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Chapter 36 The Black Knight

"Ronan, come and see, it's snowing outside!"

Early in the morning, when Ronan struggled to get up from the bedroom of the old castle, overcoming sleepiness from the soft and warm multi-layered plush blanket.

Kassana's cries of surprise came from the next bedroom.

Ronan yawned and just walked out of the bedroom after getting dressed. Cassana, who had been waiting for him outside, couldn't wait to grab him and lead him to the second-floor verandah of the castle.

As she said, it was snowing outside, the dead tree branches opposite the door were covered with hoarfrost, and a thin layer of pure white snow had accumulated on the wooden handrails of the verandah.

Cassana was wearing a fluffy shawl coat, looking at the snow-covered land in the distance under the falling snow.

Then he turned around and showed Ronan a red face, full of excitement.

"Do you like snow very much?"

The blowing cold air made Ronan wake up quickly from his drowsiness.

He picked up a white felt hat and put it on the girl's head to help her block the falling snowflakes.

"Yeah, I was born in the snow, every birthday, my mother will accompany me to celebrate in the snow."

Cassana's voice trailed off as she spoke.

She moved forward and came to Ronan involuntarily.

Ronan took her hand, and patted the snowflakes on her shoulder with the other hand, "Then it will be the same this time."

The Great Plains in the west of the Ordovician Kingdom, Jinmaisui City.

This is the territory of Earl Cobo, one of the two pillars of the kingdom, the guardian of the western Great Plains.

"Captain, it's starting to snow."

The one who spoke was a knight wearing a white full-body plate armor and a golden long sword medal on his chest.

He stretched out his hand and stared at the snowflakes falling in his palm.

"Yeah, winter is coming, and the hungry lions will become even crazier in order to hunt for food for the winter."

The man called the captain by the knights looked coldly at Jinmaisui City behind him, his long golden hair and bright purple eyes were even more dazzling against the backdrop of snowflakes.

Behind him followed a cavalry team of 200 men, all wearing uniform pure white knight plate armor with a golden sword medal on their chest.

Among them, the ten people at the front have the medal of two golden swords crossed.

This is a powerful army that is feared by all nobles in Triumph City - the Royal Guard.It belongs directly to the current King of the Ordovician Kingdom, Emperor Wilson II.

A single golden sword represents the knight class, and two golden swords crossed represent the royal knights, that is, the silver knight class.

As for their leader, those purple eyes revealed his identity as the Ordosius family.

He is the eldest son of Earl Grant and elder brother of Ronan, Edson Ordosius.

"Maliciously raising the price of food, for this reason, he did not hesitate to stop the trade and freight routes leading to the North Lion Principality, and treated the food covenant between the two countries as a piece of waste paper. Heh, but in the end, His Majesty still needs to clean up the mess for you."

Edson's words were full of strong sarcasm.

Although he didn't name his name, the knight behind him knew very well that he was talking about the owner of the city behind him, the Earl of Cobo.

The attack of the Black Death caused serious economic losses to the farmland planting in the western Great Plains. A large number of serfs were infected with the disease, resulting in the abandonment of farmland in large numbers.

In order to make up for the losses caused by this, Earl Cobo kept trying to raise the price of grain, trying to dump the grain he had accumulated in his hands at a premium of dozens of times.

It's a pity that most of the nobles in the kingdom have the habit of hoarding grain and refused to accept his rude price.

Therefore, the earl set his sights on the neighboring North Lion Principality.

According to the alliance oath signed by the seven countries when the empire was established 300 years ago, when the North Lion Principality defended the fortress of the Death Mountain for the empire, the kingdom needs to provide food support for the North Lion Principality at [-]% of the market price.

The grain produced in the Great Western Plains provided [-]% of the grain supply for the North Lion Principality.

Facing the food covenant, Earl Cobo did not dare to violate it on the surface, but secretly came up with an extremely stupid idea.

Because of contracting the Black Death and being robbed by robbers, he caused the convoys transporting food to disappear many times.

Then use this as an excuse to claim that the quantity of grain in the warehouse is insufficient and the price needs to be raised before it can be sold.

Once or twice is enough, but Earl Cobo, who had tasted the sweetness, kept repeating it, which completely angered the North Lion Principality.

In this regard, the lion group chose to do what he wanted, and let his convoy transporting food be robbed by "thieves".

Not only that, but this group of "thieves" also attacked the Rhineland in the east of the Insel River.

Then it occupied the largest waterway connecting the Great Western Plains and the Northern Lion Kingdom - the Insel River waterway.

As the Lein led the spread to the east, a large number of border lords were attacked by this group of thieves, and the looted food and treasures disappeared along the Insel River.

The nobles of the kingdom have long recognized the true identities of those robbers. Under the shabby leather jacket, there is no doubt that the golden and red armor of the Northern Lion Knight.

For this reason, Earl Cobo hastily sent a letter to His Majesty of Triumph City for help, accusing the North Lion Principality of its evil deeds.

Fortunately, he still has some brains, Edson thought to himself, he did not publicize the invasion of the Northern Lion Principality, and still defined the enemies in the territory as robbers.

At least for now, the Kingdom and the Northern Lion Principality still have this bandit cover as a buffer.

The emperor didn't have to suffer disgrace because of the duke's rebellion, and the Northern Lion Principality wouldn't be blamed by the six countries for it. The war didn't really start.

But if these bandits continue to wreak havoc within the territory, but the kingdom is unable to organize a decent resistance, the Duke of Angry Lion may not be thinking about it.

For this reason, Edson took the initiative to volunteer and brought one of the royal guards to help Earl Cobo stop the robbers.

In order to ensure mobility and not be surrounded by the army, at the same time, it must have the destructive power to quickly penetrate the defense of ordinary lords' territories.

The number of northern lion knights playing robbers will not exceed five hundred, but without exception, they are all absolute elites.

Edson is going to take the royal guard and the knights under Earl Cobo to quickly recapture the Rhine Territory and reoccupy the Insel River.

As long as this food channel is cut off, the Northern Lion Knight's plunder in the kingdom will be meaningless.

They will inevitably choose to fight back.

In the end, the opponent's attack was defeated head-on, so the robbery incident in the North Lion Principality was successfully resolved.

After all, neither the Kingdom nor the Northern Lion Principality wanted to fight during the period when the Black Death spread.

As long as the Kingdom shows the strength he should have, the Northern Lion Knight will retreat.

Thinking like this, when Edson saw the knight troops sent by Earl Cobo and saw the leader of the opponent, he suddenly froze there.

The nightmarish figure from ten years ago appeared in his mind.

Walking towards him was a middle-aged man in black armor with a vicissitudes of face and a slightly stooped body.

"I am the Earl of Cobo, the leader of the Golden Wheat Spike Knights, Endel, and I will lead three hundred knights to assist you in the crusade against those hateful thieves!"

In his words, there was a strong hatred for thieves.

Edson took out a pendant from his chest and held it in the palm of his hand. He quickly recovered, nodded to him, and began to lead the way ahead.

After a while, Edson suddenly turned his head and asked him:
"May I ask, how long has Commander Enderi been with the Knights?"

"I grew up in the Knights of the Golden Wheat Spike since I was born and never left."

(End of this chapter)