The Lord Legend Of The Raicarnated Lord
The Northern Journey Begins

Chapter 58: The North Journey Begins

On the 3rd day of the 1st month, Lorist bid farewell to Baron Miranda and began his journey.

Massive convoys used the main road and covered a distance of up to 60 kilometers in the day.

On the 4th day of the 1st month, the convoy traveled 20 kilometers before noon and left the main road for a detour in the forest. After just crossing a small hill, they arrived at the territory of the nobles of the Redlis Kingdom.

On the third day of the journey, just as the convoy was about to start moving again, Yuriy sent someone to report that the local royal lord, a viscount, was in, had led over 20 knights to the convoy and said that they would attack the convoy had they not left ten percent of whatever they had as casualties.

Lorist simply laughed and asked the scout who made the report, "Did Knight Yuriy tell the viscount that this is the Norton Family army and we will just walk back to our power without doing any business on the way?"

The scout replied, “Master Yuriy has told Viscount many times already, but he refused to listen and insisted that we are a smuggling group pretending to be a noble family. He even said that if we were going to disguise ourselves as nobles, we would be better off if we used the flag of someone famous and not the flag of the Norton Family, he said, a family he had never heard of before. ”

Loris turned back and exclaimed, "Terman, come forward to invite the Viscount over. I will tell him personally what our family is made of. ”

Without delay, Terman returned with a viscount as his prisoner.

Terman said that when he led the knight brigade on the charge, the viscount people turned around to flee or get off their horses to surrender, leaving the viscount itself staring in disbelief as Terman and the knights took all 27 of the viscount's male prisoners.

However, the viscount still maintained the proud and unyielding attitude expected of a noble; even though he was imprisoned, he still held his head up high and cursed, “You actually dared to go against me, the head of the Mestre Family? Do you want to start a war with us ?! ”

However, he also said that if Lorist was willing to return his money for his loss and apologize, he would be willing to let go of the convoy because he was a kind and forgiving person. "You must offer me a great tribute as an apology and .. Ooooh .. This servant looks quite good ..." He refers to Molise standing beside Charade.

Lorist laughed bitterly and turned to Potterfang and said, “I suspect this person has no brain. ”

The jammed and overbearing viscount was instantly strapped to the hollow rotor on the orders of the enraged Charade. Reidy had him go through over ten minutes of extraordinary vertigo experience, after which the viscount was released. He then answered every question Lorist's group had with tears and snot all over his face.

It seemed that Viscount Mestre was in the midst of a war with the neighboring barons. Just last night, the Viscount and his men had intended to attack a small village nearby but they returned empty-handed. As they were on their way back to the castle, they saw a convoy heading north and the viscount tried to make up for his loss by demanding a toll to be paid. He also mentioned that his palace and his entire army were only 30 kilometers away in a nearby lake.

Lorist said happily, “Oh, so the Viscount came to invite us to his palace as guests. Terman, take this Viscount Mes-thingamajig to his palace and have his men surrender. Otherwise, have him hanged outside his palace. Also, have Dulles and the carroballista unit accompany you as well. If they refused to surrender, immediately besieged the castle. We'll stay there tonight. ”

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Right now, Viscount Mestre felt extremely cold. Having just opened his eyes and still feeling a little dizzy, he thought, that damned fatty, he actually dares to treat a noble person like me in that way … When I return to the castle, I will gather the citizens of my domain and teach them a lesson .. Wait, where is this? It seems pretty familiar …

The viscount made his face somewhat pinched and felt much more aware of his surroundings. He discovered that he could strangely recognize the place. Finally, he noticed that this was his palace and the room he was in seemed to be his bedroom. Why did the room change so much?

The viscount got up from the floor and noticed that he was completely naked with not a single piece of clothing on his body. What is this, the viscount thought as he examined the piece of cloth that covered him when he was unconscious. It seemed to be a rough linen bag used to store grain.

It's ridiculous! What did they do to me? The viscount cursed and walked quickly towards the empty place where his bed used to be and pulled the bell rope to call his servant to help him get dressed. However, when he pulled the rope, it slipped down with the other end falling to the ground. The rope was cut off.

Clamping his nose at the smell of the linen sack, he carried it to his waist and used a rope to tie it up and walked towards the exit barefoot. Looking all the way, he could not see a single soul. The viscount called out loudly to his servant, but no one answered.

Going into the adjacent room, he noticed that it was completely empty like his bedroom without any clothes, furniture or footwear left behind. All that remained was a cold wall of ice. He checked the other rooms only to find that the furniture and decorations that used to be there were gone.

Wandering around his palace, the Viscount noticed that even the torches on the walls were all gone and started to worry about the worst. What the hell is going on? Where are the others? He then rushed towards the balcony and felt the sunlight warm his skin before breathing a sigh of relief.

From the balcony, he swept his gaze over the rest of his palace and realized that it was so clean, so clean that not a single carriage, metal goods, textiles, livestock or person could be seen. The castle was left with nothing but stone and wood from which it was built.

“There are people around? Is there anything left? ”Shouted the desperate Viscount from the balcony.

"Master, you're finally awake. That's .. very good. "Siluet could be seen leaning against the castle wall from afar. The viscount narrowed his eyes and thought, isn't that the loyal butler? Why is she half-naked with nothing but a sack that covers her like me?

The viscount quickly walked to the courtyard where his butler's head was located and met with the butler's emotions. "My lord, you're finally awake. You've been cold for two days!"

The viscount put his hand on the butler and asked, “Where is everyone? What happened to my palace? I can't see a single thing anywhere! ”

"My lord, have you forgotten? Two days ago, a group of bandits threatened that if we did not surrender and let them in the castle, they would get you hanged. We have no choice but to obey for the sake of your life and surrender without a fight. The bandits said that they were soldiers of the Norton Family and complained that you had delayed their journey and also caused them to suffer a blow to their morale. They demanded that we pay them for their losses. But, sir, you also understand that our family does not have many gold coins left. The bandits then ate all the cattle inside the castle and took every object in it, not leaving a single piece of cloth behind and also dismantled all the doors and brought it, ”obviously the butler.

The viscount had already gone mad from anger. “Then, what about the waiters? Why don't I see people here? ”

“They all went with the bandits, sir. Before they left, they gathered everyone in the castle and a fat man asked all of us if we wanted to go with their group. I refused and they immediately stripped me naked and left me here while the others followed them and left long ago, ” said the butler.

“My master, they only left me two sacks after I begged desperately. I only managed to find a porcelain bowl after two days of searching and I only cooked some oatmeal. Sir, you want to eat first? "

Upon hearing that there was food, the Viscount suddenly felt a void in his stomach. “Alright, get me. ”

At that moment, the sound of a galloping horse could be heard approaching the main gate of the castle. The old butler's face instantly changed as he said, “My master, this is bad! The Bocchi Family army is coming to attack us! ”

“But, sir, the bandits also took the castle gate! During these past two days, I have only managed to build a stone wall to seal the entrance of the castle.

"We're done ...." said the Viscount as he knelt in despair.

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Charade was not at all worried about their meeting with Viscount Mestre. To him, the viscount was really stupid. He really wondered how a person like him being a noble landed in the first place. The viscount thought that he could command anyone around just because he was a noble without bothering to consider the actual abilities of his troops. He even wanted to take my Molise .. Good thing we didn't let him just like that.

At that moment, Charade was standing in front of the third noble castle they had met during their journey. The ruling king, a baron, was currently bargaining over the price of a pile of weapons. When they passed through the territory of another noble the day before, Charade sent an envoy to declare their intention to do business with the ruler of the kingdom. However, the ruler was frightened by the military force of the convoy and had voiced out within his palace, refusing to respond to anything they said. Charade could do nothing but give up on the idea of selling their goods to that noble.

Charade learned his lesson afterwards and when they passed the baron castle at this time, they only bought three carriages and offered some of the items they had taken from Viscount Mestre castle as a gift for him. The reason the items were given was because the convoy was too much to carry on the way.

Seeing the reward hanging on his face, the baron appeared on the wall of his palace and asked Charade his intentions.

Charade saluted the knights and stated that he had come to represent the convoy of the Norton Family and asked if the baron would be able to offer to their group with some provisions in exchange for some weapons and equipment.

After hearing about the weapon, the baron quickly came out of his palace to take a look and took out 100 spears, 20 mail chains, 20 round shields, and 10 round shields, 20 Two-handed great swords as well as 3 complete sets of knight armor. All the items amounted to about 500 Ford gold, but since the baron did not have much money, he decided to offer some other resources he had for trade.

In the end .the baron spent 100 gold coins and ten carriages with two horses for each filled with wheat as well as 5 cows with 50 other pigs in exchange for weapons. To commemorate his first sale, Charade offered the items at 80% of the original price and even treated the baron with a bottle of wine produced by the Sloph vineyard.

The baron was quite happy to have been treated to good wine and kindly suggested that once the convoy left the mountains, it was quite nice, the convoy would no longer be in his power and warned them to keep watch as the area was full of bandits . He also told them to be on the lookout for attacks from Count Cobry's forces.

Charade hastily thanked the baron for his advice and invited the baron to a convoy camp near the mountains for a banquet.

The baron thought about it and said that he would be present and hoped that his presence would not be too troublesome for the convoy.

Charade quickly replied that having the baron to join them for the night was an honor and said that he would return quickly to prepare for the banquet that night.

In the evening, the baron came with his eldest son, a Three Star Silver Knight, and four other servants. Upon entering the encampment, the baron expressed his admiration and praise for the military might of the Norton Family.

Charade, who was sitting at the table they had taken from Viscount Mestre's castle, introduced Lorist and the family knights to the baron. The baron was called Charles and his son's name was Soria. After which, they all started eating and chatting merrily.

Charade said that the main reason he invited Baron Charles was to gain an understanding of the situation in which the convoy would pass. The baron and his son began to tell the group everything they knew.

According to Baron Charles, the mountain range where the convoy set up camp was the border between his territory and Viscount Debonar. However, not only did Viscount Debonar die, Baron Anlar, Prince Bajri and the adjacent Baron Omador also suffered the same fate. That said, Lorist's convoy would pass through the land that was currently without a ruler. He said that there would be no place where Lorist could supply because the towns and villages there had all been raided to the point of being destroyed.

And the cause of it all is Count Cobry's private army. It is said that in his youth, he, the tally was a morally deprived knight who was also a serial seducer whose favorite hobby was to wander around in his power to force the women he liked to sleep with him. No matter whether they were teenagers or in their late forties, he did not let a single one of them out of his grasp, either, thus causing the women in his power to remain cooped up in their homes or leave it altogether.

Due to her lifestyle, the tally had more than 60 illegitimate children. Even so, he had absolutely no objection to that fact and adopted it all, thus causing the neighboring nobles to give him the moniker, 'Count Ravenous'. On one occasion when Prince Cobry went to the imperial capital for fun, he got to know the First Prince and the two of them quickly became close friends. Two years later when the First Prince was exiled by the former emperor, the count returned to his power and stayed within him to nurture all his illegitimate sons.

After a few more years when the First Prince raised the flag of rebellion in Bodolger Province, the count responded by bringing in thirty of his adult sons to pledge their allegiance to the First Prince. After the civil war, the count returned with his troops and much of the loot and gold returned to his rule, but only ten of the thirty sons still survived.

Right now, even though his tally was already in his sixties, his ambitions had still not diminished. Soon after his return to power, he used various excuses to start a conflict with the neighboring nobles and had managed to expand his territory to twice the size of before. The 13 noble families who opposed him all perished. The men were exterminated with the women who suffered a fate worse than death: they were abused to the last breath or sold to slave traders when their oppressors were finished with them.

There was one noble who made a complaint about the cruelty of counting to the First Prince so that the fallen noble families could be avenged. However, the First Prince stated that he did not know the full picture and would investigate the matter further before taking any action. But no follow-up was done even though the nobility had waited more than three months. It was after that when he met one of the noble sons who was one of the roads to the capital of the Redlis Kingdom to pay their taxes and tributes.

A fight erupted between the two with it ending with the death of the noble at the hands of one of the servants of the bastard child. It is explained that the servant was angered by the nobleman insulting his beloved master to the point where he could not help himself and began to attack violently. This led to the maid being sentenced to death for killing a noble with the noble's son remaining unscathed from the entire affair.

When news of it spread to the territory of the noble families near the territory of the nobility, a chain reaction occurred. People began to accuse the First Prince of favoritism towards the count. At the time, one of Count Cobry's aides revealed an astounding fact when he died drunk in a tavern: before the count returned to his power, the, The First Prince had promised him that he would grant the title count of 'Duke of the Northwest Duke 'if he could make the nobles nearby submit to him and that the land of the nobles would be part of his dominance.

That was why Count Cobry was so enterprising in looking for trouble with the nobles around the area without heeding the customs and traditions of the nobility when it came to war. He even clears every opposition, to every member of the family, so that they will not cause trouble for him in the future. The entire royal nobility all lost faith in the First Prince after hearing the revelation and the nearly 40 families united to form an alliance to curb the threat of Count Cobry, who was the only one in the kingdom, vow to support each other if any of them are distracted by the count. Even so, given the past grudges some of them had with others, it was not uncommon for some of them to stab other families in the back from time to time. For the past half a year, two families had already fallen into the hands of Count Cobry. The alliance had also suffered quite a number of losses in the battle, causing some members to abandon it and join that side of the count.

Baron Charles then downed a large glass of wine before he said now that Count Cobry's forces had exterminated the Debonar Family, his own would undoubtedly be his next target. Recently, in addition to spending his efforts to increase his own army, he, he had also sent some of his sons and daughters to the City of Morante to some relatives living there to minimize the damage that Count Cobry would cause if he succeeded in the next conquest. That was also why he bought a lot of military equipment from the convoy.

The eldest son of the baron, Soria, told Lorist everything he knew about the counting force. It had gained considerable results from the recent conflict.the count brought over a thousand mercenaries when he returned to his power. These people were all fitted and equipped with armor and leather spears. They call themselves the Spear Cavalry. Adept at chasing and surrounding their enemies, they were the main force of Count Cobry's army. Besides, the, the tally also had a local garrison of about 2,000 men led by some of his illegitimate sons who had joined him in previous expeditions and also helped him manage some of the security and administration of his former territory others.

Whenever the count defeated the enemy, it would tear down the entire territory belonging to the fallen enemy and bring the survivors of the land back to its dominance to serve as slave workers to build the infrastructure for its dominance. Rumor has it that Count Cobry intended to build a city that rivaled the royal capital as its main base as the Duke of the Northwest.

Soria also said that in the dominance of the noble families that had been eliminated, small resistance groups formed by locals numbering ten to a hundred people were all over the place and they caused a considerable calculation of the problem. Due to the lack of resources and provisions, they often acted as bandits from time to time and plundered not only the counting power but also the territory belonging to other nobles as well. In an attempt to wipe out the resistance, the count had sent his troops into the king's dominions to kill the rebels as well as capture some powerful young men for extra work.

Among the rebel ranks, there was a famous knight named Josk who was a One Star Gold rank who was famous for his outstanding archery skills. In one of his exploits to avenge his former master's family, he sneaks into the power of Count Cobry alone and manages to shoot the two illegitimate sons of the count as well as injure his own shoulders, caused the great bounty to reach 100 gold. coins to be placed on him. Currently, Josk led an army of over several hundred people and even threatened some local nobles to give them weapons and equipment. Soria expressed her hope that Lorist's convoy would not crash into her as she crossed the area.

He suggested Lorist take a detour and not pass through areas that were under the influence of counting. Otherwise, if the tally or rebel group set their sights on the convoy, no matter how strong they were, there was no doubt that they would suffer a huge loss. Moreover, as Soria and her father passed through the area, they saw a large number of refugees following the troops in hopes of getting food. They would also be a potential burden for the convoy.

After sending the baron and his son away, Lorist's expression turned serious. Should we continue on the original path or return to the path we are on? This is indeed a matter that requires extensive consideration.