Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

A week later, the second wave of Saint Valen plague refugees who arrived at the border began to pour into the border town of Jackdaw Town.

Although the Lord of Grizzly Castle, Earl Fagan, closed the gates and strictly prohibited anyone from entering his fiefdom castle, sporadic infected patients still appeared in the city uncontrollably, and the disease spread in just two or three days.

A large number of refugees who could not enter Grizzly Castle for refuge turned to other villages and towns around the fortress to seek accommodation and food and water. The same plague broke out among these people, and it was more serious than before.

Almost half of the people had an attack of the plague on the way, and a few adults with stronger bodies only showed symptoms of abdominal swelling and mold spots on the body after arriving at the border. This also means that even if there is no direct contact with the plague, it is possible to be indirectly infected by this strange plague, but the incubation period of the disease has become slightly longer.

At the same time, Harvey also received a message from Mr. "Fa Shield" in the forum, as well as a letter from the Dragonstone Chamber of Commerce's branch station in Saint Valen.

After reading the contents of the two letters, he could not help but frown and remain silent.

The strange plague spread wildly in the capital of Saint Valen, Jinhui City. The church used the scarce treatment drugs to firmly control the nobles and wealthy businessmen in the capital, and claimed everywhere that this was a conspiracy of some evil spellcasters under the connivance and shelter of the Federation.

For safety reasons, the Dragonstone Chamber of Commerce decided to directly suspend the long-standing sales and transportation of bulk materials with Harvey, and consider restarting cooperation after the plague is under control.

The Federation headquarters in Alaye fell into endless disputes among many internal factions due to the temporary absence of the three legendary chiefs. Apart from several meaningless verbal battles with the church in the Alliance Committee, there was no other effective means.

"Compared to using new magic tools to grab rich war benefits on the battlefield of the demon clan in the Evil Moon Mountains, the ordinary spellcasters who were expelled and persecuted in Saint Valen are probably not in their consideration at the moment..."

Not to mention the ordinary civilians who were unfortunately infected and lost their lives in this plague conspiracy.

Politicians with magic are still politicians. Compared with those stupid and greedy secular nobles, they are just more powerful and extraordinary individuals...

However, Harvey keenly smelled a key point that could benefit himself from this conspiracy disaster involving many parties.

Rather than hiding in the northern wilderness and ignoring this matter and remaining neutral, waiting for the church and the nobles to persecute and expel the spellcasters in Saint Valen, and then using faith and drugs to transform the people who survived by chance into devout believers who are hostile to spellcasters.

It is better to seize the opportunity and intervene to accommodate these infected refugees who fled to the northern border and enrich their pioneering territory that was originally extremely short of population and labor.

Since the church and the federation have already semi-publicly torn their faces apart, once they have withdrawn their hands and stabilized the situation in Saint Valen, they will definitely continue to target and investigate themselves. The church investigation team that was ambushed and killed by forum member "Astrologist" and others is proof of this.

But just waiting at the border for infected refugees to arrive and then taking them in for treatment may not be very effective. The cycle of the epidemic is too short, and most innocent people will suffer heavy casualties in this obviously man-made disaster. Few people can survive and flee to the border area.

The death of every labor force population will make Harvey feel heartbroken, so he must try his best to avoid such things from happening and do his best to retain some future population reserves for the territory.

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"What? You want to go to Jackdaw Town in person? No, no! I absolutely disagree."

"Even if you have a special medicine to treat the plague, I don't recommend you to take the risk. The work of sheltering and treating refugees can be done by the defense forces under your command. They already have some experience. What's more, there are Mr. Pierce and Mr. Asdalen to take charge."

"Yes, Chris and I can also lead the doctors of the medical hospital to go directly to Jackdaw Town to establish a temporary plague treatment hospital. The vaccines we are currently preparing are enough to meet the injection needs of more than 5,000 infected patients."

Everyone sat in the conference hall of the territory castle, surrounding Harvey and admonishing him.

The core idea and unified demand is that Harvey, as the lord, cannot go to Jackdaw Town in person to preside over the overall situation. After all, once thousands of refugees riot and revolt, the pitiful more than 1,000 defense forces, even if they open fire indiscriminately, cannot guarantee the personal safety of the lord 100%.

In fact, Harvey also knew that his military management skills were really limited. Once he left the northern nest, this pioneering territory with nearly 10,000 people living there would become a place without anyone to control. It was hard to say what would happen to the evil orc tribes that frequently harassed around.

After all, it was approaching autumn, and it was not far from the winter season when they went south to plunder.

In general, compared to receiving refugees, the base camp where one lives must not have a fire in the backyard.

In the end, Harvey was persuaded by everyone on the spot and chose to stay alone in the pioneering territory.

But he had to make an action plan as perfect as possible for this.

After graduating from the Undead Academy, Harvey came to Jackdaw Town and lived there for more than half a year. He had a relatively good understanding of the basic situation there, so he asked Pierce to spread out the paper and began to draw a simple map on the long table in the conference hall.

"Jackdaw Town is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and there is only one official road in and out of the town, but there are many forest paths along the river beach, and many refugees will also flee from this direction. After all, this is the only clean water source that can be found along the way."

Harvey took a black charcoal pencil and drew two thick lines representing checkpoints, "Therefore, you need to complete two tasks. The first is to set up epidemic prevention checkpoints on the main road to the town, and the second is to closely monitor the refugees who arrive in the direction of the river beach, and try to guide them to the reception area we set up outside the town, and don't let them rush into the town to cause chaos."

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one forum, one look!

Pierce frowned slightly, took the charcoal pencil handed by Harvey, and drew scattered circles around the town, representing the small villages distributed near Jackdaw Town. "My lord, if they bypass the checkpoints we set up and attack the surrounding villages in a scattered manner, how can we solve it?"

The news of the spread of the plague in the capital has reached Grizzly Castle. The small nobles who originally lingered in Jackdaw Town for autumn hunting have fled back to their respective fiefdoms early. Even the tax collector stationed in the town by Earl Fagan took the patrol militia he recruited and quietly returned to Grizzly Castle at night.

If the refugees rioted due to food shortages and attacked and looted the surrounding villages and towns, this small border area probably has no official armed forces to suppress and resist except for the private soldiers and knights raised by the nobles in their fiefdoms.

Harvey opened his palm and patted the warehouse at the foot of Jackdaw Ridge. "This is where we will set up a refugee shelter!"

"Dispatch all the special operations officers with blood talents in the Northern Army to the surrounding villages and towns, and tell the refugees and local villagers who are wandering around that we have special medicines, and guide them to come for treatment."

"As for the refugees who have arrived at the shelter, promise them that they can get free food and shelter if they join the pioneer territory, and then escort them back in batches of 500 people per team."

Reiner leaned over and whispered, "What if they don't want to join us?"

Harvey narrowed his eyes and said faintly, "They should have heard how much money it costs to buy the divine potion provided by the church... Although we are not as shameless as those charlatans, we will not provide free lunch either..."