The next day, Leon and Sarah set off for the town of Long River.

Sarah had a nice horse - even if it was too embarrassing to survive, she never thought of selling hers.

Moreover, Leon also discovers that Sarah has amazing riding skills, and is not even much worse than Leon himself.

Presumably, even in the southern desert of the Duchy of Dexia, the half-nomadic, half-settled tribal confederation, Sarah would be among the top riders.

It's like two veteran drivers traveling by car together, and they're on their way pretty fast.

Although Sarah kept silent about her last name, Leon could tell that Sarah was originally from Dexia.

She probably does love to travel, but maybe she's also running away from something.

Aside from her skillful riding skills and love for horses, there is nothing about Sarah who resembles a rough and uncultured Descha tribesman.

Sarah was not only a good bard, but also a talkative scholar - she knew all the cultures, customs, and even the military system, and she knew the history of the nobility of various countries.

And she is very good at chatting and has an extraordinary ability to understand, so it is indeed a pleasure to travel with her.

Sarah no longer tries to seduce Leon with her beauty, and she shows a different respect for Leon than before.

Probably because Leon did completely ignore gender or other factors, and treated her as a foreign affairs officer—unlike any other nobleman she had ever met.

It also made her really feel relaxed and happy.

So she quickly got used to using the knowledge and information she had to serve Leon instead of her body.

But perhaps, Li Ang still has a trace of regret in his heart......

Therefore, there will still be graceful singing voices from time to time along the way.

In just one day, the two of them traveled hundreds of miles, and they had already entered the jurisdiction of Changhe Town.

The name is Changhe Town, which is actually a county.

In terms of the area under its jurisdiction, Changhe Town can be called the largest county in the mainland - its jurisdiction occupies half of the land area of the Lion Kingdom, and most of the entire eastern province belongs to the jurisdiction of Changhe Town.

When the Lion Kingdom was first founded, the town of Changhe was just a fortress town on the border of the kingdom.

But now, it has become the hinterland of the kingdom and the center of the eastern provinces.

This is because the town of Changhe has been the first choice of pioneer lords for more than 100 years. Successive generations of pioneers have built on the foundation of Changhe Town, expanding their territory into its periphery, and establishing one settlement after another in the surrounding villages and fortresses.

Today, the kingdom's borders have been carved out hundreds of miles northeast of Changhe Town in the past hundred years, and the current border fortress is the Count of Oden's Shield Fortress.

Because this area was once a frontier, unlike the Lion City, which was almost entirely filled with farmlands, most of the town of Long River was uninhabited—except for those that had been carved out by generations of lords, and the rest of the area was either primeval forests or wild wastelands.

Many places are no-man's land, and there are no people for hundreds of miles.

Leon and Sarah, on the other hand, walked in a no-man's land.

Looking at the wilderness, Leon now especially understood why Sarah was looking for someone to accompany him.

It's not a problem of safety or insecurity, I'm afraid you'll go crazy if you walk alone in this kind of place.

There were a lot of rivers and hills in the distance, and the fog was always misty, which made the sky extremely dark.

From time to time, the roars of various beasts can be heard, and occasionally other strange sounds can be heard—it is difficult to tell if it is caused by the wind passing through the valley, or by some incomprehensible unnatural species.

The road has always been there, winding forward, but the road ahead is only a few dozen meters in the fog, and the bones of animals – and occasionally human bones – can be seen on the side of the road.

Although they had been on the road for a whole day, neither of them had any intention of camping until the sun went down.

Leon didn't bring a tent at all......

Sarah had camping tools, but I'm afraid no woman would be able to sleep in such a place.

The two simply hurried overnight and went directly to Changhe Town.

There was no starlight at night in this place, and all sorts of strange sounds mingled in the distance, creating a terrible silence, and the desolate roads were still uninhabited.

The two of them rode slowly - such a night could not see the road clearly, and it was not suitable to walk too fast.

Sarah kept talking, and this was probably the only way to ease the fear in her heart.

She told Leon all the way about what she had seen and heard on the continent, and Leon listened attentively.

He needed to get to know Pander more really as soon as possible, and Sarah, a well-informed traveling poet, was undoubtedly the best teacher.

Leon even secretly vowed that if he had the opportunity to return to the original world in the future, when he played the game again, he must fully understand the background and story of each game, rather than just knowing how to fight and kill......

It wasn't until the sky turned white that the two stopped talking.

Because they heard the sound of horses' hooves, it took at least a hundred horses to gallop together to make such a noticeable sound, and even the ground shook slightly.

The sound came from the front, that is, from the direction of Changhe Town.

"My lord, we'd better avoid ......"

"Sarah, hide quickly, maybe it's a horse thief......"

The two of them gave the same advice at the same time, and then drove the two horses to hide in the mountains and forests by the roadside.

Hiding behind the rocks of the mountain forest, the two saw a group of cavalry speeding by.

There were at least a hundred cavalrymen, and apparently in formed formations, dressed in uniform armor and armed with uniform cavalry spears.

This is already a very strong combat power, and it is even equivalent to the entire armed force of a mid- and low-level lord.

But the troops did not fly any flags, and the formation was somewhat scattered, shouting and shouting all the way through the march without discipline.

The faces of the cavalry were hard to see in the mist, but the way they dressed and the way they marched showed that they were a nomadic army.

The alien cavalry seemed to have gotten their hands on a lot of loot—or rather, had just looted a caravan or village, and each horse was carrying some civilian item that had nothing to do with the battle.

For example, fabrics, handicrafts, or everyday utensils such as pots and jars, and even women's dresses.

Neither of them dared to make a sound, lest they alarm the passing alien troops.

It wasn't until the force completely disappeared from sight that the two men spoke again.

"Nomads? Sarah, can you recognize who those are? ”

I don't know why, seeing a living person, even a group of terrible horse thieves, Leon's originally hairy heart calmed down a little, and began to ask Sarah for advice.

"This is the Gatu! How could such a large number of Cato raiders appear in the hinterland of the Lion Realm...... Has Fort Shield been breached? ”

Sarah's eyes were full of horror and her face was pale. Lips trembled a little.

"The Gatu? It's at least five hundred miles from the steppe border! Sarah, are you sure you read that right? ”

Leon realized the gravity of the matter.

"A month ago I had seen two Gato wandering riders at Forcher's, and they were dressed like this......"

"Is Cato invading...... Sarah, we need to hurry as soon as possible to inform the garrison of Long River about this! ”