Surdak woke up feeling refreshed.

He lay on the large soft and dry bed, reminiscing about the blue sky and the endless sea in his dream last night, and was a little reluctant to wake up completely from his dream.

He turned his head to see Selena lying beside her in a thin silk suspender nightdress, the hem of which was slightly upturned, her slender and round legs pressed against the white velvet blanket, and her toes were painted with black polish.

It's rare to see her so snooze, maybe she's been too busy lately.

She is still supervising the market prices in Dodan Town, and she also has to organize the development of the followers of the Dark Goddess, these things may make her a little too busy, Surdak plans to transfer two clerks from the town hall to help her set up the logistics system of the cavalry battalion.

Selena felt that Surdak should form a team of her own, and she had recently selected young helpers among the natives.

Originally, Nika was a good candidate, but Surdak wanted to set up a medical team in the cavalry battalion, and this matter fell on Nika's head.

She looked beautiful from sleep, her eyes slightly closed, her golden eyelashes curled upwards like a brush, her thick lips curled upwards on both sides, and Surdak leaned over and pouted against her lips.

Selena put her round arms around his waist and rubbed her head into his arms with her eyes closed, like a lazy cat.

Surdak got out of bed lightly and walked out of the bedroom with his leather armor in his arms before putting the tight armor on his body.

Walking downstairs, I found Nika making breakfast in the kitchen, making the most common burritos in the morning here in the town of Dodan, cutting the thin wheat cake in the middle, sandwiching some vegetables and red ant meat in it, sprinkling some pepper and lemon zest crumbs on top, and spreading some chili sauce, which is very delicious.

Nika had prepared one for Surdak, and at this time, Signa was never absent.

The little girl didn't seem to get up either.

Surdak took a piece of burrito and put it down as soon as he wanted to take a bite, and said to Nika, "Isn't Signa up yet?" ”

"Well, when I called her in the morning, she said she was going to sleep for a while."

Wearing an apron and her hair in a ponytail, Nika learned a little cooking while working as a maid at the Baron Manor of Goss in Kieran.

Surdak put down the burrito in his hand and said suspiciously, "Isn't she the favorite to eat this kind of shortbread with meat?" I'll go upstairs to see her......"

As he spoke, he walked up to the attic in three steps and knocked lightly on the door, but did not hear any response from inside.

Surdak didn't even have much force before he pushed the door open.

Signa lay on the bed with a blanket wrapped around her.

The sleeping position looks like running, and the little mouth is slightly open with the head up, and the fleshy little mouth looks very cute.

"Signa, do you want to get up and have some breakfast before going to sleep?" Surdak reached out and touched Signa's forehead, and found that her forehead was not hot, and it didn't seem to be sick, so he asked softly.

Signa opened her eyes sleepily, like a kitten lying in bed, and whispered:

"Duck, I'm a little sleepy, let me sleep a little longer......"

Surdak nodded, reached out and helped him tuck the blanket, and then said:

"Okay, but don't miss breakfast."

Signa adjusted her sleeping position and said in a daze:

"Got it."

After saying that, he closed his eyes again.

Surdak turned and walked to the door of the attic bedroom, and Signa asked in a barely audible voice:

"Dark, is your fiancée coming to Dodan Town?"

Surdak stopped, looked back at Signa, who was curled up on the bed like a kitten, and said:

"Well, they've come from Pena City to see me......"

Signa rolled around on the bed, opened her wide eyes, and asked with a worried expression:

"I heard from the people in the barracks that it was the princesses of the Luther family, and they came...... Will it drive us away? ”

Surdak touched his nose and said to Signa: "They are all noble ladies who are knowledgeable, they will not drive people away for no reason, let alone drive you away, don't think nonsense." ”

"Oh......"

Signa blinked wide, rolled over on the bed and closed her eyes again.

Surdak walked out of the attic bedroom, had breakfast in the dining room, and went to the backyard to saddle the war horse, and then led him to the front yard.

Surdak noticed some messy footprints on the lawn in the yard, which seemed to overwhelm the flowers, and Surdak thought that it might be the mischievous bear children in the town who liked to sneak in and pick the flowers from the flower pond and give them to the girls.

He followed the trail of his footsteps and looked at the sides of the small building, but he didn't see any clues.

Nika hurried out in a long beige dress.

Surdak mounted his horse, grabbed the reins of his horse with one hand, and asked Nika, who was standing at the door:

"Do you want me to give you a ride?"

Grasping the cloth bag with both hands, Nika saluted Surdak and said:

"I've made an appointment with Guidolai and Mejia to go to the barracks together to change the dressing of the wounded soldiers......"

"Okay, see you in the barracks!"

Surdak rode the Guborai horse first.

……

Nika, who was standing in the doorway, watched Baron Surdak ride away, and felt that he did not have the slightest bit of a noble lord's style.

A noble lord with a cavalry battalion, even if he doesn't have a group of attendants when he travels, should at least have a clever little follower, but Baron Surdak even has to saddle his own horse......

What a low-key noble lord!

……

Surdak, of course, didn't know what Nika was thinking about.

When I passed through the street, I saw that a large group of people had gathered here.

And he rode by, and heard from afar a man saying:

It was discovered by the night watchman, and when I came he was already cold, and he was lying here without any scars, and the expression on his face was a nightmare, and he did not know what to see to scare him into such a miserable state. ’

"I've heard that there have been some big people living in this area, and the town hall has specially arranged people to patrol this area, but they haven't found it......

"Could it be the ghost-striped red ants that have infiltrated the town...... That guy might have met a red ant. ”

"It's impossible, if you meet red ants, the corpse can still remain?"

Surdak's ears are very sensitive and he can hear clearly from a distance.

When the civilians saw a knight coming, they dispersed and stopped talking about it.

Surdak only heard a few words, as if to say that someone died here, he wanted to ask what was going on, after all, Signa and Selena lived here, but he didn't expect that as soon as he walked over, these people dispersed in a hurry.

Surdak decided to have time to ask Lady Luna about the security situation in the town, and if necessary, the cavalry battalion could send some cavalry to patrol the town.

Pass through the square in the center of the town, which at this time is filled with small vendors and becomes a free market.

Selena didn't come out to set the price today, so the vendors had to stick with yesterday's price.

There are many seasonal vegetables and fruits in the market, as well as some daily necessities.

The town of Dodan is one of the best frontier towns in the northern region, so many merchants in Wilkes choose to do business here.

Recently, there have even been many adventure parties in the vicinity of Dodan Town, and the president of the town's adventure guild has been asking Surdak to lift the ban on restricting the passage of adventure parties through the northern wall.

It's in the town hall compound next to the free market.

Acting Mayor Lady Luna is organizing a team to maintain some of the town's alleys and narrow streets that have fallen into disrepair.

As the caravans that came to Dodan to do business had paid their taxes in full recently, the town's financial situation had finally improved.

Lady Luna took the money out and began to renovate the town, and Surdak had seen the rectification plan that had been submitted.

This time, the maintenance and repair of the slums on the indigenous side was also included in the scope of the town plan.

Due to the cooperation between Surdak's cavalry battalion and the local aborigines of Dodan Town during this time, the status of the aborigines in the town is also slowly improving.

There were all kinds of conflicts between the imperial settlers and the local natives, and the sheriffs in the towns were no longer one-sided in favor of the settlers, but they would also think a little, mainly by intimidating both sides and calming the people.

After all, the beast tide is not over yet, and at this time, there is a fight, no matter who has no good fruit to eat - except for the nobles.

……

The cavalry battalion is also organizing a convoy to prepare to enter the hilly and mountainous areas to meet the cavalry who are going to hunt.

This time, it was still the Thunder Rhino Caravan that was in charge of transporting supplies, and according to the cavalry who delivered the letter, there were a large number of ghost-patterned soldiers and ants on the hilly and mountainous sides that needed to be transported back.

Surdak made a round from the northern city wall and returned to the barracks station.

I saw Nika's treatment team lined up neatly, and Yuguan walked into the dormitory of the wounded soldiers, seeing that their expressions were no longer the nervous they were at the beginning, and sometimes they whispered and laughed lightly.

Surdak remained in a separate hut next to the barracks' stables, and continued to remodel the Gubolai horses.

This time, I couldn't go out with the cavalry battalion to hunt ghost pattern male ants, and the project of transforming the Thunder Rhino will drag on for a while.

……

Hathaway and Beatrice didn't keep Surdak waiting long in Dodan Town.

They arrived at Wilkes on the White Forest Plane, just in time for the Chester Great Swordsman to stabilize the situation in the town of Plantos, and returned to the Wilkes City military headquarters to make a series of adjustments to the deployment of the garrison in the northern region.

Unlike the last time Hathaway was trained on the eve of her graduation, the main legion of the Luther family is currently stationed in the White Forest Plane.

Miss Hathaway of the Luther family, the beloved daughter of the Marquis of Luther, came to the White Forest Plane, and even the Marquis of Florian, the consul of Wilkes, had to personally entertain her.

The Great Swordsman of Chester was ready to accompany Miss Hathaway the whole time, after all, the northern region was experiencing a once-in-a-decade beast tide, and there were still some red ants secretly crossing the border on the grasslands, and it was still a little dangerous when the convoy passed through the northern grasslands.

Hathaway was supposed to arrive in Dodan yesterday.

But when they came out of Wilkes City, they met the material convoy at the gate of the city and went out of the city, so they were delayed for half a day, and they overslept in the hotel in the hot spring town of Nunoda, who dared to wake them up!

Therefore, it was delayed for another half day.

The convoy had frequent problems along the way, and when it arrived in Dodan Town, it was a day and a half later than originally planned.

With a view of the majestic Thorny Mountains in the distance, with snow-capped peaks on the top of the mountain jutting into the clouds, the convoy consisted of a total of fifteen magic caravans, of which only five had passengers in their carriages, and the rest were used as cargo carriages.

A squadron of sixty cavalry men cleared the way at the front of the convoy, and the Great Swordsman of Chester sat in a magic caravan at the rear, his mount tethered to the back of the wagon.

The mountains in view gradually became clear, and a canyon divided the Thorny Mountains in two.

The town of Dodan is located at the southernmost point of the canyon, and many buildings are built at the foot of the mountain.

As the convoy approached the town of Dodan, Hathaway and Beatrice leaned over the window of the carriage and curiously surveyed the town of Dodan between the canyons beneath the mountains.

From a distance, I saw some crimson leather drying densely on the grassy slope, and almost the entire grass was red.

In the carriage of Hathaway and Beatrice, there was also their close friend Lily. Cecil.

Lily is the daughter of the Count of Cecil.

She attended the Bednar High Swordsman Academy with Hathaway and Beatrice, but she was one year older than Hathaway.

She had been married to the White Forest Plane for more than two years, and her husband was a viscount who owned a large pasture, and she bore two children to the viscount, and stayed at home all day.

Hearing that Hathaway and Beatrice had come to the White Forest Plane, he offered to entertain the two close friends throughout the process.

Lily, a mother of two children, was a little plump and fair-skinned, and pointed to a large red meadow in the distance with her hand as white as a green onion, and introduced to Hathaway and Beatrice:

"Those are the hard armor skin of the ghost pattern soldier ants in the northern region of the Bailin plane, the ghost pattern soldier ants belong to the first-level peak stage of the demon beast, and the strength is not very strong, but this kind of demon beast belongs to the social type of demon beast, and the hard armor skin is hard enough, so many ghost pattern soldier ants have been sunburned......"

Beatrice squinted at the leathers in the distance, and thought of the scene half a month ago, when a full forty wagons loaded with hard armor had arrived at the leather dealership.

Some absentmindedly replied, "Yes! ”

Hathaway grabbed Beatrice's hand and calmed her down.

Beatrice smiled at her and whispered, "It looks pretty good here, and the scenery is good, but it's a little remote." ”

"It's really nice here, the land is rich in water and grass, and it's perfect for herding horses...... "Lily. Cecil said casually, his eyes fixed on the snow at the summit.

Lily asked a little heartlessly, "Hathaway, I heard that your fiancé didn't follow Count Goss on the battlefield in the Warsaw plane, why did he suddenly join the Luther Legion again?" ”

Hathaway's face was slightly red, and there was nothing she could do about this outspoken and careless best friend, so she could only tell the truth:

"Baron Sidney, who joined the Count Goss's hoplite regiment, he died in battle two years ago, and now my fiancé is called Baron Surdak, don't make a mistake......"

Lily covered her mouth and widened her eyes with a look of surprise that clearly meant to say, '...... Why did you die? ’

Surdak waited outside the town early with a cavalry squad, and immediately met the convoy when he saw it.