A dragon raised at birth

"My lord, did you really bring out valuable treasures from the Tamil hills?" Seeing Diablo's arrogant tone, Catherine hesitated for a moment, but asked, after all, the city was full of rumors It's hard for her to know.

"You are my subordinate now, and you are considered one of your own. Let me tell you clearly, I created the labyrinth under the Tamil hills."

"You made it?" Catherine was dumbfounded, she never dreamed of such a result.

"Ah, after all, your territory really doesn't have much room for development, so I can only create a fake ruin."

"Then you lure these adventurers in..." Catherine vaguely understood what the adult in front of her was planning to do.

"I'm poor, so I can only rob their riches and help my poor. Most of the adventurers are who, you should know, some guys don't regret it even if they die hundreds of times."

"But it's too extreme for you to do this!" Catherine really couldn't think of any words to describe the adult's actions well, and she was only shocked.

"Okay, this matter is just to let you know the inside story. You don't need to participate in it. Your only task now is to build a good school and complete literacy." Diablo's tone became a little harsher.

"Yes." The countess's heart tightened suddenly, she replied in a low voice, and then left in a hurry.

"It's still too young, with too little experience." Diablo sighed, thought for a moment, and called the butler.

"Master, what are your orders?" The white-haired but still tall old housekeeper came outside the study and looked at the familiar face of the Earl sitting in the study with a respectful expression.

"Recently, the security pressure in Cecil City is quite high. There are not enough knights in the castle. Please post the recruitment information. I want to recruit new knights."

"Excuse me, young master, what are the requirements and treatment for recruitment?"

"Above the silver level is acceptable, as for the treatment, you decide!"

"Yes."

Recruiting humans is a necessary step. After all, the number of dragons cannot be compared with that of humans with strong reproductive capacity.

And just when Cecil was a little restless because of the recruitment information released by the local lord, another news that made the adventurers even more excited and shocked spread wildly in the city.

The Roman lord, the Earl of Downton, let go of the restrictions on the Tamil Hills, announcing that powerful adventurers can go underground to explore the secrets of the Tamil Hills.

Of course, in the eyes of many adventurers, this is a concession made by the local lord under the pressure brought by more and more adventurers.

But not long after the adventurers were happy, more detailed regulations appeared, which immediately made many adventurers feel dissatisfied, because the greedy lord allowed adventurers to enter the underground palace, but everyone had to pay every time they entered. Ten imperial gold coins.Moreover, the Earl of Downton shamelessly called this toll as a fee for the identification of the strong.

The collection of strong appraisal tax has actually caused a lot of criticism among more and more adventurers in Cecil City, because the damn lord actually claimed that the fee was collected for their sake.

The Earl said that although there are many treasures in the underground palace, it is very dangerous, full of all kinds of powerful monsters, and it is not suitable for weak adventurers to explore and enter.

The fee is charged entirely for the sake of weak adventurers, because for experienced adventurers, ten gold coins is just a small amount of money, and adventurers who can't afford ten gold coins don't need to enter.

Chapter 187 Territorial Expansion

Charging the so-called expert appraisal fee seems to be reasonable at first glance, but after careful consideration, you can realize it.

However, although the adventurers were dissatisfied, they did not cause much trouble, because for adventurers with a little bit of strength, this is really not a lot of money, and there is no need to conflict with the local nobles.

As for the adventurers who can't afford the money, hehe, what's the use of their complaints?They can't make any money at all, and their strength can be imagined.

Of course, there is another reason why more and more adventurers only dare to complain. The lord of the Dicroman domain took advantage of the existence of the Tamil hills and used the harvest from them to recruit talents and expand their military strength.

The crazy expansion of the number of knights under his command is an important factor to deter those adventurers. Of course, there is also the factor of the earl's strength. No one knows how strong the earl is, but everyone knows that he is not easy to mess with.

Thus, amidst the complaints of adventurers, the Tamil underground palace was officially opened, and adventurers who longed for the treasures under the underground palace flocked here, and then, blood almost stained the first floor of the underground palace.

The ghoul thrown by Diablo on this floor of the underground palace.But they are all made of the corpses of silver-level adventurers, and even a few gold-level adventurers are mixed in. After all, adventurers who dare to steal into noble castles don't have a lot of brushes, how can they have the guts?

Although Diablo despises ghouls with foul-smelling undead, it does not mean that such undead are not strong. In fact, if there is no targeted means, an opponent who can abandon all defenses and has no fear is extremely scary.

Therefore, the adventurers who did not expect to encounter monsters of that strength just after entering had suffered heavy casualties. However, there were also adventurers who had prepared accordingly. They broke through the first floor, headed for the second floor, and met An earth element summoned by Kesenthal.

Undead, earth elementals, and combat slaves that Diablo specially rescued. Although there are not many types, their average strength is really extraordinary.

This also led to a huge panic among the group of adventurers in Kesenthal who were still on the sidelines after a day and a night, when no adventurers had ever walked out of the underground palace.

Although the underground palace was opened this time, many miscellaneous fish also mixed in, but there were not a few strong ones, and none of them came out, which was too scary.

However, this underground palace is dominated by someone, and when they found that things deviated from the plan, they began to intervene.

"This year's adventurers are too useless, and they were actually solved by a group of undead and elemental creatures."

After the underground palace was officially opened to adventurers, Diablo, who observed all the adventurers who entered, walked in the corridor filled with thick blood, couldn't help sighing.

"Master Diablo, the monsters you arranged are too strong, and the news is not spreading so fast, and the adventurers who came here are not too strong."

Behind the handsome young man, the translucent Earl of Downton smiled wryly.

"Hmm." Diablo replied nonchalantly, and walked towards the target he selected. It was a shield warrior who was severely injured and died frequently by the elder of the stone and earth element. His breathing was weak and he had too much air If you don't vent your breath, it just doesn't work when you look at it.

"No way!"

Diablo looked at the only surviving person in the underground palace this time, and stretched out his hand towards her. Golden light burst out from his fingertips, and fell like snow.

The breastplate was deformed, and the adventurer with half of his chest collapsed groaned in pain, his eyelids trembled, and just as he was about to wake up, Diablo kicked him.

Accompanied by the rumbling sound of the boulder moving, the lucky adventurer was kicked into a temporarily shaped secret room, and in the next moment, he woke up directly after being healed by the Dragon of Shengyao.

"what!"

Shield Zhan who regained consciousness let out a scream, his injuries were not fully recovered, Diablo just kept him from dying, but soon Shield Zhan suppressed the pain in his body, because he was more shocked than the scene in front of him.

Dazzling gold ornaments are like garbage, scattered all over the floor, and on the shelves dug around the walls, there are brilliant weapons and equipment.

"Treasure?"

Shield Zhan circulated the Dou Qi in his body, forced himself to stand up from the ground, and looked at the treasure in front of him in surprise. Although he witnessed his companion being killed not long ago, this did not hinder his excitement at this time.

pat!

The man tore off the broken and deformed breastplate, and then limped towards the wall. He took a fancy to a dark green suit at a glance, which symbolized the color of nature and had the power to make a man instinctively want to get close.

"This is a suit with continuous healing ability."

When the man's hand touched the green armor and put on a part of it, he understood the attributes of this extraordinary equipment. As he thought, it just had the power to help the user continue to recover from injuries.

Soon, with the help of this set of equipment, the man quickly stabilized his injuries, began to search the secret room, and found a piece of low-level space equipment that Diablo had prepared for him very thoughtfully.

"Hahaha, I'm rich!"

When he discovered the interspatial ring, the man could no longer restrain the excitement in his heart, and couldn't help laughing out loud. He was still worried just now, how could he take all the treasures out of this secret room, and it turned out that there was one .

So, at noon on the second day when the underground palace was officially opened, the man who deliberately tossed himself into a mess walked out of the underground palace with blood all over his body.

Although he knew the truth of not revealing his wealth, he didn't know that he was the only survivor among the adventurers who entered the underground palace, so when he walked out, all eyes were on him.

"Brave and lucky adventurer, congratulations on getting out of this underground palace alive!"

Diablo rode a giant horned deer, led the knight order, and looked at this lucky shield battle with a standard aristocratic hypocritical smile.

"who are you?"

The adventurer who thought he was very lucky at first, looked at the nobles blocking the entrance of the underground palace and the knights behind him, as well as the densely packed surroundings, because of the pitifully low survival rate, the adventurers who dared not enter for a long time, felt very sad. Suddenly it was half cold.

"I am the local lord, the Earl of Downton!"

Diablo, who was disguised as a young man with golden curly hair, smiled amiably, "Adventurer, don't worry, you have already paid me the strong identification fee, and I will not take any more of your gains in the underground palace, I just want to Know, what did you get down there?"

"Honorable lord, I just saved my life, and I didn't gain anything. As you said, this underground palace is really too dangerous. All my partners died."

"Hehe, lying is not a good habit!"

"My lord, everything I say is true!"

"The ring on your hand, if I'm not mistaken, should be space equipment. Are all silver-level adventurers so rich now?"

Diablo showed doubts on his face. Of course, he couldn't let this guy get away with it, and then fly away with the treasure he gave. He is not a boy who gives money.

"My lord, you are mistaken."

"You fooled a noble over and over again, do you know what will happen?"

Diablo stretched out his hand and waved it back. Behind him, two knights disguised as dragons rode forward with grinning faces. Seeing the inexplicable eyes of the surrounding adventurers, they directly knocked him down and took away his hand. space ring.

Then, under the inconceivable eyes of the surrounding adventurers, extraordinary equipment shining with aura and piles of gold coins poured out, making the scene resounded with the sound of saliva swallowing one after another.

"Master Earl, I am willing to dedicate all my gains in the underground palace to you!"

At this moment, Shield Zhan, who was pinned down and unable to move, yelled loudly. In the case of losing his companion, exposing the harvest under the dungeon, whether his life can be saved is now a very serious issue.

"Hahaha, as I said, these harvests are all yours, and I won't take them away. But you can ask for my asylum without any harm."

Diablo laughed at the adventurer's wit and gave him a chance to live.

So, under the regretful eyes of the adventurers around, the adventurer and his treasure were all taken away.But the appearance of the only survivor stimulated all the adventurers present.

Because the only survivor is a middle-ranked silver, and even a middle-ranked silver can survive, so why can't they?

With the expectation of getting rich overnight, the second group of adventurers entered the underground palace in a mighty way, and Diablo's plan to make money from the underground palace officially started.

After this matter got on the right track, Diablo had a new idea because of the ever-expanding Knights under his command.

"I'm not talking about you, Downton, you are too useless! After all, you have been a nobleman for several years, and you don't even know the specifics of the territory."

Diablo looked at a dilapidated map on the desk. This was the latest map in the castle. According to Earl Downton's description, it was drawn by his grandfather's generation, and it has been handed down for more than 60 years.

"Our family has been stationed here for generations. I have lived here since I was a child. I know exactly what the territory looks like. I don't need a map at all!"

The Earl of Downton, who was despised by Diablo, yelled aloud, what kind of map does a local nobleman want, and he won't get lost with his eyes closed.

"Then do you know the situation around your territory?" Diablo squinted at Downton's soul, "What powerful monster groups and tribes are there?"

"That's not clear!" Downton's face suddenly showed embarrassment, "These are subject to change, unless regular inspections, otherwise it is impossible to find out."

"You should know what I plan to do. It's almost at the stage of implementation, but in the end I only found such an antique-level map."

Diablo was a little annoyed. In his impression, the map was a very accurate and easy to obtain thing, but the real map was not only difficult to obtain, but also the accuracy and range were very poor.

"Lord Diablo, are you planning to expand my territory?" Downton felt a little flattered, because Diablo promised him that one day in the future, after resurrecting him, he would return his identity to him.

"Otherwise? You don't think I'm expanding the Knights just for defense, do you? Are you kidding me?"

Diablo snorted lightly, who doesn’t love things like expanding territory?Now that he has a chance, of course he wants to have a good time, but in the end, he can't find a map to confirm the expansion target and direction.

Chapter 188 The Judgment Bell

Through the communication with the Earl of Downton, Diablo finally figured out the general situation. The actual area of ​​Dicromarie is actually far beyond the scope of the earldom, and even reached the standard of the marquisdom. Not much is used.

It is precisely because of this that in Downton's grandfather's generation, members of the Dicroman family had no desire to open up to the outside world, because the territory was too large to hold.

In addition, the growth rate of the number of residents in the territory cannot keep up with the speed of external expansion-there are too many factors that can cause the death of an ordinary human being, and the food production is limited.

In the absence of any valuable areas around, and the territory is sparsely populated, Earl Downton's grandfather lost the desire to open up to the outside world, and this idea has been passed on to Earl Downton.

The Earl of Downton's pursuit after he took office was only to manage the territory well, and he had no idea of ​​expanding to the outside world.

"You can find a solution if the population is not enough. How can you stop developing for this reason?" Diablo couldn't understand at all, what is so difficult about increasing the population, as long as there is land and some policies are modified, I am afraid that it will not attract people ?

"What can I do?" Earl Downton also looked helpless. Although the border nobles are independent and have extremely high authority, it is also because this ghost place is not easy to develop. If something really happens, they can't even call for support. A few, basically everything on their own.

"It can attract domestic refugees!" Diablo, who is not familiar with the situation, gave his own suggestion.

"Where do the refugees come from in the country? Although Elvis's country is small, the people are not poor. It is impossible for the people to come to the border to settle down. No matter how good the words are, once people hear the word border, they will not go there. "

"That's true." Diablo nodded, he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, and whoever was full ran to the border.

"There is no way to attract domestic residents to settle down actively, so we can only find ways to obtain people from outside."

"There is no way to attract it!" Speaking of this, the Earl of Downton was even more helpless. His grandfather did not give up foreign development for no reason at the beginning, and there was really no way.

"The barren land bordering Elvis is too long, and there is no one living there. If you buy slaves from those merchants, the cost will be too high, and there is no way to supplement the population."

"Oh, I understand your troubles. In other words, most of your neighbors are non-human races, right?" Diablo's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"That's right, there are mostly primitive wildernesses and jungles around the Roman Territory, and there are no non-human races. If they want to plunder the population through war and development, at least one piece of virgin forest must be penetrated. My grandfather had already explored it at that time. Among them, the powerful There are many ferocious beasts, and it will be an unbearable price to conquer that forest!"

"Well," Diablo nodded, "Do you mean that the Elvis Principality is xenophobic? It doesn't accept races other than humans?"

"No xenophobia! Humanoid races can come and live here, but races such as elves and dwarves are not very willing to contact humans. I don't tell you the reason, you know the reason." Downton's face showed a trace of embarrassment.

"Will it be captured and sold as a slave?"

"Hey, before the control of the elements made you establish a country, the human beings in this area have always been oppressed. After the founding of the country, the situation improved. After hundreds of years of development, it is now where it is today."

"Isn't this essentially exclusion? It's unacceptable for non-human races to live with themselves for a long time."

Diablo pondered, and he understood the general situation, but this made him have more thoughts in his heart.