Ten days after the assassination ended, William's two sons received news that they had returned from the samurai teacher's family today, and now William's family had all moved into the Night Manor and officially became a member of the Melina family.

"Master Mage!"

The two teenagers, dressed in clean samurai uniforms, formally met Donald under the leadership of William.

"My lord, this is Eric, this is Eli, and this is my youngest son, but he is too young to have a name!"

Donald looked at the two teenagers in front of him, smiled with satisfaction, nodded and said:

"Yes, you're all working hard!"

Then he turned his gaze to the young child, who was not so restrained and innocent as his parents and brothers, but looked at Donald as his master with great interest.

Donald, who had always loved children in his previous life, couldn't help but say:

"Your youngest son is smart too!"

"Thank you for the compliment, children are not sensible!"

"Since you haven't come up with a name yet, why don't I give him a name?"

Mr. and Mrs. William immediately thanked them gratefully: "Thank you, Lord for the name!"

Donald thought for a moment and said:

"Let's call Clark, this is the name of a hero in the legend, as a retainer of my Merlinna family, of course, there must be a surname, from today onwards, your family will have Kent as the surname, which is also the surname of that hero!"

Although Donald was serious on the surface, he didn't know that he was secretly laughing in his heart: "Clark Kent!

William's hands trembled with excitement when they heard Donald's words, with a superior person like a noble mage giving a name and surname, their family was basically out of the category of ordinary commoners, and such a surname had legitimacy, and ordinary commoners would be arrested and imprisoned for pretending to be descendants of nobles if they used their surnames privately.

Seeing the excited and thankful look of William's family, Donald waved his hand to the butler behind him, and Curd immediately ordered several servants to bring up the prepared things.

Donald took a long sword and raised the tip of it forward.

For being able to become a noble knight squire, and suddenly obtain the status of a quasi-nobleman, this is a more promising profession than becoming a civilian samurai, after the two sons of William, who were fifteen and twelve years old, got the news, they couldn't sleep for two nights in a row, and they were already sensible, so they naturally knew how to choose.

At that moment the two teenagers fell to one knee with knightly courtesy, and Donald put his sword on the shoulders of the two brothers, and said:

"Are you willing to follow the will of the glorious knights of the Melinna family, become my knightly squire of Donald Meliner, and follow in my footsteps for the rest of your life to protect the glory of Melina?"

"I, Eric Kent, swear my loyalty to the knight Donald Melina, and in the honor of knighthood, I will never betray!"

"I, Eli Kent, swear ,............"

Mr. and Mrs. William wept with joy as they watched, and their gratitude to Donald as a master had reached the extreme.

The squire of a noble knight is essentially separated from the commoner or servant class, equivalent to half a retainer. As a probationary knight, his knightly squires are entitled to inherit their titles, inheritances, and domains if the sovereign has no heir. This shows that the status of the knightly squire is unusual.

The children of some great aristocratic families will be sent by their elders to the side of the same nobles or in the royal family as attendants before they reach adulthood, learn aristocratic etiquette, and receive knightly training and cultural education. The middle and lower classes of the aristocracy also continued this good tradition. This is also one of the reasons why the aristocracy can maintain its inheritance, and many elites will be born in each generation.

After taking the oath, Donald asked his servants to bring over the prepared equipment and horses, and handed them to the two little squires himself.

"Now you are my official knightly squire, and this is my gift to you as a lord!"

Although Donald can't do any training for his two knight squires for the time being, it is still easy to equip them with a set of knight squire equipment and war horses, and the two boys who got the equipment continue to practice according to the training of the original samurai at other times in addition to temporarily receiving some aristocratic education from the butler, and the fighting skills of the samurai and knights under the war horses can still be used.

"Thank you, sir!"

The two little ones happily accepted Donald's gifts, two sets ranging from noble hunting clothes, knightly dresses to half-body light armor, just preparing these would cost at least a hundred gold soles, not to mention two valuable thoroughbred war horses.

The reason why Donald is so fond of these two teenagers is that considering their father's ability to do things, his purpose in accepting these two squires was to win over William from the beginning, like William, who can contact many mages and has a clever mind, is extremely rare, and has an upright temperament, which can relatively guarantee loyalty.

After meeting William's two sons, Donald was also quite satisfied with their situation, even if the talents of these two teenagers were not the best, they were not bad, otherwise they would not have reached the strength of a warrior close to the middle of the black iron before the age of fifteen. If you train yourself well, it will be easy to become a junior knight before the age of eighteen. In that case, his family will have two more helpers who can be put on the surface.

As for William's youngest son, who is not yet four years old, he is still too young, and Donald has no plans to test his qualifications for the time being.

Feeling that in addition to himself and the summoned creatures in the manor, only two and a half children still had some combat power, Donald couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart.

"You know, I can't stay in the manor all the time without going out, there have been assassinations before, and if I leave now, I can't guarantee that no one will hit the manor with their ideas. ”

Therefore, he felt that his strength was insufficient to give himself and his men the assurance of safety.

Although the Tree of Life has the combat power of no less than that of a fifth-level demonic beast, as a plant life, its slow movement speed is its biggest drawback.

The first thing that came to Donald's mind about the solution was the perpetual summoning privileges that the Book of Truth gave him. However, this method was quickly abandoned by him, because although there was no limit to the number of permanent summons, the soul power required was far from meeting the conditions for creating high-level troops by relying on the soul power obtained by collecting some scattered undead creatures by himself.

The main need for permanent summoning is not the energy in those magic core crystals, in fact, the energy required for normal summoning creatures can fully meet their ** manifestation, and what is most needed to create creatures is more precious soul power.

He had ordered the Book of Truth to calculate and come to the conclusion that it was impossible to summon permanently with the soul mark of the demon core, because they had the defects of insufficient strength of soul power and incomplete structure, which would greatly affect the wisdom of the summoned creatures, after all, they were all demonic beasts without much wisdom in life, and the remaining fragments after death were incomplete.

To create the soul of a living being, it is best to use the soul power of intelligent beings as a raw material.

Therefore, until he has obtained other sources of soul power, Donald is not ready to exercise his ability to permanently summon for the time being.

The first idea was rejected, and then Donald thought of the Elven defenses.

"Elder Guardians?

Unlike the Terran Orc Towers, the Ancient Guardian and the Tree of Life are both natural treants.

It only takes a small number of units to create the Elder Guardian Treant's soul power, which is about one-twentieth the main base's Tree of Life. This consumption is only equivalent to the needs of ordinary first-level field units, and Donald still pays for it, and considering their strength, it is undoubtedly very cost-effective in comparison.

So Donald went to the forest to find ten thousand-year-old trees, and used them as carriers to summon ten ancient trees of the Ancient Guardian.

These living towers are scattered on the four sides of the manor, with two Ancient Guardians rooted on each side, and two of the Tree of Life also rooted there.

Absorbing the power of the Earth and the Tree of Life, these ancient trees are usually as stationary as ordinary trees, but once the enemy is within range, these ancient trees will immediately turn into inexhaustible trebuchets that will attack the enemy at a rate of once every two seconds. Combined with the Tree of Life's natural power bonus and the suppression of enemy power, enemies below the bronze level are basically less than 100 and cannot enter the manor gate.

After doing this, the manor's defense system is basically perfect.

However, this can only be passively defended, and lacks sufficient mobility, so it is still necessary to recruit some guards and then train them to assist the Ancient Guardians to protect the safety of the manor.

Fortunately, it is estimated that there will be some time before he leaves, because it is only the forward spies of the orcs that have been discovered by humans, and the large army is estimated to be still on the way, and the kingdom's conscription order has not come down.

The Northwest Wasteland is still separated from the Kingdom of Celt by a mountainous hill, and although the terrain is not dangerous, it will take a lot of time to get through.

What's more, in previous years, the key targets of the orcs were the rich human countries in the middle of the continent, and for the Celtic kingdom, which was also in the Northland and had inconvenient access, it was generally the weaker tribes that were assigned here.

This shows that the orc troops facing the Celtic border should not be too strong, and it also gives Donald a certain amount of time to prepare.

The next day, Donald and the steward began to discuss hiring some guards for the estate.

Non-landed nobles were not allowed to train private soldiers, but they were allowed to hire guards to protect their estates and possessions, or to obtain the allegiance of knights.

However, such private force cannot be used on the table, and it cannot be used for one's own purposes to seek military merits. This is a restriction imposed by the royal family and aristocracy on non-local nobles and merchants, lest these people take the opportunity to seize their territory, life and property in times of war.

Moreover, without an official name, the non-local nobles and merchants did not dare to hire too many guards, firstly, because they spent a relatively large amount of food and wages, and secondly, they were afraid that these armed guards would turn against their employers' ideas.

You must know that there have been cases of hired civilian adventurers who ransacked their homes while their employers were away, and even robbed and killed their employers altogether, and finally became the guards of thieves.

Therefore, for the selection of the manor guards, the first thing Donald should consider is not their strength, but their temperament. It is better to have a group of low-strength but honest and loyal guards than to hire those white-eyed wolves with bad hearts and treacherous habits.

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