MC's career as foreign lord

“Knock, knock, knock!” The sound of knocking echoed in the silent room.

“Come in!” Locke said.

He saw the elven receptionist walk in, “Two gentlemen are waiting for you at the door!”

Locke nodded, “Princess, please take care of this matter!”

Hia, sitting in the corner, pursed her lips, “Yes, I'll keep an eye on it!”

At this moment, Zhou Ren led Mosa in, “Mayor, Secretary, hmm? Princess is here too!”

“So it's Lord Zhou Ren!” Locke said, “Please, have a seat!”

“Zhou Ren?” Hia was slightly puzzled, but still nodded in greeting, “Then I'll take my leave!”

“Princess, farewell!” Locke called out, then turned to look at Zhou Ren, “I wonder what brings Lord Zhou Ren to the City Hall?”

Zhou Ren was puzzled, “Didn't the Secretary tell you about it?”

“Eden?” Locke was also stunned, then the Secretary whispered something in his ear, and he said apologetically, “Sorry, I advanced to High-rank last night and was too excited, I forgot about your matter.”

He continued, “You bought that haunted house? That's really seeing ghosts, but since you wanted to buy it, I sent someone to clean up the furniture there last night, it should be almost done today!”

“Eden, take Lord Zhou Ren over there!” Locke said, “You don't need to pay for the land deed, I'll put it on your account!”

This was also a small compensation, but Locke's idea was more than that. After Zhou Ren left, he called someone over and asked them to tidy up the houses around Zhou Ren.

“Lord Zhou Ren lives in such a remote place, he must be a person who likes peace and quiet. Let's buy the surrounding houses first!” He said, “These cowards are probably already moving to the city, right?”

“Mayor, they might not sell!” Someone said.

“Might not?” Locke's eyes were fierce, “These parasites are fine usually, but they still want to take advantage of us during wartime? No way!”

Since advancing to High-rank, both his temper and personality have obviously become much tougher.

On Zhou Ren's side, the Secretary also explained the situation here to the two of them, mainly about the house.

“The original owner of this house was a reclusive mage. He used to be Ariel's predecessor—that is, the town's former mage. He worked in the town for more than ten years before leaving ten years ago!” Eden said.

Zhou Ren curiously looked around. They were walking on the town's street. Compared to usual, there were obviously fewer civilians. Now there were more merchants, soldiers, and mercenaries, and of course, some people of other races.

Zhou Ren saw some very short humans, but they didn't fit the characteristics of dwarves. If he was not mistaken, these should be halflings.

In addition, there were some slender but seemingly clever creatures. They roamed in the middle of the market, or studied their own things, looking like small scholars.

“These are gnomes, right?” Zhou Ren guessed.

“Before the goblins were punished by the gods, who would have thought that they were the most resilient technological race on this continent?” Mosa said with some emotion.

“Goblin technology, shocking?” Zhou Ren silently complained. He didn't know much about the rules of this world, but he knew something about the goblins of Warcraft.

Those goblins were not rude or cruel, but full of curiosity and a desire for development, possessing unique alchemy technology and powerful war means, but this world was the opposite.

But according to them, there is a hidden story in this? What kind of role do the gods play in this?

Thinking about this, they pushed through the silent crowd and came to the wealthy area of the town, which was already empty and deathly silent.

“It seems they've all moved away!” Zhou Ren said, “Which house is ours?”

“This is it, but there are no servants in your house, I'm afraid…” Eden said.

Zhou Ren waved his hand, he didn't care about that, “Where's the contract? I'll sign it!”

The Secretary handed over a parchment scroll, which still used Corellon's name. It seems that the Elven Empire still relies on the majesty of their main god!

“Okay!” Zhou Ren signed his name. As the scroll re-condensed, each of them had a copy.

As the Secretary left, when the two stepped into this land, they also felt a little strange. Although it was lush and green, it was too quiet.

“Unoccupied land detected. Set as territory? Yes √ No ×”

The same territory system reappeared and asked him to approve it. Of course, he chose yes.

“Welcome to Territory 003. The local lord is [Zhou Ren].”

“Territory attribute [Housing] detected. Connection channel detected. Connect to main territory?” This sentence popped up, which really stunned Zhou Ren. He didn't expect there was this method?

He immediately chose to agree, and saw a line of words displayed on the territory, “Territory attribute changed: [Main] (Affiliated)”

But it wasn't over yet. It seemed that because of the attribute change, he saw another line of words, “Intelligent creature detected inside territory. Expel?”

“Intelligent creature?” Zhou Ren remained silent, choosing to check the creature's characteristics and attributes, and found that it was not very clear, so he took out 《Territory Permissions》.

“Ban movement, attack, special abilities!” Zhou Ren directly checked these places, and then said to Mosa.

“It seems there is really a friend waiting for me in the house!”

“Master, why don't I go in and clean up first, and then you come?” Mosa said.

Zhou Ren shook his head, “No need, let's go in and meet this guest!”

He smiled and walked in, directly pushing open the door.

On the wall at the door, there was a dark human-shaped mark, looking like a person had been burned. Zhou Ren smiled, “Our guest is very unfriendly! Mosa, can you see anything?”

He was confident now and naturally not flustered. He wanted to see what kind of monster this guy who occupied the house was!

Although Locke didn't say it clearly, the fact that the previous mage was unable to successfully live here and could only sell it showed the problem.

The Secretary also revealed to them that those who bought the house were not short of confident big businessmen or powerful professionals, but without exception, they either failed or left in a hurry, without even taking away much of the things they bought inside.

So he also wanted to see what kind of trash this rampant guy was!

The mark at the door must be a kind of deterrent, Zhou Ren found it very interesting, touched the mark, and touched off a little ash.

Mossa also touched it, but he used the tool in his hand to take off a little mark. "Master, this mark is the ash, the ash without fire, without any magic!"

"Ash without fire? Ashes that can't be burned? That's really interesting!" Zhou Ren smiled, "Can you tell what it is?"

"It should be a Flame Demon or a Chaos Demon, they all have the power to manipulate Chaos Fire!" Mossa's expression was not quite right, "But there shouldn't be demons here! Even demon lords and abyss dukes can't project their power here without an exit!"

"Power projection?" Zhou Ren asked with interest, "What does that mean?"

"This is actually a very obscure piece of knowledge, it's normal that the master doesn't know." Mossa explained, "Specifically, the demons who come here through teleportation arrays or space gates are all projections of their bodies in the abyss, not their true selves!"

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"So even if they are killed, there is no way to really damage them?" Zhou Ren inferred, seemingly understanding something, "Then they always need a medium to come here, right?"

"Yes, demons will develop followers and use their blood sacrifices to open the teleportation gate, but I don't feel the dark aura of blood sacrifice!" Mossa suddenly froze, "Master, I'm afraid we're going to have a big harvest here!"

"Oh?" Zhou Ren became interested, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Without blood sacrifice, there must be someone or something above the legendary level, or there must be a natural space gate!" Mossa said, "This is a space wormhole!"

Although Zhou Ren didn't quite know what a wormhole meant, he was clear about the general situation. The appearance of a special space channel would bring unimaginable special profits.

It was only because Mossa, this ten-thousand-year-old lich, had such sharp eyes. If the Elf Empire knew about this news, where would Zhou Ren have the chance to pick up the scraps?

They continued to move forward. The cleaners that the scribe found were very good. Except that the marks couldn't be removed, everything inside and out was brand new.

And those special black ash marks were also eliminated under Mossa's recovery. These things have no magical imprint, they are just simple adhesion effects, effective for ordinary people, but ineffective for magical creatures.

But they also had doubts. The entire house had been searched, so where were the people?

Where did that strange creature go? Zhou Ren stood in the attic and looked down, but he didn't see anything. The courtyard was calm, but there was no trace of abnormality.

Mossa also silently returned behind him, shaking his head with some regret, "Demon hiding technique, can't find it!"

Zhou Ren took out the "Territory Authority", "It seems, I can only drive him out!"

This was not a good method, but a bad idea that could easily cause chaos in the town, but Mossa was confident that he could end the situation before it caused problems, so Zhou Ren was willing to try it reluctantly.

"Squeak squeak!" But just as he was about to do it, Lei Qiu on his head woke up, and a bolt of lightning struck into the yard.

"Lei Qiu? You said you know?" Zhou Ren was stunned. When did this little guy wake up?

Of course, that was not the point now. Both of them followed Lei Qiu's small figure, watching it slowly jump into the yard next door.

"Eh?" Zhou Ren was stunned. Then he realized that this yard was also within his territory, so this was actually a unique two-yard layout.

No wonder he didn't think of it. Who would bother to explore the yard next door? Even Mossa was stunned, and then followed Zhou Ren in.

Zhou Ren said with a smile, "It seems that we have all been taught a lesson by this little guy!"

This was the legendary 'darkness under the lamp'. The house they had searched was not the real area, but the inconspicuous small yard next door was where the guest was hiding.

This was indeed a similar structure. If the wall of this small courtyard were broken through, it should also belong to a part of this big house!

Zhou Ren thought, following Lei Qiu in. This house was very small, not a big manor, just a single-story bungalow.

Then they heard a very vicious curse, "Damn it! If I knew who was attacking me, I would definitely twist his head off and drink wine with his blood!"

"It's actually a high-level Balor Flame Demon!" Mossa said, "Master, it seems that our little friend has really found this guy for us!"

Zhou Ren smiled, "Let's go in and take a look! I want to know what this guy who wants to twist my head off looks like?"

They walked in like this and saw a strange creature imprisoned in mid-air.

It had the horns of a black goat, but they were straight, a bit like the face of a bull, covered in traces of flames. Its hands were wrapped in unknown flames, and its body was wrapped in a mixture of rags and skulls. A pair of somewhat tattered wings revealed its identity even more.

This was a standard demon, and it had to be a high-level demon!

"Mossa, can you tell his true identity?" Zhou Ren asked, he only knew that this was a demon, but he didn't know what it was!

"Humans, elves! Save me, and I will bring you rich rewards!" After seeing the two, the demon made a bewitching sound.

Mossa looked at Zhou Ren with some worry, in case his master was bewitched, he would have to quickly undo it.

Then he saw Zhou Ren walk to the demon's side with great interest, "Rewards? What rewards? Can you bring me a new mod?"

"Well, I want Tinker's Construct, Sky Factory, and Mechanical Power!" Zhou Ren said, and then saw the demon look at him with a strange gaze.

"What nonsense are you talking about, humans, why don't you hurry up and save me! Save me and I'll tell you!"

"Why don't you give me the reward first and then I'll save you?" Zhou Ren said, "I have always had a good reputation, and I will not break my promise!"

"A person who doesn't break his promise makes a deal with me? Hahaha!" The demon suddenly laughed, "You're so close, you have no chance!"

He suddenly summoned his weapon, which was a whip wrapped in flames, "Go to hell and repent, you bastard! This is the price you pay for teasing a high-level demon!"

He waved the whip, "Eh?"

Zhou Ren said helplessly, "I'm really trying to make a deal properly, why don't you believe me?"

He looked at the whip waving in front of him, and then... started trying to pry open the demon's hand!