Section 121
"'What I need is justice,' he said, and I felt like I saw a fool."
The necromancers brought the released scarred man back to the mansion, and everyone was laughing, only the scarred man was silent, repeatedly whispering the phrase "power means corruption, absolute power means absolute corruption, and the law is the weapon that restricts power".
"I have never seen such a city lord, those nobles only use the law to enrich themselves and commit atrocities." The female necromancer who looked like Peanuts had fallen into Annan's magic net, fantasizing, "Maybe it's true, he wants us to be farmers." β
"Let the necromancer farm?" A necromancer said indignantly.
"Why not? Skeletons are tireless and endless, moving with just a meager amount of magic. "Henry is still on Annan's side.
After all, that box of gold coins really exists.
"I thought we would have a great future!"
"Maybe...... Just temporarily......"
The necromancer stood beside the scarred man: "I'll go with you!" β
Then another necromancer stood on the opposite side, and in the end, only seven people, including Henry, did not moveβthe only two female necromancers remained.
This sense of disparity really can't be solved. Necromancers are shouted at by everyone, but they are still formidable spellcasters. There is no difference between letting the caster be a farmer and humiliating him as a mudblood.
Annan did not stop the necromancers from leaving, as half of them still chose to stay.
Annan was finally able to take the first step in the "magic revolution" he had imagined.
and the pressure on the druid's side.
The good news is that no druids have been found near Gem Bay, and the bad news is that Gem City will be known to the druids sooner or later; The second piece of good news is that Annan and the druids are getting along fairly well, and maybe they'll understand themselves. The second piece of bad news is that the druids in Middle-earth don't necessarily know the druids in the north.
Annan's response was to have the residents plant more trees in the east, and he also planted a few birch saplings with his own hands, and asked carpenters to make dozens of small tree houses and place them in the forest mountains infested by tree elves.
The necromancers bathed and changed into clean robes, but there were no lice. This is one of the few virtues of negative magic - necromancers will never be bitten by mosquitoes, at the cost of being always followed by crows.
Then a new problem emerged: a moral dilemma.
How to solve the necromancer's behavior of defiling the dead and disturbing the rest of the dead?
If you're unlucky, you might even be labeled as an evil territory.
However, the Tatunn Empire will not put too much pressure on them, after all, they regard bones as beauty, and they are still a "barbarian" empire in the mouth of the southern countries.
Annan once heard a saying: There are two most beautiful and exquisite things in the Tatoon Empire, one is Montreal Hill and the other is bones.
Let Lotie, who is the guard, call the necromancer and Dela, Eli Rubble, and the old orc, and Annan and the necromancer to start a discussion: what race of bones to use as skeleton farmers?
"I'll rule out humans first, Gem City's position must be neutral, and converting human corpses into skeletons will make Gem City people panic."
The Mad Dog of the North is at war, and it's easy to get the corpse...... But no one wants to be at peace after death.
The necromancers have some regrets, especially Henry, who thought about how to use skeletons to farm yesterday and for the night, and it would be greatly discounted if they were replaced by other races, after all, farming tools were invented by humans for themselves.
But after all, the necromancer sitting here is either good or orderly.
"Then we're going to ban spells that manipulate corpses, 'resurrect corpses,' and so on."
Fertilizing flesh-and-blood corpses while they work sounds good...... But it's so chaotic and evil that the devil has to say that hell is empty when he sees it.
Gem City is not short of this fertilizer.
Still all agreed, because no necromancer wanted to be around rancid all day.
Annan continued: "Next we have to choose between orcs, elves, dwarves, and ratmen. β
Ellie Gravel says that dwarves go crazy when they see the corpses of their kind being toyed with, and elves guess the same goes for them.
Suspicious, Annan asked the elven mentor with the leaves of the World Tree in Dela's eyes: "What if there is a necromancer who turns a dead elf into an undead...... What will happen to you? β
"Never die."
"That'...... What if it's your best friend? β
"Did you do that?"
"Just curious......"
"A hundred years ago, a fallen elf did this to the corpse of an elven elder in the Holy Land, and he and his clan were later expelled from the High Elves."
"Okay...... Are you still in the imperial capital? β
"We're ready to leave in three days."
"Stay safe on the road."
Putting away the leaves of the World Tree, Annan shook his head: "Let's exclude orcs, elves, and dwarves. β
"Orcs don't." The old orc spoke.
After all, even the orcs themselves are collecting the bones and heads of the orcs.
But Annan still ruled out the orcs. Manipulated skeletons usually inherit some of their abilities, and orc skeletons can axe a human soldier with one axe, but farming and harvesting are not their strong points.
So what race has a natural rickety back and is not criticized for becoming a skeleton?
Annan asked Erie Gravel to make a trip: "Tell the merchant ship that the future trade with Count Ulmit will add a purchase of nezumi bones." β
Nezumi skeletons, even the druids can't say anything.
The necromancers buried all the rotten bones they had brought with them in the graveyard of Gem City, and Annan gathered all the inhabitants to announce the decision of the skeleton farmers to give them a cushion in advance.
Still, the inhabitants protested: they shouted why they weren't turned into skeletons, stupid the necromancer and the new residents.
Annan had no choice but to get the residents to voluntarily apply to become skeleton farmers after death, but only for one year, and when the time came, they had to be forcibly sent to the cemetery for rest.
In this way, the residents who came from Xingyue Bay were satisfied.
Gem City is getting back on track, and Ingrid suggests that Annan should learn how to be a good city lord.
What does a real city lord look like?
Annan pondered and meditated, and first thought of the beautiful maids and the hordes of noblewomen.
It must be admitted that a city lord like Annan, who had only one servant in the house and never went in and out of the noblewoman's manor at night, was simply an ascetic among the nobility.
Then there is the chaos of private life. It's normal for some big people to wake up early in the morning and lie in bed with the wife of a nobleman, and the private life of the nobles is like a family tree of the rat people...... As long as Annan releases the news, those ladies who are eager to eat him alive may make the tourism industry in Gem City boil in an instant.
(End of chapter)