Chapter 329, Summer Wind

The summer in Brittania this year is relatively cool and not as hot as before. This is good news for the serfs in the Earl of Glamorgan, and it is relatively rare that the knights did not hold a grand ceremony this year. Large-scale hunting or training activities.

Because during the Northern Chaos Invasion this spring, the knights of the entire earldom have received enough exercise. What they need now is a rest. The northern refugees who fled at the beginning of the year have begun to get used to life in the earldom and work hard Under the circumstances, the earldom's products became more and more abundant, and it had begun to appear that the serfs' homes had accumulated enough food for two or three months.

This is a rare situation in Brittany.

Five new villages have been opened up in the Sharon Forest, and new residents have moved in one after another. After repeated killings, the Beastman tribe in the forest can no longer make waves. Of course, the Earl also ordered that the residents be prohibited from going too deep into the forest. The forest, after all, clearing the forest is a long process.

As always, in the afternoon, Ryan looked for a leisure time, and the Earl himself seemed to be sitting behind the desk in his office, working in a serious manner.

But in fact, this guy is fishing. His maids Olika and Emilia are serving in the room, Ryan's flag bearer, Holy Grail Knight Armand, Sir Gerald of Winford, and brother-in-law Marquis Winford Yu Lius, as well as Callard, the Earl of Garament who was about to start his Holy Grail expedition, were in Ryan's office. Everyone was sharing iced watermelon and blowing on the air conditioner made by Teresa, so comfortable.

"Ryan, you still enjoy it. I always thought that His Excellency Francois built a courtyard specially built for cooling in the castle, which was extravagant enough, but you actually came up with the idea of ​​using magic to cool down." Gerald held the ice cold He gnawed on the watermelon with big mouthfuls, leaving a lot of juice on his face.

"A place like a castle is okay in winter, but it's not easy to live in summer, so I have to make some changes." Ryan's face was a little unsightly. It took him two days to get out of the fairy's tower in the lake. Fortunately, he Just advanced to the Sanctuary, the strength of the body has far exceeded that of the ordinary legendary powerhouse, otherwise it may not be able to deal with Morgiana, the Lake God Witch is very obsessed with him in private, and is willing to cooperate with him, the two of them Lots of new poses unlocked.

Regarding this matter, Ryan and Orika secretly discussed it in bed. He thought about it for a long time, and knew that he could only discuss it with the dark elves.

Olika's statement is like this: "Master, it's really comfortable to be with you, especially when absorbing psionic energy, every time I can't help it... At this point, Moji and I Anna feels the same way, and Morgiana...she must be several decades old, once something is opened, it can never be closed again."

"Okay." Ryan said no more.

After a long time, Ryan has begun to have his own small circle. The people he gathered are all young talents in Brittany, all in their thirties and forties. He noticed that Callard looked very depressed, Apparently the deaths of Jules and Anara had hit him hard.

Callard was not crushed by setbacks, he was stronger and more determined.

"By the way, I remember that the Duke of Connet, Ron Leo Cornwall, once again launched a chivalrous war to try to regain Mousillon?" Ryan tried to change the subject: "How is the situation?"

After defeating the Chaos Invasion,

Since Courona assembled a large number of troops, Richard simply ordered the Duke of Lawn to lead an army of more than 10,000 troops to fight against Musillon, hoping to regain the cursed city of Musillon in one go.

According to Francois' gossip from Courona, Richard already has the idea of ​​abdicating. He wants to pass his throne to Lawn-Leo Cornwall. Long Zhigong is Richard's appointed heir to the throne, so it is almost a certainty that he will ascend the throne.

Richard's plan is also very clear. The entire knight kingdom knows that a huge army of vampires was inexplicably wiped out when they headed to Ryan's territory. As a result, Mu Xilong's vampires were greatly weakened and could no longer take the initiative to attack. Can settle down in Mu Xilong's corner and work hard to restore his military strength.

Therefore, Richard's plan is to let his cousin Lawn be the "peach picker" and take back Mu Xilong just because of Ryan's reason, which has seriously injured Mu Xilong's vampires.

"That's right, His Excellency the Duke of Lawn did lead an army of more than 10,000 people into Musilon to conquer." Karard nodded, his tone was a little melancholy: "But like the results of hundreds of years, the army of the Duke of Lawn is Mu Xilong returned without success again, and the Duke of Lawn originally planned to besiege the city, but in the end he chose to retreat."

"Retreat?" Julius crossed his arms. Recently, his stern face has warmed up. He is obviously happy that his sister is about to get married. Young and able to fight.

"Yes, retreat." Gerald nodded, and Francois' cousin said with a wry smile: "Duke Lawn has won every encounter after entering Mousillon, and defeated every vampire attack." Surprise attack, but after all he was unable to fight against the entire vampire residents of Mu Xilong, even if Duke Lawn personally fought and killed a black Holy Grail knight, even if he led a hundred guards to defeat 500 undead black knights, Mu Xilong The huge vampire corruption in Long's place and the resistance of all the residents have made the supply and logistics of the entire chivalry army very difficult."

Armand nodded, and the last blood of the Duke of Aquitaine family continued: "Huge attrition and poor logistics exhausted the vitality of the knight army. Under the repeated harassment and attacks of vampires, the knight army became exhausted. Finally We had no choice but to withdraw our troops, and before retreating, Raun left 2,000 troops behind to strengthen the guard posts and epidemic prevention belts around Mousilon."

"Hmm~" Ryan thought about a series of things.

This place of Mu Xilong is indeed very difficult to manage. Except for the tens of meters high wall of Mu Xilong City, the corruption of that land is too serious. The vampire corruption spreads in Mu Xilong's land, and it is difficult for any army to survive for a long time. Staying in that place, the Duke of Lawn was forced to stop and rest every ten kilometers he traveled.

And in Ryan's mind, whenever Lawn's army went to a place, it would definitely rush into the town like a whirlwind, form a "Holy Grail Tribunal", and burn all identified vampires and humans corrupted by vampires to the stake.

This method is a just method, and it also meets the requirements of chivalry, but doing so means that Lawn will be an enemy of the entire Mu Xilong, and will fall into the vast ocean of people's war.

Vampires are actually divided into many factions, some are ambitious, and some just want to live a quiet life. Some high-level vampires even live like humans. Not all vampires are planning how to destroy humans. Many vampires are already in human society. Rooted, and so is Mousillon.

Lawn saw that the method of burning one by one was certainly a way to completely solve the problem, but the cruelty of this method made everyone in Mu Xilong feel insecure, forcing everyone in Mu Xilong to become an enemy of the knight army.

Under such circumstances, Lawn was unable to quickly capture the cursed city of Mousilon, the supply line was repeatedly attacked, and the army was exhausted. The only thing he could do was to withdraw.

Richard's plan to get Lawn to pick peaches fails, the unwinnable war is called off, and Britannia is too exhausted to fight any more.

In the end, Richard added the title of regent to the Duke of Lawn, and began to ask him to help him handle government affairs. As for when he will bring up the succession of the throne, it will have to wait for the next opportunity.

"Musillon is really a tough nut to crack." Julius said disappointedly: "After this chaos invasion, the power of the kingdom has declined very much. I don't know when we will send troops to recover Musillon next time."

"Send troops again? Yuli, I don't think it's a problem to regain Mu Xilong." Ryan touched his chin, and he said while thinking: "I think even if we fight a few more times, it will still end like this. First of all, Mu Xilong's few How do we break through the ten-meter-high city wall? Do we rely on trebuchets? Besides, if we attack Mu Xilong again, we will definitely face serious vampire corruption. The most important thing now is to rest and recover.”

"...Well." Julius could only nod: "Now that's the only way."

"The northern part of the kingdom has suffered heavy losses, and it may take five to ten years to recover to its previous scale." Holy Grail Knight Armand also said: "And after two wars, the nobles in the kingdom have become war-weary, and it will take time to regain Musilon." consider."

"Well." After eating the watermelon, several knights also left, and only Ryan, Orika and Emilia remained in the room.

The earl was still thinking with his head down. After thinking a lot, he still shook his head: "The matter of regaining Mousillon is still a long-term plan."

"Ryan, vampires are not that easy to deal with." Emilia shook her head: "Since the empire lost the province of Sylvania five hundred years ago, it has never successfully ruled that place. Exhausted, all the vampire castles in Sylvania were razed to the ground, but since then, no nobleman has wanted to rule Sylvania, and now all they have left are ruins and a few villages, Every year, no one dares to go to Sylvania, except that the empire will send people in when taxes are collected.”

Ryan smiled wryly when he heard the words, isn't it the same for Mu Xilong?

It is very easy for vampires to corrupt a land. It only takes a while for shadows and death to affect a land, and there will be no peace for the living or the dead.

What about purifying a piece of land?

Purifying a piece of land requires dozens or hundreds of years of work, and many large-scale magics are required.

Whether it is the Empire or Britannia, they all face a problem, that is, it is easy to defeat vampires, but it is very difficult and long to purify the land corrupted by vampires.

In layman's terms, this place can't be washed.

So how can I regain Musillon?

Ryan looked out the window, lost in thought.

After thinking for a long time, Ryan couldn't think of any particularly good way. He suddenly felt that someone should give him some advice.

The count himself smirked, and said to Emilia: "Emilia, thank you for your hard work, you should go and rest first."

"Okay." The little maid saw Ryan's strange smile. Emilia, who has followed Ryan for several years, still doesn't know what Ryan wants to do? The little maid gave the count a resentful look, raised her skirt to salute, and then retreated.

The dark elf noticed that Ryan was looking at him, and Olika's face gradually turned red: "Master...Master?"

"Hey hey~ Olika, I have something to discuss with you." Ryan hugged the dark elf by the waist with bad intentions, and kissed her on the cheek: "The old way, let me go back to the room and talk~"

"Ah! Master~" The dark elf put his arms around Ryan's neck and said shyly, "Master, you are always like this."

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It took Bellegal more than a month to escape all the way from Haimen Pass to Karak-Breeze Castle. At this time, King Angrond's funds were basically exhausted, and the group was quite embarrassed. They crossed the The southern ends of the Black Mountains and Gray Mountains arrived at Castle Breeze.

Along the way, this team of hundreds of people has experienced several battles. There are many green-skinned fortresses in the ley line network, but for some reason, most of the green-skinned tribes encountered along the way are listless and lack fighting spirit, and the green-skinned fortresses They were all tattered, as if they had just been looted, and Lord Belle and his party repelled the enemy relatively smoothly.

At this time, Breeze Castle was already in sight.

Karak-King Rorek-Granite Hand of Breeze Castle heard that Belegar brought his people to seek refuge, opened the city gate, warmly welcomed the group with the etiquette among kings, and arranged for them to stay. In the evening, Rorek held a grand banquet to welcome Belegar's arrival, and did not mention anything about Belegar's expedition to the Eight Peaks Mountain. This undoubtedly brought a lot of comfort to Belegar's heart, and the pain of defeat was also diluted. some.

There are also differences among the dwarves. The closer the dwarves are to the east of the roof of the world, the more stubborn they are. Among them, the dwarf kings of Karak-Iron Peak Castle and Karak-Hornburg do not trust firearms, and still prefer to use bows. Crossbows fought with axes and hammers.

The dwarves who are closer to the west are relatively more tactful and flexible, because they have more contact with humans. King Rorek of Karak-Windbreeze Castle is such a person. Windbreeze Castle is located in the middle of the Gray Mountains. Sandwiched between the Empire and Brittania, it has trade with both countries, and often transports goods from Marienburg. The dwarves here are better at speaking and diplomacy.

"Belgar, my friend, what brought you here?" At the banquet, Rorek said to Bellegar, "What a rare guest!"

"The thing is like this. The Angrund clan did not go well during the expedition. I decided to preserve the strength of the clan and fight again in the future." Bellegar stroked his white beard, the white beard of King Angrund Bundled with a lot of burlap and some copper rings, there is nothing unusual on the outside: "I will trouble you a little during this time, Rorek."

"of course."