I BECAME A SKULL IN ANOTHER WORLD WITH THE LABYRINTH MASTER'S WORK.

CHAPTER 73: RANK 7

The troops marched quickly surrounded the Capital of Nate, more precisely on Nate Island there were only 1 city, the Capital of Nate.

They moved at night so that the troops above the city walls could only see them when the army of Elos had surrounded the city, upon learning of the presence of Elos' army, the city guards started to turn on the bell warning everyone in the city.

"Who are y'all? I am the captain of the guard of this City, if you dare to attack the Nate Capital then you will become enemies of Marquis Nate and the entire Ray Kingdom. I advise you to retreat, if you are still stubbornly besieging us then you must be sorry!", said the captain of the city guards with a stern face without fear, but actually he was already sweating coldly all over his body.

He only has the power of rank 8 and can be the captain of the city guard because Marquis Nate is a distant uncle, therefore he rose to this position not because of his strength or ability. Not to mention that Marquis Nate was not in this city, as long as the enemy troops attacked then he did not know how to fight.

Elos' army paves the way for Elos to advance forward, Kronev runs behind Elos to protect him in case of a surprise attack from the enemy, besides he also brings Marquis Nate who has been detained.

Marquis Nate's body was tied to a stick high enough, then the Elos warriors began to turn on the torch so that the face of Marquis Nate who was already a prisoner could be seen by everyone.

"Look at this carefully, the Marquis you guys are following has already lost! Your choice is just to surrender or die, as long as you surrender then I can let you live after receiving some punishment. After all you are just soldiers who must follow the words of the Marquis, except for members of the Marquis family then all the other troops who surrendered can stay alive", shouted Elos who was standing in front of the already bound Marquis Nate.

Hearing this, the soldiers lowered their weapons. Even some of the soldiers opened the gate to show that they had surrendered to Elos and let Elos take his army into the city, the soldiers should not have given up so quickly but they all had hatred for Marquis Elos who had been the ruler all along. So they chose to give up without hesitation, there was nothing more to fight against Elos.

The captain who was a member of the Marquis Nate family became panicked, after all Elos had already said that the Marquis Nate family members would not live.

He stared at the surrounding troops ferociously "What are you doing? Are you betraying? Ray Kingdom will definitely kill all traitors, as long as you cooperate with the enemy then it is the same as dying! You have to close the gates again and fight the enemy until help from Ray Kingdom arrives, have you forgotten who gave you the food? That's all our Nate family!".

After saying all that, a soldier pointed at the captain while shouting "Isn't it because of the rules Marquis Nate made so many members of our family are starving to death! When you nobles live luxuriously, we must face death from hunger! We soldiers do get food, but you don't give us the slightest salary like other noble warriors. Besides, all the food given to us is just cheap food, while you always eat fancy food every day!".

"My comrades, Marquis Nate's reign is over! It might be quite risky to follow Master of the Elos Labyrinth as we have to fight the Ray Kingdom, but I have a family member who lives in the Animal Kingdom! Mr. Elos is a good man who gives a light tax to the inhabitants, I ask you, whether you are okay to continue living hungry and poor under the rule of Marquis Nate, or take up your arms to bring a new change to your life and your family to live a better life?".

The soldiers stared at each other, their spirits burning due to the words of their comrade.

After all Marquis Nate did feed them, the problem was that they were only given a small amount of food which left them almost starving every day. Not only are they starving, but their families are too.

The soldiers took their weapons again before besieging the captain.

"Wait, stop! What are you guys doing? Waitaminute! As long as you let me live then I can give you all my money and eat-Aaaaa" shouted the captain in pain as a result of a soldier stabbing his stomach.

After one soldier dared to attack, the other soldiers followed.

The captain and the distant family of Marquis Nate died as a result of being stabbed by dozens of swords of his own soldiers.

Elos smiled as they could finish this last fight without a war, it seemed that the rules of Elos's tax breaks were very useful. Without those rules, the Marquis Nate soldiers would probably not give up that easily.

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Elos immediately brought his soldiers to seize the palace of Marquis Nate with just overnight.

Marquis Nate Palace is very large, besides there are also some loyal guards of the Marquis so there must be a small fight before being able to seize the palace completely.

The next day, Elos called the entire population of Nate Island to gather in the town square.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in the town square in the morning at the direction of the soldiers, they were surprised to find Elos Marquis Nate with his family kneeling in front of them and being bound.

When all the residents were gathered, Elos went up on stage with Riona and Lumina behind him, while Kronev stood guard at the side. His body was too big that this stage might be destroyed if Kronev went up.

Elos took the stage before shouting, "I'm sure you'll all be surprised, but I'll tell you today. The reign of Marquis Nate is over, from today I am the new ruler of Nate Island, Master of the Labyrinth Fjorten Elos! In addition, the name of Nate Island was changed to Novus Island and the island became part of Portus Aureus Province!".

"Then there will be a lot of changing rules, especially the city lord. But it will take a lot of time to complete all these rules so we will tell you later, even so I will give you a rule first! The tax on every farm will change to 30%, all salt-making and ports will return to the government, my hands, and every resident in Novus City who buys salt will get a 30% discount on the condition that there is a purchase limit so that you do not sell the salt again. After that we will give every fisherman a new boat and the tax on fishing proceeds will also be 30%".

The residents of the town square froze, most of them farmers and fishermen, so the new rules of Elos were very important to them.

The residents regained their senses and raised their hands before shouting "Live Lord Elos!".

"Long live, Mr. Elos!".

"Thank you for the kindness of Mr. Elos!".

Shouts of respect and recognition of the residents over Elos began to be heard around this square.

Elos who was standing on the stage suddenly felt a flow of strength from the spirit of the residents gathered on him, after which Elos rose to rank 7, he said, not only Elos but Riona also increased to rank 7.

"Is the spirit and recognition of these residents like the life energy given to me that caused my rank to rise?", Elos thought of the cause of his rank to increase.

After a while, Elos raised his hand, which made the whole population silent, indicating that the inhabitants had acknowledged Elos, which made them silent according to the movement of Elos' hand.

"I know you're happy, but now there's more important that punishing the criminals who've been pressing you all along", the cry of Elos reminded everyone that Marquis Nate was still on that stage as well.