The elves of the Dead Tree Party most likely want to take the Earthlings they have captured to the fjord area further north of Lagug, where there are many pirates. The Dead Tree Party can take the pirates' ships, go out to sea and return safely to the southern part of the continent.
As for why the pirates in the Northern Fjords wanted to help the elves of the Dead Tree Party, it was probably because some kind of dirty PY deal was reached between the two sides.
However, according to Tang Wenquan, there were five elves and eleven humans in their team, but when Dick counted the bodies at the scene, he only found three elves and ten humans. Including Tang Wenquan and the captured female elf, one elf seemed to have escaped by chance.
Dick hoped to get two things out of the elf. One was whether there were still members of the Dead Tree Gang operating in secret in Laguge, and the other was to find out how they were going to get in touch with the pirates.
Realizing belatedly that Dick had just tricked her, the female elf glared at Dick and growled through gritted teeth.
"Gu, kill me!"
“Haha! Do you think you’re a female knight? Relax, since we’re all elves, I won’t do anything to you.”
As soon as Dick's words came out, the already furious female elf became even more furious.
You have to know that most elves have racist tendencies, and the Dead Tree Party is the most extreme of the extremes. Therefore, Dick's claim that he is an elf like her is the ultimate humiliation in the eyes of the female elf!
In the face of the female elf's cursing, Dick remained unmoved with a smile, and then deliberately used a caring tone and kept saying words that could anger the other party.
We are all elves, regardless of status... We are only one-quarter elves, but that doesn't stop me from being an elf like you... A spiritual elf is still an elf!
Every word he said hit the nail on the head, making the female elf tremble with anger.
Finally, Dick just spread out his hands in a mean way.
"Will what you said be of any use? You are in my hands now, and whatever I say is what I will do. Can your compatriots come to save you? If there are rescuers, where are they?"
"Don't be so proud, you Bloodstained One. When Captain Hammuradi comes, you will..."
The elf stopped talking abruptly. Although she was not very smart and had just been deliberately provoked by Dick to the point of almost losing her mind, she came to her senses halfway through her words.
But for Dick, even half of it was enough.
So he stood up, nodded slightly, and bowed to the other party gracefully.
"Thank you for the information, Miss Elf."
Amid the female elf's screaming curses, Dick left the dungeon and gave the name "Hamuradi" to Tia for investigation. As a result, in the evening of the same day, Tia brought a piece of relevant information about Hamuradi, the Dead Tree Party elf.
It turns out that this guy is a former celebrity, a wanted criminal at the top of the Empire's wanted list, one of the currently known elders of the Dead Tree Party, and a remnant of the Elf Empire who is over a thousand years old.
Hammuradi was the personal guard of the last queen of the Elf Empire and was said to be the queen's lover. After the fall of the empire, he was pulled into the group by other elders of the Dead Tree Party out of loyalty and love for the queen.
With a long life span and decent talent, Hammuradi broke through to the Saint level long ago. He is also a very rare assassin-type player among Saint level masters.
The most famous assassination attempt by Hamradi was the assassination of Hesse III more than a hundred years ago, but that assassination ultimately failed.
The Dead Tree Party first designed to lure away the two Saint-level masters in the palace to create an opportunity for Hammuradi, but when they were about to succeed, they were easily repelled by a hidden master in the palace. The opponent is suspected to be a powerful person at the sub-god level, but no one knows the name of this super strong person.
Logically speaking, a sub-god would crush a saint, but no one knew why the mysterious master let Hamuradi go and just injured him.
After that, Hammuradi disappeared for a full eighty years, until his name was almost wiped out from the world, when he suddenly returned like lightning.
But perhaps it was because of the painful experience of being taught a lesson by Asia, since then, this legendary assassin of the elves has restrained himself a lot. Not to mention entering the palace to assassinate again, he even dared not approach the imperial capital.
After reading the files that Tia brought, Dick thought that this situation was indeed a bit tricky.
This is a Saint-level master, and also an assassin who fights without martial ethics. Although there are strong people around him who can confront the Saint-level head-on, he can still be ambushed.
Meanwhile, in the territory of Count Hoffman, the Count himself was secretly meeting a group of mysterious visitors in his castle. All of them wore thick cloaks and covered their faces with black veils. The leader sat opposite the Count, and just by introducing his name, the Count, who was always calm, began to sweat.
As soon as the other party arrived, he made a "request" to Count Hoffmann without any hesitation, wanting to borrow his Earthling aide, Isaac, for a period of fifty years.
When Isaac heard that it was fifty years, he exclaimed in his heart, Wow!
He is already over 40 years old this year. People on Earth cannot practice the martial arts of this world to prolong their lifespan, so it is unknown whether he can live another 50 years.
This is clearly a freeloader where you borrow without paying back.
But after hesitating for a moment, Count Hoffmann reluctantly nodded in agreement.
Firstly, the other party had some shameful leverage over him, and secondly, based on his understanding of the person in front of him, if he really disagreed, the other party would immediately use the "old method" to force him to agree.
The option of rejection never existed from the beginning.
So Hoffman gave Isaac a "labor dispatch" order in person, asking him to obey the masked man named Hamradi from now on.
This was a temporary transfer of the slave contract. Theoretically, Hoffman still had priority over Isaac and could cancel the loan agreement at any time. The contract acted directly on the soul and was not affected by distance, but Hoffman did not dare to cancel it at will because he really could not afford to offend Hammuradi.
In this way, Yitzhak got a "new master" without knowing what was happening, and was taken away from the Earl's Palace by the masked men. It was not until they left the city that Yitzhak finally saw the true face of Hammuradi, who turned out to be a handsome elf with a pale face that looked like a living person.
Facing this new master, Isaac behaved extremely cautiously. After all, the count had been extremely wary of this elf.
"Sir, it is my honor to serve you, but please forgive my ignorance and ask, what do you need me to do for you?"
"Just use your strengths, but before that, we have to go to Laguge first."
The author says:
Author's words: I was really unlucky. I had to go on a long trip on Saturday. I left at noon and the book club was blocked at night. I didn't know about it until I came back at noon on Sunday. I hurriedly created a backup group, and then the group was mysteriously unblocked. I was so upset every day!
No matter how turbulent the undercurrents were behind the scenes, the apparent peace and tranquility of Laguge remained unaffected.
After taking office for more than half a year, Dick has now become "the best governor in the history of Lagoge". The high praise from the local people is certainly due to the unremitting efforts of Dick himself and his companions, but also to the foil of the old predecessors of all generations, which makes him stand out like a human being!
As time enters late June, Laguge officially enters the most comfortable summer of the year.
Under the chairmanship of Ruby Eye, the Farmers' Association took the lead in organizing manpower and material resources to comprehensively upgrade the water conservancy and irrigation systems in the main agricultural areas of the eastern plains of the territory. While repairing the old ditches, they also dug new branches according to the terrain to expand the coverage area of the irrigation water network, allowing some farmlands that had difficulty in getting water because they were far away from rivers to improve their production efficiency.
In the past, almost no one under the Governor of Laguge would do such things that purely benefit the people. It all depended on the spontaneous organization of local people, but this could easily lead to disputes.
For example, Village A wants to dig a ditch to draw water from the river, but there is a village B between Village A and the river. Village B will take the opportunity to ask for benefits from Village A, otherwise it will not allow you to dig the ditch.
Differences then lead to contradictions, contradictions lead to conflicts, and once the conflict leads to bloodshed, hatred is inevitably formed.
Fortunately, this water conservancy upgrade was organized and led by the Farmers’ Association, backed by the Governor’s Office, with construction teams composed of people from labor reform farms, and the military involved in supervision throughout the process.
Therefore, the entire plan went smoothly.
Looking at the report submitted by Ruby Eye, Dick nodded with satisfaction. If nothing unexpected happens, Laguge will have an unprecedented bumper harvest this year, and the first batch of corn planted will also completely conquer local farmers with a yield far exceeding that of traditional crops.
With sufficient food, increasing population will no longer be a problem.
As for increasing the population, it is unrealistic to expect local women in Laguge to start giving birth now, so the real main source is still the "pioneer" group from the south.
Although the south of the empire was prosperous, its population was approaching saturation. Coupled with the increasingly serious problem of land annexation, many farmers who lost their land were forced to migrate to the sparsely populated north if they did not want to lose their freedom and become serfs. These immigrants were collectively called "pioneers."
Dick planned to recruit at least 100,000 pioneers in the next three years. Currently, he was unable to launch many of his projects due to insufficient population in his territory.
It is worth mentioning that the Hessian royal family actually supports immigration to the border, because the northern border of the empire has to face the threat of orcs from the snowfields, which brings real military pressure.
Even if the relations between the human countries in the south and the empire are not good, at least they can conduct diplomatic negotiations and solve some problems through negotiations, but the orcs include humans in their diet!
In order to suppress the orcs, the empire holds a "Northern Hunt" every three to five years. The royal family will appoint a prince to go to the north and take the lead in organizing a coalition force to launch an active attack on the orc clans.
This time the Crown Prince's inspection of the north is most likely to prepare for the latest northern hunt.
But to be honest, as a person who traveled through time and space from Earth, Dick always felt that the word "Northern Hunt"... was not very auspicious.
At present, the Crown Prince's patrol team is still south of the Central Mountains. Judging from their marching speed, the Crown Prince, who is nearly sixty years old, does not seem to want to go north.
Of course, Dick didn't want the other party to come and cause trouble for him. As early as when he was in the imperial capital, he had heard that the crown prince had a bad reputation.
When the prince was young, he was full of ambition and thought about making great plans after he succeeded to the throne, but his father, who had been waiting for a long time, dragged it on until now and still had no plans to pass on the throne. So the prince, who had lost his ambition, started to act badly and did many absurd things.
When Dick thought about how lustful this guy was and how he was attracted to both men and women, he felt like every cell in his body was resisting his arrival, and he even had the idea of sending someone to intercept him halfway.
Just when Dick was worrying about how to deal with the crown prince, Befa came in from outside with a stack of documents. Seeing Dick looking worried, she asked with concern.
"Master, have you encountered any trouble that is giving you a headache?"
"It's about the Crown Prince. I'm thinking about how to prevent him from coming here."
"Given the special nature of Lagug, this may be difficult."
"That's why I have a headache!"
Dick put down the documents in his hand, closed his eyes and leaned back. Seeing this, Befa immediately understood what she meant. She put the documents she brought on the desk, then walked behind Dick and gently massaged his shoulders to relax him.
Feeling the gentle and moderate force on his shoulders, Dick hummed comfortably, opened his eyes and looked up, and saw the familiar "mountain pressing down on the top of the head". But perhaps it was because of the addition of two "heavyweights" Marikawa Shizuka and Lukoya to the team, the beautiful scenery still made him feel relaxed and happy, but it lacked the initial shock.
This made Dick wonder in his heart, what exactly changed him?
"Master, do you need to relax?"
"Ah."
Dick nodded. "Relax" was the code word he and Befa used to increase the fun. With permission, Befa immediately lowered his hands from his shoulders, one hand went into Dick's collar, and the other hand went down to grab "Future". The maid leaned forward and pressed down, so that the plump fruit almost covered most of Dick's face. The heavy and milky oppressive feeling made Dick feel relaxed and refreshed, and the fatigue was swept away.
Since the succubus bloodline has a special racial talent of "the more they fight, the braver they become", Dick often uses this characteristic to eliminate fatigue and speed up the recovery of physical strength. In theory, he can even use sex to completely replace sleep, making himself an ultimate social animal who does not need to sleep at all and can work overtime indefinitely!
So it is no exaggeration to say that succubus are definitely the most magical and intelligent race in the world.
It is rumored that succubus are a kind of subspace creatures born in space cracks. Their ancestors hitchhiked to this world and settled down when the dragon clan crossed dimensions.
Compared with other races, succubi have poor talents in martial arts and magic. They have lived in this world for thousands of years, but have never produced a master of the Saint level. However, this race has a unique skill called "sexual magic".
The most significant feature of this magic is that it can draw strength from the pleasure generated by intercourse, and the succubus can choose whether to monopolize this power completely and exploit it unilaterally, or share it with her partner to achieve mutual benefit.
If it weren't for the addictive nature of having sex with succubi, they would definitely be the most ideal dual cultivation partners for many powerful people.
It is also worth mentioning that sexual magic can also be used to break curses of any type. In this respect alone, even the nuns of the church are not as powerful as succubus.
073: Earth's Past
After several days of trekking through mountains and rivers, Yitzhak followed the elves such as Han Muradi into the territory of Lagug.
Along the way, the elves of the Dead Tree Party were quite friendly to Isaac. Hammuradi often chatted with him and asked him about things on Earth.
At first, Yitzhak thought that Hammuradi was just like the other people in this world, who were simply curious about the Earth world. But as they talked, he found that this big man actually had a considerable understanding of the Earth, mastered at least four Earth languages, and was familiar with a lot of scientific knowledge about the Earth.
Hamradi later admitted that the reason he took the initiative to communicate with Yizhak was not simply to chat with Earthlings, but to test Yizhak and understand his actual level.
"I don't know how many Earth travelers like you you have come into contact with, but from my observation, most of the summoned people have a strong desire to leave their original world. It is precisely because they have this strong desire that they are summoned by the magic circle. You just said that before you were summoned by Count Hoffman, you were always on the run and being hunted. You must have had the idea of leaving the earth, isn't that right?"
After hearing what Hammuradi said, Yitzhak thought about it and it seemed to be true.
When Isaac was on Earth, he was a senior agent of Mossad. He worked hard for his country and the organization he was loyal to, and did a lot of shady work.
As a result, those damn politicians above wanted to get rid of him and shut him up forever because he knew too much.
Fortunately, Yitzhak was careful enough and escaped from Tel Aviv before the other party took action, but because of this he had to live on the run and was hunted down by his former colleagues as a prey.
During those difficult days, Yitzhak did have a strong desire to "escape" and wanted to go to a place where Mossad would not be able to find him at all.
Then he was summoned into this world by Hoffman!
As Hammuradi said, almost all the people summoned to this world were "escapists" on Earth, who wanted to leave their original living environment. Some of them came because of poverty, some because of disgrace, and some simply because of the second-year syndrome, naively thinking that they could become the protagonist in another world.
If someone happens to activate the summoning circle while they are thinking this, then there is a chance that the "prize" will be taken away like the one in a claw machine.
But this also leads to a problem, that is, most of the earthlings who can be summoned are incompetent marginalized people, young people who love to have wild ideas, and fugitives like Isaac who are being hunted and wish they could live on another planet!
Those powerful people who can really get along well wherever they go will not be affected.
In addition to wanting to test Yitzhak's abilities, Hamradi was also curious about whether the governments of various countries on Earth had noticed that their citizens had been summoned to another world after hearing that he had worked for the official intelligence agency of a country on Earth.
Isaac thought about it and said that he was not at a high enough level to understand the situation of the higher-ups and other organizations. However, he guessed that most likely they had not discovered anything, or that they had discovered something but the analysts had not thought about such a mysterious aspect as traveling to another world, and might have already suspected aliens.
You should know that in 2023, when Isaac traveled through time, the world's population had officially exceeded 80 billion. This is just the number that can be counted, and the actual number will be even higher.
With such a huge population base and the chaotic world situation, the number of people missing every year for various reasons also reaches millions.
In comparison, this world has only summoned 200,000 to 300,000 people in the past half century, accounting for less than 1% of the total missing population. Compared with the overall human base, it is insignificant.
If these missing people disappeared all at once on Earth at the same time, it would indeed cause quite a stir. But once they were evenly distributed over time, with only about ten people disappearing every day, and scattered around the world, then at most they would just be a few missing persons notices that no one cared about.
So Isaac felt that the Earth would discover it sooner or later, but definitely not now.
As they walked and talked along the way, Yitzhak had initially gained Hammuradi's trust when he entered Lagug, and learned that one of their goals in coming here was to "pick up" a local female doctor who was suspected to be an Earthling, a very precious and rare talent.
After they contacted the local hidden members of the Dead Tree Gang, they learned another piece of news, that is, a team of comrades who were escorting the Earthlings to the Northern Fjords encountered an accident on the way.
Because they tried to sneak in, they risked their lives crossing the Black Forest where the Deer-Headed Elves were active. As a result, almost the entire team was wiped out. Only one person escaped by chance. The rest of the elves and the humans who escorted them were not spared.
