Warlord: King of All Clans

In the River Bend House, Leo sat on the lord's throne with one leg crossed, enjoying the massage from the little maid.

Uliyan can only sit in a wheelchair now, and will not touch the lofty lord's throne even in informal occasions.

After his body broke down, he aged twenty years in a year, and at forty years old, he looked like Rusev, who was in his sixties.

The many hidden injuries he sustained during his service had already damaged his foundation, and even the Elf Queen said it would be difficult to recover.

This is equivalent to an octogenarian whose body functions have failed and modern medicine cannot rejuvenate him.

Fortunately, Olivia and Freya were at Hewan, who used holy light and natural healing to take turns to maintain his body every now and then. He no longer had to worry as much as before, and only needed to focus on recuperation, which saved his life.

Looking at the handwritten letter in his hand, Leo was not too worried and explained, "Victor of Ilanrado does not know that I have formed an alliance with Herman. His main enemy is his brother, and he will not easily start a war with us."

"Victor is expanding his army and preparing for war, and has brought in a legion from the Beboos family. He probably wants to take action against Hermann of Frovald."

Uliyan also had strong military capabilities. Hearing this, he questioned, "Although Frovald is in ruins, the Duke of the North left behind a thousand heavily armored elites to help defend the city and guard against the orcs in the north. These thousand heavily armored elites are as powerful as an earl's army. How could a small shrimp like Victor take Frovald?"

Leo curled his lips and said, "Who said we have to attack the main city? While Frovald's foundation is unstable, we can take over a few towns and a few knight territories. Count Hermann can either lead his troops out of the city to reclaim the territory, or he can only shrink back in the city and suffer."

The orcs moved south and directly defeated the Count Fruilov family. The head of the family died in battle, Varanger fell, and the territory was divided among his three sons.

Hermann, the eldest son who occupied the main city, successfully inherited the title of count, but his main city was ravaged by war and most of the population in his jurisdiction was lost.

In contrast, the cities of Ilanrado and Isenbol in the south benefited from a demographic dividend due to the influx of refugees.

Especially in the city of Ilanrado, refugees were admitted based on merit. Only those with wealthy families or strong abilities had the opportunity to stay, and the rest were expelled like locusts.

It is actually very reasonable for Victor to deploy troops in advance.

The northern territory of Frovald has been basically ravaged by the orcs, and only the southern part can still provide tax revenue.

Now Victor took the opportunity to take over several towns in the south, leaving Frovald as an isolated city with a declining population.

If Leo were in power, he would also strike early to prevent Herman from regaining his strength.

The cohesion of the Earl's main city is also terrifying. After two or three years of heal the trauma of war, those clan landlords who fled will want to return to their homeland and become subjects of the Earl again, instead of wandering outside.

After hearing Leo's analysis, Uliyan felt relieved, but he still warned: "What you said makes some sense, but it is not ruled out that Victor of Ilanrado has other ideas. We can't let our guard down. We have to strengthen the defense of Linhai Town and send scouts further away."

"Since we have formed an alliance with Hermann, we can't fail to show our support. If Victor really wants to start a war, we have to show our support as well."

Leo was actually prepared, but after Uliyan said so, he could only nod.

After finishing the business, Uliyan complained as usual, "Look at you, you have such a big business now, but you are not at home all day? What's good about the imperial capital? The so-called United Knights' Territory you set up is all managed by Olivia. Rigolav is guarding the city of Isenpol and has written me several letters, asking me who the ruler of Isenpol is! And Buck Fortress..."

Leo slowly took out a list, looked at the data on it, and sighed, "Alas, I didn't find any good stuff today, and I only made 145 gold coins."

Wu Liyang stopped talking immediately, and after a long while he managed to utter one sentence, "The imperial capital is quite rich."

One hundred and forty-five gold coins are enough to buy an awakening potion to awaken a heavy-armored elite warrior, and then replace his equipment from head to toe to become an extraordinary knight.

That’s just one day’s profit!

Even the Great Earl of the North could not claim to have such a high net income.

But Uliyan also wanted to maintain his father-in-law's face, and continued to scold, "You are busy with work outside, and you have to take care of the family. If you do more work, Olivia will have an easier time. Whose daughter is running around outside all day long?"

Leo could only beg for mercy: "Okay, okay, I'll go home after I'm done with these few days. I really can't leave now. I'm busy all day in the imperial capital."

At this moment, Six ran in, jumped onto the lord's throne, hugged Leo's thighs and sniffed around, barking anxiously, "Something's wrong, you smell wrong!"

Leo almost thought that he had forgotten to clean his butt, but he had been with the dogs day and night, and knew that although these nominal godchildren were as unreliable as Freya, they would not let him down at the critical moment. Hearing this, he asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"

Xikes had no idea why. It was just the instinct in her blood that told her that there was danger. At this time, she could only bark, "Something is wrong!"

The Elf Queen who was following behind walked in and said, "Something is wrong indeed. I smell the scent of the vampires."

The thing Leo was most worried about happened, but he was also looking forward to it: "Let me see what's going on?"

Ostara stretched out her slender jade-like finger and pointed it at Leo's forehead. A drop of blood slowly oozed out from Leo's forehead and floated in the air. "The blood mark in your blood has been activated."

Leo had heard about this last time. The Blood Mark is a spell used by the vampires, and it is extremely secretive. "So, someone attacked me?"

Ostara nodded and said, "In fact, everyone has a blood mark on their body, but it has not been activated. Yours has been activated by someone, which is equivalent to a mark. So now your activities are being monitored. If it is a high-level vampire, they can even monitor what you see and what you think through your thoughts."

"Tens of thousands of years ago, humans were blood slaves of the blood race. Their bodies were already planted with blood marks, which were passed down from generation to generation and would never be erased. Activating a blood slave's blood mark is just the simplest identification spell of the blood race's slave owners."

"After the destruction of the blood race, the human race gradually rose. If someone mastered this spell and used it to track and trace, it would be more secretive and convenient than the current human spells."

Leo was a little frightened when he heard this, "If I come back now, won't Hewan be exposed?"

Ostara shook her head and said, "That's not necessarily true. Only high-level vampires can track marks thousands of miles away. There must be high-level vampires in the imperial capital, and they would have been caught by Saint-level masters long ago. Your mark must have been activated by a low-level spellcaster at close range, and it can only be tracked in the imperial capital."

Leo was just relieved when he heard Ostara change the subject, "But after the blood mark is activated, you can perform the next step of blood control. Maybe one morning when you wake up, your body will no longer be under your control."

Leo was shocked, "My Queen, you have to save me!"

Ostara put her hands on her hips and was about to say that it would take ten egg tarts to solve the problem, but considering her status as the queen, she held back and asked proudly, "Then tell me, where have you been these two days?"