It's possible to practice magic this way, right?

Using severed limbs for skin care? Good idea, but Viscountess, your idea is a bit wasteful.

Lin Li quickly waved his hands and said, "No more, no more. I can't afford to maintain this. This is a level 8 magic scroll."

The Viscountess then revealed a surprised expression. It seemed that she only now realized how rare the opportunity just now was.

At this time, the Viscount said: "Today is a day of continuous good news. Not only did Lin Li come back, he also helped us defend the city, and Val's arm also recovered."

"Madam, go and give orders for a celebration banquet to be held in the mansion tonight. It will be a good opportunity to reward the meritorious soldiers."

"Okay, I'll do it right away."

The Viscountess smiled and took Elina and the others away.

After seeing them all leave, Lin Li asked, "What are you going to do next? What will happen to us if the royal city is destroyed?"

The Viscount said solemnly: "After the fall of the royal city, sooner or later we lords will be swallowed up bit by bit. Unless there are special circumstances, we nobles of the original kingdom will be dealt with. The land will also be divided up."

"So what is a special case?"

"Of course there is enough strength. And it also requires a sufficient price to be paid."

Strength? Lin Li thought for a moment and said to the Viscount, "Do you believe me? If you do, I will show you enough strength."

"Lin Li, I know you are a legendary warrior. But one legendary warrior is not enough. Once the royal city is breached, the opponent's legendary warriors will disperse and join the attack on us. How many people can you stop by yourself?"

"Of course I know this, but they will consider the price they will pay to conquer us. Our Sko Territory is just a small territory. They will not let many legendary warriors die here for this little piece of territory."

"So as long as we can show our ability to kill the other party's legend when we defend the city, they will consider whether it is worth paying the price to occupy us."

"The situation will take a turn by then. If attacking us forcefully is not cost-effective, then they will naturally try to win us over. After all, there are four people sharing this cake."

"The more people we have, the better off we are, but we will have to side with one side in the end. And there will definitely be a price to pay."

"Uncle Paul, this is my home and Eudora's home as well. I won't let her be homeless in the future."

Lin Li's call of "uncle" made the Viscount very happy. He laughed out loud and said to Lin Li, "Okay, uncle believes you."

Val on the side was very worried and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Dad, have you forgotten how your arm recovered? Although my personal strength is not enough, I still have the scroll."

"And we don't have to fight them to the end. We just need to show that we have the ability to kill a legendary warrior."

"Do you still have a level 8 scroll?"

"Don't ask me about this. It's enough to fight a few battles anyway."

"So, Uncle Paul, you should think about which kingdom we should go to in the end."

After hearing Lin Li's last words, the Viscount sighed deeply and said helplessly, "Are we going to take this path in the end?"

"Uncle Paul, it's not that we don't want to help the kingdom, but we don't have many troops ourselves. Even if we lead the troops out, it's impossible for us to reach the royal city."

Lin Li knew that this was still a violation of the oath of the ancestors for the nobles. But Lin Li had no other choice. With his current strength, he had done his best to protect the Scott leader. It was impossible to rescue the royal city. It was impossible to reach the royal city with the troops. Now the whole country was in chaos, and the enemy might appear over there and destroy you.

Of course, Lin Li himself was indeed powerful, but even if he rushed into the royal city, what would happen? One more legendary warrior would not change anything. At most, he would just kill more enemies.

Lin Li didn't have much sense of belonging to the Kingdom of Xius. There was nothing he could do about it. After all, he was far more influenced by his past life memories than he is now. And for the subjects of the feudal system, the object of their loyalty was the local lord, not the kingdom.

This is the shortcoming of the feudal system. In Lin Li's opinion, this system is far inferior to the centralized system. The will of the people is completely influenced by the lord. Once the lord wants independence or rebels, the kingdom will instantly lose control of the land. Once the royal family is weak, the country will fall into crisis.

In fact, what Lin Li didn't understand the most was that the entire continent was facing the threat of the abyss, so why was the Western Continent still in this state? The kingdoms were still attacking each other. Shouldn't they gather all their strength to fight against the abyss?

The Viscount sighed again and said, "I understand. Let's leave it at that."

……

When Lin Li came back, he showed his strength above the legendary level. This incident spread, and no one attacked the Scott Territory again. Lin Li lived in peace for more than a month.

The Royal City was captured before the spring harvest. This was an inevitable result. No one in the Western Continent could change this outcome unless the Magic Association stepped in.

The situation later was just as the Viscount had said. The nobles and territories of the former Kingdom of Xius were all divided up by the four countries. They were either persuaded to surrender or conquered, and basically all of them fell in a short period of time.

As the spring harvest began, Lin Li also began to get busy. Although there was no large army attacking the city, the crops were not planted in the city, so Lin Li had been protecting the people in the territory to harvest food recently.

There were no major battles, but there were often small groups of troops coming to plunder food and grass. There were not only soldiers from the other four countries, but also many people from the former Kingdom of Xius. There were even bandits who appeared out of nowhere.

During this period, the Scott Territory also took in some nobles from the original kingdom. These were people who were already familiar with the Viscount. Without their territory and the kingdom they were loyal to, they could no longer be considered nobles. Among them was the Viscountess's hometown.

These people were all refugees. They were lucky to be alive, not to mention their property.

But it was actually a good thing for the Scotts. They added some troops and even had three master warriors. One of them was Eudora's grandfather.

However, the peaceful days were broken today, as people from the Barron Kingdom came to attack the city.

Lin Li was now standing on the city wall, looking at the dense crowd below. It was a dark mass, and roughly calculated that there should be nearly 3000 people. And the soldiers guarding the city were less than in total. This was because they took in many remnants of the former Xius Kingdom.

However, the spring harvest went smoothly, and after a month of rest, we had sufficient weapons and tools for defending the city.

But Lin Li knew that there must be a legendary warrior on the other side. There might be more than one.

Lin Li looked at the Viscount and the others on the city wall and said confidently, "Everyone relax, I will take care of this battle."