The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

Hearing Lu Ming's shout, Lily paused for a moment, then said with some guilt, "I'm sorry for making you worry. I just really wanted these eyes so that I could truly see this world."

"..." Lu Ming could not agree with Lily's statement, but he could not say anything, so he could only take Lily away from the hellish place of the Fire Ritual.

But at that moment, Lily opened her eyes. Beneath her eyelids, there were no eyeballs, only two dark red crystal beads.

Lily took out the two crystal beads right in front of Lu Ming.

Seeing this scene, Lu Ming was speechless, because it was simply too terrifying.

To gain the light, even as blood streamed down her face, Lily never uttered a sound of pain. After placing two blue eyeballs into her empty sockets, she closed her eyes tightly for a long while before opening them again. At that moment, for the first time, her eyes squinted from the blinding light...

"I can see... I can see you..." (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote for it on Qidian (www.qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)

Chapter Three - Fangs

"How's the situation on your end?" Sitting on the steps in the Firelink Shrine, Lu Ming watched as the three of them descended from the roof beams to a platform behind the central throne, and then jumped down step by step from there. He walked over and asked them.

"Besides finding a ring, we only encountered a strange giant bug." Turning back to look at Toures and Oberic, whose faces were ashen and who seemed quite frightened, Lothric sighed heavily and said.

"A big bug?" In Lu Ming's memory, there were no big bugs at all in the Fire Sacrifice Field, so he couldn't help but be curious.

Lothric said with great regret, "They seem to be envoys from the Abyss forces, but before that guy could finish speaking, our two noble ladies were so frightened that they chopped him into mincemeat."

"Uh... okay." Although Lu Ming was very interested in the so-called giant bug, there was nothing he could do since it was already dead.

Just then, Torres noticed that Lily, sitting on the steps not far away, was wearing a mask that looked like a crown, used to cover her eyes which she would never open anyway. He and Auberwick walked over, frowning, and asked, "Lily, is that a crown you're wearing? Wearing something like that will get you into trouble!"

Upon hearing this, Lily wanted to take it off.

But Lu Ming walked over and stopped her, saying to Toures and Oberrick, "She just got a pair of eyeballs from the tower. Although they're in their sockets, they're not fully integrated with the optic nerve yet, so they could easily fall out. This thing is to prevent the eyeballs from falling out of their sockets. Once we get out, I'll change them into gauze; she won't have them on forever."

Upon hearing this, Toure and his companion no longer cared whether Lily was wearing a crown or not; they were utterly terrified! Who could just stuff their eyeballs back into their sockets and expect them to heal?! This was insane!!

Seeing the terrified expressions on Toures and Oberic's faces, Lu Ming knew what they were thinking, but neither he nor Lily wanted to explain. So they ignored the frightened expressions on Toures and Oberic's faces and said directly to Lothric, "Now I can confirm that what is attracting my wife here is the Fire Keeper's eyes and two other items belonging to the Fire Keeper."

"This should be the throne over there. Apart from it, there's nothing else in the Firelink Shrine that's attracting me."

Lu Ming frowned and pondered for a moment, then said, "Now that we've found what we're looking for, we can leave now. If we stay in this godforsaken place any longer, I'm afraid we'll both be tempted to sit on the throne and start the fire."

Hearing Lu Ming say this, Lothric naturally had no objections. After glancing back at the throne, he nodded to Lu Ming, indicating his agreement.

Thus, Lu Ming led Lily, Losrick, and the other two away from there.

But just after Lu Ming and the others left, a giant flea, as big as a person and with a human face, suddenly leaped down from the rafters of the Fire Ritual, grinning maliciously as it walked step by step toward the bonfire in the center of the Fire Ritual, preparing to steal the Spiral Sword.

The instant its hand touched the spiral sword, the flames of the bonfire ignited it, burning it to ashes with a scream. Outside the Firelink Shrine, however, no one could hear its cries. Everything was shut out by the reappearing white mist gate...

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After helping Lily wrap the gauze properly, Lu Ming lay down on the bed in the room, looking exhausted.

"Did my actions scare you?" Lily asked with a grin as she lay down next to Lu Ming and let him hold her.

"Nonsense, anyone would be terrified by that sight!" Lu Ming said with a helpless smile, lightly tapping Lily's nose with his finger. Compared to others, Lily was very independent and didn't like to consult with others, which gave him a lot of headaches. But as his legal wife and the woman who chose to be with him from the very beginning, her support for him was unparalleled. Even Sham, when supporting him, would consider whether Lu Ming's decisions were in the interests of his family. Only Lily supported him unconditionally. This was also the reason why he chose her as his legal wife and could confidently entrust his guards to her management.

Looking at Lily with bandages wrapped around her eyes, Lu Ming gently stroked her beautiful face, and soon he couldn't help but want to kiss her.

Unfortunately, before he could kiss her lips, there was a knock on the door.

"Who?!" Helpless, Lu Ming had no choice but to abandon his encounter with Lily and instead shouted towards the door.

“My lord, the elves who went to the Aifa Empire have returned. One of them is making a fuss about wanting to see you. Would you like to go and meet them?” The knight outside the door asked cautiously.

“…” After hearing the knight’s words, Lu Ming did not immediately give his reply, but instead pondered in silence.

Seeing that Lu Ming did not speak, the knight asked again, "My lord, shall we go and drive away those ungrateful elves?"

"No, I'll go see that elf right now." After pondering for a while, Lu Ming felt it was better to go see those elves. After all, there were still a great many elves within the Duchy of Hyperion, and he couldn't let a fight with these elves ruin the overall situation. Moreover, these elves were the best propaganda tool to discourage the remaining elves from returning to Aifa, so Lu Ming decided to go see them.

But before that, Lu Ming pressed Lily down on the bed and kissed her passionately, only releasing her after a while.

“Rude…” Lily said coquettishly, her fingers lightly touching her lips.

"Wait for me to come back." With a slight smile, Lu Ming gently touched Lily's forehead before heading out to meet the elves.

"Fool......"

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With the knight listening in, Lu Ming quickly arrived at a large room in the fortress. As soon as he arrived, Lu Ming saw the elves who had chosen to leave Hyperion, now numbering only a dozen or so.

"Ah~!!!" As soon as they saw Lu Ming, one of the elves immediately ran out from among the elves, waving its fist and hitting Lu Ming.

Before he could even get close to Lu Ming, two knights beside him instantly knocked him to the ground, pinned his body down, and drew their longswords, ready to execute this disrespectful scoundrel. But just then...

"Let him go," Lu Ming said, stopping them.

After being released by the knight, the elf immediately got up and once again swung his fists at Lu Ming.

But Lu Ming simply dodged and stretched out his foot, causing the elf to fall heavily to the ground.

Perhaps knowing she was no match for Lu Ming, the elf collapsed to the ground and began to wail. Between sobs, she questioned Lu Ming, "Do you know how many elves we've lost?! Do you know how cruel they were?! You monster!!"

"A devil? Ha!" Lu Ming sneered, glancing at the elf and then at the other elves in the room. Seeing their hostile gazes, he couldn't help but shout in the elven language, "You call me a devil, and you hate me. But did I, Lu Ming, drive you to Aifa?! Did I make you leave your homeland?! Did I slaughter you?! No! It was you yourselves!! I never drove you away, nor did I slaughter you! You chose to leave; I merely let you bastards leave our Duchy of Hyperion!! When you decided to leave, I told you everything, and my knights did everything in their power to keep you. It was you who didn't trust us, who refused to live with us. You are the culprits who killed yourselves and those innocent elves!!"

“But you are invaders!!” A young girl among the elves suddenly stood up and retorted to Lu Ming.

Unfortunately, her words sounded ridiculous to Lu Ming and the other humans and elves.

"We are invaders? Girl, have you forgotten who started this war?! Don't forget, it was your Aifa who first invaded our Miracathia!!" As soon as Lu Ming said this, the elves all cried out in anguish.

As subjects of invaders defeated by the mistakes of their queen and nobles, Lu Ming and his allies had already shown them great kindness by not stripping them of everything. Furthermore, Lu Ming and the Miracaiser lords had always treated them as subjects of their own territory, ensuring they enjoyed the same favorable treatment as the Miracaiser people. These impoverished elves, neglected by Aifa, were entitled to all of it. And what was happening now was entirely their own dissatisfaction! What right did they have to question Lu Ming, who had merely allowed these elves who wanted to leave?

From the very beginning, Lu Ming had told them everything. Aifa did not welcome them, the elves, and was even slaughtering those who fled back. Lu Ming had already made this clear.

It was the elf lying on the ground and his sister, who had been cruelly killed by the elves of Aifa, who persuaded the other elves. It was also the two of them who first silenced those who questioned whether returning to Aifa was the right thing to do. They were the real murderers!

After figuring things out, the surviving elves turned their hostile gazes toward the elf who had persuaded them to leave their homeland and travel to Aifa, only to be slaughtered by the elves of Aifa.

The furious and hateful look in his eyes was driving the elf to the brink of mental collapse.

At that moment, Lu Ming delivered the final blow.

"I never asked you and your sister to call them. They died entirely because of your and your sister's stupidity! You are the murderer who killed those elves!!"

"No! No!! I'm not! I'm not the murderer..." The elf's mind collapsed. He screamed and ran away, trying to escape the hateful gazes of his fellow humans.

Watching him run out of the room, Lu Ming glanced at a knight standing nearby. The knight immediately chased after him, captured the elf, and locked him in a cell in the fortress, making him think carefully about what he had done!

After the knights gave chase, Lu Ming addressed the remaining elves who had left the Duchy of Hyperion and returned from the Empire of Aifa, escaping the slaughter of the Aifa elves: "When you chose to leave your homeland, it meant you abandoned your home in the Duchy of Hyperion, so I will not give you your original houses and fields back to you foolish creatures. But I will not let you starve or freeze to death either. Many cities in the territory of Helios have been renovated, and I will send people to take you there. But remember, I welcome any elf who enjoys the wealth I bring to him/her, yet whose heart is always with Aifa!"

“We thought we had no hope of survival, but your mercy has given us hope again. Please forgive our previous folly, and we will praise your mercy, my respected lord!” Unlike the other elves, an elderly elf who spoke Miracathian knelt on the ground and said to Lu Ming.

Seeing that he was old and spoke Miracaesar, Lu Ming's knights all agreed to help take care of his young great-great-great-great-granddaughter after Lu Ming gave the order to send these elves to workshops in various cities of Helios.

Lu Ming didn't say anything about this; the knights' character was naturally trustworthy. His knights were all personally selected by him, Lily, Sham, and Philner, and knights of questionable character were practically nonexistent. Even if someone did manage to slip through the cracks, it was impossible for all the knights present to be like that, so he didn't need to say anything.

After the elves were taken away by the knights, leaving behind only two children under the age of ten, Lu Ming looked at the surviving elf children and sighed slightly.

Although separating the two children from their home elves was somewhat unpleasant, the elves would be extremely busy working in the workshop and would have no time to care for them. Therefore, the knights had no choice but to raise them. However, this would also allow the knights to learn how to live with elves, making it easier for them to find wives in Hyperion, where elves comprised over 80% of the population. Furthermore, it would show the elves that the Miracaesar people did not discriminate against any of their subjects. It was a win-win situation, so after instructing the knights to take good care of the elven children, he left.

On his way back to his room, he encountered Lothric.

"Use the elves' desire to return to Aifa to witness Aifa's current cruelty firsthand, and then use the surviving elves to spread the word about Aifa's cruelty... It's truly a brilliant plan!"

"They wanted to go back to Aifa, and I just went along with it. Although the methods used were somewhat questionable, it was a mutual agreement and not exactly a scheme."

"What a brilliant move! It will cause doubt and hostility towards the Aifa Empire to spread among the elves in major cities, making most elves wholeheartedly serve as your subjects, Hyperion. And all you've done is simply go with the flow!"

Instead of praising my methods, you should think about yourself. I've heard that Amp handed over the entire Elven army that surrendered in the desert to the Grand Duke. Have you and Hemphis figured out how to assimilate them?

"You've already shown your fierce fangs, so naturally I won't be any weaker."

"Then I'll wait for good news."

Chapter Four - School

As time slowly passed, the sweltering summer of August soon arrived.

In many cities of Hyperion, rumors gradually spread that Aifa was slaughtering the elves who had fled from Hyperion and Selene. Although many elves did not believe the rumors, almost ninety percent of them were unwilling to risk their lives to prove their veracity. The remaining ten percent, regardless of the rumors' truth, were determined to return to Aifa, but the repeated pleas from the soldiers of Hyperion and Selene at the border checkpoints ultimately led many of them to choose to give up.

After those elves who insisted on going to Aifa were slaughtered by the Aifa elves and returned to work in workshops in various cities, almost no elves wanted to go to Aifa anymore. In Hyperion, although they had to live on equal footing with other races, the benefits they received were two to three times that of those in Aifa. Not to mention, Hyperion's constant efforts in developing its economy, education, and communication with other duchies in Miracaissa provided them with immense power.

Moreover, compared to Selene, which showed little respect for the Elven religion, Hyperion adopted a policy of individual freedom of belief. As long as one's faith wasn't an officially prohibited cult, one could believe whatever one wanted, a policy that won the support of the Elves. Over time, various problems arose in the Duchy of Selene, forcing Taldarimus to seek advice from Hyperion, learning how Ramanlas and Lu Ming had managed to gain the Elven support of them while devaluing their own.

However, the Queen and the Regent's confidant was informed upon arriving in Hyperion that Lu Ming was not currently there. After working with Grand Duke Ramanlas to formulate the next development plan for Hyperion, the two of them rushed back to the Prometheus Magic School in Erebus to spend their summer vacation writing textbooks for the second and third years with the professors.

To this, Grand Duke Taldarimus had no choice but to stare blankly at Count Miral Sachs, who was staying in the Duchy of Hyperion to prepare for the establishment of a branch of the Prometheus Magic School.

Perhaps seeing that he, as a Grand Duke, had to learn from the Grand Dukes and nobles of other duchies, which was somewhat pitiful, Tadarims told him about some of the policies Lu Ming had implemented in Helios so that he could avoid some detours.

However, Mirar didn't tell Taldarimus all the policies. As the Count of Hyperion, Mirar Sach knew that only true allies were trustworthy, and Taldarimus, as a member of the royal family, was not. So, he only needed to tell him a few things to keep him from causing trouble in his own duchy. There was no need to be overly kind to him...

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Sitting in the study of the lord's mansion in Odyssey City, Lu Ming was working with the professors to compile textbooks for the second and third years, in preparation for the students' use in the second semester.

Thanks to the magic notes that Lu Ming had sent people to buy from various duchies, their work went very smoothly, at least most of it. The only thing that hadn't been done was the textbook for the puppet soldier course that Mirar had insisted on, because Mirar and Henes hadn't come back at all.

This put Lu Ming and the others under immense pressure, because this wasn't their course. Although they could help write some things, they were helpless when it came to describing their insights. Lu Ming had absolutely no idea how to make puppet soldiers, and the other professors were only half-baked and didn't really understand puppet soldiers at all.

Finally, Lu Ming, who was driven to the brink of madness by the task of compiling textbooks for puppet soldiers—a task even more daunting than managing the count's territory—suddenly shouted amidst the professors' horrified gazes, ran out of the study, and went into another study. He said to his two daughters, who were working themselves to the bone, "You two go and bring Mirar and Henes back to me! I'll take care of those documents for you!"

Upon hearing this, Kanina and Amelia immediately stood up, saluted Lu Mingyi, and loudly replied, "Yes, sir!"

Immediately afterwards, the two of them ran out like a gust of wind, throwing the mountain of documents at Lu Ming.

To escape those documents temporarily, Kanina and Amelia spent several days playing in Hyperion and Tartarus before capturing Miral and Henes to compile textbooks for the Puppet Army course.

Just as the professors were cheering and praising Kanina and Amelia for their efficiency in arresting people, they learned something that terrified them: Lu Ming had finished the pile of documents that they thought they would never be able to complete in their lifetime in just two hours!

This made the two of them feel somewhat desperate, and they deeply sighed that they really weren't cut out for this.

At this moment, Lu Ming looked at the two of them with some curiosity and asked, "Why don't you two sort out those documents first and send back the documents that most of the lower-level nobles could complete and the applications that didn't have sufficient reasons?"

"Huh?"

"Don't you two know that you don't actually need to review all the documents? If you have to review all the documents yourselves, what's the point of having those nobles? You can do everything yourselves!"

"Huh!?"

Looking at his two incredibly stupid daughters, Lu Ming sat on the sofa and sighed heavily. He said to a female knight beside him, "I'm really driven crazy by these two stupid girls. Tumina, you'll have to work hard from now on. Try your best not to let Odysseus Territory be ruined by these two stupid girls."

"Your Excellency, please rest assured. As the personal guard captain of Viscount Kanina and Baron Amelia, I will certainly do my best to assist them!"

Yes, after Lu Ming was promoted to Earl, the Odysseus Territory was granted to Kanina by Grand Duke Rael, and not to any other nobles. This is proof that the Lu family will continue to serve Erebus, and that Erebus will continue to value Lu Ming.

It's worth mentioning that Hyperion, Erebus, and Tartarus now use Lu Ming's method for document review, instead of relying on the Grand Duke and Lords for most of the documents, as is the case in other duchies. It's precisely Lu Ming's "if you can't even decide on such a small matter, what's the point of keeping you around?" mentality that has made these three duchies the most relaxed administrative units in the entire Miracaesar Kingdom.