Chapter Twenty-Four: Subjugation

  After getting rid of Tong Guan, the remaining bandits naturally collapsed and scattered in all directions. However, at this time, the advantage of the spiritual hunting hand was revealed.

  Riding on a leopard's back, the spirit hunter is definitely much faster than two legs of bandits.

  The affinity between the Spirit Hunter and the leopard is simply perfect, they were born to fight on top of leopards, so when they ride on leopards, their agility is also like having two legs on the ground.

  In this way, those bandits who wanted to counterattack were almost impossible, the elf hunter dodged and attacked, making it impossible for these bandits to resist, and soon they all lost their lives.

  Looking at these annihilated bandits, Xiao Yu ordered the beastman infantry to go and collect their weapons and armor, taking them back to be melted down.

  The beastman infantry did a great job, stripping many bandits bare, leaving nothing behind, even their underwear was taken away.

  This made Xiao Yu break out in a cold sweat again. Were these beastmen used to living too poorly before, seeing things and wanting to grab everything?

  After this battle, Da Fashi has reached level 4. Xiao Yu also upgraded Da Fashi's Ice Cone Technique by one level, reaching the full level of level 3.

  In this case, Da Fa Shi will be even more formidable in battle next time.

  However, Da Fa Shi is now too fragile without the Ice Shield. If he gets shot by an arrow or stabbed by a knife, he's basically done for.

  The Daedra's attack is incredibly powerful, far surpassing that of the Sword Saint and Tharros, but their defense is also extremely fragile. This is professional balance.

  Xiao Yu decided that after Da Fashi upgraded again, he must first learn an Ice Shield. If Da Fashi accidentally died, he would cry to death.

  After sweeping away these soldiers, Xiao Yu led the crowd back to the mountain stronghold. At this time, there were only more than 200 strong bandits left in the mountain stronghold, and Xiao Yu directly ordered Grom to lead the beastman soldiers to charge in.

  When the robbers saw the beastmen on the watchtower, they had already collapsed in an uproar, and immediately there were cries of "father" and "mother", with women and children wailing loudly, at a loss for what to do.

  Xiao Yu ordered the beastman infantry to guard several camp gates, then found a very high platform and stood on it, shouting at everyone: "Everyone listen, we don't kill the old, weak, women and children. As long as you surrender now, hand over the wealth here, and submit to me, the lord of the Lion King's territory, I guarantee that you will eat well, drink well, and have a lot of money."

  Xiao Yu suddenly found himself a bit like a Japanese devil entering the village, probably because he watched too many of those movies in his past life.

  Listening to Xiao Yu's loud shout, the crowd also gradually calmed down. Those more than 200 strong bandit soldiers who were guarding the house had already put down their weapons and didn't even have the will to resist.

  Xiao Yu looked at them and stabilized, then tidied up his clothes, coughed twice, raised his chin high, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Xiao Yu, I am the lord of Lion King Ridge, these beastmen are my soldiers, without my order, they will not eat people casually, so you can rest assured."

  When Xiao Yu said "eat people" two words, several small children in the crowd were suddenly scared and burst into tears.

  Xiao Yu was very pleased, this is the deterrent effect he wanted, and continued: "This place was originally the territory of the Lion King, but that Tong Guan actually did robbery on my territory, looting my people, which made me very angry. So, I have killed this evil Tong Guan, from now on, you will return to the management of the Lion King's territory."

  At this point, Xiao Yu tilted his head, and the Sword Saint immediately pulled out Tong Guan's head to show it to everyone. When everyone saw Tong Guan's head, they let out a burst of exclamations, and several people cried out loud.

  Xiao Yu looked at the crowd with a look of despair in their eyes, very satisfied, knowing that they had already been at a loss for what to do. He immediately continued: "I know that many of you are not willing to be bandits, but were forced to join by the bandits. Now, I, Xiao Yu, the lord of Lion King's territory, promise everyone that as long as you resubmit to the rule of Lion King's territory, I can exempt you from three years of taxes and will help you settle down, allowing you to live a good life."

  After hearing Xiao Yu's words, everyone looked at each other with suspicion in their eyes. After all, they didn't know if Xiao Yu was the lord of Lion King's territory, and they also didn't know if Xiao Yu's words would be fulfilled.

  Xiao Yu looked at the expressions of the crowd, pointing at Tailande and others again loudly: "Look at who they are? They are all the noblest elves. Now, even they have surrendered to me, don't you want to surrender too? I am the one protected by the Elf God and the Beast God, the greatest king of this era. You will follow me from now on and get the happiest life."

  The people below heard Xiao Yu say this, and only then did they start to look at the spirits around them. At first, they were frightened by the beastmen and didn't notice the spirits wearing huge cloaks.

  When they saw Tarzan, many people, like the subjects of the Lion King, immediately knelt down and worshipped, with a devout expression that was hard to describe.

  Xiao Yu immediately rolled her eyes, Tairand was more popular than his master wherever he went.

  However, this move was indeed very effective. Seeing the elves standing beside Xiao Yu, they immediately trusted Xiao Yu a lot more in their hearts.

  Xiao Yu looked at the situation and loudly said: "Who is the manager here, come out now to help me receive goods, punish evil, innocent people, I can take in and become my subjects. Those who are extremely evil will be severely punished without pardon. Welcome everyone to report, who is the worst in your mountain stronghold, doing all kinds of evil, report it, I'll help you eliminate the harm and remember your merit."

  As a result, the steward had just come out, and the people below immediately looked at him with an extremely resentful gaze. Xiao Yu then pointed to the steward and said, "Is he the worst person here?"

  The majority of the people below all nodded together. Although they usually didn't dare to disobey this steward, now they responded with silent nods.

  Xiao Yu directly tilted his head at Grom, and Grom came up with a knife. The steward's head fell off.

  Next, Xiao Yu carried out the reception work, which went very smoothly. The main reason was that these civilians worshipped the elves such as Tailande to an extreme extent. Each and every one of them looked at Tailande with eyes that seemed to be gazing at a goddess.

  Under the leadership of some other civilians, Xiao Yu began to clean up the wealth in this mountain stronghold.

  Didn't know if I didn't check, but after checking, I was shocked to find that this mountain stronghold's assets are not less than the Lion King's territory. Just gold coins alone, Xiao Yu found over 200,000 here, and adding other treasures, the estimated value is at least over 300,000.

  Xiao Yu confiscated all of these properties and took them for himself. However, he did not touch the belongings of ordinary civilians, which still belonged to them.

  After checking all the property, Xiao Yu discovered another good thing. Those dancing girls who had been seen in the hall were actually beautiful women of the Polan tribe who had just been captured by Tong Guan, with slender waists and buttocks, brown long hair, and extremely charming.

  Those dancing girls' masters had all been killed by Tong Guan, now these dancing girls have nowhere to go, naturally they also belonged to him.

  Xiao Yu gathered these dancing girls and pretended to be very democratic, saying that he would give them freedom if they wanted to go home. Xiao Yu was willing to give them travel expenses and let them return on their own.

  However, as Xiao Yu had expected, the dancing girls were not very willing to go back, because after going back, the fate that awaited them was another round of being sold.

  Xiao Yu then told them that they would no longer be slaves, but instead would become dancers in the territory of Lion King's domain, with a monthly salary.

  This made those who thought they would forever be female slaves somewhat disbelieving.

  However, Xiao Yu repeatedly emphasized that he would give them equal status and freedom. These dancers all thanked Xiao Yu a thousand times.

  After Xiao Yu finished all this, he indeed made a surprising discovery that the loyalty of Tailande beside him had reached 0 and was no longer a negative number.

  This made Xiao Yu's heart burst with wild joy.

  In fact, he did this, not entirely to win the favor of Talrand, but people living in his time had a strong sympathy for female slaves and were not used to treating others as slaves.

  So, although he hoped these dancing girls would stay in the Lion King's territory, having the opportunity to watch them dance from time to time and occasionally tease them was enough. Xiao Yu wouldn't really treat them as his playthings or female slaves.

  That was something his own moral code would not permit, peeking at a few sisters-in-law while they bathed was one thing, but toying with these female slaves like other nobles did was still something he could not bring himself to do.

  After cleaning up the goods, they rounded up the crowd and killed a few notorious bandits. Then, Xiao Yu led the remaining women, children and elderly people back home in several horse-drawn carriages, fully loaded.

  After returning, he still had more important things to do, and with money, he could have 500 more soldiers.