Warlord: King of All Clans

The next morning, before Leo set out, he heard a soldier come to report, "My lord, three riders are outside the city challenging us."

When they got to the top of the city wall, they saw three knights from the West standing on horseback outside the city gate.

Seeing Leo and others popping out from the top of the city wall, a knight in the middle waved his hand.

Another rider rode his horse closer to the city wall, threw a bag on the ground, and shouted in the awkward Imperial language: "Release Aini Sanji, this is his ransom!"

Aini is a person's name, and Sanji means the town administrator of the Western Territory. As soon as Leo heard it, he understood that this person was here to redeem the fat man from the Western Territory.

Apparently, the slave of the former administrator of Buck Fortress successfully returned to his family.

His dragon-scale horse and scarlet armor were not there, so he could only borrow Strong's golden halberd, and then patted Freya, "Let's go and meet them."

"Okay!" Freya jumped up, landed on Leo's head, and slapped his face with her tail, "Gee, gee, gee!"

Leo pulled Freya down and threw her on the ground, "Ten egg tarts!"

The cuisine of Riverbend House has evolved from simple wheat cakes to delicious and juicy pies, and now has developed to the level of egg tarts and cakes.

This is what Olivia taught the ogre cook to make after she tasted it in the palace and returned to Riverbend.

Of course, the entire Hewan Territory is still working hard to ensure food and clothing for all its people and is far from achieving a well-off society. Dairy products, sugar, eggs and spices are still high-end ingredients, and the exquisite food made with them is not available everywhere.

Under the temptation of food, Freya unwillingly grew larger rapidly, and in a blink of an eye she became a giant bear with a shoulder height of two meters.

Leo rode Freya to the outside of the city, and Knight Solovi followed on his dragon-scale horse.

As he approached the newcomers, Leo discovered that these three knights from the Western Territory were all extraordinary knights.

Especially the leading knight, who was riding a beast that looked like a horse but was not a horse, wearing grassland-style beast-inlaid iron armor, and holding a long-handled scimitar that looked very similar to Leo's long crescent-shaped sword.

This heavy long sword, which is shaped like a crescent-shaped sword, is the common weapon of the Qiexue in the Western Territory.

The armor of the Western Territory Cavalry is mostly leather and iron armor, which is generally thinner than the Northern Territory heavy armor and the Southern Territory gear. This heavy long sword that can chop and smash is exactly their nemesis, and it works on the same principle as the long sword of the Orc Wolf Cavalry.

The mount under his feet was not an ordinary warhorse, but a golden-spotted monster that looked like a horse but not a horse, and a wolf but not a wolf.

Its appearance is a hybrid of a war horse and an African hyena. The sturdy war horse's body is covered with a layer of leopard-like spots, and the ferocious dog head is full of sharp teeth, making it look extremely cruel.

Leo had heard from others that this was a low-level magical beast from the grasslands of the Western Territory, called the Golden-spotted Wolf, which was at the same level as a war wolf and could run faster than a war horse.

Leo picked up the money bag on the ground with his golden halberd, weighed it in his hand, and turned around and shouted, "Let him go!"

After receiving Leo's order, several riders escorted Eni, the former administrator of Buck Fortress, out of the city gate.

The Western Knight riding the Golden-spotted Bull was not satisfied and shouted in a low voice: "The servants of Enisangi should also be released!"

Her voice was actually a female voice. This extraordinary knight from the West who was wearing armor and riding a magical beast was actually a female knight.

Leo had known this would happen. The three extraordinary knights had traveled day and night to redeem him, definitely not for an administrator, so he smiled and said, "His servants were too disobedient, so I killed them."

"You!" Upon hearing Leo's teasing tone, the Western Territory Female Knight knew that her intentions were exposed, and she couldn't help but shout in a low voice.

The golden-spotted lion under her feet bared its teeth and growled, eager to try.

Freya stared at the golden leopard with wide eyes. After waiting for a long time but seeing that the other party did not rush over, she could not help but yawn.

Seeing that Leo was unmoved, the female knight from the Western Territory could only swallow her anger and said in a deep voice: "What do you want?"

"That depends on how much you can pay."

The Western Knight: "I want to see if he is dead or alive first."

Leo raised his hand, and soon, Yue Gechar's head appeared on the city wall.

Seeing this female knight from the West, Yue Gechaer immediately shouted, "Sister! Save me!"

Anger flashed in the eyes of the female knight from the Western Territory. No matter how much information the other party knew, her brother's shout must have increased the ransom.

She suppressed her anger and worry and asked, "How much gold do you want in order to let my brother go?"

Leo knew that the opportunity had come, and immediately said, "So you are the noble lady of the Tarhanberk family. I don't need a single copper coin from you. What I want is peace between the two regions. Go back and tell Tarhanberk that we will sign a peace treaty, stop fighting, and resume trade, and I will release his youngest son."

The female knight sneered, "How is that possible? My father is furious and is gathering an army. He will be at the gates of the city soon. If you want to reconcile, you must return Buck Fortress to me."

Leo said coldly: "The occupation of Buck Fortress is a revenge for Talhanberk's undeclared war last year, and it is also to prevent you from continuing to covet Isenpol."

"It's still impossible to pay it back. Tell Talhanberk what I said and ask him to think about it carefully."

As he spoke, he softened his expression and reminded, "I hope you can give this proposal more consideration. You should know that if you can stab me in the back, so can I."

The female knight couldn't help but feel awe-inspiring. Both Isembol and Talhanberk were backed by the Buck Fortress, so this checkpoint had always been a battleground for both sides.

For hundreds of years, people from both regions had to either fight each other to gain the upper hand or remain friends for generations over this checkpoint.

Otherwise, whichever side occupied the fortress would be in danger for the other side.

Just like the previous Count Freilov, although he was the Great Count of the North and his family's strength was several times higher than that of Talhanberk at that time, he still had to call Talhanberk his sworn brother.

In order to prevent himself from expanding into the north, Talhanbek stabbed him in the back at Isenpor.

Now that the ruler of Isenpol has changed, once the two families become mortal enemies, the Talhanberk family can only pour its military forces into the Buck Fortress to prevent sneak attacks from behind the river bend.

War is also a way to gain benefits, and it is definitely not meant to cause mutual destruction.

The North is separated from Buck Fortress by two hundred miles of wilderness as a buffer, and the Western Watchtower serves as an outpost.

But outside Buck Fortress in the west, there are thousands of miles of grasslands, Gobi and deserts, and there are almost no other strategic locations.

Seeing that the female knight remained silent, Leo thought she was moved, so he advised her kindly: "If you have an idea, don't rush into a war. Let's sit down and talk first..."

As he was trying to persuade him, he saw the female knight from the West, who was looking up in thought, looking at him.

Leo was secretly alert, and the next moment, he saw the opponent's golden leopard leap up and pounce on him.

The two were talking when they were only ten meters apart. The swift golden leopard jumped over and the female knight had already raised the long sword high in her hand, wanting to kill Leo with one blow.

Just as Leo was about to raise his golden halberd to block, Freya under him suddenly spun around on the spot, so fast that it was hard to see clearly, and almost threw him away.

Leo had no reins in his hands, and he could barely keep his body shape as Freya turned 360 degrees. If it weren't for his strong physique after his extraordinary promotion, his waist would have been broken by her.

Looking at the opponent's female knight again, she had been knocked away by Freya's butt, falling seven or eight meters away and rolling several times before stopping.

Freya succeeded in her attack, shaking her head and wagging her tongue, "Lululu, you want to sneak attack me? No way!"