow head-on. Shooting. Victor believes that with this armor, ordinary Knight has already used him.

All the attributes of this armor are far surpasses the original double-silver leather armor. Victor regrets that the double-silver leather armor has been eliminated before the heat. But in terms of appearance, the double silver leather armor is obviously in line with most people's aesthetics, and the ant-man armor reveals the smell of cold blooded and emotionless. For example, the Renault next to his body is wearing this armor, holding a 2.5-meter iron essence in his hand. The long sword, just standing will cause a lot of pressure on the ordinary person. Of course, the armor on his body is only Thorium equipment.

Victor is not paying attention to the new armor on his body now, but likes to patrol his castle.

This 30-meter-high hill castle covers an area of ​​25 acres and has 6 floors. It has 27 rooms, 4 basements, and 4 towers. There is a barracks and a blacksmith shop in the inner courtyard of the castle. , 8 acres of vegetable land and a small garden.

The part of the city wall close to the ground is 2 meters thick, and the thickness of the tower has reached 4 meters, and the thickness becomes smaller as it goes up. Each wall of the castle is composed of three layers. The inner and outer walls are carefully connected with rock bricks, and mortar is applied to make them very strong. The space between the inner and outer walls is filled with pebbles, gravel and mortar.

Four 38-meter-high towers are built on the four corners of the castle. They can house heavy crossbows and small catapults. These campaign-level weapons cannot deal with powerful individuals, but can easily destroy the enemy’s Siege equipment and dense rear array.

A narrow and long breast wall is built on the 30-meter-high city wall. The breast wall is composed of different parts of different heights. There are slender openings in the high stack wall, which are used as shooting holes for bows and arrows. Once Ant-Man attacks the city, Two hundred monkey militias can use the breast wall to let them taste the taste of longbow and hard crossbow.

"Is it okay if there is no water source in the castle?" There is no spring on this hill. The consequences of long-term siege will be disastrous. Victor is deeply worried about this.

Buso pointed to a large cistern on the roof and replied: "My lord, this place is backed by Great Swamp. The air is very humid. We set up many iron essence pipes on the roof to collect dew every day. It will flow into the reservoir under the roof along the iron essence pipe. You don’t have to worry about the water supply of the castle."

Victor found that the reservoir was three meters high and was covered with a shed to prevent water in the pool. Contaminated by bird droppings. And there are many iron essence pipes connected to the bottom of the pool, and these iron essence pipes are directly led into the building below for people to use. Victor couldn't help but get excited, isn't this just tap water?

"Buso, what I told you, what else you don't know?" Victor said with emotion.

Buso thought for a while and said, "My lord, I don't know how to grow the crops here."

Victor was speechless. Homunculus class loaded with planting skills will not grow crops. That's because the crops here are not Alchemy Empire crops. It's like a modern farmer back in ancient times. There is no fertilizer, no pesticides, no hybrid rice, and he can't grow a thousand catties per mu. In addition to the completely different types of crops in Alchemy Empire, the mithril array and alchemy fertilizer are also used. Buso really doesn't grow crops here. This is the fault of civilization. In fact, many of the techniques that Buso has mastered cannot be realized, and most of them involve alchemy rune.

"My lord, the Golden Crow, the crow found Nelson Captain and they are about to enter the territory." An alchemy militia came to report.

"I see." Victor nodded asked again: "Buso, is the plough that I want you to build ready?"

"It's ready."

"Dig me out all the potatoes in the field, and I want to take them away."