While the "genius ruler" Mr. Murphy was gleefully reviewing reports at the Maginot Line, the last batch of conscription orders was delivered on the third day after the battle began to a rather special frontier settlement in the southern part of Transylvania.

This place is somewhat distant from the Maginot Line.

Its location is not near the Transylvania cross-shaped avenue planned by the Stonemason Association, but rather near the former mines of the Dark Baron Territory, situated in a gentle area in the hills. Though the resources are not abundant, the ample sunshine makes it ideal for growing grapes for winemaking.

Of course, you can’t expect the largely unlettered Transia People to understand winemaking recipes; it’s a "new industry" here, and the recipe was contributed by the village chief of this peculiar settlement called "Third Voyage."

It’s said this guy used to be a "big shot," a favorite of the previous Vampire Lord.

After the change of regime, people like him had an obvious "background problem," and ending up in a remote frontier area is a fitting fate.

However, this rumor about the village chief is actually wrong. Mr. Flanders Mackent, the former Colonel of the Third Voyage of the Armed Blood Servant, nicknamed "Vulture’s Claw," had an opportunity to hold a significant position in the newly established People’s Army. Maxim even sought approval from Mr. Murphy, the Governor was willing to give this loyal Blood Servant leader a chance.

But he himself declined after careful consideration.

The reason for refusal wasn’t just that his family, who escaped the disaster in Cardman City, didn’t want him to go back to fighting. It was also because the Armed Blood Servant suffered a crushing defeat at the end of the ten-year war, resulting in many veterans returning from Golden Flower Kingdom and Nordtof with disabilities.

Those were illnesses contracted from hard labor in prisoner camps.

These individuals were helpless in Transylvania, mostly originating from Blood Servant families of the Salockdale era. They were the people most deeply connected to vampires in this land, yet they were the hardest to integrate into the new Order system.

Especially after Governor Murphy and The Grand Duke of Triss explicitly abolished the Blood Servant system, these veterans became the first to be forgotten.

Colonel Flanders could have ignored these people, relying on his excellent military skills to gain a position in the new Order system. But he was a man of conscience and remembered those soldiers who were tortured to death by Northerners while building railways in the prisoner camps of the Great Wilderness to protect him.

He couldn’t stand by, and after receiving kindness from Governor Milian, Flanders brought his family and took in as many of these homeless veterans as possible to establish the Third Voyage Administrative Village here, while trying to lead these "remnants" from the last era into a good life in the new era.

Colonel Flanders is undoubtedly a good manager, perhaps it comes from military habits. He uses semi-military means to manage his village, and instead, he reaps high efficiency more orderly than other administrative villages.

Nearly a thousand villagers here are very united due to identity recognition issues. They know that only here will not discriminate against their past, so they have a strong sense of belonging to the village and are willing to work hard for tomorrow.

Thus, a group of pitiable people originally holding together for warmth has unexpectedly achieved a decent comprehensive ranking among the thirty-three administrative villages under the Transia Administrative Office, receiving some resource allocations from the office.

Amid the Black Disaster’s heated progress, the first batch of wine from the Third Voyage Administrative Village is about to be brewed.

Due to the secluded and remote nature of the place, these people with special identities seem completely unaffected by the outside warfare, and they just shut their doors and live their own lives.

Until today, an unexpected event finally arrived.

Mayor Flanders had just finished dinner, preparing to guide his youngest daughter’s studies.

This little girl idolizes Miss Milian and insists on becoming as capable as the Crimson Regent. To this grand aspiration, the former Colonel, who has seen true spectacles, remains noncommittal, but children having ambitions is always good.

Just as he was teaching his daughter the prologue to Chapter Three of "The New Transylvania General History" hand-in-hand, a guest suddenly arrived.

It was Mr. Potter, the militia captain of the village.

Well, in other villages, the militia captain is a "prominent" position, but in the unique situation of the Third Voyage Administrative Village, the militia captain is an "optional" position. After all, an entire village of former professional soldiers who fought the dangerous ten-year war really doesn’t need an old soldier to guide them on how to prepare for battle.

Thus, Captain Potter has little presence in the Third Voyage village, but this doesn’t mean Captain Potter’s identity is simple.

His background is actually not inferior to those Armed Blood Servants of the last era. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Although in most villagers’ eyes, Captain Potter is a silent and oddly tempered middle-aged man who always plants flowers and plants in his farm or guides the orphan siblings he adopted in farming and raising livestock, Mayor Flanders knows Captain Potter’s real identity is a retired Witch Hunter.

It’s said that this guy also has some ties with Lady Natalie, the current leader of the Avalon Church. Last month on an afternoon, Mayor Flanders personally saw that High Pastor lady quietly visit Captain Potter’s farm, leaving behind some daily necessities and gifts.