City of Sin: One hundred seventy-eight ransom

With less than a quarter of the opponent ’s strength, the Highland Unicorn Viscount troops, all annihilated, Pioneer Knight Richard immediately gained a small reputation in Sequoia Kingdom.

A few days later, hundreds of employees and dozens of wood and stone arrived in the territory of Richard. They are all from Fontaine Barony, as part of the ransom of Zim Viscount, Little Fontaine Baron is obliged to provide the necessary supplies to Richard at a low price.

After receiving the letter from Richard, Barony immediately sent the material without any objection, which confirmed the previous conjecture of Richard that the deciding person on the side of Barony to Duke Glassbow was the Viscount Zim.

After learning this fact, Richard slightly increased the evaluation of the Viscount staff ’s strategic decision. While resorting to the use of force, he could think of the special geographical location of Little Fontaine Baron in the counterattack territory to block the direct connection between Richard and Direwolf Duke The channel not only prevents the Duke's side from intervening in advance, but also intercepts the back of the Richard, which is also considered a qualified counselor. But it is only qualified, because such a vigorous effort, won nothing but won a lot of losses. So these strategists have a tactical vision but no strategic awareness at all. Of course, another possibility is that they do have a strategic awareness, but they can't play it in the Viscount.

However, no matter which side Little Fontaine Baron is on, either Duke Glassbow or Direwolf Duke, they have to temporarily become the logistics base of Richard.

After the workers and materials were in place, Richard's castle was finally started. Richard will go to the construction site every few days to inspect the progress of the project, and occasionally modify the castle drawings. In four months, the prototype of the castle can be built, and then the interior decoration will be carried out.

Without waiting for the castle to be completely built, Richard sent representatives of several messengers to prepare to turn their gold coins into combat power as soon as possible.

In addition to wood and stone, the purchase list issued to Little Fontaine Baron also includes a large number of grains and sophisticated weapons. Originally Little Fontaine Baron did not want to provide weapons, but Richard also classified the transaction as part of the Zim Viscount ransom, so the supply and demand relationship between the two parties was immediately reversed. The small Baron not only needs to provide standard equipment for two hundred elite infantry at a low price, but the quality must also be optimized.

The other envoy is to go to the Blue Water Oasis, where there are many old friends of Richard.

Within a few days, the person sent by Richard will relay the latest news of Bloodstained Lands.

Although several oasis areas have suffered heavy losses after being stormed by the Sinclair, it is also a loss of manpower, and large areas of land and buildings are still intact. Sinclair instantly died under Twilight Castle. When she died, the forces that had succumbed to her **** power immediately regained their true colors and reoccupied various oasis. However, the losses of all forces are different, some are almost unharmed, and some are seriously injured.

As a result, the original balance situation was broken, and all forces have requirements to re-divide the pattern of interests. The situation in several major oasis of Bloodstained Lands is very clear, and there may be a melee at any time. Various human countries bordering on Bloodstained Lands are also eyeing this huge interest.

In this case, the prices of slaves, weapons, Magic Crystal, and alchemy equipment have skyrocketed, while the prices of minerals, raw materials, and other rare materials have declined. For example, Richard originally wanted to hire a group of horse bandits to guard the territory, but found that the price of the horse bandits has far exceeded his budget. The increase in the price of cannon fodder is also an important sign of the coming war.

Richard has been extremely busy these days. He needs to reorganize the remaining troops, so that the newly arrived Desert Warrior and Barbarian are accustomed to cooperate with Fengya and Throwers, understand and follow the body movements and howling language of the two elite Fengya. The two elite wind teeth can directly accept orders from the Richard consciousness.

Just the reorganization training consumes most of the Richard day time. Fortunately, after a few days of high-intensity training, several different arms finally integrated and became a whole. This step was taken, and the strength of the troops under Richard was enhanced.

At night, it is time for Richard to clean up and make Rune. He now spends most of his time on the Spell Penetration of the Rank 2. When his energy is poor, he will repair the broken Rune recovered from the Bearguard Knight. This simple job does not have high requirements for Precision (accurate) and Mana control. Richard can be completed by instinct. For him, changing to a low-complexity job is equivalent to resting. In the end, Richard recovered two nearly intact forces Rune and one defense Rune. In addition, 3 secondary powers and one secondary defense were successfully repaired.

In a busy time, time always passes by fast. On this day, the messenger of Direwolf Duke came to the territory of Richard.

The messenger sent by the Duke this time is still the middle-aged Sir Sandton. There were thirty cavalry and hundreds of infantry accompanied, and more than a dozen carriages were brought.

After greeting each other with Richard, Sir Sandon asked to meet the imprisoned Viscount Zim. Richard agrees happily, because this is actually equivalent to Direwolf Duke showing his attitude and saying that he knows this matter, then he eliminated a big hidden danger.

Since Direwolf Duke as Richard ’s confer a Noble Title recognized the legality of defending his territory, then Duke Glassbow had to follow the rules of the kingdom ’s nobles to handle disputes, for example, to pay the ransom in full for the invasion of Zim Viscount, and then both The mutual revenge will also be limited to a reasonable range to avoid direct war between the two dukes.

In principle, wars between Kingdom Three Grand Duke are not allowed, otherwise the royal family will intervene.

Zim Viscount was kept alone in a wooden house with an independent yard. In addition to not being allowed to leave the yard, other actions were very free. He even arranged for a young maid to take care of the Viscount ’s living.

Sir Sandon looked at the living environment of the Viscount Zim, and briefly chatted with the Viscount, and listened carefully to the Viscount's complaint for ten minutes.

Zim ’s complaints mainly focus on not receiving the treatment they deserve, such as not having dozens of maids, dinners with up to a dozen main courses, etc. As soon as ten minutes arrived, Sir Sandon left the chattering Viscount, and accompanied by Richard to the captive camp of Warrior.

More than 400 captives are not treated as well as the Zim Viscount. Only the guard captain, Viscount Personal Guard and Low Level officers can squeeze a few people in a wooden house, and the rest of the Warrior must be squeezed in the camp. All their weapons and armor were taken away, and the range of activities was not allowed to exceed the fence. Once out of range, the crossbowmen arranged on arrow tower by Richard will shoot them mercilessly. The prisoner of war camp is not large, so more than 400 prisoners of war seem very crowded. Sir Sandon walked around, briefly chatted with a few prisoners of war, and left there, heading to the place Richard arranged for himself.