In everyone's anticipation, Volker, the junior knight of the realm, returned.

When it was reported that he had entered the entrance to the village, Rand even felt that Rohr and Albert breathed a sigh of relief together.

If Walker can come back, it will prove that Huck Galloping Horse and several other family members should be able to come back.

The three of them hurried out to the entrance of the village, but as soon as the three of them left the gate of the castle, they felt the slightest bit wrong.

Volcker looked too embarrassed, his armor had several cuts, and there were blood stains in the lining, and when the knight approached, Rand could already tell that Walker was about to fall off his horse.

The people hurried to meet the knight and helped the horses down. At this moment, Volcker's face was pale, and he was sweating profusely under his helmet.

Rand asked Albert to arrange for someone to take care of Walker, and he asked Rohr to organize and complete the migration preparations within the entire territory as soon as possible.

Rohr also saw that Walker definitely didn't encounter a small group of barbarians, but Huck and they were in relatively big trouble, so they had to hurry up and supervise the preparations of each family.

The galloping horse territory, in fact, only adds up to 22 households, 220 people are full, 120 relatives of the family live near the castle of the galloping horse territory, and 3 knight villages, adding up to 100 people, 22 households correspond to more than 20 demon supporters in the entire territory, of which the Rand family accounts for 6, including Huck, Albert, and Rand brothers 4 people.

There are about 70 demons in the Huck family, including servants, family members, etc., and other demonless heirs. There are also 3 family knights and 3 knight apprentices, the family knights and knight apprentices both have about 5 families, and the Huck family also has 2 demon lovers who are independent households.

The remaining 2 knight realms have 2 knights and 1 junior knight's heir, 2 knight apprentices, and 6 other demon supporters.

Therefore, before Huck set out on the expedition, the strength of the entire territory was probably 2 intermediate knights, Huck and Rohr; 7 junior knights (Albert and Rant's two elder brothers, 2 family knights, 3 fiefdom knights), 6 knight apprentices (Rand himself, 3 family knight apprentices, 2 knight fiefdom apprentices), 8 unprofessional demon supporters, a total of 23 demon supporters.

When Huck set out not long ago, he took all the knights of his family, the knights of the family, and 5 knight apprentices, including the two knights of the divided knights.

After the northern encounter with the barbarians, there are now 1 intermediate knight, 2 junior knights, and 3 apprentices who have returned to the territory can be said to have lost more than half, and now there is a junior knight back, and now there are 1 intermediate knight, 6 junior knights, 3 knight apprentices (two did not come back, Rand was promoted) and 8 demons, a total of 18 combat power.

Soon Walker woke up, and the information he brought with him was even worse than everyone thought.

Just after Huck separated from his two sons and Volker and Rant, they successfully disengaged from the barbarian cavalry. Huck has spent the last 10 years trading and scouting in the southern part of the Galloping Plain, and is more familiar with the situation north of the Kornico Pass than the barbarians who come from the north.

After a long night of wandering, Huck and a few men managed to shake off the barbarians who were tracking. After dawn, they discovered a never-before-seen barbarian camp about 30 kilometers northeast of the Colnico Pass.

The barbarians were tall and, according to Albert's description, were the descendants of a special group of beasts and humans. The proportion of demon supporters in barbarian tribes reached 20%-30%, and usually the barbarian demon supporters were tall and powerful, and their physical fitness was comparable to that of intermediate knights.

However, ordinary barbarians cannot use fighting spirit or magic, and can only rely on strong bodies to fight.

There are a small number of priests among the barbarians, and in a large tribe or a group of multiple tribes, the highest barbarian high priest is as strong as the high priest of the human race.

If it is the hinterland of the human race, the barbarians, a race that cannot use magical power, are not dominant, but Rand is now south of the Running Horse Plain, where the magic elements are extremely chaotic in the air, and the chaotic elements are called magic turbulence.

Magical scholars believe that the widespread turbulence of magic in the Galloping Horse Plains makes it difficult for the Terrans to perform their low-level professions here, meaning that under the same population base, less than 10% of the Terrans' population can compare with more than 20% of the Barbarians' population.

This very obvious disadvantage has created the status quo of the barbarians running rampant on the galloping horse plain.

However, the barbarians also have their own weaknesses: the social organization is low, and they can only maintain a tribal society on the galloping horse plain, a small tribe has about 50 members, of which 10 are demon supporters and 40 are non-demon people; The population of the medium tribe is twice that of the small tribe, and the large tribe is 3 times that of the small tribe, with a total population of no more than 150 people. Large tribes of more than 150 people are usually allied between tribes under very specific conditions.

Just yesterday, Huck spotted a super barbarian camp north of the Colnico Pass, and according to their statistics of the horses in the camp, the tribe currently has a population of more than 500 people, including more than 100 demon supporters, but at least two other barbarian cavalry are gathering towards this camp as Huck observes.

In the more than 100 years since the Galloping Horse family moved to the current Northwest Earldom of the Dragon, this has not happened many times, but each time it has caused great disasters in the entire Northwest Earldom.

Therefore, Huck immediately decided that Ryan, who is Rand's eldest brother, would take Walker to retreat to the Baron's territory of the galloping horse, and inform Rand and the rest of the territory to move immediately.

And Huck decided to take Obote, the second brother of Rand, to the Maned Wolf City, where the Earl of the Northwest is located, to report.

On the way back, Huck and his party met again with a small group of barbarian cavalry, and this cavalry was only a scout, and after discovering Huck, the spies did not come directly, but stuck to a range of several kilometers behind them, while constantly looking for reinforcements.

Seeing that there were more and more enemies, Huck decided to disperse and break out, and whoever managed to leave was to return to the galloping horse territory first, and inform everyone to evacuate to the Great Forest.

In the end, after several struggles, only Volcker managed to escape from the tiger's mouth after being captured, and when Volcker fled, he saw that Huck, Ryan, and Obot were all captured.

Listening to Volcker's description, everyone was very sad. There is no doubt that the territory of the galloping horse has been betrayed, and the barbarians have set up an ambush in the place where Huck and the others must pass, and they have deliberately captured each member.

Such a betrayal undoubtedly shows that if they dare to borrow the territory of Daurlot, the consequences will be catastrophic.

"Rohr, you go and call everyone in the territory, now!" These were the first words Albert said after the silence.

"Huh? Oh. Okay," Rohr came back to his senses and hurried to call someone.

Half an hour later, except for the two Knight-led Demonless Civilians, everyone else, including the two Knights of the Knight's Domain and the ordinary Demon Champions, arrived at the gate of the castle.

The castle in the Barony of Galloping Horse is a three-story stone building, the first floor is a 6-meter-high floor, with a dining room, a living room, a prayer room, a warehouse, etc., and the second floor is divided into two parts, one part is also a 6-meter-high house, and four children such as Rand and Ryan live in this part.

The other part is divided into two 3-meter compartments in height, where Huck's family of the Demonless lived, and the rooms of high-ranking servants such as valets and butlers, and the top floor was Huck himself's residence and storage for magic materials, potions, and books.

Outside the main building of the castle are flanked by two houses of the same height as the castle, one of which is two floors (6 meters high each) that houses the quarters of the knights and knight apprentices of the family in the territory.

The other 4-storey building (each 3 meters high) houses the quarters of the other servants in the castle. Outside these three buildings, there is a 6-meter-high stone wall with 4 towers.

Outside the castle is the small town of Galloping Horse, with a blacksmith shop, a mill, a small grocery store, and the houses of several family knights, knights' apprentices, and the families of the two demonsless in the realm.

If Rand had stayed in the territory, he might have established his own family in this town, calling himself the knight of the family. Outside the main entrance of the castle, there is a 3-meter-high platform for Baron Huck to address the people of the realm.

"Knights and lords, I am Albert Galloping, a scholar of the barony, and the brother of Baron Huck," Albert said in a loud voice as he stood on the high platform in front of everyone.

"In just a few days, there has been a huge crisis in our territory, our lord baron and his eldest son and second son have been unable to return to the territory for various reasons, and I don't have time to explain the specific reason, now that the barbarian cavalry is about to arrive, we need to move all of them to the big forest immediately.

Since Lord Huck was unable to return, according to the nobility laws of the Empire, the realm was to be represented by the Rand as a baron. ”

Since Albert had already explained the current situation to several knights before the conference, as long as the demon supporters had no opinions, the others naturally would not have opinions.

"Rand, will you say a few words?" Albert looked at Rand.

"Hello everyone," Rand walked on the high platform, although in his previous life, Rand spoke in front of hundreds of people more than once, and even gave orders, but when his decision could affect the safety of the people in front of him, Rand was still a little at a loss, "I... Like all of you, I believe that soon Baron Huck Galloping Horse will return to his realm, bringing security, prosperity and hope as he has ever done.

But before that, we need to dodge the barbarian cavalry. Now that the barbarians are only a day's journey away, we have no choice but to head west into the Great Forest.

Now I command all men to leave the territory before the sun sets today, and to take every grain of grain, every piece of meat, and every animal to the great forest, and all of them obey. Now everyone has to go back and get ready, let's leave in the evening! ”

As Rand gave the order, the crowd immediately went into action. A pack beast that resembles a yak but is the size of a rhinoceros is pulled out, and tall demon supporters carry hundreds of catties of grain and goods onto these pack beasts.

These beasts of burden all come from the Galloping Horse Plains, a land where the special magical environment makes the animals that live there strong and well-breeded, whether it is horses, cows, or sheep, which are stronger than the rest of the empire.

Therefore, in the past 8 years, whether it is a galloping horse or a Roth leader, the biggest annual income is to trade with the barbarians on the plains, exchanging grain, cloth, and alchemy artifacts from the royal city for horses, cattle and sheep, and demonic beast meat on the plains.

Through constant trade, the Roth Realm now has dozens of pack beasts and twenty galloping horses, a specialty of the Plains: the Black Horse. With a height of 2.0-2.3 meters at the shoulder, this horse is already a giant beast for ordinary people, but for demon lovers of more than 2 meters per capita, such a horse is just right.

This kind of horse is the lowest-level magical beast, and it will contain wind magic on the hooves, so it can also perform high-speed maneuvers after carrying the demon bearer, but these horses cannot release wind spells, so they are relatively safe for ordinary people.

While helping the people in the castle to carry bags of barley and wheat to the boxes around the wagons and pack beasts, Rand looked at the family money that his father had saved over the years, and suddenly felt that he was a cub selling his grandfather's land.

Before the sun set, the entire barony's subordinates had already packed their bags. Rand didn't want to wait any longer, and asked everyone to set off west at once, with a family knight apprentice and two demon supporters out to investigate, and Albert and himself marched forward with a large group of men, and Rolle was behind.

The night sky is very bright, and the three moons are high in the astrolabe, the big moon is called Suren, which is considered to be the god of tides and time, and is also known as the white moon;

The medium moon glows golden, and its name is Luna, which is believed to be one of the sources of magic;

The smallest moon resembles a jelly bean, and its name is Willy, often referred to as the Jade Moon, which is believed to be the source of the magic web.

These three moons are important deities and are the objects of worship and prayer in the temple of the Church.

With the 3 moons of double illumination, the nights here are not very dark, and people here rarely have night blindness. Of course, according to the minds of the barbarians, it is rare to come up with a plan for a night attack, but Rant, who had already experienced it once a few days ago, did not dare to take a chance and forced the entire team to march towards the forest.

The procession of more than 160 men and more than 60 cattle marched forward until late at night when they entered the nearest camp in the forest, and successfully joined the two knights.

Rand's own judgment was that the overnight operation would buy him at least one day.

Even if it was safe for the time being, Rand didn't dare to take it lightly, and he asked Rohr to keep an eye on him at the edge of the forest.

When the sky was pale, Rand woke up again, and he began to urge the people to eat and leave.

Today's breakfast is the food that was made at dinner after setting up camp last night. They had just eaten a few bites when Rand saw Rohr return.