MC's career as foreign lord

"Welcome to the underground world, human lord from the surface world!" Several individuals, dressed far more elegantly than the other creatures, approached.

Their composition was complex, including humans, dwarves, and a gnome, along with a mushroom-headed being. This diverse group of creatures formed the current social system.

They were invited into a relatively well-preserved city, amidst the ruined buildings. Inside, there were stone tables and chairs, and the group sat down around them.

"After being away for so many years, it seems you've developed even better!" Mosa said.

Zhou Ren sat down in the chair in front of him, while he continued to stand behind the young lord, which made the people in the entire room a little surprised.

Unlike the others, they knew the identity of this lich. As one of the oldest elders in the entire underground world, he possessed powerful means, a kind heart, and terrifying curses.

But now he was standing behind a teenager like a servant, and the meaning of this was self-evident.

Several controllers of the underground towns exchanged glances before selecting a teammate to speak: "May I ask who this lord is…?"

"This is the human lord I have chosen for you," Mosa said, directly shattering the hope in their hearts. "The Earl of the Elven Empire, the controller of an entire wasteland, and your future lord! My master, Lord Zhou Ren!"

"Greetings, Lord!" Hearing Mosa say this, the few people lowered their posture and spoke one after another.

Zhou Ren looked at Mosa, "Tell me about your plan first. I'm new here and may not be familiar with the situation!"

Regarding things he didn't understand, of course he should speak as little as possible. The underground world's lords looked at each other, seemingly unsure of how to begin.

"First, introduce yourselves and your races, so that my master can have an expectation!" Mosa said, setting a simple tone.

The first to speak was the particularly burly dwarf. As a member of the legendary team, he was also a true legendary powerhouse, and appeared to be a shield dwarf warrior.

"I am Moradin, the patriarch of the Shield Dwarves!" he said. "Lord Mosa said you are a lord from the surface world. I wonder if you could spare a piece of land for us to live on?"

"Don't say that. We can talk about that later. Let's clarify your origins first!" Zhou Ren said, he at least had to figure out the people and races before anything else.

The second person to speak was the underground gnome who seemed a little out of place next to the others. He coughed softly, "I am Yalman, the leader of the Underground Gnome Wanderers."

"Why did he only say he is the leader of the wanderers?" Zhou Ren asked slightly, but his voice seemed a little loud and was heard by the others.

"Our gnome race also has an alchemy leader, but he is currently trapped in the laboratory and cannot come out!" Yalman said, his voice slightly sharp and his tone somewhat hurried.

No wonder he was called a wanderer, he really seemed like a scout with maxed-out attribute points, even remembering to hide his body while speaking.

In this world, wanderers are the favorite profession of scouts, because they can easily overcome various obstacles and traps, and can also sense various malicious attacks.

Their survival ability can be said to be maxed out, and even detection spells without divinity cannot detect their existence.

I wonder what kind of abilities a legendary wanderer has?

"Geno, Legendary Monk!" He spoke plainly, one word at a time.

The third person to speak was the seemingly ordinary human, but his profession didn't seem so ordinary. This human was bald—ah, no, he should be called a monk.

"It's actually a human from the Dragon Empire of the Far East!" Zhou Ren said. He had heard of this kind of human long ago, because this was a group of people with extremely similar appearance characteristics to him, pure Easterners with black hair and yellow skin.

It seems that the connectivity of this world is really strong, even humans from the Far East can appear, and still a monk who probably wouldn't find any audience in the entire Elven Kingdom.

"Do you represent the humans of this underground world?" Zhou Ren asked.

"No, I am the only human in this underground world. Those guys didn't appear here!" Geno said.

"Oh!" Zhou Ren nodded. Humans, who are inherently chaotic good, probably wouldn't easily appear here, after all, most of the creatures here are lawful beings.

"Hello, Master of Teacher Mosa! I am the Lich Xander!" Then the lich hidden in the black robe really gave him a big shock.

"Xander? Lich? Are you the lord of which lich underground city?" Zhou Ren complained. The names of people in this world are really random. He met an Odinson before, and now he has encountered a Xander?

"This name was given to me by my teacher. Is there a problem?" Xander seemed a little timid, looking like a magic apprentice.

Zhou Ren shook his head, "No, no problem. I remember, Xander is a very powerful curse mage, and also a very powerful lich. I hope you can reach his level!"

"I will work hard towards my teacher!" Xander said. He was clearly a lich, so why did his voice sound like a passionate teenager?

The last person was the strong man with the mushroom head. He was indeed a little different from those somewhat immature mushroom heads, with a more calm expression, but wearing a mushroom head, it was hard not to laugh.

"My name is Shiitake Ten, the elder of this Myconid tribe!" he said. "I hope you, the human lord, can give us a forest where we can plant mushrooms!"

"I understand roughly!" Zhou Ren imitated Di Qi, touching his chin and nodding. They were really humble enough. Five legends stood here, but could only ask people for a little bit of living space.

"Since Mosa has talked to you, you should also know my conditions!" he said. "Coming to my territory, you must obey my jurisdiction. Only those who are professionals or above can become my subjects, and others can only exist as subordinates!"

"We agree!" Xander said, his words seemed to represent the opinions of the many people present, and they nodded one after another.

"Then the contract is established!" Zhou Ren took out a scroll of contract from his arms. This was a thing he developed himself based on the elven contract. The magical power on it was personally engraved by Mosa. The only difference was the name guaranteed on the scroll.

Naturally, it wasn't Corellon, but Him and Steve. He couldn't name his territory after another god. With people backing him now, he was naturally full of confidence.

This contract had been drafted before they arrived in this territory. Everything had been thoroughly filled in after discussions between them.

Including, but not limited to, the settlement of these races, the allocation of various personnel, and the smoothing of relationships between them.

Of course, the individuals also carefully examined the contract in their hands, as it essentially dictated where they would live for all their years to come.

Soon, they reached a consensus and also raised their questions. "Lord Mosa, I would like to know, is this lord truly your master?"

They looked at Zhou Ren, who was unremarkable in appearance. After all, they didn't have human aesthetics, so it was appropriate that they couldn't appreciate him.

Moreover, this young man didn't possess any astonishing combat power, so they couldn't understand why Mosa, whose combat strength was at the peak of Legend, would recognize the young man as his master?

"I willingly recognize my master as my master. You don't need to worry about that!"

The concerns of this group also made the Lich feel a bit dumbfounded. He originally thought they would be more concerned about issues regarding their place of residence or the survival of their people, but he didn't expect them to focus on this first. Thinking about it, he was actually a little touched.

"Then let me ask!" The first to speak was Mosa's apprentice, Sandru. He seemed to have only just reacted to the fact that his master had suddenly become someone else's servant.

He seemed to have a little trouble accepting it. "Do undead have a dedicated living area?"

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Zhou Ren shook his head. "No, undead don't belong to a race. As long as they don't affect the living, they can live anywhere!"

He answered quickly. There were already some living creatures in his territory, and they lived quite well with the skeletons. As long as no one deliberately stirred up trouble, the difference between the living and the dead was mostly just a psychological barrier.

Mosa had also told him that only the strong could become undead after death. Ordinary people would at most return to dust. Even if they were forcibly raised as skeletons, they wouldn't be able to live for long.

"Can... can I become like teacher?" He suddenly asked shyly, looking at his teacher, who had transformed from a thin, old Lich into a rosy-cheeked elven elder. It would be a lie to say he wasn't envious.

"Hahaha!" Mosa laughed. Finally, someone had noticed his change. He didn't need to pretend to be profound anymore.

Zhou Ren nodded with a smile. "All items will be clearly priced. You can choose to earn money for me in my territory, and then use that money to exchange for those things!"

This was also the reason why he rushed over to gather manpower. The more people there were, the more experience points he could collect, and the more creatures there would be to create items. This would be a very good virtuous cycle.

"Then... can I still continue to learn from teacher?" The young Lich seemed a little timid. He needed to get the permission of the lord in front of him.

"You can continue to learn well. As long as you don't violate the rules of the territory, I won't reject your request to learn. You can also teach some undead to learn, so we'll have more manpower!" Zhou Ren said.

As he spoke, the young Lich seemed very excited and walked to his teacher's side, carefully looking at this face he had never seen before.

Mosa wasn't an elf with a good temper. He was just old now and didn't want to cause too much disturbance, but when he saw the little brat hopping around in front of him, he naturally slapped him without hesitation.

"Ouch!" This time, Sandru was sure that it was his familiar teacher, except that in the past, he only had half a body left and didn't have much strength to hit him. Now that he had recovered, he was also very happy.

Zhou Ren ignored the interaction between the master and apprentice and looked at the remaining four types of creatures in front of him. The easiest to deal with was naturally the human monk, Gano.

He only asked a very brief question, and after receiving Zhou Ren's affirmative answer, he readily signed the scroll.

"Can I get a quiet place to cultivate?"

"Of course, no problem, but you may have to take on apprentices in the future!" Zhou Ren said, and the monk was thus tricked into his camp.

Then there were the three more difficult races, namely the Shield Dwarves, the Myconids, and the Deep Gnomes.

"I wonder how large your territory is, Your Excellency, and whether there is enough underground space for us to live in?" The Deep Gnomes and Shield Dwarves both needed underground caves and caverns as living spaces.

They couldn't live on the surface like ordinary humans. All they wanted was a stable underground environment and a relatively peaceful life.

"If you obey the laws, you can live underground in my territory. As for the area, I have an entire wasteland, about tens of thousands of miles, right?" Zhou Ren wasn't exactly lying.

The Northern Wasteland was originally very large. The area where the elves and orcs bordered was only a small part of it. Even wider were the vast, uninhabited grasslands to the east and west.

However, neither the elves nor the orcs would explore those two sides, because beyond the wild grass, there were only dense forests without a trace and terrifying swamps that even demons were unwilling to go to.

And further on both sides, they connected to the two great seas of the entire continent. Except for the central section, which was the connection point between the orcs and the elves, the remaining areas were all endless wastelands or yellow sands.

This wasn't a particularly fertile area, otherwise the elves wouldn't have given it up so readily. The areas connecting the sea on the other two sides were even more desolate and lifeless. The two groups wanted to compete for only the green land in the center, this area of less than a few thousand miles.

Because this area had oases, forests, grasslands, deserts, rivers, and also the upper junction point.

But for underground races, it didn't matter. They only needed the underground area, so this wasteland might be their best choice.

Zhou Ren could be said to be a hundred times confident. "I can allocate you an area that is even larger than your current territory as an activity space, but in the same way, you need to work for me!"

The face of a capitalist was revealed. He needed a group of diligent workers, and whether it was gnomes or dwarves, they were all talented races of the continent.

"Your will!" The two nodded in agreement. The generous terms of the contract exceeded their expectations.