Starting from the Great Sword, you can only rely on yourself to become stronger

Lucy Ella led the collar out of the castle gate. Along the way, all the ordinary people who saw Lucy Ella would stop their work and bow to Lucy Ella.

And Lucy Ella would nod lightly with a calm expression.

Su Moyu carefully looked at every human's eyes, just like the maids in the castle, without fear, without fear, only sincere respect and admiration.

"What, you're curious?"

Noticing Su Moyu's actions at this time, Lucy Ella shook the chain to make Su Moyu focus on her again.

"Yes, I am indeed very curious. Don’t these villagers know your true identity, Miss Lucy Ella?"

After looking around and confirming that the people around them were not very close to them, he lowered his voice and asked the question that had been bothering him since he came here.

"Hehe~"

Lucy Ella smiled faintly

"Of course they know that I am not human."

"And, it is also clear that our recipes"

"It's the human viscera."

Looking at Su Moyu's stunned expression, Lucy Ella's smile widened.

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‘What is that? '

Coming to the large square in the center of the town, Su Moyu saw at a glance that on the conspicuous high platform built with logs, there were several hideous-looking, tied-up human corpses hanging.

The chest and abdomen had been cut open, and the inside was empty.

"Most of those hanged guys were bandits and robbers we captured alive after attacking the city, and some were criminals who violated the laws of this town and were sentenced to death by the court.

This time, before Su Moyu could speak, Lucy Ella took the initiative to explain.

"My subordinates will also patrol this territory on my behalf regularly. If they encounter any criminals, they will arrest them and send them to this town. After trial, they will be imprisoned in the dungeon."

"Then, find a suitable time, announce their crimes and sentence them to death in front of all the residents of the town, and remove their internal organs and send them to the castle on the spot. This will be one of our sources of food."

The right time?

I'm afraid it's when you are hungry.

Su Moyu immediately thought of the truth of the execution.

Seeing that Su Moyu did not show any disgust to her words, Lucy Ella's mood suddenly became better.

"These guys will eventually be eaten up.……"

"This one……"

In response to Su Moyu's question, Lucy Ella answered without hiding anything.

"The awakened ones don't eat as much as you think. It's not that we don't eat ordinary food, but human organs are an irreplaceable necessity for us."

"Normally, an awakened person who has not fought before only needs to eat one portion of internal organs per month to meet the most basic consumption. Eating two or three portions can completely suppress their appetite for humans. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are those who are bloodthirsty and greedy, but I will not accept such awakened people."

Only need to eat one human per month?

Even if we calculate it based on a maximum of three people, in a year, the amount of food an awakened person eats is only thirty-six people.

Compared with the damage caused by demons, the damage caused by rational awakened people is indeed much lower.

However, there are more awakened people in the town than just Lucy Ella.

As if guessing Su Moyu's thoughts, Lucy Ella continued to speak

"Bandits are like rats, they are impossible to kill. I admit that although the chances of them appearing are low, there will be a window of opportunity."

"However, even if we need extra fresh food, we will not attack ordinary residents in the villages and towns at will. We will only issue a reward notice to find people who are willing to sacrifice themselves and give their families enough compensation."

"Volunteering to sacrifice oneself? Would anyone do that?"

Su Moyu asked, frowning.

"Of course there are, and there are a lot of them. The original owner of this city was a tyrannical and extremely evil nobleman who often oppressed the local residents and killed them at will. Once, because the smoke from a fire in a resident's house irritated his eyes, he ordered his men to burn the whole family to death in the house. Of course, I only heard about this later from my maids."

"I was just passing by when he spotted me and wanted to kidnap me and make me his slave."

"Later, I became the protector of this town, protecting the residents from attacks by demons and bandits, and sending my subordinates to protect the caravans going out for trade. No matter their status, everyone strictly abided by the laws of this town, and no one dared to violate them without authorization. I did not ask them for anything. Now everything, including the status of lord, was spontaneously donated and recommended by the residents of this city."

At this point, Su Moyu actually saw a look of embarrassment on Lucy Ella's face.

"We probably only posted the notice twice, but more than half of the people in the town came to sign up and volunteered to be our food... To be honest, that scene really scared me.……"

"In the end, we had to make restrictions and only accept people who are over a certain age and have enough labor in their families. Even so, we were troubled for a long time about how to choose the donors from the remaining group of people."

"We will give compensation to the chosen ones, let them say goodbye to their families, come to the castle for a dinner, and after dinner, drink red wine laced with drugs. We will remove their heads and internal organs while they are asleep without any pain. Finally, we will put their heads and bodies into coffins and bury them in the cemetery, and that will be the end."

Su Moyu stared at Lucy Ella's calm expression and was silent for a long time, but he was still speechless.

He couldn't comment on the good or bad of this matter.

He had never thought that an awakened person who feeds on humans would become a lord who is supported by the residents of a city after such an operation.

The cruelty of the former lord, the protection of the current lord, and the voluntary dedication of the residents.

Is this a transaction?

Of course it is.

But is this kind of transaction really necessary for Lucy Ella?

She can just hunt wantonly, fill her stomach and leave leisurely, without having to care about this mess at all.

Or did she decide to stay in this town just to have a stable enough territory and foothold?

All this is unknown, and Su Moyu is not an idiot with low emotional intelligence, so he naturally would not ask Lucy Ella such a question.

But what he saw with his own eyes made him realize again that there is an existence that is completely different from what he imagined, a real abyss with flesh and blood, his own thoughts.

"Well, here we are."