Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

The weather in the past two years has indeed been unusual. Although the Northern Territory is located in the north, it usually enters winter in November or December, with the first snow falling.

However, the previous July and August were rare sunny days when one could wear a short linen shirt and have a glass of vodka at the tavern.

But now in the Northern Territory, snowflakes continue to fall, blown by the wind and swirling, covering the houses and the land with a thick white quilt.

Next to High Cliff Castle is a small river, no more than six *ren* wide and no more than one *ren* deep, yet someone has given it the name "Rushing River."

*(ren: a unit of length, approximately 2.3 meters)*

From the perspective of most people in High Cliff Castle, this river is neither rushing nor turbulent, so why is it called Rushing River?

And this small river has long been completely frozen. Only a group of idle Orc youths often run to smash the ice, wielding thick wooden sticks to hit the scaled fish exposed on the surface of the water.

Some small centaurs, carrying bows and arrows, travel in groups across the snowy ground to hunt snow rabbits not far from High Cliff Castle.

This is a low-level magical beast that has suddenly appeared in recent years, capable of releasing ice cones that can only pierce cloth strips. Other than that, it doesn't have any special characteristics, but its snow-white fur is extremely suitable for making a luxurious cloak.

They have sharp eyes and can easily find snow rabbits hiding in the snow. They draw their bows and nock arrows with practiced movements.

In just half a day, they each have their own harvest.

Although they are still young, it can be foreseen that when they grow up, they will definitely be excellent warriors in the wilderness.

Bai Ruistina wore an exquisite long dress, covered with a snow-white coat made of white wolf fur, only revealing the hem of the dress fluttering in the wind.

Watching the returning group of youths, she patiently tidied their somewhat messy clothes.

The population of High Cliff Castle is not very large right now, so Bai Ruistina knows everyone, and can even call them by their names.

The fathers of these youngsters all followed Li Wei to the south, so she naturally has to take good care of them.

"Tina, in a few years, High Cliff Castle will become even stronger, and these little guys will be first-class warriors."

Miriel, as a half-elf, although her physical fitness is slightly stronger than Bai Ruistina, it is not much stronger, so she couldn't help but wrap her clothes tighter under the cold wind.

"These past few years have been like seeing a ghost; the weather is getting colder and colder. I don't know what's going on," she sniffled, looking at the falling snow with a hint of worry on her face.

"It's better to keep them from going out recently. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and it's easy to get lost in the wilderness."

The endless wilderness is now covered in snow, with no end in sight and no markers. Even if these small centaurs were born in the wilderness, it is easy to get lost.

Even the Mithril Merchant Guild's trade route to High Cliff Castle has been temporarily canceled, and they can only wait for a sunny day.

"I also advised them not to go out, but they wouldn't listen." Bai Ruistina straightened the crooked red scarf for the last orc youth who was grinning, and sighed: "They heard that Li Wei is coming back and insist on hunting snow rabbits to make a coat for their lord with the fur."

"They also want to catch the fattest scaled fish to make soup for him."

They just sniffed, with simple smiles on their faces.

After Bai Ruistina waved her small hand, they ran back to the territory of High Cliff Castle in a puff of smoke.

"Li Wei's prestige is really high," Miriel said with some envy.

She has seen many pioneering lords, but there has never been one like Li Wei, who not only uses these wild people as his subjects, but is also regarded as a god by these wild people.

"Li Wei said that as long as you treat them as human beings and treat them sincerely, that's enough." Whenever Li Wei is involved, Bai Ruistina can't help but reveal a sense of pride.

These wild people are also intelligent creatures. Even in ancient times, they established the Orc Empire, understood etiquette, worshiped ancestors, believed in gods, and were proficient in the calendar.

They knew how to cultivate and weave, but all of this was eventually hidden in that era.

"Speaking of which, Li Wei should be arriving soon, right?" A tall figure walked from behind, wearing an exquisite gold-threaded cloak, with some curiosity on her beautiful face.

Bai Ruistina turned her head, and the person who came was Aishi Yu Feng, the clan leader of the Yu Feng Tribe in the depths of the wilderness.

Originally, she was just following the tribe's trade caravan to transport wine and other supplies to High Cliff Castle, but she didn't expect the heavy snow to continue until now, trapping her in High Cliff Castle for a long time. Then, after receiving Li Wei's letter that he was coming back, she simply stayed here to wait for him to return.

"What are you all chatting about?" The lord, like a ghost, appeared silently behind the three beauties with different styles.

Because he was approaching High Cliff Castle, Li Wei and several leaders were walking ahead to return first. Seeing that their boss had finally returned, the sentry soldiers wanted to shout excitedly, but at his signal, they immediately closed their mouths, and the silence was so profound you could hear a pin drop.

Miriel was startled and kept patting her chest with a resentful expression: "Li Wei, I think you should really go to the Silent Forest."

"Why?" Li Wei asked curiously.

"Because you are more like a ghost than the tree people inside!" Miriel rolled her eyes.

Li Wei's arrival made the entire High Cliff Castle, like a crouching beast, begin to gradually recover, and they all happily ran to tell each other.

"Queen Aishi, long time no see," Li Wei greeted.

"It has been a long time. You have even become a bit weathered," Aishi smiled.

Li Wei touched the stubble that had grown out on his chin, not caring at all.

In military life, even if he is the lord, it is impossible to shave every day and keep his appearance meticulously groomed.

He hasn't shaved for half a month.

"Li Wei, it must have been a hard journey," Bai Ruistina said with some heartache, standing on tiptoe to brush the snowflakes off the lord's head.

If there were thousands of words in her heart before they met, they all converged into a simple greeting when they actually met.

"It's okay, it's okay," Li Wei said with a cheerful smile, then stretched out his hand and gestured, and was immediately surprised: "Tina, have you actually grown taller again?"

When he left, this little girl was clearly only a little over one *ren* and five, but now she is at least one *ren* and six, nearly one *ren* and seven.

*(ren: a unit of length, approximately 2.3 meters)*

Although she can't compare to the tall Aishi and Miriel, she is already quite good.

"Tina is still young, and her height is not completely fixed. If she eats *Kong Lan* snake flowers for a long time, she can grow a little more," Aishi took the lead in explaining with a smile.

*Kong Lan(Kong Lan: Empty Blue)*

This low-level magical plant is planted around their tribe and is often used by them as food. In addition to tasting good and being able to serve as food, it can also increase height.

"This journey must have been very hard. Let's go eat first," Bai Ruistina pointed to the specially expanded cafeteria.

The crowd poured in like water, and the chefs of High Cliff Castle immediately showed their twelve points of skill and worked hard to cook.

Li Wei sat down in the main seat with a plop, and the others also sat down according to their respective positions.

"How was the journey?" Miriel asked curiously.

News about demons is temporarily being suppressed. Now, except for those who have seen them with their own eyes, almost no one else knows.

Therefore, Miriel only knows that High Cliff Castle went south and won several battles, and finally Leia successfully inherited the title.

As for why they stayed in Colun for so long after that, she is not very clear.

"Well, that's a long story," Li Wei snapped his fingers, and the goat-man chef wearing an apron strenuously added food to the plate until it was piled into a small mountain before nodding with satisfaction.

When it was the others' turn, he acted in an official manner, and everyone's portion was the same.

"Just listen to me tell you..."

The lord ate and drank heartily while talking.

Soon, he embellished and vividly described the whole trip.

As a seasoned reader of knight novels, he knew how to tell a story in a lively and engaging way. In addition, this trip was indeed too full of twists and turns, and he started talking non-stop.

From how he smashed the stone giant several stories high in Calia Town and easily captured the bridgehead, to how they were ambushed at Black Stone Fortress and several thousand people and two earls were directly killed, everyone was completely drawn in.

Even when talking about the ferocity of wildfire, Bai Ruistina couldn't help but pat her chest, thankful that it wasn't the High Cliff Castle team that went.

The story went from the tragic defense and attack of Black Stone Fortress to when the demon was brought by the griffin knight, and everyone couldn't help but sink into it.

Until they captured Colun and were at ease for a long time, when the human legions disguised as demons visited late at night, everyone subconsciously held their breath.

When it was said that this demon was only a vanguard army, Bone Fortress was in imminent danger, and the southern army immediately rushed to support Bone Fortress, but unexpectedly, traitors appeared among the humans and the city gates were opened, the demons were about to occupy the fortress, and the teleportation gate was also extremely difficult.

The entire cafeteria was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and everyone didn't dare to breathe.

Even the elven girls who had been covering their mouths and exclaiming repeatedly were tightly covering their mouths.

The lord was very satisfied with their performance, and finally dragged out the ending, using the most ostentatious tone of those bards in the tavern to tell how he was in the most critical situation.

Transformed into a dragon knight, he turned the tide and resolved the crisis of Bone Fortress, and then rushed to the Hengduan Mountains, beheading the legendary powerhouse Balor Flame Demon in full view, and also fought a god, and finally closed the teleportation gate.

For a time, the cafeteria was filled with the girls' exclamations.

"Look at this, this is a genuine legendary weapon!" But the lord felt that something seemed to be missing, and took out a greatsword from the item bar and threw it into the center of the cafeteria floor.

If the cafeteria hadn't been expanded, it really wouldn't be able to hold this greatsword that was nearly five *ren* long.

*(ren: a unit of length, approximately 2.3 meters)*

The huge flame sword burning with raging flames illuminated the entire cafeteria extremely brightly. Everyone was wrapped very thickly to resist the cold, but now they couldn't help but feel hot.

And at the hilt of the sword was inlaid a palm-sized, prismatic red crystal, inside which a red dragon with a resentful face was staring at the lord.

"It's a dragon crystal!" This time, even Aishi couldn't help but exclaim, her face losing color.

In ancient times, elves, dragons, and giants were the overlords who dominated this land, and the two sides often fought.

Elves also often used dragon crystals for research or to create powerful weapons. Elves have books on this subject, and she can even guess the age of the dragon based on this dragon crystal.

And without a doubt, this is the dragon crystal of an adult red dragon. Dragons of this age are no match for even legendary powerhouses. It is hard to imagine what kind of enemy they encountered to be reduced to being made into a weapon.

"That's right." Li Wei nodded, and then told the story of how he got this sword with embellishments, before saying to the red dragon in the dragon crystal: "Quick, spit some fire for everyone to see."

After speaking, he also whistled twice.

Unfortunately, the red dragon still stared at him resentfully, without any movement.

You should know that in the High Cliff Castle area, no one dares to reject the lord's face.

"If your skin is itchy, just say so. It just so happens that I have too much holy light to use," Li Wei stood up with a sneer, holy light surging in his hands.

He knew that the red dragon's dragon soul could understand. Although it couldn't speak, its IQ was probably equivalent to that of a seven or eight-year-old child.

A trace of fear flashed across the red dragon's face. It seemed to realize that the current situation was stronger than the dragon, and that living was more important than anything else. So, it reluctantly swam out of the dragon crystal, opened its mouth and spat into the air, and a small red dragon breath appeared.

After spitting, it immediately flew back into the dragon crystal.

"This is really amazing," Aishi exclaimed. She has read many books and knows more: "Although dragon crystals store the essence of a dragon's life, they definitely do not contain the dragon soul."

"To be able to leave this red dragon's dragon soul and store it in the dragon crystal, it is unimaginable who could do it."

"It is indeed unimaginable," Li Wei thought of the demon youth sitting on the throne.

The other party's strength was very strong, the only one he had ever seen. To be honest, he probably wasn't his opponent right now.

But after dealing with the matter here, it might not be certain to go to the Holy Light Church in Gunda.

"Speaking of which, where's Bu Ji?" *(Bu Ji: a name)*

Li Wei looked around and did not find the little thing's figure.

In the past, he would have just arrived at the entrance of High Cliff Castle, and this little thing would have smelled the scent and flown over.

"Not long after you left, Little Bu Ji often felt sleepy, and often fell asleep while eating, and has been sleeping until now," Bai Ruistina explained, her face full of doubt.

Li Wei was stunned. He was not a knowledgeable scholar and was completely at a loss. This kind of thing had to be left to someone who knew.

He shifted his gaze to the shaman little old man who was holding a bowl and drinking mutton soup: "Sam, what's going on?"

When Sam saw his superior asking a question, he quickly put down the bowl, sucked his fingers, and then stroked his deliberately left goatee with a pensive expression.

After a while, he suddenly realized and opened his mouth to speak:

"There are two possibilities, either hibernation or there is another reason."