On the relatively wide troop transport road, which can accommodate four carriages in parallel, a huge team of more than 500 people slowly marches.

The ancestors of the Kingdom of Amm were also powerful, and the transportation roads that were built at that time to facilitate transportation have now become important transportation roads in the noble realms of various places.

This army of heavily armed warriors and knights, as well as ordinary men and women who were completely incapable of fighting, and a large number of carriages for carrying goods and transport, were naturally Shepard's vassals and their families, as well as some nobles who had befriended him, such as Dures, who had become an earl.

The forty warriors who had survived the bloody battle guarded the front and rear of the procession on horseback, horses from the victors' booty, not only horses, but also a half-length armor and iron-studded boots, and two wagons with standard ordnance belonging to the Prell family.

Like Shepard, who did not like to sit in the carriage but rode at the front of the team, Duris was full of spring breeze, and after he had a secret conversation with the Earl of Doom, he obtained the Earl's understanding, as one of the spokesmen of the Earl's interests in the territory of the Kingdom of Am, the soon-to-be-border Marquis of Vaster naturally got his own cake, but the roots of the Popler family are still in the territory of Tesser.

Separated by the vast area of the Veldas Forest, the vast nobles had similar troubles to the royal family, and if it were not for the support and promotion of the Church of the Gods, the royal family would probably prefer to occupy only a few convenient places and important trade routes, such as large territories along the coast.

There were not only two nobles who drove their horses to the front of the procession, not long after leaving Esmirtaran, Baron Rosbar, Baron Locks, and Baron Gothrock were also in the team, but the latter two wanted to return to their family territory through Daustust, crossing the Forest of Verdas was too dangerous, and the road directly west to the port of Ascatra was not safe, they would rather go to Moulin by boat from the trade road, this time they suffered heavy losses in this battle, but fortunately, the Count would give them enough satisfactory compensation.

More than a dozen nobles rode their horses and followed Shepard, in addition to the people already mentioned, as well as Shepard's vassals, those families who had retained their noble qualifications but lost their fiefs, and a few knights who were either alone or with only their families.

Sidney, Tommar, and Jeff were all armed and followed him, and Tommy, who had recovered from his injuries, replaced Jeffer as the captain of his personal guard, all four of whom were knights of his family, with a manor and their own family name, but were also regarded as part of the Prell family, rather than independent vassals, which was already a matter of great honor and trust for the three other than Sidney.

As for Sidney, as the first devout disciple of the god of light, Tonatiu, in the Old World, he unconditionally obeyed any orders of the 'Mentor' Shepard.

Because of the existence of these four people, as well as the forty cavalrymen who were very elite at first glance, the eyes of the other nobles were full of envy when they looked at Shepard.

Because they are all newly canonized nobles, none of them really have the heritage of the earl family, and the nobles who take refuge in Shepard will only be more in awe of the power of the feudal monarch, and the other nobles in the same company will inevitably compliment a few words, and they will be dismissed by Shepard with a smile.

The men disembarked from Esmirtalan by boat near the upper reaches of the Prell River, and without the name of the march, they could not have the fleet send the group directly back to the vicinity of Prell Castle, and after two days of walking, Count Duris and Baron Rosbal separated from the others, and after two more days, a procession of more than 300 people arrived near Prell Castle.

Not only others, but even Shepard was a little strange and surprised by what he saw in front of him.

The three-storey Prell Castle is no longer able to see the panorama at a glance, because the two-meter-high wooden wall mixed with the fence and a small part of the stone wall encloses the land in front of it, and in terms of area, the enclosed land is at least hundreds of acres, and beyond this simple wall, the well-organized land is imprinted, and the land separated by the farm is only half a man's high earthen wall and fence, which can be seen from a slightly higher place.

A group of servants waiting outside the city gate saw the convoy from a distance and greeted it, Shepard saw a few familiar faces from a distance, and sure enough, as soon as he walked up, the middle-aged man who looked like a butler in the lead said respectfully: "Master, you are back, and Lady Lisa and Miss Rachela have asked us to wait for you here." ”

Shepard rode on his horse and nodded: "Okay, have all the things I prepared for the messenger come back?" ”

The butler said respectfully, "It's all ready, Mrs. Lisa herself." ”

Shepard then looked back with satisfaction, "Your Excellency Comili and Gothrock please rest here for the night, the conditions are relatively simple, but at least hot water and food are guaranteed." ”

The two barons naturally did not offend this powerful and wealthy new count, and it was thought-provoking to be able to expand the vicinity of the originally ordinary castle to such a scale in a few months.

The remaining four baronial families and three wandering knights were recruited by Shepard, so they naturally followed him, and only after the allegiance and canonization ceremonies were completed did they each go to the family's fiefdom, and then serve the feudal lord according to the lord's orders.

As soon as you enter the city gates, you will first see the castle that has left many traces of time, and then there is a simple but spacious manor that occupies almost the entire northern end of the town.

A main road capable of carrying three carriages leads from the city gate to the gate of the manor, and the butler of the Prell family leads the way and respectfully says: "Master, according to your request, the manor was finally completed half a month ago, the inside has been cleaned, and the rooms have been prepared according to your instructions, which is enough to accommodate all the guests." ”

The inhabitants of the town had already returned to their homes, heard the sound of carts and horses outside, and only occasionally opened the windows curiously to peek, there were only two kinds of residents of this [Prell Town], those who served the Prell family, and those who served the Prell family, the former such as the castle's attendants, maids, retainers and guards, and the latter were mostly fishermen, farmers, and a small number of blacksmiths, tailors, and merchants.

The signs of the tavern, the blacksmith's shop, the tailor's shop, etc., waved in the night breeze, and Shepard was pleased with the small town that needed all the buildings it needed, and he left most of the gold and silver obtained from the Salibota family to Lady Lisa, who had been conquered by him to build the place with all his heart.

Walking to the door of the manor, you can see that it is consciously divided into two parts, east and west, the west is naturally the residence of the main family, and the east is the guest room, dining room, kitchen, prayer room and training ground and other outbuildings.

Shepard first motioned to the servants to take the nobles and their families to the guest room, and their private army naturally rested in the barracks, and then looked at the people he brought back and smiled: "Baron Garder, Baron York, Baron Blunt, Baron Corvinal, and the three knights of Ike, Drager, and Montford, my butler will take you to their respective rooms to rest, and I have to see my fiancée, please forgive me." ”

The patriarchs of the four baronial families and the three wandering knights naturally did not have any opinions, and Shepard separated from everyone and walked to the west of the manor with Tommy and a few personal guards, and Sidney and the others were naturally taken to rest.

Pushing open the door of the second entrance, I thought that I would see Shepard, who was happy to greet his fourth daughter, but he saw that suddenly a black shadow rushed into his arms, and the soft touch and feminine fragrance followed, and then there was a cry that was forcibly suppressed: "Shepard!" Woo woo, save Rachela......"

Shepard was stunned when he heard this, and pulled the person in his arms up, and it was Mrs. Lisa, who was crying, and he was puzzled: "What's the matter?" What happened to Rachela? ”

When Mrs. Lisa saw that the winner's heart had returned, she was relieved and couldn't stop crying, and after crying for a while, she finally calmed down a little, and sobbed and said to Shepard: "...... Three days ago, Rachela took the maid to pick flowers outside, saying that she would prepare a room of flowers to welcome you back, I laughed at her at the time, but I didn't expect it to be almost dark, so the maid ran back crying, let us take someone to save Rachela! ”

"My mind was blank, so I asked the butler to quickly bring twenty good lads to follow the maid to her, and when they came back, Rachela was unconscious, and it had been three days now...... Woooooooo ”

After hearing the cause and effect, Shepard stroked the soft hair of the person in his arms with some pity, and said softly: "Don't cry, take me to see Rachela, haven't you found a doctor?"

Mrs. Lisa stood up and sobbed, "I have found many doctors, but there is no way, some people say that this is a curse, and they want to invite a priest, but there is no priest nearby......"

The Kingdom of Amm was originally a weak area of the Church of Good Gods, and it was not too difficult to find a priest of an evil god or an evil god, and there was also a sanctuary of the God of Vengeance in Bloucester City, and there was also an altar of the God of Thieves in the underground tunnel, but these were not found by normal people, and even if they did, those priests were not good at treating and exorcising curses and diseases.

Shepard sighed, "Take me over and have a look." ”

Mrs. Lisa nodded with tears in her eyes, and turned around to beckon several maids to lead the way, two of them were sisters Domi and Eliza, but at this time the two sisters only forced a smile on their faces, they were close to Rachela, both were aristocratic girls whose families had undergone great changes, although their status was now very different, and the relationship was still good, so Rachela was unconscious, and they were also very sad.

The atmosphere was a little dreary, Shepard followed a few people upstairs, this manor has three floors to the west, two floors to the east, the master bedroom of the master's house is on the third floor, the whole floor is a bedroom, the exquisite furniture brought from the city of Bloucester is decorated in it, after the war these things are extremely cheap, and some places have hidden family imprints, obviously some of the ancient things that have been passed down by some families for generations.

But no one cared about the value of the things, and Shepard walked over to the three-man bed, revealing a pale, frowning face under the red and white velvet quilt, apparently suffering from some pain in a coma.

Shepard leaned down to look at Richona's condition, and his originally solemn expression softened, and he turned around and said, "It's not a curse, Richona is poisoned." ”

"Poisoned?" Mrs. Lisa was stunned: "Why can't those doctors check it out?" ”

"Because it's not very common." Shepard didn't care: "Those doctors are not adventurers, it's normal that they can't tell the difference, Rachela should have been bitten by the [Copper Devouring Fire Ant], the poison of this kind of thing is not difficult to solve, as long as it ......"

He stopped abruptly at this point, and then continued casually: "You bring these few things, and I will make a potion for her to eat, and she will wake up tomorrow." ”

Mrs. Lisa cried and laughed, and happily let people go and prepare things.

Shepard turned around and sat on the edge of the bed, stretched out his hand to caress Rachela's tender cheek, all magic will cause damage to the body of the recipient, even if it is healing and blessing, the poison of fire ants is not difficult to solve, if he can get the antidote, he doesn't want to cast magic on Rachelna, who is just an ordinary person.

But his eyes flickered, and he was clearly thinking about something.

'[Copper Devouring Fire Ant] is one of the lowest-level magic insects, but the place where they appear must also have the existence of magic ore, is it copper? Or cupronickel? Or leopard copper? ’

……

The Lord's Mansion gathered all the medicinal herbs overnight, made them into potions, and gave them to Rachela, and the next morning, Shepard took some water that he had blessed and sprinkled on her face, and the girl who had been in a coma for three days sighed, and finally slowly opened her eyes.

The servants in the manor were also very happy that she woke up, and this young girl who had gone through many changes had become very kind and gentle, and no one disliked her.

It wasn't until some breakfast had taken place that Shepard asked where Rachela was unconscious and let her continue to rest before leaving the bedroom.

Although he wanted to confirm what the mineral was immediately, the vassals were still waiting for the canonization ceremony presided over by the lord, so Shepard had no choice but to put aside his eagerness and go to the hall where the canonization ceremony was held first.

What was needed had been prepared, and the four barons and seven knights had sworn allegiance to Shepard with ancient etiquette, and he had a sword in his hand to seal everything that everyone was due.

Although the Bloucester Territory was relatively barren, Shepard had already made a plan, dividing two castles and two towns that were not much different from the village to the four baronial families, and seven manors for the seven knights, basically setting the basis for the future ruling structure of the territory.

In addition, although there are not many ready-made places in Bloucester Territory, the territory is vast and the degree of development is very low, and with some effort, population and money, it can at least double the number of existing towns.