Lord of Hyranza

And grabbed Mrs. Christie's soft little hand under the table, and Mrs. Christie's eyes were rippling with tenderness like water waves.

"Knight Suldak, why are you free to come to Hailansa City? Are you not too busy recently?" The tall girl was obviously unwilling to let Suldak go easily, and asked with a smile.

Suldak smiled wryly in his heart. He couldn't figure out where he had offended her, so he could only say, "Recently, I have been busy with the autumn harvest. In fact, I came to Hailansa City this time to purchase some supplies."

The tall slender girl squinted her watery almond eyes, glanced at Baron Llewellyn, and said with a soft smile: "Suldak, you came to Hailansa City this time, what a coincidence, the group of bandits who were making troubles a while ago , as if all of a sudden it was hidden."

"..."

The sarcasm in the slender girl's words made the others at the table not know how to continue. After all, everyone is Karl's friend, and there is no need to tear each other down.

Suldak smiled disapprovingly, and said, "It seems that my luck is pretty good!"

Baron Llewellyn raised his long sword eyebrows and said, "It's not thanks to Karl. If he hadn't wiped out a group of robbers in the suburbs, how could the suburbs be so quiet now!"

Karl secretly gave Suldak an apologetic look.

At a time like this, he couldn't stand up in public and admit that Suldak actually killed those robbers. I feel wronged.

The careful Mrs. Christie seemed to see a trace of displeasure in Karl's eyes, only when he and Suldak had a deep friendship, she quickly opened her mouth to divert the topic:

"I heard that the bandits were looking for a maid from the Hoyle Manor..."

Sure enough, no matter what time it is, gossip is the most attractive, and it comes from Mrs. Christie, who is the most well-informed. Who is standing behind this young lady? Except for Suldak, all the people present here are I know, so I listened with gusto.

However, Mrs. Christie's news seemed to involve some secret information. Karl could only cough slightly and said, "Such baseless news cannot be spread casually."

The young Mrs. Christie gave Carl a white look, and said, "You refused to reveal some information to me. I heard it from Miss Hoyle."

Chapter 299 Who Helped Karl

The morning sun shot into Hailansa City along the city gate. The guards at the top of the city were changing their defenses. The guards who had stood hard all night yawned and lazily walked down with spears on their shoulders. They walked up the city wall facing the rising sun. The guards will guard the city all day with breakfast and water bottles. Hailansa City has not suffered any form of attack for decades, so the defense of the city seems somewhat lazy.

Suldak rode a horse and waited in front of the city gate, beside him was Karl Casement who came to see him off.

The city gate seemed a little deserted so early in the morning, and there were no people out of the city. A few guards were leaning against the wall and talking in low voices.

With the sound of a series of sliding chains of the suspension bridge, the large winch at the gate of the city creaked and began to rotate, and the suspension bridge fell slowly. Ten guards pushed the gate of Hailansa City open, and Suldak and Karl walked out first. to the city.

Karl did not go very far out of the city, and he rode with an attendant to a halt under a fir tree.

The field of view here is wide, and there are no people around, so Suldak asked Karl: "You mean someone in Hailansa City secretly colluded with the bandit group?"

Karl nodded with a wry smile on his face, and said to Suldak: "Perhaps, those bandits... They can't appear for no reason, and then disappear without warning at a certain moment. We have worked so hard to find The clues will always stop abruptly at critical moments, and it feels like there are a pair of eyes staring at me behind me, no matter how secretive I am, I still have the feeling of being watched."

Suldak grinned, he couldn't help but look up at the sky above his head, the sky was blue.

"I have been working hard to find the hiding place of these bandits on the outskirts of Hailansa, but every time some progress is made, those clues will be destroyed. This is enough to prove that someone in the city colluded with the bandits and provided them with various This kind of convenience." He looked a little annoyed, and said excitedly.

Suldak tried his best to calm his emotions and said, "But you don't have any evidence yet, do you?"

"I'll find these guys sooner or later." Karl said confidently, clenched his hand into a fist and hammered Suldak's shoulder, and then said with some joy: "But it's too much for you to come to Hailansa City." Well, I want you to help me."

Suldak had a troubled look on his face. He didn't have any good feelings for a place like the Knights of the Guards Battalion to raise uncles. Thinking of his half-year college life, he had to travel outside the school in his spare time. Suldak felt that this must be the case. Very boring, he said with some embarrassment: "But I want to take classes at the Knight Academy! How can I help you?"

In Karl's view, Suldak was able to defeat more than [-] robbers by himself, and his combat power could be said to be beyond the charts.

That's why Karl had expectations for Suldak. He said: "You will help me when I encounter difficult things, right?"

Suldak nodded without hesitation.

Think about how I just came to Hailansa City, when I was at a loss for this strange city, it was Karl who ran out enthusiastically to give me a lot of help, and when I wanted to find the magic trading market, it was Karl who helped me After a while, he walked into the underground trading market, as if he was in Hailansa City, and only Karl was his friend.

"Well, the help I can give you...is limited to what I can do." Suldak could only agree to this first, he didn't dare to talk too much, and he would not be ashamed when the time came .

"It sounds like you're showing off your abilities." Seeing that Suldak agreed, Karl joked to him.

Seeing Suldak riding upright on horseback, but knowing nothing about his strength, Karl said to Suldak: "By the way, didn't you say you wanted to know your strength level last time? Do you want to go to the Knights for an assessment?"

Suldak looked up at the sun climbing into the sky, and said, "Next time, if it's too late, I'm afraid we won't be able to make dinner in time!"

As he spoke, he rode his horse onto the forest road.

"It's up to you, see you in half a month." Karl waved to Suldak and said.

"See you in half a month!"

The people of the Green Empire have a very detailed division of ranks for fighters, warrior apprentices, junior fighters, intermediate fighters, advanced fighters... Each major rank is divided into nine minor ranks.

Generally speaking, strong civilians usually only have the strength of 8th and 9th-level warrior apprentices. Only after their strength, agility, and physical measurements reach the standard, can they register with the Warrior Union as a real warrior, such as warriors, rangers, fighters, and archers. , Sword Dancer and many more.

It is very simple to become a fighter, as long as any one of the physical fitness and combat skills meets the standard.

However, it is definitely not an easy task for any fighter to cross a large rank and become a first-rank intermediate fighter, because the basic condition for crossing the threshold for the first job transfer is that this requires a combat class Participants can comprehend their own 'potential'.Of course, the "potential" of each first-time combatant is different. Some people may be a wall, a mountain, a sword, or the phantom of a guardian swordsman, just like Suldak's Shi' is a demon god with two faces and four arms...

Warriors who pass the threshold of the second job change need to refine themselves to a certain extent, and usually sense the existence of certain elements around the body, comprehend and guide these 'qi', so as to protect the body inwardly and release the killing power outwardly. The enemy, this is considered a second-rank advanced fighter.

……

On an arrow tower a few hundred meters to the left of Hailansa City.

Jasper was wearing a set of silver armor. He leaned on the wall with both hands and looked at Carl in the shade outside the city with a livid face. Behind him stood a group of guard knights. These knights stood cautiously behind the blond young man. The eyes of the few people standing in front also fell below the city wall. There is no doubt that these are Jasper's cronies, and they did not dare to breathe in front of Jasper.

Jasper punched hard on the bluestone strip of the city wall, turned around and yelled at the group of subordinates behind him, "Those subordinates of Karl? It's not like you don't know the level of combat power of the knights in the guard camp. How could it be possible?" !"

As Carl Casement's opponent, Jasper lost inexplicably in this out-of-city investigation to arrest the bandit group.

What annoys him the most is that he doesn't even know where he lost.

There was a raging fire in his heart, and he wanted to vent to the guard knights behind him, but the words of his father's warning in the study last night made him forcefully suppress the anger in his heart, and he stood like this in front of the high tower. Beside the wall stack.

It wasn't until the strange knight in his vision left on horseback, Carl still stayed under the oak tree to watch him go away, and stood for a while before returning to High Lansa City, Jasper was newly alert, according to the laziness and casualness of that guy Carl Personality, when did you actually send off your friend so solemnly, and the other party's identity is not prominent, just a knight...

Jasper stretched out his hand to hug the entourage around him, pointed to Suldak who was about to disappear into the forest road, and asked:

"Did you see it? Who is the knight next to Karl?"

The entourage only saw a simple silhouette of Suldak, and then disappeared into the forest road. There are at least a few hundred of this kind of knights riding ancient horses in Hailansa City, and it is impossible for him to go every day. Knowing one of them, he shook his head at Jasper with a bitter face, expressing that he didn't know.

Jasper raised his eyebrows, looked at his entourage suspiciously, and shouted, "Why, there are knights in Hailansa city, and there are others you don't know?"

Seeing Jasper's stern voice, the personal attendant didn't dare to answer casually, and could only stand obediently in front of Jasper.

Seeing Jasper furious on the top of the wall, a group of knights behind him suddenly separated to the two sides. A guard battalion knight passed through the crowd, walked over quickly, and said to Jasper, "I'm going to buy Jonah a drink tonight." One cup, he has the best relationship with Karl, maybe we can get some news from him."

When Jasper saw the young knight, the displeasure on his face eased. He walked up to the young knight and said with a somewhat embarrassing expression: "Although the position of the captain of the support team is not a big deal, we must Find out where the loss is. If we don't even understand this point, we will always be so passive. Everyone in the nobles of Hailansa City knows that someone must have helped Carl Casement to let him He made a comeback at the last moment, and I want to find out who...I must find out who helped Carl."

The young knight didn't speak either, but looked down the wall through the wall.

At this time Karl had also returned to the city, and there was only a single carriage on the avenue outside the city.

The young knight withdrew his gaze. He turned around and looked at Jasper seriously. He only felt that his irritable personality was really in the same line.

The young knight looked at Jasper and asked, "Could it be Mrs. Christie helping secretly? After all, the Consul is her elder brother. It shouldn't be too difficult for her to mobilize a few constructed knights to help Karl destroy those robbers." Bar."

Hearing Mrs. Christie's name, Jasper's gloomy face became even more ugly.

However, he then shook his head resolutely, and said: "The matter of searching the thieves group outside the city can be regarded as one of the assessments of the two of us, not to mention that the consul does not agree with the relationship between Karl and Christie at all, and he does not agree with it." Possibly favoring Carl."

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The same words sounded in a castle: "Whoever it is, I just want to know who helped Karl."

Baron Grenfell was sitting at the end of the long table in the castle hall. This long table was at least 30 meters long, and it was a thick wooden table made of a whole fir tree cut from the middle.

There are fifty chairs on each side. At this time, the chairs are full of rough-looking robbers. They are munching on the meat on the table. Chewing food and drinking heavily make the hall a bit noisy. Their weapons are on the ground. Beside the chair, they were dressed in various costumes, and they didn't even listen to what Baron Grenfell was saying.

The dark red knight standing beside Baron Grenfell said calmly:

"Yes, Lord Grenfell."

Sitting next to Baron Grenfell were a few bandit leaders. Their eating looks were not that ugly, but the faces of these bandit leaders were not very good.

Hearing that Baron Grenfell, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke, they turned their gazes over.

Baron Grenfell sighed softly and said: "I know Karl to some extent. At the beginning I thought he was lazy, so I chose him and Jasper to join the foreign aid group of the guard camp at the same time, but now he unexpectedly It has become the biggest obstacle preventing us from mastering the suburbs of Hailansa City, which is really a headache."

He tapped his forehead with his hand in some distress, his eyes gradually turned cold.

"Your Excellency the Baron, why don't I get rid of Karl?" A thief leader sitting on the left hand side of Baron Grenfell said loudly.

Grenfell raised his head sharply, staring fiercely at the leader of the thieves, leaned over, grabbed the collar of the leader of the thieves, and said to him sullenly: "Is it Taylor's stupid move?" Does it make you feel that killing a nobleman at will is nothing? Or do you think the Casement family is completely lonely? Will you be indifferent to family members dying for no reason?"

"If Baron Hoyle hadn't died, the knights from the guard battalion would have gone out of the city to kill you? If the knights from the guard camp hadn't been running around, and used you to break up and infiltrate into the Pagolos Mountains?" Baron Grenfell He punched the bandit leader in the face, sending him flying from his seat.

The heavy body of the bandit leader fell to the ground together with the heavy wooden chair, a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and several teeth spit out from his mouth.

The bandit leader had a grim face, struggling to stand up and pounce on Baron Grenfell, but the dark red knight behind Baron Grenfell stepped on his chest first, and stomped him firmly on the cold ground of the hall On, until his face was swollen and red, the dark red knight did not take his foot away.

The other robbers were so frightened that they immediately stopped eating, and looked at the scene in front of them in surprise and panic, but no one dared to move at this time.

The hall suddenly became silent, Baron Grenfell stood up directly, hammered his fists heavily on the wooden table, and roared loudly: "Look at the mess now, I can guarantee that as long as you start from my manor now Go out, and within half a day, your whereabouts report will be submitted to the guard battalion in Hailansa City, and waiting in front of you will be the most elite knights of the Hailansa guard camp."

As he spoke, he walked up to the bandit leader lying on the ground, pushed away the dark red knight beside him, bent down and stretched out his hand to pull the bandit leader up from the ground.

Regardless of the frightened expression on the bandit leader's face, he just ordered the dark red knight: "Let them hide in the basement of the manor for a month first, and you go and stare at Karl to see who is going to help him. I will find a way to get close to Miss Hoyle, she is probably the only one who knows where the woman is hiding now."

"Of order, Your Excellency the Baron!" The dark red knight replied calmly to Baron Grenfell.

After Baron Grenfell said this, he strode out of the hall with his hands behind his back.

Seeing that these robbers did not move at all, the dark red knight waved to both sides expressionlessly, and the outside of the hall window immediately became a blurry figure. Staring at the robber in the hall, with a weird smile on his face, he turned and walked out of the hall.

It wasn't until the figure of the dark red knight completely left the hall that the robbers felt the pressure on them disappear inexplicably...

Chapter 300 The Reservoir

If you look down from the sky above Woer Village, the ravine where the village is located looks like a claw mark scratched by a giant dragon. A pool of green blood flowing out.

In just three days, great changes have taken place in the upper reaches of Wall Village, and the prototype of the first reservoir has been shown in this area.

Nearly one acre of semi-circular slate land has been sorted out at the uppermost part of the ravine. Since there is no soil cover here, it is usually barren and there is no vegetation. Nearly two hundred craftsmen and laborers work on this site every day. busy.

Seeing the busy work in front of him, the old village head stood on the rocky slope full of emotions. He thought that when he was young, he also wanted to change the situation of the village. He tried to transport the fertile river mud from the tidal flat in the lower reaches of the river to Come upstream and build fields on this barren slate.

It's just that when the few acres of land he worked so hard to reclaim came the rainy season, all the soil on the stone slabs was washed away by the river and returned to the tidal flats under the washing of the heavy rain.

For this reason, the old village head suffered a serious illness, and now the young knight Suldak is also going to do these things, and his ideas are far more daring than his original ideas.

In Suldak’s plan, the entire reservoir is divided into five layers. It looks like a terraced field as a whole. Each step is an independent reservoir, and the five reservoirs are ringed. Interlocking, after the first reservoir is full of water, the spring water enters the second reservoir through the overflow of the reservoir, and so on, until the fifth reservoir is completely built, the water in the reservoir Theoretically, water storage can allow the villagers of Wall Village to survive the dry season in spring and summer.

According to the requirements of the old village head, the bottom of the entire reservoir must be flat, and because the limestone has strong permeability, the bottom of the reservoir needs to be covered with a layer of two-inch thick pozzolan cement as a waterproof layer. It wasn't that the price of raw lacquer in Hailansa city was too expensive, and Suerdak even wanted to paint a layer of raw lacquer on the bottom of the reservoir.

The arc-shaped reservoir wall has begun to pour the foundation. The only thing that bothers the old village head is that there are only four carriages in the village. Even if they go back and forth three times a day, the volcanic ash is continuously transported back, but the volcanic ash is still too little. Every time after the volcanic ash is transported back, after the lime powder is mixed in according to the proportion, the craftsmen on the site rush forward and can grab all the volcanic ash cement in an instant.

The construction of the cistern fell into a semi-stalled state on the third day. After more than a hundred laborers leveled the stone slabs of the cistern, except for the necessary [-] or so laborers who were grinding lime powder on the construction site, the rest of the laborers all They all carried linen bags and carried the volcanic ash back from the depths of Mount Pagros by hand.

They heard that they could make money by carrying volcanic ash. That afternoon, the women in Wall Village approached the old village head one after another, asking the old village head to distribute the benefits to the villagers in advance.

The women in the village think that their strength is not much worse than those of the laborers in other villages, and they can also carry the volcanic ash back from the mountain.

After all, you can earn 50 copper coins every day.For the women in the village, the money did not come easily.

There is nothing in the barren Wall Village, but the people living here have a handful of strength.

Even if there is less volcanic ash to carry back, it is better to get less wages at a big deal, which is better than staying in the village all day, and staying in the village will not make you a loud copper coin.

The old village chiefs arranged for a few women with poor legs to take care of the children and the elderly in the village, and the rest of the women followed the laborers on the construction site into the Pagros Mountain to carry the volcanic ash.

When Suldak rode back to Wall Village on horseback, he just walked out of the mountain pass lined with wooden crosses, and saw a black line on the mountain road between the mountains and fields. This intermittent black line stretched from Wall Village to the mountains. At the end of the road, Suldak thought that something had happened to Wall Village, so he galloped back to Wall Village, only to find that there were villagers carrying heavy bags on the mountain road.

The villagers from these other villages seem to be migrant workers who come to work in the village. Each of them is ashamed, the sweat on their faces dries up and then drips down, and the heavy bags on their shoulders are bulging, which looks very heavy. The soles of the straw sandals seem to have been trampled, and only the second half is connected to the straw rope on the feet. The thick soles of the feet are on the ground, and the toes are far apart. One can tell at a glance that they are all people who are used to bare feet .

When the villagers from other villages saw Suerdak, they wanted to step aside and let Suerdak pass by on horseback.

Suldak didn't stop here, because he found that there were some village women behind the team, also carrying heavy linen bags, struggling to follow behind.

He ran over on his horse, jumped off the horse, and wanted to help the women in the village carry the heavy linen sacks, but the women in the village refused to do so, and insisted on carrying the linen sacks, following the team step by step. Footsteps to the village.

"Suldak, do your work, just carry a bag of sand, and we can do it!" The woman in the village changed the linen bag to the other shoulder and said to Suldak with a smile, her eyes Squeezing a smile, for fear that Suldak would snatch her linen bag.

"Why are you all reciting this?" Suldak asked with a sullen face seeing these village women who were so tired that they couldn't straighten their backs.

Usually, they are often seen chatting and washing clothes by the river, and they are also seen waving sickles in the wheat fields. Seeing them carrying heavy volcanic ash to the village like hard labor in other villages, Suldak felt as if a stone was weighing on his heart.

Seeing Suldak's serious face, these village women who usually look aggressive are naturally not afraid. They put down the linen bag, and said to Suldak with the unique accent of Wall Village. : "Isn't it just to carry the ashes from the mountains! The old village chief gave all these jobs to the villagers, and a bag of ashes cost fifty copper coins. It's not the same for whoever does the work, why not first But as our own people, it’s not that we can’t handle it, we finally asked the old village chief for this job..."

Suldak was immediately weakened by what they said, and he could only say: "You can recite less, I will talk to the village chief about the salary, and let you get the same salary as the craftsmen."

Hearing that Suldak was actually standing on their side, the group of village women immediately cheered up, and said repeatedly: "Oh, this is not acceptable, what rules are set, then follow the rules, the village chief will be the last What I hate is people who break the rules, as long as they are willing to pay us some money, that's fine."

There were even older village women who took Suerdak's hand and said earnestly: "Dak, I heard from the village chief that you paid for the construction of the reservoir this time. We all understand in our hearts why we should not be paid for carrying ashes, how can we be ashamed to recite less than others and get the same reward as others..."

Suldak thought to himself, in the final analysis, the background of the children's villagers' families is too weak. Even if the men get a lot of money for mining, they still want to earn a little more money within their ability. Fortunately, Rita and Natasha were not seen among the group of village women.