After discovering Freya's charging station, Leo certainly did not hold back, but immediately pulled Olivia along. At night, the two of them hugged Freya, one on each side, as if they were holding a giant teddy bear. Put her to sleep and then rub her magic. This made Freya very happy. From childhood to adulthood, only the Elf Queen had ever spoiled her like this, but that was more than 20 years ago. Although Master Bobak dotes on his disciples, he is also obsessed with the education of wild druids. Even the nest for sleeping has to be dug by Freya herself. That is, it transformed into a marmot, and when hungry it could gnaw on tree roots and antler cassava. If it transformed into a carnivore, with Freya's hunting ability, it would have starved to death like a kitten long ago. So after arriving at the river bend, Freya washed herself clean every day under the care of Olivia, went to bed early, and lay obediently on the bed, waiting for them to sleep with her. The poor little mouse finally fell out of favor and was pushed aside.
A large two-by-two wooden bed, which was extended by a low cabinet, was occupied by Freya, who was lying on her back with her legs spread out. If the little mouse sleeps outside, it might be squeezed off the bed. So later she just lay on Freya's belly and slept. Olivia would tell Freya and Mouse the bedtime stories her mother had taught her, but they preferred to listen to Leo's stories. Leo could just casually recite a few passages from fairy tales and short videos from the fragments of his past life's memories, and he could scare the three girls. Before Freya arrived, Leo and Olivia could only rely on themselves to improve their strength, and they didn't even know basic meditation. You can imagine how slow the improvement is. Although Leo's strength is far beyond that of ordinary people and he can easily defeat three or five River Bay infantrymen, and even wrestle with a unicorn boar, judging by Uliyan's experience, he is still far from reaching the level of a superhuman. In the Firefly Adventure Group, Huggins was able to travel through mountains and rivers wearing over a hundred pounds of plate armor and withstand the heavy blows of the Wolf Riders. Barrett could even carry two northern donkeys for a whole day and suppress the terrifying wolves with his strength. Even if Old Pete, who didn't show his true colors, was chased by wolves and orc warriors, he could still dodge calmly and remain unharmed. Olivia's Holy Light spell is even weaker, and its healing effect is almost zero. On the contrary, her Shadow spell is slightly stronger and can be used to punish disobedient little dogmen. But after Freya arrived, their strength began to grow rapidly. In just one week, the holy light condensed by Olivia had become several times brighter than before and could heal some simple injuries. Leo could also drag the ogre's hundreds-pound wooden club and swing it to fight, and exchange a few moves with Kroger without his wrists and shoulders being shattered by the force of the collision of weapons. When Uliyan found that the three girls were all squeezed on Leo's bed, he expressed his dissatisfaction and disgust. But Olivia gathered a ball of holy light, which fell on his injured legs and dispelled a lot of the darkness. Uliyan immediately stated that as a respectable and noble elven druid, Freya could sleep wherever she wanted, and Hewan was willing to provide two boys and girls - Leo and Olivia - as her personal servants. And he gave Freya an extra meal in the name of the Lord of Riverbend.
Half a month later, the knights investigating Sir Nelson's death arrived at Riverbend. This is an investigation team consisting of three knights of Isenbol, a monk, and more than twenty armed followers. Although Sir Nelson was not highly regarded in the aristocratic circles of Isembol, some people even directly said that he was a good-for-nothing. But he is the nephew of Count Frelov and the cousin of Lord Tariq after all, and the relationship between the two cousins is not bad. When Nelson's family, the Gladstone Banner Knights, received the news, they only received a mutilated corpse collected by the patrol team near the western watchtower. On a remote section of World Tree Avenue, a carriage with the Gladstone flag emblem flying was parked alone in the woods by the roadside. All valuable items were looted, even Nelson's clothes. The axe wound on his forehead should be the main cause of death, but because wild beasts broke into the carriage and ate the corpse, the investigation team was unable to determine the specific circumstances. The fact that there were any wreckage left was already an effective performance by the South Coast Patrol formed by Rigolav. Nelson was found by a passing patrol less than a night after his death. If another night had passed and all kinds of nocturnal beasts had swarmed in, smelling the scent of blood, Nelson would have had to report himself missing instead of dead. Although Lord Tariq was furious at the Gladstone family's complaint, he ordered the town court of Isenbol to conduct a serious and thorough investigation of the matter and give justice to the Gladstone family. But the investigation team appointed by the town court seemed a little careless. They just wandered around the knights' territories on both sides of the World Tree Avenue west of Isenbol. Originally, two investigating knights questioned several soldiers at the western watchtower and were about to return home without even planning to go to the river bend. However, the Holy Light Brothers were quite curious about this new frontier deep in the wilderness, and also revealed a hint of Sir Nelson's real purpose for coming here. This attracted the attention of the fellow members of the investigation team, and thus the Hewan group was formed. On the riverside road leading to the river bend, a young investigating knight asked the equally young Holy Light monk. "If, as you said, Nelson coveted this pioneer territory and thus brought about his own death, then how did the soldiers at the western watchtower see his team leave?" "I only said that he coveted this pioneering territory, but I didn't say that he was killed because of it." The young Holy Light monk shook his head and corrected, "Maybe he was attacked by bandits. Without solid evidence, it would be slandering others." The young investigating knight was speechless for a moment, but the other two relatively mature knights smiled at each other and shook their heads. Nelson's team consisted of fifteen fully armed regular infantrymen, all riding war horses. Not to mention ordinary refugees and bandits, even the local veteran bandits who had been roaming the mountains could mostly do nothing but watch. Fifteen regular infantrymen on horseback are enough to fight against a bandit group with twice the number. Even if they cannot defeat them, they cannot be completely wiped out, and there will always be a few who can escape. After getting a hint of inside information from the Holy Light Monk, the two experienced investigative knights had already figured out the general situation. But so what? The people of the North believed in the god of war and were known for their bravery, but Nelson only barely obtained the title of knight through family connections when he was thirty years old. After being a proletarian knight for five years, he was not granted a fief. Although he had received a land reclamation certificate, he only wanted to pick peaches everywhere. Although it is not a joke, it is still despised by people. The two senior investigative knights both became vassals of Count Frelov's family and had their own manors and fiefdoms.
Although not as big as the pioneer knight territory, it is enough to support a knight family. This is what they obtained through their hard work and merits, not by trickery and robbery! If it weren't for the restrictions of their identities, the two senior investigation knights would have wanted to stand on the side of Hewan and cheer them on.