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The news spread, and the world was in an uproar.

In this world, war is commonplace, and it is not uncommon for a family to be killed if a person loses a war. However, without considering the outcome, large-scale massacres of civilians were launched just to destroy the opponent's logistics and the opponent's will to fight. Even villages and towns were completely destroyed. This behavior has seriously broken the long-standing "convention".

Generally speaking, this kind of thing mostly happens outside the main plane. Only those groups that use small worlds as their bases and fight each other will have such cruel practices. In the main plane, even the elemental creatures with weak emotions, or even the evil and hideous demons, will not do such a thing-because it is meaningless.

What's the point of killing people? Is human flesh tastier than other meats? Even if human flesh is tastier, there are humans reproducing in other worlds. Why spend a lot of effort and cost to break into the human world just to have a bite of fresh food?

If someone does this, even among demons, he is definitely a "sick and needs to be treated" type.

Generally speaking, even evil underworld creatures, such as demons, would kill humans and take their souls away to supplement their own subordinates. And simply killing people is really... rare.

In fact, this is no longer a "rare" issue, but a madness.

When the news reached the territory of the nobles, the nobles who had discussed this matter with Earl House were also stunned. They thought that Earl House would only do ordinary burning, killing and looting, but they didn't expect that this guy was a bad star. Wherever the invading troops passed, almost no one was left alive, young or old. They even wanted to burn down houses and farmland, kill all livestock, and even try to pollute water sources. If they were not limited in time, I am afraid that the farmland would also be damaged by magic.

"This... this is really... really..." At the meeting of the nobles, Marquis Yuke shook his head several times, not knowing what to say. In the end, he just repeated "really", and couldn't say anything else.

"We shouldn't have agreed to him in the first place!" A local earl said with hatred, his tone full of resentment, "I can't believe he is so murderous! He must have killed thousands of people in these few battles."

"According to the north, it's almost 6,000." A central earl replied, "We are very passive and embarrassed now..."

He is currently in charge of diplomacy with the merchant faction. It is said that the two sides are equally powerful, and even if the diplomatic work doesn't gain any advantage, it should not suffer any loss. But because of Earl House's crazy behavior, the noble faction is now at a disadvantage in diplomacy. Not only is the merchant faction furious, but even many churches of kind gods are putting pressure on them.

The development of things to this point was beyond their imagination. They thought that no matter how cruel Earl House was, at most he would harass the local areas, kill thirty or fifty people in each place, create riots and leave - when they were discussing it, Earl House clearly told them so.

Logically speaking, it is far better to kill only a small part of the people in a place than to kill all of them. This saves time and effort, and allows the remaining people to spread fear. If you kill everyone directly, the main thing that can be spread is hatred.

Count Haus and his men want to spread fear, thereby undermining the merchant faction's will to fight, while creating chaos and disrupting the merchant faction's logistics. It is impossible to achieve such an effect by just slaughtering one village and one town.

The most uncomfortable person at the moment is not the merchant faction, but the earl in charge of diplomacy in the noble faction. On the one hand, he has to appease the merchant faction diplomats who are acting like "I am so angry that I am about to explode", on the other hand, he has to explain to the Church of the Good Gods to prevent the noble faction from becoming a public enemy of society, and on the other hand, he has to work hard to pursue the original diplomatic goal... He feels that among all the diplomats throughout history, there is no second one as miserable as himself.

In fact, he is not the worst, after all, the noble faction is still strong and can hold up the scene. The diplomats of weak countries are really miserable, purely decoration, and often humiliated.

Faced with the crazy behavior of Earl House, the merchant faction was naturally furious. They quickly formed a fast mobile force and then sent them out in a hurry, chasing after Earl House and his men along the way, trying to catch up with them and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

A few days later, another news came.

The merchant faction's fast mobile force did catch up with the noble faction's fast mobile force led by Earl House, and the two sides fought a battle in a wilderness. However, the result of the battle was that the merchant faction's fast mobile force, which was built with a lot of money, completely collapsed. Except for a few lucky people who had teleportation spells or teleportation scrolls, the remaining nearly 300 people were wiped out.

This news shocked the merchant council and the nobles.

In war, the difference in numbers cannot be ignored. The noble faction's fast mobile force had only about 200 people, while the merchant faction had 300 people, half more manpower. In terms of equipment, the wealthy merchant faction equipped the fast mobile force with weapons, armor, war horses and consumables, which would definitely not be worse than the noble faction. In terms of quality, although the merchant faction fell behind, they had many long-term cooperative mercenary organizations and drew elite troops from them. In theory, they would be stronger than the motley crowd organized by the aristocratic faction to "clear inventory".

But the result was completely the opposite. The mobile force of the nobles, who were supposed to be defeated, won the battle, while the merchant faction, which had an advantage in both manpower and material resources, was defeated and almost annihilated.

This is simply incredible, but it is an ironclad fact.

Faced with such facts, the nobles were also a little confused.

"What should we do?" Marquis Gordon asked at the meeting of the nobles, "Let's discuss it. What is the right thing to do in this situation?"

"First of all, we must change our minds." A local earl said, "Although House's actions are indeed excessive, we have to admit that he is very strong, strong enough to... really change the outcome of this war."

The nobles looked at each other and nodded silently.

"Originally, we were evenly matched with the group of merchants in the north, and neither of us could do anything to the other. But with him and his troops, the logistics of the merchants will definitely have problems, and their will to fight will also be greatly hit. In this way, we should be able to take advantage when the peace treaty is finally signed." The earl paused and emphasized, "Not a small advantage, but a big advantage!"

"We don't object to this." A central earl said, "But the problem is that he has brought us a lot of pressure."

"Yes, he has brought us a lot of pressure and a lot of trouble. But he can also bring us victory!" The earl emphasized before, "Victory!"

The nobles were silent. Indeed, victory is the most important thing for war.

No matter what you do, it is meaningless if you can't win.

Even if it costs a lot, it is worth it to win.

In the end, the nobles passed a resolution to withstand the pressure from all sides and delay Earl House as much as possible so that they can get more results.

As for morality and conscience, they didn't have much of that stuff to begin with, and they didn't mind selling out the little they had in order to win the war...