Chapter 86: The Lucky Viscount Mara

Chapter 86 The Lucky Viscount Mara

After the appointments that should be made and the rewards that should be given, after sending the three away, Owen ate another steak before returning to the study.

After sitting down, Owen discreetly took out a large piece of parchment from the drawer, laid it flat on the desktop, then unscrewed the ink cap and placed it in the upper right corner, and finally took the quill and began to fret.

Originally, he had wanted to regulate the next development plan, but on second thought, Owen realized that he had made a mess of things, so messy that he had no way to start.

The messy sub-bases, and the things that needed to be dealt with now and the things that needed to be dealt with in the future were not prioritized, and they crossed over each other, making it impossible for him to make sense of it for a while.

Under no choice, Owen could only start combing from the beginning, and at the same time complained that the system was not powerful enough, if he was given unlimited progress value, he was afraid that he would directly raise the divine kingdom to create a divine system.

But the fantasy was soon broken by the reality, looking at the records on the parchment, Owen knew that he was a bit messy, but he didn’t expect himself to be so messy.

“Am I treading on coins?” It was said that the Sage state was conducive to thinking, but apparently he had pushed too hard and lost his brain, and it was only this time when he came back to his senses that he began to feel remorse.

Owen, who had already reflected before, did not intend to waste any more time, and resigned himself to his fate and began to write and draw on the parchment, intending to plan out a sequence, at the same time swearing that after deciding on what to develop, he would never disperse his energies until he had achieved enough, and that breaking off the rotten end would start with him.

After careful consideration, Owen decided to develop the strength of the territory in the next period of time and increase his own strength, the former is his umbrella, is the basis of all development, the latter is the core of everything, only he is alive to have a future, if he died, everything is useless, so he decided to delay the development of the various sub-bases, including the dungeon.

The reason for this decision is that the strength of the territory can resist enough risks, so that Owen does not need to consider the matter of running and hiding for the time being, and when the territory develops to a certain extent and attracts more attention, then he will consider the development of these unseen strengths, and enhance the ability to resist all kinds of risks.

Of course, after making this decision, it doesn’t mean that he won’t ask about any other places except the territory, in fact, the only thing that really stops is the underground city and the underground tunnel, because the cost of these two projects on the progress value is really too big.

The scale of iron ore mining remained unchanged because the quality of the iron ore was very high, and even without increasing the manpower, the amount of iron ore mined was enough for the territory to use, and there was still a surplus as a reserve.

The wooden fortress can also remain unchanged, there is no foreign population, there is no need to build houses, just build wooden walls and archery towers, the timber cut down for road construction is already enough.

The ruins can’t be stopped, there must be enough stone stockpiled for the construction of the city wall in the spring.

In this way, the task of the kobold town is a bit heavy, dismantling the ruins, building roads, managing the farmland, each of which requires a large amount of manpower, between the current lack of manpower, the mechanical puppetization, even if it is not a large-scale expansion, the necessary increase is also unavoidable.

However, the progress value that needs to be consumed is still within Owen’s tolerance, and he will not be anxious because of this, after all, the first two do not need to consume progress value, the latter as he is gradually skilled in the alternative use of mechanical engineering of puppetry, the dependence on progress value is also gradually decreasing, coupled with the fact that the super farmland can cultivate special plants, and the iron mines produce high-quality iron and steel, the consumption of progress value will be even smaller.

After Owen finished dealing with these and was ready to focus on developing his territory, he was bewildered to find that he had no use for it?
There was no population to convert, no soldiers to train, no buildings to construct, and everything he could think of had either already been done or couldn’t be done.

This makes it a bit awkward, he reflects, blames himself, worries, and rises to the occasion, only to have you tell him to stop working and rest.

Owen, who is self-conscious that his face hurts a little, is really resigned to the fact that he might as well rest. Of course, this is just a joke, just to charge himself, by the way to see if there is no way to strengthen themselves, he has had enough of those two all day with the sealing needle in front of him, the man also arrived at the time to really stand up!

While Owen was fighting hard for the rise of men, the town of Mara was in a panic, light cavalry with scimitars patrolled the town, and any outsiders were driven out without mercy, including merchants who had cooperated for a long time.

With Viscount Mara’s shrewd business acumen, he would never normally do this, but who let Mara Town come to a life and death situation, at this time that still cares about business.

“Have you packed everything?” Viscount Mara was resting his eyes, hearing the familiar footsteps of the butler, he asked without lifting his head.

“My lord, the belongings have been packed and dispersed to the horses of the cronies.” The old butler who had served Viscount Mara for many years did not panic because of the tense atmosphere outside, and still properly handled the matters explained by his lord.

“Let the cavalry rest early tonight, and quietly set out in the early hours of the morning before dawn for the Northlands Ranch.” Although the town of Mara was surrounded by hundreds of horse thieves, Viscount Mara was not disorganized, on the contrary, as early as twenty years ago he had predicted the arrival of this day.

Very few people knew that Viscount Mara, in addition to Mara Town, had a nomadic tribe further north, headed by his daughter.

At the same time most of the wealth that Viscount Mara had earned over the years was not in the north, but in the Chamber of Commerce at the border of the empire, managed by his two sons, so he wasn’t panicking, and as long as he succeeded in getting out of the way, whether it was to make a comeback or take advantage of the opportunity to retire, he was sure enough to do so.

Now the most crucial thing is to get rid of those horse thieves, and then after meeting up with his daughter, as to whether to go or stay, the initiative is in his hands.

In the early hours of the morning when the sky was darkest, Viscount Mara, who was still athletic, quietly left the town with the most elite cavalry under his command, during which he did not disturb anyone, including the residents of the town.

Although it was a pity to give up the town, Viscount Mara knew that this was the price that was bound to be paid, and it was the only way to keep the other side from pursuing them with all their might, because the purpose of these horse thieves was not to kill him, but to seize the Mara Town that was capable of harvesting a steady stream of wealth.

Who would risk their lives to hunt them down if they could get their hands on it without any trouble? That’s why Viscount Mara didn’t choose to take away the townspeople and the livestock, but he wasn’t willing to do so!

“Damn horse thieves!” Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, Viscount Mara, who escaped from the horse thieves’ encirclement, spat fiercely and said with a fierce expression.

Although he had long been psychologically prepared, but he had spent half of his life to earn the foundation, and then he was forced to give up, before he did not get rid of the danger okay, as soon as he was out of danger, the resentment in his heart could not be stopped.

But then how, Mara Viscount of the origin of those horse thieves know very well, said the horse thieves, is only wearing the skin of the horse thieves, which horse thieves can gather up hundreds of people, just the daily consumption of food is not a small number, not to mention equipped with a unified style of weapons and leather armor, which is clearly the back of someone.

But there is no way, no one behind the Viscount Mara support, so the face of the river dragon can only choose to back down, and even in order to avoid the other side of the anger, in addition to their own accumulated property, nothing to take away, and even the town has not burned down.

However, think about the recent Northland constantly occurring the replacement of the old and new, full of blood and slaughter, only to pay these costs to get away, in some ways, he is considered lucky.

(End of chapter)