A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

So, Bandak, following Shen Mu's instructions, began to show Resariet and Bestur around the castle area and the inner city area of ​​Deherim.

Of course, there was also the matter of settling the Kujit steppe bandits and Swadian heavy cavalry who had arrived together.

Bandak was quite dutiful and responsible.

Moreover, just as Bandak was leading Resariet and Bestur, focusing on introducing the castle area, James also walked out from the Torch Tower of the Holy White Council.

Seeing Resariet and Bestur, these two guys who weren't exactly strangers, and whom he also disliked, he couldn't help but frown.

"Oh! Look who I see? It's my esteemed Doctor James!" At this moment, Resariet seemed quite surprised.

And equally delighted.

Looking at James, who was still standing on the 2nd floor of the Holy White Council's Torch Tower, at the entrance of the library, he respectfully reached out and placed his hand on his chest, giving a sincere salute: "Since the last time I was injured and you treated me, I have always missed and been grateful to you, Doctor James."

"Of course, Mr. Resariet, if you hadn't held your knight's sword to my neck and forcibly demanded that I give you the best treatment, and then refused to pay and even threatened and extorted me, I would also miss you."

James was standing on the 2nd floor of the Torch Tower, with a look of irritability and disgust on his face.

"Oh, are you talking about what happened last time?" But Resariet's face didn't show much embarrassment, instead, he had that cheerful smile, and his demeanor was very respectful: "That was just an accident that occurred due to the urgency of the situation, I don't think you would think the situation wasn't urgent at the time, would you?"

"The situation was indeed very urgent at the time, if I hadn't urgently stopped the bleeding for you, you would have been seriously injured even if you didn't die."

James snorted coldly, looking at Resariet's appearance, his tone was extremely contemptuous: "But that's not the reason you robbed me of 1000 denars!"

That was all of his savings.

As a result, because he kindly saved this Resariet, all of his savings were completely looted.

And you should know that James had spent two or three years saving up these 1000 denars, working hard to earn the consultation fees, all in order to open a small clinic of his own in a city.

So he wouldn't have to continue wandering and struggling.

But he didn't expect that because of a small accident, he saved this Resariet, and all his savings were robbed.

Even his dream was completely lost.

Before coming to Shen Mu, he was still wandering in Calradia, making a living by treating people.

He couldn't even afford his own house.

Just thinking about it now, James felt very angry, and it was anger from the bottom of his heart.

"But in the future, Mr. James, we will all be working together under Lord Shen Mu's command."

Resariet's tone softened slightly at this time, looking at James, he knew how superb this doctor's medical skills were.

Therefore, he didn't want to offend him, but instead comforted him with kind words: "But no matter what, Mr. James, at least after I came here, I still want to get along well with you and compensate you."

"Then I really hope that your so-called compensation can make me happier."

James was, after all, a coach of the good camp, and didn't say much, just muttered this sentence in response.

It was considered that the matter was over.

"Hey, Resariet, I didn't expect you to always say you're a noble aristocrat, but you've actually done such a despicable thing."

Bestur, on the other hand, grinned, looking like he was enjoying the show.

"That was just an accident."

Resariet explained at this time, while also glancing at Bestur: "Besides, I don't believe a Kujit nomad would be unfamiliar with this kind of thing."

The Kujits are natural nomads and natural plunderers.

Of course, this is a commendatory way of saying it.

If it's a derogatory way of saying it, then obviously, although the Kujits are relatively obedient to order, they are also natural steppe bandits in many cases.

Even high-ranking nobles sometimes disguised themselves as steppe bandits to plunder in other kingdoms, after all, they are highly mobile light cavalry.

They would plunder and then immediately escape.

For the forces in other kingdoms, there was simply no time to react.

So, they would do this every time they were short of money or wanted to get something, and it wasn't just the Kujits, even nobles in other kingdoms would pretend to be robbers or bandits and go to other forces or enemy countries to plunder.

Even because of the years of war in Calradia, the level of morality was declining.

Behaviors such as burning villages and plundering caravans had become relatively common.

Even because of the continuous wars, more and more people lost their homes or went bankrupt, and could only be forced to join the ranks of bandits or robbers, thus expanding the groups of these robbers.

This also led to increasingly deteriorating public security.

The moral standards on the entire continent of Calradia were also getting lower and lower, worse and worse.

This is also why Bestur can now say this kind of seemingly joking words to Resariet, and Resariet is not angry, or even annoyed.

This was already like a joke, a common joke.

It doesn't form any moral burden at all.

Moreover, for these evil camp generals, moral burden is like burping after eating their fill, something that can be easily discharged.

There is no need to care.

Therefore, Resariet will also counterattack Bestur in a joking way.

The two have no moral burden at all, and they don't care about moral perception, or even how others see them.

Especially when facing these good camp coaches, they only need to be selfish, make themselves stronger, enjoy more of life, have more delicious food, wine, and denars, that's enough.

Of course, now they also need to consider Lord Shen Mu's important task of protecting the world's safety.

Because implicitly, they can also feel that if there is no such legendary figure as Shen Mu, then even they would not be possible. Truly appear in this world, it is as if their own lives are also relying on Shen Mu as the core.

If Shen Mu dies, then they will also die.

It's that simple.

"Bestur!" And just at this time, Manid, who had just walked out of the castle, let out an extremely angry voice.

"Oh, who is calling me? Such a familiar voice."

Bestur subconsciously turned his head and saw Manid, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Damn it, this time it's my enemy."

He said this to Resariet next to him.

"Manid, that very talented, but always unlucky merchant?" Resariet also raised his eyebrows, recognizing Manid.

"Uh-huh, it's him."

Bestur's face was also a little strange at this time: "I didn't expect Manid to have come to Deherim, to this other world, and to be working for Lord Shen Mu together."

"Then it seems that you led the steppe bandits to rob this unlucky merchant?" Resariet's mouth showed a smile.

He had been embarrassed just now, and now seeing Bestur also being embarrassed together, he was really quite happy.

"These are all things of the past."

Bestur shrugged his shoulders at this time, looking at Manid and said helplessly: "Mr. Manid, I think you must have offended other caravans before, and then told me your whereabouts, after all, it is very difficult to catch your caravan by relying on reconnaissance and traces, but if someone informs you, then that's another matter."

Bestur said it very clearly, it was because other caravans had informed him of the specific information about Manid's caravan.

This made Manid slightly stunned.

Then he clenched his fists tightly, although his face was still full of anger and unwillingness, he was quite clear in his heart.

It was because his business talent was too good, so he was able to rise suddenly and become a small and famous merchant in a short period of time.

But precisely because of this, he blocked the financial path of other merchants.

After all, it is often like this, if you eat one more bite, then I will eat one less bite.

But Manid came from the game's core. This destiny dictated that he must become a remarkably talented business genius, the kind who could smoothly sail through life with minimal effort. This was a devastating blow to other merchants.

After all, it was predetermined by fate.

However, that was predetermined in the game. In the real world, other merchants could use various means to allow Manid to rise again and again, only to go bankrupt repeatedly due to various accidents.

And Bestur was one of the ways to bankrupt Manid.

Manid was well aware of this.

It was the almost plain and unadorned business warfare tactics used by his competitors.

"So, my dear Mr. Manid, sometimes you can't blame me, but only your competitors for being too cruel to you," Bestur said at this moment, shrugging his shoulders with a somewhat helpless expression.

Although it was indeed him who robbed, it wasn't specifically for Manid himself.

As a plunderer...

He would rob any caravan. Of course, he wouldn't rob the Khergit caravans because they had inextricable ties with the Khergit Khan, basically equivalent to the Khan's private treasury. If he really robbed them, the consequences would be quite severe.

Although he appeared to have betrayed the Khergit Khanate, becoming a wandering Khergit and the leader of some Khergit steppe bandits, this was only in secret.

Ostensibly, he was still a nobleman of the Khergit Khanate.

He still had to obey the orders of the Khergit Khanate.

After all, Bestur hadn't truly said that he had betrayed the Khergit Khanate or the Khergit Khan.

Nor had he explicitly stated that he had given up his noble status and become a steppe bandit.

So, as long as this situation didn't slide towards a worse direction, then he was still a nobleman of the Khergit Khanate.

And still an excellent light cavalry command expert.

"It seems that Mr. Lezalit and Mr. Bestur are both innocent people." At this moment, Bunduk looked at these two evil faction generals, their eyes crinkling with smiles, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Of course, he understood that these two evil faction generals had not really taken Manid and Jeremus's words to heart.

Nor was their apology to the two of them truly heartfelt.

It was just a casual, off-the-cuff remark.

After all, they had no morals. They were extremely selfish evil faction generals. Even if they apologized verbally, making their faces drop, it didn't matter.

Face and honor? If they wanted them, they were gold; if they didn't want them, they were like stones that could be found everywhere, nothing to be surprised about.

"Hmph!" Manid understood what these two guys meant now.

So, he just snorted coldly, turned his head, and quickly walked towards the noble residence.

After all, Shen Mu was still there. He needed to give Shen Mu a detailed introduction to the work he had done in the town area of Dhirim during the two or three days he was away.

"Alright, now I'll lead you to continue to tour this Rhodok castle."

Bunduk snorted coldly, waved to Lezalit and Bestur, and led them towards the castle, continuing to explain the castle and some key points about the castle's defense.

Anyway, these good faction generals had nothing to say to these evil faction generals.

Usually, it was just for work.

Since there was no way to truly establish friendship.

Then focusing both sides on protecting Lord Shen Mu and leading troops to fight was obviously a good idea.

Lezalit and Bestur were well aware of this.

It wasn't that they didn't appreciate these good faction generals, but they felt that these people were too naive and too idealistic, not in line with the real rules at all.

Some impractical idealists.

So, there was nothing to talk about with this group of naive guys.

Maintaining the focus on work was enough.

And when Bunduk conscientiously introduced the castle and the key points of the castle area's defense, Lezalit and Bestur also listened attentively.

After all, in the upcoming battles, if it reached the level of the castle area, then they should indeed learn well how to defend and how to deploy troops to block the enemy's attack.

And at this moment...

Manid had also arrived at Shen Mu's noble residence.

After being searched at the door by those Swadian soldiers, he also arrived at the conference room on the first floor of the residence.

Shen Mu was already sitting in the main seat.

And on both sides of the long table, the Blue Star humans led by Zhang Caidong, who had once been spies, were respectfully sitting there.

There was also Zhang Bo.

All 17 people had arrived.

"Well, you've done a good job." Shen Mu was not stingy with his praise at this time.

Especially after learning that Zhang Caidong and these high-level backbones had already coordinated the nearly 25,000 Blue Star humans outside, divided them into groups, and arranged them in the apartments outside Dhirim, and that some of the backbones had been transferred to the town area of Dhirim first.

He was also very satisfied.

After all, to him, this was his source of faith power.

Before, when he was at Sujia Village, he was still worried about how to coordinate so many Blue Star humans here.

And how to allocate them.

Fearing that he wouldn't do well and these Blue Star humans would have the idea of leaving, which would lead to him losing the faith power produced every day.

But he didn't expect that after he came back, Zhang Caidong and these high-level backbones had already completed the coordination work, and it was done quite perfectly, gathering all the Blue Star humans inside and outside his Dhirim, forming a system that was like the Diesel Company back then.

This, of course, made Shen Mu very happy.

Although he hadn't gone to the Dragon Banner Fragment to see how much reverence power there was now.

But Shen Mu could already perceive the help that the continuous stream of faith power would bring him.

After all, as long as there was reasonable planning and successful coordination, then he could continuously obtain faith power, which would allow these Blue Star humans to continuously provide him with faith power.

These were all complementary to each other.

"Thank you for your praise, Lord Shen Mu! We will do our best to serve you."

Zhang Caidong and the other senior managers all stood up respectfully and said words of gratitude to Shen Mu in a loud voice.

Although there were indeed some grateful emotions in these words.

But this was also a common way of expressing loyalty in the workplace.

Of course, the most important thing was that they had now become the management of the formal employees in the Diesel Company at that time.

Their status had risen sufficiently.

And there was hope for the future.

That's why they made such a grand and grateful gesture to Shen Mu to show their loyalty.

Sincerity aside.

But at least a formal system had been formed.

That is, a superior-subordinate relationship.

"Well, very good. I hope you can continue to work hard. I will not be stingy with my rewards." Shen Mu nodded at this time, praised a few more words, and then turned his gaze to Zhang Bo behind Zhang Caidong.

He also gave considerable respect to this prophecy-type mage.

As if sensing Shen Mu's gaze, Zhang Bo showed some guilt on his face and said: "I'm very sorry, Lord Shen Mu, I'm still actively repairing my magic crystal ball, but it still needs some time to recover. If there is enough mental energy, it may speed up the repair time."

Zhang Bo had previously revealed the effect of his magic crystal ball and also said that it was currently in a damaged state.

And Shen Mu understood this.

"It doesn't matter." Shen Mu pondered for a moment and said: "In the next step, I will allocate some mental energy to repair your magic crystal ball."

After all, an oddity that can detect special spiritual fluctuations within the surrounding area is indeed quite important.

"Thank you for your trust and support." Zhang Bo lowered his head again at this time, appearing extremely humble and respectful.

"Lord Shen Mu, please believe me, Zhang Bo is indeed a very capable prophecy-type mage." Zhang Caidong also praised: "In the past, the reason why the Diesel Company was able to accurately find some spiritual imprints was thanks to Mr. Zhang Bo, who mastered the magic crystal ball."

"Well, that's why I also value Mr. Zhang Bo quite a bit." Shen Mu smiled and agreed with Zhang Caidong's statement.

But thinking about it, he could indeed understand.

From the memories of his predecessor, he could perceive that every time a spiritual imprint was discovered, people from the Diesel Company would appear.

They came quite skillfully and in a timely manner.

Making people very suspicious.

Now thinking about Zhang Bo and his magic crystal ball, he could understand what this was for, and he could also understand why the Diesel Company valued Zhang Bo so much before.

After all, the combination of a prophecy-type mage and a magic crystal ball that can first discover spiritual imprints is simply an invincible spiritual imprint collector.

"No wonder the spiritual imprints that my predecessor discovered at that time were accurately found by the Diesel Company."

Shen Mu couldn't help but reveal a wry smile at this time.

So the root was here.

A historical new book by a fine friend, no doubt!