A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

So, they followed Shen Mu directly, rushing out of the low wall and onto the open main road of Bali River Street.

The surroundings were still silent, but the deathly stillness that had been present when shrouded in darkness was gone.

As the horseshoes struck the road surface, a thunderous sound like a flood appeared on the main road of Bali River Street. After all, with seventy or eighty warhorses and nearly three hundred horseshoes striking the ground, it was impossible to completely conceal the noise.

Moreover, Shen Mu, Bestur, the ten Holy Tree cavalrymen and ten Prairie Ranger elites behind him, and the fifty Prairie Rangers had no intention of hiding the sound of their galloping horses.

As they sped along the main road, curtains were drawn back in the apartment buildings and residential buildings on both sides, revealing windows with faint lights inside.

Clearly, even now, some Blue Star humans were still living in their safe houses, not entering the low wall, residing within the territory of Deherim under Shen Mu's control.

Shen Mu didn't say anything about this, only glancing at the windows of the residential buildings. Some of the lights revealed after the curtains were opened were particularly obvious, indicating that Blue Star humans were definitely living there.

"Our Deherim is obviously both safe and ensures a daily food supply, yet these guys still don't come to our side, still living in this kind of place. They simply don't take us seriously," Bestur said, spitting fiercely to the side, his tone somewhat resentful as he gripped the hilt of his nomadic scimitar.

After all, he regarded Shen Mu as a savior, and naturally, he didn't have a good attitude towards these Blue Star humans who didn't give Shen Mu face.

"It's alright, they will know in the future that our Deherim is not only safe, but also a good place where they can get food to eat," Shen Mu said with a smile, not responding to Bestur's words.

He also understood that if he gave the order, Bestur would definitely ride his prairie horse and lead the prairie bandits to search the residential buildings layer by layer.

He would drag out those Blue Star humans who dared to live in the residential buildings, then hold his nomadic scimitar to their necks, forcing them to enter Deherim.

Bestur was certainly capable of doing this; he was, after all, a rather famous general of the Source of Evil.

Such things were very common for him.

"By living here, they also enjoy the illumination of the Holy Light Torch Tower, avoiding the erosion of the undead rules here, which is also thanks to your efforts, Lord Shen Mu."

Bestur still looked at the increasingly numerous Blue Star humans living in the residential buildings, secretly watching them from the windows, with some resentment in his tone, and snorted: "Lord Shen Mu, everyone knows your kindness, but you should also let them know that it is because of your dedication that they can live so peacefully here without danger."

"That's right, Lord Shen Mu, your kindness should be enjoyed by those who are willing to accept your leadership, not by those who are unwilling to accept your leadership and still have opinions about you, becoming a reason for their recklessness."

The other Prairie Rangers and Prairie Ranger elites also nodded in agreement with Bestur's theory, feeling unworthy for Shen Mu as they looked at the Blue Star humans in the windows who obviously didn't fully trust Shen Mu and chose to live in the residential buildings.

This further aroused the anger of these outlaws.

"Alright, alright, calm down your emotions. There's no need to be so angry," Shen Mu said with a smile, gently shaking the reins, and led them forward.

Because what he needed were those Blue Star humans who were willing to follow him, willing to go to Deherim, and willing to pray spontaneously.

Only then would these male humans generate relatively pure faith power from their prayers, which would then be absorbed by him. Otherwise, simply going through the motions of praying would be completely perfunctory and would not generate any faith power at all. In that case, wasting his food reserves for no reason would also be a loss for Shen Mu.

It would be better to let them come to Deherim spontaneously. After understanding the safety of Deherim, they would be willing to pray sincerely, shooting out purer faith power to be absorbed by him, or even, because of long-term prayer, recognize Shen Mu's theories and Deherim as an ideal home, and become pan-believers or true believers.

Even deep believers, or even devout believers to fanatical believers.

All of this would be an improvement for Shen Mu.

Forced faith will never bring true faith. Shen Mu understood this very well, especially the personalities and habits of these Blue Star humans. Shen Mu was also very clear about this, after all, his predecessor had also been a Blue Star human for more than ten years. After all, the memories of his predecessor were still in his mind.

So, he understood that these Blue Star humans who had experienced scientific civilization could not completely become believers.

It was also very difficult to convert them.

Especially since the arrival of the undead rules, they had struggled all the way to the present, and they had long since stopped believing in anyone, only believing in themselves. So, opening their hearts and making them believe in him was indeed a slow and arduous task.

However, Shen Mu also had this confidence. Time will tell. As long as he ensured their safety, brought more protection capabilities, and provided more food, these Blue Star humans would eventually offer him a journey of faith.

Especially since he could also provide these Blue Star humans with a precious way to become spirit world commanders, that is, he could appoint centurions and then have his Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers follow them.

With this clear arrangement of everything from life to safety to future advancement paths, if they still had opinions about Shen Mu and his Deherim, then they would really be ill-intentioned.

If Shen Mu discovered them by then, then there was no need to be lenient, and he could directly send people to expel them or simply kill them to avoid wasting food.

"Lord, we are about to reach the edge of the Holy Light Torch Tower's illumination ahead," Bestur suddenly said, interrupting Shen Mu's contemplation.

Shen Mu also looked forward.

Not far ahead, the area that the Holy Light Torch Tower could affect, extending 1 kilometer outward from the torch tower, had finally reached its limit.

Patches of white light flickered at the limit, but just outside the light, there was a patch of pitch-black darkness still gathering.

Moreover, at the boundary between light and darkness, one could see wisps of black mist swirling. However, when those black mists entered the area illuminated by the light, they seemed to be annihilated directly by the light and heat, making it impossible for them to penetrate.

But just then, Shen Mu's brow furrowed slightly, and those Holy Tree Knights and Prairie Horsemen beside him also subconsciously placed their hands on their weapons.

Because at the boundary between darkness and light, several undead monsters wrapped in black mist were appearing.

It was as if they were wandering around aimlessly when they suddenly arrived in this light. Then, skeletons and zombie bodies wrapped in black mist were very conspicuous in this light.

“Can't the Holy Light Torch Tower directly obstruct those undead monsters? It can only block the darkness and gray mist filled with the rules of the undead.” At this moment, Bu also nodded thoughtfully, looking at the undead monsters rushing in without much fear on his face, only somewhat surprised that they had appeared here, within the influence of the Holy Light Torch Tower.

The same went for the Holy Tree Knights and Prairie Horsemen behind him. After all, they were just some low-level undead monsters. Even if they randomly picked one of them, they could ride over and wipe out all those skeleton soldiers and zombies.

“Wait, those undead monsters don't seem to be able to move within the range of the Holy Light Torch Tower's effect.” Shen Mu suddenly seemed to discover something and exclaimed in surprise.

“That's right, that's right, those undead monsters all seem to be corroded! No! They should be purified by flames and light!” The other Prairie Horsemen elites also exclaimed.

Because in their eyes, the skeleton soldiers and zombies wandering into the light, although still surrounded by patches of gray mist, were being subjected to a purifying power from the light, the light and heat belonging to the light, with almost every step they took.

It was easy to see that the gray mist originally surrounding those skeleton soldiers and zombies was rapidly evaporating and quickly disappearing completely.

Then, their bodies also showed some special, evaporation-like changes in the light and heat.

The flesh on the zombies' bodies, originally as decayed as leather, was now developing a large number of black spots, as if it were rotting normally, and then falling off their bodies.

These zombies walked and walked, then all collapsed headfirst to the ground, turning into normal corpses and no longer moving.

The skeleton soldiers were even more obvious. The ghostly blue soul fire in the eyes of these skeleton soldiers was being targeted by the light and heat, shaking a few times, and slowly began to shrink, eventually disappearing completely as if it had burned out.

This caused these skeleton soldiers to directly scatter into skeleton frames on the spot, turning into a pile of useless bone scraps that could no longer stand up, as if they had been completely defeated.

Shen Mu saw all these actions.

“Fortunately, it seems that the Holy Light Torch Tower has had an effect on the purification of the undead monsters.” Shen Mu certainly knew that this was one of the effects of the Holy Light Torch Tower, which could purify evil creatures, causing them special damage.

In this way, he didn't need to send out soldiers to attack them. As long as these undead monsters were stained by the light belonging to the Holy Light Torch Tower, they would die completely and no longer pose a danger.

“Truly worthy of being the Holy Light Torch Tower of the White Council.” At this time, Shen Mu felt even more emotional.

After all, in the Middle-earth world of the Lord of the Rings, the White Council could be said to be the most supreme power, without equal.

After all, this was a force personally created by Saruman, a divine envoy, to seal evil demon kings or demon lords.

It was inherently a kind of control over the evil camp by the good and righteous camps.

And this kind of Holy Light Torch Tower was often built in crucial locations, even used as the core location to imprison those heinous evil monarchs.

If one's own energy was not strong, then one would be corroded or even destroyed by these evil demon kings and demon lords. In order to prevent this situation, the White Council would naturally use a lot of effort and precious materials in this kind of building.

At the same time, it also endowed this building with extremely powerful power.

At least, compared to the demon lords in the Middle-earth world of the Lord of the Rings, these undead monsters that were appearing now were really child's play.

So, the power used by the Holy Light Torch Tower of the White Council to suppress, suppress, and eliminate these undead rules and undead monsters was also quite easy.

“In that case, I can rest assured.” Shen Mu also nodded. In this way, he didn't even need to send out troops to patrol and defend around the key locations.

Because those low-level undead monsters would be dissipated, dissolved, and purified as long as they approached the location of the light.

In this way, the greatest threat was lost, which was the endless attacks that would occur after darkness fell on the Blue Star world.

It was precisely because of the endless attacks of those undead monsters that both the Blue Star humans and the Spirit Realm lords had to be constantly on guard and focus on developing military power, delaying the normal operation of the territory.

Now, Shen Mu obviously didn't have this worry. As long as he maintained the light of the Holy Light Torch Tower, he could speed up the construction of the territory.

“Just now, I discussed with Mannid whether to expand the urban area of ​​the entire Deherim and open up an area to serve as the new urban area of ​​Deherim.” Shen Mu touched his chin at this time and pondered: “It seems that it can indeed be put on the agenda, and for the new urban area, then let all those Blue Star humans live there completely. This will also be more convenient to manage and can accommodate more Blue Star humans.”

Thinking of this, Shen Mu's mood became even more joyful and quite comfortable.

It has to be said that he has finally pushed the territory to a relatively safe position, and can continue to vigorously develop livelihood construction.

“Attract Blue Star humans to obtain more power of faith, then earn more dinars, and then speed up town construction.” Shen Mu curled his lips slightly: “Perfect.”

(End of this chapter)