Chapter 696

Eleven days later, the fire lion mercenary regiment crossed the Wharton prairie and arrived at the ghost forest development point of Dodo Kingdom, which was nearly a month faster than the route bypassed from Baishui fortress. If the commander of Weier didn't ask his men to hunt some wild animals and defeat several groups of jackals, their journey would be faster.

Only a few people in the mercenary regiment know that the money bag of commander Weier is dry and can't touch a few copper sols. They need to get some animal skins and tendons to sell at the development point. Otherwise, the fire lion mercenary regiment can't afford to pay the deposit for connecting tasks.

Ghost forest is the first field that human beings set foot on. It is said that the ancient ELF KING court once wiped out the God chosen army chasing the elf family here, and the souls of the dead have wandered in the forest since then.

Of course, this is an erroneous rumor. The creation law of the four elements determines that the undead without the support of water element will disappear quickly. There has never been a natural undead in the world. Even if evil wizards can create undead, they can't exist for a long time.

The flutes and willows that only grow in the ghost forest have many holes in their trunks. When the night wind blows through the woods, they will cry strangely, as if the ghost is singing an elegy, which makes people shudder.

Anthropologists have not been fully sure about the special value of the flute tree. In addition to flute trees, the ghost forest is also rich in wood, herbs, spices, fruits, rare animals and precious keel steel veins.

The Dodo royal family mastered the technology of refining keel steel, which is a key material for manufacturing military heavy crossbow, large crossbow and catapult. If the output is enough, it will have a wider range of uses.

Dodo people have long been greedy for the wealth of the ghost forest. Soon after the white Centaur Ju nationality living adjacent to the forest migrated, they sent elite scouts into the forest many times to investigate the distribution of resources and the trend of the white centaur. However, compared with the precious resources of ghost forest, Dodo Kingdom pays more attention to the strategic value of major grasslands. As long as it can occupy a territory on the prairie, Dodo kingdom will continuously obtain cattle, sheep and excellent war horses as a source of energy.

The ghost forest development site is actually built on the flat grassland, which is more than 50 kilometers away from the edge of the forest. The scale is not large, only half of that of ordinary towns. After all, the grassland can't grow food, so the development site naturally doesn't need to reserve the position of internal grange. The heavy wooden wall forms a ring, on which many wooden arrow towers are set. The buildings inside are mostly simple large wooden houses, which are mostly used for storing and processing materials. The Lord's castle at the development point has not been built yet. Guanghui church is the only limestone building in it. Its style is rough and simple. It can also serve as a defensive fortress when necessary. When the facilities of the development site are gradually improved, the church can be transformed into a castle, and the garrison priest will choose another site to build a real cathedral.

In addition to the temporary church, there is a strange building built of green bricks in the development site, and the tall chimney is particularly eye-catching. The fire lion mercenaries curiously wanted to come forward to have a look, but they were severely stopped by the guards.

Seeing that his men were reprimanded, Colonel Weier raised his chin and disdained to say, "it's just a huge brick kiln. What's the big deal?"

Mary (Elizabeth), who has long been incarnated as a little fan, first looked at the knowledgeable leader with adoring eyes, then tiptoed and straightened her neck, trying to observe the green brick building behind the wall, "this is a huge brick kiln? It's my first time to see. I heard that it can produce tens of thousands of green bricks a day?"

"There are many craftsmen making bricks, and thousands of people work together." Weil raised his mouth and said lightly. Immediately, with a straight face, he scolded the guard: "Hey, take us to the mercenary tavern. I want to see the priest in the church."

Orthodox vassal soldiers fear knights and nobles from their bones, even if the other party is just a little famous Ranger. The head of the female mercenary had a bad attitude, and the guards at the pioneering point did not dare to refute. With a cold face, they walked ahead without saying a word.

The fire lion mercenaries were very happy when they saw the guards grazed in the head's hand. They drove the cattle to pull the plow and came to the mercenary tavern at the development point.

The tavern was bustling, and the corners outside the door were filled with mercenaries with big arms and round waist. They looked at the new competitors with provocative eyes. Colonel Weier, who always liked the excitement, stopped, touched the shriveled purse secretly, and ordered with a flickering look in his eyes:

"Er... Well, Theodore, you take people to sell all our prey, rent some rooms in the tavern and let everyone settle down first... I'll take Mary to the church to find the garrison priest and see if the church has released the Ranger mission."

Mary, who couldn't figure out the situation, was dragged away by the commander of Weil. They just got out of the sight of the mercenaries. Penny chased up from behind and quietly stuffed weil with a bulging purse.

"Head, see the stationed priest to donate first." She whispered.

Vera took the heavy purse and asked in surprise, "where did you pick it up?"

She remembered very clearly that Theodore and their money had been collected by herself the last time she purchased supplies.

Penny smiled, her slender fingers made a move to clip things, turned and ran away.

Vera's mouth was half open and she was stunned for a long time. Then she shouted to Penny's back, "I'll pay you back... When I have money."

"Head, sister penny, what does that mean?" Mary pulled Ravel's skirt and gestured to Penny just now.

"... it's stolen. Shh, don't shout." Will covered Mary's mouth and whispered.

Mary broke free of Vera's hand and said positively, "it's wrong to steal... We should return the things to others and let sister Penny apologize to the owner."

Colonel Weier thought for a moment and said distressedly, "it seems... It makes sense. However, I'm going to donate the money to the Church... Well, when we earn the Commission, we'll give it back to the owner."

Before long, will and Mary came out of the church and returned to the mercenary tavern unhappily.

The Scout Todd waiting outside welcomed the two people in. The mercenaries in the tavern consciously made way for a road. Some mercenaries were black and blue, and there were a pile of broken wooden tables and chairs in the corner of the hall. Obviously, a small conflict had just happened here.

In the awe of everyone, Todd led the grand colonel and Mary to the second floor of the tavern and entered a simple guest room. The theodores and Penny got up from the stool and greeted val.

"Boss, we sold our prey to the tavern owner and changed three rooms and some supplies. You and Mary have one room, and Ruth and I are next door to this room. The rest can only settle in the shanty town temporarily." Theodore reports.

Vera took a cup of flower tea from Ruth, took a listless sip, pointed to Mary and said, "give her the extra money. The priest accepted our donation and praised it. He ignored the theft and just said he knew his mistake. This guy was hit. If I hadn't pulled it, she would have quarreled with the priest."

Mary pouted and said unconvinced, "stealing is wrong... People's money is also hard-earned and should be returned to them."

Theodore looked at penny. The secret assassin turned his head aside and scratched his head and said, "well... We don't have money. This tavern is opened by the bear group. They took prey but didn't give money. They only used two days of free accommodation and a batch of supplies in exchange..."

"What?! it's the bear group again!" Before Theodore finished, Vera cried and realized that his performance was not like a big head. He picked up the teacup and drank a mouthful of flower tea and explained: "the priest of the church has no task. He asked us to go to the front camp of the ghost forest to find Barrett, the head of the bear group, and said that the guy is responsible for providing tasks and paying rewards to all mercenaries and Rangers."

Theodore and others looked at each other. He asked carefully, "head, you have a festival with the bear group."

"It's the first time I've heard of the bear group." Weil yelled, put his chin on the table again, and muttered: "the garrison priest said that the bear regiment has 4000 people and more than 1400 combat mercenaries, which is the largest mercenary regiment in all kingdoms... How can they be so large? Compared with the bear regiment, I'm just a small head, which makes me angry..."

Then she raised her face, looked at her eyes and asked, "how long do you think it will take our fire lion mercenary regiment to surpass the bear regiment and become the largest mercenary regiment in all kingdoms?"

Doctor Ruth said softly, "head, it's almost impossible... No lord can tolerate such a large mercenary regiment... The bear regiment is a special case."

Penny said crisply: "I've made it clear that the bear regiment is composed of dozens of small mercenaries. They used to live by the stag merchant regiment. Later, somehow, the stag merchant regiment dissolved all their mercenaries. These people have no income and can only look for jobs everywhere. It's just that dodo Kingdom opened up the ghost forest and recruited a large number of mercenaries and Rangers. They ran over and hugged each other Under the banner of the bear regiment, a super large mercenary regiment was formed. "

Octavel knows the inside story about the dissolution of the mercenary regiment of the stag business group. At the beginning, Lord dodo cooperated with the Southwind chamber of Commerce in the kingdom of Borui to attack the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce. Sophia was angry and United victor and Sylvia to attack and kill the Earl Horton of the golden lark family. She obviously used the mercenary force of the chamber of Commerce, but since then, the great lords have been against Wen The Burton chamber of Commerce was more alert. Sophia had to fire the vassal and the mercenaries of the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce in order to regain the trust of her partners.

These mercenaries seem to be the predecessor of the bear regiment.

"The commander of the development point did not agree to the merger of the mercenary regiment." Theodore said: "However, when the orc war broke out in the Sassanian Empire, Lord dodo sent the elite of the development point to the north for reinforcements. They needed a strong and unified mercenary regiment to guard the cordon at the edge of the ghost forest. The commander and garrison priest of the development point gave the bear regiment a lot of convenience, including dispatching new mercenaries and Rangers, issuing tasks and delivering rewards to them. Even Lien Chan Li And the precious resources collected, the bear group can also take a share. "

Ruth continued: "Head, the bear regiment has great power. Later mercenaries like us all rely on the recommendation letter of the bear regiment to be appreciated by the development leader and accepted as a vassal by the development leader. At present, Dodo's cavalry are busy receiving six grassland holy cities to eliminate the increasingly rampant grassland jackals. They have no energy to deal with the monsters in the ghost forest. They still guard, guard and explore The task is left to the bear regiment. There are three forces at the development site of the ghost forest. The knight master of Dodo commands 800 elite soldiers to guard the settlement; 4000 mercenary soldiers from the man horse hills are distributed in the sentry camps along the way to protect the displaced people moving south... Only the mercenary regiment and Rangers led by the bear regiment are at the front of the ghost forest to deal with the beasts and monsters in the forest. "

The big head of Weier sat up straight and asked with bright eyes, "Barrett, the big head of the bear group... Is he strong?"

The people looked at each other and shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know the details of each other. Scout Todd thought for a moment and said, "it's said that he's a very old guy... He shouldn't have much strength, otherwise the commander of the development point won't let him take charge of the bear regiment."

"The bear regiment absorbs all the small mercenary regiments. Do those regiments have a place in the bear regiment?" Will turned and asked.

Todd nodded and said, "there are several heads of the mercenary regiment who hold important positions in the bear regiment. It is said that..." he glanced and continued: "according to the following pustules, their heads are the deputy heads of the bear regiment. They are big people. We should be careful."

"Bang," Val patted the table, stood up, eyes burning, and said with a beaming smile, "I've decided that we'll join the bear group! Then I'll be the head of the bear group. In this way, I'm the real head, Ranger, octaval... Ha, ha, ha."

It is almost impossible for a Ranger with noble blood to seize the ownership of the bear group. Mary didn't understand the truth, so she thought sister wil was very powerful, so she clapped her hands hard.

Theodore and others had to clap their hands to cheer up, and the slightly hoarse laughter of Colonel Weil became more and more proud.

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The eastern border of Sidon Khanate is now called Sidon's frontier defense. Howard Standing on a highland overlooking the Far East, where his extraordinary vision is out of reach, the Centaur and the orc tribe may fight orthogonally. The loser will become the slave of the winner, and they will pose a threat to the front line of defense. But by then, the front line may have been improved.

Craftsmen and soldiers are like industrious ants, constantly building fortifications. Commander testier only hopes that the construction speed can be faster.

"My Lord, the identity of the wizard has been found out. His name is Buckley. He came from an ordinary collar family in niuti village in the south of the kingdom of Susi and belongs to Baron tokberg, the peripheral Lord of the Red Eagle family. Thirty nine years ago, when he was 16, Buckley inadvertently exposed his magic talent and was reported to the local church. The stationed priest led people to arrest him, but he was caught by his magic A total of 24 people were killed and injured in the attack, and Buckley escaped afterwards. " Referee trigowal took a half step behind Howard and said: "Because the wizard Buckley killed the guards stationed at the priest and Lord, the referee officially intervened after receiving a notification. We didn't get valuable information during the interrogation of his relatives. In order to trap the wizard, the paladin of the referee who led the team executed his parents and relatives, but... Buckley didn't show up, and he disappeared for 39 years."

"The referee's records show that Buckley's magic talent is' activation '. He can activate any object. The best effect is soil. The soil trap he created swallowed up to 8 soldiers at a time. In addition, his casting distance is relatively long. He can peep into the opponent's actions through the' activator '. There is evidence that he can hide underground or even walk through for a short time , when he came out, he was covered with a lot of soil, just like a clay puppet, with strong defense and strength. Buckley killed the stationed priest and two Paladins by this ability. Later, he escaped from the pursuit of the referee, but we believe that he witnessed the execution of his relatives through living creatures and had a deep hatred for the clergy. "

"The attack on shuitao town was obviously Buckley's masterpiece. His main purpose was to kill the clergy, not his highness Elizabeth Frederick. According to bishop dister, Buckley's immortal monster wanted to kill him, but in the end, he and the two ruling wizards were plotted by witchcraft and lost consciousness. When they woke up, the powerful monster had collapsed It's broken. "

Howard looked back, turned to trigowal and asked: "Why has Buckley become so powerful? Who are his two wizard helpers? Solariven is convinced that he killed Buckley... How can a dead wizard attack the church in shuitao town? Who is the mysterious wizard who secretly attacked bishop dist and the ruling warrior? Why didn't he kill dist... Or why did he save dist from the undead monster ？”

The referee shook his head with a heavy heart. He couldn't answer any of these key questions.

"It's the priest's extraordinary talent. Do you know what to do to cover up the trace?" Howard stared at trigoval for a moment and said: "All things that involve witches and cannot be explained clearly can be put on the devil. You know Pope Clement is going to propose to ask his Majesty the Pope to use great prophecy to solve all the mysteries of this matter. Pastor frides used his power to postpone this impossible motion... You say, how long can I protect you?"

The power of the Pope was elevated, but he was a level 7 Holy Spirit priest after all. When the Holy See wanted to ask him to perform great prophecy, he would only scoff. Great prophecy would shorten the life of the caster. It would be almost the same if nahtigal asked the Pope.

Clement's proposal is to put things in the name of the devil, so as to transfer the establishment of the tribunal from the temple army to the Templar.

The Holy See has coveted the law enforcement power of the magistrates for a long time. Trigoval knows this. He said in a deep voice, "Sir, please give me three months. I promise to find Princess Elizabeth."

Howard smiled and said calmly, "the paladin team escorting Elizabeth was killed by extraordinary knights. Do you doubt the target?"

Trigoval shook his head and said, "I'm going to start with the balelius family."

"Elizabeth is pure gold blood. Everyone is suspected of planning the attack." Howard was silent for a moment and continued: "blood wolf castle and Neville are the most suspected, followed by the kingdom of dodo. They are the most convenient to do this... Gangbis is the least suspected, followed by Barcelona."

"You want to use this thing to stop the balelius family from splitting the Sassanian empire. The starting point is good, but it's useless!"

"Elizabeth's whereabouts are unknown. Orokia doesn't want to fight us. She's going to bite the bullet now." Howard sighed long, shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "the more you use this thing to force bacelius to retreat, the more fierce the sassanne lords who support bacelius' restoration rebound... This is a matter of attitude, just as you trap bacelius and plan a wizard attack, you are also showing your attitude to me."

Howard doesn't need trigowal's attitude now. He must stabilize the current situation and stop the division of the Satan empire is the top priority. In contrast, tracking Elizabeth's whereabouts is behind this matter. To this end, the Knights of glory may sacrifice the tribunal and compromise with the Holy See. Because one third of the seats of the holy see are in the hands of the shining knights. Even if the tribunal is incorporated into the Templar, the testier family still has considerable influence on the religious law enforcement power, so the real victim is the trigowar family.

The referee said dejectedly: "Sir, I understand. Please give me half a year to deal with some things in the Eastern League..."

Howard nodded silently, stepped down the slope and said to trigowar: "I'm afraid the illegal activities in the Eastern League may not be cleaned up in half a year... I don't want to change anything, but you should be prepared. However, things may change..."

He pondered for a moment and asked, "do you know what his highness Randall is doing recently?"

The chief referee was refreshed, thought for a moment, and tried to say, "the disappearance of Elizabeth spread to the Nightingale manor. His highness Randall immediately sent people to contact the blood wolf castle and the Barcelona family. I don't know what they talked about."

Howard said without hesitation, "before that, his highness Randall received Viscount Tunis Ludwig."

"Viscount tnis Ludwig?"

Trigowal recalled a little and said: "he was a good friend of his highness Randall. He used to be in charge of tax work in the Finance Department of King gangbis. Later, because of his close relationship with his highness Randall, he was secretly demoted by Regent Wang Mingsheng of Williams and given an idle job."

Howard nodded: "According to the agreement, in ten years, Sophia will hand over the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce to Sauron, the wind knight. In exchange, she has adopted Sauron's young son. Sophia now has the opportunity to have a daughter with his highness Randall. As the heir of the Marquis of Wimbledon, she also began to seek the real power of kite castle. Tanis Ludwig is her agent and intends to get it The position of Chancellor of the exchequer. "

"Tanis put forward the tax reform, which includes two contents. First, kite Castle imposed trade tax on all lords of Gambis kingdom; second, the Kingdom levied poll tax on tenants, which was paid by the lords to which the tenants belonged. Of course, we welcome that one tenth of these taxes belonged to the church. However, the Lords resolutely resisted, including the manor lords of Gambis To put pressure on the four princes of kite castle. The Duke of York in the man horse hill also pretended to oppose. "

"Why did his highness Randall promote these two unpopular taxes?"

The chief replied: "the kingdom of gangbis crosses the river and expands to the south. The royal family and the later family need to allocate more fiscal revenue and re coordinate the local lords through taxation."

"In addition to money and power, Gambis needs food more." Howard smiled confidently: "The new agriculture and animal husbandry enabled Gambis to achieve self-sufficiency in grain, but their grain reserves are far from reaching the lowest level of the South expansion of the Duhe river. Based on the population growth rate of Gambis, it will take them at least 15 years to have the grain reserves needed for the South expansion war... It's too long. My cousin has to leave hundreds of thousands of people from the Sassanian empire. It's obvious that he is ready to finish crossing Henan as soon as possible With the manpower deployment of Tuo, the food gap in Gambis will be even greater. "

"We laid down the Sidon Khanate and provided a solid foundation for the pioneering war of the kingdoms. In only five years, the green wheat produced by the Sassanian empire can meet the war needs of all kingdoms. There are differences among the northern lords, but the external kingdoms, including Gambis, are worried that the division of the Sassanian empire will affect their grain reserve strategy."

"I hope the Stormrage sword saint is willing to support the shining knights and the blood wolf castle. With his and Sylvia's statement, the trigowar family may continue to be in charge of the referee."

TESL and trigoval went to the bottom of the hillside. He took the reins of the horned wolf from the paladin's entourage and said with deep eyes:

"You go to the blood wolf castle with me and let his highness Randall see my determination!"