Hopefully, Fuma's side will wake up soon......

In the Hidden Place, Roy sighed and thought.

Although he was desperate to know the news about his original father, Jace Tulumbel, Fuma was unconscious, and he couldn't force it, all he could do was wait.

After thinking about it, Roy got up from the ground and prepared to go outside for a walk.

Today is the fifth day after the Harvest Festival.

Judging from the current situation and the monitoring of the Shadow Ravens, the temple has no plans to take any additional action against the Blackstone Collar.

Actually, this is normal.

In the eyes of the world, Roy was just a lord lord of a small territory in Rafah Province, and if it weren't for the particularity of Star Lake, a rural nobleman like him, who was at the bottom of the aristocratic contempt chain, would not have been able to enter the eyes of the temple and many great nobles.

At present, the space of the magic pulse under the star lake is about to close, and the moonlight great witch Sehir who broke out of it is also completely silent, and from the thinking of normal people, they all know that the possibility of the moonlight witch staying in the black stone realm is almost zero.

In such a situation, it is true that the temple side will lose face because of the death of the legendary knight Sima of the Tooth Wind in the Blackstone Collar, but what does this have to do with Roy?

He's just a small lord lord, and he hasn't been seen to be involved in the whole Star Lake incident, oh, that's not entirely true, Yama, the legendary knight of the Tooth Wind, saw him, but, how can the dead speak?

Even if the temple wants to save face, it will not do anything to a small lord like him, and if it wants to take revenge, it will only go to the moonlight witch Sehir.

After all, although Roy's title is low, he is a subsidiary nobleman of the Soros family after all, and there is no reason to attack him, but he will offend the border duke, and the gains outweigh the losses.

For now, the only ones who have direct hostility and threat to Roy are the forces of the Second Prince's faction.

Roy sabotaged the second prince's plan to seize the Blackstone Territory, causing the original pure favor to become the need to cooperate with the eldest young master of the Soros family later, and the kindness was greatly reduced.

Thinking about the worse side, if the Blackstone Leader's plan to seize the land had not been destroyed, the Second Prince's Star Lake plan might not have been destroyed.

Of course, it's just anger.

If it weren't for Roy's action, Cehir's normal personality would dissipate, and no one could predict what kind of disaster would be brought about after the crazy personality of the moonlight witch who fully controlled her body broke the seal.

But one thing is certain, that is, from the beginning, the second prince's plan to obtain the Lost Ice Coffin has no chance of success. Unless he can find the legendary peak knight to suppress Sehir, but how is that possible? If there is a legendary peak of combat power under his hands, the second prince must be so painstakingly trying to win over the border duke.

What's more, the pinnacle of the legend must be the opponent of the moonlight witch Cehir?

Not necessarily.

The Tooth Wind Legend Three-Star Knight Sima who has been prepared for hundreds of years plus the A-level taboo - Demon Breaker Dagger will not exert much weaker combat power than the legendary peak knight, but even so, the Tooth Wind Legendary Knight Sima still fell into the hands of Cehir.

In order to deal with Cehir of such strength, it is not an easy task for the temple to raise sufficient and stable combat power.

At present, the Black Stone Collar will probably have a relatively stable period of development after the Xinghu incident, at least before the spring of next year.

This also means that Roy and several witches no longer have to hide in the hidden place every day.

With so many people together, it's quite lively, but squeezed into such a small space, many things are inconvenient!

Who wants to be crowded when they have a spacious and comfortable environment?

Roy stood up, glanced at the witches who were busy, and prepared to take a look outside.

Now he, the "state of destruction" has been able to destroy the golden star that was caught off guard with one punch, as long as he does not encounter a legend, even if he encounters the peak of gold, even if he is defeated, he can hold on to a few moves, and wait until Ace's support arrives, therefore, he no longer needs to be as careful as in the past, and must be by the witches at all times.

Walk through the door of the space and come to the courtyard.

Roy raised his head and looked up at the half-smeared red sun left at the junction of heaven and earth in the distance.

The evening breeze was blowing, and Roy raised his hand, but the wind still passed between his fingers, feeling the slightest coolness mixed in.

After the festival, the climate gradually cools, and the temperature during the day can only be maintained at a maximum of ten degrees, and at the coldest time at night, it even falls below zero.

The winter of this world is extremely cruel.

In Roy's previous life, whether it snows in winter depends mainly on the latitude of the region, but this is not the case in winter in this world.

After winter, the entire territory of the Glow Empire will be covered in heavy snow, not only the Glow Empire, but also the Kolai Empire, which is located south of the continent.

At the coldest time, it reaches minus forty or fifty degrees Celsius, and if there is no source of heating, food and warm clothing, it is normal for civilians to freeze to death.

Even in the most prosperous city of the empire, the imperial capital - St. Fuye, there are people who will freeze to death in winter, not to mention the Black Stone Collar located on the border and far from being rich in materials.

Half of the freezing death rate, which sounds terrifying, is actually quite good among the many territories in Rafa Province.

The Iron Mountain Territory next door to the Blackstone Domain, in previous years, because of Lord Denham's "tyranny", the people who lacked winter supplies had a frightening freezing death rate!

If it weren't for the fact that the lords of this era hastily left the territory without a road guide, the mortality rate would have been higher, and I am afraid that some people would have fled the Iron Mountain Territory long ago.

Thinking of the supplies needed by the Blackstone Collar and the Iron Mountain Collars to survive the winter, Roy was a little distressed.

There are only about ten days left until the beginning of winter, and according to the original plan, Red needs to go to the north of the Blackstone Territory, which is separated by five collars, to buy grain, but because of the major events that happened one after another during this time, the purchase plan has been delayed again and again.

Grain transportation is not as slow as rushing, it is estimated that it will take three days to go back and forth, and this is still when everything is going well, if you encounter mountain bandits blocking the road, the speed will be delayed. With Red and a group of official knights escorting the car, ordinary mountain bandits are not a cause for concern, but these cunning bandits will set up barricades on the road, or dig pits, or set traps, which greatly affect the speed of the car.

If Roy had enough space rings on hand, he could let Red go and return quickly, but the Black Stone Collar and the Iron Mountain Collar combined had a population of nearly three thousand, and the food needed for a winter was very much, even if it was a high-level space ring, it was far from being able to fit it.

What's more, there are a lot of important things stored in the high-level space ring, and you can't move it rashly.

After being promoted to three silver stars, Roy's perception ability has been greatly improved, although he can't scan within a certain range like the Golden Knight, but he can still sense the general direction of the fluctuation of the fighting qi.

Soon, Roy found Red.

At this moment, Red is sitting in the office house in the lord's mansion, dealing with the affairs of the territory.

As the steward of the two realms, Red has a lot of work to do on a daily basis.

All aspects of food and clothing need to be personally inquired about by him.

Approaching the cold winter, coupled with the initial merger of the territory, there are too many things to deal with.

When Roy arrived at the office, Red had just finished his last business at hand, and he exhaled softly, his face visibly exhausted.

can make a bronze three-star extraordinary chivalry languishing to such an extent, which shows how hard Red has worked during this time.

"Treading ......"

Roy's undisguised footsteps made Red raise his head, and when he saw Roy, the tiredness on Red's face disappeared suddenly, and he hurriedly stood up, with excitement and joy in his eyes.

"Lord Roy."

"It's been a hard time, Uncle Red." Roy walked into the office room, looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and said apologetically.

"Where, that's what I'm supposed to do." Red grinned and picked up a cup of tea for Roy, "I was about to go to you." ”

"The food purchase plan must be put on the agenda immediately."

"During this time, the scout knight received news that there is some instability near Chiling, it is approaching winter, and the bandits are very serious, if we want to buy food, we must reserve more time."

"You haven't shown up for a long time, and I don't dare to leave the Blackstone Collar."

"At the beginning of the territory, there must be someone in the house who can make up his mind."

Roy nodded: "I also wanted to tell you about this, I will be in the mansion next, buy food, you can do it with confidence, bring more knights, and make sure that there are no accidents." ”

"I understand!" Red nodded vigorously.

"By the way, Uncle Red, why is there a serious problem near Chiling?" Roy asked, curiously.

Generally speaking, if there are mountain bandits near the territory, the local lord will send troops to exterminate them, and it is impossible to let them wreak havoc.

"You don't know." Red sighed: "As a province bordering the empire and the Kolai Empire, military service is the heaviest place in the entire empire. ”

"Take the Iron Mountain Leader as an example, with a total population of more than 1,300 people, there are nearly 200 trainee knights and regular knights combined, which means that every six lords have to support a trainee knight who eats a lot of food and is completely out of production, and the regular knights and transcendent knights have a larger amount of food and need more people to support, which is a very abnormal ratio."

"In other provinces, it is generally fifteen to twenty lords to support a knight."

"But there is no way, as a border lord, in order to fight against the Kolai Empire, each small territory must send enough knights to the 'Wall of Stone' to participate in the war every year."

"But in this way, it will lead to very high pressure on the people's livelihood in the various territories of Rafahang Province."

"War kills, and what about the families of knights who are called up for military service and never return?"

"Each territory has a pension for the knights who died in battle, but this pension is far from enough for a family that has lost its main support, and over time, many young people who are afraid of war will choose to flee the territory and gather in the land of poor mountains and rivers to make a living by robbing homes and houses."

"Generally speaking, when there are signs of mountain bandits, the local lords will take the initiative to exterminate them, but the special thing is that there are frequent conflicts between the two countries this year, and the military service support once a year in previous years has come three times, and the white oak collar on the edge of Chiling, its lord died on the battlefield, and the family has no heir, so the whole territory is in chaos."

"Before the arrival of the new lord, the knights of the White Oak Collar separated and collapsed, engulfing the wealth of the White Oak Lord, forming several mountain bandits and running into the surrounding mountains."

"As a famous grain producing area in Lafahang Province, Chiling is naturally concerned by these mountain bandits, who surround Chiling, guard various official roads, and rob caravans that come to buy grain."

After listening to Red's story, Roy said with some incredulity: "The lord of Chiling let these mountain bandits control the main road, and did not send troops to fight? ”

Red shook his head: "Why not, it's just that the mountain bandits are cunning, and they run back to the mountains when they encounter hard stubble, plus there are many official knight-level existences among the mountain bandits, the lord of Chiling is old and frail, and his energy is low, under the premise of no transcendent knights, the knights under his command alone can't exterminate these mountain bandits, and they can only ask the border duke for help, but the border situation is also critical, and they need to guard against the possible attack of the Kolai Empire at any time, and they really can't draw manpower, so this matter has been delayed again and again." ”

"I see."

Roy nodded: "The matter of Chiling, when the border duke pulls out his hand, any red knight can be easily settled, we just buy food, but we don't have to worry so much." With you in charge, the mountain bandits will not dare to come and plunder. ”

"Winter is coming, time is pressing, tomorrow morning, please Uncle Red, you leave as soon as possible."

"I understand." Red nodded.

After explaining the matter of purchasing grain, the sky was completely dark.

Roy left the office and returned to the courtyard.

I have to say that Red's work efficiency is really high, in just over two days, the small courtyard that was devastated by the aftermath of the battle between Ace and Fuma has basically recovered, of course, those destroyed green plants can't be restored in a short time, and it takes time to grow slowly.

After returning to the small courtyard, Roy was about to go to the hidden place, but as soon as he entered the door of the treasure room, he saw Shanika, wearing a goose yellow dress, walking out of the semi-illusory space gate.

"Master Roy."

Seeing Roy standing at the door, Shanica smiled: "After I finished the practice of the Basic Meditation Method, I didn't see you, so I guessed that you must have come out, so I also came out to have a look." ”

"That's right." Roy smiled back and was about to walk into the door of space, when Shanica suddenly whispered:

"Young Master Roy, there's one thing I want to talk to you about."

"Just the two of us."

Roy turned his head and looked at the girl beside him.

He noticed the complex emotions in the girl's eyes, and this was the first time he had seen this expression in Shanica.

Without hesitation, Roy nodded: "Okay." ”

In other words, under the leadership of Shanica, the two went all the way to the bottom of the Blackstone Prison and entered Shanica's "room".

(End of chapter)