After a night's rest at the northern outpost, the team was on their way to Winter Village, which had been greatly relieved.

This trip to Winterwood was a huge departure from David's previous trip to Irontree Castle from Winter, the team didn't choose to go west along the northern edge of the Irontree Forest, and then turn north when they saw the river.

Instead, he chose a faster route, leaving the northern outpost and heading straight to the northwest.

According to David's description, Winter Village is located on the south side of a large forest northwest of the northern outpost and on the east bank of the Winter River.

So even if it's hard to tell the direction on the green grassland at a glance, you don't have to worry about finding Winter Village.

Because I chose the nearest route and had mounts, I would have to walk for about ten days, but if I hurried, I might be able to complete it in two days, and if I slowed down, it would have been three days.

Davy didn't have the slightest opinion on Maloney's choice, it was of course a good thing to be able to go back early, he didn't feel anything when he was in Irontree Fort before, but now that he is closer to Winter Village, he misses the new home that has only been away for less than a month.

Of course, he didn't ignore the two inspector subordinates in the team who didn't know what their identities were, these two people had been recording something on the road, and when the team occasionally stopped to eat and rest, they would get together to discuss something.

Perhaps it was viewed too often, which was quickly noticed by Maloney.

"Don't be surprised, they're just drawing maps."

When David heard this, his face was suddenly shocked, it turned out that he was making a map - since Winter Village was about to become the territory of the Tilan Kingdom, of course, the Tilan Kingdom had to know enough about the area under its jurisdiction, and drawing a map was only the most basic work.

"It turns out that the inspection work also includes these!" He guessed that the men were not just drawing maps, but also investigating the resources that might exist around Winter Village.

"Yes, even the case of potatoes will be recorded." This kind of thing doesn't need to be hidden, and Maloney introduced the work that his subordinates have to do: Is Winter Village a real village? It is necessary to find out what specialties and minerals are in and around Winter Village, the surrounding terrain, etc.

This includes choosing this straight route to Winter Village, which is related to the work of determining how far the northern outpost will reach Winter Village.

Even Maloney told David about the route to take on the return trip. Unlike this time, when returning to Irontree, Maloney would take the same route Davy had taken earlier, taking a look at the river that flowed out of the Irontree Forest, and checking on the abandoned village.

In general, the Iron Tree Fort and the Kingdom of Tiran need to figure out the general situation of the Northern Plains, and then discuss how to govern such a large area of land.

Will more outposts be built deep into the northern plains? Do you want to build a fortress? Do you want to mobilize more manpower to reclaim this area and build a new city?

Of course, unless this area is rich in mineral resources and has to be of high value, it is unlikely that Irontree will mobilize a large number of manpower to enter the Northern Plains to build a new city.

Just as Maloney was briefly introducing his work, a soldier on a horse who was in charge of guarding suddenly shouted a warning: "There are 'people' in the north approaching quickly. ”

The resting crowd immediately stopped what they were doing, and several soldiers immediately mounted their horses and looked north.

Laura moved more lightly, standing directly on the horse's back, and built a pergola with her hands to block the sunlight so that she could see more clearly.

As a result, Laura, the tallest and most eye-sighted person at the station, was the first to see who was coming: "There are four creatures covered in brown and yellow, with improvised armor and weapons in hand, and their mounts are giant wolves with long white hair......"

As Laura described, everyone realized what kind of 'people' were rushing towards them—the guys who had ruined the Northeast Pioneer Team.

David also rode on his horse at this time and held the hunting bow in his hand: "I didn't expect to meet these guys when I was about to get home, I thought this trip would go smoothly and there would be no accidents." ”

Although these suspected orc guys rushed over from the north, he wasn't worried about the situation in Winter Village. With Ferding in the village, no hundred more orcs can threaten Winter's Village.

By the time everyone got on their horses and was ready for battle, the distance between the two sides had become so close that David could even clearly see a few fangs on the mouths of these guys.

"This looks like an orc at all, right?"

Even if it is really an orc, he doesn't find it strange, there are many worlds where orcs exist, and they are not limited to the world of Western magical background.

"These guys don't look like they're here to greet us." Maloney Mansfield, a noble official, sat on his horse with his back straight, without the slightest appearance of nervousness or panic, and gave orders in a steady voice: "Knight Hackett, you are in charge of this battle. ”

"Yes, sir." A heavily armed knight drew his sword at his waist, raised it, pointed to the front and shouted, "Charge!" After that, he took the lead in riding his horse and rushed out.

Several other heavily armed soldiers immediately followed, and drew their weapons - except for the knight named Hackett, the others had different weapons: two war hammers, a chain hammer, and a heavy sword.

Four against five, both sides have no advantage in numbers, just look at the size, the opposite few are not only strong, thicker than human soldiers, even the mounts under the crotch are giant wolves of amazing size.

However, when compared to equipment, the 'orcs', who only have a few simple armor on their bodies that have a far greater decorative effect than their defensive effect, and the weapons in their hands look very rough and old, they really can't compare to the elite knights of Irontree Castle.

To put it simply, it's hard to tell who will win until the two sides actually 'collide'.

Rumble!

The moment the two groups of cavalry staggered past, a terrifying loud bang erupted, and at the same time, the figures in armor and the stout brown and yellow giants fell to the ground one after another.

But one of the orcs was not shot down, and instead of turning back to support his companions who were caught in the ground scuffle, they rushed straight towards David.

There was only one person left on the side of the knight who did not fall off his horse, and that was the Knight Hackett as the commander, who immediately controlled the steed after completing the charge, and also ignored his companions, and chased after the only fish that slipped through the net.

His duty is to protect Maloney Mansfield and his subordinates, and if he doesn't endanger Maloney, he will also protect David, Laura and others.

In this case, his choice will only be to return the aid.

Normally, these giant wolf cavalry of a strange race, because they don't know how long they have been running, and they have launched a charge from a long distance, with this batch of top war horses under his crotch, he is fully confident that he can catch up with the enemy and kill him before he threatens Lord Maloney.

But what he never expected was that when he turned his horse's head and was about to speed up the pursuit, several giant wolf mounts next to him actually pounced on him from the side.

Although Hackett avoided the attack with his extraordinary reflexes and martial arts, he returned a sword to the giant wolf that attacked him, and then swung his sword to force another giant wolf back.

But after a moment's delay, the enemy had rushed far away, and was about to kill Maloney.

Just when he regretted that he had made such a big mistake by taking the enemy too lightly, the enemy who had rushed towards Lord Maloney Mansfield suddenly fell from his mount......

Maloney Mansfield was lying to say that he was not afraid at all when he saw his huge, ugly and ferocious foe rushing towards him.

But he suppressed all these emotions, and easily stopped Huey, the squire who wanted to block in front of him, and calmly pulled out the long sword at his waist.

In Maloney Mansfield's opinion, he is the only one of the remaining people present...... As for David, how many of them are? The proud Lord Maloney-Mansfield did not allow himself to hide behind a few civilians.

I just didn't expect that when the fierce guy was about to kill in front of him, he was suddenly thrown off the mount, and then rolled on the ground for an unknown number of laps, which was called an embarrassment.

Finally stood up, covering his dizzy head to regain consciousness, and the next second he was nailed to his face with several sharp arrows, two of which shot directly into the head from the eye socket, judging from the performance of this tall guy falling directly backwards, he should be dead.

After a few closer looks, Maloney noticed that the giant wolf as a mount also had several arrows nailed to its head, and it seemed that it was because the mount was shot that the creature was lifted to the ground.

Turning his head to look at David beside him, David was still raising his bow and aiming at this time, as if to remind everyone that everything that happened just now was done by him.

"Good archery!" When the crisis was lifted and Maloney regained his composure, he admired David's archery skills, which could kill the enemy in an instant and save him from the crisis.

What's more, David's archery skills are indeed powerful, just to say that in such a short period of time, David can shoot several arrows twice in a row, each time, and all of them hit the target, which is not something that ordinary hunters can do.

Changing to the elite archers of Irontree Castle may not be better than David.