Chapter 55: Enslaving the Delsa People
The battlefield was quickly cleaned up. In addition to some bone weapons found in the merman's warehouse, three to four thousand kilograms of dried fish were also found.

It's piled full.

However, what surprised Lear was that the bone altar used for sacrifice had no additional attributes.

This made him a little disappointed.

This thing is not a magical artifact?
You are a god, how come you don’t have a hundred or eighty divine artifacts?
How sad! How sad!

I despise a god like you.

Although the remaining soul of the Half-Mercemen God was destroyed, his divinity remained.

But Lear still had an inexplicable feeling that the other party might not be dead. If these beings were so easy to kill, they would not be called gods.

But having just woken up, it is certain that he will be badly hurt.

I feel calm in my heart, as time goes by, the day when my power will be revealed is getting closer.

As long as he can control power, a long-lost half-merman god in the swamp is nothing.

At this time, the Lizardman warriors also collected the bodies of their companions, and after counting, the number of casualties this time was also calculated.

Not to mention the injuries, a total of 6 teams of soldiers were killed.

Only 15 out of 9 teams are left.

It was definitely a heavy blow to Lear.

The military force, which was already limited, is now even more stretched.

But exchanging six teams of wetland lizardmen for a divine life, this deal is a damn good profit.

Death has long been regarded as the final destination by the wetland lizardmen, and dying on the battlefield is even more glorious!

No one felt depressed about this, and they calmly waited for Lear's order.

While Lear was thinking, he asked the wetland lizardmen to bring the bodies of the fallen warriors.

They were not abandoned in the wilderness, nor melted to extract their life essence.

People's hearts are united step by step, and the most direct manifestation is the respect for their own soldiers.

The dead soldiers are no longer soldiers, but heroes!

The atmosphere was not good along the way.

The wetland lizardman warrior looked at the corpse of his companion. Although he was calm, he couldn't help but feel a little touched.

Li Er didn't say anything, but just asked the two Delsa people leading the way to speed up.

They didn't encounter any accidents along the way. After walking for more than an hour and passing through a muddy field, they received news from the front - they had arrived at the gathering place of the Delsa people!

As Lear led his army forward, a large dry area covered with tall grass came into view.

The leaves of the grass were bent and woven by the Delsa people into bird's nest-like buildings.

The giant bird's nest is built sideways, so even if it rains from above, it will not reach the inside of the nest.

It looks quite eye-catching.

At this moment, there were hundreds of Delsa people busying themselves back and forth.

Seeing the wetland lizardmen coming, the Delsa people who were the first to discover them let out a scream of terror.

The crowd immediately turned around, and when they saw them, they fled in panic.

It hid in the bushes like a rabbit being chased by a wolf, and I didn't even dare to look at it for a few more seconds.
In the blink of an eye, the land became empty.

Although Lear was mentally prepared, he still felt a little bit amused and helpless at this moment.

What a clean run.

With a wave of his hand, he let the two captured Delsa people go into the bushes and call out their chief.

When the two guys received Lear's order, they immediately straightened their chests and held their heads high, just like the dukes who had received the king's orders.

"Master Chief, the Lord asked me to bring you a message."

Stride into the grass.

A moment later, a white-haired Delsa man followed behind the two of them, approaching cautiously with an apologetic smile on his face.

"Respected sir, Bart greets you. I am the chief of the Delsa people and I am willing to serve you."

Li Er looked at the elderly Delsa chief and spoke slowly.

"Wei Lu City still needs manpower, Bart, I am now conscripting all the members of your tribe."

"From now on, you are part of the City of Wisdom."

The white-haired Delsa chief was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lear deeply and lowered his head without any hesitation.

"Yes, sir! The Delsa people obey your orders!"

The weak do not have the power to decide their own fate. He understood this when he was young.
The existence of the Delsa people has never been achieved by their own efforts, but by relying on the strong.

Before surrendering to the merfolk, they had also joined more than a dozen forces including but not limited to orcs, lizardmen, crocodile men, etc.

Anyway, every time a group comes from the surrounding area, they are destroyed again. Their principle is to submit to whoever is stronger.

Dragons have their own way of survival, and the Delsa people also have their own rules of survival.

Soft bones? Coward? What is that and can you eat it?
Compared with being alive, integrity is worthless.
Lear looked at the other person deeply. Judging from the other person's strength, it is indeed this kind of character that can help him survive better in the wilderness full of dangers.

No more nonsense, just a thought.

Endless divine pressure surged out.

With an absolutely domineering attitude, he engraved a soul mark in the mind of the Delsa man in front of him.

From now on, there will be no betrayal again!

"Gather all Delsa people immediately and move back to the City of Wisma."

"Yes, master!" The white-haired Delsa chief Bart took a deep breath and answered loudly.

But the look he gave Lear became more respectful and intimate, and he was no longer as worried as before.

After Lear finished speaking, he asked the other party about the ancient ruins and the God of Mermen, but Bart didn't know much about these two things.

The other party finally confirmed the news about the Dark Naga with him—

The Delsa people are about fifteen kilometers away from the Dark Naga, and those evil creatures have always been reluctant to step out of the valley that is shrouded in darkness all day long.

It seemed to be guarding something, but those dark nagas were too powerful and they didn't dare to get close.

Li Er opened the magic map again and confirmed its location with the chief of the Delsa people.

Without further ado, he told the Delsa people to pack up and move back to the City of Weilu immediately.

As the territory grew, the labor shortage also widened.

More than a hundred swamp people are completely overwhelmed.

The infusion of these more than 500 Delsa people will undoubtedly greatly alleviate the problem of labor shortage.

Bart, the Delsa chieftain, did not hesitate and turned into the bushes.

I didn’t know how to tell the others, but after a while, feathered Delsa people came out cautiously from the bushes.

Start packing up the items in your nest.

Looking at the busy crowd, Lear suddenly thought of another key issue - food.

Increasing the population is not that simple, and a host of problems will follow.

Food is a typical example.

The reserves he had could only sustain the consumption of three hundred people for half a year. With the addition of these five hundred people, the reserves would be greatly reduced.

The farmland has not yet been cultivated, and the first season of swamp wheat cannot be harvested until three months later.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, he waved and called over the elderly Delsa chief.

"Bart, what do you usually eat?"

The other party was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked at the bushes behind him.

"Sir, these wild grasses have roots that are delicious and can fill you up."

rhizome?

These guys survive by eating grass roots?

Lear became interested and asked Bart to get some out.

The chief of the Delsa people took action himself, and in front of him, he used a blunt stone shovel to dig up the soil violently.

A fist-sized black lump was dug out from the root of the weeds with long and thin leaves.

After picking it off, rub it gently and the skin will fall off.

Revealing the yellowed flesh inside.

Bart opened his mouth and took a big bite, like eating sugarcane, and a lot of coarse fibers were pulled apart.

Chew it, chew it. The Delsa man didn't care. He chewed a few bites and swallowed it directly.

Gulp~ After swallowing it, he still looked satisfied.

Lear's eyelids twitched as he watched.

Is eating grass roots so beautiful?
I took a good one and looked at it, rubbed off the skin, and tried to bite it.
It tastes dry at first, like biting a grass root. After chewing it again and again, I finally confirmed that this thing is a grass root.

Bah~
Seeing Li Er vomit it out, the Delsa chieftain was still a little puzzled. He seemed to not understand why he would vomit such a delicious food.
Li Er glared at the guy unhappily.

Staring at the tree root in his hand, its properties appeared in his mind.

Longleaf grass roots

[Level]: None

[Characteristics]: It is rich in energy and can sustain life needs, but it has a dry taste and is difficult to swallow, and it is very difficult to consume. Eating too much can easily cause bloating.

Contains rich energy?

Although there is no level, it is still something.

You can keep an eye on it and use it as an emergency measure in case you run out of food in the future.

"Bart, have all the Delsa people store enough food for themselves for a month, and then return to the territory."

"Yes!"

The chief of the Delsa people immediately responded, and without further ado, he ordered his people to dig up the grass roots.

Although the Delsa people are of low level and timid by nature, they are still quite strong.

He is also very familiar with digging grass roots and can dig out the rhizomes in one go.

There is a large bunch of rhizomes under each long-leaf grass, and the most one weighed thirty or forty kilograms.

The output is exaggerated.

It only took two hours to prepare a month's worth of food.

Finally, each Delsa had bundles of long-leaf grass roots hanging from his body.

It looks a bit funny.

Lear didn't care. After making sure he had everything he had, he waved his hand and asked them to follow him and return to the City of Witness.

It's already afternoon now. If we delay any further, we'll have to move forward in the dark.

These hundreds of Delsa people who bring their own dry food can alleviate the increasingly serious employment pressure.

(End of this chapter)