Chapter 1 Lear, the Pioneer Lord
Glorious Era 8775, July 5th, the main plane of Nohr, the Griffin Kingdom, and the city of Loland.
"Sir, Administrative Officer, the town of Knad was captured by a group of blood naga yesterday evening. More than 1,300 people in the town had their hearts removed, and no one survived!"
"The Falcon Knights found traces of them in a passage to the underground world twenty miles away from the town. The guard army is currently gathering, and there will be three squadrons of griffon army that will participate in the clearing."
The Chief Administrative Officer of Loland City, with a hooked nose, blue eyes, a semi-bald head, and a belly slightly larger than that of an eight-month-pregnant woman, sat behind a desk filled with documents. He looked at the subordinate reporting in front of him through the gaps in the pages of the book, and his tone was unkind. .
"Those damn underground bastards, sooner or later they will be cleaned up!"
"Send twenty clerks to Kennard Town to handle the funeral affairs, and at the same time select a new mayor to go there, and then recruit residents from the refugees in the city to fill the town's population."
"As you command, my lord."
"Has the village that was destroyed by the ogres last month been built?"
"Not yet. It is expected to be at the end of the month, but the recruitment of residents is very slow. The village has been destroyed three times this year, and the refugees in the city are unwilling to go."
The administrative officer had a headache and rubbed his temples.
"Is it okay for you to figure this out on your own?"
"Sir, this is the application list for pioneer lords that was just submitted."
"Wasn't the list submitted five days ago?"
"Sir, someone submitted it again the evening before yesterday." He said with a bit of hesitation.
"Perhaps you will be interested."
Hearing what he said, the administrative officer also became a little curious. He took the list and flipped it several times before seeing the names of the additional personnel.
"Lil Ayers?.The Ayers Family?!!"
There was a bit of emotion on the fat face, and finally he sighed.
"That guy Els has been dead for ten years. Has his family fallen to the point of becoming a pioneer lord?"
"Who is this Lil Ayres? Where does he live?"
"Sir, this person is the only blood descendant of the Els family. He moved to the ninth block three years ago."
"Ninth District?!"
"Yes."
After a long silence, he closed the document with a complicated expression.
"Send it to the Grand Duke."
Waiting for his subordinates to leave, he looked out the window, dazed.
The Ninth Street, this street is regarded as a sewer and garbage dump by the noble men of Lorain City. Robberies, thefts, murders, etc. occur every night. evil deeds.
The air was filthy, filled with the pungent stench of urine and sewers, and flies were everywhere.
This is a dirty place that outsiders don’t even want to take a second look at. Even missionaries who are keen to convert the lost to our God rarely set foot.
But this filth-ridden area is home to more than 100,000 poor people.
Lear walked through the winding alleys, carefully avoiding the filth on the ground, and stepped over puddles of black and smelly sewage. The stench of the air made his eyes red.
The poor people who passed by him had dull eyes and pale faces. Most of them were wearing tattered linen clothes, and some of the clothes even had more patches than the original fabric.
Some older residents stepped directly into the stinky water pool, letting the black water wet their trousers. They looked numb, like living corpses that could move around.
Even though he has been in this world for three days, Lear still can't bear all this.
After speeding up and turning a few turns, I came to a low house covered with black moss. I looked at the rusty lock on it and let out a long breath.
With a slight twist, it opened directly without a key.
Push the door open and enter.
The house is about ten square meters, without any furniture.
There was a tattered, calf-high bed in the corner, with only two blackened blankets on it.
The four walls of the family have the most intuitive image.
Lear didn't mind it and sat on the bed, but his butt felt so tight as soon as it stuck to him.
With a smooth touch, he took out two fist-sized pieces of bread from under the bed, black and hard as stone, with a circle of deep tooth marks on them.
Black bread!
He smiled bitterly. Even dogs would hate this food, but it was his food!
Putting the brown bread aside, he stared blankly at the wall next door through the window half an arm's width away.
Time travel.
It sounds light and airy when you say it, but when it actually falls on you, you realize how heavy it is.
After all, he sacrificed his life by going into the water to save others. Why was he allowed to come to such a fucked up world?
The level of civilization in this world is about that of medieval Europe, but it possesses extraordinary power! There is even a god!
The gods in charge of power are aloof, and they often punish people by destroying cities and annihilating people.
Sects spread the glory of God everywhere and preach that God loves the world.
The evil dragon occupies the mountains and deep valleys, often plundering treasures and destroying towns.
Demons, undead, and all kinds of evil beings perform bloody sacrifices every day to please the evil gods.
Evil beings in the underground world appear on the surface from time to time, killing humans.
Various powerful races are raging in the wild, and they may attack cities and towns at any time and slaughter civilians.
Wars continue, and racial disputes are as fierce as sparks.
Materials are scarce, the means of production are backward, civilization has stagnated, extraordinary people enslave the world, class solidification is serious, and knowledge is monopolized by aristocratic sects. All the elements are almost gathered!
The body he occupies is a descendant of a down-and-out noble. He has no awakening power, no family wealth, and no social status. He is an ordinary person with no sense of existence
Ordinary people in this fantasy world with extraordinary power , like a pig, inconspicuous, ready to be slaughtered.
Even wanting to live a stable life is a luxury.
Because the family wealth has long been dissipated, the original person can only survive in the Ninth Street District, a place where poor people gather.
What's even more terrible is that three days ago, the original person applied to inherit the title that his family had been deprived of.
According to the law of the Griffin Kingdom, descendants of nobles who have been deprived of their title must become pioneer lords if they want to inherit the title!
"Little Else, are you back? I heard that you applied to inherit the title?" A deep voice at the door interrupted his thoughts. Lear turned around and saw a middle-aged man in his early fifties. He leaned half of his body into the room and looked at him slightly worriedly.
His hair is gray, his hands are covered with calluses, and his body is a little thin due to long-term lack of nutrition.
Lear, who had the memory of his original body, immediately recognized the other party.
The current neighbor, Jem, works at the dock. He was also a powerful knight when he was young and knows a lot about the outside world.
He has a cheerful and generous personality. Even if he is in a slum, he still takes good care of his original self. He fainted from hunger several times, but the other party always brought out food to save him.
"Uncle Jim."
The middle-aged man looked at Lear's somewhat pale face, opened his mouth, wanted to say something, and finally sighed.
"What's the point of this?"
"Do you know what's out there in the wilderness?"
"Orcs, barbarians, scavengers, vampires, drow, serpents, cultists, undead."
"There are passages that connect to the dark and dangerous underground world, there are rifts in space that connect to mysterious and terrifying alien planes, and there are also evil spirits that remain from ancient times, demons that try to subvert the order."
"There is no such thing as safety in the wilderness."
"The Empire has not conquered this area for thousands of years!"
"Although life is a little harder in the city, at least I can still survive."
"Go to the wilderness and become a pioneer lord. Everything is not up to you!"
"I know you want to inherit the title, but this time, alas"
Jem's tone was very complicated.
When the other party moved to the slums three years ago, his childish look was still in front of him. He had watched this kid grow up, and he really couldn't bear to watch the other party die.
Baron Ayres died of an old injury ten years ago, and within a few years the family had declined.
The laws of the Griffin Kingdom stipulate that after the death of a noble, if no one inherits the title within seven years, the title will be automatically lost.
The first condition for inheriting the title is to reach adulthood at the age of 16. As the only descendant of the Ayers family, Lear just turned 15 three years ago.
The Els family, with no one to inherit the title, was directly expelled from the nobility.
If the descendants of nobles who have lost their titles want to re-inherit their titles, they must become pioneer lords and occupy new lands for the kingdom!
But is it so easy to be a reclamation lord?
The Griffin Kingdom has been established for 2,200 years, but it has only eaten away thousands of miles of wilderness!
But at what cost? For more than two thousand years, the corpses of the reclamation lords can pile up into a majestic mountain! Can build a majestic city on the sea!
How many pioneer lords are there alive? !
Jem took a deep breath.
"Grand Duke Luolan will personally review and approve every pioneer lord."
"I just hope that justice will not allow it."
Halfway through his words, he suddenly swallowed his words and turned his head to look at the entrance of the alley warily.
Lear noticed something strange and looked through the crack in the door.
Ta Ta~
Ta Ta~
A blue-eyed soldier wearing black armor, with a soaring falcon imprinted on his chest, a hooked nose and cold eyes strode over with a cold face.
After approaching the house, he checked the house number on it, passed Jem directly, strode into the house, and handed a yellowed piece of paper to Lear.
The blood-red seal on it is particularly eye-catching——
Grand Duke Lorraine of the Griffin Empire
The soldier's tone was stiff.
"Lil Els, your application for pioneering lord has been approved by the Grand Duke."
"At ten o'clock tomorrow morning, we will gather at the Grand Duke's residence to receive development materials and choose to develop territory."
"This is the document of the pioneering order and the succession of the baronetcy of the Ayers family."
"Congratulations, you have regained your family's title, Baron Lear Els."
After finishing his usual words, Lear turned around and walked out of the house with a cold face impatiently, without waiting for a response.
The stench along the way made him almost explode. If it weren't for the military order, he would never step into such a ghost place in his life!
Damn it!
There is no gain in giving orders to such a whimsical poor guy.
There are always ignorant people who want to reach the sky in one step!
What place is that in the wilderness?
He, a level 10 high-level knight, did not dare to get involved easily.
We also need to open up territory and build towns on it. Isn't this asking for death?
After waiting for the sergeant to leave, Jem looked at the document in Lear's hand and fell silent.
Lear looked at the document in his hand and was speechless.
The original person was really crushed by the miserable and hopeless life. He thought that hanging around here would lead to death, so he might as well give it a try, inherit the title, and go to fight for wealth outside the city.
However, before he could go, he fell down and fell because of his physical weakness.
Now, he wants to fulfill the other party's dream of becoming a lord.
According to the regulations of the Griffin Empire, those who voluntarily apply to become a pioneer lord and refuse to go to the wilderness, or use other excuses to fail to fulfill orders, will be treated as deserters and sentenced to death by hanging.
In this world with extraordinary power, he can't even escape.
Lear took a deep breath, his eyes a bit complicated.
Is it so difficult to survive in this world?
At this moment, a flash of blue light suddenly appeared in my mind.
The light gradually condensed and then turned into a panel.
It displays densely packed text——
"It is detected that you have become a lord, and the intelligence system is automatically activated. This information can be refreshed."
Intelligence system? ! !
Li Erteng stood up immediately!
My heart exploded with joy.
(End of chapter)