Not long after Caldis and his party left Dragon City, it didn't take long for Duke Thatcher to die of illness, and Dragon City has been the world of Cologne and Carter ever since.

Without Duke Thatcher, under Cologne's temptation and coercion, O'Higgins finally had to succumb to Carter and become a member of the Second Legion. This result surprised Cologne very much, and he carefully arranged it for a long time, but the actual control of Dragon City fell into Carter's hands.

In order to compete with Carter for status and prestige in the army, Cologne once targeted Caldis and his party. Ignoring Carter's dissuasion, he forcibly mobilized Dimiss and Xiao Daocheng of the Second Legion, and then cobbled together an army of four knights to march west to attack the Caldis army exiled to Huiyuan.

In the end, a Montpot only used an army of 1,000 knights to turn the Cologne army around, unsuccessfully covering the people and the army from being withdrawn smoothly, and also led the Cologne army to the Tubis army in Riesburg, and finally Cologne was defeated.

For such an operation, it stands to reason that it is impossible for Dimis and Xiao Daocheng to obey Cologne's dispatch. But the wise Diamis persuaded Carter to take the opportunity to satisfy Cologne's ambitions, but they did not use their strength in the actual battle, and deliberately let Cologne return with a big defeat.

After this battle, Cologne's prestige among the army was reduced to freezing point, and with the death of Gobini, Cologne could no longer control any of the knights' army.

In the direction of Nedo, Carter led a single order of knights to carry out a sneak attack on the army of Tubis stationed in the northern border of Nedo, and successfully defeated the barbarians. This was also a move arranged by Dimis for Carter, and after Carter returned to Dragon City after Carter's victory, more Knight nobles began to run privately to cling to Carter.

Seeing Carter's power increasing day by day, Cologne had no choice but to order the appointment of Carter as the commander-in-chief of Knight's army, and all Knight Knights were led and dispatched by Carter. In order to appease Carter, Cologne convened all the nobles in Dragon City to hold a grand reward ceremony, not only giving Carter's original Alto territory directly to Carter, but also making Carter the Earl of Knight.

After obtaining Alto's territory, Dimis found a number of capable civil officials, and since Miller had arranged everything in order while he was there, all the affairs of the territory went relatively smoothly.

One day the old man Fredeau again came to the town of Miller with a merchant fleet, but he could not find Miller and the Duke of Caldis. Just as he was about to leave, Carter led a group of people to Miller's Town.

Old man Feredo said disappointedly to Carter: "I have had a trade agreement with your country's Miller and the Duke of Caldis before, and we have been working together very happily. I didn't expect the lords of your country to change so frequently, and I haven't seen you Otto change new masters in just a few months. You change lords so often, and I don't know what's going on with you, so I'll have to look for a more stable and credible trading partner. ”

Carter said enthusiastically, "Lord Feredo, the trade agreement we signed is for the territory and kingdom, not for the lord. The trade agreement is still in force, all trade should go on as usual, so why should you care who the lord is. Isn't that right, Lord Feredo? ”

After hearing this, Fei Leduo frowned and asked, "Then is the price of our transaction still the same as before?" Can you make sure that enough food is provided to us every time? ”

Karton replied, "Of course, and you can expand your trade." Because I am not only the lord of Otto's realm, but also responsible for the distribution of supplies for our entire Nete. You can trade as much food as you want, and I guarantee that your fleet will return fully every time. ”

Feldor was intrigued when he heard this, and although he didn't trust the strange Carter much, he had accumulated a lot of food deals. In the future, Caldis could not provide such a trade route, and he could only continue to negotiate with the new master. Feredo opened his mouth and asked, "What about the goods we provide, has there been any change?" ”

Carter smiled and said, "What we need urgently is horses and leather, the more the merrier." ”

Feredo frowned and asked, "Just horses and leather?" Don't you want the cows, sheep and cows? That's what you need when you're here, Lord Caldis. ”

Carter shook his head and said, "We don't need these for the time being, let's trade horses and leather first, and we can give you a little more discount on the price." ”

Feredo looked at Carter intently, and felt that he was very different from Miller and others before, these things were used for war supplies at first glance, and Carter was obviously not interested in people's daily necessities.

But there was no way, the new lords naturally had to do what they wanted, after all, they were able to come up with more food to trade.

When Carter saw the thousands of horses unloaded in the docks, he realized that Caldis and the others had achieved great things in Alto's territory, which he could not have imagined before.

Carter finally has his own territory, and in order to better expand his power in the future, Carter decides to turn Alto into his home base. Subsequently, under the arrangement of Dimis, the refugees who fled to Dragon City from all over the country were continuously resettled into Alto's territory, and stationed stations around the territory, conducting comprehensive patrols on the territory, and strictly checking all strangers who entered and exited the territory.

In order to improve the strength of the army, Carter completely followed the original practice of Alto's territory, completely relaxed the restrictions on knight recruitment, and comprehensively selected and trained all citizens.

In order to improve the combat strength of the knights and increase his prestige in the army, Carter began to insist on visiting the camp every day, personally supervising the training tasks of the knights, and often practicing with the knights by example.

One morning, when Carter arrived at the camp, he did not see the knights training, but all gathered around the camp tent eavesdropping, all whispering with hippie smiles.

Carter was so annoyed that he rushed straight into the tent, only to find Badov and the woman lying naked on the carpet. Badov was so frightened that he hurriedly got up and dressed, desperately urging the woman to get dressed and leave.

As the woman left, Carter glanced at her back, then turned to Badoff and rebuked, "I've always felt that I've been too lenient with you, you know that the Knights are not allowed to take women back to camp, and you knowingly do it." Badov, do you think I, Carter, am a good talker, so you deliberately and blatantly violate the discipline of the Order? ”

Badov replied ashamedly, "I'm sorry Earl, I promise there will be no next time." ”

At this time, Dimis, who was following behind Carter, couldn't help but curse loudly: "Badoff, how many times do you want us to say it before you have a long memory?" I'm tired of hearing you say this for a long time. ”

After Dimis finished scolding, the laughter of the knights was immediately heard outside the tent, and the sloppiness of discipline had reached the point where it could not be controlled, and the knights obviously did not understand the seriousness of the problem.

Carter straightened up, and he said to Badov, "So you are still a habitual offender, no wonder your knight brigade is so lazy." Badov, Badov, although I Carter treats you as a brother, but for the sake of my Dragon City and our Nate, I have no choice but to ignore my brother's feelings. ”

After saying that, Carter waved his hand, and several guards immediately stepped forward to escort Badov and took him to the camp's training ground with Carter.

After receiving Carter's communication, Xiao Daocheng, Asser, Dirmit and others quickly came to gather with the commanders to participate in this temporary camp trial meeting.

When Dimis saw the gallows set up in the training ground, he asked Carter in a panic: "Lord Count, are you really going to hang Badov?" ”

Carter looked back at Dimis and said, "What do you think I should do?" Is it because Badov is our brother that we take special care of him? So what would other people think? If so, where do we get our prestige? How will you lead an army to fight against the barbarians in the future? ”

From Carter's eyes, Dimis saw majesty and wrath, and he understood that Carter was going to put on a terrible show in order to rectify the discipline of the Knights.

Badov has always been an iron man, and he has never been seen greedy for life and afraid of death, but this time he stood in front of the gallows and showed an amazing scene. Badov burst into tears, and pleaded bitterly with Carter and Dimis, saying, "Lord Earl, Lord Dimis, I really know that I am wrong. For the sake of my sincerity towards you, please spare me one more time. ”

If you say such things at such a time, it is clear that everything is irreparable.

Carter stepped onto the high platform and said coldly to the many commanders and knights: "Our knights have special rules that are different from the kingdom's code, and each of our knights should strictly enforce them, and the rules of each knight are sacred and cannot be violated. Without rules, there is no circle, and without the rules of the Knights, we cannot be called an army of knights. We, the Knight Knights, shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending our homeland and defending our country, but as long as we have a heart to serve our country, we should always remember the humiliation of our country. But now some people have taken our sacred camp of the Knights as a place for his private pleasures, and have even brought the woman back to the camp to fool around. This is simply a great insult to our Knights. A man like Badov, as a knight chief, should lead by example and set a good example for the knights. But he knowingly committed a crime, and he still refuses to change his ways, and today we will hang him in the camp in public according to the rules of the Knights, so as to correct the discipline of our Knights. ”

After listening to Carter's verdict, everyone immediately fell silent, and everyone had a surprised expression on their faces.

Seeing Carter so cold and ruthless, Badoff was desperate, he looked up and cried, "Oh my God, I Badoff didn't expect that one day I would die in a woman's business." I'm stupid, knights, don't learn from me. ”

Hearing Badov cry like this, it was obvious that he had realized his grave sin. But in the face of the discipline of the Order, he never regretted this statement, and the result of the sentence could not be changed by anyone.

As a close friend, Zoros stepped forward silently, comforting him helplessly and saying: "What should happen will happen, I tell you not to joke with your life with a fluke mentality, but you always stop." This is also your own choice Badov, and you can't blame anyone. ”

Badov looked up at him lifelessly, letting the guards pick up and drag him under the gallows. As the planks on the soles of Badov's feet were emptied, Badov made a few last struggles before being suspended motionless from the gallows.

After the knights saw this scene, countless people turned pale with fright, they didn't expect Carter to really do it and hang his own knight chief in public. At this time, the knights all knew in their hearts that Carter was definitely a very strict commander, and the discipline of the Knights was by no means a piece of waste paper.

Asser, who was at the front of the team, was surprised that Carter had made such a decision. Asel slowly stepped forward and looked at Badov hanging from the gallows in a daze, he couldn't believe that his brother, who had been self-made together, had died at the hands of his own people.

However, Badov was already dead and did not react any more. After calming down, Arcel hurriedly turned around and shouted at everyone, "Whoever dares to violate the discipline of the Order again, this is what will happen to him." Whoever becomes a deserter in the future will end up in the same way. We are the Knights, my army, born for war, not for your pleasure. From today onwards, I will inspect all the camps every day, and if I find anyone who is lazy, who is disobeying orders, who is violating discipline, I will be severely punished! Do you understand? ”

The knights trembled and replied loudly, "Understood! ”

Then, at Carter's signal, everyone immediately disbanded and returned to the camp to continue training.

Assel turned to look at Carter, and after a moment of silence, he walked away without saying a word. The gallows was forever placed in the camp, and Carter used it to warn the knights not to break the rules, or he would be the next to be hanged.

After this incident, the knights became more disciplined and their training became more active. Later, the news spread in the land of Knight, and countless knights who admired Carter's majesty came to join him, which made Carter's prestige increase exponentially.

For Dimis, Carter's approach was more radical than he thought, hanging a Badov in exchange for countless prestige and more knights, which was a very good deal. Although Badov was a good friend of Dimis, not only did Dimis not resent Carter, but felt that it was the wisest choice for him to do so.

The road must go on, and without the ability to kill and decide, it is impossible to become a real king in the future.

With Carter, Dimis is full of confidence.