e-booksonline Chapter 762 - 77: The Soaring Value of Manan Faith and the Crimson Pearl
Chapter 762 - 77: The Soaring Value of Manan Faith and the Crimson Pearl
Su Li now has 16 advanced mounts, all of which are exceptional steeds. This number isn’t particularly exaggerated, as no knight would find having too many mounts a burden. Even an ordinary Manor Lord has about 3 to 5 mounts. A qualified knight typically has at least 1 to 2 mounts, and it’s rare to find someone with only one warhorse.
Therefore, the number of warhorses can also indicate a knight’s identity, strength, and status. If someone has only one mount, it must be either extremely special, like Demster, whose mount, a powerful black donkey, can gallop for days and nights, perfectly matching his identity as a Raven Dominator, making it exceptionally suitable for fierce battles. Otherwise, they might be wandering ranger knights or rogue knights, who have no proper income and are not much different from horse bandits.
This is why knights go to great lengths to find a master they can pledge allegiance to. Whether or not they have a job serving the nobility makes a huge difference in terms of treatment, lifestyle, and status.
Su Li unquestionably provides the knights in the territory with extremely high treatment. Along the way, every knight who saw Su Li would immediately lead their horse to the roadside and respectfully salute Su Li as he passed by.
President Roger clicked his tongue in admiration, saying, "Brother Su Li, your reputation in the territory is simply unparalleled. I have visited many territories and seen the customs of many places, but I have never seen a place where the knights hold their Lord in such sincere reverence."
Melly Ramsey was also secretly surprised by this, and couldn’t help but raise her evaluation of this young Bauhinia Knight. She found it hard to imagine how such a young knight and emerging Lord could garner such high support!
One must know that in many Border Prince’s Territories she visited, the Lords were assassinated or overthrown by their knights countless times. The number of Pioneer Lords who died from coups might be ten times more than those who died in external wars. After all, Pioneer Lords coming here are far removed from the protection and the imposing presence of their forebears, unable to intimidate the restless knights beneath them. No matter what, the proportion of fools among knights is not low. Even during the reign of the strongest Emperor, there were warriors wanting to stage coups and rebellions. Yet in this territory, everyone respects the Lord!
Su Li smiled and said to the two, "As long as you are generous enough with your subordinates, they will support you sufficiently. Take, for example, this Light-Scaled Fish; if I weren’t the Lord, many knights in the territory might never have the chance to see one."
As they conversed, the group finally arrived below Bjorn Shallow Bay.
And the scenery here delighted Melly Ramsey even more; as a woman, she always loved these beautiful sights.
Below Lake Revelin, there were vistas of verdant mountains and clear waters. The beautiful mountains of Maiden’s Ring were adorned with clusters of flowers in full bloom, surrounded by clear streams that irrigated tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland.
As the harvest season approached, the wheat fields here were exceptionally lush and growing splendidly, with heavy wheat spikes already sprouting sharp awns.
Most of the wheat here is the Steel Wheat variety, and its awns can easily pierce through leather armor. Therefore, the serfs working in the fields wore chain armor that glinted in the light.
Teams of knights patrolled the area, further enhancing the pastoral scenery. Occasionally, Reya’s Essence of Nature would appear in the fields and then disappear into the woodland as people approached.
This is truly the most fertile and bountiful scenery, with tens of thousands of acres of flat farmland stretching as far as the eye can see, all irrigated by the waters of Lake Revelin. Just seeing this, one could determine that this harvest season, the territory will certainly welcome a great bounty.
Following the direction of the irrigation from Lake Revelin back to the source, you would see the dikes of Bjorn Shallow Bay planted with rows of blossoming fruit trees, their pink and white flowers covering the branches like brocade, extending for three to four miles. Moreover, many fruit farmers and Dawn Nuns continued to plant new trees and graft more fruit trees, so that in time, this blooming, brocade-like orchard would stretch for over twenty, possibly even thirty miles along the dikes of Bjorn Shallow Bay!
When Su Li and the group reached the top of the dike at Bjorn Shallow Bay, Minister of Agriculture Vandar, who had arrived in advance by Giant Eagle, along with a team of nuns from the Dawn Goddess Church, immediately came to greet them.
Besides them, there was a large-scale security patrol team here, primarily composed of a squadron from the Holy Land Guard Team stationed in Hesse Territory. However, in terms of numbers, there were more than 300 people from Hesse Territory, divided into three groups, patrolling day and night here.
There’s no choice; as the Holy Land of the territory, Lake Revelin is too vast and too wealthy, inevitably attracting groups of outsiders to sneak in. Whether they catch a Light-Scaled Fish or grab a Crimson Pearl, it’s an enormous fortune!
Such behavior is intolerable to the territory’s people and all the knights, who see it as a desecration of the territory’s Holy Land.
In fact, if they were just stealing a little, the territory wouldn’t have such a big issue. The key problem is their very unprofessional methods, causing more damage than the value of what they steal.