Chapter 61 Hunting

As the autumn harvest in Pompeii Territory gradually passed and the city began to be built, all things came to an end. Because you can't get fat in one bite.

Because of Luther's planning, Pompeii Territory has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it is impossible for it to develop rapidly in a short period of time.

Moreover, the strength of a lord is measured not only by territory, population, and economy, but also by the number of loyal guard knights.

Before, Old Sol used his status as an alliance of the six major families to recruit a large number of reliable knights, which was already very rare and exhausted the potential of the Pompeii family.

It is impossible for the number of knights to expand rapidly again.

Now Pompeii can only rely on the development of the territory and the output of Pompeii wine to develop little by little.

As a rural territory, the south is a huge forest that can't be seen at a glance. After the autumn harvest, another thing will gradually flourish.

Hunting.

Because although Pompeii Territory is located in the south, there is still winter. Prey need to hibernate, even magic beasts, except for some magic beasts, will reduce their activities in winter.

The energy needed for hibernation is obtained in autumn. The preys were well fed, full of fat and flesh, and it was the most plump time of the year.

In previous years, the hunters in Pompeii would team up to go to the forest to get prey, but they didn't dare to go deep into the forest because they were ordinary hunters. If they encountered monsters, they would only become food on the plate.

However, this year, the hunters in Pompeii did not take action, because with the expansion of 20 bases, the places suitable for ordinary hunters to hunt were cleared and turned into farmland.

The hunters didn't dare to go too deep into the forest, so they gave up hunting.

Besides, the agricultural situation is so good now, and every household in Pompeii is busy expanding their farmland, and no one is willing to go hunting in the forest.

However, there is no hunting activity among the people, and the official will carry out a large-scale hunting activity instead. This time, the knights were mainly dispatched, traveling lightly and without guards.

In addition to Magellan, Luther, and Xiu Xiuya, all the knights, including the lord Pompeii Knight Sol and the intermediate knight Stone, were dispatched in the territory.

A total of thirteen knights, divided into groups of three or four, went deep into the forest to hunt.

This is not difficult to understand.

Before the territory expanded, the Pompeii family would also hunt. At that time, Magellan was guarding the house, and Pompeii knight Old Sol went deep into the forest alone to hunt.

Old Sol would bring back the meat of monsters.

Knight!

The flesh has the ability to surpass the limit of human beings. A junior knight can easily defeat a hundred well-trained guards.

Such a strong force makes it very difficult to train knights. It requires sufficient meat supply, sufficient nutritional support, and thousands of tempers.

Just like Luther, he was eight years old and took seven or eight years to become a junior knight.

In this process, the gold coins consumed by Luther were an astronomical figure for ordinary civilians. And meat is also divided into three, six, and nine grades.

Monster meat is obviously much more advanced than ordinary livestock meat.

Commonly known as, high-end goods.

It is said that some nobles will raise monsters as reserve meat to eat, which is crazy. The Pompeii family obviously does not have such great financial resources and foundation.

So every year, Luther can eat the monster meat, which is brought back by Old Sol from the forest.

But this is very dangerous. A junior knight goes deep into the forest and fights with the monsters. Basically, there is no return.

But what makes Luther a little strange is that Old Sol is an intermediate knight, at least Old Sol claims to be an intermediate knight.

Every year after entering the forest, he can successfully bring back the meat of monsters. The most important thing is that Old Sol is rarely injured.

This is very strange.

Luther even sometimes suspects that this seemingly fierce general actually has political acumen, can unite the six major families, and become the leader.

But what is the ability to develop the territory, Lord Pompeii Knight.

Hidden a hand.

Commonly known as, pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.

But this is just a guess.

In short, being able to have monster meat to eat is very beneficial to the growth of prospective knights and even knights themselves.

But this is not the fundamental reason for the Pompeii family to hunt.

The fundamental reason is that due to the expansion of the territory, the new twenty strongholds have penetrated deep into the forest. At this time, the knights in the family were sent deep into the forest to clear the monsters approaching the territory to prevent them from destroying the Pompeii Territory.

On the other hand, the family can also find out the distribution of the powerful monsters and humanoid creatures in the forest, such as the ogre tribe, etc.

Even if the Pompeii family continues to develop in the future, they will establish military strongholds between the forest and the twenty new villages as outposts for defense.

The development of a territory, especially as the southernmost territory of the Kingdom of Prussia, the development of Pompeii Territory, is definitely not an easy thing.

Very, very difficult.

If the Pompeii family had not produced Luther, a time traveler, it is estimated that in a few hundred years, it would only be the current bird state and would not be able to develop at all.

Who can bear the monster siege every ten years or even several years.

Even encounter dragons.

Damn.

Today is when the knights set out. The weather is very good and sunny. Because the terrain in the forest is complex and not suitable for riding, the knights are walking.

They didn't wear heavy armor, only light leather armor.

Melee weapons are varied, including swords, knives, etc., depending on the knights' usual weapons. Long-range weapons include bows and crossbows. Each knight carries a large package with dry food, wound medicine, antidote, and arrows.

There are also scattered things.

In addition to the knights, there are also family members.

The Pompeii family all went out to see off Old Sol.

"Dad, I want to eat monster meat. The rhino meat I had last time was delicious and sweet." Mary, Pompeii, a little loli who likes to nag and is very nagging, the youngest in the Pompeii family.

She was nagging at her father, as if it was not a daughter talking to her father, but a queen who was high above and ordering her subjects.

The key is that Old Sol is very strict with his sons and surprisingly doting on his daughter.

"That's a water rhino. I'll hunt it back." Old Sol gently stroked his daughter's hair. Her long golden hair was so soft that Old Sol couldn't help but stroke it twice more.

"Hmph."

Mary snorted unhappily and escaped from the clutches of the devil.

"Dad, be careful. Beat up those you can fight with, and run away if you can't beat them." Another loli, Lily Pompeii, was obviously more cute than Mary. She waved her little fist and told Knight Stone that safety was the priority. There was worry hidden in her big eyes.

"Don't worry, Dad, I'm a battle-hardened mercenary. I'll be safe." Knight Stone smiled and touched Lily's head.

That's about it, but Luther had nothing to say to Old Sol. This old dad was so strong that it was redundant to say anything.

Luther was distracted because he missed Miss Ruth a little.

The last time he invited Miss Ruth to come and hunt together, Miss Ruth replied happily and agreed, saying that she would come to Pompeii to play.

But she hasn't come yet.

Luther is not interested in hunting monsters, but he is very interested in hunting ordinary prey with beautiful ladies. It is not only safe but also interesting.