Chapter 81 81: Strategic Resources

Author: I really want to eat meat 597

In Angie's knowledge, she is the only female knight in the entire Glosk Territory.

She was originally a little confused about this thing that obviously went against common sense, but after this strange situation in Grand Village, this confusion suddenly increased.

After all, this time, she met two female knights from Commorragh. Why does the ratio of men to women in Commorragh seem quite normal?

Seeing Anji resolutely blocking in front of the wooden cabinet and refusing to let him take out the gold coins placed there, Scott could only give up the idea of ​​"returning the money to her", smiled helplessly, and then sat aside.

Sitting on the chair, he began to explain to her:

"Angie, what you said is wrong - there are still one or two female knights in the Glosk Territory. It's just that they are under the command of those counts, not in our knights."

Then, he changed the topic and added: "But not only in the Glossk Territory, but also in other places, the situation is similar - the vast majority of knights are men, and there are very few female knights, not only because they are easy to

Bound by worldliness and prejudice, the more reason lies in those irresistible factors..."

Anji listened carefully in silence, lowered her head and thought, but said nothing.

Although it was still daytime, the cloudy sky made the whole room much darker than usual. This made Scott involuntarily look at the pouring rain window, sighed softly, and then said with a solemn face:

"Angie, do you know one thing - most knights can only be bachelors for the rest of their lives."

This seemingly meaningless sentence made Anji immediately think of something.

"You mean, this is because there are too few female knights?"

She couldn't help but frown, and after saying this, she immediately saw Scott nodding seriously: "Yes."

"But, no one stipulates that knights must be with knights, right?"

"Yes - if you don't care about whether you have offspring or whether you hurt your partner, the situation may be slightly better."

Scott said, and saw that Anji was still thinking hard, and couldn't help but laugh: "Isn't this topic too early for a little girl like you?"

Hearing that the other party actually called her "little girl", Anji suddenly raised her head in thought and cursed unconvincingly: "What the hell, I'm a serious adult with a mature soul! You should hurry up and say it."

, I’m still waiting for you to continue talking!”

However, Scott just regarded her first sentence as nonsense, shook his head with a wry smile, and then spoke for her:

"The more powerful the fearless person is, the greater the power, and it is easy to accidentally injure the people close to him - especially the 'ordinary people' who are close to him. Once he fails to control his strength in daily contact, it will cause serious injuries.

The consequences. You should be able to understand this, right?"

Anji nodded repeatedly in agreement. It was precisely because of such worries that she was extremely careful when getting along with Jieshir now, "handle with care", for fear that if she didn't pay attention, she would accidentally hurt the thin girl.

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After a while, Scott continued: "This is one of the important reasons why fearless people will not easily start a family with ordinary people. But the biggest problem is related to fertility.

"The bodies of ordinary women are too fragile to give birth to offspring with the blood of the Dauntless. Most of them will die during pregnancy, and the signs of death are also extremely strange: the whole body turns black, the body is twisted and deformed, and there are even direct physical bodies

Dissolved..."

Having said this, he paused, then turned his eyes to the ancient oil painting on the wall, and said with a lonely expression:

"...However, even a fearless female whose body is several times stronger than an ordinary person has a high probability of dying due to dystocia when giving birth to offspring. My mother is such an example."

Anji listened silently, her mood becoming a little heavy. After seeing Scott's face getting a little better, she spoke softly: "But a strong man of Lord Slade's level shouldn't have to worry about this problem, right?"

"Sir Slade's body can indeed bear it," Scott smiled helplessly and hesitated for a long time before continuing, "But she has some other problems, and there should be no next generation."

Anji tried her best to keep her "serious" expression, but in fact she secretly clenched her back molars, and then she could barely control the corners of her mouth that wanted to twitch——

Scott, what does this mean? Does it mean that person is infertile?

Is this why Slade never had any descendants?

After finally controlling her facial muscles, Anji asked hesitantly: "Then...does Monalice also have this kind of problem?"

"Well... probably." Scott said with a complicated expression, "That adult has watched me grow up, and she must be forty or fifty years old... If there is nothing wrong with her body, she will definitely be there now.

There are descendants."

Angie could only remain silent. She really never thought that "female fearless people" could have such common sequelae.

So as a fearless person, will she also encounter this kind of problem?

Although she has no need for this for the time being, the difference between "being able to give birth, but not wanting to give birth" and "not being able to give birth" is simply heaven and earth.

This is one more choice! As a woman, you will be a little concerned about it, right?

Angie raised this doubt to Scott anxiously, but only received a somewhat uncertain reply from the other party:

"I can't say that you will definitely encounter this kind of situation - because this kind of thing is a private matter of the opposite sex, so I only heard a general idea and did not study it in detail. However, it seems that women with higher resistance to curses are more likely to

The easier it is to encounter this kind of fertility problem."

"It sounds contradictory," he couldn't help but sigh deeply. "Women with low resistance to the curse will die from dystocia because their bodies are not strong enough. Women with high resistance can withstand it, but they can't."

Because I absorbed too many curses, it became difficult to have children..."

"It seems as if the world is malicious towards women."

Anji couldn't help but murmured something and sighed. She finally understood that having children has nothing to do with strength and is purely a matter of luck.

"Then there will always be female knights who are just stuck in the middle and can have children, right?" Anji naturally thought of this.

"Yes, so this is what I want to tell you next," Scott looked into her eyes seriously, "Angie, what is your current resistance to curses?"

"71——"

Before Angie could finish the rest of his words, Scott could no longer contain the shock in his heart. His eyes widened and he stood up with a bang on the table: "You already have 71 patience points?"

"Haha..." Angie smiled sheepishly, "Scott, calm down, calm down. Sit down and chat."

"No...don't you realize something is wrong?"

Scott's speech was a little unfluent. After being shocked, he suddenly realized something: this little girl who had only been a knight for more than a month might indeed have some "lack of common sense."

He sighed heavily, sat back on the chair, and explained to this silly girl: "Let me give you a simple example - Barton is the most talented person here, but even he spent a full 5 years on it.

You have only reached 70 patience points in 2017... but it only took you more than a month to reach a state that would take ordinary people decades to reach. This is too bizarre!"

Anji tilted her head and thought, and subconsciously defended herself: "But, I originally have 30 patience points. And I am always busy, either in a foreign land or on the way to a foreign land. Every time I am in the castle

I can’t even stay for three days!”

"It does have something to do with this," Scott's expression was still serious, "Barton is very talented, but in order to ensure his safety, Master Slade will only allow him to be led by a strong person.

Come on - but your growth rate is too ridiculous! There is definitely something wrong!"

He said the last words in a loud voice, and then regained his composure a little, and continued to add: "I know that you went to a low-level foreign land together before, but there was no one there who could threaten him, so Lord Slade will approve him

Take you out. For him, practicing in those places is like a child playing house."

Angie said "Oh" with a frown on her face. Instead of complaining about Barton's almost overturning on Havok Mountain, she thought to herself: During the night conversation, Slade would probably mention that "her patience level increased too fast."

This is it...

There's no way to explain it at all.

"Stop talking about these gossips now, Angie, just listen."

Hearing Scott's voice, Angie looked up and found that the other party was staring at her with an unprecedented solemn expression.

This made her sit up involuntarily, looked into the other person's eyes, and acted obediently, and then she heard him continue:

"Although I'm just a useless old knight and can't be of much help, you must be careful - in the Glosk Territory, as a female knight, you will be an 'important strategic resource' in the eyes of the big shots, and

On the battlefield, you will become the 'primary target' in the eyes of the enemy..."

Worried that Angie would not understand the complicated relationship, Scott originally wanted to continue explaining, but saw Angie in front of him suddenly smiling brightly:

"Because I can't be brought back to the territory by the enemy, I have no use value. Instead, I am a big threat that may give birth to a fearless one, right?"

She was laughing, but she was laughing harder and harder, and her expression looked a little weird: "So it's not just the knights of the Groske Territory who have some kind of 'shackles', but all the lords will impose 'shackles' on their important subordinates.

, to ensure their loyalty...By the way, Scott, what will happen if the enemy tries to bring me back to their territory?"

"... He will probably die in the line of duty the moment he passes through the enemy barrier."

Under Angie's smiling and deep gaze, Scott held back for a long time before replying to her, and looked away with a guilty conscience.

He talked about too many things today.

But there were many things that he didn't intend to explain clearly at all, but the little girl in front of him didn't know why, but she could deduce a series of truths based on his vague words, without even needing him to explain too much...

Anji has changed a lot - not only has her body grown by leaps and bounds, but her way of thinking is also very different from before.

If she had just walked out of the Silent Forest more than a month ago, she would definitely not have been able to sort out such a complicated relationship in a short period of time, let alone quickly spread her thoughts and directly think of the "soul imprint".

The lords will give knights "soul marks", and only the most senior knights in the Grosk Territory know about this kind of thing.

Presumably this girl must have experienced many things during this period.

In Scott's eyes that were mixed with worry and panic, Anji's expression softened a bit, but there was still a smile on her face, and she said slowly: "I am a strategic resource?"

"Angie, calm down..."

"I'm very calm," she rarely interrupted the other party, waved her hand, and said without any emotion, "I also want to say thank you - thanks to your advice, my heart has changed."
To be continued...