Phocas didn't think Su Hao's words were intimidating. He had seen that strange castle with his own eyes, and he had also experienced Su Hao's strength. Although the other party never identified himself, Phocas thought that it could only be the practice of some nobleman.

Although Phocas hastened his return, even the horses were almost exhausted, but they were still one step too late.

When he walked briskly into the castle parlor under the guidance of the guards, he found Viscount Sazabi sitting in a chair, looking at the map on the table in a daze.

The news of the breach of Sir Okun's fiefdom arrived a few minutes before Phocas.

Okun and Phocas are both subordinate nobles of the Viscount, and they are also fellows who have been promoted from the ranks of warriors. Okun's stronghold was a manor house with an armed force of about three hundred. Due to the location of the manor being very close to Finon City, and the opponent's attack time was chosen at night, many people saw the skyrocketing fire in the direction of the Okun fiefdom. It was simply a huge torch, which was clearly visible in the night, standing more than ten kilometers away.

Okun's army was wiped out. The other party did not leave a single living mouth. Although Viscount Sazabi immediately ordered reinforcements to be sent, he happened to fall into the trap set by Su Hao. An open slope was chosen as the ambush site, and more than a dozen knights urgently dispatched from the city of Finon, as well as as six hundred soldiers, were all killed in a short time.

Who knows exactly how they do it? There were no survivors at the scene. The corpse was also covered with horrific circular holes, littered with severed limbs from the explosion. At first, the investigators believed that it was caused by the smashing of weapons such as heavy hammers. It turned out not to be. Who knows why things are the way they are? In particular, that powerful mysterious weapon has become the biggest source of fear for Viscount Sazabi.

It's not over yet.

The second group of reinforcements departed at dawn. When they crossed the ambush battlefield and came to Sir Okun's manor, they found that in the middle of the road leading to the manor, there was a wooden pole more than ten meters high. It had Sir Okun's head stuck on it, and hundreds of corpses scattered around it. The deceased were all members of Okun's family, as well as knights who lived near the manor.

In the center of the pole was a piece of parchment with a few large words written in blood: "Next target, Svelo." ”

Svello was another knight under the Viscount of Sazabi, and his fiefdom was located west of the city of Finon, about a day and a half from the fiefdom of Okun.

There is no doubt that Su Hao did not act according to the timing of the sue to Sù Phocas. His attack came earlier, more brutally and bloodier than expected.

The hall was littered with smashed objects. There are expensive silver candlesticks, as well as well-made solid wood furniture. The curtains were also torn off and thrown in the corners of the wall. The coffee table was split into several pieces, and judging by the smooth cutout edges, it was supposed to be the result of the weapon's gravity slashing.

Phocas felt Viscount Sazabi glaring at him viciously. Then, I heard a hoarse, somewhat strange voice.

"You're not dead? You, you're still alive? ”

Phocas could feel the Viscount's anger. He didn't want to die in vain, so he immediately ran over and grabbed the viscount's hands tightly, so as not to give the other party a chance to draw his sword and face each other, and also to give himself enough time to finish his words.

"Here's the thing, they're much stronger than we thought. I don't know where they came from, but I'm sure there was more than one magician among them. Magic, can you understand me, my lord? They will magic. They tortured us to extract confessions and forced us to tell our secrets. But none of us died. That's really amazing, it should be the legendary life magic that can restore fù to life. They drive metal dolls (cranes and excavators) to build castles, and the heavy boulders are in the hands of the dolls like light toys. I've never seen the weapons they use, and they're probably magic scrolls that seal in great power, and anyone can unleash them, and we're overwhelmed by the fireballs and hailstones, and there's no way to escape. ”

Viscount Sazabi did not react at all, but his face became more and more ugly as Sir Phocas described it.

"Enough! At this point, do you still want to deceive me with lies? ”

The Viscount suddenly struggled to jump up in a fit of rage, pointed at Phocas's nose and roared, "Magic? You can figure out the word. You are my most trusted subordinate, and I am the one who promoted you from a pariah to a nobleman. You, you, you, you even persuaded me to accept the facts, to persuade me to negotiate with those damned outsiders? You, you shameless dog mongrel, ungrateful pig! ”

Aristocrats rarely burst into foul language. Obviously, the viscount is already on the verge of losing his mind.

Phocas felt a strong outburst of anger. Even the viscount could not have said such insulting words to him.

For a long time, Phocas struggled to get rid of his anger, and made his tone as soft and respectful as possible: "I have absolutely no intention of deceiving you. If you don't think my word is credible, you can call the knight who went to Sir Okun's rescue. They should have seen the bodies of those who were killed, with the scars on them, exactly as I described. Neither a bow nor a spear can create a trace of that rule. I can't find a second plausible explanation other than magic. ”

Viscount Sazabi was spewing rough air from his nostrils and his eyes were bloodshot, like an enraged bull.

No nobleman would accept the fact that the fief was attacked by an outside force. That means wealth and power being seized by outsiders. The same goes for the Viscount of Sazabi. However, he did not completely lose his mind after all. As much as he wanted to pick up his sword and slash Phocas to death, reason and intuition kept reminding him that his men were not lying, and that this issue was true.

By daybreak, before Phocas arrived, the knights who had sent reinforcements to Okun had already brought back several corpses. Including Okun, who had his head cut off, the surface of the corpse was left with regular circular bullet holes. If you are shot with a bow and arrow and then pull it out, it will definitely cause a tearing effect on the wound. If it was pierced by a bow and arrow, there was no trace of penetration on the back of the corpse.

What's even more terrifying is that Viscount Sazabi watched the attendants cut open the corpse with knives, and was surprised to find that the muscles and internal organs inside had been shattered, as if they had been crushed by a huge force.

Phocas was right, ordinary weapons simply can't do this. Only, and only magic, in legends.

The viscount stared at the blood-red eyes, looked up and down Phocas several times, and then forcibly suppressed the desire to kill in his heart, and roared: "What good do you have?" ”

Phocas sighed in his heart and replied seriously: "They want to negotiate with you, my lord, the sooner the better." ”

……

Two days later, Viscount Sazabi took more than a dozen attendants, including Phocas, into the "Kunming" castle, where the main building had been completed.

The army in the viscounty's territory suffered heavy losses. In less than a week, the cumulative number of casualties exceeded 1,000. Sir Phocas and other private soldiers were nominally their own, but they were still subject to the Viscount's control. The fiefdom of Okun was destroyed, the army of Phocas was annihilated, and after that, another Sir fiefdom was attacked. If Sazabi hadn't listened to Fucas's opinion, eliminated the envoy in time, and negotiated with Su Hao's department first under the white flag, the losses would definitely have been even greater.

According to the cage statistics, there are about 400 people under the Viscount's command. If Sazabi insists on going his own way and disregarding an all-out confrontation, he can also mobilize a temporary army of about 2,000 men from within the fiefdom. However, these people were not real professional fighters after all, but improvised peasants. Except as a last resort, the aristocracy usually did not resort to such extreme practices. They are well aware: the improvised armed forces have almost no combat effectiveness, and their numbers seem to be huge, but in fact they are just something that stays on paper. Under normal circumstances, a regular army of 100 people is enough to crush a 10-fold civilian army. No amount of such waste can change the situation.

Those strange outsiders are very powerful. Even if all the remnants of the entire fiefdom are gathered, they are still no match for them. Instead of bringing too many people over and mistaking them for hostility, it is better to simply wear a few attendants around you. At the very least, he can also get himself a "brave" name.

Viscount Sazabi has a stubborn personality, and despite the testimony of Phocas's words and the fact that he has seen the corpses of the war dead, he is still suspicious of the so-called "magic". It wasn't until I walked into the castle construction site and saw the various machinery that was busy there, and saw the large polished "rocks", that is, the concrete slabs being easily transported back and forth, that I couldn't help but open my mouth wide and my eyes were full of shock.

Su Hao still received each other in the cabin in Moloshi Village. The excuse is nothing more than "the castle is not finished".

In order to show that he valued this negotiation very much, Viscount Sazabi deliberately wore a gorgeous aristocratic dress. It is adorned with intricately crafted jewelry, and the attendants also carry flags with traditional family crests. The horses are all selected, unusually tall and supernatural, and even the saddles are of the highest quality.

In comparison, Su Hao's side is very shabby.

The costumes of the Third Stage Overworld are completely different from here. The design of the costume to facilitate movement was, in the eyes of the Viscount of Sazabi, a reduced version of the lack of fabric and wealth. Although the castle in the distance looked magnificent, and those obedient mechanical puppets also made him feel greedy, as far as Su Hao himself was, he did not arouse enough respect from the viscount. At least, outwardly, it is.

Su Hao was keenly aware of this, but he just smiled and didn't break it.

For now, he has little desire to occupy this spatial realm. The "worker bee" conversion takes time, and zircon mining is a lengthy process. Of course, it is also a good idea to become the king of the space field based on strong force. The problem is that the natives here are incompatible with the Overworld. It is impossible for them to accept advanced technology from another world, and they are doomed to be at a disadvantage forever in space warfare.

When Dai Xiaolou built yì Su Hao chose the space converter as a contribution point, he repeatedly warned: Don't have the idea of forcibly promoting the civilization in the space field with science and technology. This needs to be backed by a huge amount of money, and the benefits outweigh the costs. It was undoubtedly a difficult task for humans in the Middle Ages to understand the relationship between particles and molecules. Even if you really have the confidence to teach them, and vigorously promote education and accelerate the evolution of science and technology as kings within the space realm, the Overworld Empire will never allow this to happen. The Imperial Civil Administration will regularly send personnel to inspect the space field, and if a similar situation is discovered, it will immediately report to the military headquarters and the major major army corps. The signs of danger will be strangled to death at the first opportunity. The idea of making the space domain flourish, and thus training a powerful army there to fight back against the empire, will never become a reality.

If nothing else, weapons configuration alone can't do it. In the case of the standard short-barreled rifle, all the design drawings and production lines are completely controlled by the core departments of the empire. This is a secret of the Empire, and anyone who dares to copy or copy it will face the most brutal and ruthless execution. Taking a step back, even if you're lucky enough to get the hang of how to make weapons, you're unlikely to escape the regular rounds of the Imperial Space Inspectorate.

The space gate amplification device is the key to curbing the counterattack of forces in the space field. The Space Converter is very cheap, but the amplification device used with it can only be issued by the highest authority of the Empire. Even the main legion must pass a strict review before the application can be approved. The width and size of the space passage directly limit the number of people and equipment entering and exiting. In this regard, the Empire's ability to control is quite tight. Even for the high-ranking kings and dukes, the space gate amplification device can only be constant at the scale of five thousand people. And every time it is opened, the amount of hedron consumed is quite large, which is an absolutely considerable cost.

Therefore, for Su Hao, it becomes natural to maintain small and medium-sized space amplification devices. His purpose was to bring the wealth of the space realm back to the third stage of the main world. It is there that it is a suitable place for large-scale development of "bee colonies".

Su Hao did think about killing the Viscount of Sazabi and replacing him as the supreme ruler of this land.

After devouring Phocas's severed finger, Su Hao dispelled this thought.

Although the aristocratic fiefdoms of this spatial realm are scattered, they maintain a subtle connection with each other. Marriage and blood are the foundation of the relationship, and it is true that the power of the individual minor nobles is weak, but as many as hundreds of small nobles have to be faced as long as they twist the strength.

The same goes for the Viscount of Sazabi. He had an aunt who married an earl more than a hundred kilometers away, two younger brothers were barons, and an uncle married a powerful marquise, the widow of the previous marquis. In addition to this, Sazabi has a large group of noble relatives who are in a bad way, and even the king of the Red Griffin Kingdom can be more or less involved.

If he killed Sazabi, those noble relatives and friends would definitely not help him avenge him. But for this fiefdom that has lost its lord, it will attract a large group of hungry wolves. In doing so, things will only become more and more tricky, and Su Hao will be caught in a long and endless war. This is out of his original intention, what Su Hao wants is just this remote valley where zircon is produced, but he has no interest in the viscount's fief.

The best way to do this is to show that you are strong enough to deter the other party. Then he made timely gestures, showed that he was not hostile, and forced the other party to take the initiative to cede this part under the condition of threat and inducement.

The deserted mountains are not rich at all. The most abundant thing produced here is stone. Su Hao didn't think that the village of Moloshi, which has only a few hundred people, would be important in the eyes of Sazabi. The viscount did not even post a tax officer here, and this is the best proof of this.

"There must have been some misunderstanding between us."

Looking at Viscount Sazabi, who had a gloomy face and no friendly expression, Su Hao waved his hand generously: "You must feel tired when you come from afar." No matter what disputes and contradictions we have, let's finish our meal first. ”

The dinner was very generous, at least in the eyes of the Viscount of Sazabi.

Grilled luncheon meats, pan-fried luncheon meats, luncheon meat crumbs with fresh vegetables in salad, and thin slices of luncheon meat in a thick soup with water and a sprinkle of chopped onions. This kind of stuff tastes good when dipped in bread and smells good.

Canned fish with tomato sauce is not a good thing to look at at all. This thing is a black lump in a canned box. Using the usual cooking method of mercenaries, Lai chopped up pieces of canned fish, mixed them with flour and sauce, brushed them layer by layer on pre-slaughtered hens, and stuffed them into the oven to bake. This primitive and civilized practice has been praised by Viscount Sazabi and his entourage, claiming that it is the most delicious roast chicken they have ever tasted in their lives.

The staple food is bucket instant noodles. Of course, this thing is no longer the "Master Kong" or "Unification" on the earth, but a special combat ration for the main army. According to Su Hao's instructions, Reilly served a large plate of noodles soaked in hot water to Viscount Sazabi, and poured double condiments. The large pieces of beef are made in advance with Sudan dyes and nitrite according to the practice of black-hearted manufacturers in the Earth Era, and they look bright and delicious.

These foods have never been seen in the space field. Just as people who eat green vegetables and tofu every day look forward to having barbecue in front of them, Viscount Sazabi is also amazed by these foods that he has never seen before. Especially when the first bite is in the mouth, the strong taste of a large amount of MSG has a ruining effect on the tip of the tongue. He had completely forgotten all the natural foods he had eaten, and was completely immersed in all kinds of industrial compounds, dyes, and terrible delicacies that could cause fatal damage to the body and were purely used to trick his tongue.

Su Hao kept smiling at these gluttonous guys who were eating seas. Kindly ask them if they are enough? Would you like to come a little more? According to the practice of the black-hearted manufacturers of the Earth Era, it is boiled in advance with Sudan dyes and nitrites, which not only looks bright in color, but also tastes particularly delicious.

These foods have never been seen in the space field. Just as people who eat green vegetables and tofu every day look forward to having barbecue in front of them, Viscount Sazabi is also amazed by these foods that he has never seen before. Especially when the first bite is in the mouth, the strong taste of a large amount of MSG has a ruining effect on the tip of the tongue. He had completely forgotten all the natural foods he had eaten, and was completely immersed in all kinds of industrial compounds, dyes, and terrible delicacies that could cause fatal damage to the body and were purely used to trick his tongue.

Su Hao kept smiling at these gluttonous guys who were eating seas. Kindly ask them if they are enough? Would you like to come a little more?