Twenty Sided Dice

From the next day, Siegel started his plan step by step, starting with a map.

The magic pet Balon stopped on his shoulder and followed the mage all the way through the noisy courtyard to the tent where Feizak lived.

"Where are the homing pigeons?" Siegel asked. "I remember in your report that you bought two cages of homing pigeons?"

"My lord, the pigeons can't be used yet, and we need to wait for their next generation." The one-eyed father replied: "The pigeons that are not trained by themselves are likely to have other owners, which will reveal the secret of the letter."

"It doesn't matter, as long as they can fly and see."

Feizac took Siegel to the stable, which was not fully covered, but there was no problem with storing a few baskets of pigeons. The grey homing pigeons fluttered their wings to beg for food when they saw Feizak, but all fell silent after hearing the old man's whistle. Siegel said to Feizak in a tone of appreciation: "I didn't expect you to be really good at it!"

"It's all the result of being a spy for many years." Feizak replied with a smile: "The pigeons are all here, and there are fifty in total. Although we can't deliver letters to the designated location yet, after flying out, we already know that we will fly back."

"Enough, give them to me." Siegel put the familiar down and began to cast the spell. The magician's familiar can talk to the same kind, thus becoming a bridge of communication between humans and animals. It is said that the druids of the forest can talk directly to animals, but Siegel has no time to find a child of the forest right now.

The task of the carrier pigeon is to scout the terrain, and then tell the situation to the raven, and the raven will scout the key positions again. Familiar Balong groaned, and flew behind the dove towards Antler County of the Uther family. When the birds were set free, Siegel had the equivalent of having a lot of eyes on his opponent.

In addition, the eyeliners established by merchants, mercenaries, and handymen also constantly sent back information. Most of them were not very important information, but they could help Siegel outline the situation of the Uther family. Their territory is ten times that of Heim's territory. Comprising three large castles and two small forts, owned by House Uther and his vassals, respectively. It is said that fifty knights swore to serve him, which meant that he could mobilize about a thousand troops. That's not a huge number compared to the Orc army. But Uther has a wide range of friends, and if he wants to deal with Heim Land, the southern lords will definitely unite and stand behind him.

Building an army is a long process, and Siegel understands that. And all the southern lords are very clear. Maybe in a year or two, they'll have Heimland as an unremarkable potential opponent, but Siegel won't be basing his victory on the laxness of the enemy. He scoured the intelligence piles for useful information and, with the help of Raven, began to map the South.

After five days, all the scouts flying in the air returned. And it was raining heavily at this time. The continuous rain seemed to pour down from the sky, and it was impossible to see things ten meters away. The construction of the castle had to be temporarily stopped, and only the interior work could still be carried out. The high ground of Myr City was flooded with water, and the tents in the original courtyard could not be occupied by people. All dwarves, half-orcs and humans were concentrated in the castle hall to live in the castle hall to temporarily avoid the heavy rain.

"The Shield River is in good condition, and it didn't cause flooding." Mana took off her wet cloak and took the ale with **** juice that Moore handed over. Then he said: "The canyon to the east of us is like a bottomless pit, swallowing the flood water. If someone told me that it was the mouth of the swamp, I would definitely believe it."

"How's the village?" Siegel asked.

"The house has collapsed a bit. A few people were injured, but the situation is not serious. There is no disaster relief in this weather. Even the Phantom Colt can't run fast. We can only make plans after the weather is clear."

"Okay, I see, let's take a break," Siegel said. The female knight nodded. Take the cup in her hand to find the nearest fire, she wants to warm up.

Janet followed Siegel. After Mana left, she asked, "What's on your mind? I've always seen you frowning lately."

"I'm still thinking about the lords of the South," Siegel said. "They won't let it go."

"Are you thinking about how to deal with them?" Janet smiled like a flower. But before Siegel got angry, he quickly covered his mouth with his hand. "I know that you are very smart, you have many strategies in your heart, and countless magical spells are always at your service. I saw you commanding the pigeons to fly into the sky that day, and I was still in admiration, if I could command my cats likewise How good would that be?"

"I can teach you," Siegel said.

"I can teach you too." Janet grabbed the mage's arm and said softly, "You rarely deal with nobles and don't know their temperament. The more you try to deal with them, the happier they will be. Because finally found something to do to pass the boring time. It's not like a duel between warriors, sword against sword, there's only one monotonous way. You don't have to be aggressive, you just need to get stronger, they It will be tamed naturally and obediently."

"Janet, they won't," Siegel said. "They won't sit by and watch a new lord rise from Heimland. You may not know it. Recently I sorted out the map of the entire South and suddenly found something. The backwater swamp has been extending eastward, wider than it was decades ago. Maybe this year, maybe next year, it will cut off the way the southern lords are heading north from the land. And I knew as a sailor that the south has no The good port and the rocky cliffs make most of their trade rely on Ximu Town - the two-story wharf is already the best seaport in the south. It won't take long for the lords of the south to discover that they are the only northbound port. The safe road is the Ore Road, and my Heimland is just standing on this road, and it will definitely become a battleground."

"Then you'll be safer." Janet had a different opinion. She said: "Have you been thinking that the nobles will unite against you? Believe me, if it's just like that, as long as you don't take the initiative to attack, it won't work. There will be no danger in their lifetime. They can allow a new lord to occupy a position because they believe that they will not be subject to you. But a strong noble occupies a position, which they will not tolerate. To avoid this, Instead, they will restrict each other, hold down the great nobles, and give them no reason to conflict. Siegel, you already have countless natural allies, but you just don’t know it.”

The mage frowned, struggling to understand Janet's words. "Everything you say makes sense, but why can't I think of it?"

"You live on the sea, and you can see a vast world." Janet comforted him: "I live among the walls and alleys of the starry kingdom, and there are shadows of intrigue and intrigue everywhere. I see in a certain way. A wide range of knowledge has become my ability and specialty.”

"I trust your advice, Janet," Siegel said. "What should I do?"

"Do what you do best," Janet said. "You want to use all kinds of strategies to deal with those nobles, and you give up what you are best at. You are a mage, and when you can fly to the sky, cavalry It doesn't work for you; when you can sneak underground, the frontier doesn't work for you. When you're strong enough, the nobles don't work for you."

When Siegel heard this, he patted his forehead hard and hugged Janet tightly. "I see, kitten, my thoughts have reached a dead end. No matter how much knowledge I use to analyze and come up with the best strategies, I'm just using the methods of the lord to operate. Dr. Flanes teaches It is still the skills that mages need to assist lords, not the means of a mages lord."

He unfolded the map in his hand to Janet, which outlined all the terrain around Heimland with clear strokes. You can see the curved shield river, the three villages in the finished zigzag distribution and the rift valley of the backwater swamp. To the south of Heimland is an earthquake-induced rift, where earthquakes still occur frequently, and large swathes of land collapse into bottomless, dark caverns. The Rift Valley is uninhabited and serves as the border between Heimland and the lords of the South. Further south, is the fertile county of Warney, a small territory dominated by barley and sugar beets, where the Hugels have lived for two hundred years, and it is a place without competition. Lapp Lake is in the southeast of Warney County, but it belongs to the powerful Hurley family and is part of the Carmel House. Even with the family of Hugels in Warnet, who were intermarriage, they still monopolized the production of the lake. There are also frictions between the Here and Uther families, mainly over the iron ore they border. Both sides accused each other of stealing their own mines, but no real conflict ever erupted.

"The situation in the south is very complicated. I can't think of a safe way to do it, so I have been having a headache recently. But I understand now that these are not things I am good at." Siegel pointed his finger at the location of Myr City, Gently rubbing: "I just need to do what I am good at and focus on making this place the strongest in the south. As for the means between those nobles..."

Siegel looked at Janet ~www.readwn.com~ and said to her with a smile, "I think you'd be willing to do this for me, and for yourself."

"Yes, Siegel," Janet said. "I'm going to be your wife and face the future together. I don't want to be kept as a pet in your castle."

Siegel said: "I admit I was wrong before, you are called a kitten, but you have sharper claws than a tiger. I always think of the timid Littlefinger and the bullied slave girl, forgetting that it was just you. camouflage."

"Can you stop mentioning this matter, I finally got out of my spy status." Janet hit Siegel lightly: "I'm going to become the lord's wife, and this time it's true, It's not a disguise."

"I heard that you named each of your kittens with fake names you used to use?" Siegel said to her, "Why haven't you seen them in such a heavy rain?"

Janet's face changed, but she still said in a calm tone: "They run around, sometimes avoiding me, and I don't know where they went." (To be continued)