"Lant, you need to decide as soon as possible whether we should leave the territory." Rohr said, looking at Lant, waiting for Lant's decision.

At this moment, Lant was confused, "Where are we going?"

"Of course, go to Maned Wolf City or the forest to the west," Roll said. "You need to make a decision before dawn!"

"Ah, what's going on?" Lant really didn't understand.

"Rohr, Lant has just woken up now and has heard so much knowledge. You need to explain it clearly to him before letting him make a decision." Albert said with some blame.

"Lant is like this. As I said just now, as a lord, you need to defend the land and protect the people. Now the barbarians have reached the Cornico Pass, which is only a day's journey from us.

Although we don't know when they will come now, they will definitely not just come to rob. Once they come, even our baron's castle will not be able to withstand the barbarian attack.

If we fail to resettle the people at that time, resulting in a large number of people being robbed, the Galloping Horse Barony will really be over, and the baronage of the entire Galloping Horse family will also be taken back. "

Albert glanced at Rohr, "Rohr and I have thought of two routes, and it's up to you to decide. The first is to the east. The Blue Magpie Barony east of Rotor's territory is directly under the family of the Earl of Maned Wolf. The territory is only 1 or 2 days away from the Maned Wolf City. As long as we reach the Blue Magpie Territory, we will have the protection of the Earl's Maned Wolf Knights.

The second is the traditional route of the Benma family, escaping westward into the big forest. You don’t have to worry. Both the Benma collar and the Rote collar have had the experience of entering the big forest many times in the past ten years. There are several campsites deep in the forest where you can stay for extended periods of time.

The leading troops of the barbarians are mainly barbarian cavalry. They are tall and large, and it is difficult to move in the forest. If their army dares to enter the forest territory to search, the complex terrain is not conducive to their large number of beasts of burden to transport supplies. Therefore, barbarians never ask for trouble and enter the forest. "

OK, all right. It's really hard to choose whether to live under someone else's roof or to be a wild man. "I want to hear your suggestions"

"I suggest going to the Lot Territory first, and then to the Blue Magpie Territory," Rohr said. "The strength of the barbarians this year is obviously greater than in previous years. In the end, it is very likely that the Earl personally took action to expel these barbarians.

If we go to the Earl's territory, we can know the situation in the territory faster, and we can also let the Earl know earlier that even if Baron Harker leaves temporarily, there will be someone to lead the Galloping Horse Territory even if the Baron is gone.

We will arrive at the Earl's Maned Wolf City in 4 or 5 days, and there will be nothing wrong with it. "

"I think it is better to enter the forest. This forest is full of magic and rich in products. The family has entered the forest many times to take refuge in the past, and they have successfully avoided barbarian intrusions." Albert emphasized.

"How many times?" Lant said.

"Yes, the most recent one was 8 years ago. There was also a large-scale invasion by the barbarians. At that time, the Lord of Lot, Viscount Bob Lot, asked Huck to take care of the people. Huck took all the people from the two territories there. Great forest refuge.

At that time, you were young and had just shown some potential to embrace demons, so Huck sent you to Maned Wolf City and asked you to follow your third brother to the temple there to hide. "

Lant recalled that eight years ago, when he was just 8 or 9 years old, he did go on a long trip with his third brother, but he didn't remember that he actually entered the city. He only felt that he was in a certain monastery.

After listening to the reasons of the two important ministers, Lant asked casually, "Roel, the Viscounty of Lot is only one day away from us, and the Maned Wolf City is only three days away?"

"Of course!" Rohr was very sure.

"How did you get there?"

"Riding! Is there any problem?"

At this time, Albert also came to his senses, "You are the most powerful intermediate knight in the territory. You rode the best horse on the Galloping Horse Plains and took 4 days to get to Earl City. But we moved the people in the territory. It’s all about beasts of burden and horse-drawn carriages. It’s good to be able to cover 2 or 30 miles in a day. How can it be possible to arrive there in only 3 days?”

"But that's only an extra day or two."

"No, you are riding a horse. Unless someone is waiting for you, few people will notice you. There are hundreds of people in our territory, and there are only a dozen or so Demon Empathizers in a huge team. The barbarians will grab whoever you want to grab. What?" Lant added, "But more importantly, you two have witnessed these two days. Don't you think it's a coincidence that we were ambushed in these two days?"

"What?" Neither Luo Er nor Albert had ever thought about this.

"Think about it, both my father and Viscount Roth often come in and out of the Cornico Pass. You two also have experience in entering the pass for business. The pass is more than 20 kilometers long, and there is a continuous road to the north of the pass. Hills and water network.

Whether it was us or the Lot territory, only 10 people were dispatched, and a barbarian tribe often only had 8 or 9 cavalry, and no more than 20 more. The ambush we encountered was equivalent to a medium-sized tribe sending all its cavalry. The troops moved out to focus on us.

I would like to ask, if you two were lords or tribal leaders, under what circumstances would you be willing to use all the fighting power in your territory to make a desperate move? "

"Of course, when the information is very certain," Albert understood what Lant meant, "Are you saying that we were betrayed by Viscount Roth?"

"That can't be true. If the earl knows about this, it will be the end of Viscount Roth!" Rohr said.

Although intrigues among nobles are not uncommon, internal and external relations are two different concepts, especially the Dragon Kingdom, which regards the barbarians on the Galloping Horse Plains as its main opponent. Cooperating with the barbarians to attack other nobles is treason. Once discovered, it will be considered treason. The title was abolished, the territory was abolished or returned to the lord.

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Therefore, in the past, no nobles would use barbarians to deal with other nobles. Naturally, Rohr and Albert did not think about it.

But Lant doesn't think so. After all, he just arrived today and has no idea about the kingdom's traditions. However, he has watched many TV series and played many games before, so it is easy to find a basis for such a simple judgment.

The simplest point is that when Viscount Roth separated from Huck and others, Huck went to the nearby hillside to conduct reconnaissance, and there was no barbarian camp within dozens of miles. Therefore, they were not so much ambushed by the barbarians as they were found by a large group of barbarians.

If Viscount Roth didn't betray them, how could the barbarians find them from dozens of kilometers away?

"Nothing is impossible. Now I have every reason to distrust Viscount Roth. I will not place my hopes on him. You two, I have decided that all the people in the entire territory will move westward tomorrow. Take refuge in the forest." An hour after Lant officially became a baron (acting), he made a decision to follow his ancestors and ran away quickly.

"Yes," Rohr and Albert leaned forward to accept the order.

"Uncle Albert, please organize all the direct people in the baron territory to prepare for migration. Knight Roll, I want you to send the power of the territory to notify the two surrounding knight territories to move and let them go directly into the forest. There is no need to meet up at the Baron's Castle.

In addition, some reconnaissance forces need to be sent out. The Cornico Pass can be seen from the hillside 10 kilometers away to the north. Send people there to keep an eye on it! "

"Yes!" The two of them took the order again.

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Albert looked at several orders made by Lant and felt that Lant was growing very quickly, so he said, "Lant, don't worry too much. For the barbarians, entering the south of the mountain pass is also a big move. They need to cross several roads." A tributary of the Benma River, we still have time.

In addition, there are no valuables in the territorial castle. All valuable magic potions, magic plants, books, weapons, and gold coins are packed and ready to go at any time.

The main thing that the residents need to bring to their homes is food, but we have purchased a lot of beasts of burden and a lot of carriages in the past few years, so the real preparations will be done very quickly. "The beast of burden that Albert is talking about is a kind of animal that is half ox and half horse. This kind of animal has a docile temperament, a broad back, and is easy to breed.

Whether it is barbarians, orcs or humans, they all like to use this kind of beast of burden when climbing long distances.

"Well, that's great," Lant said with a smile. Our hometown is really conscious and ready to run away every day.

But thinking of this, Lant suddenly realized, why am I lying in front of a campfire in the wild?

Shouldn't I be in my baron's castle? So he glanced at Albert: "Uncle Albert, it's so late now, why don't we go back to the castle?"

"..." Everyone was silent again, until Albert laughed dryly, "Lant, you have forgotten, before we set off, your father was afraid that the territory would be harassed by a small group of barbarians, so he took all the grain stored in the warehouse and the last time The goods from the merchants have all been placed on the first floor of the castle, and now the first floor of the castle is full, and we have no place to lift our feet when we go back."

"Lant, have you forgotten that we were the ones who moved tons of grain in?" Rohr added.

"...Oh, yes, I remembered it. We are just in time. We can load all the food into the car and set off tomorrow." Lant smiled, but he was thinking in his heart, am I really a noble? The family works as a warehouse and is an extraordinary porter. When the barbarians come, he can rush to it on his own.

What kind of bad place is this? What a mess. Otherwise, if I try again tonight, I will go back as soon as I close my eyes and kick my legs.

…

Lant lay down again and closed his eyes. He did not fall asleep immediately, and naturally he could not return to the place before the dream began. Because he found that he could feel a large number of light spots around him moving irregularly,

These light spots did not affect Lant's rest, or that kind of light spots were just some kind of signal or some kind of energy. Lant tried hard to make these light spots produce some kind of pattern, but unfortunately, after a long period of time, Various attempts have failed.

In the end, Lant tried to take a breath in his Dantian to concentrate all the energy that could obey him. He tried for another 10 minutes and finally condensed an energy the size of a steel ball. It dispersed in less than 20 seconds. After that, Lant's stomach made a protest sound. The Demon Holder's body was big-boned and made loud noises when he was hungry. This made Lant feel embarrassed and he was too embarrassed to open his eyes.

"Lant? Lant?" A familiar voice sounded in his ears, Nila, Lant's sister. Lant's biological mother passed away early, and Nila took care of her until she was 14 years old. Even if she later inspired the bloodline of the Demon Holder, Nila still took care of the main daily life.

Lant opened his eyes in embarrassment and saw that Nila had brought a lot of food, including dried meat, scones and hot soup: "How can you sleep when you are hungry? You have become a junior knight now. You have no appetite." It’s bigger, eat more to replenish your body.”

"Nila, wait a minute." At this time, Rolle came over with a bunch of dried meat: "These foods of yours can keep you full, but they can't help Lant grow." After saying that, Rolle handed the dried meat in his hand to Lant.

"This is the dried meat of the low-level monster Wind Wolf. I exchanged it with the barbarians during our last trade trip. You eat this.

Only by eating more monster meat can a knight really grow taller. "

To be precise, whether you are a knight, a mage or a cleric, promotion and breakthrough are both a short-term qualitative change and a long-term accumulation of quantitative changes. The total amount of magic power and fighting spirit in the body is directly proportional to the quality and volume of the body. If you want to grow up, The body depends on food, and there are essential differences between things.

Ordinary grains and meats, of course, carry nutrients and therefore supplement the body's consumption. However, Warcraft meat and even magic potions can provide magic power more efficiently, allowing those who possess magic to accumulate and grow more quickly.

Lant looked at the dried meat in Rolle's hand and remembered that half a year ago, after Huck and Rolle went hunting, Huck gave Rolle a portion of the harvested monster meat.

Unexpectedly, Luo Er was reluctant to eat it and even made it into bacon. Although I don’t know how much magic power this marinated meat can still store, I can’t move my eyes away as soon as I see this piece of monster meat, and my eyes are full of words like “I’m hungry” and “I want to eat.” words. Lant was a little embarrassed. After all, he was a lord now. Even if he was an agent, he shouldn't compete with his subordinates for food.

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After a midnight snack of Warcraft meat, Lant went on to sleep without a dream.

At dawn, Lant woke up feeling a little regretful that he could not go back. Soon he also knew that he had indeed traveled to a completely different planet, because two suns, one big and one small, rose one after another.

The huge sun is Raya, a light blue star that occupies most of the sky like a light blue fireball. When the star took off, Lant felt that the surrounding temperature and brightness did not increase more. Instead, some invisible energy became more restless.

"That's the magic element," Albert introduced: "Most of the magic element comes from the gift of Raya. When Raya rises, the magic element on the entire ground will be more abundant. However, we are close to the Galloping Horse Plains. The magic elements here will be more chaotic."

Soon another sun also rose into the sky. This star was Di Yang. It is said that the name of Di Yang comes from a very ancient civilization. Now all races have the same name for the main stars in the starry sky at every moment.

DiYang is smaller than the Sun as seen from Earth, but very bright, and DiYang's ascent rapidly raises surface temperatures.

With the beginning of a new day, the migration work of the residents gradually began. Counting Lant and the others, there were not many demon holders in the territory now. Rohr sent a demon holder to send a message to the two knight territories, and sent another person to the hillside 10 kilometers away to monitor.

Lant, Rohr and Albert took other demon-lovers as laborers and carried food into the castle.

As a powerful person, the Demon Holder is really good as a porter. Lant can carry more than 100 kilograms of grain with extraordinary ease. Lant also tried the Qi Luck Dantian during the transportation process, trying to let the fighting spirit flow in the body.

Rohr saw Lant and said, this is not how to train fighting energy. Lant's total amount of fighting energy is too little now. If he concentrates his fighting energy frequently and cannot replenish the monster meat in time, he will only be in a state of energy deficiency for a long time. , which is not conducive to growth.

After all, Rohr is an intermediate knight, and what he said is very instructive. Lant gave up moving the grudge while moving it and concentrated on his hard work. Just when everyone was half busy, someone suddenly came to report that someone had returned from the Galloping Horse Plains. It was Walker, the junior knight who set out with Huck and the others.