Unknown Knight

Life is reviving, the snow is melting and it is the time of the year when all things flourish.

After organizing several hunting battles against wolves near Tangquan Fortress, Aix, who had some free time, decided to go to Kudan City, where the new urban expansion project was in full swing.

Accompanying Aix were the personal guards led by Liu Tang, two little lolis, Aisu and Ran Ying, and Bandak and Atiman, a total of more than fifty people.

They traveled light and made preparations the night before. They set out at dawn and arrived at Kudan City in the early hours of the night, completing the journey in just over a full day.

Ever since the three ladies became pregnant, the new nobles in the territory have relaxed the various restrictions on Aix. In addition, the division of land, households and administrative areas has given the people in the territory relatively fixed activity areas, and the public security in the territory has become very good.

At the same time, institutionalized patrols were also well implemented. The current territory should be considered the safest place in the entire continent. The upstarts were therefore relieved to let Aix go out with so few guards.

The current Kudan City is a large construction site. Aix plans to turn it into an industrial and commercial base. Coupled with its strategic geographical location, it will become an important financial and taxation center and a defensive stronghold of the territory.

Now Kudan City has added an outer city, located from the original city wall to the stone bridge. This not only expands the city area by nearly one-third, providing ample land for workshops, but also makes the wide Kudan River become the moat of Kudan City.

Not only that, the village of Tismo on the opposite side was also demolished and a county was established. The county seat was also moved to the other side of the stone bridge. It was built in the form of a fortress. In this way, the two cities on both sides echoed each other, which was equivalent to setting up double protection for Kudan City.

In the future, another stone bridge will be built on both sides of the river. Both stone bridges are within the city wall, which not only facilitates people but also has important military uses. Once a war breaks out, as long as the stone bridges are controlled when necessary, a good effect of blocking the enemy can be achieved.

Aix and his team visited the construction sites on both sides of Kudan City and were very satisfied with the overall quality and progress of the project.

The outer city and the Tismo County Government on the opposite bank can be sold to the outside world, allowing outsiders to freely enter and exit these areas and buy and sell the land, shops, houses and workshops here, which is equivalent to the territory's special economic zone and foreign port.

The territory's high-quality and unique commodities are very attractive to merchants from other places. As soon as the outer outline is planned and constructed and the sales advertisements are posted, the workshops, shops and houses in the city begin to be sold one after another.

Customers who came to buy came from all over the continent, including the Yars from their allies Wocheze City, the Nayans from Aichmor City, and even the iron workshop opened by Rodlaboye and the silk workshop opened by Maligaboye.

Wealthy merchants from cities such as Sagos, Dehrim, Paraven, Viruga, and Aaron have set up trading posts here. Even merchants from the Sarand Emirate have purchased land here, preparing to build trading posts and strongholds.

Apart from the initial start-up capital of 5,000 silver coins, the territory has invested almost no more money. After it is completed in the future, there will be large amounts of rent and commercial taxes to be collected, which is a good plan for long-term profit.

The initiative here is that Aix draws on the experience of the original world. Through the establishment of this special zone port, it not only increases the communication between the territory and the outside world, but also prevents the infiltration of the outside world into the territory, ensures a stable and safe development environment inside, and facilitates centralized management, making it convenient to collect money in the future.

Aix and his party stayed in Kudan City for two consecutive days. They were going to return to Tangquan Fortress tomorrow. The night before leaving, Aix reluctantly went to handle the last thing of this trip.

He dismissed everyone else and went alone to the attic in a secret corner of the City Lord's Mansion, where his nominal first lady, Lady Katia, was imprisoned.

At the beginning of last winter, Craig reported to him that Lady Katia had given birth to a son with black hair.

The child had lived in this separate attic since birth, cared for by several reliable women trained by Kress.

After not seeing her for a year, Mrs. Katia had become so thin that she was unrecognizable and had shackles on her feet. This was not Axe's intention, but the spontaneous decision of several guards. Mrs. Katia suffered from intermittent mental illness, and the purpose was to prevent her from running around and hurting the children, and also to prevent her from hurting herself.

Seeing Aix coming in, Katia woke up from her trance. It seemed that she already knew the purpose of Aix's visit. She said to Aix quietly:

"Are you here to take little Moros away, my husband?"

"Yes."

Axel's answer was indifferent and he did not address Katia at all. He had long since stopped recognizing this marriage.

"I know I was wrong, my husband, can you forgive me? I beg you."

Looking at the woman in front of him with lifeless eyes, hiding all emotions but pretending to be pitiful, Aix's heart twitched. What a cold heart it took to suppress her true thoughts.

She could not escape her own fate, and everything she did was for herself. Her inherent ideas made her proud, but also imprisoned her, making her unable to recognize the situation and distinguish between relatives and strangers.

If she could keep to her duty and recognize the situation, with Aix's character, even if she couldn't live the colorful and dissolute life she thought she had before, she could still ensure that she would be rich and worry-free throughout her life. If she had been more sensible, she would not have brought about the tragedy of her father being poisoned and her family being destroyed.

But this is impossible. The inherent ideas have become a part of her. How can her dissolute habits allow her to be at ease when she is restless?

It can be said that she could not escape her fate and was harmed by fate, or it can be said that she could not escape her past self and was harmed by herself.

What could Aix say? What else could he say? Facing someone who had no regrets but still fantasized about gaining sympathy, he couldn't even hate her. He still spoke to her in the same tone as before:

"You are not wrong. Everything is fate. Live well. If you need anything, tell the maids. They will try their best to satisfy you."

As he said this, he reached out and took the child from the maid's arms, then turned and left.

The child in her arms seemed to be connected to her by heart. Sensing the impending separation from his mother, he cried loudly. Axel could only pat and comfort him as he walked by, with a compassionate expression and a lonely back.

Seeing Aix walking away, Katia, who was sitting on the ground, did not cry like crazy, but supported herself on the ground with both hands, and chanted in a low voice:

"Darkness is coming, the world is annihilated, only by believing in my Lord can you gain eternal life..."

Her eyes were cold and ruthless, like a snake, watching Axelrod's receding back.