"Clip-clop, clip-clop~"
On Golden Avenue.
Cavalry stretched as far as the eye could see, charging forward.
After the Holy Son Commander at Hastings Fortress learned that contact with Deven Duchy Territory had been lost.
He issued an order immediately.
He urgently dispatched twenty thousand elite cavalry from around Deven Duchy Territory to investigate.
The order was issued on the first day.
They began assembling on the second day.
They marched on the third day.
By the fourth day.
The vanguard of the twenty thousand cavalry had already appeared on the outskirts of Deven Duchy Territory.
The vanguard was not large.
There were only two thousand knights.
They were commanded by Viscount Todd of the Light Kingdom.
"My lord."
"Up ahead is the knight estate of Lyons, a Feudal Noble of Deven Duchy Territory."
"Send someone to take a look."
"Yes!"
Inside the knight estate.
Several mercenaries were searching for supplies.
"Damn it, we came too late. Even the ground here has been scraped clean."
"I really regret going hunting in Azure Wolf Forest. If we'd stayed in Mercenary City, we could have made a fortune too."
"That bastard Daws actually struck it rich. I heard he quietly left yesterday with two cartloads of goods."
"What? Daws, that blind cripple?"
"That's him. The bastard still owes me ten copper coins. Even after getting rich, he refuses to pay me back."
"Oh, god, why did I have to work so hard?"
"Hey, there's a gold coin here! Where? Where?"
Several mercenaries crowded over, finally seeing the golden glint beneath the soil.
"Damn it, that's mine."
"Mine! It's mine!"
Mercenaries were generally poor.
For a single gold coin, they were willing to draw their weapons and fight one another to the death.
Just as several mercenaries raised their weapons.
The sound of "clip-clop,