Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 349 Good Morning, Cass Mountains

Above the endless snowfield, golden figures shuttled through the clouds, and the sunlight shone through the gaps in the clouds, forming mottled light and shadows on the plains.

Levi stood on the watchtower, looking from afar at the Fed warriors who were grinning and laughing excitedly on the backs of griffins.

Ever since he beat up the leader of a group of griffins in front of them, he received a collective notice from these monsters to join the team.

There is nothing strange about this. When Levi was recruiting the werewolf cavalry, he knew that the mounts were also planned as a combat unit by the system. They would receive joining notifications and would be promoted along with the soldiers.

Once these griffins joined the team, they were even more docile than rabbits. Anyone could ride them as long as Levi was present. The lord waved his hand and decided to form a separate knight order.

Currently, the only active warriors in Highcliff Castle are orc warriors, centaur clan warriors, gnoll scouts and Feder archers. Obviously, only Feder archers are suitable for griffins, so Levi turned all of Feder archers into air units.

However, he did not expect that a new military promotion system would be developed for this purpose. Compared with the previous complicated promotion route divided into melee and ranged, the new one was so simple that one could tell at a glance how powerful it was.

There is only one way to go to the end, starting from the lowest level "Griffin New Knight", and going up to "Griffin Sky Warrior" and "Griffin Thunder Warrior" respectively.

After so much research, Levi discovered that the system's naming of military units was almost the same as that of the real Kingdom of Debe. An expert could tell some clues just from the names.

The names of the first-class elite legions are almost all named after various nature-related disasters, such as "Hurricane Destruction", "Rage of Magma", "Burning Legion", etc. Insiders know at a glance that these are the ones who cannot be provoked. They are the ace troops that every country has spent a lot of effort to cultivate. They really cost money, but their combat effectiveness is impeccable, and they are enough to determine the victory of a major battle at a critical moment.

The names of second-rate regular legions are much more arbitrary, and are mostly replaced by various symbolic things or family symbols, such as the "Legion of Thorns" in the North and the "Unsullied" in the Persian Gulf Empire.

As for the third-rate legions, most of them are named after ordinary wild beasts, such as "Lion Legion", "Eagle Legion" and so on. Most of them are mercenary legions or local garrison legions, usually only responsible for maintaining local law and order and undertaking bandit suppression tasks. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are a ragtag group.

Therefore, the names of system arms are destined to be complicated as long as they are related to various natural elements.

Once these griffin knights are formed, High Cliff Castle will also have a place in the sky, completely solving the embarrassing situation of High Cliff Castle's lack of anti-aircraft means.

"Lao Si, I will temporarily hand over my five hundred griffin knights to you for command." Levi patted the shoulder of the tall knight next to him, "I will write a letter to Florina and tell her that you can go back whenever you want. I will never stop you."

Currently, the only knight in High Cliff Castle who was abducted by him was the leader of a legitimate knight order and had learned orthodox military knowledge. After much thought, Levi found that only the other party was suitable to lead the Griffin Knights of the High Cliff Castle brigade.

"No problem." Sikai breathed a sigh of relief. If it was just a temporary command, he would naturally not refuse the invitation of the Lord of High Cliff Castle, not to mention that he now owned a griffin. If Levi hadn't been here, he would have gone to experience the thrill of soaring in the sky long ago.

"Don't think of this as a burden. Positions in the North are all filled with people, and it's too difficult to make a name for yourself. Florina agreed to help me because she wanted you to earn merit from this." Levi said with a smile, "This is a rare opportunity, enough to make a bunch of trainee knights in Debe go crazy with jealousy."

He did not lie. As his reputation grew, the apprentice knights who admired him flocked to Highcliff Castle, hoping to pledge allegiance to this wise and brave Duke of the Wilderness. Unfortunately, after a fair test with the barbarians of Highcliff Castle, they all found the lord and said goodbye and left in shame.

Levi was always very tolerant towards his admirers, and encouraged them one by one to try again after improving their swordsmanship.

It’s not that he looks down on these guys. No matter how weak these guys are, they are still better than the wild people who know nothing.

The real reason why the lord did not accept them was that these guys wanted not only honor and money, but also fiefdom. That is, as they made meritorious contributions, the lord not only needed to give them various rewards, but also to enthrone them as official knights and grant them a rich knight's manor.

Compared with the wilderness people who just need to have enough food and clothes, there is absolutely no cost-effectiveness.

Levi didn't want to recruit a group of living fathers to serve him. After all, if he dared not to grant them fiefdoms, the other party really had the power to draw swords against him. This was an old tradition of Debe.

"Sir, Sam and the others have contacted most of the tribal leaders in the Kaas Mountains." The hobgoblin quietly came behind Levi and said.

With more than ten days of overtime work, Tudor-style houses with small buildings and chimneys have sprung up and stand in the planned residential area at the foot of the hill.

The walls are built entirely with red bricks, and the pointed roof is made of locally available pine wood, which is the most common wood in the wilderness, and is then covered with fired tiles.

Firing tiles has long been popular in this world, so firing red bricks is not difficult at all. Once the material ratio is known, it is a piece of cake for the Fed craftsmen.

During the time when the houses were being built, Levi was not idle. He asked Sam and several old northern tribe leaders who had defected to Highcliff Castle to enter the Cass Mountains to contact other tribes still hiding there.

Although he was willing to accept orcs, he did not want to be the king of a foreign race and rebuild the Orc Empire. Therefore, the main subjects he accepted were still humans.

And the group of old people hiding in the Cass Mountains are his target.

According to Sam and his men, there were at least hundreds of thousands of people hiding inside.

He had ignored it before, mainly because Gaoyabao was temporarily unable to accept so many people. Now he had money, food, and houses, so he was naturally prepared to let them all escape from the suffering in the darkness and live under the sun.

After all, he is the benevolent Lord of the Wilderness, and he does not want these poor and helpless subjects to perish in the world.

In the flower courtyard of the Lord of Highcliff Castle, Heather was limping and running slowly. Perhaps the recent battle that was so fierce that it caused chaos and darkness made her realize the importance of physical fitness. Recently, this drow priestess has been exercising frequently.

The lord came up behind her like a ghost, and suddenly let out a howl without any warning, which scared the big white rabbit on the chest of the drow elf so much that she almost threw an instant fireball at the lord's head.

When she noticed who was coming, her face was full of resentment, just like a shrewd woman.

"I'm planning to go to the Cass Mountains. Do you want to go?" The lord naturally put his arm around the other's slender waist and helped her into the house.

If he had only treated the drow lord as a subordinate before, then since that night, his affection for him had naturally increased greatly. It was not because she had become his woman, but because the lord discovered that she still had her virginity!
To be honest, he was stunned at that time. After all, based on the innate impression of the world towards the drow elves, these guys were absolute sluts. An adult drow elf who still had her virginity was no less than having a saint who was so pure that she had never been touched by a man among a group of prostitutes.

It’s even rarer than Mithril!
However, after learning about her deeds in the Underdark, the lord's impression of her completely changed, and he truly regarded this drow elf as his own woman, rather than a maidservant.

To sum it up briefly, every race will always have some variants that are different from the general public, such as the wise earth elf Leiden, the variant dragons among dragons that don't like treasures, or the twelve saints among humans.

Their personalities are completely contrary to the mainstream personalities of their species, and their behaviors are completely inconsistent.

Heather is an alien among the drow elves. She has no interest in keeping a male lover and has been studying magic all her life in the hope of returning to live on the ground where the sun shines.

It just so happens that the drow are a matriarchal society, and if she doesn't want to, the lower-status male drow don't have the ability to force her.

So it was not until today that it was intercepted by the lord.

"I would really like to go, but do you think I can go in this state?" Heather was interrupted, with helplessness on her face.

The Lord laughed slyly: "It's just for exercise, and you don't know how to appreciate your good fortune."

"Then I have to thank you, my good darling~" Heather rolled her eyes and said it in a naive way. For a moment, she was charming and attractive.

"The Slaanesh culture is like a flood and a beast, endangering the youth of the kingdom." The lord slapped his white thigh and sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Heather covered her thigh with a look of grievance, but she rolled her eyes, put her arms around the lord's neck, and asked coquettishly: "Darling, what are you going to do with the magician soul crystal?"

She had gone to Gunda with Levi at the beginning, so she naturally knew that as the stakes of the duel, in addition to the mermaid and the golden man who shed tears secretly in the dead of night every day, there was also a soul crystal that condensed all the life-long learning of a magician.

For a group of melee warriors, this kind of thing is just like a broken stone and cannot bring any improvement to their strength.

But for spellcasters, it is definitely the most coveted treasure in the world.
She has been stuck as a mid-level magician for a long time. Drow elves have a long lifespan, and although it is only a matter of time before she becomes a high-level magician, now that there is a shortcut, she will naturally not give it up.

"You ask even though you know the answer." Levi narrowed his eyes and smiled, taking out a purple round crystal the size of a goose egg from the inventory.

There are only two or three spellcasters in Highcliff Castle. Sam's cultivation is too low, so it would be a waste to give it to him. Orak is a reckless shaman who can bless himself, not to mention the other three drow priests. From the beginning, this thing was destined to be Heather's.

I have been holding back on giving it to the other party until now just to give him some icing on the cake. After all, if something is obtained too easily, people will easily not cherish it. This is the nature of intelligent creatures.

Heather held it in her hands with a look of surprise, and finally left a lip print on the Lord's face. She gently stroked Levi's face with her long nails and said emotionally: "Darling, no matter what happens in the future, no matter how difficult it is, you will not abandon me, right?"

The drow did not promise that he would not abandon the other party, but asked in return, which proved everything.

"Unless I die." Levi smiled, but the words that came out of his mouth had a ruthless tone.

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Teams of griffin knights and orc warriors began to prepare their equipment and assemble, heading towards the Kaas Mountains.

Recruiting the so-called old people from the Cass Mountains is not as simple as it seems. After all, not everyone yearns for Highcliff Castle. There will always be people who will resist under the banner of being unable to leave their homeland or that they will be exploited if they join Highcliff Castle.

These people are often the rulers, because by joining Gaoya Castle, their status will inevitably drop from above the tens of thousands of people, and even be almost the same as those old people, which is something the common rulers cannot tolerate.

However, the lord did not recruit these old people out of kindness this time. If a war is necessary, he doesn't mind letting these guys learn the value of the Gaoyabao Brigade.

This is what Gaoyabao must do if it wants to truly become the king of the wilderness. Any mantis that attempts to block the development of Gaoyabao will only end up being crushed into meat paste by the rolling wheels.

The tall outline of the Cass Mountains finally revealed its true face on the fifth day.

After enduring a journey of wind and snow, the Gaoyabao Brigade prepared to rest together in the iron mine camp.

"Across the vast plains lies a mountain range that runs from north to south, just like the backbone of the world that blocks the cold wind from the south, allowing the north to embrace spring and making cold the main theme of the Arctic ice field." Levi rode on the broad back of the handsome three-headed dog, shaking his head and speaking words that made the surrounding barbarians feel stern.

"Good day, Lord Levi." Jos, wrapped in a thick bear skin, and a team of Fed reserve soldiers guarding the iron mine greeted them half a mile away from the iron mine camp.

"Jos, long time no see." The lord jumped off Beifeng's back and gave the middle-aged Fed swordsman a bear hug.

The other person has watched Tina and Mir grow up since they were young, and is considered the closest person to them since their parents died.

Levi has been taken care of by the other party many times, so he also respects the other party.

"If nothing else, you can go back to High Cliff Castle. Tina and the others miss you too. There are people watching over the iron mine, so nothing will happen." Levi patted his shoulder and they walked towards the camp together.

"Okay." Jos nodded with a smile, even though he had just been there at his last wedding.

"By the way, how are those black people doing here?" Levi asked.

(End of this chapter)