The next day, morning, Fergus Castle.
A huge living room with an area of 200 square meters and the like was filled with people in battle uniforms.
Viscount Fergus sat on the main seat. On his left was Baron Egbert Ricardo, and on his right was Baron Gardner Kipling.
Extending to the distance on both sides, there were six men of different ages sitting respectively. They were the other six lords in the Viscounty of Fergus except Lord Lynde.
Behind everyone's seats stood some young men in battle uniforms.
Behind Viscount Fergus are naturally Gray, Bernal, Ellis and Caroline.
Standing behind Baron Ricardo was Ian Ricardo, the eldest son that Gray had met before, and another young man whom he had never seen before.
Behind Baron Kipling were a young man and a teenager. Gray had met these two people in the last territory, but he had not interacted with them before.
Behind the other six lords, there is one person, either a young man or a young man.
It's not that these noble families only have one heir, but because the cost of implanting blood is too expensive. Even if there are several heirs in the family, usually only the eldest son will be implanted with blood.
It's much better for the two baron families. As long as they are heirs, they will be implanted with blood and given the opportunity to practice blood magic.
The Fergus family is much better than the Baron family. Even Caroline, a woman, has the opportunity to practice blood magic.
In the room, the total number of people reached 23, which were all the people practicing blood magic in the Viscount Fergus.
"I believe you all know the specific situation. Since the beginning of winter, wild beasts have frequently attacked the village. If this continues, I am worried that there will be civilian riots."
"So I'm going to clear up the mountain forests near several villages where wild beasts frequently attack villages."
Viscount Fergus glanced at the nobles and noble children present.
"The beast is not a threat to the people present, so in order to speed up the process, I divided the team into three teams. I, Baron Ricardo, and Baron Kipling each led one team, and the three heads acted."
"My Fergus family and the Harry family formed a team to clear the Black Earth Forest."
"The Ricardo family, the Corgi family, the Kulin family, and one person from the Carter family formed a pair to clear up the Black River Forest."
"The Kipling family, the Ronnie family, the Croft family, plus one person from the Carter family, formed a team to clear the Green Pine Forest."
"Okay, time is running out, let's go now!"
"Yes, Lord Viscount."
The two barons and six lords all stood up.
Soon, the three groups left Fergus Castle in three directions.
Da da da!
Heading to the snow in the south of the territory, more than a dozen horses were running, and the hot breath exhaled from their noses was like the circles of smoke exhaled from a smoker's mouth.
Because the ground was covered with snow, the traveling speed was not very fast, at most only about half of normal speed.
This team consisted of five members of the Fergus family, two members of the Harry family, plus several soldiers responsible for logistics.
"Master Bernal, Master Ellis, Miss Caroline, Master Gray."
The two Harrys who were assigned to the Fergus family were father named Lunt Harry and son named Vic Harry. Both father and son were slightly short and fat.
As soon as the team set off, Vic Harry, who was in his early 20s, began to keep approaching the four Grays. The other party obviously did not intend to miss this opportunity to get along with the younger generation of the Fergus family.
In response to the other party's approach, Bernal responded with a smile, Ellis didn't bother to pay attention at all, Caroline had a cold face, and Gray was neither too close nor too distant.
He sat on the red-blooded pony gifted to him by Viscount Fergus. More than four months later, the red-blooded pony had grown in size again and was already close to 1.4 meters tall.
After riding for almost an hour, the team arrived at the black soil forest in the woods they were responsible for.
"The seven of us went deep into the woods from seven directions, and finally met at the center. We immediately killed the beasts we saw."
"Bernar enters here, Gray enters here..."
Viscount Fergus took out a detailed map of the entire viscount territory, which contained a clear outline of the Black Earth Forest. Viscount Fergus pointed with his finger around the Black Earth Forest on the map, arranging the entry direction for everyone.
After arranging everyone's entry position, he said with a slightly serious expression.
"Although it shouldn't be a problem to deal with ordinary wild beasts with your strength, you still have to be careful. The Black Earth Forest is the largest of the three woods, and wild beasts attack the village the most frequently. You must be vigilant."
"Yes, father."
"Yes, Lord Viscount."
…
Everyone responded, and the seven people began to disperse. Gray rode a red-blooded horse and led a soldier. After walking half a circle around the outside of the black earth forest, he arrived at the place where Viscount Fergus had arranged to enter in the east.
He handed the red-blooded horse to the soldiers and took him back to the previous gathering place, and then he began to enter the black earth forest.
The reason why the Black Earth Forest is called Black Earth is because the land here is all black, so it is called the Black Earth Forest.
But at this time, everything that comes into view is white, the trees are white, the ground is white, this is a world of ice and snow.
With one step, the depth reached more than ten centimeters, and half of his calf had completely sunk into the snow. Fortunately, he was wearing boots that were as long as his knees, which prevented the snow from seeping into the shoes.
"Such deep snow is really not suitable for ordinary soldiers to encircle and suppress."
Gray shook his head, lifted his feet out of the snow, and continued walking.
If they are ordinary soldiers, half of their calves are stuck in the snow, making it difficult to walk, let alone encircling and suppressing wild beasts. I am afraid that they are more likely to become the belly of wild beasts.
Creak, creak, creak!
Stepping on the thick snow, Green went deep into the black soil forest. From time to time, snow would fall from the branches above his head, but he easily dodged them.
It went almost a few hundred meters deep.
Bang!
Just as Gray was passing by a tree, suddenly, the snow next to the tree suddenly exploded, and then a white figure suddenly jumped out and rushed towards him.
This white figure is 2 meters long and about 1.5 meters tall. It has snow-white hair all over its body, and its limbs and torso are extremely strong.
This is a tiger with white fur.
Ouch—
The white tiger covered a distance of four to five meters with a single leap. Its ferocious tiger mouth opened wide, and Gray could even smell the fishy stench.
Peng!
Gray stepped hard on the snow with one foot, and the snow splashed everywhere, and a small snow pit suddenly appeared.
And he relied on the force of the recoil to retreat, avoiding the white tiger's attack, and passed by the white tiger.
Sonorous!
The moment Gray passed by the white tiger.
Gray's long sword was unsheathed, a flash of white cold light flashed, and the sword slashed from the white tiger's neck.
puff!
A ferocious head flew up, and cherry-red blood surged wildly, spraying in all directions from the fracture.
The surrounding snow and trees are all dots of red, just like beautiful red flowers in the snow.
More than ten meters away, Gray, who had no trace of blood on his body, turned around and looked at the body of the white tiger that was still twitching and the head that had fallen to the ground and rolled several times.
When the blood splattered, he had already moved away, avoiding the violent splatter of blood.
"If he were an ordinary soldier, he would have died just now!"
Because of the cover of snow, the white tiger's attack was too sudden. It suddenly burst out of the snow less than five meters away from Gray, and with one leap, it had already rushed in front of Gray.
If an ordinary soldier were attacked, he would not be able to react at all. Even if he did, it would be difficult to escape from the white tiger's attack because his feet are stuck in the snow.
"We have only gone a few hundred meters deep and have already encountered wild beasts. No wonder the villages near the black soil forest have become the places where wild beasts attack the most frequently."
"It's a pity that such a big tiger probably weighs four to five hundred kilograms and cannot be taken away."
Shaking his head, Gray continued to move forward and continued deeper into the black soil forest.
He has no distance from the wild beasts in the black earth forest. Even if there may be many wild beasts in the black earth forest, his expression does not change at all.
Not to mention that his strength has reached the level of a high-level blood warrior. Even Ellis and Caroline, whose strength is only a low-level blood warrior, will not be too difficult to deal with these beasts.
Puff puff!
Gray would encounter attacks from wild beasts almost every hundred meters he advanced, which showed that there were so many wild beasts in this black earth forest.
"It's not normal. How come there are so many beasts?"
Following the killing, Gray's brows slowly raised.
In just over a mile's journey, he actually encountered no less than ten large hunting beasts. If Viscount Fergus and his friends had the same experience as him, it meant that there were at least seventy or more large hunting beasts in this forest. Hunting beasts.
For a forest like Black Earth Forest, there are too many.
Moreover, such a large number of large hunting beasts may not be able to supply such a large number of large hunting beasts, not to mention in winter, even in spring and summer when food is most abundant.
But in the spring and summer, except for Giethoorn, which was attacked by wild animals due to the cold tiger drive, the villages near the Black Earth Forest did not encounter attacks.
This is not normal!
(End of chapter)