Chapter 3 Take Office

"Have you heard that? Marquis Sherman is going to be distributed to the thorny swamp!"

"That's a wasteland. I heard that the people there can't live more than forty years old. As soon as they get old, they are dragged into the water by the fish monster!"

"What a pity! If king Liam was still alive, he would not let marquis Sherman go to that kind of place!"

"What's the point of saying that now? King Liam is dead, and now his younger brother, King Harsen, is taking over the throne. I guess that to make marquis Sherman lose the right to inherit the throne, he was allocated to the thorn swamp."

"Well, marquis Sherman holds an activity of giving ointment as a gift every month. Since he left this time, we poor people like me have to spend ten copper coins to buy an ointment."

Sitting in a carriage far away from the city, Sherman watched the buildings of the city going farther and farther until they disappeared in his sight.

"Marquis, don't you care about the carriage behind us?"

Dolores lifted the curtain of the car and looked back. She said worriedly, "Princess Sinard is saintess after all. She will go to the thorny swamp with you. If something happens halfway, I'm afraid the director won't let it go."

Sherman raised his head from the book with a smile.

"Don't think the sect too simply."

"Marquis, why do you say so?"

Dolores was confused.

As the leader of the saintess sect, Sinard would certainly be supported and loved by the government. How could it be possible that marquis Sherman didn't like her?

"Let me ask you, what do you think of Sinard?"

"Okay..."

Dolores smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

"The leaders of the imperial government want Sinard to do more ridiculous things, lose the support of the public, and then die for me. At that time, they can choose a new saintess, a more obedient saintess, instead of the naughty Sinard."

"So, even if Sinard wants to go to the thorny swamp with me, the director won't stop her. He pretended at most."

After saying that, Sherman turned to the book.

He was so anxious to get familiar with the situation in the thorn swamp that he had no time to talk to Sinard.

Just as the book said, there was no second one in the whole continent who was trapped in the thorn swamp.

All he could see was a muddy swamp.

Occasionally, some fish that lived in the swamp floated up and stared at him with three eyes.

"Where are the people?"

He asked with a frown.

Why did all the people in the thorn swamp disappear, leaving only a muddy marsh?

They couldn't be swallowed up by the fish monsters and marshes, could they?

That's bullshit!

"Marquis Sherman! Marquis Sherman!"

In the distance, a shadow was running over the swamp. His feet stepped on the mud, but he didn't sink in. Instead, he looked like walking on the flat ground. In the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the group of people.

Dolores stood in front of Sherman and looked at him warily.

"Marquis Sherman, I'm the mayor of the thorn swamp. My name is Roy."

The man looked at him with a smile.

He was dressed in linen clothes, and his long hair was randomly made up behind his head. His eyes were the cleanest all over his body, and there was only joy in his blue eyes.

"Why don't you sink into the swamp?"

Sherman asked in confusion.

"Well!" "Kill the fish monsters in the marsh. Make shoes of their skin and you can walk on the marsh!"

Sherman wrote it down and asked, "Where are the people? Why are you alone?"

Embarrassed, Roy scratched his head and said, "To tell you the truth, there were originally over a thousand people in the thorn Town, but the marsh is getting bigger and bigger, and many people have been swallowed. Up to now, there are only about three hundred people left, all living under the divine tree."

"Divine tree?"

Sherman caught the point.

"Yes, that divine tree was planted by the imperial government in the past. It can protect the place within five hundred meters from being swallowed by the swamp. We all live there now..."

"I see."

Sherman squinted at him.

"You can have a rest here first. We'll go to the divine tree together later."

Sherman returned to the carriage and opened the system warehouse.

There lay a blueprint of the thorny swamp and a package for newbies.

He opened the blueprint first.

Everything about the thorny swamp was still displayed on the blueprint, and even the fish monsters lurking in the swamp were marked.

When they began to move, the red dots on the blueprint also began to move.

"It seems that this picture is recorded in real-time, and this should be Roy..." near their carriage, a small dot also marked red began to change.

Until it turned into a small human shape and stood on the map.

Under him, the word Roy came up.

"Will anyone do this as long as I meet him once?" Sherman asked in confusion.

On the southeast side of the thorn swamp, there were also hundreds of small red dots, but they did not change. They were still the same as the fish monster, and there was no difference between the red dots.

"What's the use of the blueprint other than being used as a map?"

Sherman asked in confusion.

"You can also edit the buildings in the territory, as long as they are built by the host."

"This is the function of the first level blueprint."

The mechanical voice in his mind answered in time.

"I have detected that host entered the thorny swamp and began to issue the first task."

"To solve the problem of public diet, the storage of basic materials will reach five hundred respectively."

"Including woods, thatches, linen, wing, herbs, wild fruits, and stones."

"After completing the task, you can get 100 experience and get the reward package of special quality."

After hearing the system task, Sherman frowned.

The blueprint began to change as well. On it, there were choices such as shopping malls, residents, buildings, manufacturing, warehouses, and so on.

He opened the door and had a look.

Roy ranked first.

"He is the mayor of the town, 36 years old, his wife is Daisy, loyal 15, skilled craftsmen, carpenter blacksmith, doctor... good guy, an all-round competitor?"

It seemed that life in the thorny town was hard. One could see it from the mayor's several posts.

If he died, most of the life in the town would be paralyzed.

Sherman continued turning over.

After looking through the resident list, he opened the shopping mall.

Because the current leader was only at the first level, there were very few things he could buy. They were the blueprint of some basic tools. After buying, he could create them in the "make" column.

As for the buildings.

At present, it was an option of wooden house and thatched house.

"It seems that it's not easy to build the thorn town. The basic people's livelihood is simply a mess. Many of them have to start from scratch..."

Sherman sighed.

Then he opened the novice gift pack.