During the safari, Richard Guò received an unexpected message.

Marven, a fallen priest who has been active in the Sequoia Kingdom, has news. After ignoring it for a month, Duke Vicious Wolf suddenly changed his attitude, not only summoned Marven, but also promised to give Richard and others asylum.

Since Richard did not have any titles or titles, Marven fabricated the identity of an ancient noble son for Richard, and found a long-extinct noble family and inherited their title. This kind of thing is very common in the Sequoia Kingdom, and it only takes a few gold coins to do it.

There is no point in being a fictitious noble, even if it is a descendant of a self-proclaimed duke. But Duke Vicious Wolf gave Richard the title of Pioneer Knight, and picked several villages in the border region for Richard to choose from. This is the real fief, the basis of any nobleman. The title of the pioneer knight cannot be hereditary, its significance lies in the legitimate external expansion, and the area conquered by the pioneer knight is his own legal fief.

In the history of human expansion to foreign races, the pioneer knights, the lowest cornerstone of the aristocracy, have always been at the forefront of war. When the Terrans gradually occupied the dominant position in the Qihui Continent, the pioneer knights became an important force in the wars between rival countries.

Pioneer Knights also have a designated area to explore, and theoretically it is possible to designate a large empire as the scope of exploration, as long as you can fight it.

Judging from the initial fief given by the Duke of Evil Wolf, he actually gave two directions for development. To the east is the Principality of White Rock, the old rival of the Evil Wolf Duke, while to the west is to attack the Bloody Duke's old rival, the Principality of White Rock, and to the west, it is directed at the several alien settlements on the edge of the Bloodstained Lands.

Baron Fontaine will be Richard's direct backing. The barony's lands were abundant and could provide ample supplies, as long as Richard could afford to pay the gold coins. At the same time, Baron Fontaine will also be the target of Richard's sale of stolen goods. A large number of slaves inevitably arose in the process of exploitation, and the baron was interested in the business.

Duke Vicious Wolf gave Richard quite generous conditions, and naturally it was not without reason. At the end of Marven's letter, it is stated that Duke Vicious Wolf also wants to get a 'construct' as Richard's reward for his lordship. Seeing this, Richard's mind quickly deduced the news transmission channel of the transaction in the Blue Water Oasis, and vaguely grasped a little context for the intricate relationship between the surrounding human countries. In the last sentence, Marven mentioned his rank. Because of this, he actually gained more divine power, and the priest level has been raised to level seven.

Richard thought for a moment, and then told Quicksand about Marven's promotion, and the latter didn't seem to be much surprised.

The Pioneer Knights were required to specify the scope of the frontier, so Richard replied with a brief letter, in which he chose a small village in the west as his territory, and delineated a terrifying area of exploration:

The Bloodstained Lands and the Ancestral Spirit Plateau.

After replying to the letter, Richard left the supply point of the Golden Banner and set off again to continue exploring the depths of the Bloodstained Land.

The bloodstained land is full of danger, and there are craggy bones everywhere. Richard was accustomed to the scenes of death and killing, and had seen the tragic scenes left behind by the caravans being plundered by horse bandits. Therefore, when he saw another battlefield ruins in the distance, Richard did not express any surprise, but stopped his horse from a distance, and waved his hand to let a knight lead a small group of sand warriors over to see what was going on. After a few moments, the knight ran back, his face solemn, and asked Richard to come and take a look.

The battle had taken place at least ten days earlier, with most of the corpses lying on the ground already decomposing, scavengers roaming the battlefield, and a large flock of vultures feasting around a corpse. It wasn't until Richard's horses were less than ten meters away from them that the guys reluctantly flapped their wings and flew up, but they still lingered on the battlefield.

Richard's gaze slowly swept across the battlefield.

It was a fierce and large-scale battle, fought by a regular escort team, and the armor and banner belonged to the Bloodland Lion Merchant Order, which was also one of the top ranked merchant groups. The convoy outnumbered the horse bandits, leaving behind more than three hundred corpses, and even in a bloodstained land, a convoy of this size was enough to make the most feared thieves think deeply. On the side of the battlefield, there were the wreckage of more than a dozen trucks, all of which had been cut open with heavy weapons, and all kinds of residual goods were scattered and scattered on the ground. The goods are mainly all kinds of ores, the value is between precious and rare, if the goods of more than a dozen trucks are this ore, after arriving in the human kingdom, it is worth at least tens of thousands of gold coins.

Around the wagon, there were hundreds of corpses, which were supposed to be the people of the caravan. The corpses were in a variety of postures, some resisting, some fleeing, and some begging for mercy. Either way, the end result is a corpse. And Richard knew as soon as he looked at the number of corpses that the entire caravan should be here, and none of them were spared.

Remnants of cargo, bodies that had been examined, and especially Richard noticed that there were almost no bags of water and food left at the scene. It soon emerged that the attackers had only taken supplies and valuables that were worth carrying and had no interest in the bulky ore.

A caravan of this size, even with the banner of the Scarlet Cossacks, Richard would have considered it carefully. But now that the whole caravan has been reduced to corpses, what about the enemy? Is there no casualty? Is there any power in the Bloodstained Lands that has the same habit of collecting the remains of his own dead?

Richard's gaze fell on the corpse of a black-armored knight on the battlefield. This is an extremely tall knight, more burly and powerful than a barbarian. The heavy armor he wore was at least hundreds of kilograms, and judging from the armor alone, the knight's strength was no less than that of an ogre. Such a heavy body is by no means something that ordinary war horses can carry.

Not far from the knight, there was also a terrifying war horse that was at least one meter taller than an ordinary war horse. Not only did this war horse stick out two long fangs from its mouth, but several bone spurs of different lengths grew all over its body, making it look extremely hideous and terrifying. Not only did the horse have huge hooves and bone spurs stained with dried blood, but it even had a severed arm in its mouth.

Only this kind of war horse has enough strength to bear the black knight.

The knight's corpse was stuck with at least a dozen weapons, and around his corpse were dozens of members of the convoy. Apparently they had killed such a terrifying foe by piling up their lives. And the war horse also had several long weapons inserted in its body, and the corpses of more than a dozen guards were pressed.

It's been a long time since he died, but there still seems to be a lingering terrifying power in the corpses of the black-armored knight and the warhorse. All kinds of scavengers, whether vultures or jackals, or even insects, were reluctant to approach within a few meters of the corpse of the black-armored knight. Not to mention the corpses of knights and horses, even the corpses of the guards in this range are intact.

Richard frowned, the black-armored knight gave him a very uncomfortable feeling.

: Following the collection of character cards, a new round of collection activities has begun, this time with the magic pattern construction. The content of the event has been posted in the evaluation area, and there are rewards this time, so I would like to thank everyone who is busy for this. If you have nothing to do, you might as well get involved, and maybe one of the structures you designed will appear in a certain part of a character.

In addition, there is another reason for three changes today.