“Then why isn’t she here?”
Kelvin sighed and replied. “She went to see her father in Silver Leaf.”
Due to the system-built road, moving to Silver Leaf took about 15 to 20 minutes, while moving from the stronghold to Ashkelon took about 5 days on horseback. It was a drastic improvement.
Knowing Aquilia, Asher frowned deeply.
“Release Bezerk from the stables. I’m going to Silver Leaf.”
As Asher walked toward the double doors, his BloodBlades were some steps behind, following with crisp, orderly steps.
Sirius lifted its head, got to its feet, and rushed after Asher. When Sirius nudged him a couple times, Asher chuckled.
“Okay, okay. Get me Sirius’s saddle.”
‘Despite growing to become a creature capable of being a noble house guardian beast, it still wants to be used as a ride!’
Alex gasped inwardly.
Some time later, Asher mounted on the back of his majestic white wolf and held the reins as it walked toward the open gates. A row of King Swordsmen were behind his BloodBlades, who were behind him, and the moment they crossed the gate, their mounts began to gallop, following after Sirius, who burst forth with appalling speed.
The gold-ranked centraks ran at their top speed, causing people of the streets to yell and scamper away out of the road. Hey first saw their lord on his wolf breeze past them, and his knights pursed after him.
Their cloaks billowed widely, creating noises that fell into the knight’s ears. In fact, the wind blasting against their faces was already a problem.
When Sirius left the main gates of Nineveh, Asher had to calm it, or else his men would faint and their horses would die trying to compete with Sirius. Through this, Asher saw the fearlessness of the centraks.
These horses were not only fearless; they also had pride in their speed and faint intelligence.
He began to see more value in them.
“Onwards!”
With that yell, they raced through the road paved with cobblestones. Shrubs, trees, and hills entertained them on their way to Silver Leaf Bastide.
…..
Clip! Clop!
12 armored horse riders rode in after a white wolf and its rider. Looking at the family ice wall, Asher’s face held a smile. He remembered how they built this wall and the battle against the desolate wolves.
He could spot bronze-ranked shieldmen and swordsmen patrolling. They were the ones that kept order in the town and protected it from beasts.
Silver Leaf was practically in a forest!
About 100 soldiers were assigned to keep the security of this town, but Asher was thinking of either increasing their numbers or upgrading them. This town was like the heart of the city; it held three massive iron ores and talented professionals worth tens of thousands of gold coins for their craft.
Two of whom were Dan and Ark.
Both of them have been here for over two months, and he planned on meeting them to inquire of his armor. He needed all the protection he could get to fight an army of 10,000 orcs.
He rode straight to the mines. Upon seeing him, the miners went on their knees and paid respect to their lord.
Their eyes glowed as they looked at their lord, his white wolf, and his armored knights gallantly riding past them.
“Your lord looks young.” Jazer, the Scarlet gold-ranked knight who laid siege on Hebron City, said softly as he watched Asher pass by.
“Of course. It means he has lots of potential.” A former barbarian said it earnestly.
“Where are the new prisoners?” Asher asked a guard who watched over the miners.
“They’re over there, your Lordship.”
Asher turned and saw a small iron fort at the top of a mountain. His lips parted as he didn’t know when this prisonhold was built.
“Who built this?”
Alex and Nero were bewildered. Did the Lord forget that he built a prison hold?
Where did he think they kept stubborn captives like Buba and the barons?
[I did.]
Asher blinked.
‘When did you build a prison hold?!’
[When Nineveh was upgraded to an Epic City Stronghold. I discovered there wasn’t an appropriate place for some captives, so I channeled some energy to creating the prison hold. This prisonhold is strong enough to hold a diamond rank, but it needs constant supply of the four foundation elemental crystals to maintain its suppression effect.]
‘Something tells me you did not build this for free.’
[Correct. It took 10,000 gold coins and 10,000 boxes of iron ore.]
Asher’s eyes widened. freewёbnoνel.com
‘Inform me the next time you plan something like this.’
[I understand.]
“Let’s go.”
They rode up the mountain road, which was patterned in a circular fashion. The moment they arrived at the top of the mountain, Asher discovered it was a flat surface. It looked as if a sword sliced off the pointy mountain’s peak.
For the first time in his life, Asher’s eyes beheld pure steel walls! The wall was 10 meters tall and spanned around the 2000-yard prison made for special prisoners. Before the wall was a moat.
Asher had no idea where the water came from or how it left, but he knew the system had the power to alter the landscape, add, and remove whatever it wanted, so he wasn’t too stunned.
After all, it built a hill in the middle of Ashkelon, a terrain that was flat for tens of kilometers!
This place seemed to be cut out from the rest of the world. There was a certain atmosphere that the prisonhold had; it was daunting, so daunting that Asher frowned.
What in the world had the system built?
Wasn’t this an overkill?
When they went close to the wall, the steel gate fell, and it became a bridge for them to pass through the moat.
The moment he entered the prisonhold’s courtyard, Asher couldn’t perceive his battle force anymore!
The feeling made him uncomfortable, but something else took his attention.
Custodian Knights!
Seeing the 8-foot-tall hulky mass of bronze muscles clad in a mask that had looked like a net, Asher’s soul almost left his body.
What kind of troop is this?!