The Crystal Palace Plan of the Sinner Lord

The next day, Caesar led all the demons to settle in Hot Wind Highlands and left the barren cave.

Ted - Mad Blood conquered the remaining Lion Demons with almost no bloodshed. He was the heir of the Mad Blood family and had Quinhagen's token in his hand. As long as he said that Quinhagen was dead, the remaining Lion Demons would bow down to him.

The Sirocco Plateau is just as its name suggests, a hilly area with dry soil.

Unlike the nearby Sunset Forest green space, the vegetation in the Hot Wind Highlands is very poor. The underground Fire Crystal Mine is the main mineral in the Hot Wind Highlands. While it brings wealth to the Mad Blood Family, it also makes this residential area hot and unbearable. Ordinary plants cannot survive here at all. The remaining ones are all resistant to high temperatures. In addition, this is a high mountain area, and when the wind blows from all directions, it naturally gets the name of the Hot Wind Highlands.

"Master, look, this is the landmark building of our Crazy Blood Family, the Red Castle."

Ted Wildblood pointed at the fortress at the top of Hot Wind Highlands, his words carrying some pride, but most importantly, he felt proud.

Especially yesterday when he was parading around the territory with Bloodfeather (the harpy leader) and Berg (the jackal leader), he felt so good. Like Berg, Bloodfeather has signed a master-servant contract with Caesar, but theoretically, as the number one servant, he naturally has a higher status. In the past, the jackal and the harpy leader were disobedient, but now it's different. He can order them around and do whatever he wants. Yesterday he even played a game of Gwent with the harpy leader. It was very satisfying and fulfilled his childhood dream.

Caesar felt very happy as he looked at the towering Gothic building in front of him.

Although this Red Castle is not as good as the castles of human nobles, it is at least a place to live.

However, Caesar had just entered the Red Castle and had not yet warmed up his seat.

He didn't even have the time to take his group of women to familiarize themselves with all the rooms and facilities in the Red Castle.

An eagle-horned demon that specializes in delivering messages came to the door.

In order to avoid being exposed, this eagle-horned demon was recruited by Ted Madblood.

Caesar played the role of Ted, the blood-mad guard, and listened on the side.

Chapter 156: Gustav is coming

"Are you Quinhagen??"

The eagle-horned demon with an eagle's head and a human body looked Ted Madblood up and down, and took out a portrait for comparison. Although both were pure-blooded Madblood lion demons, there were still many differences between Ted Madblood and Quinhagen Madblood.

"That's not right... You're not Quinhagen! Who are you?"

The Eagle-Horned Demon saw through Ted Wildblood at a glance, and his plan to get away with it failed. He could only clear his throat and said in a deep voice: "I am indeed not Quinhagen. I am Quinhagen's younger brother, Ted Wildblood, and now I am the master of the Red Castle."

"You? What about Quinhagen?"

The Eagle Horned Demon's expression turned serious.

It knows that a fight for the title is taking place in Hot Wind Highlands, but all the demons who know the situation are clear that Quinhagen will definitely be the final winner, because he is a ruthless and powerful new demon, and his future achievements are limitless.

But... the person sitting in the Red Castle now is Ted.

Hard to understand.

"Quinhagen failed in his bid for the throne, so he must be dead." Ted Crazy Blood said casually, "Where do you think Quinhagen is? Perhaps you can look for him in the back garden of the Red Castle. If you turn over the soil, you should be able to find some of Quinhagen's remains."

The eagle-horned demon has no interest in digging up shit.

Although it didn't know why Quinhagen failed in his bid for the throne, it came only to deliver a message to the current ruler of the Red Castle. It didn't matter to it whether it was Quinhagen or Ted Madblood.

"Ted Crazyblood, in three days, the patrol noble Lord Gustav will arrive at Hot Wind Highlands to conduct an inspection of the territory and its surrounding areas. As the lord of Hot Wind Highlands, you must be prepared to welcome him!"

After the horned eagle finished its report, it prepared to leave.

But the look it gave Ted was somewhat sympathetic.

Quinhagen and Gustav have a good relationship. Even if Ted Wildblood becomes the lord of Hot Wind Highlands by his own strength, he will inevitably be troubled by Gustav later.

At the very least, it would result in loss of resources, and at worst, even life and territory would be taken away.

And all this depended on Gustav's thoughts.

……

The halls of the Red Keep were so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

The horned gryphon had left, but no one spoke for a long time.

Hearing that Gustav was coming, Ted Crazy Blood's face turned extremely ugly. Caesar also noticed this and couldn't help asking: "What rank is this Gustav? Is he very strong?"

"A fourth-level spider demon." Ted sighed, "Master, Gustav will not let us go. He only recognizes Quinhagen as the lord of Hot Wind Highlands."

"It's just a fourth-level demon." Caesar said disdainfully: "Do you think I can defeat a fourth-level Quinhagen but can't defeat a fourth-level spider demon?"

"Master, Gustav is naturally no match for you. However, what is really difficult about Gustav is not itself, but the huge army of spider demons under its command."

"How huge?"

"When Quinhagen and I started competing for the title, Gustav already had more than a thousand spider demons, as well as countless cannon fodder troops like goblins."

"So many?!" Caesar couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the number.

It is true that as a demon, one's own strength is very important, but the overall strength of a demon noble is measured by the demon itself and the army under its command.

Normally, a fourth-level demon can easily kill a third-level demon, but that is a one-on-one situation. No matter how strong a fourth-level demon is, it cannot defeat an army of third-level demons. And this is the situation that Ted is worried about now—there are too many spider demons under Gustav's command.

If it were Ted himself, he would have planned to surrender long ago. He could fight for his family property and other things, but he only had one life, so saving it was the most important thing. But now the entire territory of Hot Wind Highlands belonged to Caesar, and he had no power to make the decision to surrender on Caesar's behalf.

"Don't get discouraged, Ted, we still have three days to prepare."

Caesar patted Ted on the shoulder.

I thought that at worst I could just send Ted up there for free.

It was impossible for him to give up the Hot Wind Highlands he had just acquired. He had to fight that damn Gustav to the death.

Now Gustav only thought that Hot Wind Highlands was occupied by Ted, and he didn't know that there was a half-demon lurker like him, nor did he know the exact number of troops in Hot Wind Highlands.

And in Gustav's impression, Ted Crazy Blood would definitely not dare to resist it.

Relying on this information gap, perhaps we can do something and catch Gustav off guard.

……

The entire forest was covered with dense silver spider silk.

The shadows of the crypt spiders were swaying everywhere.

Wherever the spiders passed, there were bones everywhere and plants withered, but this was not considered a serious pollution to the vast Star-Moon Forest.

The last stop of the spider demon Gustav's patrol is located in the Hot Wind Highlands north of Sunset Forest.

After completing the patrol, it will return to its own territory.

The horned eagle passed through the dense swarm of subterranean spiders and landed in front of Gustav. It was specifically responsible for informing the nobles in advance that the patrol nobles were coming and asked them to be prepared. These preparations were nothing more than money, delicious food, and beautiful human females (demon females would also be acceptable).

Therefore, inspecting the nobles has always been a lucrative job.

Only a few patrol nobles are selected every year, and each patrol noble is responsible for an area. Of course, they are only so unscrupulous when facing small nobles like the Mad Blood Family. If they go to the territory of a big demon like Famia, these patrol nobles will be obedient and may even offer resources on their own initiative.

"You said that the current lord of Hot Wind Highlands is Ted Wildblood? Did Quinhagen fail in his bid for the title?"

Gustav's three pairs of eyes widened in disbelief.

What level is Ted, what level is Quinhagen?

As a demon that is paying close attention to this matter, it knows it very well. After all, Quinhagen said that he would cooperate with it and provide its Black Forest Territory with fire crystal mineral resources. But this is the result?

"Quinhagen is a piece of shit."

Gustav snorted coldly, and his grey mane stood up. His eight spider legs rubbed against each other, making a strange creaking sound. "Since Quinhagen didn't get the right to rule Hot Wind Highlands, I will help him get it back."

"But sir, Quinhagen has become a piece of shit..."

The horned eagle hadn't yet reacted to what its lord was going to do.

"I know!" Gustav said unhappily, "I have a good relationship with Quinhagen, so just treat it as revenge for Quinhagen. Other nobles won't dare to say anything. As for Hot Wind Highlands, I won't be greedy. When the time comes, just appoint a new noble to help manage it."

The patrolling nobles do have such power, but they dare not go too far for fear of causing public outrage. But as Gustav said, the other demons will not care about the Hot Wind Highlands alone.

As for what the newly supported nobles are like.

Is he Gustav's puppet?

Only Gustav himself knows the answer.

"My lord, so are we going to attack Hot Wind Highlands directly?" The Hippogryph now understood Gustav's idea.

“No hurry.” Gustav sneered, “Ted Crazy Blood must have anticipated that I came with bad intentions, so let’s be friendly first and wait for it to reveal its flaws. Then we can launch an attack, which can also reduce losses.”

Chapter 157: Are You the God of Craftsmen?

What made Caesar feel relieved was that the core of Hot Wind Highlands had its own defense system - it was a circle of tall walls surrounding the Red Castle, about ten meters high. On the east and west sides were the tribes of harpies and gnolls respectively, and some simple defensive equipment was placed on the walls.

It is a common problem among low-level demons that they rarely rely on equipment other than themselves.

The Demon King's castle is equipped with very advanced defensive equipment, but some demons who worship their own strength too much despise the act of relying on weapons.

They might wear armor and choose weapons, but they don't pay much attention to them.

Quinhagen is obviously such a demon.

When Caesar inspected the defensive weapons on the wall, he was speechless.

The parts of the crossbow were all rusted, and the surrounding wooden boards were covered with signs of weathering; the catapult looked quite new from a distance, but when you looked closer you could see that many of the ropes were already showing signs of breaking. If it were to be used, wouldn't it be the first to hit its own people?

Apparently, the lion demons under Quinhagen's command did not properly maintain these weapons.

This also has a lot to do with Quinhagen's lack of attention to these things.

"It's a pity there's no magic cannon." Caesar curled his lips: "This Quinhagen is not as rich as imagined."

Ted Kuangxue, who was following nearby, gave an awkward smile but said nothing.

In fact, the original Crazy Blood Family was quite wealthy.

However, the consumption of resources caused by dozens of descendants fighting each other is difficult to estimate. In addition, his father, as the lord, was killed by Quinhagen, and he could not stop his descendants from robbing the resources of the Mad Blood Family. This resulted in the Mad Blood Family being reduced to an empty shell today.

Although there weren't many magic cannons in the past, we were still able to pull out more than a dozen that could be used normally from the warehouse.

Caesar took out eight magic cannons from his space ring, which were seized from the town of Bona.

During the first attack, he raided the warehouse in Baona Town, but not completely, as his space ring could not hold all of it.

When attacking the town of Bona for the second time, the knight guarding the town was very cunning. Knowing that the town could not be defended, he smashed all the magic cannons on the city wall and the remaining ones in the warehouse. In the end, he only seized some magic crystals as energy for the magic cannons.

"Master, you actually have a magic cannon!" Ted touched the shiny cannon and said with surprise:

"With these magic cannons and the city wall, we might be able to stop Gustav's attack!"

"Haha, you think too much." Caesar sneered and positioned the magic cannons one by one, pointing them outside the city wall: "More than a thousand crypt spiders, eight more magic cannons can't withstand it, we need other weapons."

Besides, his ultimate goal was to kill Gustav, not just to block Gustav's attack.

After placing the magic cannon, Caesar deployed the Dragon's Breath Tower on the city wall again. The Dragon's Breath Tower was magically integrated with the city wall, and there was no sign of incongruity. It was as if it was a tower defense building on the city wall. The surrounding demons were once again amazed at this scene.

Although Quinhagen was powerful in the past, he did not have such incredible means.

"Master, are you the God of Craftsmen?" Ted-Kuangxue's face was full of admiration.

"The dwarves probably wouldn't want their gods to look like me."

...

Caesar descended from the city wall and ordered Broken Tooth to bring the blacksmith from Blackrock Village to him.

The old man suffered for a few days, but he still looked stubborn.

But the villagers in the same village have almost sold out his information.

This old man used to be an apprentice of a dwarf blacksmith. He learned a lot of skills from the dwarf master in his early years. Later, when the dwarves were about to return to their tribe, he traveled to Black Tower City alone. He wanted to shine in the big city but was excluded by the blacksmiths in the city. His skills were buried in the intrigues of humans. Finally, he chose to come to Black Stone Village, a small mountain village on the border. He spent his days making some farm tools and weapons, making some money, drinking some wine, and living a leisurely life.

Apart from anything else, the old man has learned most of the dwarf's stubborn temper.

No matter how much he was beaten or scolded, he just refused to help the demons.

"Old man, I need you to build me a batch of crossbows."

Caesar looked down at the old man with his hands and feet tied, his eyes cold.

"I won't help you make any weapons, so just give up."

The old man lowered his head, looking nonchalant.

Another stonemason has surrendered and is helping the demons reinforce the city walls and making some simple tools.

As long as you complete the work assigned by the demons every day, you can have a full meal, but the result of resistance is all kinds of inhumane torture.

"Do you think I made weapons to fight against you humans?"

Caesar leaned down and squatted in front of the old man: "I am not interested in you humans. It was Quinhagen who attacked the town of Bona, not me. I just happened to reap the fruits of Quinhagen's victory. I asked you to make weapons to deal with another group of demons."