Tauren Overlord

Barbaris can extract psychic energy directly from substances with low psychic energy content, such as river water.

This ribbon can only draw psychic energy from spellcasters of level one or above, and its more typical use is to limit the abilities of the spellcaster.

If Lu Heng was from the New Taimenia Commune, he would definitely need similar abilities.

Perhaps after Lu Heng develops a product with this capability, it can become the most important trading item between him and the commune.

In fact, there is no need to wait until later. This ribbon can now restrain the Tadaguy in Lu Heng's hand.

Although Lu Heng used the 1% version of fine silk ribbon, whose volume was only 1% of the original version, Lu Heng could make more.

Anyway, the psychic energy is provided by Tadaguy, and the 1% version of the ribbon consumes less energy to make. As long as enough are stacked, the effect will be the same.

This perfectly replicates the capabilities of the original ribbon!

Obviously, this is also a good harvest. When encountering similar captives in the future, I can use this magic-absorbing ribbon to tie them up tightly.

The more the bound spellcaster struggles, the more psychic energy in his or her body flows into the ribbons.

At the same time, the ribbons, craving for psychic energy, will bind him or her tighter and tighter.

After doing this for a while, the tied boy or girl will become weaker and more obedient.

Even if someone is tied up for a long time, his personality may change accordingly... It's not impossible!

The sixth harpy witch, codenamed "Return", can record her location when she sets out and return instantly after taking action.

Isn’t this just a coincidence? Lu Heng’s teleportation ability can also achieve the effect of instant movement.

However, the difference between the two is also huge.

Lu Heng first found the landing point and then teleported there. She first determined where to return to and then chose the right time to come back.

Relatively speaking, the application scope of Lu Heng's art is much wider. It can not only be passed on to himself, but also to others.

Like tonight, transmitting the flaming crossbow arrows fired by the ratmen in battle is also a way of using them that is hard to guard against.

Another difference is that Lu Heng's transmission range is large, while her return range is much smaller.

In fact, with this kind of magic, her survivability has been greatly improved.

However, this kind of magic is also affected by the anti-magic ability, so it is really targeted.

Lu Heng recorded all the skills of the above six first-level harpy witches.

He was looking forward to combining these abilities with Chloe's Psychic Simulation Stone to achieve even greater effects.

But what interested him most was actually the skill of the second-level harpy witch Diana - making the skills of companions public.

For example, the invisible witch's ability was originally only to hide herself, but Diana could transform this ability into an invisible force field.

The result is that all seven of them can share the ability to become invisible.

If this thing is developed well, it will be of great use!

Diana's transformation of a single translation stone into a translation force field can be considered a particularly gentle application.

What if... Ye Ye Sheng Di Ya Ge's astringent power was also transformed into a astringent force field, wouldn't the picture be so beautiful?

It’s really exciting just thinking about it.

All in all, the gains tonight were huge.

Putting aside the "Paladin Remains", Lu Heng has obtained a total of 12 exclusive arts with different effects.

The only fly in the ointment was that Pierre had disappeared.

Where did he run to?

After Lu Heng tied up Tadaguy and teleported him and the "Paladin's Remains" back to the Suspension Bridge Monastery, he continued to look for Pierre's trace.

In order to avoid being discovered by others including Pierre, Lu Heng kept his physical body away from the battlefield.

At the same time, he turned on the landing point vision and searched repeatedly in the area between the battlefield and Artemisia Town.

But even though he switched between psychic vision and thermal imaging vision in succession, he could not find the existence of the Lord of Wormwood Town.

The only things found were the clothes that Pierre had worn.

Is he no longer a human being? Has he transformed into another form?

Lu Heng was not sure what Pierre's unique talent was, but this guy was really cunning and not so easy to deal with.

Meanwhile, Pierre, who had become a rarefied gas, was indeed still drifting.

His psychic energy reserves were not enough to sustain him in gaseous form for long.

When his spiritual energy is exhausted, he will literally spiral up into the sky as gas.

At this moment, Pierre was also very clear that his most reasonable retreat was to return to Artemisia Town.

There were his wife and daughter, ready-made territories, and some remnants of second-line troops.

The Governor would certainly not treat him well due to his poor performance, but he would not necessarily clean himself up at this time.

But precisely because Aicao Town is the most reasonable place for him to go, he absolutely cannot go back to Aicao Town.

That minotaur must have set up defenses on all the roads leading to Wormwood Town, or been hunting in the area between the battlefield and Wormwood Town!

As long as he gets rid of the gasification state, his death will not be far away.

After thinking this through, Pierre did not return east to Wormwood Town, but headed west...where was he going?

Who cares where he goes! As long as he doesn't go to the East where he will surely die, there may be a way out!

Just like that, Pierre turned into a ball of gas and floated towards the gap between Lunayuan State and the Holy Blessing Empire...

102. Renovation projects of special places

After a search, Lu Heng couldn't find Pierre, so he ordered the ratman reconnaissance company to withdraw to the Suspension Bridge Monastery.

Not knowing how dangerous Pierre was, he assigned the Ratman Scouting Company the task of not directly searching for Pierre himself, but to plant mines.

The battlefield was not far from the governor's residence, and Pierre was not the only imperial troop that was moving closer to the governor.

Before the war started, Lu Heng had used the landing point vision to discover that there were also troops of two other imperial lords near Pierre's base.

They were only an hour's journey away from Pierre's troops.

Therefore, Lu Heng had to bury booby traps near Pierre's Legion, so that in case his teammates came to rescue him, it could also delay the time for their reinforcements.

However, after the battle, Pierre's allies remained unmoved.

Is it that Pierre is unpopular, or is the entire Lord Commander Corps like this?

Lu Heng didn't know that the backup plan he had prepared did not work this time.

Then let’s bury it first.

Anyway, these booby traps processed by Ennis are not ordinary mines that become uncontrollable once buried, but are always controlled by Lu Heng's thoughts.

So even if these booby traps were buried, Lu Heng was not worried about hurting innocent people.

If you catch a big fish, you will make a fortune.

Of course, even if he failed to bomb other leaders, Lu Heng managed to eliminate Pierre's main force without any danger this time.

Even if Pierre, who had lost his army and especially his team of affairs officers, came back, it would be difficult to stop Lu Heng from integrating Aicao Town.

However, Lu Heng can only remotely control Aicao Town for the time being, because tomorrow he will have to lead his troops to move closer to the governor.

At this time, choosing a suitable agent is very important.

The most suitable candidate was sitting next to him at the moment, leaning slightly sideways and saying:

"Brother, what are you thinking about?"

Lu Heng smelled Cecilia's scent, but he hadn't figured out how to respond to his cousin.

You can't just tell the truth and say that I was busy killing your father just now?

After all, it’s not easy to explain this actual situation to Cecilia in detail.

So Lu Heng brought up another matter:

"I was wondering, now that all the adventurers in the Adventurer's Inn have left, what will happen to the maids inside?"

After hearing what Lu Heng said, Cecilia held her chin with both hands, but she didn't seem to be really angry. Instead, she asked back in a slightly teasing tone:

"You're really good. Do you want to talk to your sister about which maid has better skills?"

Compared to the society of the harpy witches, human society is much more obscure about sexual issues.

Even in a brothel like an adventurer's inn that also sells magical items, it would be more appropriate to call the women doing that job maids.

So much so that even Cecilia, who holds a high position, has to show at least some reserve in such matters.

According to Cecilia's estimation, the Baron of the Mountains in front of her would not be interested in the "low-class maid" in Artemisia Town.

The reason why he asked this was probably because his troops were short of military maids and planned to get them directly from Artemisia Town.

After all, in the armies of the empire and the rulers, maids are often brought along so that the rewarded troops can vent their lust.

Such humanoid consumables will become sick and die every once in a while, so they always need to be replenished in a timely manner.

However, Lu Heng did not mean what she thought. He gave Cecilia an analogy:

"I might ask those girls to do some small handicrafts or something like that, although to be specific, they would be some other inventions."

"They are idle anyway, so I will let my subordinates lead them for the time being. Do you think it's okay?"

Cecilia also happened to need to deal with these "negative assets".

When the adventurers were around, they could still be treated well to prostitution and have enough food to eat.

Now that all the adventurers have run away, who will they turn to for food?

Lu Heng also knew very well that these poor girls were different from those welfare creators in his hometown who made a lot of money.

Women in my hometown are relatively well protected and usually don't find out where they are going after entering a brothel.

But the maids in Aicao Town are different. Most of them are illiterate, and even if they have signed a contract to sell their bodies, they would only realize it later.

In fact, many women who were forced to become maids in mansions had no use agreeing to it, because they were punished to this status.

Some of them were punished by Pierre for various crimes and had to perform this special labor service to atone for their crimes.

Well, it really is a brothel service in the literal sense.

Even many women themselves did not break the law, but their fathers broke Pierre's law.

As the daughters of criminals, they "naturally" became the targets of punishment.

As for whether Pierre enforced the law impartially... Lu Heng didn't have much confidence in him anyway.

Therefore, very few of these abused women actually chose this "profession" on their own initiative. So how can this be considered "self-degradation"?

After they entered the Adventurer's Inn, they literally worked day and night, or they wanted to work day and night but couldn't.

If these maids don't receive customers, they will really starve to death.

Even though the adventurers spent a lot of money when they were prostituted, the bulk of the money was taken by the innkeeper.

So are there some chaste women who would rather starve to death than be raped by adventurers?

Yes, so the Adventurer's Inn also provides plenty of whips and candles, and if there is a maid who is willing to starve, she will be beaten until she surrenders.

This hard life also produced a magical effect, which was that many maids who were only in their early 20s looked like 40-year-old aunts.

No wonder Pierre was looking forward to the "high-end maid" from the Mountains.

It is extremely rare to find a young virgin who has not been tortured by this kind of life and has a bitter face in the Adventurer's Inn.

This also means that if Lu Heng provides them with another way to find employment and live a more human life, they will easily accept it from the bottom of their hearts.

Because they are similar to the war orphans in the Mountain Territory and the ratmen refugees in the Suspension Bridge Monastery. They have no choice but to rely on Lu Heng.

This also means that Lu Heng can use the "Adventurer's Inn" as a base to open a new "scientific research center" in Aicao Town.

The initial task of the maids in the museum was just to go to the river and use the 1% version of "Demon Extraction Gem" to charge the 1% version of "Psychic Crystal".

After these small batteries are fully charged, we can use the exhaustive method to try which arts are more suitable for mass production.

Among the various skills that Lu Heng has just acquired, some abilities that were originally very useless may shine after mass production.