The surge in Kingston's floating population also made many nobles and wealthy families in Salz City happy.

Although Kingston is located in the territory of the Salz region, it does not have the fertile plains of the Salz region, although the climate is pleasant, and the rainfall is also abundant, but the mountains and rivers everywhere make it here in addition to the mountains and forests, not to mention farming and grazing, even the land for living is extremely limited.

Therefore, Zabas made a request to the grain merchants and officials in charge of the affairs of Salz: the grain, cloth, herbs, sea salt, etc., of Salz, in addition to those that had to be supplied to the Duke, would be supplied to Kingston first. In return, Kingston can offer a price that is five to eight pips higher than the market purchase price for the purchase.

As a result, the old men in Salz City were so happy that they signed a written agreement with Zabas. The more Kingston prospered, the happier the lords of Salz City became, because the interests were all the same. Now, it's only natural that the large caravans traveling to Kingston stop in Salztown for a break before heading to Kingston.

Invisibly, under the influence of subjective or objective factors such as Earl Anthony and his staff, as long as Kingston made a request, most of them would get the full cooperation of Salz. Obviously, Anthony and others were also able to harvest boxes of gold bricks and jade, exquisite and expensive crafts, and rare and beautiful corals from Kingston every season............

While Kingston was in full swing, Aaron quietly hid in the mountains southwest of the territory. Half a month ago, when Aaron was touring the scenery of his territory alone, he accidentally noticed that in the mountains on the edge of the southwestern territory, there was a faint roar of a giant beast. At that time, Aaron walked curiously in the direction where the sound came from, and found that there was a huge magical forest hidden in the dense forest, and there were large and small magical beasts living in it.

As soon as he entered the Magic Forest, Alun could already feel the mysterious aura that was everywhere in this forest. The aura grew stronger as he went deeper into the forest, and the demonic beasts he encountered became stronger and stronger.

In the next few days, Aaron often drilled into the Magic Forest, and finally found that in the deepest part of the Magic Forest, there was a spatial crack similar to what Belriffin said, and the mysterious aura in the air leaked from the crack, which also created this unbelievable Magic Forest.

Could it be that this place is like the spatial rift in Oklahomali of Narnia, but after entering it for so long, he has not found a presence as powerful as Manolos, the ruler of Oklahoma.

After searching the forest inside and out four or five times, Aaron was sure that this was a borderless land. Well, maybe you can't call it Borderlands, at least within the baron's domain.

The breath that constantly leaked from the cracks was mysterious and profound, not as mixed and rich as Oklahoma, but very pure and singular.

"The other side of this spatial rift doesn't know that it leads to a mysterious place. It's a pity that my current strength is not good, otherwise I might find something by going over and seeing!" Arun thought secretly.

Although it was not as strong as in Oklahoma, within three or four hundred meters of the rift, the concentration of the aura was still very strong, and the approximate magnitude was about the same as the density of the corpse qi in the zombie lord's cave at that time. Maybe a little bit stronger.

His lips opened slightly, and the air in front of him twisted, and the manticore and zombie lord emerged from the torn space.

I haven't seen him for a year, and the manticore hasn't changed much, but the zombie lord has obviously broken through the bottleneck and advanced. However, above the seventh level of the upper rank, each level is a strong barrier. With the strength of the Zombie Lord's current strength at the beginning of the ninth level, if he wants to break through continuously, I'm afraid it will take a long time.

It's been a year since he left Fort Oak, but the Duke still hasn't received any orders. And the news that Alun constantly sent back also shows that although the countries of the mainland are ready to start a war against Aragon and Slovenia, and there are constant small-scale wars and frictions, everyone seems to be very restrained. Even the Holy See, which has always been incomparably strong, has only secretly deployed forces on the one hand, and has sent priests to the two countries from time to time to read His Majesty's precepts and orders, and has not made any major moves.

As for Dai Lisi, she is now under house arrest by Lord Tony to participate in a training camp in Narnia, and I heard that the trainees are all strong people above the eighth level. After the training period is over, this group of people will be entrusted with important tasks by the military ministry and arranged for the front line.

Now that the situation is extremely uncertain, Aaron vaguely feels that it will never be as simple as it seems. However, it is not his turn to take care of these things, and he has no ability to take care of them, what he has to do is to improve his comprehensive strength as soon as possible. Only when your fist is big enough will it attract the attention of the strong.

After communicating with the Zombie Lord, Aaron learned that since the last time it combined with his own blood power and underwent an anomaly, it was able to mobilize the air element in the air and release some attack and support magic.

Aaron instructed the old zombie to cultivate here with peace of mind, and the manticore didn't have to go back to the abyss without special circumstances during this time. The Magic Forest covers a large area, and there are not a few magical beasts that have been mutated by that mysterious aura, which is just right for the manticore lion to hunt here. This will also reduce the number of monsters running out of the forest to the town to disturb people.

The spatial rift has been regarded as a forbidden place by Aaron. The existence of the Manticore Lion and the Zombie Lord, on the one hand, can prevent any magical beasts from unintentionally running out of the Magical Forest Road to harm the territory, and on the other hand, it can also prevent intentional or unintentional people from entering and discovering the secret of the rift.

After that's instructed, Aaron left for Kingston. As soon as he returned to his mansion, suddenly Zabas ran over from a distance. When he approached him, Aaron noticed that he was out of breath, gasping for air in his mouth.

"Lord, something happened, the convoy was hijacked!" Zabas shouted before he could catch his breath.

"What? The convoy was hijacked? What the hell is going on? Do you know who did it?" Aaron asked several questions in quick succession.

This trip to the amethyst mine is the output of the mine for nearly half a month, and half of it is medium-grade amethyse, which is of astonishing value. If something happens, I'm afraid I will have to bear a considerable part of the responsibility. Because the management of the mine, the transport fleet and the security force are all the responsibility of the majority shareholder. Others are only responsible for dividends, and although they are also responsible for losses, they are more just losses on sales risk. It is estimated that this kind of loss due to security work can only be swallowed by itself.

Although the operation of the mine has indeed brought Alun a lot of money in the past year, he has lost some for no reason, and the value is not small, even Alun is secretly complaining. However, the cause must be found, otherwise if it happens again next time, it will not only be a loss of money, but also the reputation of the mine will be affected, and the negative impact on Kingston will be difficult to estimate.

"This time it was Atay who was transporting, and according to him, when he was about to enter Arizona Province, a large group of thieves suddenly came out to rob him. In order to protect the valuable goods on the car, Atai and several other high-ranking guards were injured to varying degrees, more than half of the more than 200 guards in the car died, and the remaining 100 or so were all injured............ "Zabas told what Atai and the other guards said word for word.

"Four or five hundred thieves, close to the province of Arizona?" said Aaron, chewing back and forth on what might be reflected in this.

"Lord, there has been no accident in our convoy for a year, why is it that a group of thieves has suddenly come now, is it that someone deliberately pretended to be a thief group to rob?" Zabas finally expressed his suspicions.

"Well, it's possible. Although the security force of our convoy is not as good as that of the big consortium lords, it is not too bad. There are more than 200 guards, and nearly 30 of them are high-level or above. Ordinary thieves simply did not dare to attack the idea of our convoy. Powerful thieves would certainly be able to find out that the goods in the car were transported to the Stoudemire family, and it stands to reason that they would not run out to rob them recklessly. Aaron mused.

"That's right, you know, we all went up and down along the three routes from Salz to Arizona, and usually no one would run out to make trouble!"

"Have you told Viscount Amare and Count Anthony about the situation?" asked Aaron, pacing back and forth for a while, when he suddenly stopped.

"Not yet, why don't you send someone to tell them about it now?" Zabas asked.

"Go ahead. This matter must not be hidden, and by the way, you can inquire about any information available on Amare's side. In addition, the mining of the mine must be carried out urgently, even if the remuneration is doubled, the goods must be delivered before the delivery deadline. As for the Amare, you can send someone over and give them a little more time, so we don't have to be scrambling. Aaron closed his eyes and commanded carefully.

A year of life as a lord has given Aaron a certain amount of courage and experience to deal with this sudden event. During this period, he was also summoned by the imperial capital and met with Louis XXX. However, apart from asking Aaron a few questions about the forces of evil, they did not summon him again.

After Zabas retreated, Aaron personally visited Atay and the wounded, and carefully inquired about what had happened.

According to them, the sudden appearance of the thieves was obviously prepared, not only was the equipment several times stronger than that of ordinary thieves, but they were all masked, as if they were afraid of being recognized. As soon as he came out to say hello, he went straight to it, which is very different from the style of ordinary thieves.