Four days later, Port Ametrine was in sight.
El said disdainfully: "This place is too small. You see, this harbor is so small, it is less than one-tenth of Zangjin Harbor."
Lorist smiled and said, "Is this place comparable to Morente? It used to be just a small fishing village. If the Principality of Rulm hadn't been established, no one would have come here. After all, it has been fighting for six years. It is said that before the Commercial Alliance This sea route is used when smuggling with the Krissen Empire, and it is already very good that this small town will develop into such a small town immediately after the truce. In a few years, this place will also become a bustling seaport city."
"No matter how prosperous it is, it has nothing to do with us. Don't worry about it. My lord, where are you talking about the fat people?" El asked.
"The letter said they would camp outside the town, and we'll find out when we get to the pier." Lorist was also not sure.
In the morning, I saw the port of Ametrine, but it was around three o'clock in the afternoon that the sea-going ship was moored on the trestle of the pier. The main reason is that the channel here is relatively curved, and it is easy to run aground without a pilot leading the way.
Lorist and El, Alisa, Schwader, Reddy and Pat got off the ship, walked around the pier and found that no one came to greet them, so they couldn't help feeling a little puzzled. Strange, Fatty Shi should send someone to watch at the pier every day, why is there no one there
El nodded to Lorist, and walked quietly to a house near the pier with a signboard with a wine glass and a sea fish painted on it. It was the tavern on the pier, the place with the best news.
Lorist waited for a while, and the local officials responsible for collecting taxes on the ship were walking down the ship. Sodkamp followed him. Lorist beckoned to him, and the official quickly came over respectfully: "My lord, what are your orders?"
"More than 3,000 people came here from Nubit Port ten days ago. Do you know where their camp is?" Lorist took out a Jinford and stuffed it.
The wharf official was overjoyed, and took the gold coin neatly: "Yes, they camped in the small pine forest to the south of the town. They should belong to your lord, right? The angry bear symbol on the flag and the pattern on the lord's badge Exactly the same."
Lorist nodded.
The official said obsequiously, "My lord, your people may be in some trouble. They camped very close to Slov's camp. I heard that there was a conflict and your people were trapped in the camp for four days."
"Oh, who is Naslov?" Lorist asked.
"This..." the official hesitated.
Lorist stuffed another gold coin in the past.
The official looked around and said to Lorist in a low voice: "My lord, Slov is the head of a well-known local mercenary group. He is very powerful and has close ties with Nubit Port. If you can If so, your lord might as well send someone to make an apology, send some gifts to shake hands, that is the best solution."
"Oh, okay, thank you for your advice." Lorist said calmly.
The official bowed and saluted: "You're welcome, I will take my leave first."
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"Go back to the boat, Reddy, and get Terman and Yuri," Lorist ordered.
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El also quickly returned to the ship, and he informed everyone of the news he got in the tavern, that Slov, who was said to be the head of the mercenary group, was actually the head of a slave hunting group, and the biggest gangster in the area. Evil forces, even the lord can do nothing to him. We can only make an agreement with him in three chapters, as long as Slov and his slave hunting group do not cause trouble in the local area, do not hinder business travel, and do not affect local tax revenue, the two parties will live in peace.
Fatty Shi and the others arrived at the port of Ametlin eleven days ago, and set up camp in the small pine forest on the southern outskirts of the town, which is very close to the camp of Slov's slave hunting group. Somehow, Slov got his idea, and the two parties clashed. Fatty Shi and the others suffered from the fact that they had too many people and had no weapons, so they could only cut down trees as soldiers and defend themselves. It is said that dozens of people have been arrested and there have been casualties.
That Slov's slave hunting group is very strong, there are three gold rank masters, more than 40 silver swordsmen, and more than 200 black iron and bronze men, so the lord is also very afraid of him. There is also a rumor that Slov has a brother who is a great swordsman, but he rarely shows up.
Everyone was silent. No one expected to bump into such a powerful obstacle in the first step of the northbound journey. There was no good way for a while.
"Well, Pat, Reddy, Sedkamp, you stay on the ship and take care of Schward and Alyssa. Yuri, you take twelve more people to station on the ship, and make sure that the weapons and equipment transported are safe. Although These three ships are all flying the flag of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. Generally, no forces dare to provoke them, but we also need to prevent accidents, pull the crossbow chariots to the deck, four ships per ship, and counterattack immediately if someone attacks, Kill it and talk about it."
Lorist was murderous at this moment: "The rest of the people are all in armor, Knight Terman, prepare five carriages, transport a batch of spears, crossbows and arrows, and go to the camp with me to see if anyone dares to block the way." Yes, shoot to kill."
There are thirty-eight old students of Dawn Academy who are willing to follow Lorist to the Northland this time. Fatty Shi took away twelve, Yuri left twelve, and the remaining fourteen had five and Special. Like Erman, he chose full knight armor. The other seven and El were all wearing the light cavalry armor of Dawn Academy, and each brought a crossbow and five spears. Lorist chose a piece of scale armor, which only protected his chest and abdomen. After moving around a bit, he found that it was all right without affecting his reaction and speed. Lorist didn't bring a crossbow, but only hung twelve javelins in bundles on one side of the horse's back.
Terman hired five freight carriages at the pier, and asked the carriage driver to follow him to transport the goods to the camp in the southern suburbs at a high price of one big silver coin per cart, and promised them that they could stand by in case of conflict, and it would not matter if the goods were lost. their business.
Six knights in full armor cleared the way, with Terman leading the way, followed by five freight carriages, Lorist and El with seven veteran students escorting them on both sides, the group quickly passed through the town, and turned to the avenue heading to the southern suburbs .
There is a checkpoint blocking the road ahead, a simple railing made of a few trees stands in the middle of the road, and there are thirty or forty people standing on both sides, and someone in front is waving to signal people to stop.
Terman didn't gnaw, just put down the lance and aimed it at the front. The four lances behind him leveled their lances at the same time. Only the middle lance was still pointing obliquely in the air. Hunting and fluttering.
The blades of the five lances flashed sword lights almost at the same time, five silver-ranked knights! None of the group of people blocking the way dared to stand in front, they hurriedly dodged to the sides, and a few cursed and rushed towards the dozens of horses on both sides who were lowering their heads and gnawing grass.
Terman's lance was the first to hit the wooden railing blocking the road, and with a "bang", the wooden railing shattered and the road ahead was unimpeded. Five freight carriages "rumbled" and flew past.
Some of those blocking the way pointed at the carriage and cursed, some were about to mount their horses to chase after them, and some with bows and arrows were shooting arrows at the carriage as if venting their anger. When they were in a mess, they suddenly heard a cold voice. The order said: "Throw the gun and kill them all."
There were screams one after another, but it was Lorist who brought El and the nine of them back, using crossbows in the distance and throwing guns in the near ones, and killed those blocking the way by surprise, and a dozen of them fell down as soon as they met their faces. , the archers were the first to suffer, followed by the two mounted horses, who were nailed to the ground with spears, and the horses hissed and screamed terribly.
Lorist let his horse rein freely, holding a spear in each of his left and right hands, and when he saw a target, he threw it like lightning. Not long after, twelve people blocking the way were killed by the spears. A swordsman blocking the way was a silver-ranked swordsman lying on the ground and pretending to be dead. Seeing that Lorist had not thrown his spear and sat down on his horse, he suddenly jumped up from the ground with a loud roar. Killed Lorist, seized the horse and fled.
The two-handed sword of the silver swordsman flashed an inch-long sword light. Seeing that the opponent on the horse pulled out the long sword from behind to resist, but there was no sword light on the sword, he couldn't help being overjoyed. He was silver three stars, and his opponent was only a black iron. If this sword goes down, the opponent will definitely be killed by the sword, and if he rides the horse immediately, he will surely escape.
Unexpectedly, the opponent's sword did not break when the two swords collided, but a shock came from it. The two-handed sword in his hand was swung high. The silver swordsman watched helplessly as the opponent's sword penetrated his throat like a snake. pitch black...
Looking around, there were corpses strewn all over the ground, about 30 lay down on the road, and four or five figures fled quickly in the distance, and nine of them were unharmed. Lorist was very satisfied with this result. He didn't expect that he would kill thirteen of them by himself, and more than a dozen of them would fall down as soon as they met each other. There was not enough left for El and them to share one each.
An old student rode up to Lorist, and saluted respectfully, with a look of admiration in his eyes.
"Check it out, if there's still one alive, make another sword, pack up the spoils, and go back later." Lorist ordered lightly.
The spoils of war refer to the mounts, weapons, armor, money bags and dry food brought by these roadblockers. Lorist felt that he was very kind, at least he left underwear for others. If Fatty Shi was here, these people would really be naked.
"Yes, my lord." The old student responded and left.
"El, return to the camp later, hand in the horses, weapons and armor, and you will share the property. Don't forget to give a share to Terman and the others." Lorist said to El who came over.
"My lord, this is against the regulations. Terman said that there are regulations on the distribution of spoils, and how to reward Fatty Shi has already been determined. You can't destroy it at will." El said.
"Uh, sorry, I forgot, then follow the rules." Lorist said.
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Turning a corner on the avenue, I saw a camp with the angry bear flag flying. There was another camp more than 200 meters away from this camp. It was piled up with soil and looked stronger and neater than my own camp built with miscellaneous wood. many. That should be the camp of the slave catchers.
The gate of the camp had already been opened, and there was a burst of cheers when they saw Lorist and the others turn around. A lot of people gathered at the gate of the slave catcher's camp in the distance. They were looking this way, and a few people were riding horses to the place where the checkpoint was set up on the road just now. It was obviously strange how five carts of goods could pass Pass the checkpoint and be transported to the camp.
Lorist dismounted and said to Terman: "Be careful, and release the spear and crossbow."
An old student with a bandage on his head came over to salute hurriedly. Lorist knew him, and he was one of the twelve students who followed Fatty Shi.
"You are Doles, right? Why are you injured? Is it serious?" Lorist asked with concern.
Dolles said gratefully: "It's okay, just scratch the skin. Lord Locke, I finally waited until you came back. Big brother was injured a little and was lying in the tent over there. Knight Bodfinger led people to patrol the night last night. He is resting, and I have sent someone to inform him."
"Well, then take me to meet Knight Shredder first." Lorist said.
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Lifting the curtain of the tent, I saw Fatty Shi, whose upper body was bandaged like a rice dumpling, sitting and watching Lorist and Al come in.
"Hey, fat man, why don't you think you're fat after you bandage it up?" Al made a joke first.
Fatty Shi looked at him and curled his lips: "I knew you would follow, but it's a pity that no one bet with me, otherwise I would have won money."
"Day..." El was speechless...
"How's the injury? Is it serious?" Lorist asked.
"It's okay, just received a few swords, and the blood bleeds a little bit, and nothing else is serious. Rummard said, I will recover from this injury in 20 days. My lord, I didn't expect that we would be unlucky." Fatty Shi said.
Rummard is a junior pharmacist, somehow he was fooled by Fatty Shi into the same pirate ship, and he wanted to follow them to the Northland. He was also one of the twelve students who followed Fatty Shi to Nubit Port.
El sat down beside Fatty Shi and patted Fatty Shi's thigh, because this place was not covered with bandages, and it was difficult to do it with other places. El said: "Fatty, whoever hurt you, let's see how my brother will avenge you."
"You? Pull it down. That's a golden swordsman. My brother only got seven wounds after fighting with him for a long time. If you were there, you would have been bleeding all over your body." Fatty Shi said.
"Day, don't forget that you fat man is defeated by brother, let's see how brother will avenge you." El was not convinced.
"Okay, fat man, tell me what's going on first." Lorist said.
The matter was very simple. After Fatty Shi and Bodfinger arrived at Nubit Port, they contacted several of Bodfinger's comrades. There happened to be a comrade-in-arms whose employer was a slave trader, and he successfully purchased more than 700 strong slaves. It is worth mentioning that all of these more than 700 slaves have awakened fighting spirit, most of them are black iron, and a small part are bronze. Many of them were soldiers or garrison members of the former Krissen Empire. They were captured due to defeat in the civil war, and then sold to slave traders. Because they are all burdened with their families, they cannot escape and resist.
The price to buy them is very expensive, 20 gold coins for each person of the black iron class, 15 gold coins for each person of the bronze class, and 1 gold coin for each of their family members regardless of gender. Those slave traders are also very smart. Generally, slaves like this are sold by the whole family in packages to reassure the slaves. If they are concerned, they will not run away or resist, and they can earn the maximum profit.
Fatty Shi managed to push the total price down to 16,000 gold coins, and then bought a batch of grain and clothes, paid a deposit for a large amount of grain, and found that there were only about 4,000 gold coins left around him, and he had to pay The food account and transportation costs cost two to three thousand gold coins, so I was reluctant to buy some weapons to equip the slaves. Anyway, Lorist would come to meet up with weapons and equipment, so he didn't care about it. As a result, because these slaves were not equipped with weapons, they were targeted when they arrived in Port Ametrin.
The Slov slave hunting group observed Fatty Shi and the others for two days after they set up camp, and determined that Fatty Shi and the others were a group of slave traders, or slave traders under the name of a certain nobleman. Since they are colleagues, how can there be no reason to sit on the ground and not respect yourself when you arrive at Ametlin Port? So on the third day, someone was sent over to inform Fatty Shi and the others, first, to offer five thousand gold coins for the toll. Second, leave half of the slaves in the camp so that they can stay safe.
Of course Fatty Shi refused, and explained to them that this was the army of the Norton family, but the few people who came over were arrogant and unreasonable, even claiming that they had never heard of the Norton family. obedient.
Fatty didn't involve family history, and he still talked to them well. When they spoke out, Fatty Lima turned his face, and the most arrogant one was cut down on the spot, and the rest were also beaten up and driven away. It's over. At this time, Fatty Shi realized that the situation was not good, and wanted to take people to the town to collect some weapons, but found that the people in the town regarded them as enemies, and refused to sell even a kitchen knife, not to mention weapons.
There was no way Fatty Shi returned to the camp and immediately cut wood into soldiers. At any rate, each strong slave was equipped with a wooden spear. More than 3,000 people had only a few dozen weapons, but they were surrounded by two or three hundred slave arresters and attacked for three days. If they hadn't been desperate, they would have been unable to resist. Fortunately, Knight Bodfinger and his two comrades blocked the three golden swordsmen of the slave catcher group, and twelve veteran students fought hard, causing more than 20 or 30 casualties to the slave catcher group. The slave hunting group retreated with scruples.
During the three-day siege of the camp, seventeen slaves died and more than fifty were injured. More than 40 people were also arrested. Seven of the twelve veteran students were injured, and now they are all persisting with injuries. The slave hunting group also changed their strategy and began to besiege the camp, preparing to catch Fatty Shi and the others easily and effortlessly after they were starving and exhausted. Seeing that there was not much food and grass left in the camp and it would not last long, Lorist and the others finally arrived.
Speaking of which, the door curtain moved, and Bodfinger led two big men into the tent.
Seeing Lorist Bodfinger felt relieved: "My lord, you have finally arrived."
Then he introduced the two big men beside him to Lorist: "My lord, they are my former comrades-in-arms. This is Rod Wells, a two-star gold swordsman. He is Mons Malek, a three-star silver star. They also want to follow me to visit the Northland."
What Bodelfinger meant was very simple. These two comrades in arms might also want to find a family to be loyal to, but they didn't know much about Lorist, and they couldn't stand Bodelfinger's persuasion, so they planned to follow Lorist and the others for a while. Take a look at the journey, if you get along, you can take refuge or leave if you don't. Baldfinger hoped that Lorist would keep them. .
Lorist stood up and bowed to the two: "Thank you for your generous assistance. The camp would have been breached without your help a few days ago. The Norton family will never forget the kindness of the two. If the two If you have any requirements, the Norton family will do their best."
Rod Wells, who is shorter and stronger, is bolder. He waved his hands with a smile and said, "You're welcome. Just because of our friendship with Borg, we can't stand idly by. We should do something."
Mons Malek, who had a more serious face, was reticent and just nodded without making a sound.
Lorist was about to speak when he saw Dolles rushing in from the outside, his expression a little nervous: "Master Locke, the opposite camp is about to attack us again..."