The heavy snow fell for two days and one night, and finally stopped. The sun that had not been seen for a long time shy peeked out of the gaps in the clouds, gilding the snow-white world with a layer of gold.

The snow has stopped, the wind has not stopped, and the wind is carrying the ice and snow to wreak havoc in Moon Bear City. At this moment, even the sunlight succumbed to the obscenity of the cold wind, and it looked extremely cold.

Natalia exhaled a breath of heat, tightened her cloak again, and walked on the deserted street without hurrying. Whenever the sun melts the snow and ice, the weather can get particularly cold, and the residents of Moon Bear tend to stay in warm grass huts and not go out easily.

The snow creaked under Natalia's leather boots. Before she knew it, she was in front of a barracks. The soldiers of the Duchy of Teutonia had given up the place to a group of uninvited guests.

As soon as she entered the gate, a huge black shadow flew towards her, and Natalia sideways avoided it, and the black shadow fell heavily on the snow and slid out a few meters away.

It was a ** top-worn barbarian, his arms thicker than the thighs of ordinary people, and his rock-like muscles piled up into a huge eight-foot-tall body, covered with mottled scars. The rough face was carved with tattoos, and the wild atmosphere was unmistakable. I saw him roll over and get up, let out a wild howl, like an angry giant rhino, and rushed towards his opponent again.

"Bang"

The barbarian fell back again, and it was a strong female barbarian who struck him down. The female barbarian, who was two laps larger than Natalia, stood there and said something loudly, and the onlookers let out a feverish roar, and another tall barbarian jumped out and scuffled with her.

The barracks was now a barbarian quarter, and hundreds of brave and strong barbarians gathered in the open space of the barracks, half male and half female, as well as many underage children, but also with an average height of more than 2 meters. The vast majority of barbarian males, wearing only a pair of animal skin shorts, their bronzed skin crawled with scars and tattoos, and the biting cold wind seemed to have no effect on them, and some barbarians even clung to their barrels and slept in the snow and ice.

Natalia noticed that the barbarians had different tattoos on their bodies, indicating that they were from different tribes, and that they were all tribes of the Terrell Mountains, as the descendants of the barbarians who were exiled to the bottom of the mountain were not eligible for tattoos on their bodies.

For thousands of years, humans knew little about the barbarians of Mount Turrell, but those who were exiled made a lasting impression on humanity.

Tall, strong, ferocious, and with a rock-solid physique and will, the barbarians are never afraid of any challenge, whether they are against a group or a group. When fighting, the barbarians have no mercy, and they take pride in the fact that they are brandishing heavy weapons and rushing into the midst of their enemies, giving or receiving countless wounds. Thanks to their tall stature and formidable strength, the Barbarians can use almost any weapon to crush their opponents in close combat, and they especially like to dual-wield two heavy weapons and chop their enemies apart with a ferocious attack in an instant.

Before the Moon Bear family pioneered the territory, humans had clashed with barbarians. There were no strong monsters in this vast tundra, and the humans began to graze moose here, and the moose were the main prey of the barbarians, and the two sides clashed from time to time, until a peak knight was killed head-on by the barbarian berserker in a duel, and the humans had to withdraw from the area.

700 years ago, the Moon Bear family tried to make friends with the barbarians, and they established a foothold in this tundra by breeding moose and providing meat for the barbarian villages, and formed a unique symbiotic relationship with the barbarians. It was because of the support of the Barbarians that the Sassan Empire adopted a policy of appeasement towards the Teutonic principalities, allowing them to maintain a great deal of autonomy. Humanity has also been able to rediscover this resilient alien race.

Barbarian warriors are only inferior in strength and physique to 2.8-meter-tall ogre males, but their fighting** and combat skills are far stronger than ordinary ogres. Fortunately, the barbarians have little interest in their weak opponents, and they can live in peace with humans. And the vast majority of the barbarians were reluctant to leave Terrell Mountain. The barbarians living in the Teutonic Territory are prisoners of exile from the tribes of the mountains, and they are always thinking of returning to the Holy Mountain.

As the exchange deepened, the humans discovered that there were several unique medicinal herbs on Terrell Mountain, which could be used to make potions of refining to stimulate the blood of knights and potions of energy to restore fighting spirit. Chambers of commerce of various families flocked to the Duchy of Teutoni in the hope of establishing trade relations with the barbarians.

The barbarians did not need money and had limited requirements for food, they liked spirits, shields, armor and iron weapons, which were precisely what the Sassan Empire lacked, so the top merchant aristocracy connected with the barbarians, and the Barbarians of the Teutonic Territory wanted to use these materials to regain the approval of the mountain tribes.

Every two years, the mountain tribes trade with human caravans through the mountain tribes, and exchange goods and goods, which is known as the biennial Teutonic Grand Bazaar.

The mountain tribes do not interact directly with humans, and the Moon Bear family is familiar with the mountain tribes. This time, hundreds of barbarians from the mountain tribe entered Moon Bear City, making everyone very uneasy.

With light steps, Natalia walked towards the main building of the barracks. Although the barbarians are not interested in the "scrawny" female knights, Natalia still feels a little pressured to walk among so many oppressive aliens.

The main building of the barracks was made of thick logs, filled with clay and grass ash, and there was a corridor in the middle, on either side of which were rooms for officers, the walls of which were hung with thick moose skin, and there was a fire pit in the center of the room, which was generally relatively comfortable. However, these rooms are now used by barbarian women and children.

Natalia walked along the corridor, and at the end of the corridor, in the conference room of the main building, there was a barbarian female warrior with a tattooed face standing at the door, she stared at Natalia who came over, a little overwhelmed, but she didn't mean to get out of the way. The language barrier between the two sides gave Natalia a headache, and she wanted to shout Sophia's name, but she was afraid of causing a misunderstanding among the barbarian female warriors. Just when Natalia is in a dilemma, she sees an acquaintance.

"Goran!"

Gran, who was carrying two hot waters, saw Natalia and shouted happily, "Haha!

"This is hot water for adults? I'll take it, you and this...... Warriors, talk about it, let me in. Natalia took the two barrels from Goran's hand.

Goran said seriously, "Regzo is not a warrior, she is Urusa. ”

"Urusha?"

"Well, the master is also Urusa now. Golan said with reverence.

When the barbarian warrior saw that Goran and Natalia knew each other, she took the initiative to get out of the way. Natalia didn't bother to ask Golan what was going on, and walked straight into the room.

The conference room was steaming, and Sophia lay down in a huge bathtub and said lazily, "Natalia, how is the situation outside?"

Natalia poured hot water into the tub and said, "The Moon Bear family has prepared 40 carts of supplies for us, 100 moose, all of which are given away for free, and they only hope that you can leave as soon as possible." ”

"Tagao is going to take me away, I really look ugly......" Sophia said quietly, shaking her long snow-white legs in the water.

Natalia looked at Sophia's short purple hair and two pink scars on her chest and abdomen, shook her head and said, "Hair will always grow, you are a great knight of the silver rank, or it won't be long before these scars will disappear, how can they become ugly? I wonder, how did you get hurt? Also, what about your armor?"

Sophia pursed her lips and said, "Those barbarians say I'm the ugliest Urusha, these bastards with muscles in their heads!"

"What is Urusha?" asked Natalia, curious.

"The one who hunts a snow monster or a geoscopic dragon alone is what the barbarians call Urusa. And I killed a snow monster. Sophia said nonchalantly.

"Sophia, you're a Golden Knight now?!" Natalia exclaimed in surprise.

The Snow Monster is a bear-like monster unique to the Turrell Mountains. Adult snow monsters weigh over 5,000 pounds and possess the ability to breathe cold. The barbarians once sold the corpse of a snow monster in the Teutonic Bazaar, and the great chamber of commerce of the Borui Kingdom bought it back at a great price, and after the research of the Silver and White Tower, the snow monster was determined to be a gold-level monster.

Natalia believes that Sophia can kill the Snow Monster of the Golden Rank, and there is no other explanation other than to be promoted to the peak knight.

"According to barbarian tradition, I am indeed Urusa now. However, the barbarians' Urusa were all front-to-head in the fight against the snow monsters, and I used some stratagems. Sophia shook her head and said with trepidation, "I killed an underage snow monster. That monster nearly killed me, and it was it that broke my Mithril armor...... Luckily, the snow monster didn't have much intelligence, and I spent seven days wrestling with it before finally killing it. ”

"Wisdom is also a strength. Either way, you've slain a gold-tier monster. Natalia said heartily.

"Kill a snow monster and bring back a bunch of big troubles!" Sophia dived into the water sullenly, unwilling to venture for a long time.

Natalia knew that Sophia could hear her voice in the water, and asked directly, "My lord, what the hell is going on?"

After a while, Sophia poked her head out of the tub and said in distress, "That day, the elders of Golan's clan invited me to Turrell Mountain. I thought that I could get in touch with the mountain tribe over this, but I didn't expect that the great elder of the mountain tribe asked me to go through a trial before I could talk to them. When the trial was over, I somehow became the barbarian Urusha, and the barbarians followed me down. ”

Natalia's heart pounded. The barbarians are strong and powerful, and the berserkers among them are even better than ordinary knights, and the weapon masters are even the level of great knights, and Urusa definitely has the combat power of the golden rank. If these hundreds of barbarians were all followers of Sophia, the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce would immediately become the leading force in the human kingdom.

"My lord, these barbarians you brought down...... How are they strong?" Natalia was startled as soon as she spoke, and she found that her voice had become dry and hoarse.

Sophia turned her head to look at Natalia, and said with a smile: "There are 389 of these barbarians, including 192 underage children, and among the adult barbarian warriors, there are 56 berserkers, 22 weapon masters, 4 war chanters, and ...... 3 Urusa. ”

Natalia's face suddenly turned pale, and she only felt chills all over her body, like falling into an ice cellar. Sophia said lightly: "You understand now." We simply don't have the power to control this force, and if we're not careful, we'll be crushed. ”

Since the major chambers of commerce traded with the Yamashita tribes, some barbarians born in the Teutonic principality would follow the caravans and venture into the human realm. They are brave and tenacious, hard-working, wild and simple and trustworthy, and they are very good laborers and thugs. Many chambers of commerce like to recruit Barbarian followers, and Sophia has eight Barbarian warriors under her command. But barbarians are, after all, a powerful alien race, and they never intermarry with humans, and they cannot fully integrate into human society. Therefore, the major powers of the human kingdom are wary of this race.

Successful chambers of commerce must remain neutral and not have too strong armed forces. There were so many barbarian warriors on Sophia's side at once, not to mention the question of how to restrain them, just the reaction of the major forces was enough to make the Chamber of Commerce fall apart.

The attitude of the Moon Bear family is the best example, they want Sophia to take the barbarians away immediately, what kind of trade are they talking about in this case? Moreover, there are almost no old people among these barbarians, except for children, they are all adult men and women who can give birth, which is completely a posture of migration of the whole race. But what human kingdom would allow barbarians to thrive within their own territory?

If there is a conflict between the two sides, and Sophia can't restrain these berserk warriors, then the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce will be the first to be crushed.

"Natalia, you don't have to be too nervous. Sophia smiled and said, "These barbarians are not my followers. The Great Elder of the Barbarians has asked me to send these guys to the Southern Continent. When the task is complete, Regzo ...... It's the barbarian Urusa outside the door, and she will lead 1 weapon master and 2 berserkers to become my followers until ...... Fight to the death for me!"

Natalia stared at Sophia, whose eyes lit up, and shook her head with a wry smile: "Sophia, ambition will kill you." You shouldn't promise the barbarians' ......"

"I don't have a choice!" Sophia was silent for a while, and then said feverishly: "Natalia, do you know? There are countless precious medicinal herbs in the Terrell Mountains, these things are useless to the barbarians, but they are very precious to us knights! Our share of the previous trade is simply insignificant compared to the reserves of medicinal herbs on the mountain! The Barbarian Great Elder has made a pact with me, as long as we can fulfill the commission, they will collect the special products we need and trade directly with us! How many refining potions does this represent? How many energy potions?"

"If I refuse to cooperate, the Great Elder will also have to cooperate with the other chambers of commerce. I don't think the Borui people will miss this opportunity, so why should I give up!" Sophia smiled like a flower and said sincerely: "Natalia, believe me. We will be the most influential chamber of commerce!"

Natalia nodded and muttered: "I really can't refuse, this advance and retreat, the situation of the Chamber of Commerce is completely different......" After speaking, she couldn't help but ask: "Then how are you going to fulfill the barbarian's commission?"

Sophia said, "Of course, we will first bring them to the Borui Kingdom, and then rent the ports and ships of the Borui people and send them to the Southern Continent." ”

"The key is how to go on this route? To get to the Borui Kingdom, we have to pass through the Sassan Empire, the Duoduo Kingdom, the Neville Kingdom, the Seuss Kingdom, the Eastern Alliance, and the Borui Kingdom. Will these forces let the barbarians pass?will the Borui agree?" asked Natalia, frowning.

Sophia raised her beautiful eyebrows and asked, "Who dares to stop it?"

Natalia choked slightly, shook her head, and said, "Suppressing people with power is not the way of survival for the Chamber of Commerce. After the barbarians are gone, we will have to deal with the lords of various places. ”

"That's right. Sophia nodded and said, "So, I'm going to ask the church to come forward and arrange the passage." ”

"The church? The church doesn't have a good opinion of aliens. ”

"So what can it be?" Sophia said slowly, "To tell you the truth, these barbarians are not from the same tribe, and there is more than one barbarian Great Elder who has entrusted me. If the Church doesn't want to go to war with all the barbarians, then we can only help us to send them away. After all, the barbarians are going to the Southern Continent, not to invade human territory. ”

"Of course, we also have to take into account the faces of the lords everywhere. I can take these barbarians out into the wilderness with as little impact as possible. At the same time, we will sell some potion raw materials to the major forces to buy supplies at a high price. They will not refuse our kindness. ”

"That's right. Sophia stiffened her body, stood up from the tub, and said solemnly: "Never reveal the true strength of these barbarians to others, so as not to cause unnecessary panic." ”

Natalia picked up a camel hair bath towel, draped it over Sophia's body, and said with her chin bowed, "I understand." ”

"Don't mention these annoying things. Sophia stepped out of the tub, reclined on a lady's floor, closed her eyes, and asked lazily, "Is there anything going on with the Chamber of Commerce during my absence?"

"The Chamber of Commerce is operating fairly well. Natalia hesitated for a moment and said softly, "A big thing has happened in Gambis. ”

"Victor shot Austin, the Grand Knight of the House of Buryatia, in public, and he is now a silver-tier archer with the element of the Manifest Wind. Natalia told the truth of the matter, after the changes with the Kingdom of Gambis, and told the story one by one.

Sophia listened to Natalia's narration and didn't open her eyes from beginning to end, but her slightly fluttering eyelashes revealed that her heart was not undisturbed.

"So, my husband now lives in my house with two maids-in-waiting, and maybe he still sleeps in my bed!" Sophia endured for a while, but she couldn't help it, so she sat up angrily, but when she saw Natalia's sympathetic face, she couldn't help but laugh. She shook her head and sighed, "I really didn't expect that little Victor would be able to reach this level. ”

"Let him go, I don't know what to trade with the barbarians without his purple cane wine. Sophia lay down lazily and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"His Highness Andre has invited you to be a guest in the Kingdom of Borui. Natalia said.

Andrei's handsome face came to Sophia's mind, and she remembered their relationship in the royal capital of Gambis. Sophia did take advantage of Andre, and André didn't know it at the time, and after he proposed to Roland to no avail, he also invited Sophia to visit the Borui Kingdom, which was actually an ambiguous invitation. However, the matter between Sophia and Catherine was in a uproar, and Andrei never sent anyone to contact Sophia again, he obviously knew that he was being used.

Sophia intends to use the power of the church to fulfill the barbarian commission, both to appease the lords and to worry that André will make things difficult for her. Although the barbarians are powerful and invincible, if they want to cross the Jinshui River, they must have the cooperation of the Borui people, otherwise the ship will sink halfway through, and it will be all over.

Sophia didn't expect that Andre would send another invitation to her, which surprised and delighted her. Surprisingly, she was not sure of Andrei's purpose and attitude, but as long as it was an open invitation, there would be no embarrassing situation, this was a tacit understanding between the nobles. Happily, she was thinking about what kind of name to go to the Borui Kingdom, and the problem was solved.

In the depths of Sophia's heart there is an urgent desire, she desperately needs an heir.

As a person in charge of power, without an heir, the members of the organization have no centripetal force. Seeing that the Chamber of Commerce is about to soar, if Sophia does not have an heir, she will be worried by many forces. Wasn't the old Marquis of Wimbledon calculated by the Augustian family because he had no heir?

Sophia, on the other hand, made a deal with Sylvia, but she didn't take Victor's feelings into account. Victor is now a silver-tier shooter, and has begun to make a name for himself in the knightly circle, killing a great knight with one shot, which is simply extremely murderous, just like the two of them before.

Sophia doesn't know if Victor still has affection for her, and she can't be sure if he hates herself, so she has to be wary that Victor will take revenge. Sophia knew very well that if the two fought, she would be at an absolute disadvantage. She has nothing to do with Victor, she can neither fight nor kill, and Victor can be unscrupulous, even if the Chamber of Commerce dies, he has nothing to lose.

Once Sophia has an heir, even if she is not Victor's heir, she will be in her current position. According to the law of lords, the Church supports the right of descent inheritance. In reality, the aristocracy pursues a strong bloodline and implements the primogeniture system, regardless of whether the heir is a family bloodline or not, as long as he arranges a partner with family blood. The Church never delved into this, otherwise it would have been resisted by all the nobility.

In this case, Andrei's invitation makes Sophia think about it.

When Natalia saw Sophia smiling and her two snow-white long legs twisted together, she knew that her heart was moved, and she couldn't help but say, "Sophia, I think...... You should repair the relationship with Victor. ”

"Just say whatever you want. Sophia frowned and said dissatisfied.

Many wild knights will choose to work for the Chamber of Commerce, they use the resources of the Chamber of Commerce to improve their knight level, and use the Council's connections as a springboard, and finally join the major lords' forces to win a future. Natalia and Sophia joined the Wimbledon family's chamber of commerce at the same time, and the two supported each other and had a deep relationship, which can be called friends of life and death. After Sophia took the helm of the Chamber of Commerce, Natalia became her confidant, and there was nothing between them that could not be discussed.

"Sophia, I know you need an heir. Victor now embodies the wind element, noble and ancient in terms of bloodline, and is still above Andrei, and he is your husband again. Why would you want to be Andrei's lover?I remember that you hated strong men the most, didn't you like Victor so much in the first place?" said Natalia bluntly.

"Half of it was real, half of it was for Catherine. Sophia smiled bitterly: "Victor is now powerful, powerful, ambitious, and my little husband who I like anymore." And I'm afraid the one he hates the most. ”

"You look so beautiful, even I am thrilled to see it. Are you afraid you won't be able to recapture Victor?", Natalia teased.

Sophia asked, "The ancient bloodline is notoriously difficult to give birth, can you keep Victor by my side all the time?" ”

Natalia was speechless, so she shook her head and said, "I always feel that Andrei has a problem. Before the Golden Knight is promoted, he must be clear about his pursuit and path, and most people choose to protect the family. André is the younger brother of Duke Grimoch, and it stands to reason that he should protect the Grimoch family. But do you see what he did? First, he wanted to join the Auguste family, and after being rejected by Roland, he returned to the kingdom of Borui and immediately married the eldest daughter of Duke Christ. Could it be that Andre's way of knighthood is to get rich?"

"Every knight's quest is different. Sophia pondered for a moment and smiled, "Isn't Sylvia the guardian of the House of York?"

"That's different, Her Highness Sylvia joined the York family as a trainee knight, who would have thought that she was a flame knight. Natalia continued: "There's only one way for André to do this, he has bigger ambitions! ”

"Makes sense. ”

Sophia propped herself up and shouted in the language of a savage. The wooden door was slammed open, and the barbarian Regzo probed in and asked Sophia. Natalia's heart tightened when she saw Rigozzo's rough face full of tattoos.

After a few words of conversation in the barbarian language, Regazo and Sophia muttered and retreated, slamming the door shut.

"What did she just tell you?" asked Natalia at a loss, now knowing that Regazo was comparable to the barbarian warrior of the Golden Knight, and naturally felt a heavy pressure.

"It doesn't matter what she says. Sophia pursed her lips and said gracefully, "I'm here to let you know that no matter what kind of ambition Andre has, we don't need to care. ”

"Remember that night fourteen years ago, when we took Mithril with us and took a detour through the Dusk Forest to avoid the Seuss inspectors, only to encounter a horde of gnolls. At that time, you and I were only apprentice knights, and if it weren't for your desperate efforts to save me, I would have filled the gnoll's belly. Sophia stood up, pointed at Natalia's breastplate, and said softly, "Every time it rains, the scars here still hurt, right?"

"I'm used to it. Natalia couldn't help but sigh when she remembered her youthful years.

"I have not forgotten the scars you have left behind, I have not forgotten Aunt Helen's laughter in the tavern to sustain my livelihood, I have not forgotten the thorns under my feet. I swear, no one can take everything from us! Sauron, Andre, Victor!"

When Sophia looked up, Natalia noticed that her purple eyes had turned green, like bottomless pools.