Transcendent Noble

In the upper camp, a dozen Golden Crow crows are undulating in a clearing. They are enjoying delicious food, chopped fresh meat and plump wheat grains.

The guards in the camp are not surprised at this. Now everyone knows that this big bird named Dust Falcon is a pet domesticated by fief lord and very useful.

In the Victor collar, bodyguards can easily use Dust Falcon. When the guard squad goes out on patrol, he will bring a Dust Falcon with him. If you need to send a message to the camp, just point to the Dust Falcon and make a special gesture, and the Dust Falcon will fly back to the camp with letter paper. After completing the mission, the Dust Falcon will fly back to the patrol team. It can remember the direction and smell. This is much more flexible than the Red-Eyed Crow. Dust Falcon has become the favorite partner of bodyguards.

Victor scattered the golden wheat grains on the ground, and led the Golden Crows to fight for a while. Looking at these energetic birds, Victor couldn't help smiling.

Victor currently has 8 alchemy militias, 19 alchemy assistants, 25 alchemy Golden Crow crows, and 5 alchemy war mastiffs. The remaining funds in Alchemy Tower are left with 3350 gold Thor. In Victor's view, Golden Crow is the most cost-effective alchemy unit. It is these Golden Crow crows that allow his commands to be passed to every guard squad within tens of minutes, to maintain unobstructed contact with various villages, and to help him monitor the border areas of his territory to prevent unknowable threats. .

Alchemy Mastiffs are the lowest cost-effective units. Although they are powerful and smart, they have obvious limitations. The first is that their size is too conspicuous. Secondly, their main weapon is 8-10 cm long fangs, which can be used to deal with small and medium targets, but it is difficult to one strike certain kill when dealing with large targets. Canines usually eat their prey when they catch it, and that's why. The most important thing is that the alchemy war mastiff has 800 gold sols per each, lifespan for four years, and an average of 200 gold sols per year, which is the most expensive of all alchemy creatures. Therefore, Victor is unwilling to produce more war mastiffs.

Sprinkled the last handful of wheat grains, Victor patted his hands and walked to his office. When he walked into the room, Lilia and Nelson were marveling at the huge bear skin. They had been watching for half an hour.

Seeing Victor coming in, Nelson asked excitedly: "My lord, it's unbelievable. A fierce bear was shot so easily, how did they do it?"

When Victor asked Nelson to identify this bear skin, Nelson couldn't believe his eyes. Only a fierce bear has such a huge bear skin. Then he checked it again. I found that bearskin is very tenacious, blades and swords find it difficult to cut, it can be confirmed that this is a fierce bear skin.

Violent animals are extremely difficult to hunt. Not only are they extremely fast, but they also have excellent endurance. The most important thing is that ferocious animals are very keen and can almost avoid most traps. For such a ferocious giant bear, Nelson admits that he is not its opponent, and ordinary crossbows can't even shoot through its thick skin. Now, the invincible rare beast has been shot and even its skin has become spoils of war.

Nelson knew that Victor had a secret force under his command. It was these people who went to perform mountain patrol missions. Not only did they expect them to complete the mission, they also hunted down a violent giant bear.

Victor stroked the oily thick bear skin, and said casually: "They are just good luck. This giant bear is mating with a female bear and happened to be hit by it."

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Although Victor concealed something, the nature is the same. Anyway, he died for the she-bear.

"Nelson, I don't know much about ferocious animal leather. How much do you think this leather can sell?" Victor asked with a smile.

Nelson touched the bear skin reluctantly, and said, "My lord, leather is relatively cheap in the Kingdom of Dodo, but such a complete, ferocious giant bear skin must be sold at least. 10,000 Kinsoul, after all, the leather of ferocious animals is very rare. As for what price Gambis can sell, I don’t know."

"So much money?"

Victor I was taken aback by this price. 10,000 Jinsor was a huge sum of money. With this money, at least 8 alchemy militias could be produced.

"No sale, this bear skin can make a leather armor for Victor." Lilia quickly objected.

Victor was touched by Lilia’s thoughtfulness. With his current physique, he can be equipped with lock armor, but it will affect flexibility and speed to some extent. Therefore, Victor still chooses leather armor. The fierce bear skin is just to make top leather. Excellent material for armor. However, for Victor, money is now the most important.

Victor shook his head and said: "Bear skins must be sold, because we are about to expand the guards."

Nelson eyes shined, said with a smile: "My lord , Is this true?"

"Victor, no! Now that there is not enough manpower in the territory, how can we expand the guard at this time?" Lilia ignored Nelson's wink and said to Victor.

Victor lightly knocked on the table, he decided to expand the guard after careful consideration.

Currently, the internal planning of the territory has been on the right track, and diplomatic relations have formed an interest alliance with the York family. The secret agent of York's house also evacuated. Victor also provided several advanced design drawings to the York family for this purpose. Fortunately, these design drawings are not sensitive technology, and it doesn't matter if they are leaked. Most importantly, Victor must keep the homunculus secret. If the agents of the York family are allowed to continue activities in the territory, it is difficult to guarantee that the dull homunculus will not be exposed to them in front of one's eyes.

Victor wrote a letter to Sylvia, fabricated the source of these technologies, and shamelessly threw the pot on Sophia's head, just to conceal the existence of homunculus. Victor believes that Sylvia will not doubt that the content of the letter is the most reasonable explanation. Even if there are loopholes, Sylvia will fill it in according to his own logic. No matter how smart people are, they can't doubt what they don't know. Alchemy creatures are things that the York family don't know.

Now that the nail has been pulled out, Victor can feel confident and boldly enrich his strength. 1st Step is to recruit more people.

Victor pondered for a while and said, "I remember, Master Edwin said that without sufficient strength, we cannot control more people. Therefore, we want to recruit more people. , We must first expand our armed forces, even more how our territory is particularly large, and we need more soldiers to control it."

The hereditary Baron collar has an area of ​​about 5,000 square kilometers and a population of about 10,000. Baron's full-time guard generally does not exceed 300 people, there are 1-3 Knights, and about 10 trainee Knights. Victor has an area of ​​12,000 square kilometers, a full population of more than 2,000, 100 guards, Nelson who is comparable to Knight, 8 alchemy assistants, and 5 alchemy war mastiffs. Although Victor does not have Knight, Victor's high-end martial power is not weaker than ordinary Baron. Thorium's heavy crossbow allows Victor to compete with Knight. The heavy crossbow can easily shoot violent bears, so shooting ordinary Knights is nothing difficult. The problem now is that Victor's territory is too large, and he is also planning to mine iron essence and oilwood in the mountainous area far from the center of the territory, so more guards are needed.

Nelson was nodded again and again, and he was deeply impressed by Fief Lord's decision. Linda has complained to him more than once that the security team has too few manpower and has asked for the transfer of his guards. Nelson had a headache, the bodyguards needed too much patrol, and they had to send someone to act as a coachman.

Lilia also nodded and said: "We really need to expand the soldiers, especially sister Linda’s security squad. Recently, there have been freedmen moving to our territory, and the freedmen’s resident has already taken in more than 70 people. It is estimated that someone will come later."

For the free people’s move in, Victor is not surprised. It is the season of warm land, with lush vegetation, and wild vegetables can be dug everywhere. When free people move.

"According to the method taught by Barol, separate these newcomers from the free, one by one inquiry, try not to let the spies come in. In addition, these people should not be allowed to participate in the labor of the village. They can only be engaged in the work of moving and repairing roads." Victor instructed.

Lilia frowned and said, "Victor, if these people are not allowed to participate in the work of the village because of spies, then our manpower is still not enough. Even if we recruit free people from Black Castle Town, we cannot Put an end to the problem of secret agents."

"Who said we would recruit freedmen from Black Castle Town?" Victor said with a smile. Seeing Lilia and Nelson looking at him with puzzled eyes, they said, "Aren’t there more than 600 people in Pinghu Village?"

Of course, Victor understands that there will be leaders recruiting from Black Castle Town. The large number of spies may not be the only York family. But even if there are spies in Pinghu Village, there are very few. Who cares about a free private camp? Even at the beginning of Victor, the York family had a few spies for special reasons.

"My lord, are you ready to attack Pinghu Village?" Nelson asked with piercing eyes.

Victor said coldly: "I am going to call Bayer again. If he still refuses to come to see me, then he can only send him to see the Lord of Radiance."

Victor originally planned to recover Pinghu Village in two years, mainly because of the intervention of the Chebman family. Ten days ago, Old Knight of York's family blatantly killed two spies of Chebman's family and expelled one. This is a warning from the York family to Count Chebman. Victor decided to take advantage of the situation and take advantage of this period of time when Count Chebman was frightened, and put Pinghu Village into his bag.

Furthermore, under the pressure of the alchemy war mastiff, Pinghu Village can no longer provide purple cane to Chebman's family. Victor believes that Chebman's family will not react to Pinghu Village now. Anyway, the Shanmin camp has been favored by the Chebman family.

"My lord, I will go back to gather people and make a battle plan." Nelson said excitedly. He didn't believe that Bayer would be called. That guy had already refused the lord's many summons.

"Don't worry, there will be no fierce resistance." Victor said confidently.

Victor plans to use the alchemy war mastiff to draw Bayer out, and then use Thorium heavy crossbows to kill him. The remaining diehards are not enough. Pinghu Village, which loses Bayer, will not fight against the lord at all. army.

Just as Victor was preparing to implement his plan ambitiously, he did not yet know that a terrifying crisis was quietly approaching.

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"Madam, there are more than 1,300 people in total. Under the leadership of Paladin Claude, they led Victor."

Black Castle Town Sheriff Shakes trembling with fear looked at Mrs. Sylvia Count, who was trembling with fear.

"With so many people, how do they supply supplies on the road?" Sylvia looked out the window and asked lightly.

Sharks replied: "Claude raised a large amount of food from the Velpins, and there are more than a dozen carriages. Rumors about the work points system were also spread by the Velpins’ stewards."

Sylvia turned to Count York and Detective Archer and asked: "What do you think?"

"Shacks, you are such an idiot!" Count York scolded, "Velpin Why haven’t you found out about the conspiracy of the family?"

Shakes are speechless. At this time, there is a season for free people to move, and most of the free people on the move are lazy. There are dozens of wastes to work, hundreds of people, Shakes will not pay attention at all. However, when thousands of people were organized to migrate at one time, Shakes immediately investigated, but Paladin from the church intervened, Shakes didn't dare to take more measures, but immediately notified Mrs. Count.

"Well, it’s not Shacks’ fault. I overlooked that Victor’s work-point system has a fatal flaw, that is, it’s too easy to promote vassals! All free people will be crazy about it, this It's a shame, and there is no solution." Sylvia sighed, shaking her head.

Sylvia is a little upset. The vassal system has gone through thousands of years before gradually forming a three-generation promotion model. Due to the long period of time, many lords including Sylvia have forgotten why three generations are promoted, and they just habitually abide by this tradition. As a result, she also did not find a fatal flaw in the work-point system, but this flaw was taken advantage of by those who wanted to.

"Madam, Baron Victor is in big trouble! More free people will flood into his territory, and there will be church members in it. Many countermeasures will not be used!" Archer Said: "Baron's rule will collapse!"

"What should we do? Will those lowly refugees destroy our purple cane?!" Count York yelled, thinking of countless precious purple cane being destroyed, His heart is cut like a knife.

Sylvia shook the head said: "Now is not the time to feel bad about purple cane! Velpin Baron, even if it is not a straw bag, is not better there! Queen Catherine must be the one who can see through the weaknesses of the work points system. The problem now is, What will she do next?"

Sylvia continued: "I am afraid that the freed people in other territories will also be moved by the wind. Turmoil, things will get big. Victor will be held accountable as a lord. Then, the question of his lack of a castle will be brought up for discussion. Then, Victor will be brought back to Elder's Council for questioning. In this way, the queen will again control the little Victor. "

"What a powerful and vicious queen!" Sylvia sneered and commented again.

Count York suck in a breath of cold air, and asked at a loss: "What should I do?"

In the beginning, Sylvia conspired Velpin to exacerbate the rift between Victor and Prince. I didn't expect Catherine's counterattack would be so unsolvable. If Victor is given a period of time, he may be able to withstand this crisis, but the current Victor leader does not have this ability at all.

"Notify the blood fox to let him take people into the freedmen. We must not let those freemen attack Victor's camp. We must ensure the safety of Victor."

"What then? Count York asked, rubbing his hands. He believed that Sylvia would be able to solve the problem.

"Then we will watch!"

"Ah!"

Sylvia lightly said with a smile: "Otherwise, what can we do? Go Force the freedmen to come back? Or kill them? The church won't allow us to do this!" Sylvia didn't care about Catherine's plan. Catherine captured Victor's Achilles' heel, and Sylvia also captured Catherine's weakness. As long as Sylvia insists on leaving Victor in Black Fort, Catherine will have no alternative.

"I'm not as good as you in playing the rules, but I only talk to you about my strength!"

Sylvia stared out the window. A gardener was looking after her roses. These roses are from the crystal flower room. Some of the transplanted from here have withered, and some are thriving.

Dark red surging in Sylvia's dark blue eyes, those dead roses, under Mrs. Count's gaze, gradually turned into fly ash, and scattered with the wind.

"Victor, let me see your ability, if you can't solve it, I will put you in the flower room."

Sylvia has charming eyes and is dyed pink.