Chapter 407: What I Saw in the City (I)
Todd, who has regained his human form, walks the streets of Froststone City.
Due to the scattered settlements and undulating terrain, Froststone City covers a much larger area than Twilight West City, and the former is about twice the size of the latter.
Without the appearance of a tyrant, the people who passed by Todd could not have connected this ordinary-looking young man with the supreme son of the gods.
But Todd himself enjoyed the feeling of being part of the city, but Evie next to him didn't think so.
"My duty is to kill enemies, not to hang out with you......"
Evie, who was carrying a sword and shield and a dissatisfied face, looked at the bustling crowd in front of her, listened to the noisy voices in her ears, and said with a headache.
Todd stopped in front of a fruit stand, looked at the freshly picked fruits on the stall, and said with a smile: "Life should not only be about fighting and fighting, learning to relax is more important." ”
Evie sideways away from pedestrians and shook her head, "I don't think relaxing will help you dodge faster when an enemy weapon slashes at your head." ”
As if he hadn't heard Evie's words, Todd argued with the fruit stall vendor over the price for a while, and finally paid for a few wild melons.
Looking at the fruit that Todd handed over, Evie's eyes widened, "Do you know? As long as you give the order, the believers are willing to give you anything." ”
"I know. ”
"Then why are you wasting your tongue on a few copper coins?"
"That's what I mean by relaxation. ”
Todd smiled and broke open the wild melon, ate the sweet melon pulp inside, and nodded approvingly at the fruit vendor.
The latter watched the customer eat happily and was in a good mood, and gave the other party a string of pearl peaches on his stall.
In this way, the enthusiastic Todd, with a stinky face of Evie, holding a full of fruits and snacks, walked and walked, and gradually came to a huge square.
It's crowded and lively. At first glance, thousands of people gathered. But Todd looked around and didn't see the vendors, nor the shops.
Finding a relatively remote high place, Todd ate the mountain chestnut in his hand and asked Evie, "What is this place? How can there be so many people?"
Evie said casually, "Battle Achievement Rally." ”
"Battle Exploit Rally?" Todd was about to ask again, when a fierce quarrel came from the square and caught his attention.
Todd looked closely, and found that Ackerman was among the quarrelmen.
Dressed in ornate armor and with two mustaches, the man crossed his waist and shouted to a warband commander from the Holy Acropolis opposite: "The Red Branch is the first to storm Ozd! We lost dozens of brothers in the assault on the gates...... That's right! There are two catapults! We should be at the top of the list when it comes to the distribution of loot!"
The Holy Guards on the opposite side refused to give in at all: "The Wind Hammer War Regiment withstood the impact of the enemy's heavy cavalry, without us, you would have rotted in the soil a long time ago!"
At this time, Freed, a barbarian veteran warrior representing the Falcon War Regiment, also got involved: "When attacking the inner city of Ozyd, if it weren't for the group of my fearless subordinates who used human flesh explosives to blow up the city walls, you would still be standing here and talking?!"
Immediately afterwards, dozens of representatives of war groups, large and small, participated in the scolding battle.
Speaking of excitement, someone rolled up his sleeves and took off his coat, ready to dry at any time.
Looking at the worry on Todd's face, Evie pursed her lips and said disdainfully: "Don't worry, it won't start, they are all waiting for the 'score'." ”
Todd, who heard a new term, turned back in surprise: "Count...... What is it?"
Evie didn't bother to speak again, pointing straight ahead, motioning for Todd to look for herself.
Not long after, five shamans came out with a group of seekers. The square, which was originally tense, suddenly calmed down.
Everyone closed their mouths in unison, and all eyes fell on the book in the shaman's hand.
The leader Shaman Todd is all too familiar, it is none other than Minnie, who is also one of the first people to follow her to run the Froststone Camp.
She walked up to the stone platform of the square on crutches, sat on the wooden chair brought by the Muslims, and nodded to her companion.
The shaman beside Minnie immediately opened the book in his hand and read aloud: "The first to attack the walls of Ozd...... It was the Red Branch, 7 points! It was the Wind Hammer Regiment that defeated the Night Watchman, 4 points! It was the Barracuda Regiment that killed the Supreme Commander of the defenders, 4 points! The first to break through the inner city of Ozd was the Falcon Band, 5 points, ......"
Todd's mouth opened wide in surprise: "What is this doing?"
Evie took a dogtail in her mouth, sat down, and said boredly, "You can see it." ”
The shaman reads aloud from the stage the merit target, the name of the warband, and the score obtained.
The commanders of the war group nervously counted the scores in the audience.
A group of big men in each war group, pouting their butts, squatting on the ground in a circle, using the paper and pen that had been prepared long ago, desperately counting the final score of their respective war groups.
In Todd's eyes, this scene is like a group of elementary school students who have just finished the exam, getting together to calculate the scores.
"This ...... This is really ......" Todd looked at the picture in front of him, hesitated for a long time, and didn't know how to evaluate this military merit system, and finally had to smile bitterly and said: "Who came up with this method?"
Evie was stunned for a moment and snorted, "Richel." ”
Hearing the name, Todd was silent for a while, and then said, "She should have her reasons for choosing this method......"
Evie didn't speak, just plunged her sword into the earth.
From breaching the city gates, to defeating the enemy army, to warning the enemy, and finally to the number of enemies killed, all the exploits of the Battle of Ozd were quantified one by one and expressed in the form of scores, which is clear at a glance.
"Before going to war, my sisters rode griffons to survey the battle targets and informed the shamans of the relevant information. Evie looked at the center of the square and said, "After the shaman and the commanders learned about the enemy's situation, they determined the items and scores of the battle merit based on this information at the pre-battle meeting. ”
Of course, this score is not set in stone. Some castles have higher walls and more arrow towers, so the score for breaking through the gates will be higher, and for some enemy legions with more combat effectiveness, the score for destroying them will also increase. ”
"Before the war, the scores of all the combat exploits are determined, and the commanders of the warbands choose the direction of attack and tactical objectives that suit them according to their respective strengths. Some large war groups, with a large number of fighters and complete weapons and armor, will select several battle exploits with higher scores, while some small war regiments, with their weaker strength, may unite four or five to jointly deal with a relatively simple battle merit goal. ”
"When the war is over, the shamans will determine whether the objectives selected by the warlords have been completed based on the inspection reports of the warlords and griffon knights. If completed, the corresponding points are given, and if not completed, the points are subtracted accordingly from the total score. ”
When Todd heard this, he asked with interest, "What if there is a warband that has a negative total score because it has not completed the set goal?"
Evie shrugged: "Then they will be miserable, according to the battlefield performance and the consequences of defeat, the lightest punishment for the defeated warband is to disband on the spot, and the heaviest punishment may be for all the members to be reduced to slavery, and the commander will be imprisoned and waiting for the judgment of the son of the gods." Fortunately, since the start of the war against Froststone City, there has not been such a serious defeat in battle. ”
Todd nodded thoughtfully.
While the two were talking, the exploits of the Battle of Ozd were also counted.
The "Red Branch" led by Casper and Ackerman defeated the "Wind Hammer Band" of the Holy Acropolis refugees by two points, and won the first victory in the Battle of Ozd.
According to the pre-plan, firstly, they could give priority to the selection of prisoners to supplement the shortage of the warband, secondly, after the shamans took a small part of the loot as a sacrifice to the sons of the gods, they could give priority to a certain amount of the remaining loot to be in their pockets, and finally, the warband was given the right to prioritize the selection of merit targets in the next foreign war.
Watching Ackerman take away the most valuable treasures with his men, and impatiently pick up the most beautiful slave girls, Todd said to Evie with some worry: "Doesn't this distribution method cause hatred between the war bands?"
Evie looked at Todd in surprise: "Hatred? Why hate? The commander set the combat goal in advance, relied on his own ability and heroic battle, and obtained a wealth equivalent to his efforts, others will only respect and envy him, how can there be such a mentality of hatred?!"
Todd was speechless for a moment.
Evie pointed to the shamans on the high platform and said, "Besides, if the commander has any dissatisfaction with the distribution, he can find the shaman assembly and appeal...... In Froststone, the warriors are most important to honor and faith, and no one wants to be dragged into hell by evil spirits when facing Asgard's "balance of fate" after death because of their own greed. ”
Hearing this, Todd nodded unconsciously.
The reason why he introduced the "Anubis Scale" in ancient Egyptian mythology in the previous life on the basis of the legends of the gods in the soul space was to exhort believers to think twice about good and evil before speaking and doing things.
However, the atmosphere of faith in Froststone City caused by this move was something that the initiator never expected.