[Chapter 34 Return to Iron Tree Castle]

“Oh?” A little surprised: “Are you in trouble?”

“No, actually, since I learned that there are mysterious powers in the world I live in, I have been paying more attention to this aspect. Recently, I got some news about this aspect and wanted to see the specific situation with my own eyes.”

Laura didn’t say too much in detail, but David immediately understood what was going on.

The girl’s heart that yearns for adventure is unwilling to be lonely, and now that she has found a suitable target, this tomb destroyer has begun to prepare for the next action!

This is not something to be surprised about. With Laura’s personality, it would be strange if she is willing to stay at home honestly.

Previously, Laura was able to stay at “home” for such a long time and did not run out to look for any ruins because her attention was focused on David during this period of time – not David himself, but the world where David lives.

Now she has figured out the situation around Winter Village and followed David to Iron Tree Castle. Although she only took a general look, after experiencing the customs and daily life of this world, her curiosity about this world has been reduced a lot.

It just so happened that there was new information in her world that could interest her, so it was normal for Laura to turn around and start a new adventure. As for

her current relationship with David? It didn’t seem to have any impact. Anyway, she could come to Winter Village at any time when she went out for adventure. It could even be said that the existence of Winter Village was Laura’s biggest trump card to challenge those mysterious forces!

In addition to having her own safe zone that she could enter and exit at any time, she could also store various equipment and tools in Winter Village, which was convenient for her to deal with various troubles.

In addition, she could also ask David to cast some holy light spells on her to protect herself.

“And the thing we agreed on before.”

“Which one?”

David’s question aroused Laura’s dissatisfaction, and she gently punched David’s chest with her fist: “You can share some holy light with me.”

“Oh!” David suddenly realized: “This is not a problem, but I have to wait until I come back from Iron Tree Castle, and by the way, I will study how to more safely infuse pure holy light into your body.” “…”

Laura tilted her head: “Why do you feel that this sentence is weird?”

“Are you sure it’s not your weird thoughts?”

While chatting, he walked into the warehouse carrying potatoes. David checked by the way. The potatoes Laura bought were specially selected. They were not much different in size and appearance from the potatoes produced in Winter Village before. With the understanding of potatoes, such a strange crop, people in this world could not notice the obvious difference.

In the next few days, nothing special happened in Winter Village.

Even the newly arrived Adis found some things for himself: taking Alfie to hunt outside the forest in the north during the day, sometimes looking for prey along the northeast direction of the forest, and teaching Alfie how to be a hunter.

At the same time, it was also to reduce the time of contact with Maroney and his men. For this reason, Adis had no chance to have a good chat with David after he came. Because David was often with Maroney during this period, Adis was trying to avoid this nobleman.

However, for Adis and Alfie, the days of “hiding” are finally coming to an end.

Ten days after arriving in Winter Village, Maroney felt that he had collected enough information. Next, he would let his men have a good rest for two days before setting off to return to Iron Tree Castle.

This information did not escape David, and even an extra “map” was made for David. It not only marked the situation of Winter Village and its surroundings, but also marked the information of the areas that had been explored on the entire northern plains.

This thing was an unexpected surprise for David. Now he finally had a clearer understanding of the surroundings of his “hometown”.

In addition, Fording, who went to the east to scout, also came back, and the news he brought back was not bad: after crossing almost the entire northern plains, Fording found the group of “orcs” – he thought these guys were orcs. It was a village composed of nearly 40 orcs, and they had built various buildings and even wooden walls.

Although there were many orcs, they did not intend to expand outward, but concentrated on building defenses. Fording speculated that the cavalry that David and his team had destroyed earlier had a certain deterrent effect, making these orcs very afraid of humans.

“This is good news. It means that these orcs will not cause us trouble in the short term.”

David did not hide the news from Maloney. After sharing the information that Fording had discovered with Maloney, he also received Maloney’s thanks. His job did not include investigating this group of strange enemies, and now he could bring back some extra intelligence, which would highlight his abilities even more.

After further improving the map information on the northern plains and completing the final sorting work, David loaded 50 kilograms of potatoes onto an empty horse, rode another horse, and headed towards Iron Tree Castle with Maroney and his team who had finished their work.

The route this time was the same as the route they took when they went to Iron Tree Castle with Laura before, all of which were along the river bank heading south all the way to the north side of the Iron Tree Forest.

Compared with the two people who could only rely on their feet before, the team now had mounts and extra horses to carry goods, so the speed of travel was much faster.

Due to David’s detailed description before, the intelligence information of this route had already been recorded. They took this route just to check and make sure there were no major problems.

So it took only less than four days for the team to reach the northern outpost.

Putting down the agreed 50 kilograms of potatoes and taking the coins after deducting the price of six chickens and two horses, David and Gregory agreed to take the six chickens when he came back, and after a night’s rest, they continued to move towards Iron Tree Castle. They

hurried all the way and quickly returned to Iron Tree Castle on the galloping horses.

Looking at the messy and unplanned outer city in front, Maloney Mansfield, who always maintained a noble posture, couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.

No matter how well he maintained on the surface, he ran to a completely unknown place and now found a group of strange enemies called orcs. Maloney had some worries in his heart. Maloney recognized this name. With his report, the name of orcs will soon be determined by the humans of Iron Tree Castle and even the Kingdom of Tiran, and become the official name recognized by the government.

Now, he finally returned to Iron Tree Castle, which has sentries, passes, fortresses, walls and countless elite soldiers guarding Iron Tree Castle. Maloney doesn’t have to worry about his safety.

In a good mood, Maloney also made a promise that he would urge his colleagues to let David get the appointment letter as soon as possible and implement the identity of the head of Winter Village as soon as possible.

I don’t know if Maloney Mansfield really made a great effort to promote this matter. David got his appointment letter and various related documents at noon on the third day after returning to Iron Tree Castle.

“Congratulations, from today on, you are the village chief of Winter Village in the Iron Tree Castle area under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Tiran.”

After receiving the appointment letter and various related documents from the Lord of Iron Tree Castle, Marquis Dudley Morgan, he was very excited at the moment of achieving his goal, even though he had already determined that he would become the village chief of Winter Village.

Because he was in a good mood, he ignored the unpleasantness caused by the various etiquettes he had to perform when meeting the Lord. He even felt that this Marquis Dudley Morgan was the most pleasing noble since he came to this world: “I am very honored to accept this important task.”

Marquis Morgan had a faint smile on his face, and after encouraging him in a friendly tone, he completed the appointment ceremony.

The meeting with Marquis Morgan lasted less than five minutes, and no more than ten sentences were spoken. David only said one sentence. It can be seen that the Lord was not very interested in the Northern Plains and Winter Village, or he had already mastered various intelligence information, so there was no need to ask again. Seeing David was just completing the fixed process.

After walking out of the lord’s castle with the appointment letter and documents, Maroni-Mansfield was the first to greet him, and then walked out of the lord’s castle side by side with David, asking David what his next plan was.

“Return to Winter Village, continue to reclaim land and expand farmland, and try to grow more crops.” David did not hide it, and there was no need to hide it. What he had to do next was these things: “Before that, I will try to recruit some farmers.”

“About this matter…” Maroni-Mansfield looked around: “If you are not in a hurry, can we find a place to talk about it?”

“Oh?” David looked at Maroni, a little unsure of what the inspector wanted to do: “Where to talk?”

Seeing that David was willing to talk to him, Maroni immediately motioned to follow him, and after walking out of the lord’s castle, they got on a carriage together.

David sat in the fully enclosed carriage, chatting with Maroni opposite him about random things, while looking outside through the small window on the side door. He found that the carriage was heading straight for the outer city, but when it was about to reach the gate of the inner city, it turned a corner and turned into a relatively chaotic street.

The carriage stopped, but Maroni pulled David who was about to get off, indicating that he didn’t need to get off: “In fact, it is not necessary to recruit farmers in the outer city, the inner city can also recruit them, such as this family, whose current living conditions in Iron Tree Castle are very ordinary.”

David looked through the window and carefully looked at the family not far away: a woman who looked to be in her thirties was sitting at the door of the house doing needlework, and a boy about ten years old was squatting beside the woman to help.

Looking at this scene, the answer emerged in David’s mind.

(End of this chapter)