Chapter 163 The Sound of Bones Knocking
This is indeed quite a surprise.
In the past, the caravans were really real and it took 10 to 15 days to complete the trade operations between the two worlds.
It can be said that as long as the time of caravan trade can be accelerated, the caravan can go to the Mount and Blade world to trade and then come back quickly.
It is equivalent to a great help to Shen Mu.
After all, think about it, those military consumables, such as feather arrows and crossbow arrows, are big consumers and require a steady supply.
It is already difficult to supply with just Shen Mu's low-level supply ring, and this special magical artifact can only provide supplies to a force of 500 people at most.
There is no way to provide effective supplies to the long-range archer troops that now have thousands of people. So even if Shen Mu uses the function of this ring every day to store some arrows, he can make up for the consumption during war.
But that alone is not the case.
Because there are so many battles to face now, basically one after another, there is very little free time.
Therefore, normal supplies are still needed to provide a steady supply of arrows to the long-range archer units.
The effect of speeding up the caravan's journey, shortening the travel time for trade in the Mount and Blade world is really important to Shen Mu now.
What’s more, the most important thing is the growth function of crops.
As long as you consume faith points, you can speed up the growth of crops in the fields and increase the speed of their time flow.
This means that Shen Mu can be provided with a steady supply of self-produced food.
It made up for Shen Mu’s food shortage.
It also actually solved his problem of obtaining food in the future.
“It can speed up the growth of food crops.”
At this time, Shen Mu read the introduction about accelerating the growth of grain crops again, and some surprise and joy appeared in his eyes.
After all, it's at a normal pace.
The growth of those grain crops does require steady and down-to-earth progress day by day, week by week, and month by month.
Just like the thousands of acres of wheat fields outside the town of Dehrim, if you want the wheat in them to be fully mature and harvested and become food reserves in the granary, it will take several months of waiting.
Because under normal circumstances, it takes seven or eight months for a crop like wheat to mature from sowing to harvesting.
Now if we can speed up the process by a few months, it will mature.
That's enough.
At this time, the dialog box appeared in front of Shen Mu again.
It was as if the Mount & Blade system knew what Shen Mu was thinking, and then popped up some content about how much faith power would be consumed and how much the speed of time would be increased.
[Caravan Time: Consume 10000 points of Faith Power to speed up the round trip time of a caravan by one day.]
[Crop Time: Consume 100 points of Faith Power to speed up the growth of crops in 1 mu of land by 1 day. ]
The dialog box clearly states how much power of faith is consumed and how much time will be accelerated.
Shen Mu nodded slightly, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"For a caravan, it consumes 10000 points of faith power, which can speed up a caravan's round trip time in the Mount & Blade world for one day."
Shen Mu touched his chin.
He focused on the time it takes to grow crops: "It's a little easier for crops. Consuming 100 points of faith power can speed up the growth time of one acre of crops by one day."
From this perspective, the caravan consumes a lot of energy.
After all, 10000 points of faith power are consumed in one day.
But if you think about it, after all, the Mount and Blade caravan sent out needs to conduct commercial trade between this alien world and the Mount and Blade world. That is an interaction at the world level.
So it is reasonable to increase the round-trip time by one day if 10000 points of faith are required.
The most important thing is the Mount and Blade caravan, which is sent out to the Mount and Blade world to conduct commercial trade. The round-trip time is no more than about 10 to 15 days.
For example, the smuggling trade to the Swadia continent only takes about 10 days.
And commercial trade to Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings only takes about 15 days.
Even if all are added together, it's only 15 points of faith power.
As for Shen Mu now, he still has many Blue Star humans in Dehrim who can provide him with the power of faith. According to his speculation, as long as everyone prays to him devoutly, everyone can provide a little power of faith every day.
There are about 20,000 to 30,000 people on Dehrim's side.
If everyone prays to him for a day, they can gain 20,000 to 30,000 points of faith power.
If you have 15 points of faith power, you can accumulate them in 5 days.
That’s a pretty good stable income.
If Shen Mu could obtain more humans from Blue Star to provide him with a steady supply of the power of faith, then he would be able to accumulate even more power of faith.
In this way, using these various Mount and Blade functions that consume the power of faith will be easy!
"Hmm." Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly at this time.
He discovered that after the Mount and Blade rules swallowed up the Hell rules, the greatest effect obtained seemed to be how to use the power of faith!
Shen Mudu sincerely sighed: "It's so perfect!"
He was really happy.
Especially looking at the rule below, which speeds up the crop time, only requires 100 points of faith power.
There was a feeling of unreality in my heart.
"100 points of faith power can speed up the growth rate of one acre of crops by one day." Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly.
Although he knew very well that 100 points of faith power could speed up the growth of one acre of crops by one day, if it was 1 acres, it would require 1 points of faith to speed up the growth by one day.
For grain crops that are often calculated in months, or at least six months, this one day is basically just a tickle.
But you have to know.
Shen Mu's power of faith can be accumulated over time.
Moreover, the number of Blue Star humans under Shen Mu’s command is not limited forever, and they can continue to be recruited.
You can continue to gather together and become a part of the group that you protect, providing yourself with a constant source of power of faith!
Even now, Shen Mu's entire Dehrim has 1000 acres of fields in every direction.
There are almost 5000 acres of land in total.
One day of growth would require 1 faith powers.
It's an astronomical figure.
but.
Who says we can't take small steps and run fast?
First, quickly speed up the growth of the wheat on those acres of land.
Then provide some of the most important rations first.
Then cooperate with the caravans coming and going to trade grain for yourself.
This dual collaboration can meet the food needs of the population in the two areas of Dehrim and Novi Sad.
Everything is simple.
Speeding up the growth of one acre of land by one day is equivalent to 1 points of faith power.
If converted in this way.
30 days means 3000 points of faith power.
180 days in half a year is only 18000 points of faith power.
In addition, wheat grows slowly, and it takes at most 200 days to mature, which means there are only 20000 points of faith power.
10 acres is equivalent to 20 faith powers.
For Shen Mu.
It is affordable!
As long as the more than 3 humans on Blue Star are gathered together, 3 points of faith power can be provided a day.
In this way, 10 acres of wheat fields can be harvested in about a week.
The grain harvested from 10 acres of wheat fields is enough to feed 1000 people for a week!
Plus the food seized from the Orc troops and the Blue Star food looted from the Blue Star world.
There is also food obtained from caravan trade.
It can be said.
The food problem has been solved!
In the future, as long as we continue to work hard, we can recruit more and more humans from Blue Star to come to our castles and towns for shelter.
This means that more and more power of faith can be obtained.
It also feeds back to its own Mount and Blade system and rules, allowing its own forces to develop more smoothly again!
"Yes, that's really possible."
Shen Mu now thought of the wonderful life in the future, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly with a smile: "No wonder those spirit world lords regard those Blue Star humans as treasures, and no wonder those spirit world lords order their spirit world commanders to never bully or kill the remaining Blue Star humans. It turns out that the power of faith is so important."
This was also what Shen Mu was confused about before.
After all, it's the end of the world.
For the Blue Star World, the current world is equivalent to the end of the world where all order collapses and civilization falls.
Even various forms of oppression and crime are commonplace.
However, from the memories left by his previous life, he found that there were very few cases of crime and oppression.
At most, it looks like an underdeveloped area compared to the Earth in the previous life.
There are still some rules and order left in the air.
There are even forces that act as law enforcers, secretly maintaining the proper outline of civilization.
Even though the orc tribes were unruly and looked like villains, they actually still maintained the gray area rules at the level of the "gangster".
Rather than being a 'terrorist' or 'antisocial', he looked like someone who had completely torn down rules and order.
Now thinking about the effect of the power of faith, Shen Mu finally understood.
Those spiritual world lords really need the power of faith too much.
Now, I can obtain a steady supply of supplies and various effects through the power of faith.
Then those who have inherited the spiritual world are the source of inheritance and have more ways to use the power of faith, and they are the spiritual world lords who know more wonderful uses of the power of faith.
Of course, the power of these beliefs is as valuable as gold!
No, not gold.
Gold has long lost its original effect with the collapse of civilization and order.
The power of faith now is basically equivalent to food that can survive!
It is a vital material!
"If you think about it this way, it's no wonder that the spirit world lords have also formed various means of confrontation or alliance."
Shen Mu pursed his lips.
Thinking of the previous hostility between the Diesel Company and the Green Leaf Group in Balihe Street.
Originally, his predecessor thought that it was just because there was no room for two tigers in one mountain.
Think about it now.
It is definitely because of the issue of the distribution of the power of faith of the humans on Blue Star that they are so hostile to each other, and even several large and small battles have occurred.
After all, the Orc tribe shelters more than 30,000 Blue Star humans.
And that wood elf village also shelters more than 10,000 Blue Star humans.
Anyone who looks at the other Blue Star humans is actually looking at a humanoid faith force generator.
Isn't there always going to be conflicts?
Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents.
Besides, now this is no longer a matter of cutting off someone’s source of income.
Rather, it is the key to whether one can survive well in this blue planet that is already filled with undead monsters.
Now, Shen Mu has also determined to win over more humans from Blue Star to provide machines with his own humanoid faith power.
"But now, we still need to wait for another two or three days in this Vikia Castle, Xinriwading."
Shen Mu was thinking at this time.
Because tonight, he didn't know whether the devils from hell in the subway station would attack him again.
After all, last night, he had a fierce battle with the devils from hell that emerged from the subway tunnel, and he had fought off their attacks twice, annihilating them all in the flat field on the ground.
Now when Shen Mu turned his head to look over, he found that his Swadian guerrilla shooters were cleaning the battlefield outside.
Take off the weapons and leather armor of the hell demons from their corpses and gather them together.
Then stack the corpses of the hell demons together.
It was almost a tragic situation like a morgue.
Looking down from here, it is basically the dirtiest slaughterhouse.
Moreover, even from a long distance, as the breeze blew over, Shen Mu could faintly sense a foul smell.
The bodies of nearly 5000 hell demons that were killed last night were arranged there in a crisscross pattern, forming a huge pile of corpses. Just looking at it gave a terrifying feeling.
After all, the corpses of more than 5000 hell demons piled together really created a huge visual impact.
And it has a shocking effect that directly impacts the soul level.
Of course, these scenes were commonplace for the Vikia guerrilla shooters who were cleaning up the battlefield and carrying the corpses of hell demons in pairs.
After all, for them, a battlefield where more than 5000 people were killed at one time is also relatively rare.
But it’s not something I haven’t seen before.
If it is a confrontation between national-level armies, it is not uncommon for there to be horrific scenes of more than 5000 people dying at one time on an extremely brutal frontal battlefield.
What's more, they are the victors now. As the victors, they are carrying the bodies of the defeated, which naturally brings a sense of contempt and complacency in their minds.
So none of them were afraid at all.
They were quickly moving the bodies of these hell demons, and were whispering and commenting on their appearances.
Especially looking at the creature that looks similar to humans, but its whole body is dark red, and there are long horns on its forehead, and there is a long tail behind its tail. There are even degenerated bat wings on its back that cannot be used as real wings at all, and can only be used as decorations.
There was something strange in everyone's eyes.
After all, this hell devil looks exactly like the monsters that appear in their myths and legends.
It is said that these hell demons are horrible creatures that judge people's souls after death.
However, no matter how terrifying these hell devils were, they were still killed by them outside the city walls. It seemed that these hell devils were no different from those robbers or bandits in the wild.
Anyone who dares to approach their city walls will be shot to death on the spot by arrows and crossbows.
Even in the wild, they were treated like cattle and sheep to be slaughtered by the Kugit light cavalry and the Swadian heavy cavalry, and were slaughtered alive on the flat land outside the city wall.
And then they left behind so many bodies.
It seems particularly ridiculous.
That’s right, in the eyes of these Vikia guerrilla shooters, these hell devils really look particularly ridiculous here, and their impression of those hell devils has changed from fear at the beginning to disdain now.
Their psychological changes were the same as those of Bestul and Resarit.
As long as something can be killed, there is no point in being afraid.
Not even scary.
The hell devil that was once so terrifying in myths and legends was now easily killed by them on the spot.
Of course, subtle changes will occur in the heart.
In fact, it is not just these newly promoted Vikia guerrilla shooters who have experienced such subtle changes in their hearts.
The Kugit people who had just arrived also shot and killed many hell devils personally, both inferior and low-level devils.
It also made them feel the ridiculousness of these so-called devils from hell, as well as the disdain and contempt from the bottom of their hearts.
After all, the Vikia guerrilla shooters have not yet directly participated in close combat with these hell demons, and have not had close contact with these hell demons.
But the Kugit grassland bandits are not like that.
These grassland bandits have actually seen these hell devils clearly within a range of 10 meters, and have shot and killed these hell devils with their nomadic bows.
But that's exactly why.
That is why these grassland bandits felt ridiculous and absurd for having killed the extremely terrifying and powerful devils from hell in myths and legends, who were simply of the same level as gods.
It’s as if you have been hearing that someone is very powerful, but after meeting him/her, you find out that he/she is just a coward.
The fear and panic that he had felt because he had heard others say that he was very powerful turned into something ridiculous and absurd in an instant.
That's the mentality.
Then they didn't feel any fear at all about these so-called devils from hell.
Because in the hearts of these Kugit grassland bandits, these so-called hell devils, whether they are inferior devils, low-level devils or medium-level devils, are no different from ordinary people on the continent of Calradia in their eyes.
He's just a little more sturdy and robust in physique.
However, because they were not wearing effective armor as a defensive gear, their actual combat effectiveness was actually inferior to that of the troops on the continent of Calradia, who were generally equipped with chain mail after reaching the third level.
Instead, they will be killed faster on the battlefield by long-range shooter troops.
So this is why the Kugit grassland bandits are even more dismissive, more sarcastic, and feel that these so-called devils of hell are even more ridiculous.
At this level.
If they were placed on the Kugit prairie, any small tribe would probably kill all these hellish demons on the spot.
After all, the flat and vast Kugit grassland is quite suitable for cavalry to run, and these are infantry, the hell devils who do not have armor and advanced shields, once they are targeted by the Kugit cavalry.
Then the outcome will definitely be tragic.
What the Kugits are best at is endless harassment and kite-flying tactics.
The totem of the Kugit people is the prairie wolf.
They would stare at these hell demons like wolves, and when these hell demons showed a flaw, they would rush up, bite them hard, and then leave.
I won't get entangled with them at all.
Then he ate these devils from hell bite by bite.
When the Kugits faced the other five kingdoms, they basically used this tactic to gain battlefield advantage and victory.
When the enemy was exhausted and demoralized by the torture, a huge tactical loophole appeared, and the fierce and experienced Kugit cavalry rushed in with their spears in hand, completely tore the enemy's formation apart, and completely dismembered the enemy.
Except in the Rhodok Mountains where they cannot deploy this tactic, in other places they are predators like wolves.
And now these Kugit people are watching the sun gradually setting in the sky.
They knew it was going to be dark again soon.
However, there was no trace of panic on their faces. Instead, they were all eager to try and get into the battle again.
The people above are not afraid of the upcoming battle.
I am not afraid of the so-called devil from hell, nor am I afraid of the undead monsters.
In comparison, these Kugit grassland bandits, who already knew what the hell devils were like, were even more concerned about those undead monsters, and some even wanted to fight with them.
After all, they wanted to see what the undead monster looked like.
After all, the thought of some skeletons and zombies crawling out of graves is really exciting.
"Wait, what's that noise?"
Just as these Kugit grassland bandits were galloping on their horses in the light of the setting sun, they also arrived at the location of the Sujia Village station.
After they arrived here, they suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a special sound coming from just below the Sujia Village site.
There was some confusion on everyone's face.
The sound was not loud, but it was quite rhythmic, and there were also slight and harsh crackling sounds.
It sounds like...
Extremely dense...sound of hitting bones!
(End of this chapter)
