Chapter 103: Clearing the Woods
Day 2, morning, Fergus Castle.
The huge living room, which is 200 square meters in size, is full of people in war uniforms.
Viscount Fergus sat on the throne, and to his left sat Baron Ricardo, Egbert. Rigato, and to his right sat Gardner, Baron Kipling. Kiplin.
On either side, in the distance, sat six men of different ages, the other six lords of the Viscount of Fergus in addition to Lord Linde.
Behind the seats, there were some young men in battle uniforms.
Behind Viscount Fergus are naturally Gray, Bernal, Ellis, and Caroline.
Standing behind Baron Ricardo was Gray's eldest son, Ian. Li Gato, and another teenager he hadn't seen.
Behind Baron Kiprin were a young man and a teenager, both of whom Gray had seen in the last realm, but had not dealt with each other.
Behind the other six lords, there was one man, either a boy or a young man.
It's not that there is only one heir in these lord families, but because the cost of implanting the bloodline is too expensive, even if there are several heirs in the family, the bloodline is usually implanted only in the eldest son.
And like the two baron families, it is much better, as long as it is an heir, it will be implanted in the bloodline, giving the opportunity to cultivate the blood method.
And like the Fergus family, it is much better than the baron family, and even Caroline, who is a woman, has also been given the opportunity to practice blood law.
In the room, the total number of people reached 23, and this was all the people in the Viscount of Fergus who practiced the blood method.
"I think you all already know the specific situation, since the beginning of winter, there have been frequent incidents of wild beasts attacking the village, and if this continues, I am afraid that there will be civilian riots."
"That's why I'm going to clear the forests near several villages where wild beasts frequently attack the villages."
Viscount Fergus's gaze swept over the nobles and children of the nobles present.
"The beast is not a threat to the people present, so in order to speed up, I divided the team into three teams, led by me, Baron Ricardo, and Baron Kiplin, and acted in three heads."
"I, the Fergus family and the Harry family, formed a team to clear the black soil forest."
"The Ricardian family, the Corgi family, the Kulin family, plus the Carter family, formed a pair to clear the Heihe forest."
"The Kiplins, Ronnies, and Kefu families, plus the Carter family, form a team to clear the green pine forest."
"Okay, time is pressing, let's go now!"
"Yes, Lord Viscount."
The two barons and the six lords all stood up.
Soon, the three groups left Fergus Castle in three directions.
Da, da, da!
Heading to the snow to the south of the territory, more than a dozen horses were galloping, and the hot breath coming out of their noses was like a circle of smoke from the mouth of a smoker.
Because the ground is covered with snow, the speed of travel is not very fast, at most about half of the usual speed.
This team is composed of five members of the Fergus family, two members of the Harry family, and several soldiers in charge of logistics.
"Master Bernard, Master Ellis, Miss Caroline, Master Gray."
The two Harry families who were assigned to the Fergus family, and their father was named Lunt. Harry, son's name is Vic. Harry, father and son are both slightly short and stocky of the type.
As soon as the team set off, Vic, who was in his early 20s. Harry began to keep putting on the four of Gray, this kind of opportunity to deal with the future younger generation of the Fergus family, the other party obviously did not intend to miss it.
Bernal responded with a smile, Ellis didn't bother to pay attention to each other's approaches, Caroline was cold-faced, and Gray was not too close or too distant.
He sat on the red-blooded pony given to him by Viscount Fergus, and more than four months later, the size of the red-blooded pony had grown again, and his height was already close to 1.4 meters.
After riding for almost an hour, the team came to the black soil forest, which was in charge of the woods.
"The seven of us went deep into the woods from seven directions, and finally converged at the center, and immediately killed the beast when we saw it."
"Bernal enters from here, Gray enters from here......"
Viscount Fergus took out a detailed map of the entire territory of the viscounty, which had a clear appearance of the black soil forest, and Viscount Fergus pointed his finger around the black soil forest on the map, arranging the direction of everyone's entry.
After arranging everyone's entry directions, he said with a slightly serious expression.
"Although it shouldn't be a problem to deal with ordinary beasts with your strength, you still have to be careful, the black soil forest is the largest of the three forests, and the beasts attack the village most frequently, you must be vigilant."
"Yes, father."
"Yes, Lord Viscount."
……
Each of them answered, and the seven began to disperse, and Gray rode a red-blooded horse and led a soldier around the outside of the black soil forest for half a circle, and arrived at the place where Viscount Fergus had arranged to enter in the east.
After handing over the red-blooded horse to the soldier and bringing it back to the previous gathering place, he himself began to enter the Black Earth Forest.
The reason why the black soil forest is called black soil is because the land here is all black, so it is called the black soil forest.
But at this time, as far as the eye can see, everything is white, the trees are white, the ground is white, this is the world of ice and snow.
As soon as he stepped on it, the depth reached more than ten centimeters, and half of his calf had completely sunk into the snow, but fortunately he was wearing boots that reached the knee length, so as not to let the snow seep into the shoes.
"Such a deep snow is indeed not suitable for ordinary soldiers to encircle and suppress."
Gray shook his head, lifted his foot from the snow, and continued on his way.
If it is an ordinary soldier, half of the lower leg is stuck in the snow, and it is difficult to walk, let alone encircle and suppress the beasts, I am afraid it is more likely that they will become the belly of the beasts.
Squeak, squeak, squeak!
Stepping on the thick snow, Green went deep into the black soil forest, and from time to time snow would fall from the branches on his head, but he easily avoided it.
Almost a few hundred meters deeper.
Boom!
Just as Gray passed by a tree, suddenly, the snow next to the tree exploded, and then a white figure swooped out and pounced on him.
This white figure is 2 meters long and about 1.5 meters tall, with snow-white hair all over its body, and its limbs and torso are extremely strong.
It is a tiger with white hair.
Whew—
The distance of four or five meters was crossed by the white tiger, and the hideous tiger's mouth was wide open, and Gray could even smell the fishy stench.
Disheveled!
Gray slammed into the snow with one foot, and the snow splashed everywhere, and suddenly a small puddle appeared.
And he relied on this force of recoil, his body retreated, dodged the pounce of the white tiger, and passed by the white tiger.
Sonorous!
At the moment when Gray rubbed shoulders with the white tiger.
Gray's long sword was unsheathed, and a cold light flashed from the white tiger's neck.
Burst!
A hideous head flew up, and cherry red blood surged wildly, splattering from the fracture in all directions.
The surrounding snow and trees are full of red, like beautiful red flowers in the snow.
More than ten meters away, Gray, who had no traces of blood on his body, turned to look at the corpse of the white tiger that was still twitching, and the head that had fallen to the ground and rolled around a few times.
When the blood splattered, he was already far away, avoiding the splash of blood.
"If it was an ordinary soldier, I'm afraid he would have died just now!"
Because of the cover of snow, the white tiger's surprise attack was too sudden, and it suddenly burst out of the snow less than five meters away from Gray, and with a vertical leap, it had already pounced on Gray's approach.
If it is an ordinary soldier who is attacked, he can't react at all, and even if he does, because his feet are deep in the snow, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get rid of the white tiger's pounce.
"Only a few hundred meters deeper, and having already encountered wild beasts, it is no wonder that the villages near the Black Earth Forest have become the places where wild beasts attack the most."
"It's a pity that such a big tiger, I'm afraid it weighs four or five hundred pounds, and I can't take it away."
Shaking his head, Gray continued on his way, continuing deeper into the Black Soil Forest.
For the beasts in the black soil forest, he did not have the slightest distance, even if there might be many beasts in the black soil forest, his face did not change in the slightest.
Not to mention that his strength has reached the upper level of the blood warrior, even if his strength is only that of the lower blood warriors, Ellis and Caroline, it will never be too difficult to deal with these beasts.
Poof, poof, poof!
Gray would encounter the attack of wild beasts almost every 100 meters he advanced, which showed that there were so many wild beasts in this black soil forest.
"It's not normal, how can there be so many beasts?"
With the slash, Gray's brow slowly raised.
In just over a mile's journey, he had encountered no less than ten large predatory beasts, and if Viscount Fergus had suffered the same as him, it meant that there were at least seventy or more large predatory beasts in this woods.
In the case of a forest like the Black Soil Forest, there are too many.
Moreover, such a large number of large predators, not to mention in winter, even in spring and summer, when the food is most abundant, is not necessarily able to supply so many large predatory beasts.
However, in the spring and summer, except for the village of Giethoorn that was attacked by wild beasts because of the cold tiger drive, the villages near the black soil forest were not attacked.
This is not normal!