Chapter 16: Chaos are coming!

(This is the second update, with a total of 9,000 words. This month's update is very weak, with only 120,000 words written in total, and an average of about 4,000 words per day. People are busy with mundane things, and people are so busy that they can't stop. Next month, they should be more idle, and the goal is to get a full attendance award. I'm blessed with a guaranteed guarantee ***.)

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Katina is a small town about 150 kilometers away from Athens in a straight line.

It is located in the heart of the southern plains, and is not surrounded by mountains like the ones in the north where Murphy is located. The land here is fertile and flat. After thousands of years of operation, humans have established one town after another, and eventually developed into cities of all sizes. The densely populated area here, nearly one million people live on the flat land.

This is also the core area of ​​the entire southern plain, and it is also the foundation of mankind.

This land flows with a river, which is also a tributary of the Nidoria River, but it is the widest tributary outside the main pole. The river water is gentle, which makes it convenient for residents to divert water to irrigate the fields, so there are many villages along the river. The land here is fertile, so the crops cultivated are a little better than those in other places, and it is a place where all nobles are salivating.

The lord here has changed several times. Now the one who controls this land is Luo Tengchild, the most prestigious and youngest grand duke in the noble council.

He is only in his forties this year, which is the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period.

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On this land, near the end of the Karazan Mountains.

There is a very inconspicuous small village.

The dilapidated thatched houses and simple fences are not many livestock inside, and only a hen is looking for food on the ground alone. The land reclaimed by the simple thatched houses grows some vegetables, and in small villages, a piece of land reclaimed by the houses, and planting the edible vegetables is both convenient for cooking and easy to adopt.

The village has a small population, with about a hundred households.

The roads are very simple, and it seems that it is a village that has not been built for too long. The village still has the same muddy dirt road, which will become bumpy when it rains. Generally speaking, in most villages that are still suitable, they will pave stones on the roads in the village. Almost nothing to think about, you can see that the villagers living here are very poor.

There are many people like this in the southern plains, most of them are serfs or lowly poor people.

Serfs without land, property, and personal freedom are quite common in the southern plains. After all, the current human social system allows slaves to exist. Even the slave trade is the main source of financial resources in some places. Of course, in comparison, there are not many human slaves and are protected by certain legal protection, such as not being able to kill human slaves at will, etc. Otherwise, the owner will be punished with a serious fine.

Most of the serfs were the leaders of the lords for generations or the poor who committed crimes.

This has been reproduced from generation to generation, and has not changed for hundreds of years.

The sun sets.

The men who had been busy for a day began to rush towards their homes, while the women who came back first had already started preparing dinner.

They can't light the oil lamp, so supper must be ready before the sun sets.

As night fell, a few dog barking sounded in the village, and then two black shadows walked towards a simple thatched house at the corner of the village.

"Cruff!"

The wooden door railing was pushed open, and the owner of the house was obviously quite skillful, because he made a simple fence around the dilapidated thatched house and used wooden pins to make a push door.

"Who?" A man's majestic voice rang in the room.

Two black shadows outside the house walked straight into the room, one of them was tall and dark-faced and said, "Brother Borosa, it's me."

"Is it you?" The man in the room was eating. The dining table was made of two dishes of material and black bread. There was almost no oil. However, the half-aged child was happily swallowing it. A waxy-faced woman was slit up her clothes after a little while. The worn clothes had been covered with dense patches, which looked like pieces of broken rags.

Seeing two men coming in, the thin and sallow-faced woman immediately smiled and stood up, giving up her seat to them.

"Why do you think of coming to me today?" The man with a strong voice was tall and seemed to have prestige. He glanced at the other two men in front of him and asked.

The two men looked at each other, one of whom had a scar on his face glanced at the woman next to him, and then said in a deep voice: "Brother Borosa, I just received a news of making money."

"News on making money?" When the man with a strong voice couldn't help but feel a little excited when he heard the news of making money.

As a poor man of origin, he only has a little barren land, which has to pay taxes to the nobles in the town. After working hard for a year, the whole family is only half hungry and half full. If the harvest is worse, the whole family will probably go hungry.

"That's right!" the man with black face said excitedly: "A wild beast appeared in the town to the north. The beast frequently attacked the passing caravan. The nobles in the town offered a price of 100 silver coins and asked someone to get rid of it."

One hundred silver coins!?

Hearing this number, the man named Bolosa was shocked.

This is a harvest of more than ten years in the field!

However, he thought for a while, and couldn't help but frown and said, "Isn't there a guard in the town? Why should I ask someone to deal with that beast?"

"I don't know why, many powerful dogs came from the west, and some people even said that they saw the big goblins moving. Didn't those things always live near half-elves? I don't know why they ran here!" The man with a scar on his face said, "Now, in order to deal with those wandering dogs, the guards in the town are already busy, and now they are not able to take action to deal with the wild beast!"

The man named Bolosa closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and said, "I'm afraid that beast is not easy to deal with, right?"

"Well. I heard that it was so cunning that several groups of people suffered losses in its hands and several people died." The two replied.

As soon as he heard the dead, the thin woman with a waxy face suddenly tightened her hands and looked at her husband.

The man named Bolosa was a hunter. Although there were fewer prey now, his skills were still there. A year ago, the Gnoll War broke out, and these men were selected to recruit into the army because of their good physique. Then the war ended, and they returned to this barren village. After receiving formal military training, they went out to see the outside world. These men improved a lot in terms of experience and courage.

Naturally, I will no longer be satisfied with the current poor life of not having enough food.

This man named Borosa was a very prestigious man in the village in the past. After being summoned like an army, he participated in several wars and even killed a high-level werewolf with his own hands! Although his merits were greedy by the descendants of the town nobles, his reputation was passed on to several nearby villages. Both men were good at the villages in this area.

It is precisely because of this that after receiving this news, the two of them came to Borosa to join forces with him to get rid of the beast.

Even, if possible.

They even wanted to form a small mercenary group and elect Borosa as the leader. This man is mature and steady, has the most knowledge and experience nearby, and is also a good person. Because they have received news, many mutated beasts have appeared everywhere, and some other creatures have also wandered into the southern plains. Now there are a lot of troubles everywhere.

If they were still just an ordinary poor man, of course they would not dare to have such an idea.

But they have served as soldiers, received formal military training, and even fought to the death on the battlefield!

With ability, you will naturally have ambitions.

They are all trained soldiers, so they are naturally unwilling to be a poor man who can't even have enough food to eat. However, they are not bad and have no idea of ​​becoming a bandit. In this way, the only way to make money with their ability is to be mercenaries.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

They have grown from poor people to warriors and feel that they need to live a better life for their families, so that their sons can have a full meal, and their wives can wear a new dress, so that their parents who are over fifty years old can enjoy a little bit of happiness, and at least they can eat some meat occasionally!

"There are a lot of troubles everywhere now. I believe that those nobles and men are all busy!" The black-faced man looked at Borosa in front of him and said with anticipation: "Everyone who comes back from the battlefield is convinced. As long as you nod, we can immediately pull out a team of twenty or thirty people! Otherwise, there will be no way to go on like this! Borosa! The harvest this year is not good, and my family is almost unable to eat enough."

This sentence touched the heart of the man in contemplation. He looked up at the half-old child beside him and looked at his waxy wife beside him.

Due to low productivity and exploitation of aristocrats, the poor in this world have been barely starving to death.

If it weren't for being recruited into the army for more than a year and had enough food to eat, the men of the few of them would probably be extremely thin. Thinking of this, Bolosa looked at his wife, this woman, his own woman!

She married herself at the age of sixteen. She had two sets of clothes from marriage to now, and now she had been washed white and covered with patches. Due to insufficient food, she would let her children and husband eat first whenever she cooked. Due to long-term malnutrition, she was thin and waxy, and her body was very weak. Looking at the face that had nothing to do with beauty, Borosa's eyes suddenly turned red and turned her head and wiped her eyes inadvertently.

This woman is less than twenty-five years old this year!

But after suffering so much, wrinkles have begun to appear on my face!

The expression on the man's face turned to perseverance. He looked at the two robes in front of him and his hands were clenched together. Originally, he originally planned to see if he could find something to do in the town with his skills, but now he suddenly changed his mind.

die?

Before Athens rose, the human city-state fought a tough battle with the gnolls! He was one of the few survivors at that time!

At that time, he didn't think he could survive!

After being greedy for several times, Bolosa had long seen through the ugly faces of the nobles in the town.

His eyes swept over the confused half-grown child, and finally fell on his wife who was full of worry but didn't speak. At home, he was the sky and the earth. Although he was worried in his heart, whenever he sat down and decided, this woman would only prepare her luggage silently. It was such an ordinary woman who had nothing to do with beauty. Borosa saw the brilliance in her, just like the mother he remembered.

And he himself will choose whether to be like his father.

Shouldering the responsibility of the head of the family, let the family live a better life, and at least be able to eat meat.

Children need nutrition, otherwise they will not grow up.

My wife needs nutrition, otherwise her thin body would probably be...

Thinking of this.

The man named Bolosa looked more and more determined. He looked at the two robes in front of him with anticipation and said in a deep voice: "You let them come to me tomorrow. I will find a way to prepare some weapons!"

"Yes! Big Brother!" The two men were overjoyed and walked outside the house without saying a word.

They were going to tell others the news.

With Brother Borosa's skills, it may not be difficult to find a job in the town, but now he promises to lead everyone is undoubtedly one step closer to establishing a mercenary group.

Such a scene almost happened all over the southern plains.

With the frequent appearance of mutant beasts and other creatures that flew into the southern plains, the nobles had to deal with all kinds of troubles in a hurry. When there was not enough manpower, they had to start hiring mercenary teams that sprung up like mushrooms in the rain.

The army cultivated by the Gnolls in their battle with the Southern Plains began to transform into mercenaries before this huge change that affected the entire world.

With the hope of making their families live a better life, these mercenaries began to embark on a journey and honed themselves in battle and killing. Perhaps not many of them could really grow up, but their appearance undoubtedly made the pattern of the entire southern plain change.

In just one month.

Hundreds of mercenary groups of all sizes emerged in the southern plains one after another.

They honed their martial arts in battle and grew up in killing. With their emergence, some military combat skills began to spread among the lower class. With the hope of changing their destiny, more and more lower class poor people who had received military training chose to become mercenaries. When the noble parliament reacted, the number of mercenaries in the entire southern plain surged to nearly 10,000!

Once the change occurs, the momentum will no longer be stopped!

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Athens. Governor's Office.

As soon as the sky was dawn, Murphy woke up.

After moving his muscles and bones a little, Murphy suddenly felt refreshed. He looked at Mrs. Elizabeth who was still sleeping beside him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but outline a curve. The woman's actions last night completely angered him, and the result was a tragic war that almost all night long! Murphy's body now has far exceeded the ordinary range, so naturally there is no problem. Instead, he felt energetic after venting.
To be continued...