The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

"Siegfried's territory is in complete chaos right now. If you don't intend to intervene, I'll have no choice but to take matters into my own hands and resolve the situation there."

"You can interfere in the affairs of Siegfried's territory. But no matter what, Siegfried's territory is a viscountry of Muspelheim. Do you think Brook will allow you to meddle in things there without permission?"

“I’ve corresponded with Brooke. Although he was still very impolite in his letter, he doesn’t object to the matter. In addition, he is currently purging his own earldom because he discovered that he also has Evangelines’s people in his earldom.”

"It seems that he has transformed from a good-for-nothing brat into a proper nobleman! At the very least, he knows how to eliminate the dangers around him."

At this point, Lothric pulled a small notebook from his inside pocket and, while flipping through it, said to Lu Ming and Grand Duke Reys, "Because of Odysseus's purge of the Evil Spirit Church, the entire Erebus is now conducting various purges against it. Most members of the Evil Spirit Church dare not approach Erebus anymore and have fled to other duchies. However, according to our investigation, in the Duchy of Yaru, a beast-eared woman named Falcels is gathering the Evil Spirit Church members who have fled to Yaru and is conducting human modifications somewhere within the Duchy of Yaru, combining them with certain combat puppets, preparing to launch a coup and seize control of the Duchy of Yaru. Moreover, these people have somewhat ambiguous ties with the Aifa Empire and may defect to the Elven race during the war!"

“Because it’s in the Duchy of Yaru, we can’t interfere, we can only be careful of them, right? Ah~ it’s really annoying~!” Hearing Lothric’s words, Grand Duke Rael’s lay down on the sofa and said helplessly.

Meanwhile, Lu Ming, who was soothing the child, said, "The situation in the Duchy of Yaru is still uncertain. If the Duchy of Yaru is really taken over by these evil spirit churches, we, Tartarus, and Amp will likely have to fight the Duchy of Yaru first before going to fight the elves!"

“Yes!” Lothric nodded slightly.

Suddenly, Grand Duke Raelus had an idea and immediately said to Lu Ming and Lothric, "What do you think about us using shadow creatures to enter the Shadow World and then wipe out those members of the Evil Spirit Church from here? Feram and I have secretly trained a small army, but they are all swordsmen. They should be able to accomplish this task!"

But as soon as Duke Rael finished speaking, Earl of Lothric, who was acting as an advisor, couldn't help but glance at Duke Rael and said, "You and Duke Feramm secretly spent more than ten thousand gold coins to do this without telling me and Earl Winsland?"

"Forehead......"

“Over ten thousand coins are enough to mobilize an army of around seven thousand. For elite troops, that many coins could train about three thousand men. These three thousand, combined with shadow creatures, could essentially prevent the members of the Evil Spirit Church from using Shadow Magic. As long as the people of the Duchy of Yaru take the threat posed by the Evil Spirit Church seriously, they can almost certainly crush them before they can launch a coup!” After careful calculation, Lu Ming gave his opinion on the Grand Duke's proposal: “Therefore, I think the Grand Duke's idea is feasible!”

Upon hearing this, Lothric stopped worrying about the Grand Duke not informing him of his advisor's actions before recklessly spending money. Instead, he picked up a pen and began scribbling in his notebook, even dragging Count Vlad, Lu Ming's father-in-law, along to refine the plan to eradicate the evil cult members of the Duchy of Yaru.

Soon, Archbishop Enplo and Viscount Ozmoz joined in, which displeased Lu Ming's mother-in-law. After all, it felt a bit strange to be planning such things during the New Year. However, she ultimately didn't disturb them. On one hand, they were nobles and needed to think about these matters in preparation for next year's great war; on the other hand, Lu Ming's persuasion and the smiling faces of the three adorable children made it unnecessary to say anything unpleasant to those people.

Even though his little grandson wasn't here... (To be continued.)

Chapter 73 - The Azure Crystal

In the afternoon, Sham, Chimera, and Yorshka, accompanied by their female knights, ran around several workshops in Odyssey City.

Meanwhile, the gem that Philna and Mena sent back had been cut and polished. It was a deep blue gem, symbolizing elegance and wisdom, and would be perfect as a small embellishment in the gift to the lord.

Odysseus's territory is now one of the wealthiest in Erebus, second only to the Grand Duke's city of Agamemnon. Therefore, giving a wealthy lord like Lu Ming expensive gifts might not be appreciated, but a gift filled with heartfelt sentiment is entirely different. After all, a sincere heart is priceless.

Besides, even if Lu Ming doesn't like the product after it's made, he can't say so, otherwise the violent faction in his family will beat him to death!

Perhaps finding it amusing, the Grand Duke's two fiancées and Mena's two sisters also joined the group. Of course, they weren't preparing gifts for Lu Ming, but rather for their own fiancés and the two barons of Odysseus's territory whom they secretly admired. They were simply following Sham and the others to see what their ideas were and to get some inspiration.

Because Sham was in charge when Lu Ming was not in Odyssey City, many craftsmen in the workshop rushed out of their homes and returned to the workshop to await orders after hearing that she had come to their workshop.

Such prestige made the Grand Duke's two fiancées, Shumira and Myra, somewhat envious. Unfortunately, Raelus could not grant them such power, as he didn't have any magic schools to oversee. Furthermore, when Lu Ming was in Odyssey City, he also firmly held power in his own hands and wouldn't delegate the management of the city and territory to Sham.

Watching the artisans in various areas of the workshop crafting parts for gifts for their sweethearts, Shumira gradually grew bored. She turned to Chimera, who was also waiting for others to finish their parts, and asked, "I heard that my brother-in-law handed over management to Sham, the caravan to Count Philna, the army and guard to the two Lilies, and the city's church, magic school, and some shops to Yorshka, Mirar, and Mena respectively. So, what did you and Duke Ramanlas get?"

"Um..." Hearing Shumira's question, which seemed to be deliberately provoking her, Chimera, mindful of being Grand Duke Rells's fiancée, thought for a moment before replying, "The city park now belongs to me and Ramanlas..."

"Sigh~! Isn't that a losing business? The parks are all free to enter! And they even pay people to clean them!" Shumira looked at Chimera with some curiosity and asked bluntly without thinking.

Chimera smiled somewhat awkwardly and said, "It's alright... Ramanlas and I both have shares in the honey and sugar business of the three-in-one beehive in the park, so we can get some money from it."

"So, before Duke Ramanlas joined, these shares belonged to you alone. But after our Duke came to Odysseus, you had to give up a portion of your shares to her?" Shumira suddenly leaned closer and asked with a somewhat malicious smile.

Chimera knew that everything she said would sound different coming out of her mouth, so she quickly shook her head and said, "You can't say that. Besides the honey business, we also have shares in several other businesses!"

But at that moment, Sham appeared behind Chimera without her noticing, suddenly hugged her, and gently stroked her exposed chocolate-colored skin with his fingers, asking with a sinister smile, "When did he give you and the Duke shares in other businesses?"

Instantly, the Chimera was so frightened that it dared not move, and the Shumira was also frightened away.

Watching Shumira run towards Yulsikka and Myra, looking back with a panicked expression, Sham chuckled in Chimera's ear, "Next time she comes to cause trouble, just ask her in return, 'Does the Grand Duke like her more, or Myra more? Understand?"

After saying that, Sham kissed the chimera on the neck and went back to the craftsmen to check on their work progress, leaving the chimera, whose face and ears were flushed red, there to be looked at by Shumira with disbelief.

After a while, Chimera finally came to her senses and said to everyone, "I'm going back now," before heading back to the lord's manor with a female knight from the lord's guard.

After Chimera left, Shumira hurriedly said to Yul Sica, "Just...just...just...just now, Sham..."

Yu'er Sika glanced at Xiumila indifferently, interrupting her hurried words, and said, somewhat feeling that Xiumila was making a fuss, "I saw it, just a kiss on the neck. It's nothing."

"Sigh~! This is nothing?" Shumira stared wide-eyed at Yul Sica in disbelief.

In response, Yu'er Sica grinned mischievously, suddenly hugging young Myra tightly. She gently stroked Myra's neck with her pale fingers, smiling like a scheming old man, and asked Shumira, "Want to taste... Myra's skin, body, and kisses..."

Before Yul Sica could finish her joke, Shumira and Myra's faces turned bright red.

Upon seeing this, You'er Xika couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Schumira and Myra then realized they had been tricked. But what could they say?

If it weren't for Shumira's boredom and stirring up trouble, this whole thing wouldn't have happened.

So the two of them could only sit sullenly on the chairs prepared for guests in the workshop, waiting for the craftsmen to finish their work so that they could give the gifts to their sweethearts that evening.

However, Sham and Yul's jokes also opened a door that shouldn't have been opened, forcing Grand Duke Rells to resist temptations many times greater than before, gritting his teeth, ignoring Schmira and Myra, and going to sleep until he turned sixteen...

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While everyone was preparing for the New Year, in Qiram, the capital of the Duchy of Yaru, Falcels and her men were meticulously preparing for a coup and rebellion. They planned to launch the rebellion in February of the new year, kill the Grand Duke of Yaru, and make Falcels the new Grand Duke, using Yaru as a stepping stone for her to seize the throne!

The problem is that she doesn't have enough men at her disposal to successfully kill the Grand Duke of Yaru, and she might even be wiped out herself!

So she is now frantically recruiting people, bringing almost everyone from the evil cult that escaped from Erebus under her command.

These people were nothing compared to Yaru's elite. But before coming to Yaru, Farsels had obtained a forbidden secret technique circulating in the dark areas of Amp from some family-based magicians in the city of Anubai in Amp: the method for creating half-puppet cyborgs.

These monsters, possessing human intelligence yet controllable like puppets, are tools used for assassination and murder in the dark areas of Ampu.

Their combat power is extremely high; ordinary armies simply cannot defeat an army composed of these monsters. Moreover, even if they fail, the person controlling them can detonate them using contract magic, turning them into human bombs.

Although doing so resulted in the evil cult abandoning its cooperation with her, even though her body contained a part of Eveness's soul.

But did Falcaires care about these cultists of the Church of Evil Spirits? Did Evanes care?

They didn't care. Eveness was a madwoman consumed by revenge and power, and among those who possessed a part of her soul, apart from Yorshka, none of them were rational! So they didn't care about the members of the evil cult or their other subordinates; whether they lived or died was none of their business.

Moreover, if any one of them succeeds, they will immediately annihilate all these people, leaving no future trouble!

Standing in the puppet modification room, watching her subordinates transform the members of the Evil Spirit Church into half-human puppet monsters, and listening to their screams, the beast-eared girl, Faelsel, smiled. She saw that she was about to succeed, first destroying Yaru, then joining forces with the elves of Aifa to conquer Miracaesar and ascend the throne of the Miracaesar Emperor!

At that moment, a member of the evil cult, who was about to be transformed into a monster soldier, suddenly broke free from the restraints of Falcels' men, ran to Falcels, knelt down with a thud, and said to her, "My lady, please spare me! I know how to make Bishop Ston's Box of the Undead! With it, you can obtain a large number of weapons, armor, and various consumables! Most importantly, you can obtain a large number of soldiers! Very, very powerful soldiers!"

Upon hearing this, Falcears immediately stopped his men from dragging the member of the evil cult away and said with a smile, "Tell me, what is this 'Box of the Undead' you're talking about?"

The man turned around, glancing fearfully at Fal'Selsl's subordinate, before saying to Fal'Selsl, "Reporting to you, sir, the Undead Box is made from the ashes, souls, dragon scales, and dust of abandoned temples of the undead! After being nourished by the flesh and blood of nobles, small items related to the undead can be placed inside, thus opening a portal to the continent where the undead reside! Just like Bishop Ston, who opened a portal to Irithyll of the Boreal Valley!"

"Irithyll of the Boreal Valley? Isn't that Lu Ming's hometown? You actually went to your family's hometown on someone else's territory. Aren't you courting death?" A mage who was reforming the Church of Evil Spirits couldn't help but turn around and tease him after hearing what the other person said.

But as soon as he turned around, he was glared at fiercely by Falcaires, and had to turn back to continue his work.

When the member of the evil cult heard his companion's screams again, his mental defenses crumbled instantly. He frantically clung to Fal'Selst's leg, crying and begging, and pulled a ring inlaid with a dark blue gem from his pocket. He said to Fal'Selst, "My lord! My lord! This was given to me by Bishop Ston before he went to Irithyll. It's said to make a mage's magic more powerful! Moreover, it can activate the Box of the Undead to open a portal. I offer it to you; please don't let those people turn me into one of those things. The gods will not accept the souls of those beings..."

Taking the ring from the cultist who was clutching his legs and weeping, Falcels then extended a hand and lightly touched the man's arms, instantly severing them with magic! In a flash, blood spurted out, staining Falcels' clothes crimson!

Adorned with blood, the alluring yet terrifying Falcaires glanced indifferently at the cultist of the Evil Spirit Church who was wailing in agony over his severed arm. She ordered one of her subordinates, "Turn him into a puppet as soon as possible, and remember to extract his memories."

"Yes, sir!" After responding, Falcels's subordinate immediately took action, dragging the cultist whose arm had been severed by Falcels's magic onto the transformation platform, where he was dismembered by the puppets and transformed into a half-puppet monster.

After his men dragged the man away, Falcels left the place and went back to his room to change out of his blood-splattered clothes.

If anyone else were to enter at this time, they would find that on Falcelles' back, there are sharp spines that are only found on the backs of reptiles, growing out of her spine.

Moreover, more dragon scales appeared on her arms...

Looking at himself in the mirror, Falcears frowned. After a while, he looked at something on the bedside table that resembled a dragon eggshell and said with great dissatisfaction, "Why is it that only you can have happiness? Why do we have to become deformed monsters? Yulshka! I, Falcears, will definitely uncover all your secrets!"

Having said that, Falcaires put on a new set of clothes, then left the room and went to a hotel in the city to meet a very important person—someone who had successfully brought the half-puppet monster into the Grand Duke's mansion!

However, after she left, a ghost suddenly appeared in the room.

He was a man dressed in noble clothes, and although he had become a ghost, the weariness on his face remained unchanged. In life, he was a handsome nobleman, and in death, he was a powerful ghost.

Glancing at the door that Falcels had closed, he watched as the ghost took a vial of potion from his body and placed it on Falcels' bedside table.

Gently tracing the fragments of eggshell, the ghost sighed softly, "Evenes, you finally relinquished a part of your power and gained happiness. Why did you have to destroy it? If you had listened to me back then, we'd probably be happy now... just like You'er Sica and Lu Ming..."

Then, Ghost picked up the pen from the bedside table and wrote down her thoughts on Falcaires's plan and the shortcomings she saw in a notebook, just like in the past, to help her succeed.

Even knowing she was wrong, the ghost remained stubbornly unrepentant, or rather, unwilling to realize it...

Suddenly, footsteps sounded from outside the door. The ghost glanced at the door, smiled helplessly, and then disappeared.

The next moment, seemingly forgetting something, Falcaires suddenly pushed open the door and walked to the wardrobe. He took out a ring with a roaring dragon from a small box inside and put it on his ring finger.

Just as she was about to leave, she saw the bottle of medicine on the bedside table.

After a slight pause, Falcaires walked over, drank the potion in one gulp, and then went out again.

But before leaving, Falcaires, who never said thank you, surprisingly thanked him quietly.

"Thank you..." (To be continued.)

Chapter 74 - Gifts and Declaration of War

As evening approached, Sham and the others returned to the lord's manor, just in time for dinner.

As for the craftsmen who rushed to finish the work for them, each of them received a reward of ten gold coins, which was equivalent to almost a year's salary for these craftsmen! It was even equivalent to two years' salary for some craftsmen! So these people did not complain about rushing to finish the work. On the contrary, they were very happy to make a lot of money and go home to make their wives and children happy.

However, Lu Ming was somewhat unhappy. After all, today was the last day of the year, how could Sham and the others leave all the guests to him, Lily, and Ramanlas?

But ultimately, they were busy preparing gifts for themselves, so he couldn't really say anything. Although he had already prepared gifts for them and the children well in advance...

At the banquet, Lu Ming, who was seated in the host's seat because the Grand Duke had no official business and was a guest, stood up with his wine glass in hand and said to the Grand Duke, the others, and his family, "Today is the last day of the year, and tomorrow marks the beginning of a new year. So I wish Miracaisa a better year ahead!"

Immediately, the others raised their glasses and echoed, "May Miracatha become even better!"

After Miracatha finished her grand and solemn blessings, everyone began to enjoy the countless delicacies at the banquet.

Compared to other noble families, the Lu Ming and Hatu families focused on the exquisiteness of the dishes rather than the quantity at their banquets. However, today, being the last day of the year, the number of dishes at the dinner was outrageously large—a hundred times more extravagant than most other lavish noble families!

The meat chops on everyone's plates were made from wyverns or bipedal dragons that posed a threat to Odysseus's territory. These were considered precious alchemical materials outside, but at Lu Ming's family's banquet, they were just ordinary meat chops.

If the steaks alone are this luxurious, then we can only imagine the grilled thunderbird legs, fried frosty crocodile meat slices, giant squid balls, land-based king crab, deep-sea blue-striped dragonfish and other such delicacies!

It could be said that most of the things on the table and plates were things that even the nobles of the capital wouldn't dare to believe! But today, Grand Duke Rael and his entourage were eating at Lu Ming's place.

Looking at the dishes on the table, Grand Duke Rael had to admit that, under Philna's control, the Lu family's caravan had spread its footprint throughout Miracaissa. None of these items originated from the same place; he could even spot some unique ingredients and spices from Darkaefa.

Grand Duke Rael can confidently say that if the state didn't restrict the caravans under Philner's command, her caravans would likely have traversed the entirety of Pru. Philner would be unimaginably wealthy then!

Unfortunately, the royal family imposes numerous restrictions on any noble's caravan; otherwise, Lu Ming's assets wouldn't only rank him among the Grand Dukes who painstakingly amassed wealth with only three caravans.

However, now is not the time to think about these things. If he doesn't eat soon, his food will be taken away by Shumira and Myra!

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After eating and drinking their fill, the group watched a song and dance performance specially prepared for Lu Ming by an opera house in the city. Finally, around 10 o'clock, they took a shower and went back to their rooms to rest.