Lin Qi's Wet Nurse

My mind was a mess of thoughts. Enzo pondered the terrifying strength his family had shown, while following Lin Qi to the main keep.

Based on the professional knowledge learned at the Imperial Army Academy, Enzo accurately assessed the strength of Lin Qi's family. These defensive measures alone, without the participation of powerful mages and high-level knights, would be enough to withstand the attack of an ordinary army of over ten thousand men.

But this was only based on these inanimate defensive facilities. If you added unfathomable experts like Iron Hammer and Butcher Knife, plus the servants with their fierce aura encountered along the way, and the robust maids who carried hundred-pound milk pails without batting an eye, coupled with the strategic advantage of the estate being located near the mountaintop, this ancestral home could withstand a siege of tens of thousands.

If there were other good things in this ancestral home, such as military-grade armor, crossbows, powerful bows, and other contraband, then who knew how many people it would take to capture it.

But was there really no such contraband military equipment here? Thinking about what he and Lin Qi had done in Berely, and thinking about the standard military equipment Lin Qi had secretly sold to The Cripple over the years, how could Lin Qi's ancestral home lack such contraband?

"What a formidable family!" Enzo curiously surveyed the surroundings. Not a single large tree was visible in the courtyard. This was clearly intentional. Without large trees, assassins and thieves would have no place to hide. Without large trees, if the enemy used fire, the damage to the estate would be minimal.

This was not the ancestral home of a peaceful, benevolent family, but a dragon's den, a true military fortress aimed at large-scale warfare.

"A truly powerful family, yet I've never heard of such a strong family existing in the Empire?" Enzo couldn't help but touch his nose. The great nobles and powerful clans of the Empire were renowned, their fame known across the entire Western Continent. But judging solely from Lin Qi's ancestral home, Lin Qi's family's foundation was no less than that of those powerful clans, and in terms of martial strength, it was even superior. Yet Enzo had never heard of such a prominent family.

The vast continent, how many wonders did it hide? Enzo couldn't help but take a deep breath.

A piercing bull's roar suddenly came from a spacious stone house next to the main keep. Immediately after, a fat, healthy black bull, its coat shining like satin, bolted out of the stone house in a panic.

The bull had barely run ten meters when a mountain of flesh charged out of the stone house, furious: "You damn calf, where do you think you're running? Young Master Lin Qi is coming home soon, and he loves my blood sausage the most. Be good and turn into a delicious blood sausage!"

It was a middle-aged aunt, as tall as Iron Hammer, but with a waist a full circle thicker than Iron Hammer's. Her face was covered in thick flesh, and her whole body rippled like waves as she walked. She wielded a chef's knife over a meter long and chased after the bull, laughing.

Under Enzo's shocked gaze, the aunt caught up to the galloping bull in just two or three steps. She casually wrapped her thick left arm around the bull's neck, gave it a twist, and with a loud 'crack', she snapped the bull's neck with her bare hands. She precisely stabbed the bull's neck with her sharp kitchen knife, and a stream of blood shot out a considerable distance.

Several errand boys rushed over with a huge wooden basin, positioning it perfectly to catch the spurt of blood, not a single drop wasted. The bull twitched powerlessly as its blood drained, and the middle-aged aunt, laughing, dropped the bull, which weighed at least two thousand pounds, to the ground.

The faces of Iron Hammer and Butcher Knife twitched simultaneously.

The aunt turned her head and happened to see Lin Qi. A trace of angelic gentleness and kindness suddenly appeared on her fierce, fleshy face. Tears instantly streamed down her cheeks. The aunt rushed towards Lin Qi like a gust of wind, grabbed him, and pressed his head firmly against her ample chest.

"Waaah, my Young Master Lin Qi is home! Waaah, I haven't seen my Young Master Lin Qi in three years, Aunt Lili has missed you so much! Heavens, young master, how much suffering did you endure outside? Why have you become so thin?" Lin Qi was held so tightly by Aunt Lili that even with his brute strength, amplified tenfold by the Magic Tiger Potion, he felt like a little chick, unable to struggle at all.

That was enough strength to snap the neck of a two-thousand-pound bull! Aunt Lili cried, tears and snot streaming down her face as she held Lin Qi. Enzo felt a chill run down his spine and instinctively took a few steps back.

Good, Enzo had once again gained a direct understanding of Lin Qi's family's ferocity!

Would even a Duke's family in the Empire have such a formidable female cook?

Just as Lin Qi was about to suffocate, his limbs starting to twitch, Iron Hammer finally couldn't stand it. He forcefully pried open Aunt Lili's strong arms, finally rescuing Lin Qi, whose face had turned purple from lack of air. Iron Hammer patted Aunt Lili's shoulder vigorously and rumbled, "Dear Lili, it's okay, it's okay. The young master you nursed from childhood, who drank your milk from birth until he was seven, is back! But now, hurry up and prepare the blood sausage, the young master loves it!"

Aunt Lili released Lin Qi and looked at him with immense tenderness, kneading his cheeks, which were far from "thin." She sniffled and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, young master, you go see the master first! The fragrant blood sausage will be ready in a moment! Oh, you must stay home for a few more days and eat more blood sausage to nourish yourself!"

Lin Qi, finally able to breathe, enthusiastically hugged Aunt Lili, praising her cooking. Aunt Lili, almost moved to tears again, turned back three times as she walked towards the unfortunate bull, easily picked up the massive animal, and swaggered into the huge kitchen.

Looking at Aunt Lili's huge, sturdy frame, and then at Lin Qi's tall, robust body, Enzo suddenly seemed to understand why Lin Qi was so tall and strong. After all, he grew up drinking Aunt Lili's milk. What a respectable wet nurse!

If such a wet nurse were to put on heavy plate armor and wield her giant chef's knife, could she easily sweep through a thousand-man unit on the battlefield? At least from what Enzo had seen, a thousand-man unit composed of Army Academy cadets would absolutely not withstand the charge of such a human-shaped monster.

"Too terrifying!"

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Enzo was filled with curiosity. What kind of man was Lin Qi's father?