Chapter 414 Rand Kingdom S1 Ladder Tournament

Linde walked through the corridor, passed the garden in front of the King's Peak, climbed up the stone steps and pushed open the door.

On the empty rooftop, on the golden throne, Rania was reviewing the information sent from various regions.

The sudden front-line war in the Black Swamp Kingdom took up a lot of her energy. Even though there were undead fighting in the front, attacking the Thousand Faces City seemed to be a piece of cake. However, the subsequent resettlement issues and legal promotion still gave her a headache and caused her to lose a lot of hair.

The completely chaotic finances and the endless busy tasks make people overwhelmed.

Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Raniya looked up at the person who came in.

Compared with his own busyness, Lind is really relaxed. His leisurely posture makes people jealous.

Rania strongly suspected that Lind was unwilling to become the king of the Rand Kingdom at that time and chose to continue to be loyal to her. He must have thought that there would be such a day.

For an epic or even legendary strongman, the power of the country is really dispensable.

As for loyalty? How could a knight who was truly loyal to the Queen carry her legs on his shoulders?
Lind indeed thought so. The undead were his precious resources, or enemies that could erupt at any time. Among the NPC natives, the only thing ordinary people could do was to stay alive.

In the early days, he still had the mind to take care of ordinary people, but now even the Great Knight can't keep up with the evolution of the game version, and Linde really can't distract himself to take care of them.

He has too many things to study, gods, potion formulas, stars, abysses, demonic lands, etc. Ordinary people are no longer on the same level as him, and taking care of too many things will only distract his energy.

It can be said that Rania's presence saved him a lot of energy.

"Have you finished your work?" Rania asked.

Lind nodded. As a knight, his etiquette was flawless, except that at night he would make the Queen a knight.

"It will be held in a few days, and I'll need your help then." He wasn't polite.

After careful consideration, Lind decided to take some excellent and loyal undead with him to the devil's land. Even if the undead could not play a big role, their fearlessness of death would allow them to perform good scout work.

For the undead, going directly to the "border" is equivalent to skipping countless game versions and entering a brand new large map. There is absolutely no reason to refuse.

It is not difficult to select these people. First, look at their combat effectiveness, and then look at their usual performance, that is, their combat experience points.

The most important thing is that you have to have the liver!
What he wants is a super tool man.

This time, Raniya did not persuade Linde to stay, just as it was impossible for her to leave with Linde. She needed to stay on this land and stay for her country.

Similarly, Lind has to move forward on a road where even he is not sure of the destination.

He left a lot of tails inside the Rand Kingdom, but it was not a big problem. He could come back at any time as long as he took the underground tunnel worm.

Instead of waiting here and wasting time, it is better to seize the time to improve. In case there is really a need for him to come back, it will be the same if he comes back then.

What Lind needs to do is to get epic and legendary potions before the major version of the game is updated.

"What are you going to do about the big rift in the Black Swamp Kingdom?" Rania was still a little worried.

Although Lind only took William and Tione with him this time, his absence is equivalent to the loss of an important fighting force, and the big rift in the Black Swamp Kingdom may cause some mistakes.

"The Rand Kingdom is now much stronger than it was back then, and the Black Swamp Kingdom also has more than 10,000 undead."

With the military strength doubled, and more than 30 level undead, the combat effectiveness is more than just doubled.

Lind has given the Krait Crest to many people, and the production of resistance medicine for the deliberately cultivated Pus Exiles has been greatly increased. Facing the abyss, they no longer face the biggest threat.

However, the Abyss equipment should be in short supply, and Linde can't do anything about it. In the future, if the undead want to get the Abyss set, they can only kill the Abyss monsters themselves and then steal it from them. Maybe the price of the Abyss set will skyrocket in the future.

"If there is really danger, I will come back!" Lind made his promise.

Perhaps these are exactly what Rania needs.

Unlike those who desire absolute power, Raniya is well aware that they were deeply bound together as early as when they met.

According to rumors from outside, Linde is not privately addressed as "Duke" or "General", but as "the living God".

The relationship between the two of them was not that of a feudal lord and his vassal, but rather more like a new divine authority and imperial power.

Raniya asked, "Where are the green men?"

The city of Raven was suddenly attacked by greenskins, and the news reached Goliath.

The greenskins who believe in "Sea God" are indeed a problem, but the greenskins are a bit weak, which is why Lind has never taken the greenskins seriously.

The toad lies on the instep of your feet. It doesn't bite you, but it's disgusting. You still have to deal with it.

"Let the Red Knight take people to the Great Frozen Land." Lind said indifferently.

Just stop the greenskins in the frozen tundra. There's no need to pay too much attention to them. These creatures are as tenacious as cockroaches and cannot be killed completely. They will always pop up in various places. It will be a success if you can drive them away without seeing them or worrying about them.

The two chatted briefly about future developments, and Rania did not hesitate to share her troubles, especially the country's financial problems, which gave her a headache.

"I have a candidate to recommend. You can make her the kingdom's finance minister."

"Who?"

"Dorothy Griffin."

……

William looked at Dorothy with a look of astonishment, as her expression was out of control because of a letter from the Kingdom of Rand.

Dorothy, who always wanted to maintain the absolute privacy and autonomy of her territory, was very resistant to both the Queen and the Duke.

But the wheel of history rolls forward, and no one can stop the development of the times.

"Why?" Dorothy couldn't understand.

He was actually appointed as the country's finance minister by the Queen, which included formulating relevant laws, adjusting taxes, etc. It can't be said that he had omnipotent power, but it was almost the same.

And when she found out that it was Linde who proposed it, she was even more confused.

"It seems that the Duke has discovered your strengths, Dorothy." William was happy for his sister. With the kingdom in power, the Griffin Territory lagged behind in all aspects, whether it was wealth, resources, or military force.

If the territory did not allow random relocation and immigration, the Griffin Territory would probably have been deserted.

Even so, there are always people who quietly flee the Griffin Territory and head to the richer Northern Kingdom where life is better.

"I'm not……"

Dorothy was indeed somewhat tempted. Her desire for power was no less than that of men, and financial management was what she was best at.

"You should go!" William continued.

"Don't talk about me. I should think about it again." Dorothy looked at William. "What about you, my brother? Do you really want to follow him to the devil's land?"

Looking at William's expression, Dorothy sighed: "Okay, I understand." "Everyone should have their own life. You can't tie everyone to yourself." William said softly.

"Yes, I know that's the case."

Dorothy became the finance minister of the Kingdom of Rand and was ready to make drastic reforms, but before that she had to investigate first.

She found that Linde's governance was a mess. The various fees for the undead were very unreasonable, but he was overly preferential to ordinary people.

The real problem was discovered when Dorothy was doing the statistics and found that there was something wrong with the grain transactions and transaction prices.

After careful investigation, Dorothy discovered that some undead would take advantage of this loophole and trade with ordinary people through several transfers, allowing them to buy more at a cheaper price.

Then the undead will use the food they bought to hire ordinary people to work for them at "high salaries".

Things like "points", "military merits" and "battle points" are not within Dorothy's jurisdiction, but this part alone is enough for her to take the initiative to cause trouble for Lind.

What a huge mess this is for myself.

Even though she had used teleportation and took one step forward, she suddenly came to the Snake Catcher's Fortress from the City of Gold. Looking at the huge arena that reached into the sky, she couldn't help but sigh at the horror of magic.

But after Dorothy took a breath, she put everything behind her. Dorothy found Lind who was saying something in the arena in a rage.

"This is the trouble you threw at me?!!" Dorothy would not be scared by Lind's identity.

No matter what gods are here, or what reassuring golden lions are, they are all useless.

"What?" Lind waved his hand and asked the person to leave first. "What's wrong?"

He turned and looked at Dorothy.

Dorothy recounted the situation she encountered when she took over.

“Did I raise the price too high?”

Lind looked through the information compiled by Dorothy and was very satisfied with her work efficiency. If it were his previous political officials, dozens of them would not be able to sort out the work.

"It's not that high." Linde pointed at the bill, "It's only increased six times."

He thought he had done well enough.

"6 times, still not high enough?" Dorothy mistakenly thought there was something wrong with her ears.

In just over a year, inflation has increased sixfold. The country is doomed!

"Do you know how fast the undead's strength increases? If I don't lower their selling price and raise their buying price, do you believe that in a month, they can buy most of Goliath?"

Compared to other games, players only need to spend a few hundred dollars to buy things in the early stage, but in the later stage, inflation is so high that it costs tens of millions to buy anything. Linde was able to suppress the inflation to 6 times, which shows that he is very capable.

As strength increases, rare resources become easier to obtain, but the prices of ordinary resources and labor remain unchanged. As long as no one is willing, the national order will collapse in an instant.

This is why Lind prefers the point system rather than currency. Points can prevent the undead and NPCs from having any financial transactions, and the undead cannot use points to trade with each other, allowing Lind to have control comparable to that of the "official" and more stable.

However, when the undead began to swipe materials, and previously precious magic materials such as the Heart of Doom were now everywhere, Lind also had to face the situation of being "stuck by a bug" by the undead swiping points.

"This is only treating the symptoms and not the root cause. The disease will still collapse." Dorothy shook her head.

"What do you want to do?" Lind looked down at the information. The opening and renovation of the arena required huge investments.

"I can do whatever I want?" Dorothy asked back, "There are tens of thousands of undead people there. Are you sure?"

In response, Lind only told her one sentence: "Go to Rania and issue new regulations. Don't worry about what the undead think. They will abide by it."

With a doubtful mind, Dorothy left temporarily.

After returning to the palace, Dorothy wrote down [Rand Kingdom Update Announcement: 1. Adjustment of Tax Rates…] in the prescribed format.

To Dorothy's surprise, her reforms did not cause dissatisfaction among the undead, just as Lind had said.

Before this, she had never thought that when issuing new tax policies, she didn't need to care whether the residents of the territory were willing or not. As long as they were issued, they would abide by them.

There are more than 10,000 or 20,000 upper-level knights/upper-level wizards, and the Rand Kingdom cannot resist them at all with its current combat power.

The slightest disturbance, when gathered together, is enough to make the rulers tremble with fear.

But even such a group of terrifying and powerful people only complained a few words when faced with tax adjustments, and some even worked harder because of it instead of opposing the taxes.

If this happened in the Griffin Territory, there would definitely be small nobles and merchants who would rush directly to the Griffin Castle to protest.

Are the undead so easy to talk to?

Or do they respect Lind immensely?

Compared with the previous speculation, Dorothy prefers to believe that it is Lind's existence that makes the undead people willing to abide by the order.

"Maybe he really is a living god, someone who can even make a group of crazy undead people respect him."

……

"Welcome everyone to watch this issue of the French Circle Weekly. I am Red Bubble!"

"I'm Green Fruit!"

"I've recently become obsessed with the stunning beauty of 'Centipede Girl'."

"Thank you, that's my wife! Ahem, let's get straight to the point. I'm sure all of you undead have noticed that this episode was a temporary update. We were supposed to update the story of the Centipede Girl, but this time the update to a certain area forced us to turn our attention back to our old friend Lind Arman."

"The respected 'God of the Present World' Lord Lind Alman has opened the arena. Although undeads have always been able to compete with each other, it was all illegal. Now, the Snake Catcher Fortress in the Rand Kingdom is legal, and the ladder competition has also been opened."

"If you think that's all, you're totally wrong. In Season 1, there will be team and individual competitions, and after calculations, various rewards will be given out according to the rankings on the ladder leaderboard. You can wait until the end of the show to see the detailed announcement. What we're going to talk about next is something more important!"

"That's right, fellow undead, no matter where you are adventuring in Xilu Continent, Enstad Continent, or Serilin Continent, you must have heard of a place more or less, the Magic Land, whose full name is 'the place where the mortal world and the divine realm meet under the illumination of the magic ring'! In this update of the Rand Kingdom region, it is clearly stated that Lind Alman will go to the Magic Land and will recruit a group of undead to go with him."

"Before the update, a group of people can enter the higher-level map in advance! I want to go too!"

"It seems that our weekly editor's previous guess was completely wrong. Haha. He also said that Lind was an early-stage NPC who would definitely be eliminated. I didn't expect that he would be a growth-type NPC, and the first NPC among all the national NPCs in all the continents to enter a higher-level new map!"

"In addition, we already have frontline reporters from the Rand Kingdom ready. If you are interested in the Rand Kingdom S1 competition, you can follow us. There will be live broadcasts and exciting battle clips."

"Finally, attached is the updated announcement of the Rand Kingdom."

[Rand Kingdom Update Announcement:
1. The Snake Catcher Fortress Arena is open: From now on, the undead can go to the arena to register, participate in the ladder competition, and win various rewards;

2 Selection of the expeditionary force to the Demonic Land: General Lind Alman will go to the "border of the mortal world and the divine realm illuminated by the magic ring". He wants to select powerful warriors. The number of recruits has not been determined. Application conditions: 1. Pay 500 points to purchase the Lion Private Army identity, 2. Reach the Knight Squire (10001-50000 experience points) or above, 3. Top 3000 in the ladder competition]

(End of this chapter)