Lord Highlander

When Suldak woke up, he felt refreshed.

He was lying on the big soft and dry bed, reminiscing about the blue sky and the boundless sea in his dream last night, and he was unwilling to wake up completely from the dream.

He turned his head and saw Selena wearing a thin silk suspender nightgown lying beside her and sleeping under the quilt. The hem of the nightgown was slightly turned up. Her slender and round legs were pressed on the white velvet blanket, and her toes were painted with black and shiny nails. Oil.

It's rare to see her having such a snooze, maybe she's been too busy recently.

She is very busy with the achievement exchange list of the military camp. She is still supervising the market prices in Dodan Town and organizing and developing the followers of the Goddess of Darkness. These things may make her a little busy. Two clerks were transferred there to help her set up the logistics system of the cavalry battalion.

Selena felt that Suldak should form a team that was entirely her own, and she recently selected young assistants among the aborigines.

Originally Nika was a good candidate, but Suldak wanted to set up a medical team in the cavalry battalion, and this matter fell on Nika's head.

She looked beautiful in a deep sleep, her eyes were slightly closed, her golden eyelashes curled up slightly like a brush, and both sides of her thick lips were turned up, and Suldak leaned over to suck her lips.

Selena put her round arms around his waist, closed her eyes and rubbed her head into his arms, like a lazy cat.

Suldak got off the bed lightly, walked out of the bedroom with the leather armor in his arms, and then put on the tight armor.

When I went downstairs, I found that Nika was making breakfast in the kitchen. She was making the most common burrito in the morning in Dodan Town. She cut a thin wheat cake in the middle and stuffed some vegetables and red ant meat inside. Sprinkle some pepper and lemon zest on top, smear some chili sauce, and it's delicious.

Nika prepared one for Suldak, and at this time, Signa would never be absent.

The little girl didn't seem to get up either.

Suldak took a burrito and just wanted to take a bite, then put it down, and said to Nika, "Is Signa up yet?"

"Well, when I called her in the morning, she said that she would sleep for a while."

Nika wore an apron and had her hair pulled back in a ponytail, and she had learned a little cooking as a maid at the Baron Goss estate in Kieran.

Suldak put down the burrito in his hand, and said suspiciously: "Isn't she the favorite to eat shortbread with this kind of meat? I'll go upstairs to see her..."

After speaking, he walked up to the attic in three steps and two steps, and knocked lightly on the door, but did not hear any response from inside.

Suldak didn't even use much force, and the door of the room was pushed open by him.

Signa was lying on the bed, wrapped in a blanket.

The sleeping position looks like running, with the head raised and the mouth slightly opened, the chubby mouth looks very cute.

"Signa, why don't you get up and have some breakfast before going to bed?" Suldak reached out and touched Signa's forehead, and found that her forehead was not hot, and she didn't seem to be sick, so he asked softly.

Signa opened her eyes sleepily, like a kitten lying in bed, and whispered:

"Dark, I'm a little sleepy, let me sleep for a while..."

Suldak had no choice but to nod, stretched out his hand to help him tuck the blanket, and then said:

"Okay, but don't miss breakfast."

Signa adjusted her sleeping position and said in a daze:

"knew."

After speaking, he closed his eyes again.

Suldak turned around and walked to the door of the attic bedroom. Signa asked in an almost inaudible voice:

"Dark, is your fiancée coming to Dodan?"

Suldak stopped, looked back at Signa who was curled up on the bed like a kitten, and said:

"Well, they came from Bena City to see me..."

Signa rolled around on the bed, opened her big eyes, and asked with a nervous expression:

"I heard from people in the military camp that they are the princesses of the Luther family. They are here...will they drive us away?"

Suldak touched his nose and said to Signa: "They are all well-educated noble ladies. They will not drive people away for no reason, let alone drive you away. Stop thinking about it."

"oh……"

Signa blinked her eyes wide, rolled over on the bed and closed her eyes again.

Suldak walked out of the attic bedroom, had breakfast in the dining room, went to the backyard to saddle the horse, and then led it to the front yard.

Suldak found some messy footprints on the lawn in the yard, which seemed to overwhelm the flowers. Suldak thought it might be done by the naughty and mischievous children in the town. There are always some boys who like to sneak in. Pick the flowers in the flower pond and give them to the girls.

He followed the traces of his footsteps and looked to both sides of the small building, but he didn't see any clues.

Nika hurried out in a long beige dress.

Suldak got on his horse, grabbed the horse's rein with one hand, and asked Nika who was standing at the door:

"Do you want me to take you for a ride?"

Nika held the cloth bag with both hands, saluted Surdak and said:

"I've already made an appointment with Guidorai and Meijia, and we're going to the barracks to change the dressings for the wounded soldiers..."

"Okay, see you at the barracks!"

Suldak rode Gu Bolai's horse and took a step ahead.

...

Nika, who was standing at the door, watched Baron Suldak ride away, feeling that he did not have the air of a noble lord.

A noble lord with a cavalry battalion should at least have a clever little follower when he travels without a group of attendants, but Baron Suldak even needs to equip his own saddle for riding...

What a low-key noble lord!

...

Of course Suldak was unaware of the slander in Nika's heart.

When passing the intersection, I just saw a large group of people gathered here.

As he rode over, he heard someone saying from a distance:

"It was discovered by the night watchman. When I rushed over, I was already cold. I was lying here without any injuries. The expression on my face was simply a nightmare. I don't know what to see to scare him into such a miserable state." . '

"I heard that some big people lived in this area, and the town hall specially arranged for people to patrol the area, but they didn't find any..."

"Could it be that the ghost-striped red ants sneaked into the town... Maybe that guy met a red ant."

"Impossible, if you meet red ants, can the corpse stay?"

Suldak's ears are very sensitive, and he can hear clearly from a long distance.

When these civilians saw a knight rushing over, they 'hula' dispersed and stopped talking about it.

Suldak only heard a few words, as if someone had died here, and he wanted to ask what was going on, after all, Signa and Selena lived here, and he just walked over , These people dispersed in a hurry.

Suldak decided to ask Mrs. Luna about the security situation in the town when he had time. If necessary, the cavalry battalion could send some cavalry to patrol the town.

Passing through the square in the center of the town, there are many small vendors gathered in the square at this time, and the square has become a free market.

Selena didn't come out to set the price today, so the vendors can only use yesterday's price.

There are many seasonal vegetables and fruits in the market, as well as some daily groceries and so on.

Dodan is the border town with the best situation in the northern region, so many businessmen in Wilkes City choose to do business here.

Recently, many adventure groups have even appeared near the town of Dodan, and the president of the adventure union in the town is also pleading for connections, asking Suldak to let go of the ban on 'restricting adventure groups from passing through the northern city wall'.

It's in the town hall compound next to the Liberty Market.

Mrs. Luna, the acting mayor, is organizing manpower to maintain some of the old alleys and narrow streets in the town.

Since the caravans that came to Dodan Town to do business have paid their taxes in full recently, the financial situation of Dodan Town has finally improved.

Mrs. Luna took out this part of the money and began to rest up the town. Suldak has also seen the rectification plan submitted.

This time, the maintenance and repair of the slums on the side of the aborigines is also included in the scope of the town planning.

Due to the cooperation between the cavalry battalion in Suldak and the local aborigines in Duodan Township during this period, the status of the aborigines in the town is also slowly improving.

Various conflicts arose between the imperial immigrants and the local aborigines, and the sheriff in the town was no longer one-sidedly partial to the immigrants. They would also think a little bit, and mainly used intimidation of both parties to calm things down.

After all, the beast tide is not over yet, and there is a dispute at this time, no one has good fruit to eat - except the nobles.

...

The cavalry battalion is also organizing a transport team, preparing to enter the hills and mountains to pick up the cavalry who are going to hunt.

This time, the Thunder Rhinoceros caravan was still in charge of transporting the supplies. According to the report from the cavalrymen who delivered the letter, there were a large number of ghost pattern soldier ants in the hills and mountains that needed to be transported back.

Suldak inspected a circle from the north city wall and returned to the barracks.

I saw Nika's treatment team lined up neatly and filed into the wounded soldiers' dormitory. Their expressions were not as nervous as before, and sometimes they even whispered and smiled.

Suldak is still in a separate wooden house next to the barracks in the barracks, continuing to transform the ancient Bolai war horse.

This time, they couldn't go out with the cavalry battalion to hunt ghost-striped male ants, and the project to transform Thunder Rhino would take a while.

...

Hathaway and Beatrice didn't make Suldak wait too long in Dodan Town.

They came to Wilkes on the Bailin Plane, just in time for Chester Great Swordsman to stabilize the town of Plantos, and returned to the Wilkes City Military Headquarters to make a series of adjustments to the deployment of the northern garrison.

Unlike Hathaway's training on the eve of graduation last time, the main force of the Luthor family is currently stationed in the Bailin plane.

Marquis Luther's beloved daughter, Miss Hathaway from the Luther family came to the Bailin plane, even the Marquis Florian, the consul of Wilkes City, had to host a banquet in person.

Great Swordsman Chester is going to accompany Ms. Hathaway all the way. After all, the northern region is experiencing a once-in-a-ten-year beast tide, and there are still some red ants sneaking across the border on the grassland. Somewhat dangerous.

Originally, Hathaway should have arrived in Dodan Town yesterday.

But when they came out of Wilkes City, they met a material transportation team leaving the city at the city gate, so they were delayed for half a day, and they overslept in the hotel in the hot spring town of Nunoda. Who would dare to wake them up!

Therefore there was another half-day delay.

The convoy had frequent problems along the way, and when it arrived in Duodan Town, it was a full day and a half later than originally planned.

Seeing the majestic Thorny Mountains from a distance, the snow peaks on the top of the mountain are pierced into the clouds. This convoy consists of fifteen magic caravans, of which only five magic caravans have passengers in the compartments, and the rest of the magic caravans serve as The use of wagons.

A cavalry squadron of sixty men cleared the way in front of the convoy, and Chester Great Swordsman sat in the last magical caravan, his mount tied to the back of the carriage.

The mountains in the field of vision gradually became clear, and a canyon divided the Thorn Mountains into two.

The town of Dodan is located at the southernmost part of this canyon, and many buildings are built at the foot of the mountain.

The convoy slowly approached the town of Dodan, and Hathaway and Beatrice leaned together to the window of the carriage, curiously looking at the town of Dodan between the valleys under the mountains.

From a distance, I could see some red leathers densely drying on the grass slope, and almost the entire grassland was red.

In the compartment of Hathaway and Beatrice, their close friend Lily Cecil was also sitting.

Lily is the daughter of Earl Cecil.

She once studied with Hathaway and Beatrice at the Benner Advanced Swordsman Academy, but she was a year older than Hathaway.

Now she has been married to the Bailin plane for more than two years. Her husband is a viscount who owns a large pasture. She gave birth to two children for the viscount and stayed at home all day.

Hearing that Hathaway and Beatrice had come to the Bailin plane, they offered to entertain the two close friends all the way.

Lily, who has become a mother of two children, has become a bit plump and fair-skinned. She pointed to a large red grassland in the distance with a light-white hand, and introduced to Hathaway and Beatrice:

"Those are the hard armored skins of ghost-striped soldier ants, which are special products in the northern area of ​​Bailin Plane. Ghost-striped soldier ants are monsters at the peak of the first level, and their strength is not very strong, but this kind of monsters are gregarious monsters, and the hard armor is also It's hard enough to be exposed to so many ghost-patterned soldier ants..."

Beatrice squinted her eyes and looked at the leather in the distance, thinking of the scene of forty wagons loaded with hard armor leather arriving at the leather business half a month ago.

Some answered absent-mindedly: "Yes!"

Hathaway grabbed Beatrice's hand to calm her down.

Beatrice smiled at her and whispered, "It looks pretty good here, and the scenery is also very good, but it's a little remote."

"It's really good here. The land is lush with water and grass, which is very suitable for horse herding..." Lily Cecil said casually, her eyes also looking at the white snow on the peak.

Lily asked carelessly: "Hathaway, I heard that your fiancé didn't follow Earl Goss on the battlefield in the Warsaw plane, why did he suddenly join the Luthor Legion?"

Hathaway's face was reddish, and she had nothing to do with this outspoken and careless girlfriend, so she could only tell the truth:

"Baron Sidney, who joined the Earl of Goss' heavy armored infantry regiment, died in battle two years ago. Now my fiancé is called Baron Suldak. Don't get me wrong..."

Lily covered her mouth, widened her eyes, and showed a look of surprise. That expression clearly meant to say: '...how did you die? '

Suldak took a cavalry squad and waited outside the town early, and immediately went up to meet the convoy.