Chapter 476: The Age of Lords Child Taylor, the contemporary head of the Taylor family in the Northwest Territories, a somewhat wealthy middle-aged man who had received the throne of the crumbling Taylor family from his emaciated father three years earlier, had spent the next three years living what he considered to be an unusually humiliating life.
The Taylor family and the Garcia family are the few long-lived families in the northwest that can last for hundreds of years, and due to the geographical advantage, when the northwest is attacked by orcs, these two families can always survive and obtain some merits.
Over the centuries, Taylor and the Garcia family had built a completely independent little kingdom almost at the corner of the Elven Forest and the Dragon's Back Mountains, and there was little to worry them about except that the Marañon River had hindered their communication with the noble nobles of the Northern Realm.
However, this carefree situation has changed since the establishment of the new city a few years ago, and the Taylor and Garcia families have faced a disaster that is far more terrible than the previous orc attack.
Due to the last orc invasion, Taylor and the Garcia family did not fully resist the orcs.
Stuck in the castle and refusing to attack, they gave the orcs the way to the interior of the northwest.
The orcs who were let go then attacked the Rodnik Lord, south of the two families, and this attack became the source of the disaster that the two families then experienced.
Although the orc army was later defeated by the powerful military force in the Rodnik Territory, the inaction of the two families eventually brought danger to the Rodnik Territory, because the three families had already formed a grudge over this matter.
In the beginning, the two families had been wary of any retaliation that the Southern Lord might launch at any time.
However, the owner of the Rodnik Lord, Blake Rodnik, a mysterious man, did not seem to care too much about this matter, and the Rodnik Lordship did not take any revenge for a long time after the incident.
But the bad thing is that his wives have never forgotten that grudge, especially when Rodnik led only a few women to run the house, and the fact that two noble families let go of the gap for the orcs to attack them, made these women extremely unrelieved.
A woman's memory of resentment can be kept for a long, long time, and it is precisely because of this that when the new city began to be established, Zhao Yannian became a big man in the Supreme Council.
Erica, who had the power of Xincheng and even the economic power of the northwest, began to take revenge on the two families, intentionally or unintentionally.
Although Erica can only influence the economy of the Northwest at most, don't forget that all her economic knowledge is taught by Zhao Yannian.
The various business tactics from the real business elite of the earth have allowed Erica to use money without a trace to make anyone survive without a trace, and in the past few years, Taylor and Garcia have deeply understood what kind of bitter consequences business chaos will bring them.
Childe Taylor's father almost died of cerebral congestion in the study due to continuous problems in the territorial economy, and although the family's royal magician saved him from death, it was impossible for the old man to work again.
And Childe Taylor was then urgently recalled from the field, and he was originally given up to become the manager of the Taylor family's chamber of commerce because he only had business talents, and surprisingly became the head of the Taylor family overnight, all because the Taylor family is now deeply aware that if they want to continue to exist, they must have a lord who is proficient in business.
And when this lord with great business talent took office, he began a career of racking his brains for several years to deal with various business problems.
After Erica took power, her mentality towards the former enemy has changed, she didn't want to completely destroy the two families who had offended her, but she didn't want to let them go easily, it was because of this, Erica united with Jasmine, who had mastered the huge funds of the Mithril Chamber of Commerce, and the two women were like cats playing with mice, and they used all kinds of tricks they got from Zhao Yannian to the two families to observe their reactions.
Although the actions of the two women did not seem to be fatal, the power they now possessed was enough to make two aristocratic families who had been in business for hundreds of years vomit three liters of blood.
Childe Taylor knew exactly who was messing with his territory but still had to accompany the smiling face, which made him feel extremely humiliated growing up in this patriarchal place in the Northwest.
It is precisely because of this that Childe has been slowly accumulating his hatred in his heart, and he only hopes that one day in the future he can find an opportunity to get rid of these two female demons and turn over and raise his eyebrows.
Now, Child Taylor feels that his opportunity has come, although he did not follow the trend at the beginning due to the proximity to the new city, but now the self-defense forces of various names have appeared all over the Dragon Sleeping Continent, which has made Child see the hope of raising his eyebrows.
After years of wit, Childe Taylor learned that no matter how smart a person is, he can't compete with the rule-makers, and only true strength can make rules, and he will always be invincible within his own rules.
As long as there is enough military power, Child can restore the original Taylor family's own territorial laws, and at that time, it will be impossible for the two women who he hated and feared to use those complicated but beneficial laws to toss themselves around.
As for revenge on Sylde Taylor, I didn't think about it at all, after all, the man standing behind the two women is now a terrifying existence in this world where one person is below ten thousand people.
As more and more refugees flock to the Northwest and news of cities destroyed by demons or angels, Child Taylor has a strong sense of crisis about the future.
Under the feeling of this troubled times, only a strong and own weapon can give him a sense of security, and in order to obtain this weapon, Childe ruthlessly found the patriarch of the Garcia family, jointly excavated the emergency wealth stored by the two families, and began to recruit powerful professionals.
While the two families began to secretly recruit professionals to form an army, the lords of all over the world were doing the same thing, and the closer they were to chaos and war, the more eager and flamboyant they became when recruiting force.
Originally, when the world was relatively peaceful, professionals rarely accepted the recruitment of nobles unless they wanted to retire, and nobles generally had private soldiers and knights who had served for generations in their families, and these highly loyal professionals were far more comfortable to use than those who were strong from unknown sources.
But now, with the exception of the Northwest New City and a few surrounding cities, the world has fallen into chaos, with the survival of bandits and demons causing prices to skyrocket in almost all cities, and the nobles who have hollowed out the local officials have regained control of the city, and the control of goods has made life even more difficult for the professionals.
Finding a force to attach to became a choice that professionals had to make at this time, and the strict discipline of the Imperial army and the danger of constantly fighting were excluded from the options of the vast majority of professionals at the first time.
Not everyone had the foresight, and now the nobility was paid better and fought less, which made the vast majority of the professions in the kingdom quickly move closer to the power of the noble lords who also desired them.
And in the process of getting closer, the professionals found that the noble lords who had mastered the 3D printers and various factories could easily give the professionals much more things than they imagined, and when the professionals found that the benefits of cooperating with the noble lords were far greater than they imagined, they called friends, so that the strength of the nobles began to skyrocket again.
The noble lords everywhere were hungry and thirsty for the local powerhouses, and when most of the local powerhouses were recruited into their command, they began to set their sights on the entire Longmian Continent.
At this time, those adventurers who already had fame were strongly sought after by the nobles, and they did not hesitate to pay any price to be able to make these people their own command.
At the same time, the deeds of some new powerful adventurers on the continent began to spread.
These little people, who were unknown before the attack of the demons, gradually became the attention of everyone on the continent in the battles of killing demons again and again.
These strong men showed all kinds of admirable qualities in the process of fighting, and under the dual charm of strength and character, they soon received the name of brave men, which was full of praise, and their battle experiences were quickly compiled into poems and spread throughout the world.
For these brave men who take the destruction of the invaders as their own task without asking for a price, the lords are not only willing to give them free support, but also willing to spread their fame everywhere.
The lords seemed to be endlessly glorious as long as they could show their faces in the songs of the brave.
In fact, with the spread of the deeds of the brave, the reputation of many wise lords began to increase rapidly.
Standing on the moral high ground, they began to gain the support of the people, and gradually began to transcend the authority given to them by the empire to become the true masters of the territory.
In this way, the people on the Dragon Sleep Continent quickly began to forget or deliberately forget the existence of the empire within a few months, and the imperial power did not make any sound to stop this from happening, except for silently and constantly fighting fires everywhere.
Of course, all this is just a façade that ordinary people can see, in fact, the eyes of the empire have always been by their side and never leave for a moment.