Tauren Overlord

197. A jail experience that transcends time

After being promoted to the second level, the abilities that Chloe can simulate changed from a fixed 10% to a selectable 10% to 20%.

This not only increases the maximum effect of the art simulation, but also increases the freedom of choice.

Lu Heng’s favorite ability is the re-simulation of this ability, because it can allow countless ordinary people to become spellcasters.

Previously, "Using Psionic Simulation Stone to simulate Psionic Simulation Stone" could only achieve 1% of the effect of the original version. Now it is different. It can achieve up to 4% of the effect of the original version.

As long as the psychic energy can keep up, Lu Heng's camp can mass-produce more powerful magic props.

How does spiritual energy come about?

Some psychic energy can be found in the prison of the Drawbridge Monastery, where some war criminals are imprisoned.

They came from the Western Continent to the Eastern Continent, but it was not the Luna people who took the initiative to invite them over, so of course they had to pay back their debts.

The specific method is to let them hold the magic stone in their hands - this magic item is simulated from Barbaris's exclusive art and can absorb spiritual energy from the surrounding environment.

After repeated experiments, Christina finally discovered that the best provider of psychic energy is the caster himself.

Therefore, those imperial affairs officials captured by Lu Heng became the main focus of Lu Heng's acquisition of psychic power.

They also generally work hard to be "human generators" because this way they can avoid the death penalty.

And to be honest, this kind of punishment is not really inhumane. Compared with the public killing in the empire, Lu Heng's punishment can be said to be too merciful.

Therefore, most of them still work very hard to get their sentences reduced, and as they waste away in atonement, the pressure on their guards also decreases.

With a source of psychic energy, Lu Heng can charge various types of psychic batteries and even psychic crystals.

But the main problem with this model is that there are too few war criminals, and they alone are obviously unable to support Lu Heng's psychic industrial system.

So, Lu Heng turned his attention to the larger group of adventurers.

At this time, the lords of the Beast Suppression Province were all dead, and only Lu Heng provided them with valuable job opportunities.

They no longer have to go to other people's homes to kill people, nor do they have to risk being killed.

The only price is that every workday from now on will be like being in prison, selling part of your life to generate benefits for your employer.

While in prison, they will not be tortured, or deliberately starved, nor will they be fed bad food by lustful guards.

Compared with the norm in the empire, the treatment given by Lu Heng is already an epoch-making prison experience.

After Lu Heng spread the news of these commissions to each surrendered territory, many adventurers indeed tried to accept the commissions.

It’s not that they have no suspicion of Lu Heng, but many of these adventurers already have a bad record and have nowhere else to go.

When they were carrying out various missions that required them to rip off heads and kick them like balls, they would often run away halfway.

For example, among the large group of adventurers who assisted in hunting down the Minotaur Overlord, 11 people "died heroically" after their tents were knocked away by Di Yao.

In fact, Di Yao did not kill anyone, but some adventurers had already become lazy people and were used to running around, so this time they just continued to execute their muscle memory.

Such people have long lost their credibility in the Empire.

Even if they returned to Thessaloniki, they would not receive any valuable commissions and might even be sentenced by the governor.

If such people do not accept Lu Heng's commission, they will really have no choice but to go into the deep mountains and forests and become bandits where they have no food to eat.

But this involves another problem. If the spellcaster does not eat, or even does not eat good enough food, there will be no spiritual energy in his body.

If these spellcasters really go hungry every day, it is possible that they will be bullied by ordinary bandits, or even filled with bad intentions.

In comparison, being able to work with Lu Heng, having food and drink without losing your life, is really a very good choice.

Of course, not all adventurers dare to work for the rebels, especially those with good reputations, they will still choose to run to the city of Thessaloniki.

For such outstanding talents, the Tauren Overlord would of course open a portal and invite them to stay in the prison of the Suspension Bridge Monastery.

After all, if they choose this stance, they will become mercenaries on the enemy side.

If they are not war criminals, then who are the war criminals?

If they don't go to jail, who will?

Being forced to spend time in Lu Heng's prison was a retribution too great for what they had done before.

In addition, some free people of Level 0 also accepted Lu Heng's employment, allowing Lu Heng's camp to gradually have more and more sources of psychic energy.

In order to facilitate the calculation of psychic energy consumption and also to facilitate the calculation of wages, Lu Heng used Chloe's name as inspiration and developed a new psychic energy measurement unit: "Luo".

This dosage unit is taken from the psychic energy reserves of the first batch of psychic batteries.

As Rosa was promoted to the second level, the amount of psychic energy that could be stored in the psychic crystals she produced also increased from the initial 100 Luo to 500 Luo.

Chloe also advanced to the second level, and the maximum number of psychic crystals that her psychic simulation stone could directly simulate also increased to 100 Luo.

But in order to achieve mass production, the more common large-sized psychic batteries still have to be made by "re-simulating the psychic simulation stone", which is 20 Luo each.

A large 20-Luo psychic battery can usually increase the casting endurance, or "blue bar" of an ordinary first-level spellcaster by 20%.

5 of these batteries will give them double the "blue bars".

The most important ability of this magic item is to allow non-casters in the traditional sense, that is, rank zero casters, to obtain double the "blue bar".

The primary application scenario is that the free people hired by Lu Heng produce more large-sized psychic batteries and magic-absorbing stones, and then enter the next cycle.

The next step is to create combat magic items such as the "Cannon Spirit Stone" and use them to arm the Survey Corps that Lu Heng is currently forming.

According to Lu Heng's organization, the basic combat unit of the Survey Corps is a squad, which consists of approximately 12 people.

Going further up, there are generally 3 squads in a platoon, 3 platoons in a company, 3 companies in a battalion, and 3 battalions in a regiment. The entire Survey Corps has about 1000 people.

The specific details are naturally different from the situation in Lu Heng’s hometown, but compared to the Foreign Leaders Group of the Imperial Army, this new system has become much more three-dimensional.

As for the personnel composition of the Survey Corps, a small number are free citizens who volunteered to join the army, but the majority are directly converted from the Empire's Lord Soldiers.

The quality of these soldiers from the Mountain Territory, Artemisia Town and Jules's command is not high even within the empire.

As for the generals at all levels who would lead this legion, Lu Heng had no way of conjuring people out of thin air, and could only select the best from among the past leaders.

Fortunately, Lu Heng did not kill all the "bad nobles" of Taimenia who had once been loyal to the empire as some radical elements demanded.

If this is really done, it will certainly win some applause, but it will be difficult to find a group of middle-level commanders with practical experience.

As for those nobles, Lu Heng denied the superiority of their bloodline, but he did not deny that it was easier for them to acquire talents due to their favorable conditions.

For example, when Jules escaped back to Lu Heng's camp in the form of a pig, Lu Heng said that he could at least serve as an official, so he continued to use him.

But since it was his original troops, of course he had to digest them himself.

In the Fifth Commune, the radical idea of ​​​​exterminating the old aristocracy was implemented to a large extent.

The first thing they did after winning was to build a guillotine specifically for executing enemies, and then that guillotine rarely had a day off.

The benefit of doing this is that it makes the people of the commune very enthusiastic, those who want to vent their anger are satisfied, and the leadership of the commune is also deeply loved by the people.

The downside is that their enthusiasm seems to be a little too high, so that after the nobles were killed, they began to look for enemies within...

Scarlett and her friends took great pains to prevent the situation from turning into a civil war.

Of course, the actions of the commune also indirectly forced some nobles who did not want to die to Lu Heng's side... or to the prison of the Minotaur Lord, anyway, it was Lu Heng's side.

To some extent, this also helped Lu Heng.

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Author's words: Thanks to [General Cute Film Sauce] for the reward ww

198. Ordinary Cute Mofa

Since the lords of the various territories in the Beast Suppression Province died or ran away too quickly, most of the nobles who were driven here were the lords' wives, sisters, daughters, and the like.

An outstanding representative among them is Mofa de Bourgeois, who comes from one of the seven major families of the Lord.

Through the landing point vision, Lu Heng saw what she looked like.

She was a girl with long pink hair, with a slim and elegant figure, giving people a sense of being well-educated and well-mannered.

This is also the norm for a large number of aristocratic girls. While their fathers fight on the battlefield as warriors, their daughters become well-protected little girls.

But with the great explosion of the Tauren Overlord, there was no one else in Mofa's lineage who could inherit the territory.

Her father was a viscount and her brother was a mature Lord Knight. They had just been killed by Lu Heng's rune bomb in the previous battle.

Although she was only 17 years old and was a member of a branch of a bourgeois family, she still inherited the glorious tradition of the bourgeois family.

Even though her biological father died in battle and her biological mother fled, she still held on to her original territory.

After all, they have been in the East Continent for two months, and the Taimenia rye that they had planted earlier has finally come to the time to harvest.

Not only was the wheat ripe in her territory, but in other territories as well, and it was time to harvest it.

As the nobles in the three territories in the west were cured of their lifelong headaches by the people of the commune, the lords from other places fled in all but one.

This made Miss Bourgeois' eyes light up - the property that you voluntarily gave up is mine, isn't it?

What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and harvest!

Even if people die, there may be an afterlife; but if you plant the crops but don’t harvest them, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?

Hurry up and mow, mow, mow! Mow your own land, then mow other lands!

As for what to do when Lu Heng comes, Mofa has already thought about it. When her legs become weak, she can just wait and see what he does.

When facing a strong man, this bourgeois lady is very peace-loving.

Her attitude coincided with Lu Heng's, because Lu Heng had a major problem that could not be solved in the short term, which was that there were too few management talents.

Governor Edric relies on 33 lords to manage the Beast Suppression Province, but it cannot be said that he manages it very well.

As for Lu Heng, even if he had a set of ideas from his hometown, he couldn't quickly produce a group of middle-level cadres.

Without middle-level cadres, even if the soldiers below surrender, there will be no organization at all, and the newly conquered territory will leak information everywhere.

There was no need for Governor Edric to send out his troops to fight. The bandits alone were enough to bully ordinary farmers.

At this time, a noble girl surrendered with the garrison troops of the territory. Lu Heng was naturally happy to accept her and upgraded her to a free citizen who retained her noble honor.

In fact, Lu Heng did not directly ask the nobles to join his camp when he met them - because Mofa was only a part of the nobles.

There were also some nobles who were arrogant and thought that even though they had lost the war, they still had to continue to be the masters.

Their bottom line for "cooperation" is to continue to follow the inheritance law passed down from Taimenia's ancestors, and the wife or children will inherit the original lord's territory.

Then the wind could come in, the rain could come in, but Lu Heng’s hand could not come in.

As for why the emperor's governor was allowed to enter when they were leading the empire, Lu Heng was too lazy to ask.

Since they were so stubborn, Lu Heng had no choice but to pack them up and send them to the Fifth Commune.

At this time, Scarlett and her friends were short of enemies and were having some internal turmoil. As their nominal ally and de facto leader, Lu Heng certainly did not want them to cause chaos.

So Lu Heng quickly sent a group of disobedient nobles to the commune soldiers, so that they could give them a good beating.

Look! The real enemies haven't been killed yet, so stop fighting among yourselves and get down to business first - guillotine, start!

After some redeployment of human resources, the internal divisions of the commune were finally eased to a certain extent.

As for why the people in the commune are so bloodthirsty, it is not because they are born cruel. Their struggle with the aristocratic leaders began 30 years ago.

When the kingdom was just destroyed, the people of Taimenia spontaneously formed a commune and planned to continue to fight against the empire.

This behavior completely angered the Leader Legion, which had just surrendered to the empire and decided to lead the alien king!

You unruly people! How can you be less willing to surrender than us soldiers? Where do you want us to put our faces?

These former troops of the Kingdom of Taimenia immediately showed courage 10 times greater than when fighting against foreign races to slaughter their compatriots.

They slaughtered so many people in the kingdom's capital that the blood flowed so drastically that it completely changed the population structure there.

It is not that the current commune is too brutal. They kill nobles because the nobles are used to being brutal and they just want revenge.

To some extent, Lu Heng was quite merciful in giving the descendants of these nobles a chance to reform.

As for noble defectors like Mofa who were truly willing to give up their own territory, Lu Heng made a distinction for her, or rewarded her.