The carriage left the town of Pinghu and drove onto a road heading west. At first the boulevard was wide and smooth, but it became narrower and narrower, and the branches on the right side of the road kept knocking on the carriage and making a rustling sound, but the coachman insisted on the right side of the road, according to the rules of the carriage led by Randall, and even though the passengers in the carriage were the owners of the territory, the noble Earl Randall, he did not encroach on the left lane.

A public carriage drawn by two oxen approached, and the driver, who was driving the carriage, stopped the carriage, jumped from the driver's seat to the ground, and took off his hat to greet the noble carriage. The passengers in the grid carriage were wondering why the public carriage had stopped, but when they saw the noble carriage surrounded by more than a dozen Swiftbird light cavalry, they knew that a big man was passing by, and they all stood up and bent down to the right to salute.

Victor's car continued west along the boulevard, and there were no more public carriages along the way, and even the farmers and two-wheeled freight carts that called it home became scarce, and the carriages traveled in a remote location, and the farmland on both sides of the road was replaced by hilly pastures, and finally the pastures were completely out of sight.

In the evening, the carriage came to the end of the boulevard and entered a sentry made of logs and bricks.

It is a division between the western wilderness of Randall's and the eastern administrative district, and because the irrigation system does not cover the entire territory, further west is the untouched wilderness of Randallland, usually inaccessible, except for the gathering points of rangers, lumberjacks and shepherds scattered around dozens of streams and reservoirs.

There was no road ahead of the outpost, so Victor ordered his squires to stay at the outpost and continue westward with Nelson, Charlotte, and six Gripen militiamen on swift birds.

In this world where monsters live, wilderness means danger, and the laws of the Black Forest are followed. Although Victor has controlled the entire territory of Randall's territory, and his sphere of influence also includes the southern section of the Skylark Mountains and parts of the Lizard Swamp, with a total area of nearly 30,000 square kilometers, he still prohibits the people of the territory from illegally entering the wild land according to the general rules of the lord, and once caught, he can be treated as bandits.

Normally, the "bandits" who trespass into the lord's field can be punished with up to three years of hard labor, and there are two other versions of the "bandits" who are not caught, those who resist the capture and are killed on the spot, or those who successfully escape, but are eaten by monsters and become a pile of feces that cannot tell who is who.

In short, the "bandits" who trespassed into the lord's field often disappeared or were missing, and even if they were serving hard labor, they could die by accident.

There have always been stories of ferocious wolves in the wilderness west of Randall's territory, and honest people will not risk their lives to run in and wander around, but there are always some well-intentioned people who are not afraid of death and want to go to the wilderness to find something, and then they disappear.

There are alchemy crows in the sky as eyes, and there are alchemy war mastiffs and alchemy militia patrolling on the ground, even if ordinary knights encounter these opponents, only the silver-level knights can retreat. However, just look at Nelson and know that since the fall of Count Kinley, the Bear of the Northland has been on the church's silver-edged roster, enjoying the treatment of a silver knight, and has to report to the church when traveling.

The secret agents sent by the major forces can only be ordinary people, or secret law dead soldiers. The alchemy militia caught several live mouths in the field, turned them into idiots with psychedelic potions, and gave them to Grimm the Short as test material.

Green's Apothecary Castle was built on the western side of Randall's Territory near the Lark Mountains, and it looked like an ordinary ranger's quarter, with a log fence and a few watchtowers enclosing a small stream reservoir, and next to it stood cabins, barracks, warehouses, and a three-story blue-brick villa.

At the beginning, after discussion, Victor, Sylvia, and Toferwen decided to give priority to the development of the Knight's Psychic Bloodline Secret Method, focusing on improving the Psychic Elixir "Knight's Despair" and concocting the "Dawn" potion. As for the ordinary Soul Blood Secret Rule, he stayed at the elementary level and gave up the study of the source force, but in exchange, the master of pharmacy, Grimm the Shorty, was sent to Randall by the Kite Castle to develop a psychic potion to replace the source force, so that the junior psychic warriors could reach the intermediate level.

The castle was founded by the Auguste and York families, and both apothecaries and apprentices were sent to assist Grimm the Shorty, sharing resources and results. Since the Randall family did not have a decent apothecary, they had to go out and provide the secret castle with their daily necessities.

On the one hand, the political system of the human kingdom is not prepared to accommodate high-level psychic warriors, and on the other hand, the source force currently only exists in the concept of Victor's hypothetical deduction, if ordinary people really have the so-called source force, the church would have studied it a long time ago, but no one has heard of anything similar to the source force.

His Royal Highness Randall wants to toss, so let him toss, the Auguste royal family should always meet the small requirements of the guardians of the kingdom. Sylvia's idea is more pragmatic, the different schools of psychic medicine can make the best progress, it doesn't matter if there is no progress, through this cooperation, let the pharmacists of the York family learn from Grimm the Short, and improve the family's pharmacy background is the key.

Victor was indeed too busy to bother with the specific affairs of the Potion Castle, and the research project of the Secret Castle was completely out of his control. Nicole would often come over to take a look, but she had no say in pharmacy research, and could only copy the Secret Keep's research records.

Victor looked at Nico's records and found that they were all messy modified recipes, completely unrelated to psychic potions, and that the barbarian captive had been killed by Grimm the Elf.

He carried out a surprise attack this time, planning to clean up the dwarf Green and those hot-headed apothecaries, so that they could understand that this was a secret fortress for His Highness Randall, not a free and loose pharmacy academy.

Nelson was in charge of scaring them, and this guy had a fierce look in his eyes.

The alchemy militia acting as scouts for the Secret Castle will not hinder the master, and when Victor storms the gate of the Secret Fortress in a rage, the secret knights of the Kite Castle and the Rose Manor react, they see that the uninvited guest is actually His Highness Randall, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute and stop the guards from ringing the alarm bell.

However, Victor's attention was drawn to a man in the small square, and he did not respond to the greetings of the two veteran knights.

Four burly guards were escorting a young prisoner to a steel cage to fit him in and hang him again.

A cage is a brutal torture instrument that tortures the body and mind of a prisoner and is used exclusively against enemies, which means that cage punishment falls under the category of family lynching. The lord seized his hated foe and put him in a cramped iron cage to show it to the members of his family. The prisoners could not stand up or lie down in their cages, so they could only curl up for others to watch.

Due to the semi-open nature of the cage, the prisoner can interact with the people outside, but he does not have any privacy, and the comparison between the two sides will cause great damage to the prisoner's mind, which will magnify the physical torture and make the prisoner in the cage painful.

The lord generally allowed the spectator to have mercy on the prisoner by providing him with little food and water, and allowed people to humiliate the prisoner and even beat him with sticks through the cage. As long as they are not killed, no matter what the onlookers do to the prisoners in the cage, the lord will not intervene. The mercy of the good, or the humiliation and abuse of the vicious, only makes the prisoner feel like an animal, not a person. But compared to the torn dignity and physical and mental torture, the most terrible thing is the indifference, when people lose interest in the caged prisoner, he can only freeze and starve to death in despair, his painful and twisted body is still trapped in the cage, hanging high, making onlookers shudder.

The Church strictly forbids cage punishment, which Victor had heard of, but never seen. In fact, the real knight lords are not perverts with uncontrolled hearts, and only those weak chicken families in the Eastern Alliance who have no sense of honor will adopt this extremely inhumane punishment.

The prisoner in front of him looked ordinary, his body was thin, his pale skin was bloodless, the cyan veins on his arms were clearly visible, his childish face looked like he had just become an adult, and the tall and strong guards made his expression a little cringe, but he obediently got into the iron cage, and took the initiative to close the cage door, and then sat in the corner with his knees hugged.

Ordinary people will inevitably struggle desperately when they see the iron cage torture equipment, and it will take a little effort for the guards to stuff the prisoner into the cage. Even if the young man had never heard of the terrible cage punishment, with his thin clothes, it was impossible to survive the cold night.

Victor raised his chin at the cage and asked, "What's going on?"

The two senior knights looked at each other, and the secret knight from the Kite Castle Internal Affairs Office, Ka Yiwen, said respectfully: "Your Highness, that is Willy, a death row prisoner sent over a month ago, and he killed at least 47 people in the Northern County......"

"So fierce?" Nelson rubbed the stubble on his chin, looked at the prisoner in the cage with interest, and frowned, "No, he's obviously an ordinary person...... Even thinner than the average person. ”

"Lord Nelson, you don't know anything. Vaughn, the secret knight of the Rose Manor, said, "Willy is normal during the day, but at night, he becomes a demon, immense, agile, and murderous. It is said that he killed 11 soldiers pursuing him with his bare hands in the Northern Shire, including a cadet knight. In the end, the Minsk fortress sent a knight to capture him. ”

"Your Highness, we've already tried. Vaughn turned to Victor and introduced, "After the sun went down, Willy has changed amazingly, and none of the arcane guardians of the Rose Manor are his opponents. Master Green suspects that he is a wizard and has not used him for potion experiments. Put him in a cage at night, and when the sun rises the next day, Willy is back to normal and can still remember what happened during the night. ”

Victor's eyes flashed, and he asked rhetorically, "If he is a wizard, it is impossible for the Kite Castle to send it here as a test material." Is he a wizard?"

“...... He did look like a wizard at night. ”

Knight Kajven looked back at the cage and said, "The priest of the Inquisition of the Northern County has already verified that Willy is not a wizard...... The villagers he persecuted called him the 'Night Demon', but he was actually a madman. ”

As the sun set, the dim sky glowed a hazy purple, and a cold wind blew into the iron cage, penetrating the body of the prisoner Willy, wrapping him tightly in his thin clothes, but still maintaining a dead silence.

Victor blinked his eyes and dispelled the Wind Elemental Insight, he had determined that Willy was just a frail ordinary person. So what was the cause of the upheaval in his body and mind, and the need for official knights to capture him?

"Get him out of the cage, I'm going to see what the 'Night Demon' looks like?" commanded His Highness Randall's eyes shone with a golden streamer, and his voice was flat.