A strange world

Chapter 1178 Section 100. Studying Weirdness

"Do you want to learn the mysterious knowledge of governing a territory?"

"Don't learn."

"Do you want to master the forbidden alchemy of ancient wizards?"

"In no mood."

"Do you want to obtain the supreme secret that allows your people to become professionals?"

"don't want."

"I don't want to learn this or think about that. What do you want?"

"I want the people of Liberty City to earn happiness through their own hard work."

Da da da——

Footsteps sounded from outside the lounge. Annan paused and put away his quill.

Olmedo came in and saw Annan shaking off his notes: "Are you writing a new script?"

"No, just write whatever you want." Annan put the note back into the magic ring, "Actually, I've been running out of inspiration lately."

Olmedo didn’t believe it, leasing farmland was a genius idea. This not only avoids competition for interests by the nobles, but also allows the common people to enjoy government decrees, and farmers will not have the lazy thinking of "this is not my field."

"Why are you willing to give it up?"

On weekdays, Olmedo stayed in her office until late at night, and sometimes asked Abby to bring her food.

"We had some friction with Lord Franco to the west."

"What's going on? Do we need to send an army there?"

"No...just a small problem."

Olmedo said that their team exploring resources in the forest mountains encountered hunters from Franco's territory, and after a confrontation with each other, they retreated.

The Forest Mountains are neither Franco territory nor Gem Bay, and Olmedo is meant to be developed jointly as a mitigation zone—whoever discovers the resources first belongs to them.

"They just sent envoys to attend the banquet half a month ago, and now they are provoking at the border... The people who come here are not malicious, and you still want to ease up?"

"We are the ones here."

The Franko Territory has been operating here for hundreds of years, and they have only been here for a short time.

"Uh...then do as you say."

The friction in Forest Range is really just a minor issue. As long as that Lord Franco is not stupid, he will not touch Annan's brow——

Because all nearby forces know that the champion warlock has been very angry recently.

The reason was that a group of bandits who had been wreaking havoc in the Principality of Montabourlock for a long time targeted the workers who went to build the city wall in the north. It seemed that they heard that Liberty City was rich, so they raided a camp and captured hundreds of workers.

Itilia learned of the situation and asked Archduke Girardi to deal with the bandits called the "Black Bull Robbery Group" and then eliminate all bandits in the territory.

Archduke Girardi was furious when he heard this and sent out his personal guards to attack. Finally, he defeated the bandits, which had dozens of members, and rescued the captured workers. However, everyone knows how weak the principality is. At the beginning, the Mad Dog Archduke looked like he couldn't even do anything about the empire, and then he dragged his family and collapsed in Gemstone Bay, without even seeing Liberty City.

If they have the ability to deal with the bandits, they will not be unable to deal with the bandits.

As a result, within a few days, a group of well-equipped, large and powerful soldiers suddenly appeared in the principality. They claim to be soldiers of the Principality but no one has ever seen them...

They plowed the entire principality from west to east like a plow to sweep holes, and then piled the enemy's heads outside the Liberty City to build a capital.

This move made the empire very happy, and the imperial legions stationed in the west were eager to try it. They also wanted to repeat it on the border to scare those small forces.

Who knows if the Imperial Legion will kill them as bandits if they become jealous.

After all, sometimes what they do is not much different from bandits...

Annan, who is still unaware of the change in his image, is still living with plants: farmland, and the World Tree.

In general, farmland is more important.

After a while, it will not be suitable for spring plowing, and even now it is a bit late. So in addition to asking the mages to go to the farmland to summon earth elements to help fertilize the soil and water elements to help water the fields, Annan also asked Da De to invite old Druid friends.

"It's been a year since you and the Half-Man Deer were separated. Why don't you invite us to sit here..."

"You already have so many women around you, isn't it enough?"

Annan immediately defended: "I did this all for Liberty City!"

"You'd better be..."

"Why do you think that of me?"

Da De sneered: "What are the names of my fellow druids?"

"Uh... By the way, how is the progress of the tree from another world?"

Regarding the tree from another world, Da De still allowed Annan to change the topic: "We used natural power and life power to irrigate, but there was no obvious effect..."

"So it still works?"

"It's very small... You have to pay a high price to get a few more leaves from the otherworldly tree."

"How expensive is expensive?"

Annan tried to rely on his abundant financial resources to build trees from another world.

"About a leaf... 500 gold coins." Da De was not used to this way of equating money.

Does it seem acceptable? A tree has tens of thousands of leaves, and "only" ten million gold can make the tree from another world grow into a big tree——

"Is there really no other way?" Annan asked.

"It comes from other worlds, and the nutrients it needs probably don't exist in this world either..."

Annan thought thoughtfully: "The businessman who sold it to me said that he should use weirdness to fertilize it."

"weird?"

"It is a monster from another world, and it is also the culprit for the destruction of the Strange City. However, with the princess closing the passage, no new monsters will come, and the contact with the merchants from another world was suddenly interrupted some time ago." Annan shook his head, "I did bring back a few monsters."

"Where are they?"

...

The Strange Squad lives at No. 13 Liberty Street and leads a peaceful life.

There are little blue dragons in school, goblins playing with children, and cats who like to play pranks like fairies in the city, so it is reasonable to have talking slugs and skateboards.

Correspondingly, there are talking slugs and skateboards in the city, and it is also normal to have little blue dragons in school.

The Burnt Girl lives in Room 101. Although her image is terrifying, she is loved and distressed by women because of her life experience.

The slug is loved by goblins because of its "disgusting" appearance and shrill voice, and it is said that it has become the mascot of the goblins.

The invisible man and the thin dancing shadow followed Betty in the theater and the crew as extras and special actors, and the personification followed Tina as a special effects artist.

Candlehead became a frequent visitor to the tavern - don't get me wrong, there is no tavern that needs him to light up, but the succubi always encounter some... guests with special preferences, and need candleheads to help.

The drawing board man continued to use his specialty of "drawing what you see", drawing portraits and landscapes for guests in parks and street corners every day.

Annan asked the guards to bring a monster over, and three minutes later, the drawing board man who was performing at the gate of the city lord's mansion was brought over.

"Drawing board man, I need you to cooperate with us in research."

The drawing board man's drawing board showed a lifelike mourning expression: "Boss, I am loyal to you..."

Annan patted the frame of the drawing board man, as if patting its shoulder: "Don't worry, you will be fine."