Kingdom of Yarbit.

The royal city, the palace, the back garden.

Bradley VII 'Ivan', who has the title of the new iron-blooded king, is walking with the queen.

"Your Majesty, seeing that your brows are furrowed, is there something wrong?" The queen noticed Ivan's expression and asked softly, in a concerned tone.

Ivan turned his head to look at his dignified and beautiful wife, sighed and said,

"Duke Nicholas is dead."

"What?!" The queen looked startled, and covered her ruddy mouth in disbelief.

Ivan watched his wife's superb performance calmly in his heart, with a sad and sad look on his face, "When I received the news, I couldn't believe it..... But that's the truth. ”

"Duke Nicholas is only fifty-six years old this year, and he is in the prime of life, really.... It's a pity. My father often praised in my ear the duke's prowes. The queen sighed.

"It's a shame indeed... But the most important thing now is to deal with the group of wasteland centaurs, and now, the position of head of the Knights of the Blood Flower led by Duke Nicholas is vacant, and I intend to let Duke Erkan take over, Queen, what do you think? Ivan looked at his wife and asked.

The Duke of Erkan was none other than Queen Myra's father.

A subtle hint of joy flashed in Myra's eyes, and she said softly, "This matter is up to Your Majesty's sole discretion, and Myra doesn't dare to say more." ”

"I'd like to have full discretion, but the old guys in the Council of Nobles won't necessarily agree with me." Ivan shook his head and sighed, with a look of helplessness.

As soon as she heard this, Queen Myra was anxious and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, if you really want to, why don't you call the Duke of Erkan and the two to discuss?" What that group of nobles wanted was only profits, and it could be resolved peacefully. ”

Ivan pretended to think for a moment, "The queen is right. ”

And so it was settled.

Soon Queen Myra's father, Duke Erkan, came to the back garden to meet Ivan. The two discussed for a full hour before they came to a conclusion.

In the end, Duke Erkan chose to give up three high-grade iron ores and one low-grade magic crystal ore in order to obtain the qualification to lead the Knights of the Blood Flower Order.

Of course, these three high-grade iron ore and low-grade magic crystal raw ore are the property of the late Duke of Nicholas, not the Duke of Elkan.

The so-called consultation is nothing more than discussing how to divide interests.

A day later, the division of interests ended amid the noisy noise of the noble council, and the old foxes went to an end satisfied. The end result was that the Duke of Erkan received the position of head of the Knights of the Bloodflower Order, the rest of the nobles received seventy percent of the estate of the late Duke of Nicholas, and the new king Bradley VII 'Ivan' received the property of the late Duke Nicholas and the full support of the Knights of the Blood Flower led by the current Duke of Elkan.

As for the family of the late Duke Nicholas?

They were given the remaining 20% of their family's fortune and the right to inherit the dukedom to keep the family safe.

After all, without Duke Nicholas, the strongest person in the family behind him is only a high-level professional, and he can't keep the huge resources that Duke Nicholas had when he was in power. If they don't know how to choose, the sophisticated nobles will also 'teach' them themselves.

Royal Palace Conference Palace.

"Duke Elkan."

"The minister is here." The Duke of Erkan slumped up from his seat and looked respectfully at the new king, Ivan.

"Three days later, as the commander of the army, you will lead the army south to the wasteland and drive the centaurs out of our territory." Ivan ordered with an indifferent expression.

"Minister, obey!" The Duke of Erkan took over the royal order.

The same scene was seen in the Duchy of Kas.

"Gather a large army in two days, set foot on the half-horse people, and recover the territory that belongs to our country!" Grand Duke Bauhinia's tone was cold.

From the very beginning, this Wasteland War was the territorial division of the Wilderness Plains between two countries.

In this process, whoever is stronger will occupy more territory!

Although the comprehensive strength of the Principality of Kas is far inferior to that of the Kingdom of Yarbit, the strength that the Duchy of Cass can mobilize will not be much less than that of the Kingdom of Yarbit.

This is the cause of the problems left over from the history of the two countries. The kingdom of Yarbit has been inherited for more than a thousand years, and now there are hundreds of powerful nobles with independent territories in the country, and the power of the country is extremely dispersed.

Among them, the power of the new king, Bradley VII, was completely subordinate, and only a small part of the entire kingdom was occupied.

For example, this time, the new king of the kingdom Ivan only called for the gathering of 100,000 troops, and except for a small part of these 100,000 troops, which completely belonged to the new king Ivan, the rest of the soldiers were all large and small nobles.

And the Duchy of Cass, which has been founded for less than a hundred years, is different, the Grand Duke of Bauhinia is the first generation of Grand Duke, most of the power of the entire Duchy is gathered in his hands, and the small number of aristocratic forces that are not gathered in his hands have not hesitated to obey the Grand Duke of Bauhinia.

On the seventh day, the two armies of the kingdom and the duchy entered the wilderness plains and began to steadily encroach on the soil of the centaurs.

....

Sigh law ~

"Stop!"

The leader of the hundred people waved his hand, and the hundred black cavalry behind him ordered the mount to stop.

The Leader of the Hundred frowned as he looked at the centaur tribe in front of him, where there was no one and only a large number of hides and tents left.

This is the third time.

The centaur tribe garrisons found by their cavalry scouting team belonging to the kingdom were empty every time.

However, in this regard, the commander of the hundred people only complained in his heart that the meritorious service was gone, and then led the somewhat depressed cavalry back to the camp.

The base camp of the kingdom's army.

Duke Erkan, the nominal commander of the army this time, looked at the news brought by the cavalry spies and thought for a moment.

"It looks like the centaurs have chosen to abandon the wasteland." A smile twinked at Elkan's lips.

In this way, it is good to be able to take a large area of fertile land without a single soldier, which is the most efficient benefit.

"The army will speed up and occupy more land as soon as possible!"

Since the centaur chose to give up, the huge wilderness plain has become a fragrant bait without a master to guard, and how much you can eat depends on your own ability!

The Duchy army marching in the other direction discovered this faster than the kingdom army, and had already taken the first step to quickly occupy the wasteland territory.

Soon, with the movements of the two armies, the veins and rich lands were encircled by the army.

Although the wilderness plains have not been under the rule of the two countries, after so many years, the locations of the slightly more conspicuous mineral veins and rich areas of this wilderness plain have long been on their tables.

During this period, the armies of the two countries did not experience battles, such a large place as the wilderness plain, the number of monsters and monster tribes is quite a lot, and the centaurs are only the rulers of the wasteland, and the territory they actually control only accounts for a small part of the entire wasteland, and the rest are divided by monsters and monster clans.

Under the iron hooves and long swords of the army, countless monsters and monster clans in the wasteland were suddenly suffering.

Even if it is a powerful high-level monster, in the face of this level of human army, it can only flee from the wind, and if it escapes more slowly, the fur, bones, and blood are all classified by humans and set a price to be transported and sold.

Most of the directions in which these wasteland monsters and monster clans fled chose the western dark forest, and the other three directions, the north and south directions, were blocked by the long border defense lines of the principality and the kingdom, and fled to the human realm, isn't it looking for death?

As for the east side? The east side is suitable for monsters and monsters, but to reach the east, you need to cross the Laputa River, which has an average width of more than 50 kilometers.

In the face of this super river, I'm afraid that only the flying monsters have the ability to cross it, and the ordinary land monsters can only look at the river and sigh.