Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 34 Returning to Iron Tree Fort

   "Oh?" A little surprised: "Trouble?"

   "No, in fact, ever since I found out that there is a mysterious power in the world I live in, I have paid more attention to this aspect. Recently, I got some news about this aspect, and I want to see the specific situation with my own eyes."

  Laura didn't go into too much detail, but David immediately understood what was going on.

  The adventurous heart in this girl's heart is unwilling to be lonely, and she has found a suitable target, so the ancient tomb destroyer began to prepare for her next move!

   This is not something to be surprised at. With Laura's character, it's strange that Ken stays at home obediently.

Laura was able to stay at the 'home' for so long before, and didn't go out to find any relics, because her attention was on David during this time—not David himself, but the world in which David lived .

Now that she has figured out the situation around Cold Winter Village, and followed David to Iron Tree Fort, although she only went around roughly, but after experiencing the customs and daily life of this world, she has no doubts about this world. The curiosity of the world has dropped a lot.

   At this time, there is new information that can interest her in her own world, so it is normal for Laura to turn around and go back to start a new adventure.

   As for her current relationship with David? This doesn't seem to have any effect, anyway, she can come to Winter Village at any time when she goes out to take risks, and it can even be said that the existence of Winter Village is Laura's biggest trump card to challenge those mysterious forces!

  In addition to having her own safe area that can be entered and exited at any time, she can also store various equipment and tools in Winter Village, which is convenient for her to deal with various troubles.

   In addition, she can also ask David to cast some holy light spells on her to protect herself.

   "And that thing that was agreed before."

"which one?"

  David's question aroused Laura's dissatisfaction, and she lightly hammered David's chest with her fist: "You can give me a little of the Holy Light."

   "Oh!" David suddenly said, "This is not a problem, but when I come back from Iron Tree Fort, I will study how to infuse pure holy light into your body more safely."

   "..." Laura tilted her head: "Why do you think this sentence is weird?"

   "Are you sure it's not your mind that's weird?"

  While chatting wildly, he walked into the warehouse with potatoes on his shoulders. David checked by the way. The potatoes that Laura bought were specially selected, and they were not much different in size and shape from the potatoes produced in Cold Winter Village before. Understand, it is impossible to detect a noticeable difference.

  In the next few days, nothing special happened in Lindong Village.

Including Addis, who just arrived, also found some things for himself: during the day, he took Alfie to the outskirts of the forest in the north to hunt, and sometimes he went along the forest to the northeast to find prey, and taught Alfie how to be a hunter.

  At the same time, it is also to reduce the time spent in contact with Maloney and his subordinates. For this reason, Addis has no chance to have a good chat with David after he comes. Because David was often with Maloney during this time, Addis was trying to avoid the nobleman.

  However, for Addis and Alfie, the days of 'hide and hide' are finally coming to an end.

   Ten days after arriving in Cold Winter Village, Maloney felt that he had collected enough information, and then he would let his men rest for two days before heading back to Iron Tree Fort.

This information did not avoid David, and even made an additional 'map' to David, which not only marked the situation of Lindong Village and its surroundings, but also the information of the areas that had been explored on the entire northern plain, Various annotations were made.

   This thing was an unexpected surprise for David, and now he finally has a clearer understanding of the surroundings of his "hometown".

In addition, Fording, who went to the east to investigate, also came back, and the news he brought back was not bad: After almost crossing the entire northern plain, Fording found the group of 'orcs'—he thought these guys were orcs , that is a village composed of nearly forty orcs, and various buildings have been established, and even wooden walls have been built.

Although there are a lot of these orcs, it seems that their posture does not mean to expand outwards, but concentrates on repairing defenses. Fording speculates that the team of cavalry that David and the others eliminated earlier played a certain deterrent effect. These orcs are very afraid of humans.

   "This is good news, it means that these orcs will not come to trouble us in a short time."

David also did not hide this information from Maloney. After sharing the information detected by Fording with Maloney, he was also thanked by Maloney—his job does not include detecting this group of strange enemies, and now he can Going back with some extra information will highlight his abilities even more.

After further improving the map information on the northern plains, after completing the final finishing work, David loaded 50 kilograms of potatoes on the empty horse, rode another horse himself, and Maloney and his team, who had completed the work, headed towards the Iron Tree Fort advances.

  The route this time is the same as the route I took when I went to Iron Tree Fort with Laura before. I walked south along the river bank until I reached the north side of the Iron Tree Forest.

  Compared with the two people who could only rely on their feet before, now the team with all the members has mounts and extra horses to carry the goods, the speed of travel is much faster.

  Because of David’s detailed description earlier, the intelligence information of this route has already been recorded. I deliberately took this route just to compare and make sure there is no major problem.

  So it took less than four days for this team to arrive at the northern guard post.

Put down the negotiated 50 kilograms of potatoes, and take out the coins after deducting the price of the six chickens and two horses. David and Gregory agreed to pick up the six chickens when he came back, and rested for a night Then continue to Iron Tree Fort.

  Running all the way, the fast horse galloped down and quickly returned to Iron Tree Fort.

   Looking at the messy and unplanned outer city ahead, Maloney Mansfield, who has always maintained an aristocratic attitude, can't help but let out a sigh of relief.

No matter how well he maintained on the surface, but running into the complete unknown and now discovering a group of strange enemies called orcs, Maloney was somewhat worried in his heart—Maroney recognized this title, and with his report , the name orc will soon be confirmed by the humans in Iron Tree Fort and even Tilan Kingdom, and become the officially recognized official name.

   Now, he has finally returned to Iron Tree Fort, which is guarded by sentries, passes, forts, walls, and countless elite soldiers. Maloney no longer has to worry about his own safety.

  In a good mood, Maloney also made a promise that he would urge his colleagues to let David get the letter of appointment as soon as possible, and implement the identity of the village head of Cold Winter Village as soon as possible.

I don’t know if Maloney Mansfield really made great efforts to promote this matter. At noon on the third day after David returned to Iron Tree Fort, he got his appointment letter and various related documents. paperwork.

   "Congratulations, from today onwards you will be the village head of the Iron Tree Fort area and Winter Village under the rule of the Kingdom of Tilan."

   Received the letter of appointment and various related documents from the lord of Iron Tree Castle, Dudley-Marquis Morgan, even though he had already confirmed that he would definitely become the village head of Cold Winter Village, he was still very excited at the moment when he really achieved his goal.

Because he was in a good mood, he ignored the discomfort caused by various etiquettes when meeting the lord. He even felt that the Marquess of Dudley Morgan looked the most pleasing to the eye after he came to this world. The noble: "It is a great honor to accept this important task."

  Marquis Morgan had a faint smile on his face, and after a few words of encouragement in a cordial tone, the appointment ceremony was completed.

The meeting time with Marquis Morgan was less than five minutes in total, and he said no more than ten sentences. David only said one sentence. It can be seen that the lord is not very interested in the northern plains and Cold Winter Village. He has already mastered the intelligence information, so there is no need to ask again, seeing that David just completed the fixed process.

  Walking out of the lord's castle with the letter of appointment and documents, Maloney Mansfield greeted him immediately, and then walked out of the lord's castle side by side with David, asking if David had any plans for the future?

"Go back to Cold Winter Village, continue to reclaim the land, expand the farmland, and try to grow more crops." David didn't hide, and there was no need to hide, and the next thing he had to do was these things: "Before then , I will try to recruit some more farmers.”

   "About this matter..." Maloney Mansfield looked around: "If you are not in a hurry, can we find a place to talk?"

   "Oh?" David looked at Maloney, a little uncertain what the inspector-sama wanted to do: "Where are we going to talk?"

  When Maloney saw that David was willing to talk to him, he immediately motioned to come with him, and they boarded a carriage together after they walked out of the lord's castle.

David was sitting in this fully enclosed carriage, chatting with Maloney across the way, while looking outside through the small window on the side door, he found that the carriage was heading straight for the outer city, but in the When he was about to reach the gate of the inner city, he turned a corner and turned into a relatively chaotic street.

The carriage stopped, but Maloney pulled David, who was about to get off the car, and signaled him not to get off the car: "Actually, recruiting farmers doesn't have to be in the outer city, you can also recruit in the inner city. For example, this family is currently in Iron Tree The living conditions in the castle are very ordinary.”

Through the window, David carefully looked at the family not far away: a woman who appeared to be in her thirties was sitting at the door of the house doing needlework, and a boy in his teens was squatting beside the woman help.

  Looking at this scene, the answer emerged in David's heart.

  (end of this chapter)