Ite and Poole each held a stack of white iron rice plates, Ite smiled, and Poole looked aggrieved and walked towards the stone castle on the cliff in the distance.

It is a border outpost about 200 kilometers south of the Boulder Fortress, and its main purpose is to guard against a possible orc invasion. There is a magic warning tower built on the top of the stone castle, when danger is found, the soldiers in the stone castle activate the warning tower, and the bright light emitted by the magic warning tower placed on the top of the tower will instantly shine the sky at the top of the tower, even if it is far away, you can also see the light on the top of the tower, so as to know where the danger is, and send the army in the fortress to help in time. Such stone forts, which were lined up along the frozen mountains from the megalithic fortresses, were built every ten kilometers, and spread over the entire long border between humans and orcs.

Each stone fort is built on the top of a high stone cliff, with a uniform structural appearance, three stories high, and hexagonal walls are made of huge strips of stone, which is extremely strong. A long, narrow and steep staircase carved into the rock wall connects the upper and lower levels, making the stone fort easy to defend and difficult to attack. Each stone fort is manned by a full-fledged border guard team, usually led by a captain with thirteen full-fledged border soldiers, five apprentice warriors and a resident cook. And Ite and Poole are members of the five warrior apprentices in the Eleventh Squad of the Seventh Frontier Guard Brigade of the Silver Fir Legion of the Lazer Kingdom, which is stationed in this stone fort not far away.

In the kingdom of Lazer, due to the vast and sparsely populated territory, the long border and the border with the orc territory, a large number of soldiers are needed to guard the border, so the kingdom of Lazer has always maintained a large number of troops.

The predecessor of the Lazer Kingdom was the Lazer Border Region of the Shenghui Kingdom, but of course, the territory at that time was not as vast as it is now. At that time, the Lazer Frontier only consisted of the endless mountains at the intersection of the two mountain ranges, the magnificent megalithic fortress in the valley and the Lazer Plateau at the foot of the mountain.

When Emperor Link-Linking defeated the orcs in one fell swoop, as a reward, he appointed Harriet, the iron-blooded duke who had fought decisively and repeatedly in battle, as the commander of the legion, and gave the entire Lazer border as a reward to the brave Duke of the kingdom as a domain, hoping that he and his family would always guard the borders of the kingdom to protect the kingdom from foreign invasions.

When Emperor Radiance-Link entered the Jungle of Warcraft, Harriet, the Iron Will, accompanied him, but eventually fell into the depths of the dark jungle. Harriet's eldest son, Harriet Jr., inherited his father's title and domain, and led the Northwest Legion of the kingdom to continue to guard the borders of the kingdom. The plague of wild beasts did not spread to this bitter cold land, in order to prevent the counterattack of the orcs, after the succession of the Holy Radiance-Wateryt, he did not recruit the Northwest Legion into the hinterland, even if the Shenghui Kingdom was on the verge of collapse, in the face of the request of the little Duke Hallett to lead the army to quell the chaos, the Shenghui-Waterit categorically refused, he told the Duke that the Northwest Legion has only one duty, that is, to guard the borders of the kingdom, not for the Holy Radiance Empire, but for the entire human race, this is the little Duke of Harriet, and it is also the eternal duty of the entire Harriet family, no matter how the royal power changes, but their family's guardian goal is immutable。 Therefore, even in the process of the collapse of the Shenghui Kingdom and the establishment of a new Holy Empire, the Iron and Blood Duke kept in mind the king's entrustment, and the Northwest Army never took a step out of the Lazer Frontier.

After the founding of the Holy Empire, in the face of the elite troops of the 500,000 Northwest Legion that remained fully staffed, the Three Sages did not use force against each other. They also knew the reason why this powerful legion did not participate in the war, so they also followed the practice of the previous dynasty, and in the name of the Temple of Light, they promised that if the Harriets were nominally part of the Holy Empire, then the empire would retain their control of the Northwest Legion and the title of Duke Harriet Jr., and would provide them with military supplies so that the Harriets could continue their mission. As a result, the Lazer border became the province of Lazer of the Holy Empire, the Northwest Legion became the Holy Aegis Legion under the nominal jurisdiction of the Holy Empire, and the title of the Iron and Blood Duke was also prefixed and became the Holy Iron and Blood Duke.

At the time of the rebellion of the undead, the then Divine Iron Blood Duke was already the seventh duke, and this Divine Iron Blood Duke had long lost the courage and strategy of his ancestors, and was addicted to wine and sound dogs all day long, surrounded by many sycophants. When the Lich Radiance Wothephon led an army of the undead to attack the Citadel of Light, after being corrupted by the dark power of the Lich, and tempted by the Lich's promise of immortality, he brazenly led most of the Aegis Legion south to assist the Lich in attacking the Holy Empire, leaving only a small army to defend the border. Eventually, the ambitious duke, along with the more than forty thousand Aegis legion warriors under his command, were transformed into bloodthirsty undead by the plague of the lich's undead and wiped out by the knights of the Temple of Light. It is precisely because of his decision that the guards in the Boulder Fortress are seriously insufficient, and the orc warriors take advantage of the weakness to enter, and almost all the fortress guards who have lost their support die on the fortress, but they cannot prevent the endless stream of orc warriors from attacking the boulder fortress known as the invincible moat, galloping and raging on the land of mankind.

Although the Iron Duke VII was only an incompetent nobleman, he had an outstanding son, and that was Harriet-Winket Jr. Since he was a child, he was sent to the headquarters of the Temple of Light in the Castle of Light to learn martial arts and etiquette, saying that he was going to the royal city to study, but in fact he was going to the Temple of Light to serve as a hostage.

Harriet-Winkett Jr. had just turned fourteen at the time of the Revolt of the Dead, but was already a glorious reserve knight of the Holy Order. When he heard the news that his father had joined the camp of the undead, Winkett Jr. immediately went to the temple of the god of light, knelt down in front of the idol, and slashed his wrist in front of the public, dripping blood, and vowing to fight to the end against the undead who had bewitched his father. Later, in the battle with the undead, he also behaved as he said in his oath, desperately rushing to the front bravely, scarred and still not retreating, which was recognized by everyone.

When the news of the Orc Wolf Rider breaking through the Boulder Fortress arrived, Winkett Jr. immediately proposed to the Temple to return home to defend the people of the territory against the Orcs, but the Temple refused his request on the grounds that it was too dangerous for the undead to wander around the royal city. However, anxious for the safety of his loved ones, Winkett led his personal guards to take advantage of the darkness of the night to forcibly break through the barriers of the temple guards, shake off the pursuit of the Templars, and return to the Lazer Plateau after all the hardships.

In the endless mountains of the Frozen Mountains, he found his relatives who had escaped by chance, and in the name of the new Duke of Iron Blood, the direct successor of the House of Harriet, he gathered the defeated soldiers and escaped refugees, and used the steep mountains as a cover to re-establish the new Northwest Legion and launch a counterattack against the invading orcs.

In the battle against the aliens, he took the lead in every battle, and he was kind to the refugees who defected, and the people's hearts and prestige continued to accumulate, and he quickly became a hero who surpassed his ancestors in the hearts of the people.

When the humans successfully defeated the invading orcs with the help of the elves, thinking of the various difficulties and the final pursuit in the Temple of Light, Winkett Jr. categorically rejected the title of the Holy Iron-Blooded Prince canonized by the Holy Empire and the preferential treatment of fiefdom autonomy, declared the independence of the Province of Lazer from the Holy Empire, established the Kingdom of Lazel and became the first king of the Kingdom of Lazel, which also opened the curtain on the collapse of the originally powerful Holy Empire.