Chapter 3: The Iron Wildebeest Herd

Hearing Morgan's words, Richard's heart moved.

"I've been in this world for six years, and I've been under the protection of my elders, so it seems that this time my father arranged for us to capture the iron wildebeest, so he should want us to gain a little more experience."

Kent is Richard's eldest cousin, ten years older than him, and unlike Morgan, the lucky one, Kent also does not have the blood of the Awakening Knight.

Ten years of hard work, just completed the professional advancement.

His talent is very average.

After advancing, Kent did not join his father Thoros's mercenary group, but entered the sixth brigade of the Northern Legion. Served as the vice-captain of the scout squadron under William.

In the Dawn Continent, it is divided into four classes from top to bottom.

At the top were the hereditary nobility, whether it was the king at the top of the pyramid or the lowest hereditary baron.

The second class is the family of professionals, mainly middle- and low-level military officers and low-level civil servant families.

The Haaland family has now reached the apex of this class. If you accumulate enough military merits, you will become a hereditary nobleman, and if you take a step back, you will likely fall into the ranks of ordinary freemen.

The third class is the freedman class, which is mainly composed of urban dwellers, handicraftsmen, and small and medium-sized yeoman farmers. Free people want to cross the class, unless there is a great opportunity, or they can only fight with their lives, and there are very few successful people.

In the past twenty years, there have been no more than thirty families in Heihe Castle that have advanced from freemen to professionals, and when it is enlarged to the entire northern territory, there are only a few hundred families, like a carp jumping over the dragon gate.

With a population of millions in the north, ordinary people can be said to be one in a million, which is more difficult than Richard's top 2 exams in his previous life.

At the bottom are the slave class, including serfs, worker slaves, and aristocratic private slaves, slaves have no freedom in life, and the opportunity to change their fate is even rarer.

In this world where there is extraordinary power, class solidification is extremely serious, and anyone who can cross classes can be called a masterpiece.

Blackriver Fort is located in the northernmost part of the Dragon Canyon and is the headquarters of the Northern Legion.

The Kingdom of Grant has been operating in Heihe Fort for many years, and there are hundreds of villages scattered nearby, with a total population of four or five hundred thousand people in tens of thousands of square kilometers nearby, and it is the core territory of the royal family in the north.

The Knight Academy is located in the middle of Dragon Canyon, a hundred kilometers from Black River Fort.

Richard and Morgan joined Hayden and rode fast horses for two days before arriving at Fort Black. Kent, Powell, Roland, and Soros have been waiting for them for a long time.

Hayden is Richard's third brother and his half-brother, two years older than him, and he also failed to awaken the knightly bloodline, and entered the Grant Knight Academy for three years, and is a medium warrior cadet.

Powell, Richard's own uncle, was already a second-order warrior who opened a tavern in Fort Black River after retiring from the Northern Legion.

Roland is the brother-in-law of Soros, who is just thirty years old, but he has become a fourth-order professional and serves in the Wild Lion Army. In terms of talent alone, it is better than Soros, enough to be comparable to William.

After Willian progressed to the profession, the Haaland family developed dramatically. Relying on William's backing, the two brothers entered the Northern Legion and successfully advanced to the rank of professionals.

Rose to become a top family under the hereditary aristocracy.

"The reason why this time I took you deep into the Eagle Mountains and entered the range of activities of the orc tribe is to increase your experience against the enemy, in addition to capturing the iron wildebeest.

We people in the north are invaded by orcs every few years, and if we don't know the enemy, it will be difficult to save our lives in the war. Every Northerner needs to have the experience of facing war head-on. ”

Uncle Soros patted Richard on the shoulder and said a few words of advice.

In the year 3252 of the Dawn Calendar, February 8.

The seven of them rested for a long time, and left Heihe Fort overnight to prevent leakage and entered the depths of the Eagle Mountain Range.

The time of this operation was already spring, and after a long winter, it was not particularly cold in the forest, but there was still a thick layer of snow in the shade.

There were hardly any villages in the mountains, and signs of human activity were very rare, and after half a month in the Eagle Mountains, Richard could not even find the hunter's hut.

Everyone cautiously searched the beast path, and suddenly Powell said in a low voice: "Be careful, it's the feces left by the Earth Dragon Beast, and this place is not far from the Earth Dragon Beast's lair." ”

"What is the range of the Earth Dragon Beast?"

"Sixty kilometers from the lair is the territory of the Earth Drake Beast."

Second Uncle Powell is a retired veteran scout who was formerly the leader of the reconnaissance squadron of the 4th Brigade of the Northern Frontier Regiment. Not only does he have brilliant reconnaissance skills, but he also has an unusual natural sense of smell, and can smell smells that ordinary people can't detect.

This talent has allowed him to turn evil into good fortune many times, and has dodged several fatal dangers.

Earth Dragon Beasts are high-level Demonic Beasts, adult Earth Dragon Beasts are Seventh-Order Demonic Beasts, and some powerful male Earth Dragon Beasts can even grow to the ninth order.

Even if there are two mid-level professionals in the team, there is still a risk of total annihilation when encountering an adult Earth Dragon Beast.

"Roland, you go to the tallest tree in the west to take a look, the others leave here as soon as possible, and everyone smear the feces of the Earth Dragon Beast on their bodies to avoid the Earth Dragon Beast smelling an unfamiliar smell."

Many demonic beasts have the habit of hibernating, and the same is true for Earth Dragon Beasts.

Spring drakes are very dangerous and aggressive, killing any prey that intrudes into their territory.

However, the earth dragon beast in spring is also very valuable, the glands in the mouth of the earth dragon beast will secrete dragon marrow fluid in the spring, which can refine extraordinary potions containing dragon bloodlines and assist sixth-order knights to break through the realm.

Today, if there is a knight of the seventh order or above to lead the team, there will be a chance to hunt the earth dragon beast and get the dragon marrow liquid.

Soros was only a fifth-order warrior, not a bold brain-dead, with either a son or a nephew around him, he didn't dare to provoke the Earth Dragon Beast at all, and commanded everyone to avoid danger from afar.

The luck of the seven was not bad, and they were not discovered by the Earth Dragon Beast when they left.

After wandering around the depths of the forest for more than ten days, from February to March, I finally found the footprints left by the iron wildebeest, and followed the beast path for three days, and thirteen iron wildebeest were already looming.

The Iron Wildebeest is a low-level magical beast, and the stallions that become adults are usually second-order magical beasts, and some strong horse kings occasionally grow into third-order magical beasts.

Mare are usually first-order magical beasts, and a very small number of them can advance to the second and third orders.

This group of Iron Wildebeest is small in size and does not have a third-order horse king.

According to Powell's observations, four stallions have reached the second order, four ponies have not yet reached adulthood, the remaining five mares have a second order, and the remaining four are all first-order.

Warcraft have rough skin and thick flesh, and can also use bloodline spells, and fight head-on, and their combat effectiveness is usually more powerful than that of soldiers of the same level.

Although this group of Iron Wildebeest did not have intermediate magical beasts, their number was twice as large as that of the seven Richards.

If you are not careful, there will be a reduction in seven people.

The two families of William and Soros have a total of more than a dozen children, and the only ones worth cultivating are Richard and Morgan.

Morgan awakened the knightly bloodline, and Richard showed extraordinary talent.

If the two of them lose here, even if they capture the iron wildebeest, the two families will lose their future.

Besides, Soros also loves his son and nephew, so of course he won't choose to be brutal.

"Uncle, going head-to-head, I'm afraid we don't have a chance of winning?"

Soros nodded lightly and said very confidently: "The most difficult thing in this operation is to find the horses, as long as the horses are found, it will be very easy to capture the iron wildebeest." ”