Twenty-seven days later, Victor and Sophia traveled through the western part of the kingdom and entered the Great Plains of Central Blinor, the direct domain of the royal family.

In the evening, the convoy was already sleepy and had missed the sentry along the way, and the cavalry of the Kite Castle of the Interior led the combined convoy of Viscount Randall and the Marquis of Wimbledon to an open woodland and camped for the night.

Hundreds of servants jumped out of the wagons, and they worked together to level the ground, set up tents, collect water and firewood, and slaughter cattle and sheep, while the infantry set up a guard post around the camp and the cavalry busily tended to their mounts.

The saber-toothed tiger merchant group has a wealth of camping experience, and the knight of Nikolai and the maid Chang Er cooperate tacitly to arrange all the work in an orderly manner.

As the setting sun sank into the ground, dozens of bonfires lit up in the camp, and the smell of roasted meat and stews filled the air.

Victor and Sofia and Natalia leave the copper carriage and walk around a campfire. Knight Nikolai was roasting a fat bobtail deer, his movements skillfully sprinkling secret spices, the golden grease dripping into the fire "sizzling", a rich, tantalizing smell filled Victor's nose.

"In the whole Marquis Palace, only Uncle Nichollai's barbecue skills make me unforgettable. He laughs.

The middle-aged knight turned the roasting fork and said calmly, "My lord's appreciation is my honor. ”

Victor nodded, looked around the camp, and asked, "Where's Nelson?"

"As always, Lord Nelson and his men go out into the woods to practice their martial arts, and they won't be back for dinner until four quarters of an hour later. Nikolai exclaimed heartily, "Your Excellency Nelson is the most diligent and hardworking fierce warrior I have ever seen, and it is no wonder that his strength is comparable to that of the Great Knight of the Silver Rank." ”

Dressed in heavy armor, Nelson walked an average of 60 kilometers a day, and spent all his free time practicing the skills of the Gripen, and his physical strength and will surpassed that of the bronze knights, and he also won the awe of Nikolai.

Victor smiled, Nicholas admired Nelson's strength and status, not his hard work. Caligula followed behind Nelson, walking with the same weight, practicing martial arts every day, and few people praised him. His big size and good temper have made him gain a lot of ridicule and teasing.

"What about Anna and Alice?" Sophia sat down by the campfire, the orange light making her beautiful face even more charming.

"They're with Lore...... "Natalia," said Natalia, "I'm going to call them over for dinner." ”

"Leave them alone. Victor grabbed Natalia's arm and motioned for her to sit beside him.

These days, Victor has almost lost contact with his entourage, and he is surrounded by people from the Marquis's Court, except for Renaud and Shac.

They were standing straight behind Victor like javelins of silence.

Under normal circumstances, the lord and the lord's wife do not need to give orders in person. Sophia, acting as Viscountess Randall, arranged everything for Victor.

This just reflects the strength and stubbornness of the marquisess, she does not like to be arranged by others, and likes to arrange others.

Of course, Victor's seldom leaving the carriage was also the main reason for his isolation from his subordinates.

As a child of the wind, he hates a confined and narrow environment, but with stunning beauties by his side, it is not so difficult to stay in the carriage every day.

Victor and Sophia had an intimate and in-depth exchange, and they shared their experiences with each other. Victor tells Sophia about the problems he has encountered in expanding his territory, and Sophia talks about what happened to her in the kingdom of Borui and what Arrett has seen.

According to Sophia, the barbarians did not have a written word, nor did they record trivia of their tribe, they could not even tell what happened to the tribe hundreds of years ago, and there were only legends about the true origin of the barbarians.

Calling themselves the sons of Arret, they evolved from the hardest rock on the sacred mountain, and it is the mission of the barbarians to protect the sacred mountain.

The holy mountain in the barbarian mouth refers specifically to the Harlotus Mountain in the Arrett Mountains.

No one knows exactly how big the Arret Mountains really are, and Harlotus is obviously not the tallest mountain in Arret, but she has supremacy in the hearts of the barbarians.

The nearly 100,000 barbarians of the Arrett Mountains are divided into hundreds of tribes, each with a fixed safari route. They destroy some of the mighty monsters on their safaris, keep reindeer and other herbivores in population, and set up improvised camps along the safari routes to help the women and children of the tribe survive the harsh water season.

A safari of the barbarian tribe may have to travel tens of thousands of kilometers, but no matter how far the barbarians go, every four years, they return to Mount Harlotus for a pilgrimage.

Sophia is probably the only human to enter the Barbarian Holy Land. She saw with her own eyes the rock-clad complex at the foot of Mount Harlotus, the capital of the barbarians, the fortress of Harlotus.

During the quadrennial pilgrimage season, barbarian tribes of all sizes gather at the fortress of Harlotus to solve various problems.

Young barbarians flaunt their prey to other tribesmen, or take the prey of others, and then ask the barbarian elders to tattoo them with adult tattoos.

Adult barbarians are eligible to marry, and they must first defeat their favorite object, and then defeat three competitors in a row before they can abduct barbarians from other tribes into their own clan. You can only use your fists during the whole process, and you can win if you knock your opponent unconscious.

Barbarians over the age of 70 will no longer lead the clan, they will remain at the fortress of Harlotus and become Barbarian Elders.

Anyone who thinks that the fortress of Harlotus is only a group of old and weak soldiers is very wrong.

The barbarians are brave and aggressive, and take pride in offering powerful prey to the sacred mountain. The so-called powerful prey is at least a golden-rank snow monster. Therefore, the barbarians who can live to the age of 70 are all powerful Urusa, and they must also have the wisdom to survive.

Currently, there are only 213 Urusa Elders and 27 Gorsa Elders in the entire Harlotus Fortress. The legendary barbarian Harald is the youngest Elder Gorsa and the weakest.

Perhaps, he was the most far-sighted barbarian elder.

Since ancient times, the barbarians of Arret have lived in symbiosis with mountain dwarves. Mountain dwarves with a stubborn temper as rocks settled in Mount Arrett and were born stonemasons and blacksmiths. The mountain dwarves helped the barbarians craft weapons, build the fortress of Harlotus, and build the safari camp. The Barbarian tribe helped the mountain dwarves destroy powerful monsters and exchanged prey and herbs for weapons, mushroom wine, food, and household items.

The mountain tribes didn't need to intersect with humans, but things changed.

About 80 years ago, the Alpine Dwarves abruptly left their homeland in the Arrett Mountains and moved to the Everfree Forest. This is the same as the great migration of forest centaurs and halflings.

From that time on, the fortress of Harlotus traded with the Teutonic principality through the exile of the barbarians below the mountain, and gradually formed the quadrennial barbarian bazaar.

Sophia saw the minerals left by the mountain dwarves to the barbarians at the fortress of Harlots. They are piled up and have everything, but the barbarians do not smelt minerals. They don't forge weapons.

Barbarians need outside help. The far-sighted Barbarian Elder broke with an ancient prophecy and sent Harald to lead a force of barbarians into the human world.

In the eyes of those in power, prophecies that cannot be changed are meaningless, and prophecies that can be changed are not just to unite people's hearts and change traditions?

Whoever really believes in prophecy is a complete fool. Of course, the more such fools, the better!

Whether or not Elder Harald recovers the relics, the Barbarian tribes have established a stable and enduring bond with the human world. By communicating and learning with humans, barbarians will adapt to their new way of life.

The Knights of Radiance will not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fill the void of the mountain dwarves, form an alliance with the barbarians, and obtain endless mineral resources from the Arrett Mountains.

As for the sudden migration of mountain dwarves and forest centaurs into the Everfree Forest, this is alarming, but it is nothing more. Otherwise, what else can you do? Run to the Endless Forest and ask the elves to understand?

Victor doesn't worry about this, but he finds a lot of interesting things.

The barbarian tribes were centered on Mount Harlotus and followed a fixed route in all directions, which was more like a patrol. Every four years, they also made a pilgrimage back to the fortress of Harlots, which in turn limited the range of barbarian patrols.

What are they guarding, and who is trapping these mighty warriors in Mount Harlotus?

Strangely, the barbarians themselves did not know why.

The condition of the barbarians is strikingly similar to that of some dragon-veined orcs, such as the lizardmen and half-drakes, who have independent intelligence but cannot escape the bonds of blood, and always guard the lair of the hydra lizard. Another example is the alchemy creatures that are affected by the will side...... To put it more simply, it is like a mother who finds her child in danger, her maternal instinct surpasses the survival instinct, and she does not hesitate to protect her child with her life.

The will side determines the behavior habits!

The relics of the barbarians are inextricably linked to the Alchemy Empire. Victor suspects that the barbarians are the offspring of some kind of alchemical creature, rather than a mere dragon vein species.

The sheep-headed monsters that inhabit the dark forests resemble the alchemical units of the Savi Warriors. Ant-Man also has the characteristics of an alchemical creature. But their water elemental attributes surpassed those of true alchemy creatures.

This shows that damage to the alchemy tower's law crystal may cause some alchemy creatures to mutate and have the ability to reproduce.

However, the barbarians eventually descended the mountain, and their interaction with humans would free them from the confines of tradition and form a new social structure.

Why didn't the mountain dwarves help the barbarians do this?

There are many unanswered questions about history, and Victor would love to visit the Harlotus Fortress for himself. However, neither time nor distance is too far, so it is better to learn the barbarian language first, and then try to find the answer from Elder Harald.

Victor had more urgent matters to attend to, and he stared at the campfire for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Dear Marquis, what do you think?"

Knight Nikolai immediately stood up, ready to avoid the conversation between the two masters, but was stopped by Sophia raising her hand.

"Nikolai, Viscount Randall was asking the Sabertooth Tiger Knight what he thought, and you told him the truth. ”

"Yes. Nikolai said with a wry smile, "Lord Randall, many low-blooded noble children have used the potion resources of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce to awaken their fighting spirit and then join a certain lord family. But there are also those who are loyal to Lord Sophia, and that is the knights of our saber-toothed tiger merchant group. ”

"Truth be told, we're used to caravan life, but you know the situation at Wimbledon. If Lord Sophia loses the title of Marquis of Wimbledon, our saber-toothed knights' estates will also be stripped by the royal family. We can only follow Master Sophia and join the Randall family. He was silent for a moment, then continued, "We know that members of the Randall family are not welcoming outsiders. So, we plan to stick to the business and see if we can find a way out. If that doesn't work, we hope that your lordship will remember the past and canonize two lords around Raven Town to us. ”

Victor scoffed, "Haven't I become your spare wheel?"

"Huh?" Nikolai looked at Victor in confusion.

"And you refuse to be loyal to me wholeheartedly, and you want me to prepare you two lorddoms?"

"The condition is me and Natalia, and great wealth. Sophia said lightly, her eyes rolled, and she smiled coquettishly, "My dear, the initiative is in your hands, not mine." You can choose to help me through this and have my Natalia, or you can choose to take in the knights of the Sabertooth Tiger Merchant Order and have me and Natalia. ”

Victor thought about it and realized that this was really the case.

The Randall family is neither willing to help nor accept, so Sophia can only fake her death and join other forces, and then find a new husband and form her own family.

"Why do you think I can help you through this?" asked Victor curiously.

Sophia and Natalia laughed without saying a word.

"When we were in Raventown, we had contact with Viscount Neguth of the Kingdom of Dordor when we were in contact. He said that if we could increase our share of the raw sugar sold to him twentyfold, they would help us to open a new trade route in the Centaur Hills of Dord. It is said that this is the meaning of the royal family of Dord, and the Friedrich family cannot offend the Borui and Sarsanians openly, but can only secretly give us convenience. ”

Victor furrowed his eyebrows and said to himself, "Raw sugar, why jaggery?"