[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela":3,"chapter-exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-86":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Exiled from the Start and Dominating the Wasteland with an Intelligence System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1688686,2155,"Chapter 86 : Chapter 86","exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-86",86,"\u003Cp>Chapter 86. Kill Him\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morning light struggled to pierce the heavy clouds, scattering itself stingily across Black Territory Valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli braced a hand against his aching lower back and bared his teeth as he eased himself down from the broad wooden bed in the lord’s keep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night... ahem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emotions Aila had bottled up from fear and anxiety had burst out all at once, and they had truly been hard on his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stretched his somewhat stiff body, walked to the window, and pushed open the wooden shutters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cool morning wind poured in, blowing away a little of the weariness in his body and the lingering tenderness in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By force of habit, he sank his consciousness into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deep violet beam of light flared up abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Purple: Count Alders of the Western Frontier has already reached a provisional cooperation agreement with Sabda Medici.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alders has promised to dispatch two hundred household soldiers from his family to secretly support Sabda under the pretext of an “investigation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sabda, in turn, has verbally promised to hand over Lucerne City once the matter is settled.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli’s brows knit tightly, and he was instantly wide awake. Sabda alone was already difficult enough to handle, especially with that Gold-Tier Knight at his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now there was a Count of the Western Frontier waiting to stab him in the back as well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli began considering ways to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should he go and complain to Sir Lucius? The thought had only just surfaced before he crushed it himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mind of that Governor of the Western Frontier ran deep as the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If two newly risen barons smashed each other bloody on the border and wore each other down, that might well be exactly what he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah... why is it so hard to develop in peace for even a few days...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can only rely on myself...” Eli murmured softly, a trace of helplessness in his voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aika still had not returned, and the World Intelligence Support System had not yet given him Sabda’s current troop deployment. He was completely in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forced himself to calm down, his mind racing as he searched for a way to break the deadlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Send reinforcements? Strengthen the defenses? Launch a preemptive strike on Runestone City?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One idea after another flashed through his mind, only to be rejected one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new recruits had trained for only a few days, Brandon was already under heavy pressure over in Lucerne City, and Captain Buck could not split himself in two...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was thinking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord! My lord! Something terrible has happened!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice of Ulu, the administrator for slave affairs, came from afar, accompanied by a burst of frantic footsteps. The study door was suddenly flung open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ulu rushed in, his face deathly pale and his breathing ragged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you panicking for?” Eli suppressed his mood and said calmly. “Has the sky fallen?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“M-My lord... M-My lord! This subordinate is incompetent! This subordinate deserves death!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ulu dropped to his knees with a thud, his voice trembling on the edge of tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Seventeenth Slave Squad and the Eighteenth Slave Squad... over in the living quarters... they’ve... they’ve started causing trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both sides are facing off now. The situation... the situation is almost out of control!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?!” Eli shot to his feet. Enemies pressed in from outside, and now a fire had broken out within as well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face darkened so completely it seemed ready to drip water. “Lead the way!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, yes, yes! My lord, please come with me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ulu scrambled back to his feet, bent low, and hurried ahead to lead the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slave living quarters lay on the eastern side of the valley, made up of rows of crude but fairly orderly wooden sheds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the usually quiet area had erupted into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two groups faced each other in clearly divided lines, with several members of the security patrol caught in the middle, desperately trying to hold them back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why do your sheds have straw mats on the floor? How can you even partition off a little room for yourselves? And why is there even oil floating in your wheat porridge?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A somewhat plump slave pointed at the other side, red-faced and thick-necked as he roared. He was Huck, the captain of the Eighteenth Squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him clustered a group of newly arrived slaves, each of them filled with resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right! We’re all slaves, so why do they get to live better than we do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s unfair! We want a change!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new slaves behind Huck shouted along with him in righteous anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bullshit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain of the Seventeenth Squad, a burly man with a scar across his face, nicknamed Scarface, roared back without the slightest restraint. The old slaves standing behind him glared furiously as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When we first got here, we lived in drafty broken sheds too, and all we ate was thin vegetable soup and black bread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These straw mats and these partitions? We made them ourselves after work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We chopped the wood ourselves, cut the thatch ourselves, and built them bit by bit with our own hands!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the food? That was an extra reward from the lord and the administrator because we worked hard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You lazy bones have only been here a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ve barely done any work, and yet you want to stand on equal footing with us? Dream on!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right! You’re too lazy to do it yourselves, so now you want to steal what’s already there? Have you no shame?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slaves of the Seventeenth Squad all joined in with curses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who’s lazy?! We just haven’t had the chance!” Huck retorted with his neck stiffened, though his eyes flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally been the son of a bankrupt merchant in a border town. Because he had a quick mind, Ulu had chosen him to be a squad captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He considered himself a cut above these crude slaves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the days since arriving in Obsidian Territory, he had also made careful inquiries and observations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had discovered that although the white-haired lord was strict, he could genuinely be called merciful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never beat or killed slaves without cause, and he truly did improve the treatment of slaves who worked hard, even granting them more freedom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had guessed that even if he took the lead in making trouble, at worst he would get a scolding or a whipping. After all, the law could not punish the masses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would also be the perfect chance to win some benefits for the newly arrived men and establish his own authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene was a chaos of shouting, cursing, and shoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was on the verge of escalating from a war of words into an all-out brawl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The security patrolmen trapped in the middle were miserable. They could only spread their arms, wave their wooden clubs, and desperately try to hold the two sides apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop it!” they shouted at the top of their lungs, but their voices were drowned beneath the rising din.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“ALL OF YOU — SHUT — UP —!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roar like a thunderclap instantly drowned out every other sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ulu came scrambling into the crowd, shouting with every ounce of strength in his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The lord has arrived —!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire living quarters fell instantly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the arguments, curses, and shoving came to an abrupt halt in that single moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every gaze turned in unison toward the young figure standing at the edge of the crowd, his face calm as still water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli stepped forward one pace at a time through the passage the crowd automatically opened for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes swept calmly over the slaves on both sides, who now stood as silent as cicadas in winter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, his gaze settled on Huck, who had dropped to his knees, and Scarface, who still stood there with his neck stiffened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You two, squad captains. Step forward and speak.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli’s voice was not loud, yet it reached every ear with perfect clarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scarface strode forward without the slightest hesitation, dropped to one knee, and spoke in a ringing voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord! Scarface, captain of the Seventeenth Squad, wishes to report to you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huck, captain of the Eighteenth Squad, incited the new slaves to make trouble and slandered your lordship for being unfair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What we live in and what we eat were all earned through our own effort! I ask that you see the truth clearly, my lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huck also hurriedly shuffled forward on his knees and knelt down, imitating Scarface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his head, forced an aggrieved expression onto his face, and began pouring out his grievances in a tearful voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord! You must stand up for us newcomers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Captain Scarface said... is true, but... but we just arrived, and we don’t know anything yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We do the dirtiest and hardest jobs, yet we live in the worst sheds and eat the poorest food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brothers are suffering in their hearts! We’re all slaves, so why is the gap between us so great?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We... we only want fairness, my lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully avoided the matter of his own incitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke only of unfairness, trying to win sympathy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli listened quietly, his face completely expressionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after Huck had finished did he speak calmly, his gaze falling on Huck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fairness?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What Scarface said, was it true? Did they improve their own sheds? Was their food rewarded extra?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Y-Yes... it’s true.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huck did not dare deny it and could only answer stiffly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But, my lord—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli cut him off at once. His voice remained calm and even, yet Huck felt his heart sink into an abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it is not that you cannot improve your situation. It is that you think it is too tiring, and you do not want to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So you decided that instead of doing it yourselves, you would stir everyone up and make trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You would put some pressure on me so that I would simply divide up what they had painstakingly improved and hand it over to you fairly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps... you wanted me to issue an order forcing the old slaves to give up their things to you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that what you had in mind, Captain Huck?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I... I...” Huck’s whole body trembled, and his face turned as white as paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt as though the lord’s calm blue eyes could see straight through every petty thought in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was nothing like the scene he had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was the lord not supposed to soothe the new slaves, scold the old ones a little,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then symbolically improve the new slaves’ treatment by just a tiny bit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How... how had he laid bare his little scheme so directly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“M-My... my lord, I... I was only... for the sake of the brothers... for... for our territory...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huck stammered, incoherent, still trying to defend himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Eli’s gaze had already shifted away from him and landed on a young security patrolman holding a wooden club nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli remembered him. He was one of the constables who had received a medal at the commendation ceremony, a meticulous and conscientious young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You,” Eli said, raising a hand to point at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your name is A-Tu, correct?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young security patrolman jolted all over, overwhelmed by surprise and honor. Then he immediately straightened his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice rose out of nervousness, almost cracking. “Yes! My lord! This subordinate is A-Tu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli looked at him, his eyes as calm as a deep pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the order he gave sent a sharp gasp through everyone around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kill him.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1951,"2026-06-06T13:50:45.844Z",1,"novelbin.me","47d4714156332e9cb59798ecdf6d9f19fa01801ad909bdd3271c48916775fa86","exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-87","exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-85",112,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fexiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-cover.jpg"]