Chapter 647

The boulder mountains are thousands of feet long, with undulating peaks, and a white line on the top of the mountain stretches for tens of thousands of miles. The boulder fortress was built in a narrow mountain pass, piled with limestone, as if it grew with the mountains without leaving a gap.

Viktor and his party passed through the lush mixed forest at the foot of the mountain, stepped on the meadow with long green seasons, climbed the gentle slope, and met the master of boulder fortress, the king of Neville, his majesty Rex.

He tore off the bearskin cloak floating in the wind, took Neville's Four Golden Knights, quickly greeted them, smiled brightly and said, "cousin Victor, I said you would come to help at the first time. Sure enough."

Victor smiled and patted Rex's shoulder armor. He joked, "do you want to bet my reputation with the princes of Stonehenge? Then you'll win half of me."

Rex stretched out three fingers and said solemnly, "according to the rules of the neville people, I can only give you 30 percent."

They immediately laughed, and their Highnesses saluted each other. After some greetings, Rex led the four legendary strong men to the main gate of the boulder fortress. The soldiers on the tower pushed the winch. The refined iron chain clanged and creaked, and the gate made of red copper and refined iron slowly rose five meters high.

The crowd swarmed in. When Caligula entered the door, he acted as fast as lightning and deliberately shrunk his neck. It seemed that he was afraid that the gate weighing more than a thousand pounds would suddenly fall and smash him into meat and mud.

There are no buildings behind the city gate. It is a natural Valley corridor, dark and humid, without sunshine. On the contrary, there is a shooting platform built by manual excavation on the steep cliffs on both sides, nearly 100 meters from the ground. At intervals above, there is a catapult with a downward firing chamber. Soldiers holding heavy crossbows patrol back and forth on the platform.

When Victor looked back, Rex pointed to the left and right cliffs and the other city gate in front of him, and proudly introduced: "This is the famous Death Gate of boulder fortress. The canyon is 14 kilometers long and has five death gates. If the orc army in the Northern Wilderness attacks boulder fortress, the garrison of the first line of defense will pull up the gate, let a group of monsters in, and then close the gate. The archers on both sides will shoot at the same time, making it difficult for them to escape. The five death Gates once hanged tens of thousands of monsters, and the garrison Unharmed. "

"My cousin didn't have time to visit Stonehenge during his last visit to Neville. This time, you witnessed the first pass of the human country."

"There are five gates of death in Boulder fortress?" Asked Victor incredulously.

"Ha ha, the cost of Stonehenge is so cheap that you can't believe it. It's a miracle." Rex smiled.

Victor looked at the dark green cliff covered with slippery moss and said thoughtfully, "this Canyon... Isn't it artificially dug?"

"It's the masterpiece of the ancient great wizard."

Howard interface said: "it is said that the great wizard of the ancient al city state used extraordinary means to open up the boulder mountains in order to connect the Al city state with the northern wilderness. At that time, the northern wilderness was a civilized land belonging to the human kingdom."

"1200 years ago, this canyon was an important channel for the Ayres to connect the iron mountain empire. With the fall of the iron mountain Empire, the Rex family, with the help of the church, built five death gates and once lured and killed tens of thousands of ORC monsters. Later, the orcs learned to be smart and never went to the death gate again."

The first gate fell heavily, and the light of the whole passage became more dim. Rex looked back along Victor's eyes and explained: "there is an iron law for the Death Gate of Stonehenge, from north to south, only one gate starts; from south to north, five gates open together."

Howard smiled and said, "this is the agreement between the ancestors of testier and Rex. One day, the shining Knight will recover the human homeland. The Rex family will make a northern expedition, send troops out of the boulder fortress, and open the five gates of death at the same time... It seems that the agreement of the ancestors will fall on us."

Rex said with a smile, "it's my honor to witness the cancellation of the gate of death."

More than three years ago, testier personally lobbied King Rex to invite Lord Neville's soldiers out of the boulder fortress to jointly pay the Sidon centaur. However, the size of Neville kingdom is less than one third of that of the Sassanian Empire, and falling into the quagmire of pioneering war ahead of time is bound to bring down the whole kingdom. Rex categorically rejected testier's invitation to send troops and agreed to exchange iron for Sassanian To ensure that the kingdom can digest more than 700000 displaced people.

Although the neville people did a good job in developing agriculture, animal husbandry and water conservancy, rex never expected that the Centaurs who were good at guerrilla field warfare would collectively run to the west to confront the main forces of the Sassanian Empire and the shining knights. Now, nearly 200000 people from the elite cavalry led by the Neville, SUS, Borui and Rand empires, together with the main forces of the referee and Templar, gathered together Stone fortress, ready to take the back road of the Centaur army. This is equivalent to the southeast countries opening up the northern wilderness for the neville people, and Rex's attitude changed 180 degrees.

That's why King Neville and his Highnesses ran outside the boulder fortress to meet the head and deputy head of the shining knights, while the Golden Knights of Borui and Sus disappeared.

The southern countries really did not have much enthusiasm for the war.

Instead, testier smiled at Victor: "the vast wilderness in the north is the hometown of the human kingdom. The Lord of the kingdom of Gambis intends to expand north, and I support it."

If the elves did not summon the forest horses and mountain dwarves, the world loomed a harbinger of great changes, and the Lords of Gambis would be very interested in opening up territory in the northern wilderness. Now, the kingdom of Gambis is eager to occupy the natural danger of Jinshui River and make achievements in the southern continent.

In fact, testier just showed his attitude and talked about it. He can't take it seriously. Because any Southern Lord who opens up territory in the wilderness in the north, over time, must integrate into the northern political circle built by the Sassanian Empire, the iron mountain royal family and the Neville Kingdom, and can no longer be regarded as his own Lord aristocracy.

No family is willing to spread its power now.

"I will consider it in the future." Said Victor with a smile. In another 20 years, his fleet will be able to go north along the coastline and land on the East Bank of the Northern Wilderness to establish the colonies of the Gambis Empire, and the closed land centralization system will ensure the effective control of the Imperial Center over the colonies. At least, the score sealing system is much more effective.

Through the five dangerous gates of death, the scenery in front of me suddenly opened up. The canyon surrounded by mountains is bathed in the soft sun, and the mountain streams and waterfalls converge into a soothing river. On both sides are golden wheat fields. Countless farmers hold sickles and strive to harvest spelt wheat with full ears. The wheat field is surrounded by a town without walls and trenches. The buildings inside are neat, simple, practical, barracks, warehouses and craftsman workshops that emphasize capacity and firmness. The war horses neigh and soldiers shuttle. This is a large military camp with complete facilities.

At the far end of the camp stands a strange building with a striking tower shaped cylinder, emitting a light blue smoke unique to charcoal burning heat.

Testier stopped to look far. After a moment, he said, "Your Majesty Rex, the giant brick kilns have been built here..."

Rex laughed and replied, "there are many people in Neville mine. Only with the help of iron bricks invented by man horse hills can we quickly build fortifications and solid towns in the northern wilderness."

Testier said to Victor: "if the Sassanian Empire had purchased the brick kiln brick making technology of the man horse hill earlier, maybe I didn't need to light the red smoke beacon."

Victor shrugged his shoulders and said, "the situation of this war is different."

Turnans interrupted, "hurry up and don't keep Clement waiting."

With that, he took the lead in walking towards the church in the middle of the barracks with his hands on his back. Victor and his entourage followed.

Outside the church, several powerful high-level knights had been waiting outside. One of the knights wearing church style Mithril armor stepped out of the crowd and solemnly saluted the two tesles, saying: "at the inquisition, Lester trigowar paid tribute to the grand head and deputy head of tesles."

Before the two heads of the shining knights could return their salutes, turnans gave a faint "um" nearby.

The Paladin with deep facial features and gloomy eyes had to salute him.

"Brother Lester trigova, may the light of our Lord illuminate your direction."

The baldheaded Paladin looked solemn like an archbishop and introduced Victor: "Your Highness Randall, this is the chief of the inquisition, the Lester brothers of the trigowar family... Oh, yes, sir... His Excellency Lester trigowar."

"Your Highness Randall killed three golden Orc leaders alone in the eastern defense line and made extraordinary achievements. On behalf of the inquisition, I pay high tribute to your highness. May the supreme glorious Lord visit you." Trigowar's cold facial lines melted the frozen soil like the spring breeze, said genially with a smile.

The referee's office is in charge of punishing the clergy and secular lords. The little lords and nobles turn pale when they hear it. They even dare not mention trigowar's name in private meetings, but only the referee. However, in Victor's current position, he obviously felt that the function of the referee was more and more in line with the needs of the great aristocracy.

The most obvious example is that Victor spent a lot of money to build Randall Cathedral in order to enhance the political influence of Randall family and borrow the magic power of the church. Both the monastery and the Templar sent people to Randall Cathedral, but the referee's office was silent. It seems that the tribunal will not send people to Randall Cathedral unless there is an undisguised wizard incident under Randall's leadership.

Will, the purification Wizard of Heibao, was not presided over by the referee. In fact, as the Knights and nobles gradually mastered the church, the position of the referee changed quietly and became the collaborator of the great Lord.

The nobles who failed in the political struggle were often condemned by the referee, exiled to the Eastern League and reduced to a tool to multiply the blood of knights. Trigova and the holy mountain priest secretly presided over the business of human trafficking. Even Victor bought dozens of children with Knight blood from the Eastern League. At least half of the money earned by the trigowal family went to the shining knights and the Sassanian empire as military spending against the orcs.

In addition, tregovar's secret of keeping wizards gradually fell into Victor's vision. However, from a rational point of view, the ambiguous policy of trigowal or the order of radiance on keeping wizards is in line with the actual needs. Since the chaos of the Pantheon, the wizard organizations in the human country have not been flooded, but many remarkable achievements have emerged in the academic field and divination field.

If Victor were TESL, he would do the same.

In the stable political structure of the pagoda, the Randall family and the referee are at the top, and both sides have the same overall position. Although trigova secretly controls the wizard, Victor believes that several assassinations of the wizard against him have nothing to do with trigova.

However, the witches' witchcraft is mysterious, and trigowal may not be able to make them obedient and indifferent. As an extraordinary person, once a wizard has organization and inheritance, he can broaden his vision and must want to seek a place in the power structure of the human country. However, the inherent ruling class, including Knight lords and church clergy, did not allow wizards to develop political power.

God knows, what can they do? It is possible to climb the top of the pyramid and press the Knights and clergy under them.

The strategy to treat wizards can only be to integrate them into the aristocracy with Knight blood. If trigowar cannot place all the members of the wizard organization, they must regularly wash out a group of impetuous wizards, and then the secular lords of the paladin family integrate a group of obedient wizards, leaving a group of wizards loyal to the tribunal.

These wizards are the most troublesome. They can't see the light and have no promotion level. They can only be absorbed in improving the power of witchcraft and studying the laws of the world. So they are particularly vulnerable to demons.

Victor believed that the mastermind behind his murder was the supernatural existence of demons and evil gods. They borrowed the hands of wizards and carried out many assassinations. In particular, the mysterious assassin in the giant wood forest shows extraordinary abilities with divine traces. He may be the dependant of some evil god. When he ran away, he deliberately revealed the Shadow Council to victor, and the intention of planting a frame is very obvious, but he succeeded in leaving Victor a clue.

The shadow speaker's clue obviously starts from trigova, which may be the purpose of the mysterious assassin, but Victor doesn't intend to stop. When the enemy is bright and we are dark, we can only see the enemy's plot by leading the snake out of the cave. Victor has full confidence in controlling the situation. The fate brought by his great reputation is his card against fate interference.

Victor's sharp eyes looked around all the people around him, from far to near, and finally fell on trigowal. His eyes said deeply: "this time I went to the Northern Wilderness to behead the goblin Lord. I hope to walk side by side with judge trigowal."

Trigova and testier were greatly surprised. The golden earth Paladin could not help in sneaking into the beheading operation, and trigova was not ready to participate in the operation. They didn't know that Victor was scaring the snake and were puzzled by the abrupt proposal.

The referee and the head of the team exchanged eyes for half a second and nodded: "trigowar is duty bound."

X-3 didn't compare the abnormalities of the people around him. Victor didn't care. He believed that the wizard always had the means to learn about his dialogue with trigova.

His smile was full of kindness, nodded and said, "when we finish our task, I will invite you to a banquet. At that time, we will have a good chat."

Trigoval was full of fog. The referee's office can't say people are annoying. They did ugly things. Even if the grand Lord wanted to use the referee's office to deal with his political enemies, he would not brazenly show his kindness to trigoval.

Trigowar had heard that Victor killed the golden jackals and seriously injured the ogre supervisor a few kilometers apart. It's not difficult for him to kill the goblin Lord.

The count of golden eyes used the place where he got the judge's office and deliberately gave me a merit... He thought secretly and said with a smile without hesitation: "I will keep the appointment for your Highness's banquet."

It is still unknown whether Victor's interaction with the referee frightened the evil wizard, but it attracted the attention of several Golden Knights.

Only thurnans, unaware of it, seriously introduced emperor Neo West under the RAND Empire, his highness Chris of the kingdom of SUS and the grand duke Peter of the kingdom of Borui.

Victor met Neo West privately, but both sides pretended to meet for the first time. When victor and grand duke Peter saluted, he couldn't help looking at each other more.

It was Raymond, the eldest son of Duke Peter, who sent assassins to assassinate victor and ordered the masked brothers to trouble Sophia.

Victor had reason to believe that Raymond was a spokesman for the Shadow Council, because Duke Peter was unlikely to mobilize wizards to participate in the underground war between the Southwind chamber of Commerce and the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce. The Shadow Council is beyond tregovar's control and will not accept the dispatch of Duke Peter.

The Peter family can't keep the wizard organization that betrayed the inquisition.

Prince Peter frowned and watched victor and others enter the church. He turned countless thoughts in his heart, but on the surface he waited in place as if nothing had happened.

Viktor and his party entered the church and saw Pope Clement in a priest's white robe. He was hale and hearty and mild in temperament. He nodded to victor and said, "I'll be relieved if you can come."

The Pope has always been the deputy of the Pope and the Deputy monarch of the Holy See. In terms of status, clement is still above TESL. But he is going through the most difficult period in his political career. Without using great prophecy, the human country won the war, and he is still under the Pope. On the contrary, he can only retire from the throne of the Pope, and the shepherds in his line will lose miserably.

Secular lords need the support of clergy, and clergy also need the support of secular lords. Clement is undoubtedly an important ally of the Centaur hills.

When victor and Sylvia were poor, they implemented amazing water conservancy projects. Clemente, in a row, lent 1 million gold sol to the York family, which has not been paid off so far. The alliance between the two sides began at that time.

Victor has to rely on Clement's support for many deployments, and certainly won't sit back and watch him fall. Moreover, father Miller has made it clear that he will no longer perform great prophecy.

How can Clement's great prophecy be used in the North expansion war?

"Under the crown, I will do my best!" Said Victor solemnly.

"I have no doubt about it." Clement smiled happily and nodded, "I'll preside over the prayer ceremony for you."

After praying, testier looked around and said positively, "time is pressing. We will hold a meeting immediately and invite his Highnesses of the southern countries to discuss the war plan."

Victor smiled, shook his head and said, "I'm going to have a rest, so I won't attend the meeting. Send someone to let me know when to leave."

"Cousin Victor, please." TESL smiled and raised his hand gracefully.

Rex also nodded and said, "OK, I've prepared a temporary residence for you. I'll order someone to take you there."

"Farewell first."

After leaving the church, he followed King Neville's attendants and knights to a single villa on the west side of the barracks. Victor ordered people to boil water and cook so that the alchemists could eat and drink enough and adjust their physical strength to their best state. Caligula happily accepted the task, dragged the big pocket filled with field jerboas and ran into the kitchen happily.

Caligula has a talent for cooking and is full of weight, but it takes a little longer.

Victor estimated that it would take about two hours to eat the food made by aka. He decided to go back to his bedroom and take a nap first.

For two days and one night in a row, Victor always felt strange if he didn't lie down.

Entering the bedroom, he just took off his coat. He heard Nelson climb up the second floor and announce through the wooden door:

"Your Excellency, grand duke Peter of the kingdom of Borui is visiting."