Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 1077 The Prototype of the Labyrinth of the Gods

Looking at the table full of documents awaiting review, Chesca gave himself a pep talk.

At least for now, all we need to do is look at Lily's review results and compare them with the data reported by the presenter.

Lily's best quality is that she is absolutely accurate when it comes to money.

Moreover, despite having a poor memory, he could recount the sources of income for the territory over the past ten years in great detail.

Aside from being somewhat unfamiliar with the economic turmoil caused by environmental changes, there shouldn't be any major problems with the other aspects of the review process.

But Lily also has a major weakness: she always feels that certain expenses are unnecessary and can be reduced.

For example, regarding the defense of the territory, she couldn't understand the necessity of those village guards who weren't even formal professionals... In the White Dragon Girl's mind, low-level professionals were not even as good as the geese in the castle, but at least they could hold on for a while.

What's the difference between those so-called trainees and prospective trainees and ordinary people?

Even if it's for the sake of the so-called future, there's no need to support those useless people who can't advance even after decades!

No matter what Lori and Chesca said to her, Lily couldn't understand why the existence of these people could ensure the stability of the territory.

Although she had accepted that these funds were essential and wouldn't upset Lowry over such a small amount... Lowry was still not entirely satisfied.

He demanded that Chesca check every document Lily had approved until Lily understood this point.

This wasn't too tiring for Chesca.

Although she still has to tally the supplies in the future Star Fortress, Valera has returned and taken over most of the resource allocation tasks.

This made her job, which was only responsible for the second review of territory affairs, much easier than before.

After all, she used to have to audit herself, which put immense pressure on her.

Chesca, engrossed in her work, silently rolled her eyes... but didn't say anything to 'keep' Lowry, who had already quietly reached the door.
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As Lowry stepped out of the study, he gently patted his chest.

He knew, of course, that he couldn't hide his escape from Chesca, but he was just betting that Chesca, who had recently been a little more relaxed, wouldn't be upset about him sneaking out of work.

Fortunately, Lily's estimation was correct today, and Chesca didn't accumulate much anger.

Lori guessed that Chesca herself didn't even realize that she was now the most terrifying person in the eyes of the white dragon cubs.

Even Luscania and Bolaños would carefully avoid her when she was throwing a tantrum while holding a pile of documents.

Luscania has been spending a lot of time in Green Maple Territory in recent years.

After all, Travis's current situation requires him to establish his own heroic image... while the enemy at Scroll Mountain needs a protracted war.

To put it bluntly, when the two of them teamed up, it was a complete sweep.

This is completely contrary to the current policy of the gods opening their pockets and waiting for people to jump in.

There was nothing they could do, so Travis and Luscania had a big argument over the White Dragon King's claim that he also wanted to stir things up.

Of course, it wasn't because they suspected each other, but because someone under Travis bravely advised... that Lady Luscania, the daughter of the White Dragon King and the sole heir of White Dragon Valley, should stay away for the time being to avoid misunderstandings.

Luscany was furious and wanted to verbally abuse the idiot, but Travis stopped her.

As a result, Lady Luscania tried several times to kill the troublemaker while Travis was in battle, but each time she was stopped in time... The church and the mages sent protectors.

Even those who actually took action were the brave ones.

Luscania believed this was a provocation from the Church of the Gods, a conspiracy to break her alliance with Travis... However, Travis chose to believe those scoundrels.

Luscania, flying over the camp and cursing the Pope of the Gods, put to full use the skills she learned from Lori.

Regardless of whether there was any ulterior motive... the major churches were genuinely enraged and almost took action.

Finally, Luscania simply came to Green Maple Territory to take care of the children.

The performance was so realistic that probably a third of the audience were fooled, another third were half-believing but pretended not to believe, and the last group never believed it at all, but most of them actually needed this performance.

After hearing about this, Lowry even consulted Luscania to find out whether this 'advisor' was just a good actor or had such a strong sense of self that she needed the world's attention... Unfortunately, it turned out to be the latter.

He really hoped it was the former.

Preparing to leave home for a notoriously insane place, he needs to improve his acting skills.

Unfortunately, these days, it seems only the latter is popular.

After glancing at Luscania stretching her body above the frozen lake and Bolaños carefully grooming her fur, and then seeing Bobo and Weiss playing around on the nearby lawn, Lori flew towards Agris's manor without hesitation.

The Luscania family are all academic failures... not that they're brainless, but they have absolutely no desire to learn.

Therefore, the most frightening type of teacher is one who patiently guides you and you can't resist.

When Chesca was teaching Lily, they didn't even dare to watch, for fear that they might react too violently and seriously injure Chesca.

That person was their benefactor who helped them take care of their child!
You must never harm others.

As for Mrs. Yages, that goes without saying... at least they could understand the lessons from Chesca's side.

It all boils down to money.

Although they didn't understand why so much money had to be given away, at least they understood that it was to get more money. So, even Bobo, who was the most impatient with knowledge, would listen for a few minutes when Cheska taught.

But that didn't work for Aagris.

Why would the White Dragon need to know about social interactions, the private lives of royalty and nobility?

Shouldn't it be only humans who avoid and dislike their taboos?

However, Agris genuinely hoped that Lily could be a proper lord, not a tyrant who ruled the mountains.

She hoped Lily could distinguish between having power and abusing it.

Learn to use three parts of your effort to gain thirteen parts of the benefit.

Although Lily was struggling to learn, she was starting to get a feel for it and was able to absorb some of what she was hearing.

But Luscania and the others felt like throwing up just hearing about these kinds of lessons.

Lady Agris must be at the manor teaching Lily now... otherwise, the family of four would never be around the castle.

Having overly sensitive hearing can sometimes be a source of suffering.

"Mommy~ Lily." Lori landed on the large terrace on the second floor of the manor.

As expected, Mrs. Agris was instructing Lily in the war room connected to the terrace.

Even though he had given up his dream of returning to the front lines, Agris was still the knight commander with a heart full of fierce courage.

Growing up in the Gezar family taught her that one must cherish oneself.

Therefore, as long as it doesn't cross her bottom line, she is willing to accept the guidance of fate... For officers who don't meet the requirements, the best option is to leave the battlefield.

Yagris knew very well that if she wanted to stay in the army, there were ways.

Many knights, even if they couldn't advance further, would stay in the army until the very end... especially officers from commoner backgrounds.

However, she is Gezar.

When you have the ability to keep climbing the ladder, the surname Gezar won't have much of an impact.

But if she stops somewhere and can only serve as a mid-level officer bridging the gap between superiors and subordinates, this surname will mean trouble.

Even if she and Count Gezar had a semi-public falling out, what difference would it make?

Would she dare to openly represent the Gezar family in breaking away from the Storm Nobles' stronghold?
When His Majesty Travis cast an admiring glance at her, but then remained silent, Aagris knew that her military career had come to an end.

With her around, it was impossible for those talented and militarily gifted young people in her legion to be promoted.

No one can guarantee that Agris will always maintain her neutrality... Under the pressure from Duke Schröder, can she really?

Lori sometimes wondered if the reason why Agriss accepted the marriage proposal from that old man, Count Montes, back then was also because of her past 'unwillingness'.

But he would never ask his mother that question.

However, the fact that she had reached the end of her military career did not mean that Yages had completely abandoned those basic qualities, nor did it mean that she had given up exploring new military concepts.

When Lori was a child, she had seen her and Pat pointing at a simulated sand table, studying the newly emerging knight skills and combination formations.

Therefore, when building the manor for her, in addition to the training ground, a combat room based on an illusion array was specially built for her.

The illusion arrays inside can be controlled from the outside, and they contain the world's terrain, landforms, and city maps.

The fighting stances of various magical creatures and the combat skills that soldiers from different countries are good at can be imitated to a great extent... Thanks to the Lord of Storms for his great contribution.

Of course, the Lord of Storms didn't help without a reason.

He took the second set that Lowry had made with him.

And then... the Labyrinth of the Gods appeared.

When Lowry first saw it, he was actually a little unhappy... Damn world, it's one thing to not have copyright, but he also has to help improve it!

Do you know how much effort he put into adjusting the output and defense power?

This isn't just an idea that can be made possible by casting magic.

Everything that could move in the illusion had to be adjusted by Lori one by one.

It needs to be very close to the prototype, while also ensuring that these organisms react normally when they encounter other organisms in the food chain.

Attacking and defending, dodging and reckless advances, will all lead to different consequences.

All of this was the result of his painstaking research!

If Lori hadn't read extensively and purchased a large amount of information from adventurers, he wouldn't have been able to do this.

As a result, the gods took it and used it... and then something that was nothing was suddenly given a huge boost.

(End of this chapter)