Chapter 601: The competitor for the Elven throne is not working today
Rand returned to town.
Not much time had passed between Rand's departure and his return.
But the atmosphere here has changed a bit.
There is still a lot of hostility towards Rand as a human, but it feels better than it did at the beginning.
And overall, it feels more...
If I had to describe it in one word, it would be more purposeful and more organized?
It seems that a lot of changes have happened during the time I was away.
Rand soon found the vanilla.
Although there are still many elves who don't like Rand emotionally, at least they know that official business should be handled in an official manner.
At least now I know.
Vanilla is now located in a quiet courtyard.
The courtyard is full of purple flowers.
Vanilla was working at the desk under the shade of a tree, drinking tea.
Vanilla originally didn't like this strange tree leaf drink.
But later, the Sanctuary forces made certain progress in the sugar extraction process.
Vanilla actually likes tea with sugar and milk.
When Vanilla saw Rand, she immediately frowned and said, "Your Majesty! I want to apply for annual leave."
Rand raised his eyebrows. The seemingly gentle Rand suddenly became mean: "A few days, let me make it clear first, annual leave here cannot be accumulated over the New Year. If it is not used in the same year, it will be invalid. Therefore, your previous annual leave cannot be added."
"Yeah, I know. I'll just take annual leave this year, two days of rest, plus the weekend, so a total of four days of rest." Vanilla was quite familiar with Rand, who had suddenly become frugal.
Rand nodded. Although he was strict in reviewing vacations, he would never deduct or be rigid. "Vanilla Moon Shadow, the annual leave for those who have worked for one year but less than ten years in the Sanctuary is five days. It has not been used this year, so two days are deducted from the five days, and there are three days left now."
"Is there any problem?" Rand asked.
Vanilla nodded, indicating that there was no problem.
"Then have a happy holiday. If you don't have any urgent work to complete today, you can leave work early." Rand raised his eyebrows slightly.
Vanilla quickly organized the documents in front of her, bowed to Rand, and left.
She is very experienced in getting off work.
Rand found Nidhogg to find out what they had done during the time they were away.
Rand knew that a war had broken out. After all, he encountered the remnants of a defeated army when he arrived. He could also easily sense the smell of blood below the town.
But what Rand wanted to know was not just that, but much more.
"What has Vanilla done during this period of time?" Rand asked.
At this time, Nidhogg was looking at the standard staff in his hand.
The performance of this staff is quite comprehensive, although the effects in all aspects are very average and are completely inferior to his own staff which is close to the category of artifact.
However, once you consider the price of this thing, Nidhogg will find it incredible.
Is it possible to equip a staff to a mage?
Seeing Rand coming, Nidhogg performed an elven ceremony and said, "Your Majesty, during this time, we are here to complete what we agreed to do during the original meeting."
Nidhogg thought for a moment and said, "If we must say that we did something extra, it would be that we explained to everyone the outside world, the distribution of forces, culture, food, and so on."
Perhaps freedom exists in the nature of all intelligent races in this world.
That kind of thing will be suppressed for various practical reasons, but it is difficult for it to really disappear.
Although these elves in the Elf Forest hate and are wary of humans outside the forest, it does not mean that they have no interest in the outside world.
"As for Lord Vanilla's actions." Nidhogg stroked his beard, "I really didn't expect Vanilla to grow to this level, it's just..."
"What is it?"
"He has a very precise grasp of the time to start and end work." Nidhogg stared at Rand.
This was obviously also caused by Rand.
Rand didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It seemed that Vanilla was really greatly influenced by the power of the Sanctuary.
"Ahem, I don't think this is a bad thing." Rand said seriously.
Nidhogg actually felt that although it was a little special, it might not be a bad thing.
"I have another question. What are you going to do next?" Rand asked again.
Nidhogg had already prepared for this and unfolded a map. "We have already investigated the surrounding cities that can be conquered without the use of force."
There are many red circles on the map.
"If the plan goes well, then after things stabilize this year, we will start to contact these towns. We expect to gain the support of one-tenth of the forces within a year, and one-half of them within three years."
"And if the progress is fast enough, in three years, the Elf Forest will enter a situation of confrontation and three-way competition among the forces." Nidhogg recounted the plan he and Vanilla discussed.
Rand listened carefully, and then thought.
"It's a very suitable strategy. I will set up a special department to handle your affairs and provide you with strategic and material support. Of course, if there are any disagreements, Vanilla's will will prevail." Rand still understood the principle of not being able to obey military orders when abroad and of adapting to local conditions.
If there was no one like Vanilla here, Rand might have come up with some bad strategies because of the need for control, but with Vanilla here, there is nothing to worry about.
Then Rand and Nidhogg parted ways.
In fact, Nidhogg is also a very interesting person to Rand.
Rand felt that Vanilla could squeeze more of Nidhogg's labor force. Now Nidhogg was still too relaxed in Rand's eyes.
Rand was back on the streets of the elven town again.
Then he was entangled by a human who looked like a slave.
Elves and humans have the habit of capturing slaves from each other.
Among human nobles, elven slaves were a fairly good commodity.
Among the elven nobles, human slaves were of course high-quality commodities.
Especially as the Elf Forest became more and more closed, and there was even a liquidation of the elves at the interface with the outside world, the novelty brought by human slaves became even more valuable.
Rand glanced at the human slave.
A young man, with no signs of abuse on his body, but he probably didn't eat or dress well, and had some signs of malnutrition.
He begged Rand to rescue him, as he seemed to know for some reason that Rand had a high position.
"I guess some elven nobles want to test your thoughts." Orina whispered in Rand's ear.
This is certainly not an autonomous behavior of this young man.
Otherwise, a human slave in an elven town would have no chance to learn about Rand's identity, and even if he did, he would not have the chance to meet Rand.
It must have been designed on purpose.
But whether it was designed or not, Rand's idea was consistent.
He certainly took it step by step.
Rand himself is a very big slave boss, and Rand also buys slaves from other slave traders.
Rand was certainly aware of the disadvantages of slavery compared to other systems in terms of the development of productivity.
But it would be too funny to let Rand directly free the slaves.
This is not in line with the context of the times, and forcing it to be pushed forward will only quickly backfire due to resistance from all sides.
Of course, as a modern man, Rand would certainly not think that slavery is an excellent system.
Just take it slow and refer to history.
For example, after reaching a certain level, people are allowed to work hard to redeem themselves, which is similar to the labor reform system in a resort villa.
Slaves were allowed to purchase their freedom for a certain amount of money, and then the capture and sale of slaves were gradually restricted.
This will gradually curb this system to a certain extent, and then change it towards a better system.
Rand knew very well that he could live for a long time, so he was not in a hurry. He planned to achieve his goal in a way with less risks.
"I have a job here. As long as you are willing to hand over the elf that drove you to find me, I will protect you and bring you back to the human kingdom. How about it?" Rand blinked.
The human slave pretended to be stupid and said, "I don't understand what you are saying. Help me, Lord Rand."
"If you don't tell me, I have a complete interrogation process here. But you don't think I will let you go just like that, do you?" Rand smiled with an inexplicable look on his face.
The human slave immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.
Several names were mentioned to Rand.
After listening to this, Rand called one of his own to arrange for this human slave to go to the human world.
The names reported were all ones I had never heard of, and they were probably minor figures not worth mentioning.
Rand was not interested in playing the detective game slowly, finding all these people and then causing trouble for them.
Just let Vanilla pay attention to it later. In the past, Rand could have transferred the famous detective Karin to investigate. However, now due to the matter of the Torch Goddess's oracle, the people of the Torch Church are busy studying the situation in the south, so Karin is probably not available.
But it doesn't matter, Rand can issue a task and let Luca of the Sun Team investigate. With the help of Vanilla, Rand feels that the secret hidden behind the scenes will not be difficult to investigate.
And Rand is actually quite optimistic about Luca.
Rand felt that Luca should have some good qualities.
After the suspected crisis in the south recently, Rand had a conversation with Marcus. It seems that Marcus's Thorn Family really has some records about the birth of human heroes.
Of course, Rand would not be so sure about what kind of person Luca was, but without considering those possibilities, just looking at Luca's current abilities, he was also a very good talent.
After a while, Olenna got a letter from the magic pigeon. After reading it, she put her lips and tongue close to Rand's ear again: "It seems that there are cultists in the territory. Should we hurry up and go back to deal with it?"
"It's almost time. Just leave this to Vanilla and let's go back to the territory first." According to Rand's original itinerary, it was almost time to return.
The Moon Kingdom cannot be away from Rand for too long.
I have gained a lot of interesting things during this trip to the Elf Forest.
After that, you just need to advance gradually.
"Also, His Majesty Bolan said that things over there have come to a temporary end. It shouldn't take too long for him to come to the Moon Kingdom to help you deal with some problems... For example, the former king of the Bolan Kingdom, who has gone into exile overseas but is still plotting to disgust us."
Rand said he understood.
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At this time, Vanilla was on vacation.
However, Vanilla's vacation encountered some twists and turns.
Since that precise campaign, vanilla has gained a following of supporters.
Although in fact, because Vanilla did not defend the city walls but instead insisted on defending the roads, it still caused a lot of damage to the elves, which led to some elves still resentful towards Vanilla.
But at present, most of the elves are smart. They know why Vanilla did this, and they understand how powerful it is that Vanilla can win at such a low cost.
And now Vanilla has held two open classes on tactical thinking.
This has earned vanilla some fans.
Then Vanilla walked on the street and was recognized.
Probably a student who is eager to learn and eager to study?
They gathered around Vanilla, hoping that Vanilla could tell them about things outside to ease their curiosity about the outside world and provide answers to some tactical thinking.
but!
Now is vacation time.
Vanilla pursed her lips.
She worked as a teacher for a long time and later served as vice-principal of a church school.
This professional nature makes it quite difficult for Vanilla to refuse to answer students' questions.
But now it's vacation time.
But there are only 5 days of annual leave in a precious year.
She has carefully planned how to spend her vacation time.
So Vanilla took a compromise.
Vanilla acted like a super tired teacher who had taught seven or eight classes in a row, and looked at the crowd with a serious look.
Then she picked some students who were walking in front and answered some questions.
Then he covered his forehead with his hands, indicating that he was exhausted and needed to rest.
As expected, everyone felt embarrassed to continue bothering Vanilla.
Vanilla successfully escaped before more and more people surrounded her.
After getting away from the crowd, Vanilla changed from a tired and cold middle-aged teacher to a determined vacationer.
As a worker who finally gets a vacation.
She was so determined! She would never let work interfere with her vacation! She had many things she wanted to do when she returned to the Elf Forest.
As for those admirers and supporters.
What does this have to do with her being a part-time worker? Vanilla really wants to change the status quo of the Elf Forest and let her fellow tribesmen live a better life.
But this doesn't mean that she has to become an elf politician who always has to put on airs to win the support of her own people.
Vanilla also knew that she had been alienated by Rand's oppression.
But this is the life Vanilla likes.
She doesn't think of herself as Rand's puppet. She also has things she wants to do and change.
But work is work, off work is off work, and vacation is vacation.
(End of this chapter)
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