Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 453: Master Thomas

Three days of time passed in a flash.

But there also wasn't any department coming to urge Li Wei to go to the All-Heavens Arena to duel. This matter seemed to just end up with nothing definite. It seemed Night Owl's energy was still very great.

This also made Li Wei couldn't help but rejoice that he had made the correct choice.

Because that Earl Henry could only use a forged Marriage Contract to blackmail him into choosing sides. But if he dared to join Earl Henry's Faction, then Night Owl would absolutely dare to take out concrete evidence of his tax evasion to report him!

Yes, all of these seemingly absurd and ridiculous performances were essentially about choosing sides.

From the current looks of it, Night Owl's Faction was a cut above Earl Henry's Faction. After all, regardless of what was said, Night Owl was also Duke Will's subordinate great general.

Even thinking a bit more darkly: was Night Owl Duke Will's little mistress?

Otherwise, without being married, where did the rumors of an illegitimate child come from?

Officialdom games were truly Killing Without Bloodshed!

For example, just in these past two days, the Royal Capital Ministry of Internal Affairs consecutively issued another three notices.Saying stuff like some Lord was an illegitimate child, his inheritance rights were invalid, and he was stripped of his position as a Lord within a time limit and downgraded to a Mercenary. Stuff like some young Lord who was very dazzling in the past few years evaded taxes and was ultimately taken away by the Royal Capital Tax Department. Stuff like so-and-so Lord playing favorites and committing irregularities being investigated, etc.

Ordinary People seeing these would only feel it was a bit interesting. But in Li Wei's view, these were all unlucky bastards who failed in choosing sides, or who thought they were strong enough to be comparable to an Unbending Official, not taking anyone's side.

As matters had reached this point, those who still didn't understand big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimp, those who didn't know how to choose sides, all deserved it.

They shouldn't be Lords; they should just directly go be Mercenaries.

There, another notice came out: a certain Baron, because of smuggling contraband, was stripped of his title and arrested.

"Li Wei, what do you say our His Majesty the King is doing? Right now, we're staring right at the start of the Empire Reconstruction Mission! Instead of consolidating military morale, he's letting those Lords with hands and eyes reaching the heavens wantonly attack each other. Is he completely unconcerned about his own basic foundation? If you ask me, this is absolutely a muddled and incompetent monarch!"

In the Enchanted Blacksmith Workshop, Li Wei came over to check the forging progress of the Viscount's Personal Guard's Plate Armor. He happened to bump into this notice, and Zhao Xuanxuan, wearing a large tank top, was complaining to him while swinging her hammer.

The matter of Li Wei almost being dueled previously made Zhao Xuanxuan feel quite disgusted towards this kind of notice, feeling that when a nation was about to fall, demons and monsters would come out in disorder.

"Drop it, you! Don't speak nonsense about certain things. If you have that time, first forge out the Enchanted Three-Star Heavy Armor for those three hundred guards for me!"

Li Wei reprimanded her. How could someone who could establish a Kingdom be a muddled and incompetent monarch? That His Majesty the King might very well be Causing Trouble.

Moreover, who said that the Kingdom's Lords were all the King's basic foundation?

Had she never heard the saying: "My boss's boss is not my boss"?

But then again, during this period of time, the Royal Capital Ministry of Internal Affairs was truly flying 666 [doing amazingly well]. It also made Li Wei quite curious. It seemed the Royal Capital Ministry of Internal Affairs had become everyone's little megaphone...

But regardless of what, he had dodged past this wave of dark tides.

Now that he had hugged Night Owl's thigh again, then he would just hug it. There was nothing bad about it; after all, in a certain sense, it was quite fragrant.

"Just don't rush me, alright? The orders from Lady Night Owl's side require them to be done in three months! Those three hundred little guards of yours, with just that bit of strength... do you believe I could completely annihilate them with one Cavalry Squadron? Using Hathaway's words, it's better to leave them at home to watch the door."

Zhao Xuanxuan was truly not polite at all. Mainly, orders coming from Night Owl right now were truly flying like snowflakes! Zhao Xuanxuan's armaments and armor here, Second Aunt's Arcane Secret Potions over there, Hathaway's Magic Crests, Li Yue's Heraldic Weaving... even Thomas had been caught for hard labor, responsible for managing the blast furnace!

The entire Blazing Territory was almost becoming Night Owl's back garden.

So sometimes, the general trend... an individual found it hard to reverse the general trend.

Initially, Li Wei still had a bit of ambition, wanting to get a Duke position to act as during the Kingdom Hegemony Competition. But observing these past few days, he felt the Locke Kingdom was truly full of Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons.

For example, that Henry. A few years ago he suspectedly set a trap for him, but he didn't fall for it. As Duke Will's son, he actually took a Condescending Stoop and ran over to rope him in. To what extent did these playboy second-generations have to involute?

"Alright, I won't rush you. But after Lady Night Owl's batch of orders is completed, you arrange things for me as you see fit. Those are all my personal guards! My brothers! My hands and feet!"

"Pah! Am I not your older sister? You'd rather exhaust your own sister to death than wrong your personal guards, right! Get lost!"

Li Wei left, laughing haha. Saying was one thing, but actually Zhao Xuanxuan would definitely work overtime to get it all done for him within five months.

Next, he went to visit Thomas for a bit. This guy's presence had always been very low. But recently, perhaps because his Dulling level was high, he instead had somewhat returned to his original simplicity. Standing there, he looked like a highly attained monk.

"Leon is dead. Or rather, he returned to his hometown. I just received the news. He left a portion of Inheritance for me. He also said he somewhat regrets it."

Thomas suddenly said a sentence out of the blue.

Li Wei was silent. This didn't count as unexpected.

"In the future there might be great changes, great transformations unseen in a millennium. Li Wei, I feel you should make some preparations. Don't be commented on by others when the time comes: 'Watching him build a high tower, watching his tower collapse.' You must avoid adding flowers to brocade, and cooking oil with a raging fire [reaching a peak only to quickly decline]. In fact, right now I feel Night Owl is somewhat driven to Militaristic Exhaustion. You hugging her thigh... don't be implicated by her in the future."

"What I'm saying might be my subjective delusions. Since Dulling, I have lost many distracting thoughts. I don't even think about women anymore. So I can instead think through many things. I feel, if the Alliance of Myriad Heavens Lords is entirely like this Locke Kingdom, then being Stomped by Samsara Travelers, being Stomped by the Main God Space, I feel they deserve it!"

"But I highly suspect, the Locke Kingdom is like a certain stage within the Alliance of Myriad Heavens Lords. Just like, without primitive society, where does slave society come from? Without slave society, where does feudal society come from?"

"So, for this Empire Reconstruction Mission of the Locke Kingdom, I feel you, Li Wei, should think about it carefully. Think about it on a deeper level. Is it purely empire reconstruction? Is it a simple reconstruction just like playing a game? Why is the Alliance of Myriad Heavens Lords a Lord Alliance? What is the concept of this Lord?"

"Additionally, these past few days I have been silently reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Do you know what I read out of it?"

"Actually it is very simple. For a manly man to want to achieve great undertakings: First, he must swear brotherhood. Second, he must form a Matrimonial Alliance. Third, he must acknowledge a godfather!"

After finishing these words, Thomas stopped speaking. He was as silent as a stone, completely immersed in his own world. This scene was a bit bizarre. Recalling the former Thomas, and looking at the current Thomas...

"Li Wei, I do not regret it!"

Thomas suddenly said a sentence. Good Heavens! He almost possessed Mind Reading, right? Feeling you could change jobs to a Blind Monk or an Ascetic?

Nodding his head, Li Wei said nothing and walked straight away. But these so-called subjective delusions of Thomas's instead gave him some vague thoughts regarding the Orson Empire's reconstruction mission.

Of course, the more important matter was that he had to continue training his Viscount's Personal Guard.

For the Blazing Legion's current seven hundred main-force Soldiers, he had no opportunity and no time to participate in the process of building the army, so now they had various minor flaws. But these Three Hundred Viscount Guards of his, he must lead them well!

Previously he had still been thinking about whether to have a sparring session of "friendship first, competition second" with those guys in the Blazing Legion.

Now he had completely changed his mind.

The Viscount's Personal Guards must ensure their purity and independence!

In the following few days, Li Wei used three hundred Bronze Tokens to Upgrade those three hundred Viscount's Personal Guards once, achieving all-members Three-Star from then on! Then it was dull, arduous training.

Li Wei ate and lived together with these three hundred Viscount's Personal Guards. Then they went on a forced march, running out hundreds of miles, over a thousand miles away in one breath, training intensively in The Wilds for most of a month before returning.

This made Hathaway have some minor opinions, saying stuff like the personal guards were the biological sons, while the Blazing Legion had become raised by a stepmother.

Li Wei laughed haha at this. In one stage, speak of matters for one stage.

Hm, he could only say it like this.

The Blazing Legion was initially roughly founded by Li Wei, and subsequently managed by Zhao Xuanxuan. In the middle, there was a period of time where he commanded them for a spin around the Northern Grasslands. Later, after the city-building mission ended, he paid even less attention. Because at that time, his goal was not to forge a powerful Legion, but to complete the mission! For this premise, many rigid requirements could be abandoned.

When he went to Weir City, and subsequently participated in the Chaotic Killing Mission, for those two or three years they were basically commanded by Li Yue and Zhao Xuanxuan.

Until a few months ago when they Rise to Fame in one battle at Thorns Pass.

Now this bunch of guys had already become extremely proud. Not the kind of pride where they were disrespectful to Li Wei—when they saw Li Wei, they were still like obedient grandsons, speaking sets of pleasant words. Rather, their attitude towards war had become very proud!

Fortunately, Li Yue also recognized this problem. She was currently thinking of ways to suppress their unhealthy trends and evil practices.

So, this time Li Wei wouldn't and couldn't commit this error anymore.

If crops are planted in the fields and left unmanaged, they will only grow into a patch of weeds.

If a Legion is created but left untrained and unmanaged, without establishing correct and reasonable values, they will also grow crooked in the future.

Of course, Li Wei didn't have any lofty and profound things to instill; that would only Backfire.

So the only thing he could bring to these Viscount's Personal Guards was his own personal Charisma. Eating together, living together, and training together. He forcefully broke himself apart, crushed himself, and integrated into this collective. He would rather have them treat Li Wei as a fatherly commander.

Speaking of which, Li Wei was also thirty-nine years old this year. Having them call him "Father Commander" wasn't excessive, right?

In a word, he had racked his brains on everything he should.

Besides this, every time they went to the wilderness for intensive training, Li Wei would sneakily take out Three-Star and Four-Star Wheat to provide special meals for these three hundred Viscount's Personal Guards. In passing, he also provided special meals for himself, Adai, and that Five-Star Warhorse; they directly ate Five-Star Wheat!

He temporarily still didn't want to Upgrade to 5-Star Farmer, because he still wanted to hide his clumsiness [keep a low profile]. Although it might not be of any use in the eyes of smart people, in the Orson Empire's reconstruction mission, it could allow him to be assigned to the Bronze Tier.

This kind of advantage was like cutting weight in a sports competition...

An eighty-kilogram class assigned to the seventy-five-kilogram class...

Right? In short, the effects were truly fantastic!

In just a short three months, after Li Wei shared ten catties of Five-Star Wheat with Adai and the Five-Star Warhorse, he smoothly obtained four Free Attribute Points, and additionally increased six points of Normal Mental Power.

Fantastically satisfying!

The four Free Attribute Points were entirely used to raise Perception—two points raising it by one point. So currently his Perception had reached: Normal +7, Title +2, Codename +2.5. A total of 11.5! He could finally instantly kill Hathaway.

However, the one with the greatest change was not Li Wei, but Adai! For some reason, it could suddenly shrink back down to the size of a normal crow again.

(End of Chapter)