Chapter 54: The Pirate Rebellion

In the halls of the Troll Mercenary Regiment, a young knight walked anxiously. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 He was wearing heavy black armor, a sword pinned to his waist, and in his left hand he held a shield that was also pitch black, with a mighty thunderbolt dragon tattooed on it.

"It's Fern. ”

Leitch still has an impression of this young knight, this is one of the few people who took the most firm stance when fighting the Locke family, although their actions are not necessarily right, but Leitch likes this kind of loyal men.

"Lord Baron!"

When he finally saw Leitch, Fern couldn't help but be overjoyed. Especially when he felt the faint aura of a demon slayer on Leech's body, Fern's heart was even more shocked - what a young demon slayer, the Baron really deserves his name for bravery! But thinking about the current situation in the territory, his mood became anxious again.

"What the hell is going on?" Noticing Fern's changing expression, Ricky's pair of sword eyebrows couldn't help but bend in a dignified arc.

"That's right—since you left Black Wind City, Lord Baron, under the coordinated management of Chief Luau and the Knight Elder, the territory has slowly been on the right track. However, more than a month ago, a group of pirates called the red-haired pirates appeared in the Rhino Horn Sea, and they not only plundered the merchant ships and fishermen who went out to sea to fish, but the most hateful thing is that once they even drove their fleets to the vicinity of the East Gate, and threatened to set foot in the Black Wind City!" Fern had already become furious at this point, and looked like he was going to devour those pirates alive.

More than a month ago, although the frosty territory was already snowing heavily, the sea near Rhino Horn did not begin to freeze until January, and the ice period was only about half a month every year. And the harbor of Lei Man City is famous for the ice-free port of the entire Federation!

Although the Black Wind Territory is only more than 700 square kilometers, the coastline is hundreds of miles, so the Black Wind Territory not only has incomparably rich fishery resources, but also has a relatively prosperous maritime trade, and these two account for a considerable proportion of the territory's income. Now this red-haired pirate group is plundering fishing boats and transiting merchant ships at the same time, which obviously doesn't want him to have a good time!

"Could it be that the red-haired pirates are only going to give us a hand?"

The reason why Leitch asked this question is because the sea area where the Black Wind Territory is located is called the Rhino Horn Sea, with a coastline of nearly 500 miles, and if you look at it from a high altitude, you will find that this coastline looks like a rhinoceros horn piercing into the endless sea, so this sea area is also called the Rhino Horn Sea. The sea area of the Black Wind Territory is at the tip of the rhinoceros horn, and there are two territories on each side, and these two territories are much larger than Rych, they are two viscount territories, and I heard that these two viscounts are masters of the Oath level!

"That's right!"

"Hehe, he even threatened to set foot in Black Wind City," Speaking of this, Leki's eyes had already narrowed into a dangerous arc, "What is the strength of this red-haired pirate group." ”

"As far as Chief Luau's investigation knows, there are more than 1,000 people in this pirate group, including more than 300 brave people, and there are also forty or fifty demon slayers, and their leader, the pirate redhead, is rumored to have the strength of a nine-star intermediate night blade!" Although he hated the red-haired pirates, the strength of the other party was indeed quite strong in Fern's opinion, at least the Black Wind Knights were difficult to defeat, which was also the reason for his anxiety.

"In other words, their strength is at least twice that of the Knights?" Reich slowly stomped through the hall, looking thoughtful. After half a ring, Ray said, "Fern, you stay in the group first, and Carl and I go out first." ”

"Carl, do you know anything about the Ivy League?"

"The Ivy Chamber of Commerce knows something. In fact, Leitch originally asked casually, but I didn't expect this guy to really know, but thinking of his "bookworm" nickname, Leitch was a little relieved.

At Leitch's suggestion, Carl continued: "The Ivy Chamber of Commerce was founded 1,500 years ago, and it is also one of the oldest chambers of commerce in the federation, and its peak moment is the S-level Chamber of Commerce. However, since the Ivy family had that internal **** four hundred years ago, it fell to the B-level Chamber of Commerce, and it has been until now. ”

Carl is simply a Dawson federal encyclopedia! Seeing that Carl knew so much about it, Leitch couldn't help but look at him with appreciation.

"And what do you know about Talbot?"

"Talbot Ivy?" Karl frowned and paused for a few seconds before continuing, "Talbot is now Chinese New Year's Eve, the strength of a nine-star intermediate night blade, but with his talent for a high-grade dark soul, he is now only this kind of strength, in my opinion, it can only be said to be terrible. ”

Looking at Carl's shaking his head, Leitch was a little funny, this guy is obviously very young, but he always gives people a feeling of old-fashionedness, and I don't know if it's natural.

"But this guy still has merit, although his strength is not good, but he is indeed quite good at business, and he likes to take risks, after he took over the Ivy family, it is rumored that the Ivy Chamber of Commerce has intervened in a number of lucrative industries, such as smuggling - Talbot, as far as I know, he is an unscrupulous person. As he spoke, Karl looked at Leitch seriously and said, "If you want to cooperate with him, it may not be a wise decision. ”

"Carl, there's a word you haven't heard of before - the king is the king. In this world, history is always written by the victors. ”

Karl was silent as he looked at the figure under the snow and ice in front of him, but his wise eyes flashed with a bright light.

Leitch and Carl braved a blizzard for a long day, and at sunset, they finally reached their destination, an ancient castle, the Ivy Fortress.

The Ivy Fortress is more than a hundred miles away from Lei Man City, and as early as 1,500 years ago, it was erected on the land of Lei Man's territory. At the front are two towers, in the middle of which is a suspended suspension bridge with a deep valley above it, and behind it is a castle built on high rock. Even though it's winter, the fort is still covered in green, a myriad of ivy, and a testament to the history of the ancient Ivy family.

Such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack fortress is simply the envy of Leqi, as long as he cooperates with a certain number of troops, the difficulty of capturing the Ivy Fortress is probably much greater than the difficulty of breaking through his Black Wind City.

After identifying themselves, Leitch and Carl are led across the drawbridge by the Ivy family guards.

"It's an honor, my esteemed Hero of the Federation!" Reich had just crossed the drawbridge when a young man approached him warmly and hugged him as if two old friends had met.

"I've heard of the name of Lord Vulture for a long time!" said Retche hugging Talbot with the same warmth.

If it weren't for the fact that the two had never met at all, looking at their enthusiastic appearance, Carl would have thought that the two were old friends. And the two of them are also quite interesting to each other's names, Talbot called Leitch Federation Hero, and Leitch called each other Lord Wolf Vulture, I don't know what the two of them are thinking******

The Federation hero is easy to understand, because Leitch is visiting Talbot as Baron Blackwind. The wolf vulture is an extremely ferocious bird in the Dawson Federation, with the body of a wolf, but with a vulture-like beak and wings, and the Lord Wolf Vulture in Leitch's mouth is a nickname given to Talbot by some merchants in the Dawson Federation, ridiculing him for being as cunning as a wolf and greedy as a vulture.

Talbot's height is not very tall, about 1.75 meters, and he is half a head shorter when he stands with Leitch; he has two black and back mustaches on his upper lip, his short black hair is slightly upturned, and his brown pupils look bright and deep.

Ratchet was obviously not very respectful of this title, but Talbot was surprisingly not angry, but wiped his beard slightly, looked directly at Retch a few times, and then smiled and welcomed Richie and Carl into the castle hall.

"Lord Leech, I don't know why you braved such a storm to visit me?" Drinking the demonic blood wine in the cup, Leitch was slightly surprised, he thought that Talbot, who looked as gentle and elegant as a troubadour, should drink some mead and wonder wine or something, but he didn't expect him to entertain himself with this demonic blood wine, which is famous for its violence.

Demon blood wine, itself is extremely high, and after participating in some special types of demon blood, drinking it makes people feel more violent like a volcanic eruption, except for those veteran warriors who have been on the bloody battlefield all year round, ordinary people can hardly bear the fury of this wine.

Leitch didn't care, compared to the three glasses of wine he had drunk in the gray realm, the demon's blood wine was a child's child, but Carl was quite surprised, although his eyebrows furrowed deeply when he took the first sip, but soon he looked calm, as if it was just ordinary mead in his mouth, not violent demonic blood wine.

"Your Excellency Talbot, in fact, I should have come to visit you a long time ago, after all, your family's merchant ships often pass through my own seas, and I am quite satisfied with the cooperation with your family. Leitch smiled to himself, and then suddenly changed to a worried look, "But it seems that your Chamber of Commerce has been in a lot of trouble recently, presumably that red-haired pirates who don't know whether to live or die have caused you a lot of trouble, right?"

Seeing that Leitch looked worried about himself, Talbot was genuinely stunned for a second, and then he looked at Leitch with a smile: "My esteemed baron, are you mistaken, it should be that you are in a lot of trouble, right?!"

"There's a little bit of trouble, after all, no one likes to have some bed bugs jumping around in front of their eyes, but during this time, those people under my command can't go out to sea to fish at all, so I don't care, but your chamber of commerce, if you want to bypass my sea, the damage caused is not half a star. Taking a deep sip of the demonic blood wine, Luck stared at Talbot and said solemnly, "But for the sake of you, a long-term business partner, I decided to send troops to help you, how about it?"

"Help me?!"

The next day was a rare sunny day, and early in the morning, Leitch and Carl set off for Thunderman City.

"It seems that you wonder why Talbot would 'believe' my ridiculous reasons?" Before Carl could answer, Leitch smiled to himself, "There is no such thing as disbelief in this, you just need to understand that in this world, the essence of businessmen is to pursue profits, and they don't care whether the reasons are high-sounding or not - if the extermination of the red-haired pirates is indeed beneficial to his Ivy family, why should he Talbot care who is helping whom?"

"Let's go, you guys will join me this time. ”

ps: Ask for collections.