Are you the new lord sent by the Marquises?

Puda's words reveal a certain strange emotion that even Sean and Cecilia can feel, as if they are faintly looking forward to something?

"Ahem." Sean showed a look that he considered to be very reserved and modest, and smiled toothily, this smile was very relatable, "Yes." ”

And then......

Sean saw a look of disappointment on Puda's face.

He was so undisguised that his naked expression instantly froze the smile on Sean's face. Could it be that the anticipation he had just now was actually wishing that he would say a "no"?

Sean turned his head to look at Cecilia with some confusion and asked in a low voice, "Am I so unsuccessful?" ”

Cecilia thought for a moment and replied in a whisper, "Maybe it's because you look too young?" ”

Sean looked at Cecilia a little helplessly, the little fool's comforting words didn't sound reliable at all. A lord's talent and strength have nothing to do with age at all, as the youngest powerful marquis of the Principality of Lane, Asuna is only twenty-six years old this year, although she is about to turn twenty-seven years old, but in the Principality of Lane, she is definitely the youngest powerful nobleman, there is no one of them.

Who would say she's still young? Or, who would dare to say that she is young?

Puda's disappointment left Sean a little confused.

"I thought the new lord would be one of the three followers of the Valkyrie." Puda is a relatively honest person, he simply has one thing to say, two to say, and he doesn't hide his thoughts at all.

Sean said helplessly, "I'm also a follower of Lord Asuna." ”

"Huh." Puda laughed and didn't say anything.

Sean's face became a little ugly, and the polite smile of the word "hehe" really reminded him of too many unbearable memories before. If Asuna or Elizabeth were like this, Sean felt that he could still accept it, but let a man, or a middle-aged man, hehe hehe, Sean had a sense of madness that wanted to hit the wall.

In fact. If Sean had known that Puda was judging strength based on the number and quality of followers around a lord. He'd be sure to pick a few more muscular looking men to hold up the scene, or simply wait for Alfred to come back. After all, in Puda's eyes at this moment, this lord only has a burly follower of the Northlands barbarians, and it seems that the strength of this follower is not very good.

However, Puda could still say "hehe" at this moment, and the old mayor on the side of the town, his face became a little unnatural: "My lord, I have already made it clear to you just now. It's not our fault in Puda town......"

Sean looked at the old mayor.

The old mayor is full of silver hair, his face is wrinkled, his figure has begun to shrink, and his body exudes a smell of decay, even if Sean doesn't understand this, he also knows that the old mayor in front of him will not have a few years to live. But even so. Over the years, he has been doing his best to contribute to the development of the entire town, otherwise he would not have said the words "I just ask the new lord not to be too harsh".

"I didn't blame you." Sean shook his head lightly and said, "I also have a thorough understanding of the situation in the town, and it was not your fault in the first place. It was abandoned and became a borderland, if I were the mayor of the town. I'll do the same to survive. ”

Speaking of which. Sean stood up and bowed to the mayor, "About the snake of Hubbinder." I'll figure it out. ”

"There are still two or three hundred members of the Serpent of Hubbard, and they are all murderers who have actually fought in battle, as you saw in the tavern just now." Puda's brows furrowed, he also stood up, and said, "And Hubin himself is still a low-ranking silver powerhouse, although his mercenary group is relatively weak in the three nearby towns, but his own strength can definitely rank in the top five. …… The hammer you saw before is said to be no match for him. ”

Puda's words are a bit blunt, which can easily be mistaken for questioning Sean's abilities. Even if Sean and Cecilia knew that this was not what Dopuda meant, it would still sound a little uncomfortable.

If Puda Zhilu had killed two of the lower silvers in the fortress of Tonys, I am afraid he would not have said such a thing.

Of course, this is not to say that Sean can really easily kill silver-level masters, the most important thing is that Sean has enough hole cards in his hand, but how to play all these hole cards is a bit of a need to study Sean's calculation ability. Otherwise, he wouldn't have risked putting himself in an extremely disadvantageous situation at the Tonis Fortress in the first place, forcing the Wind Swordsman to use the most powerful killing move, and then use the curse seal silver scale to break this mortal sword, and then turn defeat into victory.

However, the average lower silver powerhouse, Sean really doesn't pay attention to it. At least the barbarian of the Wild Land called Heavy Hammer, Sean can not care at all, but he didn't want to reveal his identity and strength so quickly, so he used some small means to force the other party away, and when he heard Puda's words, he automatically filtered the tone that seemed to doubt his strength, and focused on the information about the three towns.

"The strength can be ranked in the top five, so that means that there are at least four people whose strength is ahead of him?" Sean asked, "Got a high-ranking silver?" ”

"Not really." Puda shook his head, "If there really was a high-ranking silver, these three towns would have been taken by a mercenary group a long time ago, how could the three of them be safe like today." …… However, to be precise, there are only three who are slightly better than Hubbinder, and he should be able to rank fourth. But if you want to talk about the size and combat power of the mercenary group, it is still the Dabroun mercenary group. ”

"Dabroun?" Sean had heard William mention it before.

In fact, he didn't come to Red Leaf Town by random choice, but William had already done some simple intelligence work. But because the intelligence work is too simple, he also managed to get too much favorable information, and after a rough assessment, he decided to take Red Leaf Town first, for no other reason, that is, the number of mercenaries in Red Leaf Town is the smallest, but only Red Leaf Town has a militia group.

According to the sum of William, Sean, and Cecilia, it is best to find out the average combat power of this mercenary group first, and then let Sean understand Momiji Town's thoughts on the succession of the new lord. If you can get Momiji Town to accept the arrival of the new lord without causing any problems. That's the best way to go. If it really can't be done, then you can only wait for Alfred to bring people over, and then directly suppress it by force.

It's just that the situation has changed, and it is indeed somewhat expected.

Anno's stupid big pair of iron fists directly turned the situation in the entire Red Leaf Town into a mess. If at this time, Sean doesn't know how to touch fish, then his head will really be white.

"It was the largest of the three towns in the neighborhood. It is said that at one time it reached 6,000 people, and they were all about to catch up with a small town. They were the first town to invite the mercenary group, but they didn't expect to invite a bandit who had been plundering the southern part of the kingdom, so that night the town was almost a hell, and many families robbed their wives and daughters......"

These words, don't be too straightforward. Sean and Cecilia also knew what it meant.

A few days later, the gang seemed to have found their target and went out to rob them. On that day, a third of the people in the whole town ran away, and a large town was more than half empty in an instant, and then the bandits came back to find that the situation was not right, and then sealed several town gates, leaving only one. They also sent people to guard it every day. Later, I heard that another group of people were preparing to flee. It seems that a clash broke out with the mercenary group, resulting in the death of hundreds of people. Only a few dozen people ran away, and they all flocked to another town, so the mercenary group also sent people to beg for it, but the town did not hand over the people, so a conflict broke out between the two towns later, but I don't know which side of the road won. ”

"It seems that the situation in my territory seems to be a little complicated." Sean smiled bitterly, "Is Dabron really a dead town now?" ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten." Puda thought for a moment, and then said his guess, "A third of the people ran first, and hundreds of people died, which is almost catching up with the scale of Red Leaf Town, and there are only two or three thousand people left in that town at most, but it has been a year, and that mercenary group is a group of brutal murderers, who knows if there are any more people who die there?" …… A town of five or six thousand people, with only so many people left, isn't that a dead town? ”

Sean was silent.

The development of a territory is closely related to the size and number of its people, and if the territory does not have its people, any development is empty talk. Under normal circumstances, the people of the territory will not have an explosive growth, only when there is a war or disaster or famine in other places nearby, it will lead to a large number of refugees, displaced people, and then pour into other territories, but in the end, whether these people can be developed into their own people, instead of a group of bandits, robbers, it depends on the ability and ability of the lord.

Therefore, the situation in Dabroun Town is equivalent to destroying Sean's foundation, which naturally makes Sean feel extremely unhappy.

At this moment, a young man suddenly broke into the old mayor's house and shouted in a panic: "Uncle Puda, it's not good! The Serpent of Hubbard left the camp and rushed towards the town, and they were fierce! ”

Hearing this, Puda's brows furrowed slightly, as if he was a little annoyed.

But only Sean's face changed suddenly: "Are they coming?" ”

The young militiaman didn't know who Shaun was, but when he saw him asking, he replied, "Yes!" This time they all had weapons in their hands, and the Harbinder had a long knife, and the Harbind mercenaries in the town had left the town......"

This time, Puda's face finally changed, because although there had been several clashes before, the two sides had only beaten each other at most, and almost never used weapons, even if it was a clash that night, neither side used weapons. But this time, the Serpent of Hubbard actually came with a weapon, and the situation was completely different. (To be continued.) )

PS: Do you feel excited to see the subtitle like the first update?