Throne of the North.

Chapter 221 Along the way...

In the wilderness of mountains, forests and river valleys, when you look up you can see towering peaks and a sky with no clear direction. When you lower your head and try your best to capture it, there are many times when you are not careful and get scratched by weeds and dead branches.

If these three hundred people were not wearing several layers of animal skin armor and there were not a hundred fully armed knights around them, they would have died on the road long ago.

"Edward, where do you think their mounts come from? They look taller and more powerful than our pack horses, but shorter than war horses."

Next to Edward, a sturdy thin man couldn't help but look at the mounts of the knights with shining eyes, and couldn't help swallowing hard, thinking that it would be great if he also had a mount.

A knight is only a knight if he has a mount.

"You should call me Trade Officer."

Edward straightened his clothes and gently wiped off the mud.

This was the silk spoils captured by Master Ryan during the war. The master generously gave some of it as a reward to Edward. He spent many days asking around before he found the most skilled lady in the Frozen Territory who had woven a piece of clothing that was more gorgeous than the one woven by the peasants.

He looked at the war horses of the knights and was very envious, but he was different from his companions next to him. He was knowledgeable.

"Don't ask about the Lord's abilities. Maybe this is a warhorse captured in the war."

"Where are the cat people in Apia? It's been so many days, and I can't find any of them."

Edward was a little annoyed. The lord ordered him to continue teaching the cat people knowledge on the road. As a result, the cat people were nowhere to be seen except suddenly appearing in the evening every day to scare him.

"This...I don't know either."

"It is said that they are very powerful, but it is better not to see them."

The lackey said that he was also a little frightened by those cat-man assassins who suddenly appeared and disappeared.

"That won't do. The great lord said that if I can proactively find those cat people on the road, he will give me a blessing as a reward."

Hearing the word "blessing", the lackey next to him opened his eyes wide in disbelief and was about to shout subconsciously, but was immediately covered his mouth by Edward.

"You were selected for the preparatory class!"

The lackey stared at Edward, feeling abandoned.

"Go find it if you have the ability. I will tell the lord about it then. But don't shout. There is not a single complete road in this damn place. The roads we are on were provided by the Andara Kingdom and Butler Beard."

"If we provoke a powerful monster, we will all die. Keep your voice down."

"I don't know how Butler Beard led his men into the Andara Kingdom. If I had this ability, I should be able to get closer to Master Ryan."

Edward sighed, and the lackey beside him kept rolling his eyes as he looked at the surrounding environment.

"I just don't believe those cat people don't shit."

"Remember, if I find it, you can talk to the lord and ask him to bless me as well."

About a meter away, Apia was sitting on a rock, listening to Edward's voice. Although he was sitting on a rock, his whole body had merged with the shadow cast by the tree above his head. His body swayed with the swaying of the tree in the breeze. And around him, thirty cat-man assassins, like him, were actually always around Edward and his partner. The open ground was always crowded with dozens of people.

Apia didn't plan to tell the teacher because he was worried that the teacher would not be able to sleep and would not have the energy to teach them the next day.

He looked at his fingers and thought about the information he heard on the way. It would take about five days for them to enter the territory of the Andara Kingdom.

Someone will pick them up. This team is transporting not only the second batch of weapons for Grand Duke McReynolds, but also some specialties of the Frozen Territory. Baron Ryan wants to open up a trade route to the Kingdom of Andara, a trade route unknown to the empire.

But there is no road in this desolate mountain and wilderness. According to Baron Ryan, once the transport team goes back and forth a few more times and clears out the wild beasts or monsters on the road, there will be a road.

Appiah took a look at the carriages. Each carriage was terribly heavy. Many times, the knights even had to dismount to help in order to move forward smoothly. Sometimes he wondered whether the knights or the pack horses were responsible for pulling the carriages in this team.

If there had not been some good roads intermittently for the carriage to move forward smoothly, he would have doubted that these pack horses would be needed at all.

The power of the knights is still very strong, especially the knights in this team, each of whom is an official knight.

These were the hundred most elite men in the Frozen Territory, who had followed Baron Ryan through brutal wars. Appiah always remembered the warriors charging madly and fighting and hacking at the barbarians under the banner of Rhino Horn Mountain.

At that time, they didn't have mounts.

Thinking of the mounts, Appiah wrapped his cloak around himself. He felt a little strange that the knights' mounts seemed to be able to detect them.

These are not ordinary mounts. Appiah was shocked at where Ryan got these war horses from. When the knights rode on the war horses, their strength was improved to a higher level.

Only part of the secret of the frozen land was revealed to him.

Appiah thought so, and then he realized the reason, his loyalty had not been fully recognized.

“Perhaps, this mission is the key.”

Appiah held a piece of paper in his hand, on which were the names of more than a dozen nobles, but there was no name of Grand Duke McReynolds, the destination of their team this time.

"According to what Edward said these days, it seems that there is a big conflict between Grand Duke McReynolds and the Andara royal family."

Appia looked at the names of the nobles on the note. Some of them relied on the Grand Duke, while others remained loyal to the royal family.

"Thirty cat assassins are still too few. Perhaps we should think of a way."

Appiah was thinking, and he didn't realize that he didn't know how to think before. He just needed to wait for Count Weiss's orders and didn't care about or ask about anything else.

Five more days passed, and when the whole team was exhausted, a sharp eagle cry suddenly came from overhead. However, the sound was deeper than that of a goshawk, like some kind of ferocious beast on the ground.

Harrington, who was at the front, raised his head, and stared sharply under his visor at the griffin soaring and circling above his head, and his hand slowly reached for the beast bow behind him.

What they didn't see inside the Griffin Mountains, they saw when they left the Griffin Mountains.

(End of this chapter)