After seeing off Macfarlane, Dick immediately summoned Fernando and Clender, as well as all the nobles and merchant representatives in the city. A group of people gathered in the living room of the City Lord's Mansion.

Dick's first order after taking office was: "The army of the city of Orel shall be doubled." The treasurer, Lord Fernando, immediately made a mistake and stood out from the crowd: "But Lord Castle, our taxes do not allow us to raise such a large army. ”

"Then the taxes in my fiefdom will also be doubled. ”

"Lord Dick!" it was Clund who spoke this time, and he stared into Dick's eyes, "If you do this, the nobles will be fine, but the common people will have no way to live!

"Clende, you are bold, you dare to speak to an adult like that!" Fernando immediately jumped out and reprimanded.

"My lord, I want you to think carefully about the consequences of doing so. Squeezing the words out between his teeth, Crald sat back in his seat.

"I have made up my mind, thank you Lord Clond for the reminder. Dick still smiled, "Okay, if it's all right, let's leave." ”

Seeing that everyone got up and left, Dick suddenly added: "Crald, you stay, I still have something to say to you." ”

The crowd around Clond immediately smiled gloatingly, for a long time, they had seen that Clond was not pleasing to the eye, who did this guy think he was? A poor boy from a civilian background could be mixed into such a position as a sheriff, then he should be content. But this guy is still a maverick and disdains to associate with himself and others, and now he has rebelled against the will of the city lord and is left by the city lord to teach him a lesson, which he really deserves. Don't you have the ability to put on such a posture in front of the lord of the city, and see if you can still sit in the position of sheriff and commander of the army!

The rest of the people all took their leave, leaving only Dick and Crand and Hawke, the dragon knight, who stood behind Dick all along, in the large living room.

Dick spoke first, "You may be seated, Your Excellency the Sheriff. ”

"What do you want to say to your subordinates, please be blunt. Clond said in the same stiff tone.

"Well," Dick laughed, "are you unhappy with my decision?"

"The subordinates don't dare. Clond's eyes looked around, but he didn't look at Dick.

Dick said lightly: "Crald, do you know what the newly recruited army is for?"

"My subordinates don't know. ”

"What I'm going to form is a cavalry legion, and their mission is to patrol my territory to fight against the demon clan who have entered and raided. ”

Hearing this, Crand's eyes lit up, and his gaze finally turned to Dick, "Your Excellency...... You said...... Is it true?"

Dick smiled and nodded. "But I don't know who should form and command this cavalry regiment, what should I do?"

"Your Excellency!" Clender took a deep breath, then knelt down on one knee and knelt in front of Dick, "My subordinates implore my lord to let my subordinates take this position, and my subordinates will definitely train an iron-blooded cavalry army for my lords!"

Dick smiled slightly, "Get up, if it weren't for the task of granting you this task, I would have asked you to stay?"

"Thank you, sir!" said Clender, standing up, but suddenly, "but even so, twice the tax is too harsh for the civilians outside the city."

"Those civilians have suffered from the raids of the Demon Clan, as long as you explain to them that the extra taxes are used to defend against the Demon Clan, and bring them enough good fortune, I believe they will not mind tightening their belts for a while. ”

"And ......" Dick stood up, pointed to the inner city wall that lay across the city outside the window, and said, "You are also responsible for finding someone to tear down the inner city wall, and the stone will be used to strengthen the outer city wall, and at the same time inform those nobles and rich people that if you don't want to be destroyed and plundered by the demon clan, you can provide us with more military expenses!"

"Now because of the military spending, we are only doubling the size of the army, and when the common people are prosperous in the future, we can also collect more taxes and recruit more troops to defend against foreign races. ”

The more Dick spoke, the brighter Klende's eyes became, and he even trembled slightly with excitement when he reached Zuihou, "Do you have a name for this cavalry legion?"

This stopped Dick, and he paced back and forth in the living room for two steps, and finally came up with a name in his mind: "Let's call it 'Knights of the Demon Hunters.'" ”

In the dead of night, the lamp in the study of the city lord's mansion was still on, and in the middle of the study was a large desk, stacked with two thick stacks of papers, and behind the desk was a comfortable chair with velvet cushions, and Dick was sitting on the chair at this time, holding a document in his hand to review. Most of these documents are protests by nobles and wealthy merchants against the demolition of the inner city walls, to which Dick only smiles, and it seems that Clond has done what he has done very dutifully. Of course, there were some documents that Dick deserved to be carefully reviewed, such as the one he was holding in his hand now.

This document was written by Clond, mainly about the progress of the formation of the "Demon Hunter Knights", the city of Orel originally had a garrison of 3,000, and the members of the Demon Hunter Knights had only just recruited a thousand, and they were currently being trained by Crand and Hawke. Clender is responsible for training the formation of troops, and Hawke trains the members of the Knights in individual combat, and if the soldiers are talented, they can also be taught the fighting spirit of the dragon knights, and they will be trained in a focused manner.

Clond also mentioned two things in the document, first, he said that he would lead the Demon Hunter Knights to fight against the invading demon clan in the future, so the position of sheriff of Oriel City must be hired by another master, and Clond wrote several recommended candidates on the document, including commoners and nobles. In this regard, Dick believed in Crald's vision, so he chose one of the most popular aristocratic young men of Crand, named Sna, who was Crald's deputy when he was the sheriff.

In comparison, the second thing is much more attractive: according to several woodcutters in the village of Lane, when they went to the mountains of Gulitius to cut wood two days ago, they went a little deeper, and actually found a strange cave with a bottomless and windy wind. The matter was in the hands of the village sheriff, and even though the sheriff led more than a dozen of his men into the cave to explore, the result was never returned. Only then did the people realize the seriousness of the matter, and reported the matter to the relevant personnel of Orel City, and Zuihou was in the hands of His Excellency the Sheriff, Clender.

Just as Dick was about to review the document, he suddenly found that the light around him had dimmed, and the light was still bright, but unfortunately its light could no longer reach half a meter away, as if there was an invisible barrier limiting the scope of the light. Immediately after, a large black mist poured out of Dick's body, condensing into a human form, and in an instant, those two points of Yin Hong became the only light left in the world.

"You're so laid-back. Dimhera floated in front of him like a ghost, "I still have time to look at these things, have you forgotten that you still owe me magic and fighting spirit?"

"Don't worry, I promise you nothing less. Dick said indifferently.

"Isn't it more important to look at these things than to accumulate liliang?" said Dimichra, who had already floated to Dick's side, looking at the papers in his hand, "You humans are really strange. ”

Dick only said three words to it: "Follow me." As he spoke, he walked out of the study. Demihra followed closely, wondering what Dick was going to show it.

Dick led Demehera all the way back to his bedroom, but fortunately it was now late and all the servants in the lord's house had rested. Otherwise, it would be a trouble for others to see the lord of the castle with such a black thing.

Dick's bedroom was furnished in a very simple and austere, with a wardrobe on the wall facing the door, a soft bed on the wall next to the door, and two flower pots with a few unknown plants in the sunny area near the window, and nothing more.

On the floor of the room, a large and intricate magic circle is etched, with circular borders, multiple six-pointed star patterns, decorated with various magic symbols and special markings, among which the magic symbols are poured with Mithril, and the connecting points of the various lines are inlaid with various gemstones, emeralds, rubies, crystals, etc., dazzling and dazzling.

Dick slowly walked to the side of the magic circle and began to input mana into the magic circle. "Not all of the double tax revenue was used to raise the army, but some of it was used for my personal use, do you think the word 'city lord' is a good one?"

"What is the purpose of this magic circle?" asked Dimhera with interest.

"This magic array can enhance the effect of meditation, and speed up the condensation of magical elements in the air, so that the fighting energy in the body can speed up, which can save half of the cultivation time. ”

Dick raised his head, "Dimihera, do you still think that accumulating liliang is the most important thing? ”

"Well, I can't talk about you," said Dimichra helplessly.

The night deepened, and Dick spent a night in deep meditation, of course, all the magic and mental power accumulated by meditation were given to the vampire Dimihera to pay off the previous debt.

A week has passed in the blink of an eye.

Because of the help of that magical magic array, even though Dick had to spend a lot of time dealing with government affairs every day, his cultivation was not delayed at all, and after three days, he finally paid off his "debt" and became a free man again. And the next four days of cultivation made him faintly touch the threshold of level seven, and a large part of this was due to the non-stop high-intensity battle on the academy, which effectively tapped the potential in Dick's body.

During this week, the nobles and tycoons who had come to find Dick had almost smashed the threshold of the Lord's Mansion. The Lord needed to double the taxes and tear down the inner city walls, but Dick was busy with government affairs and cultivation, how could he bother to pay attention to this group of people? This made the servants in the city lord's mansion suffer, on the one hand, the death order given by the master, and on the other hand, the distinguished guests who could not afford to offend, in just a few days, the butler Des's gray hair was added several times.

At the same time, in this week, the 3,000 Demon Hunter Knights have also been formed, led by Clend, and the 3,000 cavalry have begun their "Demon Hunting" career. The position of Sheriff of Clender was taken by his deputy, Sna.

It has to be said that Clender is quite talented in military affairs, Dick once inspected the training grounds of the Demon Hunter Knights, and witnessed the training scenes of the Demon Hunters trained by Klender, with his eyesight gained from studying the art of war at the Valkx Academy, this can definitely be called an iron-blooded hero.

But it's no wonder that with Clond's poor background and maverick character, he can be worthy of such a high position as a sheriff and army commander, how can he not have real skills?

During this week, something else happened that caught Dick's attention, or rather, piqued his interest. That is, in the strange cave mentioned in Clond's report a week ago, there are new victims, and this time, dozens of elite soldiers personally selected by Sna, the sheriff of Orel City, entered the cave to investigate, and there are still no entrances and exits!

At present, in order to avoid new victims, the area near the cave has been garrisoned by Sna's soldiers, and ordinary villagers are strictly forbidden to approach. Snarth then reported the news to Dick, asking him whether to leave it alone or send more men to investigate.

Leave it alone? That's impossible! Dick wouldn't allow such a huge security hazard in his territory, but the person who went into the cave to investigate had to think carefully.

First of all, there can't be too many people, a cave is so big, and too many people will get in the way. It is enough to send a dozen people, the key is who to send, there must be unknown dangers in that cave, so you can't just send ordinary soldiers, at least there must be a strong man with strong fighting spirit or magic power.

Originally, Hawke was the most hode candidate, but now his task is to train the individual combat strength of the Demon Hunting Knights, and he really can't pull away, you must know that the Demon Hunting Knights did not appear out of thin air, but Dick increased the tax of the territory by doubling the amount of taxes before it was formed, and the entire territory has complained about him, the city lord, and the reason why there has not been a rebellion is all because of Dick's sentence "Kill the Demon Clan" promise, Dick is now like a gambler in debt, and the Demon Hunters are the only hope of paying off his debts, how dare he transfer Hawke in order to explore a cave and relax his training for the Demon Hunters?

Hawke can't do without the Demon Hunters, so who else is the right person in the territory?

"Well, it looks like I'll have to go myself. Dick looked at the report in his hand and sighed helplessly.