As for the second item, he ordered the coolies and craftsmen to start laying various large pits and retaining walls outside the castle.
It also includes various offensive buildings, such as bunkers, arrow towers, and positions for launching crossbows.
As a lord, he has absolute authority over the territory, so he doesn't need to explain anything to his subordinates and serfs when he orders these arrangements.
The coolies and craftsmen also worked very hard. Even in the cold winter with thick snow, the work was unobtrusive. Soon various deep ditches and wooden walls and fences began to appear outside the castle.
Just when Nalant thought he could safely wait until the tide of dark creatures came, he encountered something unusual in the last five days.
"Sir, I followed your instructions and led the coolies to set up a temporary camp for ten thousand people on the grassland. However, something unusual seems to have happened in the past two days. I was worried about what would happen, so I came to talk to you.
Please report it!"
This morning, after Nalant had just finished breakfast and was preparing to practice his fighting spirit, Mario hurried to the castle to report.
"Why is this unusual?" Nalant frowned. Five days later would be the day when dark creatures would invade, and he didn't want any other surprises to happen at this juncture.
"Sir, all the serfs and coolies working on the grasslands have recently reported that there are many traces of wild beasts around the camp, and some of the traces may have been left by monsters. It seems unusual for such a thing to happen in winter."
Since it is winter, and it is also the coldest day in an eight-year cycle, people need to hide, and the same goes for animals.
But these days, a group of serfs working on the grassland discovered that wild beasts often appeared outside the camp.
And the frequency of this occurrence is very high, and sometimes you can even detect that some traces are not left by ordinary wild animals, and their size can only be that of Warcraft.
Therefore, all the serf coolies became uneasy and immediately reported it to Mario.
And Mario didn't dare not pay attention to it, and immediately reported it to Nalant.
"A lot of traces of wild beasts? And some of Warcraft?" Upon hearing this, Nalant also realized that things were unusual.
The place he chose was on the edge of the grassland, not deep in the grassland, and not too close to the Fiery Forest.
In this way, there is no reason for so many wild beasts to appear in this winter when the snow can reach up to the knees.
"Ding, the appearance of wild beasts and magical beasts may indicate something. As a lord, you must pay attention to this matter!"
"System side mission: Go to the grassland camp to check the situation and ensure the safety of the temporary camp!"
"Mission reward: the transformation of an elf!"
"Huh? The transformation of an elf?!"
Before Nalant could react, the sound of the mission issued by the system appeared in his mind.
However, this mission reward really made Nalant's heart beat.
The transformation of the little elf means that Nalant will soon have a big elf.
"Come here!" The next moment, Nalant no longer hesitated and stood up immediately.
"Sir, what are your orders?" A servant at the door immediately respectfully entered the conference hall and asked.
"Notify the guards and the Knights of the Storm to prepare to follow you out of the castle. By the way, let's inform Shirley and the others!"
"Yes, sir!" Upon hearing this, the servant immediately ran out of the hall to follow the instructions.
Nalant, on the other hand, took Lilia directly back to the third floor, and then put on his armor under Lilia's service.
In just over ten minutes, Nalant's team was assembled, and under his leadership, they left the castle directly and headed south of the territory.
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Although there is a road directly leading to the grassland in the territory, the heavy snow these days has made traveling difficult.
It took more than three hours before Nalant led the team to the temporary camp on the edge of the grassland.
The temporary camp is now more than half complete, the surrounding wooden fences have been erected, and some tents in the middle have also begun to be set up.
Narant was not worried about the construction status of the camp, so he went to the camp to directly explore the conditions around the camp.
Because of the snow, some animal traces around the camp are easy to spot.
When Nalant walked around the camp, he found that there were many traces of wild animals passing by.
"Sir, these are the traces of a wolf pack. It is a large wolf pack with at least more than a hundred wild wolves!"
As a native barbarian on the grassland, Da Shitou was quite familiar with the animals on the grassland. When he saw a large mess of traces in front of him, he immediately reported to Nalant with a solemn expression.
"Such a big group?" Nalant was also a little surprised.
"Sir, we often encountered wolf packs on the grasslands in the past, but most of them were packs with only a few dozen wild wolves."
"Wolves with hundreds of wild wolves can only appear in the depths of the grassland. Now they appear on the edge of the grassland. It seems that this has never happened before!" Big Stone continued.
"Yeah!" Nalant nodded.
Animals are also afraid of people, even wild wolves are no exception.
Facing the title knight, there is no difference between ten wolves and ten lambs.
Therefore, capable wolves will stay away from humans and occupy safer places deep in the grasslands.
Therefore, there must be something driving them to appear here now.
"Come on, let's follow these tracks and take a look. Shirley, let Xiao Huihui fly out and report back immediately if we find any traces of animals." Naturally, it is impossible to find out the true cause of the matter by checking the tracks here.
Therefore, Narante must find these animals and let Shirley find a way to find out the situation.
"Yes, sir!"
So, a group of people followed the trail and started searching. With Xiao Huihui and Shirley around, it was not difficult to find the animal's traces.
It didn't take long for Shirley to find a group of grassland creatures, a group of hares.
Under the guidance of Xiao Huihui, he approached the group of hares, and then asked Shirley to get closer and directly activate the deterrence ability. The next moment, several rabbits stayed in place and were captured.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But unfortunately, these hares did not provide any information to Nalant.
Although Shirley can communicate with them, their intelligence cannot describe clearly what is happening in the grassland.
In the end, the hares just told Shirley that they sensed danger on the grassland and ran to the edge in order to stay away from the danger.
Narant had no choice but to release a few hares and continue to look for other animals with higher intelligence.
Nalant felt that at least he had to catch a wild wolf or a monster creature so that he could ask some questions.
As they moved forward, they unknowingly had been traveling for more than two hours, and the edge of the Fiery Forest could already be seen in the distance.
"Sir, Xiao Huihui said that there are wolves ahead, and there seems to be a magical beast among the wolves!"
It was at this time that Shirley reported again.
"Let's go there!" Nalant didn't hesitate and went directly in the direction pointed by Xiao Huihui.
After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at the place where Xiao Huihui discovered the wolves.
The wolves were actually hunting at this moment, with a large group of wild beasts surrounded by them in a circle.
And these more than a hundred wild wolves, under the command of their wolf king, a second-level magic beast, are harvesting wild animals such as hares, wild boars, wild deer, etc. in the encirclement.
These wild wolves were not immediately aware of the appearance of Nalant and others.
Upon seeing this, Nalant directly stopped Quick and others, and then said: "You all wait here, Shirley, come with me!"
"Yes, sir!"
Girl Shirley is enough to deal with these beasts.
Moreover, Nalant did not come to kill, but to understand the situation, so these wild wolves must also be captured alive.
He pulled the little girl Shirley directly onto the back of the white dragon horse, and then gently tapped the belly of the white dragon horse with his feet, and the white dragon immediately ran forward.
Ho ho ho!
As the white dragon ran wildly, Nalant approached the wolves' hunting ground in just half a minute.
Naturally, the Wolf King and the other wild wolves noticed his arrival, and immediately started baring their teeth and roaring at him.
But Nalant didn't care at all and directly let the white dragon go towards the Warcraft Wolf King.
Roar!
Ouch...
On the way, he passed several wild wolves. Seeing how big he was, these wild wolves immediately swooped down from the side and attacked him. Upon seeing this, Nalant directly kicked the wild wolf, sending it flying five or six meters away.
When the other wild wolves saw this, they were immediately frightened and did not dare to step forward, and the wolf king even wanted to run away.
Obviously, with its IQ, it has already felt the threat of Nalant, not to mention that Nalant is also riding on the white dragon, a magical beast horse.
"Want to run away? Can you escape? Shirley, deter it!" Nalant also saw the wolf king's plan. When the white dragon approached the wolf king, he directly gave instructions to Shirley.
"Yes, sir!"
Shirley's little face flushed with excitement. This was the first time she encountered so many wild beasts. After hearing her master's instructions, she also directly activated the power of deterrence.
Ouch!
The wolf king felt the power of intimidation and instantly clamped his tail. The previous majesty was nowhere to be seen.
However, what surprised Nalant was that the wolf king did not collapse on the spot, but ran faster.
However, it was facing a Scud like Bailong, so how could it possibly escape?
Bailong directly activated his sprint skill and immediately caught up with the wolf king.
Ouch!
The wolf king felt the threat at hand and had no hope of escaping. He finally lay on the ground and shivered.
"Although the power is still a bit weak, it's not bad!"
The reason why the wolf king fled earlier was obviously because Shirley's intimidation was not high enough to scare the wolf king to paralysis immediately.
However, considering that the little Loli has just completed the intermediate awakening, it is already very powerful for low-level monsters to see her like a mouse sees a cat.
Moreover, when the little Loli grows up, she will definitely become a super god, because except for the wolf king, all the surrounding beasts have been subdued.