There were branches swaying in the forest and leaves making a rustling sound.
A figure slowly walked out of the woods.
That is indeed Lord Aldarian.
Next to Li Ang, Wendilf nervously pulled out an arrow.
Lord Aldarian glanced at her and ignored her completely, and didn't hold any weapon in his hand.
"How did you know I was here?"
Lord Aldarian was still alone. He parted the branches and walked towards Li Ang who was standing in the middle of the road, his voice still loud.
"Felgornsal Your Majesty took so much trouble to come here to warn me. If I hadn't guessed that you were here, I would have been killed countless times..."
The lord spread his hands and looked at Lord Aldarian: "Would you like to chat with me? Chat alone like an adult."
The implication is that everything Lord Aldarian did before was just a child's nonsense?
"Boy, you'd better have more respect for your elders!"
Lord Aldarian could obviously understand, but he did not show too much hostility. Instead, he showed a hint of contemptuous sneer, and he even called himself an elder.
In terms of seniority, he was indeed the elder, so the lord didn't say anything back, but just waved to Lord Aldarian, gesturing for him to follow him.
"Sir? What do you want to do?"
Wendilf was also nearby. Seeing that Li Ang was planning to take Lord Aldarian into the forest alone, he didn't know what to do.
"Don't worry, he won't hurt me... right, this elder?"
Li Ang smiled, then shook his head and said to Wendilf, "Your Excellency Lord Aldarian is also a leader who truly loves the Noldor ethnic group...Wendy, just wait for us here."
These words sounded like flattery, but the contemptuous smile on Lord Aldarian's face disappeared immediately, and he followed Li Ang into the woods.
Of course the lord knows that Lord Aldarian will not kill him now.
As long as there are a large number of Noldo maidens rangers working in White Deer Fortress, it is impossible for Lord Aldarian to kill him - otherwise a civil war will break out in the Noldor. The arrival of Felgornsal to White Deer Fortress actually represents such a warning.
Because the cooperation channel between Noldor and humans is entirely based on Li Ang, attacking Li Ang is equivalent to slapping Felgornsal and Isildur in the face.
Moreover, this is directly related to the safety of more than two hundred young Noldor, including the safety of Wendilf and Vendathir.
But Lord Aldarian does dare to deal with other humans - such as businessmen.
At present, the cooperation between the Noldor and humans is still very short. Lord Aldarian's attack on the caravan will only attract questions and criticism from within the clan, but will not lead to hostility from the Noldor.
Besides, everyone around White Deer Fortress knows that Lord Aldarian has always hated humans, and it is completely normal for him to attack human businessmen.
In order to prevent the trade route from being attacked, of course Li Ang could only chat with Lord Aldarian.
After walking through the woods for more than ten minutes, Li Ang took Lord Aldarian out of the woods and came to an open area.
Here is behind White Deer Fortress. Some plants as tall as a person are neatly arranged in the field. Hundreds of acres of land are connected into one area, which looks very spectacular.
"I planted a lot of corn behind White Deer Fortress, and now it's almost harvest time..."
As Li Ang spoke, he walked into the cornfield, looked around a few times, broke off a fully mature corn and handed it to Lord Aldarian.
"What do you want to talk to me about? Is this food?"
Lord Aldarian behaved very patiently at this time. In fact, most of Noldo Elves are very patient. After all, people live long and the most important thing is time.
"Yes, this is very good food. I just want to talk to you about food... I heard that you captured a group of Gatu people as slaves. They are not Noldo Elves. They won't survive long just eating fruits and leaves in the forest - so you probably have to buy some food to feed them. But I doubt that the value they create is enough for you to buy food."
The lord pointed to the large corn field. "This grain is easy to store. Do you want to buy some?"
"Hmph...Lion Territory people can plant, and Gatu people can raise horses. As long as I can capture enough human slaves, I can have anything I want..."
Lord Aldarian's tone was full of sarcasm.
"Yes, people in Lion Territory can plant, but you have to give them land. You can't grow anything in a forest full of tree roots... Gatu people can raise horses, but you also have to give them pasture... Is it possible that you plan to take over Fenway Family's horse farm?"
The Lord shook his head and said with a smile, "Those Jatu slaves you captured, I guess you can only let them do some hard work in Alaclay, and they can't create any useful value at all... They can only waste food, and then create piles and piles of They are used to dealing with it everywhere on the grassland, and they will definitely not talk about hygiene with you... You are just using this behavior to incite the confrontation between the Noldor and humans, so that Vendathir and her rangers will take the initiative to leave me, right?"
After speaking, the lord spread his hands and shrugged exaggeratedly.
Lord Aldarian was silent for a while and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yes, those slaves will only make Alaclay dirty... But Li Ang, since you can even think of these, you should understand that I do want your life! And you actually plan to make a deal with me?"
"There were many people who wanted my life, but they all made deals with me in the end - if they didn't die."
Li Ang kept a polite smile on his face, "Lord Aldarian, I have to tell you that the supplies that are most in demand within the Noldor, namely food and cloth, are all in my hands now."
"It's all in your hands? What do you mean?"
Lord Aldarian finally frowned.
"It literally means that now I am the only one who can sell food to Noldor. I am the only supplier."
Li Ang looked into Lord Aldarian's eyes and spoke word by word.
"So what? Now that I know you have food, I can naturally bring the army to get it myself. Why do I need to buy it from you?"
Lord Aldarian looked at the corn in his hand, brought it to his nose and smelled the unique fragrance of fresh corn ears.
"Do you really dare to bring an army to get it?"
Li Ang smiled, "Have you forgotten the Palm Thunder you once met?"
"Huh... what? White Deer Fortress Nowadays, everyone knows magic? How many magic items can you use?"
Lord Aldarian sneered.
The lord sighed and pointed to a vaguely smoking place in the cornfield, "Come with me... I'll let you see it."
The location of the smoke was in the middle of a large cornfield. Li Ang and Lord Aldarian walked around it lightly, and it took them a lot of time to get there.
"Who! Don't move!"
When they were still dozens of meters away from that position, a low voice came from the middle of the cornfield.
"Stand at attention! You are stealing food again, right? Come out and stand up!"
The Lord Lord gave the order directly.
"Ah... sir!"
Three hurried human soldiers emerged from the corn forest with disgraced faces.
Li Ang walked up to them with Lord Aldarian. Here was an isolated canal and an open space for water collection. This was originally supposed to be a water collection point to prevent drought.
But now a small fire was lit in the open space next to the canal - it was lit with corn stalks, and several corn cobs were roasting on the fire.
It is grilled with wooden sticks and is very fragrant...
The three guys were obviously shocked when they saw Lord Aldarian behind Li Ang.
But they did not make any other abnormal reactions, they all lowered their heads and waited for the lord to lecture them.
They are the non-commissioned officers who stay here to guard the cornfields.
Lord Aldarian felt that they were obviously going to be severely punished. Not only did they steal food, but they also lit fires in the ground, and even had people touch them within a few dozen meters before they discovered...
"Oh, your soldiers are too lax in discipline."
Lord Aldarian once again showed contempt in his eyes.
"Yeah, did you bastards hear that? I'm despised, my lord! I'm so unimproved! I'm all burnt!"
The lord yelled with an unhappy look on his face and pointed at the corn on the fire, "Go back to work!"
A noncommissioned officer hurriedly got the corn to the ground, planted it, and then stirred the fire a few times.
Then, a line of fire lit up from beside the fire and quickly extended to the outside of the cornfield...
"Boom!... Buzz... Buzz!!"
A deafening explosion sounded, and a massive explosion occurred!
This was a whole row of serial explosions. The effect of this explosion was far greater than that of Palm Thunder. The trees on the outskirts of the forest were blown up all over the sky, and the soil was splashed up to several meters high.
"Oh! We succeeded, sir!"
Several noncommissioned officers clenched their fists and cheered happily, and then one of them touched a piece of corn and started to eat it.
"Hurry up and put out the fire! You really know how to eat!"
The lord gave them a false kick, so several people stuffed roasted corn into their mouths, picked up buckets and ran quickly towards the place where the explosion occurred.
"This is... what?!"
The corn in Lord Aldarian's hand slipped to the ground, and he saw with his own eyes a big explosion that could be called an earthquake. The power was definitely not half lower than the real Heavenly Lightning.
And Li Ang has been standing beside him without moving a step.
In other words, it seems that the explosion was caused by just three ordinary human soldiers?
Lord Aldarian was indeed frightened, and he also understood what Li Ang meant.
Dare to come and grab food? I'm afraid you'll be blown to ashes...
In fact, this is just Li Ang experimenting with his newly configured explosives, and trying to detonate them in a series of fuses.
Of course, those three sergeants will not be punished in any way, because everything is the order of the lord.
When they gather there, they are actually setting up a fuse.
The reason why Li Ang was not discovered in time was because they were not responsible for guarding in the first place - all the guards on the perimeter were driven away to avoid accidental injuries caused by the explosion. It was remarkable that the three of them could detect someone coming dozens of meters apart in the invisible cornfield.
As for the roasted corn, that was a reward given to them by Li Ang.
But they did make a mistake - they burned the corn, so the lord was very unhappy!
"Now, do you still think you can lead your army to invade my territory?"
The lord asked while looking at the fire, and then sighed sadly - the corn those bastards left for him was the one that was the most burnt...
"What kind of enchanted item is this? I don't believe humans can use such magic... This is an ability that only Sindar Elves can have! You won't have too many things like this!"
Lord Aldarian clenched his fists and murmured.
"Of course it won't be too much, but it will definitely be enough to deal with your troops... And as you can see, my soldiers can use it, Lord Aldarian, what do you think the effect of such a thing will be on the battlefield?"
The lord still didn't look at the terrifying master next to him. He leaned down and picked up the black corn on the ground, intending to shake off the burnt black husks.
"Did you bring me here just to demonstrate?"
Lord Aldarian asked in a low voice.
"No, Lord Aldarian, I think you should think about it - after possessing this kind of power, do I still need to borrow troops from the Noldor tribe, and then lead them to die?"
Li Ang brought the roasted corn to his mouth, but looked at the burnt corn kernels and did not dare to take his mouth, so he simply handed it to Lord Aldarian.
"I understand what you mean... Then what do you want? What do you want from the Noldor people? I don't believe that anyone would help others for no reason!"
Lord Aldarian reached out to take the roasted corn, and for the first time his eyes when looking at Li Ang were no longer cold.
"Knowledge and skills. I want to make more weapons like this, and the rich knowledge of the Noldor can help me make these things. There is no need for me to let Noldo Elves leave the forest to fight for me. What I need is the knowledge, technology and craftsmanship passed down by the Noldor...Lord Aldarian, the inheritance of the Noldor races is the foundation for the Noldor to prosper again."
Li Ang shook his head and smiled, "Let a group of cultural people with hundreds of years of accumulated knowledge go to war and fight for their lives? That is too extravagant..."
"But you still brought Vendathir and the others to the battlefield..."
Lord Aldarian seemed a little skeptical, but his tone was no longer so harsh.
Li Ang suddenly remembered that Wendilf seemed to have said that Vendathir looked down on him...
This guy probably likes Vendathir?
"We fought side by side before so that more humans would no longer be hostile to Noldor. Lord Aldarian, I think you should ask Vendathir. She is much braver than you. At least she dared to serve as a tribune in White Deer Fortress, but you never dared to enter the human castle."
The lord used some aggressive tactics.
Lord Aldarian looked at Li Ang expressionlessly, took a bite of roasted corn and chewed it twice. "Is this called corn? It's quite delicious."
It's so delicious, it's burnt black, and this guy obviously bit into a corn cob.
This is just the straight man trying to hide his nervousness.
Lord Aldarian finally met Vendathir. I don't know what they talked about. Anyway, Lord Aldarian turned around and left in the last three steps. When he left, his face was full of sadness, and he didn't even wipe the black ash on his face from the burnt corn.
The lord didn't care about him anymore. He was busy processing the news from the north.
As Li Ang expected, Dark Falcon Fortress is actually very safe. Except for Gatu people, who is not easy to deal with, almost all forces are wooing Li Ang.
To be precise, they are trying to win over the representative sent by Li Ang, Sir Roland.
Previously, Ursula pulled back an army from Lion Territory and launched an attack on Xiaolu City.
But Raven Kingdom is lucky. Xiaolu City, who originally had insufficient military strength to resist, received timely support from Odenburg lord Count Stephen.
This Earl led Raven Kingdom's cavalry troops to withdraw early, but instead saved a large number of mobile troops for the Raven Kingdom.
In fact, Count Stephen only supported Xiaolu City for three days.
Ursula personally went to Stephen's camp and informed Count Stephen of the fact that Gregory IV abandoned Dark Falcon Fortress and traded with Gatu people. Count Stephen decided to withdraw the troops and not help each other.
But it was precisely because of Count Stephen's three days of obstruction that Xiaolu City just took a breather. Ursula still failed to capture Xiaolu City.
Xiaolu City Lord Duke Anderma took advantage of the few days when Count Stephen provided support and quickly recalled his elite warriors 'Ice Guard Rangers' to protect the most important core city in the East of Raven.
After struggling to defend Xiaolu City, Duke Anderma also suffered heavy losses and could only retreat in defense.
However, Gregory IV lost thousands of elite soldiers to Eagle Claw Fortress not long ago, but failed to gain any benefit from the loss of soldiers and generals. Now he is facing the doubts of many nobles.
At this time, of course he could no longer make enemies, so he acted very trustworthy.
Dark Falcon Fortress has indeed been handed over to Sir Roland sent by Li Ang, and now Dark Falcon Fortress has already taken over Griffin banner.
Gregory IV first took back the territory of Dark Falcon Fortress on the grounds of disobeying orders, and announced that Dark Falcon Fortress would be transferred to Li Ang, the baron of the Lionheart Kingdom, as compensation for the last war.
This is not only to fulfill the agreement with Li Ang, but also to punish the confusion between Count Stephen and Ursula rebels.
Dark Falcon Fortress is the territory of Lord Faramond, the son of Count Stephen.
In fact, not only was Dark Falcon Fortress's territory taken back, Faramund was also summoned to Raven City by Gregory, which was to hold him hostage. Gregory did it quite directly.
However, Count Stephen was a highly respected person, so Gregory did not dare to force him too much. Apart from taking away Dark Falcon Fortress and holding Faramund hostage, he did not do anything else.
In fact, Dark Falcon Fortress of Lord Faramond was taken away by Gregory IV, which is not unfair at all - Ursula has been active in Dark Falcon Fortress before for no reason, and Faramund has indeed been secretly supporting Ursula.
Therefore, Count Stephen did not make any special reaction. He did withdraw his troops early in the last war and did not say hello to the king. It is correct to say that he disobeyed orders.
His son did support the rebels. The king's treatment was not excessive, and it seemed that the king did not sell Dark Falcon Fortress to Gatu people.
As for the king transferring the recovered demesne to other people, even if it is transferred to the Lionheart Kingdom, that is the king's freedom and cannot be controlled by others.
So Count Stephen just quietly withdrew all his troops, guarded his Odenburg, and sent people to provide the surrounding map to Sir Roland of Dark Falcon Fortress.
This Earl showed goodwill to Sir Roland and hoped to fight Gatu people with Dark Falcon Fortress.
After Ursula was repelled by Xiaolu City, it originally planned to lead its troops to retreat into Lion Territory as an allied force, but was rejected...
The one who rejected her was Ryman, who actually led the troops.