"Hey! Are you cheating? How can you block it with your fighting spirit?" Nyx felt aggrieved when she saw that she couldn't hit Roland at all during her water fight.
"Oh! God! You've used magic, I can't just stand there and take the beating, right?" Roland smiled as he dodged the water balls that were coming at him. For a great knight, dodging these water balls without any magical fluctuations was a piece of cake. Roland could even dodge them in various ways.
"Hmph!" Nyx, with a puffy face, suddenly took out his staff. Under the guidance and wrapping of magic power, hundreds of water balls the size of human heads suddenly floated up from the stream and revolved around Nyx.
"Uh... my beautiful, kind, lovely, gentle, virtuous, intelligent, and thoughtful fiancée... this isn't appropriate, is it?" Roland's eyes were filled with helplessness. This was too horrible! It was just a water fight... was it really necessary to use magic?
"Hmph! Too late! I told you not to bully me! I told you not to play with me, I told you to hide!" As expected, don't try to reason with an angry girl... because you will always be the one who dies!
"Oh! God!" Roland screamed in agony from the blow. The magic-infused water ball was unique. Not only was its cohesion stronger, but most importantly, it could resist the evaporation of the battle energy. That was why it hurt!
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After a burst of venting, Nyx finally calmed down contentedly, and returned to her laziness and ladylike self like a docile cat.
"Goodness..." Roland sighed helplessly as he carried a large bunch of fresh white fish in his hands. Today, he finally saw what Nyx meant by "fishing on the slack"...
Have you ever seen a dragon sucking water to catch fish while blocking a stream? Have you ever seen a mage catching fish in the water with his hands? Have you ever seen a mage freeze a patch of water with Water Condensation and then "pick up fish" directly from it? Today, Roland saw it all! Roland could only say that he was ignorant and his thinking was still stuck in the past. How wrong! This girl was not only his delicate fiancée, but also a second-level mage who could kill people!
"Huh? Your Highness Roland? Did you and Your Highness Nix have fun today? Look at our spoils!" Balder laughed and pulled Roland to a huge monster.
"Holy crap! Is this a pig?" Roland was immediately shocked by what he saw. A pig that was ten meters long and the size of an elephant? Looking at those steel teeth that stretched half a meter out of its mouth, Roland had no doubt that one bite would rip holes in even the plate armor!
"That's right! I didn't expect to encounter this thing! A genuine high-level magical beast - the Earth Boar!" Balder patted the wild boar's huge tusks proudly, his eyes full of pride.
Roland took a quick look at the wounds on the thing's body and guessed how the poor kid died. It must have felt bad to be madly kited by the centaurs... To be honest, if the centaurs had not been unwilling to give up this forest and refused to give up an inch of land, if these centaurs had really run away and fought guerrilla warfare with Roland, Roland would have easily collapsed with his strength at the time. So sometimes the brain is a good thing!
Roland glanced at the poor Earth Boar with pity and squinted his eyes to examine his own Baron Tuput. Hmm! Well-developed muscles! Incredible strength! But not so smart.
"These are for you!" Suddenly Balder took out a blood-stained cloth bag from the bag hanging behind him and handed it to Roland.
"What's this?" Roland opened the bag with curiosity. The moment he opened it, a huge and turbulent aura of a magical beast hit him! It was filled with magic crystals! The most ferocious ochre crystal among them must be the magic crystal of this earth pig.
"This is this year's tax. I understand that as a noble we have to pay taxes to the country. We have no money, so we can only use these to pay off our debts. After all, this is all we can harvest from hunting and fishing." Balder said blushing.
"No... no problem! Of course!" Roland thought of the bag of magic crystals in his hand and couldn't help but ask, "Who said Centaurs don't have money? They have a hard currency that's even harder than money!"
"There's one high-level magic crystal and thirteen low-level magic crystals in here." Balder breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Roland didn't object. A smile filled his face again. He smiled at Roland, his eyes full of flattery. After all, since arriving here, the centaurs had lived a self-sufficient life. There were no expulsions, no wars, no harassment from orcs, and no killing! This was the dream place for these simple-minded centaurs!
"I'll show you my cooking skills tonight. I'll cook it myself! It's been a long time since I've had such good ingredients!" Balder said proudly.
"Yeah, I'm looking forward to it!" Roland nodded. After all, high-level magical beasts are not cabbages, and they are not yet available to everyone.
"You must have put a lot of effort into hunting this thing, right?" Nyx playfully kicked the giant creature.
"That's natural, Your Highness! But how could it resist us Centaur Knights? We couldn't catch up with it! We couldn't hit it when we attacked it! In the end, it bled to death!" Balder pointed at the dense arrow wounds on the body of the fat pig that was as fat as an elephant.
Roland pulled out a broken feathered arrow and laughed. A wooden arrow with a steel tip! It seemed that without the help of the Kingdom of Lagrande, the price these centaurs would have to pay to capture this wild boar would have been very high. After all, few people could penetrate this creature's skin with a wooden arrow!
"Is the weapon still usable?" Roland suddenly asked Balder.
"It works great! Thank you for your kindness, King Roland! We will always remember your kindness!" Balder said sincerely. After all, it was the Lagrangians who gave them iron and steel weapons and armor, allowing the centaurs to fight wild beasts without having to engage in hand-to-hand combat, greatly reducing the chances of casualties. If Balder had encountered this raging earth boar before, he would have had to avoid it, as only a few of the centaurs could inflict damage. It was Roland who armed the centaurs, transforming them into truly feared heavy cavalry!
"The kingdom will not mistreat its subjects unfairly." Roland said meaningfully.
"We are willing to die for your Highness!" Balder knelt quickly. If not now, when? The centaur was merely stubborn, not foolish.
"Well! So the eastern part of the kingdom is now in your hands. You may not be able to defeat the invaders, but you must do a good job of intelligence gathering! I don't want to learn about the invasion only when the eastern enemies appear under the walls of Torrent City!" Roland decided to give the Centaurs a warning. After all, no one could predict whether the eastern Tankmen would suddenly attack. Just remember, their two thousand men crippled the remnants of the Crusaders! Roland didn't look down on the eastern Tankmen in the slightest. After all, their fighting power had stood the test of time!
"Let's go! Let's go drink! Let's have some! I brought some fresh beer from River Rapids!" Roland patted Balder's horseback. Although the beer was very ordinary, even classified as muddy wine, it was the only drink in River Rapids after all. If Roland wasn't the king, he wouldn't be able to get it! River Rapids, which was short of food, had no surplus grain to brew beer.