In the Middle Ages, people drew cards to be promoted to nobility.

This banquet is enough to be remembered by every lord of Transjordan, as well as those pilgrim nobles who did not receive the invitation but came uninvited.

Farewell to the last wave of nobles.

Lothar also accepted the allegiance of a group of knights in St. Andrew's Church.

In the church, the clergyman who had been promoted to the regional bishop by Lothar respectfully presided over the allegiance ceremony for the knights.

But this time, Lothar simply accepted the allegiance of these knights and did not let them stay in his court.

In this era, many knights would serve multiple monarchs.

Those who ride on two boats are relatively dedicated, and the most powerful ones can even ride on dozens of boats.

Of course, in this case, the monarch did not need to pay them salary and land, and no real vassal relationship was established between the two.

There is no fiefdom without military merit, and feudal lords are not philanthropists.

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, another week has passed.

During this period, Port Ella has initially recovered a bit of its vitality.

At least there are no longer just a few lonely ships in the port, and many merchant ships visiting here have discovered that the number of pirates wandering around the Red Sea has become less and less recently.

In the past, pirates were so rampant here that even the fishermen driving small sampans along the coast might be the spies of some pirate gangs.

As long as they see it, in a short while, rowing warships will emerge from some hidden pirate hideouts.

This has resulted in many commercial ships needing to be equipped with a large number of guards, and the cost has increased.

If the pirates are under control, the cost of merchant ships' investment in protection will be reduced, and the risks they may encounter will become less and less, and this trade route will definitely be able to regain its vitality.

On the street, the reorganized peasant and soldier teams, led by the knights of the order, patrolled the port in an orderly manner every day to maintain law and order.

All the gang members were eliminated, and some of them were sent to the gallows along with the rebellious Saracen leaders after the public trial.

But most people were simply demoted to serfdom and performed forced labor. After redeeming themselves, they could regain their freedom.

This has greatly improved the original severe security problems in Ella Port.

The card drawing reward for the new week is standing within the city wall of Port Ella. It is a giant tower with a Gothic spire that is very different from this era.

It was named by Lothar: Siegfried.

Acquisition is not the meaning of Siegfeld Line, but the meaning of a warrior in Norse mythology who was bathed in dragon's blood and thus became indestructible.

Even though they have been converted for many years, Norse mythology still has a great influence in Germania and the three Nordic countries.

A few days ago, the sight of Siegfried rising from the ground overnight frightened many people.

As a wonder or miracle, it is solid and reliable, and it also has a mysterious magic circle inside.

Although it is certainly not as good as the wizard tower built by the Emperor of Germania for his witch advisors, the firepower of Siegfried Tower is definitely not weak.

Its special effect is: the accuracy and range of the cannonballs and crossbow arrows projected from this tower will be greatly improved.

This will make Ella Port almost a city that will never fall, because even a small trebuchet, the cannonballs thrown from here are enough to hit the most advanced giant counterweight trebuchet of this era.

This means that the enemy's siege equipment will never be able to get close to the walls of Port Ella.

It's a pity that the ballistas and trebuchets on this tower will no longer be effective once they are dismantled. They are capable of defense, but have no offensive capability.

Otherwise, Lothar would definitely prefer to dismantle the tower and use pack animals to pull the dismantled siege engines as support artillery accompanying the army.

The reason why the trebuchet is difficult to use in field battles is because of its poor accuracy. In most cases, it can only make a sound to the opponent.

Lothar still hopes that he can extract a siege equipment manufacturing facility.

Without more advanced siege equipment, it will be a very big problem for the neighbors along the Red Sea coast, those intricate and dotted large and small castles.

In terms of scale, these castles are far inferior to the state of the New Habsburg or even Juggernaut before they were repaired, but they cannot support the large number.

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Last night, members of the Levantine Witches Association sent by the witch Anna also arrived.

The person who came was a witch who was covered in a black robe, but the exposed parts were extremely smooth and white.

After she gave him the meditation method, she hurriedly cast the transformation spell and turned into a bird and left. He didn't even want to mention his name - Lothar thought that as a wizard, he should be quite popular in the Levant Witch Association.

Last night, before falling asleep, he started his first meditation - Lothar was not immersed in it at all when he tried Fringilla's vampire meditation method.

Until this morning.

He just woke up from meditation, frowned and said: The effect seems to be pretty good.

My mental strength actually increased a little!

This effect is simply immediate.

Flynn, is your meditation method more suitable for vampires, so it doesn't have the best effect on me?

Fringilla's expression was not very good, and she muttered in a low voice: It makes no sense that you can even use blood magic, but you can't use the vampire's meditation method.

Lothar was dumbfounded: I can use blood magic, doesn't it all depend on you?

Including Prajna's Solid Stone, Jeanne's Holy Spear, Hans's Beast Intuition, Lothar can all use them, but they don't understand their principles at all.

Blood magic is okay, because Lothar's mental power is qualified and the frequency of use is high enough, so he has figured out some tricks.

But this is just an increase in proficiency. At best, I can apply the formula skillfully, but I still know it but don't know why.

It doesn't matter. I don't blame you for this. Anna shouldn't have guessed that this is my first time to meditate.

A smile appeared on Lothar's face. Maybe when he meditates again in the future, the results will not be as immediate as the first time, but as long as there is improvement, he can save a lot of attribute points to add to his strength, agility, and body. .

Jeanne hurriedly opened the door and came in.

She frowned slightly and whispered: Sir, don't stay in bed anymore. Your neighbor, the Saracen lord nicknamed the Impaler, has already sent troops to attack!

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By the time Lothar hurriedly led the hussars, a farm near the border had been looted, leaving only a burning shed with billowing smoke.

The dying man was placed on a stake, wailing in despair.

On the opposite hillside, Rauf the Impaler, guarded by the Mamluks, slashed Lothar's throat.

Lothar's face became colder and colder due to the anger growing in her heart.

There was anger in Jeanne's voice: Are we going to go to war with this bastard who likes to string people on stakes?

The origin of the nickname The Impaler is simple. Just like Dracula, who was also known as the Impaler, his neighbor was keen on hanging opponents on sharpened wooden pillars.

Under the influence of the victim's weight, the victim will continue to slide downwards, and the intestines and other organs will not be roughly poked to pieces, but will be gradually pushed away.

This allows the tortured person to often continue to live for a long time while wailing.

No, he is provoking me, trying to get me to start a war, and in this way, he can seek help from Adil - this old rival, as far as I know, has just been appointed governor of Egypt.

Lothar didn't want to be like Leonard and take on the reputation of provoking a war.

The Port of Ella and the Bishopric of Alandre belong to the legal territory of the Earl of Transjordan, and it was Zain Saladin who started the trade conflict first.

But if it continues to expand, firstly, Lothar lacks the personnel to digest the occupied area; secondly, it will easily trigger the intervention of Adil, the Egyptian governor.

Unless Lothar is willing to roughly allocate (legate) the occupied territories to his vassals and use their own strength to control the newly acquired territories.

That is making wedding clothes for others.

Having strong vassals is not a good thing for a lord. For example, Count Leopold, because he occupied the Austrian border area and his strength was almost as strong as the Duke of Bavaria, he sought to separate Austria from the title of Bavaria. The ambition to be elevated to a principality.

Hans frowned at the side and said worriedly: Then let him provoke us like this? The prestige you have finally established in Ella Port will be shaken by this.

That's really a problem.

Send more manpower to patrol the border - the Saracen falcons are an excellent means of detection. Ask Muller if you can provide some falconers to join our team.

Lothar said with emphasis: These people who have been allocated fields and have converted to Christianity must know that I, as the lord, have the ability to protect their personal safety.

Besides, Jeanne, if you prepare for an ambush, Rauf the Impaler will definitely come again.

Next time, don't let him leave alive.

Once this self-righteous Impaler dies, his territory will definitely become torn apart due to inheritance issues.