Lord of Hyranza

The cheap oil paintings on the walls and the flowerpots in front of the hallway attracted her attention. If Selina hadn't been holding her little hand, she would have almost stopped in her tracks.

In fact, Nika's performance is not as good as that of Signa. When she stood at the door of the restaurant, she was a little hesitant to follow in or wait outside. Samira saw Nika standing at the door hesitating, so she He waved to him at the door, gesturing for her to come in.

Nika looked down at the slippers with exposed toes, and was afraid to step into the restaurant.

There is a similar restaurant in Kieran Town, and she once peeped in from the street outside the restaurant, but was chased away by the waiter in the restaurant with a stick.

"Come in, it doesn't matter, your current status is Lord Baron Suldak's retinue, they dare not stop you." Samira put one hand on Nika's shoulder, hugged him into her arms, and said into the restaurant.

The waiter at the entrance of the restaurant even took the initiative to open the door for them. Nika didn't know what to do with that humble look. Her heart was beating non-stop, and she walked into the restaurant without doing anything.

Suldak didn't notice these small episodes. He has been discussing with Andrew the next training plan of the cavalry battalion. Since the beast tide is approaching in Dodan Town, the training plan for the cavalry battalion has to be made Some changes, at least the training intensity should be increased. High-intensity training means huge physical energy consumption, which requires the cavalry to increase their food.

And recently, when the patrol team patrols near the border in the north of the city, it must be led by Andrew, Samira, or Gulitum.

Suldak plans to go to the border in the north of the city to inspect it tomorrow.

The dishes in the restaurant here are very single, except for barbecue, there are only some seasonal vegetables and fruits.

On the street of Dodan Town, several aboriginal children stood on the street. Through the window, they saw Nika sitting on a chair at the opposite end of the restaurant, struggling to cut a piece of bloody beef. Such a large piece of beef was a bit of a struggle, and the piece of meat bulged her cheeks.

Those aboriginal children bravely lay down by the window, seeing Nika stuffing a large piece of beef into their mouths, the corners of their mouths drooled out of frustration.

The restaurant waiter saw a group of children surrounded the window facing the street, worried that it would affect the guests' dining, so he hurriedly ran out of the restaurant with a bundle of bamboo sticks, scaring the aboriginal children away.

Nika lowered her eyes, concentrating on cutting the delicious barbecue on the plate, but her mood was extremely complicated.

Only then did she realize that the people in the small town outside hadn't changed, and the people in this small town also looked down on the aborigines. The only thing that changed... was herself.

Samira lifted the hood, revealing a beautiful elf-like face, but those pale red eyes carried a murderous aura that couldn't be concealed. When the eyes fell on the waiters, they would feel a pain in their chests, as if they had been shot in an instant. one arrow...

She recently received Vilu's guidance, and her strength improved a bit quickly, and the side effect that followed was that she couldn't restrain her aura.

I usually wear a hood to cover my face and I don't feel anything wrong, but when I eat, I need to lift the hood, and the light red eyes full of murderous aura are a little too sharp.

She ate half the smoked fish and put the hood over her face again.

Probably because the chief of the garrison of Dodan Town who came to eat, the restaurant owner rushed over, not only brought a bottle of golden cider and a dessert, but also planned to waive the meal fee for Suldak and his party. After lunch, the restaurant owner stood at the door with a big smile on his face and sent everyone away.

The town of Dodan is not big, and the restaurant is only 700 meters away from the town hall. Suldak led a group of people to the gate of the town hall.

Selena put her arms around Signa, pointed to the small square opposite the town to Suldak, and said, "I'll take them there to wait for you..."

Suldak nodded, and he and Andrew walked into the town hall.

Chapter 707

The town hall of Dodan Town is made of bluestone strips, and the surface of the wall is painted with a layer of white ash. On both sides of the steps at the door, there are two sculptures of imperial guards holding shields and spears. Entering the hall of the town hall, facing the entrance of the hall is It is a colorful mural depicting war. Below the mural is the front desk of the town hall. A middle-aged woman is standing behind the front desk, writing on parchment with a quill pen.

Hearing the sound of footsteps at the door, the middle-aged woman raised her head, and her eyes fell on Suldak's chest immediately. Seeing that he was wearing the Noble Medal and the Knight's Badge of the Guard Battalion on his chest, she quickly stood up from the chair and walked around the front desk He walked directly in front of Suldak and said kindly:

"You must be Baron Suldak of the Luthor Legion. Your transfer order has arrived three days ago. Our mayor has been looking forward to your arrival for the past few days, but today is really unlucky. Yesterday outside the city There was a vicious incident in which a bandit group attacked the adventure group, Mayor Marko led the city guards, the armed business group, and the temporary organization of the adventure group went out of the city last night, and they have not returned yet.”

Only then did Suldak know that Mayor Marko was no longer in the town hall, so he asked the middle-aged woman:

"I heard about this from Baron Maynard. Is the loss of the adventure group too big this time?"

"The specific loss has not yet been reported. It is said that this matter has caused a lot of trouble in the adventure group union in the town. Yesterday, just in time for the Langdon Legion garrison to leave, the town did not have enough manpower, so the mayor organized a union The team went to search the mountains outside the city." The middle-aged woman said to Suldak with a smile.

Suldak could feel her politeness and alienation. It seems that the relationship between the local garrison and the town hall is a bit delicate. Suldak didn't ask for details, but asked: "Has the mayor Marko sent back from outside the city?" information?"

The middle-aged woman said quickly: "I heard that some clues have been found, but that mountain is the territory of a local indigenous chief. If the joint team wants to operate there, it is estimated that they need to communicate with the local indigenous chief."

Suldak frowned, and asked the middle-aged woman:

"Do you know the exact location? I'll send someone to ask Mayor Marko if he needs to send out troops."

The middle-aged woman said with surprise on her face:

"It's great of you to come, is there anything I can do?"

Suldak thought for a while before saying:

"I need a guide who is familiar with the terrain on the outskirts of the town."

The middle-aged woman quickly said:

"I happen to have an aborigine here who is familiar with the surroundings of the town. Let him take you to Mayor Marko and the others..."

After she finished speaking, she quickly walked through the corridor of the hall, walked to the stables in the backyard of the town hall, and told an aboriginal groom: "Cory, stop what you are doing, now you will follow this Sur Lord Baron Dak, take him to the north of the town to find Mayor Marko and the others."

"Okay, Mrs. Luna!" The groom quickly stopped what he was doing, stood up and patted the grass on his body, and whispered.

After bidding farewell to Mrs. Luna, Suldak walked out of the town hall with the local aboriginal guide named Corey. Only then did Suldak realize that he did not know the identity of Mrs. Luna.

Suldak inquired with the groom Corey, and found out that Mrs. Luna was actually Mayor Marko's secretary. However, due to the lack of suitable manpower in the town hall, her secretary is currently holding several positions. , even the front desk receptionist, because the only Miss Delia who insisted on the front desk asked for leave, she had to be replaced temporarily. It seems that this town hall is not big.

After Andrew walked out of the gate, he asked Suldak, "Boss, do you want me to go to the camp to gather a cavalry squadron?"

Suldak nodded, and said to Andrew: "Bring more people, and you should familiarize yourself with the environment of the northern mountains in advance!"

"it is good!"

After Andrew finished speaking, he ran towards the cavalry battalion station on the west side of the town.

Walking to the small square opposite the town hall, Suldak happened to see Signa and Selena sitting on a bench under the shade of a tree enjoying the cool.

Nika stood by the pool with her head up, looking curiously at the stone statue of a water girl holding a water bottle in both hands. A stream of clear water flowed out of the water bottle held by the girl in the stone statue, rushing. Entering the pool, a few small fish swim happily in the pool.

Suldak walked up to Selena and sat down, held her white and soft hand, looked at the small square with people coming and going, and said to her, "We're going to live in this small town for a while..."

Selena seemed to be unaccustomed to being held by Suldak in public, her face was reddish, but her eyes were extremely gentle. She held Suldak's thick and powerful hand behind her back and nodded slightly.

Signa, who was sitting on the other side of Selena, asked Suldak, "How long are we going to stay here?"

"Probably have to live until the end of the garrison mission. It is estimated that it will take at least two years." Suldak doesn't know how long it will take to end the garrison mission.

In fact, if he wants to develop a mine here in Duodan Town and open up territory, it will take some time to operate it.

Suldak asked, "Does Signa like it here?"

"Although I am a bit reluctant to part with Wall Village, the environment here is better. There are grasslands and lush trees everywhere, and the climate here is much better than Wall Village." Signa sat beside her mother and said obediently.

Signa is about the same age as Little Peter, but much more mature than Little Peter.

Not long after, Andrew rushed to the small square with three cavalry squadrons.

Suldak asked Selena to take Signa and Nika back to the garrison camp on their own, and left them two veterans of the cavalry battalion, and then they and Samira rode on the ancient horses brought by Andrew. , A cavalry team of nearly 200 men marched through the center of the town and rushed to the gate of the north city wall of Dodan Town.

The people of the small town on the street gave way to the cavalry one after another, and came to the gate of the north city wall unimpeded. The gate of this city wall is usually closed. The guards at the door rushed up with their spears in their hands.

"My lord, are you leaving the city?" the guard asked.

"I'm going to support Mayor Marko, and help me open the gate!" Suldak said on horseback.

Then my city gate guards didn't talk nonsense, and quickly waved the flags in the hands of the guards on the top of the city who were in charge of guarding the city gate's cable winches.

As the winch was slowly pushed by ten aboriginal coolies, the iron fence like an iron gate slowly rose with the sound of 'clicking'. Each iron bar of this iron fence has Suldak's big arm Thick and thin, the entire iron fence is three meters wide, seven meters high, and weighs several tons. However, this is only the first gate of the city wall.

The thickness of the bottom of the entire northern city wall is almost 30 meters, and the gate opening of the northern city gate is also like a deep tunnel.

There are five city gates before and after the north city gate, which need to be opened one by one by the city gate guards.

After waiting for a long time until all the city gates were opened, Suerdak led nearly two hundred cavalry into the V-shaped mountain pass gorge outside the northern city.

Chapter 708 Mayor

Suldak rode out of the dark and narrow city gate, and a wide valley appeared in front of him.

On both sides of the valley are towering and steep mountains. There are green forests at the foot of these mountains. In the middle of the mountains, you can see huge rocks that are as sharp as knives rising into the sky. hidden in the clouds.

Many local aborigines in the Bailin Plane hide in the valleys and forests among the high mountains. These tribes live a half-hunting and half-herding life.

Looking through this valley, you can see the red pine forest on the edge of the Warcraft Forest north of Dodan Town.

The Aboriginal groom from the town hall rode ahead on horseback along a winding mountain road.

There are some large and small water pools on both sides of the road, some of which have dried up, exposing the dry and cracked soil at the bottom of the pool, and some small pools are full of red worms, attracting many waterfowl to gather around the pool and scream. non-stop.

A river in the valley has dried up, and the valley is covered with glass grass, and the half-meter-high grass stems are covered with heavy grass seeds.

Walking out of Dodan Town means entering the Bailin plane. Although this valley is also the territory of the Grimm Empire, without the city wall behind it, there will be a feeling that the local aborigines may come out of the mountains at any time.

In fact, the garrison patrols in Dodan Town had to pass through this city gate every day and walk to the end of the valley. The undulating slopes were truly the border of the occupied area of ​​the Bailin plane.

If you want to open up territory in the northern part of the Bailin Plane, you need to continue to open up from that border to the north.

Of course, for all noble lords, it is not difficult to open up territories.

The difficult thing is how to defend this territory, build walls to block wild animals, build some sentry posts, or remove all potential dangers that may exist in this area. Although these methods can temporarily include a large area of ​​land in the valley north of the city... But Bai The tide of monsters in the forest plane fell, unless another north city wall similar to Dodan Town was built at the exit of the valley, it would be difficult to stop the beasts in the forest.

The landform here is very different from that of Hailansa City. The mountains are taller and more majestic, the pine forests are more dense and compact, and the mountains are well-structured. Looking at the high mountains in front of you, you seem to see the epitome of the four seasons of the year.

The guide only heard that an adventure group was ransacked by a bandit group mixed with local aborigines in the mountains on the east side of the city. He only knew the approximate location of the incident and had never been there.

He rode his horse along the mountain road for a while, saw a fork in the road ahead, and walked towards the pine forest at the foot of the mountain on the east side.

The wilderness in front of me seems inaccessible, and the little beasts living here seem extremely cute, and they are not too afraid of people. When they hear some wind and grass, they will 'swish' into the hiding place. After a few minutes, these little beasts come again Protruding his head from the cave, he watched curiously as Surdak led a cavalry team passing by the mossy grass not far away.

Andrew looked around, and could see that the residents of Dodan Town rarely came to the north of the city wall, and the fertile soil here did not show any signs of reclamation. There were clusters of low shrubs growing on the ground, with some dried berries hanging on them.

Unexpectedly, the land north of Duodan Town is also quite fertile. The grassland in the valley in front of him is very suitable for grazing.

Suldak planned that in the future, it seemed that he would not need to prepare fodder every day, open the city gate, drive out those ancient Bolai horses, and stock them in this valley, which would probably save most of the fodder.

The pine forest at the foot of the mountain is very lush and full of branches. If the cavalry want to pass through this forest, they have to use machetes to open a path in the forest. Fortunately, the groom guide is very familiar with this place, and he took everyone to find a path. The trail hidden in the pine forest, although this road is full of weeds, but there are no horizontal branches blocking the road.

Sure enough, in such a lush mountain forest, a guide who is familiar with the surrounding conditions is still needed.

As we go deeper into the pine forest, each of these tall and strong red pines needs several people to surround and surround them. With direct sunlight coming in and no sunlight, the shrubs and trees in the woods are very sparse, and what often troubles the cavalry battalion is the huge tree trunks that fell in the woodland.

The thickest trunks have a diameter of more than two meters, and they can reach tens of meters in length across the woodland.

There was no way for the cavalry to climb over the tree trunk, so they could only ride around on horses.

The aborigine guide stopped in front and said to Suldak: "Although this is very close to the town of Dodan, this place is already the territory of the Inta tribe. The Inta tribe occupies a large forest in the east of this valley. This mountain forest is only a corner of the forest we see, and the forests at the foot of these mountains are everywhere in this mountain range."

Probably the aboriginal guide has fully integrated into the life of the town, so I heard him say:

"It is difficult for our cavalry and heavy armored infantry to form a battle formation in this forest, so the fighters of the Inta tribe have been active in this forest."

Suldak looked at the pine forest. There were hardly any large wild animals in the forest. It was probably the hunting ground of the Inta tribe. Maybe the adventure group was ransacked by the natives of the Inta tribe. Thinking of this, Su Erdak said to the aboriginal groom guide: "Can you tell us about the situation of the adventure group that was looted?"

The guide looked a little unnatural, and forced a smile at Suldak, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and the dark purple gums looked a bit oozing.

Suldak thought that he wanted some benefits, and felt that it was not easy for the guide to ride the horse and lead the cavalry battalion into the forest, so he didn't think there was any problem with picking up a few silver coins, so he took out a few coins from his pocket. Ten silver coins were stuffed into the guide's hand holding the rein.

The groom guide stared blankly at the silver coin in his hand, hesitated for a while, and then approached Suldak and whispered: "Although I don't know much about them, I also know that they are not a regular adventure group. They usually mainly shuttle through these mountains and forests, looking for those lonely prey in the mountains and forests."

"If they want to hunt monsters, shouldn't they go to the forest of monsters further north?" Suldak asked strangely.

Andrew said with a cold face, "Only slave traders don't need to venture into the World of Warcraft Forest. They only need to wander around in the mountains and forests around the indigenous tribes to capture some local indigenous slaves."

The groom guide also had an unnatural expression, but he still said:

"That's right, now that the beast swarm is approaching, almost all the adventure groups hunting monsters that entered the forest of monsters have evacuated Dodan Town. Only those slave traders can find opportunities to catch slaves in the forest."

Andrew snorted. As an aboriginal warrior of the Nanai tribe, this sort of thing might happen on the Maca plane from time to time, so I heard him say:

"This group of slave traders has probably offended the tribes in the area around Dodan Town."

The groom guide couldn't help but take another look at Andrew. He saw that his thick face was obviously different from that of the Green Empire. He found that he was an aborigine, and his eyes were more friendly. He said to Andrew:

"That's right, people in our small town dare not go out of the city easily, for fear of being retaliated by those tribal warriors along the way."

Suldak frowned and said:

"The mayor of Marco brought his people to stand up for these slave traders and find their lost property?"

The groom guide didn't expect that he didn't control his mouth, and said so many secrets all at once, and muttered in his mouth:

"The mayor must come out to show off, but they probably won't find anyone."

Suldak asked the groom guide: "Why?"

At this time, Andrew replaced the groom guide and explained to Suldak: "It is impossible for the people who have the ability to rob this group of slave traders to be people from the indigenous tribes. It is estimated that they do not have the strength yet, and another group of people should be eyeing this group. Slave trader, maybe it’s other unclean adventure groups who are black and white.”

A group of people walked through the pine forest, and soon met the team that followed Mayor Marko to search for the missing persons of the adventure group. These people had spread out in the forest to search.

When Suldak saw the search team, they were dealing with a porcupine that had just been slaughtered in the forest glade, and they had lit a bonfire in the forest. It seemed that they were preparing to deal with the porcupine. To bake on the spot.

When the members of the search team saw a large group of cavalry coming out of the pine forest, they looked at each other for a while, not knowing what to do.

Holding the porcupine in his hand, a search team subconsciously stood up and gave a military salute to Surdak.