I Become a Landlady in the Game World-Chapter 826 - 398: Through Wind and Rain, I Just Want to Work Hard

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Bengala Town.

Simmons felt even more uneasy when he saw Hope Town’s ranking early in the morning.

3366.

They understood very well what that ranking represented.

Currently, Bengala Town’s ranking is 3294, and the gap between the two is already very small. It’s important to know that Bengala Town is a Level 2 town, and even though this Level 2 town has just recently been promoted, it is indeed solid.

And yet, Hope Village had just stepped into becoming a Level 1 town, and its ranking already chased their territory closely. Perhaps it won’t be long before it surpasses them.

Yesterday, when they heard about Hope Village defeating Fasal Village, both he and the Lord were already shocked enough. Then with the subsequent promotion, they were truly taken aback.

When they checked the rankings yesterday, they knew that ranking would not be the final one, but while they expected the opponent to advance a little, they didn’t anticipate a leap of over six hundred ranks.

They all wanted to know what on earth Hope Town had done.

With these thoughts in mind, Simmons quickly headed to the estate of their Lord.

When Simmons arrived, the air pressure within the estate was noticeably lower than usual.

The servants moving around were all holding their breath.

"Lord Simmons, the Earl is in a bad mood today." The steward cautiously reminded Simmons before he entered the main hall.

"Hmm." Simmons nodded to indicate he understood.

Subsequently, Simmons entered Earl Orkot’s reception room.

"Lord." Simmons respectfully saluted.

"You have come for Hope Town?" Earl Orkot asked indifferently.

"Yes, I came to ask if there’s anything we need to do?" Simmons said ambiguously.

In fact, he didn’t know how their Lord intended to deal with Hope Town. According to normal custom, they—Bengala Town—should be sending congratulatory gifts, since the Hope Town Lord would soon receive the Earl rank, a status equal to their own Lord.

Listening to this, Earl Orkot glanced at Simmons and said directly, "Prepare some gifts and send them over!"

Upon hearing this instruction, Simmons was somewhat stunned. Had their Earl so easily let it go?

"Surprised?" As if seeing through Simmons’ thoughts, Earl Orkot raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, because this doesn’t quite align with your usual perspective, my Lord, and you mentioned earlier that someone might want to take advantage of Hope Town... If things proceed as normal, there doesn’t seem to be a need to curry favor with Hope Town?" After all, an aggressive territorial force that made others tremble had already set sights on Hope Town.

"But wasn’t it Fasal Village that lost? And wasn’t Hope Town’s existence so powerful?" Earl Orkot replied directly, "The cement and construction teams Hope Town sells play important roles in some territories’ beast tides and territory wars. Quite a few territories have offered high prices wanting to buy large quantities of shells from me to exchange for Hope Town’s cement. Baron Charlot’s family communicated with my family to do a good job on this business, even mentioning that if Hope Town needs it, I can provide assistance."

Simmons was even more surprised, "So, Lord, your family and Baron Charlotte’s family want to win over Hope Town?"

"Yes, they consider Hope Town valuable. If it were still a village, they might not have this attitude. But after all, it defeated and conquered Fasal Village yesterday and successfully passed the promotion test, so information was sent to me last night." Earl Orkot expressed, with a look of mild frustration.

He couldn’t ignore his family’s message, so in terms of attitude towards Hope Town, he really couldn’t act against orders and had to make friends with Hope Town.

To speak frankly, when he first heard about it, he was really unwilling, especially as he was originally the big boss in this area. As his territory slowly developed, it would become the center of this area, attracting talents and other resources without him needing to do much. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

But now there was an additional Hope Town, and its development potential surpassed his... Whose voice would dominate in the future was already obvious.

In hindsight, the development trend of Hope Town couldn’t be stopped. Even if there were aggressive small town territories, would it really be easy to plunder Hope Town’s resources? It wouldn’t be.