Chapter 30 Soul Contract
Pingdingshan center, castle area.

The houses in the residential area have not been completed, the gently sloping city walls have not yet been built, and the castle, which is less important, has not yet been built.

This is still a wasteland covered with weeds and bushes.

But now one of the corners has been cleared and a wide sandstone monument eight meters high has been erected in the middle.

Rhodes stood alone in front of the stone tablet and inserted six steel spears into the open space in front.

The connection brought by [Soul Anchor] allowed Rhodes to feel the soul sleeping in the stone tablet.

He is not strong enough now to create his own spiritual world in the Star Spirit Heaven.

For this purpose, he erected the monument of heroes in front of him and anchored the [Anchor of the Soul] here.

This is the contract signed between Rhodes and the soldiers.

Any soldier who is truly loyal to him will have his soul guided by the contract after death and rest in peace under the protection of the Monument of Heroes.

In order to avoid the fate of being crushed by Xing Lingtian.

And when Rhodes opened up the spiritual world in the Star Spirit Heaven, that was the day they were reborn.

Dawn arrives, and the sunlight from afar illuminates this corner.

Some people started rushing over from the residential area.

Armored soldiers approached here in an orderly manner.

Behind them were the villagers who followed, leaning against each other, with obvious confusion in their eyes.

The barbarian attack happened two days ago.

After resting, all the soldiers, except those seriously injured, have recovered.

The villagers also came back to their senses from their trance.

They were relieved and happy when they learned that the army had successfully defeated the enemy.

According to their understanding of that lord, a celebratory banquet would be held after the army won a great battle.

The villagers were preparing to give their all to make delicious food to reward these soldiers at the upcoming banquet.

However, I was informed that everything would remain the same and I had to wait for the gathering two days later.

But now, seeing the fully armed soldiers in front of them, they couldn't help but become nervous.

Luke, who was walking in front of the villagers, noticed the stone tablet behind the adult.

He looked at the words engraved on it and muttered to himself.

"Tommy, Dewey, Oliver, Bart, Adams, Kyle."

They all seemed to be people's names? Luke felt vaguely familiar with them, as if he had heard them somewhere before.

At this time, Rhodes answered his doubts.

"These are the six soldiers who died in the battle to protect the territory." Rhode said to everyone, "Their names will be engraved here forever and will be passed down in the future of the territory."

Everyone's expressions gradually changed.

Soldiers knew their comrades' names well.

They were staring blankly at the stone tablet, and then their eyes moved between Rhodes and the six spears behind him with complicated expressions.

The villagers' emotions varied.

Even though they all lowered their heads and made painful expressions when they saw Rhodes coming.

But Rhodes could feel that there were very few people who were truly sad, and most people didn't care.

This is normal. In the current territory, there is a clear gap between soldiers and villagers.

Even Luke, who had become the village representative, still didn't know the names of most of the soldiers except for a few people he had come into contact with, and he remained in awe and at a distance from them.

As long as it wasn't their father or husband in the militia, the villagers didn't care about the death of the soldiers.

But it doesn’t matter. The names on the monument of heroes will be given unique meanings in the future.

Now, it was enough for Rhodes to remember their names. "The barbarian attack was not an accident, but the shameful betrayal of the Baron of Hekou Town. He told the enemy our location." Rhodes said.

The soldiers who learned the truth all looked up, anger in their eyes.

After a pause, Rhodes continued:

"He thought we would die in the attack of the barbarians. He was wrong. It was the barbarians who had their heads chopped off!"

"But this is not enough. Anyone who dares to betray me will pay with blood!"

Rhodes drew his sword and pointed it forward. "Now, follow my steps. It's time to chop off the traitor's head!"

This time, he only brought thirty shield-spear soldiers and four cavalrymen.

White Bread, Sabretooth, Holmes and others were arranged by Rhodes to stay in the territory to ensure that no accidents would happen in Pingdingshan when he was away.

If we want to solve the trouble in Hekou Town, soldiers are not the key, these people are enough.

The entrance to Hanshui Valley, Hekou Town.

At this moment, Adlic was staring at the knight in front of him with a headache, unable to understand why the other party stopped the caravan.

He is a transportation manager under the Jianling Chamber of Commerce, and this time he is responsible for transporting the food ordered by the Duke's second son.

The journey was smooth after setting out from Broken Dragon Fortress, but we were unexpectedly stopped at the last river mouth town.

No matter how he explained, the knight always said no.

They said that the caravan could only be allowed to pass after the baron woke up and got his consent.

And now a whole day has passed.

Seeing the doubt in the businessman's eyes, Knight Loren, who stopped him, remained silent and still shook his head to refuse.

It was not until Adrich left that Knight Loren sat down in his chair and sighed.

He opened the caravan's pass, on which were clearly printed the golden griffin and sword emblem of the Duke of Jianling and the white horse emblem of the Grand Duke of Beishuang.

"Rod Rossdale, why are you going to bother him?"

For some reason, Knight Loren felt extremely irritated.

He is the cousin of the Baron's wife, Flynn, and a descendant of the pioneering knights who once remained in the Duchy.

After the family fell into decline, Flynn chose to marry Baron Mansaru and became a baroness.

He hesitated for a long time under Flynn's pleading.

Because he was worried that Flynn would be bullied, Knight Loren finally followed her to the river mouth town and served as the captain of the guard here.

Due to his knight family heritage, he had no good feelings towards the barbarian baron, and the two sides did not get along well.

Now I can’t understand the other party’s behavior. Why don’t they respond to the pass order?
Seeing that there was no news from Mansaru, he thought again and again, then stood up and walked towards the castle.

But she was still stopped outside by the maid, feeling very annoyed.

"My stupid brother is here again." Flynn, wearing a light gauze dress that revealed a large area of ​​fair skin, leaned against the window.

She looked down and saw Knight Loren being driven away, and couldn't help shaking her head.

"I didn't lie to him. I really couldn't get out of bed." Mansaru, who was naked behind her, pulled her over and laid on the bed.

"Oh my beautiful lady, she has tied me to the bed. What shall I do?"

Listening to Mansaru imitating poetry and singing in broken royal language, a trace of disgust flashed in Flynn's eyes.

But in the blink of an eye, it turned into a charming smile, and she hugged his neck, "My dear, you still fascinate me so much."

Feeling Flynn sitting on him, Mansaru squinted his eyes comfortably.

Just at this moment, he recalled the scene half a month ago in his mind, where his wife was staring at the white-faced knight obsessively.

"Heh, the wolf's soldiers should have killed the target and left. It's a pity that I didn't see that scene. They should also let the caravan pass."

Just as Saruman was enjoying himself, the sound of military horns outside the castle made him suddenly open his eyes.

(End of this chapter)