The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

Chapter 455 New Shoes

Lucy gazed leisurely into the distance, watching the robbers rushing over from afar and colliding with the young nobles who had just left the city.

The pellets fired by the ray gun, like tracer bullets, drew magical streaks in the air.

It was the first time Lucy saw a ray gun being used on a real battlefield, and her mood went up and down with the battle.

"Good for you! You actually came here!"

The angry voice behind her drew Lucy's attention back.

Lucy turned her head and saw Xiaoli glaring at her with gritted teeth.

"Xiao Li, I'm just looking at the scenery, how did I offend you?"

"How dare you play dumb! I just went out to do something, what did you do to the young master!"

Xiaoli received an order from Li to arrange and dispatch assassins to gather intelligence.

Xiaoli had only been away from Li for two days, and when she came back she saw the sky had fallen.

"You took advantage of my absence and ate the young master up, you little thief vixen!"

"Hey, don't scold me so harshly. Your young master's eating manners are also very ugly. I am also feeling uncomfortable now."

Lucy shifted her sitting position and put all her weight on the chair.

Looking at Lucy's charming movements, Xiaoli felt so angry that her teeth were itching, but she couldn't do anything to Lucy.

At least they know each other well and understand each other, so they definitely don't have any bad intentions.

After Xiaoli calmed down, she changed the subject.

"This is the master's plan. Will it really work?"

"It should be possible. At least the current situation is under control."

The two women watched the fierce battle outside the city side by side.

The flying bullets would occasionally pass through someone's body, and the person would fall down, or lie on the ground wailing, or simply lose his voice.

After the ray gun was introduced into the battlefield, the scene it created was not as bloody as previous cold weapon battles, but a careful count of the casualties on the battlefield showed that the death toll was rising rapidly.

"It takes several swings of the sword to cut down a person, but now people fall down after just a few rounds of bullets. This is not war, this is a massacre..."

"The young master may have brought something more terrifying than a demon."

The girls' emotions could not be heard outside the city, and the first battle with the ray guns ended quickly.

Because the young nobles had elite knights in charge, the haphazard bandit group did not gain any advantage.

The warring parties left about two hundred bodies on the edge of the town and then dispersed to their homes.

The young nobleman did not gain much advantage in his first battle using a ray gun.

But the feeling of killing an enemy from a distance was deeply engraved in the young noble's heart.

"You don't have to get close to the enemy to inflict damage. This thing developed by the North is very interesting!"

"But sir, the defective ray gun that Count Lucy sold us is already mostly broken. Even if it is very cheap, this thing is unreliable."

The knights around the young noble were not happy with the ray gun.

A knight in armor charging on the battlefield is a real battle!

The young noble was about to say something when he heard his subordinates coming to report.

"My Lord, there is a Sir Norton who wants to visit you!"

"Lord Norton?"

The young lord remembered who Norton was in an instant. The castle and territory that Lucy bought had previously belonged to Norton.

Norton chose to sell out his territory to protect himself because he was at a disadvantage in the competition with Lucy.

"Why did he come to me?"

No one knew why Norton came, so the young lord had to invite Norton to come for a meeting.

Norton came up to the young nobleman with a shy smile, looking as amiable as an uncle next door.

"Sir Norton? Why do you want to see me?"

"Young Lord, I am your neighbor. We used to get along very well. Now that I see that you have suffered a loss, I naturally come to help~"

When Norton was still a lord, he naturally had dealings with the surrounding lords.

The young lord in front of him had little contact with Norton, but he had contact with the lord's father.

"I have cooperated with your father on many occasions. This time, I want to continue the cooperation between the two families. I wonder if the Lord is willing?"

When the young lord heard that Norton wanted to cooperate with him, his doubts became even stronger.

"Sir Norton wants to use me to fight with Count Lucy?"

"Hey~ What are you thinking about? I came to you because I really want to do business with you."

"Doing business?"

"Yes, the ray gun business~"

When the word ray gun was mentioned, the young lord immediately took it seriously.

"I don't know how Sir Norton wants to do this ray gun business with me?"

Seeing that the young man in front of him was interested, Norton became more friendly.

"I have a factory that can make this low-quality ray gun. Do you want to cooperate with me? Together we can sell this thing throughout the kingdom~"

Norton's factory is not good at making high-quality products, but it can easily make defective products.

The young lord's eyes suddenly lit up, and he felt extremely happy when he thought that he could also make a ray gun.

Before, if you wanted a ray gun, you could only buy it from Lucy. The feeling of having someone strangle you was not pleasant at all.

The young lord was wearing new shoes, but without the two pieces of mithril as the sole, he felt uncomfortable all over.

"The ray guns made by the Northerners, we can certainly make them too! Weapons that are effective and inexpensive are needed everywhere in the kingdom. Even if it is a defective product that breaks down after only a few uses, I guarantee that there are a lot of people who need it!"

"Haha~ Uncle Norton, I am very interested in your proposal. We can discuss in detail how to promote this good business~"

The two nobles who seemed like strangers just now started calling each other uncle in the blink of an eye.

Norton also wanted to respond, but found that he couldn't remember the name of the young man in front of him.

"Uncle Norton, just call me Simon. If you don't mind, how about living in my territory~"

Norton, who had no territory, gladly accepted Simon's invitation.

Although Norton voluntarily withdrew from the competition with Lucy, he was not a fool. In this era of rising disputes, opportunities were everywhere!

If he can't fight Lucy head-on, then he'll just take a different approach. Who can do anything to him?

"Simon, cheers to our everlasting friendship~"

"Uncle Norton, our cooperation will surely stir up the storm in the center of this kingdom!"

An ambitious young nobleman and a shrewd middle-aged nobleman, the cooperation between the two formed a force that could not be ignored.

Soon, a ray gun factory started operating in Simon's territory, and Norton also got enough manpower to protect the territory and run caravans outside.

With the support of the North, Lucy's territory is developing and constructing at a rapid pace.

The combination of Norton and Simon is developing at a speed close behind.

The two rapidly developing territories finally attracted the attention of the surrounding nobles...