After a night's rest, the group quickly recovered from the fatigue caused by traveling all night in the previous few days. As soon as the genius showed up, they packed their bags and continued on their way.

Because there were no suitable ships to carry so many of them, the original plan of taking the water route had to be changed and turned to the trade route used by traders traveling to and from the Principality of Toussaint.

This trade road was first built by the elves for the purpose of contacting the outside world. At that time, the caravans from the Elf Kingdom often traveled between Toussaint and Matina on this trade road. The source of this trade road was Beauclair, and the end

It is the city of Matina, the capital of Matina.

However, after the destruction of the Elf Kingdom, the Principality of Toussaint adopted more convenient, larger cargo transportation, and faster shipping as the principal foreign trade route, causing this trade route to be abandoned for a period of time.

It was not until many years later that smugglers reactivated this abandoned trade route, transporting large amounts of black wine without paying taxes to Matina for sale. Over time, the trade route regained its vitality.

However, due to the years of disrepair, the roads have become full of potholes. Not only the vehicles carrying goods to and from the caravans cannot drive smoothly on this road, but even the horses must run carefully on this trade road.

Because no one knows whether there is a pothole on the road covered by grass. As long as the horse's leg steps on the pothole while running, it will inevitably be injured. If it is light, it will only fall, if it is serious, it will break the leg directly.

possible.

Cassirer had walked this road before and knew the conditions of this road, so he reminded everyone after getting on the business road.

But even the reminder was of no use. His own horse accidentally stepped into a pothole and broke its leg, so he had to kill it. For this reason, Angouleme's horse was given to Cassirer to ride.

Gulanze and Milva rode on the same horse.

After that, everyone slowed down and carefully chose the path that had been taken by their predecessors, so there were no more accidents.

Not long after they got on the trade road, they met a caravan. This caravan came from the town of Pasha. This town is located at the end of the trade road on the Matina side and is a cargo distribution center.

Because the road from the Principality of Toussaint to the city of Matina is long, and the Magdalen Plain passing through is infested with bandits, if the caravan travels the entire distance, it will need to take great risks and may lose everything at any time.

Therefore, the vast majority of the caravans in the Principality of Toussaint will choose Pasha Town as the end point, sell the goods in their hands to the caravans in Matina at a relatively low price, and obtain low-price goods from the caravans in Matina.

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Although this will reduce a lot of benefits, it is much safer, and because the distance between trips is shorter, you can make more trips every year, so the final benefits will not be reduced too much.

The Medina caravan that purchases goods from Pasha Town will hire wandering knights, mercenaries or bounty hunters as escorts, pass through the Magdela Plain, known as the Bandit Plains, and transport the goods to the city of Medina, obtaining

Huge rewards.

Under this circumstance, every year many wandering knights who become hired guards here will go to the Principality of Toussaint to participate in the Knights Conference. After the Knights Conference, they will return to Pasha Town to wait for caravan hire.

After encountering the caravan, Geralt suggested that everyone follow the caravan so that they could take care of each other and not go astray easily.

Among their group, the only one who had walked this road was Cassirer. However, he was walking with the large army and did not remember how the road was walked. On this trade road, there were a large number of

There are even branch roads leading to other towns, and there are even some trap roads deliberately forged by some bandit groups, so a person who often walks this road is needed as a guide, so the moment he saw the caravan, Geralt immediately proposed

suggestions.

Everyone also agreed with this suggestion, and also mocked Cassirer for being unreliable as a leader. Just now Cassirer almost led them to the wrong road, but Leo discovered the caravan.

The traces of travel have returned to the correct path, otherwise they may have taken a detour.

Faced with the request from Geralt and his entourage to join the caravan, the leader of the caravan was hesitant. Logically speaking, if some warriors joined the caravan, they would not need to pay a commission. In case of danger, more people would be able to assist in the battle. This was simply a fight.

It's hard to find a good thing even with a lantern, but the question is whether Geralt and his party are trustworthy, or to put it more directly, whether Geralt and his party are deliberately arranged by the bandits.

On more than one occasion in the past, bandits secretly arranged for internal agents in the caravan and suddenly turned against them during the robbery, causing the caravan's defense to collapse, goods to be robbed, and people to be injured or killed.

Now, not only would every caravan that suddenly appeared on the road and asked to come with them would suspect its origin and purpose, but even the wandering knights, mercenaries and bounty hunters hired in Pasha Town would also look for those people.

If you have good credit, you will only look for people with no background information if you have no choice. However, you don’t dare to recruit too many people with no background information.

Geralt did not show much disgust with the caravan's caution, and told the caravan leader his identity according to their request.

When the caravan leader heard Geralt's name and saw the wolf badge on his chest, his original vigilance weakened slightly, because although the Butcher of Blavikan didn't sound very nice, it was widely spread among the people.

There are also rumors about the Nilfgaard Empire, and Geralt is an unpopular demon hunter, but his reputation is pretty good, at least there are no rumors about being a part-time bandit.

Later, after Cassirer reported his full name and his family, the caravan leader's vigilant look became less vigilant. The Ep Chilak family was considered a famous family in the Nilfgaard Empire. Now Nilfgaard's family

Gruffed, the steward of the Fergard royal family, is Cassirer's father.

However, when Sylvia took off her helmet and introduced herself, everyone in the caravan, especially the wandering knights, were stunned, and everyone looked at Sylvia in surprise.

Many of these hired wandering knights participated in the Knights Conference last year, and they all left Toussaint after the Knights Conference ended and before the heavy snow completely blocked the mountains. They all heard that

They had known Sylvia as the Knight of Light, and several of them had even met Sylvia when she was still alone on the mission.

After that, although the trade routes were temporarily cut off due to the mountain closure, the connection between the outside world and Toussaint was not severed. Communication tools such as carrier pigeons were still able to convey everything that happened in the Principality of Toussaint to the world.

Outside.

There is no doubt that the most eye-catching thing in the Principality of Toussaint this winter, apart from the unprecedented cold wave closing the mountains, is the appearance and rise of the mysterious foreign female knight, the Knight of Light.

Not to mention the fact that the Knights of Light were baptized with the Five Virtues of Knighthood, received weapons blessed by the Fairy of the Lake, or the establishment of the Knights of Light, or the establishment of the Church of the Fairy of the Lake, etc. are all considered miraculous.

, any one thing is enough to become a knight's lifetime achievement, but these things were all completed by one person, and in just one month.

So after the news came out, many people thought it was a myth made up by the Toussaint people. But as more and more news came out, everyone was sure that this was indeed what happened, a legend.

Appearing in Toussaint.

Outside Toussaint, many people are surprised and curious about this female knight. Many people who have never seen Sylvia's true face think that Sylvia is a monster as strong as a man.

Otherwise, in their opinion, it would be impossible for a normal woman to accomplish such a feat.

Although there are people who have seen Sylvia's true face refuting these rumors, these people are only a minority after all and cannot play any role at all.

However, what pushed Sylvia's reputation to its peak was that Sylvia later led the newly established Knights of Light and several wandering knights to completely defeat the Belhaven Territory. The Belhaven Territory had nearly seven

All the nobles were captured by him, and all the troops of Belhaven were defeated by him.

Although there are many wandering knights in this world, and there are also many wandering knights, but in the past many years, there has never been a wandering knights that can defeat the regular army of a certain territory on a frontal battlefield, and it is a territory as big as Belhaven.

Undoubtedly, after the news spread, the first thing that appeared was doubt, because in the eyes of most people, if something that has never happened before is likely to be fake if it happens now, even the Wandering Knights, a group that desperately needs a glorious record,

Everyone was skeptical about this sudden and amazing achievement.

But with the subsequent news coming, and the news published in the Nilfgaard Empire Gazette, everyone was truly convinced that this record was true, and the Knight of Light had accomplished a shocking feat.

Since then, the Knight of Light has almost become a spiritual idol in the eyes of all wandering knights. Some people even think that the Knight of Light is the incarnation of the fairy in the lake, the embodiment of the five virtues of knights, etc. In short, the Knight of Light is

This world also has a lot of influence.

It can be said that the wandering knights hired by this caravan this time are all believers of the Knight of Light. They also plan to complete this escort mission when the snow in the mountainous area melts and Toussaint's trade route reopens.

They were going to the Principality of Toussaint to apply to join the Knights of Light, and even if nothing happened, they would still have a look at the Knights of Light.

Almost right before Geralt and the others appeared, these wandering knights still mentioned this matter, but they never thought that the idol they wanted to see would actually appear in front of them, which made them shocked but also extremely happy.

One of the older wandering knights quickly calmed down and walked up to Sylvia. He saluted Sylvia with great respect and said, "Sir, you may not remember that I once fought alongside you.

However, that is a lifelong honor in my heart, and I am extremely happy to see you again, sir."

Sylvia looked at the wandering knight with a smile and said: "Bliger of Anglin took the lead in cleaning up a group of bandits who blocked the road, killing two bandits. I have not forgotten your grace at that time.

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"I didn't expect you to remember this, sir." After hearing Sylvia's words, the wandering knight showed extremely strong joy on his face, as if he had obtained some treasure.

After that, wandering knights came to pay tribute one after another. Among them, the wandering knights who had communicated with Sylvia could easily tell their identities and names as well as the scenes of the exchanges. And those wandering knights who had never met before

After stating her name, she was also able to quickly tell them about their past achievements, which made everyone who talked to him feel like a spring breeze, and even vaguely had the idea of ​​​​seeing him as a leader.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Sylvia decides to form another knighthood at this time, then this knighthood will be formed instantly, and all the wandering knights here will be extremely happy to join the knighthood and serve Sylvia.

Because of Sylvia's appearance, the leader of the caravan also dropped his last guard and happily invited Geralt and others to join the caravan. He even said that all the expenses on the road would be paid by the caravan. As for Leo, who had been there from beginning to end,

The person who was always hidden in the armor was ignored. Even if someone noticed him, he would be considered to be Sylvia's bodyguard or something like that.

However, this misunderstanding was soon exposed, because when the caravan specially prepared a tent for Sylvia, Sylvia said that she would live in a tent with Leo. At this time, everyone suddenly thought of the rumored Sylvia.

Via has a partner, and the relationship with this partner is very close.

At this time, everyone began to re-examine Leo, a special existence that could easily be ignored even if he wore a gorgeous set of armor.

They will not despise Leo because of his obscurity. Although the knowledge of the people in the caravan cannot be compared with scholars, they have developed some eyesight after surviving to this day. They can see when Sylvia and Leo get along.

, most of the decisions made were based on Leo.

The man who can be so enamored by a legendary woman like Sylvia is definitely not an ordinary person, not to mention that Leo, who is wearing the Abyss Walker armor, possesses a very powerful power. If you stand there, don't pay attention to him.

Fortunately, once you notice him, you will feel as if you are being suppressed by a mountain, giving you the illusion that you can't breathe. You will subconsciously lower your head and dare not look directly at him.

The commotion about Leo's identity did not last long and passed. Everyone turned their attention to Sylvia again, and tentatively asked why Sylvia appeared here?
Chapter completed!