Throne of the North.

Chapter 14 Victory and Spoils
“Hahahaha, you never thought that the three knight potions I spent so much money on finally allowed me to successfully break through.”

"I have fighting spirit, what can you use to fight me?!"

Laughing grimly, Knight Water still had the mind to poach Baron Hutton's girl.

"White, we are old acquaintances. Why don't you come with me? If you follow that loser Hatton, you will never become a noble in your life."

In the distance, Ryan was also a little surprised when he saw the dark fighting spirit appearing on Knight Water.

"Knight Watt is actually the Bronze Knight?"

"He's quite courageous." He whispered. To break through from a formal knight to a bronze knight, the price Watt paid must have been high, and he might have even emptied the Knights' Territory.

Next to him, Hatton became completely nervous and asked incoherently:

"Ryan, what should we do now? Should we retreat?"

Ryan ignored Baron Hutton's words and continued to look at the fighting spirit of Knight Water. After a moment, he felt relieved.

"Don't worry, Mr. Hatton. What Walter practiced is not the Nightmare Knight Breathing Method of the Grand Duke Meyers' family. Even the Bronze Knight is limited in strength."

A regular knight should be able to kill all of a hundred slaves, but if he faces a hundred soldiers, he can only die. The gap between low-level knights is not that big.

"But..." Baron Hutton gritted his teeth. No matter how incompetent he was, he didn't want to see the few soldiers in his barony being wasted here.

But the next moment, he opened his eyes wide and looked more than a hundred meters away.

Brand appeared in front of Water without knowing when. He dropped the iron sword borrowed from Baron Hatton and stabbed Water heavily with a dagger made from a stag horn.

The fighting spirit was attached and the armor was hard, but at this moment Walter also showed fear. He felt that Brand's power was even greater than his.

The sharp dagger pierced through the armor after a brief delay. Knight Water grabbed Brand's hand in disbelief, but his strength was getting weaker and weaker.

He met the eyes of Brand, whose eyes were a little bloodshot. Faintly, Walter heard the roar of a deer in his mind.

boom!
The heavy knight's armor fell to the ground, and a pool of blood flowed from under the armor.

The first person to react was not the knight White next to him, but the surrounding soldiers belonging to Water. They were on the periphery, but were blocked outside by the thirty knight squires of the Frozen Earth Lord, and could not rush in to save their lord.

At this moment, as Knight Water fell, some soldiers dropped their weapons in despair and knelt on the ground, while others did not react in time and were killed by the surrounding soldiers.

"The Knight is dead!"

With cries of fear and despair, the entire battlefield stopped at an incredible speed.

The serf soldiers on both sides stopped fighting almost at the same time after hearing the sounds of the knights' deaths, even though they did not understand which knight had died.

"Dead... dead?"

Baron Hatton's eyes widened. He saw Water fall as he was learning the strength of a knight.

"Hahahahahahaha!" Hatton laughed, but soon felt a little flustered.

He looked at Ryan, "Ryan, this..."

Although he would not admit it, deep down, he also recognized that Knight Water had a future as a noble. As long as the political struggle within the empire ended, with Knight Water's strength and his own ability, with some arrangements, the title of baron would be inevitable.

But now, the future baron died here, and died in the process of going to war with his own territory.

Even Lord Hutton couldn't help feeling uneasy, fearing that he would be denounced by other nobles.

"What is Mr. Hutton worried about?" Ryan smiled.

"As long as Watt is a pioneer knight, he can only be a pioneer knight. A pioneer knight died in the war. Who can blame us for this? Even many pioneer nobles have died in the past few decades."

He emphasized the word "we" and stressed it. Sure enough, Hatton calmed down after hearing it. There is strength in numbers, and this is true everywhere.

"That's right. Walter is just a pioneer knight. Even the Meyers family cannot use this matter as an excuse."

"Yes, that's right. Knight Water just married a woman from the Meyers family. I, Ryan, am still the heir of the Clayton family."

Ryan once again gave Hatton confidence and said.

"So now, should we consider another thing?" Ryan's voice seemed like the devil's language tempting Baron Hutton.

The latter's breathing also became rapid.

In a war between territories, what should one side do after winning?
It is plunder, plundering everything from the losers, money, women, slaves, all are within the scope of plunder.

"Let's go, hurry up, let's go to Knight Watt's territory."

After saying that, Hutton didn't even care about the situation here, and rushed towards Knight Water with his men.

The iron mines and the slaves in this war could not and had no ability to escape, but it was hard to say about the people led by Knight Water.

The village led by Knight Watt was closer to the iron mine than Baron Hatton's town. Hatton and Ryan were so excited that they only brought trainee knights with them, so they quickly arrived at the place called Rota Village. Watt named the village, which also showed that the other party's ambition was not small.

Rota Village can become Rota Town and Rota City in the future.

But now, everything here belongs to Ryan and Hutton.

The soldiers rushed into the village, and White Knight was the first to shout.

"Wat is dead. From now on, everything here belongs to Master Hatton... and Master Ryan!"

Some of the villagers were still unresponsive when they heard this, but no one dared to question it.

It seems that there is no example of lying in this matter in the entire continent?
White took the lead and kicked open Water's Knight Manor, and soon the whole village was in chaos.

Of course, the two barons Ryan and Hutton don't have to do it themselves, they just need to wait.

……

"Gold Punk, why are there only so few gold coins?"

Hatton roared, questioning the soldiers whether they had hidden the items themselves.

But soon, all attention was attracted by two female beast slaves with cat faces.

Those eyes were almost glued to the two slave girls, tearing off the few clothes they had.

In short, the final harvest was not as much as the two barons had imagined.

There were only seven or eight hundred gold punks, placed in a pine wood box, along with seven or eight sparkling gems, more than three hundred silver coins, and more than twelve thousand copper coins.

Such a fortune was not considered wealthy for a knight who was almost certain to become a baron.

Baron Hatton's war horses surpass these.

"It seems that the price Watt paid to become a bronze knight is greater than we thought."

The so-called wealth is certainly not just this. Hutton seems to be more skilled in this than Ryan.

"Tear it down for me! That tree is a winter mist pine. Dig it out and bury it in my manor. And those houses are made of magically carved oak. Tear them all down for me!"

Real estate is also a large part of the wealth of the nobility. If the fields and forests could not be dug up, Hatton would probably not have let them go.

Besides……

Hutton looked at the hundreds of civilians and slaves and waved his hand.

"From now on, you are all my master Hatton's slaves!"

After hearing this, most people were numb, a few people's faces changed, and even fewer of them walked out with flattering faces.

"Master Hatton, our family are all freemen. You see, this is our freemen's guide."

Hatton didn't even look at it. "Wat robbed my iron mine, and I haven't settled the score with him yet. He owes me several thousand gold coins, and I have to get them back from this territory."

"I can make my money back by selling you."

The civilian was not too alarmed when he heard this. His expression remained flattering. He took out some silver coins from somewhere and presented them to Baron Hatton.

Seeing this scene, Hatton finally laughed.

"It seems that you are indeed civilians."

He ordered the soldiers around him to collect all the silver coins in the box, while the civilians couldn't help but look dim.

Whether they were freemen or slaves was often just a one-sided statement of the nobles, especially for the common people in a territory where their lord had died.

The nobles had many ways to exploit the common people and make them slaves.

"You can become freemen, so you seem to have some ability. Do you want to follow Master Hatton and live in the barony?"

Hatton asked casually.

All of a sudden, a group of people came to join him.

There is not much choice, but many people see that the Knight Territory of Water is now ownerless and plan to stay and try to accumulate wealth.

Gold, silver, jewelry, houses, trees, civilians and slaves, everything that could be scraped was scraped away.

After this, Ryan and Hutton could finally divide the spoils.

(End of this chapter)