Although Uliyan always scolded Leo for having no ambition, he also knew his own limitations. In fact, he himself is not much better. Being able to lead his people to survive safely in the wilderness is already the limit of his ability and ambition. So when faced with the surging and disorderly tide of refugees, his attitude was very consistent with Rigolav's. Be compassionate, but stand firm. Between the lives of his subjects and the lives of the refugees, he of course stood on the side of his subjects. He had served for ten years, was discharged with a disability, and traveled thousands of miles south. The tide of war has nothing to do with him anymore, and he is powerless to stop the sufferings of the world. Now he just wants to protect his people and do something within his ability. It's not like I don't have any ideas at all. Rigolav's plan to resettle and divide the refugees failed to pass the Lords' Meeting in Isenpol, but Ulyanov was doing his best to support him. The number of refugees in the River Bend Territory has reached one-third of the total population.
This is already a very dangerous number. You should know that the other one-third of the wild people are also new population that have recently joined the River Bend. The barbarians' living habits and cultural customs, as well as their values, are very different from those of the imperial people. In the eyes of the imperial people, they appear extremely unruly. These wild people are no easier to manage than refugees. Although the probability of a rebellion is extremely low, small conflicts and contradictions continue to occur. If it weren't for the core fighting force of the Savages - the Savage Hunters, the elite of whom had joined the River Bay Lords' Army and become supporters of Urian and Rio, and if it weren't for the fact that Great Hunter Magna also had a very high prestige in the Savage camp, it would be impossible for there to be no bloodshed between the Imperials and the Savages. The influx of a large number of foreign population will seriously damage the original ecology of the settlement, and the river bend has reached a critical point. In fact, with so many outsiders joining Hewan, no major chaos has occurred so far, which is a testament to Uliyan's iron-fisted approach and good governance. In general villages, once the number of foreign population increases by 20% to 30%, and the village head is not fair and just, sooner or later large-scale armed conflicts will occur due to intensified conflicts. Leo offered to save people at this time, but Uliyan refused without thinking. He doesn't even have time to go to Isenpol now. He stays in the three camps all day long, presiding over the stability maintenance work in the territory. Be it security issues, food supply, or balance of power, Hewan is not allowed to accommodate more outsiders. As the second-in-command of Hewan, how could Leo not know all this? In some aspects, his theoretical knowledge was richer than Uliyan's, and his considerations were more thorough. "Then don't let them in." Leo, shouting for help, turned around and abandoned his troops and home, and ran away with Freya. Originally, he was thinking of having Freya transform into a giant bear so that she could experience the feeling of riding a giant beast. Unfortunately, Freya was unwilling and angrily launched a sneak attack. She pushed Leo to the ground, rolled back and forth on him, and threatened to crush him. Two days later, Leo and Freya appeared in the Grand Canyon outside the courtyard. The Grand Canyon is not far from the Gravel Hills. Standing on the high ground on both sides of the canyon, you can still see the smoke rising from the Gravel Hills. There was the hunting camp of the Riverbend Hunting Party, a small mountain village rebuilt on the ruins of a quilboar's lair.
There are now dozens of permanent residents, and several hunting teams come in and out every day. The wild people who joined the River Bend Territory only obtained the right to use the hunting grounds, but they still had to hunt for food on their own. The one hundred most elite wild folk hunters joined the River Bay Lord's army and became full-time soldiers, no longer worrying about food for themselves and their families. The remaining wild folk families still have to work hard on hunting and gathering every day. The Gravel Hills and its southern pine plains are designated as hunting grounds for the wild people. The wild hunting teams not only gather and hunt here, but also act as guardians of the territory, expelling and clearing out foreign alien races. Even the migrating tribes of savages were blocked outside the gravel hills by them. In response to the endless influx of wild tribes from the north, Uliyan only gave them two choices: either join the River Bend Territory and become legal hunters, or leave his hunting grounds immediately. After all, in the North, it only takes ten acres of land to feed a farmer, and one hundred acres of grassland to feed a herdsman, but to feed a hunter, you need at least one thousand acres of forest! The two thousand square kilometers of forest between the Gravel Hills and the Anzeno River looked endless and vast, but in fact it could only support a small number of hunters. This place had been ravaged by the gnoll coalition, and the River Bend Lords had also been working hard to stockpile supplies. Uliyan had completely opened up hunting rights and did not restrict the number and species of hunters' hunting like other lords did, so there were fewer and fewer large prey here. Some wild hunting teams would boldly walk out of the gravel hills and go deep into the wilderness to the north, or even return to their original homes to hunt in familiar hunting grounds. As Leo led Freya into the Grand Canyon, he heard a familiar mechanical prompt in his mind. "Ding! You have activated the hunting system, the system is loading..." "The Chosen One, you have activated the hunting system. Now, begin your great hunt!" “Newbie mission: Hunt down a giant evil bear.” "Mission Reward: Gain access to the atrium." "Get out!" Leo ignored Al's voice in his mind and called out loudly: "Master Bobak! Are you there?" El's ethereal mechanical voice had some more emotions. She continued to seduce Leo, "System prompt: Master Bobak is not here. The signal here is not good. You must enter the atrium to receive it." Leo didn't believe it. He grabbed Freya's cheek and continued to shout into her ear: "Hey, hey, hey! Master Bobak!" Freya's rat face was confused, "???" Leo brought Freya here with this intention, as he couldn't contact Master Bobak and his beloved disciple. Compared to Leo, Freya's spiritual power is much stronger. Even if Leo can't contact Bobak, he will have a chance to get a call through Freya. Freya couldn't stand it anymore and had to explain, "El didn't lie to you. You can only contact the teacher by entering the atrium. The teacher is too far away. It's useless to shout!" "Oh..." Leo let go of Freya in disappointment. Freya ran on all fours to the end of the canyon, plunged into the waterfall, and disappeared in the water curtain, along with her screams. "Al! Where are you! I'm back!" Leo approached the small waterfall and stretched out his hand, only to touch the wet stone wall behind the water curtain.
The touch was so real that if he had not been here once, he would not have believed that there was a city hidden behind it. It is no wonder that after humans occupied the North for seven hundred years, adventurers have never found any trace of the atrium. Who could have expected that the legendary elven city was less than two hundred miles away from Isenbol in a straight line. "Al, let me in." "No, your mission has failed!" Leo was about to say something shamelessly to please him, but suddenly his palm felt empty and the magic barrier in the atrium disappeared. "Ouch! Come in quickly! Freya is chewing my feet!"