The days when the traversal people gathered in the forest sanctuary lasted for more than a week, until Fu Bin, who was sitting in the manor to receive news from the outside world, came to deliver a message, saying that the negotiations between the Prairly Collar and the Manchado Collar had finally come to an end.

So a group of companions who had cultivated themselves in the holy area returned to the manor and gathered in the living room to listen to the news brought by Fu Bin.

Under the mediation of Viscount Kaliman, the governor of Kaisha, Kasha agreed to end the war with the Bilgard family, but as the victorious side, the Kasha made a series of demands on the redrawing of territorial boundaries between the two sides, the redemption of prisoners of war, and the reparations for the defeat, which the Bilgard family could not refuse, and could only bargain one by one. The final result was that the territory of the former Manchado Territory would be ceded to the Prairly Territory in an area extending ten miles from the Hump Fort to the Manchado Territory, including the ownership of the two villages and one iron mine of the former Manchado Territory located in the area. At the same time, the Bilgard family also spent 70,000 gold coins (30,000 for one high-ranking warrior and 10,000 for four middle-level warriors) in order to ransom the five captured knights. In addition, Manchado will also pay Praile 150,000 gold coins (which can be discounted with treasures, secret tips, or other precious minerals, but according to Prairly's valuation, he is destined to be severely cut off with another layer of flesh).

Of course, the Bilgard family, as the defeated party, also put forward a condition, that is, the Leopold family could not take the initiative to provoke a war against the Bilgard family within ten years after the signing of the armistice.

In fact, Kasha didn't want to agree to this condition of Count Bilgard, the current strength of the Bilgard family has been greatly damaged, and it will definitely not survive the next war, but if he is given ten years to recuperate, even if the Bilgard family cannot fully recover its current strength, it can protect itself in future wars. The Leopold and Bilgard families have been at odds for decades, and Kasha naturally wants to settle the opponent once and for all (the current negotiation is more about giving face to Viscount Kaliman, the governor) rather than 'cutting the grass but leaving the roots'. However, under the mediation and a little pressure of Viscount Karliman, Kasha had to agree to this ten-year truce agreement of Count Bildgard - want to come to Mosala? In order to keep his own strength, Bilgard must have paid a lot of money to Viscount Carliman, otherwise Viscount Carlimeman, as the governor of a county, would not have been involved in the dispute between the two nobles of the territory.

In addition, there were some small turbulences in the negotiation process - as in the case of the Earl of Biergard who wrote directly to the king after the end of the war between the two families ten years ago, he complained to the king about Kasha? Leopold like that, Mosala? This time, the Earl of Bilgard complained to Governor Carriman, this time to the 'Xuanyuan family' who had crossed the crowd, on the grounds that the Xuanyuan family was secretly raising private troops. However, Kashya had already dealt with this, and a stack of contracts was placed on the negotiating table. The contents of this stack of contracts are similar, they are all contracts signed by the Leopold family of Prairly and a mercenary team to hire mercenaries to defend the territory. And the signature of the mercenary team on each contract is the name of the traverser. Earl Bilgard did not give up on requesting to review the legitimacy of these so-called 'mercenary teams', but it turned out that the information of these mercenary teams was easily found in the mercenary union office in the county - the registration procedures of these 'mercenary teams' were compliant and legal, the annual dues were never in arrears, and the number of mercenary teams was also in accordance with the regulations.

After listening to the negotiation results relayed by Fu Bin, everyone talked about it.

"After losing the battle, I started to play yin." Shi Jinxin held a decorative sword in both hands and played back and forth while pursing his lips disdainfully, "Bilgard, this old guy seems to be in a hurry. ”

"Fortunately, we have been prepared for a long time." Li Xiang buried his body in the soft sofa and said with a relieved look: "We have registered a mercenary team for everyone in the mercenary union in advance, so that we can reasonably put the alchemy soldiers in the open." ”

"But we still have to pay attention to the impact." Yang Qianyu leaned against the wall and reminded his companions: "At the beginning, because of the initial construction of the Holy Domain, there was not much money in the inventory. Therefore, the mercenary teams registered with the mercenary union are all of the lowest level, and each mercenary group has only twenty people. Therefore, although each of us can actually carry out an expedition with a scale of 100 alchemy soldiers, in order to comply with the laws of the kingdom, in fact, each person can only bring 30 alchemy soldiers to carry out overt activities. ”

"Damn, I didn't expect this to happen." Zhao Ke patted his forehead with a look of regret. "Then let's go to the mercenary guild to go through the level promotion procedures now. Anyway, now that we have a lot of money, we spend money to raise everyone's mercenary team level to the highest level, so won't we be able to bring more alchemy soldiers in the future. ”

"Are you stupid?" Zhang Boyin, who was on the side, couldn't help but raise his hand and patted Zhao Ke's head, interrupting the latter's YY. "We can afford to raise the level of our mercenary team, but you don't want to think about the impact of doing that."

"Tiger is right." Lu Yuan took over and said: "What's more, after the Bilgard family failed to make accusations under the pretext of us raising private troops, we began to expand the mercenary groups under our respective names, and doing so will definitely give the other party a pretext." Although we are not afraid of him, it is also a troublesome thing after all. ”

"Well, that's right." Zhao Ke also realized that his suggestion was indeed a little inconsiderate, and scratched his head in annoyance.

After some discussion, a consensus was finally reached. At this stage, because the strength shown by the traversers is somewhat unexpected by outsiders, it will inevitably attract the attention of the outside world. In view of this, it is better to keep the secret of the Travelers secretly owning an army for the time being. In addition to the companions who are members of the 'family', the strength of the 'Xuanyuan family' that is revealed in the eyes of the aborigines is only dozens of small mercenary groups formed by everyone on the surface. Although it will still be a little conspicuous in terms of numbers (there are more than 600 mercenary groups of 20 people in total), after all, it can be regarded as a legitimate armed force on the surface, and it will not attract too much attention-

The armistice agreement between the Prairly and Manchado clans was signed the day after the two sides negotiated an agreement, and with the signing of the agreement, the Bilgard family also handed over the title deeds of the ceded territory, the defeat indemnity and the ransom for the redemption of the prisoners of war to the Leopold family, and then returned to the Manchado territory with the ransomed knight, and went to the Manchado territory pitifully licking his wounds.

As the Leopold family of the victor was engaged in a series of tasks such as repairing the castle after the war and relocating the people, the green leaves of the trees gradually turned golden and fell to the ground with the cold wind. And with a heavy snowfall soon after, winter arrived.

In the Xuanyuan Manor, the traversal gathered in the dining room, and the table was full of exquisite and delicious food.

"Wow, before you know it's winter again." Liu Chang held a tin cup full of milk in his hand and looked at the heavy snow outside the window through the window.

"yes." Song Fei, who was watching the snow through the window together, also sighed: "Unknowingly, we have been living in this world for two years. ”

"Hey! Fei Fei, Ah Chang. Come and eat the cake! Sun Xiaoyu's voice came from behind the two of them, and she was held on a plate with a piece of cake drizzled with cream and jam. At the dining table behind Sun Xiaoyu, a group of girls were excitedly dividing a large cake that occupied one-third of the size of the square table.

"If you don't come to eat, everyone else will rob you up."

"Don't rob! Keep me a copy! Liu Changjiao let out a sigh and rushed to the table.

"Wow! You've eaten too much! Be careful that you will get fat! ”

By the fireplace of the restaurant, Li Xiang, Yang Qianyu, Fu Bin, Shi Jinxin and several other male compatriots gathered together.

"It's been a great year." Li Xiang sighed.

"Strictly speaking, it would be an understatement to describe how the year has been 'sufficient'." Yang Qianyu interjected on the side.

"Haha, that's what I said." Li Xiang responded with a smile when he heard this.

In retrospect, it was a busy year. Looking back on this year's experience, Li Xiang deeply agrees with this. Defending against the invasion of the centaurs at the beginning of spring, he inadvertently gained the base of the Forest Sanctuary by exploring outside the territory, searched for treasure under the ancient castle of Bathory, and fought a major battle with Manchado. There are so many battles of sufficient scale in the space of a year. The miracle is that after so many battles, there were no major casualties, and all the measures that had been prepared to deal with death were useless, which is really fortunate and incredible in retrospect.

"But I'm afraid tomorrow will be more exciting, right?" Shi Jinxin threw a few pieces of wood into the fireplace, looked at the blazing fire, and said in a deep voice.

"Indeed." Yang Qianyu said: "Next year is what the indigenous people of the world of Yber call the 'Year of Darkness' that appears every ten years. I don't know what we're going to experience at that time. ”

"Are you scared?" Shi Jinxin looked at Yang Qianyu.

"How so." Yang Qianyu responded with a smile.

"When we visited Kasha the other day, Kasha solemnly invited us to assist her in next year's battle against demons." Li Xiang said to several companions.

"We've already agreed on this." Fu Bin responded.

"Go! Of course you have to go. Shi Jinxin said excitedly: "Hunting monsters is the fastest way for us to improve our strength, and now all of us have reached the level of the fifth order, and ordinary monsters are completely unable to meet the needs of the next advancement." Since there is such a good upgrade path, why not go for it. ”

"Now that we're able to adapt to the world, it's time to get in touch with more indigenous people." He answered, "This participation in the Battle of the Demons is the best opportunity. ”

"In that case." Li Xiang sat up straight and said, "Then next year, let's start a new adventure again." ”

"Okay."