On both the east and west coasts, if you find a random passer-by instead of a famous scholar, and want to ask even how many countries and nationalities there are in his region, most of them will be at a loss, scratching their ears and cheeks for a long time and unable to give an answer.

Limited to the backwardness of transportation modes and the low level of education accessibility, this situation is almost a matter of course in this day and age. People only know what they live in, and the wider world is nothing more than a vast expanse for them.

What lies beyond the end of the world as we know it, no one knows, but that's why it gives room for imagination. Many West Coast bedtime stories imagine the other side of the horizon as a whole new world of imagination, dragons, and a myriad of new things.

During the trip, there were often middle-aged mercenaries in taverns all over the West Coast who began to talk about what they had seen and heard in other places when they got drunk.

Stories of giants and dragons, as well as rumors of unicorns or a woman giving birth to a demon, are intimately intrigued and the speaker's brow flutters.

But the truth is always bland and uninteresting.

Dragons are rare on the West Coast, and the same is true on the East Coast. Except for the fact that there are some cultural differences in language and national strength, most of the human countries here and there are not completely different from them.

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Suomir, this is a special case.

This is the land where fairy tales and legends originate, and it is indeed a place where giants are inhabited, and there are indeed dragons with white wings that have lived here in the past. And perhaps it is for this reason that the main church of the White Church of the Jetina sect finally chose to take root on the shores of the legendary Heinzwöm Meteor Lake.

The kingdom of legends and fairy tales, with its capital city of Aurora as the headquarters of the Church, is obviously the most appropriate.

With such a premise, it is obviously implausible to say that the kingdom of Suomir is not widely known to the world, and even many followers of the White Church are "only aware of the holy places of the Church, but not of its location in Suomir" – but there is a reason for it.

As we mentioned earlier, the penetration rate of education is not very high in the whole of Rigal. On the West Coast, which was lagging behind by constant wars, writing and education were the property of the upper class aristocracy. Even on the relatively prosperous East Coast, with the exception of Parnira and a few other important cities of the empire, the remaining small towns did not have high literacy rates.

If they cannot be read, then the information can only be transmitted through language alone, and in order to be remembered by the public, they are usually arranged into songs with rhymes. However, in the process of word of mouth, information will be lost, and with the problem of length, something will inevitably be discarded.

On top of this, add the subjective preferences of the creators themselves. Most of the songs that are most popular in the world today are religiously related and based on the Lamanic language, in other words, the creators are basically Lamanites or Padrossi, sometimes Rumanato, far west, but they are all of the same origin.

Family ugliness is not publicized, this is another Lamanic saying. It's supposed to be used in smaller environments, but it's not an exaggeration to describe the big picture. As our Sage once said in one of his anger – many parts of the millennial Lamani culture are dealt with by sweeping dust under the carpet and pretending to be clean.

The history of the empire is intimately linked to the history of the White Church, and they go hand in hand with many poems. But as the Lamanites, what they prefer to pass on is obviously a glorious "history of conquest", and coincidentally, it is in this history of conquest that the Suomir Kingdom plays the most painful role for the empire.

Since the time of the classical Lamanid Empire, this vast and sparsely populated northern kingdom has caused the Lamanites to bleed many times, and countless swaggering northern expeditions have only ended up leaving behind a corpse and frustration.

Suomir was a thorn in the throat of the Empire, whether it was a religious desire to take Aurora as a holy land, or a political desire to bring the entire East Coast into the empire's territory, the desire to conquer never subsided, but it never succeeded.

Against this background, it is understandable that the Lamanites skipped Suomir in their accounts and songs, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Everyone wants to show only the glamorous side of the world, after all, people are judged by their appearance, and if they are tattered and unkempt, they will often be looked down upon and distrusted by others. The same is true for the country and politics, good face and vanity are human nature, but they are also the needs of the country and the royal family to maintain their image.

For all these reasons, it is not surprising that Suomir's history is only recorded by a handful of rebellious or rigorous Lamani scholars.

The history of bloody struggles, which has been entangled for thousands of years, is almost the history of the defeat of the Lamani Suomir, which can only be understood by a few studious nobles and those who are hostile or wary of the Padrosi Empire.

On the one hand, it is to avoid repeating the same mistakes by shame on history, while on the other side is trying to find out the weaknesses of the empire.

As we have been saying, the same thing, depending on the angle and position of the viewer, will not come to the same conclusion.

Although it is now a distant past, the history and relations between the two countries, both for the Lamanites and the Suomirs, can only be described as "embarrassing" in the most stable circumstances.

- It's really the wrong time and the wrong place. Mila thought after listening to Henry's brief account of these deeds.

A week's stay in the union cost them more than three times as much as they spent in a hotel, and because of the non-disclosure agreement of the mercenary mission, the union's custodian department adhered to the principle of ignoring the matter. It was transported in sealed wagons, and the guards who stamped the documents were illiterate subordinates, trying to make sure that what was hidden inside was so secret that even the caretakers would not know what it was.

This is the best way to keep the secret, and it greatly avoids self-theft by the guards. After all, if they don't know what is in which room, they will not be able to estimate the value, so they will carry out the theft plan.

But the little unicorn is a living creature after all, and it needs to be fed and can make noises. In order to prevent being noticed and suspicious when delivering food and water, the two spent a lot of thought and spent this very nervous week.

Still, the two of them didn't complain much, and the helpless little creature was already a member of their team, as even Margaret's little explorer Mithril brooch could see. Although the unicorn is a beast of hope and is adorned by many people around the world, if you look closely, you can see that the outline of the head on the brooch is a reference to it.

Margaret's plan was a genius and provided great convenience in the journey from Parnilla to Polusaro. It's just that neither she nor the Sage expected to run into someone who hates the Empire so coincidentally, after all, Porusaro is still technically part of Padrosi's sphere of influence, and that's why the attacker didn't hesitate to flee after the army appeared.

He didn't want the situation to escalate, and anyone could easily make this conclusion.

As far as Margaret's family is concerned, the attack on the order personally commissioned by the eldest lady has not received the attention it deserves from the local nobility and the army. On the one hand, this is because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no matter how strong the Margaret family is, it is only a southern nobleman. Another reason is that because of the nature of the town itself, it is a half-mixed city-state between the Suomirs and the Lamanites, and when it comes to the question of two countries and two peoples, the situation of the army is actually very awkward.

If it is not handled well, it can easily turn into an international conflict. This is also the reason why the captain of the garrison that day only shouted loudly but did not really do anything.

It's always easy to get the word out that something happens in such a peaceful town, and when Henry and Mira go to the tailor's shop the next day to see how things are being made, the shopkeeper talks to them about it.

Obviously, the disappointing handling of this problem involving the Suomirs by the local imperial garrison is well known.

The local troubadour even wrote a rhyming limerick poem to mock the behavior of the garrison: "Don't come on stage too early, the slogan must be shouted, and in the end it is just to run away." ”

It perfectly encapsulates the attitude and behavior of the garrison in three sentences, and from this Henry and Mira understand the fact that no one will take care of them if anything happens to them - what can they say, taking care of themselves is part of the mercenary life.

Under such a premise, after a little consultation with the owner of the tailor shop, the two bought some low-key coarse cloth, as well as brown vegetable dyes.

The coarse cloth was used to re-sew a horse helmet by themselves, and because they needed to make room for small short horns, they chose to do it themselves rather than entrust it to the tailor shop owner. Vegetable dyes, which can be washed with alcohol afterwards, are used to dye spots on the white body color of the little unicorn and make it look more understated.

After explaining to the shopkeeper the two points of changing a horse helmet and dyeing, he laughed and praised the two of them for being smart, and gave a discount on the material money. While it may sound like you're leaking the news, it's actually safer than hiding it.

Because this statement, combined with the acting skills of the two, shows the helplessness of the noble lady - Margaret, who is far away in the world, has been sneezing constantly lately - in the future, the owner of the tailor shop will not have too many unnecessary doubts above this.

This is naturally the course of action decided by Henry, which seems random, but it is the approach given by seeing through human psychology -

Similar to Margaret's previous plan, this is also a strategy that exploits the subjective thoughts of the other party. In social interactions, human beings do not judge the value of something by words alone. Regardless of age and experience, reading words and emotions is a basic human ability.

Based on this premise, when you actively show casualness and habit towards a certain object, as if it is just another day after the ordinary, this attitude will also be contagious to the other person, making the other person feel that "this is just an ordinary thing and has no value". And if it is the other way around, you are very nervous in a cold sweat, hiding and refusing to speak, the more this is the case, the more interested the person who responds will be to get to the bottom of it.

"Low-key" isn't just about not wearing bright colors or not doing eye-catching actions, it's about creating an atmosphere. Let the other person not pay much attention when they hear your words, listen to one ear and come out of the other, and they will not be vigilant when they see your actions, and they will not be too impressed, and after a while, they will forget everything.

The so-called "follow the customs" idiom is actually talking about this situation, strangers after arriving in the local area to change into local clothes is the best choice of low-key, after all, the appearance of incompatibility is the most eye-catching and most likely to attract the attention of others, especially in the northern region where the traffic is less developed and the ethnic group is more single.

Although the gray hair of our Luoan girl will inevitably attract the attention of others, it can also be a tool to distract people from the presence of the little unicorn.

All in all, there are a lot of things to do every day. After the custom-made clothes were ready, they bought some more supplies, put away the horse coat with the coat of arms of Margaret's family, etc., and then put the lighter but bulky items such as cloth on the back of the little unicorn, and with those not very beautiful brown markings, it was transformed into a small pack horse for carrying goods.

The superb makeup skills solved the previous problems, and could save them a lot of unnecessary trouble on the way north later. The clever little guy also knew that it was for its good, so he was very obedient the whole time. With a good and good physique, if you add some magical abilities, it is obvious that the little unicorn that grows up in the future will become the best car in the world, and it is no wonder that there are so many legends about knights who have gone through hardships to become friends with them.

But that's all for later, and it's still young at the moment, so it must be protected.

The supplies were full, but at the cost of the wallet becoming shriveled. The mercenary union guest house, where they lived for a week, ate two-fifths of their savings with the cost of material storage, and the rest spent another seven or eight dollars on all kinds of dry food and bacon in the first two days of departure.

There is no money and everything works, but fortunately, God did not abandon the two, and the union's hanging board issued a blue-plate level mission happened to be in the northern region. This is a mercenary hunting mission, and in the territory of Southern Europe, herders grazing Suomir sheep are threatened by wolves, hoping that mercenaries will come to kill or drive them away.

There are two goals to achieve in the mission, if you just run away, then it will only be 10 silver coins, and if you kill it, you can get a total of 2 gold coins and 20 silver coins if you count the wolf meat and wolf skin, which is a good deal.

About 10 kilometers north of Polusaro, the mission is a village called Cahonero, which Mira can't pronounce, and can be reached in about a little over a day at the usual pace of a march on foot. The two of them, who had horses to walk, could reach it in about half a day, but because everything was taken care of and it was already afternoon, they would arrive at the village the next morning at the earliest.

But just as the three of them were preparing to set up camp in the evening, under the beautiful red sunset sky, someone from the south caught up with them.

Dressed in simple attire, carrying a cloth bag and carrying a dagger of poor workmanship at his waist, the tall young man was clearly the eldest son of the innkeeper, Caleva.

"Please let me walk with you. He bowed deeply and said.

The glow of the lit campfire shone brightly on them, and Henry and Mira looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.

"Yes. ”