Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 220 Worthless Enemy
Lori glanced coldly at the other side of Qingyu River, where the Gezars were looking full of confidence.

He has never been a cruel and ruthless person.

Even if he wants to kill someone, he has to convince himself first... Of course, those who are openly his enemies are not within the scope of persuasion.

He didn't care about the blood on his hands, nor did he care about what would happen to ordinary people who had to face their end because of the killing of their relatives and friends because of some of his decisions. It was not his fault.

But Lowry doesn't want to kill completely innocent people directly.

Perhaps, the man in his previous life who only dared to kill mosquitoes and cockroaches, and at best killed a mouse by throwing it through a garbage bag, still wanted to exist a little longer!
Therefore, every time before he planned to take action himself, he would investigate carefully whenever possible...and these Gezars all knew what they were here for.

Before sending them as bait, Count Gezar may have concealed the extent of the danger of the matter, but he did tell them that the purpose of sending them here was to harm Lowry.

Their mission here was ostensibly to test Lowry's attitude towards the Gezar branch, but in reality it was to cover up for the outsiders who came to plot against Lowry.

Therefore, once discovered, it is very likely that Lowry will be angry because of those small actions in public, and they will be cleared out along with the insect nest next to them.

However, these people still thought they could take a gamble.

Although they were still cautious and only dared to exchange some real gossip beside the heavily protected insect nest, these people still didn't understand why Baron Gezar was able to make the powerful church forces seek outside assistance and still acted so secretively.

They were in a small forest on the other side of the river.

It was a natural forest, full of various tall northern trees.

It is autumn now, which is the season when animals are active.

So, even though they cleared all the birds within a hundred meters of their area, they didn't dare to do too much... After all, if the forest was completely silent, there must be a problem.

They don't think that Lowry on the opposite side doesn't even have this level.

However, these people were used to the arrogant days in Earl Gezar's territory, so they were not vigilant at all and dared to say anything.

I guess he only considered the common rule of lackeys, "If everyone tells it, then no one will tell on them."

When Lori listened to them talking, he really had a very strange feeling... Even the most useless knight in Montes Castle would not speak like this.

No, even those idiots like Batty, whose ambitions are stronger than their abilities, would never bring their subordinates together to perform like this.

It is not an exaggeration to describe them as the traitors in the old TV dramas who could not survive more than three episodes.

Lowry has always believed that such people only exist in certain images that have been artistically processed!

As a result, reality is even more exaggerated than the so-called virtuality.

Of course, it may also be because these people are scheming against each other and are wary of each other, so they are accustomed to exaggerating when speaking.

However, during the days of monitoring them, Lowry really felt that he had suffered a work-related injury.

Among all the nonsense, I managed to summarize some words that sounded very much like "The Queen Mother of the East Palace is making pancakes":
The reason why these people dared to come and gamble their lives was that they felt that Lowry must have an ambition in taking in the Wind Wolf, and that ambition needed the help of their Gezaar.

This border baron must want to be promoted to earl and wants to go inland to expand his social circle.

Otherwise, Lori wouldn't want these magical wolves that could only sign contracts with the Gezaar bloodline.

After all, everyone in the Gezar family knows how much these wolves can eat meat!

However, the vassals of the vassals of the Wind Wolf, the giant wolves with a little magical bloodline, can be used as mounts for the knights in their own territories.

However, in their eyes, these giant wolves have many high-level conditions, but their strength is just so-so.

At best, it is slightly stronger than a high-level horse, but the consumption is much greater!

Although those specially bred tall horses that are capable of carrying heavy loads are very valuable and need to eat specially formulated feed, but... they are still cheaper than meat.

Even if it only eats rabbits, a giant wolf will consume more in one meal than a horse will consume in a day!
Moreover, as long as it has the blood of a magical creature, it must be fed some magical materials of the same type every once in a while.

For ordinary knights, even the scraps of wind crystal stones are a heavy burden.

Although the knights received relatively high salaries, they had to maintain their own mounts.

If you consider the cost-effectiveness...except for some who are valued by Count Gezar, ordinary people will definitely not raise these useless wolves if they cannot get the recognition of the Wind Wolves.

Of course, those Gezales who have their own estates probably don’t care about this.

After all, these giant wolves can hunt on their own.

But for those ordinary branches who live in the city and the fields and forests outside belong to Count Gezar, which ordinary people dare not enter easily, raising wolves is really difficult.

These people kept grumbling about the price of fodder and the rarity of fresh meat... After Lowry understood what they were thinking, he felt his face turn green.

It's as if if they are willing, the Wind Wolf will offer up the giant wolf that they have trained with great effort... Have you ever considered that with your strength as a novice knight in your forties, you are not qualified at all?
It wasn't until he finally understood that the salaries these guys received were actually not as good as the junior knights who had just been transferred to his knight order that Lowry suddenly realized... these were the kind of guys who just wanted to get by.

Border nobles have always been very generous to their subordinates. As long as they dare to support the Knights, they will definitely pay for it. He almost forgot that the inland nobles are completely different. Their Knights are used to strengthen their own momentum and suppress the rebellious civilians, not to protect the territory and the lives of their families.

In other words, less than a hundred years had passed since the last war in the Northern Kingdom, and all the territorial nobles were still maintaining their own knightly orders.

Otherwise, if the country has been stable for a long time, some nobles will definitely reduce their military consumption and simply cancel the formal knightly orders and deal with the servants instead.

Of course, the knights who were willing to stay with the inland nobles and receive these basic salaries basically had little qualifications.

Even though they can basically reach the level of knights because of their bloodline advantage, that's all.

When the King's Army recruits people, although talent is the first factor, they will also observe the performance of these children in the previous training camps.

No one would want someone who doesn't want to suffer.

We are all here to find and train partners with whom we will live and die together in the future. No one wants to seek death.

Therefore, inland nobles are more accustomed to hiring those great knights who have just come out of the king's army and want to find a suitable place to retire with high salaries.

Having one or two of them is enough to ensure that they won't encounter any accidents when they go out.

These people who come from the King's Army may not have a good temper, but they will definitely keep their promises.

Of course, there are also some people who have been trained by himself, and Count Gezar attaches great importance to them.

However, he has too many secrets, and most of his men will not be sent to do those secret tasks.

Especially the Gezar branches...such as these ones, it is obvious that they only have a superficial understanding.

They are the kind of lackeys who know that their boss is not a good guy, but are not very clear about what bad things he has done. However, as long as there are benefits to be given, they will follow him.

It is conceivable that such a living environment will not produce any people with good vision.

These people are arguing about interests that Lowry could never even imagine... They are too worthless.

The conspiracies and intrigues that Lowry was used to, and what these people were mumbling about, were not a million miles away from each other...they had nothing to do with it.

He has really suffered a lot these days.

He really had no interest in picking out the only interesting bits from a bunch of stories about who was having an affair with who, or who had a child with whoever lived next door.

Then, Lowry realized belatedly... He could actually be so bored and irritable without missing a word.

Even he couldn't do this four years ago.

Time is a terrible thing.

Once he realized that he was indeed a real person, that he only had one life, and that he was facing a so-called world of great strife, he quickly matured.

If it were in the past, if he had already decided to kill these people, Lowry would definitely not listen to any more nonsense.

However, Lori, who really wanted to know what the Fortune Church was planning, persisted this time.

A sense of crisis does make people grow easier.

Fortunately, even though these people were very careful, Lowry still found some clues from their words.

These included several Wealth Church camps that were only monitoring and had no intention of taking action, as well as personnel from other churches who were quietly observing these camps nearby.

There is really not a single good thing about these churches.

Although no church other than the Church of Fortune took the initiative to attack Ruth Kania's children, they were clearly prepared to rob their fellow thieves.

Lori turned back into the house and quietly looked at the three-dimensional map above the desk that showed his entire territory, including the nearby areas.

Lowry had wanted to do this for a long time.

He always remembered that there was a lifelike map of Waterdeep in the famous Candlekeep Library in Faerun.

Not only can you zoom in on a specific address, you can even see who is in a certain building.

This requires completely binding the entire map and territory together.

Lowry, ever since he thought of this, he felt that he could do it too.

In particular, this world also has an awakening array that can record the breath of one's subordinates and subjects.

At most, he could set up some more magic arrays in his own territory. Does he really need these few resources?

As the number of official members of the Knights Templar increased and their levels became higher, he received a lot of rewards!

(End of this chapter)