Soul of Burning Steel

　　 Moldavia, which had undergone two turmoil and change of ownership, was back on track, and the main city ushered in a rare and peaceful night.

The business district is still lit up, even at night, there are still a lot of people, blacksmith shops, grocery stores, pharmacies, and material acquisition sites are booming, while adventurers, scattered mercenaries or tourists mostly sit in bars and drink a toast. In a lively place, some people have even begun to pull up their wrists amidst the crowd's chuckles, using the power of alcohol to test their wrist strength.

　　 Riding a war horse, Joshua slowly marched towards Beppu in the dark, observing his territory.

　　 Moldavia has a total population of nearly one million, and the entire Northland has a population of nearly five million, which is almost one-twentieth of the total population of the empire. It sounds a lot, but in fact it is very few.

　　 clearly occupies a quarter of the northern territory, but the four territories combined are not as crowded as the few large cities in the south. It seems that this is the case no matter what the world, the colder places are always vast and sparsely populated.

　　 Of course, Joshua also knows that the million people under his own name are actually a bit of a misnomer, and the population density of Northland is even smaller than everyone thought.

On such a vast land, there are only 420,000 humans that he can directly govern, and the dwarves, gnomes, and goblins living in the lava fields add up to almost 400,000. There are half-length craftsmen, free adventurers, and mercenaries scattered all over the country. Wait for the floating population of seven to eighty thousand, plus a little elves and barbarians and other ethnic minorities, the total is indeed close to one million, but most of them are at most paying taxes to him in name, and some simply live. Under the ground, no half of a person can be seen on the ground.

The Ninety-seven knighthoods granted by the empire to Moldavia. Those who can really have their own ten thousand fiefdoms are less than their early twenties. Most of the others are officers stationed in various fortresses and small cities. One day, he can make military exploits and get a formal award.

Multi-ethnic mixed living is a big problem, but strictly speaking, it is not very important. Unlike the pure Eastern Human Federation, the Northern Empire and the Far South Alliance do not care about living together. In the Far South, humans and elves often Intermarriage, the number of half-elves once occupies one-fifth of the total population, and the empire, humans and dwarves live in harmony, without discrimination or prejudice. Hundreds of years of living together make everyone feel that this is a matter of course. No one would think that there is something wrong with having an elf or a dwarf neighbor in their house, and at most curse the group of goblin merchants in the shop.

　　 Of course, there must be a reason for wanting several different races to get along so harmoniously. In the Continent of Strife, this reason is the Black Forest.

　　【The Tide of Hessian】

　　 The mountains trembled, and the beasts rushed out of the endless forest, like the raging waves of the Black Sea.

　　 People who have never seen this scene cannot imagine that kind of despair. If it were not for this terrible disaster, how could the integration of races be so simple? The fertile land and active magic make it possible for all races to fight for the continuation of their lives when they don’t need to worry about food. In the thousands of years of wars, the blood of all races melted the sand and scattered wasteland, and this is the disputed continent. The origin of its name.

　　 In the west of the city, Qiao Xiuya on the war horse shook slightly. He squinted his eyes and looked at where he lived.

　　 "Silver, high-level, man, not young..."

Talking to himself, in the sight of Joshua crossing all the obstacles, there is no disguise, a generous silver high-ranking warrior is standing near Beppu, with blue-gold fluorescence on his body, and beside him Not far away is my own magic machine.

　　 "This breath feels like an acquaintance, it seems familiar."

　　 Driving the war horse, Joshua is not patrolling his own territory. This city belongs to him. You don't have to worry about it if you want to see it. In the future, he can watch it for as long as he wants, until he gets tired of it.

　　 It didn't take long for him to drive to the side of the high-ranking silver warrior.

　　 "Monster?"

Seeing the familiar big windbreaker with red edges and black bottom, and the golden balance badge on his chest, Joshua knew that this was an inspector of the Imperial Court of Nobility, and looking at that face, it was just a month ago. 'His acquaintance.

　　 "I haven't seen you for many days, the new lord, the young Lord Earl."

　　 Bowed slightly, and the middle-aged examiner named Munster sighed, "I have been waiting since the sun hadn't set in the afternoon."

　　 "I haven't made an appointment beforehand, and I haven't sent a letter. How do I know you will come back."

　　 got off the horse, Joshua touched the horse’s neck and looked at the plain-faced reviewer. She couldn’t help feeling a little headache: "You are here, do you have any bad news to tell me?"

　　 "It's a pity, yes, but this is not a good place to talk about."

　　 Munster looked sideways at Beppu. The silver-haired girl who was trotting over, shook her head and said, "By the way, your little man is loyal and dedicated, and he won't even let me come near the yard."

"the host!"

　　 ran to Joshua's side, and Firefly looked at the two with some doubts: "Do you know him?"

　　 "Ah, I do know each other, I think they are acquaintances."

　　 patted the little head of the magical girl, Qiao Xiuya smiled and praised: "Good job, worthy of encouragement, how about today?"

　　 "Very good, I have known most of the things in the house once, and I have also learned how to cook."

　　 "Oh? This is really good, I learn fast."

　　 Munster looked at these two guys who had already started talking naturally, and could not help but reminded: "Ahem...are you going to stand outside and talk?"

"makes sense."

　　 Joshua looked around, then nodded. He patted Yingyue on the shoulder and motioned: "Yingue, you first lead Black to the stable. I'll take this guest to talk about something."

　　 "Hei is so strong and mighty, how good is called the black king, why must it be called black..."

　　 "If it is a dragon, let alone the Black King, it doesn't matter if I call it Nidhogg or Nesario, but it's just a horse, don't say anything, go ahead."

　　 Firefly walked to the stable with a submissive black, and Joshua led Munster to the gate.

　　 "She called you master?"

　　 "Yes, Hotaru is my head maid."

　　 The investigator of the noble court shook his head expressionlessly: "It is illegal to abuse child labor... I didn't expect you to have such a hobby."

　　 Joshua opened the door and frowned, "She is as old as me, so why is she a child laborer?"

The core of 　　 Hotaru was made from the bones of his right wrist when he was born. If you have to say it seriously, they are indeed the same age.

　　 "I can't see it at all."

　　Munster seems to be still thinking: "Is it a hybrid of elves? Does it grow slower than ordinary people? Or do you have fairy blood?"

　　 During the conversation, the two had already entered the mansion and came to the reception room.

　　 "Okay, please sit down."

Reaching out his hand, Joshua also simply sat down by himself, sitting on the seat, his face slightly solemn: "You can wait for a long time outside the door and have to tell me the bad news, but I can’t wait. want to know."

　　 "Although this matter is important, it is not very anxious..."

Munster looked back and forth at the black-haired and red-eyed warrior in front of him, and sighed: "Although I have heard rumors, I felt this way outside before, but I did not expect that you actually advanced to gold. One month , To leap from a high-level silver to such a point... it's incredible."

　　 Isn't it the third level? As for being so surprised.

　　 "Unexpectedly, I suddenly became stronger after running on the road for 17 days without knowing what happened."

Insincerely perfunctory, Joshua looked into the inspector’s eyes, as if trying to see something: "Don’t tell me that you came to the North from the Northwest Orc Plain just to marvel at my advancement to gold. "

　　 "Naturally not."

Shaking his head, Munster stopped talking, as if he didn't know where to start. After a while, he simply talked about another topic: "Earl, I don't know if you know that the Ural fortress has banned more than ten people. Team pass?"

　　 "Not long ago~www.novelmtl.com~the group of chamber of commerce told me."

　　 "Then you should also know that riots occurred in the middle of the empire."

　　 The examiner continued to question.

"That's true." Joshua tapped his fingers on the armrest of the seat, frowning, and said simply: "No need to bend around, Munster, just say what you want to say, you and I were both soldiers born. Why speak so carefully."

After a moment of silence, the noble court reviewer, the spokesperson of the emperor’s will, sighed, his expression solemn: "The wind of black eclipse is set off from the south, and the unknown plague spreads in the depths of the Black Forest everywhere... it has already passed The Ural Mountains have come to the North, which means that this year's Kuroshio will be earlier than before, and it will be more fierce and unstoppable.

　　 "The imperial capital judges that the severity of the Kuroshio will increase by three levels, and there is even a possibility that there will be multiple gold-level monsters."

Speaking of this, Munster looked more serious than ever. He stretched his hand into his arms and took out a small box: "Earl, you encountered this kind of accident just now as you succeeded, and your luck is indeed a bit bad. Gold, but there should be some distance from your father... and here is the care from the imperial capital."

When he said the last sentence, Munster’s tone had already brought the highest level of respect. Looking at the expression, although the censor didn’t know why the emperor would treat the person in front of him so specially, he did not hesitate: "Take it. It, this is given to you by your majesty."

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