He immediately clapped his hands and called out.
"All farmers, stop working and return to the courtyard to avoid getting hurt. All soldiers, spread out and take positions around the buildings."
"Get ready to deal with the territory expansion quest!"
The lord himself had given the order.
None of the farmers dared delay. They set down their resources and hurried back into the territory with their tools.
All the soldiers were mobilized.
The three Wolf Cavalrymen, the Night Huntress, and the Druid of the Claw began patrolling around the newly built structures.
Tasia and Favid, the two mages, chose to stand behind Zong Shen.
The Ranger sisters, Mappel and Madeline, nimbly leaped onto the roofs of two nearby Tier 2 Dwellings.
They drew arrows with silver-white heads and lightly nocked them on their longbows. Their sharp eyes swept over the land around them, illuminated by the setting sun, like those of falcons.
Zong Shen nodded in satisfaction.
Then he opened the [Territory] function.
[Territory: None] [Lord's Manor: Level 1] [Current expansion range: Within a 1,000-meter radius. Complete the land expansion quest to expand successfully] [Click to begin expansion]
"Expand!"
Zong Shen clicked the expansion option.
[Territory expansion quest started] [Hostile targets remaining: 10]
It had begun! But nothing seemed to have changed!
Suddenly, the top of the Elemental Arrow Tower in the courtyard behind him lit up.
That meant a hostile target had appeared within its 500-meter detection range.
"Thwang!"
"Whoosh!"
After a sharp twang, a long arrow wreathed in flames shot from the top of the tower, striking the tall grass several hundred meters away.
Its range far surpassed the Dragonborn Ranger's longbow.
[-30]
[-10]
Zong Shen saw two damage numbers appear.
"Awoooo~"
A long wolf howl rang out.
It was clearly much louder than