After a long detour to the south, and in a month and a half, the Penguin returned safely to the coastal city of the western soil, which was the original port of Baifan, which became a huge war fortress and supply base due to the undeclared war on the three countries in the North Sea.

It was only after the old captain Buckner One-Eye approached the head of the port that the armored penguin, which had been recorded on the battle damage list, was resurrected and returned to the view of the powerful lords at the top of the Customs Union.

The torn Penguin was towed into the dockyard and repaired by professional maintenance personnel, and most of the wounded on board survived under the careful care of Aldrich Triss, and they all had their own places to go.

The broken crew received a sum of money that was still expensive after several deductions and withdrew from the war, which lasted for an unknown time, and their fate was a relatively fortunate group of people, at least they could get out of the country and return to their hometowns to buy farmland, or stay in the city and live a public life.

As for the other people who were not seriously injured, they were added to the battle sequence of the reserve warship as veterans, and they were able to get a small leader position such as a boatswain, and of course the salary was doubled several times with the rising tide - all of which were recorded on the books and never paid to them.

The old Penguin team, led by Buckner One-Eye, had a rare holiday, at least until the scarred converted merchant ship was able to return to the battlefield, and they all stayed in White Sail Harbor to relax and relax their tense bodies, wine, women, and tobacco, and the coastal city of one of the trophies was in a strange and irrational way of prosperity.

Finally, it was Aldrich Triss's turn, and he had to be examined and questioned by the Customs Union War Committee due to the valuable wartime information from the Knight Commander Martin Opry.

The Fourth Knight had already prepared several countermeasures and accompanying statements on the way home, and when he spat out the Thunderhammer, the Storm Knight, the Odin Gods, the North Sea Trolls, the Elven Wasteland, and the key to connecting them all on the way home, all the knights involved in the hearing, including the nobles, fell into a long silence.

Aldrich knew that they had been bombarded with too many bombshells of information in a short period of time, and he waited for them to return to normal, which was half an hour, and then in the gloomy secret room, I don't know who started it, and the chaotic sounds and arguments turned the serious atmosphere into a noisy city.

The whereabouts of the chief knight, Martin Opry, are quickly forgotten and become a side matter that no one cares about, and a blonde man who is suspected to be a child of war from the arsenal of Cetanis, has his sights set on the Storm Knight of the Three North Sea Kingdoms at the end of his life.

Triss was silent for a moment, nodded his head to admit that he had fought with two of them, and then he tore open his thin coarse shirt to reveal the scars on his chest that had healed so soon that everyone could not bear to look at them.

"That's the mark I left on my body when the Storm Knights in the third and last seats played. According to my speculation, he has a very different madness pattern than the average Harold fighter, or the two sides are not on the same level at all. The attack is to summon a spark of lightning damage to his weapon by summoning a free atmospheric spirit, and that's just the most basic use. ”

A noble clan with an abundant source of spell casting in his body frowned: "Elemental user! Damn, the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea won't be mass-produced. ”

"Your assumption is not correct, there are many restrictions on the birth of the Storm Knight, and I will report the specific details in writing later, and here is a little hint that the Storm Knight comes from the royal family of the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea, at least from a famous family. ”

"Understood! The unexpected discovery of the thunder hammer ignited the divine blood of the descendants, but after many generations of dilution, even if the royal family maintained the concentration of blood through internal marriage, there were not many qualified people. I'm right!"

Aldrich was a little surprised by the accuracy of the caster's noble judgment, and his undisguised expression unintentionally made the man very pleasant, and his eyes at the Fourth Knight softened a lot.

The Sacrificial Knight stared at the wound and scanned: "Very terrible storm power, they must be equipped with light leather armor, and the weapon must be clubs and other non-metal components. According to the description of Lord Tris, it can be inferred that the Storm Knight has not yet entered the level of the Great Knight, but his overall strength is higher than ours, close to the legendary level of the Knight Lord. ”

Aldridge was a little surprised to indirectly admit his identity, but he had already expected it in his heart, so he didn't show any abnormality, "Regarding the mass production of Storm Knight, I estimate that this special army should be broken, after all, the thunderhammer that is most important to the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea, the legacy or gift of the gods of Odin, has disappeared for some reason." ”

His words immediately elicited snickering laughter from the participants of the secret room hearing, and Tris, who followed the faith of virtue, did not lie, but only missed some of the key, most of which were facts, and thus easily led these people into the gutter.

On the Penguin's way home, he tried several times to pull the hammer out of the Red Sock, but no matter how much he tried, it disappeared forever like ice and snow melted by the sun.

The gloom of the chamber was shattered by a succession of good news, and the hearings on the whereabouts of Martin Opry became the venue for Aldrich Tris to show his merits to the top brass of the Customs Union.

"As to whether everything I said is true or a pure fabrication, you may ask the crew of the Penguin, the old captain Buckner One-Eyed knows the most, and as the captain of the whaling ship and the helm of the merchant ship, his credibility should be able to take his word for it. ”

The Children of War from Eastwood City took over: "Lord Triss, I have heard of your meticulous treatment and care for the wounded on the Penguin, and you have at least earned my respect for bringing them home alive. ”

The attendees who echoed the Grand Knight nodded their heads in approval, and the secret hearing came to an end, and Aldrich not only escaped unscathed, but also made a fairly positive impression in front of the top brass of the Customs Union.

Martyn Oprey was no longer mentioned, and Tris left the chamber with permission, and when he reached the surface, the winter sun was not hot, only slightly harsh, and Aldrich squinted his eyes and took a deep breath, feeling his shoulders lighter.

When he walked away from the underground chamber, the host, who was sitting in the middle, looked sideways at the Children of War: "Dear Lord Lester, what do you think Aldrich Triss is in now?"

"Peak Knight, the three of us are only one step away!Well, that's funny, he's been to Cetanis's arsenal before, and Prado, who is in third place, is in charge of hospitality, and he didn't use his battlefield knight skills, they fought with their fists and feet for half an hour, exchanged attacks and defenses about three hundred times, and to my surprise, they didn't leave seriously injured. Prado lay tired on the ground again, and the expression on his face, he was overjoyed. ”

"Is Eastwood City going to have another big knight?" The host from other West Earth cities was in a bad mood, and he didn't expect that the nickname of "Fourth Knight" turned out to be true, which would affect the balance too much.

The Grand Knight Lester shook his head: "I reckon it will be difficult for Lord Triss to cross the obstacles, and his eyes are stuck on the fools of the good old days, clinging to the traditional belief in virtue. He didn't know that without fertile soil, it would be difficult for even the seeds of the Heavenly Tree to sprout and take root, and that it was surprising that Lord Triss had not fallen into the Dark Realm. ”

"Aldrich Triss is not as simple as you think. The host began to sort out the documents in front of him, "The leader of the younger generation of the Tellis family, the vigilant eye, pushed the signboard to the front desk, in less than a year, he has run a huge force in Eastwood City, and there is no big man behind him, can he go so far?"

Lester nodded lightly: "The Twelve Builders Family! The Grand Master of the Knights of the Cold Mountain once took care of him and gave him the opportunity to enter the Night Patrol Knights, which was the starting point of His Excellency Tris's career. I don't agree with you, the Tris family is ill-fated, the main family was completely wiped out by the cursed warlocks of the dark world, and the rest are side branches, they once fell to the point of almost being removed from the genealogy of the noble family, but fortunately, the fief of the cold mountain is not coveted by no one due to terrible legends, and the foundation can be preserved and there is a chance to recover. ”

The participants in the secret room hearing left in twos and threes, and they had to hide their identities and keep silent about the contents of the secret meeting, except for the Grand Knight Lester, who was in charge of overseeing the battle.

The trade routes were attacked by the privateers of the Western Soil Customs Union, and the leading warships of the three northern sea countries were restrained by a large number of invincible fleets, and the berserkers shouted to restore the glory of their ancestors and plundered the northern countries or the western land city-states, but they were always pressed by the high-level.

Once the strongest armed group leaves, as long as the fleet of the Customs Union lands, any country, even the strongest Damac country, will not be able to resist the tide of invaders, and the threat of fire in the backyard will put an end to the fear of their hometown, which makes the top leaders of the three North Sea countries hesitate.

Not to mention that the northern states have now received news of the war between the two sides, and are actively gathering fleets in tandem, following the example of the city-states of the western soil to form an alliance, trying to intervene in the lucrative North Sea trade.

No matter how strong the alliance of the three kingdoms in the North Sea is, it can't cope with the two opponents who are not inferior to them in terms of size, so no matter how loud the berserkers are and the high-level who hold real power, the three royal families have always swallowed their anger and watched as the trade profits that originally belonged to them were snatched away by the greedy jackals and scavenging hyenas of the Western Soil.

The good news is not for nothing, due to the unknown whereabouts of Thor's hammer on Lewotin Island, the Elder Sacrifice Group has given up on each other's vigilance, and the three Storm Knights have traveled to the elven wasteland in the depths of the Endless Ocean, easily eliminating a group of intruders and opening up the legacy of the old era.

A blasting powder unique to the elves came into the vision of the wise priests, and they improved the recipe to put it into practice, and with the addition of the dwarven metal craft, the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea began to work on creating their own weapons of war, the process of which was absolutely secret, and even the high-level of the Three Kingdoms only knew the progress of those on the throne.

Returning to Eastwood with his military exploits, Aldridge took a deep breath as he stood in the increasingly prosperous docklands of his hard-working territory, and his memories of the past, diluted by the excitement of battle and the boredom of life at sea, were instantly revived.

Upon receiving the news of President Triss's return, the Scavengers Guild was almost all dispatched, and in his absence, many ill-intentioned forces took the opportunity to suppress him. Some people are not used to the well-organized docks, especially the bigwigs of the underground world, as the saying goes, the more chaotic the more money you make, Aldrich gets in the way of many people, once he leaves, even if the re-elected councillors of the city hall take care of it, the salary belonging to the union will still be deducted.

Aldrich returned to the union headquarters in the Shiying neighborhood, and before he could sit down, his subordinates began to pour bitter water, he used to think that he had run the scavenger union without him, but without the sign of the Fourth Horseman, he was a little overwhelmed.

"The town hall is in arrears with the union's wages, and I'm going to get someone to help get it back. I'll talk to Emerald Eye Anille Jones about the temple. Gorgau, inform the scavenger's friend, Congressman Anse Claire, and tell him one thing......"

"I'm back. ”