Chapter 291

Gabert Viscount Negus, a 64 year old wind knight, Earl of the court, the bow bearer of his majesty Friedrich, the guardian of Whitewater fortress, and the warning preached by the Sasan knight. Now he is the Lord of the western border of the Dodo Kingdom and the neighbor to the north of Raven town.

The title of knight is neither groundless nor boastful. It comes from the personal praise of the king, the church or the enemy. It is cast by outstanding achievements and extraordinary feats. It is the reputation and glory pursued by Knight nobles. Gabert Negus deserves his name.

At the age of 15, Negus emerged at the court martial arts competition of Dodo kingdom. He was selected as the bodyguard of Prince Friedrich. He entered the court and received Royal Knight education. At the age of 27, he was promoted to a wind knight and joined the Dodo forbidden guard as a palace baron. Four years later, Prince Friedrich succeeded to the throne and began to promote his confidants. Negus became the bow bearer of the new king and served as the deputy commander of the Dodo guards. At the age of 36, neigus was successfully promoted to the great Knight of the wind system, won the rank of viscount of the court, joined the iron wall knights, began to face off with the sassanne knights and made great achievements.

Negus received Royal Knight education, respected knights with noble blood and despised aristocrats with impure blood. On the battlefield, following the aristocratic tradition, he first warned the Sassanian knights with a fine gold feather arrow to leave their booty and retreat by themselves. If he encounters the other party again, Negus will mercilessly kill all the guards of the Sasan knight, and then capture him alive, never missing.

During the period when neigus was active on the battlefield, the Lord of the Sassanian Empire paid hundreds of thousands of ransom to dodo in order to welcome back the captured family knights. So that King dodo would often send people to ask: has Negus caught a "mobile wallet" recently? Dodo Knights heard that the wind had changed for neigus, and even did not dare to equip refined gold weapons. Some small families simply stopped sending knights to participate in the war. For this reason, neigus was called a "Warner" by Satan.

Five years later, the famous neigus left the iron wall knights, took over as the commander of Baishui fortress, and won the title of Earl of the court. Everyone thinks that count neigus is a gentle traditional aristocrat. However, he showed the terrible side of the wind great knights to the world in the battle of Whitewater Castle: two of the three great Knights falling from the sassanne empire fell under the keel and silver bow of neigus.

After the war, the Sassanian nobles scolded Negus, saying he was a "hypocritical poisonous snake", and two Highnesses threatened revenge. Under diplomatic pressure and for the purpose of protection, his majesty Friedrich dismissed the commander of the white water fortress of Negus, and he rejoined the iron wall knights. With the development of the situation, the iron wall Knights came to Minsk fortress group in Gambis Kingdom, forcing Marquis golon to lead the army to confront, which indirectly led to Ryan His majesty Augustus died in battle. There, Negus met young Sauron Wimbledon, although the two did not fight, Soren did contain Negus.

Now, Sauron became the Lord of the horse hill, and Negus came to the horse hill, just at Raven castle.

The Raven Castle hall is surrounded by warriors, and Victor sits on the Lord's throne. It is difficult for him to connect the elegant, young and handsome aristocrat with the famous extraordinary knight. The travel mode of viscount neigus is also surprising. A flag, a retinue and three horses are like small nobles traveling, rather than powerful Lords. Of course, behind this is the confidence and calm of the great Knights of the wind system. But Victor had to admit that Negus's gesture made him feel good,

"Lord Negus, your visit has brightened Raven castle." Victor smiled and said, "I'll give you a banquet."

"Your Excellency Wimbledon, I appreciate your kind invitation, but I'm afraid I don't have time to attend your dinner." Negus leaned slightly, shook his head and sighed: "Duke Eriksson's crime of forging gold coins was exposed. Under the witness of the church, the Duke himself has been duly punished by the wise lord Friedrich, and the Eriksson family has also been properly punished. However, the villains and accomplices gathered by the Duke have scattered and fled. They have become bandits and vagrants, wandering around the land, robbing goods and poisoning the villagers. As the Lord, I need Wipe out these villains as soon as possible and protect the people of the territory. "

"My purpose of this visit is not only to visit my new neighbor, but also to remind you to be careful of the harassment of thieves."

Victor said, "just last night, a gang of bandits attacked a free people camp not far away. When my guards arrived there, they had killed many free people and fled north. After a night's pursuit, my fast bird cavalry finally wiped them out in the wild. All the bandits gave their heads without missing the net." Victor sighed again: "considering the safety of the free people, I ordered that the camp be demolished, and all the free people move to Raven town. Father Gary is coming. He will appease the frightened people, treat the injured, investigate the bandit attack, and then make a qualitative decision."

"This is really good news. I will issue a written document to the church to prove that you have exterminated a gang of robbers!" With a smile on his face, he agreed with Victor's words in his heart.

The free camp was indeed ordered by Negus, but in his eyes, the soldiers who controlled the camp, including the three humble trainee knights, were no different from bandits. Victor destroyed the free camp with lightning speed, wiped out the enemy cleanly and nipped the threat in the bud. Although the two sides had different positions, Victor was sharp and decisive It was very much in line with Negus' appetite, especially the arrow shot by Victor. Negus was particularly satisfied.

The popular archers are different from the great Knights of the wind system. Their arrows are surrounded by the breeze, silent and will not disturb the elements of the void wind. Naturally, they can't attract the attention of extraordinary knights. Last night, Victor was hidden in the dark and assisted by a swift bird light ride. Negus still had full confidence to retreat, but he also knew that he could not save Todd. If Victor shoots Todd directly, Negus will lose face. In his opinion, Victor's warning arrow is respect for himself. Therefore, when he chose to give in, he would not refuse the "goodwill" of the noble blood for an insignificant piece. Besides, Victor's blood is not inferior to any of his highness. It is a real ancient blood.

"Your Excellency, although my name is not Wimbledon, I am also proud to have Wimbledon's noble blood. In fact, wind knights and Elven blood nobles come from Wimbledon and TESL (one of the seven Paladin families) Two families. My grandmother is the daughter of Mrs. Caressa Wimbledon. Mrs. Caressa and your grandfather's grandfather are cousins. " Neigus's reserved and proud way.

"..." Victor said, "unfortunately, the Wimbledon family has declined..." he didn't want to recognize this uncle or uncle at all.

"It doesn't hurt the nobility in our blood." "I brought you a present," said Negus with a smile With that, the attendant behind him took out an oak box and respectfully handed it to the guard in the hall. The box was handed to victor. Inside was a dark metal ingot. Victor asked uncertainly, "is this... Keel steel?"

"That's right. This is karil mild steel, also known as keel steel. It's a specialty of Dodo kingdom." Neigus nodded and said, "you can use it to make soft sword and soft armor, or you can use it to make the body of 20 military heavy crossbows, or... The bow body of keel Mithril long bow."

It's worse than silver. Victor thought, but said, "I'm missing a bow to hold my hand. I like your gift very much. I'll give you 200 pounds of coffee in return."

Coffee, an element affinity drink, is sought after by knights and nobles, but its outflow quantity and high price are also amazing. As soon as his eyes brightened, he smiled and said, "no one will refuse this return gift, even if it is polite on the surface."

The relationship was also pulled, and the gifts were given. Viscount Negus said in due course: "Lord Wimbledon, the Eriksson family has left me a mess. Those wandering bandits have the war horses and weapons allotted by Duke Eriksson. They are a threat to Raven town. In order to eliminate these bandits as soon as possible, I must establish border posts and squeeze their activity space. As long as the border is determined, I guarantee that Raven town will not be harassed by bandits ！”

"In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding, I have a map here..."

The guard took the map in the hands of the Viscount's retinue and put it on Victor's table. Negus continued, "according to the original agreement, four kilometers north of the stream is the border between our two families. If your excellency agrees, we will build a border guard according to the map, how about it?"

Victor carved a detailed picture and looked up and said, "I also have a map here." With that, he took out a large sheepskin scroll from the drawer and motioned the guard to give it to Negus.

Viscount Negus unfolded the scroll and his eyes were frozen. The map drew mountains, rivers, forests and lakes with a radius of 200 kilometers. It was very detailed, but there was no boundary. Victor raised his voice and said: "The man horse hills are vast, and the mountains in the West are endless. We Gambis call it the leilil mountains, and dodo Kingdom calls it the skylark mountains. This mountain is connected to the prairie in the north and the Jinshui River in the south. It not only divides the lizard swamp, but also divides the endless forest. If calculated according to the length of the mountains, the man horse hills cover an area of more than 300000 square kilometers."

"We Gambis actually controls an area of 170000 square kilometers, while dodo actually controls an area of only 110000 square kilometers. This is because Duke Eriksson is insatiable. He draws an area of 50000 square kilometers on the map and does not allow other families to develop the area he delimits. However, the Eriksson family has a shallow foundation. Although Duke Eriksson expands wildly, he does not hesitate to He forged gold coins privately and recruited mercenaries and refugees as family soldiers, but he only actually controlled an area of 27000 square kilometers and 23000 square kilometers to be developed. "

"We all know that legal territory must be recognized by nobles, churches and civilians, that is, castles, villagers and missionaries." Victor closed the map and said faintly, "drawing a line on the map makes no sense."

Negus pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "I agree with your excellency. There is still 7000 square kilometers of wilderness in the territory assigned to me by his majesty Friedrich. If you are able to develop that land, I recognize your legal ownership. However, you, including the York family behind you, may not have the energy to continue to expand, do you?"

But Victor didn't intend to give up. He said with a smile, "it depends on whose side time is on." Neigus shook his head and said with a smile, "Sir, we have a common enemy. If we can't reach an agreement quickly, I'm afraid there will be endless trouble."

"Bandits?"

"No. It's a jackal!" Negus sighed and said, "the map drawn by your excellency is very detailed. You can't not know that the wasteland is occupied by a group of jackals. I personally investigated the wasteland. There are more than 2000 jackals entrenched there, as well as a large number of goblins and dog headed people. Fortunately, there are several fierce wolves in the north of Raven Town, otherwise the jackals have appeared near Raven town."

"At present, these jackals are in the stage of internal fighting, and they will soon form a clan. At that time, the fierce wolves can only escape to the mountains, raven town will be attacked by jackals, and my territory is very dangerous!"

Negus said solemnly, "the Jackal clan is by no means comparable to jackal bandits, and there may not be another jackal king among them!"

Negus was very depressed. The army of ant men swept the man horse hills, Gambis was in a mess, and the kingdom of Dodo stole music. However, the ant tide receded, leaving a clean territory for the York family. All the monsters and beasts in the South came to the north, including wolves, moon blade leopards, spotted tigers, grizzly bears, ferocious animals, and goblins, dog headed people and jackals who can't kill them all. It is precisely because of this that the development of Eriksson family territory is slow, so neigus is now in a mess.

"It's urgent to clean up the jackals!"

Victor was deeply impressed by the voice of Negus. Jackals are cruel and cunning, sensitive and mobile. Their individual combat power exceeds that of elite soldiers. The ferocity ratio of 30 to 1 is shocking. Ferocious jackals generally have bloodthirsty talent and their strength is comparable to that of trainee knights. The Jackal clan and jackal bandits are the difference between the army and the mob. Coupled with goblins and gopher slaves, their combat effectiveness is really increased exponentially. In order to resist the king of the jackals in the twilight forest, the church stationed 20000 Paladins in the north of the kingdom of SUS, and the garrison of the kingdom of SUS exceeded 60000. The harm of jackals can be seen from this.

However, more than 2000 jackals don't see enough in front of victor. The problem is what does he have to do so much?

Ordinary lords want the bigger the territory, and Victor's vision is the whole human society. Exploring the North has never been Victor's strategic focus. Randall family lacks independent talents. The larger the territory controlled by raven Town, the heavier the burden on Victor, and even the risk of losing control.

If Viscount Negus wants to open up more territory, let him entangle with the jackals. In fact, no family can monopolize all land resources. In order to put alchemy creatures into the north and destroy the jackals, it's better to let them continue to collect se silver mine and develop smuggling caravans. The purpose of Victor's bargaining with Negus is to plunder wealth with commodity trade.

"Your Excellency, you are right. But my territory is in the south. After the wind season tour, I will return to Randall. Therefore, I can't kill the jackals with you." Victor put on a embarrassed look and said, "I agree with the boundary drawn on the map. I will feed the fierce wolves with cattle and sheep to ensure that they will not hinder your army. That's all I can do. But I have a request."

Viscount Negus, flashing his eyes, said, "Sir, please speak frankly."

"When you exterminate the jackals, the jackals must flee. Those fierce jackals will pose a threat to Raven town. As you can see, the walls of my Raven castle are not smooth enough... I need to buy your stones and repair the castle." Said Victor.

"It's impossible. You know the reason." Negus shook his head decisively and refused.

"3 million pounds of crude sugar!"

"What?!"

Victor stood up and said with a smile: "It takes a lot of money to develop territory. For any development Lord, money is always not enough! Otherwise, Duke Eriksson will not privately forge gold coins. What's the price of crude sugar now? You must have heard about it. I'm willing to exchange 3 million pounds of crude sugar for your stones. It's remote and sparsely populated. No one will care about quietly transporting some stones. Moreover, I guarantee these stones It is only used to rebuild Raven castle, and will never build a second castle. "

Neigus was greatly moved. He thought for a moment and said tentatively, "so, what are you going to do with the stone removed from Raven castle?"

"Polished to build the walls of Raven town." Victor gave the other party a reassurance and said, "however, crude sugar is now a strategic material, and I risk a lot to provide you with crude sugar. To be safe, I can only hire a mercenary regiment to transport it in batches and stages. You also want to ensure the safety and concealment of my men. Do you agree?"

Viscount Negus stood up and made a knightly salute. "It's a deal!"

"It's a deal!"