What is it like to be a teacher as a magister?

Chapter 135 Raid
As usual, Baron Willie walked around his manor accompanied by his wife after dinner.

This year's harvest in the territory has dropped by about [-]%, causing him to drive out another batch of serfs, and his living standard will obviously decline accordingly. The most obvious sign is that another mistress ran away with others last month.

Baron Willie no longer has any hope for his territory. If he didn't care about his family's face, and with the support of Earl Frank and Duke Valentina in front, he might have responded to His Majesty's administrative order and handed over the fief early. Thunder City is retired, and being a lord in a ghostly place like Xia Ya is worse than going to Thunder City to be a wealthy businessman.

Thinking of this, he lost even more interest in taking a walk, and returned to the castle earlier than a few days ago.

It is called a castle in name, but it is actually a bigger house, but it is already the most magnificent building in the entire territory.

late at night.

In a daze, he heard noises outside, and Baron Willy, who couldn't sleep deeply due to his age, woke up quickly.

"What time is it, what are you doing outside?"

Before he could wake up his wife next to him, the door of the bedroom was forced open.

In the darkness, Baron Willie couldn't tell how many people broke in, but he heard the leader calmly say:
"Hello, Baron Willie, by the order of the lord, all your fiefdoms will be taken back today. In addition, please cooperate and explain the fact that you sent people to assassinate the lord and burn the food and grass in the fortress under the order of Earl Frank..."

"what?!"

Only now did the intruder light the candles in the room.

While the lights were flickering, Baron Willy finally saw that six or seven knights in different styles of armor entered the room.

I was stunned for a while.

……

The noisy mansion quickly returned to midnight calm.

Jennifer sat in the baron's study, flipping through the property accounts in the territory.

Roderick tucked his helmet under his arm and walked in with his long sword slung across his shoulders.

"Miss Jennifer, the baron and all his family members have been locked up. The rest of the guards and knights surrendered. Only six people were killed and more than ten people were injured."

"Thank you, Lord Roderick." Jennifer lifted her eyes from the ledger and looked at the tall and heroic knight.

"It's not hard, the baron's guards... are really vulnerable."

Being able to make Roderick, who has always been silent and cautious, say such words shows that those guards are indeed vulnerable.

The long-distance fortress guards had already prepared for a fierce battle, but after entering the territory of Baron Willy, they found that the enemy did not have any decent defense and resistance at all. It was not discovered by the guards until they entered the surrounding area of ​​the baron's mansion.

But the guards on the outside saw this situation and surrendered without any resistance at all. On the contrary, the guards inside the castle thought it was just a few small thieves coming in the dark, and several people were killed and injured during their brave resistance.

Despite the early inquiries, Roderick still didn't expect it to be so smooth.

"Are there any casualties on our side?"

"No one was injured." Roderick said: "When they came, the adults told them not to keep their hands, so the enemy has almost no chance to get close."

Roderick knew very well that what the lord needed most was the labor force in the territory, so before coming, he asked if he needed to keep as many people alive as possible, but Colin's answer was: This is the first time the fortress army has gone out to fight, so they must do their best. go all out.

From Colin's point of view, the population of the baron's territory is of course not as important as these battle-hardened fortresses. In case Roderick fears the life of the opponent and causes his own losses, even a ratio of one to ten battle losses is extremely uneconomical. buy and sell.

Roderick understood what the lord meant and strictly carried out the order.

The fortress equipped with magic arrows did not give the opponent any chance to get close. If the opponent hadn't surrendered extremely skillfully, there might not be a single survivor in the castle.

"Before dawn, I will count all the horses, ordnance, supplies, food, etc. in the territory, and I must take over the entire territory before everyone reacts."

While writing, Jennifer continued: "The manpower I brought is enough to do these things, but in terms of combat and security, I still need your support, Lord Roderick."

"Yes."

"We will stay here for three days at most, and then the fortress will send troops to take over, and we need to rush to the next territory." Jennifer smiled: "Lord Roderick, in the next month or so, I'm afraid will work harder."

"It is our honor to serve the lord."

"That's right." Jennifer thought of the more and more prosperous Twilight City, the vigorous government office, the thriving school, and the big head full of drive. A well-governed lord.

"The lord said that capturing the occupied territory will not be a difficult task, what is difficult is the subsequent governance." Jennifer said: "After all, the fortress is short of manpower, and it is impossible to send too many people to manage these places, so your lord's intention Yes, once it is occupied, the population in the territory will be gathered, some will be sent to the fortress, and some will be planted on the spot, and things will be much simpler when the first batch of local grain is harvested a few months later."

"The fortress defenders will continue to send manpower to support various places."

Because of the help of the elves, the expansion of the fortress defenders, and the fact that Wald Sophia returned the seconded people one after another, Roderick had more people available.

……

early morning.

The sun rises.

The commoners and serfs in the baron's land were still doing their own things as usual, completely unaware that the land had changed owners.

When Roderick returned to the temporary camp, the fort guards who were supposed to be on shift did not sleep and rest as required for the first time. Obviously, they walked out of the fort for the first time, and now they were extremely excited.

"Boss, it turns out that fighting with 'people' is so easy."

"Yeah, those guys didn't even need to use their hands, they just hit them and fell down."

"..."

A group of subordinates came over smiling.

Roderick knew that the leader was the one who was most excited when he encountered the opportunity of close combat with the orcs when he was on the city wall.

Fortress guards who are used to fighting orcs, when they encounter ordinary human troops, especially a group of remnants and weak generals under Baron Willy, of course they will feel like they are bullying children. The luxury of mosquitoes.

Roderick, though agreeing with them, did not wish to fuel such pride.

"Don't be careless, these are just the weakest opponents, and we still have many tough battles to fight in the future."

……

……

While Jennifer and Roderick were sweeping across Xia Ya, Colin was in the study of the fortress, leisurely flipping through a pile of documents in front of him while eating.

These are academic journals shipped from the Western Continent, most of which are obtained through the channel of the Youjin Chamber of Commerce.

He set his sights on a paper titled "Further Exploring the Diversity of Energy Conversion Modes", which was published in the journal "Anhill Mechanical Engineering", which is an internal journal of a Gilman chamber of commerce, and it is nothing famous academic journals.

The author of this paper, Omar Hodge, is only a little-known junior magician.

However, it was such a paper that made Ke Lin stay up all night and spent several days reading it.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk."

After a knock on the door, the old Harvey directed several fellows to move several large boxes.

"Master Wayne, these are the periodicals and books you specified, and there are also all materials about 'Omar Hodge', including his resume, and all published papers and articles, which should be relatively complete. "

The Youjin Chamber of Commerce has been collecting all kinds of public academic works and journals in the Western Continent for Roman Sagan. A large part of the books in the Mage Tower are in this area. It is also much easier to obtain information from the Youlan Alliance in the continent's trade channels.

"Thank you, Mr. Harvey." Ke Lin stood up and expressed his gratitude to the veteran of the Youjin Chamber of Commerce.

"It's not hard. These things were originally going to Thunder City, but now they are sent directly to the fortress, which saves a lot of travel."

While Harvey responded humbly, he was also deeply impressed.

The chamber of commerce sends a large amount of magical academic materials from the Western Continent every month, and every time he meets Colin Wayne, the young Shaya lord, he is always reading and studying carefully.

After Harvey left, Colin picked up a document, went back to the table, and flipped through a few pages.

"Omar Hodge... is kind of interesting."

He bit a piece of bread and nodded thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)