Chapter 48

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Chapter 48: Nursery-Level Monsters Are Also a Big Problem

Lolth has already noticed that Tina and Isabella are planning to escape, but she hasn’t realized what the two of them are "plotting" at all.

After all, Lolth is in a very good mood now, feeling excited like a young bird before its first flight, a high schooler being confessed to by a goddess, a young person who got their first car, or a middle-aged person realizing they succeeded again!

In Lolth’s eyes, leaving the Demon King Castle and living in a remote rural town is the beginning of the life she has always dreamed of!

"Mr. King has some land, oh yeah~"

Humming a familiar tune from her hometown, Lolth purposely changed into a loose black hoodie with a hood, wearing a hat to cover her pointed head and tucking her long tail into her pants to avoid scaring any humans she might come across.

However, Lolth didn’t expect to encounter any humans.

Today’s main route was to explore around Hillenbrand Town and check out the surrounding terrain.

Although she also had the motivation to take a rare stroll in a place without the smell of sulfur, her main purpose was to plan for future construction.

Figuring out where to place the ecological chambers, warehouses, greenhouses, automated farms, and other upcoming projects required careful thought and planning.

Considering it was her own territory and it would impact her future quality of life, Lolth was determined not to slack off on this matter.

The torture tower was located on a high ground in the northeast of the town, which was basically the highest point near the town, even though it was just a gentle slope of less than a hundred meters and couldn’t be called a hill.

However, this gentle slope extended southward and connected to a low, hilly forest area a few hundred meters south of the town.

Lolth decided to take a walk south first.

The view from the torture tower gave her a rough idea of the layout of the town.

Not far to the west of town is a tributary of the Larech River. Along the riverbank and the flat plains to the north of town, the land is fertile and lush, where residents have developed a few small farms and pastures.

Lolth had no intention of taking over land that already belonged to someone else. She noticed that there was also a sizable flat land near the southern mountain forest, which would be suitable for various industries with the mountain behind and the water nearby. However, she wondered why nobody had utilized that area yet.

Perhaps the river took a winding path, making it difficult to develop due to its slightly rapid flow, and the population of Hillenbrand Town was not yet too dense.

However, Lolth really liked that land.

Even without using magic, her stamina was quite good. She quickly walked south along the east side of town and arrived at the open space in the south of town.

When she reached there, Lolth found it even more suitable than she had imagined!

Not only was the land flat and the river abundant, but the forest located at the southern end of the town had a perfect slope and lush vegetation.

This area could truly be developed for agriculture, forestry, fishing, and animal husbandry!

They can even raise some farm animals with longer growth cycles — after all, free-range meat and nutritional value are always better than home-raised ones!

However, in her excitement, Lolth quickly discovered why this place had not been developed.

The rivers and forests in this area have a faint residue of magic.

From the wooden fences and stone walls in the south of Hillenbrand Town, to the watchtowers by the river, it’s clear that the residents are wary of something in the south.

With a slight activation of Magic Essence Perception, Lolth sensed that there were hundreds of weak magical creatures moving around in the swift, deep rivers and forests to the south.

Very weak, the strongest being only a few creatures that could barely be considered at an Elite Level.

There were hardly any creatures classified at the official level, mostly equivalent to human apprentices and easily killed by three or five adults, being super weak magical creatures.

Despite their weakness, their numbers likely posed a certain problem for the townspeople.

Of course, for Lolth, these creatures did not pose any real threat.

Compared to the monsters in the abyss, as long as you can survive, most of them are at the Elite Level starting point. It’s like a kindergarten here!

In the abyss, there are only two possibilities for high-level monsters to survive: either they are protected young or juvenile individuals, or they belong to a large group.

However, Lolth did not intend to exterminate all the monsters here directly.

These weak monsters might be useful in the future – after all, in the process of improving existing edible animals and plants in the past, Lolth has not hesitated to transplant magical properties to those things.

And there are many successful cases that have significantly improved the taste of crops and livestock.

Some of them even developed many interesting attributes, although they were not included in daily cultivation, their samples are all kept by Lolth.

Therefore, Lolth decided to solve the problem of monster invasion here in other ways.

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