Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 731: Chapter 69: Powerful Night Wanderer Corpses and Generous Transaction Returns

Demster’s top priority moving forward is undoubtedly ensuring the safety of the Heroic Spirit Cemetery in the territory, and then it’s time to clear out the mass grave north of the city.

This task gave Demster quite a headache: ”This isn’t something our Black Guard Knight Order is skilled at. We need the Shroud Order for this. My Lord, I’ve heard you’re the All-Knowing Informant of Hesse Territory, you need to pay attention to intelligence on this matter, recruit one or two people from the Shroud Order to handle this. The Shroud Order often travels to the Border Prince’s Territory to address battlefield remnants and mass grave issues. They are easy to recognize, usually bearing the holy symbol of a black door on the Order’s banner, and a black rose hanging from their chest.”

”Alright, I’ll keep an eye on it.” Su Li nodded at him and said, ”But before that, you lead the Black Guard Knight Order to labor a bit.”

Having Su Li say this, Demster could only agree, and then said, ”This damned Jasper really knows how to create trouble for me, perhaps we should eliminate him sooner.”

”Eliminate a Legendary Level Undead Mage?” Su Li wasn’t very confident about this challenge: ”How powerful is he, do you know much about him?”

Demster shook his head: ”Regarding Old Jasper - this mysterious character leading the Night Wanderer Corpses - people know very little. He sits atop a corpse cart, urging his subordinates to endlessly search for new corpses, with almost only two silver eyes shining from his decaying gray robes. Every place the Night Wanderer Corpses pass through has its own stories related to him.”

”According to one of these stories, Old Jasper was once just a corpse collector, tasked by Mole Priest to collect the bodies of those who fell in the plague known as Crimson Tremor. Jasper assumed that Mole’s blessings would protect him from the plague’s harm. However, his skin gradually developed red spots and his muscles began to twitch. In anger, he stole bodies and sold them to doctors, mages, and more unscrupulous characters. For this crime, Mole’s priests cursed him with eternal unrest. Even today, he continues to travel, stealing Mole’s cared-for dead to exact revenge on him.”

”Other stories say Old Jasper was once an Undead Mage who delved too deeply into forbidden arts. Arrogantly, he attempted a spell far beyond his capability, ultimately shattering his soul into fragments. Now he wanders the world searching for his soul fragments, while the void within him draws the dead to his side. Another story says he was an actor who fooled the mages of Purple Crystal Academy. A cursed charlatan, a survivor of the vampire wars, Frederick van Hal’s fallen apprentice; various tales swarm around this Witch Demon like flies.”

”The truth, if it even exists, remains uncertain. It’s doubtful whether even Old Jasper remembers the truth. The people of the Old World only know he has a goal, a mission he must complete, lest he wander eternally. The dead he collects are the price he must pay, and he is almost done collecting.”

His task is nearly complete? Doesn’t that mean he will be extraordinarily powerful?

Su Li only felt a looming pressure like dark clouds overshadowing the city, in this desperate and dark world, crises always lurk close to everyone.

But he had no solution for this, Jasper and the Night Wanderer Corpse God are elusive and mysterious, Su Li didn’t know where they were, and even if he did, Hesse Territory couldn’t defeat them, even with the aid of two Dwarf allies, victory wasn’t guaranteed.

So Su Li could only focus entirely on strengthening his own power; in this world, power is the most substantial truth.

Then Su Li, along with the ministers of the territory and Gesen, entered the conference hall to officially sign a series of trade contracts between the two forces.

First, Industrial Minister Sheriff and Gesen formally signed a clear labor contract; the Gray Rock Clan will provide Hesse Territory with 300 elite-level Dwarf Engineering Masters, 400 official-level engineers, and 700 miners with strength not below the official level.

Hesse Territory promises to settle all these miners at the iron ore outpost at the foot of the Gray Mountain Range, and not send them to the Black Pine Forest. They will also cover the miners’ monthly wages and meals.

Both sides signed a wager agreement; if they mine over 100 pounds of Vibranium each month, Hesse Territory will provide them with an extra incentive, as much as 700 barrels of Extraordinary Bergman Flame Generosity wine. If they mine less than 100 pounds of Vibranium, they must compensate Hesse Territory with one piece of Vibranium Rune Armor that month.

Then Warehouse Chief Steward and Minister of the Seal Lauren signed an arms trade contract with them; Hesse Territory will sell them 60 Thunderous Firearms and 1 cannon each month, while the Gray Rock Clan will supply Su Li with 60 sets of armor and 1 set of Vibranium Rune Armor, the remaining price difference covered by remittance.

Afterwards, the Bishop’s Council of the territory also signed a purification agreement with the Dwarves; humans will assist the Dwarves in purifying the Rat People-polluted mining areas and be responsible for curing and recovering poisoned Dwarves. In this area, not only will each church’s Cultivator participate, but even the territory’s Wizard will lend a hand. After all, when it comes to purification ability, the territory, under the blessing of the Extraordinary Plants · Star Dew Sweet Orange, possesses unparalleled advantages. Additionally, the territory also has the Mythical Level material · Vocatrix’s Scale, which can burn away all filth and impurities within 3 meters, including plagues and germs.