The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

“Archbishop Durr, I understand what you mean.

Well, in order to build the Stone Castle, many villages and small towns were demolished ahead.

I will give the castle hearts of these villages to all the heroes who have been in the fortress and fought until the last moment.

I want to distribute the land behind the Stone Castle to the knights who have made meritorious service this time. This is what I promised before.

Then, there were countless villages in the large grassland in front of the Stone Castle, and I can hand over the land there to them. "

This military meeting was regarded as a celebration party, so all officers could enter.

Moreover, Count Aini also held a dinner party in the fortress, so that after the meeting is over, everyone can go and enjoy it.

However, low-ranking officers, such as some temporary knights, lords and heroes who have not yet been formally canonized, can only stand at the outside without even a seat.

As for Xu Lai, he is still Pierce's superior officer so far. Unless Aini takes Pierce, the eighth-level Holy Light Knight, seriously, Xu Lai can only grit his teeth and arrange himself on the large round conference table.

At this time, Count Aini stood up and said to these heroes with happy faces:

“I just give you permission to use the land, but it doesn’t mean that the land belongs to you.

Therefore, I need you to pay me 50% of the output of these lands. No matter what you do with these lands, I will not interfere, as long as you can pay taxes and grain on time.

If you have no objections, before the bishops and priests of the temple leave tomorrow, sign an agreement with my steward and you can get the heart of the castle you deserve. "

After that, Count Aini ignored these heroes and said to Duer: "Archbishop, are you satisfied with this arrangement?"

Duer nodded and said: "This is best. The empire has now reached a critical moment of life and death. We must unite all the forces that can be united."

Count Aini nodded and added: "However, during the war mobilization order, there were still people who remained indifferent after receiving the order.

In the battle with the orcs a few days ago, many people also ran away. There were many heroes in both of them. "

Duer said: "I think the two parts should be looked at separately. The former completely ignores you, the land owner of the empire, and the authority of the temple, and should be severely punished.

After all, the latter overcame many difficulties and responded to the war mobilization order. Although they escaped during the battle, they had no sense of belonging to the empire after all, which we should understand. "

Earl Aini said: "Then let's deal with it separately. Since the people in front are indifferent, they obviously don't recognize their identities.

I would like to ask your Excellency to witness that I will, as the ruler of the imperial steppe, revoke their imperial citizenship and permanently drive them out of the land that belongs to the empire. "

Duer sighed and said helplessly: "Okay, I will repair the book and tell His Majesty the Pope. Your request is legitimate and reasonable, and it also preserved their lives. I think His Majesty the Pope will agree."

Count Aini nodded and then added: "Then for the latter, I won't deprive them of their property, I will directly drive them out of my territory, and I will never welcome them back again. There should be no problem."

Duer said: "It's reasonable and I have no objection."

Earl Aini thanked Duer, then turned to Xu Lai with a complicated expression:

"Then, among all the heroes, only Lord Xu Lai has not received the compensation he deserves. I heard that even the base camp of the stronghold was destroyed in your hands, Lord Xu Lai."

Earl Aini's attitude suddenly changed. Xu Lai couldn't adapt to it for a while. He hesitated and admitted:

"Yes."

Xu Lai hesitated to take out the resources he had obtained. In any case, Count Aini was still the commander of the coalition forces, and he should be the one to divide the spoils.

If this commander was Xu Lai, then he didn't want anyone under his command to steal the loot.

But he was a little reluctant to take it out and redistribute it.

Fortunately, Count Aini did not make such a request. He even directly avoided the issue of trophies and said calmly:

"Destroying the stronghold base camp is a great achievement. Moreover, Sir Xu Lai and all the temple knights charge forward in every battle and never retreat.

With my title, I can no longer give you more. I can only compensate you with land. "

After saying that, Count Aini asked his attendant to bring him a map of Pingfeng Grassland.

This is a complete grassland map, with all grassland areas and grassland edge areas mapped.

Of course, this is a large map, mainly used to observe the terrain and boundaries of the entire grassland. Unlike Xu Lai's map, it is detected bit by bit, and almost all wild buildings are marked.

Count Aini's map has dozens of circles drawn with lines of various colors. Each circle has the name and emblem representing each noble.

The circle of Xu Lai's territory is also on this map. The territory is about 4-5 times as big as Swan Lake.

Compared with other barons, he is not the biggest, but he is not the smallest either, which is quite fair.

But this time, Count Aini drew a larger circle on the original circle.

The map was not precise enough, so Xu Lai could only make a rough estimate based on his feeling. Taking the current Qingfeng Town as the center, the radius of the circle should be about ten kilometers.

This is far more than the land area that a baron should own. Even if this land belongs to no man's land, it is too large, and it even exceeds a few viscount territories.

"That's it. The commerce and trade in your place are not developed and the population is not large, so the territory should be slightly larger."

This was no longer a little bigger. Xu Lai glanced at it and saw that the faces of the viscounts whose territories were smaller than Xu Lai's were already green.

Of course, their territory is relatively close to Count Aini's castle, and is closest to the inland plains of Middle-earth, where trade and population are much more prosperous than outside the grasslands.

But no matter what, the territory of the dignified Viscount is actually smaller than that of a baron. If this is revealed, where will the dignity of these Viscounts go?

Before they could express their opinions, Count Aini added: "I heard that your department suffered relatively heavy casualties this time, especially the knights."

Xu glanced at Count Aini, who seemed to have changed his mind, and said: "A total of ten knights of level 6 and above were killed in the battle, and 20 knights of level 4 and 5 were killed."

After thinking about it, Xu Lai still didn't dare to report the numbers blindly, but only slightly changed them. For example, there were 10 trainee knights who were later allocated to him by Count Aini.

"There are no more high-level knights, but June will end soon.

In this way, I will find a way to give you 50 trainee knights as compensation for you. "

Xu Lai looked at Count Aini in surprise. Has this person really changed his gender?

As soon as his words changed, Count Aini added: "Before you responded to the war mobilization order, you were just a foreign hero. I will try my best to compensate you for the loss this time.

But now that you have your own land, you have the responsibility to protect it. The next time the orcs invade, please fulfill your obligations. "

Sure enough, there are no good things that fall from the sky in this world. Xu Lai took the land and the title, just like other nobles.

When a foreign enemy invades, he must lead his soldiers to fight unconditionally like other nobles.

Compared with other heroes, Xu Lai's land is his own and he does not need to pay taxes to anyone.

Moreover, he is in no man's land, and the land allocated to him by Count Aini is relatively large. Even if he exceeds the limit a little, as long as it is not excessive, no one will care about it.

The next time the orcs invade, it is impossible for Xu to come or not. It concerns his own territory. However, there will be no compensation for the next loss, but he should be able to share the spoils.

Since they have to come anyway, these 50 level 4 knights will be free of charge if you don’t take them.

Thinking of this, Xu Lai forced out a smile and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency, Earl."

Count Ani narrowed his eyes and said: "To tell you the truth, I still don't like you and you heroes.

But Bishop Duer saved my life. In return, I promised the bishop to give you a relatively fair opportunity. "

After that, Count Aini began to thank the temple's senior officials again, leaving Xu Lai and the others aside.

Archbishop Duer said that they must leave, but he would not take away all the temple personnel.

There will still be more than a hundred priests and a small group of temple knights left here in Stone Castle.

However, these priests and knights are not left to fight, but are responsible for dealing with the aftermath.

In this war with the stronghold, countless families were destroyed and people were killed. The nobles still had savings, and they, the common people, did not have much property in total.

What's more, there are at least five thousand survivors who have witnessed their relatives and friends become ogres, and the Cyclops' rations have left a strong psychological shadow.

Most of these things cannot be handled well by nobles who are only good at enjoying themselves.

The priests need to stay to appease the people, and the temple knights need to be responsible for maintaining order, and supervise the nobles to actively resume production and build new homes for the people.

Count Aini also saved trouble and simply rented all the original villages to these heroes. This not only gave him an excuse to deal with Bishop Duer, but also won people's hearts and saved a lot of money and energy.

Xu came to see that he was one of the few who received real benefits under the special care of Bishop Duer.

Just by sitting among a group of big guys, he was already hated by a group of heroes who were supposed to have the best relationship with him. If he spoke again to remind them, they would inevitably think that he could not see them.

As the old saying goes, you can make a fortune in silence. He is already very satisfied with his development in such a quiet way. It would be better if Aini didn't point out him specifically.

However, Count Aini assigned him a viscounty title in public, which directly made Xu Lai the target of public criticism.

Xu Lai didn't even have to look back. The cold malice behind him seemed particularly clear in this magical world.

They were worried not about scarcity but about inequality. When they could only get one village, but Xu Lai could get an entire subcounty, they could no longer remember how they had laughed at Xu Lai for being stupid and working for people from other worlds. (End of chapter)