Chapter 14 The Fallen Lord
The geographical location of Bluestone Town is located on the edge of the northeast corner of the Warcraft Jungle. It is the fief of the next baron of the Iron Duchy of Steel, and the area is not small. But even so, no baron wants this fief.
As the lord of Bluestone Town, Bluestone Barta William is obviously a marginal lord.
William's father was a down-and-out count of the Grand Duchy of Steel, and William was a descendant who was not favored by the Count, otherwise he would not have been granted such a vicious place.
Although after more than 20 years of reclaiming by the Balta family, it has actually been opened up as farmland and settled in a place with a population of less than two-thirds of the entire town.
The remaining one-third are wasteland.
Bluestone Valley and Bluestone Town are such wild lands. The lord's knights need to fight outside, and these wild lands need to be reclaimed by serfs and civilians.
The Bluestone Valley is extremely barren and not flat, and has low development value.
And the most important point is that the south and east of the Bluestone Valley face the Warcraft jungle, and the border with the Warcraft jungle, which also makes this territory even more sinister.
For humans, even low-level monsters are extremely fatal. Even the lord's entourage knights are just apprentice knights. It is not easy for a down-and-out lord like William to have eight entourage knights under his command.
Although each trainee knight only briefly extracts a trace of Dou Qi, it also requires a lot of food to consume. Food is not grain, but more of it is meat. Only strong people can refine Dou Qi.
William looked at his subordinate knight with a depressed expression. Although he was just an apprentice knight, each of them was his accumulated wealth.
Armor, knight spear, sword, war horse, food, all of which require a large amount of gold and silver coins.
Qingshi Town is very poor, and it is impossible to rely on Qingshi Town to raise a team of knights.
In the past few months since I came to Qingshi Town, the gold coins I brought from my family have been almost exhausted.
If this continues, he has to ask, the brothers and elder sisters who look down on him have borrowed money.
William thought for a month and finally decided to go to the edge of the monster jungle to hunt monsters. The flesh and flesh of the monsters are very valuable, and the magic core is even more expensive.
"I hope the goddess of luck protects me!"
William rode his beloved horse and suffered great ups and downs in this hunt.
When facing monsters, ordinary people are just a delicious dish. Even hunters dare not easily test the depth of monsters. Of course, some adventurers will still hunt monsters. Every monster, every piece of meat on their body, every inch of fur, every piece of meat, every piece of meat, every piece of fur, can be exchanged for gold coins.
But even low-level monsters are not something that the apprentice knights can compete with. It is estimated that the eight entourage knights under William's command may not be able to be defeated!
At this time, William was riding his horse on the streets of the town. The streets were dirt roads, very dirty, and animals and human feces could be seen everywhere - only the nobles would build toilets.
When he saw the Lord William coming, he was on both sides of the street, serfs and civilians who kept bowing to William. These people had envy and fear of the nobles on their faces.
The body will shivering.
The serfs kneel down, and the free people bow.
Serfs occupied the vast majority, and they had sold themselves to the nobles, which was William's private property. William was the master of marriage and funerals. Even if William wanted to exercise the right to the first night, these serfs had to obediently abide by it and wash their daughters and daughters-in-law into the castle.
It was not formulated by William, but the norm for the entire Iron Duchy of Steel and even the many imperial kingdoms of mankind.
During William's tenure in Qingshi Town, he had been reducing the agricultural tax in Qingshi Town. However, Qingshi Town had no mines and no fertile land. It can be said that it was poor and bad water.
There are very few free people in the town, most of them are handicraftsmen, such as hunters and tailors.
The town is very small and dilapidated, with few residents. Even though all the residents have already come to the street to salute, there is still no warm atmosphere.
Looking around, there are only a few hundred people in the town... not as many students as the one school.
The low-rise houses with very low soil and thatched houses stretched out very much. Most of the area of the town is supported by these dilapidated houses. Even two-story buildings are rare, only a few or two households.
This can be clearly felt that the poor living of civilians is.
After walking for a while, the town was no longer visible. Leaving the flat land and entering the jungle area with sparse woods, which was already the edge of the warcraft jungle.
"Master Baron, there are often low-level shadow wolfs on the edge of the Warcraft these days. I hope you just follow me and don't make a rash move." At this point, the captain of the Knight Thomas began to lead the way and told the eight followers of the Knights, "Protect the Baron, unless it becomes a corpse, you will never let the Warcraft go further. Can you do it?"
The Knight Captain Thomas is the only Black Iron Knight in Bluestone Town except for the Lord William. The Black Iron Knight belongs to the next level of the apprentice knight, equivalent to the level of ordinary low-level monsters.
The Black Iron Knight also means having the strength to fight low-level monsters alone!
"Can do it!" the entourage knight responded loudly.
The entourage knights all come from civilians. Here, civilians do not need to go to the battlefield, only nobles and knights use war. However, although the entourage knights are civilians, they still need to go to the battlefield - acting as logistics soldiers and getting better treatment, they have the responsibility to die for the nobles.
The forests are quite lush, and you can occasionally see wild animals, rabbits, foxes, etc. The food on the edge of Bluestone Town is not rich, so large wild beasts are rare, and monsters only occasionally fight the autumn wind in Bluestone Town.
"In spring, summer and autumn, the food in the warcraft jungle can meet the needs of warcraft, so Bluestone Town does not often encounter monsters. However, in winter, hungry monsters often invade Bluestone Town. Every year, several unlucky guys are treated as food for the fruit of the monsters."
William's Knight was a nobleman who was meticulous in his work. He brought all the information he knew in the jungle of Warcraft.
"I hope the goddess of luck will favor me, and may the knight's glory shine on me!" William took a deep breath and prayed in a low voice.
He has also seen several kinds of monsters. He knows that compared to ordinary beasts, the biggest difference between monsters is that they have magic power and can release some powerful magic.
In the past, in Barta Castle, my father ordered people to raise a small animal with some monster bloodlines - Aoki Sheep.
The magic sheep that can produce pasture while eating grass is delicious and the wool is soft and bright. The nobles like to eat this kind of mutton without any mutton smell, while the nobles like to make this kind of wool leather jacket.
He also saw a powerful monster - the fur of the golden-winged iron-backed lion. Earl Barta's favorite chair was covered with the fur of the golden-winged iron-backed lion. The hideous lion's head was made into a specimen and was given to the Grand Duke of Steel by Earl Barta!
The magic core was embedded by him on his favorite sword!
It is said that in order to hunt the golden-winged iron-backed lion, ten brass knights were killed and a silver knight chief was injured.
Ten brass knights are enough to hurt the Knights. Even a battle for territory may not necessarily kill so many brass knights.
What's more, there are more trainee knights killed in battle.
"Lunch time is up, Moff, prepare lunch here."
"Yes, lord!" The old butler Nol Mov immediately got off the horse, found a flat place, laid a carpet, and then placed the dry food one by one.
Simple lunch with bread, fruit salad and half a piece of jerky.
Chapter completed!