The Knight's Journey to the Empire

The Anatolia Mountains run across the north of the Knight Continent, separating the polar ice fields in the north from the areas in the south that are suitable for human survival, while also blocking the freezing cold winds from the polar ice fields from invading the south.

The Arctic Ice Field is the most dangerous place in the Knight Continent. It is truly freezing cold and covered with ice and snow.

There is always ice and snow covering thousands of miles, the wind is as cold as a knife, and the sky and the earth are always white.

There are countless legends about the extremely cold ice field in human society, but except for a few adventurers, no one has ever set foot here.

The Anatolian Mountains are long and majestic, with peaks upon peaks. Like a great mother, it protects the prosperity of the southern part of the Knight Continent with a broad, benevolent, and loving heart.

Other mountains provide the land and water to support the people, but this mountain range protects the entire knight continent.

The Anatolian Mountains have many branches, which are distributed in a tree-like manner in the southern part, and the Barinas Mountains are one of them.

In fact, there are three counties bordering the territories of the Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Glia, namely Baisong County, one of the two northern counties, Saladin County, one of the three western counties, and Tallinn County, one of the four southern counties.

However, the area where Baisong County borders the Principality of Glia is the part of the Barinas Mountains that just branched out from the Anatolia Mountains.

There are truly towering mountains, countless ravines, and deep forests.

In addition, there is less human activity on both sides of the mountains and the economy is not very developed, so there is no trade route between the two places and the two places are in a state of isolation.

The area bordering Tallinn County and the Principality of Glia is even more dangerous. It is also a dangerous place famous throughout the Knight Continent - the Misty Swamp.

No, it should be said that this vast misty swamp is the territorial dividing point between the Kingdom of Essex, the Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Goliath.

The Misty Swamp covers a vast area with complex terrain. It is filled with thick fog all year round, foul miasma is floating around, and it is overgrown with reeds and full of poisonous insects.

The most important thing is that there lives a large group of magical beasts inside - the iron-clawed crocodiles.

In addition, it is very easy to get lost, so once people enter there is no chance of survival.

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Ever since the disappearance of the eldest son of the Principality of Glia, General Bill arranged a large number of scouts to almost search the Barinas Mountains and closed all the roads from the Barinas Mountains to Saladin County. Anyone who wanted to pass through would be carefully checked.

If he's alive, I want to see him in person; if he's dead, I want to see his body. This is the only order.

Therefore, it is impossible for Sauron and his men to return home from Saladin County.

So, at Wolfe's suggestion, they turned south and followed the mountain path on the eastern foot of the Barinas Mountains, carefully avoiding the searches of various spies. After entering Tallinn County, they returned home and entered Saladin County from Tallinn County.

The biggest drawback of the feudal hereditary system is that the vassal's vassal is not my vassal, and the lord's lord's troubles are not my troubles.

Tallinn County and Saladin County border each other, but the battle between Saladin County and the Principality of Goliath is fierce, with life and death battles, like a human meat grinder.

However, Talinjun was still peaceful and stable, without any tense atmosphere of war preparedness.

The daily routine of the people here is still to work from sunrise to sunset, without any impact at all.

In a small town in Tallinn County, Soran used most of his savings to equip everyone with a crossbow horse to speed up their journey.

So along the way, the group rode at full speed, slept in the open air, and after a long journey of nearly half a month, they finally returned to Saladin County.

Of course, they did not return to the Midburg Kingdom's base camp, the city of Olivia, but returned to the county seat of Saladin County, the city of Saladin.

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On November 4876, 11 in the Knight Continent calendar, Soran and his twelve companions, escorted six prisoners, back to the city of Saladin.

At the gate of Saladin City, Soran led everyone and walked into the city slowly and arrogantly, while asking his men to deliberately publicize their "heroic deeds".

They even stayed at the city gate for a long time, attracting a crowd of passers-by and causing traffic jams.

Sauron knew clearly that the current action of "capturing the eldest son of the enemy country" was a private action taken after he "became a deserter", which was neither legitimate nor justifiable.

If someone wants to impersonate someone else and secretly seize military merit, the chances of him being replaced are very high.

I have no power, no influence, no friends and no money now, so the only thing I can do is to expand the number of people who know about it and increase my influence.

Moreover, after entering the city to hand over personnel and handle matters, he would send his men to major entertainment venues in the city to drink and brag, striving to make himself known to everyone.

Of course, before entering the city gate, they untied several noble sons of the enemy country.

This world still values ​​the dignity of the nobility. If a noble becomes a prisoner of war, he can be redeemed with money, but he cannot be humiliated easily.

This refers to what happens in front of others, not behind their backs.

However, Soran still used some tricks on the two knights, the second son of General Bill and the eldest son of Earl Alex.

That is, dislocate their arms first, and then restore them after they are handed over to the soldiers of Saladin County.

The knight's vitality and recovery ability are still very strong. Even if it is dislocated, it will only be a matter of pain for a few days after it is reconnected.

Moreover, Sauron also told them the whole cause and effect of their capture, as well as the reason for doing so. This can be considered as a strategy of using courtesy before force.

Along the way, Soran treated these noble children with courtesy, but he did not make things too difficult for them either.

After all, these noble children all have powerful backers, and they will definitely be redeemed afterwards.

Although Sauron is not afraid of his enemies, he does not want to make too many enemies and put himself in an unfavorable situation.

After the bloody baptism of this war, the arrogance and complacency of the time traveler had long been abandoned by him.

Now he just wants to survive and live a good life.

Although his action of kidnapping the eldest son of the enemy country may have made him many enemies.

But, everything depends on human effort, so just try your best. It's just a few nice words, Sauron is not so embarrassed that he can't say it.

What's more, maybe we won't be able to see it in the future.

As for whether these noble children who are used to being arrogant and domineering can listen to it, it depends on themselves.

Well, from the slightly angry looks of those playboys, Soran could see that it obviously didn't have any effect.

On the contrary, General Bill's second son and Earl Alex's eldest son seemed a little calmer after hearing this.

Well, something is better than nothing.

It doesn’t cost anything to say nice things, right?