Chapter 1031: Chapter 640, Gurgle Gurgle (asking for votes, asking for subscriptions…)
[Gray Bear-Reed (Green Tier Three Hero)].
In the hall, Gray Bear sat obediently to one side.
Her face maintained the joy of becoming a hero.
“Gray Bear, congratulations on becoming a hero,” Fang Hao said with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Gray Bear had truly become her hero nickname.
“Yes, master, you are a hero now; no one will dare to challenge your position anymore,” Millie added from the side.
While with Gray Bear in the mountains, Millie had learned quite a bit of practical experience.
But her personality was more like that of a mountain bandit.
Sometimes she would curse people out, getting hit by Eira several times.
“Thank you, sir, thank you Millie, I’ll surely not let you down in the future,” Gray Bear loudly promised.
“Hmm, now that you have become a hero, do you have any plans of your own? You can stay or go back and continue to manage your city,” Fang Hao looked at Gray Bear, wanting to hear her thoughts.
Gray Bear was silent for a while.
Then she said, “Sir, I want to go back and continue managing that city, many people have gathered there, and they might easily encounter problems if I leave.”
Everyone had different ideas.
If it were up to Anjia or Eira to choose, they would definitely not opt to manage any city.
Instead, they would stay in the city, planting flowers, reading novels.
A stable life.
But Gray Bear had completely different thoughts from them.
“You may,” Fang Hao nodded, then said, “Millie, you take your master, go to the warehouse and chose a set of purple gear, and if you still want to wear that bearskin, send it to the tanner to make into a cloak.”
“Yes, master,” Millie jumped up and led Gray Bear outside.
Using this time, Fang Hao started to check Gray Bear’s attributes.
[Gray Bear-Reed (Green Tier Three Hero)].
[Faction: Human Clan]
[Template: Green]
[Racial Traits: Living creatures, human essence, learning.]
[Legion Skills: Mountain Brave Leader, Melee Command, Denying Faith.]
[Skills: Charge, Strong, Evil Gall, Intimidating Shout, Furious Slash.]
[Fixed Skills: Advanced Strength Mastery, Advanced Melee Mastery]
[Mountain Brave Leader]: The unit led by this commander, in mountainous environments, Movement Speed +25%, Attack Power +15%.
[Denying Faith]: The unit led by this commander is unaffected by abnormal mind-inducing skills.
[Charge (Active)]: Movement Speed +10%, Attack Power +5%.
[Strong (Active)]: Strength +15%.
[Evil Gall (Passive)]: When at a disadvantage, All attributes +15%.
[Intimidating Shout (Active)]: A vicious shout that causes targets to briefly become panicked.
[Furious Slash (Active)]: Deals 210% physical damage to a single enemy. 30% chance to enter ‘Fury’ state.
Fury: Reduces attack interval by 25%, lasts 10 seconds.
(Description: Every winter, more unidentified corpses appear in the mountains. A desperate mother, with a gray bearskin, wrapped her child and left it at the entrance of a mountain camp, hoping she might miraculously survive.)
Perhaps it was because Gray Bear was promoted during skirmishes with bandits.
Even at her age, becoming a hero was already considered a highly talented feat.
But she had pitifully few skills.
And they weren’t particularly powerful.
Even so, she was probably a bit stronger than ordinary bandits.
It seemed that some training was in order for Gray Bear, perhaps hiring a tutor would be best.
Although the territory might not need Gray Bear’s services,
Fang Hao hoped that each of his subordinates could also have their own lives.
As Fang Hao thought this, Gray Bear and Millie came back.
At this point, Gray Bear had already changed into a [Temple Guardians Set], shining in gold armor, holding a large chopping knife, looking very imposing.
That bearskin, presumably following Fang Hao’s suggestion, had been sent to the tanner.
It was not draped over her.
“Thank you, sir,” Gray Bear gave her thanks again.
Before, even if she had subjugated all the surrounding strongholds, she could never have owned so much.
Even reaching Tier Ten, there was no place where she could be promoted to a hero.
Now, she had everything.
“Take a seat, you can take this suit with you when you leave, no need to wear it now since it’s quite hot. When you leave, I’ll prepare some blue gear for you and equip your soldiers as well,” Fang Hao said with a smile.
Gray Bear’s situation had also been looked into by Fang Hao.
Apart from the heavy sword infantry he had left her, the rest of the militia’s equipment was a mix of heavy and light armor.
It was time to give them a new set, and some other materials would be provided as well.
“Thank you, sir, thank you,” Gray Bear thanked him repeatedly.
She immediately took off the armor she was wearing, revealing her tightly bound chest and her fit abdomen.
It was then that Fang Hao noticed a bear head tattoo on the side of Gray Bear’s lower abdomen.
“Alright, Gray Bear will stay for dinner tonight. Millie, you take her around the city first, then go to the firing range for some shooting practice, just don’t hurt yourself,” Fang Hao said.
“Oh, okay master,” Millie put the removed armor to the side, leading Gray Bear outside, “Master, have you ever heard of handguns? They’re quite powerful.”
…
Dusk fell.
The maids prepared a rich dinner.
Besides Gray Bear who had stayed for dinner, the Lizardmen Queen, who had spent a day walking around, was also at the dining table.
It was said that Demitrija had taken her around Lyss City all day.
Upon learning of the Lizardmen Queen’s visit, Rebecca took it very seriously.
She arranged quite a number of guards to accompany her, as though fearing that the queen might die in her own city.
The banquet went very smoothly, and there were not many formalities at Fang Hao’s place.
Eira, Little White, Millie, Gray Bear were all allowed to sit at the table and eat.
But the Lizardmen guards accompanying the queen dared not sit at the same table with her.
They sat aside, eating bit by bit.
…
Meanwhile, elsewhere,
Unlike the laughter and chatter at Fang Hao’s place,
Ma Tianyi’s side was filled with anxiety and worry.
In the end, they received no response from anyone.
Looking at the constant queries popping up on the Book of Lords, the Alliance channel, filled with helplessness.
“Alliance Hierarch, is there anyone willing to help us?”
“Everyone in the channel is discussing our situation right now.”
“I contacted some friends too, but they all said that since so many of us in the Human Clan Alliance couldn’t stop the Demon, whoever came would be going to their deaths.”
“So… are we really going to have to evacuate collectively?”
“I don’t want to leave, we just managed to establish the city.”
“@Ma Tianyi, Alliance Hierarch, how are things? Is there any confirmed news?”
Ma Tianyi kept looking at the Alliance channel chat.
He harbored a slim hope, to see if anyone would contact him willing to send troops to help.
But so far, he had received no such news.
Now that someone had tagged him in the channel, he couldn’t pretend not to see it anymore.
Taking a deep breath, he said, “No reinforcements are coming, everyone prepare tonight, pack everything you can onto carts, and tomorrow morning, we move collectively to the Human Federation.”
Even though the members had suspected it might come to this.
But when he said it, the channel still exploded.
“How can it be like this…”
“Is there really no other way?”
“What if we offer more money?”
Message after message showed up, it was clear no one wanted to leave.
But from the looks of it, staying would mean not only losing the city, but they would all die here.
Ma Tianyi continued, “As long as people are alive, there is hope, everyone prepare tonight, and we leave together first thing tomorrow morning, responses received, respond.”
The channel was silent for a long while.
Then one by one, responses appeared.
…
The moon reached the tree tops.
Fang Hao saw off the Lizardmen queen and returned Gray Bear to his city.
After briefing Eira and others.
He used teleportation to head to Lyss City.
After enquiring about Rebecca’s location, he walked towards the courtyard.
Under a sparsely starlit sky,
Rebecca sat in a rocking chair by the pond, a bright Nightstone hanging from a nearby tree branch.
Her pale blue dress swayed back and forth with the rocking chair.
Seeing Fang Hao approaching, she shifted to make space for him to sit down too.
The two squeezed onto one rocking chair.
The rocking chair gently swayed, and the chains holding it taut creaked.
“You really dare, bringing a queen here for a visit, not afraid something might happen, having Lizardmen coming after you?”
Fang Hao wrapped his arm around her waist and said, “It’s exactly because I was afraid, that I brought her here, anywhere else would be more dangerous.”
“Ah! You…,” Rebecca elbowed him in frustration.
Actually, Rebecca hadn’t come away empty-handed either.
By receiving the Lizardmen queen, both parties had gotten to know each other preliminarily.
If there really was an opportunity, Rebecca also wanted to cooperate with the Lizardmen to sell Lyss City’s goods there.
If successful, the benefits could be substantial.
Fang Hao’s ribs got elbowed, and he could only chuckle.
“Missed me? So eager to have me over.”
Before Rebecca could answer, Fang Hao turned his head, leaned into her ear, and kissed her face saying, “I missed you too, just afraid Rolana would catch us.”
Warm breath blew on her ear, causing Rebecca to awkwardly dodge a bit.
“Rolana returned to Blood Castle,” she said subconsciously.
After saying this, she felt as though she was implying something.
Immediately, she added, “Who missed you? I called you here because there’s something I need to talk to you about.”
“What is it?” Fang Hao strained a bit, rocking the chair more vigorously.
“Tomorrow’s council will elect a transmigrator to unify all transmigrators within the domain,” Rebecca said.
“Oh, it has come to this time already, I almost forgot,” Fang Hao replied.
Li Rong had mentioned this to him a couple of days ago.
The council’s decision to elect a transmigrator representative, which also hinted that Xu Haide might not be dead yet.
Fang Hao intended Li Rong to join, and regarding Xu Haide, further confirmation was needed.
If indeed he was still alive, they’d find a way to deal with him.
“Lyss City has a nomination slot, want me to nominate you?” Rebecca, grabbing his wandering hand, asked.
“Forget it, when the time comes, Lyss City will just support Li Rong, I won’t make an appearance,” he replied.
“Okay, that sounds good.”
“Do you have any news of Xu Haide?” Fang Hao continued to inquire.
Rebecca blinked, “Isn’t Xu Haide dead?”
It seemed Lyss City hadn’t received any news.
Even as members of the upper council, some matters were deliberately kept from them.
“No worries, at the council tomorrow, we will just support Li Rong from our side, showing our goodwill to the Mage Association, also an ally,” Fang Hao reassured her.
“Alright, that works,” Rebecca leaned on his shoulder, letting the rocking chair gently sway.
After a while, Rebecca continued, “What would you like to drink? I’ll have someone fetch it.”
Fang Hao thought for a moment, pulled out a bottle of fruit wine from his storage space, “This is brought by the Lizard Queen, only the royal family could savor it.”
Hearing it was the queen’s drink, Rebecca was somewhat tempted.
Even though she had been a City Lord for many years, she still lacked the status of a queen.
Taking the fruit wine, she removed the cork, and took a light sip from her red lips.
Her crystal clear tongue even licked her lower lip, as if savoring the taste.
“How is it, what’s the taste?”
“Quite sweet with some tang, not bad, have a taste,” she said, passing it over.
Fang Hao didn’t reach to take it, but instead pointed at her mouth.
Rebecca’s face flushed in an instant, nervously scanning the surroundings.
She took another sip from the bottle and imprinted her red lips onto Fang Hao’s mouth.
Gulp… Gulp!