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Chapter 598 - 335: The Taboo of Sixty Years Ago!_2

Chapter 598: Chapter 335: The Taboo of Sixty Years Ago!_2

While I now have more territories, I also need talents to manage them.

I need to both recruit talents widely, and develop talents on my current base.

The Corpse Dragon Devil Tuber I found in the depths of the marsh might be useful to me or the Iron Mountain Knight.

Thinking of this, Ivita turned to Knight Kelmu and asked: "Describe your combat capabilities."

Being a reasonable request from the lord, Knight Kelmu answered directly: "My Lord, Cross Island just doesn’t produce any alien flora, and the few that it did, were short-sightedly destroyed and sold off by pirates sixty years ago, causing them to be lost overseas."

"I was actually born off the island. When I returned to reclaim my title, I followed my father from the Siena State Republic back to Cross Island. Therefore, the Seed of Life I used before is the seed of the Marble Racehorse Grass, a unique alien flora of the Siena State Republic."

"Knights who consume this Seed of Life have excellent balance of speed, strength, and defensive power. However, the potential of this Seed of Life is limited; it can only reach the Great Knight level at most. Because the Marble Racehorse Grass is the lowest grade among the alien flora, Siena, after all, is only a small city-state commercial republic affiliated to the Florcana Commercial Republic. It wouldn’t possess high-grade alien flora to avoid being robbed of it."

Knight Kelmu continued: "The secret medicine I used is the family-inherited Fast Sword Secret Medicine System."

"I have six Extraordinary Organs, besides the Extraordinary Heart, the other five are Racehorse Right Hand, Marble Skin, Spirituality Fortified Full Body Muscle Fiber, High-speed Extraordinary Muscle Fiber Legs and Spirituality Expanded Muscle Fiber Arms."

Ivita nodded, indicating he understood.

It appears that the Seed of Life used by Kelmu offers a balanced enhancement, and his types of Extraordinary Organs are also well-balanced.

Knight Kelmu unleashed his full power in front of Ivita, immediately cloaking himself with three layers of Evil Qi. This indicated that he had constructed three layers of Evil Qi armor inside his body, thus giving him greater defensive power than ordinary Great Knights.

This is the pinnacle of a Great Knight’s power.

In the meantime, his right hand muscles swelled up, much like that of a small giant’s hand attached to a human body.

That arm had also undergone some sort of mutation, resulting in two additional fingers growing at the side of his palm, which increased Kelmu’s grip strength far beyond ordinary Great Knights of similar conditions.

This should be the Racehorse Right Hand.

Ivita felt his skin, it felt just like stone.

"I see." Ivita said, "Now that the threats of Marsh People are no longer on our lands, your workload has decreased a lot. Stick with me for some time. I feel like there are many on Cross Island who are not pleased with me lately."

Knight Kelmu smiled faintly.

Because our lord has been expanding his territories too rapidly recently, almost an achievement of three generations combined, of course it would draw attention.

Baron Kelmu said: "My lord, I am honored to be your personal guard and defend you with my sword."

Ivita nodded at him, then asked Joe Joseph, the steward, "Now that I have united all the territories in my hands, do my neighbors have any advice?"

Steward Joe Joseph gave a bitter smile. "Your lordship, your neighboring lords are all viscounts and independent barons. Of course, they wouldn’t dare to give you any advice directly. However, the only earl in our region—the northwest of Cross Island, once a pirate, but now controlling at least one hundred pirate teams from behind the scenes — Earl Yisen Hanjian, sent you an invitation this morning, inviting you to a gathering at a nearby castle."

"Also this morning, the Governor of the Sunken Ship Harbor, who has a cooperation agreement with thousands of pirate captains, Governor Rolof, once again invited you to the Sunken Ship Harbor. He says he wants to discuss the defense of Sunken Ship Harbor with you."

Hearing this, Ivita simply assumed that it appears the Governor hasn’t given up on the idea of taxing yet.

However, as a Governor, this man is indeed rather sly.

He wants to tax the pirates, but he dares not enforce it and can only keep requesting meetings to negotiate.

Ivita is not afraid of him demanding taxes and ships because Rolof is not the type to persist with absolute authority.

The leader of the pirate world, definitely can’t be a hard-liner. Otherwise, it would backfire, he may even be killed at home one day without any clues to the culprit.

Ivita said, "Governor Rolof is a friend; he won’t be upset if I don’t attend his meeting. Rather, it’s that earl, I wonder what kind of person he is, it sounds like he has a large influence."

"He probably thinks that I’m expanding my influence on Cross Island too fast and wants to get this ’unstable character’ to calm down."

Steward Joe Joseph looked worried. "No one who has offended that earl has ever managed to escape unscathed. My lord, you should be keeping a low profile recently."

The Barbaric Bone Tribe Leader was unhappy with the steward’s timidity and said to Ivita, "My lord, I am not afraid of that earl. His territory may be large, but we, the Marsh People, have also plundered his lands before, and all he could do was jump up and down in anger."

The Fire Lizard Tribe Leader’s eyes were gleaming. "Earl Yisen Hanjian’s land is all fertile and their agriculture is the most prosperous. Now we have something to plunder again. Oh Great Marsh Lord, we, the Lizard Tribe, have dealt with them before. Their armies may be formidable, but we, the Marsh People, are not afraid."