A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

The moment the horned demon was taken down by three ballista bolts, the demons knew the situation on the battlefield had turned dire.

Demons are indeed intelligent, abyss creatures capable of thought.

They may appear incredibly violent and possess astonishing destructive power.

But when these demons are slaughtered and begin to face defeat in battle, they experience fear just like any other being.

After all, the birth of demons, these abyss creatures, is fundamentally due to the brutal fusion of countless souls' fragments by the will of the bottomless abyss, eventually evolving from demon worms.

Essentially, demons possess all sorts of negative emotions inherent in soul creatures.

Including fear and dread.

“Roar! Woof woof woof!”

Even the less intelligent and more ferocious hellhounds, at this moment, bared their fangs and feigned readiness to pounce, but didn't take a single step forward, further emphasizing their bluff!

With the horned demon, the commander of this small demon squad, eliminated, these demons would typically have crumbled on the spot!

The only reason they were still holding their ground was because the horned demon had died too quickly, and they hadn't had time to react!

However, the demons' slow reaction didn't mean Shen Mu, who had been observing and directing the battle from the rear, hadn't reacted.

“Pike square! Advance!”

Shen Mu raised the torch forward.

“Advance!”

Simultaneously, as Shen Mu's command was issued, the Swadian light infantry truly began to slowly move forward.

Following Shen Mu's pace, they advanced with a pike square resembling a hedgehog, gradually closing the distance and compressing the space occupied by the hellhounds and lesser demons.

Moreover, they relentlessly pressed their sharp pikes against the faces of the hellhounds and lesser demons!

Shen Mu intended to use this narrow corridor to annihilate the invading demon forces!

‘Buzz… Boom!’

Just as Shen Mu and the Swadian light infantry's pike square advanced, the ballista on the third floor continued to fire.

Bolts once again bombarded the most congested area of the demon forces.

Another path of blood was blasted open.

Anyone struck by the bolts, whether hellhound or lesser demon, whether claw or torso, was instantly shattered.

“Gak gak! Gak gak gak! Gak gak gak!”

As a result, the lesser demons, already frightened and apprehensive due to the death of their commander, the horned demon, were further startled and fled backward, causing even more chaos, congestion, trampling, and collisions!

To the point where the lesser demons, who could have united and cooperated to fight against Shen Mu and the Swadian light infantry, began to slaughter each other for a chance to escape.

Making the scene even more chaotic and the situation even more difficult to control!

‘Buzz… Boom!’

‘Swish swish swish swish swish!’

Coupled with the ballista and the mercenary sentries' firing.

Swarms of lesser demons fell to the ground like moths smoked out, still struggling, pleading, and howling in their desire to escape.

But they were immediately overtaken by the Swadian light infantry, who used their pikes to stab them to death on the marble floor of the corridor, which had already been stained red with filthy blood.

They couldn't even struggle much.

They didn't even resist.

They simply crumbled due to fear, and because of their collapse, they became even more fearful, leading to a more thorough disintegration and a complete loss of the ability to resist.

Turning the area from Shen Mu's stronghold main house to the elevator room and the two side paths into a road of death!

“Kill! Swadia forever!”

At this moment, the Swadian light infantry had abandoned their pikes and even disbanded the pike square.

They carried kite shields in their left hands and firmly gripped Germanic swords in their right hands.

Some of them held torches and eagerly pursued the retreating lesser demons!

It wasn't just the Swadian light infantry.

When the lesser demons retreated beyond the range of the ballista attack, the 10 Lake Rat Gang newcomers, who had been operating the ballista on the top floor and acting as a reserve team, directly grabbed their small battle axes, descended the stairs into the corridor, and joined the ranks of the Swadian light infantry, grinning as they chased and killed the lesser demons.

“Jie jie jie jie jie jie!” These Lake Rat Gang newcomers, who were originally half-fishermen and half-professional robbers, were truly excited.

The small battle axes in their hands were very well-made.

Ensuring that each swing, as long as the angle was right, could inflict severe damage on any enemy or creature they chopped!

The lesser demons, whose bodies were already weak, fluttered their wings and scrambled forward in a chaotic retreat.

The Lake Rat Gang newcomers, catching up from behind, swung their small battle axes at the back of their heads.

Their heads instantly cracked open.

They immediately fell headfirst to the ground, without making a sound.

Even if they saw surviving hellhounds ahead, whose intelligence was lower, howling like trapped beasts and trying to pounce.

They would immediately reflexively pull out a fishing dart from the bag on their backs.

A kind of javelin that was also 1 meter long, with an extremely thin and sharp tip, usually used to spear fish in shallow waters, was thrown at the hellhound's face or pouncing figure almost as a conditioned reflex.

This close-range throwing damage was also an enhanced version with powerful lethality.

Instantly piercing through the target, whether it was a hellhound or a lesser demon that dared to counterattack.

Then, they fell heavily to the ground.

Followed by the Lake Rat Gang newcomers, who rushed forward in two or three steps, lifted their small battle axes, and heavily chopped down on their heads, ending their lives completely!

“Kill!” These Lake Rat Gang newcomers shouted excitedly.

“Kill!”

The Swadian light infantry also responded with cheers.

Only Shen Mu, who hadn't joined the frontline combat but stood behind this group of soldiers, carrying a kite shield and a Germanic sword, never lost the smile on his face.

In just another ten minutes or so, the balance of power had completely reversed.

The demon forces that had come to invade Shen Mu.

Were instead being pursued and killed by Shen Mu's troops!

Except for the mercenary sentries who were still stationed in the main building of the stronghold, afraid to leave easily, holding light crossbows, and looking enviously.

Now, 25 Swadian light infantry and 10 Lake Rat Gang newcomers were chasing and killing those hundreds of lesser demons, stepping on the corpses of lesser demons all over the ground, as well as the sticky, stinky blood, in what resembled a slaughterhouse…

Slaughter!

“Stop!”

Until the entrance of Room 7040.

Those advanced lesser demons fluttered their bat wings, squawking and rushing inside, panicking like stray dogs.

Only then did Shen Mu speak, stopping the pursuit of the soldiers who had become excited, even somewhat frenzied.

Especially when he raised the torch and looked at the dark, completely destroyed door of Room 7040.

Darkness and gray mist gathered inside.

Out of caution, Shen Mu waved his hand, leading these gradually recovering soldiers, began to line up and return to their stronghold main house.

It wouldn't be a problem to enter this spirit realm scene and explore it during the day.

Anyway, for now.

He had used the absolute advantage of his terrain to defeat the demon forces in this spirit realm scene within the apartment corridor.

In a pursuit range of less than a hundred meters, he had probably killed two or three hundred lesser demons directly.

Although more than half of them had escaped back.

But having lost the horned demons and hellhounds, which were considered the main force of the demon forces.

What kind of trouble could a few lesser demons stir up?

“Return to the stronghold and take a simple rest first.”

Shen Mu issued the order.

Returning to the entrance of the stronghold main house, the strong smell of blood and the stench of sulfur rushed straight to his head as his spirit relaxed.

Even Shen Mu, who didn't have much of a cleanliness fetish, could only endure it by covering his nose with a damp towel.

Fortunately, the soldiers from the Mount \u0026 Blade world could endure it.

After all, in Calradia, whether it was the Mount \u0026 Blade background or the Bannerlord background, it looked like a paradise for heroes or nobles to make achievements, but in reality, it was a cruel hell for soldiers of ordinary origin.

Just the cruel siege warfare, the immoral slaughter of villages, the robbery of merchants and the killing of villagers, and the uncollected corpses after the end of field battles.

This strong smell of blood and stench was really nothing more than that.

These Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers could even sit on the corpses, eating large mouthfuls of thick wheat porridge cooked in the kitchen from wooden bowls.

And teasing each other about their cowardly performance on the battlefield, and boasting about how many kills they had stolen from their comrades.

This wasn't a joke.

But the very thing that the Swadian light infantry and the Lake Rat Gang newcomers, who were taking a simple rest on the corridor outside Shen Mu's stronghold main house, were doing!

Shen Mu sat at the head of the long table, holding a wooden bowl full of thick wheat porridge in his hand as well.

His face was stunned.

Because the dialogue box had already appeared on his retina.

【Ding! This is a hearty victory!】

【Based on the perfect-level performance of you and your subordinates on the battlefield, you have obtained 'Silver Treasure Chest' × 1.】

【You have completed the task!】

【You have received the following rewards…】