Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 3 Finding a Foothold
The first generation of Earl Perast was a great knight with great fighting spirit. When he followed King Salar, he hoped that he could also establish a small duchy, and even prepared several places for himself.

It's a pity that the beast tide broke out that year, and the development of the Salar Kingdom came to an end. The defense line was too far from the place where the great knight prepared, and he never became a heaven knight, and finally had to give up helplessly.

The earl always hoped that a sky knight would appear in his descendants, so he hid the location in the handbook and left it to his descendants.

It is true that the border of Salar has been gradually pushed away over the millennium, but unfortunately, there are not many great knights in his descendants.

If it wasn't for Salar's stipulation that nobles must be knights or above in order to inherit, Perast probably would not have even knights.

On the second day of becoming a warlock, Hill began to analyze where these locations were suitable for building a mage tower.The Great Knight of Perast has many wonderful ideas, but his weak strength makes him look for some hidden places, which are very suitable for Hill.

Hill finally chose a valley that was about 15 days away from the border of the Salar Kingdom, which was about the size of an earl, including the surrounding mountains.

The Perast Knight felt that everything here was very good, but the place that was too small was just right for him.

After all, Hill has no desire to build a duchy, and legend is his pursuit.

Hill took out a pen and paper to silently calculate his inventory, and he will have his own home soon.

After an unknown time, Bonn knocked on the window a few times: "Baron, it's time to rest and eat."

This is a campsite, and Bonn has placed an alchemy tent.

Hill got out of the car and stretched out, Lina had already prepared dinner for him.Before walking into the tent to eat, and looking at Lina who was busy, Hill said to Bonn, "I saw a maid buying a few on the way. Just let Lina teach it well. The housekeeper doesn't need to do chores!"

Bonn said with a smile: "I know! It's just that Mom doesn't want to buy servants here. If she sees something good, she will consider it."

Hill rolled his eyes at him: "Then go and help! Let Lina take the child to sleep outside at night, and you go to sleep in the carriage!"

"Okay, okay!" Bonn said helplessly, "How could I let my mother sleep in the carriage!"

After Hill went in, Bonn found Lina: "Mom, Lord Baron asked you to buy servants!"

Lina glanced at him: "Did you say it's not suitable here?"

"Of course!" Bonn said, "Why does he feel sorry for your busyness! Also, he asked you to take Dean and Shanny to sleep outside."

"What do boys know!" Lina said resolutely: "This is so close to the royal city, the better ones have been delivered! We can only buy people when we get to the border, just to add a few more good horses. Okay, I know. Now, let Dean and Shanny go to sleep when the baron is asleep!"

Locke came over: "Or let them sleep with me in the carriage."

"Just take good care of the horse!" Lina said, "The baron doesn't want the children to suffer, no matter how comfortable the carriage is, it's not a bed. The children are sensible and will not make noise. The most important thing is to rest! There is still a long way to go! "

"Hmm!" Locke went along to feed the horses.

Hill smiled and listened to the conversation outside, and after summoning two earth element vigils, he immersed himself in meditation.

Hill handed everything over to Bonn, meditated every day, and the journey went smoothly. Hill was really glad that he was not a male protagonist of online literature, and he didn't want a magnificent life.All the way is smooth, safe and sound is what he expects.

After traveling for a month, I finally arrived at the western border city of Fisher.Lina bought 10 or so young servants in the previous cities to teach them carefully, and they can already be used for some purposes.

Locke chose 2 bigger boys for training, and it was enough to drive the carriage behind the team. Lina decided to buy some good horses in the border city.

Dean and Shanny have been in Hill's carriage these days, and Hill teaches them to read when he's bored.Bonn looked earthy every time he saw it.

Hill felt so happy, it had been a long time since he saw Bonn's face like this.

In the Earl's Castle, no one likes Hill.But he is the master after all.

The servants can only cast their resentment on Hill's personal servant Bonn.

During the 4 years in the castle, although Bonn tried to hide as much as possible, when he was caught, they dared not let him be seriously injured, but bumps and bumps were always inevitable.

Although these exercised Bonn's will, he matured quickly, and even awakened a little mana.While Bonn felt accomplished, Hill was still sad.Bonn was originally a cheerful and lively character, but he became more and more taciturn and cautious.

The pain of not being able to protect his childhood friend made Hill desperate for power, which may be one of the reasons why he suddenly awakened as a warlock.The farther away from the White Horse City, the more small escapes that Bonn hides, and Hill is really happy.

They're taking a week off at Fisher.Hill took out his mage robe and put it on.No one will easily offend the mage.Salar is a country built on the edge of the wilderness, and only 20 kilometers away from the border can open up its territory. Even if the sky knight encounters a few beast tides, he can only give up.

Salar is an emerging country that has just a millennium, and there is still a lot of room for development in the country. The small nobles and new knights who have been separated can still make contributions in the army guarding the border and ennoble them.Now most of the people who go abroad to build territories are the second sons of the great nobles like Hill, and they are all people who have the ability and do not want to stay in the country and be governed by their elder brothers.

South of Salar is the home country of the royal family, Heva Sardo.To the east is a long coastline.The north is the most powerful wild land, and several small principalities have been established outside the territory of Salar.

Although the West is also a wilderness, it is mountainous and wasteland, not suitable for building a country, but it is very suitable for a little warlock like Hill who just wants to build a small territory and hide.

Few of the territories built near the western part of Salar persisted, and they were all fortresses built in the mountains.

Salar's border Great Wall is still mainly to prevent animal tides, and there are few illegal businesses in the city.Merchants also went out of the city to deliver goods in noble territories, buying furs, horses and specialties by the way.

Bandits love to rob merchants who deliver goods to noble lands.And businessmen and robbers who can persist in this kind of place must be supported by those in power behind them. In fact, this also constitutes a kind of balance.

However, few mages who leave the city dare to provoke them. A mages who go abroad with their servants may go out to build mages towers, but they are more likely to offend people and go out and live in seclusion for a few years. After all, the lords are all paying to invite mages to settle down. .

All good things are put in the ring, so they can't be trapped. If they say they run away, they may fail. If they turn back and get revenge, they must go directly to the messenger behind the scenes.And if the person who gives the money causes trouble, it will be gone once it happens.There is no one doing a life without much benefit.

Hill stayed in the best hotel in town and didn't move.Locke took Bonn to buy horses, Lina trained the newly bought servants in the hotel, and went out on the last day to buy enough food to fill a carriage.

Hill took out two more alchemy carriages, and all those who secretly watched them gave up.Another hard-pressed mage who went out to live in seclusion. There are actually 2 carriages in the ring!The carriage is valuable, but robbing a mage for a few carriages is a fool's errand.

The Great Wall of the Western Frontier cost a lot of manpower and material resources of the Salar Kingdom. Between two mountains 2 kilometers apart, a city wall with a height of 500 meters and a width of 300 meters was built with boulders. .

Looking at the Great Wall winding up the mountains from a distance, he only felt majestic and majestic, but when he walked to the bottom and saw the huge black stone walls flashing with magical aura, Hill only felt intimidated.In this tunnel for going out of the city, after showing the noble documents, Hill looked back at the way he came from, and when he came back, he didn't know how many years later.

Within 20 kilometers out of the city, it must be cleaned at regular intervals, but the road with potholes outside the city is not easy to walk.Hill took out an alchemy map and handed it to Bonn, and looked back at the Great Wall.

There are a total of 4 border cities on the Great Wall. He specially showed the noble documents. Although the earl will know where he is going, he must let Fran know where he is going and where he is going.

Hill opened the formation of the alchemy carriage, and Bonn drove the carriage and set off.

Hill placed a wood spirit on the four carriages, and the magic power on them was enough to open the floating formation. Each carriage had two horses working in turn, and the speed was very fast.

The wood spirit can soothe the horses and restore their physical strength, and the magic stones in the car are enough to maintain the defensive formation. Hill sat in the carriage with confidence and waited to see if there was really someone with short eyes.

As a result, no one attacked until he left the safe area, and Hill sighed in relief and regret.He knew he was a coward, but he really didn't want to kill.

Bonn is much stronger than him. Since he has mana to go out, the scroll potion that Hill gave him has been consumed. Hill knows that he must have encountered trouble when he was running around.

But he knew that Bonn didn't want to say anything because he didn't want Hill to stop him from going out, so he could only silently prepare protective items for him, and gave Bonn two of his four rings.Fill one of these with scrolls, potions and alchemical bombs.

Hill has read a lot of novels before, and those protagonists are also children who grew up in the greenhouse of modern society. Many people have never even been beaten by society, and they can kill them immediately and decisively!What a hard heart it takes to do this!

Hill worked on the construction site for 10 years after graduating from college. He met countless parties who wanted to kill him. He was on the verge of losing control of anger every day, but he never did it.He is a child raised in the modern legal society, and he does not want to kill.

But he now lives in a terrible world where human life sometimes seems so cheap.Even the pure Melanie in his eyes would burn the thief who entered the manor with a fireball.The enthusiastic mother Lina, and the calm Locke who whipped up the slaves who made mistakes were also ruthless.

(End of this chapter)