Before Leo could see Ulyaan's connections, he was scolded as soon as he entered the door. The housekeeper of the Petukhov family thought that Leo and Ivan were Ulyan's guards, so he arranged a servant's room for them, where they had to sleep on a large bunk bed with the guards of other guests. Because he was afraid that these country folk would offend the noble, the butler came over and gave them a lecture for ten minutes. He even wanted to lock their room and keep them locked up until the end of the banquet. This cannot be blamed on the butler. In order to show off, Ulyaan made Leo and Ivan wear the best equipment in River Bay - the full armor of armed escorts inherited from Friar Lawrence. It has to be said that Friar Lawrence knows how to show off. The defensive power of the equipment of the armed escorts may not be high, but the momentum they bring out is very intimidating. A new coarse cloth robe was put on the outside of the chain mail shirt to cover up the sword marks and rust on it, and some conspicuous parts such as the shoulder armor and helmet were re-polished and waxed. Leo and Ivan are both over meters tall, with strong muscles from long-trained training. Standing behind Ulyan, they look like elite warriors in heavy armor. They were originally Ulian's bodyguards, so they didn't have any psychological burden about it. Following behind Uliyang, two people looked around with shifty eyes. Leo is better. Having lived two lives, he is somewhat calmer.
As a country boy from the most remote mountain village in the North, Ivan could be said to have never seen the world. He thought the big bunk bed was the best guest room. The soft quilt and feather-filled pillows were high-end items he had never seen before. He touched here and there, almost touching the butts of other guards. Ivan thought those girls, who were dressed up beautifully in black dresses and white stockings with white lace collars, were noble ladies, but they turned out to be maids. There wasn't even a single patch on the manor servant's coarse cloth coat! They even wore sleeves while working. They are such exquisite boys. Ivan wouldn't even dare to dress like this during the New Year. Rigolav's manor is located in the south of Isenpor City, less than five miles away from the south gate. It is a flat piece of land near the river. The area is not large and only produces some fruits for making wine. This is the property of the Petukhov family, mainly used to entertain guests and hold banquets. Their four knightly territories were located farther away from Isenbol, and each was ten times larger than this manor. There are many such small manors near Isenbol. After all, most of the remote knight territories are actually small villages of a few hundred people, which cannot satisfy the enjoyment of the nobles at all. The mansions in the city are not suitable for socializing and banquets. The Petukhov family is a very famous military noble family in Isenpol. The current head of the family, Rigolav, has made great military achievements and is one of the five square flag knights of Isenpol. In the Empire, the Knight of the Banner not only refers to a noble rank, but also a military title, representing the right to command on the battlefield. If a war breaks out in Isenpore and the knight lords gather together, the commander of the legion will only be chosen from among the five square-flag knights including Rigolav. In the Western Territory, they are the centurions under Burke, and belong to the general level. The Earldom of Freilov firmly controls the World Tree Avenue, the lifeline of the northern land. Although its military strength is only average among the seven earls in the north, after hundreds of years of operation, it has gained the loyalty of thirty-five square flag knights and more than two hundred corner flag knights. This does not include the family knights trained by the Freilov family themselves, as well as the proletarian knights who did not receive fiefs. If all-out war really came to pass, the Earldom would mobilize fully, gathering hundreds of knights, tens of thousands of elite lords' troops, and twice that number of conscripted militia. In the past twenty years, the biggest war launched by the Freilov family was the battle with the Beboos family to the east for control of the upper reaches of the Anzeno River.
Beboos's army went upstream, and Fruilov's army went south. The transportation between the two sides was extremely convenient, so it was easy to gather most of the troops from the two territories, which was very rare in other earls in the north. As for other earls, because their territories were too large and lacked sufficiently convenient transportation, they often could not muster half of their troops even after a month of war. On that occasion, both sides assembled an army of more than ten thousand people and fought on the banks of the Anzeno River dozens of miles downstream from Isenpol, and the blood dyed the Anzeno River red. The war ended with the victory of the Freilov family. This is also the reason why Isenpol and even the River Bay Territory are on the south bank of the Anzeno River, but belong to the Earldom of Fruilov. Because the people on the south bank can’t win. Currently, nearly half of the troops of Count Fruilov have gathered in the northern military town of Varanger to block the orcs from moving south. According to the tradition of the Earldom of Fřelov, if the war passed Varanger and entered within 500 miles of Isenpol, then the feudal knights of Isenpol would have to respond to the call of war and gather their troops to fight north. For the warlike northerners, this was no problem at all. Even now, many of Isenpol's knights could no longer contain their enthusiasm for war and led their troops north early to participate in the war. During this period, the nobles of Isenpol held banquets frequently, partly to cheer up the knights who were heading north to fight, and partly to discuss the direction of the war and the increasingly serious problem of refugees. The refugee settlement outside the city of Isenpor has gathered tens of thousands of refugees. The rising food prices, deteriorating public security, and the emergence of epidemics are no longer small problems. Ulian, the lord of the pioneer territory, actually has not yet made his identity as a knight clear. According to the pioneering law and northern traditions, Uliyan needs to manage the pioneering territory to self-sufficiency and pay the minimum tax for three years. At the same time, he must be able to recruit soldiers and serve two years of knight service before his identity as a pioneer knight can be recognized. Rigolav invited him to attend the banquet, get acquainted with some traditional nobles of Isenbol, and integrate into the upper class in advance, which was also a kind of support. The dinner hosted by the Petukhov family was held the next day. Except for distant guests like Ulyan who arrived a day in advance, most of the guests arrived at noon the next day. As guards, Leo and Ivan could not attend the dinner openly and could only hide in the corner and watch from afar. Mixed in with a group of guards, Leo gave instructions to Ivan and other guards. Luxurious carriages with aristocratic emblems drove into the manor, carrying lords, ladies, and young men and ladies. Those ladies who wore complicated clothes with more than ten layers but only a layer of transparent gauze above the chest, painted their nipples with rouge, and dressed seductively and gorgeously were the ladies. Those who were wearing relatively simple long dresses, leather corsets, and flowers in their hair were ladies. As for male nobles, young and old, they were all equipped with knight swords to demonstrate their bravery.