Back in his luxury carriage, Shiloh was about to discuss with Connor the guinea pig they encountered last night. He wanted to ask the knowledgeable knight commander if he had ever seen such a strange troop with mutated bodies. Before he could wait, he
After summoning Connor, he heard Connor's voice coming in.
"Your Highness, the girl behind the motorcade has been following us."
Shiloh knew without even thinking that it must be the stubborn girl Claire. He frowned, wondering why this girl was so stubborn, but he couldn't bear to see a girl dying in the wilderness, so he casually said: "Here
She has a horse, take her with you."
"Your Highness, this girl refused our help and just followed us closely."
Shiloh was stunned, stepped out of the carriage and climbed up to look into the distance. Sure enough, dozens of meters behind the motorcade, Claire was holding the child, following closely behind.
Is this girl so determined?
Shiloh was stunned for a moment.
He frowned slightly, finally sighed and said: "Send a few people to keep an eye on her to protect her safety. She has a child and won't last long... Don't let her die."
Connor nodded, called a few knights and gave instructions. The knights looked at each other, then slowed down and came to the end of the motorcade, looking after the girl vaguely.
Shiloh was not in the mood to sit back in the carriage now, so he sat outside the carriage and chatted with Connor.
"Connor, do you think it's too much of a coincidence that Baron Luther suddenly broke his leg?"
"When something unexpected happens, something must be wrong. Your Highness should know this truth, but this matter should have nothing to do with us."
"Huh? How do you say it?"
"In the past few days, Your Highness has been staying in Kul Tiras, Sir Jerry has not acted arrogantly. His subordinates have been guarding His Highness for three days, and they have not found any behavior in setting up spies or bribing the soldiers of the Storm Camp. Therefore, Sir Jerry has
Your Highness probably means no harm."
"As for whether Lord Jerry and Baron Luther have premeditated this matter, it still needs to be observed, but since they chose not to set off with His Highness, there should be nothing to worry about."
Shiloh nodded, but he always felt that Jerry's attitude towards him was a little subtle, with a hint of indescribable weirdness in it, which made him very concerned.
But now that we have left Kul Tiras and arrived in the royal capital, everything will be easy to talk about.
"Connor, how long does it take for us to reach the royal capital?"
"According to the current foot power, we will continue to go north, cross the Dragon Bone Mountains, and drive at high speed for almost a week through the Red Leaf Plain, and then we will arrive at the boundary of the royal capital."
I didn't expect it to be so far away.
Shiloh frowned and once again lamented how inconvenient a world without high-speed rail and airplanes would be.
The convoy was slowly advancing in the wilderness. At this time, the people guarding Hilo were the soldiers of the Storm Battalion brought from Hope Island. They were all their own people, and Hilo seemed much more relaxed.
When leaving Kul Tiras, Jerry gave Shiloh a group of 50 horses to serve as foot power. Now everyone of the knights was finally equipped with a war horse. They were divided into 10 teams of scouts, repeatedly scouting the surrounding situation to ensure that they were aware of the surrounding situation.
Everything is well understood.
Everyone walked in the wilderness for three consecutive days, during which they also encountered several groups of bandits. However, when these bandits saw the orderly formation of the soldiers of the Storm Camp, they did not even dare to show their faces, and fled without a trace.
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According to Connor, there are countless bandits in the kingdom, and they are all extremely vicious people who are on the run.
After Shiloh saw what happened in Cole Village, he felt that these bandits were probably desperate people.
This is the fundamental problem caused by the backwardness of the political system.
However, Shiloh would naturally not put this idea on the table. After all, it was not his turn, as a down-and-out prince, to comment on the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Pontos.
Claire, the surviving girl from Cole Village, had already joined the convoy. This girl stubbornly followed Shiloh for two days. Her delicate soles had a large amount of blood blisters, but she still followed.
Shiloh, I never cried out in pain.
Although she could get water and food from Shiloh every day, the long-term fatigue finally made her unable to hold on and fainted the next night.
Fortunately, Hilo had the foresight to let a few knights secretly protect the girl's safety. Otherwise, she would have been in a coma in the wilderness for a night, and she would have become a beast's delicacy the next day.
After Claire joined the convoy, Shiloh let Claire live in his carriage. He himself got off the car and ate and slept with the soldiers of the Storm Camp. After a few days, he lost some weight.
Naturally, this was done to establish a clear relationship with Claire, but the soldiers of Storm Camp would not care about this. In their hearts, His Highness Shiloh must have been with this pretty girl for a long time.
After all, Prince Hilo's romantic affair is still being circulated in the royal capital, and has become a topic of conversation for everyone to chat about driving after dinner.
At noon on the third day, everyone finally arrived at the boundary of the Dragon Bone Mountain Range. According to Connor's introduction, their destination was an ancient city wall at the foot of the Dragon Bone Mountain Mountain. It had developed into a small market, where a large number of people gathered.
Pedestrians who want to cross the Dragon Bone Mountains.
Everyone can rest under the ancient city wall for a night, replenish water supplies, and then climb over Dragon Bone Mountain. The journey after that will be smooth.
After marching in the wilderness for three days, surrounded by the same desolate scenery, Hilo had long felt bored. Now he just wanted to cross Dragon Bone Mountain quickly and see the most luxurious and prosperous city in the Kingdom of Pontos.
At Herod's request, everyone speeded up and arrived at the gathering place Connor mentioned at sunset in the afternoon.
This is a carefully built city wall that extends along the foot of Dragon Bone Mountain for several hundred meters.
Time has left countless traces of wasted time on the walls. Weeds grow under the ruins of the walls, and there are still some damaged buildings around.
Around the city wall, many pedestrians, caravans, and mercenary groups were stationed here to rest. Seeing Shiloh and his group approaching, they couldn't help but look on guard.
What's more, what Connor said is that there is no official involvement in this market, so the people who control this place are the largest mercenary group in Pontos - the Iron Fang Mercenary Group.
Under the protection of the Iron Tooth Mercenary Group, pedestrians and merchants passing by here only need to pay a cost-effective management fee to rest and replenish supplies.
They were all official troops, so they naturally did not need to pay this fee. As soon as the Storm Battalion soldiers appeared, there was a small commotion, and countless eyes suddenly gathered here.
Connor rushed forward and asked loudly: "Where is the steward of the Iron Fang Mercenary Group now?"
There was a rush of people, and after a while, a man came out on horseback. He was wearing an armor with iron sheets on his body, and had blond hair hanging over his shoulders. He was quite handsome.
"I am Augustine, the captain of the third battalion of the Iron Fang Mercenary Regiment. I wonder who you are -"
Connor took out a badge and threw it into Augustin's arms. Augustine picked it up and looked at it, and immediately showed a respectful expression. He dismounted anyway, walked quickly to Connor, knelt down and saluted.
"The common people didn't know that you were coming, so they missed you from afar. I hope you can forgive me."
"No problem, come out in a circle and let my soldiers rest."
"yes."
Augustine hurriedly called his men to arrange accommodation and food. At the same time, members of the Iron Fang Mercenary Group dispersed the crowd of onlookers under his command.
Shiloh looked at this scene and thought to himself, this is the status gap between civilian and official armed forces. It is really huge.