A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

Those iron forks left behind after killing the little demons were carelessly discarded in the wheat field outside.

They were only gathered together when cleaning up the battlefield.

"It's these."

Narolt picked up an iron fork, still stained with some dark red blood and emitting a strong sulfurous stench.

But he didn't care at all.

Instead, he weighed the heavy iron fork in his hand and nodded in satisfaction, saying, "Lord Shen Mu, according to the Swadian Kingdom's purchase price for iron products and iron ingots, this iron fork can be exchanged for 20 denars!"

Shen Mu stood beside him.

Five Swadian light infantrymen protected the surroundings.

Two new members of the Lake Rat Gang, who had also come along, each held a torch, illuminating the wheat field.

"20 denars for an iron fork."

Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at the nearly 30 iron forks at his feet, and estimated in his mind, saying with a hint of surprise, "Then all of these iron forks can be sold for about 600 denars?!"

"That's right, that's how it is."

Narolt's face was even more excited, and he said with anticipation, "If the Swadian Kingdom and the Vaegir Kingdom go to war, and the iron ore trade from the Curaw region is blocked, then the price of iron-related trade in the Swadian Kingdom will rise sharply. If we're lucky, these could sell for 1000 denars!"

"That's really good," Shen Mu nodded.

This was indeed possible.

After all, in the Mount \u0026 Blade Warband background, the Swadian Kingdom was basically a land of constant war.

In addition, there was that wise King Harlaus, who was quite famous throughout the entire Mount \u0026 Blade series.

He was fond of great achievements.

And also stingy.

He also liked to give all the occupied towns, castles, and villages to himself.

This basically plunged the Swadian Kingdom, a major power with a rich economy, sufficient grain production, and invincible heavy cavalry, into years of war, making peace difficult.

Even in the original Warband, among the five major kingdoms, the first kingdom to be destroyed was often the Swadian Kingdom.

Narolt's business failed because of the years of fighting, which also made him a homeless person after bankruptcy.

"So, do you plan to take these iron forks back to Dhirim to sell them as ironware?" Shen Mu asked.

"Yes," Narolt said his idea.

It was basically the same old set of earning the price difference.

Moreover, for the Swadian Kingdom, ironware and iron products were inherently in short supply.

In times of war, this ironware could be melted down and turned into iron ingots, and then re-forged into weapons or armor.

Iron itself was a strategic resource.

"Do you want to see other things?" Shen Mu thought for a while and took Narolt back to the main house of the stronghold.

However, at this time, Shen Mu took out a bag of edible salt.

"Lord Shen Mu, what is this?" Narolt frowned slightly, looking at the contents of the semi-transparent package with a puzzled expression.

"Salt," Shen Mu opened it, and the snow-white refined salt appeared inside, with distinct grains, like the softest sand.

"Salt?" Narolt's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously reached out and took a little, and after putting it in his mouth, his face changed: "This..."

"What's wrong?" Shen Mu saw his furrowed brows.

"This is... edible salt?!" Narolt pursed his lips, and the expression on his face seemed very strange: "Indeed, this is indeed edible salt, and it has a very strong salty taste, but... why does it feel so strange?"

"Strange?" Shen Mu also frowned slightly: "What makes you feel strange about it?"

"Lord Shen Mu, this edible salt is indeed real, but I feel that it is a bit different from the salt I usually eat."

Narolt hesitated to speak.

Seeming to be considering his words: "I feel that this edible salt is as if... it lacks a soul."

This metaphor made Shen Mu frown even more.

"Lacks a soul? Are you saying that this salt lacks a soul?" Shen Mu felt quite absurd.

Since when did salt have a soul?

"Yes, Lord Shen Mu, perhaps you don't believe me when I say this, but the feeling this salt gives me is really that it lacks some most important soul."

Narolt continued to speak hesitantly: "I don't quite understand why this is, but in my heart, that's the feeling it gives me."

As he spoke, he seemed to have thought of something, pointing to the cabbages, rice, and flour still placed on the shelves in the adjacent kitchen, including those canned goods, his tone even more complicated: "And these things, the feeling they give me, is that they have no soul."

"Hmm?" Shen Mu frowned even more, because he found that what Narolt pointed out were all the local ingredients of Blue Star.

"Then what about this wheat?!" Shen Mu pointed to the bags of wheat piled together.

These were rewards from the Mount \u0026 Blade system.

"This wheat... there's nothing wrong with it," Narolt said hesitantly, also seeming to find something wrong.

But he really didn't understand why this was so.

"The wheat is fine," Shen Mu repeated, pausing thoughtfully, and then raised his hand to point to the old books and clothes piled together with firewood next to the fireplace, asking: "What about these?"

"These... the feeling they give me is also that they have no soul," Narolt's tone was much lower.

However, Shen Mu didn't say much.

He stroked his chin.

Shen Mu had already come to a conclusion: "Could it be because of the rules?"

Blue Star has no rules of its own.

After all, it is a technology-based world.

And the Mount \u0026 Blade world, as well as the Necromantic world, all have their own special rules, and perhaps some rules are interconnected.

After all, the Mount \u0026 Blade world is nominally a quasi-historical rule world.

But after Shen Mu integrated countless DLCs and MODs.

Fundamental changes had already taken place.

Infinitely close to fantasy rules.

"So, because of this reason, the items of the two can be interconnected, but the items of Blue Star itself cannot."

Shen Mu thought this way.

At the same time, Shen Mu also thought of something that had now appeared.

That is, the cold weapons made on Blue Star have extremely limited lethality against the necromantic monsters, and are even weakened a lot.

Including the indigenous humans of Blue Star itself.

When facing even the lowest-level skeletons or zombies, if they don't rely on flames, they will face a life-and-death crisis.

This is also why, in the three years since the advent of the necromantic rules, Blue Star's tens of billions of people have directly lost 70% to 80% of their population.

Even those humans who have survived, as long as they have not obtained the Spirit Realm imprint and have not received the Spirit Realm inheritance.

Then they can only curl up around the fire, using the rising bonfire to avoid and resist the necromantic monsters.

"So, in that case, the resources of Blue Star itself cannot help me."

Shen Mu thought: "If I can exchange for supplies and denars in the Mount \u0026 Blade world, I need the output from the necromantic world?"

This is a bit tricky.

[Ding! The temporary task system has detected an event!]

[Task issued: Invasion of the Demon Force.]

[Task introduction: Not far from your stronghold, there is also a demon stronghold. They came from the abyss, slaughtered the human stronghold, occupied it for themselves, and began to wreak havoc around it. Now, they seem to have sensed the presence of living people here and are starting to attack here.]

[Task requirements: Resist the demon's attack and kill the demon commander.]

[Task rewards: ① 20 deserters coming to join you; ② 30 refugees coming to join you; ③ 5 wagons transporting military food; ④ 1 acre of wheat field (harvest season); ⑤ 1000 denars.]

[Hint: On the night of three days later, this force composed of a large number of low-level demons will launch an attack.]

Just as Shen Mu was thinking, a dialog box suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Hmm?" Shen Mu was slightly stunned, looking at the content in the dialog box, and suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly: "Invasion of the demon force? The demon force from the previous Spirit Realm scene will come to attack me in three days?!"

This really surprised Shen Mu.

"But, if it's demons, then I can get a lot of ironware, right?" Shen Mu's thoughts moved at this time, thinking of something.

After all, according to the memories of his predecessor, the probability of demons holding weapons is much higher than those necromantic monsters!