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Necromancer Sovereign: Rise of the Dead Spirit Overlord (Web Novel) - Chapter 825 505 Chaos
Chapter 825 505 Chaos
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```For the matter of Zi Liyuan, in order to ensure the loyalty of core members under his command, he directly signed the Boundary Sea Contract.
It could be said that it basically guaranteed the loyalty of his followers.
At the very least, middle and high-level members might have various entanglements of interest or even factional disputes, but there would definitely be no betrayal.
The strict Boundary Sea Contract could completely ensure the loyalty of core members.
Unless core members' strength surpassed Zi Liyuan's and they were able to break free from the limits of the Boundary Sea Contract, unafraid of the Heavenly Punishment released by the Sea of Realms.
However, those who could ignore the Heavenly Punishment would either be Great Emperors or Demigods, or even Deities and Demons beyond that.
Such beings wouldn't sign the Boundary Sea Contract with him, after all, would they?
The alien races summoned into the city tavern from the Sea of Realms generally used a Boss template, though the quality of these templates varied as well.
But for Zi Liyuan and his team, they were short of people, so as long as it was a Boss-type template, the quality didn't matter.
Fan Yuer, without saying anything, waved her hand, dumped a large pile of resources, and directly recruited over ten thousand alien members.
But she still chose a bit, with the lowest being Green Elite quality Bosses and the highest being Purple Epic Bosses.
Then without a word, she had them first sign the Boundary Sea Contract, with their loyalty naturally directed towards Zi Liyuan.
Immediately after, they were given the Heart of the Lord, directly turning them into lords.
Next, she provided them with some supplies and resources, elevating the Lord's Mansion to Level 10 to remove the rule restrictions of the Boundary Sea.
As for the further upgrades of the Lord's Mansion, they could take their time.
Since they'd already pledged allegiance to Zi Liyuan and signed the Boundary Sea Contract, that meant they were his loyal subordinates—fostering them with extra care was inevitable.
However, before the focused training, he needed to understand them a little.
For example, their personalities and qualities.
He didn't want to cultivate a few troublemakers; the previous examples of the Wild Boar Skin dynasty were right before his eyes.
The over ten thousand lords recruited this time were handed over to those lords who had pledged loyalty long ago for training.
Preparation was underway to let them practice locally for a while, to see if they had the ability to be heavily promoted and become true members of the management.
In managing the territory and logistics, Fan Yuer and her three sisters had everything well-organized, requiring no concern from Zi Liyuan and his team.
At this moment, the remaining territories of the old female demon were undergoing joint attacks from the Eight Lords.
Especially with support from Mo Yi and Liu Yiqing, they crippled the suppression army sent by the old female demon in one go.
This greatly weakened the old female demon, to the point she was somewhat weaker in top-tier combat power compared to the Eight Lords.
Naturally, some attentive individuals noticed this, especially some ministers under the old female demon.
How could they not know the current state of the Wild Boar Skin dynasty and the contributions they had painfully made to it by embezzling and perverting the law?
Plus, with uprisings visible everywhere now, countless rebels—they naturally sought a retreat as they saw this perforated ship of the Wild Boar Skin dynasty about to sink.
Thus, some ministers, who had interests intertwined, secretly gathered together.
Since others could rebel, why couldn't they?
Better to save themselves than await death, joining the great cause of rebellion and becoming one of those rebels.
By then, they'd throw in with the strongest forces they could find, and their families could continue to make money, live comfortably, and more, continue to gain power.
Why not do it, really?
As for why they never contemplated raising the banner and becoming kings themselves,
they had enough self-awareness to know that given the deeds they'd done, avoiding others' reckoning was the best outcome they could hope for.
And if they aspired to rise to the top and become rulers, those rebels wouldn't unite, flay them alive, and dig up their ancestral tombs dating back eighteen generations—they'd be showing mercy.
Hence, these ministers, ready to escape, exploited their official positions to skim resources from the old female demon.
Treasures, mines, money... they stockpiled everything under various pretenses, then secretly sent them to their family territories.
As for the excuses made, they claimed that, given the widespread rebel presence, taxes or mine transport were intercepted by these rebels.
True, even before the Wild Boar Skin dynasty erupted into chaos, they skimmed layer upon layer, and what reached their hands was already reduced to seven-tenths of the whole, and after filtering through them, only three-tenths reached the private vault of the old female demon.
And should anything end up missing from the private vault, it wasn't their doing—it was from the close eunuch attendants of the old female demon, transferring things sneakily.
Of course, these eunuch lackeys knew which things could be taken and which couldn't be touched.
So, over a hundred years, rarely did anything go awry.
As for the couple of times something did go wrong, it was because the resources in the treasury were no longer enough to cover the ledger.
Hence, they'd toss out a few people to take the blame, and casually use the missing treasury resources to settle the account.
Everything, naturally, was done behind the old female demon's back.
It could be said, inside, eunuch lackeys stabilized the old female demon, in the middle, court ministers conspired with each other, and outside, stationed forces cooperated in blockading and transferring resources.
Layer upon layer, all in sync, they played corruption and law-breaking clearly and proficiently.
And after the process played out, the genuine tax revenue reaching the hands of the old female demon, and what she could freely move, amounted to barely one out of ten.
However, being suppressed by Kang Mazi and Yongzheng, unable to jump out and be in command of the Wild Boar Skin dynasty, the old female demon long adopted a Buddha-like stance of enjoying life passively, akin to her nickname, "the Old Buddha."
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