Chapter 48: The Tavern
Ivik was a shrewd, energetic middle-aged man, while Koloff was strict and calm, and his long reading and understanding of the church's prohibitions and laws and regulations gave him the ability and ferocity of an enforcer.
The two saluted Shepard together to express their gratitude and persistence.
"Liliana, at present, all the staff serving the church in the church city are being managed by Salabis, which has become a burden for her, so from today onwards, Sarabi will continue to be in charge of the non-clergy of the main temple, while you will be in charge of the personnel management of the branch halls and sanctuaries in other towns."
Shalabi is a middle-aged woman who once moved from Yanan Town to the church city, and her son died in the battle where Shepard and Hunter and the others met, so although she is now a little reluctant, Shepard does not plan to replace her, but only arranges the affairs of other branch halls to Liliana.
The personnel arrangements of the other two towns are basically in charge of the corresponding mayors and bishops, but they have to rush back to the church city every six months to report on their work, and at the same time provide work reports for Shepard to inspect.
Liliana is twenty-seven years old, she is not a saint of the church, but one of the staff who serves the church, an ordinary but hard-working and kind peasant woman, Sarabi is a kind woman, and she takes the initiative to recommend Liliana to help her share the work.
She took the arrangement with some restraint, Shepard gave her a smile and wanted her to relax, and looked at the last person to arrange: "Rena, the furniture you made is good, I like it very much." ”
Rena is a mediocre-looking, but very bookish, and researcher-like person, in fact, she is indeed one of the craftsmen of the church organization, and many of Shepard's requests and ideas are completed by them, and Rena's ability to be respected by others as a woman is enough to prove her ability.
Hearing Shepard's praise, Rena smiled shyly, these craftsmen are basically unsociable, preferring to delve into strange inventions.
Shepard smiled: "Next, I will set up a separate department for you, I will name it the Manufacturing Bureau, you will be the head of the Manufacturing Bureau, and all the members of the Manufacturing Bureau will have the status of knights, you will have the status of a lord, but the future Manufacturing Bureau will have clearer recruitment standards, and internal assessment requirements, those who have merit will be rewarded, and those who have done it will be punished." ”
Rena nodded heavily, they were originally like this, and now they are just formalized and revealed.
Finally arranging everyone, Shepard motioned for the rest of the group to leave, and waited until the study was quiet before he had time to contact the clone who had just returned to the New World.
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The waves rolled and pushed the fleet to the shore and slowly leaned against the pier.
"The New World has arrived! Adventurers! The captain shouted at the bow of the ship, set up the plank, and watched the adventurers with curious and expectant faces come off the deck.
Shepard's doppelganger was also on this ship, and the Purple Flower Pier was becoming more and more prosperous, and not only that, but it is said that in a high-quality natural harbor eighty miles away, a new dock was also built, except for the fleet of the Church of the Gods, which mainly docked at the Purple Flower Pier, and other private or kingdom and noble fleets began to move to the new dock.
"Let's go Jerry, what are you still looking at?" A black-robed adventurer next to him touched Shepard and called out his pseudonym.
"Nothing, Drucker." He smiled, followed the others out of the boat, and stepped on the stable wooden bridge.
"Ahh It feels so good to be down to earth! The adventurer named Drucker exaggerated his joy, and the adventurers next to him behaved differently, and those who came for the first time were curious to look around for valuable information and clues.
The second-time adventurers were in high spirits, either heading to the tavern run by the adventurers' guild or looking for a quest on a bulletin board near the barracks or temple.
It has been developed into a basic harbor city, with the town hall and the temples of the gods standing in the center of the city, surrounded by locally sourced earth walls, taverns, brothels, blacksmiths, etc., and it is a purely commercial city, where all the inhabitants are adventurers or soldiers and personnel of the church, and it flourishes with the rise of expeditions.
Shepard looked around, looking for a way to find out how the expeditionary force was progressing, and after thinking about it, he found that the best way to do it was to go to the tavern for a drink.
The Expeditionary Force's harbor city did not have a name, as it did not belong to any one faction, and privately, adventurers called it 'Golden Harbor', not only because of the fact that the Lady of Fortune's church contributed the most to the first expeditionary force, but also because it was the place where adventurers dreamed of making a fortune.
In addition to the adventurers, a large number of mercenaries are active in the city, the church is not a kingdom, in order to digest the occupied areas as soon as possible, the [Pioneer Order] has been openly sold, and the price is not expensive, anyone who meets the requirements, whether it is a mercenary, adventurer, thief, robber, murderer, etc., as long as the [Pioneer Order] is purchased, you can lead people and slaves to build your own village, and the church will recognize the qualification of the lord.
The premise is that there is no fear of those huge beasts, as well as the cunning and treacherous indigenous warriors.
Shepard pushed the door and walked into the tavern, and at a glance, he saw a dwarf on the side of the counter, stepping on a wine barrel, wrestling with the barbarian opposite him, the red nose and gray beard indicated that the dwarf was of Alpine blood, and the barbarian opposite could not guess which tribe he might have come from because he had his back to Shepard.
The strange thing is that on the left-hand side, there are only one or two customers in robes sitting next to the tables in the corners, and some even cover their whole bodies in black robes, such a strange scene indicates that those should be spellcasters, or other feared professions.
The adventurers are very smart, the adventurers who have no vision are either new or dead, the wealth brought back by the first fleet has stimulated too many people, many wandering mages have also participated in the second expedition, and the church has even given up the plan to check the identity, as long as you sign up, pay a certain fare, and then promise that there will be no trouble on the ship, you can come to this new world.
In a way, this decision has even improved security everywhere, because many people who want to get rich or kill are looking forward to getting what they want in the New World.
"It feels pretty good." Shepard laughed and whispered to himself, it was rare to see so many intelligent beings of different races in a tavern, and he even saw a minotaur warrior wearing a nose ring.
It's not that the New World is without alien races, it's just that the most powerful people are humans today, and no one has discovered the existence of magical, elven or troll civilizations like the Old World, although these races are all on the New Road.
The northern wilderness is actually a big concept, humans are mainly distributed in the central and western regions, in addition to Ruth and Tatos, there are other large and small tribes, and among these tribes and in places where humans rarely set foot, kobolds, jackals, goblins, trolls, ogres, barbarians, etc. are not rare in the northern wilderness.
The kobold tribe who believe in the Great Sword of Light left the forest and came to the wilderness under Shepard's instructions, as long as they solve the danger of the undead, they can also become stronger step by step, becoming a nail for Shepard, only a nail, the kobold's potential is not as good as that of a troll, at least the two-headed troll is an epic and powerful creature when he grows up.
Unlike the commoners of the Old World, the waiters here are female adventurers working part-time, but they are very professional, as long as the guys who stretch out their groping hands take out the money in time, they will happily respond with a wink or a flying kiss.
"Hell, I miss this environment." Shepard laughed, rediscovering the feeling of running around in the game to do tasks in the first place, he grabbed a handful of the slippery and plump buttocks of a female adventurer passing by, and with a flick of his thumb in his other hand, the silver coin flew up and landed on the collar of the female adventurer's deliberately open blouse.