Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 634 - 634 297 Faction Pendragon_2

634: Chapter 297 Faction: Pendragon_2 634: Chapter 297 Faction: Pendragon_2 But these plans are still on paper; ultimately, what this era lacks the most is talent.

Just now, there are dozens of clerk positions vacant, causing each department from the director down to the clerks to be extremely busy last year.

Leon feels very troubled.

He doesn’t know if this trip to the Capital will allow him to bring back some literate talents from Oran City, just hoping his reputation can have some attraction.

After starting to rule a piece of land, he increasingly understands why ancient rulers were so eager to seek talents.

Let alone talents, even an idiot who can read, write, and calculate is a rare treasure.

This is just managing his own 1,000 square kilometers of land in Avalon Territory, with a mere 20,000 residents, not counting the vast lands under his control in Sobonitz Domain.

In fact, his base in Avalon Territory within the Thorny Flower family’s sphere of influence is only a fraction of the area under the “Pendragon” influence.

In Sobonitz Domain, there are tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, which is within the Pendragon Family’s sphere of influence.

Among them, the more than a thousand square kilometers of territory is his future direct domain.

Additionally, nearly ten thousand square kilometers of land are the fiefs of Avalon Knights who sacrificed themselves as Holy War Knights.

But apart from the surviving fifty or so Avalon Holy War Knights, the families of other fallen knights either have children who haven’t grown up enough to inherit the fiefs, or lack male heirs, requiring individual verification of legitimate heirs.

So these lands can only be temporarily managed by himself as the Sealing Lord.

Before the winter last year, Leon had already organized the families of deceased Avalon soldiers to “settle” and take possession of their future lands ahead of time.

After all, this is not truly pioneering barren lands; the territory’s existing fields, houses, towns, and numerous livelihood facilities are ready-made.

If not for the information blockades, the current situation in Sobonitz Domain would be enough to attract all the wanderers and homeless from the entire Western Continent.

Thinking about it carefully, perhaps this is a good thing, as reconstructing society always requires a large workforce.

Sobonitz Domain after the war is currently controlled by multiple forces including himself.

The Baldim family not only recovered most of their original territory but even gained a large expansion of land in real terms.

Some surviving original Eastern Kantadar families returned to their old lands after the war.

But except for the Baldim family, which retained relatively preserved strength, many of the old lord forces underwent significant changes; the original local families are no longer the strongest faction in Sobonitz.

Now in Eastern Kantadar, the strongest camp is the Thorny Flower family.

If we include his own, the Farolis force accounts for nearly 24,600 square kilometers of land in Eastern Kantadar.

Adding the land of the Thorny Flower family in the Northern Glade County and the Baron Domain of the Thorny Flower Main Family, Farolis essentially controls 38,000 square kilometers, roughly meeting the threshold of a provincial-level area if placed in the native land of his previous life.

Leon also heard that last year Fedor was planning to migrate a large population from the tens of thousands in Glade County to the East, helping Baron David and other Thorny Flower vassals develop their territories…

Of course, whether intentional or not, it seems Avalon has no share in this population gift he sent to his vassals after inheriting the Earldom.

Although Leon does not mind this, he still feels that after Lord Eriv’s fate became unknown, the new Sealing Lord’s estrangement with himself grew larger.

Fortunately, most of the family members, like Lady Adelina, David, Marcello, Redo, and other important members, still maintain a friendly and respectful attitude towards him, despite Fedor’s indifference, it is unlikely to cause conflict.

As for the migrating residents, Princess Ines is also doing, not only gaining 11,000 square kilometers due to the Undead War in Sobonitz Domain.

It is said that in Magya Territory, Ines gained one-third of the land by the western coastline of Kilinia County due to the Southern Expedition.

If you add her fief in West Bay County, once this third Princess of Orland absorbs these lands for a few years, Yin Ran will become a powerful Great Lord.

Leon thinks perhaps he could try leveraging the political ally relationship to gather some population to fill the land from the little princess.

Besides the aforementioned three parties, the territories distributed to those remaining Holy Lake Knights are not small either.

Because these brave fanatics possess the most Holy War Knights, after the war, Illaril Knights received a considerable territory of 17,000 square kilometers.

Currently, 100 Holy Lake Knights are helping to temporarily manage the territories of the 400 fallen comrades until the families and descendants of the martyrs come to Sobonitz to inherit.

Then there are the Ranger Knights scattered across various regions.

They are few in number, and their combined fiefs are less than 2,400 square kilometers, and they could not be bothered to manage them, truly free-spirited and carefree.

Finally, there are unique cases of Baron Yevan’s Shatai family and the Mamor Family, which originally did not belong to Sobonitz County.

After surviving the Battle of Rolandena, Baron Yevan not only reclaimed Shatai City and his ancestral land totaling 600 square kilometers, but, together with his Griffin Group mercenary knights, gained a fief of 3,400 square kilometers, becoming a Great Lord far surpassing his ancestor of the Shatai family.