Dear Broom Knight

The summer sun at ten in the morning shone brightly over the Barony of Gezar.

"Hurry! Hurry!" A group of ragged boys ran wildly down the road.

In the fields on either side of the road, several farmers toiling away wiped their sweat and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Did they get their hands on some ranked feathers?" A man with a bushy beard laughed loudly, "It would be even better if they were azure!"

"Why are you so happy…? Could it be that one of those kids is yours?" A man from a nearby field shouted.

"The youngest is his son!" Another man in a field yelled.

"Then you have to tell us tomorrow what good stuff it is!"

The bushy-bearded man waved his hand triumphantly: "There are so many kids! It would be good if they could get a few copper coins!"

"It's a pity that, apart from bird feathers they've never seen before, the Baron only accepts ranked bird feathers now!" One farmer couldn't help but sigh, "A couple of years ago, these kids earned more than us adults!"

"It was good to earn for two years." The bushy-bearded man was already very satisfied. "Which of us hasn't built a new big house!

It's much better than living in that broken-down place in the past."

"I heard that there are still people living in the old town who haven't come out?" Someone asked in confusion, "What are they doing there?

Most of the town has been buried, leaving only a few isolated houses. It's hard to buy anything."

"Hey~ We're just farmers, why bother with so much?" The bushy-bearded man immediately stopped him… Even those who buried themselves in the fields understood that this was not a good thing.

Baron Gezar had given everyone enough benefits and face, and if they still didn't want it, they were slapping the Baron's face.

Although the young Baron had been staying in the house and not coming out, everyone knew he wasn't easy to talk to.

The last time they went to the castle to do odd jobs during the slack season, that Knight Cheska had sent all the construction workers a drink… to celebrate Baron Gezar officially becoming a mage.

That was half a year ago!

He had also heard that even Taylor, the youngest, who was responsible for dealing with the children, had become a formal knight!

The Barony of Gezar already had at least 10 proper knights!

That already exceeded the number of formal knights owned by Baron Wally Dugan next door, who always claimed to be extraordinary.

They wouldn't have dared to open up fields on both sides of the road and plant them with grain in the past… Otherwise, as soon as the harvest season arrived, bandits from who knows where would come out to rob the grain.

What was that all about?

Not robbing merchants but robbing grain!

Who didn't know where those dogs came from!

Even if there were many adventure groups that could be hired in the past, with the farmers' income, who could they afford to hire?

Everyone could only find a remote corner, a place where horses couldn't easily enter, and plant cautiously.

After Yagris came, everyone's life was indeed much better, and they dared to plant more land, but it was still not as confident as it is now.

However, he couldn't help but ask: "Taylor, where did you say those kids got these feathers from?"

Taylor, who already looked like a young teenager, answered a little nervously: "It's that small forest on the border between us and Baron Dugan!

No matter what, Baron Dugan is a vassal of Earl Montes, it's just that the kids climbed a tree…"

'Pa!'

Wearing a well-fitting soft scale armor, Cheska, who already looked heroic, slapped her stupid little brother away and asked Lorry seriously: "Baron, what's wrong?

Is there anything wrong with those feathers?"

She and Taylor had carefully checked them. Although those azure feathers had a slight hint of divinity, they were obviously only derived from the attributes of the birds themselves.

This was at least a third-order bird!

If it hadn't happened to appear when Young Master Lorry's demand for feathers changed from blue to azure, and it was still a relic picked up by a group of children, Cheska wouldn't have been so cautious to ask Lorry to check it again.

Fortunately, she was cautious enough.

Looking at the two Living Feathers rubbing against each other on the huge tree-shaped frame by the window, with only a line of blue on their heads and backs and the rest pure white, Cheska's heart rippled.

Lorry nodded and shook his head: "The only use of this thing is to prevent Living Feathers from using direct communication methods for a period of time.

This kind of filth hidden under divinity is not easy for Living Feathers to dissolve.

Moreover, due to the sudden change of attributes, it is completely impossible to contact those feathers that have been sent out.

Cheska, go ask those adventure groups who swore allegiance to me if anyone has been near Baron Dugan's territory.

Or the territory of Earl Montes."

Cheska quickly stood up and left the study.

"Are you saying Baron Dugan has a problem… How is that possible?" Komlan was extremely surprised. "That old guy is quite greedy, but he's very timid!"

"Old Dugan's daughter is married to Baron Barty." Lorry organized Dugan's marital relations in his mind. "The wife of Earl Montes' second son is Baron Barty's daughter."

"Damn it!" Komlan was extremely angry. "The Baron has already avoided it so obviously, what else do they want to do?

No matter how precious Living Feathers are, they can't affect…"

Lorry shook his head, interrupting Komlan's wrong deduction: "You're thinking too much. This isn't aimed at me."

He steadily raised the feathers in his hand: "If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be a Bird of Paradise, and indeed only a temple can make it.

But the decaying aura underneath doesn't seem like a proper temple. At least, the Church of the Lord of Storms can't make this kind of thing."

"Aren't we in the Northern Kingdom all believers in the Lord of Storms?" Komlan was a little confused.

Although their Baron preferred blue, the main reason why he immediately asked for azure when his wish was satisfied was because the Lord of Storms favored azure.

Therefore, in the Northern Kingdom, azure and black have always been the most popular colors.

"So…" Lorry looked at the feathers in his hand, took out a box and locked them in it tightly. "It seems I have to find my teacher, who is never home for more than a few days."

Lorry suddenly felt that the stable Montes Territory didn't seem so safe anymore.