The answer is of course - the village girl named Jenny has no reason to refuse Urs and his party, and when she thinks that everyone just now is like the heroes in the bedside story who came down from heaven to save her, she immediately nodded her head shyly, and walked in the direction of home to lead the way.

Among the nine direct vassals under the command of the Minor Emperor Leopold IV, the Dukedom of Thuron and the Earldom of Sword Keep together constitute the western territory of the Empire, of which the large Dukedom of Thuron covers most of the rich land along the coast of the Emerald Bay, and the inland part goes deep along the Ancarho Mountains to the south-central part of the Empire, while the County of Fort of Sword is much smaller than it, and the geographical location is between the northern land in the north and the Thuron in the south, located west of the Emperor's direct domain. Divides the Holm region with the southeastern part of the Notrick Mountains in the Gonzawa region.

Urs estimated that his group was probably southwest of Fort Sword, where the topography was affected by the extension of the foothills southeast of Nottrick to form a remote mountainous area with not too steep undulations, and the village of Meral in Jenny's mouth was built on another valley plain half a day's hike to the northwest.

The blonde and blue-eyed village girl walked into the entrance of the village with a team of four, and the villagers along the way stood in the field one after another to stop their farm work, and invariably turned their eyes to look at everyone, and immediately someone pulled away, and after a while, a middle-aged woman who was protected by several militiamen came to everyone.

"Jenny! Thank goodness you're back? The middle-aged woman's face was wrinkled, and she immediately burst into tears of joy at the sight of Jenny.

"Mom!" When Jenny saw the woman's face, she immediately rushed forward to hug her excitedly, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes with a choked voice, "I'm sorry, Mom, I shouldn't have gone to the lord's rescue alone. If it weren't for this gentleman and the three ladies who came to my rescue, I might have been taken captive by the gnolls. ”

"Oh, don't say it, Jenny. Mom knows those nasty gnolls, and it's good they didn't hurt you. The woman lowered her forehead against the girl's blonde hair, and hugged the girl deeply, as if she was afraid that she would lose her most cherished daughter in a blink of an eye, and then as if she had reacted to the girl's words, she let go of her hands and wiped her tears and took a step back, turning to look at Urs, Thea, Bellingis, and Dorothy.

Jenny and her mother stepped aside a little, looked around, and found that the surrounding villagers had all gathered in a circle before they knew it, so she hurriedly told everyone: "Ah, mother, and everyone, please let me introduce you to the benefactor who saved me from the three jackals. They are all adventurers who want to stay in the village for a night. ”

After saying that, the simple country girl hung down in front of her skirt with her left hand and her right hand, and stood quietly and obediently waiting for her mother to speak, and the Holm people's signature sea-blue eyes quietly blinked at the young man, and soon withdrew her gaze with a slight flush.

Urs didn't notice the little girl's gaze, but felt Thea's little hand gently tugging at the corner of his clothes, and then he saw the wolf-eared girl's amber eyes looking up slightly, as if to remind him of something.

Or ask with your eyes.

Do I need to talk to them here?

Urs received Thea's eyes, and knew that since the Thorn Squad left Twilight, the docile wolf-eared girl would often act as the team's spokesperson in place of her charismatic self to communicate with others, and when she traveled to the underworld, she would change to a crow and pretend to be the leader of the team to negotiate with the inhabitants of the underworld.

As soon as he thought of this stubble, he suddenly couldn't help but want to complain that he was really good at everything in his life, that is, he couldn't tear the scroll because he was stuck with 1 point of intelligence attribute without dying, and there were all kinds of diplomatic obstacles caused by the 7-point charm that he couldn't bear to look at in the eyes of the player.

If the charisma is too low, it won't have much negative impact on the combat methods of the pure kitchen knife class, but it will make others subconsciously look down on or guard against you at any time.

When Urs and Thea first arrived in Twilight City a few months ago, they clearly experienced the disadvantages of low charisma, but at the moment, the surrounding villagers didn't seem to be cold to themselves, and it seemed that Jenny's explanation and introduction just now had a benign effect, which helped him brush up a lot of goodwill in the hearts of the villagers.

The middle-aged woman in front of the four of them, that is, Jenny's mother, looked at the group for a few more seconds, adjusted her breathing, and said with gratitude after organizing her words: "Hello, respected Mr. Adventurer, Madam. I am the temporary acting head of Meral Village, so please ask me if you need anything, and I will repay you for this kindness on behalf of my daughter. ”

"Hello, Ms. Village Chief." Urs withdrew his gaze from Thea's eyes, signaling that the wolf-eared girl should be able to finish the conversation by herself this time, and then turned her gaze and responded politely, "We do have plans to stay overnight in the village, but before that...... Hmm, if you don't mind, can you explain what a 'temporarily elected acting village chief' is? ”

"Our original village chief, Jenny's father and my husband, died four days ago......," the middle-aged woman, who claimed to be the acting head of Meral Village, pursed her lips, glanced at Jenny beside her, and replied with some difficulty, "He died in the battle against the gnolls." ”

"Uh... I'm sorry. Urs was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that he would almost die by accident, and quickly apologized to the wife of the former village chief of Meral Village, "Then about Miss Jenny's request for help just mentioned......"

"That's to get rid of the gnolls and robbers, Mr. Adventurer." Suddenly, a man's voice interrupted from the side and told Urs.

Searching for the direction of the sound, Urs turned his head to look at the crowd around him, noticing that the voice was one of the villagers who was clearly dressed differently.

The man stood in the circle of onlookers from the villagers of Meral and looked at Urs, although the clothes on his body were not luxurious, but at least they were not patched, and his shirt, trousers, and leather boots were generally well cared for, and they looked relatively clean and tidy.

Urs observed the man's line, his eyes taking advantage of his height to cross the top of the crowd, and found that not too far away from the man were several other human males dressed similarly to him sitting in several wooden carriages, and each of them almost turned their heads and looked at the gap between the crowds.

"You're merchants?" The young man guessed their identities based on these characteristics, looked back at him and asked casually.

"Yes, we are merchants, but we are unlucky, and we are trapped here with everyone in the village." The man who had just interjected clasped his hands and shrugged his shoulders admitted, "Mr. Adventurer, you don't know, there are many gnolls and robbers gathered near Merar Village at some point, not only running to attack the village many times, but also plundering many roads around this area. ”

"Those damn monsters attacked us the night before yesterday, snatched our goods, and killed the guards we hired!" The fat merchant sitting in a carriage not far away seemed to hear the conversation here, and added loudly as if venting his anger, "Those bitch gnolls! We're not a big caravan, and we can't afford to hire a famous mercenary group, so we can't beat them at all! ”

"As my friend said, Mr. Adventurer." The merchant man who was talking to Urs smiled wryly, turned his head to look at his fat merchant companion, and then turned his head back, "We are indeed desperate, if we are not lucky enough to find this village for refuge, I am afraid that we will all have to be in the wilderness." ”

"I see...... No wonder Miss Jenny met us in that situation in the wilderness today. ”

The young man raised his right hand, put his thumb lightly against his chin, and thought for a long time, and quickly realized what was probably going on near this small village located in the remote mountains of the Earl of Sword Castle in connection with the information Jenny mentioned for help.

Ron van Francico, Count of Sword Castle of this era, was not a tyrannical lord or mediocre man from his previous life, but was known as a fox because he was very good at taking sides in the political struggle between nobles.

The fox was seen by the nobility as a symbol of cunning and shrewdness.

The Earl of Sword Castle had not sent his own troops to suppress the gnolls in the area, and it seemed that he had not received any news about the village of Meral, or that there was something more important that prevented him from taking care of it for the time being.

When he had finished his thoughts, Urs lowered his thumb and half-crossed his waist, and his brown eyes glanced at the merchants' carriages again, this time noticing the part of the carriage that they had covered with sackcloth, the uneven silhouette of which was not too difficult for his eyesight to distinguish, and looked like armor or something......

Could it be an arms dealer?

"Where are you going?" Thinking like this, he immediately asked one more question.

"Northland." The merchant man replied simply, feeling that there was nothing to hide, "We are small merchants, and we have heard that the Earl of Northland has been recruiting troops recently, so we plan to transport a batch of equipment to Helmet City to sell, and we may be able to make a small profit." ”

"So, if the gnolls who attacked you stopped getting in the way, you would immediately continue your journey as planned?"

"Of course, sir, who of us doesn't want to leave early and sell our goods? But you know ......"

At this point, he couldn't help but open his mouth and sigh softly, God knows how this place has seen so many gnoll robbers in the recent period, and then looked up to see Urs's face suddenly become firm and confident, and then raised his thick right hand to untie the collar of the Shadow Scale Cloak, thus revealing a brand pattern in the shape of a shield on the side of his neck without hesitation.

The merchant man was slightly surprised, and subconsciously focused his gaze on the shackle shield pattern that was burned on the skin of the young man's neck, frowned slightly and thought for a few seconds, and was suddenly startled.

"Slave Knight?!"

It occurred to him for a moment, wasn't this brand pattern of slave shackles combined with knights' coats of arms the status of the slave knights of the empire?

The onlookers may not have much knowledge, and many of them don't even know what rank the slave knight holds in the empire, but they all froze when they heard the word "knight", and then boiled like a little spark dripping into the oil pot—

"Do you hear that, man? That young man is a knight! ”

"Oh my God, we're saved!"

"Jenny, your efforts have not been in vain, the lord has sent his knights to save us!"

"Thank you, my lord, those gnolls monsters will pay for their evil deeds!"

"Knight, please help us!"

The voices of anticipation and hope filled the atmosphere like a rising wave.

"Brother Urs...... It turns out that slave knights are so popular? On the side of the Empire? Bellelis was taken aback by the villagers' position, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that her group seemed to be being watched as if they were already watching her as saviors.

When the young man heard the little girl's words, of course he knew in his heart that the truth of the matter was not what she said, but it was only because the villagers of Merar Village did not have the strength to break through the predicament themselves, so they immediately pinned their emotions called hope and expectation on themselves as knights, even if the knighthood was attached with a slave prefix.

However, then again, although the slave knights had a low status in the Golden Wing Empire, in fact, almost all of them were hand-selected and trained by the lords, guards, or secret envoys, and slaves from low backgrounds were really not qualified for such a deformed honor if they didn't have two brushes.

He flashed the imprint on the side of his neck, gaining the heartfelt trust of those present, or at least in his strength, and finally digging through the memories of the previous life about this place in his mind, recalling that during the second half of the Year of the Candle, it seemed that a tribe of gnolls controlled by evil mages appeared around the Sword Castle......

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