A strange world

Chapter 311 Section 164. Letter from the Eighth Holy Grail Knight

[Annanqi, King of the North:

Boy, I got your book.

It is a world full of innocence, thank you for your gift. I especially like the story of the three little pigs. I appreciate the cleverness of the third little pig and the decisiveness of the second little pig. But the first little pig was not without its merits. If the big bad wolf hadn't appeared, it would have saved a lot more energy than the two little pigs.

The first little pig simply lacked foresight, and I feel like stories like this fail to educate. So, I spent a few days thinking of a new Three Little Pigs story:

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. They came to the grassland where they heard there was a big bad wolf. The first little pig said there was no big bad wolf and built a thatched house with thatch. The second little pig didn't believe that the big bad wolf was that powerful, so he just picked up firewood from the forest and built a wooden house. The third little pig was afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, so he built a stone house with solid stones.

One day, the animals in the grassland said that the wolf was coming. The third little pig also saw the shadow of the big bad wolf. He ran to tell the other two little pigs. The first little pig said not to worry, but the second little pig was worried about it, so one night he ran near the first little pig's home, only to see the big bad wolf appear and knock down the first little pig's thatched house. . In order not to be eaten, the first little pig said that it had two younger brothers and was willing to take the big bad wolf over.

The second little pig couldn't help but rushed out to question the first little pig, but was discovered by the first little pig and the big bad wolf. It finally ran away, but was bitten by the big bad wolf and was about to die. The second little pig ran to the stone house with his last strength and told the third little pig the news.

Finally, the third little pig, who knew the big bad wolf, no longer believed the first little pig. It hid in the safe stone house and refused to open the door no matter what the first little pig said. As a result, the first little pig was eaten by the angry wolf.

The despicable ones got bad consequences, the noble ones sacrificed their lives, and the smart ones got the response.

How about a story like this?

I am looking forward to the publication of this fairy tale and fable. I hope that one day, I can go to Xingyue Bay to get this book in person.

——Mel, Emeritus Professor of Xingyue Bay School]

Annan's fingers turned white when he knew that the teacher-like Knight of the Holy Grail was in danger.

"I think of you too well..." Annan murmured to himself.

Putting down the letter from the Eighth Holy Grail Knight, Annan asked the maid to call Ingrid, and then borrowed an absolutely loyal dead man from Olmedo to open the door on the New Initial.

"Why did you contact me in advance today?" Francois felt strange.

"We will go to the sea area closest to the royal capital. Everyone will come back and only the necessary crew members will be retained."

"what happens?"

"Not sure yet..."

Olmedo sent over the family's dead man, who was Tina's student. Annan did not look down upon the dead soldier because he looked like a resident on the street. He gave him a fire crow and a horse and asked him to quickly set off for the royal capital after landing at the shore. As long as the rat people don't suddenly emerge from the ground like they did in Breeze City, he will arrive at the royal capital before the rat people.

Annan gave him only two tasks: to send back the news of the royal city, and to find out the whereabouts of the Eighth Holy Grail Knight.

Francois and some of the crew are back, and the New Initial will not leave this sea for a long time, and Fast remains firmly on the ship. Annan did not expose him.

"Why are the Grail Knights so fragile?"

After the two portals were closed, Annan asked Ingrid as if he was talking to himself.

"Why do you think so? The Holy Grail Knights have the blessing of the Lady of the Lake. Every Holy Grail Knight is like a walking saint."

"But all the gods lost contact."

"Even so, they're still legends."

Annan did everything he could. The Holy Grail Knight knows it, the Golden King knows it, and the several northern kings of the Kingdom of Rekaner also know it.

As he wrote to Mel: A guard can defend his village, but not the country.

Now the guard is off to defend his village.

No matter how high the city wall is, it can't stand without people. The number of guards expanded from 500 to an astonishing 2,000, one-fifth of the population of Xingyue Bay. This is simply impossible in other towns, but it is very simple for Xingyue Bay, where most of the population comes from refugees and poor people. Annan's savings could barely afford to offload 2,000 guards, but in order to prepare for the future, Annan asked them to train in the morning and still do their own thing in the afternoon.

Bronzebeard's blacksmith shop is in full swing. But she and her apprentices together couldn't make a pair of armor in a day. They took the money and went to Breeze City to buy... They could afford at most two thousand pairs of leather armors. Annan thought for a while and asked Eli Gravel to build a water-powered mill by the glacier river, and forcibly thinned the wrought iron to make plate armor, which could withstand the thrusts of the rat men's piles of wooden spears and broken swords.

But two heavily armed soldiers cannot defeat a professional. If you want to transform the guards, you still have to rely on gunpowder. The elf mentor has not returned, and he should be migrating with his fellow tribesmen. After Annan provided Michael with another 100 gold coins, he agreed to improve the gunpowder first.

Annan's requirements are not high, as long as he has the initial power of black powder. So Annan hired five elite mages and drew a blueprint for them. Let them use magic to create black powder lances with triggers, hammers, and rifling.

Then came the fortifications. In addition to the city walls and trenches, the earth elements were reinforcing the land of Xingyue Bay all day long, and the forests in the south were also cut down extensively, and thorns were made on the spot to build a defense line.

Annan didn't even have time to plant trees this time - the druids had gone to Middle-earth anyway, and the ratmen would eat everything they could eat anyway.

The real enemy, the Skaven, is not yet known, which makes Glacier Port uneasy. Ge Ma asked the old housekeeper to come over overnight and ask Annan what he was doing. Annan said to be careful of rat men, and the old housekeeper went back with worries. As a result, the next day, Glacier Harbor also erected long wooden thorns in the forest.

Annan felt that it was really wrong to bully Gema so much.

Busyness did not erase Annan's worries. On the sixth day of waiting for the news to come back, the fire crow finally flew back from the portal of the New Initial: the death of the Eighth Holy Grail Knight.

The letter said that the capital was shaken, and the three knights gathered to go south to avenge the Holy Grail Knights. Only Annan knew that this was a collaboration between the first little pig and the big bad wolf.

Not even the Holy Grail Knights can stop them, the situation is irreversible.

In the afternoon when he got the news, Annan asked the newspaper to arrange the news into the new issue of "Xingyue Bay News".

"Do you really have to say that?" Evelin was keenly aware of something, "This will make many people unable to accept it..."

All boys dream of becoming a Knight of the Holy Grail.

“It’s also going to prepare a lot of people.”

The rat men are really coming.