Chapter 17: The Aftermath and Returning Home
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Three hours later, the autumn hunting camp was among the ornate marquees of Viscount Saul.
"Lord Viscount, none of the noble children of the Autumn Hunt died, but many of them were frightened and slightly injured!"
"My lord, a total of seven people were injured by XX Knight, XXX Knight, and XX Lord, and the most serious injuries were even rescued, and there was no threat to life, but it took a certain amount of time to recuperate and the doctor to help check it!"
"There are more than 100 casualties among the soldiers of various families participating in the autumn hunt, how should they be handled?"
In the tent, Viscount Thor listened to the statistics and related information processed by several family stewards present, and his originally somewhat gray brows became more and more furrowed.
Viscount Saul felt unusually unlucky this time!
There have been 100 and 80 autumn hunts hosted by the Thor family, and accidents have not been unexpected.
However, not two days after this autumn hunt began, a group of ogre tribes ruled by a two-headed ogre strongly participated, leading hundreds of casualties, which can be described as the first time! In the past, if there was an accident in the autumn hunt, at most a copper-level demonic beast swooped into the hunting ground set for young people, but it was also properly disposed of.
Where is it like the accident of this autumn hunt now, the number of casualties alone has exceeded three digits!
The only thing that made Viscount Thor thankful was that although there were many casualties, at least there were no bad deaths among the sons and daughters of the nobles.
As long as there were no casualties among the noble children and nobles of various families involved in the autumn hunt, the accident of this autumn hunt was not a big deal for the Thor family, which had been in Sirt County for more than 600 years and had deep roots. The frightened children and nobles of each family were able to understand the accident of this autumn hunt and the explanation and compensation given by the Thor family more rationally, and together they could properly explain the accident that happened in this autumn hunt!
As for the soldiers and squires of the gray iron rank who died in various families? Well, well, for the nobles, the death of these people is not something that is too much to be taken seriously, at least to be able to solve this "small" problem through guò monetary compensation.
"Send an order to invite the nobles who participated in the Autumn Hunt to come over, saying that I plan to discuss with them about the Autumn Hunt and the ogre."
After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Viscount Thor, who opened his eyes, gave an order with a straight face, planning to discuss with the nobles who participated in the autumn hunt this time, and properly solve the accident of this autumn hunt and the matter about ogres.
"Yes, Lord Viscount!" *2
After hearing Viscount Thor's order, two people in the tent immediately got up, and then walked out of the tent and began to prepare to notify the other nobles to come. The other people in the tent also nodded respectfully and withdrew from the tent at the wave of Viscount Thor's hand, leaving Viscount Thor alone in the tent with his eyes closed, as if thinking about something.
"Hopefully it won't be the legendary beast tide"
It was only after he opened his eyes that the barely inaudible voice of Viscount Thor rang out in the tent.
Viscount Thor didn't know if the invasion of an entire ogre tribe in the Autumn Hunting Grounds was an accident or a foreshadowing. If it was an accident, it would be fine, but if it was the worst situation he thought, then this accident in this autumn hunt would not be a big deal.
After all, compared to the big scene where countless powerful demonic beasts and monsters in the Extreme North Mountain Range collectively went out to find trouble for the humans of the five northern countries in the legend once in hundreds of years, the appearance of a silver-rank two-headed ogre and a dozen copper-rank ogres in the middle of the autumn hunt this time was nothing at all.
However, Viscount Thor felt that the probability of such a thing as a beast tide was too small, after all, there was no abnormality in the situation in the Extreme North Mountains before, and if it was a beast tide, there should be obvious signs
"Lord Viscount, all the nobles have arrived!"
While Viscount Thor was pondering, an attendant whispered to the tent door.
"Well, please let them in!"
After hearing the words of his confidant, Viscount Thor, who was awakened, did not think about it anymore, but began to command and prepare for the meeting.
"Yes! Lord Viscount!"
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The next morning, the gate of the autumn hunting camp became unusually busy.
At the gate of the autumn hunting camp, almost a dozen aristocratic families involved in the autumn hunting have left, and judging from the departing convoy and the knights and attendants who guarded it, those noble families and descendants have been sent away. Among them, the Ernst family is also among them, and Rhodes is humbly listening to the orders of his father, Baron Ernst.
"Rod, be careful all the way, remember to listen to the advice of the Tamon Knight, and don't do anything else without permission"
Looking at his eldest son, who was supposed to be famous in this autumn hunting ground, Baron Ernst was a little helpless and at the same time a little nagging to his eldest son.
Yesterday at Viscount Saul's meeting, all the nobles were taken aback by Viscount Saul's speculation, and then even though Kiel, the three magicians and the other nobles pointed out the problems of the dozen ogres and the old wounds on the two-headed ogre, out of prudence, everyone agreed with Viscount Saul about the suspension of this autumn hunt, and then hurriedly sent them away from their families and took a good look at the nearby Far North Mountain Range!
After all, except for Rod, who collected the relevant information from the two-headed ogre and the soul of more than a dozen ogres, knowing that this ogre tribe with more than thirty members was driven out of his territory and ran to the autumn hunting ground because he encountered another more powerful ogre tribe, Viscount Thor and the other nobles did not know why this ogre tribe came to the autumn hunting ground selected by Viscount Thor this time.
And no one (except for Rhodes) dared to say that in addition to this group of ogres, there would be other dangerous creatures in and around the Autumn Hunting Grounds, such as Warcraft and other ogres
So Viscount Thor's proposal to send his family away and leave all the knights and warriors left behind to search the Autumn Hunting Ground and the surrounding Far North Mountains was recognized by all the nobles - the Autumn Hunting Ground was definitely not very far from all the noble territories present, and obviously if there were really monsters and monsters wandering around this place, no nobleman would dare to say that his territory would not be patronized by these guys.
Instead of asking for help when you are harassed by monsters and monsters, it is better to join forces to take a closer look while everyone is together!
- This is also the unanimous idea of all the nobles involved in the meeting, including Viscount Thor!
Baron Ernst did the same, and made the intention of making the necessary preparations for the return of his eldest son Rhodes and the Knight of Tamon to the realm, while staying behind to participate in the joint operation of Viscount Thor and other nobles.
However, what made Baron Ernst a little disappointed was that after being disturbed by the ogre incident, the impact of Rhodes himself's previous deeds was obviously greatly neutralized.
"Yes, Father!"
Rod, who doesn't have mind reading skills for the time being and doesn't care much about his fame, certainly doesn't know much about the feeling of loss in his father's heart, but he still responds very seriously.
"Well, Tamon, please escort Rod back!"
Looking at his eldest son, who was only a head shorter than him, Baron Ernst nodded with some relief, and then commanded the knight of Tamon standing on the side.
Although Rhodes himself showed amazing skills, it was obvious that no one else, including Baron Ernst, would think that Rhodes himself, who was still in the gray iron stage, had the strength to match or surpass the bronze rank. Therefore, Baron Ernst was more relieved that the knight of Tamon was more than Rhodes, who was now just a teenager.
"Yes! Lord Baron!"
Listening to Baron Ernst's instructions, the knight of Tamon, who had been standing while wearing his knight's armor, immediately stepped forward and responded respectfully.
A few minutes later, Rhodes and the knights of Tamon, together with twenty squires and a carriage, left the camp with the rest of the noble convoy and quickly returned in the direction of Barony Ernst.
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Rhodes and his party returned much faster than they had been, and with the convoy almost non-stop, it took less than a day to get back to the town of Taffe before the evening.
Of course, the wooden axles of the wagon that cost it were worn out and almost scrapped, and the horses that were overworked and needed to rest and eat were not very important problems.
Baroness Ernst, who was originally in the lord's mansion, became a little worried when she received the news from her son Rhodes and the Tamon Knights, and she didn't have the optimistic spirit of playing with the three little snow bears brought back by Rhodes with her second son and daughter.
Rhodes wanted to tell his mother not to worry, but it was clear that Rod's words, which had not been proved to be very effective, were not very effective, and Baroness Ernst at most thought that they were just words of comfort from her son.
Rod was helpless about this situation, and after enjoying dinner and comforting his mother to no avail, Rod himself could only shrug his shoulders and say goodbye to his younger siblings, and then returned directly to his room.
Of course, Rhodes himself is not going to sleep now, but is going to study the gains he has gained from this autumn hunt in the gods game space - the nascent gods game space has obtained a complete soul about the silver rank for the first time, and it is definitely worth Rhodes to study the relevant situation.