Lord of War

  Are you the new lord sent by the marquise?

  Puda’s words reveal a strange emotion that even Sean and Cecilia can feel. It seems to be faintly expecting something?

   "Ahem." Xiao En showed a self-confessed humble expression, grinning, this smile is very friendly, "Yes."

   Then...Sean saw Puda's face showing disappointment.

  He didn't conceal his disappointment so much. This naked expression made the smile on Sean's face freeze in an instant. Could it be that the feeling of expectation he had just now turned out to be that he wanted to say a "no"?

  Sean turned his head to look at Cecilia with some doubts, and asked in a low voice: "Have I failed that way?"

  Cecilia thought for a while, and replied in a low voice: "Maybe it's because you look too young?"

  Sean looked at Cecilia a little helplessly. The comforting words of this little fool sounded unreliable at all. The talent and strength of a lord has nothing to do with age. As the youngest marquis of strength in the Principality of Lane, Asuna is only 26 years old this year. Although she is about to turn 27, she is in Lane. She is definitely the youngest powerful noble in the Principality, and there is no one of that kind.

  Who would say that she is still young? Or, who would dare to say she was young?

  Puda’s disappointment made Shaun a little confused.

"I thought that the new lord would be one of the three followers of the Valkyrie." Puda is a relatively honest person, he simply said one thing, two said two, he would not hide at all. own thoughs.

  Sean said helplessly, "I am also a follower of Asuna-sama."

   "Haha." Puda smiled and said nothing.

   Xiao En's face became a bit ugly. The polite smile of the word "hehe" really reminded him of too many memories that he couldn't bear to look back on. If it was Asuna or Elizabeth hehehe, Sean felt that he could still accept it, but letting a man or a middle-aged man treat him hehehe would make Sean feel crazy about wanting to hit the wall.

In fact, if Sean had long known that Puda judged its strength based on the number and quality of followers around a lord, he would definitely choose a few strong men who looked more powerful to support the scene, or simply wait for Alf. Say it when Reid comes back. After all, in Puda's eyes at this moment, the lord only has a relatively burly Northern Barbarian follower, and it seems that the strength of this follower is not very good.

  But Puda can still utter a "hehe" at this moment, the old mayor on one side, his expression becomes a little unnatural: "Lord Lord, I have made it clear to you just now, this is not our Puda Town’s fault..."

  Shaun looked at the old mayor.

The head of the old town mayor is full of silver threads, and his face is deeply wrinkled. His figure has begun to shrink, and his body emits a decadent odor. Even if Sean doesn’t understand this, he knows that the old mayor in front of him hasn’t been for a few years. Live well. But even so, he has been doing his utmost to contribute to the development of the entire town over the years, otherwise he would not say the words "just ask the new lord not to be too harsh".

"I didn't mean to blame you." Xiao En lightly shook his head and said, "As for the situation in the town, I have thoroughly understood that it was not your fault at all. It was abandoned and became a land of no owner. If I were the mayor, I would do the same to survive."

  Speaking of this, Sean stood up and saluted the mayor slightly: "I will settle the matter about the snake of Habind."

"Habinder's Snake currently has two or three hundred members. They are all murderers who have actually fought. You saw the situation in the tavern just now." Puda frowned, and he also stood up. He said, "Moreover, Harbind himself is still a low-ranking silver-powered person. Although his mercenary group is relatively weak in the three nearby towns, his own strength can definitely be ranked in the top five. ... Before you see. The heavy hammer that arrived is said to be not his opponent."

  Puda's words are a bit straightforward, and it is easy to misunderstand that they are questioning Sean's ability. Even if Sean and Cecilia knew that Puda didn't mean that, they still sounded a little uncomfortable.

  If Puda knew that Sean had already killed two lower-ranked silvers in Fort Tonys, I am afraid he would not have said such a thing.

Of course, this is not to say that Sean can really easily kill silver-level masters. The most important thing is that Sean has enough hole cards in his hand. It's just that how to make all of these hole cards play a role. Sean's calculation ability needs to be studied. Otherwise, at the Tonys Fortress, he would not risk putting himself in an extremely disadvantaged situation, forcing the Storm Swordsman to use the final killer move, and then use the curse to imprint the silver scale to break the killer. One sword, and then turn defeat into victory.

  But for the average lower-ranking silver-powered person, Sean really didn't care about it. At least that barbarian called Heavy Hammer, Sean can ignore him, but he didn’t want to expose his identity and strength so quickly, so he used some small means to force him away. Hearing these words from Puda, he Automatically filter those voices that seem to doubt their own strength, and focus on the information about the three towns.

   "Strength can be ranked in the top five, so that means that there are at least four people ahead of him in strength?" Xiao En asked, "Are high-ranking silver?"

"That's not true." Puda shook his head, "If there were any high-ranking silver, these three small towns would have been taken down by a mercenary group a long time ago. How can they be as good as today? ... But it's correct. That said, there are only three who are slightly stronger than Habind, and he should be able to rank fourth. But if you want to say that the mercenary regiment is the most powerful and powerful, it is the Dabron Mercenary Corps."

   "Dabron?" Sean had also heard William mentioned it before.

  In fact, he didn't choose randomly when he came to Hongye Town, but William had already done some simple intelligence work. However, because the intelligence work is so simple, he also managed to get too much beneficial information. After a rough assessment, he decided to take Hongye Town first. The reason is no other reason. It is the number of the Hongye Town mercenary group. At least, but only Hongye Town has a militia.

  According to the total of William, Sean, and Cecilia, it is best to find out the average combat power of this mercenary group first, and then let Sean learn about Hongye Town’s thoughts on the succession of the new lord. If Hongye Town can accept the arrival of the new lord without causing any problems, this will be the best result. If it is not possible, then you can only wait for Alfred to bring someone over. Suppress directly by force.

   is just a change of circumstances, it is indeed out of expectation.

  The stupid big man Anno had a pair of iron fists, directly turning the whole situation in Hongye Town into a mess. If Sean doesn't know how to fish anymore at this time, then he will really have a head on his head.

"That small town is the largest of the three nearby towns. It is said to have reached 6,000 people at one time, and it is almost catching up with a small town. They were the first small town to invite a mercenary regiment, but they didn’t expect that the one they invited was always there. A group of bandits looted here in the southern part of the kingdom, so that night the small town was almost reduced to hell, and many families’ wives and daughters were robbed by them..."

  These words, needless to say too bluntly, Sean and Cecilia also know what they mean.

"A few days later, this group of bandits seemed to have found their target, so they went out to rob. On that day, one-third of the entire town ran away, and a large town was almost empty in an instant. Later those bandits came back and found out. The situation was not right. Afterwards, several town gates were sealed off, only one was left, and people were sent to guard it every day. Later, I heard that another group of people was preparing to flee, and it seemed that there was a conflict with the mercenary group, and they died. Hundreds of people, only a few dozen people ran away, and they all flocked to another small town. For this reason, the mercenary group sent people to ask for it. As a result, the small town did not hand over the people, so these two small towns later A conflict broke out, but I don't know which side won."

   "It seems that the situation in my territory seems a bit complicated." Sean gave a wry smile, "Dabron is really a dead town now?"

"You can't leave ten." Puda thought for a while, and then said his guess, "first 1/3 of the people ran away, and then hundreds of people died. This is about to catch up with the scale of Hongye Town, that small There are only two or three thousand people left in the town at most, but a year has passed. The mercenary group is a group of brutal murderers. Who knows if there are more people dead there?... Five, Six In a town of a thousand people, there are only so few people left, isn't that a dead town?"

  Sean was silent.

  The development of a territory is closely related to the size of its citizens. If the territory does not have citizens, any development is empty talk. Under normal circumstances, there will be no explosive growth in the territories. Only when wars, disasters, famines, etc. break out in other places nearby, will a large number of refugees and refugees appear, and then flood into other territories, but in the end Whether these people can be developed into their own leaders, rather than a group of bandits and robbers, depends on the master's ability and ability.

  So the situation in Dabron Town is tantamount to destroying Sean's foundation, which naturally makes Sean feel extremely unhappy.

At this moment, a young man suddenly broke into the old town mayor’s house and shouted with a panic: "Uncle Puda, it’s not good! The people of Harbind’s Snake left the camp and rushed towards the town. , Their aura is very fierce!"

   Hearing this, Puda's brows frowned slightly, seemingly annoyed.

  But only Sean’s face changed drastically: "Are they here?"

The young militia didn’t know who Sean was, but when they saw him questioning, they replied: “Yes! This time they all have weapons in their hands, and that Harbind also has a long knife. , And the Harbind mercenaries in the town have all left the town..."

  This time, Puda's face finally changed, because although there had been several conflicts before, the two sides were fighting each other at best, and they hardly took weapons. Even in the conflict that night, neither side used weapons. But this time, the snake of Habind came with a weapon, and the situation was completely different.