Day in Infinity

But for Alicia, the princess of this country, when she heard the guards' description, she knew that it was Li Ke who did it!

"Mr. Li Ke, how can you be so impulsive!"

She couldn't help biting her lips. Although many missing girls were found in Redel's home, once Redel died, the First Fortress would inevitably be in turmoil, countless nobles would be in panic, and the subsequent battles with the monsters would inevitably be affected! Li Ke was too impulsive!

"Mr. Li Ke..."

Although she was very grateful to Li Ke, Alicia still hoped that her country could get rid of the attacks of Warcraft as soon as possible.

But just when she was feeling uneasy, Minister Thomas Beardsley arrived. His face was full of flattery and caution.

After all, although they looked down upon the Knights and the princess, one had to admit that the Knights were still very capable and had great respect for the princess who fought alongside them.

"Your Highness, you should know about that, right?"

Alicia nodded. This matter was bothering her. If Li Ke could make this matter an ironclad case, then she could rely on the ministers whom she trusted very much to intimidate the nobles and prevent them from taking any action in the near future.

But Li Ke killed the Redel family...

But she didn't say anything. After all, Li Ke was doing it for her own good, and Li Ke was also a master, the kind of person she wanted to recruit.

"I have asked the city defense forces and the Knights to look for the murderer."

Alicia planned to hide the matter of Li Ke, but the minister decided to put some pressure on Alicia.

"The nobles are very dissatisfied, Your Highness Alicia. I spent a lot of effort to calm them down, but they took this opportunity to ask for a reduction in their taxes, saying that the kingdom's army can no longer protect them, so why should they continue to pay wages to support them."

Hearing these words, an extremely ugly expression suddenly appeared on Alicia's face. She sighed deeply and then spoke.

"No, this is not allowed no matter what. The Knights will go on an expedition to the Dark Queen Orika. We can't let these heroes be unable to take care of their own affairs!"

Alicia spoke righteously, but Minister Thomas Beardsley quickly gave a wry smile.

"I also told these nobles this, but they said that if they can't reduce taxes, then they would rather not support the expedition, because at least they can protect themselves with money!"

At this point, the minister spoke.

"I am willing to bear the expenses of the Knights, but you also know that I am not a member of the royal family..."

When he said this, Thomas Beardsley's eyes became extremely hot as he looked at Alicia's body.

Launching a coup was actually the worst option. He actually wanted to become the king of this country through marriage, but unfortunately, because of his age, Her Royal Highness the Princess did not understand what he meant at all, making his hint ineffective.

"That's right... And it's not okay to always ask you to share the burden. You still have your own family."

Alicia respected this elder very much. If he had children, she would marry his children without hesitation. But unfortunately, Minister Thomas Beardsley devoted his life to the country and has not married yet.

Pity.

She sighed inwardly and then continued speaking.

"But you can assure them that I will not let this happen again. As for tax relief, it is not possible."

"But……"

Thomas Beardsley looked at the princess's haughty look and couldn't help but speak.

"If it happens again..."

"we'll talk about it then."

Alicia was silent. She planned to find Li Ke and make him stop doing this. Otherwise, she would issue a warrant for Li Ke's arrest. After all, Li Ke was making fun of the whole world by doing this!

"I understand."

Thomas Beardsley showed a worried expression and then quickly left.

However, as soon as he walked out of the palace, he spoke.

"Kill a few guys who are unwilling to join us."

"Yes."

The soldier standing guard at the palace gate spoke quickly and conveyed Thomas Beardsley's order.

Thomas Beardsley also showed an expectant expression. He really wanted to see how panicked the princess would be when she found out that another noble had died in the city, and that the noble who supported her had died. And how embarrassed she would be when she faced the people of the Knights.

Just thinking about it makes me so excited that I can't help but pull the flag!

The minister's mood became much better, but Princess Alicia was in a very bad mood.

Because she found that she could not contact Li Ke.

What was Li Ke doing at this moment?

"I forgot to bring the money from Redel's family."

Looking at the people waiting to die in the slums, Li Ke touched his chin and felt helpless about his actions.

When he came here, he found that there were many young and strong people in these slums, and these young and strong people had lost their jobs for various reasons. To put it bluntly, these people were the predecessors of those mercenaries.

He also found a lot of mercenaries in this city. After asking around, he learned that most of these people were farmers who had lost their land, or had children that their families could not support.

“Isn’t this the basic team?”

Li Ke didn't expect his team to be honest and efficient at all. He just planned to recruit some subordinates to see if he had the talent to become king.

If anything, he would call himself the Harem King!

The king among the harem!

But the problem was, he didn't have enough money.

"It looks like we still have to do a vote tonight."

Li Ke touched his chin, and then after a little inquiry, he found out the whereabouts of a dozen evil nobles. Then in the middle of the night, under the noses of the patrolling soldiers, Li Ke wrote the crimes of these people on the city wall, and then like a bat, he successfully landed in the mansions of these nobles.

The killing took place in silence, and Li Ke was disgusted again.

It was still women, a large number of beautiful women. All the men were imprisoned in the basement. Some could be saved, but some had mental breakdowns, and some had even lost body parts.

Li Ke tried his best to save those who could be saved, but for those who could not be saved, Li Ke could only give them a dignified death as much as possible.

Li Ke did not take these people with him because he had no power at the moment. He only took away enough gold, silver and jewelry, and then moved to the home of another nobleman.

In one night, Li Ke went to the homes of three nobles and killed dozens of disgusting beasts.

So the next day, the whole city was under martial law.

But looking at the loose formation, Li Ke still regarded them as idiots.

Sitting in the tavern of the Mercenary Guild, Li Ke chuckled as he watched the mercenaries excitedly accepting the employment of the nobles and walking outside excitedly.

They wanted to find the person who killed the noble, or get a large sum of money when protecting the noble, but Li Ke felt that most of these people could not get what they wanted.

Especially those female mercenaries and adventurers.

When he went to find trouble with those nobles yesterday, he found many disabled or even mentally ill female mercenaries and adventurers in those basements. These women's bodies were either transformed or they were toyed with to the point of mental breakdown, and they completely became bitches.

It can be said to be quite miserable.

"Forget it, why should I care about these things?"

Li Ke walked to the counter with a smile and issued his commission.

His commission was very simple, and anyone who thought he was a mercenary could accept it. The commission was to become his long-term mercenary and train outside the city every day. However, during the training process, he could receive monetary rewards every day. If he persisted for a month, he would receive additional bonuses.

He also recruited enough chefs, craftsmen, and doctors, anyone who was willing to accept his long-term employment.

When he stated his request, the official in charge of the review was stunned for a moment, then looked at Li Ke with a smile.

"What are you planning to do? Don't you know that only mercenaries can do this? And you may not be qualified to be a mercenary, right? You should know that doing this is threatening the safety of the First Fortress, right?"

There was an inexplicable look in the official's eyes. Although Li Ke did not see this in the rules and regulations, he knew very well what the other party wanted.

"Of course, this is my information."

Li Ke skillfully took out a bag and handed it to the other party, who took it without any hesitation and nodded with satisfaction.

"Very good, then Mr. Li Ke, what is the name of your legal mercenary group?"

"Holy Rome!"

"What a great name! You are indeed a patriot!"

Although I don’t know what kind of horse Roma is, since Li Ke is willing to pay for it, it must be a good name.

Li Ke was surprised by the other party's straightforwardness. He felt that the other party had thought of what he was going to do, but he never expected that the other party didn't care at all.

So he couldn't resist his curiosity and asked.

"Aren't you afraid that I might do something weird?"

But what Li Ke never expected was that the official spoke with a smile.

"Hahaha... There are so many mercenary groups. If we need to review every mercenary group, then the work will be very busy... By the way, do you need a base? From the looks of you, you should want to fight for a noble status in the upcoming war, right? It won't work without your own base. Here, here is the map..."

"of course yes."

Li Ke handed over the bag of gold coins in his hand.

"Oh! Do you need sophisticated equipment? Full body armor and sophisticated swords are the standard armor and weapons of the Knights."

"........."

Li Ke thought it was nonsense, but the truth was even more ridiculous than he thought. Within an hour, he got a large piece of land as his base. Except for paying taxes to the local lord, he could do anything on the territory, even build his own camps and buildings.

Moreover, he also got the contact information of a merchant who could buy the standard armor and weapons of the Knights of the First Fortress. Li Ke even learned that he could buy enough food for an army from this merchant!

Even met with this businessman.

After meeting, Li Ke knew who the businessman the other party was talking about.

The pig brothers in the original novel! The orc brothers who coveted the little princess!

It's outrageous that in a fortress that is often attacked by orcs, there are orcs who can openly become big businessmen!

"The First Fortress is really going to be finished."

Li Ke couldn't help but shake his head.

The conditions for this rebellion are too good. As long as he establishes a similar order, he can easily

Behind him were some novice mercenaries he had recruited, as well as civilians recruited from the slums.

He is going to his own base to carry out construction!

The construction of his settlement was very successful, or to be more precise, more successful than he had imagined. He only provided three stable meals and simple food, and the craftsmen recruited from the slums began to work very hard.

Especially after Li Ke told them that these people could bring their wives and children here, and that one person could work and the whole family could eat here, and if a family of three could eat here, they could even get paid, these people worked even harder and even attracted more poor people.

During this period, the nobles here naturally came to visit Li Ke, but Li Ke said that he could protect their homes from being harassed by the Black Knights. And that night, after the homes of several nobles next to them were attacked by the Black Knights, the nobles here immediately became much more sensible.

Li Ke certainly knew that this would expose some of his information, but he didn't care.

His life suddenly became quite simple. At night he went out to attack the nobles, and occasionally he could see some messages on the city walls that were not written by him.

The mercenaries under his command finally looked presentable. At least they could march in neat rows, and their armor gradually became the standard armor of the Knights Templar.

Of course, some people had other ideas during this period, and even wanted to kill Li Ke or undermine Li Ke, but their end was very miserable. Usually, they had just finished doing things with Li Ke during the day, and died in the stinking ditch with their accomplices at night.

Then, within a short period of time, his men gathered more than 2,000 people, filling up his base, and even schools and hospitals had begun to take shape...

It took Li Ke less than a month to complete all these tasks.

What he did was as simple as before, which was nothing more than making sure their families had enough food to eat and paying them the promised salary. Li Ke didn't even take care of things, but handed things over to randomly selected leaders. He would just replace people if they didn't do a good job, and if they wanted to sideline him, he would just chop people down.

It was so simple that he restored order here, and the money he spent was less than one twentieth of the treasure he robbed on the first day.

"It would be a shame not to rebel against such a good environment. It is really too reasonable for the Black Beast to succeed."

Li Ke said this very seriously while looking at the account book.

He really didn't do anything, and many of his orders were random, but in order to be able to work under him, these people used their own initiative to build the camp well.

Even if he wanted to clean and level the road, all he needed was a word.

Because here, whoever he wants to eat will have enough food, and whoever he wants to die will die.

"Why do I feel like I'm the one running the country with extraordinary people?"

Touching his chin speechlessly, Li Ke did not have any good understanding of his leadership. He knew very well that his place looked prosperous and harmonious only because no one could beat him, and he killed people without any scruples. Otherwise, there would be no order at all.

To put it simply, he used force to ensure a relatively fair environment where those who abide by the rules can have enough food to eat.

"However, even in such a simple environment, no one in the First Fortress can guarantee it."

Li Ke sighed.