"Bodouge Diocese" is located in the central and western part of the kingdom, adjacent to Iversa and is closer to the area where the royal family is located

In Roddy's memory, this parish was the place where the "rebel army" made its fortune after the orc invasion - because it was surrounded by mountains and two rivers as barriers, the core territory of the entire parish was easy to defend and difficult to attack due to the natural environment. Soderol "rises up" here and leads the civilians who have no way to retreat on the road to fighting against the orcs.

If a war breaks out, Bishop Benjamin will definitely be Roddy's main backing in the "Rose Cross"... In this way, the "District of Bodog" can be connected with Iversa and effectively expand the "strategic depth"

Roddy never took a chance and thought that he could win every battle, and he knew very well the significance of "strategic depth" to war: the "blitzkrieg" during World War II, Poland did not have enough strategic depth, and was raided by the German army to Warsaw after only 9 days. The entire country was directly destroyed by the unstoppable enemy, and after 2 days, he had to sign a surrender agreement - Roddy did not want the Karen Kingdom to encounter the same fate.

“The Parish of Bodog is a great place.”

Roddy continued to chat with the bishop for a few words, and Benjamin knew that it was time to leave, so he clicked to stop and politely offered his farewell.

After only Roddy and Angma were left in the study, the old and the young naturally started talking about orcs.

"I saw the news about Sora's post. The reason why the orcs appeared there was strange. I need more information to judge."

Duke Angma raised his hand and pointed to the desk, and said weakly: "I can do it in advance on the map, and that's almost all."

Roddy picked up the map and found the marked sentries, fortresses and defense lines, which proved that the duke had used almost all of his resources to prevent war...

This touched Roddy a little, after all, it meant that the duke had "complete trust" in himself: he could imagine that even if he had replaced any other noble, even if he believed that the orcs would invade, he would not be able to really invest so much energy to prevent it.

This is the real employment of people.

Roddy took a breath slowly and quickly escaped from this emotion - trust represents recognition of strength. He understood that he was not here to eat. After carefully looking at the map, he narrowed his eyes and said, "I don't know if it's my illusion. The orcs appeared at Sora's post, which seemed to be for several key defense areas."

"The Naihemian prairie is a natural barrier. Emperor Kangen drove them there in order to give the kingdom the initiative... Speaking of which, as the duke of the border, my duty is to resist foreign enemies, but now I realize that I have not done too much in the past few years."

Duke Angma was quite guilty of his words. His face was old because of illness, but his eyes were still sharp. His fingertips gently stroked several areas. He sighed: "There are defense loopholes in these places, and the flaws are very big. However, I have been working hard to make up for it recently, and the Sora sentry is the place with the biggest loopholes because its area is really special."

"Three irrelevant areas often mean chaos and trouble."

Roddy looked at the place where lines meet on the map. The "Sora Post" can be said to be built on the border of the Kingdom of Karen. Standing there, looking northwest, the Tasman's Gondola Mountains on the left, the Neihemian Grassland on the right, and the Kingdom of Karen behind, without a village or a shop in front, the nearest supply station is more than a hundred kilometers away, and there is a desolate area like an isolated island.

"The Sora sentry is where I invest the most resources, but the results are not good. Recently, news of soldiers' deaths have always been heard... Obviously, the exploration activities there are not going well." The duke's tone was faintly worried, "There is too little useful information that can be sent back, the terrain is complex, and there are more monsters than any forest, which is really a headache."

Roddy understood the difficulties, but he did not have the intention to travel for him: he had to be busy with too much, and now he was still doing what Datou Bing did, but instead had the strength to make the wrong place.

"Then I can only wait for new news. I can't even hurry up. What's important is... can the logistics keep up?

"It's a bit difficult, and the territory's fiscal revenue is not very optimistic."

Angma didn't say the specific numbers, but this was just a frank manner.

But Roddy obviously has a lot to express about this problem: "Finance, I may have a suitable solution..."

The war costs money, and it costs more than anything else. The territory has not made much profit in recent years. Suddenly, this plan was launched, and it was financially difficult to avoid - Angma had thought of many ways and was even ready to increase the tax rate, but this was ultimately a poison to quench thirst, and there was no real solution.

So after hearing Roddy's words... Angma raised her gaze and asked incrediblely: "You really have a way?"

At this moment, Roddy couldn't help but start the "fire form". Thinking back to the guys who were selling Amway products in his memory, he coughed lightly and said, "Duke, have you heard of the wood elves?"

While Roddy and Angma discuss business issues in Elsa Village, Sulun and Nata have been placed in the luxurious rooms of the Duke's mansion respectively.

Although Sulun is a human and Nata is a wood elves, the environments of the two have been very different since childhood, their reactions are the same in this mansion that has accumulated countless wealth and has been built for more than two hundred years.

shock.

Sulun had no experience in entering the great noble mansion before today, and when the maid took him into the warm and comfortable guest room suite, he realized that his previous imagination of the "noble mansion" was simply ridiculous.

It is not like the gentry nouveau riche who is inlaid with gold and silver, and wishes that the floor is covered with gold bricks, everything in the Duke's mansion seems to have hidden the word "content" under the surface without any hesitation.

Su Lun raised his foot and stepped on it. The carpet was soft, the craftsmanship was exquisite, and it exuded a faint fragrance. The furniture in his vision was simple and exquisite, with a comfortable layout, and the surface of solid wood was extremely smooth. After years of use and maintenance, the quaint and vicissitudes of the atmosphere were far more intoxicating than gold.

The candlestick is made of silver, and the armchair in front of the fireplace is probably three or four times older than Sulun. Almost every furniture and decoration has carvings from top masters. Ordinary people may just think it is beautiful, but they do not know that their value has long exceeded the same volume of gold.

Sitting here, Su Lun couldn't help feeling the majesty of the big family that had lasted for hundreds of years. He felt inexplicably pressured in his heart. Even if a maid was humbly providing him with one or another service, he could not really relax.

The strength Roddy showed is so amazing at this time, so what kind of changes will he bring in the future...

A huge confusion filled his mind, but after a long time, what arose was inexplicable fighting spirit and expectation - he suddenly realized... what he greeted him next might be the "future" he had never imagined.

From this moment on, Sulun no longer had any other thoughts and became a member of Roddy's camp.

In the other room, Nata stood in the antique room, looking at everything around her at a loss.

Compared with the simple Elsa Village, everything in front of us undoubtedly goes to another extreme.

After the maid left, Nata's indifference gradually faded, and instead was unconcealed surprise - unlike Su Lun's "inferiority" caused by her background, Nata's shock at this moment came completely from the deep "curiosity" buried in her heart.

I looked left and right, raised my hand to touch it, but I remembered what Roddy had said to me, so my fingertips, which had originally reached for the quill, froze in the air, and then reluctantly took it back.

If it is broken, the teacher will definitely say mine.

After repeating this with her in her heart several times, Nata suppressed the little impulse. After thinking about it, she simply put her hands behind her and walked back and forth in the room. If someone could see her "curious baby" at this time, she would probably think that she and Nata, who had a cold face in the past, were completely different.

Cushions embroidered with wolf head patterns, wooden posts carved with characters' stories, real "exquisite" long swords on the weapon stand, and found anything that looks novel. Nata would put the exquisite face close, carefully examine it, sniff it, then raised her head with a vague understanding, blinked her big eyes to find the next target...

She didn't even notice it herself. She had unknowingly eliminated her fear and vigilance for the human world, and sometimes she even forgot the reason for following Roddy in the first place - everyone was changing. Nata originally thought that all her energy would be devoted to studying archery, but now... studying these strange things in humans seems to be much more interesting than shooting archery -

Is this the "big city" of human beings mentioned by the teacher?

It's really spectacular... Such a high city wall is difficult to climb up. Those houses with pointed roofs are even taller than the tallest trees in the forest. Are these all built by humans?

And...their clothes look so good

In Nata's eyes, even the maid who sent her over, the lace-edged clothes were a novel thing that made her envious. Women's nature of liking beautiful clothes seems to be regardless of race. Nata used to be as cold as an iceberg, but at this time, due to the drastic changes in the environment, the idea that she was buried deeply in her heart gradually surfaced: I really don't know what kind of skirt she would look like... would it look good?

But in that case, the teacher will blame himself...

Thinking of Roddy's warning to him, Nata sighed slightly, looked at the wide and comfortable big bed, and felt that it seemed that the best choice was to go to bed directly.

But Nata, who has a serious "cleanness obsession", would definitely not go to bed directly. She looked at the door leading to several other rooms in the guest room, gritted her teeth, and finally made up her mind to push it open - and she did find what she needed.

It was a marble bathtub with magic arrays that heated and sprinkled with petals in the pool water…
Chapter completed!