The moment Todd's head hit the ground, the people fell silent, and they looked at the rolling head on the ground, not believing that the tax collector who had been oppressing them had died like this.

"Oooo But in the next second, cheers erupted in the crowd, and their anger that had been oppressed by Todd for a long time was vented at this moment.

"Woohoo." Todd's bodyguards looked at the owner on the ground, and fear and sorrow welled up in their hearts at the same time, but they were sad that they were about to face the same fate.

"My lord, what about these people?" Looking at the shaking bodyguards on the ground, the blacksmith pointed at them and asked.

"Yes!" Bruce looked at these bodyguards, their master was dead, and if it was really unnecessary to kill these people again, it would be better to regain it for his own use.

"Spare your life, my lord, we are just obeying our master's orders." Scarface plucked up the courage to look up and beg Bruce for mercy.

"Kill them, kill them." However, the villagers were boiling at this time, and after seeing blood once, the bloodthirsty nature of human beings would be aroused.

Bruce immediately raised his hands, and the villagers immediately quieted down, and killed Todd who had been pressing on their hearts with a thunderbolt, no doubt Bruce's prestige had been established with a human head, seeing this scene Elder Warren and Huntress Eve glanced at each other, their eyes were full of surprise.

"Under Todd's protection, you have wantonly abused the villagers of Grington, satisfied your private desires, and illegally deprived me of the property of my territory, each of which is a capital offense." Bruce said loudly to the bodyguards.

"Woooooooooooooo Hearing Bruce's sentence, the villagers cheered, it was rare to see so many beheadings in a day, and the bodyguards turned pale with fright.

"However, Todd is your master, and according to the laws of the kingdom, the realm, and the vassals, you as vassals have no way to resist the orders of your masters, and if you are willing to swear allegiance to me and become my vassals, I can pardon your crimes." Bruce turned around and demanded the allegiance of the bodyguards and pardoned them for their capital crimes.

As soon as the bodyguards heard that there was a reason for disobedience, they all nodded their heads for the sake of their own lives, becoming a vassal of the lord meant that they had a long-term meal ticket like Bruce, and it was much better than being a vassal of a tax collector.

"Good." Bruce smiled and thrust at his waist as he watched the bodyguards kneeling at his feet and swearing allegiance to him, these people had experience in using weapons and were a rare armed force in Bruce's original territory.

The people dispersed from the grove where Todd had been executed, and Todd's head was placed on a pointed stake and placed at the entrance of the village, while Warren the Elder, the blacksmith, the mad friar, and the huntress Eve stared at each other in the grove.

"We seem to be underestimating this young lord a little." Eve spoke first.

"But we've achieved our goal anyway, haven't we?" Elder Warren found a large rock and sat down, he was too old to stand for a long time.

"Will the Locke family fight?" The blacksmith said with some concern that once the Locke family started a civil war, they would definitely be conscripted into soldiers, and with Todd's current strength, they would definitely lose, and they would become cannon fodder.

"Don't worry, it's just killing a tax collector, Locke Manor won't be so popular, not to mention that this young lord Ann's charge to Todd is really appropriate, and others can't interfere at all." Elder Warren had a strange look on his face, and his snow-white eyebrows were raised, and he said to the others.

"Oh, you seem to admire him?" Huntress Eve said to Warren with a smile on her lips.

"Don't say it, that damn guy actually got my face bloody, I'm going to curse him, yes, I'm going to find the swamp witch." Sidney, the mad monk, scolded, sobbing as he salivaed, his face still stained with Todd's blood.

But at this moment, the huntress Eve turned cold, stepped forward and kicked Sidney, and before he could get up, she stepped on the mad monk's face.

"Wow, ah, ah, you lowly woman, you dare to step on my noble face with your dirty feet, don't you know who I am? I am the great Archbishop of the Holy City. The mad monk was trampled under Eve's feet, and immediately went crazy in a rage, and he struggled and cursed.

"Enough is enough, let him go." Elder Warren got up to stop him, and the blacksmith hurriedly stepped forward to grab Eve, finally separating the two enemies.

"Bastard crazy woman, I stop your soul from going to hell." The mad monk stood up, shaking the dirt off his body, and scolded in a mouth that still refused to admit defeat.

"Warren let me shoot him through his foul mouth with an arrow." Eve had a chill in her eyes and suggested to Elder Warren.

"Enough, is it time for you to mess around? And Sidney, you swore to keep it a secret, don't forget your oath. Elder Warren also said angrily.

Seeing that Elder Warren was angry, the two stopped attacking each other, but their eyes were full of dissatisfaction and resentment towards each other.

"Anyway, now that Bruce has truly become the lord of Grinton, let's cooperate with him first, and wait to find out what he really thinks!" Warren made a conclusion about the secret meeting, and no one disputed it, except that the blacksmith brought them new news.

"Lord Christopher, they have brought news that they are going to revolt against the tyrannical rule of the descendants of the Black King before winter comes, and he wants us to join in." The blacksmith said to the crowd.

"What, is Lord Christopher going to revolt?" Hearing the blacksmith's words, Eve's eyes lit up, and her face revealed a rare woman's delicateness.

"Christopher? How sure are they? Elder Warren frowned, his heart worried.

"Hey, hey, without the support of the church, will that little white face succeed?" The mad monk sneered, and as soon as he spoke, he immediately drew Eve's angry glare.

"In short, we need to get more information, and we must not act rashly until we have a clear understanding of the situation, and we must not forget the tragedy of Elijah." Elder Warren stood up tremblingly and said to the others.

At this time, Bruce didn't know that the conspirators in his territory were his real enemies, and he had just solved Todd and regained control, which made Bruce feel a little proud, but when he returned to his lord's house, he saw little Lori Anne with a small face.

"What's wrong?" Bruce looked at Anne in surprise, not understanding who had offended her.

"Lord Lord, I'm just a little maid, how can I know what's going on?" Anne pouted, her hands busy cleaning the house.

"Are you mad at me?" Bruce smiled wryly, apparently he had offended the little maid.

"My lord, why didn't you discuss it with me before you execute Todd?" Anne threw away the cleaning cloth in her hand and said angrily to Bruce.

"Isn't it my right to execute Todd?" Bruce was a little confused, could it be that he was a person with a lot of administrative experience, and what else he hadn't considered, but Anne could see the place?

"That's right, although I'm just a little maid, but don't forget that I grew up in Locke Manor, and the Todd you killed was a close confidant of James, which is a well-known thing in Rock Manor, and now you easily executed Todd, your brother won't swallow this bitter fruit." Although Anne is a little Lori, she was born into a nobleman and has always served the Locke family, and knows more about some power struggles in the Locke family than Bruce.

"I understand, but I have to kill Todd," Bruce sighed, and he thought about it as well, but how he could establish his authority and own his own territory without killing Todd.

"Well, now that Todd has been executed, from what I know of Lord James, you're ready for war." Little Lorianne said to Bruce solemnly.