Wizard: I brought the wrong system.

Chapter 388 Awakening
"The oil is just regular cooking oil, the more the better!"

Fearing they might misunderstand, Yaro emphasized his words.

"I'm sorry, the town of Jill didn't have much oil in the first place, and a lot of it has been diverted. The oil we have now is all from emergency pressing. But as you know, the town is supporting so many refugees, and food is already scarce. The amount of oil that can be extracted is even less."

Milina's eyebrows furrowed slightly, her face full of apology. Both her appearance and attitude made it impossible to blame her.

Yaro naturally understood this principle, but he had already come up with a solution.

"The oil you squeeze out is meant to kill the skeleton monsters anyway, so how about this... you calculate how many skeleton monsters you can kill on average with one ounce of oil, and you can just add a little more to that number."

"I'll continue helping you clear out the skeleton monsters, and we'll exchange that for cooking oil, how about that?"

It's a simple form of hiring, or you could think of it as a 'game quest'.

Yaro had originally planned to continue eliminating skeletons to gain experience points.

If he could earn the only material needed to make liquid explosives as a result, he would naturally be happy to do so.

“This…” Milina bit her lip lightly, “Mr. Yue, you are so powerful, why do you always get hung up on such trivial matters?”

Little things?

Is nitroglycerin a minor issue, or is experience a minor issue?

Thinking this, Yaro smiled and said, "If we solve the problem of their escape route, these refugees can return to their homes smoothly, or they can retreat to Viscount Corey's territory through Perrin's domain, right?"

"Mr. Yue, things are not that simple."

Milina added, "The annoying thing about the skeleton monsters is that they appear and disappear quickly. As long as we don't let them gather in large numbers, they don't really pose much of a threat. Once the recruits are trained, we are fully capable of wiping them all out."

Yaro countered, "So you mean..."

Milina leaned forward, her eyes sparkling, and pleaded softly, "I would like to ask you to help us with something more important."

"Could it be that you've discovered a large-scale gathering place for monsters?"

Yaro's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously looked at the baron beside him. "Baron Claire, were you trapped in a place like this yesterday?"

Yaro vividly remembers the large amount of experience points given by the Necrophos!

Baron Claire was about to answer when Milina denied it again: "No, no, no, of course not that either, it's a more crucial question."

"The more fundamental question?"

Yaro frowned, straightened up, and found that gold coins and beautiful women no longer held any interest for him. A hint of wariness crept into his expression. "Tell me in detail."

"Just like I said before, there are only two players on this chessboard. Now, the other player is finally going to make their move!"

Milina's eyes were filled with inexplicable emotions, and her voice rose a few decibels, sounding somewhat agitated, "Mr. Yue, I hope you can help me, help us, help the millions of people in the Earl's Territory to kill those cruel and evil wizards of the Empire!"

Yaro's pupils contracted slightly, his eyes flashing. He finally understood why those apprentices had headed this way. They had contacted Milina!

“Miss Milina! This is not your concern!” Baron Claire finally couldn’t help but speak up.

"Then what should I care about! How to escape!"

Milina turned around abruptly, her voice trembling with emotion, "I've had enough!"

“When I was a child, my father taught me to care for the people.”

"After my father passed away, my mother made me learn etiquette, arithmetic, and how to live a normal life..."

Milina paused, then took a deep breath: "Baron Claire, I have never learned how to escape!"

"No, Miss Milina, we are not running away. This is only a temporary retreat. As long as you are alive, we have hope!"

"If the person is gone, what hope is there?"

"As long as you live, those who believe in us, those who yearn for the old Earl system, will find a united core!"

“The core is not me, it is my mother, it is the aristocratic officials cultivated generation after generation, it is you people who identify with this system!”

……

Yaro listened quietly, silently organizing his thoughts.

Red Lanelli was unwilling... or rather, dared not step into the Earl's territory, so he pushed Yaro in, but now he has brought several apprentices in on his own initiative and even approached Milina.

Last night, the Fox Hunting Team deliberately revealed their plan to attack the Fernando family's residence, leaving behind the message, "We'll come back to find you next time."

Contradiction?
Yaro first cleared a core of the undead, encountered a member of the Fernando family, then spent a whole day clearing out wandering skeletons in the wilderness, then came into contact with a refugee camp, and then guarded against the camp riot that was triggered, killing several alchemical undead with the strength of intermediate apprentices... and even 'killed' a core member of the Fernando family.

For two whole days, whether it was 'scouting the way' or acting as 'troublemaker', Yaro did it all perfectly!

Yaro even had a vague feeling that the wanted identity of 'Yaro Gana' was actually a kind of 'bait', but... it didn't seem to have any effect?
and many more!

It can't be said that it has no effect!

The silence itself is also a conclusion.
I understand now, I finally understand!
Yaro rubbed his temples, thinking to himself with a self-deprecating smile, "Looks like I'm really not cut out for scheming. Everyone has used me up, and the final result is a blatant slap in my face. It's only now that I've figured these things out."

The most obvious example is what Milina just said: "If you think of the Earldom as a chessboard, the biggest players are the wizarding families behind the two kingdoms."

At first, Yaro only thought of the most superficial layer. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will understand how a count's daughter on the run could know that there are two wizard families involved in this war.
Even the Count himself, at most, might only know that there are wizards behind the Saint Fernando Empire!
After all, what did the Kingdom of Lanelli do?
Invasion, cession of land, voluntary withdrawal of the original resident wizards... Aside from their self-praise, who else could be so shameless as to say that a wizarding family was behind all this?
At the same time, the fact that Milina could say those words also shows that she had been persuaded.

"Now that we've pretty much figured out about them... the balance of power and trends of action among the two wizarding families and Millina, the heir to the countship, what about me?"

"How should I choose?"

(End of this chapter)