Tauren Overlord

8. The stepmother is naughty and wants to escape

Rosa put on her maid outfit again and placed the fried eggs and bread she had carefully made on a silver tray for Lu Hengchun to enjoy.

For a moment, the table was filled with mouth-watering aroma.

Lu Heng picked up the silver cutlery and gently cut the fried egg.

He put a small piece of fried egg into his mouth, and the delicate taste spread freely on the tip of his tongue, as if every bite was infused with Rosa's love.

Lu Heng was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that Rosa was not only capable of being a lady in the living room, but also good at cooking.

The only drawback was that Rosa only made one breakfast.

Lu Heng took another bite of the soft and sweet bread and gave instructions softly.

"As my personal maid, you should make an extra portion and eat with me."

"Okay." Rosa agreed in surprise and joy.

In fact, among common people and nobles, the situation of "the one who cooks breakfast is not the one who eats the breakfast" is common.

After all, according to the nobles' ideas, maids like Rosa are descendants of peasants, and they carry the dirty blood of lazy people from the moment they are born.

So there should be no reason for lowly servants to eat the same food as gentlemen.

But Lu Heng obviously didn't think so.

Even if we only consider it from a practical point of view, the difference in food between master and servant will affect Rosa's efficiency in refining psychic crystals.

The faster we develop every day, the greater our hope will be when we encounter a real crisis;

If we slow down our development every day, sooner or later we will be dragged down by the accumulated problems.

As for the money issue, Lu Heng doesn't need to worry too much for the time being.

After all, the current expenses are not that high, and they can afford to support even a maid sister like Rosa.

Even if the sky falls, isn't there still the lord's wife's small treasury to support it?

Having thought this through, Lu Heng continued to savor the breakfast that Rosa had prepared for him.

However, the housekeeper's anxious visit broke the morning tranquility.

This steward was once a veteran who had followed the lord, and he was not completely worldly-wise.

Seeing the dense beads of sweat on his forehead, Lu Heng knew that he was really in trouble.

Lu Heng said calmly: "Don't be anxious, sit down and talk slowly."

The butler sat down, but his voice was still anxious:

"Oh no, Master! Our mistress...ran away!"

To Lu Heng, the lord's wife was not a real rival.

But if he were to openly fight with his legal mother, he would lose a lot of reputation.

Reputation is not just a false name; it is a real hidden resource.

So Lu Heng hoped that his stepmother would make a mistake first so that he could prescribe the right medicine.

He said calmly, "She ran away, right? Then why don't we get her back?"

The butler's voice was hoarse and nervous:

"But the lady...took away all the horses in the stable."

It seems that the lord's wife was a little thoughtful in her actions and restricted Lu Heng's pursuit ability in advance.

Faced with this situation, the butler really had no idea what to do. He asked in a low voice:

"Master, did the lady... mention where she was going before?"

Lu Heng was speechless. You asked me, and I also wanted to ask you.

It seems that this butler is not very smart. Let him stay in a small place like Qunshanling, maybe he can still make use of his remaining energy.

When Lu Heng needs talents of the level of "Hand of the Kingdom", such butlers will not be enough.

It is indeed necessary to discover and cultivate more talents early.

However, Lu Heng did not blame the housekeeper, but said calmly:

"I know about this. Go and inform the people in charge first. I have something important to say this afternoon."

Then, Lu Heng told Rosa that he wanted to think of a strategy alone in the study.

If any visitor has something to do, please record it with her first and don't disturb her at this time.

As for what to do next, the lord's wife had made all the plans, but nothing could stop Lu Heng.

He returned to the study and used the landing point vision to overlook the panoramic view again. As expected, he found the lord's wife and her escape team.

If this were a plain, the lady of the lord might be able to escape more easily.

But there are mountains everywhere here, and the lord's wife is riding in a carriage, so there are only a few roads that are easy to travel on.

As long as we confirm the direction in which the escape team fled, it will not be difficult to find the route she must take.

As for how to intercept, it is indeed impossible to use the human power of the mountains and ridges, but he can still seek assistance from other races.

This world is not some replica of the Middle Ages.

Not to mention the spellcasters, there are also a lot of races, such as elves, ratmen, minotaurs, catmen...

In the Mountain Territory alone, there are ratmen lurking in the mountains in numbers far exceeding those of humans.

They are also intelligent creatures in human form.

It’s just that rat people often live in garbage dumps, sewers or underground caves, and ordinary people cannot feel their presence.

To Lu Heng, the lord's wife is an enemy.

For the rat people who originally lived under this land, pioneers like the lord's wife were also enemies.

If both sides have a common enemy, then it may not be impossible for them to cooperate.

Then, Lu Heng estimated the escape route of the lord's wife and found a community of ratmen who could serve as helpers on the road she would pass soon.

At the speed of the lord's wife, it would probably take another hour to pass through that important pass.

If we can mobilize the power of the ratmen, we can ambush the lord's wife.

If Lu Heng directly united the rat people in the identity of the imperial noble William, that would naturally be courting death, but he could completely switch to the identity of a minotaur.

Minotaurs and ratmen are also called "beastmen" by the Empire.

Anyway, they are all targets of attack, so it can be said that they share the same suffering.

However, whether it is the Minotaur or the Ratmen, they never call themselves that, but instead call themselves Luna people.

Among the various tribes in Luna, the individual combat power of the ratmen is generally weak, while the individual combat power of the tauren is relatively strong.

This led to the general desire of the ratmen to have powerful minotaurs to protect them...

However, in this world, the combat effectiveness improvement brought by physique is generally limited, and specific artistic skills, psychic level and proficiency are more important.

Take the Minotaur soul in Lu Heng's body for example. His name is Lucius, and he is only a 24-year-old Minotaur student with little accumulation of combat proficiency.

For the relatively long-lived minotaurs, 24 years old might be similar to 16 years old for humans.

As a young and lost minotaur refugee, he had no suitable weapons and naturally had weak fighting power, making it difficult for him to survive the empire's extermination order.

What's worse is that his original exclusive talent was not personification, but the very detrimental "one-time teleportation".

In a sense, this skill is very powerful, as Lucius can travel across time and space, find a creature of his choice from another world, and teleport it to this world.

But for the user, once this skill is used, the person is gone, although... his memories and abilities can be passed on to the people he summons.

So even though Lucius had made certain preparations, he never used this suicidal exclusive skill.

It was not until he was forced into a desperate situation by adventurers that he made up his mind to bring Lu Heng into this world at the cost of his own life.

In order to better support Lu Heng, Lucius also found an extremely powerful Minotaur warrior in Lu Heng's hometown, and replaced his suicidal ability with his artistic skills.

"Anthropomorphism" was only the exclusive skill of the first-level Minotaur warrior, and now it belongs to Lu Heng.

As long as the spirit can be used, he can be a human on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, an elf on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and a minotaur on Sundays.

Now that Lu Heng has the psychic crystal provided by Rosa as a "power bank", his anthropomorphic ability can be used more frequently.

In that case, Lu Heng quickly selected the teleportation location and started teleporting again.

9. Assemble! My Skaven Troops!

On the southern border of the mountains, there are majestic and tall peaks, like a group of giant dragons winding their way.

A deep canyon runs through it, dividing the mountains into two sides, with only a suspension bridge connecting the two sides.

In the middle of the canyon, a long river further limits the width of the passage on both sides.

This is the ambush site chosen by Lu Heng.

Not only are the roads here narrow, but there is also a large group of Luna ratmen living among these vast mountains.

Lu Heng planned to subdue them. After all, the one who ambushed the lord's wife couldn't be her filial son William.

At this moment, the rat people still live their lives day after day.

They would hide in caves in the mountains at night and go out to the surface to collect food in the early morning of the next day.

In fact, the rat people are also capable of cultivating the land, but recently, many fertile lands have been occupied by the empire's pioneering groups.

The rat people had no choice but to hide in a place far away from the fertile fields and survive using more primitive methods.

They collected wild fruits from the mountains to survive, although the fruits they collected were not delicious enough, and most of the time there were not enough to eat.

After all, they are not real mice, but humanoid creatures that are generally four-fifths the height of humans.

So although rat people are not popular, they are still quite good at eating.

In the case of food scarcity, these hundreds of rats could only survive with difficulty on both sides of the canyon by supplementing their meals with some insects, grasses and the like.

Faced with the hardships of life, the leader of these rat people, the Duck Prophet, plans to replenish them with spiritual food.

The Duck Prophet always gathers the rats who are still able to move in the early morning, and gives them more courage to live before the new day of gathering.

"The church has not given up on us. The followers of the Lord of All Suffering will definitely rescue us!"

"The cruel empire will eventually be destroyed!"

"One day, our flag will be planted on their mountain! Gah Gah!"

Perhaps, even the Duck Prophet did not know whether the Lord of All Suffering was blessing them today.

Just saying this will give the rat people more spiritual comfort.

As for the rat people, since the duck prophet said so, they just pretended to believe it.

Anyway, waiting for death with hope is also a day, and waiting for death with fear is also a day.

Then why not wait for death with a happy attitude?

The days go by one after another.

Until today, a purple light shines among the quiet mountains, attracting more and more ratmen.

Lu Heng stopped being a human and switched to the image of a minotaur who was more friendly to Luna the ratman.

The moment they saw Lu Heng, hope shone in the rats' eyes, and they couldn't help but scream in surprise:

"The Minotaur is coming. We have hope now!"

Looking at the rat people who came to watch, Lu Heng said that at least the start was not bad.

At least, his Minotaur identity did make him popular among the public.

Lu Heng sat among the rat people and told them why he came.

"I am a follower of the Lord of All Suffering. I came here to fight against the coming demonic tide."

"The enemy is about to pass this road. We need to set up an ambush immediately on their way."

"Who's willing to fight with me?"