Chapter 463: The Real and Reliable Undead
Just as Anthony had expected, Lowell was so cruel to his own descendants, so there was no reason for him to show mercy to outsiders.
After capturing all the descendants who had been stripped of their surnames, as well as the private soldiers, stewards and servants who had assisted the evil, Lowell began to attack the guests who were invited to the "celebration party".
Whenever the undead sent the evidence they had found to the lord's mansion, there would be a group of elegant gentlemen or reserved and elegant ladies who would be captured by Lowell without mercy.
The properties and residences of these people were also included in Lowell's list of confiscated properties ...
By the time the sun set, the undead had plowed almost every part of the city, and of the more than 200 guests attending the cocktail party in the lord's mansion, less than one-third were still standing.
Lowell summoned the private soldiers and servants who had escaped the purge, and ordered the private soldiers to detain the bound people in the main building, and told the servants to invite the guests whose crimes had not yet been found to rest temporarily in the guest rooms of the annex building.
After a quick dinner, Lowell once again stood at the gate of the lord's mansion, and before it got dark, he used the Undead Coins to recover the confiscated property from the players.
After all, it was Lowell's territory, and Yang Qiu was not so shameless as to interfere with the property confiscated from other people's land.
Well, the most important thing is that Yang Qiu is quite well-off now, so there is no need to compete with Lowell for these small amounts of money...others still have to rely on these funds to start their own businesses.
After helping to look after the town hall and the city gate for a while, Envy and Karina returned to the lord's mansion and saw Lowell expressionlessly exchanging worthless copper coins for bags of gold and silver utensils and jewelry from the undead.
The lich Envi who takes jobs everywhere to make money and Ms. Karina who is so poor that she sells herself as a mercenary: "..."
The two spellcasters silently looked at the undead who were noisily queuing up to hand over their belongings, their eyes becoming extremely subtle...
"Thank you for your hard work." Rowell, who kept putting gold coins and silverware into his space bracelet, nodded politely to the two spellcasters, "The butler has prepared dinner, please go in and rest first."
"Okay, thank you." The two spellcasters responded with a smile, and couldn't help but look back frequently when they entered the door.
Lowell did not notice their complicated looks. He was busy collecting the undead and confiscating their property, and he was actually in a heavy mood.
This viscountdom was just a sparsely populated, desolate and deserted borderland when he and his wife Sabrina moved here from the royal capital two hundred and seventy years ago.
There is only one town and a dozen or so villages in the whole county.
It was Sabrina and their children who spent more than a hundred years turning the small town into a city and the village into a market town. They doubled the farmland and population, and turned this border wasteland, once known as a place where birds were reluctant to land, into a fertile settlement suitable for habitation.
The territory that held Sabrina's life's efforts and hopes was named Santurce; combined with the name of the city at her feet, Delbourg, it meant "the city of hope blessed by the gods."
In the last few years before her death, Sabrina was unwilling to see Lowell again, and did not want Lowell to see her declining state before her death; but in the letters she wrote to Lowell, she was still full of the same liveliness and cheerfulness as in her youth, and her ever-abundant competitive spirit.
She hoped that this territory she named, this "City of Hope under Divine Protection", would become a prosperous place that would be no less prosperous than the royal capital in a hundred, two, or three hundred years.
She hoped that the builders of this territory, herself, her children, and her beloved husband would be remembered by all the Shiga people - just as she always outshone everyone else when she was alive, after her death, she also wanted to prove that she was very remarkable and that she and her descendants were equally shining.
Lowell was fascinated by Sabrina's confident and high-spirited demeanor, both in life and in death.
He persistently guarded the prosperous church, Shiga, and the last wish of his late wife, and he worked hard for this all his life.
Until... the man who summoned the undead shattered Lowell's ego.
Mechanically handing over the Undead Coins and taking back a bag of gold, silver and jewelry, Lowell could feel the weight of the bag weighing on his hand. He could feel that the anger in his heart was still extremely hot.
There are only a little over 100,000 permanent residents in Delburg, and together with the population of other settlements in Santuris, the total number does not exceed 500,000.
The Prosperity Church does not allow the keeping of slaves. The rampant slavery in the Kingdom of the Rhine is very rare in the Principality of Shiga.
Even servants of wealthy families had to sign open employment contracts, and their masters had to pay extra taxes for misappropriating the population that could create super wealth for private use - the goddess of prosperity's divine power was wealth and contracts, and hiding citizens' tax payments was seen as a provocation to the authority of the church and would never be tolerated.
In other words, if we double the population of Santurce from the files of the tax commissioner, we will know that there are no hidden households.
With a population of only 500,000, it has bred so many parasites - the scope of the undead's property confiscation has not yet reached the Lowell family who took the lion's share, but such an astonishing "family fortune" has been seized. It would be strange if Lowell could be in a good mood!
Thinking back to when he had asked the nobles in the city to support the reform, these people had evaded the issue and cried poorly... If Lowell hadn't been well-educated enough, he would have wanted to go back to the mansion and severely humiliate those hateful parasites he had already captured!
Lowell, who was burning with rage, after recovering the treasure from the last player, did not "call it a day" as he had done before. Instead, he continued to issue tasks to players - to continue to sweep the remaining seven towns.
The players who were ready to change maps were all shocked.
"Holy crap, is this true? The pretty boy has started working overtime?"
“Great!”
A group of players happily rushed forward, queuing up to accept tasks and calling their friends...
A raid and looting with a clear destination... ahem, capturing spoils of war is definitely better than running around the mountains and plains looking for monsters on the map of Tachia!
After accepting the mission and receiving the map of the town of Santuris, the tireless little undead excitedly left the city overnight and rushed towards their destination.
Because Lowell lacks the manpower to send to follow the undead, the missions issued this time require players to search various towns and bring back prisoners and spoils to hand them in. This is obviously more troublesome than handing in prisoners on the spot after the battle - but again, as long as there are rewards and reputation, players don't care whether they have to go through a little more trouble.
After entrusting the task of searching the town to the undead, Lowell himself was not idle. He called two spellcasters who had taken a short rest and began to search the houses of his descendants overnight.
The Lord's Mansion is the home of the current Viscount who is still in the capital and does not know that he has lost the surname Lowell; the other descendants either live in the city or in villas and estates in the suburbs. Over the years, they have relied on the surname Lowell to bully others and have made no less money than the current Viscount.
After two days of working day and night, Lowell and the undead scourge he invited cleansed the Saint Turis territory thoroughly inside and out.
The undead, who had gained countless game coins, reputation, and equipment (from the private soldiers of various noble families), teleported away with a smile on their faces and satisfaction, and went to Tachia to participate in the "main mission" that had been pushed to the capital city of Creek.
Lich Envi & Lady Karina watched the last undead being teleported away from the teleportation point in the courtyard of the lord's mansion, and then turned their heads at the same time , staring blankly at... the main and secondary buildings that were crowded with people.
In the entire territory of Saint Turis, including several descendants of Lowell who had been stripped of their surnames, almost 90% of the respectable people and their families were imprisoned in the lord's mansion...
And this does not include the criminals who, after being captured by the undead, have to go through the procedures at the Public Security Bureau and are immediately escorted to the reclamation team, such as hooligans, casino brothel thugs, street gangs, etc., and even interrogation is considered a waste of time.
"...This is really - it can be done." Ms. Karina said with admiration and amazement.
When she first followed Lowell to the territory of Saint Turis, Ms. Karina heard the monk mention that he was determined to eliminate all evil in the territory.
At that time, Ms. Karina agreed with the monk's idea, but Ben did not agree with it.
Karina, who just turned a hundred, is considered very "young" among high-level spellcasters, but she also has rich travel experience; she has been to many cities that are rumored to be like paradise on earth. Those rich and prosperous places do have all kinds of beauty... but darkness also follows closely.
Not to mention anything else - even in the royal capitals where the royal families of various countries live, prostitutes, thieves, and vagrants are very common "scenery".
Even in a sparsely populated, peaceful and quiet rural area, oppression, bullying and persecution always occur quietly in some inconspicuous corner.
In this world, there is no such "worldly wisdom and human nature" as "the water is too clear to have fish" that adults use to comfort themselves, but there is also a similar understanding of "living in harmony with the world" - since there is light, darkness must also exist.
Especially after Ms. Karina learned that the Lord of Saint Turis was the great-great-grandson of Brother Lowell, she became even more skeptical that Lowell could practice his ideals.
I never expected... that Lowell actually did it.
Ms. Karina felt it was ridiculous at the moment—Lowell was not the kind of person who would go crazy without considering the consequences!
Lowell, with a tired look on his face, came out of the main building and invited the two spellcasters to go into the living room to rest.
The last batch of families of feudal nobles brought here by the undead threw a tantrum and cried loudly when they were sent to the room for imprisonment, making the already messy living room of the main building a mess. The only servants left in the lord's mansion hurriedly cleaned it up after a while.
After accompanying Lowell for two days and one night, Karina finally sat down to rest. After drinking a cup of tea to relieve her fatigue, she couldn't help asking, "Frak, you have almost swept away all the nobles and officials in the fiefdom. Who will manage Saint Turis for you next?"
The ruling team of Delburg and their families were locked up upstairs, and six of the seven mayors were also locked up. Ms. Karina, an outsider, couldn't help but feel anxious.
Lowell, who was feeling sleepy, couldn't help laughing when he heard this question, and there was a hint of self-mockery in his smile.
He had this doubt before, too, when he watched Yang letting the undead "ruin" Westram and Innadri into chaos.
"Please allow me to thank you, ma'am. I'm glad you care about me and Santuris." Lowell said with a smile, "Please don't worry. What we are waiting for is someone who can solve the problem for us."
As soon as he finished speaking, Rowell pointed outside the door and said with a smile: "Look, they are here just after I mentioned it."
"Huh?!" Karina felt something was wrong for a moment, and turned her head in the direction Lowell pointed... and saw more than a dozen undead appearing on the earthen platform in the courtyard.
Karina: “…”
Karina turned back stiffly and looked at Rowell with a questioning look.
The Tarantan Undead are indeed very reliable - they can participate in battles, help arrest people, help search homes, and will not embezzle property. They are even more useful than private soldiers at home.
But even the governance of the territory and the management of the town are left to the undead... isn't this too outrageous?
Brother Lowell had no time to explain to Karina. After seeing the undead who came to "support" him, he stood up excitedly and strode out of the door to greet them: "Ji Tang!"
Ji Tang walked down the teleportation platform steadily, smiled and stretched out his hand to Rowell: "Good day, monk, I haven't seen you for a while."
"Long time no see." Luo Weier happily stretched out his hands and shook hands with Ji Tang. "I didn't expect you to come here in person. I am really surprised."
"Westham is on the right track now. Tuttle can solve any problems. If things don't work out, he can ask Sister Zhao for help. I'll be free for the time being." Ji Tang smiled and shook hands with Lowell, and enthusiastically introduced the team he brought to Lowell, "Let me introduce you, this is my old leader, this is my comrade-in-arms... These are old professors from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who came here to help and do some research. I still have to count on you to provide funding and manpower... These two are experts from the Geological Institute... This one is..."
The Principality of Shiga is an agricultural country with the best farming technology among the local countries. The types of crops cultivated here are much richer than those of the Rhine Kingdom, and many of them have never been seen by people on Earth. In addition, the local customs and culture here are different from those of the Rhine Kingdom, and it is said that there are rich mineral deposits. The national team must be interested...
As for the governance of the territory of Saint Turis, it's just something I'll do during my scientific research and observation of other worlds! It won't interfere with the main business!
Lowell happily greeted the national team who had already practiced in Innadelli. Ji Tang, who was decisive in his work style, happily took Lowell and led them to take over the city hall.
The two spellcasters who were forgotten in the living room looked at each other awkwardly.
Ms. Karina didn't understand what the "KABA" sound made by the undead meant, but she could tell from Lowell's words that this ascetic monk intended to entrust the territory to the undead for governance, and her expression became very interesting.
"Envy, is the monk...is he really in a rational state?" Ms. Karina didn't even bother to say anything rude behind his back, and she was entangled in asking Envy, who obviously knew and was familiar with Lowell better than she did.
Enwei was silent for a long time before he said quietly, "Although it is a little hard to believe... but from what I saw with my own eyes in Innadri and Adler, the wise men among the Tarantan Undead are indeed better than all the archons I have ever seen combined."
Ms. Karina, whose facial expression is gradually losing control: “…(° △° )”
"This is true." Enwei emphasized, thought for a moment, and added, "These undead are not only reliable in battle."
Ms. Karina wiped her sweat and said, "This... allow me to make a bold guess. This undead wise man who is better than the average archon... could he be a demon lord from some dimensional demon world?"
Enwei, who knew the truth about the origins of the Tarantan undead, instantly understood how helpless Yang felt when he was misunderstood by the outside world.
"Karina, your service with Brother Lowell is over. Why not go to the Rhine Kingdom for a tour?" Enwei said tactfully, "If you can meet Yang, perhaps your doubts will be answered."
He couldn't expose Yang's secret, so he let Yang deal with this problem on his own.
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the northern part of Tachia, outside the city of Creek, the capital.
"Hmm... I suddenly have a strange feeling that something happy is about to happen--"
Yang Qiu, who personally led the undead army to attack the city, touched his chin and said something for no reason.
"What?" The illusionist Weber, who was standing nearby, heard the vague muttering and subconsciously turned his head.
"Nothing." Yang Qiu put aside his inexplicable impulse and raised his hand to point to the sky above Creek City. "You can feel it, this chaotic and urgent magical atmosphere is really disturbing."
The three court mages standing on Yang Qiu's sides, two on the left and one on the right, had expressionless faces and no one spoke a word.
In front of the four spellcasters, there was an undead teleportation array made of two iron plates.
From time to time, white light flashed on the top of the iron plate. Different numbers of undead were resurrected in the white light, and they charged forward cursing.
Tens of thousands of undead armies filled the vast open space under the city of Creek.
Hundreds of undead were forcing their way through the city under a hail of arrows. The wall below the second arrow tower on the left side of the city gate had been breached by the undead. Even from a distance of several hundred meters, one could see how the undead who had rushed up the wall were excitedly pinning down the defenders and confiscating their weapons and equipment.
