5. Foothold Chapter 54 Return and Refugee Camps III

(2nd Update!Ball Collection!)

Seeing that someone was willing to listen to herself, the girl, who had been idle, suddenly came to her senses and explained to the young and handsome guest in front of her:

"It's not that the orcs have invaded again, I heard that several tribes have come together this time, although the border is guarded by fortresses, but there are always some small groups of orcs who can cross the unguarded mountains and enter the kingdom territory to plunder. I heard that the orcs are ferocious, not to mention the long scary, they will eat people, especially love to eat children, those homeless people are all villagers in the border mountain villages, and the hunters in the mountains are not guarded by lords, so they can only flee from the village and wait for the great marquis to defeat the orcs before returning to the mountains!"

Donald frowned after hearing this, it seems that the news of the big victory has not yet reached here, otherwise these people would have returned home long ago.

Then he asked:

"Then how are these displaced people arranged for this period of time?"

The girl replied sympathetically.

"What other arrangements can there be! In previous years, the town would give some relief, and the lord's marquis's mansion would also arrange a group of homeless people to eat and live, but this year there were too many orcs, and almost all the people on the border fled back to the marquis' territory, and Bauhinia City couldn't accommodate so many refugees for the time being, and this group of later ones stayed outside the town, waiting for the above arrangements!"

Donald did not express his opinion after listening, but began to eat, and as soon as the host started, Clinton and others also began to eat.

The maiden waiter saw that she had nothing to say, and the guests on the other side still needed service, so she could only reluctantly leave here.

"Uther, what do you think of the situation of the outcasts, is there any value in absorbing some of the combat power of the manor?"

During the meal, Donald whispered to his loyal men, although Uther had first entered this world, he had been endowed with some of his memories and knowledge by the Book of Truth, and his wisdom was extraordinary, and he was arguably his most important right-hand man at present.

"Master, although those homeless people have not undergone systematic training, their physical and mental state are much stronger than ordinary civilians, if they are recruited, dozens of suitable candidates can be selected!"

Uther had a hero template when he was created, and his strength and eyesight were not comparable to ordinary professionals, and he always had the safety of his master in mind as his first task, so he would inadvertently explore the surrounding environment. Although I didn't look closely, I only glanced at it from a short distance, and I knew about the situation of those displaced people, and confirmed that there was no potential threat for the time being.

Therefore, when Donald asked at this time, he was able to answer it quickly.

Donald listened to Uther's analysis and nodded, basically as much as he knew. The next thing is to finish the meal silently.

Look at the young waitress again, and peek at Donald frequently while working, until the young and handsome guest finished his meal and walked into the room under the guidance of the other waiters.

Because the hotel room was crowded, Donald and the others only had two rooms in the corner to choose from, and he chose the one that looked cleaner, and the other room for the three of Clinton to rest. Anyway, it's just a temporary stay for one night, and you don't have to worry about it so much.

Entering the room, Donald did not rush to rest, but began to check the harvest of his trip.

First of all, there are hundreds of orc weapons, although they are all shoddy metal weapons, and some are even just wooden sticks filled with iron nails, but the northwest wasteland is barren, but the metal deposits are very rich, and materials abound, but the orc smelting technology is low, and it is impossible to forge excellent weapons.

"Well, these metals are very good, and if they are removed, the average human blacksmith can make a good sword. ”

"But for me, I don't need to be so troublesome, when these metal materials are needed, they can be purified and embodied in an instant through the Book of Truth to create a truly high-quality weapon. ”

In addition to these metal materials, which are worth at least hundreds of gold soles, the biggest harvest is the soul power of this harvest.

Donald sat on the bed in the room, holding a crystal ball in his hand, looking at the black air flow in it like a cloud, and his mouth couldn't help but smile.

After absorbing through the Book of Truth, a total of more than 10,000 units of soul power, except for more than two dozen human souls, all came from orcs.

But even this small number of human souls, which numbered less than thirty in total, had a quality of soul power comparable to absorbing two hundred orc soul fragments.

For example, a businessman who is good at business and calculation will have a higher soul power than a farmer who farms all day, and a scholar with formal education will be stronger than a businessman, and all kinds of professionals are generally stronger than ordinary people without combat effectiveness. For example, a black iron swordsman, after arduous physical training, his willpower is more condensed and powerful than that of ordinary people, and his soul is thus promoted.

Among them, the spellcaster, as a specialized spiritual level cultivator, can be said to have initially involved the soul level, so their soul strength is much stronger than that of ordinary swordsmen, knights and other professions.

Although there are many orcs killed on the battlefield, the soul power collected is only more than 10,000 units, this is because a large part of the soul power is lost after the orcs die, and some of them have to fly to the place where the beast god totem is, and the soul ball intercepts that part of the soul fragments.

The soul power of a summoned humanoid intelligent creature is not much, and the perfect soul of a summoning hero unit is dozens of times that of the former.

The soul power in his hands was just enough to summon the perfect souls of two heroic figures, and then there were a thousand hundreds of units left.

Donald doesn't plan to use the remaining soul power after having a plan in his heart, because he hasn't thought about what to summon yet, and he will summon it according to actual needs after returning to the manor and officially receiving the territory reward.

Thoughts back to the topic in the lobby of the hotel before, affected by the attack of the orcs, the people who originally lived in the villages and villages along the border had to leave their homes and flee to the marquisate en masse, and although the northwest of the kingdom is vast and sparsely populated, it is also very problematic to settle these tens of thousands of people, because this year I did not expect so many people, so they are not well prepared, and at least thousands of border residents have not been effectively resettled and have become displaced refugees.

Seeing this, an idea arose in Donald's mind.

Compared to the Northern County, the people of the Northwest Province are more sturdy and stronger, due to the frequent orc invasions and the deliberate cultivation of the Ansel family. The entire Northwest Province is the territory of the Ansel family, who deliberately establish the concept of the greatness of the warriors, and train the soldiers with the cultivation of war, so that even the originally cowardly civilians can grow into strong ones in hundreds of years.

It is said that most of the swordsmen in the Holy Sword Legion were recruited from here in the northwest of the kingdom.

Having gained something from this orc war, Donald became more aware of the rarity of soul power, and the next such opportunity was basically impossible to come by. What's more, he can't just rely on permanent summoned creatures, and after gaining the territory in the future, the stall will get bigger and bigger, and he will need to train some people to do things. And it is more appropriate for the minions that really don't betray themselves to be in charge of key positions.

Under normal circumstances, not too many of these border residents would want to leave their homeland, but now that he has such an opportunity, he may be able to select a few potential people from among them to form his own family force.

Once these people had grown up, they were retainers rather than servants, and their status was only lower than that of knights and squires, and they had the honorary status of the lord's family, which was different from ordinary commoners, and even wealthy merchants had to salute each other when they saw them.

So in this case, basically the majority of civilians will not choose to refuse, let alone these temporarily homeless refugees.