138. Father and son talk
Rand's first meal from Maned Wolf City back to Roth's territory was in the castle with his father and eldest brother, and all his cronies attended the dinner.
The men at the table raised their glasses in honor of their benevolent and wise lord, but Huck Galloping Horse, who looked at Rand with a little more unclear meaning in his eyes.
After dinner, Rand finds his father, Huck, and asks him to go to the castle's lord's room for a heart-to-heart talk.
This room was actually Huck's bedroom for the past two weeks, and Huck had seen Viscount Roth here a few times before, and now he had lived there for another two weeks, but Huck knew in his heart that the owner of this house was Rand, and he was just a guest.
"Father, there are some things I must explain to you." Rand made it clear as soon as he came up
"Hmm" Huck looked at his son, his brow furrowed.
"I'm going to train Wendy and a few of them to become Magisters." Rand's words were calm, as if they should have been.
"You... What did you say? "Huck has always felt that Rand intends to monopolize a few people, and never thought that Rand is going to keep a few girls to rise to the next level.
"Wendy's qualifications are very good, and more than one person has told me that they are born high-level." With the confirmation of the big goblin, Rand is now more certain.
"Rand, do you know what you're talking about? It's because they have a good foundation that they should quickly occupy it when they are low-level, and when they are all high-level, who will pay attention to you, the border viscount? "Huck doesn't underestimate Rand like he did half a year ago, but he knows very well that Rand's level potential is up to the level of high-level knights.
"Father, I have no choice, I must be promoted to the highest rank, otherwise I will not be able to keep either Night Qicheng and Luo Teling."
"Lan..." Huck was shocked again by his son's serious rhetoric,
"If I can't take the Night Qicheng City, we won't be able to eat with hundreds of demon supporters now, and I won't be able to advance to the high level if I take the Night Qicheng City, all I do is make wedding dresses for others." Rand said as he reflected on his experiences in the royal capital.
"Let me tell you the truth, now from the White Owl family, the Blue Dragon family, the Maned Wolf family, and the Lan Yuan family, they are all looking at me like meat in a bowl."
"You're in the royal capital... Huck looked at Rand with some distress, "What do they want you to do?" ”
"Let me meet more girls from their family" At this moment, Rand was thinking about the group of wives behind Li Qi, "I'm really afraid that I'll be single for too long." ”
"I think you're thinking too much, it's normal for nobles to marry each other." Huck couldn't keep up with Rand's train of thought,
"But what about after the marriage?" Rand asked rhetorically, "You are so weak and have so many knights, do you want to send you a high-level knight?" ”
"Eh" Haque gradually understood the key problem of Rand, the territory is large and the rank is low, which is the situation where the husband is not guilty and is guilty.
"So, instead of thinking about how to occupy girls now, it's better to train them now and make them high-level." Rand kept instilling his ideas in Daddy. "I know that my current resources can't attract a mage at all, even if I can settle down in Night Qi City, there will be no great improvement in resources, but I can't blindly move or not move because my current strength is not enough."
Although Rand is really afraid that the girls will really run away when they become high-level, but as a traverser, Rand always has an inexplicable self-confidence, believing that his level potential is not only high-level, and believes that he can leave high-level talents through personality charm and territorial development dividends, which Rand can't say.
"However, you only have 4,000 people now, and I have been to the ruins of the Night Qicheng more than once, where there are no 20,000 people who can't function at all, but if there are tens of thousands of people, where can they get so much food to feed them?" Huck listened to Rand's assumptions, and became more and more unable to keep up.
"Therefore, it is necessary to open mines, and only by making full use of the surrounding resources can we supply a large number of people."
“。。。 So what are you going to do? ”
"Restore the salt mines, take the iron mines, occupy the entire plain, and let the galloping tribe take charge of all the barbarians"
"You..." Hearing that he was going to occupy the entire plain, Huck didn't dare to ask any more questions, and he was so shocked by his son's ambition that he was speechless.
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In another room of the castle, Ben Kaul painted soundproofing magic patterns on the walls.
"Ben... Pavilion... Albert looked at Ben and said.
"Just call me Ben, I'm an intermediate mage here," Ben looked at Albert with a smile.
"That... Oh well."
"You've really suffered all these years, while you have to supervise the border, and at the same time you have to develop your family." Ben patted Albert's shoulder very kindly, he knew how difficult Albert had been these years, and the galloping horse boy who used to be able to talk eloquently in the face of legends is now a little grateful.
"Where, I'm nothing." Albert made a lot of determination and asked the mage.
"Ben, please tell me, can Rand really succeed if he wants to recover Night Qicheng?"
"I know, you are looking at the good situation of the family now, and you don't want to end up in vain."
"Yes, I asked the people of Mane Wolf City a long time ago to see that Rand's potential can reach a high-level knight at most, and it is difficult to break through again, but there is no one in the family who can replace Rand at present." When it comes to Rand's potential, Albert is very entangled: "Do we want to give credit to others in the future?" ”
"How is that possible, if someone really dares to squeeze out military merits, he will only become the enemy of all knights." What Ben didn't say was that there were indeed people who were ready to squeeze out the credit for the rand, and it had been stopped.
"But Rand is only a mid-level knight now, no matter how he is, he will not be able to become the master of Night Qi City."
"Don't underestimate your Rand's figure, it only took two weeks, and he has already caught the line of the fairy queen of the royal capital" Ben got up and looked out the window, "20 black-scaled horses in exchange for the kindness of the fairy queen, good means." ”
"The Queen... You mean Queen Tyriana? Albert's eyes widened, and this was the second shocking news he heard today.
"Yes, it's the queen, your family is very good at finding legends to back you up," the mage looked at Albert meaningfully, "With her care, are you still worried that Rand won't be able to advance to the high ranks?" ”
"I think what you should worry about the most is whether there are so many people in your family who manage the entire Night Qi City."
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In the Dragon's Tooth City in the middle of the night, Longtai Mountain towers like a black dragon's back.
At the Old Joy's Tavern in the plains below, a young man in a black smock had been sitting for a long time.
"Sir, would you like a cup of buckwheat draft beer?" A young man approached, followed by a middle-aged man.
"Oh, I don't drink buckwheat-flavored, I only drink apple-flavored ones." The black-shirted young man cautiously greeted An.
"Then do you want apples from the imperial capital, or apples from the south?"
"I want the taste of the Eastern Kingdom."
The two nodded, representing the recognition of each other's identity.
"What do you call it?"
"Just call me J, this is K." Later young people introduced themselves.
"From the imperial capital?"
"Yes, I'm representing the Chief, this is the latest order" J then took out his own kettle and poured the liquid into it.
The young man in the black shirt raised his glass and drank it all, pondering the taste.
After a few seconds, he frowned and asked, "That's our greatest strength in the Frostwolf Forest, just throw it out like this?" ”
"There's no way, we were too passive in the things on the plains not long ago, if we can't muddy the situation now, our efforts close to the end of 20 will be completely in vain." J was also quite helpless about the message he stood.
"Understood."
"You let that wolf make things lively, and I'll find a way to drag the maned wolf in the northwest." J said before leaving.
"And what if you meet that dark horse?"
"As long as it doesn't cause a death lawsuit, it's okay."
(End of chapter)