Lord of Rot

Chapter 439 The Return
The team crossed the desert, walked through the Bangta Canyon, and then passed through the monkey collar, and finally went north into the water stream for a while, and then went east into the Iron Valley.

It was another long journey, and by the time I officially entered the territory, it was already October.

Li Qi rode on a fine horse and looked up at the sky.

Rocket's temper is getting more and more irritable, and the estrus period is a big problem, and the consensus reached by Li Qi and the horsemen is to select excellent bloodlines and not casually breed them.

Gee...that's too cruel.

Fortunately, Li Qi didn't often need to go to the battlefield, so he let the rocket move around.

With the loud roar of the rocket, it announced to this territory that its lord is coming.

Horseshoes stepped on the compacted and flat road. In order to build the road to connect several villages, Li Qi spent a lot of money. In order to ensure the straightness of the road, he cut down trees, knocked stones, and paved pits.

Now, after more than half a year of road construction, a part of the avenue has been officially put into use, as evidenced by the rushing crowds.

A caravan stopped by the side of the road and offered to make way for the oncoming team. One of the apprentices asked in a puzzled voice, "Who is that person?"

"Bow your head!" The businessman of the caravan raised his hand to hold the young apprentice's head down, forcing his head down: "I usually ask you to recognize the noble family crest, and you can recognize it in your nose. It's the porcupine flag!"

Don't look directly at the noble lord, otherwise it is an offense. There is no such thing in the law, but there is a whip of the noble lord.

The little apprentice wanted to raise his head curiously, but the big hand pressing the back of his head was too strong, he could only roll his eyes upwards, barely seeing the exquisite noble boots.

Like this small caravan, there are not a few people who fear Li Qi like a tiger.

Walking along the way, I could see many small businessmen lowering their heads hastily, shrinking back, fearing that there was something wrong with their attitude in a certain aspect, which would make Baron Porcupine unhappy.

It wasn't until Li Qi's team rode away that the merchant stood up straight with relief, and the caravan returned to the road.

"Why are we afraid of the baron? Didn't he welcome us to do business?" The little apprentice was puzzled, raised his finger and pointed to the carriage: "Didn't we return the mushrooms we collected? Didn't you talk and laugh with the nobles of some villages before?" ?”

"Ouch!" Seeing the businessman raising his hand, he shrank his head subconsciously and screamed.

The pain didn't come, so he quietly glanced up.

"Boom", it was knocked down.

The little apprentice rubbed the back of his head vigorously, sucking in the cool air non-stop.

The businessman gritted his teeth and shook his hands: "The head is so hard!"

Then he continued: "The ones in those villages are comparable to the baron? Have you forgotten the news about Lord Blood Sand? I should really let the green-eyed toad get into your head to see if it is full of brain-eating monsters." maggot!"

The little apprentice just shook his head and hummed, intending not to ask any more questions, otherwise he would be beaten every time.

It is said that the Porcupine Baron has only been in the desert for half a year, and he has been stirring up wind and rain and launching wars. The barren land has been stained red with blood, and when the sand is turned over, it is full of plasma.

The only strange thing is that the very belligerent Baron Porcupine was not criticized by the king and still went his own way, and no lord who thought he was righteous stood up to denounce him.

The specific reasons are probably only known to the lords themselves.

In any case, people have already subconsciously placed Baron Porcupine as No. 1 under the Duke of Dongxia, and he is also a bloodthirsty lord with a very bad temper.

……

The towering city wall appeared in Li Qi's eyes.

"The city walls that were able to resist thousands of troops in the past can now be demolished with only one palace level."

With a look, Li Qi moved away from the "porcupine flag" and placed it on the big banner.

A banner hangs on the wall reading "Honor to hard work, shame on cheating and cheating"

Similar slogans appear in various places.

Different from the high degree of uniformity of the porcupine collar, Iron Valley has recruited many external talents, which also means that good and bad people are mixed, and there are people of all kinds.

Although he is not afraid of being plagiarized, Li Qi still consciously lets his own people control the core technology. Some important technology factories, such as alchemy, muskets, artillery, bombs, etc., are only researched in the porcupine territory to ensure that the technology is not outflow.

Under the current environment, the power of the artillery is still terrifying, especially with the precise guidance of the caster. It can be summed up in a sentence from the earth: "You have been locked by our fire control radar. Unfortunately, you don't even have a chance to listen to the alarm."

Go back inside the castle.

There was no change in the Iron Wall Fortress. Lily, the butler selected by Li Qite, obviously always kept in mind the instruction that good steel should be used on the blade.

Li Qi didn't have anything to say. In fact, he was not in a good mood, because after leaving the monkey collar, the Tonks scholar parted ways with him, and the other party took his apprentice straight to the direction of Burning City. Qi has said many times that if there is danger, he can let the apprentices follow him away first.

There is no scholar, but a scholar apprentice is fine.

But Scholar Tonks obviously had no plans in this regard, which disappointed Li Qi for a while.

However, being able to obtain those magical knowledge from him is also very useful to Li Qi, and now he will try to use meditation to exercise his spiritual power, probably because of his extraordinary talent, his mental power has grown very rapidly, and finally from The stuck 45 units successfully increased to 55 units.

At the same time, I also learned a lot of small magic, but I haven't been able to touch magic like Firestorm and Avada Kedavra.

In the evening, Li Qi held a banquet.

Invite the whole Iron Valley, all the high-rises to dinner.

I haven't seen them for a few months, but the status of those high-spirited noble youths has changed again. Several of them have slightly fat cheeks.

But generally speaking, they are slowly developing towards maturity, and they have all been honed.

"I can't do business today." Li Qi raised his glass and said, "Cheers for the glory!"

"For glory!" Everyone raised their glasses high.

After the banquet, the crowd dispersed.

The fat steward who had been hiding in the corner on the table, carefully acting as a transparent person, came out a little dizzy, and when a breeze blew, he shook his head and woke up instantly.

He smacked his lips: "Sure enough, only the lord can enjoy the best wine."

With money in hand, there are no channels to buy some precious wines.

Especially today I drank fine wine from the desert, and then went back to drink ordinary beer, and I felt something wrong in my mouth.

After turning his head left and right to make sure that there were not too many people, he looked at a nobleman who left alone, and quickened his pace to follow.

"Sir Alexis" hay set is close.

The noble young man called Alex stopped and looked at the hay with a frown. Almost no one among the nobles would have a good impression of the greedy fat steward. If the other party was not good at making money, his embezzlement of funds would be enough to make the lord Send him to see the Four Gods.

"Master Hay, what do you want me to do?" Alex asked.

"Good thing, good thing." Hay rubbed his hands: "Go to my place for a cup of tea? I asked the caravan to do it for me last time, and it came from Endor."

Alex shook his head and refused: "Sorry, I still have something to do."

But Hayao said calmly: "I heard that Lord Hahn has made several military exploits in the desert and is about to be canonized as a knight. Actually, I have a way..."

Alex stopped the steps he was about to take, and looked at the dry grass.

A group of them took refuge in Li Qi together, and what they pursued was of course honor. It didn't matter if everyone didn't have some things, just afraid that suddenly you had them and I didn't.

"Endor's tea~" Hayao smiled.

Alex said with a smile: "I just want to drink tea to sober up."

"Hahaha, okay, please follow me."

(End of this chapter)