Chapter 03: The Town of Nuel
The war between the two clans ended once again, and peace was restored to the border areas once again.
The people who had fled before have returned to their hometowns because of the vast, fertile land, and people are still willing to take risks to multiply and live on it.
The war was over, but Arthur's military career was not over, and they were required to stay in the army for two years according to the requirements of the Blood Academy.
The military career without war may be a bit monotonous, but it is also a good time to devote time to the cultivation of fighting spirit and magic, and transform the perception and harvest between life and death on the battlefield into its own combat power.
Time passed like water, and when time crept into the early winter of 797 in the Terran Bright Calendar, Arthur's two-year military career was coming to an end.
In the past two years, Golly, Huey, and Joan have broken through one after another, becoming fifth-level captains and fifth-level magicians, officially becoming the intermediate force between warriors and magicians. This is the result of both talent and unremitting penance, and naturally also the help of Yuanjing. At this time, several people were not yet twenty years old, and their prospects on the road to the strong were limitless.
Arthur and Moral are still at level four. Arthur knew his situation, so he planned to save all the Yuan Crystals for the critical time to break through the battle school. And Morar was purely lazy and too poor in talent, so he used up all the three Yuan Crystals he had been assigned to him, and only then did he pile up his magic power to the peak of the fourth level.
Sino hid Arya in his secret mansion in Dawning City and arranged for someone to take care of her. Arthur would sneak up to Dawning City to see her whenever he could, but unfortunately Arya didn't change and remained the same as when she first came out of the canyon.
As for the old dwarf Turutuk, soon after the end of the war, the idle old dwarf left. Turutuk hopes to visit more places on the mainland before he dies of old age.
Before leaving, the old dwarf gave Arthur a badge with a volcano and a hammer on the front of the badge, and told Arthur that if he went to the dwarves' Fort one day, he would be welcomed and entertained by the dwarves.
Arthur gladly agreed, and he planned to have a chance to visit the dwarven Earthfire Fort, the Elven Dream Mother Tree, and even the dragon's legendary Sea Cliff Dragon's Lair.
Young Arthur is full of longing and fantasy for this magical continent, after all, his legend has only just begun......
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When the first snow fell in early winter, three galloping four-wheeled carriages appeared on the official road leading from the border to the inland region of the Terrans.
The driver of the first carriage was a thin middle-aged man. The man's temples were already slightly gray, and although he shrank because of the cold, his eyes that occasionally raised his head were blazing, revealing his status as a martial artist who was not low.
Several boulders suddenly appeared in the middle of the flat official road, and the middle-aged man hurriedly pulled the driving wildebeest.
"What's wrong, Jose?"
"Captain, I've encountered robbers again. Seeing that we have three cars, and we don't have big comptoir logos and mercenary guards, do you treat us like fat sheep?"
"How long has the fighting on the border been quiet, why are there so many robbers?"
"There are always some people who don't want to live in peace, thinking that this kind of business without capital makes money quickly, but they don't realize that the capital of this business is their own life. ”
The conversation outside the car and inside the car is naturally Jose and Arthur. Although it was not yet the end of the year, because Arthur arrived at the barracks two months earlier than the others, he also ended his two-year military career early.
After a long conversation with Keno and Shino, and a visit to Arya in Dawn, Arthur set out on his return journey early.
Arthur returned earlier than his companions not because he wanted to be an arrow, but because he had another thing to do. Because of his great achievement in assassinating the son of the Lion King, Arthur was canonized as Viscount Jiayong by His Majesty Streich. The title of viscount has a fief, and Arthur has been in the army since he was canonized, and has not yet officially received his viscount.
An important reason for Arthur's early return this time was to receive his own viscounty along the way.
Arthur was accompanied to the fiefdom by José and twenty newly retired veterans. These veterans are all soldiers who followed Arthur to break through the orc wasteland, and there has been no war in the army for two years, and they are tired of time, so they took the opportunity of Arthur's retirement from the army to follow Arthur to the fiefdom.
If Arthur's fief is in a good environment, they plan to take their family to Arthur's fief and settle down, and with a lord like Arthur to take care of it, the family will not be bullied by nobles and outsiders.
The group of soldiers who followed Arthur back then are still in the army with less than 100 people, led by monkeys, and they are still spreading the magical experience of that year in the army over and over again.
By the time José and Arthur were talking, a dozen robbers with blades had rushed out of the roadside.
The clothes on these robbers were full of bells and whistles, and they didn't even have any decent armor, and the blades in their hands were uneven, even the wind thieves who haunted the mountains and forests every day were not as good as Jose couldn't help but shake his head.
"You're going to watch it, aren't you?" Arthur lifted the curtain and lowered it, these rabbles were not worth his hand at all.
"Any of you who are bored in the car, come down and move the activity. José also sat on the wheel and did not move, only turned around and greeted with a voice.
Then seven or eight wolf-like veterans jumped out of the two cars behind them, and these veterans jumped up without saying a word. After experiencing life-and-death battles with orcs in the wasteland, these robbers, who were no more than the second level, were like weak chickens in the eyes of veterans, and they didn't run away from one of them.
The soldiers' methods of dealing with the robbers were simple and rude, interrogating the leader of the robbers and killing people on the spot, and breaking the rest of the hands and feet and letting them go directly.
Good and evil are rewarded, since they chose to come out to rob and kill, and were unlucky enough to meet Arthur and them, Arthur gave them the retribution they deserved.
The robbers were just a small episode in Arthur's return journey, and they didn't even bother to ask for their names and dealt with them the way they had done before.
After dealing with the gang of robbers, after another half a day's drive, Arthur arrived at his fiefdom, the town of Nuel.
According to the rules of the king's canonization, the baron's fief was a village of a few hundred people, the viscount's fief was a small town with thousands of people with affiliated villages, and the count's fief was a small city with a castle with a population of tens of thousands.
Nuel is a small, medium-sized town not too far from the northwestern border of the kingdom, with eight villages under its jurisdiction and a total population of more than 5,000 people.
Arthur's carriage was still three or four miles away from the town, and the local mayor and the captain of the security guard met him with forty or fifty people on the side of the road.
Before the king canonized a domain to a nobleman, the officials in the domain were appointed by the kingdom to maintain order and collect taxes. After canonizing to the nobles, the nobles had the right to replace the officials appointed by the previous kingdom, and of course they could continue to be retained if they thought they had done a good job, but the salaries of these officials were transferred to the nobles themselves.
That's why these people were so attentive when they got the news that Arthur had come to take over the territory, hoping to make a good impression on the new lord so that they could stay in office.
The mayor of Nuel Town was a fat man in his fifties, and as soon as Arthur's carriage stopped, he ran up to open the door for Arthur.
The mayor is respectful and courteous, and the people below all have respectful smiles on their faces, and everything seems so good!