Tauren Overlord

What is the "Devil's Contract"? It is nothing more than a more efficient automated magic whip.

Then why did slaves have to be chained and even repeatedly beaten by overseers in order to work successfully?

Wouldn't it be better if they could work automatically without being restricted by shackles or having to be whipped by masters or supervisors?

The most reasonable explanation is that it is necessary to abuse the slaves because they are not born with slave mentality.

Therefore, all shackles and whips are not just boring sex toys, but can really suppress servants.

The basic logic behind their existence is that slaves don't want to work for their masters... at least not that much.

How efficient can they be since they obviously don't want to work that much?

What's more, if Lu Heng wants to keep Ye Ye by his side, the first thing he has to consider is not efficiency, but safety.

The "Devil's Contract" cannot fundamentally bring slavery to the servants, but will instead cause the servants to accumulate resentment in their hearts.

If Lu Heng kept such a servant with him, it would be equivalent to carrying a time bomb with him.

One day, the resentment she has accumulated might explode.

Since the "Devil's Contract" has such side effects, Lu Heng, who naturally doesn't want to ride on other people's heads, has no reason to enslave her.

He stretched out his palm and smiled at Ye Ye:

"Let's make another devil's contract. As long as you and I high-five, we will end the established master-servant relationship."

Xiao Yeye's pupils suddenly dilated, as if she didn't understand what Lu Heng was saying.

It was a long time before she reacted and stretched out her slender hand to Lu Heng.

According to the frank agreement between the master and the servant, their master-servant relationship has been officially terminated.

However, Lu Heng was not completely without a backup plan. After all, as a succubus, she didn't have many places to go.

Sometimes, the empire might turn a blind eye when it sees the little succubus serving as a servant of the imperial nobles.

But if she encounters a succubus running around, sending her back to the warp would be the lightest punishment. Who knows how much torture is waiting for her.

Another problem is that the succubus's ability...is not something that ordinary people can withstand.

If she didn't look for Lu Heng, she might not be able to find a more suitable partner.

So, Lu Heng looked at Ye Ye, who had ended their master-servant relationship but still had few places to go, and asked softly:

"Xiao Ye Ye, do you want to be my personal maid?"

Ye Ye asked back in confusion:

"Didn't you just dissolve our master-servant relationship? Ye Ye thought you disliked me!"

Lu Heng waved his hands and explained in a somewhat specious way:

"That's different. The last master-servant relationship was a forced relationship with strong mental whipping. It's easy for you to suffer mental pain when you are with me."

"Now asking you to be my maid is different. This is fun! You know, fun!"

94. The Rise of the New Tymenia Commune

Lu Heng, who had just experienced the maid's extra time, soon received an invitation from his cousin Cecilia, saying that she wanted to have breakfast with her brother.

Let's talk about some private topics.

In that case, Lu Heng couldn't bring the succubus over with him.

During this time when he was separated from Ye Ye, he planned to let his personal maid Chloe take care of her.

As a succubus, Ye Ye has been in the subspace for a long time and is indeed not familiar with the customs and habits of humans.

If the people of Taimenia like to go green all the time, then Ye Ye can only say that you humans are a little too extreme.

For example, she seemed unaware that if she released an astringent smell everywhere and made people go crazy, it would easily cause trouble to others.

For example, the "marriage system" seems to be more popular among succubi.

If you are happy today, you will find someone to marry; if you are happy again tomorrow, you will find someone else to marry again.

When she was happy, she wanted to marry Margaret, and later she wanted to marry Lu Heng and Chloe.

Gender aside, she didn't seem to fully understand the rare cultural customs of succubi, such as "there is a limit to the number of people you can marry."

If a little succubus like this is kept around, it will be easy for her to make big news every day. She really needs to learn something from it.

After settling Ye Ye's affairs, Lu Heng, Cecilia, and Margaret enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast together.

At first, Margaret chatted with Lu Heng about their recent situation, but soon, the brother and sister were the only ones left in the room.

To be precise, the only ones left are the Baron of the Mountains and the Acting Baron of Artemisia Town, who are siblings.

Cecilia gently turned her slightly tender face and asked Lu Heng for help very seriously:

"Brother, we in Wormwood Territory have been attacked by harpy witches many times before, and it's already very difficult."

"Later, the town was robbed by the Minotaur bandits, and everyone lost confidence in the future of the territory."

"Now, the rebels have also established the New Taimenia Commune in the west, and they are expanding recklessly."

"Perhaps it won't be long before the front line of the war reaches our poor little town."

"Moreover... as the rebels grew stronger, our old farmers were also bewitched by them and became more rebellious than before."

"Brother, what should we do?"

Cecilia was right. Many times, the lord did not need to charge into battle to reach the front lines of the war.

As long as the battle line keeps chasing the lord, then the lord, even a girl like Cecilia, will have plenty of opportunities to be at the forefront of the war.

As for Cecilia's rule over Wormwood Town, or Wormwood Territory, it had indeed reached the end of its rope.

Although legally, the fiefdom that Cecilia was in charge of was originally a "wormwood territory".

In addition to the town of Wormwood itself, Pierre once controlled many surrounding resources, including iron ore.

Pierre also captured many ratmen as slaves and used them to mine the iron ore in Wormwood Territory.

But the rat slaves had only been digging for a few days when Pierre's overseer was attacked by the harpy witch.

The entire mine was out of control, and the rescued rat slaves basically escaped.

Pierre tries to keep the mines running and begins using old farmer Tymenia as miners.

This did have some effect, after all, the Empire said that the Luna people were beastmen.

The old farmer believed what the empire said and would not follow the harpy witch easily.

But from the perspective of the Harpy Witch, not restricting the mining of the imperial lords is also a way to death.

In this war, whether it is Lunayuan State or the Empire, the local commanders have to do almost the same things:

First, we must collect as many resources as possible and transform them into military power as quickly as possible;

After turning all the resources at hand into military power, we should preserve ourselves as much as possible and destroy the enemy as much as possible;

What should we do if the enemy is so powerful that it is difficult to eliminate it in a short period of time?

Then try to prevent the enemy from collecting resources smoothly, thereby limiting the enemy's military strength.

Specifically speaking of the situation of the harpy witches, the more iron ore Pierre collected, the more iron arrows he could forge, and the faster he could kill them.

In order to slow down her own death and even win the war, the Harpy Witch would try her best to restrict Pierre's mining.

Under the repeated attacks of the Harpy Witch, Pierre's control over several other resource collection points in the Wormwood Territory was not much better.

Since Ai Cao Territory lacks fuel energy such as coal mines, in order to produce steel on a large scale, it can only look for high-quality wood rich in spiritual energy.

But even if you cut down good wood, you will easily be harassed by the harpy witch, and the more you mine, the more you lose.

The lack of high-quality fuel wood made it difficult to smelt iron ore with charcoal, and the chain reaction was that Pierre was unable to forge slightly more powerful weapons.

There are enough Timenia war clubs, but they are only good for making up the numbers. Compared with real weapons, the power of these war clubs is too weak.

In the end, due to the efforts of the harpy witches, Wormwood Territory did not have any high-priced products to offer, and its economic development was severely restricted.

Compared to the mountainous areas, this place is indeed not as extremely poor, but compared to a big city like Thessaloniki, it is still a world of difference.

When Pierre realized that he could not defend the mine even if he opened it, he had no choice but to retreat to Artemisia Town with his main force.

But now that Cecilia has become the acting lord, it is difficult for her to even continue to be the mayor of Wormwood Town.

Because the crisis that Artemisia Town has to face is not just the "Beast Man".

Lu Heng also noticed that between the Empire and the Luna Academy, the New Taimenia Commune, composed mainly of rebellious old farmers, was rising.

They took up the red and black flags, rejected any noble rule, and continued to spread their rebellious experience to other old farmers in Taimenia.

With the failure of the last imperial attack on the west coast, many old farmers witnessed the weakness of the empire and became more and more daring to rebel.

Among them, a peasant uprising army closest to Aicao Town indirectly contributed to the death of the former lord of Qunshan Territory.

Now, the rebel army has finally made clear their banner.

As a result, the Empire's Beast Suppression Province had a definite third-party force, and the situation became more complicated.

Each of the three parties needs to fight against the other two forces, but there is a possibility of cooperation between them.

The empire's goal is to achieve "peace" by forcing disobedient forces to surrender as soon as possible.

But when it comes to the question of who to attack first, the Governor of the Beast Suppression Province will most likely prioritize the New Taimenia Commune as the top priority target.

Because the lords of the Beast Slaying Province are all rulers from Taimenia.

In order to prove their loyalty to the empire, these leaders hated their compatriots who refused to lead the way, not the alien races like the Minotaur.

Compared with the leaders of the empire, Lu Heng certainly hopes that the people of the New Taimenia Commune can gain a foothold.

But Lu Heng also knew very well that they lacked an important factor to win the war - enough strong spellcasters.

So can they cling to Lunayuanbang and gain the qualifications to confront the empire?

From a strategic point of view, this is certainly the best solution, but this also requires the Luna people to be willing.

In fact, the Luna people had good reasons to reject the New Tymenia Commune's request for help.

Because the commune was built on the land of the Luna people. It would not be surprising even if the Luna people rose up together and pushed the commune over.

From the perspective of these old farmers, they might consider themselves to be poor homeless people;

But to the Luna people who have lived on this land for generations, aren't you all invaders?

If there is any difference between them and the Empire, it is that the Empire is a more powerful invader;

The founders of the commune were a group of old farmers who had not yet established themselves. They were obviously easier to fight against and were the weaker invaders.

We are both invaders, but you are weaker, so why don’t I attack you first?

Therefore, the new Taimenia Commune, which had just emerged between the Empire and the Luna Academy, was actually in a very dangerous situation.

Both the Empire and the Luna-in-law have enough motivation to sit back and watch... or even promote the destruction of the Commune.

They could even choose to temporarily cease fire in reality, divide up the areas actually controlled by the commune first, and then continue fighting.

95. The cute sister pretending to be fooled

Because the geographical environment of the New Taimenia Commune is so harsh, Lu Heng doesn't know how long the commune can survive.

It was said that their flag had reached the Fifth Commune, and this was probably the result of the old farmers miscounting.

In fact, the earliest communal uprising can be traced back to the era of the Kingdom of Taimenia.

But not a single one of them has succeeded and survived to this day.

It seems that no matter what ideals they insist on, they must survive first to have a future...

Just as Lu Heng was thinking deeply about his relationship with the commune, Cecilia's sweet voice brought him back to his senses:

"It's a pity that those rebellious old peasants will probably not let us nobles go."

"Otherwise, I really don't want to kill each other with these compatriots."

"In fact, it's not just them. I don't even want to fight the so-called beastmen."