Songkani is located on the northern edge of the plains above the Rising Sun Plains in the central area of the Kingdom of Sava (the royal capital is located in the center of the Rising Sun Plains). Because it is close to the Coen Grassland in the northwest and the Sunset Plains in the northeast, animal husbandry and commerce are very prosperous.
Although the animal husbandry may not be able to support nearly half of the kingdom's needs at the peak of Kovagr decades ago, it is not much different. The kingdom's animal husbandry is basically supported by Kovagr on the Korn Grassland, Songkani and the capital of Sava on the Rising Sun Plains, and a territory in the east. After Kovagr's animal husbandry was affected by the infestation of monsters in recent years, Songkani's animal husbandry has received more attention and protection.
In order to ensure that Songkani's animal husbandry can be maintained, twelve years ago, the royal capital specially dispatched a 500-man royal capital garrison knights to guard the area, and has been continuously dispatching reinforcements based on the retirement of knights and losses in battle. Over the past twelve years, this knight force has been almost entirely elite knights who have experienced hundreds of battles. Even if they were taken to the battlefield with the Pochi Kingdom, they would be a force that should not be underestimated. Even high-level transcendents would not be able to survive under the charge of these 500 elite knights.
It is precisely because of the existence of these five hundred knights that there are almost no monsters and bandits around Songkani. The people live and work in peace and contentment, and vigorously develop agriculture and animal husbandry. Merchants, seeing the benefits, also flock to Songkani. Today, Songkani has developed to a level of prosperity comparable to that of the royal capital.
Because of the rapid increase in population in the town, Songkani had to re-plan the land expansion. Based on the original conventional castle and town, it was expanded outward again, turning the original town into an inner city. The part outside the inner city within the newly built city wall was called the outer city. Secondly, dozens of villages of varying sizes were continuously built around Songkani.
The prosperous market naturally led to the construction of a bazaar outside the front gate of Songkani. After all, not everyone in the surrounding villages could afford the cost of entering the city and the cost of setting up stalls in the city market, and they had to make money, so they built a simple market outside the city with the tacit consent of the Lord of Songkani.
This was also the reason why Livia could vaguely see a colorful building in front of the majestic city wall from a distance when she was still on the road to the Rising Sun Plains.
The roads on the Rising Sun Plains are much wider than those on the Cohen Prairie. If the roads on the Cohen Prairie can barely accommodate two freight wagons passing side by side, the roads on the Rising Sun Plains can accommodate four freight wagons with space left. It is more than twice as wide. Moreover, one can see signs of regular maintenance on the flat road. Unlike the roadsides on the Cohen Prairie, which are overgrown with weeds and the road surface is cracked.
This alone made Livia feel much more comfortable. After all, the terrain on the grassland was high and low, and it was very uncomfortable to sit on it. If it were an ordinary person, his body would probably fall apart after a day. This is one of the reasons why roads exist.
Moving slowly forward on the road, you can even see scattered people walking at the fork in the road in the distance.
"This is much better than Kovagr."
Livia couldn't help but sigh.
You have to know that in Kovagr, ordinary people don't even dare to walk on the road, let alone leave the city gate.
"Stop now!"
The sound of horse hooves came from a distance, accompanied by a loud voice.
Um?
Livia looked in the direction where the sound came from in confusion. In his field of vision, on the distant plain, three figures on horseback were galloping towards him. They looked like knights by the looks of their attire. They must be the knights of this town.
Thinking of this, Livia pulled the reins to stop the brown horse under him. After waiting for a while, the knights arrived in front of him. The horse, with its remaining momentum, took two steps towards him again before being stopped by the riders pulling the reins. In Livia's view, this was a very obvious flaw. He could take this opportunity to kill all three horses. As for the knights, in his eyes, although the horses stopped and revealed a flaw, the riders did not show any obvious flaws at all. Their bodies were unconsciously tense and they were able to exert force at any time to deal with sudden emergencies.
Just from this point, Livia could tell that the knights in front of him were even better than Kovag's ordinary Shadow Leopard Knights in this regard. You must know that the Shadow Leopard Knights are all weak transcendents, and the knights in front of him are just ordinary humans unless they have the means to hide their breath and strength.
The knights stopped in front of Livia, with an aura that could scare ordinary people, but Livia just watched calmly with a blank expression, without any emotional change, and the brown horse he was riding just slowly took two steps back at the same time that the horses of the knights opposite him did not stop to move forward.
At this time, the excellence of the brown horse that Livia was riding was highlighted. You know, even a warhorse in service would have to retreat several steps in panic when facing such a situation, but he only judged that the warhorse might hit it and slowly retreated two steps without showing the slightest panic.
The three knights on the opposite side naturally noticed this and their eyes lit up.
“Good horse!”
One of them couldn't help but speak out.
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he reacted quickly, closed his mouth, and his face became serious.
"ah……
yes."
Hearing the other party's praise, Livia smiled and stroked the brown horse's mane. Deron was thoughtful...
This brown horse was picked out by Delon with great difficulty. It performed very well in battle when it was young. Its previous owner was also an excellent Shadow Leopard Knight. It's a pity that in this world, even extraordinary people can't guarantee victory in every battle against monsters.
That's right, in a battle against monsters that appeared around Kovagr, the Shadow Panther Knight died, but it survived. The Shadow Panther Knight's comrades brought it back to Kovagr. At first, the brown horse went on a hunger strike. After knowing this, Deron took his own Liefeng to visit it.
No one knew what happened in between, but the brown horse returned to normal. Delon also ordered others not to ride the brown horse and arranged to feed it carefully in the military camp in the north of the city. Although it was no longer a war horse, it kept running on the racecourse in the military camp by itself, just like when it was training with its owner.
When the surrounding soldiers found out about this, they did not disturb it. Instead, they cleared out a racecourse for it to run and train, and several years passed like this.
After Kovagr was attacked by the Blood Mist Cult, Delon suddenly found it hiding by a well in a yard near the military camp when he was leading his men to patrol the city. It turned out that it cleverly escaped when the military camp was attacked and hid here, while all the horses in the other stables in the military camp were killed by the bat-winged demons.
At this time Delon suddenly thought of Livia. During this period of contact, he felt that although Livia was a little different from the world, he was still a good person. It happened that his black horse was lost on the Cohen grassland before, so he gave this brown horse to Livia when he left. It was also a final home for the brown horse. Otherwise, the brown horse would only have a few years of life. Instead of letting it die of old age in the stable, it would be better to let it go out and gallop again.
Of course, Livia didn't know all this. He only knew that Delon had specially found a very good horse for him. Although it was a little old and was about to reach its senile stage, it was still better than some young war horses.