The Wise Lord chapter 8

Episode 8 – Command Territory, Ruben (1)

“Who are you!”

Then people looked at Xian in amazement.

Each of the men grabbed a weapon and gave off a ferocious spirit.

Xian glanced at the people once and then slowly opened his mouth.

“I am the newly appointed lord of the Ruben Manor this time.”

tall.

Then the movement of the people stiffened.

“permanent residence···?”

Soon, people started to stir up loudly.

And just then.

“You mean you came as the lord of the Ruben estate?”

Among the people, someone stepped forward and asked Xian.

A rugged middle-aged man.

The shaggy beard and solid impression are quite different from the mercenaries.

He was a man like a veteran hunter who rolled and rolled in a barren environment.

Looking at it, it seemed that this man was the leader of the people.

And Hans tried to take a step forward when he saw the man who did not show respect to Xian.

But Xian stopped Hans from doing so.

Because I didn’t really care.

However, Xian also had no reason to be respectful.

“okay. Cyan Elandurda.”

“Elan… Dur…?”

Then the man’s expression darkened.

That’s also true, because there was no one in the Empire who didn’t know the name Elandur and what it meant.

“Why is Ellandur here…?”

The man’s bewildered gaze turned to Xi’an.

And the facial expressions of the people reflected behind the man.

There was a certain hope in their faces.

“Could it be Elandur?”

“Hey, are you finally looking after us!”

It was as if I had come face-to-face with a long-awaited wish.

But even that was short-lived.

“Wait, if it’s Xian Ellandour…”

The moment the man remembered Xian’s name, it cooled down.

Marquis’ madness.

An illegitimate child who shouldn’t have existed.

incompetent bastard.

“ah···.”

“also···.”

Soon, people’s faces showed the emotion of yes.

“Tsk. I’m here to kill another person.”

“Why don’t you just run away, come to such a rough place…”

“The atmosphere in the dark forest is already vicious these days, but the lord.”

People started to stir up loudly again.

someone with a sad expression.

Another with an annoyed look.

People looked at Xian with their own expressions.

Before long, a man with the rank of captain asked Xian.

“Could it be that you dealt with this group of goblins?”

“then?”

Xian nodded.

Of course, it was treated like Hans, not just Xian.

But that or that.

The important thing wasn’t that.

“·······”

At Xian’s answer, the man’s expression began to twist strangely.

It wasn’t just the guy, it was the others too.

Well, it was a reaction that was far from admiration.

As if it wasn’t supposed to be like that.

“What’s wrong?”

“Yes. That is a very big problem.”

The man’s expression, looking at him, was suddenly contorted.

“The group of goblins you dealt with were scouts.”

“A scout?”

A bunch of goblins?

“okay. A scouting party to determine in advance whether there is prey or not. You shouldn’t have dealt with these goblin hordes. I should have just let it go… The main force will arrive soon. For whom?”

Eventually, the man turned his back.

Then he started preparing to leave with the people.

“What are you doing?”

“Can’t you see?”

The man answered without even looking at the draft.

Xian furrowed his eyebrows slightly.

Of course I knew he was going to run away.

But what Xian asked was why he was trying to run away.

“Weren’t you the people of Leuven? Are you trying to run away when your home is being trampled on by monsters?”

“Young Jimin?”

Then the man turned his back again.

Then, with a snort, he spoke.

“Does the word ‘Young Ji-min’ still come out when you see this scene?”

The man glanced around the ruins.

Half wave or half.

It was an embarrassing level to call it a place of life, as it could not be called a territory.

“·······”

So Xian had nothing to say.

The man looked at the Xian and continued talking.

“If you’re going to say something shameful about fighting… I refuse. We will not fight.”

“… you mean it doesn’t matter if the territory is trampled on?”

“You speak as if there is still more to be trampled upon.”

Xian looked at the man once and spoke again.

“If you order it as a lord.”

Then, this time, the man glared at Xian and said.

“As can be said, we are not the people of Ruben. I don’t know if it was like that in the past. But it is none other than you who abandoned us, Elandur. So don’t force us to do our duty as territories.”

Before long, the man turned his back on Xi’an.

and at the same time.

Tring!

I heard the sound of a smartphone notification in my arms.

『[Tutorial Territory Quest] – ‘The power of a lord is what happens when you don’t forsake your duty!’

▶You who successfully defeated the group of monsters that occupied Ruben!

The chest sucks!

Shrug your shoulders!

You boldly enter Leuven!

gold! of! ring! incense!

Now, look!

Since I am your lord, respect is welling up!

But what about…?

How cold the reactions of the people of the region are…

shy you!

After putting aside the bluff for a while, we started talking…

On horseback!

Isn’t the monster attack on Ruben’s territory over?!

It is said that the hordes of monsters you faced were just scouts!

They say that a huge number of monsters will soon attack…

Hundreds of them!

What to do with this!!!

The villagers are afraid and have no choice but to run away!

In addition, they are refusing to fight, saying that they are not even Ruben’s territories!

No wonder!

The power of a lord is what happens when you don’t abandon your duties!

But you didn’t do anything!

A lord in name only!

Pants lord!

Above all, the people of Ruben were abandoned by the world.

No one reached out for Ruben.

You won’t be able to open their broken hearts easily.

At this rate, all the locals will leave!

As a lord, you can’t sit still!

Defeat the monster corps that are attacking Ruben Manor!』

＜Reward – Most of the territories said, ‘Is this lord different…?’ I think.＞

＜However, if it fails, all of Ruben’s territories will leave.＞

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“If you are thinking of making a useless fuss, don’t do it. you or us After all, they are abandoned beings.”

After that, the man left with the people.

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Young people are leaving.

Xian stood there for a long time.

How much time had passed like that?

“young master. I will bring it even if it is forced.”

Hans, impatient, took a step forward.

However, Xian stopped such Hans.

“no. do not do that.”

“but···.”

“How can I get hold of them?”

“·······”

At Xian’s words, Hans closed his mouth tightly.

Xian looked at Hans and then looked away.

A ruined estate.

Xian couldn’t hold on to the people who were leaving.

Of course, if forced, he could have held on to it by force.

No matter how much Xian is an abandoned illegitimate child, Elandur is Elandur.

The power of that name could not be ignored.

So if you force it, if you threaten it.

I could catch people.

But Xian didn’t.

I doubted whether I would hear that in the first place, and more than anything, I didn’t want to.

oppression and coercion.

It was because it was the same thing that Shian had been through when he was in the family.

‘If you’re thinking about fussing useless… do not do that. you or us They’re abandoned anyway.’

Xian continued to linger around the man’s words.

Right then.

“young master.”

Suddenly, Hans lowered his voice and called for Xian.

Hans’ face, full of wrinkles, had a serious atmosphere.

It looked like he was thinking about something…

As expected, Hans cautiously opened his mouth.

“I’d rather run away now…”

Hans didn’t end up talking behind his back.

I was just looking at Xi’an.

Xian looked at Hans like that.

And to be honest…

Xian also fully understood and sympathized with what Hans was saying.

Commander’s Territory, Ruben.

To put it mildly, it is exile.

To put it bluntly, the place of execution.

The Ruben estate was Isabel’s ploy to kill Xian.

see even now

As soon as he arrived at the estate, a near-death situation came out.

So it was a wise decision to run away as it is.

but.

“What if you run away? What next?”

The answer of the follow-up.

Xian continued.

“Will Isabel ever leave me alone?”

“·······”

Hans had nothing to say.

It didn’t matter much if he ran away from here.

However, Isabel, the hostess of Ellandur, did not know that fact.

There was no way she could just watch it.

It was Isabel who was sent to the Ruben estate to get rid of Xian.

However, since Elandur’s blood was mixed, it was impossible to harm him directly.

That’s why, along with the justification that he will soon come of age, he appoints Xian as the lord of the Ruben estate.

This was the best Isabel could do.

But is Xian running away from here?

This was against family orders.

A fugitive who broke the family order and ran away.

There was no better reason to kill Xian than that.

maybe at this moment.

Isabel might have just wanted Cyan to run away.

“Then, how about registering as a different family? Not necessarily an empire, but a neighboring kingdom…”

Of course, the story was different if Xian was registered as a different family.

Because at that time, I will no longer be Elandur.

however.

“Have you forgotten what my last name is? It’s Ellandur. Is there a family on the continent that will ignore Ellandur’s pressure?”

There was no family that could withstand the pressure of Ellandur anywhere.

Even the royal family of another kingdom.

There are only two families that can withstand the pressure of Elandur.

Like Elandur, the Lorsilt family supports the empire.

And there was only the heart of the empire, the imperial family.

“·······”

Hans closed his mouth once more.

Because that statement was also undeniably true.

More than anything.

“Who accepts a fool like me?”

Xian, who was called the madman of the marquis family.

There was no way a family would accept such a proposal.

Xian waved his hand and waved it.

The gesture that there is nothing more to say about it.

However, contrary to Xian’s intention, Hans opened his mouth again.

“As I’ve said many times… you’re absolutely not an idiot.”

Even if Hans’ face acknowledged everything else.

It was a look that I could never admit to that word.

It is also true that the following concepts are necessarily included in the definition of an ordinary man.

alcohol, gambling and women.

However, Xi’an had nothing to do with it.

I couldn’t relate in the first place.

Because Xian was not in a situation where he could act like that.

A life of persecution and oppression.

Xian always had to keep an eye on him and survive.

But is Xi’an behaving like a madman?

There was no way Isabelle would let that go.

To say that it ruined the image of Ellandur.

It’s family shame, etc.

He would have expelled Xian from the family immediately, citing various reasons.

Maybe he could have just killed him.

That’s why Xian had to live a more decent life than anyone else.

It was Xian who was more upright and upright than anyone else in the marquis family.

I could never relate to the word fool.

Nevertheless, there are two reasons why Xian was called the marquis’ fool.

The first is that Xi’an’s surname is none other than Elandur.

“It is of no use at all. So what’s wrong with that?”

That Xian had no such thing as talent.

In Elandur, incompetence was the same as sin.

“… If you have to be called an idiot because of your incompetence, it would be rare to find someone on the continent who isn’t a idiot.”

“it’s okay. What does it mean now?”

Xian waved and waved his hand once more.

She didn’t know what Hans meant when she said cyan.

“Then how… do you have a method?”

“well.”

But Xian couldn’t easily answer Hans’ question.

That’s because there wasn’t really a way to stop the goblin attack.

Of course, Xian had S-class equipment.

It was a tremendous piece of equipment that made the goblins’ attacks meaningless and didn’t even think it was only 3,000G.

However, that was only if the goblins were in the minority.

There were hundreds of goblins attacking this time.

It might even exceed 1,000 units.

Even if you have S-class equipment,

Xian alone could not handle that many.

If it was Arnaise who saved the world a thousand years ago, he wouldn’t know.

If it was Arnaise, it wouldn’t matter how many goblins came, but…

well, anyway.

Right now, there was a limit to what Xian could do alone.

No, even if there are territories.

To be honest, I doubted whether I would be able to stop the goblin army.

Hundreds of goblins.

Only tens of young people.

It was a power difference that even ordinary goblins could not guarantee victory.

Especially for the goblins living in the dark forest, the outcome was obvious.

‘I don’t know if I can use Mercury’s advantage…’

Today, however, Leuven was in ruins.

Of course, there were no equipment or facilities for water castles.

In a word, a battle in which defeat is certain.

There was no way.

So, like the man said, abandoning the territory and running away was the wisest choice.

however.

‘I won’t run away.’

Xian had no intention of doing so.

Because running away didn’t change anything.

Above all, the newly emerged territory quest.

[Tutorial Territory Quest] – ‘The power of a lord is what happens when you don’t forsake your duty!’

As the quest said, there were times when he had to fulfill his duties as a lord.

Even if the duty is to risk one’s life.

“Hmm…”

Xian’s thoughts deepened.

To be precise, I was going to deepen

It was then.

Pamparappam~♪

Suddenly, a cheerful fanfare sounded from within Xian’s arms.

Sounds coming from none other than your smartphone.

“what?”

Xian took out his smartphone and checked it.

A new notification window popped up on the screen of the smartphone that I took out like that.

《Loading 100%》

《You have collected all the territory information!》

《Opening the Territory Management System!》

At the same time, a landscape map was displayed on the smartphone screen.

It was like looking down from a high sky…

“Ruben?”

It was none other than this place, the scenery of Leuven.

I stared blankly at the screen, wanting something, and new notification windows popped up on top of it.

《From now on, you can build manor-related facilities!》

《Use your senses to create the most wonderful manor in the world!》

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《You can check the facilities available for purchase in the shop section.》

At that moment, the entire screen went dark.

Before long, the most toxic part, the item called [territory facility], began to shine.

And next to the item, the ‘☞’ sign was flickering.

It’s like trying to click here.

what?

As if possessed, Xian pressed the【Sacred Site Facility】.

Hold on.

“suggestion! [Sturdy Fence Lv.1 (5,000G)]

▶ Defending the territory from external enemies is the basic of basics!

And the wooden fence is the backbone of the defense!

Are you afraid that monsters will attack your territory?

So let’s take a look at the not-so-great, but great!

A sturdy fence!

It is not a simple defense facility, but a wooden fence that maximizes the advantage of Mercury!

yes?

Are you worried about making it out of wood?

Those worries, that’s NO! NO!

It is an amazing wooden fence that boasts the strength of steel as it was smelted by hand by a transcendent artisan!

Of course, compared to real steel, it’s inferior!

Would it be wood if it was as hard as real steel?

But with this wooden fence, the monster army is a piece of cake!

It’s all dumb!』

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Tring!

《When you get stuck while proceeding, try the hyeonjil!》

“······ What else this time?”

Xi’an’s mind went blank for an instant.