Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

After reading the letter, Levi pondered whether he could profit from this war.

The end result is that participating now is no different from courting death.

Moreover, there's also the matter that as a Pioneer Baron ennobled by Duke Ceylon, if Leah conscripts him to participate in this war, he will inevitably have to participate if he doesn't want to damage his reputation.

Back in Correll, he saved Leah with the intention of participating when they fought for the title and benefiting from it.

But… it's too fast!

He didn't expect Furena to start preparing for war after receiving the news.

He doesn't have enough strength to take a share of the cake from it.

Levi rubbed his temples with a headache.

The war between the two real power dukes of Deber will be a great war of nearly 100,000 people.

He cannot deny the power of the Orcish barbarians. These warriors wandering the wilderness fight against the barren environment from an early age and are enemies with fierce bears and tigers.

The harsh environment has created this group of powerful, agile, and fierce warriors. Every Orcish barbarian can easily defeat three to five elite Deber warriors.

But so what? War is never a street brawl.

If it were a hundred against a hundred, Levi would not hesitate to believe that the barbarians would win, but when the number reaches a thousand against a thousand, the Orcish barbarians' ending is to swallow the bitter pill of defeat.

And once it develops into a war of ten thousand people, the Orcish barbarians can only collapse one-sidedly.

Compared with a real elite division, the biggest gap between a makeshift team and a real elite division is never muscle and bravery, but the discipline and formation coordination required for teamwork.

This determines whether it is a mess or a rope that can be twisted into one.

With the little foundation of Highcliff Castle, it can't even make a splash in the struggle between these real power dukes.

Even Levi can't guarantee that he can get out unscathed. He is very strong, and he even dares to guarantee that even if the legendary giant comes, he can shoot through its head with a spear.

Let it see what is called the strength of a small start that is not a real start.

However, he is not invincible, and there are things in this world that he fears.

As far as he knows, there is the Dragon Hunting Ballista on the surface, which is a weapon specially developed by humans to deal with dragons.

The composite bow body made of palladium and the bowstring made of dragon tendons enable it to reach a shooting distance of more than two thousand steps, far exceeding the shooting distance of ordinary ballistas. The arrowheads mixed with fine gold are like paper in front of even the extremely hard dragon scales.

According to the records on the surface, as many as eight dragons have been shot and killed by the Dragon Hunting Ballista.

Levi doesn't think his flesh and blood are harder than dragon scales!

This is also the reason why he didn't kill wantonly in Correll. If he was surrounded, he wouldn't dare to bet that Correll didn't have this kind of insidious weapon.

"However, even if the war is about to start, it is estimated that it will have to wait until next year."

Looking at the southern position, Levi suddenly thought of something.

It's already mid-August.

Military operations rising to the level of tens of thousands of people are extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is estimated that White Stream City will need half a month to prepare for the march.

And from the Northern Territory to Correll, a legion of more than ten thousand people will have to travel for at least a month.

At this time, it comes to October, and the weather in Deber has begun to turn cold.

And war is always extremely time-consuming. If this war is to end, it will take at least half a year, and this time is just in winter.

It's freezing cold, and all you can see is a vast expanse of white.

Anyone who understands a certain amount of military affairs would not choose to wage war in winter.

This is an extremely harsh weather test for the besieging side.

Furena is obviously not a person who knows nothing about military affairs, so the probability is that she will start preparing for war in the second half of the year, and the real war will have to wait until about March next year.

In short, Levi still has a chance to develop.

By March next year, he is confident that he has already built a team that cannot be ignored.

After thinking about it, he turned his attention to the second letter.

What he didn't expect was that this letter was sent by Rolina.

This letter didn't ask him about his well-being like Leah, but simply said that he could cooperate with her to sell the fur or a large number of livestock he obtained from the wilderness.

Due to the huge demand from pioneer nobles and wilderness natives, wilderness trade has always been quite prosperous. The value of goods flowing into the wilderness every year is at least millions of gold coins, while a large number of furs, livestock, slaves... in the wilderness will flow into Deber, which is an extremely important commercial route for the Kingdom of Deber.

Levi touched his chin, this is a source of income.

Compared to the farming income that is still far away, it is obviously easier to make money by coercion now.

What Levi was thinking about was not to become a merchant himself, but to collect tolls from this group of merchants!

Theoretically speaking, hundreds of miles around are his private territory, so collecting tolls is completely feasible.

But in the end, it is just a theory. If you want the theory to become reality, you must have enough troops, force, and people to guarantee it.

However, these are too far away from Highcliff Castle, and Levi decided to focus on the present.

"Hogg, tomorrow you will take people to the Cass Mountains, just to investigate whether there are any humans living there."

Levi ordered Hogg.

Hogg nodded with uncontrollable excitement. It was eager to show itself in front of Levi. It was already tired of patrolling the territory for nearly half a month, and now the mission has finally come!

Levi didn't give too many instructions.

Hogg is very smart, and the key is that he is eager to learn. He has learned some things that he occasionally taught it in half a month.

Just investigating the situation in the Cass Mountains will basically not cause any problems.

In addition to having mounts, if they want to escape, there are not many races in the wilderness that can catch up with them.

When Hogg confirms that there are humans living in the Cass Mountains, Levi can carry out the next action.

At that time, whether it is negotiating with the early inhabitants of the Cass Mountains or subduing them by force, Levi is determined to get them.

……

The next day, just as the team from Highcliff Castle had finished breakfast, everyone heard a sharp and rapid whistle.

"Alert!"

On a temporary watchtower that was seven or eight blades high, the Orcish barbarian on guard shouted hoarsely.

"Oh? After half a month, I didn't expect anyone to dare to try the composition of Highcliff Castle." Levi smiled noncommittally.

In the past half month, he swept all the tribes within fifty miles of Highcliff Castle and made a name for himself.

The wilderness natives all know that a group of ruthless people have come to this position, and no one dares to provoke them anymore.

Levi doesn't know whether the people who came are because of strength or courage, but obviously they have chosen the wrong opponent.

The easy smiles on the barbarians' faces disappeared, and they picked up the weapons they had just put down and entered a state of preparation. A kind of excited emotion spread among them.

"Let's go, meet them!" Levi pressed the saber at his waist, raised his arms and shouted, leading the Orcish barbarians to the edge of the hill with a fierce aura.

Overlooking the plains from the hill, the field of vision is extremely wide. Following the direction pointed out by the Orcish barbarian on guard, you can see blurry black shadows stepping on the wavy green grass sea towards the position of Highcliff Castle.

Levi narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at it, and was slightly surprised after seeing it clearly.

"Humans?"