Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 160 Reinforcements Arrive
The sun, which had been covered by dark clouds, finally broke through the clouds when it set, turning the horizon into a harmless egg yolk.

The troops of the Legion of Thorns also returned to the camp, started making fires and cooking, with smoke rising into the sky.

Levi went to inspect the more than 20 injured soldiers of High Cliff Castle. The tents where they were accommodated were the largest in size. A total of three tents were used to accommodate these wounded.

Because the tent needs to be ventilated, the cold wind will naturally blow in, in order to keep warm.

There were four or five braziers in these tents emitting heat, and several goat-man auxiliary soldiers were diligently standing by and adding firewood.

With Sam's healing skills and Levi's maxed-out "healing" skill, the condition of these wounded soldiers improved visibly, and it wouldn't be long before they were back to full strength and healthy again.

I have to say that it is much more convenient to have a spellcaster who can perform healing spells in the team.

If he were a military doctor, he wouldn't have the ability to perform such a treatment and make the patient's complexion visibly improve with just one treatment.

Moreover, this healing technique is totally irrational. It can cure any injury, no matter if you have a broken bone or your flesh is torn.

However, diseases require special divine arts to eliminate, and healing arts cannot cure diseases.

But even so, for warriors, healing is definitely the most practical spell.

If someone else knew healing skills, Levi would definitely hold it in his hands for fear of getting bumped or bruised.

The key point is that the one who controls the healing skill is Sam, a fence-sitter. He is the only one who keeps jumping back and forth after joining the team.

He had just agreed to join the team today, but he left the team early tomorrow morning, which made the lord angry and amused. Later on, he simply didn't bother to agree to let him join the team, as he would leave again in a few days anyway.

After taking a look at Sam who was diligently treating the wounded, Levi turned and left.

After a day of fighting, he was almost starving.

For an army on a long march, having a bite of meat to eat is a kind of comfort.

Because it was winter, the meat was easy to preserve and would not go bad for more than ten days. Levi specially slaughtered a cart of prepared mutton and pulled it from Gaoyabao.

Now is a good time to reward the warriors of Highcliff Castle.

Inside the tent, there was a pot in the middle, with potatoes and various vegetables cooking in it. The soup was frighteningly red, simply because a bunch of peppers were floating on top.

Thanks to the influence of their superiors, Zat and Mir gradually began to like spicy food, and they ate even more than the lord.

It's obvious that this mess was caused by these two idiots.

"Brother-in-law, come and eat. We are having mutton hotpot today."

Mir was wearing an apron and holding a boning knife, cutting the lamb into thin slices.

Zat sat in front of the pot, stirring it constantly with a spoon.

"What are you stirring? You've even messed up the soup base." Levi threw himself forward with a big neck, then pushed Zat aside and sat down on the long bench with his legs spread wide.

After taking a sip of the soup with a spoon, he gave his evaluation: "Not bad. Your cooking skills have finally improved. My careful training is worth it."

"Boss, eat the meat first."

Zat handed over the dishes and chopsticks attentively.

Just after Levi took it, it pulled out a washbasin-sized wooden basin from behind its butt, picked up at least half a pound of meat with one chopstick, stuffed it all into its mouth, and swallowed it in two bites.

Levi didn't say much. This idiot ranked second in the number of Minotaur killed today, with at least forty or fifty of them. It was only natural to eat more as a reward.

"Brother-in-law, I also killed a Minotaur today."

After cutting the meat, Mil sat down and ate while talking boastfully.

"Good, you have made progress. Study my swordsmanship well. I will find you an advanced fighting secret book to practice when there is a chance." Levi sucked the mutton in the bowl into his mouth and spoke vaguely.

With his swordsmanship that is unmatched now, if Mil can learn just a few points, he will be able to defeat those martial arts masters whose reputations in the arena are more famous than their abilities.

If he cultivates another kind of fighting spirit, he will have a place in Debei.

However, it was beyond Levi's expectation that he could kill a Minotaur with his current strength.

This group of Minotaur looked like rotten fish and shrimp that could be slaughtered at will, but that was only to him and Zat.

Even for Sikai, a knight with a high level of fighting spirit, it would not be easy to kill a Minotaur unless he used his ultimate move.

Mil has been learning sword from him for only a little over a month, and it is truly commendable that he has reached this level.

"This kid took advantage of the time when I was dealing with a Minotaur and stabbed it in the back." Zat ruthlessly exposed Mil's lies.

"Brother Zat, just tell me whether I killed this Minotaur or not?" Mil's face turned red and he shouted with his neck stiff.

Zat did not answer. This was the truth, but it still could not cover up the boy's style of grabbing heads.

"I give up. Next time when you go out, don't tell others that you learned swordsmanship from me." Levi rolled his eyes.

No wonder he could kill a Minotaur. Good guy, he taught me his advanced swordsmanship, and it all became the three-way sword technique, right?

Levi doesn't want to be known as a master of the lower third sword technique in the future. It's too embarrassing.

"Sir! Sir!"

At this time, Sikai's voice came from outside, and he rushed into the tent in a hurry.

"What's wrong with Lao Si?" The lord asked casually without even raising his head.

The last time this guy came here in a hurry, as if something big had happened, but in the end he just went to a meeting.

From then on, the lord was no longer deceived by the appearance of the anxious king.

"Duke Flinna is missing."

"what?"

Levi wondered if he had heard it wrong because he was hard of hearing.

"I just learned that Lady Florina and her cavalry have gone somewhere unknown." Sikai told him everything he knew in one breath.

To be honest, his cavalry regiment camp and High Cliff Castle are together. Just now when he was about to find Florina to report some work, he found out that this adult had gone somewhere.

In shock, he subconsciously went to find the Lord of High Cliff Castle who had saved him, trying to get some information.

But now it seems that this lord is obviously not clear about this matter.

"Don't you know Fujiro?"

"I'm not sure. I can't even enter the meeting tent now. I learned the news from the officers' hesitancy, and also because the cavalry of the Thorn Legion disappeared, so I guessed it." Sikai said his guess.

"What on earth does Florina want to do? She's trying to disappear at this time of year."

The lord hadn't taken care of his beard for a while, and his stubble was shaking.

Replacing generals in the middle of a battle has always been a taboo. The disappearance of Florina, the backbone of the army at this time, may not be a big deal for the officers, but for the soldiers, it will definitely lower their morale and they will start to have wild thoughts.

"damn it!"

The lord cursed angrily, raised the bowl in his hand and wanted to have some Cao's rice, but he found that there was no wooden table in front of him, so he put it back.

"It's come to this, let's eat first!"

He dug at the rice in the bowl viciously.

Sikai secretly breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, after seeing the strength of Lord Li and his soldiers, he was really afraid that the other party would get angry and leave. He also joined the dinner party. He didn't eat today.

While eating and thinking, suddenly a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and he seemed to understand something.

Why did Duke Florina suddenly disappear without telling him, and her whereabouts are also unclear.

Obviously, this is because if he knew about it, the secret might be leaked, and the person to whom the secret would be leaked would naturally be the outsider, the Lord of Highcliff Castle.

One thing that can be confirmed at the moment is that Duke Florina is definitely not returning to Bailiu City, but is most likely heading north.

I want to conceal it, but I can't give up at this time. Only magic crystal ore can have such an important effect.

But if it was for the magic crystal mine, why didn't they wait until the wilderness coalition was defeated before going? This was something Sikai couldn't understand.

He once escorted a caravan transporting black stone to the elven tribe, so he also knew about the magic crystal mine.

However, after roughly guessing where Florina had gone, Sikai breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the lord calmly.

As a result, the two of them happened to fall in love with each other.

Levi gave an ambiguous smile.

Sikai quickly lowered his head and ate the mutton in the bowl.

He didn't say these guesses just now. Unless the lord has the ability to read minds, it is impossible to know what he is thinking.

Skye comforted herself.

The lord stroked his newly emerged stubble.

He had been watching the knight's expression since he sat down.

Sometimes I was confused, sometimes I suddenly realized something. Everything was written on my face. The key was that I still thought I was hiding it very well.

Damn, this kid is hiding something from him.

This made the lord heartbroken. The two of them had a life-long friendship, but he didn't even tell him the whereabouts of a woman. Their feelings for each other faded.

But since he didn't say it, Levi didn't plan to ask.

Until Sikai hastily finished his meal and hurriedly said goodbye and left, Levi looked at his back thoughtfully.

"Boss, wouldn't it be better if we just detained him and tortured him to extract a confession? Then we would know everything, right?"

Zat gives an undead idea.

"You just rely on brute force every day. We need to use our brains, you know?"

Levi gave it a slap, and Zat grimaced in pain.

Torture is definitely not an option. Apart from anything else, the two of them still have some friendship, and the lord is not the kind of person who would disown others once he has his pants pulled up.

But he didn't have any good solution for the time being. After all, if someone wants to hide something, he will hide it very carefully when you want him to tell you. If you don't want to know, he will tell it inadvertently.

As the sun completely set below the horizon, the whole world began to be shrouded in darkness again.

There were only drifting snowflakes and whistling cold wind outside.

This winter is particularly cold. Taking a deep breath feels like a steel knife stirring in the lungs, and the wisps of white mist exhaled will take away the body temperature bit by bit.

A dozen or so rabbit auxiliary soldiers huddled together in quilts to barely feel a little warmth. They dared not let the brazier at the foot of the big bunk bed dim, and had to add firewood to it every once in a while.

The orc guards patrolled the camp, changing shifts every half an hour to avoid staying outside for a long time and getting cold.

"Winter is coming."

The lord was wearing a coat and looking at the snow-covered mountains, when he suddenly felt inspired.

He has been in this world for three years. Although he has been staying in the south before, he also knows some of the situations in the north.

This year's winter is really too weird.

But fortunately, in this world, there are no such things as White Walkers, although there are undead and so on.

But they are all old almanacs from thousands of years ago.

Otherwise, Levi was really afraid that he would be surrounded by an endless army of White Walkers when he woke up.

After inspecting the Gaoyabao camp and finding no problems, Levi returned to the tent and got into bed.

"hiss."

Mir and Zat made a sound like teeth grinding at the same time.

The two of them had just warmed up the bed, and now the lord suddenly got in between them, like an ice cube coming in.

If it weren't for the fact that a higher-ranking official could crush someone, Zat would have killed the lord long ago.

Silent all night.

It was morning in the wilderness, before daybreak, and the entire Legion of Thorns began to gradually wake up like a sleeping beast.

Levi was having a sound sleep, dreaming that he was holding a vixen with red hair and tail in his left hand, and a mermaid princess with a beautiful face in his right hand.

Suddenly, the charming face of the vixen on the left suddenly turned into Beristina, and the mermaid princess on the right suddenly turned into Florina, which scared him awake.

Then he realized that Mil was waking him up with an excited look on his face.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, reinforcements from Bailiu City have arrived, and among them are those famous Panta warriors!"

While lamenting that "what you think about during the day you dream about at night", Levi yawned and put on his clothes slowly.

Because of Florina's sudden departure, he was obsessed with where the Duchess had gone, so it was normal for him to dream about her.

How could he still dream about this little girl, Beristina? He must be thinking about the food she cooked, the Lord guessed.

After getting dressed and washing his face with cold water, Levi, wearing leather armor and carrying a long sword, looked capable and ready to go and see this so-called reinforcement.

In front of the camp, a team was completing the handover procedures with the Thorn Legion. The lord took a quick glance and saw that there were at least two to three thousand people.

"This is different from the agreed-upon Penta Warrior Squad."

Levi was a little confused.

Earlier, Flina mentioned that a group of Panda warriors would be dispatched for support, but judging from the current situation, it is obviously even worse than that.

I'm afraid the sudden departure of this Duchess is not simple.

"It's the Penta warriors!" Mir almost jumped up excitedly, pointing at a team of about a hundred people in the distance.

All the warriors in this team wore linen warrior robes with open chests, revealing their hairy chests. Their hanging arms were full of tendon meat, and their violent features were obvious.

The faces of these warriors were covered with black and white hair. Although they had been carefully trimmed and groomed, the black curly hair on either side of the eyes were like two pieces of iron gall, making the face look even more ferocious.

Each of these Penta warriors is more than three feet tall and is much stronger than the Minotaur.

Although he was just standing there doing nothing, he couldn't help but exude the aura of a master.

This is a group of masters!
The Lord came to the conclusion.

(End of this chapter)