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The north wind blows, and the remnant sun sends the ship home.

Just after the sunset, only an orange-red sunset was left on the top of the mountain, and the crescent moon and a few stars appeared in the night sky in the east.

A fleet of ships sped down on the north wind and currents, and soon left the mountains behind.

The captain of the bow ship commanded the sailors to hang up the lamp, and then came to the young knight standing at the bow.

"Your Excellency Gawain, we will soon be at our destination. The captain of the ship said respectfully to the young knight.

Gawain nodded to the boat boss and said, "You have worked hard. ”

The captain of the boat bowed respectfully to Gao Wen and then retreated, running the boat for a lifetime, it was the first time he had met the knight lord who spoke to himself so kindly.

This was the third time Gawain had traveled to Linda's territory of Prato with a wool-carrying convoy, and the river to Prato was now filled with fleets of wool and grain.

At the beginning of the year, Charles ordered Afu to start controlling the sale of wool in the Prato region, but this year's drought in the savannah led to a significant reduction in wool production and relief from the Maccaden family, which caused the orc tribe to sell much less wool than in previous years to the Maccaden family.

It is most convenient to transport bulk goods by water, but this year, the water level of the river in the north is generally low, and a large section of the river beach that was originally underwater is exposed, which makes cargo ships dare not load too much cargo, which in turn leads to the need to use more cargo ships to transport wool.

Organizing so many cargo ships was big enough, but fortunately, Charles left him a few tips when he was forging the Holy Land, so that he could open it when his head hurt.

So when Gawain first led the convoy to the port of Avalon, Mordred, who had opened all the tips in advance, asked Gawain to ask for help from the Forge Temple, and the cargo ships that came from all over the country to clean up and transport the wool.

The wealth was very attractive, especially since the ships were carrying wool that was in great demand in other regions, and the traditional wool mill areas were now facing a shortage of raw materials, so the nobles who were engaged in the wool products business turned their minds to these fleets.

Gawain's fleet was detained by the nobleman, and the fleet had to pay a toll tax of 20% of the goods when it passed through the rivers in their domain.

While Gawain was arguing with the noble lord's butler, Mordred opened a box with the brocade and took out the flags of the Temple of Light, the Temple of Flames, and the Temple of Life and handed them to the Captain to hang them.

Charles's commission of five percent to each temple was not given in vain, and none of the nobles dared to stop the temple's cargo ships, and even the usual toll taxes were exempted, but Charles had never used this method to avoid taxes before adhering to the low-key tradition.

Gawain's destination was a textile mill in the northernmost part of the Prato region, the first one the fleet encountered down the river.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water on one side, the textile factory is surrounded by many magical beasts, and if it weren't for the tall concrete walls blocking the factory, the workers would not have survived the sharp claws and sharp teeth of the magical beasts.

The lights on the cement walls of the factory soon appeared in front of Gawain's eyes, but tonight there were a lot of lights, and from time to time there were other sounds.

"Be vigilant and prepare for battle!" Gawain's voice magically amplified and resounded over the fleet, and the boat bosses immediately stopped as far as they could in the middle of the river to shore the shore.

It's just that this section of the river is not wide after the water level drops, and the boat can't run anywhere.

By this time, the fleet had approached the factory, and Gawain and the ship's guards saw a large group of fiery red monkeys gathered outside the factory wall, and these red monkeys were throwing ping-pong balls of flame explosion at the wall.

These red monkeys are one to one meter two tall, and the flame balls they throw are so powerful that they can blast a little dust out of a wall made of slag and concrete.

But they have no way to climb the wall, and the tall, smooth concrete wall makes it impossible for them to climb.

The guards on the fence were using bows and arrows and magic to drive away the monkeys, probably because the smell of food in the factory had attracted the monkeys, and they were not willing to disperse at all.

"Oh no, it's a fiery monkey!" the boat boss was startled, "it would be bad if they set the boat on fire!"

The wool on the ship is prone to fire, and it is very troublesome to really ignite.

"I'm going to chase them away. Gawain said to the ship's boss.

It's just a bit of a hassle to get from the boat to the shore, especially since the river is full of silt and it's not easy to walk on it.

Mordred and a young man came to Gawain's side, with Frost Sorrow on his back and a chicken leg in his hand, and a dark blue sword on his back.

Originally, Artoria didn't want Mordred to use Frost Sorrow so early, because Mordred's mental power was not yet able to control this magic weapon, and forcibly using the magic on it would be counterattacked, just like someone would be injured if they didn't lift a heavy object by themselves.

The problem is that Mordred likes this sword so much that she almost sleeps with it, and Artoria has no choice but to partially seal the magic on the sword before giving it to her.

"Shall we go ashore?" asked Mordred.

Gawain said, "You open a road, and we must at least get rid of those monkeys." ”

After tossing the gnawed chicken leg bones into the river and wiping his hands with a handkerchief, Mordred stood on the side of the boat and slashed Frost Sorrow overboard.

A white sword light streaked through, and an ice and snow channel appeared on the surface of the river and the silt on the shore in an instant.

Gawain said to the eager teenager and Mordred beside him: "Mordred, wait for you to take the lead, I will cover you on the left, and Lancelot will cover on the right." ”

When it's cold, the pigs are in the pigsty, and Lancelot, who has nothing to do, plans to go to the south of the city of Tanhausen to become an adventurer in order to earn money to learn magic for his sister.

When Gawain learns about this in the dream platform, he asks him to wait in a port city to the east, earn Charles's money and serve as a guard for Charles's fleet, which is much better than venturing into an underground labyrinth.

So Lancelot packed up and put on the sword she had just gotten, said goodbye to the magic teacher that her sister Gnavelle and Linda had hired for her, and ran off to see Brother Gawain and Little Sister Mordred, whom she had only seen in dreams.

Running on smooth ice requires skill, and fortunately all three young men have mastered it, otherwise they would have fallen into the water with a grunt.

The fiery monkeys on the shore spotted three uninvited guests, and the fiery monkeys, who were hungry because of the reduced fruit production in the drought-stricken forest, did not mind eating some hairless Homo erectus to fill their stomachs, so the monkeys near your shore immediately pounced.