The next morning, Lann assembled his troops, gathered all the cavalry and dwarves, and prepared to march towards the port of Maribor.

On the way, Lan was riding on Black Wind while thinking about what to do with Leo. Should he throw him over to his teacher Geron to clean the castle together?

I believe that the two “old guys” will definitely not hesitate to teach the child a few tricks when seeing how hard he works.

I accepted Leo's commission, and then Leo gave me himself as a reward for the law of accidents. So in a sense, this child can be regarded as my "accidental child", right? Although the explanation is a bit far-fetched, there is nothing wrong with being an apprentice of the Griffin School.

Milva looked at Lann's thoughtful expression. In the past, she would stare at that sunny and handsome face in a daze, but today she felt a little uneasy and her eyes were evasive.

"Go ahead."

Lann suddenly slowed down Black Wind's speed and spoke to the female shooter out of the blue, causing her shoulders to tremble.

"You are not suitable for this expression of wanting to say something but not being able to. Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Milva bit her lip. She had done something stupid last night under the influence of alcohol and did not dare to tell the Earl. But it seemed that she would be punished even more if she concealed it now.

"I sneaked into the beekeeper's house last night when no one was around..."

Milva whispered, "I destroyed their beehive and let all the bees go. I also took all their wine and threw it into the river."

Lann's eyes narrowed.

Milva's voice became even quieter. She explained, "After all, they... did that to the child. I can't swallow it. And they also insulted the Earl. You are kind and compassionate to the common people, but I can't swallow it..."

Milva's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally she lowered her head and said resignedly: "Punish me!"

Lane reined in his horse, and the whole team stopped.

"Look up, Milva, look at me."

The female archer pursed her lips, her expression almost like she was about to cry. Even when she was trapped by the dryad and hung upside down, she didn't show such an expression.

"Milva, I am glad that you can protect my honor, but I don't like the way you protect it. I don't need my men to make decisions for me, do you understand?"

Lan stared at the maid and said word by word: "You are my sword, my bow, my hands, and my eyes, but you cannot be my brain. You can only do what I tell you to do. You can't do what I don't tell you to do."

"Milva, you disappoint me in this matter."

Milva had already dismounted and knelt on the ground: "Please... punish me, Count."

Lan stared at Milva with a tense face, and suddenly the corners of his mouth curled up, as if he had some emotion that he couldn't suppress.

Was Milva's mistake a big one?

To be honest, what she did was what Lann would do in the game when faced with every villager who spit at him. He was even more ruthless. He would loot all the property in every house and burn all the cows, sheep, chickens, geese, etc. with the [Igni Sign].

The so-called squirrel school, where only the passing geese can pluck feathers and the empty buildings can be deserted, came into being.

In reality, there is nothing wrong for a servant to seek justice for his lord.

But Lann saw some bad signs from it.

After all, Milva used to roam in the jungle, and was just brought into the city to live in the past two years. Although she is loyal to him because of the [Follower] panel and other factors, compared with House and Levin, she always has an untamed wildness.

Lann didn't think this was a bad thing, but if she was allowed to do what she wanted, she might become the initiator of some major events in the future because of her wildness and detonate some unpredictable explosives.

Many novel defense plots begin like this.

So, although Lann was secretly happy about what Milva did, he still had to punish Milva appropriately.

While he was thinking, Milva, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly spoke again.

"My Lord, after I went to the beekeeper's house, I also went to the manor of White Orchard and killed all the livestock there."

Lan's thoughts suddenly paused and he began to search for keywords.

White orchard, livestock, killing.

"What have you killed?"

“We have everything, mainly cattle and sheep.”

"How many did you kill?"

Milva sensed that Lann's tone was wrong. After racking his brains for a long time, he said dejectedly: "It was too dark, and I was drunk, so I can't remember..."

"Are there enough cows for six?"

Milva answered much faster this time: "There must be more than that!"

…

In the countryside of Baiguoyuan, there has always been such a legend:

One day, a deer-headed demon from nowhere arrived at the White Orchard. For some unknown reason, this monster, which was regarded as a wild god in the small village, actually gave birth to offspring with a cow.

The offspring born mainly looked like the Deer-Headed Demon, and their habits were similar to those of the Deer-Headed Spirit, wandering in the forest all year round.

However, it also has a strong sense of identity with the other side of its bloodline - that is, cattle. When too many cattle in the White Orchard die or are injured in a short period of time, it will rush out of the jungle out of sadness and anger to punish the herders who did not take good care of the cattle.

Rural folklore is always full of gossip. Biologists sneer at this kind of legend, but folklorists think it is a good material to enrich their papers.

Mystics have a more reasonable explanation: the monster wandering in the ginkgo forest is a kind of spirit similar to the forest spirit, which has signed a contract with the herdsmen and promised to protect the herdsmen's cattle and sheep. When the local cattle and sheep are seriously injured, it will appear and kill the murderer according to the contract.

Regardless of which of the above statements is correct, they all have one thing in common: when many cattle in the White Orchard are killed or injured in a short period of time, this monster will sense it and then appear.

These legends are not even poems, at most they are just bedtime stories for children. The fact is that this generation has never seen the legendary monster since they were born, and the livestock in White Orchard have always been well taken care of.

Cattle and sheep are the flesh of the herdsmen. They would not allow their cattle and sheep to be infected with a plague, even if it would make their own children sick. Therefore, there has not been a large number of livestock deaths in Baiguoyuan for a long time.

The price of live cattle and sheep is also expensive. Even a ridiculous lord would only kill one or two a day when holding a banquet. Someday in the future he might go crazy and kill livestock for fun, but at least not now.

Peaceful Temeria had been peaceful for decades, and for the villagers it had been two or three generations, so they had almost forgotten the rumor.

It was not until today that the people of White Orchard finally recalled the fear of being dominated by monsters.

Not long after Lann and his group left, a creepy howl suddenly came from the forest, breaking the tranquility of the White Orchard.

The sound was like a hundred cows and a hundred sheep screaming into a horn at the same time, and then a huge monster with argali horns rushed out of the forest.

This monster has a goat's beard and argali horns, a cow's neck and mouth, three eyes on its head, and sharp teeth in its mouth. Its forelimbs are like lizards with sharp claws, and its hind limbs are hooves, which are thick and powerful.

What horrified everyone was that the monster was extremely huge. It bent its body with its thick forelimbs like an orangutan, but even so it was still a head taller than the thatched hut.

In the monster hunter's monster encyclopedia, this monster is named "雠(chou second tone)特怪", and a more popular name is "羊角魔".

Anything with the word "demon" in it is not simple. The classification of the goat-horned demon is the same as that of the nymphs such as the lake fairy - a remnant.

Of course, it is certainly not as scary as those "remnant" demons such as the Deer-headed Demon. But even if it is a remnant gatekeeper, it is far from being something that the villagers and guards of the White Orchard can deal with.

At first, the goat-horned demon just circled around the carcasses of cattle and sheep behind the lord's mansion, making wails that echoed throughout the white orchard, and then wandered around the village as if looking for something.

It did not attack the villagers like crazy, but its strong body and violent running would occasionally smash the walls and houses.

At this time, the guards armed with swords launched a tentative attack on the goat-horned demon.

The goat-horned demon retaliated angrily.

All guards were killed.

Its body, taller than the hut and with its muscular build, made the village guards' armor look like nothing. Being caught by its claws felt like being stabbed by a sword, and being hit by its arms felt like being hit by a hammer.

Within a few rounds, the town's guards were killed or wounded.

At this time, the red-haired Princess Yada, wearing knight armor, arrived at the White Orchard with a dozen of her knights.

"What kind of monster is this? When did something like this appear in White Orchard?"

Yada shouted in surprise, and along with her was the tax collector appointed by the king to the White Orchard. Seeing the scene in the White Orchard, he almost fainted.

"Your Highness, be careful, step back!"

Because they were near the capital of Temeria, Adda did not bring too many soldiers with her, but the ones she brought were all genuine knights. They had received strict sword training since childhood, stood out from all kinds of duels, and some of them were champions of various competitions.

And judging from the content of their usual conversations while drinking, among these knights there are some powerful knights who have hunted griffins and scorpion-tailed lions.

At this moment, they all drew their weapons, formed a formation tacitly, and vowed to protect their princess with swords.

The red-haired princess stood proudly in the back, thinking about which room of her house she should hang the head of this strange creature in front of her, and then she saw the knights who claimed to have killed griffins and manticores had their armor cracked and their hands and feet twisted.