Reincarnated in the Alternate World, I'm A Demonic Lord as Well as a Villager-Chapter 573 - 297: The Art of Delivering Envelopes (Part 2)

Chapter 573: Chapter 297: The Art of Delivering Envelopes (Part 2)

She was full of doubts about the relationship between the two.

In the Spirit Beast Realm, there is also a distinction between high and low honor. If the Master of Contracts is a powerful spirit, the contracted spirit beast naturally can attain noble honor.

A spirit capable of forming a contract with a demon king is bound to become an existence at the level of an Elf Queen in the future.

Kalu stared fixedly at the flat golden-haired girl currently teaching the white-haired girl ’people shouldn’t be too clumsy’, and in a trance, she saw the shadow of a future Elf Queen.

This was the most beautiful spirit she had ever seen. In terms of appearance, she was already at the level of a queen. If her strength was equally formidable.

That’s right!

Following Lureya will surely bring about good things.

Perhaps after Lureya is crowned Queen, she’ll grant her a resounding ’Martial Saint’ title.

"I’m in."

Having decided to follow the elf maiden, Kalu shrank from her original form, reverting to a tall maiden shape.

Shami smiled and extended her right hand forward.

"Welcome."

"Eh eh eh, let’s not do the handshake thing."

"Indeed, indeed."

The elf maiden and the white-haired maiden quickly stopped Shami and Kalu from shaking hands, each grabbing one of Shami’s hands.

With another race girl added to the organization, the two Demon Envoys were more vigilant than anyone else.

——

After Kalu joined the demon tribe, the elf maiden could no longer make excuses for not constructing the Underground Maze.

The day after Kalu settled in, the two of them headed to the Aoja Kingdom to build the underground city.

Currently, Shami still had Saili’s and Elze’s Underground Mazes left to check on for progress.

Since Saili also served as the Saintess of Fata, she couldn’t stay in the Demon Realm for long and often asked Shami for teleportation gates, shuttling back and forth between Fata, the Demon Realm, and within the Wus Kingdom, where the underground city was being constructed.

"Saili has so much on her plate, so it’s understandable if the progress of the underground city lags a bit. Let’s check on Elze’s first."

Shami decided to head to the Underground City where the Dragon Race Maiden resided.

The Underground City for the Dragon Race Maiden needed to be built within the Esper Kingdom. Currently, the Esper Kingdom was exerting great efforts to suppress the goblin forces, and the atmosphere of preparation for war within the kingdom was increasingly tense, which would more or less affect the construction of the underground city.

In such an atmosphere, deciding where to build the underground city was quite a critical task.

"Elze, I’m planning to visit you in a while and check on the progress of the underground city."

Shami sent a voice message through a ring.

Within the Esper Kingdom,

the Dragon Race Maiden paced around in distress, her tail twitching anxiously behind her.

"What to do, what to do, Shami has already sent a message. If he finds out, it’s all over."

"Elze, what are you muttering about?"

"Shami!!!"

The Dragon Race Maiden fluffed up, her tail stiff and tense, and she turned to look at Shami emerging from the Teleportation Gate, her small face blushing.

"Didn’t you just send a message? Why are you here already?"

"Ah, visits must be done secretly, only then can I know the truth. — Elze, why is your face pale? Surely you haven’t started construction yet!"

"No, not at all."

The Dragon Race Maiden avoided eye contact, and after Shami walked forward, she spoke softly.

"Actually, the underground city is already completed."

"Then why do you look so upset?"

"No, I don’t..."

Shami looked over, puzzled, and the Dragon Race Maiden hesitated a little, then slowly pulled out a bulging envelope from her pocket, casually stuffing it into Shami’s hands.

Shami was stunned for a moment before recovering, grabbed the Dragon Race Maiden’s head with both hands, and began to spin it vigorously.

"Why have you learned such a rotten trick, Elze! Even if you’re giving an envelope, it should go to the intermediary supervisor, right? I’m the primary client, isn’t it a bit excessive to openly give money like this!"

"Dizzy, dizzy, I’m going to faint, my brain is about to mix evenly..."

The Dragon Race Maiden hurriedly begged for mercy, only then did Shami slowly let go of her hands. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"Tell me, what’s the issue? Was the underground city skimped out from the blueprint stage?"

The Dragon Race Maiden’s eyes spun in circles; after a while, she cautiously looked at Shami.

"No, no... I personally think there aren’t any issues, I’m just worried you won’t be satisfied, Shami."

"Silly. How could I be dissatisfied? Lina placed the underground city on Newbie Village, eating up most of the budget I gave without me saying a word. As long as you don’t treat me like a fool, it’s fine."

Shami’s tone was gentle, and the Dragon Race Maiden finally made up her mind to take Shami to her Underground Maze.

On the way, Shami also heard about the latest war reports from the Esper Kingdom.

[The goblins have occupied one-seventh of the Esper Kingdom’s land and have established cities belonging to the goblins on these lands.]

[There are reports of surrenderists within the country. The king has decreed to identify and execute all surrenderists.]

[The goblin army is advancing towards Balan City, one of the kingdom’s three major economic cities. Experts predict that goblins are about to launch an attack on Balan City.]

"Speedy! At this rate, the extinction of the Esper Kingdom is imminent. But as the demon king, I have no involvement!"

Feeling a lack of involvement as the plot kept skipping forward, Shami complained, checked the military map Buwana had previously sent him, and decided to take the purple-haired one to the goblin base camp first.

After Buwana led the goblins out of the Demon Realm, they drove straight into the Esper Kingdom in the northwest, planting goblin flags wherever they went, causing a grand commotion.

This successfully attracted the attention of half the continent, significantly reducing the focus on the affairs of the Demon Realm.

By the time they left the Demon Realm, the Goblin Tribe had developed to the level of cities, and all the goblins totaled over twenty thousand.

Buwana took away twenty thousand goblins, leaving a few thousand goblins within the demon tribe to handle reproduction, research the technological tree, and supply resources, etc.

Though the twenty thousand goblins Buwana took were of varying ages, due to the goblin race’s uniqueness, all goblins regardless of age possessed some combat ability.

Among these twenty thousand goblins, they could form a goblin army of about fifteen or sixteen thousand when fully armed.

However, this expedition aimed to develop the Goblin Tribe outside the Demon Realm, not to defeat some target and return. Therefore, Buwana adopted a steady tactical approach, dividing the twenty thousand goblins into warriors and logistics personnel.

Ten thousand goblin warriors. Ten thousand goblin logistics personnel.

In pushing the front line forward, they established cities on the conquered lands and focused on recuperation and development.

So far, the goblins haven’t encountered much resistance, advancing smoothly with continuous supply support, thus, personnel loss has been minimal.

In fact, due to sporadic supply squads arriving from the Demon Realm, their numbers didn’t decrease but increased to around twenty-two thousand.

Despite the goblins’ attack proceeding smoothly, Buwana had not let goblins occupy human cities. Occupying human cities would enlarge their target, which was extremely unfavorable for the goblins.

Buwana proposed that goblins should be pragmatic and start from their realities.

With the goblins being small, they were hard to spot in the wild. After taking Zhuge Bulin’s advice, Buwana established scattered small goblin villages on the conquered lands rather than large cities.

This significantly reduced the goblins’ resource expenditures.

But it wasn’t as though they hadn’t occupied any human cities.

Currently, the goblins needed a base outside the Demon Realm.

Buwana chose Ueldo, a border city of the Esper Kingdom, as the goblin’s main city. After dispersing the residents with money, goblins took Ueldo as their own.

However, the goblins did not repair Ueldo’s dilapidated city walls as Ueldo was just a temporary residence. Should a better location arise, the goblins preferred to build a city fitting goblin culture.

The Esper Kingdom had an uneven population distribution, more people in the west and fewer in the east. Currently, within the one-seventh of the land the goblins have occupied, it’s primarily forests and grasslands, sparsely populated, with few human metropolitan cities. As for human villages, they left them undisturbed, both parties living in peace.

Thus far, the goblins haven’t needed to handle any conflict between goblins and the original inhabitants.

Shami brought Elze to the goblin base camp led by Buwana. The goblin base camp was located behind the forefront of the line. Shami saw that in the winter plains, dozens of small goblin villages were scattered in all directions.

Soon, Buwana came to greet them with Zhuge Bulin.