"What you said makes sense, maybe I thought of Ant-Man too simply." Sylvia looked at the map for a while, then turned her eyes to Victor, sighed, and said with a half-smile.

: "Victor, why do you think Ant-Man will attack Centaur Hill even if he makes a big circle?"

Victor had a sudden thought and said calmly: "This is just a guess. Facing a hundred thousand ferocious Ant-Man army, I think no amount of caution is too much."

Victor didn't expect that Sylvia would notice if he inadvertently revealed something, but he couldn't tell Sylvia that he had cut off Ant-Man's beard, and she was an accomplice. When Ant-Man reacted,

, they will definitely not let them go.

Sylvia did not continue to dwell on this issue, nodded, drew on the map with her long white fingers, and said: "This mountain range is the junction of the Great Swamp and the Centaur Hills. The low-lying land of the Great Swamp is a large basin.

The drop on the west side of the mountain range is about a thousand meters, and the cliffs are steep and precipitous. As long as I seal the entrances to the three swamps, no matter how many ant-men come, they will not be able to invade the Centaur Hills."

Victor nodded and agreed. The entrance to the Great Swamp is a slope with low west and high east. As long as a 60-meter-high fortress is built there and a 20-meter-wide trench is dug, the number of ant-men will be three times higher.

There is no way to break the fortress, this is the advantage of the terrain.

Sylvia glanced at Victor and continued: "The mountain range goes all the way north to the territory of the Dodo Kingdom. Here it splits into two roads and continues to stretch north for 1,600 kilometers. To the west of the mountain range is the Endless Forest.

, the other way is 400 kilometers east, known as the Boulder Mountains because of its rich stone. That area nominally belongs to Duke Ericson's territory, but it is actually a real pioneer territory, full of monsters. Ant-Man starts from Ericson

If you go around the Mori family territory to the Centaur Hills, you need to travel at least 5,000 kilometers, and you will have to pass through many monster gathering places on the way. Now, do you understand?"

Victor understood what Sylvia meant, but he did not agree with her opinion. He pondered for a moment and asked: "Sylvia, do you think my love is superfluous?"

Sylvia smiled and shook her head, kissing her lips, "No! You are right to remind me. In fact, before the ant plague broke out, I planned to build fortifications in the northern part of the Centaur Hills."

Victor's heart moved and he said: "Are you targeting the lord of Dodo?"

"It could be the lord of the Dodo Kingdom, or it could be the monsters or orcs on the edge of the Everfree Forest. Well, now we also need to add Ant-Man. Anyway, after the forest humans and horses migrated, all the forces are ready to attack the Centaur Hills." Sylvie

Ya clicked on two places on the map and continued: "We originally planned to build two large fortresses here and here that are horns to each other. Without rock bricks, this project would have taken ten years.

.”

Sylvia rubbed her forehead and said: "Victor, you really gave me a problem. Assuming that Ant-Man will really attack Centaur Hills from the north, then these two fortresses must be built as soon as possible. To be honest,

It will be very difficult for us to build five large fortresses in a row, and the family does not have that many soldiers to garrison five fortresses at the same time."

"So, I want to know, what is your basis for judging that Ant-Man will take the initiative to attack Centaur Hill?" Sylvia asked seriously.

Victor thought for a while, frowned and said: "Ant-Man enters Centaur Hills to forage for food and reduce the number of his kind. This is a consensus. But you don't think Ant-Man only has this kind of behavior, do you? You and I

As mentioned before, Ant-Man may have destroyed an Alien Empire. Wouldn't that Alien Empire not know Ant-Man's weakness? From this, we can speculate that Ant-Man must have other offensive behaviors, otherwise they would have been wiped out by the Alien Empire long ago.

Oh! In addition, the ant-man leaders will escape, which shows that they are very important to the ant colony. We have killed many ant-man leaders. Of course, these are just my guesses. But you will not rely on luck to ensure the safety of your territory.

Bar?"

Sylvia was stunned for a long time, and said angrily: "Damn it, I was blinded by the benefits of land and rock bricks. I should have thought of it a long time ago. The forest men and horses may have deliberately let go of the Ant-Man leader, and Ant-Man is also using the men and horses.

They formed a tacit understanding to cut down the redundant members of the same species, but we broke this tacit understanding when we took over from the forest men and horses. You are right, the Ant-Man will probably not let us go."

Sylvia touched her fair and plump forehead with one delicate hand, and there was a gloomy look in her beautiful eyes. At this moment, she was no longer a powerful golden knight or a wise family leader, but was full of weakness.

Victor couldn't help but feel pity. He stepped forward and hugged Sylvia's slender waist, comforting: "My dear, this is not your fault. The ants will eat up all the crops. We humans and forest people will eat up all the crops."

Different, we have no choice but to kill the leader of Ant-Man."

Sylvia leaned in Victor's arms, feeling strange and warm. She had moments of weakness, but she had never experienced the feeling of being cared for since she embarked on the road of knighthood. After a moment, Sylvia

Via looked at Victor steadily, until Victor became a little unnatural, and then said viciously: "Help me find a way!"

Victor let go of his hand nonchalantly, completely unaware of the hint of coquettishness in Sylvia's vicious tone, and coughed dryly, "Well! The Ant-Man leader is obviously different from the cannon fodder like ordinary Ant-Man. Since,

We have already killed a lot, so let’s try to kill as many as possible.”

"Of course! I have no intention of letting them go. What I want to ask is, what to do with the fortress in the north?" Sylvia rolled her eyes at Victor and said dissatisfied. She didn't even know what she meant for Victor.

Not satisfied with his answer, I was still dissatisfied with him for letting him go.

Victor smiled and said: "More people are more powerful. Recruiting more people can solve these problems. With enough population, the speed of building fortresses will increase, and more soldiers can be selected."

Sylvia was stunned for a long time and said disappointedly: "Is this your way?"

"Is there any problem?" Victor asked puzzledly.

Sylvia asked back: "Let's not talk about the food issue. Where should I recruit people?"

"Aren't there many free people in the kingdom?" Victor wondered.

Sylvia sneered: "Free people? Will they be willing to go to the Centaur Hills to do hard work? Will they be willing to join the army and fight against the monsters in the pioneer territory? If they had such qualities, they would no longer be free people. Black Castle Town

I have taken in 120,000 people, most of whom are people abandoned by other families, otherwise you think I would support so many people!?"

"The free people are so miserable?" Victor asked in surprise.

"What do you think? The landless people are not counted. Those free people who are lazy, greedy for life and afraid of death, and dream all day long are completely useless. Other lords are eager to send these people out of their own territories. These people can neither build castles nor

Being a soldier, no matter how many people you recruit, it will be useless." Sylvia sighed.

Victor was speechless. He also admitted that not everyone could become a qualified territorial citizen. Some of those who were eliminated were due to limited land, and some were indeed their own problems. However, Sylvia

The main reason for the opposition was that she was restricted by the vassal system. The lords of this world could hardly do anything without the vassal system. Victor was not prepared to point this out. The limitations of the vassal system were precisely the limitations of the vassal system.

It's his chance.

Sylvia thought for a moment and said helplessly: "The most critical issue now is that we don't know when Ant-Man will invade again. Since there is no better way, we can only give the territory in the north of Centaur Hills to the Kingdom."

For powerful lords, let them build their own castles, train their troops, and become our northern barrier."

Victor said in shock: "You, you want to give the land in the north to other lords?"

"Victor, compared to war, compromise and cooperation between lords are the most common. In order to disintegrate our York family, King Lane only used political means to force our family's vassals to join other forces. If not,

Ryan was a bit unlucky. When he met that guy Neovist, he was almost successful. Facing the three golden knights, I had no other option but to compromise. The situation is the same now, August

The Special family wants us, the York family, to establish a principality in Centaur Hills, and of course we cannot agree. This time, I will give up the land in the north of Centaur Hills, which will definitely help the Senate to make up its mind to stand on my side, and the August family will also

We can only choose to compromise." Sylvia said and sneered again.

Victor's heart moved and he asked: "How much territory do you plan to give up?"

"A county is necessary." Sylvia said firmly.

Sylvia's generosity made Victor secretly stunned. The earldom was at least 15,000 square kilometers, accounting for almost one-tenth of the total area of ​​the Centaur Hills. Sylvia wanted to use a earldom.

Lure a powerful family to station in the northern part of the Centaur Hills and become the northern barrier of their core territory. It is difficult to say whether this exchange is a loss or a gain. However, Victor believes that no matter which family it is, if it knows that Ant-Man may attack the Centaur from the north,

Hills, they will definitely not jump into the pit to take advantage of this.

Victor didn't care about the life and death of other families. His eyes followed the mountain range on the map to the north, and he gradually came up with an idea. He said: "Sylvia, can you do it on the northern border, close to the mountains?"

The local government gave me a small territory, it doesn’t need to be big, 50 square kilometers is enough!”

Sylvia looked at the place Victor pointed at and asked doubtfully: "What do you want that piece of land for? Don't look at the fact that it is close to Duke Ericson's territory. In fact, there is not a village there. It's completely...

A monster-infested wilderness.”

"Uh, you're saying that Duke Ericson is just like you, just enclosure there?"

"Bah, I'm not that shameless. At least I built a castle for you." Sylvia said angrily.

Victor touched his chin and sighed: "Well, that is indeed a castle, at least the Senate recognized it."

"You know, I raise some dust hawks. These birds are very smart and can monitor a fairly large area. I plan to set up a sentry there. If Ant-Man really attacks from the north, we can prepare in advance."

Victor then explained.

Sylvia's eyes lit up and she said softly: "I will give you 300 square kilometers of land, as long as you help me tame 20 dust falcons, how about it?"

Victor stared at the sky and was speechless. Sylvia's repeated tricks reminded him of those scammers who sold land on the moon.

Seeing Victor's disdainful face, Sylvia raised her eyebrows and stretched her white hands directly to Victor's cheek. Faced with the coming ravage, Victor had no choice but to surrender.

"Don't pinch me! Okay, I can help you tame the dust falcons. However, I can't guarantee anything. Those dust falcons are very dependent on me and will run away if they don't see me for a long time. In addition, there are not that many dust falcons at all.

I can only help you tame 3."

Sylvia kissed Victor on the lips with a smile and said with a smile: "I know that taming the Dust Falcon is your blood talent. As long as your pets can help my knights search for the retreating Ant-Man leader

That's it. It doesn't matter even if the Dust Falcon runs away, you will continue to help us, right?"

Victor looked at Sylvia's smiling face and couldn't help but feel in a trance. Unknowingly, he and Sylvia were already so close.

"This time, I will discuss it with other members of the family. Regardless of whether you cede a piece of territory to other families, the land in the north already belongs to you, at least legally. My Lord Viscount," Sylvie.

Ya has regained her former wisdom and clarity.
Chapter completed!