After a toss, everyone was tired. So, the group settled into a renovated castle that had been cleaned by Mirami Offa.

Charlie fell asleep almost as soon as he got out of bed, and he had no dreams all night.

The next morning, she was woken up by a loud noise.

As if in a dream, the noise from downstairs caused Charlie's body wrapped in a blanket to curl up, and she struggled to fall asleep again.

But the sudden maid's hurried knock at the door forced Charlie to sit up from the musty smell of the big bed that could not be saved by the cleaning arcane.

"Oh no! Master!! ”

Despite the urgency of the situation, Charlie had to tighten his chest quickly before he hurried out of the largest master bedroom on the fourth floor of the castle and rushed down the rotating stone staircase to the first floor where the conflict broke out.

The commissioners confronted the ragged harpoon-wielding lords while the two Arcanists watched the action.

"What's going on? All lay down their arms! ”

Charlie deliberately suppressed his voice.

She walked past the mercenary squad and walked over to the tattered servants that the maid had described in short.

With two arcanists watching, the group of locals with harpoons who didn't look like a threat would lose if they could hurt a hair of her.

Calmly took out the document that had just rushed out of the bedroom without forgetting to bring the imperial canonization of her title from the emperor.

But obviously, none of this can be understood by the barely clothed harpoon-wielding lords.

They all looked at an old man standing behind them.

The old man had silver hair, and was better dressed than the strong young man who stood at the front.

The people of Beira's small fishing village call him Old Tom, and this morning he also routinely inspected the castle, but found that the castle gate was smashed, and then ran to Beila Xiaohai Village to 'respond to all calls', and gathered so many people to 'besiege' here.

Although the village of Beilahai has not been a lord for a long time, the castle has been abandoned for a long time.

But these have been brainwashed by the philosophy of the camp of goodness for a long time, and the class perspective is so ingrained in their minds that they are reluctant to steal the castle's finances even if they are hungry.

On the contrary, they dutifully guarded the castle.

They will resist any uninvited guests who invade here with all their might.

Old Tom trembled and took a roll of papers from Charlie's hand with his fingernails covered in black mud and wrinkled and rough hands.

The document was stamped with the Emperor's personal coat of arms, as well as the coat of arms used by the royal family for official documents.

Old Tom didn't know many words, but when he was young, he had been a small tax collector for the lord of the territory here, so he knew some words and counted them well.

His rough fingers moved slowly across the paperwork, stumbling through the words on it. Although he often encountered vague words that he did not recognize, he basically understood the meaning of the text.

While Old Tom stammered his papers, Charlie looked at the people who looked sub-healthy. Obviously, they are all young and strong laborers, but their cheeks are collapsed and their faces are ugly.

Their shabby clothes couldn't stop the skinny body underneath.

Jiang Mianmian, who crossed over from the flowery modern city, couldn't help but sigh, it was the first time since she came to face the lower-class people of this world.

In the past, the word 'hungry' probably only appeared in women who were motivated to lose weight and make themselves better in shape.

But now, he has a different perspective on the term.

Just as Charlie was sighing, Old Tom finally stumbled to see the two heraldic patterns at the bottom of the paperwork, printed with fire paint.

He had the privilege of seeing the same heraldic pattern from the previous noble lord!

It's true!

Old Tom's cloudy eyes slowly shed two lines of tears.

He was a little overwhelmed, wiped his face with his dirty, wrinkled palm, and stammered something illogical from crying to laughter.

"Sorry....we haven't heard anything before...... Oh! O dragon god! What did we do? So many faux pas to the great and honorable Earl Lord!

...… Oh! Lads! Put down the damn fishing forks! ”

Seeing that the problem seemed to be solved, Charlie was still in a state of low blood pressure when she got up in the morning, she waved her hand, signaled to the old Tom who was full of snot and tears, and the whole person didn't know what to say, and then said:

"We should have arrived about twenty days before the Empire's messengers, which is why you weren't notified."

"But I think it should be out of the way, wait a few more days, and those heralds will always arrive here."

Yes...... No, she hasn't come to her senses yet, and she's not at all comfortable talking about business, and she always feels that what she says is just her brain.

So, Charlie said to the excited old Tom, who couldn't help himself: "In short, you choose one person to stay first." We'll get down to business later, and the rest of us will go back and do our own thing, and that's it. ”

After saying that, Charlie walked weakly in the direction of the stairs, and when she thought that the largest master bedroom was on the fourth floor of the top floor, she didn't want to go back to wash up......

Crawling back to the clean but still musty smell, he just rolled on the bed, thinking about whether to squint for a while, Charlie was startled by the sudden burning sensation on his left finger and almost jumped straight out of bed.

Yes! It's you! Damn it, you dare to come out! Ahhh Thief Ring!! I haven't settled accounts with you after the pit last time!

Charlie's teeth itched with hatred, but he couldn't do anything with Moyu's wrench.

The golden words that mocked her appeared in front of her:

[Become a qualified lord series of tasks: 1. Patrol your territory. 】

[Reward: (Optional) Entering the Chambers to Become an Arcane Apprentice/Two Ironstones]

Charlie saw that the reward of 'two Al Ain Stones' was about to explode!

Go away!

Why do you still come to this set?!

Ahhh

Can I fool you a second time?

……

Fifteen minutes later, Charlie washed up and sat down at the long banquet table in the castle.

The mercenary team also had two Arcanists with her for breakfast.

The industrious maid served a plate of fried jerky and coarse stone cakes for breakfast in front of everyone.

There is no way, there is nothing in the castle, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

They can only hold on for a moment.

"What about the local people? Ask him to come over for dinner, and I just asked him about his territory. ”

Charlie didn't realize that there was something wrong, but the maid stopped talking, and the mercenary team looked at each other.

Seeing that the maid Anne was slow to move, Charlie asked, "Do you want me to invite someone myself?" ”

Anne was a qualified maid who had been "trained" by the nobles, so she boldly "said": "Lord Earl, the vulgar lords should not be at the same table with you. ”

Charlie frowned and said, "If I ask him questions about the territory, do you still have to agree to this?" Alright, stop wasting my time any longer, go and call him over. ”

For the servant trained by the earl's widow, Charlie really found it difficult to communicate, so he didn't bother to say more, and directly took out the shelf of the master's house.

The maid had to timidly answer the call.

Charlie, who does not have the strict hierarchical concept of class in this world, is like an arcanist who acts unscrupulously in this regard.

The only people present who were very satisfied with the scene were the two old arcanists, and the more they watched Charlie, the more satisfied they became.

A short time later, the maid came in with old Tom, who walked nervously with his hands and feet.

Charlie was clinging to the golden slices of roasted meat, and looked up at Old Tom.

I saw his hands nervously crumpling his dirty felt hat.

His mud-ridden shoes; rinsed white sewn and mended clothes; and his dirty hands, which were covered with dirty fingernails, were out of place in the new Earl's Castle.

Although this castle will be full of musty smell if you don't take care of it by the sea, Charlie is 10,000 can't look down on it.

Charlie said to him kindly: "Sit down and have a simple breakfast together, I have a lot to ask you." ”

Old Tom refused in fright, but his body trotted uncontrollably, and finally sat at the end of the banquet table.

The red-robed arcanist's hand hidden under the table "moved quietly", avoiding a time-wasting rip-off.

Tom was startled, but his attention was soon diverted by the fragrant slices of roast in front of him until they were golden brown.

'Boom' he swallowed uncontrollably.

He really hadn't eaten such a barbecue for a long time, and the cravings in his stomach were all 'cooing', but fortunately, the banquet table was long enough to not let him lose his temper in front of these noble gentlemen.

"To answer my question, the food on the table is your reward." Charlie slowly cut the barbecue strips that he was tired of eating but had to continue eating, and lowered his voice.

"Old Tom must tell the lord everything he knows." Tom was so excited that he almost raised his hand and swore that this morning it was like a dream.

"Very well, then you can give me a brief introduction, the coast of Bella, this territory belongs to me."

Old Tom organized his words and began to stammer......

It is a barren land surrounded by the sea on three sides and touching the monster forest on one side.

Because of its proximity to the coast, the sandy land is not suitable for cultivation.

There are fierce sea beasts in the sea, so you can't go out to sea to fish.

There are a large number of magical beasts in the forest, so that the lords living on the coast of Beira will be killed and injured every time they step into the forest to find food.

In short, this is a land of despair and suffocation.

After listening to Old Tom's numb statement, Charlie was no longer in the mood to eat the food in front of him.

"Eat. After eating, take me around my territory. ”