Olivia, who was walking over, saw all of Leo's actions and couldn't help but sneer, "How boring! You're an adult, but you still want to bully a child!" "You treat them as children? Your children are locked up in a pigsty?" Leo habitually argued and threatened: "This is the cub I brought back for you. You have to raise him as your son. If one dies, be careful of the dog-headed people's rebellion!" As he said this, he pointed at Olivia and taught the kobold cub: "Come, call mom." "Mother……" Olivia gave Leo a speechless look, but did not dislike the kobold cubs. Instead, she squatted down with interest and tried to communicate with them. Unfortunately, the kobold cub only became smart under Leo's threat. When it came to Olivia, it could only bark "Mom, Mom" and could not learn a second word. Early the next morning, Ulyaan took two militiamen and a bag of iron ore and rode a donkey to the nearest town, Isenpor. Isenpol is the southernmost town of the Frelov family. Because it is located at the intersection of the "World Tree Avenue" and the Anzeno River, its business is quite prosperous and it can be regarded as one of the commercial hubs connecting the western and northern borders. The magnificent barrier formed a circle in the center of the Morning Light Continent, looking like a huge tree stump on the continent map. This big tree stump is called the "World Tree" by the elves living in the central plateau. The so-called "World Tree Avenue" is a circular avenue built around this tree stump.
However, this super long avenue, which can be called a miracle, has existed for tens of thousands of years. As for who built it, even the elves find it difficult to verify. Before, Uliyan led the pioneering team from a small village on the banks of the North Glacier River, next to the Wind God Fortress, and walked more than a thousand miles southwest along this World Tree Avenue before arriving at the River Bend Frontier. If this road did not exist, Uliyang would not dare to have such ambitions. In theory, the entire territory west of the World Tree Avenue - that is, the mountainous area on the eastern foot of the magnificent barrier and the vast Wolf-Driving Plain - belongs to the territory of the Frelov family. But in fact, the human race only built some small towns and villages along the World Tree Avenue on the outskirts of the forest east of the Wolf-Driving Plain. The depths of the Wolf-Driving Plain and the eastern foothills of the magnificent barrier are still covered by virgin forests, which are home to countless wild beast nests and alien tribes. Due to cultural differences, the aristocratic system in the North is different from that in other parts of the Empire, and there is almost no such thing as "baron" or "viscount" here. Under the Grand Duke of the North are seven earls. Each earl is equivalent to the king of a small country and owns vast territories that the southern nobles cannot imagine. Below the earl are their feudal knights. Of course, hundreds of years ago, the Empire also conferred a large number of "Viscounts" and "Barons" with the intention of dividing and weakening the power of the Great Earl of the North. However, these relatively weak small nobles were undoubtedly lambs to be slaughtered in front of the northern chieftains who were full of martial virtues and lacked aristocratic manners. In less than a hundred years, they were ruined and extinct for various reasons, and their territories were "managed" or "inherited" by the surrounding earls. To this day, the North is still ruled by the Northern Grand Duke and the seven earls, who are ancient families. The Frelov family was not considered strong among the seven earl families, but it also owned four small and medium-sized towns and seven or eight castles along the World Tree Avenue, and had more than two hundred knights under its command. Starting from the River Bend Camp, following the Anzeno River through more than thirty miles of wilderness, you will arrive at the Western Watchtower under the jurisdiction of Isenpol, from where you can enter the World Tree Avenue. Then walk eastward for more than sixty miles along the flat World Tree Avenue, passing two small villages on the way, and you will arrive at the small town of Isenbol. Here is the only bridge over the 200-mile section of the upper source of the Anzeno River, and there is an inland river route that can go downstream directly to the large city of Oleynik in the east. Therefore, most of the trade in the northern part of the Western Border and the western part of the Northern Border passes through here. However, the topography and output of the northern part of the Western Territory and the western part of the Northern Territory are almost the same, so the trade volume is not large. Western merchants mostly go to the central plains of the empire in the southeast to sell war horses and furs that are almost the same as those in the Northern Territory. Ever since the Orlantis Empire established diplomatic relations with the Free State of the Islands in the Storm Sea in the southeast of the continent, the huge amount of bulk trade has all departed from the southernmost seaport in the western border, passing through the Free State of the Islands directly to the imperial city on the eastern coast of the continent. The existence of the northern border seems to have become dispensable. After Uliyan left, Leo, as Uliyan's top fighter, confidently took over the position of managing the overall situation, ready to make a big move. However, others ignored him. Major tasks such as logging, building houses, and reclaiming wasteland were all in the charge of special leaders. These experienced old men simply treated Leo's suggestions as nonsense.
Olivia was in charge of all management in the camp, from big issues like villagers' illness and injury and food distribution to small issues like conflicts and disputes among children. She had to solve all the problems. Among a group of numb and dazed illiterates, Olivia, who holds financial power and is the only one who can write and do math, is simply the incarnation of the goddess of wisdom, with the authority to make her words count. It makes people forget that she is just a sixteen-year-old girl. A large group of kobold cubs gathered closely behind her, following her around the camp, like an old hen leading a brood of chicks out of the nest to look for food. In two days, apart from insisting on training the militia, the only thing Leo accomplished was to force the villagers to defecate in the newly dug pits instead of around the camp or even outside the tents by showing off his muscles and violence. It was not until the next afternoon that Uliyan returned riding on a donkey. The first thing he did when he came back was to take a few villagers to build a simple wooden trestle bridge by the river, and instruct others to pile all the ore on the river bank. In two days, the industrious kobolds had transported nearly ten tons of iron ore and successfully exchanged them for twenty bags of rye. The entire kobold tribe fell into a frenzy of carrying ore. If Ulyan doesn't come back, Olivia will have to stop the deal. Leo saw what Uliyan was doing and asked in surprise, "A ship is coming?" It was only then that Leo realized that the Anzeno River ran across the North. As long as there was a boat, it would be possible to go directly to the important northern town of Olenik, not to mention the nearest town of Isenpol. It was even possible to go downstream to the sea. Of course, the prerequisite is to have a boat. Uliyan glanced at Leo proudly but said nothing. Instead, he stood calmly on the simple trestle bridge with his hands behind his back. After being blown by the cold wind on the river for half an hour, Uliyan finally couldn't hold on any longer. He returned to the camp shivering and told Leo, "Watch the river. If you see a boat coming, notify me." Leo and the little mouse fished on the pier for more than an hour. As the sky gradually darkened, four small boats appeared on the river downstream. These are four small fishing boats commonly seen on the Anzeno River. The hull is less than five meters long and can carry at most a thousand kilograms of fish. But this is also very good, because there is not even a small floating sampan to open up the camp. At this time, among the four small fishing boats, except for the first small fishing boat which was full of people, the remaining three small fishing boats were full of cargo, with only two fishermen responsible for rowing and poleing.