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    Affected by the smell of blood and the heavy atmosphere, the banquet ended hastily.  According to tradition, such banquets often last for days or even weeks, so that the guests can personally experience the host's sincerity.  During this period, the host will be fully responsible for the visitor's accommodation, food and other needs, making people feel as generous and welcoming as possible.

    The banquet lasted only a short day.

    Many people found various reasons to leave in advance between lunch and dinner, took their servants and guards who were "protected" by another team of skeleton warriors, and left Rosenburg in a hurry.  A few people persisted until after dinner, and then suddenly remembered that there were other important things at home, or suddenly felt uncomfortable, or suddenly missed the comfortable and warm big bed at home, and invariably chose to rush to bed time.  Leave before arriving.

    Although Du Ze repeatedly promised that he would not further hold anyone accountable, ordinary people were generally unwilling to live in a castle where a large number of undead monsters were stationed, let alone verify the promise of the lord who controlled the monsters.  Authentic and believable - who knows if he will single out a few more people to establish his authority?

    "Compared with kind and generous character and practical actions, naked threats and public executions will not help make people love a new lord.  That just scares people.

    As the guests at the banquet left this impressive banquet, the news about the monsters controlled by the new lord and his ruthless methods spread throughout the viscounty in just one week.  From Stonemaw Canyon in the west, to the land adjacent to the orc world in the east, to the most remote mines and logging sites, and even every village, every inn, and every place where humans gather in the viscounty.  Everywhere, people remembered the new lord very quickly.  Horror stories about him began to spread on the streets.

    People said that he tore off the heads of twenty traitors with his hands in public, drank up every drop of the traitor's blood, chopped up the headless corpses and threw them into a soup pot to cook, and forced every guest to drink a drink.  Bowl of this special broth.

    Regarding the ¡®special broth¡¯, folk rumors do have a basis in reality.

    Before the banquet was over, with the order personally issued by the lord, His Excellency Angus, the chief knight of the Rosen family, rushed into the town of Vasha with four knights and fifty soldiers.  They beat up the street gangsters and professional thugs who tried to stop them, and openly and openly captured Mayor Barnett's three sons and a grandson. They also announced that Mayor Barnett had colluded with the enemy to plot to assassinate the lord.  All properties and industries in the names of his relatives will be seized.  They also brought Mayor Barnett¡¯s head, which was placed in a wooden cage, and hung it on the most visited city gate in Washa Town for public display.

    A few days later, Mayor Barnett¡¯s properties were sold to various important figures in the viscounty at low prices, so low that they were almost free of charge.  His collection of silver coins, antiques, jewelry and other valuables were also divided into several parts and sent to every guest who attended the banquet in the name of gifts.

    After receiving the ¡®private letter¡¯ sent by a soldier, the leader of the Chamber of Commerce, who was shot by the Skeleton Warrior, organized other merchants in the viscounty to work together to stabilize prices in order to preserve his position and life.  Due to this positive and cooperative attitude, he soon received a personal promise from the new lord, regarding how tolerantly he had forgiven him for the mistakes he had made due to ignorance and deception at the banquet, and would no longer pursue them.

    Real benefits were obtained. Although they were frightened at the banquet, the guests still reluctantly accepted the existence of the new lord.  Of course, for ordinary civilians, they don't know what happened behind the scenes. They only know that the viscounty has a new lord, and this new lord is not a good person with a broad mind.

    That was Du Ze¡¯s purpose.

    He would rather be feared than be loved and then die by a knife thrust out of his back.  This can better remind everyone of the price to pay for betraying him, and that he really has the ability to demand payment from his betrayers.  A notorious lord is difficult to win people's love, but as a bonus, when trying to make an enemy of such a lord, people will think twice about whether they can afford the price.

    On the other hand, until now, he still doesn¡¯t know how powerful the Faceless Men are, how many members they have, and how many people are their accomplices.  He didn't even know what the faceless men were doing.  Except that the Faceless Men should be a force formed by devil worshipers, and that the Faceless Men should be the real culprit behind the assassination four years ago, he knew almost nothing about the situation of this organization - instead of passively waiting for the other party's  To take further action, it would be better to take the initiative to expose the conflict with the Faceless Man and force the other party to come to the surface to deal with him.

    In no moodSeeing the assassins approaching him through various means, Du Ze asked the old housekeeper to fire all the ordinary servants in the castle and recruit more reliable people in the name of the lord.  He also made a special request that made the old housekeeper feel a little embarrassed and even regretted recommending his granddaughter as the new housekeeper.

    On the second day after he officially became the lord, Du Ze began to deal with the backlog of official business - some of which were transaction contracts that required the lord as a witness, as well as personnel changes, the handling of Mayor Barnett's family, and the defense of the territory in late autumn.  Various documents require the lord to make a decision and approve their implementation - it does not take long to deal with those things that only need to be read and signed, but the time consumed to deal with those more specific parts will greatly increase.  Thanks to the education he received in his childhood, although Du Ze was a little unfamiliar with these matters, his efficiency in handling them did not disgrace his identity.

    It¡¯s finally over.

    Putting down the last document that needed to be processed, and shaking his right arm that felt abnormally numb, the new lord of Rosen Viscounty could finally relax for a while.  Under the influence of his teacher, Du Ze's interest in these territorial affairs was far less than his interest in magic.  He could read a book about magic with gusto all day long, but if he looked at those documents for an hour straight, he would become seriously irritable.

    "Orcsfaceless mencrop reductioncrimesdisappearancesredistribution of interests" He muttered quietly, picked up the cup on the table, and brought it to his mouth.  "It's easier to kill a lord than to become a lord."

    Having officially become the lord of the viscounty, Du Ze's office is in the lord's study.  This is where he killed Jiao En.  Now, the bloodstained and flame-stained carpets have been replaced, the furniture and walls have been cleaned, and everything has been carefully cleaned, leaving no trace of the battle that took place.

    ¡°As long as I still have breath, it won¡¯t be like this.¡± When no one else¡ªother living people¡ªis present, Yulia¡¯s attitude towards Du Ze will always be more casual.  The relationship between them is not like the relationship between ordinary knights and lords.  "I won't let you face danger directly again!" She said, putting one hand on the hilt of the sword, as if she was ready to fight at any time.  "If you want to kill a lord, you must first kill his guardian knight!"

    Since Du Ze was assassinated last time, Yulia insisted on staying with him at all times to protect his safety.

    "I think that's why the servants let their master sit in the study all afternoon, and no one even came to bring some water." Du Ze smiled and turned over the cup in his hand. No liquid came out.  .  I finished drinking it long ago.  "Yuliya" he said in a longer tone.  "Remember? Only by protecting yourself first can you protect others."

    Through several conversations with similar content, Du Ze¡¯s words have changed Yulia¡¯s thinking to a great extent.  Out of some stubbornness, she has been trying to find reasons to refute this view that is different from traditional knight education, but she has never succeeded.

    "I see."

    Rather than wasting time on futile thinking, she nodded and admitted it directly.  "But I'm not the main culprit for scaring away the servants." As she spoke, she looked at the two personal guards standing next to Du Ze.  "That's all because of them."

    In order to guard against possible assassins at any time, Dark Warrior No. 1 and No. 3 always follow Du Ze, never leaving.  The appearance of Dark Warrior No. 3 was relatively normal, but the face of Dark Warrior No. 1, which had been directly attacked by "flesh and bone arrows" at close range, was already missing an eye, and now it looked even more terrifying.  Even though the injuries suffered have been slowly healed by the death energy, there are still many scars left on its body, even on its face.  If anyone in the castle is uglier than it, it must be the second dark warrior with a long neck and a monster head.

    Especially after the public execution at the banquet, the servants were all afraid of the new lord's monster servants, and were even less willing to approach them.

    "Maybe I should put two face-covering helmets on them to make them look more like living people." Du Ze put the cup back on the table.  "This wasn't so easy before" He shifted his body's weight back and relaxed.  "When I left the viscounty, there were only a few skeleton warriors around me. In order to hide from others, I had to cut the cloth into strips and wrap them inside bit by bit, and I had to be careful not to wrap them tightly.  joints, and making sure the strips of fabric wouldn't fall off easily. That was a chore. It took me three days to manage to make them look like a tall, lanky guy who was blind and deaf, rather than a tall, smart guy.  A walking skeleton.¡±"Everyone will gradually realize that they will not harm those with good intentions. Speaking of which, how on earth did you become friends with a vampire?"

    Yulia is very interested in Du Ze's life after leaving the Viscounty - after listening to Du Ze's story, sometimes she will feel very interesting, sometimes she will feel very angry, and sometimes she will feel very self-blame  ¡ª¡ªShe was a little reluctant to imagine what Du Ze had gone through during that period of time to become what he was now.

    After telling some stories about investigations, adventures and battles, and deliberately omitting some details that were not suitable for inclusion in the story, Du Ze suddenly remembered that there was something important to do.

    He finished briefly explaining the process of resurrecting ancient vampires and stood up from his chair.

    "Lady Margaret is about to leave," he said.  "For the sake of politeness, we should go see her one last time."

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