What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

You are so powerful, you are the strongest lord of the Kingdom of Ashes. I, Fran, don’t want you.

"Um, Lady Fran, there's more on the back." The vampire girl reminded in a low voice.

Fran turned the letter to the back.

Of course, there are rewards and punishments. In addition to selecting the strongest lord, I decided to select the worst lord to spur those lords who only want to fish and lie down and have no ambition.

No matter who becomes the worst lord, I will strip her of all her titles, confiscate all her property, and then use the power of the contract to turn her into a goblin slave, and she will be driven by the goblins forever.

So, in order to avoid becoming a slave to the Goblins, get up and fight!

For a better tomorrow for the Kingdom of Ashes!

rush!!

Go NM!!!

Fran felt a black screen before her eyes and immediately fainted in front of everyone.

Chapter 5 Beelzebub's Hobby

After Fran passed the letter to Catherine and others, everyone else also showed expressions of disbelief on their faces.

"This... is too unfair to us!" Feuerbach said angrily.

"Yes!" Catherine said indignantly, "Let's not talk about how complicated the city of Orila is! You have just become a lord. How can you compare with those lords who have worked in their fiefdoms for hundreds of years and have rich heritages!"

There are serious territorial disputes, internal and external troubles, local tyrants who refuse to obey discipline, and the construction time is short.

Why does it feel like all the debuffs in the territory have been stacked on me?

"Well... I'll ask a direct question... Feuerbach said, "Why do I feel that Lord Beelzebub is deliberately targeting you? Is there any conflict between you and Lord Beelzebub?"

"Contradiction...Haha! What kind of conflict could there be between her and me?" After hearing this, Fran quickly laughed and tried her best to act like a harmonious relationship between the monarch and her subject.

"That's good, that's good..." Feuerbach breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Fran denied it on the surface.

But in fact, she and Beelzebub not only have conflicts, but they are also huge.

I remember that Beelzebub had a very peculiar XP, which was that he liked to watch the nuns and priests of various churches degenerate into dark nuns. Watching them gradually become helpless and confused from stubbornness and tenacity, and finally throw themselves into darkness, the whole process made Beelzebub feel a kind of inner joy.

However, nuns and priests are not so easy to capture. After all, they are active in the human world and there will be other clergy around them.

In order to continuously satisfy his strange XP, Beelzebub came up with a "clever plan", which was to let those fallen dark nuns deceive and sneak attack his former friends.

For this purpose, she also set targets for all the dark nuns. Each person must get a nun every year! Otherwise, there will be various punishments.

Of course, in Beelzebub's style, where there is punishment there is reward.

Any Dark Nun who succeeds in kidnapping can get a large sum of money as a reward! Not only that, if the Dark Nun you kidnapped successfully kidnaps new friends in the future, you can also get 10% of her profits.

The more you turn, the more benefits you will get. Just like a pyramid, as long as you work hard, you can climb to the top of the pyramid and enjoy the benefits brought by others.

It sounds great in theory, but in reality no one can really get to the point where they can sit back and reap the benefits.

Because it is too difficult to kidnap a person.

But everything changed after Fran joined the battlefield. She found that Beelzebub never seemed to doubt the true identity of the nun. Even if someone wore a nun's robe and said a few mysterious words, she would take it for granted that she was a nun!

This gave Fran an opportunity.

For this reason, she went directly to the border of the human world and founded a church, the Ice and Snow Temple, worshipping the goddess of ice, snow and wisdom, Jiu, and then announced to the public that she would only recruit female believers.

After recruiting a number of nuns, they began to receive professional training, especially in acting, to ensure that their performances were vivid from the determination of resistance at the beginning to the joy of fall at the end.

Soon, the first batch of nuns were sent to Beelzebub. Beelzebub did not find out that these nuns were trained by Fran quickly, and he was very happy with the training! Afterwards, he praised Fran for finding very good nuns and gave her a lot of money.

Once there is a first time, there will naturally be a second time.

Due to the strong and continuous demand, the scale of the Ice and Snow Temple quickly expanded rapidly, and the business became more and more professional. Fran even hired people to study the script, such as which day the resistance would be the most intense, which day the character would start to give in, and how the character would fall in order to release the most emotions.

Later on, each nun's performance lines and even costumes and makeup were designed by a dedicated person.

Fran also categorized the nuns into cold nuns and cute nuns, and realized the customization of the label module. She changed Beelzebub's taste every once in a while to ensure that she would not get tired of it, so that she could continuously take money out of her pocket.

This plan lasted for three years before it was discovered by Beelzebub. It was not because Beelzebub had a keen eye, but because the number of nuns that Fran had lured was too astonishing. Others would be thankful if they could catch one or two in three years, but she lured a total of 618 nuns!

Six hundred and eighteen! This number directly accounts for more than 90% of the total!

Beelzebub immediately investigated the matter thoroughly, and Fran was then exposed.

But Fran also has her own defense

Just tell me if this is a nun! Just tell me if the acting is real! You can't even tell!

Beelzebub was furious, but she couldn't do anything to Fran, because Fran was doing everything she asked. All she could do was to expose the fake Ice and Snow Temple and forbid Fran to continue participating in the competition.

However, the influence of the "fake nun" was not limited to this. After that, Beelzebub found that no matter who she was training, she always thought that the person on the other side was an actor! This made her suspicious and she could not enjoy her XP as wholeheartedly as before.

After much difficulty in getting a few legitimate nuns, he discovered that the fake nuns' performances were so good that the real ones were outshined. This caused Beelzebub to fall into self-doubt for a time.

It's like there's a guy who loves to watch pornographic pictures, and his friend always finds cute boys for him to use. When he wakes up, he starts to suspect that every picture is of a cute boy. Even if he knows it's a girl, he finds everything boring in the end.

Of course, the brother still likes girls in his heart, but he has already developed an uncontrollable desire for cute boys. This double torture to himself and XP is the true portrayal of Beelzebub now.

This conflict is not a big deal, after all, there is no deep hatred between the two. But if you want to say it is a big deal... destroying my XP is not the same as killing my whole family??

Fran made a solid fortune by selling fake nuns, which also provided financial support for her subsequent frauds, or rather, the production of various financial derivatives.

Of course, the things Fran did were not something that could be made public. In order to avoid damaging her glorious image among her subordinates, she chose to conceal it.

Fran coughed twice to attract everyone's attention, then said, "Alright. Now is not the time to worry about what Lord Beelzebub thinks! Since the order has been issued, we have to do our best to ensure that we are not the last one."

"But three years..."

"I know time is really tight! Not only do we have to take back the lord's power within this period of time, but we also have to make all the local tyrants listen to us! This is very difficult!" Fran said, "But don't forget, I, Fran, was born to create miracles...

This is...

Everyone nodded in agreement.

It was a miracle that Fran could thrive in the demon world full of enemies with her human body and even become a lord. Not to mention that she could often come up with some shocking things to change the world.

Even if we are at the bottom, won't we run? We are already in the human world anyway, so we can just abandon the city and run away." Fran said, "Let's gather in a puddle, eat meat and wine, and use a big scale to divide the gold and silver...

"Ahem!" Fran was stopped by Catherine halfway through her words. She signaled to Fran not to talk nonsense as there were outsiders here.

Damn it! She was so busy boosting morale that she forgot that there was an envoy from Beelzebub here. If she reported this to Beelzebub, she would be labeled a traitor and skinned alive.

The vampire girl had never expected to hear such explosive words. As a messenger, she should theoretically report every detail to Beelzebub.

But at this moment, she found that Fran and the others were approaching her and had surrounded her. Looking at the weapons hidden in their sleeves and backs, a chill suddenly appeared behind her.

"Hahaha... I was just talking nonsense just now, please don't take it seriously." Fran (standing on tiptoe) patted the vampire girl on the shoulder, and then said: "But if these words are heard by Lord Beelzebub, it will cause misunderstanding. If there is a deviation in the report in the future, the responsibility will be very heavy."

"I understand, I understand!" the vampire girl said quickly, "I will be careful with what I say and do!"

"Just being careful in what you say and do may not be enough." Fran said meaningfully.

Chapter 6: Heaven Will Have Its Way

"Don't worry, Lord!" As if she could sense that Fran's eyes were becoming more and more dangerous, the vampire girl said quickly, "I promise that any unnecessary words will never reach the ears of Demon King Beelzebub."

"Hahaha, that's good. But..." Fran suddenly changed the subject, and the vampire girl shuddered: "After all, this matter is very serious, and words are not enough. I heard that you vampires can swear with your own blood, called an unbreakable spell or something like that. Can you please make one too?"

"Um... this doesn't have to be so serious." The vampire girl was very scared after hearing this, and instinctively wanted to step back, but she found that two people were standing behind her.

They swore an oath with blood, and once the oath was broken, it would be a death sentence for the vampires.

"I'm just being cautious!" Fran said, "Anyway, as long as you don't say it, this oath is as good as non-existent."

"But...if Lady Beelzebub asks...I have to tell her." The vampire girl was so anxious that she almost cried: "She has a bloodline suppression on us, we must tell her everything. We can't hide anything."

After hearing this, everyone present was stunned.

They only knew that Beelzebub was a high-level vampire, but they didn't expect that there was such suppression on ordinary vampires.

"Hey, sir, what should we do? We can't really kill her." Catherine asked in a low voice: "She looks so pitiful, why don't we let her go? I think with Lord Beelzebub's intelligence, he shouldn't do anything to you just because of these angry words."

"If she had intelligence and talent, how could I be forced into such an embarrassing situation! I can't let her go!" Fran was well aware of the grudge between herself and Beelzebub. If she knew this, it would be a foregone conclusion that she would take advantage of the situation to make trouble.

"If you don't let her go, are you going to kill her?"

"That won't work either. He's an envoy after all. Killing the envoy is not much different from treason." Fran suddenly had an idea and said, "I understand."

"Um... I hope you won't use any more dirty tricks."

"Don't worry...I'm not a demon!"

Fran said as she turned back to the vampire girl with a kind smile on her face: "I don't know the name of this messenger yet."

"My name is Vanessa Farrell." The vampire girl thought for a moment and then said.

"So you are the daughter of the Farrell family. I am so sorry for your disrespect." Fran said with a smile, "Let's put aside the previous topic for now. I want to ask, is Miss Vanessa's travel expenses sufficient?"

"Enough... Vanessa was confused and didn't know why Fran asked this, so she said, "At least enough to go back to the demon world."

"If that's the case, I think it might not be enough." Fran said, pointing to the empty door, and then said: "I wonder if Miss Vanessa still remembers that when you came in, you accidentally broke those two doors."

"Well! I'm really sorry!" Vanessa said, "I'm willing to pay for it!"

"These two doors are not ordinary doors! They are cultural relics... yes, cultural relics." Fran said, "And they have been there since the founding of Orila City! They are witnesses of Orila City and the history of the demons! Their preciousness cannot be measured by mere money."

After hearing this, everyone was dumbfounded.

"But... they are just ordinary broken wood..." Vanessa wanted to argue.

"Excuse me, Miss Vanessa, is there any way to restore them?"

"Uh...I can't."

"That's it! Now it is what I say it is!" Fran said, "Pay the money!"

"How much...how much do you want?"

"I think it will take at least 100,000 magic crystal coins," Fran said.

"One hundred thousand?!!" Vanessa opened her eyes wide: "My annual salary is only more than a hundred magic crystal coins!"

"That's your business!" said Fran.

"You are blackmailing me!" Vanessa said angrily.

"Don't say such harsh words." Fran said with a smile: "How can this be considered blackmail! This is just reasonable compensation. Of course, we know that you are in trouble, Miss, you can also repay me in another way."

"Use...in what way."

"It's very simple. Just stay and work for me." Fran said, "As for the duration, one year will be enough. At the end of the one-year period, your debt of one hundred thousand will be written off. How about that?"

"One year! But I

"Look at it brightly. You got a job with an annual salary of $100,000," Fran said.

"I… wuwuwuwu!"

Finally, under Fran's persuasion, Vanessa signed a contract with her. She worked for Fran for a year, and their grievances and debts were written off. After that, Vanessa could go wherever she wanted and say whatever she wanted, and Fran would not stop her.

Catherine was a little surprised at how smoothly things went! This vampire girl was too easy to fool.

But later, Fran explained to her that in the Kingdom of Ashes, the nobler the bloodline, the easier it is to deceive. Because they are either sleeping in coffins or serving as guards in the deep palace, they are completely ignorant of worldly affairs and are simpler than holy water. With their intelligence, they will be deceived into losing their underwear in a matter of minutes if they go to the human world.

Vanessa's matter has come to an end for the time being.

One more person also meant one more person to clean the room. Before the poor vampire girl knew what was going on, Fran stuffed a broom and dustpan into her hands and asked her to clean every corner of the main building.

After everyone's efforts, they finally cleaned up a few rooms. In the process, they unexpectedly discovered a lot of information left by the previous city lord, including account books, financial lists, and event books.

It is hard to imagine that such an important thing could be thrown away like garbage and gather dust in a corner.

Fran quickly sent Feuerbach to read the account books, trying to find the inheritance of previous city lords.

But Feuerbach only took a few glances and his face turned pale.

He told Fran that it would be better to call these a debt collection rather than an account book. It recorded in detail every debt owed by the previous city lord, and in the end, the total debt was more than 300,000 magic crystal coins.

Good god! I just made up a debt of 100,000 to deceive Vanessa, but in the blink of an eye, I owed her three times as much. Isn't the retribution coming too quickly?

"What about the valuable assets? Is there nothing I can use?" Fran said.

"No!" Feuerbach said helplessly, "Everything that can be mortgaged has been mortgaged by the previous generations! The only thing that can be exchanged for money is probably this mansion."

"I really want to thank the previous mayors! At least they left me an empty house to shelter me from the wind and rain." Fran gritted her teeth and said, "Then! What about the taxes? As the mayor, theoretically, the taxes collected should be given to me."