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Twenty-two Discourses on Merit and Reward

  Butterfly crossing time and space sodu

  "Number thirty-two, 692! Next one!"

  "Wah wah!"

  As the staff shouted, a large dog bear happily rolled down the giant scale and found a place to enjoy its own big bucket of honey. The next bear, who had been waiting impatiently, quickly climbed onto the scale and looked at the person in charge with a flattering gaze, hoping to hear an even bigger number.

  Unfortunately, its hopes were destined to be dashed because it was a slender bear.

  "Number thirty-three, three hundred and thirty-seven pounds, next one!"

  "Waaah!"

  Although the bear dog couldn't understand human language, it could still measure with its eyes that its own bucket of honey was obviously smaller than the one in front. It immediately let out a dissatisfied growl and raised its paw at the staff. But under the fierce glare of Mr. Druid Vinnie, it climbed down from the scale with great grievance, its eyes welling up with tears as it pushed its small bucket away.

  "Number thirty-three is gone, next one come quickly!"

  It's all because of a tiny translation problem.

  It's obvious that the original language of the dog bears would not have had a unit of weight like "pounds", so Great Druid translated Firi's reward into "honey as heavy as your body". This also caused procedural difficulties when issuing rewards - they had to weigh each bear individually and face the problem of seriously exceeding the amount of honey awarded: any bear weighed over 200 pounds, and they had deliberately gorged themselves in town before collecting their honey.

  Now, the desk of Speaker Zena is piled high with complaints from dozens of restaurants, grocery stores and bakeries across the city about the misfortune bear team's robbery, but for Speaker Zena, who will soon be promoted to a full-fledged war zone official, nothing is more important than winning over war heroes. And the bear cubs don't want money or power, nor do they need to worry about making inappropriate remarks or causing scandals, they are indeed the most ideal "heroes" in the eyes of politicians. Even if they blow into the kitchen of Speaker Zena's house, Speaker Zena would probably not mind.

  However, it's not easy to settle other "heroes".

  "Hey, I'm saying, we're all out here on the battlefield, fighting against that old witch Sophia and her minions, while you're down in your cellar, drinking and womanizing! Phil looked at Charlotte, who was being hugged by two men, and his anger reached a boiling point. "Two women for one man? And they're mother and daughter, to boot! You beast!"

  Charlotte gently pushed away the two Zorvathian beauties, one big and one small, who were feeding him cake, grabbed a napkin to wipe his mouth, "Thanks for the compliment, but the ethics and morals of the Zorvathians are completely different from ours. You're actually jealous, aren't you, General Taylor? Oh, I should call you the new Legion Commander now. You took my position without me saying anything, how dare you lecture me?"

  "Aren't you still a legion commander? Can still comfortably stay in the rear to drink, chat and flirt. I'm going to go to the northern front line to fight for my life!" Phil found a sofa to sit down on, "How about we swap?"

  "No need for that, the capable one takes on more labor. This glorious task should still be handed over to you who has more military talent. I don't have the skill to capture a spirit lieutenant and a spirit marshal." Charlotte smiled and waved the newspaper in her hand, which had a full-page print of the Great Druid's bear face and Phil's bald head, with the background being the unfortunate bear squad devouring cakes. "Look at how they're hyping you up there, oh, it's good. This time's report seems to have gotten your gender right. It looks like being bald has its advantages."

  "You summoned me to your villa at the crack of dawn, I assume it's not just to mock me and show off your new plaything." Phil changed to a more comfortable position, picked up a pastry from the coffee table and stuffed it into his mouth, "So, what's this all about?"

  "Alright." Charlotte muttered under her breath, then opened the drawer of the dresser and started rummaging through it. "There's some bad news. You'd better be prepared. Starting this month, your dividend is gone."

  “……?”

  "Our condom factory, which we co-founded, was burned down by the Jingling Army. The workers had all escaped earlier."

  "I knew this all along, can't we just rebuild it?"

  "The bad news doesn't stop there." Charlotte pulled out several exquisitely crafted small boxes from the drawer and spread them on the tea table in front of Fei, with exaggerated **patterns drawn on them. "The fleeing workers seem to have been hired by southern merchants"

  "Now there are more condom factories on that side than mushrooms popping out after a heavy rain, and you can find so many different types of condoms from various places in the shops of New Masobura City. So..."

  He hesitated for a moment, but continued, "It's really not making any money in this line of work, so I'm preparing to withdraw my investment. If you want to start working and running a factory again, then go ahead and do it yourself."

  “……!”

  In an era without patent laws, it's really not easy to make some money from intellectual property.

  The war in New Masobrea has come to an end with the death of Sofia Liria. Phil merely dragged Sofia's corpse to Emont Port and showed it off, and the several hundred motley troops left behind by the Elf Army immediately surrendered. Those who survived the sea of flames were mostly unable to withstand the whips of the SM girls from the Aemita Church and were strung up with ropes and dragged back to the prisoner-of-war camp.

  The last remaining defeated soldiers may still cause the local security situation to deteriorate severely, but it is completely impossible to shake the rule of the local government. Therefore, Philley handed over the remaining tasks to the security officer and withdrew back to New Morsobray City, waiting for rewards.

  But there is a small problem.

  Charlotte, who had gone missing during the defeat at Port Emon, has returned.

  When the Elven Army entered the city, he panicked and rushed into a magnificent mansion of a wealthy widow, then hid with the mother-daughter pair in a secret underground room, setting fire to the building above as cover. The Elven Army, which had only been stationed in the city for one day, did not conduct a thorough search, allowing them to escape disaster.

  This basement was originally a food warehouse, relying on the large amount of food and wine stored inside, the three of them spent the days when the elf army occupied the city very comfortably, and even had a great time in this narrow and dark space, it was simply joyful.

  When Ferry, guided by the magical positioning signal, cut open the door of the underground room with his sword, this dandy who never spared himself below the waist was still riding on top of the widow, happily thrusting away. Next to them lay their similarly naked daughter, who had fainted from excessive excitement... What a beast!

  Charlotte's return immediately gave Zena, the Speaker of the House, a not-so-small problem: because of the victory in the new Masou City Defense War, Fili's appointment as the commander of the Giant Bear Army had already been issued, and it wouldn't be good to let the newly-minted war hero go back to being a staff officer again.

  But dismissing Charlotte just like that is also not convincing, after all, he didn't make any mistakes in the war, he just got separated from his subordinates. Moreover, Zena also needs to use him to win over the old people of the Governor's Office.

  The solution to this problem is to make both of them legion commanders. Anyway, the Giant Bear Legion has basically become a disabled veteran after this battle and needs to recruit a large number of new soldiers in order to cope with the next war after winter. Why not establish another legion so that when the Giant Bear Legion goes north to fight, there will be someone to guard the rear?

  The newly formed legion was uncreatively named the Raccoon Legion, with Charlotte as its commander and Rick, still recovering from his injuries, as deputy commander. The chief of staff position is temporarily vacant, and most of the soldiers are new recruits. Their main task is to train new troops, garrison the new state of Masobu, and make short trips to counter nearby landings by the Elf Army if necessary. In Speaker Zena's grand future plan, one or two more legions will be added in the south to ensure absolute safety.

  The Giant Bear Corps is led by Phil, who has made great contributions, and the deputy corps commander is still the number one fighter and mascot, Mr. Druid Vinnie. Red-robed wizard Feton, who performed well in many battles, was promoted to chief of staff and magic consultant - although Phil is a 14th-level wizard, while Feton only started learning magic, it's likely that Feton is more capable in combat, just like how an Olympic shooter can't beat an ordinary sniper.

  Reni, in this round of promotion, due to her poor performance on the battlefield, only got a nominal position as deputy commander of a legion, without even a military rank. Her main job was to take care of Fili's daily life and come up with ideas for him - it sounds more like she is Fili's personal maid, which is actually the case.

  The current Giant Bear Legion has only over a thousand troops left. Before the spring, Fili must find a way to restore this number to at least five thousand and then go north to join forces with Ludwig Chairman who is struggling there, and annihilate the remaining thousands of Elf Army in the Arctic Port Fortress. This is not an easy task for the Giant Bear Legion, which has no experience in siege warfare from top to bottom.

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