The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

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Sitting in his military tent, Lu Ming ate in silence. Directly opposite him sat Ramanlas.

The two hadn't spoken since morning. In the morning, Ramanlas didn't want to talk to Lu Ming, but now it was the opposite.

Looking at her husband, who seemed to be giving her the silent treatment, Ramanlas was on the verge of collapse in the silence. She desperately wanted Lu Ming to do something to her, even just hit or scold her. So she spoke up: "I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have distrusted you, shouldn't have replaced those people with my own, and shouldn't have joined forces with Tures to undermine your power... So... so please say a few words to me, okay? Even if you hit me or scold me, please!"

Hearing this, Lu Ming put the plate aside, looked at Ramanlas's tear-streaked face, and said, "I know what you're thinking. We've only been together for a very short time. We don't really know each other. So it's normal that you don't trust me. But we're on the battlefield. If you want to throw a tantrum, you should consider the situation! You replaced my men with your own, and together with Tures, you sidelined me, Lothric, and Mike, causing so many people to die here, in this battle that was practically meaningless. You need to know that Yaru is located in my..." "We are inside Miracaissa, while we, Erepos, are outside. During the summer invasion of the Aphrodite Empire, we, Erepos, along with Tartarus and Ampu, were among the first duchies to join the resistance. Now, Erepos' elite forces have suffered heavy losses, and our new army, Yggdrasil, has been almost entirely wiped out. There simply isn't enough time for us to train so many soldiers again! Nor can anyone recruit so many soldiers without disrupting our agriculture and supply lines! Therefore, Ramaras Unos, if Erepos falls to the Aphrodite Empire, you and Tures will be guilty!"

Hearing Lu Ming's words, Ramanlas was very sad, because Lu Ming and Lothric had never sidelined her, but she and Toures had sidelined them, causing losses that exceeded what Erebus could currently accept.

But just then, she suddenly heard Lu Ming say, "Now that it's already happened, I don't want to blame you anymore. I'll handle things, so don't worry. But from now on, I don't think I can give you command of the army anymore. Because you've been devoured by power, just like those people in the royal family!"

After a moment of silence, Ramanlas nodded, indicating that she understood. She then walked to Lu Ming's side and sat down beside him. She had made up her mind to relinquish all power and wholeheartedly allow Lu Ming to arrange her life. At least this way, she and her child would be safe. Unlike when she arranged things herself, which was full of mistakes.

Pulling his wife, whose eyes were still wet with tears, into his arms, Lu Ming gently stroked her to make her feel better, while silently contemplating the future, especially the invasion of the Aifa Empire and Queen Miracaisar's suspicion of Ramanlas...

After some time, the appointed time arrived.

Lu Ming, Lothric, Ramanlas, Tures, and Mike arrived at the place between the two camps. Duke Vilka, Yogluna, and the commander of Pan's undead army were already there.

The group began their meeting, sitting on the tree root chairs that Lu Ming had conjured with magic.

"I believe that you, like Tartarus and Styx, already know about my father and brother, and that this declaration of war was orchestrated by the Church of the Evil Spirits." The first to speak was Grand Duchess Vilka. She directly pinned everything on the Church of the Evil Spirits, as if she wanted to bear no responsibility whatsoever.

“But the order for Pan to fight us was issued by you. You can’t deny that, can you?” Lothric frowned slightly and said.

“That’s true, but it was only under duress from the Church of Evil Spirits that the order was issued,” Grand Duke Vilka said, unwilling to give up.

Both Lothric and Lu Ming knew this was true, but the loss of Deucalion and Euglestus had to be borne by Yaru; otherwise, it would be too much of a loss for Erebus.

Just as the two of them were about to speak, Yugluna suddenly asked a question.

"I would like to ask, who devised the battle plan for today's operation?"

Lu Ming and Losrik felt there was something wrong with the question, so they wanted to refuse to answer it.

However, without consulting anyone, Torres stated directly, "It was Duke Unos and me."

Immediately, Lu Ming and Lothric felt an urge to slap her. It was one thing to devise a battle plan without any brains, but couldn't she just leave diplomatic matters to the professionals? Now look what happened—the reparations from the Principality of Yaru were going to be drastically reduced, and Ramanlas had been dragged into this mess...

Upon hearing Tures's reply, Yugluna instantly revealed a cunning smile, saying, "Our [Pan] has a field infantry corps, while your forces are mostly cavalry. Relying on your mobility, you could have easily avoided our army, stalling until the Grand Duke arrives, thus winning without a fight. But the problem is, you didn't! Therefore, we can compensate you for your losses in all battles except today's. But not today's. Because your losses today were entirely due to the erroneous decisions of your commander!"

Upon hearing this, Tures flew into a rage, wanting to stand up and have a serious argument with Yugluna to discuss the matter. However, Lu Ming and Lothric stopped her. Since they had already put their necks in someone else's trap, they shouldn't try to get out. After all, Erebos couldn't afford another fight.

Yugluna was arguing unreasonably, but due to Tures's misjudgment and foolish words, Erebus had no choice but to swallow his pride and accept it. After all, Yugluna had a very strong personality, and if he went against her head-on at this point, she might just rally her troops and fight Lu Ming and his group again.

Although Lu Ming's side would likely win another battle, the price would essentially be handing over the entire Erebus to Grand Duke Aifa to become slaves of the elves. Therefore, they couldn't act impulsively at this point.

A gentleman takes his revenge even after ten years. After we repel the invasion of the Aifa Empire in the summer, it won't be too late to deal with the Yaru Duchy!

“Alright, we agree to your proposal. The losses in today’s battle were due to the mismanagement of our commander, Torres. You don’t need to compensate us!” Lu Ming and Lothric exchanged a glance, then gritted their teeth, suppressing their anger, and said.

Although everyone knows that Lu Ming and Lothric will definitely return to get their revenge and will succeed, who knows if Erebus will still have the ability to do so after the war with the Aifa Empire is over? After all, compared to Erebus, Yaru, a duchy that doesn't need to worry too much about fighting Aifa, will recover much faster.

So Yugluna smiled slightly and said, "Then, thank you both."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ming and Lothric's faces turned pale with anger. Tures, however, felt somewhat frightened because Lu Ming and Lothric singled her out and didn't include Ramanlas. After all, she couldn't bear the responsibility for the deaths of so many elite knights. If Grand Duke Raels really pursued the matter, she might very well be hanged!

However, she was overthinking it. At least, if she didn't have to pay off all those knights' pensions, Rael wouldn't hang her.

Turning the page, the group soon began discussing how to deal with the evil cult.

The first to speak was the commander of the Undead Legion from the Duchy of Yaru.

"Because our employer is [Pan], not this so-called evil cult. Moreover, as far as we know, this evil cult is also very hostile to us undead. Therefore, we are willing to help the Duchy of Yaru and [Pan] eradicate the evil cult. After all, they haven't paid any price to us and Her Majesty the Queen."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ming and Mike exchanged a glance, then both subtly shook their heads. Neither of them intended to tell the undead commander the truth about the matter and the true nature of Duna Xiangzhuo. After all, if they told him now, he would only suspect them and not Duna Xiangzhuo.

Following the statement from the undead commander, Grand Duke Vilka then said, "Our Duchy of Yaru has been corrupted by the Church of Evil for many years. Now is the time to eliminate them."

Grand Duchess Vilka appeared very angry when she said this. From her tone, it was easy for everyone to hear her hatred for the Church of Evil Spirits.

"Then, we, Erebus, together with Tartarus and Styx, will help your side wipe out the Church of the Evil Spirits. After all, we don't want them causing trouble for us from the rear while we are fighting the Aifar Empire," Lu Ming and Lothric said to the crowd, following closely behind Grand Duke Vilcana.

Upon hearing Lu Ming and Lothric's words, Grand Duke Vilca said, "I have already written to the nobles who are not members of the Church of the Evil Spirits. By now, they should have already joined forces with the armies of Tartarus and Styx. However, the three counts of Yaru who have territories are all members of the Church of the Evil Spirits, so the armies of Tartarus and Styx still need to fight them."

“In that case, our Erebus army will begin its march on your duchy’s capital in two days. Once we have wiped out the evil cultists in the capital, we will return them to your duchy.” After a moment of contemplation, Lothric continued.

Upon hearing this, Yugluna replied, "My Yaru will not allow your duchy to fight the Evil Spirit Church to the death, resulting in further losses of troops. [Pan] will also depart in two days to return to the capital to fight the Evil Spirit Church!"

When talking about 'losses', Yugluna glanced at Torres and Ramanlas in a seemingly provocative manner, which infuriated Torres and caused Ramanlas to subconsciously glance at Lu Ming.

This disagreement was observed by Yugluna. Clearly, Tures was unaware of how foolish he had been by not having Haimir, Lu Ming, and Lothric formulate the battle plan. Ramanlas, however, had already realized his mistake.

Lu Ming and Lothric didn't care whether Yireles was angry or not, and calmly said to Yugluna, "Since you will be marching towards the capital with us, then we wish you good luck in battle."

"I also wish you all good luck in your battles." Yugluna smiled slightly and said to Lu Ming, Lothric, and Mike.

After saying that, she turned to Toures and Ramaras and said, "I hope that when you fight the Evil Spirit Church, you won't make up your own battle plans anymore!"

Then, under Tures's angry gaze, he left with his men, leaving Lu Ming and the others behind. (To be continued.)

Chapter 90 - The Duke's Library (Part 1)

Night. Lu Ming, Lothric, Mike, and Haimir were in the military tent, looking at the map of Yaru and using chess pieces to mark the various territories where intelligence indicated that their lords were followers of the Evil Spirit Church. At the same time, they were carefully deducing the most suitable route to head straight for the capital of the Yaru Duchy.

The two commanders, Tures and Ramanlas, could only sit on the sidelines, watching dumbly, unable to express any thoughts.

The mistakes Deucalion and Yugsotus made today have shown Lu Ming and the others that these two commanders are idiots! So there's no way they'll allow them to speak.

To be honest, Ramanlas is slightly better than Tures, who hasn't received much education. At least without Tures's instigation, Ramanlas wouldn't have done such a thing, betraying Lu Ming's trust...

“If we pass through the viscountdoms of Horus and Sisyphus, we can reach the capital of Yaru directly,” Lu Ming said to the others, tapping the map three times with his finger.

Upon hearing this, Lothric and Mike both carefully examined the map and saw that the two places Lu Ming mentioned were enemy-occupied areas with black pieces placed there. Although they were somewhat concerned about their current troop strength, the route that led directly to their destination by simply passing through two enemy-occupied areas was indeed quite tempting.

At this moment, Lu Ming said, "The reason I chose these two viscount territories as our marching route is because both viscount territories are places with abundant forests and scarce farmland, so they simply cannot support many soldiers. The lords of these two places have not even replenished their lord's guards, let alone an army. We only need a force of two thousand men to crush the armies of these two places."

"If that's the case, then these two locations are excellent routes. Moreover, such routes allow us to force the cultists fleeing the capital towards Stix's army. If they try to escape in any other direction, they will definitely be caught by our cavalry. In addition, Lu Ming, your Shadow Demons can block the paths of the Shadow World."

After stroking the stubble on his chin and thinking for a moment, Mike spoke to the others and Lu Ming.

At this moment, Haimir asked Lu Ming, "Then, what about their weapons and equipment?"

"Most of them are ordinary weapons and equipment. But a small portion are Hyde straight swords and Hyde spears obtained from the Evil Spirit Church."

"Hyde series weapons?" Mike was quite familiar with the Hyde series weapons, so after thinking for a moment, he said to Lu Ming, "The losses in Deucalion and Euglesotus have been heavy enough this time, so the armies in those two places can be handed over to the Undead. However, I wonder if Viscount Lu Ming could help us get some lightning-resistant armor?"

Lu Ming nodded and agreed to Mike's request: "Targeting the lightning attribute of Hyde weapons? I understand, I'll be prepared."

Although Lu Ming doesn't currently have armor with high lightning resistance, he still has a way to make Mike and his undead armor have a certain degree of lightning resistance by using simple enchantments!

Furthermore, he had previously received information that a new instance was ready and would begin at midnight tonight. Although he didn't know where this instance was, at least he could get some good loot.

"Then, let's do it this way. We'll go straight through Horus and Sisyphus, sweep through the armies of those two viscountries, and finally head straight for the capital of Yaru!" After everything was settled, Lothric tapped the location of Yaru's capital on the map with his finger and said to everyone.

"Understood." "Got it." "No problem." "..."

Unlike the others, Tures was unhappy that they ignored her and did not allow her to express her opinions. In addition, Haimir told her about Ramanlas and Lu Ming's words, so she was somewhat worried and remained silent.

Seeing that Tures remained silent, Lu Ming and Lothric exchanged a glance, then pulled Ramanas and Mike away, leaving Haimir to persuade her properly to prevent any further trouble.

After leaving Tures's tent, Lu Ming and Ramanlas parted ways with Lothric and Mike. The couple then returned to their own tent.

Sitting on the makeshift bed they'd used during the march, Lu Ming checked the items and consumables in his phone's inventory while saying to Ramanlas, "You've probably already heard about the dungeon from Sham and Miral, so I don't want to say much more. Right now, you're the only one who can come with me, and I hope you won't refuse. As for safety, you can rest assured. As your husband, I'll do everything in my power to protect you."

Leaning on Lu Ming's shoulder, Ramanlas suddenly asked, quite inexplicably, "Why do you like me?"

"What?" Upon hearing this, Lu Ming immediately turned his head and looked at Ramanlas's face, which he found to be very beautiful, and asked.

"Why would you like me, an ugly and stupid woman who caused your army, which you painstakingly built, to suffer heavy casualties?" Looking into Lu Ming's eyes, Ramanlas sat up straight and asked very seriously.

"Heh!" Upon hearing Ramanlas's question, Lu Ming merely chuckled and offered no answer.

Seeing that Lu Ming did not intend to reply, Ramanlas's expression became somewhat downcast.

But soon, she heard Lu Ming say, "Because you are beautiful and gentle in my eyes."

Then, Lu Ming continued, "But this time, you really went too far. If we were at home, I might have a big fight with you, or I might even hit you. But we are on the battlefield now, and we can't act impulsively here. Besides, the deaths of those soldiers are not your responsibility alone; I am also responsible."

"I'm sorry, I disappointed you..."

"Next time, if you're going to make a decision, remember to discuss it with me." Lu Ming reached out and gently stroked Ramanlas's face, wiping away her tears softly, and said with a smile.

"Mmm." Hearing Lu Ming's instructions, Ramanlas nodded vigorously, then threw herself into Lu Ming's arms and burst into tears.

"Foolish woman..."

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When Lu Ming woke up from his coma, he found himself and Ramanlas locked in a prison.

The cell wasn't very big, so Ramanlas was right next to him.

On the other side of the cell, there was an undead campfire. However, neither he nor Ramanlas were undead, and they didn't light the extinguished campfire. Unless Lu Ming summoned an undead teammate, it would be impossible to light this campfire or any of the other campfires in the dungeon.

There were a few things in the cell that caught Lu Ming's attention. One was the crystals on the cell bars, and the other was a snake-man guard pacing back and forth outside the cell.

With its enormous snake head, lizard-like body, gleaming golden armor, and flame-shaped greatsword, this snake-man guard looked both comical and bizarre.

"Um......"

At this time,

Lamanlas, who was lying next to Lu Ming, suddenly uttered "shen yin" and slowly opened her eyes.

"Where is this? In a dungeon?" Ramanlas sat up, feeling a little dizzy, rubbing her forehead, half-opening one eye, looking around, and asked Lu Ming.

"This is the National Library of White Dragon Heath. Also, honey, your low blood sugar is getting worse." Lu Ming took a can of apple soda from his phone's inventory, opened it, and handed it to Ramanlas.

Because she was dizzy, Ramanlas didn't say anything, just took the can of soda and drank it.

The insectoid race's bodies differ somewhat from those of most intelligent races; their bodies require a large amount of sugar to function. If they don't eat sweets for a long time, they will experience hypoglycemia, leading to symptoms such as dizziness and weakness.

"I haven't eaten anything since yesterday afternoon..."

"..." Upon hearing this, Lu Ming remained silent. Because at this moment, saying anything would be inappropriate.

After Ramanlas finished her soda and her body gradually returned to its best condition, Lu Ming began to check the undead helpers that could be summoned in this instance while she kept an eye on the snake-man guards outside the cell. There were two that Lu Ming thought were worth summoning.

"Benjamin of Anor Londo: One of the Silver Knights of Anor Londo."

Because he discovered that Eldridge had devoured the Shadow Sun, he was hunted down by Sorcerer Sulyvahn's men and had to flee the Silver Knights of Anor Londo.

Rating: Two stars.

"Bane of Perheim: One of the more mediocre magicians among the many magicians of Perheim."