Chapter 1 - An Interlude on the Road

It took more than half a month for the area occupied by Mirakesar on this side of the Dragon's Back Mountains to be successfully turned into two new principalities belonging to the Kingdom of Mirakesa by Lu Ming and others and some people on Tadarimus's side. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info was invisibly named the Duchy of Hyperion and the Duchy of Selene by Miracaisa's empress Miarne, while the names of the capital were chosen by Raman Lath and Tadarimus themselves, Helios and Pandia, respectively.

After the establishment of the principality, the Duchy of Selene was given by Empress Mia Linas to Tadarimus, who belonged to the royal family like Raman Las, which surprised Lu Ming and the Grand Dukes, after all, this is completely different from what was said before, and the Duchy left to Tadarimus is obviously one of the two archipelago found in the open sea by the Duchy of Lalaye, not Selene.

Lu Ming and Raman Rath heard that the Empress and the Regent had given a lot of benefits in order to appease the anger of the Wolf Pack Council. But after thinking about it carefully, it turned out that the benefits given by the empress and the regent were all separated from the power in the hands of those in the royal family who disobeyed the empress and the regent.

It is clear that the Empress and the Regent used it as a means to weaken the power of those people, not as an improvisation.

However, these things have nothing to do with Lu Ming and others, after all, whoever is a neighbor is the same for Lu Ming and others, and there is not much difference.

In the course of half a month, Filner and Mena took little Albert from the imperial capital of Oreno back to Odysseus, and from Odysseus to the newly established Duchy of Hyperion. Of course, at that time, the principality did not have a name.

After spending a few days with Filner and Mena, Lu Ming went to the plain of Ezertus with Lily on the third day after the empress's second envoy came to the new duchy and informed him of the empress's name for the new duchy.

On the one hand, this is because of Lily's affairs, and on the other hand, because the Plains of Ezertus is now on the border of the Duchy of Hyperion, and the fortress is now owned by the Duchy of Hyperion, so Lu Ming wants to help Raman Rath take over the fortress, so that the troops of the other principalities who are still in the fortress can return home with peace of mind.

It's just that what Lu Ming didn't expect was that on the way, their group actually met Count Los Ric, Tourres, and Oberik.

"I said, you three are also big nobles with heads and faces, why didn't you even bring an entourage and ran out single-handedly? Aren't you afraid of robbers? Riding on his own horse, Lu Ming asked the three of Losric, who didn't even bring an entourage, a little speechlessly.

"With your character, will you let the robbers appear in Humperion? I'm afraid that if you just show a little bit, you will be wiped out by the knights of Yugsotus! Touris gently tugged on the reins to make her horse go a little slower, and when she came to a place that was basically the same as Lu Ming, she smiled and joked about Lu Ming.

"......" Lu Ming glanced at Tourres a little depressed, and then asked Lothric and Oberik, who were also slowing down, "What did you come here for?" ā€

"Nothing, because Oberic has behaved fairly well in this war, so the Grand Duke of Hecate has some difficulties with how to reward her. As you know, she is not the eldest daughter, nor the second daughter, and the chances of being able to inherit the Grand Duke title are very low, and Styx's aristocracy is full again. That's why I thought I'd let her come to your Hyperion and see if I could get a piece of the viscounty. ā€

Hearing this, Lu Ming immediately couldn't help but complain: "Grand Duke Hecate is really big-hearted, isn't he afraid that Oberic will be bullied in us in Hyperion?" ā€

Oberik, who was on the side, said, "With you and Grand Duke Ramanlath Unos here, I won't be bullied!" ā€

"......" Lu Ming was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then smiled: "You are also big enough!" ā€

Because rushing together can be regarded as a response, Lu Ming asked the three of Lothric to join his group, so that the three of them would not have anything to do on the road alone. In any case, Hyperion was previously the territory of the Alpha Empire, and now it belongs to Mirakaisa, but who knows if there will be Elves who disagree with their Mirakaiza's rule?

It's better to be careful in everything, otherwise it will be too late when something happens.

In addition, he felt that the purpose of Lothric's visit to Hyperion was probably to go to the fire sacrifice ground. He must have been attracted by the fire sacrifice site like him and Lily, and came to have a look.

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In the evening, Lu Ming's army camped outside a small town.

In order not to make the elves in the town feel uneasy, Lu Ming and Lily chose to take a few knights to live in the town's mayor's house. This will let the elves in the town know that these people are not bad people, and they are not hostile to them.

This large area on this side of the Dragon's Back Mountains has been an underappreciated place under the rule of the Alpha Empire in the past, and compared to the rest of the Alpha Empire, it is completely a slum. Therefore, after the establishment of the new principality, Lu Ming and others have been frantically developing the economy to make the people of Humperion rich.

It's just that because Mirakaisa's law is very different from Aifa's law, many elven people have some very tangled resistance feelings. On the one hand, they are extremely eager to become rich, and on the other hand, they hope that these elves can oppress other races without breaking the law as they did in the past.

And many of the inhabitants of this town are such elves, and only the mayor himself knows that this kind of thinking is unrealistic. Unless the Alpha Empire regains this area, these elves will only be able to live with other races on an equal footing, otherwise they will easily violate the laws of the Mirakesar Kingdom. And the laws of the Mirakesar Kingdom will not only protect the people of their elves, so those elves who break the law will be punished very severely.

Therefore, when he knew that Lu Ming, the new earl and the husband of the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Hyperion, would live in the town and his own home, he immediately asked his daughter to inform the elves in the town who were strongly hostile to the Mirakesa, and they should not show their hostility to death, otherwise he would not be able to save them.

However, unlike the bad-tempered general he imagined, Lu was obviously more like an ordinary teacher with a good temper and liked children than a man who led the army. This made him calm down slightly, let down his vigilance, and let the two ill-intentioned elves get a chance to sneak into his house and force Lu Ming and Lily to the guest room where Lu Ming and Lily were located......

Lying on the bed, Lu Ming fell asleep with Lily in his arms. But suddenly, he heard the sound of the door being opened, and he couldn't help but wake up.

'Elven assassins?' What a bold man! Listening to the sound of the other party's breathing, which became a little short of breath due to nervousness, Lu Ming couldn't help sneering in his heart, and secretly cast a magic spell, laying an invisible barrier where he and Lily were, and casting a quicksand technique of the Zerg clan on the inside not far away.

After a while, he heard two exclamations. It was clear that this was the exclamation of the two stupid assassins after they had fallen into the quicksand.

Careful not to alarm Lily, Lu Ming slowly sat up, leaned on the head of the bed, and with a faint smile, watched the two unprofessional assassins who walked without even looking at their feet struggling in the quicksand of quicksand.

Seeing that Lu Ming had already sat up and was watching the jokes of the two of them, the two assassins didn't know that they were finished. Although he still wanted to fight and threw the weapon in his hand at Lu Ming, Lu Ming had already laid a barrier, so the weapons thrown by the two of them could not hurt Lu Ming and Lily at all.

So in the end, the two elven assassins had only one way left to commit suicide except to surrender. After all, they had all been deeply trapped in Lu Ming's quicksand technique, and they couldn't escape at all.

At this moment, Lily suddenly woke up. After sensing her surroundings slightly, she also sat up, put her arm around Lu Ming's hand, and asked, "Are these two assassins going to be killed?" ā€

Although the two elven assassins couldn't understand Lily's Mirakaiza, they instinctively felt that Lily didn't say anything nice.

Suddenly, Lu Ming said to them in the language of the elves: "According to the law, you assassinate me, the lord, but it is a capital crime!" What do you think I should do with you, a lord who has been assassinated by his people in my own realm? ā€

"What......!" Hearing that Lu Ming's mouth actually spoke the language of the Elves, the two elf assassins couldn't help but be taken aback.

But soon they reacted, and said with a look of being a soldier who could not be killed: "If you want to kill, you will kill, don't talk nonsense!" We, the elves of Alpha, will never give in to other races! ā€

"You are the elves of Alpha? Scold! Hearing the words of these two elven assassins, Lu Ming couldn't help but laugh and said, "Then, why did the elves on the other side of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range kill the elves who escaped from here?" ā€

Hearing this, the two assassins immediately shouted, "This is impossible! ā€

Because the voices of the two assassins were too loud, they alarmed Lu Ming's knights, and soon they and the mayor ran over.

Seeing that two assassins were caught by Lu Ming, the knights and the mayor were immediately shocked and wanted to plead guilty, but Lu Ming waved his hand and said that it was okay.

"If you think I'm lying, go see for yourselves. I'll open the border to the elves who want to go back to the Alpha Empire, and you two can join Alpha with them. But I'll say the ugly thing first, you elves who want to go back to Alpha, if you are killed by Alpha's elves, we Mirakaisa will not send troops to save you! Lu Ming hooked the corners of his mouth, showed a dangerous smile, and said to the two mayors of the town.

As soon as he heard this, the mayor knew that it was not good, because he knew that Lu Ming could not be targeted for no reason, so what Lu Ming said was likely to be true, the elves on Alpha's side were really slaughtering the elves who had escaped from the Duchy of Hyperion. But alas, the elves who don't know about it, or don't trust the Mirakesa, won't believe it. This is also what Lu Ming is happy to see, because Lu Ming's purpose in developing the border checkpoints is to use the Elves of Alpha to kill those disobedient elves who want to return to the Alpha Empire by their own hands, so as to purge the voices in the principality that oppose his rule with the Grand Duke! This is really bad news for the elves in the principality.

Because once the border level is developed, I don't know how many elves who don't know the truth will die! This poisonous plan, a poisonous plan to completely extinguish the voice of opposition!

After knowing that Lu Ming wanted to develop the border, the mayor suddenly aged a lot. He looked at the two assassins very sadly, sighed heavily, and then said to Lu Ming in a not very fluent Mirakaesa: "My lord, I hope you know what you are doing, please don't let the elves of Hyperion suffer heavy casualties. ā€

"My mayor, you should know that it's not up to me, it's up to them and the elves on Alpha's side. Isn't it? Lu Ming smiled slightly and said in Mira Kaisa as Mayor of the town.

This was inexplicable to both the knights and Lily, but it was especially harsh to the mayor's ears, as it represented a rejection.

To be honest, it's not that Lu Ming is ruthless, and he doesn't dare to let Hyperion have so many disobedient, disobedient, and even want to overthrow his rule with Raman Lass. They are hidden dangers, then they should be eliminated!

As for the elves who are willing to stay and are obedient, he and Raman Lass are very fond of them.

"You are the Count of Helios, everything is up to you......" The mayor of the town, who was rejected by Lu Ming, struggled twice before sighing. With that, he left. Because he knew that he was just the mayor of an inconspicuous town in all of Lu Ming's territory, and he had no power to influence the lord's thoughts, everything he could did had already been done, and all that was left was to persuade the other elves as much as possible not to be stupid enough to want to go to Alpha's side.

Looking at the back of the mayor leaving, Lu Ming was slightly silent for a moment, but soon he said to the two assassins in the language of the elves: "Tomorrow you can go to the border with us with other elves who want to return to the Alpha Empire, and from there you will return to the Alpha Empire." ā€

With that, Lu Ming lifted the magic, freed the two assassins from the shackles of quicksand, and asked his knight to let the two assassins leave safely and keep their mouths shut about the matter.

Although they didn't understand what Lu Ming meant, the knights still chose to follow Lu Ming's orders and let the two assassins go.

After everyone left and the knight helped close the door, Lily immediately fell on Lu Ming's body, exuding a dark aura while asking with a smile, "Honey, when did you learn Elven language?" Didn't you learn from Kate and Kemias? ā€

"Wife, don't scare me......" Feeling the terrifying aura emanating from Lily's body, Lu Ming couldn't help but be a little scared.

But Lily didn't care what he said at all, and directly pinched her hand on Lu Ming's neck......