T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World

Kaina was overjoyed to learn that the remaining monster materials would allow them to move from the old North City to the safer East City, closer to the lord, or even to other major city-states.

She waited hopefully for Johnny to sell the monster materials, but Johnny kept delaying.

“My dear, if we sell it too soon, it will attract unwanted attention and put us in danger.”

“I will find wandering merchants who have left the territory to sell the crystals. This will allow us to live comfortably for a while. Please be patient a little longer.”

Day after day, for a full two months, Johnny kept repeating the same story. Kaina grew resentful and a wicked thought suddenly arose in her mind.

After confirming that there were indeed materials at the burial site, she traded magic crystals for potions, diluted them, and continued to feed them to Johnny.

He then packed up the money in his house and gave it to the governor, in exchange for his protection.

Kaina was shocked by her own unvarnished and extremely frank description.

It was as if a force was guiding her to tell the whole truth.

Johnny's brother was already comforting the two elderly people with white hair, who were crying bitterly and kneeling down, begging the lord to give Johnny justice.

Kaina's tearful voice failed to evoke even the slightest sympathy from the onlookers, who were already in a state of agitation in the square.

"Execute her!"

"No, burn her!"

"This is a demon!"

Not far away, the governor who was protecting Kaina kept wiping away sweat, pondering how to deal with the lord's wrath.

Jiang Heyi clapped his hands, suppressing the boiling shouts.

“Before Kaina, I want to deal with a more important prisoner.”

Zhong Zemo and the prison guard, one on the left and one on the right, struggled to support the still somewhat dazed governor and forcefully pushed him down in front of Jiang Heyi.

The governor, who had roughly guessed what was going on, broke out in a cold sweat, his plump body trembling and rippling.

"I... I was just... deceived!"

"It was this woman who told me that Johnny's family was extorting money from him and hoped I could offer them some protection!"

Jiang Heyi stared at him coldly: "None of that matters."

The governor sensed the approach of death. He struggled to stand up, but Jiang Heyi suddenly drew a short knife in his hand.

He, as fat as a pig, barely managed to stand up, his throat perfectly positioned in the trajectory of the swung blade.

A splash of blood, like a full moon, splattered all around, drawing a vivid arc on the ground.

The governor collapsed to the ground, convulsing, clutching his throat and attempting to heal himself with magic.

Jiang Heyi stepped aside, and the prison guard darted forward.

"[Spirit Control]!"

To better fit the public's perception of a necromancer, he deliberately used a low, cold voice to pronounce the skill names.

An eerie green thread extended from his hand, piercing through the governor's body, and a round, plump spirit burst forth from it.

He looked back blankly, watching the blood gushing from his wounds as his soul left his body, and screamed in terror.

The jailer took out the scepter of the undead messenger and smashed the governor's head with it, severing all life. At the same time, he reached out and squeezed, annihilating the spirit under his control.

The movements were fluid and graceful, causing parents with children in the square to hurriedly cover their eyes.

The sound of swallowing saliva could be clearly heard.

Before they arrived, they were only curious about what kind of person the new lord was; they never expected to witness such a bloody scene.

The fact that the lord publicly executed the lord's governor had a profound impact on many people's worldview.

The traveling merchants were speechless with astonishment; such a spectacle was rare even in the entire empire.

Kaina was sentenced to death by hanging on the spot. Her guards put a hood over her head, and the execution was carried out immediately without a postponement.

Her cries garnered no sympathy; amidst everyone's curses, she became a dangling corpse on the gallows.

In a mere instant, two judgments, two executions, two lives lost, one of which was decided by the lord himself.

Jiang Heyi's astonishing efficiency made people look at him with a hint of fervor.

Unlike their former lord, who was invisible and intangible, and who remotely controlled the pigs to exploit them, the person before them shone with a captivating radiance.

The guards knelt down on one knee before Jiang Heyi and reported the excavation results.

Johnny's buried item has been confirmed to be from a Tier 6 monster, making it a high-value material for advancing to higher-tier monster ranks.

Selling such goods rashly would indeed attract covetousness. Kaina realized this after killing Johnny and did not fully excavate the goods, but instead resold them in batches.

If Jiang Heyi hadn't intervened, she really could have moved away from Silent Territory after one or two more times.

Jiang Heyi held up the monster materials and started selling them on the spot, attracting merchants to bid against each other.

The merchants were somewhat bewildered. The blood on the scene was still wet, and the lord himself was stepping on the governor's blood, and yet... the auction had already begun?

Their profit-seeking nature still drove them to bid, and soon all the materials were sold, with the transaction completed on the spot.

Jiang Heyi distributed the money to Johnny's family in public.

Johnny's white-haired father knelt down, hugged Jiang Heyi's legs, kissed his feet, and shed tears of gratitude.

The crowd present also cheered and praised Jiang Heyi's virtue and fairness.

Jiang Heyi, who plays the role of a lord very naturally, is just unable to get past this hurdle.

Seeing an elderly man kneeling before him, he repeatedly tried to reach out and help him up.

Knowing that helping the elderly might backfire in this situation, he could only suppress his anger, keep a straight face, and pretend to be dignified and serious.

It still had to be fries. Seeing Jiang Heyi's dilemma, Johnny's elderly father stepped forward as a knight and helped him up.

The two exchanged a glance and smiled knowingly.

With the Johnny family's case in mind, subsequent investigations became much easier.

Witnessing a necromancer in action firsthand, witnessing their manipulation of spirits, is enough to terrify ordinary people who know nothing of magic, making them revere them as gods.

Those who were summoned, those with guilty consciences, were already limp as they walked down the street, like noodles. The guards pushed them onto the still-unwashed blood in the square, as if they were carrying dead pigs.

Without any interrogation, they all confessed everything in detail, crying and begging Jiang Heyi for forgiveness.

As for those trivial family matters, both parties who were summoned said that they had reached a settlement and that the lord need not worry about them.

The selected difficult cases were all heard in just one afternoon.

The number of people executed at the scene was 29.

Hanging: 26 people.

Burning at the stake: 3 people

He falsely accused a respectable woman of colluding with a sorcerer and then used the burning at the stake to kill her.

Jiang Heyi fairly set up the pyre on the spot and personally lit it to send them off.

No one questioned this; on the contrary, they applauded the straightforward and violent approach of tit-for-tat and retribution.

Wherever you are, it's always welcome to see evil get its just desserts.

Within a day, Jiang Heyi's name spread throughout the streets and alleys.

The adventurers in the tavern recounted the scene of the governor's execution on the spot with great enthusiasm, each of them blushing with excitement, as if they were the necromancers who had taken the place of the lord and delivered the fatal blow.

"That necromancer's methods are truly formidable. Did you see the governor's spirit? It was forcibly dragged out of his body and tortured."

"Your Excellency the Consul..."

"Wake up! That's a criminal handpicked by the lord, and you still call him 'Your Excellency'?"

"Pah, pah, pah! That damned governor is a level 5 official! His soul was taken away without any resistance. Just how powerful are necromancers?"

"Let me remind you, the lord has said that the necromancer was his defeated foe and was enslaved by the scroll."

"Hiss, our lord is actually at the 7th level or even higher?"

"Isn't he supposed to be an acting lord? Why are you calling him lord now?"

Someone made an inappropriate correction, which only drew unanimous contempt from everyone in the tavern.

"shut your mouth!"

"If you can't speak, you can drink; just stay silent!"

"Don't you wish for someone like that to become a true lord?"

"He's so cool. Hopefully, the Imperial Inquisition will recognize his abilities."

"It's hard to say. The extinction of the previous lord's line is a good thing for the knights in the capital. Without an heir, it means they can legitimately send strange people to the Silent Territory to make money. They've done that in other territories before."

As soon as he finished speaking, the tavern fell into a brief silence.

In the past, the people of Silent Territory, the adventurers and merchants who came and went, would not openly discuss the lord.

Everyone knows that the former lord was a good-for-nothing, a pig, a scumbag, a bloodsucking worm.

Discussing an inferior species with no room for decline is a pure waste of time.

The people of the Silent Territory had become accustomed to living under such rule; they had no choice but to be oppressed.

The sudden death of the former lord brought Jiang Heyi to the city.

A proxy lord dared to take the risk of immediately changing the tax system.

To maintain order, the original guard was cleared out and a new guard was formed.

The new guard was highly disciplined and never harassed merchants or solicited bribes. They fairly provided basic security services to every merchant who came here.

When faced with serious crimes, they are fearless and courageous. More than one person has witnessed members of the guard chasing drug smugglers down the street, resulting in bayonet charges and profuse bloodshed.

The Silent Territory had never seen guards like this before; each of them seemed to have been injected with adrenaline and were completely transformed.

Normally, they would turn a blind eye to such violent incidents, but now they seem to be acting crazy, as if they are afraid of falling behind others. The contrast between their past and present behavior is too great.

Combined with the lord's public execution of the governor today, the people are gradually becoming more willing to believe that the new lord possesses a unique charisma that can make a group of carefree adventurers willingly serve him and sacrifice their lives for him.

Not only that, this lord actually stood up for justice for the people of Silent Territory.

"Perhaps even the gods could not bear to see our misery and sent a saint to bestow light upon us."

Chapter 354 Is everything going smoothly?

In an environment where it's purely about being the worst, behaving like a normal person will allow you to defeat 99% of your opponents.

This is the insight gained from the second playthrough simulation of the boundary between the virtual and real worlds.

The tax system was redesigned to be more human-like.

Provide basic security services to ensure order and stability.

Ensure basic food and clothing needs are met.

If even one of these three items can be achieved, the public will be deeply grateful.

If these two things are accomplished, the people of the territory will vow to follow and defend them to the death.

If you can do these three things, the feedback you get from your bedside is already considered "saintly".

When did the standard for sainthood become so low...?

If they can also provide medical services, wouldn't that mean they'd actually be crowned emperor?

After the public trial concluded, Jiang Heyi's position as acting lord was firmly established. The people spontaneously removed the "acting" label, and wherever he went, they showered him with praise.

Zhong Zemo finally felt relieved after his first playthrough.

Starting with negative reputation is unplayable; the current situation is more normal.

As long as players demonstrate a level of morality commensurate with their education, the early game should be unlikely to collapse.

With operations on track and public trust high, it's time to strike while the iron is hot at the boundary between the virtual and real worlds.

Learning from active adventurers in the area that the city's drinking water and irrigation largely depended on wells, which was very inconvenient, Jiang Heyi immediately launched a work-for-relief program, indirectly spending a lot of money.

All the artisans in the Silent Territory who had names and titles were conscripted. Driven by the glittering coins, the design and mobilization of personnel were quickly completed.

One shock after another followed, and the people soon learned that in addition to digging irrigation canals, the lord had also allocated funds to reinforce the walls of the territory, and all the old defensive strongholds had been demolished and rebuilt.