Chapter 899 - Building the City (4) (1/2)

Chapter 899: Building the City (4)

Immigration was a major project.

Rhode had to admit that the Order Refugees who defended the tinder had indeed experienced extremely dangerous and tough battles with Chaos. More than half of his mercenaries were either injured or dead. The Bow Knights almost perished, but fortunately Lesa made it through. This problem with the Bow Knights was easy to solve since they were heroic spirits, after all. They could simply be re-summoned from the Astral Temple. On the other hand, the loss of his mercenaries left him feeling helpless.

In comparison, the Order Refugees were more on the unfortunate end. The fact that almost all the Bow Knights perished proved just how many of the Order Refugees could have survived safely. In the end, Rhode calculated that around 80 percent of the Order Refugees who defended the tinder were killed by Chaos and the remainder were either gravely injured or crippled. Currently, only the Order Refugees who remained in the shelter survived the crisis, but most of them were fragile seniors, women, and children, which limited the things that they could do. However, Rhode had no intention of letting them go. No matter what, they defended the tinder for years and he wasn’t that heartless to kick them away.

It wasn’t a simple task to build a territory. Even though he once managed a territory in the game, that was just a game, after all. All he had to do was set up taxes and wait for the money to roll in. Money in the game was worth nothing and players wouldn’t care where it came from, even if it was dropped from wolf or slime corpses.

But now, he couldn’t help but feel his head hurt as the overlord. Due to their secluded lives, the Order Refugees didn’t use gold coins for anything. The lives that they had been through sdfd similar to rigorous militarized management. But it was different now. Even if it was for bartering, commercial transactions were also a step in foreign economic exchanges.

Even though Rhode was a top player in the game, it didn’t mean that he was an expert in this field. He couldn’t come up with a conclusion after days of serious consideration. Under no other choice, he handed this matter to Marlene and ordered her to set up a complete financial distribution system that matched the outside world.

As for the mercenaries who survived, he promoted them to his elite squad because the fact that they lasted until the end in the battles against Chaos proved how capable they were. Although the battles were cruel, it filtered out the weak ones. When Rhode met his men recently, he realized that they all possessed unprecedented determination to battle. Besides, most of them actually broke through the limits of natives and reached above level 40. Although Rhode had less than a hundred mercenaries of this caliber, their strength was sufficient to form an elite squad to protect a country’s royal family.

Thereafter, Rhode spoke to Gillian and the others using the spiritual communications. Even though they couldn’t enter the city due to the temporary absolute wall of Order, Rhode managed to learn about the situation on the outside.

Inside the Land of Chaos, there was no perception of time for Rhode and his group. But in fact, more than four months had passed in the outside world and it was already late summer. Everyone was bewildered when they heard Gillian’s report.

Fortunately, the chaotic situations Rhode was worried about in his territory didn’t occur. Even though many people expressed their concerns in not seeing Rhode and Marlene around, this wasn’t a problem for Gillian who was a sly fox. Foxes were typically experts in lies and she found a formidable reason that cleared everyone’s concerns…

“Maternity leave?”

Rhode instantly felt as though his soul left him.

“Huhuhu. That’s right, Master. Isn’t this totally logical? Miss Marlene can’t continue her work as she’s pregnant and needs some time off. I think this excuse is perfect. As for her job, there aren’t any problems with me and Ann around.”

“… Forget it. Any other things going on?”

After remaining in silence for less than three seconds, Rhode decisively skipped this topic. He didn’t want to think about how Marlene would react when she heard this news. At this moment, he was more concerned about himself. ‘Spare the rod, spoil the child’ was perfect to describe this situation with Gillian. If he knew this would happen, he wouldn’t have left her in charge.

“Everything else is doing fine. The Country of Darkness stopped finding trouble with us after they signed the truce agreement. As for the Country of Light… Huhuhu… It seems like your chess piece is really useful, Master.”

Even though they were speaking through the spiritual communications, Rhode imagined Gillian’s cheeky expression now. As expected, he received information from her about the state of the Country of Light. It should have been the crucial period for the election in the Country of Light. However, there were unimaginable conflicts and riots going on.