Chapter 5 3. Sir, the barbarians are coming, we have to run away

"Land, you need to decide as soon as possible whether we should leave the territory." Rohr said, while looking at Lant, waiting for Lant's decision.

At this moment, Lant was confused: "Where are we going?"

"Of course, go to Maned Wolf City or the forest to the west," Roll said. "You need to make a decision before dawn!"

"Ah, what's going on?" Lant really didn't understand.

"Rohr, Lant has just woken up now and has heard so much knowledge. You need to explain it clearly to him before letting him make a decision." Albert said with some blame.

"Lant is like this. As I just said, as a lord, you need to defend the land and protect the people. Now the barbarians have reached the Cornico Pass, which is only a day's journey from us.

Although we don’t know when they will come now, they will definitely not just come to rob. Once they come, even our baron’s castle will not be able to withstand the barbarian attack.

If a large number of people are robbed, the Benma Barony will really be finished, and the baronage of the entire Benma family will be taken back."

Boyat glanced at Rohr, "Rohr and I have thought of two routes, and you need to make the decision. The first is to the east. The Blue Magpie Barony east of Rotor's territory is directly under the family of the Earl of Maned Wolf.

The territory is only 1 or 2 days away from the Maned Wolf City. As long as we reach the Blue Magpie Territory, we will have the protection of the Earl's Maned Wolf Knights.

The second is the traditional route of the Benma family, escaping westward into the big forest. You don’t have to worry. Both the Benma clan and the Rote clan have had the experience of entering the big forest for resettlement many times in the past ten years.

There are several campsites deep in the forest where you can stay for a long time.

The vanguard of the barbarians is mainly composed of barbarian cavalry. They are tall and have large horses, which makes it difficult to move in the forest. If their army dares to enter the forest territory to search, the complex terrain is not conducive to their large number of beasts of burden to transport supplies. Therefore, the barbarians will never move on their own.

Go into the forest asking for food."

Well, okay. It's really hard to choose between living under someone else's roof or being a savage. "I want to hear your suggestions."

"I suggest going to the Lot Territory first, and then to the Blue Magpie Territory," Rohr said. "The strength of the barbarians this year is obviously greater than in previous years. In the end, it is very likely that the Earl will personally take action to expel these barbarians. If we go to the Earl's territory, we can go faster.

Knowing the situation in the territory can also let the earl know earlier that even if Baron Harker leaves temporarily, there will still be someone to lead the galloping horse territory even if the earl is gone.

We will arrive at the Earl's Maned Wolf City in 4 or 5 days, and there won't be any mistakes."

"I think it is better to enter the forest. This forest is full of magical power and rich in products. The family has entered the forest for refuge many times in history, and has successfully avoided barbarian intrusions." Albert emphasized.

"Multiple times?" Lant said.

"Yes, the most recent one was 8 years ago. There was also a large-scale invasion by the barbarians. At that time, the Lord of Lot, Viscount Bob Lot, asked Huck to take care of the people. Huck took all the people from the two territories there.

Big forest refuge.

You were young at that time and had just shown some potential to embrace demons, so Huck sent you to Maned Wolf City and asked you to follow your third brother to the temple over there to take shelter."

Lant recalled that eight years ago, when he was just 8 or 9 years old, he did go on a long trip with his third brother, but he didn't remember that he actually entered the city. He only felt that he was in a certain monastery. Listen.

After explaining the reasons given by the two important ministers, Lant asked casually, "Roel, the Viscounty of Lot is only one day away from us, and the Maned Wolf City is only three days away?"

"Of course!" Rolle was very sure.

"How did you get there?"

"Riding! Is there any problem?"

At this time, Albert also came back to his senses, "You are the most powerful intermediate knight in the territory. You rode the best horse on the Galloping Horse Plains and took 4 days to get to Earl City. But we are moving the people in the territory.

It’s all about beasts of burden and horse-drawn carriages. It’s good to be able to cover 2 or 30 miles in one day. How can we reach there in only 3 days?”

"But that's only an extra day or two."

"No, you are riding a horse. Unless someone is waiting for you, few people will notice you. There are hundreds of people in our territory, and there are only a dozen or so Demon Empathizers in a huge team. The barbarians will grab whoever you want to grab.

What?" Lant added, "But more importantly, you two have witnessed these two days. Don't you think it's a coincidence that we were ambushed in these two days?"

"What?" Neither Luo Er nor Albert had ever thought about it at this level.

"Think about it, both my father and Viscount Roth often come in and out of the Cornico Pass. You two also have experience in entering the pass for business. The pass is more than 20 kilometers long, and there is a continuous road to the north of the pass.

Hills and water network.

Whether it was us or the Lot territory, only 10 people were dispatched, and a barbarian tribe often only had 8 or 9 cavalry, and the number was no less than 20. The ambush we encountered was equivalent to a medium-sized tribe sending its own cavalry.

All the troops moved out to deal with us.

I would like to ask, if you two were lords or tribal leaders, under what circumstances would you be willing to use all the fighting power in your territory to make a desperate move?"

"Of course, when the information is very certain." Albert understood what Lant meant. "You mean, we were betrayed by Viscount Roth?"

"That can't be true. If the earl knows about this, it will be the end of Viscount Roth," Rohr said.

Although mutual intrigues between nobles are not uncommon, internal and external are two different concepts, especially the Dragon Kingdom, which regards the barbarians on the Galloping Horse Plain as its main opponent. Cooperating with the barbarians to attack other nobles is treason. Once discovered, it will be considered treason.

The title was abolished, the territory was abolished or returned to the lord.

Therefore, in the past, no nobles would use barbarians to deal with other nobles, and they believed that Rohr and Albert had not thought about this.

But Lant doesn't think so. After all, he just arrived today and has no idea about the kingdom's traditions. However, he has watched TV series and played many games before, so it is easy to find a basis for such a simple judgment.

The simplest point is that when Viscount Roth separated from Huck and others, Huck went to the nearby hillside to conduct reconnaissance. There were no barbarian camps within dozens of miles. Therefore, it was not so much that they were ambushed by the barbarians, but that they were ambushed by the barbarians.

I was approached by a large group of barbarians.

If Viscount Roth didn't betray them, how could the barbarians find them from dozens of kilometers away?

"Nothing is impossible. Now I have every reason to distrust Viscount Roth. I will not place my hopes of protecting the people on him. You two, I have decided that all the people in the entire territory will move westward tomorrow.

Take refuge in the forest." An hour after Lant officially became a baron (acting), he made a decision to obey his ancestors and ran away quickly.

"Yes" Rohr and Albert leaned forward to accept the order.

"Uncle Albert, please organize all the direct citizens in the baron territory to prepare for migration. Knight Roll, I want you to send the power of the territory to notify the two surrounding knight territories to move and let them directly enter the forest. There is no need to meet up at the Baron's Castle.

In addition, some reconnaissance forces need to be sent out. The Cornico Pass can be seen from the hillside 10 kilometers away in the north. Send people there to keep an eye on it!"

"Yes" the two of them took the orders again

The profound Albert looked at several orders made by Lant and felt that Lant was growing very fast, so he said, "Lant, don't worry too much. For the barbarians, entering the south of the mountain pass is also a big move. They need to travel." We still have time to cross a few tributaries of the Benma River.

In addition, there are no valuables in the territorial castle. All valuable magic potions, magic plants, books, weapons, and gold coins are packed and ready to leave at any time.

The belts of the people's families are mainly grain, but we have purchased a lot of beasts of burden and a lot of carriages in recent years, so the real preparations will be done very quickly." The beast of burden that Albert mentioned is a kind of beast that is half ox and half Horse livestock, this kind of animal has a docile temperament, a broad back and is easy to breed.

Whether they are barbarians, orcs or humans, they all like to use this kind of beast of burden when climbing long distances.

"Well, that's great," Lant said with a smile. Our hometown is really conscious and ready to run away every day.

But thinking of this, Lant suddenly realized, why am I lying in front of a campfire in the wilderness?

Shouldn't I be in my baron's castle? So I glanced at Albert and said, "Uncle Albert, it's so late now, why don't we go back to the castle?"

"..." Everyone was silent again, until Albert laughed dryly, "Lant, you have forgotten, before we set off, your father was afraid that the territory would be harassed by a small group of barbarians, so he put all the grain stored in the warehouse on the The goods after the second trade trip have been placed on the first floor of the castle. Now the first floor of the castle is full, and we have no place to lift our feet when we go back."

"Rand, have you forgotten that we were the ones who moved tons of grain in?" Rohr added.

"...Oh, yes, I remembered it. We are just in time. We can load all the food into the car and set off tomorrow." Lant smiled, but he was thinking in his heart, am I really a noble? My family works as a warehouse. , the extraordinary porter, rushes on his own when the barbarians come.

What kind of shabby place is this? What a mess. Otherwise, if I try again tonight, I will go back as soon as I close my eyes and kick my legs.

.......

After lying down again and closing his eyes, Lant did not fall asleep immediately. Naturally, he could not return to the place before the dream began. Because he found that he could feel a large number of light spots around him moving irregularly, and these light spots did not It did not affect Lant's rest, or that light spot was just a certain signal or energy. Lant tried hard to make these light spots produce a certain pattern, but unfortunately, after a long period of various attempts, All failed.

Finally, Lant tried to take a breath in his Dantian to concentrate all the energy that could obey him. He tried for another 10 minutes, and finally condensed an energy the size of a steel ball. It dispersed in less than 20 seconds. After eating, Lant's stomach directly made a protest sound. The body of the demon owner has a big bone, and the sound also made when he was hungry, which made Lant feel embarrassed for a while and he was too embarrassed to open his eyes.

"Lant? Lant?" A familiar voice sounded in the ear, Nila, Lant's sister. Lant's biological mother passed away early, and Nila was taking care of her until she was 14 years old, even if she later inspired the Demon Enemy

Of blood, Nila is also taking care of the main daily life.

Lant opened his eyes in embarrassment and saw that Nila had brought a lot of food, including dried meat, scones and hot soup. "How can you sleep when you are hungry? You have become a junior knight now. You have no appetite."

It’s bigger, eat more to replenish your body.”

"Nila, wait a minute." At this time, Rolle came over with a bunch of dried meat. "These foods of yours can keep you full, but they can't help Lant grow." After saying that, Rolle handed the dried meat in his hand to Lant.

"This is the dried meat of the low-level monster Wind Wolf. I exchanged it with the barbarians during our last trade trip. You eat this.

Only by eating more monster meat can a knight really grow taller."

To be precise, whether you are a knight, a mage or a cleric, promotion and breakthrough are both a short-term qualitative change and a long-term accumulation of quantitative changes. The total amount of magic power and fighting spirit in the body is directly proportional to the quality and volume of the body. If you want to grow

The body has to take care of food, and there are essential differences between things.

Ordinary grains and meat, of course, carry nutrients, so they can replenish the body's consumption. However, Warcraft meat and even magic potions can provide magic power more efficiently, allowing the demon holders to accumulate and grow more quickly.

Lant looked at the dried meat in Rolle's hand and remembered that half a year ago, after Huck and Rolle went hunting, Huck gave Rolle a portion of the harvested monster meat.

Unexpectedly, Luo Er was not willing to eat any of it, and even made it into bacon. Although he didn't know how much magic power could be stored in this marinated meat, he couldn't move his eyes away when he saw this piece of monster meat.

The words "I'm hungry" and "I want to eat" were placed outside Zhongdu. Lant was a little embarrassed. After all, he was the lord now. Even if he was an agent, he shouldn't compete with his subordinates for food.

............

After a midnight snack of World of Warcraft meat, Lant continued to sleep and had a dreamless night.

At dawn, Lant woke up feeling a little regretful that he could not go back. Soon he also knew that he had indeed traveled to a completely different planet, because two suns, one big and one small, rose one after another.

The huge sun is Raya, which is a light blue star, like a light blue fireball, occupying most of the sky. When the star lifted into the sky, Lant felt that the surrounding

The temperature and brightness did not increase more, but instead some invisible energy became more restless.

"That's the magic element," Albert introduced. "Most of the magic element comes from the gift of Raya. When Raya rises, the magic elements on the entire ground will be more abundant. However, we are close to the Galloping Horse Plains.
To be continued...