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At noon, on a meadow near a small river on the side of the county's trade road, the convoy that had just set off for a few hours was resting by the river for a while.

In this kind of wilderness, there is no village and no shop, of course, you should not expect to be able to eat anything good, even the two highest-ranking people in the convoy, Rhodes and Tamon Knights, solve their lunch problems with the best meat and fish soup from the two hares made by the cook in the convoy.

As for the rest of the convoy? Dozens of soldiers were able to get a bowl of broth in addition to black bread, while the servants and grooms were lucky enough to find a piece of meat in their broth.

"Knight Gollummon, why don't we go any longer and take a break in the town ahead, but have lunch now?"

After a few strokes of the so-called fine brown bread (Note 1) and swallowing the fish soup, Rhodes whispered to the leader of the group, the Knight of Tamon.

Rod's words were unusually polite, except that the Tamon Knight was his half-knight road enlightenment teacher, the most important thing was that Rod, who had never actually led a team to travel far away (in theory, he had learned), did not have much confidence in commanding a team of more than fifty people for the first time for thousands of kilometers of expedition, and felt that it was better to leave professional things to experts, and it would not be good if there were any leaks and problems in the province.

- Baron Ernst and the Tammon Knight feel the same way, so the command of the team is in the hands of the Tamun Knight!

Of course, in addition to preparing to understand the thoughts of the Tamon Knights, the most important thing is to learn some of the experiences and practices of the Tamon Knights, who are said to have a lot of experience when going out.

"Young Master Rhodes, although the town in front is not far away, it is the territory of Baron XX, and the relationship with the Ernst family is not very good. And our goal today is to go directly to the county town, so we can go directly to the county town road later, and we don't need to go to that town."

Listening to Rod's question, the Tamon Knight, who also crushed and swallowed a piece of fine black bread a few times, stopped his movements, and then began to explain to Rod the itinerary they had booked today.

The kingdom of Taran is directly adjacent to the Far North Mountains, and the Barony of Ernst in Sirt County, Rand Province, is on the edge of the Far North Mountains. If Rhodes and his party want to go to the location of the Scarlet Canyon, they must go abroad to the Sail Kingdom of the Five Northern Kingdoms, which is the only country in the Five Northern Countries that is close to the Western Autonomous Alliance on the mainland and resists the Orc Empire!

Of course, according to the Tamon Knights, they needed to go to the county town of Sirt, where they could only go to the kingdom of Sayre after obtaining the relevant certificate from the Count of Carman (Note 2). Before that, Rhodes and his party still needed to cross the territory of the two provinces of the Taran Kingdom to reach the border, so Rhodes didn't need to be in too much of a hurry at all.

"Got it"

After listening to the words of the Tamon Knight and comparing it with the relevant situation summarized by the gods in the game space in his mind, Rodes, who understood the Tamon Knight's intentions, said that he understood the meaning of the Tamon Knight.

"Prepare, let's go after three standard hourglasses!"

Seeing that Rod understood what he meant, the knight nodded in approval, and then Tamon got up and observed the convoy, and found that everyone had basically settled their lunch and even took care of the horses and other livestock, and gave a loud order.

"Yes! Knight-sama!" *N

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After lunch, the group took a short break and hit the road again.

After turning from the dirt road like a wilderness to the county road, Rhodes and his party, who had barely seen people and caravans along the way, saw the relevant situation on the county road, and they found some popularity.

Although it is still a dirt road, at least it has been widened enough to accommodate six carriages in parallel and is relatively smooth (by otherworldly standards). Villages began to appear around from time to time, and even small towns and caravans under the protection of mercenaries could occasionally encounter, unlike the feeling of almost barbarism before.

Of course, for Rhodes and his party, whether it was a village, a small town, or a caravan, they were all on guard when they approached, and they were not slightly relieved when they saw the situation of the procession and the noble family crest and emblem on it.

After all, as a county road, there are still few robbers and looting monsters, and the costumes and convoys of Rhodes and his party are obviously not something that those wandering human robbers and monsters can pretend to be.

Under the leadership of the Tamon Knights, Rhodes and his party did not stop or make contact with the caravan or anything, but marched straight towards Tarad, the county town of Sirt. And as Rhodes and his party got closer and closer to the direction of the county town of Talard, they felt more and more that the surrounding people began to dense and the good law and order situation.

"Looks like Earl Carman of Tallard, the county town of Sirt, has cleaned up very well."

Looking at the corpses of the various monsters and human robbers that stretched for a hundred meters on both sides of the road, the severed trees, shrubs, and various monsters and human robbers that were hung up from time to time on wooden frames, Rod who leisurely watched his surroundings on horseback and silently sighed in his heart.

It should be said that there are indeed too many monsters in the wilderness of this world, and there are roving bandits who can't survive or are composed of various human villains and criminals, so it is still rare that Rhodes and his party, who have walked more than a hundred kilometers so far, have not encountered monsters at all - although the most important thing is that the team is on the county road and Rhodes's team looks extremely difficult!

However, if you look at the wooden frames that can be found from time to time on the side of the county road and the various monsters, mutilated human corpses, dried corpses, and skeletons displayed on it, you can understand what is the reason for this relatively rare calm on the county road.

Obviously, Count Carman used bloody methods to clean up the monsters and use them for waste, as a way to warn the new monsters of the danger on the side of the county road. And judging from the relatively quiet environment on the county road and the situation of the corpses on the wooden shelves, Count Carman's actions still have a good effect.

"There are about 300 contractors in and around the county, which is good."

Looking at the county road spreading ahead, Rhodes rode his war horse while thinking about the situation in the game space of the gods.

At the beginning, because of the lack of distance, Rhodes used the method of spiritual coordinates to recruit contractors in the county, and even now the number of contractors in the entire county town of Sirt County does not exceed 300 - the entire county town and the surrounding farms and floating population are estimated to be more than 100,000!

"Hurry up! We're going to get to the county before dark!" While Rhodes was silently thinking, the leading Tamon Knight looked up at the time and shouted loudly to the team that was not actually slow.

Although this world is a magical world, such a thing as closing the city gate at night is obviously no exception, and if the dozens of people in the team can't enter the county town before closing the city gate, they will obviously only be able to find a place to get together in the farm outside the county town!

After listening to the words of the Tamon knights, the speed of the entire team suddenly increased, and both the carriage drivers and the cavalry obviously did not want to make do in the farmstead, but wanted to have a good experience in the county.

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After a quick ride (just an adjective), Rhodes and his party finally arrived under the county town before Talad closed its gates at night.

"Welcome to the city of Talad! Knight-sama!"

The soldiers of the Tallad City Defense Force guarding the gate politely stopped Rhodes and his party, and after checking the relevant certificates and nobles' family coats, they said very politely to Rhodes and his party and let them go.

Of course, this is also because Rhodes and his party are a noble team led by knights, and their identities are too different from those of the city defense troops from free people and burghers. At the very least, no one in the city defense force of Talad would be willing to offend a nobleman and an official knight for no reason without a reasonable reason and a holiday.

"Thank you very much! Let's go into town!" The Tamon Knight, who was in charge of negotiating and communicating, nodded in response, and after a kind word, he directly gave an order to the group behind him.

With the orders of the Tamun knights and the diligent guidance of several soldiers of the city defense force, dozens of cavalry and two carriages drove directly into the city gate of Taladshire, which undoubtedly made those caravans and civilians who lined up obediently outside the gate and paid the city tax according to the number of goods and personnel in their caravans.

However, the merchants and commoners also knew that unless they were also nobles and did not carry any goods, they would never enjoy this treatment!

In the envious eyes of the group of merchants and civilians who were still waiting to inspect and pay taxes, Rhodes and his party stepped directly into the city of Talad under the leadership of several soldiers of the city defense force.

(Note 1: To be precise, it is a fine black bread baked a day earlier with some nuts, but the taste and texture are still a little poor, not as good as freshly baked white bread coated with butter and honey.) )

(Note 2: There are no restrictions on the movement of ordinary commoners in and around their own noble domains, but for example, if they go to other counties or provinces, they must have a certificate from their status as a freeman and their noble domain.) If you go abroad, you need to issue a relevant certificate from the first-level county town, and this is still a preferential treatment for nobles. )

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