Chapter 268: The First Family Great Sword Master

The silver moon, as big as a copper basin, hangs above the dark blue canopy, scattering the silver moonlight into the world......

Standing on the high roof of the rock castle, looking down on the quiet valley and the former city and the back city in the distance, Lorist only felt relaxed and happy, and his irritability gradually calmed down with the night breeze.

It's been seven years, time flies so fast, when I organized a convoy from Dawn Academy to go north, I never dreamed that there would be today. With the efforts of himself and his companions, the remote family territory has been turned upside down, and the once wild wasteland is now a paradise full of hope.

Lorist couldn't remember how many ups and downs he had gone through along the way, but he found that the enemy he was facing was getting stronger and stronger. The second prince last time was just a useless king in the silver head wax gun, the so-called 100,000 army was wiped out in the first battle, and even the second prince himself was killed by his own revenge for sending a great sword master to assassinate him, and he was sent to the Kingdom of Antinac to be executed by the Second Highness.

Now they are facing a complete kingdom, although this kingdom was established by pirates, but in the past hundred years, it has become an independent slave kingdom, they have their own army, and countless murderous slave catchers, these slave catchers are also an armed force that cannot be underestimated.

Lorist had read the confessions of the captives, especially the interrogation record of the crucified Great Swordsman, who said that this attack on the island of Hirowas had almost integrated the forces of all the great slave owners and slave traders in the Kingdom of Haneabada, and that they had sent out more than 80 slave capture teams, the smallest number of dozens of people, the largest number of people was five or six hundred, the total strength was more than 24,000 people, and nearly 500 ships were dispatched......

I don't know where they heard the news that Hilovas Island had recruited 50,000 or 60,000 displaced laborers for large-scale development and construction, and the big slave owners and slave traders of the Haneyabada Kingdom took the idea of these displaced people, and they also sent their subordinates to pretend to be smugglers to come to the island to investigate, and found that the situation was true, so they took joint action.

It's just that they also underestimated the garrison on the island, and when they occupied the whole island, they found that they had lost more than 80 ships and nearly 10,000 troops, so that some slave traders regretted that the price paid for this operation was too high and not cost-effective. Although so many slaves were caught, not many were distributed to each family. The lost slave catchers were the elite armed forces of their masters.

Like this captured great swordsman, his master, Duke Gufman, is a famous big slave owner in the Kingdom of Haneyabada, this time he sent five slave catchers of nearly 2,000 people, but in the interception and battle at sea, two ships were burned, and after landing, two slave catchers rushed to the front were destroyed, and only more than 1,000 people remained.

After the occupation of Hilovas Island, they were given only more than 4,000 slaves, a figure that was not worth the losses they paid. That's why the Great Sword Master decided to send the slaves away first, and he and the slave catchers stayed for a few more days to hunt down the residents who had fled in the mountains and forests. Then they waited for the reinforcements of Bodfinger, and none of them wanted to go back......

"Your Excellency......" came Schward's soft call behind him.

Lorist didn't turn around either: "Finished the evening class?"

"Yes, sir. ”

"Well, you go and rest first, don't worry about me. The three allies will come over tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, but I don't know if Baron Philim will bring his precious daughter this time? If so, I will give you three days off and let you take your fiancée around......

"My lord!" Schward, thin-skinned and a little shy

"Hehe......" Lorist laughed, "by the way, ask the kitchen to get me something to eat, and then go to the study and get me a bottle of wine, and then you can go to sleep." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

Schward moved quickly, and after a while, he took two servants to set up tables and chairs on the rooftop, and put away the food and drinks. Probably in retaliation for Lorlist's teasing, the kid had the kitchen serve a big smoked goose......

The moonlight is very beautiful tonight, Lorist is interested, I want to drink some wine with some side dishes, this big whole smoked goose on the table is a bit of a big scene, take the smoked goose to gnaw the mouth full of oil and with fruit wine to the moon when the song, how do you think about this scene how incongruous......

"This stinky boy......" Lorist muttered, and without touching the smoked goose, he poured a glass of fruit wine and held it in his hand, and stood on the rooftop looking at the distant scenery, slowly drinking as he recalled the information about the kingdom of Haneabada.

The Haneyabada Islands, located southwest of the island of Hilovas, take eleven days to reach at the speed of a medium-sized armed merchant ship, or about seven or eight days if it is the Flying Fish of Dawn.

The Haneyabada Islands look like an octopus with teeth and claws on the map, and the name of Haneyabada was originally the name of an octopus demon god who likes to make waves on the sea in ancient mythology, and legend has it that this octopus demon god once stole a precious ornament of the blood moon goddess Sufena, and as a result, the blood moon goddess was furious, and when the octopus demon god was exposed to the sea, he summoned his husband Shigwa God and his sister Silver Moon Goddess Daphrin, who was a god of the sun, light and war, and his sister Daphrin, the goddess of the silver moon, cast a spell together to turn this octopus demon god who dared to steal the goddess's ornaments into this octopus-shaped archipelago......

This myth and legend tells people a very profound truth, women in anger are unreasonable, so provoke no one to provoke women, you can only coax women but not make them angry, otherwise the consequences can not be guessed. Just like the octopus demon god may have thought that he would fight the goddess of the blood moon for 300 rounds for this ornament, but he didn't expect that she would directly bring in foreign aid to turn herself into an archipelago......

Far from the mainland of Gelintya, the islands of Hanea Bada have always been regarded as a place of seclusion, desolate and devoid of any special products. It wasn't until the pirates founded the country here and vigorously developed the slave trade that the people on the continent of Gelinthia slowly changed the perception of the Hanea Bada Islands as a barren land.

If you add up the area of the Hanea Bada Islands, it is larger than the territory of the Norton family. However, half of the Hanea Bada archipelago is a long and narrow island, which does look like an octopus tentacle on the map.

The total population of the Haneyabada Kingdom, which has been established for more than 80 years, is more than 500,000, and slaves account for more than 400,000 of the more than 500,000 people.

There is also a genius in the recklessness, and in Lorist's opinion, the second king of the kingdom of Haneabada is such a genius. Originally, the kingdom established by the pirates was a system of election, and everyone had the final say on who became the king, but the second king succeeded in changing it to a hereditary system, so that his family firmly dominated this position.

After the king was elected to power by the pirates, he changed the habit of the pirates to live by captivity, divided the narrow archipelago around the main island to his pirate leaders as fiefs, and gave them slaves to cultivate land on these islands, and incorporated ordinary pirates to form the royal army, so that ordinary pirates also lived a worry-free life. He also declared that he would no longer raid the coastal countries of the Golden Coastline, eased relations, opened trade routes, and vigorously developed the slave trade, and finally the kingdom that had been established in a joking manner began to develop steadily.

It was happiness to be a citizen of the kingdom of Haneyabada, but this happiness was built on the blood and tears of the slaves. They were born with no worries about food and clothing, which was a high benefit left by the second king to the children and grandchildren of the pirates. However, if they want to live a good life, they either go to serve as a soldier for the king, or learn their skills.

The Standing Army of the Kingdom of Haneyabada has two armies, one is the 28,000-strong Royal Janissary Guard, and the other is the Royal Patrol Fleet with 24 large and medium-sized armed merchant ships. Both forces were under the direct command of the Crown. The nobles of the Haneyabada Kingdom are all big slave owners, and the private armed forces in their hands are basically the descendants of the pirates under the ancestors of the pirate leaders, as for the slave catchers below, they are composed of outlaws, deserters, mercenaries and criminals recruited by them in the Gelinthia continent.

The kingdom of Haneyabada has two large cities, one is the royal city of Hamidas in the central part of the main island, and the other is the port city of Nubit, which is known as the largest slave trading market in Geylintya.

Although they all had their own residences in the royal city of Hamidas, the nobles of the Haneyabada Kingdom were more accustomed to living in Port Nubit, which was their paradise. Here they drove the slaves to build luxurious and extravagant dwellings, and enjoyed a life of wine and wine on the bones of the tired slaves.

As a harbour city, Port Nubit offers a wide range of products and fashion from the continent of Guelintea. It was also more convenient for the great slave owners of the Haneabada Kingdom to command their slave traders and slave catchers to sail by boat to the poor or war-torn areas of the Gelinthia continent to bring back a steady stream of slaves to the Haneabada Kingdom......

Lorist has a strong confidence in the combat power of his family's armed forces, and it is difficult to find an elite combat force that can match it in the Gelinthia continent. This time, Lorist was going to bring Bodfinger's two heavy armoured regiments, the Wheelwheeled Steel Crossbow Regiment, Yuri's Scout Battalion, and Ovickis's Stonecart Battalion in Perak, and two other guard brigades totaling more than 37,000 people. It is believed that as long as these 37,000 soldiers and horses land on the Haneyabada Islands, not to mention the destruction of the Haneabada Kingdom, sweep across the entire territory of the kingdom, and hang those black-hearted slave owners and slave traders on the gallows......

Lorist was a little troubled now, but he was not completely sure how to get these 37,000 men and horses to land on the main island without alarming the enemy. Judging from the map, the bay of the Hanea Bada Islands is also elongated, which means that the port of Nubit is shrunk in the innermost part of the bay, and the outside of the bay are several long and narrow islands, which have become the natural outer barrier of the port of Nubit.

If there were no people on these islands, then there was nothing, and Lorist could block off the small islands outside and shut down the ships in Nubit Harbor, but these islands were the fiefs of several large slave owners, and some of them were slaves working and pleading. If they find out that Lorist is leading a fleet of ships, then the slaves can light a bonfire and light a wolf smoke to pass the news to the port of Nubit, and then the pirates' ships will swarm out, and it will be a lot of fun.

At present, the best way is to transfer the men and horses to the island of Hirowas, prepare to set sail first, and wait for El and Tagar to send information about the kingdom of Haneyabada, and have an accurate understanding of the defense there before they can go on the expedition. When the main army comes ashore, I can teach them how to be a good person in the next life.

A sinister smile tugged at the corners of Lorist's mouth, he would not let go of the big slave owners and slavers who attacked Hirowas, especially the slave catchers. They have done too many evil deeds, and they deserve retribution. It's not that you don't report it, the hour has not yet come. Now that they have made up their minds to go to the kingdom of Haneyabada, then their retribution will come......

I hope that El and Targer can find the whereabouts of the family knights such as Fat Man and Jim, and I also hope that they will not be in trouble, even if they are slaves for another two months, and they can go to rescue them.

Alas...... Lorist let out a long sigh and raised his hand to pour all the golden liquor from the glass into his mouth. He still hides the news of Shi Fatzi's arrest from his family, so as not to worry them. Lorist turned to look at the hillside on the left side of the castle, where twelve large villas were built on the upper two floors, which were the residences of the family's senior managers and leading knights in the Rock Castle, Lorist remembered very clearly, the first room on the top floor was Shi Fatzi's home, some time ago, Shi Fatzi's father came to see his precious grandson, and he was still reluctant to leave, alas...... How could I be willing to tell them the bad news......

A sword light imprinted into Lorist's eyes, Lorlist's eyes froze, such a sword shadow is already the level of a first-class great sword master, how can it appear in the back garden of Shi Fatzi's house, especially in the middle of the night......

Could it be that Shi Fat Man was recognized by those slave owners, and in order to coerce Shi Fat Man to work for them, he sent people to infiltrate the Rock Castle and wanted to kidnap his family...... A bad premonition came to mind, and Lorist didn't bother to take the stairs, jumped up directly from the rooftop, and climbed down the castle wall like an ape, and sprinted towards the house of the fat man on the other side of the hill.

It seems to be normal, there is no movement in the room, all that reaches Lorist's ears is a very normal soft snoring, and occasionally I hear the grinding and murmuring of Shi Fatzi's precious son......

Lorist quietly hid into the back garden, like a dark shadow silently blending into the mottled shadows of the trees under the moonlight......

The sword shadow in the back garden flashes just a person practicing the sword, the sword shadow is smart, the sword aura is not revealed, although the sword light is vertical and horizontal, enveloping that space, but every pot of budding or competing flowers in that space continues to exude fragrance unconsciously, as if the cold light of the sword shadow jumping between the delicate petals is just a phantom......

The control, accuracy and stability of this sword practitioner are truly amazing, and these are precisely the difference between the Great Swordsman and the Golden Swordsman.

Lorist stepped out of the shade.

The sword practitioner suddenly became alert, held the sword as a guard, and shouted in a deep voice: "Who is it?"

"It's me. Lorist said lightly.

"Uh...... My lord ......" The sword practitioner shuddered for a moment, and hurriedly put the sword away.

"Follow me. Lorist said, turning around and leaving.

"Woo ......" the sword practitioner breathed a sigh of annoyance, the moonlight was too beautiful tonight, and he suddenly became interested in practicing the sword, who knew that the adult was back, and he was promoted to the great sword master and hid it from the adult for a while, and this time the sword practice was seen by the adult, and his realm must not be hidden from the eyes of the adult. It's over, in addition to the hardships, there will be no free days in the future, and I can no longer play with my lovely great-great-grandson, and I have to be exhausted by the adults running around......

At this moment, Lorlist's heart was also scolding his mother, my day! This is really unreasonable! I never thought that that coward, afraid of death, shameless old man who sacrificed his granddaughter to just survive, and was forced by himself to sign a ten-year slave agreement, the golden three-star swordsman Yingjelek was quietly promoted to the great swordsman, what kind of shit luck did this paralyzed!

This sword practitioner is Ingjerek, when Lorist organized the convoy to go north, he clashed with the local snake Slov slave catcher in the port of Ametlin in the Duchy of Rumm, Lorlist's single sword killed the two golden swordsmen of the slave hunting group, Ingjerek as a golden three-star swordsman not only did not come up, but turned around and fled, and was finally caught up by Lorlist, took out his fighting spirit cheats and private money, and forced him to sacrifice his precious granddaughter, and signed an agreement to be a slave for ten years before letting him go.

At that time, Shi Fatzi was injured by the old man Yingjerek, and he was bandaged like a zongzi, and Lorist was a narrow catch, and the old man's granddaughter was assigned to Shi Fatzi as a maid. Unexpectedly, these two people looked at each other correctly, and they became a couple, for the sake of Shi Fatzi, Lorist didn't do anything to the old man.

Later, Lorist returned from the family territory to meet the northbound convoy, and rewarded the meritorious personnel in the convoy camp outside Nadegas in the Kingdom of Andinac, and originally wanted to promote the old man to become the family's golden knight, but the old man refused, saying that he would just accompany his granddaughter. At that time, Shi Fatzi enlarged his precious granddaughter's belly, and vowed to marry her as soon as he returned to the family territory......

Lorist only felt that this old man had lived too long and experienced too much, and he had no ambition and just wanted to live a stable life, so he didn't think so, so he simply let him go, and let him accompany his granddaughter to spend his old age in peace, but he didn't expect to give himself a surprise, and now he is promoted to the first great swordsman of the family.

This time Lorist will never let go of this old man, he has to squeeze the old man dry, anyway, when this old man sees Lorlist, he will tremble from the inside out. What Lorist wondered the most was that with the old man's strength, how did he get promoted to the Great Sword Master?

Back on the roof of the castle, Lorist sat down on a chair in a big way, poured himself a glass of wine and tasted it, and let Injerek stand obediently in front of him.

"Tell me, when was you promoted to the Great Sword Master?"

"Great, my lord, it's been more than a year, and it's been more than ......" The old man began to be scared again.

"Why don't you tell me......," Lorist asked lazily.

"Great, my lord, you, you're not here, ......" the old man trembled.

Belch...... Lorist himself can't remember, anyway, he always runs around, the old man said so, let's admit it. But he was still very depressed: "I said what are you shaking, am I so terrible, and I won't eat you, besides, you are also a great swordsman." ”

"No, no, I can't say why, my lord, anyway, I'm scared when I see you. ”

"Forget it, Injerek, don't talk nonsense, now that you are a great sword master, you should also contribute to the family. Lorist said.

"Great, sir, you better let me go, I'm so old. The old man begged for mercy.

"Fuck off! Don't think I don't know that being promoted to the Great Sword Master is equivalent to an extra thirty years of life, and you are now comparable to a strong man. The current situation facing the family is very serious, I am not satisfied with you, I will lead people to the kingdom of Haneyabada in a while, because that group of slave traders who are* have attacked our family's territory on the island of Hilowas, and your precious grandson-in-law has also been captured by them......"

"What did you say, my lord?" Now it was the turn of the old man to be shocked, and he was not trembling and afraid.

"That's why I said I'm going to go to the kingdom of Hanea Bada for a while, and I'll bring back Shi Fatzi. Old man, you also give me a help, and after a while, I will take a boat to requisition a number of sea ships for me, and we still lack ships to transport men and horses. ”

It was about the happiness of his precious granddaughter, and the old man no longer pushed back: "Okay, my lord, I promise to requisition enough boats." ”

"Okay, you go back first, hide the matter of Shi Fatzi first, don't tell his wife. I'll let you know when the time is up. Lorist said.

"Yes, sir," the old man turned and left, and when he reached the stairs, he turned back and asked, "By the way, my lord, how many boats do you need to requisition?"

"Well, let's requisition more than a hundred ships first, and we have to make up ...... if it's not enough," Lorist replied.

"What, so much?" the old man was stunned for a moment, and rolled down directly to the bottom with one foot in the air.

Lorist shook his head and muttered, "With this psychological quality, I really can't understand how he was promoted to the Great Sword Master......

...... (To be continued.) )