Chapter 318: 'Apples' Fortress
"...... Uppleus"
In the endless wilderness, the Knight of Poze, dressed in a light enchanted armor, had seen the fortress in the distance.
The fortress looked like a small black dot in his sight, but there was nothing but the fortress in the grassland.
The father of the Knight of Potts had also sent letters to the old duke, so he had also heard the story of the kingdom of 'Apples'.
This is a 'half-elf' country, standing here before the Arcane Empire was expelled from the world of Assatom, and at that time, the reputation of the half-elf dragoons resounded throughout the continent of Mendes, and even the powerful knights of the Gordon Empire would show respect for the sub-dragoons of Eppulus when they met them on the battlefield.
Compared to the vast 'Starry and Moonlight Forest' that occupies the eastern part of the Mendez continent, Uppleus is only a small country, and its purpose is to place the half-elves who should not be brought into the 'Star-Moon Forest'.
The elves are very good, their artwork is something that the human aristocracy has been pursuing, and their appearance can make everyone praise it from the bottom of their hearts.
They are athletic and tall, and although they appear thinner than humans, the skills they have learned over their long lives can more than make up for their lack of 'strength'.
However, these are just 'folklore', the father of the knight of Potts has seen real elves, those elves are not as kind as the legend, 'beautiful and moving' is true, otherwise there would not be so many 'slave catchers' in human society.
Epulus is the second line of defense that the elves have built to protect themselves, and the first line of defense is the grassland under the feet of the Knights of Potts.
Navigating the grasslands is not an easy task, and it is even more difficult to walk through a grassland that borders the Black Forest!
Once, the monsters on this grassland were consciously stocked by the elves, and at that time this grassland was not so big, and then under the influence of the war to expel the Arcane Empire, an 'ark' and three 'floating cities' fell here, and this grassland became what it is now.
Nowadays, this grassland is full of monsters and monsters, and it is not under the control of the elves, so this 'first line of defense' is already 'dead in name'.
The elves will not be so kind to take in the 'half-elves', because the existence of the 'half-elves' is tolerable for them, but it is an existence that 'tarnishes the bloodline', and if they want to join the elven society, they must become a line of defense for them.
This is the origin of 'Eplius', where 'Epulus' is the name of the fortress in the distance, the country of Epulus was developed from a fortress, although the capital has now been moved, but the fortress in the distance has not been renamed.
But that's all in the past, before the war to expel the Arcane Empire, the half-elf dragoons had been beaten and half scrapped, and after that war, their dragoons disappeared completely, and now the training methods of the dragoons are in the hands of the elves of the 'Star-Moon Forest', and Ephelus has completely become a vassal of the elves.
If it weren't for the fact that Knight of Pozzi's father told him about what he had seen, Knight Poz might still be immersed in beautiful fantasies, fantasizing that he would be like his father, wearing a suit of armor, riding a horse, and holding a long sword, and brave the 'former elven god of war' alone, as a tribute to the heroic 'former elven god of war'.
However, when his father told him the true face of the elves, his illusions about these things were completely shattered.
For example, 'Mason' was actually forced to die by the elves and the elven gods, which is the story that the old duke once told, and the knight of Poz did not hear the old duke tell it himself, but he did hear his father tell it.
Another example is that most elves have a 'contemptuous' attitude towards humans, even after the Arcane Empire and the Ogordon Empire have dominated the world, their attitude is still the same, maybe they are not 'stupid', but they are 'pedantic' enough - they are still immersed in the glory of the old days, and refuse to wake up.
After hearing this, the Potts Knight was completely disappointed with the 'elves' race, because most elves did not have a good attitude towards humans.
However, even the arrogant 'elves' do not have as extreme attitudes towards other races as the 'half-elves'.
Because the foundation of the country is in the hands of the elves, they must kneel at the feet of the elves, and always play the role of a loyal dog to survive, so they have a hostile attitude towards races other than the elves, and they believe that it is because of the existence of other races that they have fallen into this situation.
It looked and sounded stupid, and Knight of Potts was surprised when he first heard it, but his father told him that if he wanted to be the 'messenger' of the old duke in the future, he had to accept it, and it was true!
If you want to become a 'messenger', the first thing you have to learn is to 'endure loneliness', and for these months, the Pozzi knight has been walking alone through this grassland, with no one to talk to except the white war horse around him, but fortunately, his father trained him since he was a child, so that he did not go crazy along the way.
'Irritation' had been haunting his mind, and the villain was finally moved by his words the moment he saw the fortress of 'Apples', and left his mind.
At the moment when the 'irritation' left, the Knight of Potts felt extremely happy, and couldn't help grinning, looking up to the sky and howling:
"Ahh
The Knight of Potts' frustration came out of his mouth and through his voice, and instead of frightening the horses under his seat, he made them even more excited.
Looking at this seemingly endless prairie, the war horse couldn't help but want to gallop, but years of training have also made the war horse understand when to do what and when not to do.
When he had finished shouting, the Potts knight took a deep breath, flicked the reins, laughed and shouted, "Run! Run forward!!
The horse neighed, and the hooves of the horses, which had been ready, stepped down heavily, and in an instant turned into a red lightning bolt, galloping forward.
Soso!
The horses' hooves lifted from the grass, and at some point they followed several black wolves around and behind them, their fierce eyes staring at the blood-stained warhorses and the knights sitting on the horses.
"Hahaha!"
On the back of the bumpy horse, in order not to be thrown out, the knight of Potts clutched the reins with one hand, stepped on the stirrups with both feet, and drew his tattered long sword from his waist with the other.
The raunchy knight let out a penetrating maniacal laugh in his hoarse voice, "Come on, come on!"
The knight's eyes shone with a bloodthirsty brilliance, and in this steppe, apart from talking to himself with the war horse as a pastime, he could only prove that he was alive by fighting the enemy!
That's what his father taught him - if you feel like you're going crazy, then go and kill, kill those monsters and monsters, no matter how many you kill, anyway, it only takes half a year anyway, and they will be able to return to their original size.
Just now he had already carried two flags on his back, one was a one-eyed eagle with a letterhead on its mouth, which was the banner of the 'Portz' family, and on the other side, a black dragon was coiled around its body, and an ordinary long sword was placed in it!
Wielding his sword, the knight of Boz set off a bloody storm on the grassland, and the banner behind him flew in the wind, arrogant!
As the knight of Poz galloped, he was spotted by the soldiers of the distant fortress, and after waking up the alarm, the archers climbed the walls.
An officer-like half-elf was huddled up the rampart, holding a binocular.
He saw the Knight of Potts through the binoculars, and the extremely powerful dynamic vision allowed him to barely see the two fluttering flags-
"The Eagle of Letters, the Sword and the Black Dragon...... Is it the 'Sad Wind Leader'?!"