Start as Inherited Baroness

Simon immediately waved his hand and threw the bright ball beside him into the air tens of meters away.

Suddenly, the light illuminated more areas. Although it was much dimmer, the figures of the orcs could still be seen.

At this time, they all ran to the forest in the east and disappeared without a trace in a few breaths.

"Clean up the battlefield and pick up everything useful.

Then return to the camp and gather the mercenaries."

Simon saw this and naturally would not send people to chase them. The orcs would be more capable in the forest, so he ordered.

"Yes!" Mai Lan responded and immediately sent someone to inform the whole army.

Ai Lei returned with the heavy infantry, and some light infantry went to collect the weapons and armor of the orcs.

In fact, the damaged equipment of the three strong orcs was still eye-catching. The other jackals, at most, wore leather armor, which was still rare.

Not long after, the spoils were taken care of, and Simon and his party returned to the previous camp again.

The soldiers were busy placing the carriages on the periphery and leading the horses inside.

"Arrange the guards to rest, the same goes for the slave soldiers, and the servants to keep watch.

By the way, bring the injured slave soldiers over here, I'll treat them." Simon ordered calmly.

"Yes!" Mailan responded and left.

After a while, several soldiers carried a few people on stretchers. It seemed that they were seriously injured, and some of them might have broken bones.

Simon glanced at them, raised his hand and instantly cast several healing spells, and gave one to each of them.

They immediately hummed comfortably, and in a short time, their injuries recovered by 50% to 60%.

Simon still had a lot of mana, and he was not stingy and cast a few more shots.

In the end, except for the one with a broken bone, the rest were able to walk on the ground and basically recovered completely.

The treatment effect was pretty good.

"Thank you, master!" They knelt down and said respectfully.

"Go back and rest." Simon nodded and waved his hand.

After the slave soldiers saluted again, they retreated.

At this time, Ai Lei came over, his body was still stained with orc blood, and he looked extremely tough.

"Sir! The leaders of the Thorn Mercenaries and the Porcupine Mercenaries have returned to the camp, and they request to see you."

"Bring them here." Simon heard it and said calmly.

Unless there are enough interests to attract people, otherwise, the mercenary group can only fight with the wind. Once the situation is slightly reversed, they will often flee.

"Sir Baron! I'm very sorry! The brothers were scared by the strong orcs tonight..."

The leader of the Thorn Mercenary saluted with some shame.

"Is the loss of more than 20%?" Simon smiled faintly and asked.

"This... It is impossible to count now. Some mercenaries may be lost in the dark.

They may have to wait until dawn to find their way back." The leader of the Thorn Mercenary said helplessly.

"You are really brave, running faster than rabbits.

If the loss of less than 20%, we will act according to the contract." Simon smiled jokingly and said.

"Yes! Sir Baron, we did behave a little bit badly, I'm really sorry.

We will never do this again on the next journey."

Both mercenary leaders promised.

"Well, we don't know whether the orcs will counterattack, so you have to keep watch." Simon nodded and ordered.

"Yes!" The two mercenary leaders had to agree, and after saluting, they went to command their mercenaries to arrange defense.

"How many mercenaries did they return to the camp?"

After the two men left, Simon asked Mailan beside him.

"Less than half."

"Well, I'll sleep for a while, you keep an eye on it, arrange the shift, and wake me up if there is anything." Simon nodded slightly and ordered.

"Yes! Sir, you can rest." Mailan responded respectfully.

Simon stopped talking, got into the tent, lay down with his head up, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

After a good sleep, the next day, the unknown bird woke Simon up.

He opened his sleepy eyes, yawned, got up, stretched, and left the tent.

It was just dawn, and there was a large fog steaming around, a vast expanse of white.

The soldiers had all woken up and were busy everywhere, collecting firewood, boiling water, everything was in order.

"Baron, you are awake, breakfast is being prepared, it will take a while."

Guarding outside the tent was a heavy cavalryman named Manfred, with the physique of a silver warrior and the proficiency of two-handed weapons at the expert level.

"Well." Simon responded casually, walked a few steps and stretched, yawning uninvited.

He glanced outside the camp and found that several mercenaries were coming to the camp.

"How many people from the two mercenary groups have returned?" he asked.

"Please wait a moment, sir, I will go and ask."

Simon nodded slightly, and Manfred walked away quickly.

After a while, he came back and reported: "Sir, only a dozen people returned.

But a few mercenaries brought back a message. Do you want to meet them?"

"Really? Bring them here." Simon heard the words, thought for a moment, and said immediately.

"Yes, please wait a moment, sir."

Manfrott bowed respectfully and retreated. After a while, he brought three mercenaries who looked quite embarrassed.

"Greetings, Sir Baron! We have something important to report!" They knelt down and shouted in fear.

"Tell me, what did you find?" Simon said calmly.

"We ran in a panic last night and rushed into the forest. We found a big problem!

There are many orcs hiding in the forest in the east! They are all green and glowing eyes, and you can't see the end at a glance!"

The mercenaries shouted in fear.

Simon frowned and said nothing for a while.

Because the vision in the forest is severely obstructed, it is often impossible to see things dozens of meters away.

And these mercenaries were scared and fled, and they might think that there were thousands of jackals when they saw dozens of them.

"I know, you can retreat first." He said in a calm voice.

"Baron, what we said is absolutely true. There is an open space in this forest, and the orcs are gathering there."

A mercenary saluted and added.

"Oh? Really? Okay, I know, you can go and rest."

This sentence attracted Simon's attention. If it was really an open space, the mercenaries should not have seen it wrong.

However, he thought for a while and he definitely couldn't send troops into the forest to fight those orcs head-on.

There is no need for this, it's not in his own territory.

And if he walked a little further, he would leave this forest area, and then he would not be afraid of any threat from the orcs.

"Hurry up and cook, and set off immediately after eating.

Don't rest at noon, stay away from this forest first." Simon ordered immediately.

"Yes." Manfred replied and went to convey the order.

As for Mai Lan, he kept watch until the early morning last night and is now resting. A substitute took his place.

Not long after, breakfast was ready. It was a roast chicken and a bowl of wheat porridge. Simon ate it up in big mouthfuls.

After that, he rode on his warhorse and the team continued on the road.