According to satellite surveys, the entire Lordan Kingdom is about the same area as the three eastern provinces, and in this fairly vast land, according to the statistics of these intelligence traffickers, there are more than a thousand fiefdom baron families.

Among them, the territory is large, and the area is basically equal to the area of a city in the country, while the small ones only own small villages.

But for the entire kingdom, their existence is obviously very important, it is these small nobles scattered in all corners that maintain the most basic ruling power of the royal power and aristocracy of the Lordan Kingdom, and also provide a guarantee for the survival of human civilians against various threats.

And Blackstone Ridge is such an inconspicuous barony.

The area it occupies is actually very large, the size of a small prefecture-level city, and the location is also very good.

Facing the resource-rich Endless Sea on the one hand, and the Loki Mountains on the other, which are rich in various herbivores and rarely appear in terrifying magical beasts, it is itself a rare small fertile alluvial plain, which is very suitable for cultivation.

Even the abundance of fish brought by the rivers that rush into the sea in the territory every year is enough to feed many people.

The most important thing is that this place is not particularly far from the famous and powerful Rose Ridge in the west, and the first baron was even the personal guard of the Earl of Rose Ridge himself, and the relationship between the two sides has always been quite close, and the two sides have always had a lot of trade contacts.

However, despite all these advantages, it is still obscure, and even the inhabitants who settle down are pitiful.

After hundreds of years of operation by the local Ronald family, there are only less than 10,000 permanent residents, sparsely scattered in a small city and three villages, which can be described as a depression.

The reason for this strange situation is that there is a very frustrating problem that needs to be faced here at all times - that is, the invasion of the fish-people.

Fish-people, this is a very old and primitive creature.

Most of these ancient creatures that inhabit the Endless Sea have a huge fish head full of sharp teeth, and the height of ordinary individuals is basically about one meter five.

The rickety humanoid body is covered with slippery scales, and the pair of dead fish eyes make people sick to look at.

In addition to these apparently fish-derived traits, these fish-people also developed a basic clan-based civilization that knew how to make the simplest tools and dwellings out of stone, coral, etc.

But most of the time, the races are reluctant to classify these people with the same IQ as mentally retarded as intelligent races.

Because they have the same habits as wild beasts, it is really difficult to associate the word wisdom.

However, ugliness and low IQ are still secondary, and there are many strange creatures of human beings on this planet, and the fish-people are not the most ugly and stupid.

However, these amphibious creatures have a very terrible hobby, which is really unacceptable to human beings, that is, cannibalism!

That's right, people, people who are a little bit of a person.

These fish-people, who are supposed to be omnivorous creatures in nature, don't know for what reason, they covet human flesh, and once they get the chance, the unlucky ones who are caught will definitely not even have bones left.

On the contrary, the similarities of minotaurs and centaurs do not arouse their interest at all, that is, the elves are occasionally harassed by them because of their resemblance to humans.

This is obviously very fatal.

Although the combat effectiveness of ordinary fishmen is not strong, an ordinary adult can deal with two ordinary fishmen with wooden sticks and coral sticks with a rudimentary weapon, but they can't stand the large number of these guys!

The oviparous conditions allow them to double their population in just one month when they have enough food, and at least dozens of fish people can be dispatched at once, and sometimes even tens of thousands!

Countless fish-people swept through the nearby villages from time to time, coupled with those fish-man powerhouses born under the huge population base, the life of coastal humans can be described as dire and miserable.

Moreover, because the area is too remote, Blackstone Ridge cannot count on the support of the kingdom at all, and the other lords are even more indifferent to this, refusing to trap themselves in this bottomless pit.

Therefore, under the perennial invasion of the fishmen, the entire territory can only rely on the strong city walls to barely survive, so naturally there is no development, and it is good to ensure that the people of the territory are not lost.

However, I don't know if it was cursed by God, the Ronald family, which was already sparsely populated and had an extremely difficult life, has recently suffered another major blow

-- The old baron's family all died mysteriously overnight!

The old baron, the baroness and their three children all died mysteriously overnight without a trace, and the symptoms were almost exactly the same as the rumored situation of the old earl's family in Rose Ridge!

Without a leader, the entire territory suddenly fell into chaos.

Everyone knows very well that a place like Blackstone Ridge, without a lord as the core of their beliefs, is estimated to soon become a deserted land with no one under the endless invasion of the fishmen!

There is no way, for everyone not to leave their homeland, and for the continuation of the glory of the tulip badge (the emblem of the Ronald family).

The faithful old butler consulted with the others for a long time, and finally decided to learn from Rose Ridge, where the same situation had occurred, and according to the records of the genealogy in the old baron's hand, he welcomed back a side bloodline that had been scattered by the family three generations ago to inherit the title of Baron Blackstone.

After many inquiries and searches, the old butler who had gone through endless tribulations finally found the last bloodline of the Ronat family according to the remaining words in the record.

Although this bloodline that has been reduced to a civilian is only a young man in his early twenties who is apprenticed with a junior mage, but it can be regarded as a continuation of Tulip's blood, isn't it?

"Young Master, across this small hill, you can see Black Rock City!"

Looking at the familiar scene around him, the old man, who had been wandering outside for more than half a year, stroked the hair of the flower that he hadn't taken care of seriously for a long time, and then pointed to the distance with a happy face and said to the young man beside him.

"From now on, this is your territory!"

Compared with the old man's joy, the young man next to him was very indifferent.

If you just look at his appearance, he looks very ordinary, with short black hair, which can only be regarded as delicate facial features, and his body may be thin because of his status as a mage's apprentice.

In the middle of a group of guards with big shoulders and round waists, it was almost like a child.

However, he has a pair of eyes that make people impress at first glance, and the dark pupils look like an endless abyss when you look closely, as if it will suck the soul of a person into it (to be continued). )