Murphy was very chicken thief to make a point pool for this mission to exterminate the gnolls, and he wanted to try to use this "more work, more reward" model to see if he could better motivate players and increase the participation of all players by setting a common goal.

If this method works, the Vampire Lord will have another "weapon" in his hands that can be used by him.

However, the number of players is still too small at the moment, even if the 140 men on his hand kill 20 gnolls a day each, and only kill nearly 3,000 a day, but it is absolutely unknown how many gnolls bandits and their kobold minions are in the land of Translasia.

According to Tracy, since the Fourth Black Plague 110 years ago, Transcia has been in a state of "more monsters than people".

The reason why the gnolls and bandits have not been able to occupy this place is because they have the habits of beasts and are very willing to fight, and on the other hand, it is precisely because of the blood vulture family that the gnolls dare not make a mistake.

But now, the Blood Vulture family is gone, and the cunning gnolls have witnessed the destruction of Cadman City, which is enough to make these barbarians riot.

When the witch hunters moved to Murphy's territory before, they found that the gnolls on the other side of the Under Mar Hills had begun to gather and move abnormally, and there was only one possibility for the wild bandits to merge so quickly in the gnoll race!

That is, a "warlord" was born from among them.

In the past, once there was a sign of the birth of a warlord, the Blood Vulture Clan would immediately send Midnight Hunters to clean up the scourge, but Murphy didn't have that many resources for this kind of "precision decapitation" on his hands now.

According to his prediction, it may not take half a month for the gnolls on the other side of the Elderma Hills to gather into a real army and march towards the Crimson Keep, and he must be prepared for this before it happens.

"You've just completed your investigation of the Trancy Gnoll Gang stronghold, and it's been a fruitful job to prove that you're quickly assimibling into our new system, but things have changed subtly.

I need the Adventurers' Guild to send another elite Ranger into the Under Armour Hills to scout the rapidly expanding bandits. ”

In the office, Murphy crossed his chin and said to Natalie, the leader of the Adventurer's Guild who was called in front of him:

"I need a detailed report on the suspected rising warlords in that land.

As you can see, President Natalie, my warriors have begun clearing the gnolls of Cadman's county today, and the Under Armour Hills are our next target, and I need the witch hunters to gather enough intel before the operation begins. ”

"There is no problem at all with gathering intelligence, and this is our duty."

Natalie nodded and said:

"But your warriors are too few to scatter them all, and with the sheer size of Cadman's county with so many villages and complex terrain, it could take them more than two months to clean up."

"I bet they'll do it in 20 days!"

Murphy said confidently.

"Impossible!"

Natalie immediately retorted:

"Even if they're otherworldly spirits and have the help of the Cadman People's Army under their command, they can't do it! They are human beings, and there are always limits to human beings."

"People have limits, but players don't."

Murphy said in Mandarin.

Natalie looked at him suspiciously, and the lord didn't bother to explain, he said to Natalie:

"I'm not asking them to kill every gnoll they see, they just need to destroy the organization of these barbarians and reduce their numbers to an acceptable level, but that's not something I'm going to discuss with you.

The second important thing I have summoned you to is the focus.

The scattered villages in our territory are about to be relocated around Crimson City, and in a week at most they will come over to set up the first collective farms, and my administrative team is already working overtime to prepare.

But there is another area that they can't touch.

Faith!

There will be resentment in the hearts of the relocated people, which is triggered by the fear of the change of familiar life, and I hope that they can settle down and build a new home sooner, which is indispensable for the support and comfort of faith.

Therefore, I need the Avalon church to send priests to settle in five kibbutz!

You have to build churches in nature churches to appease the populace, and you also have to use your sense of natural psionic energy and manipulation of fertile land to prepare for spring planting in the coming year, which is what the druids are good at.

You are not druids, but I believe you understand the mysteries. ”

"But we don't have priests, not even missionaries."

Natalie had a headache and said:

"Now that there are only two nuns and grandmothers in the church, Jules and Marianne, we have no time to train a new church presiding officer."

"Does this still need to be cultivated?"

Murphy asked in surprise and confusion:

"You have 1,000 of your compatriots in the village of Morland, all of whom are devout people who have survived ten years of war and have not changed their faith in Avalon, so don't you just pull a few out and put on the robes of nature and become Father Avalon?

Don't tell me that you, as sincere witch hunters, are not as skilled as ordinary people in the scriptures of the Church of Nature?

If that's the case, then you're a heretic. ”

"How can this be the same!"

Natalie glared at the open-mouthed Murphy, and wanted to reprimand him for his disrespectful tone to the gods, but after thinking about it, he was a vampire, and this aspect was indeed a "racial disadvantage".

So, the leader of the Adventurer's Guild changed his tone of explanation and said:

"In the Old Religion system, witch hunters were warriors, and although we also studied the scriptures and the teachings of the gods, we were far less than preachers like Jules and Mama Jules. We are the sword of Avalon, but his proverbs are preached by those who are skilled in it. ”

"But I didn't ask you to go and debate with the priests of the Winter Wolf Church, did I?"

Murphy spread his hands and said quite frankly:

"I just need you to use religious rituals to calm my people and soothe their barren and longing hearts, and I don't need the priests you send to be of high quality. To put it mildly, I was satisfied that they could teach the people to recite the sutra and hold a natural service in the church every Sunday. ”

"You!"

Natalie was really angry now, she stood up and slapped the table and scolded:

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe in the gods, this kind of behavior of using the sacred faith as a naked instrument of domination is enough! If this had been done before, your words alone would have been enough for the Grey Knight to take you back and burn you at the stake.

Murphy!

I know you're an unbeliever vampire, but you can't be so contemptuous of the gods"

"But isn't faith a tool in the hands of rulers?"

Murphy wasn't angry.

He just calmly asked:

"How naïve you are after ten years of suffering because of your commitment to your faith? What the old religion has been through still hasn't made you realize that the power of the church and the kingship are more important, you don't really think that the church of Avalon was completely banned by the Plantagenet Kingdom just because you started that rebellion, right?

Let me tell you, Natalie, as an individual I want to honor your faith and protect your right to choose your faith, but I am a lord!

My reign will always precede my faith, and you are now part of this system of dominion.

You have to understand that too!

If you have to put your faith above the safety of my realm, the new church of Avalon may soon suffer again what happened to the old religion.

You're not convinced, are you?

All right.

Ask your gods now. ”

Murphy waved his hand and said:

"Speak my blasphemous words to your gods, and see if Avalon will ask you to punish me as a blasphemer with a holy blade, or if you will obey my commands.

I think you are God's shepherds on earth.

It is your duty to enlarge the flock of the gods, not to artificially create confusion and strife among the flock, much less to raise the entire pasture and release the sheep into a dangerous wilderness.

You are truly the most unqualified shepherds I have ever met.

Go ahead and ask.

Go to that little sanctum sanctuary and ask your deity.

But I'm going to get an answer tomorrow morning, Natalie, whether you like it or not, you're going to have to give me an answer tomorrow morning!

If you're not willing to fulfill your duties as the current titular head of the Church of Avalon, then don't blame me for bypassing you to recruit new Nature Priests among my warriors, but to be honest, I can't imagine how those guys will interpret Avalon's teachings. ”

"There's more to what you want."

Natalie took a deep breath, she stood up, looked at Murphy, and said:

"You want to meddle in our church reorganization, I should have thought that you want to use your way to form a new Avalonian church that will serve your regime. Avalon, you're the most dangerous vampire I've ever seen.

How dare you put your hand on the plate of the gods? ”

"Wouldn't you be surprised if I told you that I spoke to your god Avalon?"

Murphy stood up, poured himself a glass of wine with a drop of blood on his back to Natalie, and said softly without looking back:

"Your gods have acquiesced to what I did, your gods know better than you what His followers need, it's not me who is at fault, Natalie, you should change your minds.

Transencia will be different, and you will learn to embrace change, and that will be the best thing I can bring to the world, and you can see with your own eyes, and that is what your father wants me to teach you.

He wants you to be an outstanding leader!

It's a pity that until now you've been content to be a great warrior, and alas, your silver trial is almost over, right? But I don't think what you need right now is power.

It's okay to talk to my Crimson Archon, learn history from Professor Malcolm and draw the wisdom you need from it.

If you want to be Avalon's most prominent shepherd, you have a lot more to learn in the art of management. ”

Murphy turned and raised the drink in his hand to Natalie, who nodded goodbye with a frosty look on her face and turned away without saying a word.

"She's grown a lot."

Tracey's voice rang out from the shadows in the corner of the office, with a hint of teasing, and said:

"If it was the reckless woman before, the moment your rebuke touched the faith, her sword was drawn. You've got to give her a little time, little Murphy. She's gifted and she can learn. But you said you talked to Avalon?

It's true? ”

"Really."

Murphy shrugged his shoulders, took a sip of his wine, and said:

"Avalon compliments me on being handsome."

"Shh

Tempest was shocked by Murphy's shamelessness, and said:

"The 'Rat King's Doom' psionic gathering stone is ready, but you'll need to readjust the way this thing works if you want to add 'Hidden Drops' to it."

"Don't be so troublesome, just make it a hidden token, the name is 'Rat King's Aftersound', and the drop chance is set to 0.3%."

Murphy responded:

"Connect another triggered quest and let the lucky one who hits the hidden token take it to the Blood Rat Gang and exchange it for the blueprint of Dorothy the Razor for the Scythe of the Soul. That thing is a forging + alchemy item, right?

It just so happens that your alchemy hut can also scrape a lot of oil and water from it. ”

“.”

Tracey was a little confused by Murphy's series of answers, and then she complained:

"If your little players knew that you were going to squeeze them to the extreme at every turn, they would definitely draw their knives and cut you."

"But my cute little players don't know all this, so they just praise me for being a generous and handsome lord, and they're having fun along the way, especially when they get the Hidden Token and learn that they can get a Hidden Weapon.

Trust me, every little player who goes through all this will be cheering for their 'red hand'.

At least one night will be immersed in the satisfaction of one's luck. ”

Murphy held the glass in front of his eyes and watched the halo of light float in it.

He grinned and whispered:

This happiness, satisfaction, and sense of accomplishment is what I give them in return. Everyone just takes what they need, not to squeeze or exploit, Trace, you have to really understand this to better integrate into them.

Speaking of which, the pearl bracelet you got from Zweig earlier, did your reverse tracing get any results? ”

"Not yet, the other party is hiding very deeply."

Tracey replied in a light tone:

"Leave this matter to me, you have too much to do, you don't care, I'll take care of it."

"Well, if you really don't want me to interfere"

Murphy lowered his head and said:

"Tris, you won't hide anything from me, will you?"

"No, don't think about it."

——

"Bang"

The speeding arrow pulled out a red light in the darkness, and it crossed a distance of more than ten meters to accurately shatter the head of a gnoll beast trainer.

The latter's eyes were pierced open, but he still didn't die immediately.

This guy has a humanoid shape, 7 and a half feet tall, weighs about 300 pounds, but is covered in spotted mane all over the body, and has flexible claws that can hold a variety of weapons, and has a fierce hyena head, which can easily shred an average adult in close combat, and if they happen to have a heavy weapon like the Gnoll's favorite flail or meteor hammer, then the battle scene will turn into a hammer meat fight.

As such, no sane creature would want to engage in melee combat with elite gnolls, unless they are very confident in their skills before attempting this death challenge.

Before, young players thought it was easier to deal with gnolls than they were to deal with ghouls, but today's experience was enough to tell them that it was as difficult to take elite gnolls through the black iron trials as it was to challenge a stinky ghoul in the sewers.

However, the good news is that gnolls are living beings, they can be painful and frightened, and they can be weakened if they are injured, so the "remote one-knife stream" invented by Xiao Wei Ming is very effective for them.

The common characteristics of these barbarians are sharp teeth and wagging tails, they walk upright faster than ordinary people run, they exude the smell of wild beasts all over their bodies, and they often have cowardly but a large number of kobolds as slaves to dig comfortable nests for them to live in.

They also tame animals.

The hyenas domesticated by the jackals possess the same supernatural powers as them.

These beasts are loyal and savage, and it is said that a litter of small hyenas can hunt on their own in just half a month, which is obviously not in line with the situation of a naturally born life, but considering that this is a magical world, it is somewhat unnecessary to seek the laws of nature here.

"Poof"

A second arrow with a scarlet glimmer shot out of the darkness again, piercing through the other eye of the gnoll who was screaming to get up, and the dark psionic energy on the arrow attached itself to its skull, creating a faint implosion.

The heavy blow of the supernatural energy finally crushed it completely, causing it to fall to the ground.

It could smell the stench of vampires emerging from the darkness, and the meow shark in the student party put away the vampire hunting crossbow in his hand, and pulled out the family guard halberd behind it with his backhand and poked it fiercely, sending the black iron beast tamer who was cornered to death.

The jumping number +5 on his character interface has reached 15 points, but he can't even enter the top 30 in the points pool of the Gnoll Hunt that has already begun, and the current number one Pomegranate Sister has reached an astonishing 44 points!

Cat's 41 points followed.

"Alas, professionals are different."

The meow shark sighed.

He is also the first echelon among the players, and his equipment skills are not bad, and he has also transferred to Midnight Hunter to learn advanced skills that can add extra psionic damage to his arrows, but the gap between people and people is really too big.

He crouched down and pulled out his hunting knife and removed the gnolls' teeth, claw blades, and tail mane, all of which could be collected and exchanged for usable low-level potions in the Alchemy Hut.

But just as the catfish shark got up to leave, he suddenly heard a strange cry.

It was like the scream of some kind of young beast, which immediately intrigued the meow shark, and he explored the smelly den, and after a few minutes, the creature came out with a litter of four young hyenas that had just opened their eyes.

Hey, I used to envy the poor manticore lion who touched you, and now I have a small pet in the blink of an eye.

As a beast tamer of the Midnight Hunter Branch, it is indeed time to practice your professional skills from now on, but you want to become a midnight Elvis Presley man in the future! Let's start with the bloodthirsty hyena.

It's ugly, it's a little ugly, but it's not a big problem, but how to raise this thing back still has to consult a professional.

"The little rich brother seems to have hired a beast breeder to help him take care of the manticore, that guy is called belly, well, I'll ask him later."

The catshark hugged the chirping hyena cubs, and as he walked, he thought to himself:

"The players in this game are all talents.,Almost all walks of life have.,I know it's a game.,I don't know and think I'm doing some weird social experiment.,Anyway,Could it really be like the gossip circulating on the forum.,This is a hell-of-the-hell experiment made by aliens?

Hey~ It's so infiltrating, I don't want to, I'm going to kill a few more jackals and call it a day today. ”

(End of chapter)