Tauren Overlord

"As a friend, I would like to ask you to deliver a message to the Exile Zone in the west."

"If you meet a girl who has lost her father, you should give her the gold coins and tell her that the man who killed her father last time is dead."

"Next, we'll see each other again!"

In fact, according to imperial law, Lu Heng could have executed the maid who betrayed her master, or captured her and made her a military maid, but he obviously did not do so.

He chose to take what he wanted. He got benefits from Adeleide, and he also used his power as a lord to quietly let her go.

Just like that, Lu Heng watched the "Ice Ring Maid" quietly leave, and then welcomed another guest.

……

Di Yao, who was badly cheated, finally met the Baron of the Mountains.

As soon as Lu Heng saw Di Yao, who was wearing sexy clothes, he smiled and greeted her in a gentlemanly manner:

"Lady from the Polporo family, are you here to help your brother pay back the 500 million?"

58. The Lady, the Town, and the War

In the bright meeting room, Di Yao sat in front of Lu Heng in a daze.

She lowered her head, her voice soft and choked with sobs:

"Five million? How can I get that?"

Lu Heng couldn't help but complain in his heart:

When your brother asked me for 500 million, he didn't consider how I should give it to him, right?

However, Lu Heng casually spread his hands:

"Okay, I also believe that your brother is just joking with me."

"Five million in total. Even if we sold our mountains, we wouldn't get that much money."

Looking at Di Yao in front of him, Lu Heng remembered how she was punished yesterday and couldn't help feeling pity for her.

She is already overwhelmed by the tasks of the Minotaur Overlord, so pitiful.

All the supplies that the White Legion had on the wagons were taken by the Tauren Overlord;

The supplies they left in the Mountain Territory were taken away by the "Ice Ring Maid" Edired and are currently being secretly kept by the Baron of the Mountain Territory.

If Baron Qunshan gave her another impossible task worth 500 million, wouldn't she be depressed?

If by that time she won't even be able to complete the task assigned by the Minotaur Overlord, then Lu Heng will be at a great loss. It would be better for him to do her a favor, which would be more practical.

Lu Heng's choice made Di Yao feel both ashamed and grateful.

The embarrassing thing is that although she comes from a wealthy family, she really can't afford the money.

Although the "Count of the Coast" Edric of the Polbolo family is the governor of the Beast Suppression Province, the Mountain Territory and Artemisia Town are both under the jurisdiction of the Beast Suppression Province.

However, Di Yao's lineage was only a branch of the Porporo family and had no fiefdom of its own, which led to her and her brother becoming adventurers even though they were nobles.

Is being an adventurer a wonderful profession?

They are just a bunch of licensed desperadoes.

For the fluctuating bounties, they work hard everywhere, or rather, seek death everywhere.

Adventurers have to hunt "beastmen" in unfamiliar environments, escort caravans under attacks from gangsters, and sometimes even resist counterattacks from "beastmen".

Most of the time, they earn cheap money but take the risk of selling cocaine.

So are there any adventurers who, by constantly taking on quests, eventually become increasingly wealthy and reach the pinnacle of life?

If Ruby could really earn 500 million through this mission, he might be able to buy a manor and become a serf owner.

But such a decent ending is almost one in a thousand, at least Ruby will never have the chance in this lifetime.

Until now, Di Yao still doesn't know where her brother went.

This kind of situation where a man is buried with the weeds is often the true ending for most adventurers.

Di Yao felt embarrassed and angry, but also very grateful.

Even in this gratitude, there was a hint of surprise.

Why doesn't the Baron of the Mountains seem afraid at all?

The Tauren Overlord had just killed his stepmother recently, shouldn't he be afraid?

In a place like Qunshan Territory that looks so poor, it's impossible for him to have a group of powerful spellcasters to protect himself, right?

He must like to invite adventurers to work for him, who don't provide food and accommodation, don't have any work injury compensation, and don't care about burial after death.

But now?

Even a powerful adventurer group like the White Regiment is almost wiped out. Will other adventurer teams dare to take on the job?

If he was a coward, no, if he was a normal lord, he should feel that disaster was imminent at this time, right?

Why is he so calm, so strong, so brave, and so hopeful?

And he was so kind as to pardon the 500 million owed by the White Legion...

He is really... so handsome!

However, looking at the life-saving straw in front of him, Di Yao lowered his head again.

The White Legion originally had some reserve funds, but now they have been taken away by the "Ice Ring Maid".

How can Di Yao, who is penniless, rebuild the White Legion?

Could it be that she expected the Baron of the Mountains to provide her with free new members?

Lu Heng seemed to understand her thoughts and proposed a new commission in a gentlemanly manner:

"There is a member of my team who is a pure lady like you. Can you take her to a relatively safe area for some training?"

The task was simple, but Di Yao was a little surprised by Lu Heng's trust in her.

He still believed that I was a chaste lady even under the strange circumstances that I had been missing for a day and a half and even my clothes had been changed?

He understands me so well!

In fact, how could Lu Heng not know whether Di Yao had lost her virginity to the Tauren Overlord?

Lu Heng could also see that it was something very important to her.

Because the most common way out for nobles like Di Yao is to marry someone from the imperial headquarters and then give birth to a mixed-race child with the noble bloodline of someone from the imperial headquarters.

Within the empire, pure-blooded people from the imperial headquarters are generally referred to as pure-bloods.

The offspring of purebloods and various "barbaric races" other than the people of the Empire are called mixed-bloods.

The status of mixed-bloods is lower than that of pure-bloods, but higher than that of "barbaric races" such as the Taimenians.

The highest that "Southern Barbarians" like the Taimenians could own was a barony or viscounty, which were fiefdoms without city walls.

Because the Empire did not trust the conquered Taimenians from the bottom of its heart, it would not allow them to obtain fiefdoms with walls and castles from the beginning.

In this way, even if they rebelled, they could be easily suppressed by the empire's regular army.

Unless the people of Taimenia have mixed blood with the people of the imperial headquarters, they are eligible to obtain the earldom.

Therefore, for the Taimenians, the sooner they allow their offspring to interbreed with the people of the empire, the better their offspring will be able to survive within the empire.

"Earl of the Coast" Edric is a mixed-race heir whose maternal line is from Taimenia and whose paternal line is from the Empire headquarters.

Therefore, he is qualified to become the governor of the Beast Suppression Province in the Eastern Territory of the Empire, and Lu Heng's direct superior.

If Di Yao could also give birth to a mixed-race child like Edric, her branch would have more room for development.

It can even compete with Edric's main system.

In order to marry well, maintaining one's reputation is a must, and people in the imperial headquarters generally attach great importance to this.

So Di Yao agreed to Lu Heng's commission with great gratitude.

However, she seemed to still hold out hope that the other members of the White Legion would survive, and said that she wanted to wait for two more days in the Mountains.

This will also help you to be better prepared for future journeys.

Lu Heng readily agreed to her request and paid her a deposit of 3000 imperial coins.

When she comes back with Lu Heng's people, Lu Heng will pay her the remaining 7000.

The person Lu Heng plans to train is maid number 7, Tilia.

As Barbaris became more and more proficient in charging psychic crystals, Lu Heng tried to use psychic crystals to "ripen" the maid who already had a certain psychic foundation and turned her into a spellcaster.

One of his first experimental subjects was the battle maid Tilia.

The experiment was successful and she is now a spellcaster.

But she still lacks experience and really needs to go out and practice.

Of course, Lu Heng also had another goal, which was to let Tilia help him understand the situation in some big cities.

Although he has landing point vision, this ability is not omnipotent.

Once encountering a city wall with an anti-magic field, Lu Heng’s landing point vision will not be able to penetrate it.

There is a big difference between the city walls of this world and the city walls of my hometown.

The walls of my hometown are not immune to magic, that's because there is no magic in my hometown.

If the city wall here only defends against physical attacks and not magic attacks, then it is basically a fake city wall.

Therefore, Lu Heng's portal is not so all-pervasive and will still be blocked by the walls of earldoms or higher-level territories.

In other words, a barony like Aicao Town is suitable for Lu Heng to engage in zero-dollar shopping.

After arranging Di Yao's affairs, Lu Heng took a look at the town being built around the lord's mansion.

Since Lu Heng allowed them to build houses on the land he donated, more and more wood began to appear around the lord's palace.

However, building a building is not something that can be done overnight. Perhaps they will need to build for another month before they can see some progress.

But it is obvious that a new town is quietly sprouting among these mountains.

With the demise of the old White Legion, it would naturally no longer be called Ruby Town.

What should I call it?

Let’s call it the town of mountains.

Lu Heng named the town.

However, on this very evening, the town, which had just begun construction, received a call to war.

This is the situation:

The Empire's foreign leaders hit a brick wall when they attacked the Luna people on the west coast and were defeated with bloodshed.

Some of the leading nobles were still unwilling to accept the defeat during the retreat. They wanted to regroup their troops and fight another battle on the west coast.

However, their defeat gave the oppressed old farmer Taimenia an opportunity, so he turned against them and beat up the dear leaders again.

This undoubtedly made Earl Edric, the governor of the Empire's Beast Suppression Province, furious, and he ordered the 33 nobles in the province to quickly assemble their troops and prepare for battle!

59. I have to find someone to get married right here!

The goals of this war are twofold:

The first was to resolve the rebellion of the “barbaric old farmers of the South.”

The second is to completely eradicate the remaining resistance of the "Beastmen" on the west coast.

Lu Heng really couldn't help but complain. The lords of these mountain territories have been dead for several days. Have you nobles who are well-informed about everything finally heard the news?

But on second thought, he felt that Earl Edric might be relatively well-informed.

The Ovax family, whose lord's wife had died in the mountains not long ago, seemed to be unaware that someone had died in their family until now.

In places where information is truly blocked, people might not even know that the emperor of the empire has been replaced for more than a month.