From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

The next morning Lane formed his company, all the cavalry and the dwarves, and prepared to march towards the port of Maribor.

On the way, while riding Black Wind, Lann thought about what to do with Leo, or throw him to Mr. Geron to clean the castle together?

I believe that the two "old guys" will not be stingy to teach him every trick when they see the child working so hard.

He accepted Leo's commission by himself, and then Leo delivered himself as the reward of the accidental law. So in a sense, this child is also his "child by accident", isn't he? Although the explanation is a bit far-fetched, there is nothing wrong with being an apprentice of the Griffin School.

Milva looked at Lan En's thoughtful expression. In the past, she could stare blankly at that sunny and handsome face, but today she was a little restless, and her eyes were evasive.

"Say it."

Lan suddenly slowed down Hei Feng's speed, and spoke abruptly beside the female shooter, which made her shoulders tremble.

"You are not suitable for this kind of expression that hesitates to speak. Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Milva bit her lip. She did something stupid last night with the help of alcohol, and she didn't dare to tell the Earl, but now it seems that she will be punished even more for concealing it.

"I went to that beekeeper's house last night when no one was around..."

Milwa whispered, "I destroyed their hive and set all the bees away. I also took all their wine and threw it into the river."

Lane's eyes narrowed.

Milva's voice became softer, and she explained: "After all, they... did that kind of thing to the child, I can't swallow this breath. And they also insulted the Earl, you are kind and considerate to the common people, but I can't swallow this Tone..."

Milva's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally bowed his head and said in resignation: "You punish me!"

Lann reined in the horse, and the whole team also stopped.

"Look up, Milva, and look at me."

The female archer pursed her lips, the expression on her face was almost crying. Even if she was caught in the tree spirit's trap and hanged upside down, she didn't show such an expression.

"Mirva, you can protect my reputation, which makes me very happy; but I don't like the way you protect it. I don't need my subordinates to make decisions for me, do you understand?"

Lan stared at the female attendant and said word by word: "You are my sword, my bow, my hands, and my eyes, but you can't be my brain. I command you, you You can only do it; if I didn’t tell you, you can’t make up your own mind.”

"Mirva, you have disappointed me in this matter."

Milva had dismounted from his horse at this moment, and knelt down on the ground: "Please... punish me, Lord Earl."

Lan stared at Mirva with a sullen face, and suddenly the corners of his mouth hooked up, as if he had an irrepressible emotion.

Did Milva make a big mistake?

To be honest, what she did was what Lann would do to every villager who spat at him in the game. Everything is burned to death with [Igni Sign].

The so-called squirrel school of plucking geese and plucking their hairs, comes here.

But in reality, there is nothing wrong with an attendant seeking justice for the sworn lord.

It's just that Lan saw something bad from it.

After all, Milva used to wander in the jungle before, but she has just been taken into the city for the past two years. Although she is loyal to herself because of the [Followers] panel and other factors, compared to House and Levin, she always has An untamed wildness.

Lane didn't think this was a bad thing, but if she let it go, she might become the trigger in some big events in the future because of her wildness, detonating some unpredictable explosives.

The defense plot of many novels begins like this.

Therefore, although Lan was secretly pleased with what Milva did, he still had to punish Milva appropriately.

While he was thinking, Milva, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly spoke again.

"My lord, actually after I went to the beekeeper's house... I also went to the lord's mansion in the White Orchard and killed all the livestock in their house."

Lan's thinking suddenly paused, and he began to search for keywords.

White orchard, livestock, kill.

"What did you kill?"

"Everything, mainly cattle and sheep."

"How many did you kill?"

Milva felt that Lann's tone was wrong, and after searching for a long time, he said dejectedly: "It's too dark, I drank again, I can't remember..."

"Is there enough for six cows?"

Milva answered much faster this time: "It must be more than that!"

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In the countryside of Baiguoyuan, there has always been such a legend:

Once, on a certain day, a deer-headed demon who didn't know where it came from arrived at the White Orchard. This monster, which can be regarded as a wild god in a small village, gave birth to an offspring with a cow for some unknown reason.

The offspring born from this head mainly have the appearance of a deer head demon, and their habits are also similar to that of a deer head spirit, wandering in the forest all year round.

But it also has a strong sense of identity with the other side of its own blood—that is, the cattle. When the cattle in White Orchard are killed or injured in a short period of time, it will rush out of the jungle because of sadness and anger, and punish these cattle. Herders who do not take good care of their cattle.

Rural unofficial history is always unavoidable to greet the next three ways. Biologists scoff at this kind of legend, but folklorists think it is a good material that can be used to enrich their thesis.

Occultists have a more reasonable explanation for this: the monster wandering in the ginkgo garden is a kind of spirit similar to forest spirits, and it once signed a contract with the herdsmen, promising to protect the herdsmen's cattle and sheep. And when the local cattle and sheep are seriously injured, it will appear and kill the murderer who hurt the cattle and sheep according to the contract.

Regardless of which of the above statements is correct, they all have one thing in common: when the cattle in the White Orchard suffered a lot of casualties in a short period of time, this monster would sense it and then appear.

These legends are not even poetry, at most they are children's bedtime stories. The fact is that this generation has never seen the fabled monster since birth, and the livestock at White Orchard have always been well cared for.

Cattle and sheep are the lifeblood of herdsmen, even if they let their children get sick, they will not allow cattle and sheep to suffer from plague, so there has not been a large number of sudden deaths of livestock in the White Orchard for a long time.

The price of live cattle and sheep is also expensive. Even if the absurd lord holds a banquet, he only kills one or two cattle a day. One day in the future, he may go crazy and kill the livestock for fun, but at least not now.

Peaceful Temeria had been peaceful for decades, two or three generations for the villagers, so they had all but forgotten the rumor.

Until today, Baiguoyuan finally recalled the fear of being dominated by monsters.

Not long after Lan En and his party left, a creepy howl suddenly came from the forest, breaking the tranquility of the White Orchard.

The sound seemed to be that a hundred cows and a hundred sheep screamed at the horn together, and then a huge monster with ram horns rushed out of the forest.

This monster has a goat's beard and argali horns, a cow's neck and a mouth with three eyes and sharp teeth. The forelimbs are like lizards, with sharp claws; the hind limbs are hooves, thick and powerful.

To everyone's horror, this monster was extremely huge. It bent its body with its thick forelimbs like an orangutan. Even so, it was a head taller than the thatched house.

In the demon hunter's monster illustration book, this kind of monster is named "雠 (chou second sound) special monster", and the popular way of naming it is called "claw monster".

Anything with the word "magic" will not be simple. And the classification of goats is the same as that of nymphs such as fairies in the lake—residues.

Of course, it is definitely not as terrifying as those demons and deer-headed demons who are also "remnants". But even the remnant goalkeeper is far from being able to deal with the villagers and guards of the White Orchard.

At the beginning, the goat was just wailing around the corpses of cattle and sheep behind the lord's mansion, which resounded throughout the White Orchard, and then wandered around the village as if looking for something.

It didn't attack villagers like crazy, but its strong body and violent running would smash walls and houses from time to time.

At this time, the guards with swords launched a tentative attack on the goat.

The goat retaliated angrily.

The guards were all wiped out.

The body taller than the hut and the knotted muscles make the village guard's armor a decoration. Being caught by its claws is like adding a sword to the body, and being swung by its arms is like being hammered.

Within a few rounds, the town's guards were killed or wounded.

At this time, the red-haired Princess Adda arrived in White Orchard with a dozen of her knights in a suit of knight armor.

"What kind of monster is this? When did White Orchard have such a thing?"

Adda yelled in amazement. Along with her was the tax official appointed by the king to the White Orchard. Seeing the situation in the White Orchard, he almost fainted.

"Her Royal Highness, be careful, step back quickly!"

Because it was near the capital of Temeria, Yada didn't bring too many soldiers to follow, but the ones she brought out were all genuine knights, who had received strict knife-tip training since childhood, and stood out from all kinds of duels. Several tournament champions in various competitions.

And judging from their usual drinking and chatting, among these knights were powerful knights who had hunted griffins and manticores.

At this moment, they drew out their weapons together and formed an formation tacitly, vowing to protect their princess with swords.

The red-haired princess stood proudly at the back, thinking about which room she should hang the head of this strange guy in front of her, and then saw those knights who claimed to have killed griffins and manticores being beaten to death. Armor cracked, hands and feet twisted.