Divine Kingship

Chapter 131 Anyway, "cows" are livestock

"The carriage from the resort to the haunted iron mine is about to start. Adventurers who have already purchased tickets, please get on board as soon as possible. Once on board, please make sure to find your seat as soon as possible and hold on to the handles." The attendant shouted with a magic loudspeaker at the side.

Many adventurers felt nervous and uncomfortable when they rode in the hideout carriage for the first time, and some adventurers even put their hands on their weapons.

The reason is very simple. There is a real shortage of horses in the hideout, so the cart is pulled by a centaur.

In order to persuade the Centaurs to pull the chariot, Rand offered them a daily wage of 50 copper coins and promised to give them extra meals.

Most centaurs are much stronger than normal horses, and because they have hands, they can use bows and arrows to clear out wild beasts and even monsters on the roadside.

So in summary, the carriage convoy heading from the resort to the haunted iron mine is currently being pulled by centaurs.

If it were in the early stages of development, Rand would not be able to do this because it would be easy to be labeled a heretic when it was weak and had no status.

But now it's different. Rand is obviously the lord of the human camp, and has been able to win enough respect with his wisdom and strength, and the origin of the centaurs can also be fully explained.

So don't worry.

It’s just that the adventurers are not really used to it.

It is really bizarre that the powerful monsters that had to be dealt with in the past have become animals pulling carts.

But the adventurer group has strong adaptability, and Rand has a high reputation among the adventurer group.

Although all adventurers knew that Rand was a greedy lord who was obsessed with money, compared to nobles in other places, Rand was simply a saint.

It can only be said that there is no harm without comparison.

At least Rand treated adventurers as human beings, providing them with high-quality housing, food, weapons, medical care, and even training.

Although all of these require money, Rand also provides them with ways to make money.

Therefore, these adventurers trusted Rand very much and were afraid of the laws established by Rand, so even though they were very wary of these centaurs, no one really took action.

Then they discovered that these centaurs could speak the common language. Although some of them did not speak it very well, there were some who were gifted and they started chatting with these adventurers.

The scene was quite similar to that in Rand's previous life, when he was a taxi driver driving and chatting with passengers.

Rand didn't know how it turned out, but after receiving Elsa's report, he found out that many centaurs received rewards from adventurers.

This made Rand a little amused, but he didn't mind his Centaurs earning more, which would just motivate their work enthusiasm.

It takes a long time to run from the holiday resort to the haunted iron mine, especially since the road has not been repaired yet.

Yes, due to the rush of time and the fact that a large amount of manpower and material resources were used to build a defense line on the border of the Crescent Territory, the progress here is very slow.

There is still a shortage of manpower, but we can only make do for now. The route from the holiday villa to the haunted iron mine has only been cleared and not even paved with gravel. It can only be regarded as a compacted dirt road.

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At this time, due to the dual persuasion of Little Tata and Old Tata, all the villages in the Crescent Territory are now officially under Rand's rule. Although no taxes can be collected in the first year, soldiers can be recruited and labor can be levied.

It is because of the arrival of livestock that these villages are not very adaptable.

Old Tata silently looked at the "cow" that was twice as tall as him.

Turning back, he asked little Tata, "Is this the livestock you mentioned?"

Before little Tata could say anything, the "cow" in front of him spoke for itself: "Yes, we are the livestock in the den. Of course, we cannot be eaten."

Old Tata knew, of course, that minotaurs were not edible, and he continued expressionlessly, "So Viscount Rand is a dungeon lord? Is he a human?"

"Lord Rand is certainly not a human! He is a great savior! A pioneer! A demigod, the incarnation of the goddess of abundance, and the messenger of God!" The minotaur continued to interrupt, "Praise Lord Rand for the sunlight, clean water, and delicious food he has given us."

Little Tata wiped the sweat from his forehead. How could he not know that the Minotaur was a fanatic of the Cult of the Goddess of Fertility? This was simply outrageous.

He had no choice but to pull Old Tata aside and whispered, "Lord Rand is a human, and these minotaurs may not be very smart. Just go along with their tempers. They will help you with agricultural reforms and defend the village."

As more and more Tauren were accidentally teleported to the surface and then absorbed by Shasa's tribe, more than a year has passed and the number of Tauren has increased significantly.

Although Shasa did not come to lead his minotaur tribe because she was about to give birth.

Anyway, it is possible to give Xinyue sixteen villages and assign three minotaurs to each village.

Don't underestimate the value of the Tauren.

Tauren can survive by eating grass, although Rand will not do so, but in times of crisis, they can rely on eating grass and leaves to restore their physical strength. They are very strong and can plow the fields. They are very powerful in combat, and their innate war trampling and strength can give them a crushing advantage over ordinary human soldiers.

Rand gave priority to equipping these minotaurs with iron armor. Although the metallurgical industry was not mature and Rand was still researching the construction of blast furnaces, with the most crude metallurgical level, Rand still made some armor that looked like iron armor.

Although it was iron armor, it was actually just iron plates hanging on some vital parts of the body. It could not be compared with the legendary plate armor breastplate, but Rand did not skimp.

We prepared a lot of cotton armor and a set of leather armor for each of these minotaurs. If they really encounter a war, they can put on a few more layers of cotton armor and a set of leather armor while wearing iron plates, which will have a defensive effect after all.

Moreover, Rand has always felt that the defensive power of cotton armor is quite good, and leather armor also has considerable defensive power.

In short, the Tauren is strong, so just stack more armor and you'll be fine.

They would become war fortresses.

There was no turning back, and these minotaurs were very normal except for their worship of Rand.

It’s not quite right to say that they are normal. The habits of these minotaurs are very strange in old Tata’s eyes. They are very clean and they must drink boiled water. Also, they seem to know some basic knowledge of herbal medicine.

If it weren't for the minotaurs' rough and monstrous appearance, they would even think that they were the kind of sophisticated scholars from the city.

But in short, it seems that we can still get along with each other for now, and it has not reached the point where it is unacceptable.

They have already boarded Rand's ship, and there is no turning back.

No matter what Rand is, at least his military force is something they cannot resist.

Just talking about these minotaurs, if they were all gathered together to form a minotaur legion of up to fifty people, the threat they posed would definitely be greater than the knights who came to plunder them before.

Since such a legion was assigned to them to defend the village and provide them with agricultural support, it meant that Rand must have one or even several more powerful legions.

They will have absolutely no room to resist, not even to escape.

In a sense, these minotaurs were also monitoring them until they and Rand truly trusted each other.

At the same time, the territory of the Southern Kingdom was littered with corpses.

The Ice Sea pirates had already performed a robbery before, looting along the rivers and coastlines.

Then it was the turn of the official Northern United Army.

Naturally, the Northern Allied Forces did not join in the alloy mine war, but instead invaded the land of the Southern Kingdom by looting and fighting.

However, the intensity of the war did not increase. Due to the invasion of the Northern Alliance, the two alliances of the Southern Kingdom finally stopped fighting each other, and both alliances began to prepare for the protection of their own territories.

The invasion of the Northern Alliance poured cold water on the gold mine war that was already intensifying. Although the hatred generated by the war would not disappear, the nobles were selfish. Facing the invasion of the Northern Alliance, they naturally prioritized protecting their own territories.

Therefore, both sides temporarily stopped fighting.

The Torch Church was stunned when they saw this situation. They didn't expect that their fate would be completely inferior to the mediation effect brought about by the invasion of the Northern Alliance.

But this is not what the Torch Church wants to see. The war between the Southern Kingdom and the Northern Union will only cause more deaths.

War brings more than just fire.

This is not nonsense. War will bring damage to the environment and waste of food. Therefore, famine will always occur after war, and a large number of corpses will also lead to plague.

The Torch Church can foresee that many places on this land will become a living hell.

But they also realize in a sense that their approach will definitely not achieve the effect of mediation and may even lead to a more intense conflict.

But a comprehensive retreat and ignoring everything will also lead to a sharp drop in their influence. It seems that the Torch Church's lofty position as a leader of faith is already shaky.

There were also disagreements within the Torch Church.

Some people in the Torch Church are planning to find a way to make up for the losses first. For example, when both sides of the Southern Kingdom withdraw their troops, they can obtain part of the profits from the gold mine and wait until the people of the Southern Kingdom start fighting again.
Some people think that they should at least shrink overall and keep their territory to themselves. Many followers of the Torch Church are fed up with shedding blood for these bullshit and empty reasons. No one cares, at least these noble countries don't care.

There are also some people who think that the ideals should continue to be practiced. If the ideals cannot be upheld, then the Torch Church is no different from actually disappearing.

In a sense, the Torch Church has been split.

At this time, many of the Frost Moon Kingdom's looting troops were facing off against the nobles of the Southern Kingdom who had ceased fighting and returned to their territory.

The Snow Fox Countess burned the secret letter in her hand and ordered her knights to march.

The price of obtaining the intelligence this time was to attack Viscount Rand, who liked to build a defense line and hide in his shell, but she was not in a hurry and wanted to kill the robbers who dared to invade her territory first.

(End of this chapter)