"Don't worry, since you are willing to stay, then I will definitely help you expand your territory. It is too early to say that the country will be subjugated, and I will talk about the future."

Odin held Lancome's small hand and cast a look of encouragement.

"en!"

Next, accompanied by Lancome, Odin conducted a detailed inspection of the Ye Ze Ling, including the size of the territory, the life of the residents, and the development of the town. noodle.

The area of ​​the territory is not bad, similar to Rock Territory. It may all be due to the wilderness. Grand Duke Lanche is not stingy.

The center of the territory is the Earl’s Castle where Lancome is located. It is located near the junction of the neighboring territories to the west, and then the castle is the center to develop the appearance of a town.

Then centered on this town, spread out a large number of villages.

On the whole, it is a very typical aristocratic centralized structure.

I won’t talk about the economy or anything. If I can build a new town from scratch, I use up the Gold Coin that Odin originally allocated to her.

Only the most basic necessities of life are exchanged with neighboring towns, and the quantity is still very small.

After reading it, Odin's evaluation of Ye Zeling is only two words, behind.

Although it is backward, it cannot conceal the high respect of Ye Ze-ling's leaders to the lord and their expectations for future life.

It just so happened that two days later, the taxation minister sent by the palace and the Viscount of Cumbria, who had departed sadly a few days ago, came to visit the castle.

The purpose is self-explanatory.

"Dear Lord Lancome, the autumn harvest is about to pass, and winter is not far away. Your Yezeling has not yet paid the poll tax. The whole Duchy is missing yours."

Gambia stood silently, but his eyes scanned Odin and Lancome back and forth, his face was very ugly.

"Sorry~ Let Minister Joseph take a trip in person, I should have sent it earlier."

"Hehe, Madam, your kindness, this is my job, I need to talk to you Let me just say that because Your Majesty decided to expand the army, this year's head tax has been increased a little."

"You can have Your Majesty manuscript."

Lancome kept a mind. Did not easily believe the minister's words, but asked for evidence.

"Of course, please have a look."

Joseph is very refreshing. It is clearly stated in the manuscript that the poll tax has risen from the original one Silver Coin to three Silver Coins. This is The Grand Duke's order has nothing to do with him personally.

"Very ruthless, it tripled in one fell swoop." Odin squatted, leaned close to Lancome and gave her a magic crystal card: "Promise him, no matter how much money, I will do it for you. You come out."

Lancome was nodded, and returned the handwritten letter.

"Since it is Your Majesty's will, I have nothing to say, but is there anything wrong with the Viscount Cumbria?"

"Nothing, I just accompany the minister to come by See how you rejected me."

"I am afraid I will disappoint you, my man has money."

Lancome coldly smiled and said:

"My Yeze has 80,000 residents, and the total head tax is 2,400. Swipe the card."

D!

On the professional alchemy instrument, the magic crystal card is used to complete the transaction, and the balance on the card is also displayed as a piggyback.

"Ninety thousand...seven thousand...six hundred gold!"

Gambia's eyes widened in disbelief, thinking that he was stunned, "this...this..."

p>

The Minister Joseph next to him patted him on the shoulder with a single word, and it was obvious that some of the consensus they had reached before they came could not continue.

"Victor Joseph, send me the Viscount Cumbria."

"It's an honor, madam."

Looking at the two after they left Lancome was relieved, and the problem that was pressing on her heart was finally solved.

"Thank you~"

"You can take this card. Although money can't make up for the lack of companionship, it can at least make you no longer worry about lack of money.

By the way, Minister Joseph should not have gone far now, and sent someone to invite him back. I have something to discuss with him."

"Okay!"

After a while, Yezebu set up a feast to entertain Minister Joseph alone.

"Oh~ I will introduce myself formally. I am the fiancé of Lancome and the hereditary earl of Danube duchy. Just call me Odin."

"Earl Odin... It sounds familiar. It seems that the rumor that the Earl of Lancome made a marriage contract as early as the war is true."

"What do you mean by returning? It doesn’t matter if the territory of the leader expands a bit. It doesn’t matter if you spend some money."

"It’s not impossible, but~"

The two looked at each other tacitly. At a glance, they understood their meanings.

"The minister can rest assured that he will give a thousand gold coins first, and a thousand gold will be paid after the work is completed. As for the amount of money needed to expand the territory, it will be calculated separately."

"Okay...Earl Odin is really refreshing, wait for my good news."

"..."

Money can make ghosts grind, even more how the upper level of Lanche Duchy Officials have become corrupt to such a serious degree.

At the end of the banquet, Minister Joseph left with a thousand gold coins. When he comes next time, it will be a brand new territory map.

Actually, Odin had this idea ever since he knew that territorial titles could be bought and sold. Now he just seized this opportunity to let Minister Joseph be an intermediary.

Since we want to support Lancome, we must support it to the end.

Expanding the territory is only the 1st Step. Lancome has no shortage of soldiers, and all the elites brought back from the battlefield. Now that they have money, they can naturally move at will.

Next, measures such as clearing the fields, opening up wasteland, and absorbing refugees will be implemented in turn, which can quickly increase the population of the territory in a short time. With the population base, the economy will naturally rise.

The method is simple and rude, but very useful.

Autumn has passed, and winter has passed. Odin has been with Lancome in Yeze for half a year.

With his help, the economic development of the territory has achieved remarkable results.

The area of ​​arable land and planting population have tripled or four times, and they are still growing rapidly.

A lot of Gold Coin was invested in wasteland construction. Residents and soldiers who earned money had the ability to spend, and there were endless caravans for trading, bringing a fiery economic outlook.

The new territory has also come down, from the east of Yeze to the border, it has become Lancome's territory.

It is also worth mentioning that Lanche Duchy does not have a hereditary marquis, only the marquis of the lord, so Yeze has become the largest hereditary earl.

This expansion of the territory, together with the remuneration given to Minister Joseph, cost only 20,000 gold.

Lancome still feels distressed, but in Odin's view, it couldn't be cheaper.

When everything in the territory was arranged, Lancôme seemed to feel that Odin was about to leave, asking for it from him almost all night.

Finally, in a calm early morning, when Lancome, who was too tired, was still in a daze and did not wake up completely, he got up and dressed neatly.

Looking at the woman who was still asleep, Odin gently took out two things and put them on the bedside.

A top grade Perfect level magic wand; a round crystal shining with faint blue light.

The magic wand is prepared before it comes, and it is expensive. The crystal is the original crystal harvested in the body of the murloc Elder of the abyss, which perfectly fits the magic of Lancome's Water Attribute.

He believes that Lancome's strength will improve rapidly with the help of this crystallization and the elemental energy bestowed on him.

After doing this, Odin left a hickey on the woman's forehead, resolutely rode on the earth elephant and set off again, embarking on an unknown path.

……

"Xuefei, do you feel anything?"

"The breath of monsters."

" You feel it too..."

Under Odin's control, the earth elephant stopped and waited quietly for the unknown to appear.

After leaving the Yeze collar, Odin Summon walked southwards as a human form of Xuefei. Not long after he walked out of the land of Lanche, he was followed by a fallen creature.

Shululu~

The one-eyed giant wolf slowly emerged from the forest, with a deformed tongue protruding from the mouth, because it was too large to be wrapped, and saliva dripped on the small flowers and grass. , Directly poison to death.

Judging from the aura that it exudes, it is not weak at the middle level of gold.

The scarlet one-eyed locked the three living creatures in front of him, Odin, Xuefei, and Earth Elephant.

According to the normal priority level, Odin and Xuefei, who have hidden power fluctuations, will be ignored, and the third rank earth elephant will become the first choice for devouring.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the one-eyed giant wolf came out, he fixed his gaze on Xue Fei.

Sucking~

The exposed huge red tongue suddenly bulged, shrinking and releasing a cloud of purple and black mucus, rushing towards Xuefei.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine a wolf using such an unfathomable mystery attack.

zi zi …

The instantaneous ice surface blocked the venom in time, but it was also corroded into a big hole.

"Hey~It's disgusting!"

Xuefei drilled into his arms in fear.

"It’s a little weird, but it’s okay."

Odin backhanded an ice gun and threw it in return. The quick shadow of the gun rushed before the one-eyed giant wolf’s second saliva. The larynx was poured in and broke out of the body.

In the face of pure power and skill, even a casual attack is enough to kill seemingly powerful enemies.

But the fatal injuries placed on other demonic beasts do not seem to be a big deal to the monster giant wolf.

The giant wolf uses all four limbs together and forcibly pulls himself out of the ice gun tail section.

The internal organs in the abdominal cavity that were condensed by frost were also twisted into pieces by unreasonable movements, and flowed out from the wound.

Ho ho ho...

The one-eyed eye on the top of the skull couldn't help showing no pain. On the contrary, it became more and more swollen under inexplicable stimulation.

Odin sitting on the back of the earth elephant, without saying anything, waved his arm and threw the ice gun again. This time the goal was the eyeball.

pu!

As if a balloon filled with blood was punctured, blood splashed everywhere.

This time the giant wolf was not so lucky. The Ice Attribute Battle Qi contained in the seemingly identical ice gun was twice as much as before, and the body of the giant wolf monster was quickly frozen.

But just when Odin thought it was about to end, the demon wolf's corpse took the initiative to explode, splitting a bloody mini one-eyed demon wolf from it, and quickly disappeared in the forest.

"What's this? Split?"

Although Odin immediately lost the target, but Odin didn’t give up, and quickly radiated spirit strength. Tentacles dived into the forest, trying to find the escaped one. Mini demon wolf.

"How is it, did the master find anything?"

After a while, Xue Fei in her arms asked.

"I ran very fast, I didn't find it."

Odin shook his head, retracted his tentacles, and looked at the woodland with no roads in front of him, his bad premonition became heavier.

Actually, you can guess it by looking at the route he has been going south. His next destination is Elf Forest.

From the position on the map, the Human Race countries occupy the east side of the oval Ella continent, and the Elf Forest occupies the south side.

Within the Human Race countries, the southern border of Lanche happens to border the Elf Forest.

Of course, the Elf Forest is a general term. In a broad sense, the Elf Forest is the collection of all the southern forests. All of them are called the Elf Forest.

In the narrow sense, the Elf Forest only represents the area where the Elf guards live. It is estimated that it is only one-tenth the size of the broad range and is located in the core area.

So people like to use outer forest and inner forest to make a detailed distinction.

Odin's current location is the peripheral zone of the outer forest. When you get here, there is no way to go.

If he wants to take the official road that is truly pedestrian and enters and exits the Elf Forest, he needs to go east and enter the Rainbow City of Duchy in Tiwana.

There is an official business road that was specially opened up to enter and exit the Elf Forest. Through that road, you can directly reach the Elf Forest, the only one city for foreign races, Silvermoon Port.

The reason why he didn't choose to go like that was because it was too far for him.

It's better to slowly groping in the forest and go straight south and enter Silvermoon Harbor with the shortest distance.

"Look to see if there is a Soul Crystal."

After splitting the head, I really found a transparent Soul Crystal. Although it is not as good as the original crystal, it is inside The psychic energy contained is also not to be underestimated.

Wipe it clean, collect the ring, and Odin moves on.

At this time, he did not realize the danger of this operation.

If he can go to Rainbow City, he will know that the commercial road to Silver Moon City was blocked before winter, and no adventurer was allowed to enter.

………

Hu~

Hu~

The mini demon wolf ran wildly in the bushes. It has no eyes, but Can be prepared to recognize the direction instead of hitting the root of the tree.

The strange thing is that when demon wolf fled without hiding his whereabouts, no predator in the forest came to trouble it.

Just like this

The demon wolf, who had fled for half an hour, came to a Mysterious Land shrouded in black mist.

It is not dead branches and leaves that are stepping on the ground, but a soft fleshy carpet. Here, the mini demon wolf's speed is a little faster.

As the demon wolf advances, the fleshy carpet becomes thicker and thicker, and the black fog becomes denser, until a huge egg-shaped object appears in front of it.

How big is it? From a distance, it looks similar to the sewage treatment station in Jushiling.

The surface of the giant egg is covered with densely packed cavities of all sizes. Generally speaking, the more the holes are upwards, the smaller the holes, and the closer to the ground, the larger the cavities.

In addition to being large, the holes on the surface of the giant eggs will shrink and rise like breathing, like living creatures.

After the mini demon wolf ran to the bottom of the giant egg, he found a hole and drilled into it. It quickly disappeared inside the giant egg. At the same time, the hole in the giant egg suddenly shrank and spewed out a large burst of intensity. The black mist is completely hidden.

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