Mount & Blade: Wind of War

"It's really extravagant! The whole castle is built with whole stones. There are no obvious marks on it even if it is cut by swords. Even if such a castle is lived in for 500 years, there will be no problem at all."

"Is slavery really so profitable? Go back and ask your father to come and buy some slaves."

"The Lonely Mountain Castle does not sell accustomed slaves, only raw slaves. You have to manage and train those wild and untamed slaves yourself after you buy them back. They are not so easy to teach. The Lonely Mountain Castle can develop like this because it occupies the geographical node of the trade route. Look, the caravans entering the city almost never stop from early morning to night every day. I'm afraid the guards at the gate have to take turns every four hours, otherwise they can't bear it in terms of energy."

After lunch, after being received by the second housekeeper Yamila, many noble boys strolled in the castle. The terrain here is higher, so you can overlook most of the territory from the windows. The scenery is prosperous and magnificent, which is intoxicating.

While observing the castle, these noble boys also look forward to meeting the legendary Grand Duke.

Especially the girls, each of them was dressed beautifully and appropriately. It was said that the Duke of Rhodes was still single, although he already had several close lovers, but this was very common among the nobles. As long as they were not married, no matter how many lovers or female companions they had, they were still single nobles.

Even becoming this man's lover was a good choice. Being related to a Grand Duke in name was a temptation that even the close families of the Karasa family could hardly resist.

"Ms. Yamila just now, although she is a housekeeper, she is obviously practicing magic, spending at least 2,000 gold coins a year. Who would believe that she is not the lover of Grand Duke Rhodes? Would you let your housekeeper spend at least 2,000 gold coins every year and then marry someone else?"

"Don't talk about housekeepers. I am my father's daughter. My daily expenses are only 500 gold coins a year. I don't even have the opportunity to learn magic."

"Belis, stop complaining. Isn't this normal? The training of mages is very expensive, and no one can guarantee success. Besides, daughters will get married. No family is willing to spend a lot of wealth to train a daughter!"

At this time.

"Shock!"

A loud eagle cry suddenly came from the window in front of the eyes of these noble boys in the room.

Then a quick shadow passed by, as fast as the wind.

"Hahaha, Fat Orange, Fat Orange, come and chase me!"

"Big Gray, Big Gray, fly faster, faster."

Under the blue sky, Kress commanded two mighty griffins to race, and two griffins followed closely on the side, shouting and dancing, so happy.

This is a game that many high-level people in Lonely Mountain Castle like. Rhodes, Kress, Yamila, Likia Qiusha and others have tried it.

After all, flying freely against the wind, the speed and passion, happiness and pleasure generated are common in any world.

And this is also good for fighting. At least, although they only recognize Kress as their master, those griffins are gradually no longer opposed to being ridden by Rhodes, Yamila and others.

Griffins are proud creatures. Although they can be tamed, they often only accept one knight and need to go through a long period of emotional cultivation.

It is certainly a happy thing to be able to tame and ride such a beast to the sky.

"That girl just now must be Sky Knight Cress, right? She has been following Grand Duke Rodhart since the beginning of the legend, with outstanding military exploits and deep trust. She is younger than us, but the power, wealth and army she controls have surpassed most of our fathers."

"Compared to this, what I care more about is... Isn't it said that Sky Knights are ugly and mediocre? Just now, when she flashed by, I took a look at her. She was a very pretty and lovely girl?"

"Rumors? Of course, they can't be trusted, not to mention that there are people who maliciously slander."

While these noble boys were commenting and talking, Rhodes, whom they were looking forward to meeting, was now in the underground area below the Lonely Mountain Castle.

No, soon he would go one step further and enter the huge crack that seemed like a wound to the world, the world of hell.

In the core prison of the Necromancer Tower.

Under the restraints of magic circles and thick chains, the former Hell Demon General Dilib was hung here, and the magic circles around her continuously extracted her original magic power.

Rhodes, wearing a heavy dragon-scale armor, leaned against the wall with a sword in his arms, watching Atiman torture and interrogate Dilib.

Atiman was a somewhat cold and utilitarian person, so after regaining his youth, he did not hesitate to abandon Yamila, who was originally regarded as his successor, and after he devoted himself to Rhodes, in order to gain more powerful power, what he did to Dilib was cruel.

However, considering Dilib's identity and what she did, there was nothing to say about these things.

Rhodes watched coldly as Atiman squeezed out the knowledge of demon mechanics from Dilib. Since Dilib could not be used for himself, it would be a good idea for Atiman to squeeze out all the benefits from her... No, this was simply the best choice.

Given the current situation, recruiting a hell demon general was still too shocking.

The benefits of capturing Dilib alive are more than that. With the power of the magic tower, Caitlin used the magic circle to continuously extract Dilib's original magic power, thereby supporting the opening of the purgatory rift. In this way, Lonely Mountain Castle has a piece of hell territory.

Although the lower plane is synonymous with "barren", there are still a lot of resources in the lower plane, such as military resources, sulfur and magic crystal resources. With the advent of the extraordinary era, magic crystal will become more and more an important strategic resource, but this mineral is rare in the main material world, but very abundant in the lower plane.

In the past two years, Lonely Mountain Castle announced that it had discovered magic crystal veins from the mining area of ​​the City of Redemption. This is true, but 80% of the total magic crystals of Lonely Mountain Castle were not obtained from the magic crystal mines in the City of Redemption.

After a torture, Atiman squeezed out some information from Dilib's mouth that was difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The knowledge of demonic mechanics and hell, but Dilibu found that during the interrogation, the terrible and cunning human lord seemed to be observing him.

Just as this thought flashed through his mind, Dilibu's consciousness was pulled back by Atiman with a red-hot iron. In other words, no one likes to be ignored by the other party when they have the upper hand.