In the end, La Niña traded her personal dominance for the right to live.

As her replacement, the pythons were rewarded by Vincent's prey, and they all dispersed happily.

The next work was to build the well and build the abutment, which could have been done without the guidance of Vincent.

The villagers are actually not disgusted by the possibility of a magic python in the water veins below, because the powerful monsters that can't climb the wall of the well give people an inexplicable sense of security, and it can also prove that there is no poison in the water.

The lord said it very simply, just think of them as the guardians of the well.

If you get along, you will get the help of these monsters when digging wells in the future, which is definitely worth the money.

The lord spent a day and a night digging a well for the village, and the villagers were also grateful to Dade for this.

"If you want to get rich, you must rely on hard work and technology, and believing in a cult will only harm others and yourself." Vincent told the newly appointed village chief, "In addition to my law enforcement representative in the village, you will also be supervised by the well keepers."

The enforcement of the law by resentful spirits is already a major feature of the lord's governance of the grassroots, and now there are more living monsters in the village to take care of the wells, and the remaining less than a hundred villagers naturally understand the stakes.

If you don't listen to the lord's orders, this time it will not be a few deaths, but the cruel result of the complete destruction of the village's water source.

In addition, Vincent told the villagers that if they wanted to learn the art of drilling wells, or buy better and more abundant equipment for drilling wells, they should go to the workshop of Silver Dragon Fort as a loyal citizen.

If you think it's a long way to the south, you can also entrust merchants to buy goods.

This meant that the villagers also had a responsibility to keep the trade routes open, to receive the merchants who came and went, and to attract them with trade and services.

The requirement to defend trade routes is not at all too much for the villagers of Lange Village, and it cannot even be called a burden.

In the past, due to the lack of water, there was not much food produced in the local area, and even the tax collectors lost interest, and left the village to fend for itself, without food, there was not much exchange, and Luke's caravan did not bother to come.

"If you collude with the cult and mercenaries again, the next time the army comes, everyone will have to hang it on the tree." Vincent always switches between carrots and sticks, warning the villagers to be self-aware, "I will use the loot to deduct your taxes this year, but they will still be collected next year."

No tax is levied, which means that there is no protection, and the villagers have understood the strength and benevolence of the lord, so they will naturally stop doing stupid things.

Since the village is so poor, there is not enough people, especially men, and it takes labor to farm, and it is a bit difficult to make them a militia - not everyone is as easy to fiddle with as Ninia.

There was no choice, so Vincent had no choice but to waste it and let the necromancer convert a group of dead mercenaries into skeleton soldiers as the basic combat power to defend the village.

If anyone comes here and sees the armed skeleton soldiers, they will naturally understand whose territory this is.

Soldiers who do not eat food, do not receive military salaries, and do not disturb the people are not a burden to the villagers.

However, Vincent is not very willing to deploy skeleton soldiers everywhere, on the one hand, these undead creatures do make a bad impression on many people, and on the other hand, in the face of powerful enemies, especially magicians who use divine magic, skeleton soldiers are really not enough. ….

Although this is a village with little economic value, and the loss is not small, it is not a loss to let La Nina, who thinks she is smart, completely jump into the pit.

In the final analysis, the greatest effect on his counterinsurgency along the way was neither the good fighting of the army nor his own benevolence, but the incompetence of his predecessors and the cruelty of the local magnates.

It can be said that the excellence of the new lord is mainly supported by his peers.

It is a pity that some tax collectors, landlords, and village chiefs fled after hearing the news, and did not give Vincent a chance to try at all.

Many of them went straight north to Runhilod, and they didn't plan to come back at all.

There is no way, Vincent still has to continue to quell the rebellion and advance towards the target Sweetwater Village.

Leaving the village of Gran, Vincent set out at night, and under the cover of night, he marched in the same way, allowing the army to move on to the next village.

During the day, Harpy had already sent a letter of surrender, but the village had never raised the banner of surrender.

Then you can only attack.

The march went so smoothly that Vincent gave a bold order to let Ninia lead the attack on her own.

What he didn't expect was that this time Ninia was very calm after hearing the order, and she didn't look worried or nervous - it seems that a few small battles have given her a lot of confidence.

Of course, Vincent could not have been so reassuring to the sixteen-year-old girl, and he asked Sadaka to lead another force to attack simultaneously from the road on the other side of the village.

"Whoever strikes first will be the first," Vincent said to the two, "I have a special reward."

Judging from his usual performance, Sadaka is a calm and responsible commander, and his long-term slave life has made him peaceful and tenacious, and he will calmly accept any order in the face of it, and then complete it in the way he can think of.

If he thinks it is reasonable, he may approach the village without the army and behead important people, especially if there are cultists in the village.

Compared to the combat master Sadaka, Ninia is actually more victorious, and she is more flexible in her thinking and learning ability.

In the night, Ninia, who had had had enough rest in the afternoon, led the army towards the quiet village.

If only the skeletons were muscular people, these hard-working monsters have nothing else wrong with them, except that they walk relatively loudly, and the weapons and armor are even more acoustic.

Ninia, who had no way to change the situation, led a hundred skeleton soldiers from the soft fields to the village.

It is inevitable to step on the crops, but this will keep the troops hidden, and the sound under their feet is too low.

Anyway, the lord doesn't play any routines such as "horses stepping on green seedlings and cutting hair as the head", and gives his subordinates enough autonomous command.

Ninia, who is like an arrow, doesn't want to waste time, and if she solves the villages along the way as soon as possible, she can return to her hometown as soon as possible and liberate her hometown, which lacks water and food, from the hands of the cult.

When the time comes, even if you go to ask the master, you have to find a way to live for the village.

The lord has been much gentler towards himself recently, and although he has nothing to impress him, as his first Terran subordinate, Ninia still has a little confidence to let the lord save the village.

I don't know what he will invent for his hometown, but his hometown has nothing to praise except for its proximity to the border.

There are only three days left, and there are few villages in between.

The village in front of me is called Vinci Village, and it is pitch black from a distance, except for the sparse torches on the courtyard wall swaying in the summer breeze.

"It's up to you this time." Ninia smirked to the mage behind her, "Blow the door open for me, and tonight's battle will be settled."

La Nina, who was full of reluctance but did not dare to disobey Ninia's orders, looked at this rampant little village girl, clenched the magic wand tied with a strap in the middle, and reluctantly began to chant the fireball spell.

"Remember to put out the fire in a moment." Ninia added, "Keep your master's village."

La Nina, who had never been ordered by an inferior person, gritted her teeth, her hands trembled a little, and she almost recited the spell mischanted.

A bright fireball flew out of the half-man-tall field of crops and smashed into the open wooden door.

After the explosion, only a frame with flames was left at the gate.

"Rush! Rush in all at once!"

Ninia jumped out of the field with her own soldiers, and rushed towards the village gate as fast as she could.

Xiao Diankang