Lord of War

Are you the new lord sent by the Marquis?

Puta's words reveal a certain strange emotion that even Sean and Cecilia can feel. It seems to be vaguely expecting something?

"Ahem." Sean showed a self-confessed and humble expression, and grinned. This smile is very friendly, "Yes."

Then……

Xiao En showed a disappointed look on Puda's face.

He didn't hide his disappointment so openly, this naked expression froze the smile on Sean's face for an instant. Could it be that the anticipation he had just now turned out to be a wish for himself to say "no"?

Sean turned his head to look at Cecilia with some doubts, and asked in a low voice, "Am I such a failure?"

Cecilia thought for a while, then replied in a low voice, "Maybe it's because you look too young?"

Sean looked at Cecilia helplessly, the comforting words of this little idiot sounded unreliable at all. The talent and strength of a lord have nothing to do with age at all. As the youngest powerful Marquis of the Principality of Ryan, Asuna is only 26 years old this year. She is definitely the youngest powerful aristocrat in the Principality, not one of them.

Who would say she is still young? In other words, who dares to say that she is young?

Puta's disappointment made Sean a little confused.

"I thought that the new lord would be one of the three followers of that Valkyrie." Puda was a relatively honest person, and he simply said what he said. There are two things to say, and there is no way to hide your thoughts.

Sean said helplessly: "I am also a follower of Master Asuna."

"Hehe." Puta smiled. didn't say anything.

Sean's complexion became a little difficult. This polite smile with the word "hehe" really reminded him of too many unbearable memories from the past. If it was Asuna or Elizabeth who said something like this, Sean felt that he could still accept it, but if a man, even a middle-aged man, said something like that to him, Sean felt like he wanted to hit the wall.

In fact, if Sean had known that Puda judged a lord's strength based on the number and quality of followers around him, he would definitely have selected a few stronger and stronger men to support the scene. Or simply wait until Alfred returns. After all, in Puda's eyes at this moment, the lord only has a relatively burly follower of the northern barbarians, and it seems that the strength of this follower is not very good.

However, Puda could still say "hehe" at this moment, and the old mayor's expression became a little unnatural: "My lord, I have made it clear to you just now, this is not the fault of our Puda town..."

Sean looked at the old mayor.

The old mayor has silver hair. The wrinkles on his face were extremely deep, his figure had begun to shrink, and his body exuded a decayed smell. Even if Xiao En didn't understand these things, he knew that the old mayor in front of him would not have a good life for a few years. But even so, he has been doing his best to contribute to the development of the entire town these years. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said the sentence just now, "Just ask the new lord not to be too tyrannical."

"I don't mean to blame you." Sean shook his head lightly, and said, "I have fully understood the situation of the town, and it was not your fault. It was abandoned back then. It became a land without owner.

If I were the mayor instead. I would do the same to survive. "

Speaking of this, Sean stood up and gave a slight salute to the mayor: "I will take care of the matter about Harbind's snake."

"The Snake of Harbind still has two or three hundred members. They are all murderers who have fought in battles. You also came to the tavern just now." Puda frowned, and he also stood up and spoke. He said, "Besides, Habinder himself is still a low-ranking silver player. Although his mercenary group is relatively weak in the three nearby towns, his own strength can definitely be ranked in the top five. ... You came before That heavy hammer is said to be no match for him."

Puta's words were a bit blunt, which could easily be misunderstood as questioning Sean's ability. Even though Sean and Cecilia knew that Puda didn't mean that, they still felt a little uncomfortable when they said this.

If Puda knew that Sean had already killed two low-ranking silvers in Fortress Tonis, he probably wouldn't have said such a thing.

Of course, this is not to say that Sean can easily kill a silver-level master. The most important thing is that Sean has enough cards in his hand, but how to use all these cards to play a role is somewhat difficult. Need to pay attention to Sean's calculation ability. Otherwise, he would not have risked putting himself in an extremely unfavorable situation in Fortress Tonis back then, forcing the Gale Swordsman to make his final killing move, and then use the curse-sealed silver scales to break the killer A sword, and then turn defeat into victory.

However, Xiao En really doesn't pay attention to ordinary low-ranking silver players. At least Sean didn't care about the barbarian in the barren land named Heavy Hammer. It was just that he didn't want to expose his identity and strength so quickly, so he used some small means to force him away.

, Hearing these words from Puta at this moment, he automatically filtered out those voices that seemed to doubt his own strength, and focused on listening to the information about the three towns.

"The strength can be ranked in the top five, so it means that there are at least four people whose strength is ahead of him?" Sean asked, "Is there a high-ranking silver?"

"That's not true." Puda shook his head, "If there really was a superior Baiyin, these three small towns would have been captured by a mercenary regiment long ago, so how could the three of them live in peace like today....But to be correct In other words, there are only three who are slightly stronger than Habinder, and he should be able to rank fourth. But if you want to say that the mercenary group is the largest and most powerful, it is the Dabron mercenary group."

"Dubrown?" Sean had heard William mention it before.

In fact, he didn't come to Hongye Town by random choice, but William had already done some simple intelligence work. But because intelligence work is too simple, he also managed to get too much favorable information. After a rough assessment, they decided on a plan to operate on Hongye Town first. There is no other reason, that is, Hongye Town has the least number of mercenary groups, but only Hongye Town has a militia group.

According to William, Sean, and Cecilia's total, it is best to find out the average combat power of this mercenary group first, and then ask Sean to understand Hongye Town's thoughts on the succession of the new lord. If Hongye Town can accept the arrival of the new lord without causing any problems, such a result would be the best, if it is not possible. Then you can only wait for Alfred to bring people over, and then directly suppress it by force.

It's just that the situation has changed, and it is indeed somewhat unexpected.

An Nuo's pair of iron fists directly turned the situation in Hongye Town into a mess. If at this time, Sean doesn't know how to fish anymore, then his head will really be in vain.

"That small town is the largest among the three nearby towns. It is said that it once reached 6,000 people. It is almost catching up with a small town. They were the first small town to invite the mercenary group, but they did not expect that they would invite the mercenary group all the time. A group of bandits robbed the southern part of the kingdom, so that night the town was almost reduced to hell, and many families' wives and daughters were robbed by them..."

Needless to say these words too bluntly, Sean and Cecilia also knew what they meant.

"A few days later. The bandits seemed to have found their target, so they went out to rob. On that day, one-third of the entire town ran away, and a large town was emptied by more than half in an instant. Later, those bandits came back and found The situation was wrong. Afterwards, several town gates were sealed, leaving only one. People were guarded every day. Later, I heard that another group of people were planning to flee. It seemed that a conflict broke out with the mercenary group, and they died Hundreds of people, only dozens of people ran away, and they all flocked to another small town. For this reason, the mercenary group sent people to ask for it, but the small town didn't hand over the people, so the two small towns were separated later. There's a conflict, you just don't know who won."

"The situation in my territory seems a bit complicated." Sean smiled wryly, "Is Dabron really a dead town now?"

"It's not far away from ten." Puda thought for a while, and then said his guess, "First, a third of the people ran away, and then hundreds of people died. This is almost catching up with the scale of Hongye Town. Then There are only two or three thousand people left in the town at most, but it has been a year, and the mercenary group is a group of brutal murderers, who knows if there are more people dead there?... 5. In a small town of 6,000 people, there are only so few people left, isn't that considered a dead town?"

Sean was silent.

The development of a territory is closely related to the size and number of its citizens. If there are no citizens in a territory, any development is empty talk. Under normal circumstances, there will be no explosive growth of the people in the territory. Only when wars, disasters, famines, etc. break out in other places nearby, will a large number of refugees and refugees appear, and then flood into other territories, but in the end Whether these people can be developed into their own people instead of a group of bandits and robbers depends on the ability and ability of the lord.

So the situation in Dabrone Town was tantamount to destroying Sean's foundation, which naturally made Sean feel extremely unhappy.

At this moment, a young man suddenly broke into the old mayor's house and shouted in panic, "Uncle Puda, it's not good! The people from Harbinder's Snake left the camp and rushed towards the town , Their aura is very fierce!"

Hearing this, Puta frowned slightly, seeming a little annoyed.

But only Sean's expression suddenly changed: "Are they here for?"

The young militiamen didn't know who Sean was, but when he asked, they also replied: "Yes! This time they all have weapons in their hands, and that Hubin also holds a long knife. And those Harbinder mercenaries in the town have left the town..."

This time, Pu Da's face finally changed, because although there were several conflicts before, the two sides fought each other at most, and almost never took weapons. Even in the conflict that night, neither side used weapons. But this time, the Snake of Harbinder actually came with a weapon, so the situation was completely different.

ps: Are you excited about the subtitle of the first update?