Final Lord

Chapter 9 Black Forest

Facing Steward Ming's surprise, Wang Bufu nodded and said, "These fierce desert bandits are definitely not wild bandits. They must have a very powerful master behind them."

"Why do you say that? Do you have any clues?" Wei Yi asked doubtfully.

"Because their fighting spirit is different," Wang Bufu said, "After the majority of the Sandy Bandits were trapped, none of the remaining three chose to escape.

Normally, bandits are not regular troops and can only fight when the wind is favorable. Despite such a bizarre situation, the bandit leader and his two men did not lose their morale, but instead kept trying to find a way to rescue their companions.

They don't look like bandits at all, but more like regular troops. I suspect these Saudi bandits are simply private armies raised by some powerful figure."

Wei Yi retorted somewhat unconvincedly, "Just based on this? Maybe it's because of their deep brotherly love?"

Wang Bufu did not refute, but nodded and said: "Of course there is more than this.

They appeared in our Gru Territory when my father was in poor health, and they blocked the road and chased us after I left the territory. They also had such a fighting spirit. There were too many coincidences.

I doubt Lincoln changed his mind after his father's death. He already had a new master before his father died. Those desert bandits were sent by his new master to assist him.

Lincoln dared to ignore the laws of the Duchy and seek the barony, which showed that the people behind him gave him considerable confidence.

If my guess is correct, then our opponent is not Lincoln at all, but a viscount or even an earl."

King, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron. Each level of the Bucks Duchy's nobility had a power difference of about ten times.

"Viscount! Earl! Gah!" Butler Ming said in panic, "Even the weakest Earl is an epic warrior with countless troops at his disposal.

Even if he wasn't an earl, but only a viscount, he was still at least a Transcendent Rank 5, with over 3 soldiers. Isn't that even more powerful than the master? The master was stuck at Transcendent Rank during his lifetime, and at the height of his domain's glory, he only had standing troops.

How can I avenge this old man?"

"Now isn't the time to think about revenge. We need to find a way to survive first." Wei Yi glared at Butler Ming. "The Viscount doesn't even need to send out an army. He can just send a random Level 3 Transcendent Assassin and we'll be doomed."

"Yes, so we must avoid its sharp edge and cannot build our territory in the Black Forest."

"Master, if we don't build our territory in the Black Forest, then where should we build it? There's no better place."

"There is no better place, but there are plenty of worse places." Wang Bufu said, picking up the pen and drawing another circle on the map.

When Butler Ming saw this circle, his eyes almost popped out of his head: "Ah! Here?"

"Yes, it's right here, the Dead Silence Wetlands. This is the border between the Stag Duchy, the Eagle Kingdom, and the Rock Beach Duchy. It's a no-man's land. There are no garrisons, no caravans, and no adventurers coming here. It's a true dead zone."

You never thought we'd end up here, and neither did Lincoln. It's called risking your life."

"Put your life on the line and survive?" Butler Ming shuddered upon hearing this. "This place is so close to the Land of Chaos. What if monsters attack? If no caravans come, what will happen to the food and resources?
Young Master, be careful, don't die before you have a chance to 'regenerate'."

Weiyi also strongly objected: "Let's not talk about what will happen after the territory is established. Just how we get to the Dead Silence Wetland is a big problem.

Even if we travel day and night, it will take at least a month to get from here to the Dead Silence Wetlands. We'll have to pass through the Holy Griffin Kingdom and a large, high-risk area adjacent to the Chaos Land. We might die before we even reach the destination, without Lincoln's help.

Kate, this is a really bad idea."

"When did I say we'd go now?" Wang Bufu explained with a smile, "Of course I know it's not easy to reach the Dead Silence Wetlands and gain a foothold there, so I decided to divide the plan into two steps.

The first step is to find a location close to the land of chaos, first capture the village fire, and then develop people's livelihood and military strength.

The second step is to wait until the village fire grows into a town fire. Then I will remove the town fire and go to the land of death with my subjects and the troops who have formed their own combat capability.

So the first step is to survive, cross the Black Forest, head to the Sunset Mountains, and build a village in the Sunset Mountains."

"Sunset Mountains..." Butler Ming looked at the red circle that appeared on the map again, and seemed to be thinking about it. "Compared to the Black Forest, the Sunset Mountains are too close to the Land of Chaos. They are very dangerous and far away from the trade routes. We have to find a lot of supplies on our own.

But the mineral resources in the Sunset Mountains are richer than those in the Black Forest, so it is still a good location."

"Well, since Uncle Ming thinks it's feasible, then it's settled. We'll first settle in the Sunset Mountains, and then move on to the Dead Silence Wetlands!"

Seeing that Wang was unwilling to accept the decision and was about to draw his own conclusion, Wei Yi refused to do so.

"Wait a moment, I have a question. There are so many places far away from our Gru Territory, why did you choose the Deadly Wetlands? Kate, are you hiding a secret from us?"

Why? Of course, it’s because the Dead Silence Wetlands is so awesome! Wang Bufu thought to himself.

The main storyline of the first chapter of the previous life's "God's World" is the rise of the Elf Empire.

Five years before the game was launched, an elf adventurer named Mango accidentally found the most amazing natural wonder in the entire world of Gods, the Fountain of Miracles, in the Land of Death.

Relying on the [Fountain of Miracles], he accumulated several extremely elite troops in just five years, completed the internal unification of the elves, became the Elf King, and announced the establishment of the Elf Kingdom in the Dead Land.

You know, there are three human countries around the Land of Death. How can they allow foreigners to establish a country on their own territory?
So the three countries joined forces to try to suppress the Elf Kingdom.

According to their thinking, wouldn't it be easy for three human nations to defeat a newly established small shrimp like you? Before the battle even started, those nobles were already planning ten thousand ways to enjoy their beautiful elf captives.

When the fight actually broke out, they were stunned. "Oh my god, there's Old Six!" The young Elf King had no moral principles, coming prepared and attacking their three old kingdoms.

Mango, the Elf King, who occupied the Fountain of Miracles and developed secretly for five years, defeated three powerful human countries in just one year.

The Rock Beach Duchy was destroyed. The Bucks Duchy's capital was lost, and it was forced to cede large tracts of land and retreat to the north to survive. Only the Eagle Duchy escaped the disaster because it realized something was wrong and married its queen to the Elf King Mango.

Of course, after the Eagle Queen married the Elf Queen, the final power of the Eagle Kingdom fell into Mango's hands. The Eagle Kingdom, which had no autonomy at all, became a vassal of the Elf Empire, which was no different from a destroyed country.

"In the previous life, the Elven Empire was so powerful that it was never conquered by players. Naturally, no player knew the specific capabilities of the Miracle Spring, and the official authorities refused to disclose them, much to the players' regret. Countless speculations about the Miracle Spring's capabilities abounded on the forums, with many differing opinions. However, all players agreed that the Miracle Spring was the most awe-inspiring natural wonder in the entire Shen Gu Continent.

It doesn't matter. Let me make up for the regrets of the previous players. As long as I take the Fountain of Miracles before the Elf King, I won't have to fight the Elf Empire. Perfect.

The Elf King has only been in control of the Fountain of Miracles for five years, yet he's become so powerful. There's no reason I can't be that powerful. If I had occupied the Fountain of Miracles for ten years, the Shen Gu Continent would have to change its name to the Bu Fu Continent.

Of course, Wang Bufu had no way of explaining this to Weiyi. Facing Weiyi's question, he could only calmly answer, "I found a treasure map in the Command Academy library. It says there's a treasure in the Dead Silence Wetlands."

"The library again? The Commander Academy's library is the legendary Desert King's Treasury? It has everything?" Wei Yi began to grit her teeth. "Kate, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it. Do you think I'm stupid?"

The king refused to obey Shan Ruliu: "Okay, then I won't tell you."

"You!" Wei Yi glared at Wang Bufu. "Humph! The battle is over. I don't need to listen to your orders anymore. If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, don't even think about letting me approve your plan."

"Hey, you told me not to tell it, and now you're not happy if I don't. You're really hard to please." Wang Bufu shrugged and said, "Then let's not approve it. Let's go to the Sunset Mountains first. We can discuss whether to go to the Dead Silence Wetlands after our territory has developed."

Weiyi: ...

She won. She won. She had successfully defeated Kate and stopped her reckless plan. But for some reason, she wasn't happy at all. Instead, she became even angrier.

So Wei Yi glared at Kate with her eyes wide open.

Wang Bufu ignored Wei Yi's little mood and knocked on the table and asked, "The biggest problem now is how do we get through the Black Forest. If we want to get through the Black Forest, we have to fight with the monsters in the Black Forest and deal with the difficult terrain of the Black Forest.

Uncle Ming, how much do you know about the monsters in the Black Forest?

Butler Ming replied hesitantly, "Master, I don't actually know much about the Black Forest. It's just that Master has mentioned this place many times, so I have some impression of it."

"That's troublesome." Wang Bufu knocked his forehead.

He had never been to the Black Forest map in his previous life's game. No, it should be said that when the game was launched, it was unknown whether the Black Forest existed.

He searched through Kate's memories but didn't find much specific information about the Black Forest. However, Kate had a lot of information about the Black Forest in her memory.

No wonder Wei Yi looks down on Kate. Compared with Wei Yi, this guy is really a loser.

"Hmm." At this moment, Wei Yi coughed and said arrogantly: "A useless old man, a useless loser, in the end he still has to rely on me!
I know the situation in the Black Forest very well."

"Oh!" Wang Bufu's eyes lit up: "Tell me quickly."

"You can tell me, but I have one condition. Kate, you have to tell me why you want to go to the Dead Silence Wetlands."

This little girl is so curious.

"Okay, I promise you. But not now," Wang Bufu said perfunctorily, "Because it's difficult to explain. It has something to do with some gossip I heard about the Eagle Kingdom. I'll tell you when I really go there."

Procrastinating, let me think about how to edit it.

Wei Yi looked at Wang Bufu's expression with suspicion, but seeing that Wang Bufu looked frank, she didn't delve into it further.

"Alright then. Let me start by explaining the Black Forest situation. The word 'forest' in 'Black Forest' is very suggestive.

From the outside, the Black Forest looks no different from an ordinary forest, but once you enter it, you will find that you are totally wrong.

The trees that grow in the Black Forest are not trees at all, but giant mushrooms called black umbrellas. Before they mature, the stems of these mushrooms are brown and the caps are green. From a distance, they look like trees, which is very deceptive.

The old man told me that these mushrooms emit a special smell that attracts creatures to eat them. If a creature eats them, it will inevitably become a monster, until its mind is completely devoured by chaos and it becomes a monster.

However, the black umbrella tree is not completely useless. After being sprayed with black powder, the fully mature black umbrella tree will gradually dry and turn into wood. Cutting down the wooded black umbrella tree can produce wood resources, so there is nothing wrong with calling the Black Forest a forest.

The Black Forest is divided into three layers from the outside to the inside: the outer layer, the middle layer and the core layer.

The monsters in the outer layer are mainly ordinary level 1 and ordinary level 2.

The monsters in the middle level range from ordinary level 2 to extraordinary level 1.

The core layer is the most terrifying, and the weakest monsters are all extraordinary level 1."

Wang Bufu asked doubtfully, "It sounds very detailed. Where did you get this information, Weiyi? Is it accurate?"

Wei Yi looked at Wang Bu Fu and said, "I found a book in the library of the Knight Academy. It contains information about the Black Forest."

Wang Bufu laughed: "Haha. That's quite a coincidence. It seems that the library of the Knight Academy is also very interesting."

"Oh!" Butler Ming clapped his hands in frustration. "If I had known that the young master and our daughter loved reading so much, I should have taken all of the master's books with me when I left. I was in such a hurry to leave that I only took the necessary things. Blame it on me, blame it on me."

"Haha." Wang Bufu smiled and shook his head, saying, "Since there are extraordinary monsters in the Black Forest, let's go around it. After we develop in the Sunset Mountains for a while, we will return and conquer the Black Forest."

Wei Yi asked doubtfully, "Beat it down, what do you mean?"

"Of course, we need to clear out all the monsters in the Black Forest and occupy it. The forest's terrain is quite complex and can serve as a strategic buffer zone to buy us time for development."

Wei Yi clearly didn't believe it. "Are you crazy? What are you talking about? If you have the ability to take down the Black Forest with all those Transcendent monsters, then killing Lincoln, who is only a Transcendent Level 2, wouldn't that be easy. Why would you need a strategic buffer zone?"

Wang Bufu smiled and shook his head without further explanation.

The little girl didn't understand. Killing monsters is much easier than killing people.

(End of this chapter)