The cavalry queue traveled all the way west along the trade road, gradually getting farther and farther away from the town of Silver Shield. Gradually, farmland and villages began to become scarce, the ground began to become rugged, and the rolling misty hills of the Supreme Wasteland could be faintly visible in the distance to the north.

It is already a transitional zone between the Troll Roaring Forest and the Supreme Wasteland, and was once known for its haunting of trolls, orcs, ogres, and other monster bandits that raided the trade routes.

However, now all the monsters and robbers who once haunted here have been strangled by the Killing Princess, and only a small number of weak monsters such as goblins with weak strength and strong fertility like leeks are left. Therefore, the merchants and pedestrians walking in this area no longer need to be wary of the robber monsters that may rush out from both sides of the trade road from time to time, and can relax a little and appreciate the beauty and delicacy of this place.

The entire Baldur's Gate region has a typical temperate maritime climate, where the warm air currents from the western sea and the cold winds from the North meet in the Supreme Wasteland, forming a fog that fills the entire Supreme Wasteland. However, thanks to the throttling of warm currents by the cold air of the Supreme Heath, the southern part of the Supreme Heath has always had a humid climate with abundant rainfall, forming large areas of forests and grasslands.

The knights climbed a small hillside along the trade road, and suddenly their eyes lit up. It's a huge, beautiful, vibrant verdant wilderness.

A gentle slope stretches down the small hill to the lowlands, and the gentle slope is covered with green grass and silk, dotted with yellow, white, red and many other unknown wildflowers. A few wild sheep were grazing peacefully on the meadow, as if frightened by the crowd, and leaped lightly into the distance.

A gentle stream winds its way down the supreme heath in the north, through the lowland meadows, and into the verdant forests of the south. At this time, on both sides of the lowland riverbank, some farmland has been reclaimed sporadically, green seedlings sway soothingly with the wind, and simple farmhouses loom in the woods.

"Hey, there are villages here?"

Shi Ji looked at the farmland and farmhouses on both sides of the lowland stream with a little surprise, and couldn't help but say, "These people are so fast in reclamation!" It used to be a place for goblins and trolls! But no one dares to stay here for long. ”

"Learning the reclamation decrees of the Westward Expansion of the New World is still very effective!" Lefar Silvermoon leaned over the pergola and looked at the newly cultivated fields and pastures, and said, "I remember when I was a druid, and when I passed through here, there were very few people. Since the enactment of the homestead law, it is not only the adventurers who have settled here, but even the farmers in Bergost and other places have moved their families here to reclaim the land. It seems that it will not be long before the entire Baldur's Gate region will follow the example of Lord Elita, relinquish the lord's absolute control over the land, and give it to the farmers and freedmen for a fee......"

As a former elf and former druid, Lifar Silvermoon can't understand the human desire for land, but as a steward of an earlcounty for so long, he already has a deep understanding of the appeal of land policy to adventurers and farmers.

Without the threat of such monster bandits, the wilderness of the entire Baldur's Gate area has become a vast expanse of land to be cultivated. As long as you pay certain taxes and fees, you can obtain the right to reclaim a piece of land, and even after a certain number of years of reclamation, you can own this land in perpetuity.

Since the enactment of this policy, not only the adventurers and freedmen near the Baldur's Gate area have been attracted to settle in the county of Phoenix, but even some sailors who have been born and died at sea have given up their lives to go ashore in order to live another stable and stable life.

"However, sister, won't such a large-scale division of land affect your control over the territory?" Although Shi Ji is smart, she has received more education from traditional nobles, and she takes the control of territory and land very seriously, and she doesn't quite understand what her sister is doing now.

"No!" For her sister, Dugu Feng is still quite patient, after all, after she becomes a god in the future, there will still be an heir to the foundation of the mortal world, so she still patiently explained: "The authority of the lord comes from order, but there is no need to rigidly bind all the land and the people into his hands, the land and population are certainly the wealth of the lord, but the output of agriculture is limited after all, if you want to obtain wealth, in addition to the rough oppression of the people, there are actually other better means...... In fact, in terms of efficiency, give your people a little bit of freedom, and they'll be even better than you can do with the painstaking governance of your territory......"

Shi Ji didn't seem to understand it, but because it was said by her sister who admired her most, she still tried to memorize these teachings in her head.

In this way, Dugufeng was teaching his sister while moving forward. The cavalry procession skirted the village, crossed the lowlands, and turned a hillside, and the woods in front of them grew more and more luxuriant, leaving rows of ruts and footprints on the continental trade route large enough for three or four carriages to travel side by side, the traces of yesterday's rain, and the fields between the Supreme Wasteland and the Troll's Roaring Forest were so wet and rainy.

And at this moment, the cavalry exploring the way in front suddenly stopped, and suddenly the entire queue also stopped at the same time.

"What's wrong?"

Shi Ji, who was trying to remember her sister's teaching, couldn't help but raise her head, and happened to see a messy footprint on the muddy business road ahead. These stinky guys are so annoying, they can't be killed no matter how they are killed! ”

Goblins are the weakest monsters in the wilderness, and their strength may not be as strong as even a slightly stronger teenager, and in general, an average adult can easily deal with three or four goblins. Therefore, in the wild, as long as the goblins do not gather a huge number, they are not much of a threat at all. The only trouble for them is their vigorous fecundity, just like leeks in the field, they can't be killed cleanly. Even if all the goblins in an area could be killed in one place, it wouldn't be long before goblins from other places migrated over, and there was little way to eradicate them other than regular clearance.

Although the weakness of the goblins has long been on Dugu Feng's special strangulation list, the militia of the Count of Phoenix still regularly sweeps the wilderness to reduce the number of goblins as much as possible. Therefore, it is quite rare to see the footprints of more than a dozen goblins on the official road this time.

"It's strange, a small group of goblins isn't worth our stop!"

Shi Ji couldn't help but be a little strange, clearing out the goblin slimes and these little monsters was a matter for the village militia, but it was not worth their help, did anyone find other traces? Is there a new group of trolls migrating from the Supreme Wasteland?

Just when Shi Ji was puzzled, he saw the cavalry in front of him turn around and report: "Caravan, there is a caravan ahead!" ”

"They seem to be in a little trouble!"

The returning cavalry said this, and then the group went forward again, and after going around a wood, they saw a caravan coming to a halt on the opposite hillside.

"Why did they stop?"

Shi Ji looked at the caravan on the opposite side curiously, it was a very large team, there were at least twenty or thirty carriages, and the number of horses, mules and other camels used for transportation and loading tools and goods was even larger, and the caravan of hundreds of people was divided into several sections, dragging out a long distance on the trade road.

A group of men armed with weapons and wearing leather armor, who were supposed to be the caravan guards, were cautiously exploring the way in front of the caravan, as if some trap was lying in ambush ahead.

"It's a digging worm!"

Lifar Silvermoon glanced ahead and answered Shi Ji's question, "There are four digging worms lurking in front of the caravan!" ”

The Digger is a carnivorous burrowing monster that is common in the Baldur's Gate region. With 6 legs and a large, terrifying bite, this large insect monster grows about 10 feet long and 5 feet wide and weighs up to 800 pounds. Their strength talent reaches a terrifying 21 points, far surpassing the strongest humans.

The burrower relies on its feet and jaws to dig into the ground, and it usually digs a tunnel up to 40 feet below the surface of a fertile forest or farmland. When hunting, they hide 5 to 10 feet below the surface until their antennae sense the approach of their prey. It will then pop out of nowhere and attack its target when it is about 30 feet away from its prey.

The Digger's challenge level is not high, but its ability to attack beneath the surface makes it far more dangerous than many monsters of the same level. Its terrifying upper and lower jaws were enough to instantly bite a heavily armored adventurer into two pieces. And even if you dodge the raid of the digging worm, you must also be careful of its corrosive acid attack, otherwise one is not good, even if you survive, you will be corrupted and disfigured by the acid.

And the most troublesome thing is that the burrowing insects are small social animals, as long as one appears, it means that the other digging insects are also nearby. As such, they are not much of a danger to prepared adventurers, but they are extremely dangerous monsters to unprepared farmers or pedestrians.

"It turned out to be a digging worm, now that I've found it, it's not dangerous!"

Shi Ji is certainly no stranger to digging insects, although they are very dangerous, but they are not without benefits, their existence, like giant earthworms, can continue to plough the ground and loosen the soil, maintaining the fertility of farmland and forest soil. So even if Dugu Feng strangled monsters everywhere, he didn't deliberately clear the digging insects.

"Be careful!"

Before Shi Ji finished speaking, Lifar Yinyue suddenly reminded him.

I saw that the ground next to the caravan suddenly bulged out a large area, and then a huge insect with a hideous appearance rushed out of the surface, opened its blood basin and bit a guard standing on the outermost side.