Chapter 1 A knight does not die of lack of money
The rain was mixed with green smoke, and the corrosive effect was so strong that it could almost weathered the stone castle.
It's a forbidden place where only reptiles and poisonous insects can survive.
Beside the green hell, there is a human settlement, but it is very small and mostly wooden, the kind of medieval territory with no stone walls and only three meters high wooden fences.
A teenager in a reddish-brown fleece dress stood at the top of the castle and fell into deep thought.
His name is Beyer. Door. Baie is a border lord in Bretonnia and a newcomer to the world.
He ruffled his greasy hair, his face worried.
Because this world is not the traditional Middle Ages, where the Middle Ages came from this green hell in front of you.
And the existence of this poisonous fog swamp not only makes the environment bad, but also pollutes the arable land, so that only a third of the arable land near the castle can be cultivated.
In Bretonnia, production was based on agriculture, and the income of the territory was arguably only one-third of that of other cities.
Even because of the harsh environment, its name is Shet City, which in the language of this world, means the land of filth.
The family that Baier crossed was not a poor family, but the head of the family who had gone to the wilderness and embarked on a journey to find the Holy Grail. Door. Baie inherited the most fertile land.
As an heir of a remote family and a knight who did not complete a dangerous chivalrous knight's journey, Baier should be grateful for the territory, but this place has reached a point where people can't bear to look at it directly.
It's so poor that you have to donate a tooth when you come to green skin.
Poisoned to the point that the Great Demon of Nurgle shook his head.
And Baier opened the brown paper on the table, and recently he received an urgent letter from Kuaima, which was full of information for help.
Built on Lake Bretonnia, from south to north, all castles have only one faith, chivalry and the goddess of the lake.
There is only one thing that can force this group of big men to die and suffer to save face and live to send letters to everyone they know, and they plan to beat them together.
Greenskins!
The so-called house leak coincided with overnight rain, didn't it? Although they will describe it as a tooth with green skin, they will only eat the castle with a population of 900.
Baier picked up a piece of brown paper next to him, it came from the city of Entrat, just a few kilometers from the castle.
The city, already famous for its ceramics, has been besieged by the Greenskins, with an estimated nine-hundred-strong contingent of goblins and orcs.
There shouldn't be such a large greenskin tribe in Bretonnia, and Bair guesses that multiple tribes are joining forces to attack humans.
And they have already begun to build a huge ladder at the gates of the city, and there is no doubt that the city of Entrat is not lucky.
However, the point is that it is written on the envelope that the reinforcements who succeed in the rescue will be paid.
And the reward is 500 gold coins, which is almost a year's tax in Shet City!
War! For the sake of chivalry.
This territory is hopeless in terms of production and construction, no matter how good the road, no matter how hard the wall, no matter how high-yield crops, it is a drop in the bucket next to this green and rotten hell.
But poverty and poison bring two advantages.
The folk customs here are particularly strong!
They can bare their teeth in a poisonous swamp for a bite of lizard meat and poison gas!
But the natural creatures here are even tougher!
It was the opposite of the biology in Bayer's head.
For example, Shet City lacks the ability to refine minerals, but the poison swamp is full of trees as hard as iron, and they can all secrete toxins similar to those of a bloody throat.
Bair put on his gloves and picked up a wooden sword that he had asked the carpenter to make.
The brown color, the texture of the wood, the appearance of a one-handed sword.
It seems to be unremarkable, but once it breaks its skin, even a green-skinned orc will have to fall to the ground in three seconds, unconscious.
And the cost of a wooden sword is only 5 copper coins.
The money in this world is 12 bronze and 1 silver, 20 silver and 1 gold, and so on.
And how can an iron longsword that is enough to go to war need a full 3 silver coins!
There is no way to protect the armor, you can't put the tree close to you, otherwise the soldier may be poisoned by scratching the skin.
However, it is also possible to make weapons such as spears and shields, and the cost is also very low.
And now the city of Shet has prepared enough poisonwood equipment for the soldiers.
Byer inserted the saber into his belt, carried a brown satchel on his shoulder, and carefully wrapped the two green balls in oiled paper and wrapped them in three or four layers before putting them in the bag.
He then wore the family crest on his chest, which was a giant tree that symbolized protection and was also the symbol of his family.
Now, as a nobleman, he has to do his duty as the Greenskins arrive.
Although he had only crossed over a week earlier, he didn't like the toxin-filled city.
But five hundred gold coins are too fragrant!
Pushing open the gate, the castle of the territory is a training soldier, they do not have normal armor, they can only wrap their bodies in cotton cloth as a sparring protection.
There are about 10 taxis in training, and they are not only Bair's personal bodyguards, but also the most skilled individuals in the territory.
Although it is still far from a real knight, Baier doesn't need a knight, he only needs a soldier!
Only the jazz who trained them, Huien. Flender is the only one who still has chivalry and is skilled in martial arts, but his chivalry will only stand in the way...
He saw Baier go out and salute his lord with 10 men.
Bayer waved his hand and shouted to Jazz.
"From now on, I need all the soldiers in the city to come to the castle, I have something to announce."
Sir did not hesitate, trotted to the side, and then mounted his matching horse, following the sound of the horse's hoofs that gradually faded away.
Dozens of minutes later, the great procession gathered under the castle, while Baier stood on the high platform, and next to Sir Flender was a monk of the Goddess of the Lake.
And when Baier saw the soldiers in a loose line, he was not surprised in his heart...
After all, most of them are civilians who want to eat military food, about 200 people, and they are also in the state of producing in the fields and serving as soldiers.
Its weapons and equipment are all a few pieces of broken copper and iron inherited from the family, and compared to the guards in other territories, their spirit is much worse.
Bair shouted.
"We have welcomed the green skins that have fallen from the kingdom of the mountains, and they have eaten away at our land like the rotting rain of poisonous swamps."
"They are the embodiment of tyranny and filth, and our neighbor, the city of Entrat, is under siege!"
"The goddess of the long lake is above, and I specially ask the workers to take the iron and wood to forge a sword, and the enemy of mankind has been destroyed!"
As soon as the words were spoken, several servants pulled carts and handed out weapons to each soldier, a spear, a shield, and three one-handed swords.
There was also a bag of venom-coated stones and improvised catapults for each person.
What is ironwood, the soldiers all know, they are surprised, the lord would actually make such a weapon, which is completely inconsistent with the rules of knights.
Sir Flender and the monk beside him frowned.
Sir stopped the servant who was handing out weapons.
The monk even more rudely pointed his finger at Bair.
"You have violated chivalry! A knight will never use poison! ”