I have mediocre qualifications, limited strength, and can only give loyalty - knight William Amos.

If you look at the entire Duchy of Swan from the air, you will find that it is a place similar to the CD of the Land of Abundance, surrounded by mountains, and in the middle is a huge plain with a flat river, crisscrossed by rivers, roads and abundant products.

A territory larger than the three eastern provinces with almost no undulating mountains is obviously not a natural formation, but the Swan family has spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to move all the mountains in the territory to the border.

Richie is sure they haven't read the story of the fool moving mountains, but some of the truths are timeless, and it's certain that they will do so for the benefit of future generations. The mountains on the border are a natural defensive barrier, and if the mountains are full of plants and attract a large number of magical beasts to live here, it will be even more impregnable. Members of the Red Dragon Knights regularly patrol the perimeter of the territory once a month, and more than thirty dragons, including Lao Fa, continue to sprinkle excrement at the foot of the mountain...... According to the old law, open defecation is a bit of a shame, but it is effective in preventing the tide of beasts from coming to the Duchy of Swan. As for the territory of the other people around, who cares?

The lush vegetation and the abundance of demonic beasts are naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not feasible to set fire to the mountain in this world, and any high-level mage can attract a large rain cloud and extinguish the fire in a very short time. This makes it easy to defend.

When the costs of the attacker are not proportional to the benefits, no one will use this stupid method.

Therefore, when the orcs go south, they can only honestly follow the route set for them by the Duke of Swan.

There are only two gaps in the mountains surrounding the Duchy of Swan, one in the southeast and one in the northeast.

Each of the two gaps was built with a large fortress, the southern end of which was called the Imperial Fortress.

This name is undoubtedly ironic in terms of the relationship between the current Duchy of Swan and the 'superficial courtiers' of the Orar Empire. It was here that Grus Gawain proved his loyalty to the Swan family with his own blood.

There was also a military fortress at the southern end of the Imperial Fortress, which was the garrison of the Imperial Legion, called the Northern Fortress. As the name suggests, it was once the northernmost point of the Orar Empire, when the Imperial Fortress was just an outpost.

Later, the Swan family went out of the customs and laid a large territory for the empire, and this outpost was gradually built into a fortress, which the emperor named in recognition of the achievements of the Swan family.

At that time, it did deserve this title, and countless famous generals were born here, countless warriors forged their prestige here, and countless spellcasters became legends here......

Later, relations between the two sides deteriorated, and it is not known whether the Imperial Fortress was intended to defend the Empire or to defend the frontier for the Empire. The previous emperors said that it was only to see whether the Swan family was loyal to the empire, and the then Duke Swan replied that it was only to see whether the empire was friendly to the Swann family.

The vision returns to the north.

The name of this fortress is much more common, it is called Fortress Amos.

The name is in honor of the archetype of the figure of the statue in front of Richie - Viscount Amos.

The statue is so realistic that Richie can imagine it as a weather-beaten soldier with just one glance. The site was also very large, and the walls were almost as high as 30 meters. The two legs of the statue stood on either side of the city gate, and all those who entered the ramparts of Amos through the south gate had to pass under the crotch of this statue, which was an insult to the crotch that would definitely kill everyone in the Northlands.

But here, in the face of this statue, everyone seemed to be willing, and with a feeling of reverence, they looked up at the statue and walked into the city gate.

Why would an unruly Northland man be so respectful? It all started with the statue's owner, Viscount Amos.

This viscount was originally the son of an ordinary woodcutter in the Duke of Swan, and was later selected to become the servant of the seventh Duke of Swan. His cultivation talent was not very good, and when the seventh duke succeeded to the throne, he was only a middle-level warrior who had just stepped into level 4.

In the selection criteria of Duke Swan's county, the strength is so mediocre that he is not even qualified to enter the Ryoma Knights, so he can only go to the ordinary city defense army to fight. However, the seventh Duke Swan had a discerning eye and discovered his talent for commanding troops.

Later, Amos's life trajectory also confirmed the vision of the seventh duke, he started as a five-person squad leader, and because of his excellent command and operation, he was soon promoted to squadron leader, 100-man commander, and 1,000-man commander...... Finally, he was promoted to the first commander under the Duke.

At that time, the external environment of the Duke of Swann was far less stable than it is now. The Emperor knew that the Orcs would go south every year, and he took this opportunity to gather half of the royal family's forces and go north to attack the Imperial Barriers, in an attempt to bring the territory of the Duke of Swann back under the direct control of the Imperial Family.

Swan VII was firmly held to the imperial ramparts, and most of the dukedom was defended.

This gave the orcs who had coveted their homeland in the north for thousands of years a chance to recover, and they mobilized five times more forces than usual to attack the fortress of Amos, all of them elite.

At that time, Viscount Amos had only 20,000 city defenders, 3,000 Ryagoma Knights, 150 Earth Bear Knights, and a small number of mages, and the number of enemies was 30 times that of him......

The situation is precarious!

It was an unimaginably hard battle.

When Swan VII found an opportunity to gather all the strong men under his command to raid the emperor's tent and severely wound him, and rushed to the fortress of Amos with Fariascotão to support, less than 5,000 of the 20,000 city defenses remained, 2,000 Knights of the Dracous killed 2,000, and only 23 of the 150 Earth Bear Knights survived!

And Viscount Amos...... He had been killed in battle the night before, and only three of the Eleven members of the Amos family had survived. The Viscount's last words illustrate the supreme loyalty of a knight: Don't report death, hold on, hold on, hold on......

Since then, the Amos family has been in this fortress forever. The fortress of Amos has also become a symbol of tenacity, courage, and sacrifice.

"You brought me here without saying hello just to tell me this?"

Rich was still quite moved when he heard this glorious deed, but when an ordinary office white-collar worker suddenly came to the battlefield, he was not so arrogant that he thought that he was the protagonist in the anti-Japanese drama, and the enemy's attacks avoided him, so he was naturally a little panicked.

Victor gently stroked the top of his head: "No! What I want to tell you is that if I am no longer there and you need to make a decision, you must remember two iron rules: first, the royal family of the Oral Empire can never be trusted, and second, when you are at the end of your rope, even if the people around you are not trustworthy, you must trust the Amos family." ”

Although he knew that asking would be a bit insulting to the loyal minister, Richie still asked, "What if the Amos family also betrayed?"

The Duke muttered, "That means the Swan family has reached the point of destruction." At that time, it would be good for you to save yourself, as long as people live, there is always hope......"