Starting Life as a Baron - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Activating the Creature Card, Crisis in Two Weeks

This wild boar was probably the most powerful magical beast in this place. In the next two days, Alan and the rest did not encounter any powerful magical beasts.

As soon as they finished cleaning up the surrounding beasts, a notification sounded in Alan’s mind.

“Ding! Congratulations host, you have completed the side task, kill the beasts (2), and obtained three thousand experience points!”

At this moment, his experience points became 6,700/10000. Now, he only needed three thousand experience points to upgrade.

However, he would still need three hundred experience points even if he completed the other side task, ‘open the business road’.

It seemed that he could only complete the main task or trigger other side tasks for more experience points. Alan also found out that he could obtain experience points by killing magical beasts as well.

It seemed that he still had many ways to become stronger.

Alan smiled slightly.

Then he brought his men down the mountain to meet up with Marco.

Afterward, Alan asked Marco to take all the warriors back to Rose Town while he returned to the mountain.

“Things like magical beasts need to be destroyed completely. If they are not managed well, it will not be long before there will be even more beasts here.”

Alan walked on the mountain road until he reached the peak.

He looked far away towards the north where the territory of the Thorn Flower family was located.

“It won’t be long before I will go back again. At that time, all those people who laughed at me and insulted me will kneel on the ground to welcome me.”

A gleam of light flashed through Alan’s eyes. At the same time, he waved his hand and some creature cards appeared in his hand.

It was the Vine Swine’s creature cards.

“Activate the creature cards.”

Alan said calmly.

Soon the creature cards disappeared, and ten vine swine with huge bodies appeared in their place.

They were different from the previous monster that was full of contempt and killing intent.

After the ten magical beasts appeared, they were extremely close to Alan.

“You guys help me defend these mountains. Don’t let any wild beast run wild here.”

Alan spoke indifferently.

The ten vine swine nodded at Alan to show that they understood.

Since he couldn’t finish cleaning up all the beasts, he would just put ten powerful magical beasts here to help him manage these mountains.

This way, the business road would be peaceful.

After dismissing the ten magical beasts, Alan went down the mountain and rode back to Rose Town.

As the matter of the business road could not be solved overnight, there was no need to rush.

Alan was currently most concerned about the updated main task.

After he had completed his task of training the warriors, the system issued a new task.

“Task: The enemy from the sea! As an excellent lord, you have developed your land well and you are almost ready to open the business road.”

“However, the two spirits of nature and the lack of force in the territory have caused this place to be targeted by someone with ulterior motives!”

“They will attack you in two weeks. Maybe they are pirates, or maybe they have another identity. As a lord, you must defeat them and protect your territory!”

“Task reward: Three thousand experience points, thirty thousand gold coins!”

“Ding! Found side task: Traitor!”

“Someone has betrayed you and leaked the news of the two spirits of nature, which caused your territory to be targeted by someone at sea. Find the traitor and execute him!”

“Task reward: Five hundred experience points.”

Riding on his horse, Alan returned to Rose Town while carefully checking the details of the new task.

After returning to the castle, Alan took a hot bath and had his prey skinned and divided.

All of his warriors received some meat, which was the most luxurious food for them.

As for animal skins and other body parts, Alan asked people to strip them as completely as possible. These things could be sold for money.

Apart from rewarding the warriors with meat, Alan himself ate a lot of roasted meat as well.

Ever since he had become a knight, he ate more and more food, especially meat.

After all, knights needed to consume a large amount of energy, so it was normal for them to eat more to replenish their energy.

After filling his stomach, Alan did not forget his Nature Spirits and young dragon.

First, he went to the Nature Spirit’s room to feed Amy and Tara. Seeing the two little fellows lying on the soft bed that he had prepared for them, with bulging stomachs, Alan left gently.

After that, he entered the primary dragon nest with a large amount of roasted meat.

The young dragon Safi had undergone shocking changes in the past few days.

The current Safi was no longer the same as before. Her wingspan could reach five to six meters, and her body was more than three meters long.

She had already grown a lot, but she still liked sticking to Alan very much.

Alan felt that the primary dragon nest would soon be unable to keep up with Safi’s growth.

“Fortunately, I received a new task and its reward is experience points and gold coins!”

A light flashed in Alan’s eyes.

With these thirty thousand gold coins, he would be able to build an intermediate dragon’s nest for Safi, and the remaining money could be used to train more warriors.