As we've always said, keeping the team nervous when there is no imminent threat is the dumbest decision a leader can make.

While it would be foolish to let the entire team relax so much that they are caught off guard by the enemy, this combination of maps and known enemy information to determine the level of threat and then develop a course of action for a good leader is a must for a good leader.

Unable to draw useful information from the direction of the intelligence wind, lacking keen battlefield instincts and only knowing how to let the team members blindly relax or be nervous, in the end they will either be overthrown by their subordinates or wiped out with their subordinates.

Therefore, in the world's best mercenary group in Rigal, the adjutant is no less important than the captain.

The captain is responsible for the overall situation, and it is necessary to observe the surroundings in combination with intelligence, and it is necessary to have a keen senses, calm judgment and abundant experience. And because the captain's attention is focused on this aspect, it is natural that a second-in-command is needed to share the rest of the work.

Responsible for taking care of the personal physical and mental state of the team members, timely determine which part of the people are dissatisfied or physically exhausted, and decide to replace the members to let them rest or comfort them. Even judging the captain's mental state and physical health is one of the responsibilities of the lieutenant, because sometimes the pressure is too great, and the captain himself may not even notice that he has reached a dead end.

This leadership structure is not a new and high-end whimsy, and members with a similar orientation can be found in any professional team.

Because of its simplicity and practicality, even in the Crescent continent across the ocean from Rigal, you can still find a presence that can be seated.

In the team of the samurai of the Qingtian family, the role of captain and adjutant is obviously Narumi, Okami and Lao Qiao and others.

Because the team size is larger than the average 6-12 person squad, it is natural to have two lieutenants. Narumi and Okami were both high-ranking samurai and were well-versed in military books, and they also had their own opinions on how to do many things, and they emphasized discipline. Narumi, the leader of the team, is in charge of the deployment and command, and the one who makes sure that everyone implements these tasks and no one is lazy is the adjutant Okami.

Although Lao Qiao, who was born as a countryman, does not have the educational environment of the two of them, and is slightly inferior in terms of overall planning, this straightforward hearty uncle has a natural affinity. Old Joe's presence can effectively fill the class gap between the Ashigaru class and the high-ranking samurai, becoming a buffer zone, a platform for communication.

He has the status and qualifications to be able to speak from the upper echelons of high-ranking samurai and Yajiro, but he has been with the ashigaru for much longer. He charged into battle with the Ashigaru, so they trusted him more and were willing to show him something they wouldn't say to Yajiro or Narumi.

The ashigaru knew he could speak, and were in some way willing to use him to make humble demands to the disobedient high samurai—like slowing down the ranks or reducing the number of times they needed to maintain their armaments so that they weren't so tired.

One is discipline and the other is human affection. The two adjutants, despite their different jobs, were equally important.

The road continued to stretch, and as it was now in a relatively safe area, it was natural that the team began to discuss and chat.

They are all people who are engaged in combat-related professions, and what they can talk about is naturally not very unexpected.

The sage now has a certain status in the hearts of the samurai of the Aota family. After previous tournaments and battles with bandits, Henry's intuition about the battlefield and his abundant combat experience had made him somewhat of a military advisor to the samurai.

By mistake, this is the most common job performed by the world's high-level individual or group adventurers in Rigal.

Contrary to what many people think, it's actually very rare that once you've become a seasoned Orange or Purple mercenary, you actually end up working — "get your boots dirty," in adventurer's slang. Most of the time, mercenaries of this level are more willing to accept commissions from nobles or the state to train those city defense recruits who do not have much actual combat experience.

This is true even for hunters who are better at dealing with monsters, after all, the job of the city defense soldiers also includes encircling and suppressing nearby pest beasts that pose a threat to the villagers. Therefore, whether it is a traditional war mercenary who specializes in fighting against people, or a hunting mercenary who specializes in hunting dangerous creatures, as long as they are experienced and famous, they are the objects that commanders everywhere are willing to ask for advice.

After all, in relatively peaceful times and regions, mercenaries and adventurers are the most experienced group of people.

And even if it does, it's the newbies with the green and blue cards who do the most dirty work, and the high-level mercenaries are mostly more like the presence of the town, showing off their cards to scare the ill-intentioned - at least that's what they want.

But let's get back to the rest.

Such respect for the sage's personal credentials may at first glance seem to contradict Kazuto's contempt for the Rigars and Henry's silence.

But this kind of thing, whether it is Henry, Narumi and others, is actually very clear.

His combat experience, combat instincts, and abilities and insights in all aspects are outstanding and admirable.

It doesn't mean that he has the capital to point fingers at everything that has accumulated over the entire 4,000-year-old development of the entire Heren society.

It's as if Aya is a Dr. Xingyong, and she has reached a considerable depth of knowledge in many nature-related aspects such as biology, astrology, and the ecology of the earth. But the interlacing is like a mountain, even if she is also a doctor of the Great Academy, if she wants to instruct the Dr. of the Land on town planning, it is to act as a substitute.

Naturally, our Sage had a wide range of knowledge, and his long journey and constant learning gave him a say in many areas, though Henry didn't talk about it most of the time.

But at this stage, what he impressed Narumi and the others was only in terms of combat-related abilities.

And this is due to the fact that the samurai have not fought in actual combat for many years, and there is already a soil of doubt in their hearts, which is very easy to loosen. Even in such a situation, it took him quite a while to make these people go from disdain to recognition, and then gradually to respect.

Not to mention the unshakable confidence and pride of Narumi and others in Xinjing, for the imperial family, and for the strength of the entire Moon Country. This is their scale, and even if Henry can gain recognition on a personal and skirmishing level, it is not a wise choice to touch it.

They are outsiders after all, weak, weak and lonely.

Even Henry was the same. A more reasonable option to survive than confrontation is to seek cooperation.

So he took the initiative to contact Qingtian.

Can one person, or a small group of people, pry the faith of tens of millions of people in the entire Crescent Continent for 4,000 years?

If the timing is right, maybe it can.

Perhaps the ship still has a chance to turn the rudder and escape the storm, but if the captain and first mate and all the passengers on board think that the storm is nothing more than a fantasy, the only person who chatters loudly that they must escape the storm will most likely be tied up and thrown overboard or locked up at the bottom of the cabin.

The time is not right, and silence is the best option.

As for why you care about the life or death of this ship and its people.

"It's probably because old habits are hard to break. ”

Most of our sage sages would have answered like this.

Nothing in the world exists on its own, everything is connected. In a place like the Moon Country, which has a long history and is a powerful country, if the fate of tens of millions of people changes, the impact will definitely not be limited to the land of Crescent Island as it seems geographically.

Not to mention that in order to win, the feudal kings of the north also turned to some kind of power that they simply could not control.

A hundred thousand civilians, soldiers, and creatures in the southern region of the Paderrossi Empire have been transformed into ghouls, and the battle between humanity and the dark forces is enough to be called a river of blood.

So.

What about tens of millions of people on an entire continent?

Even if you guess in the most optimistic spirit, you think that people have finally put aside ethnic hatred, religious beliefs, conflicts of interest, and other disagreements, and have united to build a whole army.

Uniting all of Rigal, all of Absera, and the remnants of the Crescent that might be able to survive will not be able to assemble an army strong enough to confront these products that defy the laws of nature.

Not to mention that ghouls are nothing more than a drop in the bucket compared to what is coming.

Yes, perhaps there is a group of people in some remote and remote area that is inaccessible to humans today.

But those who were once worshipped as gods, but were ostracized, suspicious and feared, and finally chose to cut off large-scale contact with other races that lived in seclusion 4,000 years ago.

It is to regard today's human society as a stubborn disease.

For them, the demise of mankind, even if it is not the object that should be brought to the ground, will inevitably have those who applaud.

Of course, there are people who have thought that all this is wrong.

Those who are still reluctant to give up building bridges are still working hard.

They have always been lonely.

Not understood, not even known.

But the torch passed on.

From the hand of the dragon to the hand of man.

And with his two hundred years of lonely travel, he traveled all over the world of Rigal.

He searched for answers.

But even with the knowledge and wisdom that would impress the princes, the answer is still unclear.

After all, even those beings whose history is far longer than his life, which is several times longer than that of ordinary people, and who have been worshipped as gods in the long past, have chosen to hide because they can't come up with an answer.

But maybe things are different.

It began with a small country on the west coast of Rigal, which is no longer called that name, and one day in 191 of the old calendar, which has now been abandoned, a certain conflict, bloodshed and encounter that should actually be considered mundane.

The answer is still not found.

But the answer to the answer is moving forward step by step.

There is still a long time, and this burden is enough to crush many people, which is destined to be a long lonely time, and not just anyone can take it.

The answer is still not found.

But there is hope.

In the language of the Moon Country, where you are now.

The pronunciation can be written as the word "future" for hope.