Reborn as a werewolf ancestor

Early morning, Eagle Castle.

Sunlight shines through the curtains into Kane's bedroom.

The biological clock that is maintained all year round causes Kane to wake up quickly in the early morning.

He got up and left the bed, came to the Moon Wolf, and gently stroked their hair.

The hair on the Moon Wolf's body is very smooth and soft, like the finest silk, and its tentacles are slippery and extremely comfortable.

Looking at them still falling into a deep sleep, Kane did a rough calculation. From the beginning of the Mountain Corner Fort to today, it can be considered half a month. I really don't know how long they will stay in this state.

After checking the status of the two wolves, Kane went to the bathroom to wash up.

After taking care of it, he went to the study room to check today's letters.

Four or five days have passed since I last received the scout's letter about Duke Manvilla.

Since then, there has been no news about the other party, and I don’t know what is happening now.

In the past few days, Kane also began to do his best to practice quietly. He would practice knighthood regardless of day or night, as long as he had time.

Thanks to his hard work, the aura on his body has become thicker, and his rank is closer to the first-order high position.

However, the improvement of the level does not happen overnight. Even if Kane practices hard, he will only get closer. It will take some time for him to break through the current state.

He took out the letter opener placed on the table and opened a special letter.

The reason why it is special is that there are two noble emblems on the envelope, which is not common on ordinary letters.

Kane also recognized the owner named Standard, who was the Viscount Muchat and Earl Sardis that he had thought of before.

There has been no news about these two people from the outside world since the fall of the kingdom, just like a turtle with its head shrinking.

Now, they are finally willing to reply to Kane's letter, which proves that Manvilla's power has indeed threatened them.

This forces them to start communicating with the outside world.

After opening the letter, Kane sat on the wooden chair and read it carefully.

The sun shines on the table, and the sound of wind blowing through the leaves can be heard outside the window.

After a long time, he put down the letter, his face full of joy.

You want to ask why?

It's simple, because these two nobles agreed to form an alliance with Kane.

No, it should be said that they invited Kane to join the alliance they formed.

Yes, before Kane wrote the letter proposing an alliance earlier.

The two people quietly contacted each other and formed an alliance group called the "Lake Eyre Alliance".

As for Lake Eyre, it is a huge lake between their two territories. This may be a metaphor that this lake connects them together.

No matter what, now that Kane has these two allies, it can be said that he can at least compete with the Duke in terms of military strength.

The first is Kane's side. Without the militia, there are 72 soldiers in the territory, 5 extraordinary and 2 trainee extraordinary.

As for his ally Viscount Muchat, there are more than 200 soldiers, at least six of whom are extraordinary.

Among the three, Earl Sardis, who has the most abundant troops, has nearly 400 soldiers and more than 10 extraordinary subordinates.

The total number of people should be close to 700 troops, and at least 20 extraordinary ones.

Facing the Duke's force, which has about 5,000 to 6,000 troops, it would not be said that they would be evenly matched, at least they would not be so helpless to fight back.

After all, all the southern nobles must be gathered together, otherwise no one will be able to resist the Duke's invasion.

After putting the letters away, Kane also looked forward to receiving letters from other nobles. After all, Duke Manvilla was devouring very quickly. If everyone was not gathered together quickly, he might really swallow the entire south.

With anticipation, he looked at the next letter.

Unfortunately, the content of this letter is not a good thing, but a problem that should have arisen in the territory long ago.

Previously, Kane focused too much on strength and military strength, but ignored the series of problems that arose after the kingdom was broken.

A very simple point is that if a country is in a state of imminent destruction, then whether the currency it issues can be used becomes a problem.

In Kane's Regit territory, most of the people still use the currency from King Dilan's time.

But after Earl Manvilla cut off the connection between the territory and the north of the kingdom, or in other words, after the kingdom was invaded by the dark elves.

Wandering caravans will no longer appear in Kane's territory, so the currency that has been circulating will not be used.

It is true that some shops in the territory still have the habit of using currency, but as time goes by, people will find that currency is constantly depreciating, and the number of barter exchanges is increasing.

This situation occurs because without the caravans coming every day every month, currency is losing its original purchasing power. In addition to Deli gold coins and Kairos silver coins, Marion copper coins have completely lost their value.

It was gradually replaced by wheat.

Without the transportation of food from the outside, the territory can only rely entirely on self-sufficiency, which means that the wheat fields in the village need to feed everyone in the territory.

As the lord of the territory, Kane will collect a certain amount of currency or wheat from farmers every month.

Of course, as a benevolent lord, he did not have much tax revenue from the villagers before, so he could replace it with wheat.

But now that self-sufficiency has emerged, the wheat in the hands of farmers has become very precious, and if most of the wheat is handed over to Kane, then the villagers in Maike Village can only live a life of barely satisfying their hunger.

This also means that Cairn's taxes need to be reduced to alleviate the current situation.

He put down the letter and thought about it for a while. His castle still contained enough food to feed his territory for about two years.

So it is indeed possible to lower the level now, but if wheat is the only food source, the citizens and even the soldiers will suffer from malnutrition.

Even the various types of food stored in his castle are only enough for a few extraordinary followers to eat together.

I cannot ensure that everyone can receive adequate nutrition, which will inevitably affect the availability of soldiers and the strength of the troops when they are ready to fight.

The only way to solve this problem is to exchange materials with other nobles, similar to how I give you wheat, you give me meat, and he gives me seasonal vegetables.

Kane focused his attention on his two current allies. Fortunately, there happened to be a large lettuce plantation in Muchat Territory, and Earl Thaddeus ran an Erin pig livestock farm.

As the two nobles whose military strength far exceeds that of Kane, they must also be anxious about this matter.

Earl Sardis may still be able to manage to provide sufficient supplies for his soldiers, but Viscount Muchat's situation should be similar to his own, and there is already a shortage of food supplies.

If he proposed that the three of them exchange food supplies with each other, they would definitely agree.