Surdak took Andrew and Gullitum from the Chaos Fortress and rode southwest along the mountain road for five days before arriving at the Blue Bridge Fortress, which was sandwiched between the mountains.

As its name suggests, the Blue Bridge Fortress straddles these two mountain ranges, and the entire fortress is about 200 meters long.

Standing on the mountain path outside the fortress, Surdak could see that the fortress was built on an existing natural stone arch bridge, on which the craftsmen of the Grimm Empire had built a long and narrow fortification, and the tall and straight walls were wrapped in the entire stone bridge.

It looks like a long, narrow floating castle nestled between mountains, with tall watchtowers on both sides that can rise above the ridges of the mountains on either side.

These two mountains are very close to each other, and the valley between the mountains is not a large river, but a valley full of countless sharp stone pillars, which are almost three or five meters high, and the top is extremely sharp, and below the Blue Bridge Fortress is a desperate valley.

The Blue Bridge Fort is the only nearby access road connecting the two mountains.

In addition to the Imperial flag, there are two different styles of flags flying on the top of the watchtowers on the east and west sides of the fortress, one of which represents the province of Bena.

Surdak and his party arrived at the gate of the fortress and handed over a transfer order to the guards in front of the fortress gate. Written by the Marquis of Dunstan to Adolphus. Commander Dunstan's handwritten letter was taken out.

Surdak didn't have much luggage on his body, Andrew was leading two war horses on the side, and the two-headed ogre was crouching on the low wall at the gate of the Blue Bridge Fortress, looking curiously at the thousand-needle stone forest at the bottom of the valley below the bridge, and the two brothers seemed to be muttering something.

The guards at the gate of the fortress told Surdak and his party to wait a moment.

The door in front of him was a double door, almost five meters high, the gate was covered with a thick layer of iron sheet, which looked quite heavy, and there were no iron nails on the door, but there were some Bena-style paintings.

If the two gates were fully opened, it would have been possible for two carriages to pass in parallel.

……

The door to the office was pushed open from the outside, and a cronie walked into the room with Surdak's letter and said:

"Commander Adolphus, I have a letter for you from outside, it was brought to you by one of the three newcomers who were newly recruited to our fortress, and among the three newcomers sent from the Chaos Fortress this time, there is actually a two-headed ogre."

Commander Adolphus put down the quill pen in his hand, reached out to take the letterhead, saw the family crest painted on the envelope and the stamp on the seal clay, raised his eyebrows slightly, and quickly pulled out a delicate gold dagger and cut the letterhead.

The traces of origami inside are also the family's special origami method, and he didn't look at the contents, but directly glanced at the signature 'Fred. Dunstan'.

His face softened a little, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Now I don't have time to see him, you go and settle them down first, don't assign them tasks first, I will take the time to meet with them." ”

"Yes, Commander." The cronies were ordered to leave.

Then Adolphus gently unfolded the parchment letterhead, and saw that the words were full of family trivia and some new changes, he got up from his seat with the letter, leaned against the window and looked at the foggy sky outside the window, sighed softly, and thought to himself: In the Dunstan family, the only relative he can recognize may be Fred.

"Commander, it's almost time for the meeting!"

Adolphus tucked the letterhead into his coat pocket, tugged at the magic pattern again, and walked out of the office.

……

Commander Adolphus's cronies walked quickly through the corridor of the fortress, strode to the gate of the fortress, and saw three humans and a two-headed ogre sitting by the low wall of the gate, and immediately nodded to the guard at the gate, and walked up and said:

"Hello, Adjutant Bart, Adjutant of the Blue Bridge Fortress Command. Neuh! ”

Surdak hurriedly stood up and said to him, "Surdak, this is Andrew, Gulitham and his good brother Brainflower. ”

Bart looked at the two-headed ogre with some surprise, and asked Surdak curiously, "Which city are you from in the province of Bena?" ”

"The city of Hylanza."

Bart's eyes lit up slightly, and he said, "I've heard of your city, on the north side of the tower, when did you have the ogre clan there?" ”

Surdak straightened up, patted Gulitham's arm, and introduced: "He and Andrew are both my followers, I met in the maca plane, this time I got the requisition order to enter the big battlefield, and it just so happened that they also reached the strength of the second turn, so they came with me." ”

"It turned out to be the maca plane...... No wonder! As he spoke, Bart led the three of them into the Blue Bridge Fortress through the side door, and then Bart said to Surdak: "Your family is really powerful, and even when you enter the battlefield, you can still have followers with you!" ”

Walking into the Blue Bridge Fortress, you will be greeted by a straight and narrow passage with arched stone windows between the stone pillars on both sides of the passage.

All the buildings in the Blue Bridge Fortress were built above this passage.

Once in the passageway, Bart ascended the stone steps from the side, glanced at the two-headed ogre, and then said:

"Come in with me, I'll arrange three rooms for you first, you big guy can only live in the room on the second floor, this floor is mostly warehoused, and the room is more spacious."

Ascend to the second floor of the fortress, sure enough, the corridor on this floor is also very spacious, and you can see some flatbed trailers on both sides, there are two corridors on the second floor of the fortress, and there is a row of bed crossbows on each corridor, each bed crossbow is placed next to the window, and the shooting angle is just enough to cover the stone needle forest under the fortress.

Across the crossbow from the bed are warehouses.

As Bart said, the doors of these warehouses are high, and Gullitham doesn't need to bend down to walk into the room.

Bart chose a clean room with two large beds, and he put them side by side, and found a large sheet to spread on them, so that the two-headed ogre had a big bed of his own.

Bart said to Surdak:

"There aren't many people in the fortress now, mainly because there is a war going on in the Dharan fortress, and we have also sent people to support there, and it seems that there are a lot of empty rooms, and when they all return, you will find that these rooms are almost full."

After arranging the room for Gulitham, Bart continued to walk upstairs and up the stairs, where he said to Surdak:

"The specific tasks you share will be arranged by the two commanders of the fortress."

There were many rooms on the third floor of the fortress, but Surdak found that a wall had been built in the middle of the third floor of the fortress, completely separating it from the opposite side.

Bart walked through a row of doorways, each with a number, and it was empty.

"These rooms are occupied, and they happen to be out on duty."

At the end, Bart pointed to the two rooms with 525 and 527 written on the door and said, "You can choose these two rooms, and the rooms are very well prepared." ”

As he spoke, he took out a bunch of keys from his waist, selected two copper keys from above, and opened the wooden doors of the two rooms respectively, and sure enough, there was a single bed on each side of the room against the wall, and a table and a chair on the other side, and there was no toilet and bathroom in the room, and there was no window, just like the cheapest standard room in the hotel in the county.

But the room is very clean, and there is even a bookshelf in the corner.

Surdak walked into one of the rooms, put his backpack on the table, looked around, and thought it was fine.

Bart stood in the doorway waiting for them to confirm that they were here, then gave them two bronze keys with their numbers on them, and then returned downstairs.

Bringing Gulitham, who was looking at the stone needle forest under the bridge from the window, he came to the independent hall on the second floor of the fortress, pointed to the canteen hall that was completely divided into two areas, and said:

"We want to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, regular meals are free, early and late, so you can eat here anytime before you go to bed when you are hungry, there are soups and grilled meats, the main food is baked wheat cakes and white bread, unlimited amounts."

The two-headed ogre let out a low roar of pleasure.

Maybe it's because it's not meal time, so there aren't many people eating in the restaurant.

Bart was very patient with Surdak at one end with the plate, and there was no need to queue up, just by the kitchen window to receive the meal.

Bart pointed to the opposite dining area and continued: "The opposite is the ordering area, if you feel that the free meal is not your appetite, if you want to add food, you need to order food on the opposite side with merit, there are no gold coins and magic crystals in circulation here, only this kind of unidentified magic crystal is recognized......"

As he spoke, Bart took one out of his pocket and handed it to Surdak to look at.

Surdak knew this kind of magic crystal, and remembered that during the award ceremony, almost all the other eleven young nobles except himself used these merit magic crystals to obtain knighthood promotions.

"These unidentified black magic crystals can be exchanged for Chaos Fortress for great battlefield merits, and there is also the largest trading hall over there, where you can exchange them for many things that interest you, epic weapons, high-level magic pattern constructions, magic potions, high-level scrolls, magic gems, etc., it is worth noting that the value of this unidentified black magic crystal itself is at least twice as expensive as the normal magic crystal, which is the currency we have in circulation here."

"Of course, if you have money, you can also find someone to trade this unidentified black magic crystal in private, but you must be careful when trading." Bart said to Surdak that he thought Surdak should be a noble boy who was not bad for money, or he would not have just come in from the outside and would have worn out a set of Esenhard.

However, Bart still reminded Surdak:

"So the extra food in the fortress canteen is also very expensive, but when you try it for yourself, you may find that the extra food is really worth the money."

The two-headed ogre carried two plates, and the lunch was actually a kebab steak with mashed potatoes and baked wheat cakes.

Gulit almost asked the cook to pile the two plates like a hill, and when she went to the basket to get the baked wheat cakes, she took a whole stack of wheat cakes directly from the basket, which was tentatively estimated to be about ten servings.

Surdak asked with some curiosity, "Where did you get these unidentified magic crystals?" ”

He knew that the warriors of the Dark Legion produced this unidentified black magic crystal, and the demon warriors probably produced this black magic crystal, but he didn't think that everyone in the fortress had the opportunity to kill the demon clan every day.

Bart patiently explained: "There are some rewards for performing various tasks in the fortress, and the accumulation of several missions can be exchanged for black magic crystals, and in addition, if you kill demon warriors on the battlefield, you will get these from their heads, how?" You've never seen this before? ”

Surdak scratched his head and said, "I thought that only by killing the Dark Legion warriors would I get this ......"

The group found a corner in the restaurant to sit down, where they could avoid the sight of many people.

Surdak and Andrew quickly finished their lunch.

Bart probably had already eaten lunch, so he didn't eat at all.

Only the two-headed ogre has been burying his head in the feast.

"If there's anything else you want to introduce to us, you can leave him here, and he'll be able to find his room when he's done." Surdak said.

"Then let's go, take you to the blacksmith shop in the fortress, the blacksmith shop here can also help you repair some magic weapons, but if it's Esenhard's shield, if you want to repair it once, you need to take out some unidentified black magic crystals." With that, Bart led Surdak through the cafeteria and into the hall in the center of the second floor.

In this area, Surdak saw a lot of second-turn warriors, some greeting Bart familiarly, and some of them ignoring Bart's presence with a cold face.

"There are two provinces stationed in the Blue Bridge Fortress, our Bena Province occupies the East Blue Bridge, and the Ababa Province occupies the West Blue Bridge, and our two provinces are stationed in a fortress together, except for the public area and the canteen here, everything else is completely separated."

"Normally we will only be responsible for the defense of the eastern mountains, while they will be responsible for the western mountains, and we will be jointly responsible for the stone needles below."

"I have experienced some things before, which have caused several unknown conflicts, so the relationship between our two provincial powerhouses has always been stiff." Barthes's voice was much lower when he introduced this.

"The master blacksmith of the blacksmith shop in the fortress is our Bena, and the charge for our side has always been the normal price, so if you ask him to repair your weapon, you must identify yourself, otherwise you will pay more. The potions in the apothecary are magicians from the province of Ababa, so you don't need to identify yourself unless they have to confirm your identity...... Also, be careful not to disgrace the province of Bena! ”

Bart then introduced Surdak.

This made Surdak a little dumbfounded, but he didn't expect a small military fortress to be divided into two factions.

"As for the Demon Pattern Structure, you have to send it to the Chaos Fortress to find an archmage to repair it." After Bart finished speaking, he stopped, glanced at the group of warriors who were waving at him, stopped and said, "You can take a casual stroll here first, you can also go back to your room to rest, if there is anything you don't understand, please feel free to come to me." ”

After saying that, he left in a hurry.