In a col to the east of Victor's territory, a camp was built.

The camp was built against the hill, with only a row of high fences built at the narrow pass to shield the camp from the camp.

What is strange is that although the fence of the camp is more than ten meters high, the material used to build the fence is crunchy redwood. The fence of this material could not even withstand the impact of ordinary jackals, and there was not even a trench on the ground in front of the fence

This strange camp has a lot of arrow towers, but most of these towers are built on steep ridges, and because they are built too high, they have little defense against the camp and can only be used as mere watchtowers.

Even the most uninformed farmer knows that living in such a camp is a joke with his life.

But this humble camp was a forbidden place for the freedmen, and now it is also a forbidden place for Victor's subordinates.

In the camp, a handsome and elegant young man was carefully wiping a silver sword with a snow-white spider silk scarf, his expression was attentive and his movements were gentle, as if it was not a long sword, but his sweetheart.

Just as the young man was concentrating on his sword, a tall, burly figure walked from behind him.

It was a strong man with a full beard, his explosive muscles seemed to break through the leather armor on his body, and he also carried a broadsword of astonishing size, the sharp blade of which glowed with purple light, and it was actually a precious weapon of pure gold.

"How's the harvest in the mine today, Birner?" asked the young man who was sitting on the stone and wiping his sword, and asked the strong man who came by.

"Good day, Mr. DeWeitt. The bear-like man gave the young man a standard chivalric salute.

"Most of the mines dug up today are silver mines, and there are very few associated 'white stones', and it is estimated that it will take two days to gather a cart to transport back to the territory of the adults. Strong Man Bernard said as he looked at the silver-white sword in DeWet's hand with envious eyes.

Although the longsword looked unremarkable, Bernard knew that once DeWett was in motion, the longsword would show its incredible power and dignity.

Because it's a Mithril longsword, and DeWett is a silver-tier knight.

"Birner, you're too anxious, I warned you a long time ago, you have to polish your fighting spirit to be mellow and break through, otherwise you won't be like this, none of the three wind elemental positions resonate!" DeWett noticed Bernard's eager eyes, shook his head, and said with some pity.

His voice was like that of a mature middle-aged man, low and magnetic, somewhat out of place with his youthful countenance.

This is not surprising, once the knights enter the silver level, it means that they can communicate with the four elements in the void, these elements are linked to their bodies, circulating and endless, which is a qualitative change in the essence of life. Therefore, knights who break through the silver tier will return to their physical appearance at their peak.

Although these extraordinary knights have gotten rid of the troubles of aging and have a lifespan far beyond ordinary people, their soul characteristics will not change, and their soul fire will still be extinguished one day, which is the characteristic of the fire element, scorching and short.

"Teacher, I'm not afraid of missing this opportunity. Bernard scratched his head in embarrassment, as DeWitt's former squire knight, even though he had been promoted to the rank of Bronze Knight, he still revered his teacher.

In the human world, the relationship between knight squires and knights is very close, comparable to that of father and son, which has a lot to do with the aristocratic primogeniture system in the human world.

In aristocratic families, the eldest son inherits everything, and what about those noble children who do not have the right to inherit?

Generally, the family will strive to accommodate and provide for these offspring to serve the family. It takes at least 3,000 acres of land and a manor to support a knight, so many families really can't afford it, after all, the family's land is limited, and these lands have long been divided. And these noble children who have awakened the blood of knights will be sent by their families to other nobles and become trainee knights of the great nobles.

These nobles will assign these new apprentice knights to the official knights of the family, and become the knight's subordinates. These knights will take on the responsibility of nurturing and educating these young knights, and this relationship will continue until the apprentice knight is officially promoted to the rank of Bronze Knight. Therefore, the knight and his subordinate knight are both superior and subordinate and like a master and a father.

There are also a very small number of noble children, who advocate freedom and are unruly, and they often choose to leave the family and become traveling knights. These people can retain the surname of the blood family and have the right to expand the territory. Hence also known as Pioneer Knight.

Once they have carved out new territories, they can create their own family. For example, the founder of the royal family of Gambis, the Augustian family, was a pioneer knight of the Rand Empire a thousand years ago.

It's just that the path of opening up the wilderness is rugged and dangerous, in fact, most of the traveling knights have failed, after all, humans are not a strong race, and in the end, these wandering knights will join other families in order to survive. Of course, there are also a very few knights who become mercenaries and even become bandits. These down-and-out knights are known as the Wild Knights.

Bernard and DeWett were certainly not wild knights, they were Victor's neighbors to the east, official knights of the family of the great nobleman Count Chebman.

The Chebman family is the kingdom's premier military aristocracy, they have more than 1,000 elite soldiers, more than a dozen bronze knights, and three silver knights.

The head of the Chebman family, Count Timok Chebman, was greedy and stingy, and he was reluctant to spend a lot of money on land when the kingdom sold its territory to the Centaur Hills.

When the House of York cleared the territory, he quietly sent someone to survey the territory, and found a staggering silver mine near the edge of his territory.

So, Count Chebman asked Bernard to lead people to pretend to be freedmen to mine secretly, but in the process of mining, they discovered that the silver mine was actually accompanied by Mithril Mine.

Chebman was crazy now, he first wanted to buy this territory from the York family, but he was afraid of arousing the suspicion of the York family, and before he could come up with a good solution, this territory was replaced by Victor.

Hearing this, Chebman laughed three times and ordered: continue digging until it is gone.

Although the Chebman family is a neutral family, he knows the details of Victor very well, an abandoned son who has lost the protection of the family, and he is bullied if he is bullied. The only thing to be careful about was not to attract the attention of the Yorks, and to be on the safe side, he sent the Grand Knight DeWett over to take charge.

"It's the stupidest thing to do to increase the difficulty of promotion for the sake of Mithril equipment!Do you want to go down the path of life and death!" DeWett said angrily to Bernard.

He knew what Berner was thinking, and the discovery of the Mithril mine this time made the knights of the Chebman family fight for their heads, so Count Chebman decided to distribute the share of Mithril according to the ranking order of the family knights.

Of course, the three great knights of the family should be given priority, but in order to improve his ranking, Berner actually resonated with the three earth element positions and two water element positions in the middle layer in advance, and this irrational improvement will cause a very big obstacle to the cultivation in the future.

"Teacher, I know it's wrong, I'm just afraid that the 'White Stone' in the back won't score enough. Bernard lowered his head and muttered, the teacher's anger making him both ashamed and uneasy.

Seeing the tall and burly bear-like Bernard trembling in front of him, DeWett was amused and angry.

At the age of fifteen, Bernard became his servant knight, and it was he who taught him how to use various weapons, taught him how to hone his fighting spirit, and led him into battle, and he witnessed Bernard grow from a young boy to a powerful knight. And now the knight is still as nervous in the face of his criticism as he was when he was younger. DeWett believed that no matter how far Bernard grew up in the future, he would be his disciple and child.

Thinking of this, DeWet's eyes softened a little, and he said to Bernard, "You don't need to worry about Mithril equipment now, that's something the family needs to consider." You remember, the one who runs fast does not necessarily succeed, and the one who has the last laugh is the winner. ”

"By the way, after driving away the little lord's guards last time, did he send someone to trouble again?" DeWett then asked.

"No, the lesson from the last time has made this little lord settle down a lot, and there is no longer anyone to pick that ridiculous ogre head to swagger around. Bernard said dismissively.

"Oh?!!How do you know so well?" DeWett asked the disciple with some curiosity, for the sake of secrecy, this camp has not communicated with the outside world.

"When I first came here to mine, in order to gather information about this territory, I asked my subordinates to build another camp nearby disguised as free people, and all the information was transmitted by them. Berner explained that although he was rough, he was not a brainless rammer.

"Well done!"

"Teacher, this weak little baron has no consciousness of pioneer lords, and he actually wants to absorb those lowly freemen, and for this reason he has also prevented Bruce from purging the territory, and his camp is now like a sieve, full of loopholes! The teacher's praise made Bernard quite proud.

"A flower in a greenhouse will not understand that only iron and blood can establish the order of the pioneer territory. Without the support of the House of York, I can foresee that this little lord will die at the hands of these freemen. DeWett sighed.

"That is, this little baron doesn't think about how to win over knights, but he does what kind of division of work, what kind of breeding, and by the way, he even forces the people to take a bath!

Hearing that Victor was so ridiculous and incompetent, DeWett also shook his head with a smile, and he said to Bernard: "This mediocre little lord is very beneficial to us, you should pay more attention, don't let him be killed by the free people, maybe we can completely control this territory in the future." ”

"You've done a good job this time! I'll go back to Lord Earl when Bruce of House York gets out of here. If you can control this territory, I believe you will be very happy. DeWett patted Bernard on the shoulder and smiled.

"Teacher, you can go back now, I can deal with a bruce!" Bernard excitedly slapped his chest with a "thump" "thump", although Count Chebman was stingy, but he was never stingy with the knights who made meritorious contributions to the family.

"It's said that Bruce is only one step away from the silver rank, and you're not his opponent yet. ”

DeWett looked at his disciple's unconvinced expression, and warned him again: "Don't make any trouble, even I don't want to meet Bruce." ”

"Teacher, you are a silver knight! how can you be afraid of Bruce, besides, are there fewer knights who die in the wilderness?" The teacher's words made Berner very surprised.

"You know what! Bruce is the knight of the family that Lady Rose values and thinks he can become the sixth Silver Knight of the House of York. It's not hard for me to kill Bruce, but the Yorks will definitely investigate carefully, and I'm afraid this place won't be able to survive then. DeWet's solemn tone made Bernard shrink his neck.

At this moment, two sturdy men, pushing a cart full of wreckage, came out of the house, they had just finished preparing two large wild boars, and were about to pull the wreckage out of the camp and dump it.

The fishy smell made Bernard and DeWett frown, but a few large black crows flew down from the treetops, croaking and seeming to be eager to enjoy these free meals.

"You lazy bones!How many times have I told you?,Pull this garbage farther away and bury it!Look at how many of these stinky birds have been brought in these days!," Berner yelled, taking out his anger at being scolded by his teacher on his men.

Hearing the knight's angry scolding, the two poor punching bags hurriedly blasted away these uninvited diners.

Perhaps knowing that there was no chance to taste the delicious food today, the big crow that was driven away circled in the air a few times, "quacked" and "quacked" a few times, and flew straight to the west.

Victor is playing a jigsaw puzzle at the moment.

Although the alchemy crows are smart, they can't understand complex human language after all, so the sentences they imitate vividly are all chaotic.

Victor had to write down these words sentence by sentence on the stone tablet with charcoal, and then connect them logically.

After a few days of hard work, now he knows everything he should know.

In that camp in the eastern part of the territory, there are two powerful knights secretly mining silver and mythril mines, they are most likely knights of the Chebman family in the east, and they have infiltrated their own camp and now have ideas about their own territory.

Victor gently pressed his aching brow, and one of the guards shouted outside the door, "My lord, Captain Nelson is back. ”

Nelson was sent by Victor to the Barony of Eskerry to exchange some supplies and verify something.

In Victor's named office, Nelson meets his lord.

"Nelson, how's it going?" asked Victor as he sat down across from his desk, smiling.

"My lord, Baron Eskerry is full of praise for our purple cane wine, and I have changed it for a sufficient amount of salt, a portion of tung oil, and a small amount of flour. Nelson said with a smile on his eyebrows, and he was very excited that the purple cane wine was welcomed by his neighbors.

At the beginning, Victor restricted the people from cutting down the purple cane forest, which puzzled many people, but when the purple cane wine was successfully brewed, its unique sweet taste made everyone intoxicated. Master Edwin even said it was a top wine.

Encouraged by the scholar's words, Nelson seemed to have seen countless Kinsor beckoning to him again, so he began to strictly enforce Victor's ban and never allow anyone to destroy the money of the realm.

"Very well! What else is there for you to inquire about?" asked Victor in a low voice.

"My lord, Lord Eskerry said that Berner is the new knight of the Chebman family, and DeWett is the silver knight of the Chebman family. He wondered why I inquired about these two people, and I found an excuse to prevaricate. Nelson replied heavily.

Victor sighed softly, and now the information gathered by the alchemy crow had been verified.

"My lord, I don't understand why a noble silver knight would come to steal the silver mines?" Nelson was puzzled, he didn't know that the silver mine was accompanied by the Mithril Mine.

"Heh, do you know how picky and greedy the Chebman family is?" said Victor with a smile.

Mithril Mine is too sensitive, and the fewer people who know about it, the better, so Victor doesn't intend to tell Nelson the truth.

"When the Earl of Chebman was young, he once followed the old earl to the king, and fell in the royal garden, and he quietly dug two pieces of turf on the lawn and hid them in his pocket and brought them home, after which he gave the turf to the family gardener, and it is said that the lawn of their garden was cultivated in this way, and the old Earl of Chebman was very pleased when he learned about it, and often used it to educate the other descendants of the Chebman family. ”

Nelson was stunned by this allusion, and he began to think that it was only natural for Chebman to send a silver knight to steal the silver mines.

"Alright, from now on, let's stop going to that land to the east. Victor drew a line on the parchment map.

Although he felt aggrieved, Nelson nodded helplessly.

That's a silver-level knight, and it's very shameless!

"Also, from now on, don't recruit guards from among the newly arrived lords, and don't let people come to the upper camp without my permission, I can't trust them. Victor said coldly, not letting the spies discover his secret.

"Yes, sir. Nelson replied solemnly, knowing that his lord was tinkering with something new, like cane sugar, and he was looking forward to it.

"In two days, Master Edwin, they will probably be back. When the time comes, you pick some guards and escort them back to the Black Castle, and by the way, bring some purple cane wine for Old John to sell. Victor hesitated and said to Nelson.

On the one hand, he needs to support the shrewd members of the War Bear so that he can facilitate his own plan to create people. On the other hand, these bachelors do need to relax a bit.

Nelson nodded busily, he did miss the disabled veterans, and his men had complained to him more than once that life here was too monotonous.

"What about your safety, my lord?" asked Nelson, happy and a little worried.

"Don't you know my strength?" Victor smiled and shook his head.

Nelson was dumbfounded, although the lord looked weak, he was a strong man who could deal with the old ogre, and the Bruce Knight even believed that once Victor took the military heavy crossbow, he could pose a mortal threat to the Bronze Horseman.

"Also, tell those who can't go back to Blackcastle this time that I will often arrange for people to go to Blackcastle to sell supplies, and there will be opportunities in the future. Go ahead. ”

Victor motioned for Nelson to go, only to find Nelson standing there, looking like he was talking.

"My lord, this... You see, this time, is it for me to prepare 100, oh no, 50 gold soles, because this time there are a lot of people... Under Victor's forced gaze, Nelson finally slurred his little request.

Holding the money bag given by Victor, Nelson walked away in embarrassment under the unkind gaze of his lord.

Nelson left the room, and Victor leaned back in his chair and sighed heavily.

There are unruly free people in the territory, and there are unkind neighbors of the great nobles, and there are also good and bad people in their own territory, and there are many hidden dangers.

How to solve these problems, Victor thought about it for a long time, and there was no good way.

"It's a mess!" Victor snapped his fist and couldn't help but grumble.

After a moment of quiet thought, Victor shook his head and laughed.

It wasn't that he had thought of any solutions, but that he suddenly found that there was no need to worry about these problems, because time was on his side.

Alchemy creatures, bloodline abilities, powerful alchemy, and those knowledge and skills that are beyond this era, he will get stronger and stronger as time goes by, and all problems will become less and less.

You turtles who still wipe their butts with leaves, I will let you know that even if I am a mediocre little lord, I am not something you can look up to.

Thinking of this, Victor couldn't help but touch his ass.

Infernals is a useful skill!