Chapter 13: The dragon lord
Xilia told Li Ge about dividing the green dragon’s spoils, which made him burst into laughter. The nickname Green Forest Disaster is quite cool, but the so-called dragon treasure doesn't even have a thousand gold coins.
It's actually not surprising when you think about it. As the adopted daughter and spouse of that ancient green dragon, it's impossible to imagine how much property she has. Most of the wealth now is still stolen from the elven tribe, and there are even gems pretending to be green glass. .
The emerald dragon was unwilling to hand over the treasure, so the Alpha family had no choice but to consider themselves unlucky and compensated other forces with a lot of gold coins. Now even a noble like the earl was in trouble.
Li Ge naturally had nothing. He felt a little sad when he saw Xilia happily counting the gold coins.
"Sir Knight, thank you for rescuing my sister!" The two sisters, Luvia and Lucia, followed the elf tribe elders to thank Li Ge.
The elf elder made a great gift from the elves, "Sir Knight, thank you for everything you have done to save the elves. You have consumed precious magical scrolls, and the elves will not let their friends suffer." What the elf elder gave to Li Ge was
actually Two divine gold coins cast by the main elf god Corellon. After all, this is a medium-sized tribe, so a few divine gold coins are acceptable.
The silver dragon girl Xilia's eyes shone with envy, "Li Ge, you really made a lot of money. The divine gold coins cast by His Majesty Corellon are very rare. Even 1,000 standard gold coins may not be exchangeable for one. The collection value is very high. Xilia
pretended to be cute, "Li Ge, please give me one in exchange. When you become an adult, I can have dragon eggs with you." Li Ge rolled his eyes,
Xili Ya, are you still a silver dragon? Where has your moral integrity gone?
He decisively rejected the silver dragon girl's request. Am I, Li Ge, such a dragon? It's impossible to seduce me. If you give me dragon eggs now, you can consider it.
Li Ge shamelessly walked into the angry silver dragon girl's portal and came to the temple of the Good Dragon God.
"Master", Selina happily hugged Li Ge's arm, followed by the almost two-meter-tall winter wolf Kaya.
"Great true dragon, Kaya is willing to follow the master and be loyal to you." The winter wolf Kaya expressed her loyalty to Li Ge in a steady young female voice.
Seeing that Li Ge and Winter Wolf Kaya were getting along well, Selina was very happy and held on to Li Ge's status. As a Holy Spirit, she was not very afraid of Li Ge.
"Master, the Archbishop has provided me with a lot of information about houses and manors. I have selected a few places. Master can take a look at them in person." Selina is almost in a spiritual connection with Li Ge, and the target she chose should be more in line with Li Ge's thoughts.
After a few words with the golden dragon Elsa, Shelia squeezed in and accused Elsa of Li Ge's abominable behavior.
Li Ge didn't care about the complaints of the silver dragon girl, so he and Selina came to the edge and sat down to look at the information she had compiled.
The reason Li Ge came to human society was because he wanted to get in touch with the civilized world, but he didn't really want to get involved in human messes. Xilia also learned a lesson.
The more contact he had with humans, the more stinky diseases he would pick up. Li Ge planned to find a place far away from human cities.
Taking the information prepared by Selina, Li Ge directly crossed out the residences in the city, leaving only a few manors, all in rural towns.
"Hey", Li Ge discovered a strange place. There was a relatively large territory, nearly one hundred square kilometers, located at the junction of the Hengduan Mountains and the wilderness.
"Selena, how come the temple is so far into the wilderness that it has a territory equivalent to a barony?"
Selina pointed to the territory on the map and said somewhat depressedly, "Master, this is where the temple saved us back then. My place, back then, belonged to an evil archmage."
Li Ge touched the little girl's hair, and Selena became happy again. "There was a medium-sized mage tower in this territory at that time. After it was breached, the temple took over the place and it was not under the jurisdiction of the Rhine Empire."
Selina put down the map and picked up another book of information, "The temple will go there every year to check. Now a group of wild people live there and have established a town, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the temple."
Li Ge knew what wild people were, referring to those people who were persecuted by the nobles and could not pay taxes, so they fled to the mountains to hide and did not accept the jurisdiction of the empire. Of course, they were no longer protected by the empire.
These people came to the old site of the Mage Tower, accepted the protection of the Bahamut Temple, and multiplied here.
Li Ge took a fancy to this place. He didn't need many servants, just enough. This place had a large area, a small number of people, and there were no troubles like nobles.
Thinking of this, Li Ge said to Selina, "Do you know what the territorial temple will do?"
Selina shook her head and said loudly to Elsa, "Archbishop, the master wants to ask about that piece of land in the wilderness. Territory conditions”.
Elsa, who was being pulled by Shelia, came over together. Shelia was very sharp-eyed, "Isn't this the temple territory not far from my lair?"
Li Ge looked at the map carefully, and sure enough it was. Yes, this territory is only thirty kilometers away from Xilia's lair in a straight line, which is indeed relatively close.
Elsa came over, took a look, and smiled and said, "His Majesty Bahamut is a benevolent god. Since those people are willing to believe in His Majesty Bahamut, we cannot abandon them. To purchase this territory, we only need to promise to guarantee these The believers' right to live here and protect them from monsters can be traded at a very cheap price." Li Ge
also understood that the temple needed a lord who could protect these believers, but Li Ge had no patience to be a nanny.
He directly put forward his own conditions. These territorial residents can live in the territory, but they must pay taxes. Of course, the tax rate will be set more reasonably.
The lord had the right to recruit able-bodied adult males to join the army, and of course he would also pay military salaries.
Violation of the laws and regulations specified by the lord must be judged by the lord, including the death penalty.
The lord has the obligation to protect the safety of his subjects to the best of his ability.
The temple should ensure the legitimacy of the lord's status, the legitimacy of the territory, and the legitimacy of the territorial citizen's status.
Elsa looked at Li Ge's conditions and blinked, "Li Ge, have you studied with the devil?"
Li Ge looked at Elsa, "Sister Elsa, this is the most basic condition for the survival of the territory. , If it can’t be guaranteed, I won’t buy it.”
Elsa smiled and said, "I'm just kidding. As long as the temple recognizes your status and canonizes you as the dragon lord, that's it."
In this world, each temple has its own territory under its control, and the lords canonized by the temple are also recognized by civilized races. The dragon lord that Bahamut canonize must first be a dragon, and secondly, he must have been blessed by a god, which is the kind of magic that was bestowed upon Li Ge by the True God of Good Dragon.
Li Ge accepted the title of Dragon Lord granted by Elsa, as well as a holy symbol granted divine power by Bahamut.
The price of the temple is indeed very friendly. Nearly one hundred square kilometers of land only costs one thousand gold coins. Of course, this is because this territory has not been sold for many years.
Li Ge took out a piece of Corellon's divine power gold coin and paid it for the thousand gold coins. Seeing Xilia's little head turning with the divine gold coin, Li Ge smiled and said, "Xilia, do you want the remaining one?"
The silver dragon girl nodded crazily, and Li Ge rolled his eyes, "I hired Xilia as my magic consultant. She must serve in the territory for one month every year. This divine gold coin is a deposit, and I will pay you one every year. A salary of one hundred gold coins”.
(End of chapter)