MC's career as foreign lord

Just as Zhou Ren was diligently working on his territory, in Pine Leaf Town, a group of mercenaries also comfortably walked out of the town hall.

Werner, holding a bag of gold coins in his hand, raised it directly and shouted, "Alright, lads, let's go to the tavern and divide the spoils!"

"Yeah! Hooray!" The mercenaries around him immediately cheered.

For these mercenaries who licked blood from their blades, nothing stimulated them more than tangible gold coins.

Werner was also very excited. This time, the income was quite substantial. He was finally close to saving enough money to undergo his warrior class advancement!

Class advancement was a major event for any trainee professional. Once he successfully advanced, it would mean he possessed superhuman strength and could participate in more dangerous but also more lucrative industries!

Then, he saw the clerk and the town chief who had just settled their accounts walking over together, talking as they walked.

"Viscount, according to the information we have, the person who bought the land here yesterday might be a professional, and very likely a professional mage!"

Tetlock, Werner certainly knew him. Viscount Locke's name was well-known throughout the Val City area. He was one of the few humans to be ennobled for military service, and this was the first time in this frontier region near the elves!

Upon hearing this news, the viscount's face clearly showed joy, "A professional? Really? If he could settle here, that would be wonderful!"

"Viscount, since he bought a piece of land, he intends to settle down. He might even want to build his own mage tower here!" the clerk said confidently.

Locke nodded, "Where is his territory? We can pay him a visit in a couple of days!"

"Viscount, wouldn't that seem too hasty?" the clerk asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Hasty? Do you know that besides gnolls, kobolds have also appeared in the wilderness recently?" Viscount Locke said.

The clerk was shocked, "Kobolds? Doesn't that mean..."

The two walked further away, not afraid of their words being overheard by others. They were already planning to announce this matter, and besides, in this world, these races were inherently restless.

Werner, upon hearing this, naturally turned pale. He wasn't one of those ignorant townspeople, nor a crude mercenary, but a nobleman from a declining family.

Whenever kobolds appeared in groups and started to band together, it usually meant one thing!

That was the existence of dragonkin, draconic creatures, or even dragons!

Kobolds were very snobbish dragonkin creatures. Although they were called kobolds, they actually had a thin bloodline of true dragons. Generally, when they gathered, it meant they were driven by a bloodline creature.

If it were a half-dragon or a wyvern, that would be fine, but if it were a true dragon, then that would be...

Werner hurried back. If a dragon really came, he should consider taking his men and leaving. Ordinary humans couldn't contend with a dragon. Not even Pine Leaf Town, let alone Val City, could.

Only those cities and kingdoms with high-level professionals or even legendary professionals had the power to contend with dragons!

"If gnolls and kobolds were to invade this kingdom, wouldn't that mean..." Werner thought of Zhou Ren, the mage he had met who was most friendly to the common people, "His territory would be impacted!"

However, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, "He's a high and mighty professional, how would he care about our situation?"

He left. Although a dragon might come, whether it was building a dragon's nest or gathering forces, it should take time. Although this place was a frontier, it was still the frontier of the Silver Moon Empire. If it really wanted to cause slaughter, it would have to consider whether it would suffer retaliation from the Church of Corellon.

So, whether it was the town chief or Werner, they were actually pretending to be anxious. According to a dragon's sense of time, it would be fine even if it came back in ten years, indicating it hadn't slept well.

They had plenty of time to arrange everything that would follow.

On the other side, Old Ford also welcomed his true master, an extremely beautiful high elf girl, with light blue eyes, snow-white skin, and long golden hair. She was simply a beauty!

But such a beautiful girl, whether it was the middle-aged man or the waiter, didn't seem to want to look at her. Instead, they stood aside with great awe, seemingly afraid to even speak.

The golden-haired girl picked up the small lighter with great interest, "Is this the most interesting toy you've collected during this time?"

The middle-aged man nodded, "Yes, Lady Antinoya!"

"The fire of a kineticist mage, the lightning of a transmuter mage, plus a little something from an alchemist? It's really interesting!" She said, but didn't make any movements, "Compared to this little gadget, I'm more interested in the person who took out this thing!"

"Lady Antinoya, that should be a human mage. Although he didn't show his face, there haven't been many people in town during this time. We can help you investigate!" The young waiter hurriedly said, not even daring to raise his head, bowing deeply.

"Is that so? In the town!" Antinoya said, "Then never mind, I'll go find him myself!"

As she spoke, she disappeared in the next second, leaving only the two people looking at each other. Then, they packed up their things, carefully placed the lighter in a storage box, and opened the door that was originally sealed with magic.

Old Ford reopened for business. For some reason, everyone in the alley seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and they also opened their doors one after another, seemingly wanting to dispel the previous tense atmosphere.

At this time, Zhou Ren was looking at the house in front of him with a headache.

Yesterday, he had planned everything well, leaving enough different spaces, including the kitchen, dining room, bedroom, workshop, and storage room. Other than the bedroom he had already created, everything else was actually just data on paper.

Then, when he was about to continue building the house, the problem came.

It seemed that because the stones were different, the stones he was using now were dug from the nearby hill and were gray-black cobblestones.

The stones he used yesterday were produced by breaking some abandoned buildings on the wasteland when he was clearing the wasteland, and the color was dark green.

Now, these two colors of stones were mixed together, and it looked awkward no matter how you looked at it, just like using mud and cobblestones as walls when building a house. (MC players: Stop, stop, my blood pressure is rising)

Sighing, Zhou Ren continued the work in his hands. For him, this difference was still acceptable. He could just replace it later.

"Wait, wait, I'm confusing myself. These stones can't be exchanged. Wouldn't it be better if I exchanged the stones from yesterday?" Zhou Ren patted his head, feeling like he had fallen into a misunderstanding.

He quickly raised his pickaxe and removed the entire foundation he had laid yesterday, leaving it suspended in mid-air. Then, he replaced it with the black stones he had just mined. With this, the entire building's style and tone were perfect!

Zhou Ren nodded in satisfaction, seemingly indulging in his own design. He had already built quite a bit of his box. Besides expanding the bedroom, he also brought water in from outside, directing it perfectly into the kitchen through a specific angle.

The space between the kitchen and bedroom was planned as a living-dining room and a bathroom. A simple three-room apartment appeared here. Of course, in reality, this house was just one matchbox turned into three.

But as an architectural master (an employee dissatisfied with matchboxes), Zhou Ren had already started planning the next decorations.

He first made some simple wooden steps and trapdoors. He then took two metal ingots and placed them diagonally to make shears. He ran to the distant forest and cut down some leaves as decorations around the house.

Then, through the interaction between the leaves and trapdoors, he successfully created a green plant landscape at the entrance. Next, he made the wooden steps into a staircase, forming stairs outside the room and opening up the space on the second floor for temporary use.

"Let's leave it like this for now!" Zhou Ren said. He would definitely continue to expand the house's area in the future. Maybe he could replicate a Woodland Mansion. As for now, after putting up railings on the second floor, it could be considered temporarily complete.

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Zhou Ren moved the boxes from the bedroom to the second floor. Anyway, the things in the boxes wouldn't spoil. While he didn't have much stuff, he should quickly organize it. If he had too much stuff later, it would probably be difficult to organize.

As an MC organizing master, Zhou Ren felt this deeply. When there were few things at the beginning, it was convenient to use them without needing to organize. But when there were many things, it was too troublesome to organize, so he was even less willing to organize.

This caused a serious consequence: the more things there were, the less he wanted to organize. This vicious cycle made all work extremely slow and wasted most of the time searching for things.

Zhou Ren had spent a full four hours to re-categorize all the things and put them away properly. So, in a painful reflection, he secretly vowed to categorize things first next time, no matter what.

So even though he didn't have much stuff now, Zhou Ren still followed the rules of the warehouse and placed more than twenty large wooden boxes on the second floor.

In fact, the crafting method for boxes and furnaces is the same: eight blocks are placed in a circle on the workbench, and then they are combined. But even so, Zhou Ren used up almost a third of his wood. Adding the wood he just used to build the house, his wood was exhausted all at once. It was really much faster than he imagined!

Zhou Ren made a few more wooden signs and put his things into them by category. Then, he walked down the stairs and saw the still-missing window openings.

"Let's use trapdoors as windows for now, and replace them when we have glass," Zhou Ren thought, already holding some trapdoors in his hand. He sealed the originally empty windows, and the room immediately darkened.

He had to place torches in various key locations. Now that he thought about it, it seemed like he couldn't make anything if he didn't have enough wood!

Zhou Ren touched his chin and took out the wool and leather from his backpack. Thinking about the things he just bought, the most expensive should be these animal furs. After all, whether it was meat or metal, the quantity was actually not much, only these furs could be considered a huge quantity.

Zhou Ren had never forgotten his biggest need. Besides food and clothing, the most important thing was, of course, sleeping.

Although he slept well last night, the days of grabbing a handful of leaves first thing in the morning were actually not very comfortable. He wanted to make a bed!

Three pieces of wool were placed in a row, and three wooden planks were placed in a row. A white wooden bed was made, but it seemed to be only one meter wide.

Zhou Ren shook his head and made another bed. Then, he put away the wooden steps from yesterday and placed the two beds there.

It was really a very strange experience. Two beds that looked hard and seemed to be made of wood turned into soft cashmere bedding the moment they touched the ground.

Not only was there no peculiar smell, but it was also particularly comfortable and cozy, making people feel like they would fall asleep the next second when they lay on it.

But at this moment, a force suddenly appeared on the bed, directly bouncing him up and onto the ground, preventing him from lying down.

Zhou Ren instantly woke up. Now was not a good time to sleep. The sun was still hanging in the sky, although it was blue, it also meant that it was still early.

He rolled over from under the bed. The wooden steps that were taken down would not be wasted. Placed in the restaurant, they were good chairs. He operated again, made two wooden fences, and made two wooden pedals. By placing the pedals on the railings, he could form a simple table, and now the restaurant was also ready.

Zhou Ren then took a pile of saplings, a shovel, an axe, and a pickaxe and went out. He was going to make a tree farm. In the early stages, wood was never enough, so a tree farm was actually very necessary.

Now the outside of the house looked much more comfortable and tidy than yesterday. Whether it was the leveled ground or the farmland that had already shown some vitality, it seemed much more pleasing to the eye than the previous desolation.

Zhou Ren's eyes lit up. He seemed to have found a place to plant trees.

It was mentioned earlier that his house was still a short distance from the road, and the farmland was directly opposite the house. The two areas were actually equidistant from the river and the road, so could he build a road leading to the town and the river?

The answer was definitely yes. The road settings in MC were actually very interesting. After using a shovel to pat off the lawn on the grass, you could get a grass-green path, and there would be a slight bonus to movement speed on this path.

This action didn't require much physical strength. Zhou Ren quickly completed the construction of the road from the riverside to the door and through the house, building a four-block-wide road to the door. This way, he could plant trees on both sides of the road, not only beautifying the road but also serving as a tree planting area.

"Hey! I'm simply a genius!" Zhou Ren muttered to himself.