Tauren Overlord

The middle-aged refugee in the lead defended himself like an arrested criminal:

"We didn't defect on purpose. Several lords in the west were killed by the beastmen..."

"We couldn't develop the territory we were supposed to develop. We had no other choice but to flee here!"

A young refugee offered another account:

"Even if we go back, what can we get?"

“When our crops fail, the nobles demand the same share, so that our brothers and sisters must starve;

"When the nobles had to fight and fight, they thought of us first!"

"Even if nothing decent can be grown in this barren land, at least we can be our own masters in this ownerless land..."

An old woman interrupted the young man and turned to Sintija and begged:

"Young girl, your lord must be far away, right?"

"Look how barren this land is. You can't grow anything here!"

"If you send people to collect the crops, the effort they put into traveling may not be enough to cover the harvest!"

"So... please don't report us to your master, just let us live in this wasteland!"

Sintija tried to persuade these refugees who did not want to surrender. She said softly:

"I understand that you have suffered a lot of injustice in other territories."

"But the greatest benefit of being a subject of a lord is that you can get the lord's protection."

"If you are attacked by bandits, how will you protect yourself?"

After hearing what Sintija said, the ragged refugees seemed to hesitate.

But they really don't want to believe in any "kind master" anymore.

Finally, a middle-aged woman broke the silence:

"So what? The masters didn't protect us 30 years ago! That's why we are in this situation today!"

"If the masters had done their duty, we would still be living in the rich Taimenia. How could we end up in such a hellish place!"

These old farmers cannot write and only know how to express the simplest emotions.

Instead of learning poetry and dance from a young age like the knights.

As for the core skill of "oppressing others while making them feel that the oppression is very good", the old farmers can't learn it even if they want to.

But that doesn't mean they are born stupid.

Even if they had not learned the most basic logic, they knew that they had lived a miserable life under the rule of the Knight Master.

So will life be better if we are free from the rule of the Knight Master?

At least there is such hope and possibility.

Lu Heng also heard their conversation through the psychic potato.

He did not intend to persuade the refugees to love their lord, even if that lord was himself.

If they are unwilling to be subjects of the Mountain Territory, Lu Heng would not mind switching to the Tauren Lord to invite them.

Anyway, no one likes the empire, so we have common interests.

If they don't even like the Tauren Overlord...

also.

There is no need for Lu Heng to actively harm them. Even if he regards them as a new trading point, he can increase his profits.

As long as they haven't evolved into a pure den of thieves, there will always be something they need to share, right?

After figuring this out, Lu Heng said to Leia and the others:

"If they are threatened, they can say that they are my subjects, which can make those with bad intentions restrain themselves a little."

Sintija relayed Lu Heng's ideas to the refugees in the exile area, but the refugees remained unmoved.

It seems like there is no other way...

However, just as Leia and the others were about to leave, they heard a sharp sneer.

"Can't you find a decent sow in this whole pig pen?"

They looked towards the area where the sound came from and found a man riding a tall horse and wearing a gray-black robe a few dozen meters away.

His eyes were indifferent, and the silver adventurer badge on his chest was particularly eye-catching.

This made Nina, who had always been ignorant, alert.

Is he a silver-level adventurer?

That is the highest rank a Taimenian adventurer can obtain in the Empire.

They are usually at rank two, and in a normal war group, anyone who reaches this level can become a group leader.

Some particularly weak adventurer groups might even be led by first-level adventurers.

Only in a powerful regiment like the White Regiment will there be 4 silver members in the regiment.

When Leia and the others noticed this adventurer, the man finally found his prey.

He stretched out his hand and hooked his finger at a pretty little girl who looked about twelve or thirteen years old:

"Little sow, come here!"

However, instead of moving forward, the little girl stepped back in fear.

The middle-aged man next to her also immediately understood what the silver-level adventurer meant.

He rushed to the adventurer, knelt down on his knees and begged:

"Please, let her go! She is my only daughter!"

The silver-level adventurer was unmoved and instead sneered:

"Hey, are you still negotiating terms with me?"

After saying that, he waved his finger, and the middle-aged man was thrown into the air as if by an invisible giant hand, and then was smashed down mercilessly.

Snapped!

His head, which hit the ground first, broke into countless pieces at this moment, and red and white liquid splashed everywhere, warming his daughter's face for the last time.

The bloody smell and fear of death drifted in the air. The silver-level adventurer in a gray robe said arrogantly:

"You beast! Do you understand what I'm saying now?"

Just as he was getting arrogant, Leia, who was walking towards him, had already drawn her sword and said sternly:

"Stop your violence! This is the territory of the Burios family!"

48. Karlsson the "Birth Knight"

Leia judged from the other party's clothes that his defense mode did not rely on armor, but some kind of magic or art.

If you attack rashly, you will probably end up in trouble.

But Leia was even more unwilling to tolerate his atrocities, as that would mean that the master's rule here would be even more hopeless.

So she raised her sword, showed no sign of weakness, and asked him:

"You killed subjects of the Burios family. Don't you intend to pay the price?"

Just when the battle was about to break out, a desperate child threw a small stone at the man in gray robe.

The stone seemed to have hit a wall of air and stayed in mid-air until the man in the gray robe waved his hand, and then it fell from the air.

The gray-robed man turned his head slightly and said jokingly:

"Look, these are obviously unruly people who want to beat me up, how can you say that I am the one who committed this atrocity unilaterally?"

"If you also want to disrupt the situation, the consequences will be serious!"

He looked at the corpse on the ground with contempt:

"Let me see... the life of a southern barbarian is only 8 silver coins. I thought it was very expensive."

However, what he said was indeed the average offer made by the nearby imperial lords to middle-aged male serfs in Taimenia.

At this moment, Sintija also moved towards Leia, and she raised the psychic potato in her hand.

"Watch your words and actions! Our lord is well aware of what is happening here."

This is a powerful deterrent.

Unless the other party has the ability to kill all the witnesses instantly, once he attacks the official, he will inevitably be hated by all the nobles.

Even if the adventurer has nothing but military power, he dare not offend the nobles casually, otherwise... does he not want to ask the lord for missions anymore?

Besides, the nobles themselves are a violent union, and their control over violence is no worse than that of adventurers.

For example, there is a strong man of rank three in the main branch of the Burios family.

Once the White Legion and the Breos Family become enemies, the Breos Family won't even have to send a Level 3 warrior across the ocean to fight him.

Most of the nobles help each other. You marry someone, I marry someone else, and they have formed an inseparable network of relatives. They have long protected each other.

Compared with the nobles, who were a community of interests, adventurers were often just individuals or small groups competing with each other.

When an adventurer or a group of adventurers is excluded by the nobles, other adventurers will often just secretly rejoice:

"Haha! Those bastards are in trouble. They can't beat us this time, right? Ahahahahahaha!"

Therefore, even if they were as powerful as the White Legion, they would suffer losses if they openly opposed the nobles.

After Sintija's reminder, the man really didn't dare to choose to fight against the Burios family. He dismounted and explained:

"I'm Karlsson, a level 50 adventurer, and the vice-captain of the White Regiment. Perhaps you've heard of a more famous name - the Knight of Peeping Secrets."

"It was your acting lord who invited us to help him kill the minotaur, but you turned your swords against me. Isn't that bad?"

Combat experience level 50, this is really scary.

When Nina was an adventurer, she was only level 7.

Leia, who is much more mature than her, is only level 28.

Adventurers are usually divided into different levels by experience level rather than rank. One small reason for this is that the rank information published by adventurers is often not credible.

It is basic to pretend that black iron is bronze and bronze is silver. There are even many people like the real William who pretend to be bronze directly at rank zero.

The more crucial reason is that everyone's unique skills are varied, and adventurers of higher ranks are not necessarily stronger than adventurers of lower ranks.

For example, a first-level adventurer focuses on physical damage, while his second-level opponent can only resist magic like the original lord of the Mountain Territory.

Then the so-called second-level strongman will not be able to fully display his unique skills in a one-on-one duel. It is better to say that the high energy consumption of the second level is a fatal burden.

The experience level is different. A level 50 adventurer is definitely more proficient in all aspects than a level 49 adventurer.

Although the improvement of each level is relatively limited, it is stable that you become stronger with each level.

Moreover, the adventurer's experience level is easier to test, which also provides a basis for adventurers to scare people with their level.

The most important thing is that among ten adventurers, seven or eight may be at the first level. How can we tell who is the best?

However, Karlsson obviously miscalculated.

He once thought that the young master Lu Heng had been scared half to death by the Minotaur Overlord and was waiting for an adventurer to rescue him.

Then he would naturally be more tolerant of the White Legion.

The actual situation was completely different from his initial fantasy. At least the female officials in front of him were not intimidated by him at all.

Doesn't this lord actually want adventurers to help him deal with the Tauren Overlord?

Although the reward for this mission was very high, as much as 20 Imperial Coins, a little doubt had already been planted in the heart of the "Secret Knight".

While Karlsson was wondering, Lu Heng's landing point vision had already entered the field.

He remembered this "Mysterious Knight", although he preferred to call him the "Birth Knight".

Lu Heng also turned on his psychic vision and found that the brightness of the "Birth Knight" was even higher than that of Rhea and Nina.