From the upstairs, I saw Kukoc and Morris standing in the lobby on the first floor of the castle, waiting.

Government officials Kukochi is a thin and short middle-aged man with a pale face like Sean, with a pair of cross-eyed eyes, and he can see everyone as if they are ashamed.

His main responsibility is to assist Sean in handling various government affairs in the Black Hawk Territory, which is equivalent to the manager hired by the lord.

The Knight Captain Morris is a strong man with a dark green stubble face. He is wearing a chain armor and a knight's sword on his waist. His body looks extremely burly.

The most eye-catching thing is the bronze knight badge on his chest that represents the identity of a knight. The two long swords crossed the badge and three stars.

According to Sean's memory, the bronze badge represents that he is a junior knight who has cultivated gray fighting spirit. The junior knight is also known as the bronze knight. Above this, there are more powerful silver knights and gold knights.

As the Knight Captain of the Black Hawk Territory, Morris' main responsibility is to be responsible for the security patrol of the territory, equivalent to the police station director of the Black Hawk Town and the security captain of Lord Sean.

After they saw Shawn appear, they hurried forward to salute.

"Lord..."

"Please sit down!"

Sean waved his hand and signaled the two to sit down, "Knight Morris, Mr. Kukoc, don't know what's wrong with coming so anxious?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Morris took a deep breath and said with a serious expression: "Lord, we may be in big trouble!"

“Big trouble?”

Sean frowned, "Just say anything directly, don't waste time."

Seeing that the lord was a little unhappy, Morris said a little embarrassedly: "This morning, when we were patrolling outside the border defense line, we found some fresh horse hoof prints on the periphery of the forest. Therefore, I suspect that thieves have come to the surrounding area of ​​the Black Hawk Territory to spy and observe these days."

Sean thought for a moment, "How can you be sure that it was the horseshoe mark left by the thief? You know this is a big deal! Besides, in addition to you, there is also a patrol in the territory. What if it was left by them?"

Morris shook his head and said firmly: "It's definitely not our horseshoe prints. I just looked up the archives of the Black Hawk Territory in previous years, compared the records about horseshoe prints, and found that the horseshoe prints I saw today on the periphery of the forest were extremely similar to the Fanged Thieves Group that attacked the territory in early winter in previous years."

"Following Thieves?" Sean's face suddenly became gloomy.

This is a gang of thieves lurking in the border forest, with dozens of people. These guys are notorious, cunning and cruel, and they specifically choose the manor territories on the border with weak defense.

Especially their leader, "fangs", is a silver knight-level strength who has cultivated intermediate fighting spirit.

In addition to the leader Fang Fang, the gang of men, all of them were cruel and brave, with extremely well-equipped weapons and equipment, which was very difficult to deal with.

The government official Kukochi, who had not spoken, suddenly said, "Lord, the Fangs Thieves Group has robbed the Black Hawk Town territory many times over the past ten years. Since Knights Morris discovered their traces, it means that this group of brutal thieves may invade our territory at any time. You must make preparations as soon as possible."

Sean frowned and glanced at the Knightmaster, "Captain Morris, with the current armed strength of our territory, can we resist the attack of the Fanged Thieves Group?"

"cannot!"

Although he was not allowed to admit defeat easily with the pride of the Knights, Morris still had to admit his weakness.

"At present, except for me, our Black Hawk Territory has only ten apprentice knights, and those militias that were temporarily pieced together, there are less than fifty people. We are far from being the opponent of the Fanged Thieves Group in terms of weapons and equipment, personnel quality and combat experience."

Hearing this, Sean looked at him expressionlessly, "According to what you said, isn't our Black Hawk Town helpless and can only surrender?"

Morris's face turned red and he lowered his head with some shame, "Morris is willing to fight to the end for Lord Lord."

Sean felt his unwillingness and frustration in his heart, and did not blame him at all. After all, everyone knew how weak the military strength of his territory was.

He sighed deeply and turned his eyes to Kukochi, "Does we really have no way to deal with it?"

Kukochi lowered his head and thought, "We can only ask for help from Snow Wolf City, and ask Count Ryan to send a team of knights to reinforce, or spend a lot of money to hire some mercenaries to the territory to help us resist the Fanged Thieves."

"You have a good idea, but it's very difficult to implement."

Morris shook his head and rejected Kukoc's proposal, "The Snow Wolf City guarded by Count Ryan is the military fortress on the northwest border of the Principality. All their energy is spent on guarding the border, and they must also beware of the invasion of the Castle Kingdom. You must know that the Tulip Principal and the Castle Kingdom have been in conflict over the years and may start war at any time. Insignificant small territories like Black Hawk Town are facing the invasion of some small thieves, so the Earl will not care too much."

Speaking of this, he paused and continued: "The Fanged Thieves Group we face this time is one of the most cunning and brutal thieves on the border of the Principality. They are not many, but they are very vigilant. Even if Snow Wolf City sends people to reinforce, the number of people is probably not too large. After all, Snow Wolf City's troops are also very tight. Besides, whether the Earl will send troops to reinforce us is not necessarily the case.

The most important thing is that if Snow Wolf City sends troops to reinforce and we hire mercenaries to help us fight, do you think the Fanged Thieves Group will risk attacking our territory after they know it? Also, whether Snow Wolf City reinforcements or mercenary groups need to spend a lot of financial and material resources to support them, we can't hold on for a few days.

Especially the mercenaries have to pay expensive commissions every day, which is something our territory cannot afford. Once we cannot afford the consumption of these people, they will definitely leave. At that time, the Fanged Thieves will definitely take the opportunity to attack, and the result will be the same as in previous years."

As soon as these words were spoken, the government official Kukochi was completely silent.

After listening to what Morris said, Sean felt that his analysis was very reasonable.

In the final analysis, the Black Hawk territory is too poor, so poor that except for the Knight Commander Morris, who owns a set of heavy armor, the other ten trainee knights did not even have a decent armor.

If the Blackhawk Territory is as rich as the Graystone Fort territory next door, he can build an elite knight group, or spend a lot of money to hire some powerful mercenaries to serve him.

But the key is that he has nothing now. Grandma doesn't love him, uncle doesn't love him, no one and no money, so he can only let the thieves slaughter him.

There is a saying that poverty and backwardness are destined to be beaten.

This sentence is correct at all.

Thinking of this, Sean's face became increasingly ugly and his mood was extremely depressed, "Does we really have no way to do it?"

It seemed that he felt the depression of Lord Lord. The government official Kukochi thought for a moment and said with a thorn in his mouth: "Lord Lord Lord, otherwise we will leave the Black Hawk territory temporarily and apply for refuge in the Graystone Castle, but this requires the consent of Lord Earl and Baron Greystone Castle..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Morris opposing excitedly: "No, absolutely not. We were just captured and humiliated by the Baron of Graystone Castle last time. This time we applied to enter Graystone Castle for refuge. This is a huge shame and will be ridiculed by everyone. Where can we have dignity in the Black Hawk territory in the future?"

Kukochi sneered: "How many gold coins are worth of dignity? I have no life, and I am still thinking about that ridiculous dignity! The brutality of the Fanged Thieves Group, the Morris Knights should know better than anyone else. They attacked the manor territory on the border, and did not cut off the heads of the manor and the lord to demonstrate. Their hatred towards the noble lord is simply indescribable. Do you still remember how your brother died..."

"Kukocchi, like your Viscount's father, you are a coward who is afraid of death. It is a shame to work with you!"

"Hmph, Morris, you, like your stupid brother, will only sacrifice worthlessly..."

"Enough, shut up!" Sean roared angrily, and in an instant, the two people who were arguing became quiet.

Taking a few deep breaths and trying to keep his emotions in mind, he waved his hand lightly, "You two go down first, I want to be quiet."

"Yes, Lord Lord!" After saying that, Morris glared at Kukoc fiercely, then left with great strides.

Looking at Morris's burly back as he left, Kukochi said with a silence, "Lord..."

Sean raised his eyebrows and said with some annoyance: "What's the matter? Tell me!"

Kukki sighed and said, "Maybe everyone has heard that the thieves are about to invade. Last night, there were more than a dozen serfs in the Black Hawk Territory and fled to the Graystone Fort territory. In the past week, more than fifty serfs escaped into the Graystone Fort."

Upon hearing this, Sean felt extremely angry, "What? Baron Sabi still refused to return the person to us?"

Kukochi nodded and said with hatred: "The Lord of the Graystone Castle said that people all ran over voluntarily. As long as the serfs come back voluntarily, he will not stop them, but he will not allow us to use strength in his territory."

"Damn Sabi, one day, I will make him return with his principal and interest!" Sean gritted his teeth.

After Kukoc left, Old John walked gently behind Sean, "Master, lunch time is up."

Sean shook his head, "I won't eat anymore, I have no appetite!"

After saying that, he went upstairs alone and went back to the room.

Sean was extremely depressed when he locked himself in the room.

These are all kinds of messy things, so bad, so bad.

I originally thought that I was reborn in this world and being a ready-made lord, and it would be okay to just live and die, but who would have thought that my current situation was so troublesome.

The brutal Fanged Thieves Group may attack the territory at any time, but it is impossible for it to be done.

The worst thing is that, according to Kukochi's meaning, the thieves seemed to have a great hatred for them, the lords and nobles, and even if he wanted to compromise with those thieves now, it would not work.

Give up your territory and run away?

Where can I go? How to survive? That will only make myself die faster.

According to Kukochi, he gave up his dignity and face and sought the protection of the Lord of the Greystone Castle who had humiliated him before? With Sean's current personality, he would never be able to do it.

Besides, can you avoid it for a while, and can you avoid it for a lifetime?

I avoided this time like a sloppy life, what about next time? What about next time?

Besides, will people provide you with shelter for nothing? Once you go to the Graystone Fort and are humiliated, you probably will be much less expensive to be blackmailed than robbery.

Thinking of this, an unprecedented despair surged in Sean's heart.

"What should I do? I just want to live well. Is it so difficult?"

Suddenly, at this moment, he felt a burning sensation from the collar.

"Hey, it seems that it was coming from the necklace!"

Sean's heart moved and hurriedly took off his necklace from his neck.

I picked up the necklace and saw that there were extremely strange signs on the transparent pendant under the necklace.

I saw a transparent pendant as big as a thumb, flashing with an extremely dazzling light. When I reached out and touched it, the pendant was still a bit hot.

At the same time, a cold and ethereal voice suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Will you enter the Wanjie Weapon Mall?"

What sound?

Sean was shocked, and then the sound in his mind rang again.

"Will you enter the Wanjie Weapon Mall immediately?"

This time, Sean finally figured out the source of the voice. He immediately took a deep breath, forced his inner surprise, and responded tentatively in his mind, "I want to enter..."
Chapter completed!