Twenty-seven days later, Victor and Sophia passed through the western part of the kingdom and entered the direct territory of the royal family-the central plains of Blinol.

It was late in the evening, and the convoy was traveling so fast that it was already exhausted and had missed the sentry posts along the way. The cavalry of the House of Lords of Kite Castle led the joint convoy of Viscount Randall and Marquis of Wimbledon to an open woodland to camp for the night.

Hundreds of servants jumped off the carriage, and they divided the work. Some leveled the ground, set up tents, some collected water and firewood, and slaughtered cattle and sheep. The infantry set up guard posts around the camp, and the cavalry were busy taking care of their mounts.

The Sabretooth Tiger Merchant Group has rich camping experience. Knight Nikolai and the head maid Luo Er cooperated tacitly and arranged all the work in an orderly manner.

As the setting sun sinks into the earth, dozens of bonfires rise in the camp, and the air is filled with the aroma of barbecue and stew.

Victor accompanied Sophia and Natalia as they left the copper carriage and walked to a bonfire. Knight Nikolai was roasting a fat short-tailed deer. He skillfully sprinkled secret spices on it, making it golden.

The grease dripped into the fire and made a sizzling sound, and a rich and attractive smell filled Victor's nose.

"In the entire Marquis Palace, only Uncle Nikolai's barbecue skills are unforgettable to me." He said with a smile.

The middle-aged knight turned the roasting fork and said calmly: "It is my honor to be praised by your lord."

Victor nodded, looked around the camp, and asked, "Where is Nelson?"

"It's still the same as before. Lord Nelson took his men to the woods to practice martial arts. They won't come back for dinner until four-quarters of an hour later." Nikolai admired sincerely: "I have met Lord Nelson.

The most diligent and hard-working ferocious warrior, no wonder his strength is comparable to that of a silver-level knight."

Nelson wears heavy armor, walks an average of 60 kilometers a day, and uses all his free time to practice griffin combat skills. His physical fitness and will have surpassed that of a bronze knight, and he has also won the awe of Nikolai.

Victor smiled slightly. Nicholas admired Nelson's strength and status, not his hard work. Caligula followed Nelson, also walking with a heavy load, practicing martial arts every day, but few people appreciated him.

He, his big body and good temper earned him a lot of ridicule and teasing.

"Where are Anna and Alice?" Sophia sat down beside the campfire, the orange firelight making her beautiful face even more charming.

"They are with Luo Er..." Natalia said: "I will ask them to come over and have a meal together."

"Don't worry about them." Victor took Natalia's arm and motioned for her to sit next to him.

These days, Victor has almost lost contact with his entourage. He is surrounded by people from the Marquis Palace, except Renault and Xak.

They stood upright not far behind Victor, like silent javelins.

Under normal circumstances, the lord and his wife did not need to personally give orders when traveling. Sophia exercised her authority as Viscountess Randall and arranged everything for Victor.

This just reflects the strength and stubbornness of the Marquise. She doesn't like to be arranged by others and likes to arrange for others.

Of course, the fact that Victor rarely left the carriage was also the main reason why he was isolated from his subordinates.

As a son of the wind, he hates closed and narrow environments, but with a stunning beauty by his side, it doesn't seem so awkward to stay in the carriage every day.

Victor and Sophia had a close and in-depth exchange, and they told each other about their respective experiences. Victor told Sophia about the various problems he encountered in developing his territory, and Sophia also talked about her experiences in the Borui Kingdom.

, and what Yaret saw.

According to Sophia, the barbarians have no written language and do not record trivial matters of the tribe. They cannot even explain clearly what happened to the tribe hundreds of years ago. There are only legends about the true origins of the barbarians.

They call themselves the Sons of Arreat, and they evolved from the hardest rock on the Holy Mountain. It is the mission of the barbarians to protect the Holy Mountain.

The holy mountain among the barbarians refers specifically to Mount Harlotus in the Arreat Mountains.

No one knows how big the Arreat Mountains are. Harlotus is obviously not the highest mountain in Arreat, but it has a supreme status in the hearts of the barbarians.

The nearly 100,000 barbarians in Mount Arreat are divided into hundreds of tribes, and each tribe has a fixed hunting route. During the hunting trip, they will eliminate some powerful monsters to ensure the population of reindeer and other herbivores, and ensure the survival of reindeer and other herbivorous animals.

Simple camps were set up along the safari route to help the women and children of the tribe survive the harsh water season.

A barbarian tribe may travel tens of thousands of kilometers on a hunting trip, but no matter how far the barbarians travel, every four years they must return to Harlotus Mountain for a pilgrimage.

Sophia is probably the only human being who has entered the barbarian holy land. She saw with her own eyes the group of rock buildings at the foot of Harlotus Mountain, which is the capital of the barbarians, Harlotus Fortress.

During the pilgrimage season that occurs every four years, barbarian tribes, large and small, gather at Harlotus Fortress to solve various problems.

Young barbarians show off their prey to other tribe members, or take other people's prey, and then ask the barbarian elders to tattoo them to represent adulthood.

An adult barbarian is eligible for marriage. He or she must first defeat the person he or she likes, and then defeat three competitors in a row before he or she can abduct barbarians from other tribes to his or her own tribe. The entire process can only be done with fists.

If you knock him out, you win.

Barbarians over 70 years old will no longer lead the tribe. They will stay at Harlotus Fortress and become barbarian elders.

If anyone thinks that Harlotus Fortress is just a group of old and weak soldiers, they are totally wrong.

The barbarians are brave and aggressive, and take it as an honor to offer powerful prey to the holy mountain. The so-called powerful prey are at least gold-level snow monsters. Therefore, all barbarians who can live to 70 years old are powerful Urusa, and they

You also need to have the wisdom to survive.

Currently, there are only 213 Urusa elders and 27 Gortha elders in the entire Harlotus Fortress. The legendary barbarian Harald is the youngest Gortha elder among them and the weakest one.

Perhaps, he is also the most far-sighted barbarian elder.

Since ancient times, the barbarians of Arreat have coexisted with the mountain dwarves. The mountain dwarves, who are as stubborn as rocks, settled in Mount Arreat. They are natural stonemasons and blacksmiths. The mountain dwarves helped the barbarians forge weapons and build the Harlotus Fortress.

and safari camps. The barbarian tribe helped the mountain dwarves eliminate powerful monsters, and exchanged prey and herbs for the mountain dwarves' weapons, mushroom wine, food, and daily necessities.

The mountain tribes originally did not need to interact with humans, but things have changed.

About 80 years ago, the mountain dwarves suddenly left their home in Mount Arreat and moved to the Everfree Forest. This was exactly the same as the great migration of forest centaurs and halflings.

Since that time, Harlotus Fortress has had trade relations with the Teutonic Principality through the exile of barbarians under the mountains, and gradually formed a four-year barbarian fair.

Sophia saw the minerals left by the mountain dwarves to the barbarians in Harlotus Fortress. They were piled up in mountains and had everything they wanted, but the barbarians could not smelt the minerals or forge weapons.

The barbarians need external help. The farsighted barbarian elders broke the closed tradition with an ancient prophecy and sent Harald to lead a group of barbarians into the human world.

In the eyes of those in power, prophecies that cannot be changed are meaningless. Aren't prophecies that can be changed meant to unite people's hearts and change traditions?

Anyone who really believes in the prophecy is a complete fool. Of course, the more such fools the better.

Regardless of whether Elder Harald can recover the relic, the barbarian tribe has established a stable and lasting connection with the human world. By communicating and learning from humans, the barbarians will adapt to the new way of life.

The Knights of Radiance will not miss this golden opportunity. They want to fill the vacancy of the mountain dwarves, ally with the barbarians, and obtain endless mineral resources from Mount Arreat.

As for the sudden migration of mountain dwarves and forest centaurs into the Everfree Forest, this is cause for alarm, but that's all. Otherwise, what else can be done? Run to the Everfree Forest and ask the elves to find out?

Victor would not worry about this in vain, but he discovered many interesting phenomena.

The barbarian tribes are centered on Harlotus Mountain and hunt in all directions according to fixed routes. This is more like a patrol. Every four years, they have to return to Harlotus Fortress for pilgrimage, which restricts the barbarians.

patrol range.

What are they guarding? And who has trapped these powerful warriors on Mount Harlotus?

The strange thing is that the barbarians themselves don't know the reason.

The situation of barbarians is surprisingly similar to that of some dragon-veined orcs, such as lizards and half-dragons. They have independent intelligence, but cannot get rid of the fetters of blood and always guard the lair of the hydra lizard. Another example is that they are subject to will.

The alchemical creatures affected... To put it simply, it is like a mother discovering that her child is in danger. Her maternal instinct goes beyond the survival instinct and she does not hesitate to use her life to protect her children.

Will determines behavioral habits!

The barbarian's holy relics are obviously the remnants of the Alchemy Empire. Victor suspects that the barbarians are the descendants of some kind of alchemical creature, rather than a simple dragon-veined species.

The goat-headed monsters living in the dark forest resemble the alchemical unit Savi warriors. Ant-men also have the characteristics of alchemical creatures. However, their water element attributes surpass those of real alchemical creatures.

This shows that damage to the Alchemy Tower's law crystal may cause some alchemical creatures to mutate, giving them the ability to reproduce.

However, the barbarians will eventually come down the mountain, and their interactions with humans will help them break away from traditional constraints and form a new social structure.

Why didn't the mountain dwarves help the barbarians do this?

There are still many unsolved mysteries in history. Victor really wants to go to Harlotus Fortress to see it in person, but both time and distance are too far. It is better to learn the barbarian language first, and then try to learn from Elder Harald.

Find the answer in yourself.

Victor had more urgent things to deal with at the moment. He stared at the bonfire for a moment and suddenly asked: "Dear Lord Marquis, what are you thinking?"

Knight Nicholas immediately stood up and prepared to avoid the conversation between the two masters, but was stopped by Sophia raising her hand.

"Nicholas, Viscount Randall is asking what the Sabretooth Tiger Knight thinks. Tell him truthfully."

"Yes." Nikolai said with a wry smile: "Sir Randall, many low-blooded aristocratic children have used the medicine and human resources of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce to awaken their fighting spirit and then serve a certain lord. But there are also some knights who are interested in Lord Sophia.

Those who are loyal and loyal are the knights of our Sabre-Tooth Tiger Merchant Group."

"To be honest, we are used to caravan life, but you also know the situation of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce. If Lady Sophia loses the title of Marquis of Wimbledon, our saber-toothed tiger knights will also be deprived of their fief by the royal family. We can only follow

Lady Sophia, surrender to the Randall family." He was silent for a moment and continued: "We know that members of the Randall family do not welcome outsiders. Therefore, we plan to insist on running the Chamber of Commerce and see if we can find a way out. If

If that doesn't work, we hope that the Lord will remember the past friendship and canonize two lords around Raven Town and give them to us."

Victor sneered: "Then I will become your spare wheel?"

"Ah?" Nikolai looked at Victor confused.

"You are unwilling to be loyal to me wholeheartedly, and you still want me to prepare two lordships for you?"

"The condition is Natalia and I, and a huge fortune." Sophia said lightly, rolled her eyes, and smiled sweetly: "My dear, the initiative is in your hands, not mine.

In hand. You can choose to help me tide over the difficulties and then own my Natalia, or you can choose to accept the knights of the Saber-Tooth Tiger Merchant Group and then own Natalia and me."

Victor thought about it carefully and realized that this was really the case.

The Randall family was neither willing to help nor accept her, so Sophia had no choice but to fake her death and escape, join other forces, and then find a new husband and form her own family.

"Why do you think I can help you get through this difficulty?" Victor asked curiously.

Sofia and Natalia laughed and said nothing.

Nikolai continued: "When we were in Raven Town, we had contact with Viscount Negus of the Dodo Kingdom. He said that as long as we can increase the share of jaggery sold to him by twenty times, they are willing to help us.

Open up a new trade route in the Centaur Hills of Dodo. It is said that this is the intention of the Dodo royal family. The Friedrich family cannot openly offend the Borui and Sasan people, but can only secretly facilitate us."

Victor frowned and said to himself: "Jaggery, why jaggery?"
Chapter completed!