Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 130 The Debt-ridden Silver Dragon Girl
If it is not reinforced, a single rain may cause a collapse or mudslide.

After several months of hard work, the results were obvious. Both sides of the hill had been dug down to a height of seven or eight meters, and the huge rocks transported by the trolls were cut into thick walls similar to a dam.

Directly in front of us rises a stone wall as high as two stories, connecting the boundary line of the stone dams on both sides.

Originally, the Fed craftsmen wanted to use hardwood to make heavy city gates, but Levi thought they were too conservative.

He could cut a big hole in this thing with just a few sword strikes. Although the strong men of the Minotaur couldn't do it as easily as him, it was obvious that a wooden door could not stop them at all.

As soon as the lord opened his mouth, the workers in the blacksmith shop worked overtime to forge a whole iron door. It was as thick as a palm, six meters high and four meters wide. Ten giant monsters were so exhausted that they dragged it under the city wall.

In the end, it took nearly a whole day just to install the iron door.

All I can say is that although this world does not have large machines like cranes, it has powerful creatures like giant monsters.

He is simply an expert at working on construction sites.

Otherwise, without them, it would be a problem to transport this iron door.

At this point, Gaoya Castle could barely be called a small town. Although it was still a little shabby, it was far ahead of the other pioneer lords.

But my lord, I have heard that there is a pioneer lord who still lives in a leaky wooden house. He has only a few hundred people under his rule and only a dozen personal guards brought from his family.

It would be more accurate to say that they are trying to survive rather than pioneer. After all, not everyone is like Levi.

If he didn't say it, no one would believe that Gaoyabao was a newly established territory less than half a year ago.

In the following days, as the situation became more turbulent, more and more bandits roamed around Gaoyabao in groups of three or five. Some natives who had heard of the reputation of this ruthless guy chose to bypass him, while some bandits who had traveled south from the depths of the wilderness and had never heard of the name of Gaoyabao actually gathered together and chose to attempt an attack.

This attempt was naturally like an egg hitting a rock. Just a few rounds of shots from the Fed archers were enough to pierce the armorless enemies like hedgehogs, causing them to flee in all directions with their morale collapsed.

"The storm is about to come." The lord put his hands behind his back and spoke with emotion.

Judging from the small, the Minotaur group heading south is definitely larger than imagined, as it can disturb this wilderness so much.
"The eyes of these bandits were turning green and red. I cut open the stomach of one of them and found only a few undigested toes and hair. It must be that he was starving to death." Zat took the handkerchief handed over by the servant and wiped the blood off his hands, his tone heavy.

Only if it has experienced hunger before can it deeply understand how hungry a person is to the point of cannibalism.

This discovery also silenced the other orcs present. If they had not joined Highcliff Castle, their tribe would obviously have lost members due to food problems this winter.

The reason why Mutuo and his companions went south and were captured and taken to the arena was because their tribe could not afford to support so many strong men, so they had to send a group of people out to make a living on their own.

"No wonder they attacked Gaoya Castle even though they knew they could not win. It turns out they regarded it as their only lifeline." Levi shook his head.

It is impossible that the Kexianri tribe went south simply to drive away these wilderness natives. Their main purpose was probably to plunder supplies.

These three-blade-tall strong men all have big bellies. If they don't plunder supplies, their own food will hardly sustain them through this long winter.

So it was completely expected that these bandits who came south would have no food to survive.

To be honest, Levi was very surprised when he heard that this Tauren tribe had as many as seven or eight hundred warriors.

Generally, a tribe of such a powerful race has no more than a few hundred people, including men, women, old and young. Just like the trolls, there are often families of dozens of people, or a tribe of one or two hundred people, because the supplies around are not enough to support a race that cannot farm to gather a large number of members.

Activities like hunting or herding can only provide very limited food, as there are only so many supplies around. Once the population increases, a food crisis will occur.

Now it seems no wonder that they have become a large tribe. Every year they fatten up the tribes in the wilderness, and then go south to plunder supplies when winter approaches.

It can be said that the nobles in the North have suffered from this group of bullies for a long time.

If this group of Milotaurs could plunder enough supplies along the way and bring them back, everyone would be happy. But if they failed to get enough supplies to keep them alive through the winter, there was no telling what they might do.

Another day passed, and a vicious incident that no one expected happened in Gaoya Castle.

The bandit group attacked the slaves of High Cliff Castle at night. When the High Cliff Castle guards arrived, all the slaves had been killed and all the food and farm tools had been looted.

Gaoya Castle is divided into two areas. One is the civilian area located on the hill and is firmly protected by the city wall. The second area is the slave residence with small wooden cabins located at the foot of the hill.

Compared to the heavily guarded civilian area, which has three shifts of guard duty and is patrolled all day, the patrols in the slave area are merely organized spontaneously.

The incident was caused by several kobolds who were negligent in their night duty and failed to send a request for help to the guards in time.

If they had not been killed by the robbers, Old Neil would have hung them on road signs as a warning to others. Now the old dog-headed man was sweating profusely.

Because it learned magic and diligently led the slaves to reclaim wasteland, its status rose sharply, and it moved into the territorial area not long ago.

But now something has happened to the slave area it is responsible for managing. If it is not handled properly, all its efforts for so long will go to waste.

Levi didn't say anything, he was extremely silent. He set out at dawn with the orc guards, the gnoll scout team, and a few giant monsters pulling carriages, and did not return until sunset the next night.

Each of them was soaked in blood, as if they had just swam in a sea of ​​blood, and their faces were filled with fatigue. Even the energetic wolf collapsed to the ground, refusing to raise its head.

At the same time, the carriages pulled by the giants were filled with the heads of bandits whose faces showed fear until their death. There were lizard men and leopard-headed men, totaling thousands of them.

Under the orders of the lord, the barbarians placed these heads in a mausoleum not far from Gaoya Fort to serve as a warning to other bandits with evil intentions.

Countless crows were attracted and competed to peck at the flesh and blood on these heads.

The head with its eyes open still retained the remaining fear from life, along with the shrill screams of the crows pecking at the ground in the sky.

Just one look at it can trigger the fear hidden in your instincts and make you shudder.

No one in Gaoyabao commented on this. They just quietly did their own work, but did not dare to look up.

Being on the hill, they could easily see the scenery by just raising their heads.

Old Neil, who was anxiously waiting, waited and waited for the lord's call to come back, but he had no choice but to go and apologize. Unexpectedly, he caught the lord enjoying a massage from the goat girl and the rabbit girl. Before he could say a word, he was kicked out and scolded.

After taking a look at the door that was slammed shut, the old dog-headed man breathed a sigh of relief, a relaxed smile appeared on his face, he straightened his clothes and left with his hands behind his back.

It had already used the Land Fertilization Spell to fertilize all the farmland in Gaoyabao, so it had nothing to do during this period. It could only go to a female dog-headed man it had just chosen to talk about the epic story of how many hardships it had gone through to finally become the leader of Gaoyabao. The effect of Jingguan was visible to the naked eye. A bandit group of about a thousand people who accidentally wandered here looked at the head that had been pecked by crows and only a few pieces of meat were left. They silently bypassed this ruthless character and continued to move south.

Even if they were facing the Minotaur, they could at most defeat it. However, the devil who piled up their heads for public display after their death, leaving them to be beaten by the wind and rain, scorched by the sun, and pecked by crows, made their inner fear suppress their hunger.

Thanks to the deterrence of Jingguan, no more blind bandits attacked Gaoyabao. Life suddenly became peaceful, which made the people of Gaoyabao a little uncomfortable.

The tense feeling of impending storm gradually faded away as time passed peacefully.

The only major event left was Leah's arrival, and waiting was always a tiring thing.

Fortunately, news came the next day that the team from Bailiu City would arrive early the next morning.

The next day, early in the morning, the lord's hall was full of people.

"Come again! Come again!"

The silver dragon girl's eyes were red. She anxiously slapped Orlak's hand away and shuffled the cards herself.

The one who organized the game was naturally Sophia, who was in charge, and the ones who played cards were Levi and the old orc Orak.

Everyone got up early, only to receive news that the team that was approaching had their wheels entangled in weeds on the road and had wasted some time cleaning up, so they would be several hours late and would probably not arrive until noon.

People who had nothing to do started playing cards to kill time.

"Are you sure you want to come again?"

The lord tried hard to hold back his laughter, but he just couldn't help it.

In order to lure this timid but treasure-loving little silver dragon into the trap, Levi released a huge amount of water, allowing her to win more than ten gold coins. As a result, now she really thinks she is a genius and has great card skills.

He kept pestering him to play cards, mainly because everyone in Gaoya Castle was poor except him, so he was the only one he could turn to.

Levi had been keeping her on suspense, and every time she came to play cards with him, he would make excuses that he had something to do. It was not until a few days ago when he had some free time that he finally decided to take back the bullet that had been fired prematurely.

It is still better to let her taste a little sweetness at the beginning to avoid scaring her away.

Just when the little silver dragon was drooling over the gold coin that filled her little purse, thinking that she had won every battle.

What followed was a crushing defeat, which made the silver dragon girl start to doubt her life.

But she didn't think that she was not capable, she thought it was just bad luck.

As the small purse gradually dries up, the silver dragon girl watched helplessly as the glittering gold coins slipped away from her hands. The gap between sudden wealth and sudden poverty was a great turn-on for the silver dragon girl.

"Sorry, two kings and four twos, I win again." The lord smiled and put the cards down, with an expression that read "I am invincible, you can do whatever you want" on his face.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" The Silver Dragon Girl looked at the cards in her hand with a look of despair, as there was no card higher than nine.

Finally, she seemed to have thought of something. She suddenly became tough and asked with her hands on her hips, "How can your luck be so good? You always get the biggest cards. Did you hide your cards?"

This cleverness came too late. He only thought of it after he had lost all his pants. The lord was almost laughing to death.

This sense of guilt for bullying a little fool made him feel that he had to buy a bag of melon seeds to compensate the little silver dragon.

"Sir, am I that kind of person? If you don't believe me, come and search."

Levi, who was sitting in the main seat, leaned back, opened his arms, and looked frank.

The silver dragon girl, with a look of suspicion on her face, was surprisingly courageous for the sake of treasure. Not only did she dare to question the lord for the first time, she actually stepped on the table and jumped into Levi's arms and began to search over and over again.

Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, he didn't find anything at all. He could only climb down from the lord with a dejected look on his face.

Li Wei said with a smile: "You have now lost a total of 6,005 gold grams to me. Since you are so poor that you can't even take out a copper coin, you also agree to pay the debt with labor."

As he spoke, Levi took out a piece of parchment with the contents already written on it from his arms. "According to your labor remuneration of two gold grams per month on Dragon Island, my lord, I will be merciful and give you two gold grams and fifty silver grams per month, which means you have to work for me for two hundred years to pay it off."

"But I may not live that long, so let's just assume you live a hundred years."

Levi quickly wrote his name on two pieces of parchment, then handed over the quill pen: "Sign it."

Looking at the treaty on the parchment, Sophia pursed her lips and her white jade hands trembled. The lifespan of a dragon is very long, but a hundred years is not a time that can be easily ignored by a dragon.

According to her current age, she would have been an adult in over sixty years, and a hundred years would only be a few decades away from entering middle age.

Simply put, by signing this contract she will have to work for this human from childhood to adulthood!

"Levi, I will definitely win next time! Let's play again, I will definitely win back!"

Sophia seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. She hurriedly shook the lord's arm, blinking her silver eyes, looking pitiful.

"Sophia, I have to sternly reject you on this. Not to mention that even if I beat you, it will not be of any benefit to me whose lifespan is not even as long as that of a dragon. Besides, you are already stuck in the quagmire and cannot extricate yourself. In order to save you, I will not play cards with you anymore." Levi looked righteous, like a Pope who led a lost lamb back to the right path.

"From now on, playing cards in Gaoya Castle is only allowed for entertainment and not gambling!" Li Wei suddenly announced a new rule of Gaoya Castle to everyone around him.

"Also, in order to help Sophia get rid of her card addiction, no one is allowed to play cards with her!"

As the lord gave the next order, Sophia felt as if the sky had fallen and she collapsed to the ground.

This time, not only did she not make any money, she also became someone else's worker. The silver dragon girl was in tears.

She is probably the first silver dragon in history to be the most indebted.

The lord, who got what he wanted, walked out of the lord's hall with his hands behind his back and a serious expression. When he was far enough away, he could no longer hold back and burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)