While gripping a roast chicken leg, he pondered how to gather more talents for the territory.

Through these days of honing, Zong Shen had fully adapted to the role and identity of a lord.

He often unconsciously thought about the future development of the territory.

During this time, he occasionally clinked glasses lightly with Mars and Marie.

They had a pleasant conversation, and Zong Shen recounted some of his battle experiences during his adventures, which made Marie's eyes sparkle with interest, and even Mars was full of admiration.

This world had vast, uninhabited wilderness areas.

In those wilds, various alien races, magical beasts, and monsters existed, and to them, humans were just something on the menu.

Ordinary people like Mars and Marie would never dare to venture into the wilderness.

Even the most famous adventurer of Boss Bang, who was also the actual controller of Boss Bang City, the kingdom's hereditary baron, Lord Bezos, took an army when he went out.

The meal was quite enjoyable.

In this village, sixteen years old was not considered a child anymore.

Many young girls at this age were already mothers of two or three children.

As for boys, once they reached the age, they had to find a suitable means of livelihood, whether it be herding cattle and sheep, farming, joining passing caravans, or going to Bang City.

Therefore, Marie was permitted to drink moderately.

After everyone was full and satisfied, it was completely dark outside, with each household in the village lighting oil lamps, and torches lit at the village entrance and on the sentry tower.

The night was peak time for bandit raids, and after the cattle and sheep were brought into the pens, the bandits might even break the fences and plunder the cattle and sheep.

The men Mars had sent out to gather resources had now returned to the mansion.

"Master, all the supplies have been fully purchased and are now piled up on the vacant lot next to the pasture."

"We acquired thirty bags of wheat, five baskets of fresh apples, two baskets of fresh olives, two baskets of carrots, one basket of Swiss chard, as well as two hundred pounds of jerky, one hundred pounds of sausage, eighteen hens, two roosters, and a basket of eggs."

"Altogether, it cost 2370 dinars, which we initially credited to your name."

After listening to the report, Master Mars nodded, and Zong Shen was quite satisfied with this, taking out 2500 dinars and placing them on the table in the living room.

Master Mars politely refused to accept it, but after Zong Shen insisted, he finally took it.

Zong Shen knew very well which benefits to take and which not to.

This time even the giant wolves of the wolf cavalry benefited from the dinner, being fed fresh prairie beef, each lying lazily on the ground with full bellies.

Mars and Marie led Zong Shen away from the mansion to receive the supplies, with the wolf cavalry riding their giant wolves following behind, looking quite imposing.

They came to the pasture by the village entrance, where bags of wheat and baskets of fruits and vegetables were piled up on the vacant lot.

"Younger Brother Zong, do you need me to arrange some ox-carts to help you transport the supplies back to the territory?"

"There are so many supplies, it wouldn't be easy for you to carry them."

Master Mars had already regarded Zong Shen as one of his own, thoughtfully considering everything for him, but Zong Shen showed no concern, always wearing a calm smile on his face.

"Don't worry, Elder Brother Mars, I have tools that can take the supplies away."

"You all head back; there's no need to see us off."

"Marie, I'll be waiting for you in the territory."

He waved his hand and greeted Marie.

He left one wolf cavalry in the village, to lead the way for Marie the day after tomorrow.

All these supplies, except the live chickens, could be stored in the storage grid.

Zong Shen reached out and collected them one by one, which left Mars even more shocked.

In his understanding, he naturally didn't know about storage grids.

But he had heard his father say that top-level space system great mages could create magic space items.

Space and time were the two rarest mage talents on the continent.

Not to mention reaching the level of a great mage.

So spatial treasures belonged to rare magic equipment.

Zong Shen didn't explain anything, tying the wings of the chickens with hemp rope.

Each hemp rope bound five chickens, totaling four ropes, like a large necklace being carried by four wolf cavalry.

After the farewell, Zong Shen set off on the journey back, having eaten, drunk, and even successfully wooed a girl.

Now, it was time to quickly return to the territory, distribute all those enhancement pearls and equipment to enhance the soldiers' combat power, and then form a night hunting team to actively hunt the burrow monsters around the territory.

First, to gain as many points as possible, and second, to alleviate the pressure on the territory.

Marching at night was more challenging than during the day; the darkness blinded the eyes, imposing an invisible pressure. Fortunately, the wolf cavalry were very familiar with night marches, and the giant wolves under them had eyes that reflected light at night.

During the journey, they detoured to avoid large burrow monster swarms, and after more than an hour, they smoothly returned to the territory.

The farmers and kobolds had finished their work and went to rest after eating.

The farmer named Maoqian, who was sick last night, had improved significantly under San Pang's intentional care.

With yesterday's experience, the farmers dared not approach the plague areas anymore.

Under the tight protection of soldiers, they were already adapting to the rhythm of the burrow challenges.

Zong Shen temporarily stored all the resources in a house.

After a brief rest and inspection of the territory, he directly called the second wolf cavalry team, Luna, Favide, Tasuya, Aisha, and the ranger sisters to form tonight's hunting team and set off for the burrow frontline.

Along the way, they casually strangled some burrow monster swarms.

Thanks to Zong Shen and the daily strangulation at the front, the burrow monsters near the territory were actually not that many.

At least no swarms of thousands of monsters had gathered near the territory.

As for the lords in other areas, they were suffering, having to fight day and night.

Lords like Jiang Yi, who had more than a dozen soldiers, were better off.

With proper command, they could easily eliminate those swarms with hundreds of monsters using guerrilla tactics.

Lords with fewer soldiers found it more challenging, relying only on defense and terrain to repeatedly strangle the enemy, and they might occasionally suffer combat casualties.

Zong Shen had no need to look at today's regional casualties, but he could imagine that the number of casualties would be even higher than yesterday.

When he reached the frontline, Wenresa was already asleep in the grass hut in the rear.

The arrows and crossbow arrows forged by the dwarf uncle today had already been delivered to the front line, and the rotational system for soldiers kept their condition quite good, but the high-intensity fighting was still exhausting.

Zong Shen planned to make a major rotation the day after tomorrow, bringing frontline soldiers back to the rear and replacing them with those on rear patrol.

From today's perspective, taking the initiative to set up a forward base was indeed a brilliant move!

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