This feast was enough to be remembered by every lord of Transjordan and by the pilgrims and nobles who had not received invitations but had not been invited.

Say goodbye to the last wave of aristocrats.

In the church of St. Andrew, Lothar accepted the allegiance of a group of knights.

In the church, the clergy, who had been arrogantly promoted to the bishop of the region by Lothar, respectfully presided over the allegiance ceremony for the knights.

This time, however, Lothar simply accepted the allegiance of the knights, and did not let them stay at his court.

In this era, many knights would pledge allegiance and serve to multiple monarchs.

Those who pedal two boats are considered to be more specific, and the most, they can even pedal dozens of boats.

Of course, in this case, the monarch did not have to pay them salaries or land, and there was no real vassal relationship between the two.

No feudal feud can be made without military merit, and feudal lords are not philanthropists.

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, another week passed.

During this time, Port Ella has initially recovered a trace of vitality.

At least there are no longer only a few lonely ships in the harbor, and many of the merchant ships that have visited here have noticed that the number of pirates roaming the Red Sea has been dwindling lately.

In the past, piracy was rampant here, and even the fishermen with small sampans along the coast might have been the eyes of some pirate gangs.

As soon as they see it, it won't be long before rowing ships will sail out from some hidden pirate hideouts.

As a result, many merchant ships need to be equipped with a large number of escorts, and the cost has skyrocketed.

If the pirates are brought under control, the cost of defending merchant ships and the risks they may encounter become less and less, and the trade route will surely be revitalized.

On the streets, the reorganized peasant troops, led by the knights of the Imperial Decree, patrolled the harbor every day in an orderly manner to maintain law and order.

All the gang members were cleared, and some of them were put on the gallows with the rebellious Saracen leaders.

But most people were simply reduced to serfs, subjected to forced labor, and after self-redemption, they could regain their freedom.

This has greatly improved the already severe security problem in the port of Aylah.

The new week's gacha rewards are towering within the walls of Port Eyra, a massive tower topped by a Gothic spire that is very different from the era.

It was named after Lothar: Siegfried.

Acquisition is not the meaning of the "Siegfried Line", but the meaning of a warrior bathed in the blood of a dragon in Norse mythology, thus becoming indestructible.

Even though he has been converted for many years, Norse mythology still has a lot of influence in Germania and the three Nordic countries.

A few days ago, the scene of "Siegfried" rising from the ground overnight frightened many people.

As a "spectacle" or "miracle", it is sturdy and reliable, and there is a mysterious magic circle inside.

Although it is certainly not as good as the wizarding tower built by the Emperor of Germania for his witch advisors, the firepower of Siegfried Tower is definitely not weak.

Its special effect is that the "cannonballs" and "crossbow arrows" projected from this tower will greatly increase the accuracy and range.

This would make Al Lay a city that would never fall, as even a small trebuchet could throw enough cannons from here to hit the most advanced giant counterweight trebuchet of its time.

This meant that the enemy's siege engines would never be able to get close to the walls of Illa.

It's a pity that the ballistae and trebuchets on this tower will not work once they are dismantled, and they are more than defensive, but they have no offensive ability.

Otherwise, Lothar would have preferred to dismantle the tower and use pack animals to pull the dismantled siege engines as "support artillery" for the army.

The reason why trebuchets are difficult to use in field combat is because of its poor accuracy, and most of the time, it can only give the opponent a sound.

Lothar still hoped that he would be able to draw a siege machine factory.

Without more advanced siege equipment, it would be a very big problem for the next neighbors on the Red Sea coast, the intricate and dotted castles of all sizes.

These castles are nowhere near as large as the Neo-Habsburgs, or even before the Jogrysburg was renovated, but they are numerous.

…

Last night, members of the Levantine Witch Society, sent by the witch Anna, also arrived.

The person who came was a witch who was shrouded in black robes, but the exposed place was extremely smooth and white.

After she gave the "meditation method", she hurriedly performed the Transfiguration Technique, turned into a bird and left. She didn't even want to mention her name - Lothar thought that as a male witch, she should be quite popular in the Levantine Witches Society.

Last night, before falling asleep, he had started his first meditation - Lothar hadn't been immersed in it at all when she tried out Friengira's Bloodline meditation method.

Until this morning.

He woke up from meditation and said with a frown, "The effect seems to be good." ”

The mental power has actually increased a little!

The effect was immediate.

"Frynn, isn't your meditation method more suitable for vampires to cause it to work badly on me?"

Frigila's face was not very good-looking, and she muttered in a low voice, "It makes no sense that you can even use blood magic, but you can't use the meditation method of the blood clan." ”

Lothar couldn't help but laugh: "I can use blood magic, isn't it all up to you?" ”

Including Prajna's "Solid Stone", Jeanne's "Holy Spear", Hans's "Beastly Intuition", and Lothar all belong to the level of being able to use it, but they don't understand its principle at all.

Blood magic is okay, because Lothar's spiritual power itself is qualified, and the frequency of use is high enough, so it can be regarded as finding some doorways.

But this is only an increase in proficiency, and at best, it is able to skillfully apply formulas, and it is still at the point where you know it but don't know why.

"It's okay, I'm not to blame you, Anna shouldn't have guessed that I was meditating for the first time."

A smile appeared on Lothar's face, maybe when he meditates again in the future, he won't see such immediate results as the first time, but as long as there is an improvement, he can save a lot of attribute points to add to the force, sensitivity, and body.

Jeanne hurried and pushed the door in.

Her brows furrowed slightly, and she whispered, "My lord, don't lie in bed anymore, that neighbor of yours, Lord Saracen, nicknamed the Impaler, has already sent troops to attack him!" ”

…

By the time Lothar hurriedly arrived with his hussars, a farmstead near the border had been sacked, leaving only a flaming shack with billowing smoke.

The dying were erected on stakes and wailed in despair.

On the opposite hillside, Rauf the Impaler of the Mamluk Arch made a throat-slitting motion at Lothar.

Lothar's face grew colder with the anger that had swelled in her heart.

There was anger in Jeanne's tone: "Are we going to war against this dog mongrel who likes to string people on stakes?" ”

The nickname Impaler comes from a simple source, like Dracula, known as the Impaler, whose neighbor was keen to hang opponents on sharpened wooden posts.

Under the effect of body weight, the tortured person will continue to slide downward, and the intestines and other organs will not be rudely poked, but will be gradually "pushed away".

As a result, the tortured person is often able to wail and continue to live for a long time.

"No, he's provoking me, trying to get me to provoke a war, and then he'll be able to go and ask for the help of Adil, an old adversary who, as far as I know, has just been reappointed governor of Egypt."

Lothar didn't want to be like Renard, and had a reputation for provoking war.

The bishoprics of Port Irah and Aramdela were de jure territories of the Earldom of Transjordan, and were also the first to provoke trade conflicts by Zahn Saladin.

But continuing to expand, Lothar lacked the personnel to absorb the occupied territories, and secondly, it could easily provoke the intervention of Adil, the governor of Egypt.

Unless Lothar is willing to rudely divide the territory he occupies into his vassals, and use their own power to control the newly acquired territory.

That's to make a wedding dress for someone else.

The power of vassals is not a good thing for lords, such as Count Leopold, because he occupies the Austrian border and is almost as strong as the Duke of Bavaria, so he has the ambition to seek independence from the Bavarian title and upgrade Austria to a duchia.

Hans was on the sidelines, frowning, and worried: "Then let him provoke us like that?" The prestige you have built up in Port Ayla will be shaken by this. ”

"That's a real problem."

"Send more men to patrol the border - the Saracen falcons are a great means of scouting, ask Muller if you can provide some falconers to join our team."

Lothar said in an accentuated tone: "These people who have been assigned to the fields and converted must know that I, the lord, have the ability to protect their personal safety. ”

"Besides, Jeanne, you're going to carry out an ambush, and this Impaler Rauf will definitely come."

"Next time, don't let him leave alive."

"Once this self-righteous impaler is killed, his realm will surely be torn apart by inheritance issues."