City of Sin: One hundred development
During the safari, Richard received an accident/surprise message via Golden War Flag.
The Fallen Cleric Marvin, which has been active at Sequoia Kingdom, has news. After not listening for a month, Direwolf Duke suddenly changed his attitude, not only summoned Marvin, but also promised refuge to Richard and others.
Because Richard does not yet have any titles and titles, Marvin has made up the identity of an ancient noble child for Richard, and found a long-extinct noble family and inherited their titles. This kind of thing is very common in Sequoia Kingdom, it only needs a few gold coins to do it.
The nobility of the noble title is meaningless, even the descendants of the self-proclaimed Duke are useless. But Direwolf Duke gave Richard a title of Pioneer Knight, and picked several villages in the border area for Richard to choose. This is the real fief, the foundation of any noble. The title of Pioneer Knight cannot be hereditary. Its significance lies in the legal external expansion. The areas hit by Pioneer Knight are all their own legal fiefs.
In the history of human expansion of aliens, Pioneer Knight, the lowest cornerstone of nobility, has always been at the forefront of war. After the human race gradually occupied the dominant position of Qihui mainland, Pioneer Knight became an important force in the war between the hostile countries.
Pioneer Knight also has a designated area for development. In theory, it is possible to designate a great empire as the development area, as long as you can fight it down.
From the perspective of the initial land grant given by Direwolf Duke, he actually gave two directions for development. The East is the old opponent Whiterock Dukedom who attacked Direwolf Duke, while the West is directly pointing to a few exotic settlements on the edge of Bloodstained Lands.
Fontaine Baron will be the direct backing of Richard. Barony is rich in land and can provide sufficient supplies, as long as Richard can afford gold coins. At the same time, Fontaine Baron will also be the target of Richard sales. A lot of slaves will inevitably be produced during the development process, and Baron is very interested in this business.
Direwolf Duke has created quite generous conditions for Richard. Naturally, it is not without reason. At the end of the Marvin letter, it means that Direwolf Duke also wants to get a ‘Rune’ in return for Richard to his lord. Seeing this, Richard's mind quickly deduced the way of spreading the news of the transaction in Bishui Oasis, vaguely catching a bit of the intricate relationship between the surrounding human countries. In the last sentence, Marvin mentioned his level. Because of this, he actually got more Divine Power, Cleric level has been increased to Level 7.
Richard thought about it a bit, and told Quicksand about the Marvin promotion. The latter did not seem to be surprised.
Pioneer Knight needs to specify the pioneering area, so Richard returned a short letter, which chose a small village in the west as its territory, and delineated a terrifying development area:
Bloodstained Lands and ancestral plateau.
After replying to the letter, Richard left the supply point of Golden War Flag, led the team again, and continued to explore the depths of Bloodstained Lands.
Bloodstained Lands is full of danger, and there are jagged bones everywhere. Richard is used to the scenes of death and killing, and has seen more miserable scenes left by the caravan after being robbed by horse bandits. So when the distant place saw another battlefield ruin, Richard did not express any surprise, but stopped the horse from afar, waved a Sealed Knight and brought a small team of Shamin Warrior to see what happened. A moment later, the Sealed Knight ran back, his face dignified, and asked Richard to take a look.
At least ten days before the battle, most of the corpses that have fallen to the ground have rotted. scavenger creatures are walking on the battlefield, and a large group of Vulture are surrounded by a corpse in a delicious meal. It was not until the Richard horses were less than ten meters away from them that these guys flapped their wings and flew unwilling, but still hovered above the battlefield.
Richard ’s eyes slowly swept across the battlefield.
This is a fierce and large-scale battle. The one side of the battle is a regular escort. The armor and the flag belong to the Bloodland Lions Merchants Group, and it is also one of the top-ranked business groups. The escort's combat power is even greater than that of the horse bandits. They have left more than three hundred corpses. Even in Bloodstained Lands, this size of **** team is enough to make the most terrifying thieves think deeply. On the battlefield side, there are more than a dozen truck wrecks. All the trucks were cut with heavy weapons, and various remaining cargoes were scattered to the ground. The goods are mainly all kinds of ores, and the value ranges from precious to rare. If the goods of more than a dozen vehicles are all such ores, when they arrive at Human Kingdom, they will be worth at least tens of thousands of gold coins.
Hundreds of corpses were lying around the truck, these people should be caravans. Dead bodies have different postures, there are resistance, some escape, and some are for mercy. No matter what kind of effort, the final result will become a corpse. And Richard knows by looking at the number of corpses, the entire caravan should be here, no one is spared.
Remaining cargo, the corpses that were inspected, especially Richard noticed that there were few bags of water and food left at the scene. The conclusion quickly emerged that the attackers only took the supplies and the high-value and easy-to-carry property, and showed no interest in the bulky ore.
Caravans of this size, even if they hang the Scarlet Cossack flag, will be carefully considered by Richard. But now the entire caravan has become corpses, so what about the enemy? Is there no casualties? Does any Bloodstained Lands force still have the same habit as he would collect the remains of his own dead?
Richard's eyes fell on the body of a black armor knight on the battlefield. This is an extremely tall knight, more burly and powerful than Barbarian. The heavy armor on him is at least hundreds of kilograms. From the armor alone, the knight's power is no less than Ogre Medium Rare. Such a heavy body can never be carried by ordinary horses.
Not far from the knight, a terror warhorse that is at least one meter taller than a normal warhorse is also inverted. The warhorse not only protruded two long fangs from his mouth, but also grew several bone spurs of various lengths around his body, which seemed extremely terrifying. The horse was not only stained with dried blood on the giant hooves and bone spurs, it even had a severed arm in its mouth.
Only this kind of war horse has enough power to bear the black armor knight.
At least a dozen pieces of weapons were inserted into the knight ’s body, and with his body as the center, dozens of members of the guards were inverted. Apparently they killed such a terrible enemy by accumulating life. Several long weapons were also inserted on the warhorse, and the bodies of dozens of guards were pressed against him.
It has been a long time since he died, but the black armor and war horses still seem to have the horrifying powers around them. Various scavenger creatures, whether they are Vulture, jackals, or even insects, are reluctant to approach the black armor knight corpse several meters. Not to mention the bodies of knights and war horses, even the bodies of the guards in this range are intact.
Richard frowned, and the black knight made him feel very uncomfortable.
ps: After the character card solicitation, a new round of solicitation begins, this time Magic Rune. The content of the activity has been posted in the book review area, this time there is a reward, thank you for your busy book friends. Everyone has nothing to do. May wish to participate more, maybe which Rune you designed will appear on a certain part of a character.
In addition, there is a reason to change today.