Mrs. Dolly's attitude is very clear. It is up to both parties to decide whether Neo West and Victor will meet. She will help deliver the message once at most and will never participate in specific affairs. She will not even allow the two parties to meet publicly in Nahuel's territory.

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The Earl of De Keyser is a pioneer territory, and Madam Dolly has not yet completely controlled the entire territory. She cannot control whether Neo West wants to infiltrate, and she does not know whether Victor is willing to meet Emperor Lant.

At present, the forces that have the conditions to open up the southern continent include Borui, Suss, the Lant Empire and Gambis. There is a barbarian kingdom on the opposite bank of the Borui Kingdom. The Sus people are restrained by the orcs of the Dusk Forest, and the Lant Empire does not.

With the strength to build a port on the north shore of Lake Fes, only Gombis has strong strength and holds the initiative to cross the river to the south. If the troops of Borui or Sus enter the Lant Empire and challenge Gombis's core interests, war will begin immediately.

will explode.

Everyone hopes that Gambis and the Lant Empire will reconcile and that the southern expansion forces can unite to jointly face unknown challenges. However, on this issue, the Church, Suss, Borui, Nahuel and Neo West

They all behaved more cautiously. Victor had been stranded in Nahuel for almost a year, and Neo West did not show any signs of bubbling in front of him.

The fundamental reason is that the core members of the Gombis royal family are more emotional than rational. When their brains are twitching, they will not play according to the routine. No one knows what they will do. Sylvia is eager to improve the bloodline of the York family, and pinches her pigtails.

In August's hands, the only choice is to be a female. Victor's situation is the same. Whether the Randall family has an heir with noble blood or not, it is up to the Castle.

In fact, even if Victor is not restrained by Kite Castle, he does not want to deal with Neo West. If the Golden Company wants to enter the stage of the times, building a port in Fish Lake is a very good entry point. The Golden Company can borrow

This completed the magnificent transformation from a purely commercial organization to a commercial military group.

If Kite Castle does not have a clear attitude, Victor cannot come forward to meet with Neo West. He is ready to leave this matter to Sophia.

The top priority is to return to Randall Territory, activate Alchemy Tower No. 7, and discuss with Sophia the Graylo Faun, the Golden Company, and many other matters.

Victor temporarily put this episode behind him and concentrated on completing the work at hand.

In the next ten days or so, Victor surveyed the core area of ​​the Count of De Keyser, covering a total of more than 4,000 square kilometers of terrain, and re-planned water conservancy projects and a new farming and animal husbandry system for them. Then he went non-stop to the outskirts of the Count to survey

The terrain around Yemin Village.

The Count of De Keyser has 14 wild people's villages. Each village is a livable settlement for humans and can be transformed into a small town or village to protect the core area of ​​the Count. Survey all these villages and compare their farming activities.

The pastoral planning is connected with the core towns of the earldom, and Victor's work in Naville is completed.

It was already early January in the Earth Season, and the haze covering the sky had not completely dissipated, and the mountains and forests were still covered with ice and snow. Victor stood on the top of a redwood tree, looking at the surrounding scenery. The whining mountain wind wrapped around the fine

The snow particles rustled on the branches and slid away gently as they passed by him. Not even the mink cloak could blow.

Using x-3 to remember the surrounding mountains and rivers in his mind, Victor jumped down from the redwood tree, took the quill pen and animal skin paper from the hands of the liaison officer Encino, and quickly wrote and drew.

Paladin Dimat stepped forward, watched Victor record the terrain signs, and said with a smile: "This is the last area. Once we finish here, we can go home."

"Two days at most."

Victor nodded, handed the painted animal skin paper to Encino, and motioned for him to bring out another blank animal skin paper.

Encino looked embarrassed and murmured: "Sir, this is the last piece of animal skin paper... I will go to the nearby village immediately to get more animal skin paper. Please wait for me here..."

"no!"

Dimat shook his head decisively and said solemnly: "Fengya has been dormant for more than a month without showing any trace. According to the report from the sword mantis knight, it should be trapped in the mountainous area in the east. However, the wild people in a mountain village in the west suddenly

Evacuate, several cottages near it reported seeing the whereabouts of Feng Ya... Now, no one knows whether Feng Ya has sneaked into the western mountainous area... In short, we must be careful, everyone moves together, and keep five meters away from each other.

distance."

The evacuated cottage was Camp Warhammer 4. Victor did not expect that Hammer's evacuation would cause a chain reaction. The villagers near Camp Warhammer 4 became suspicious and asked Countess De Keyser for assistance. The De Keyser family naturally

Take down all the castles in the west, and mobilize mercenaries and rangers to go to the western territory to search for traces of Fengya. Even the Knights of Sword Mantis also sent a mobile force to the south.

Although it is not yet certain that Fengya has infiltrated into the western part of the Dekaize Territory, there are loopholes in the encirclement set up by the Knights of Sword Mantis and it is no longer tight.

What is certain is that Feng Ya has not hunted large animals for more than a month, and his condition is at its lowest point. He urgently needs to eat and replenish his strength. There are scouts everywhere in Dekaize territory. As long as Feng Ya dares to show up, it will be dead.

It is precisely because of this that the desperate jackals become particularly dangerous.

For the sake of safety, Dimat left all the priests Dane and the arcane warriors in the castle of the Dekeyser family, and only took the third-level combat priest with him. Dane is a high-ranking priest. In his absence, the third-level combat priest

The battle priest will be protected by the Judgment Warriors, which will only make it safer. Dimat originally wanted to exclude Renault and Xak, but Victor insisted on bringing them with him, so Dimat had no choice but to give up.

In fact, with a danger foreseer like Caligula in the team, there is no need to worry about the threat of Fengya. Unable to carry out a surprise attack, Fengya cannot even deal with Dimat alone, let alone a gold-level Fengxing shooter beside him.

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So everyone felt relieved and formed a line with a distance of 2 meters and rushed to the nearby mountain village. After walking about 5 kilometers, Caligula suddenly stopped and stood on the hill, looking to the east.

Dimat raised his hand to signal the team to stop marching, walked to Caligula's side holding the hilt of his sword, and asked in a deep voice: "Aka, what's going on?"

Caligula said uneasily: "I feel... we may encounter that monster."

Five knights and two silver-level Judgment Warriors immediately approached, surrounding Victor, the priest and Caligula. Dimat's eyes lit up and he asked: "Can you feel the direction?"

Caligula looked at the excited high-level paladin, raised his finger to the west, and said hesitantly: "Okay...it seems to be over there."

"Southwest? Isn't that the town of Earl de Keyser? How could Fengya run away to die?" Dimat said in confusion.

Everyone looked at each other, and when they saw Caligula shrinking his head, they burst into laughter.

This cowardly guy wanted to hide in the De Keyser family's castle, deliberately saying that the monster was in the west.

Dimat shook his head and cursed with a smile: "You guy, you actually learned how to play tricks..."

Everyone laughed louder, but Victor looked sternly and asked with cold eyes: "Aka, which direction is it?"

Caligula did not dare to deceive his master. He lowered his head, pointed to the east and said, "That direction."

Victor was silent for a few seconds and said coldly: "Caligula, I am very disappointed in you. You lied to your companions and may have killed many people. No matter what the reason, since you came out with us, put your

Deliver it to us safely. Any deception or concealment will lose our trust in you. After you go back, ask Renault to receive ten whips and no food for three days... I hope you can learn this lesson. If it happens again, I will

Abandon you! Do you understand?"

Caligula nodded repeatedly, like a child who had done something wrong.

Misleading your companions is a very bad behavior under any circumstances, but everyone believed that the stupid man meant no harm. After Victor finished teaching his followers, Dimat said: "If Caligula's intuition doesn't work,

If I'm wrong, Fengya should still be near the encirclement of the Sword Mantis Knights. I guess Farul and the others will close the net soon... Do you want to go and take a look?"

Victor glared at Caligula fiercely, turned around and said: "Psychic intuition is a vague premonition, and a general direction cannot help us locate the Jackal. In my opinion, we should do the things at hand first.

"If you have enough time, you can join in the fun." After a pause, he joked: "Fengya was forced to dare not show his face for two months, I guess the Sword Mantis Knights will not miss again this time."

The gold-level gnolls caused some trouble to the Na'viel Kingdom, but the Na'viel people also took advantage of the process of rounding up Fengya. Fengya was driven from the Misty Mountains in the east to the Earl of Dekeyser in the south.

The wild people and villages in the area surrendered to the lord one after another. The Kingdom of Naville also recruited a large number of mercenary rangers and promoted the reputation of the king, the church and the lord. The whole incident became a classic of knight protection, clergy redemption, and people's dedication.

Case.

Dimat also smiled, nodded and said, "Let's go to the nearby village to resupply first."

There is only one cottage nearby, and the wild people in it surrendered to the Dekeyser family three months ago. It is now a supply depot for the Sword Mantis Knights and mercenaries. Victor also stayed in this cottage two days ago.

night.

The team continued to move forward and climbed over a hill. The mountain village was already in sight. Victor discovered that 87 fully armed soldiers had gathered on the edge of the woods 27 kilometers north of the mountain village, including 5 sword mantis knights.

Dimat turned his holy power to his eyes, but he could only see 87 small black dots, unable to distinguish their identities, so he asked Victor: "What happened over there?"

"Sword Mantis Knight... Fengya must have appeared." Victor frowned and said.

"That beast really can't stand it any longer." A stern smile appeared on Dimat's lips, he turned his head, raised his eyebrows and said, "How is it?"

Priests can gain divine favor by killing man-eating monsters, and the three Judgment Warriors are all eager to try. Victor nodded with a smile and said, "Since I have encountered it, of course I have to go and take a look."

"Haha, what are you waiting for? Let's go!" Dima said with great enthusiasm, rushing to the front of the team.

An hour later, Victor and others arrived at the woods. The hounds carried by the soldiers were the first to bark at them. The leading mantis knight saw the visitor and shouted happily:

"Lord Dimat, Lord Randall, why are you here?"

"It turns out to be Viscount Stanley."

Dimat greeted him affectionately and explained: "Your Excellency Randall and I happened to be passing by and noticed something moving here, so we came over to take a look."

Stanley signaled his colleagues and soldiers around him to continue to be vigilant, and stepped forward alone, leading Victor and Dimat to the scene of the incident. As he walked, he said: "Praise the Supreme Lord, I found traces of Fengya here, and I just dispatched

The letter crow informed the four highnesses, and the two adults came over."

Dimat asked, "What exactly happened?"

"Last night, Feng Ya raided the camp and kidnapped a mother and her son. It was too dark at the time, and I was worried about something happening to the camp, so I chose to stay tight and didn't dare to lead anyone in pursuit. Early this morning, I sent scouts out to search. According to what Feng Ya left behind

I traced the traces all the way here and found that the woman had been killed and her baby was missing. She must have been taken into the woods by Feng Ya. It is probably more serious than bad... Well, here it is."

A mutilated corpse was lying on the edge of the woods, with torn clothes scattered around. The dark red blood stains were particularly dazzling in the white snow.

She looks about 20 years old. She is a young woman. Her lower body has been eaten away, but the upper part of her chest remains intact. Her left arm hangs stiffly on the snow, stretching forward as if she wants to reach something. Her lower lip is incomplete.

Two tears of blood shed from his dim eyes, but an encouraging smile settled on his pale face.

Victor has seen jackals, ogres, and bear-headed goblins, but this is the first time he has seen a human being maimed by monsters. He has personally killed monsters and enemies, and he thinks he is used to seeing life and death.

, and the tragic scene before him caused an unprecedented impact on his heart.

Rights come from responsibilities, and responsibilities come from abilities. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Priests regard believers as lambs, and lords regard people as wealth. Regardless of the difference in status, when seeing the same kind being slaughtered by monsters, the weak will be frightened, and the strong will be frightened.

Crazy with anger.

Because of his strength, Victor was able to clearly restore what happened. The jackal threw the baby in front of the victim, then like removing hair from prey, tore off her clothes, stepped on her back, and removed the baby from her feet.

She started to eat. The severe pain made the young woman scream and struggle desperately, leaving scratch marks on the snow. The child was so frightened that he cried and crawled towards his mother again and again, and was kicked by the jackals again and again.
To be continued...