Warlord: King of All Clans

During this period, Leo was occasionally summoned by the Grand Duke of the North to chat about Little Mouse's experience in the River Bay or the current situation in the Dawn Continent in his spare time.

As for the previous topic, Leo was in charge of the narration, while the Grand Duke of the North listened attentively.

The latter topic was mainly described by the Grand Duke of the North, and Leo asked curiously.

Leo's understanding of this world basically comes from Master Bobak and Uriyan. The former doesn't tell much, but he outlines a basic world framework for Leo.

Although the latter often boasted, he also taught Leo a lot of common sense about the lower classes of the empire.

If it weren't for these two people, Leo, who traveled through time and space to become a little savage, would know almost nothing about the world outside the village.

Now with the knowledgeable Grand Duke of the North, many of Leo's questions were answered.

The unknown person who was close to the Grand Duke of the North also attracted the attention of some big shots.

For example, Count Hard Beowulf, who has a free and easy personality and is more like an adventurer, can chat with Leo.

This eighth-rank great swordsman, who is famous in the North and one of the seven respected Lords of the North, has a personality that is not much different from that of the veteran soldier Uliyang.

The only difference is that they have a higher status and can brag more.

When he was young, he gave up his inheritance rights and adventured all over the North. In the Stormfjord of Oleynik, he single-handedly killed a sea snake that was causing trouble in the area.

In the southern Counties of Kurolov, he gathered his fellow adventurers and killed the giants that had broken into the human town.

Finally, at the age of forty, because his younger brother was unfortunately killed in battle, he returned to the Earldom of Beowulf and became Earl Hard Beowulf.

The Earldom of Beowulf is the northernmost territory in the North. Most of the territory is mountainous, and most of the people live in the southern foothills adjacent to the Earldom of Beboos.

So even though the orcs invaded on a large scale and occupied half of the territories of Frelov and Beowulf, the Earldom of Beowulf did not suffer as heavy losses as the Earldom of Frelov.

Their northern territory was originally a wilderness, with a large number of alien races and magical beasts living there. Human settlements were very rare, and most of them were still savages.

After being invaded by the orcs, Beowulf's earldom was no different from usual.

But the Earl of the North’s principle is: I can leave my land alone, but others cannot take it away.

So after the Grand Duke of the North issued a call to war in Frovald, Count Hard Beowulf was the first to respond and arrived first with his elite army.

This legendary earl in the North was equally good at swordsmanship, boasting, and drinking. He would often take his subordinates out drinking, sparring, and fighting all night long, which made the Grand Duke of the North very unhappy.

Leo only played with them for one night during his rest period, and the next day he was pulled over by the Grand Duke of the North and scolded.

Leo was very confused. Although I was the princess's adoptive father in name only, I was just a conscripted soldier in a remote mountain village.

The Great Earl of the North invites me to drink, how can I refuse?

What's the matter with you treating me as strictly as if I were the son of a noble family?

But he still obediently obeyed the discipline of the Grand Duke of the North.

Freya, who often ran back and forth, finally built up enough courage to sneak into Frovald and go directly to Leo's legion base.

But Leo couldn't spend much time with her, so Freya had to go and fight with those green-skinned cubs.

As time passed, Olivia's ogre godsons grew stronger and stronger. After several months of military training, they were no longer Freya's opponents.

They often skillfully used hunting tactics to capture Freya and then sent her to labor.

Every construction site in the river bend is in great need of strong horses like Freya.

Moreover, the dogs, who have basic reading, writing, and calculation abilities as well as some craftsman skills, play a role in many basic areas of the River Bay and cannot play happily like before.

This group of green-skinned cubs who have just been weaned are just right for Freya to unleash her fighting power.

Every time they saw Freya coming, the green-skinned cubs would swarm over her, scratching and biting her, extremely ferociously.

But Freya was not afraid at all and fought bravely, defeating a hundred people alone.

Fighting is fun!

Finally, Leo couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply separated a team of River Bend infantry and recruited some militiamen to form a refugee group. He let Freya take this group of greenskin cubs and refugees south and send them to the River Bend to be handed over to Olivia.

After the fall of Varanger, a large number of refugees moved south.

Sixty percent of them boarded ships at the port of Frovald and sailed downstream along the tributaries of the Anzeno River to towns in other earldoms.

But the remaining 40%, which was as many as 50,000 to 60,000 people, walked south along the World Tree Avenue, and most of them stayed in the two cities of Ilanrado and Isenbol.

After Riverbend had sufficient food reserves, it began to continue accepting population and cooperated with the ogre tribe to open up the swampland opposite the river mouth town and the gravel hills outside the Gravel Fort.

After the alien and wild beast nests in the Gravel Hills were cleared, they became natural pastures. The cattle and sheep grazing here can even go out to forage for food during the day and return to the mountain pass north of Gravel Castle to rest at night.

Dozens of herdsmen can manage thousands of cattle, sheep and horses.

There are also a large number of ancient ruins here, so a large number of adventurers appear in the Stonebreaker Castle and go to explore the Stonehills or the atrium.

Just by providing logistics for these adventurers who are willing to spend money, Stonebreak Castle can earn enough gold coins to support its people.

For this reason, a large number of hotels, markets, and blacksmith shops appeared in Gravel Castle, and various small caravans were constantly traveling on the Gravel Road, making it even more prosperous than the River Bay Peninsula.

Forest farms, large ranches and cassava plantations can also provide rich food resources for the entire river bay.

Gravel Castle, which originally relied on the support of River Bay Peninsula and River Mouth Town to survive, finally became another treasure trove of River Bay Territory.

In contrast, the development progress in the Great Swamp was extremely slow.

Although the land in the Great Swamp is fertile, it is more difficult to develop than the forest in the Wolf Plain.

So at the current stage, just open up some pastures and farms on the outskirts of the swamp.

These pastures and farms were only defended by simple wooden fences and were often invaded by swamp creatures in the swamp, so they were in great need of military protection.

Under such circumstances, the ogres, who were originally hated by gods and ghosts, suddenly became in short supply.

Every ranch and farm hopes to have an ogre in charge.

The ogres also liked this situation. Compared with the dangerous hunting in the swamp, the giant swamp crocodiles that crawled ashore to attack humans and livestock were like meat on the chopping board.

They even learned to trap, tying a wounded goat to a farm fence and lurking nearby.

When the giant crocodile gets close, they suddenly pounce, grab the crocodile's tail and shake it hard, then carry the limp crocodile to Hekou Town to sell it for money.

The giant crocodiles in the Great Swamp seemed endless, so much so that Isenbol had not been able to conquer it for hundreds of years. Unexpectedly, it has now become a paradise for ogres.

In order to better lurk and hunt, the ogres learned to take a bath to eliminate odors, and every morning before going to work, they would scrub themselves clean in the river.

Therefore, the ogre tribe looked much neater. They wore animal skins or clothes commissioned by humans, decorated themselves with some copper, iron or bone ornaments, and learned a few proper greetings. They were no longer the barbaric tribe that chewed the corpses of wild beasts alive.

Half a month after the orcs attacked the city, Leo was summoned by the Grand Duke of the North again.