Transcendent Noble

Compared with other intelligent races in this world, human beings are not the strongest, and their reproductive ability is not the strongest. Wisdom and lifespan are also not the strongest, and the reason why humans can build themselves What the kingdom depends on is the ability to build cities.

The tall and strong walls, castles, and fortresses protect humans from other powerful races, allowing humans to multiply and grow behind these fortifications, thus creating a brilliant civilization.

If Knight is the core of mankind’s pioneering territory, then the castle is the core of man’s control of territory. Therefore, building a castle on the territory gradually became a prerequisite for the lords in the last ages to control the territory and declare sovereignty to the outside.

Gambis Kingdom follows this tradition. The Kingdom Development Decree stipulates that only when the pioneer lords build a castle on the cultivated land, the kingdom will recognize the landlord’s legal ownership of the land, and according to the lord’s title, the kingdom will The specifications of the castle have clear requirements.

The cost of the castle is very high. The castle that Sophia built for Victor in the pioneering collar cost 70,000 jinsore. Unfortunately, Victor was captured by the blood fox bandit on the way before he even stepped into the castle.

The York family used this territory to sign a replacement agreement with Victor. The premise is that they must also build a castle on this territory, otherwise the replacement agreement is invalid, because without a castle, there is no sovereignty.

The castle in front of Victor is in full accordance with the requirements of Gambis Kingdom. It consists of fortresses, walls, arrow towers, trenches, suspension bridges, and gates. The castle is built with very strong limestone, which can at least resist the silver Knight. s attack.

But Wei Meow is only 6 meters tall?

The height of 6 meters is actually as high as a two-story building, which means that the small courtyard of a two-story farmhouse on the castle equivalent to Earth is just like a European ancient city fort.

Looking at this mini-castle and the stunned leaders, Victor's heart is broken at this moment.

The black castle of the York family can hold 5000 people at the same time, the castle of Eskry can also hold 500 people, and the one in front of Victor can hold 20 people. . . . . .

This is a fake project! This is a deceptive project between the great local nobles and the great nobles of the royal capital. It is extremely bad in nature, and is a fraud project aimed at the Elder's Council and the victims! Victor was madly complaining in his heart, but there were people on it.

Glanced bitterly at the York family who were pretending to be deaf and dumb, Victor said to the onlookers: "Everyone has seen the castle, and it seems that it can’t live anymore, so we still To find a suitable camp, we need to build a strong camp in the next few days and settle down temporarily."

Only when the voice fell, Victor heard some people muttering in the crowd.

"What's the difference between this and the freedmen?"

Indeed, without the protection of castles and walls, these ordinary persons can't sleep at ease at night.

Victor can only pretend that he has not heard, and is planning to arrange manpower to find the camp.

"Victor, I know a suitable place to camp." Nicole stammering walked up to Victor and said in a low voice.

Seeing Victor with a stern face and nothing to say, Nicole had to continue: "From here to Southwest, another half day away, there is a very suitable place to build a camp." Said female trainee Knight. Also took out a parchment map.

Victor thought about it again, and suddenly understood that the York family had surveyed here and drawn a map, and Sylvia must have given it to Nicole in advance and told her to do so.

Looking at Nicole looking like she was about to cry, Victor softened his heart, took the map and patted her little hand comforted: "It's okay, it's not your fault."

However, when he thinks of Sylvia, Victor hates gnash the teeth, he secretly makes up his mind that if he has a chance in the future, he must clean her up.

Victor did not delay, leading everyone to the location of the campsite marked on the map.

It may be that the family's approach is indeed unkind. Bruce uncharacteristically led his subordinates to open the road ahead. The road is calm and tranquil, without any surprises or dangers.

Wait to the destination, Victor observed the terrain and was very satisfied with the campsite marked by the York family.

This is a hill that is four more than a hundred meters high. Although this hill is not high, it has a large area. Unlike other hills, this hill is gentle on one side and steep on three sides. The gentle slope is also very peculiar. The entire slope is relatively narrow and it can barely pass through two carriages. On both sides of the ramp are steep slopes. If you don't use some tools, the ordinary person cannot stand firmly.

When they walked up the mountainside, people were pleasantly surprised to find that there was a flat area here.

Victor looked at it visually. This flat land was 1.5 square kilometers long, and then looked back at the narrow and curved ramp. He immediately understood what it means to be one man, but one man is not open. This is indeed a natural camp that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

And Edwin scholar on the side said: "This is not like a naturally formed flat land, it should have been artificially rebuilt."

"We also think it was artificially rebuilt. A year ago, the family’s guard found many small huts on this flat ground. This should be a gathering place for halflings. Unfortunately, the contents of the huts were emptied. Later, our people took those huts. It was demolished." Bruce confirmed the old scholar's conjecture.

"The halfling village?! God, what did you guys do?" Edwin rolled his eyes angrily after hearing that the York family had razed the halfling village. A few beards.

Halflings are a rare intelligent race. They are short in stature. Adult halflings are only 120 cm tall, slightly shorter than dwarves, but they are not as thick and fat as dwarves, but are similar to humans. It is equally well-proportioned, like a shrunken human.

Halflings do not have strong power and are not good at fighting. In order to survive, they often depend on some powerful races, such as forest people.

Halflings are very dexterous. They are good at making various tools and building various equipment. This ability is particularly useful for the less dexterous forest people, so the forest people and horse tribes welcome halflings to join them. , Spare no effort to protect the halfling. In return, the halfling also helped the forest people build equipment, maintain weapons, and provide medical care to injured forest people. This close cooperation has allowed the two races to form a solid symbiotic relationship.

There are also rumors that halflings are very good at cooking. The food they cook is unique and very delicious. Many human nobles hope to get a halfling's cooking secret.

Victor felt that this might be the reason Edwin became angry.

"My lord, the front is a bit weird. We didn't find any traces of goblins, kobolds, or jackals. Instead, we found some human footprints, probably from two days ago."

Just when Edwin was heartbroken, Nelson walked over and reported their findings to Victor.

"It should be some free people, these lowly refugees may want to come here to establish a camp." Hearing what Nelson reported, Bruce said somewhat cold and severe.

"The refugees? How did they survive on this land?" Victor was a little surprised. Without the protection of powerful martial power, it is difficult for free people to survive in the wild.

"A year ago, the family’s guards cleaned up the monsters on this territory. At that time, they discovered that there were some free men operating on this territory, but the soldiers did not care about them. Ours After people built the castle, they left this temporary residence. The refugees probably saw no one to take over here for so long, and might have moved their minds to camp here." When it came to the castle, Bruce looked a little embarrassed. Explained.

The York family built the mini castle here a year ago. It seems that Sylvia should be purely for enclosing the land at the time, rather than deliberately set up a trap for herself. Victor felt a little more relaxed when he thought of this.

"The problem of the refugees can be solved in a few days. There is still a small flat area on it, and there is a very wonderful place there. Now I can take you to see it." Bruce is somewhat mysterious. Said to everyone.

Follow Bruce and walked up a section of the road. Everyone saw a flat land with an area of ​​about 0.7 square kilometers. On the mountain wall close to the flat land, there was a tall one. Hole.

Bruce took the torch and took his trainee Knight into the cave first, and Victor and Edwin followed under the escorts of Nelson and Nicole.

The opening of this cave is not big, but the inside is very spacious. The strange thing is that the air in the cave is very smooth, and there is no feeling of boredom inside, and the temperature is also very moderate, not as cold as outside.

There are obvious traces of excavation in the cave, the ground is flat, and the stone wall of the cave has a seat for torch.

A trainee Knight inserted the lit torch on these seats one by one. Under the reflection of the fire, the whole cave gradually became clear.

"This is a natural cave, but it has obviously been transformed by halflings. Look at the steps on the ground. These steps are lower and narrower for us, plus These seats placed on the stone wall all show that this is a halfling storage room, but unfortunately there is nothing left in it." Edwin gestured with his hands to the torch seat that was only as high as his chest. It was a little regrettable. Said.

"But these halflings are very clever. They cut a few wind holes on the mountain wall to keep the cave ventilated. If they seal the mouth of the cave, the whole cave becomes their defense The foreign enemy’s castle, but for us humans, it’s still a bit smaller here, with up to 40 people hidden."

"Master, there is a smaller cave inside." Bruce said to Edwin scholar, and said Take everyone into a corridor that is only 3 meters long.

Passing through this tunnel, everyone came again to a spacious place, the same level ground as the previous one, the digging eye, the torch seat on the stone wall, the difference is that the ground here There is actually a spring.

The clear spring water flows into a three-meter-square pond, and the water flowing out of the pond flows continuously along a ditch through a dug hole and flows out of the entire stone wall, flowing all the way to the cave Outside.

"This is really great!" Seeing this scene, Nelson, who was originally worried about how to solve the water in the camp, couldn't help but admire.

"This spring water is constant all year round, enough to supply the needs of the entire camp, but I don't know what this table is for?" Bruce patted a stone platform the size of a table next to the pool.

"There is a pattern carved on it. It should be an altar for a halfling." Edwin looked at the stone platform carefully with the light of the torch.

Just as everyone was amazed at this wonderful scene, Nicole found that Victor was a bit on the verge of collapse, and quickly stepped forward to support him.

"Victor, what about you?" Nicole asked worriedly, seeing Victor's pale face.

"It's okay, I just feel a little tired. I want to rest here for a while." Victor grinned reluctantly at Nicole, then he fell back after speaking.

Before Victor lost consciousness, several Chinese characters flashed in his mind.

"The new hardware is activating!"