"Xiao Dai, Lao Pu, let's go back to the hotel now, you go and gather all the fighters, let everyone have a good rest these days, and go to fight with me in three days!" After I came out of the palace, I shouted to Xiao Dai and Lao Pu, who were waiting outside the palace, Isn't Nima just a duke, come here, Lao Tzu is still afraid that you won't succeed?

Here's the thing, after I followed the palace attendants into the palace today, I went directly to the outside of the council hall in the palace and waited for the emperor's summons. As I waited, I looked around, and the whole palace felt like one word - big! Much larger than the Imperial Capital Academy, the building gives people a sense of grandeur. At the four corners of the palace stand four tall towers, the tops of which emit a bright magical light.

I waited outside for about half an hour, and the palace attendant who had just left appeared in front of me again and led me towards the council hall. As soon as I entered the council hall, the officials and nobles inside looked at me with strange eyes, sympathy, pity, and schadenfreude, and I became uncomfortable. I walked straight to the center of the chamber as the chamberlain had said, knelt on one knee, and said loudly to the emperor who was sitting on the throne in the hall, "Pioneer Li Jun joins Your Majesty. ”

"Good, good, hahaha." The Emperor, who was sitting on the throne, stood up from his seat, laughed and said, "It's been a long time since the empire has been able to open up new territories, and you've done a good job!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment." I said you're almost done, why don't you get me up quickly, how long are you going to make me kneel?

"Alright, you get up first." The Emperor walked up to me, looked at me with satisfaction for a moment, then put his hand on my chest, and the expression on his face slowly became serious: "I! The thirteenth emperor of the Empire of Light, Bob Orpheus, hereby canonized the pioneer Li Jun as the Earl of the Empire, the lord of the territory he has opened up, hereditary replacement! "Ahhh I'm getting goosebumps!

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Well, it's finally time to build a city, and the only question that comes with that is! Nima, I haven't found a merchant who can supply the stone needed to build the city wall, which is a bit embarrassing, there is no stone to build a fart city wall!

Just when I had just finished accepting the canonization and was still thinking about the stone problem, an old man wearing the duke's badge on his chest stood up and said loudly on the spot: "Your Majesty, I want to apply for a territorial gambling battle with the new Earl Li Jun." "Territorial gambling battles are often carried out among the old nobles of the Bright Empire, and using the territory they hold as bargaining chips to compete is also a means used by the old nobles to suppress the new nobles. The loser in a territory gamble must give away everything in the territory to the winner, including all the lords and warriors, but the person applying for the gamble must offer a territory worth more than three times the value of the fighter's territory as a bargaining chip. Of course, the gambler can refuse, but if he refuses, he will be looked down upon by the nobles of the empire and will no longer be able to integrate into that circle.

Who is this old man, I don't know him. Anne had mentioned it to me about the territorial gambling fight, but I didn't take it to heart, because I didn't offend anyone in the imperial capital, so there shouldn't be anyone who couldn't get along with me as a new lord. I now understand why the nobles looked at me that way when I came in, and it seems that they already knew that this old man was going to gamble with me.

"Oh? Duke Feeney wants to engage in a territorial gamble with the new Earl Li Jun? After hearing Duke Finney's application, the emperor seemed to have expected it, and did not show a look of surprise, and asked Duke Finney with interest: "Which territory does Duke Finney plan to take out to gamble?" In the report, it was said that there were many alchemy creatures in Earl Li Jun's territory, as well as stone giants seven or eight meters high, as well as many forest races and some orcs, which were not low. ”

"Weichen also has a territory in the Southern Plains, which is located near Sanka Town, and there is a quarry in the territory, I think Count Li Jun should have a great demand for stone now, right?" Duke Feeney said confidently: "Moreover, there are five villages in the territory, with more than 2,000 people, including 500 guards defending the territory, and the total value is about four times that of Earl Li Jun's territory. "Nima is very nice, but the good thing about your territory is near Sanka Town, and the bad thing is that it is located on the edge of the Monster Forest, and it must be attacked by Demonic Beasts often, right? It can be seen from the fact that there are only more than 2,000 people in the five villages, and more than 500 guards are needed to defend it, and a quarry is worth a little money, but it is estimated that only I need to use stone to build a city near the southern plains of the empire, and it is estimated that the quarry has been abandoned for a long time now, right? This is about four times the value of my territory, is it really a fool?

"What do you think, Count Li Jun?" When the king had heard the words of Duke Finney, he turned to me and asked.

"I refuse." If I promise me, I'll be taken for a fool, okay, the system soldiers in my territory alone are worth more than that broken territory, not to mention the various buildings. "The value of Duke Finney's domain is too low to meet the requirements."

"Then I'll add another 100,000 gold coins." Duke Feeney seemed to have anticipated my refusal, and spoke up as soon as I refused. The Emperor looked at us with a playful expression, and the expression on his face made it difficult to understand what was going on in his mind.

"I refuse, at least 500,000 gold coins." I directly doubled the price fivefold, just counting the system warriors are worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, not to mention those farms and other buildings that can produce 600,000 catties of grain per month, I reported 500,000 gold coins is already considered a small amount.

"Okay, I promise you." When Duke Finney heard my offer, he agreed cleanly: "I will pay another 500,000 gold coins to fight you." "Nyima is really here, it's too late for me to regret it now. I saw Duke Feeney say to me with a smug face: "Since you have agreed, Count Li Jun, then let's talk about the rules of gambling." Territory battles are divided into three matches, which are one-on-one heads-up for the strongest warriors, 10 against 10 team battles and 100 against 100 clan battles, even if they lose the first two battles, as long as they can win the third battle, the winner can ask for an extra match, and the way of the extra game is determined by the winner of the first two games. The time of the gambling fight was set for three days later, and the venue was the Royal Arena in the imperial capital. "Nima set the time for three days, and didn't even give me time to transfer troops from the base, right?

That's why I told Xiao Dai and Lao Pu that I was going to fight with someone in three days. In the first one-on-one game, I can let Xiao Dai put it on, Xiao Dai just reached the ninth level a few days ago, although he has not yet comprehended the ultimate skill True Dragon form, but he is already strong enough. As for the ten-on-ten team battle, I'll just hehe, when the time comes, I'll let you see the teamwork of Dota Heroes, and if I don't beat Duke Feeney's team to the point that my mother doesn't know me, even if I lose! But I only have six heroes around me now, and I'll have to ask Lao Yi to pull four more heroes over when I go back. As for the hundred-on-hundred-legion battle, the soldiers of Warcraft have not fooled anyone up to now!

After coming out of the palace, the nobles who had flattered me before could not be seen now, and it seemed that they had also received the news that Duke Finney would gamble with me on the territory, but no one came to remind me, as if they had decided that I would definitely lose. It wasn't until I got back to the hotel that Anne came to tell me that Lemit was sitting in the hotel hall early in the morning, waiting for me, as if she had something to tell me, but because I was at the back door, she couldn't see me. Well, Lemmette came here so early to warn me of what was going to happen in the council chamber today, but I just happened to miss it, and it seems that someone is still optimistic about me.

I smiled and invited Lemit to my hotel room and talked with him from morning to afternoon, and finally Lemit walked out of my room with a smile on his face. Now it's time for me to decide who will fight the team in three days. In addition to Xiao Dai, Lao Yi, Lao Pu, Trixis, Lina and Lai Lai, who are now by my side, after two months of missions, Lena and Lai have also been promoted to level three or above, and with two skills, four heroes are needed. Paladin Chen should let him stay at the base, it's useless for him to come over, his three demonic beasts can't come with him. Luna could have asked Lao Yi to pull her over, and I chose Riki among the two assassins, Rikumaru and Rikimaru, Rikimaru's smoke bombs can play a big role in team battles, or you can flash behind the mage to stab the mage's chrysanthemum. The remaining two can only be Lao Chen and Carl, and I don't know what the two of them did in Mouksha City, and now that the level has been upgraded to lv6 and lv5 respectively, Carl now has five skills to use. As for Moxa's taverns and shops, I'll leave them in charge for a while with the infantry and Judy I left there.

When I had decided on my candidates, Anne and Dale walked in from outside, looked at me worriedly, and said, "Honey, are you sure you will win this time?" "I can't help but worry about Annie, now our foundation is in the base of the Monster Forest, if we lose this territory bet, we will have no place to stay.

"Don't worry." I took Anne and Dale with both hands and comforted: "We can definitely win, and it is three wins in a row, and after winning this bet, I will launch another bet against that Duke Finney, this time I want his territory in the middle of the Southern Plains, see if he dares to take it!" ”