"My lord, why do you look embarrassed?" Ashena hugged her bow and arrow and came over, a smile on her brow, "Obviously it was the most difficult time just before arriving here, why are you showing a look of embarrassment only now."
Waving his hand, Fielder didn't want to spread anxiety and strike the crowd that was already low on confidence, he revealed a teasing look and reached out to pinch Asuna's wolf ears, "It's not that it's difficult, I'm just struggling with whether or not I want to give a massage to my laborious and highly meritorious minister, with my own hands."
"Ai ai ai?" Ashena's pretty face was immediately colored with a reddish hue, her red eyes trembled like an earthquake, she stammered and wanted to answer, but when she saw Field's expression of teasing a child, she immediately understood that she had been teased, and immediately puffed up and said, "Lord Lord is too much, at the expense of me caring about you, not with you anymore."
Felder patted his sore neck, "Thank you for your concern, but it's time to look for a place to land, the carriage I don't want to sleep for a second, the creaking noise tortures me with a headache."
Gotta take up a room, it's much better to have shelter from the wind and rain, even if the houses here are decayed beyond recognition.
After studying the map carefully, Feld said, "Let's go occupy the Grand Winery, Ashina, the main structure there is masonry, so it won't easily rot into a pile of rubble."
The Grand Winery was located to the southeast of the main building, with a large expanse of fertile farmland used to grow the Black Pearl grapes for winemaking. Of course, the patches of grape fields were already a thing of the past, and nowadays, the only thing in the farmland were large swaths of writhing black tentacles as well as rotting corpses.
Vines and grapevines could be vaguely seen in the farmland, and back in the day, the land here produced the Empire's most famous Black Pearl Wine.
"Women clean up the farmland, don't leave a bit of filth, these writhing tentacles and chunks of flesh look horrible, but are actually no threat." Feld kicked away a mass of decaying flesh with seven or eight eyes, "These disgusting things were cute little creatures before the gray mist came."
"Yes, my lord."
The slaves milled about.
"Finish it in two days, I will pay you ten copper coins for your work, these lands will be our food source in the future." Fielder let out a killing blow, allowing the slaves to have money.
The slaves' eyes lit up, their hands and feet numbly killed the corrupted creatures with farming tools, and their work efficiency immediately increased tenfold.
Butler Perry rolled his eyes when he saw the slaves' appearance, "It's only the master who is so merciful and generous, if this bunch of mud legs don't work, it's more convenient to hang them directly."
At this time, the free folk who were abducted by Feld came over.
"My lord, you're being whimsical, the land has been poisoned, even if you clear out all the monsters, you won't be able to plow it." The villagers questioned, and someone stomped their foot so hard that the soft, rotting land immediately dented, forming a footprint that pooled with a purple puddle, "Look at it, it's like a swamp full of toxins, oh! The damn smell is worse than a widow's crotch that hasn't been washed in three years."
The slaves sniffed and cast puzzled glances.
My kindness seems to have caused some to start getting the better of me.
Fielder's eyes were lowered, and his tone couldn't hear any emotional fluctuations, "This is my order, not a discussion with you."
The villager's mind was still loyal to the Bull Baron, and he didn't turn a corner for a moment, "But, it's pointless for you to do this."
"Huh?" Fielder frowned, his eyes unkind.
Bobcat and other guards immediately drew their swords, "Brush brush" burst out a sound of drawing knives, even if this way Connor and others are the main force, but the slave guards still got the hammer, with a trace of the soldier's aura of death.
The crowd whose eyes were flashed by the light of the knives immediately reacted to the fact that they were actually questioning their new lord! All of them were so scared and sweaty that they fell to the ground.
The scene went cold for half a minute.
It was only then that Felder waved his hand, not that he was intentionally playing the bully or feudal. Rather, he had no roots, in this land far from order, if he couldn't control these guys, he wouldn't be a lord and would just find a place to hang himself.
"You also go to clean up, the east side of the land all to you, in addition to say I whimsical fool, go to receive five lashes." Feld punished them in small ways, they would have to be used for both pioneering and planting.
The villagers were already sweating, when they heard Fielder's words, they were like amnesties, "Yes, yes, yes."
The crowd began to shovel out the corruption, startling the corrupted creatures into erupting into a shrill, strange scream.
"That's so Cthulhu." Feld sucked in a few cold breaths of air and a wave of revulsion, being in this cursed land for a long time could drive him insane, "The fires of civilization must be lit quickly, let's start with the winery."
Two peasants with torches pulled open the doors of the winery and a dank, putrid odor hit them. Feld nearly spat out yesterday's dinner, covering his mouth and nose and glancing his face to the side.
"Watch out, there's a lot of footsteps on the second floor." Ashena didn't react unusually to the stench, having lived in worse conditions as a slave.
"This is a large room we'll be occupying, and there may be flammable materials, so no flames."
Ashina nodded good-naturedly, "Leave it to me!"
Taking a piece of clad iron shield to protect his chest, Feld drew his longsword, "Set up the halberds! Prepare for the onslaught."
There was no systematic training, but these days of fighting, the guards were always getting the hang of things, and the small square formation was quickly taking shape. Feld took a deep breath and slammed his shield with the hilt of his sword, "Hey hey! Old folks, we're on a community delivery!"
"Howl!" The Darkness was full of ghostly and strange cries.
Footsteps as dense as drumbeats suddenly rang out, and monsters with disfigured faces and twisted bodies rushed out of the ink-like darkness, and the clash of blood, flesh, and iron immediately rang out.
Ashena one person and one wolf topped the main force of the corpses, the lance in her hand could easily harvest carrion corpses, the giant wolf was comparable to a tank, covered by carrion corpses into a corpse ball, still did not even break the defense, if not for Felder not letting the dragon breed wolf spit fire, the battle had already been resolved at this moment.
"Ah! The goddess is above!"
The guard standing in the front row toppled through a carrion, was hit and stumbled, before he could stabilize his stance, he was immediately pounced on by the subsequent influx of carrion, wearing armor he fell to the ground with a thud, falling in a heap.
With a low gulp, Feld stepped out half a step, and the long sword in his hand ruthlessly slashed at the carrion's head. This is not an anime, blackening is three times stronger, the rotting corpse is just a monster in human skin, no armor to protect it, where the sharp blade cuts through, the tendons and bones are broken, and the whole head is dislodged.
"Thank... Thank you, my lord!"
The guard stared with horrified eyes, his pants were hot and wet, he almost had a passionate kiss with the monster just now.
From the expression on his face as he couldn't wait to kneel down and call his father, it was easy to see that he had never respected and thanked a noble so much.