This burst of sound was like a thunderstorm after a flash of lightning, bringing the crowd back to reality all of a sudden.
One by one, these lords slowly rose to their feet, yet no one performed that buckled chest salute.
Still less did anyone get down on one knee.
While this made George feel a little nervous, someone suddenly fell on his knees and shouted nonsense.
The whole hall then rioted with shouts and wild laughter.
"Thank God for the blessing!" "My brother can close his eyes now!" "Now we are finally saved!!!" "I was about to give up hope!"
"Ahem, no need... There's no need to get so excited. I'm just an archbishop."
George looked at the group of people whose eyes were burning like crazy with a dumbfounded look. In the midst of embarrassment, how could he not have imagined that this pussy would blow up like this.
'It's not supposed to...'
"That's right Bishop-sama! Our situation here is indeed as urgent as it can be!" Gavi slapped the stone chair fiercely and stood up perkily, "That oracle must be for that matter!"
"??"
George suddenly had a not-so-good feeling.
"Indeed it is already imminent! If no one comes, we'll all have to wait for death!" "We are gathered here today to talk about this matter, and the divine ambassador just happened to come!" "The Seven Gods must have seen our plight!" "Now finally someone can deal with those demons!"
"Wait, what did you just say?" George stared, pulled out his ears, and looked at the one who spoke last.
"Right! It's the demons! We've lost six lords over this!" Babur took over and said loudly, "Lord Bishop, it seems that only you can solve this matter!"
"..."
...
George looked at the soldiers who were carrying supplies not far away and withdrew his god. Looking at the lords who followed him over here for a walk in the garden, he said, "Is the food really that low already?"
Baron Garvey kicked away a vine at his feet and took over the conversation: "You know, my lord. The best fields are further south, and although there are quite a few farms on our side, besides the salt mines, they are all for raising livestock. As for the land that was suitable for grain production, it was all gone in that wildfire and flood..."
George nodded, signaling him to continue.
Garvey sighed and said, "In previous years, we would rush to the fall harvest, to go further south to harvest the 'wild wheat'. But since Daniel's gang disobeyed and broke into that estate. Something hidden there seemed to have awakened, and they too became 'profane' in death, roaming the south with those monsters..."
"Since then, it has become a forbidden land completely... We tried to go around there and grab some wild wheat, but things in that area have started to wander outward. Not only are they contaminating the grain and land, they are costing us a lot of money... I'm afraid we can't sustain it any longer this year, but whatever method we use, it's no different from quenching our thirst..."
I don't know what kind of fear the lords kept there, which made them blanch at the thought of it.
"My lord! You are the only one who can solve this matter now!" "Yes, my lord! Your Knights of the Holy Church will be able to destroy those things!" "My lord... Wildfires, floods, and now pollution..." "My land is also contaminated... My lord, how many priests have you brought with you? Surely you can cleanse the place?!"
George stopped in his tracks and looked back at the men. That cold gaze made them all shut their mouths with apprehension in their hearts.
After glancing at this group of guys who were interrupting, George looked at Garvey and asked, "How many people do you still have on your hands now."
"I'm afraid there are only about 10,000 people left alive in the whole area, and most of them are already gathered in the hands of seven of us. Among them, those who can pick up weapons... About two thousand, I guess."
Seeing George's slightly narrowed eyes, Garvey coughed with a less than natural face. After a slight hesitation, he said, "There are less than one twentieth of the real soldiers."
George nodded, he probably understood.
This was a group of people who were extremely good at running away.
Judging from the personnel structure, these people should have a hundred more knights in their hands combined. And of these 400 as 'real soldiers', I'm afraid most of them were squires who had followed them back from repeated battles and fled for their lives.
In George's memory, the entire valley, although the population is scattered, but all the residents together, but also to reach half a million. Among them, the East side, occupying a third of the population.
But now it is not one in ten.
He could more or less feel the despair of these people.
"That manor is the source of everything, and if it is not solved, the terrible things will grow more and more." Baron Garvey knows more about things and thinks further and more: "According to the previous situation, if the place is not cleared before the snow comes this year. Then even if everyone has food to eat, the monsters that gushed out will flood all the territories..."
"Indeed, Your Grace the Bishop..." The other lords also seemed to know something, but it was not to go deeper, but after a pause, said, "We have asked Countess Elizabeth for help, but the situation in the east is not optimistic either."
This statement could not help but make George feel a little surprised, he opened his mouth and asked, "Elizabeth? She is still alive?"
"Of course, my lord." "Of course the Earl is still alive." "A messenger was also sent some days ago..."
George frowned and looked away without further words, he handed a list written by Anthony to Garvey and said, "Prepare these things, I will help you solve this matter."
Looking at the eager eyes of the lords, George knew they were waiting for his next words, "I will give you what you need."
...
The pine forest was a bit damp at dusk, and the horses' hooves were sparse on the soft needles, with the occasional sound of a broken branch.
George withdrew his gaze from the distant trees that were peeking out of the fog, and couldn't help but sigh.
He looked at Mishan, who was riding parallel to him, and couldn't help but ask the words he had just said again, "You said that together, these people originally had a full strength of two thousand soldiers?"
"About the same, my lord. There are also more than two hundred knights." Mishan pursed his lips and his face was a bit serious: "It seems that they lost at least a large part of their men last time. That group of things, it's really not that easy to deal with."
"The situation there seems to be more serious than I imagined..." George turned his gaze back, his eyes glowering as he looked ahead: 'And even if they only have a thousand militia left, my shelter, I'm afraid it's difficult to deal with these people now.'
This world is so interesting, a thousand cowards certainly can not defeat the giant, but can defeat the warrior who did over the giant.
So for the lords' demand to help them rob, George could only adopt a cooperative attitude. And can not back out.
Time could not be delayed for too long...
"Indeed, my lord, if we are added, I am afraid... Ahem, I mean, I feel..." Mi Shan said with a sigh, "I feel like they're all scared out of their wits already."
"Heh heh..." George remembered that in the holy scriptures, there is an account of demons to...
"Chief, they're riding on top of the boar." "Yeah, now they're treating us like life-saving hunters." "A bunch of wimps." "Thanks to that I thought how bold these guys who have survived until now are." "If they saw that giant, they would have pissed their pants!" (The squires didn't notice George's face darken) "Hahahahaha~"
The surrounding squires said, while rubbing their fists together, cheering for the lord's final decision.
Obviously, compared to Mishan, this group of old bandits who had already been knocked over the head by Joe's sledgehammer, did not have the same calmness and sanity as him.
''The one riding on top of the wild boar is now Laozi!'' George secretly shook his head up. He just wanted to say 'I don't want to care...' .
The demon was not something that a giant could compare to.
It was an extremely bizarre thing. Mishan and the squires had not experienced the battle of the lords and did not understand what they had faced...
At the same time, they also thought of the lords too easily.
The daytime meeting went very well, and after George listed the goods he needed, the lords said they would deliver the goods to his territory (collecting the supplies and the journey could take five or six days).
In George's view, this form of home delivery is simply forcing the Palace - 'these bastards, is not believe me ah. If they see the state of my territory, I'm afraid they still want to rob me of the dragon chair ...'
So, for this reasonable request, he naturally had no choice but to agree.
Because he was already riding a tiger.
Moreover, these hands had every single thing he needed inside - besides those iron ore, there were also a lot of quartz sand, feldspar, alkali, salt and many other materials that the territory desperately needed and so on.
The lords made great concessions for this deal - two wagons of food for one wagon of iron ore! So even at the risk of risk, he definitely want to eat this great bargain to the mouth!
Of course, although a little food can be exchanged for a large amount of material, but George is not planning to use much food to exchange with them.
He intended to use the credit...
This idea can be described as crazy, no different from a merchant who travels by night and intends to rob gold from a group of robbers.
However, this lord, who always likes to play the big adventure, is not putting his own little life on the line, but is instead worried about the safety of these people's territory.
'The south is not only an important source of food, the various lords also hold in their hands the channels for trading with the west. If the asylum wants to grow in the future, this territory can not be lost. Besides, the lips are cold and teeth are dead, if they are all finished, I also entered the chronic death...''
George's eyes burned to look ahead, in his heart, is planning a big card game.
He was going to integrate the resources of these people to fight that demon. And after that, let them become one of the asylum's dirty organs, and keep sucking blood from their bodies.
Of course, whether he can make this bull he blew out become true, we have to see a few days, he can put those lords in order.
At this time the sun has completely set, the team has erected a torch, in the forest constantly through.
Today they discussed a little too many things, so that they had to travel at night tonight.
George pulled out his ears, looking at the scrolls that suddenly lit up the apparition, listening to the distant with the wind hazy shout, can not help but heart hair, sigh.
'His grandmother, how to punish in the name of the holy name to sing?' After flipping through the holy scriptures, he silently recited in his heart.
Of course, he couldn't spare the magic power, so he just braced himself.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the wind of the autumn night was very cold with water vapor. George shrunken collar, always feel someone's scratching his back, and he did not dare to turn around, to see if there is anything to the scroll. I can't help but think about it in my mind again.
A few wolf howls interrupted George's thoughts. He opened the scroll and found two red dots in the distance, near the wolves.
One of them was a giant brown bear, which could be seen directly because of the knowledge of this beast. According to the notes, the bear should not be much smaller than the one he had seen before.
The other one is not sure what it is. But from the look of it, it seemed like it should be chasing that brown bear this way.
''What is it, so fierce? A bobcat?'' From the scrolls, that creature seemed extremely sensitive.
This mountain forest, although George had only come and gone once, had not encountered any monsters. The level of decay in the forest was also very low. So in addition to the unjust spirits that can be seen everywhere, there shouldn't be any monsters that exist like 'scavengers' that are heavily contaminated.
Obviously that thing wouldn't be any unjust spirits.
And although the bobcat can fight with bears, it wouldn't be right to push such a giant brown bear.
''This guy, Mishan, really has a crow's mouth...''