Mount & Blade: Wind of War

"Rhode, don't cause trouble."

Seeing that Rhodes and Kress were vaguely surrounded by lizardmen and jackal guards on all sides, the Redwood Town soldiers who were quite nervous when they just arrived quickly took out their weapons, and some even had their bows and arrows ready.

Gunnather, the slave trader leader, saw this situation. His expression changed, and he quickly came to Rhodes and said, although his hostile relationship with Rhodes was almost on the surface, if Rhodes were There was a conflict with the harpy here, and he couldn't escape his involvement.

"What's the point of feeling unhappy when you see this kind of thing? Mine owners in the empire use foreign slaves, and plantation owners use foreign human slaves. This kind of thing is forbidden everywhere, not just here."

"..." Upon hearing this, Rhodes turned his head and stared at Gunnather behind him.

At this time, the lizard man headed by one had already pointed his spear and halberd at Rhodes' face, as if he was going to stab him at any time.

At this moment, there was a loud sound as the sword was drawn out of its sheath.

Rhodes slashed at the lizard man in front of him, and the leader of the lizard man retreated in horror. Although it had some alertness and courage, the basic quality of the lizard man was not stronger than that of humans. How could it have good martial arts and physical strength? Rhodes' opponent was nearly three times stronger than an ordinary person.

With a clang, Rhodes swiped his sword and knocked away the arrow that was aimed at the lizard man in front of him. At the same time, he also intimidated the lizard man leader to the point where he sat on the ground.

It turned out that at that moment, a Shire hunter was extremely nervous and subconsciously loosened his bow string when he saw the lizard man attacking his lord.

"Rod!"

The young nobleman in front of him swung out his sword, scaring Gunnather beside him into a cold sweat. At the same time, there was also the leader of the lizardmen sitting on the ground who was horrified and frightened.

"It's just a few pounds of meat to you. I'll buy it."

Following Rhode's signal, his subordinates naturally took out large pieces of meat and sausages and placed them in front of the lizardmen and jackals. The weight was far heavier than a human baby.

Rhodes was riding a horse. The man looked down at the lizardmen and jackals in front of him with the sunlight behind him. He was sure that because of the witch's ban, these guys would not dare to attack him easily, as long as he did not take action first. .

"Well, okay. You guys, get out of here."

The frightened lizardman leader stood up in a rolling state. It ignored the dust on its body and first looked at the meat and sausages taken out by the Redwood Town soldiers, and then held them in its arms with satisfaction.

From the perspective of these orcs who walked upright and were covered with thick green scales, exchanging a few pounds of meat for more than ten pounds of meat was certainly a good deal.

However, although they are almost as greedy as human peace officers, they are not as cunning as those human peace officers. In this case, if they were replaced by the peace officers of those human towns, they would have to extort at least several times more benefits before they would let them go. Passed.

"Cress."

"Huh? Master."

"Remember this guy's appearance for me. Master, I will steal it with my own hands in the future to avenge this child's family."

"Well, I remember Master."

For Gunnather, who was a slave trader, this was something he had seen and taken for granted, but for Rhodes, he had already adapted to the value of human beings being superior to all other races. He could even take a step back and be relatively equal. He treats other creatures as intelligent races like humans, but other creatures are higher than humans. This is a value that Rhodes really can't accept, and he doesn't intend to accept it.

When Rhodes, Kress and Gunnars turned around to return to the caravan, they happened to see Alos standing there with his personal bodyguard Riel, watching and waiting.

"The harpy 'witch' Magna Leer is said to be a relic of the ancient times. She established a town here and has been passing on for more than two hundred years. This witch has the ability to summon hurricanes and cast curse magic, and She also has a very powerful gnoll guard. Let’s rest here for two days. Don’t provoke them or violate local laws, otherwise I won’t be able to protect you.”

Although Aloth's words were addressed to Rhodes and Gunnather, her eyes were always fixed on Rhodes, and the connotation could not be more obvious.

"I understand, Redwood Town will not cause trouble to Mr. Steward."

At this time, another burst of noise came from the mine just now. Everyone looked for the sound and saw a few lizardmen and jackal guards hanging several human slaves high on wooden ropes. Get up, pull them up while laughing wildly below, and at the same time look at the human caravan with a threatening and provocative look.

The caravan guards of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce are well-informed and know what to do, and they dare not pay attention to it without looking at it.

The soldiers of Redwood Town tightened their weapons one by one. The blood in their chests had not yet been cooled by this cold world. Feeling the gazes of their subordinates, Rhodes' left hand holding the sword gradually became stronger, and the joints in his joints were shaking. The grip turned white.

It's one thing to watch a documentary in a game, but it's another thing to actually be there.

"This world is like this. Sadness, pain, violence, and death are all too common. If, if someone could create a new world where all people and all races can live in peace and live in peace and contentment, that would be great ." Yaros sighed softly and said this.

"Oh, you have such great ambitions. But I'm not as complicated as you think. I just want human beings to live and work in peace and contentment."

"However, if you only care about one race, then hatred will never end, and war and killing will never end." Yaros frowned slightly when he heard this.

"Then it can only be said that we didn't kill enough, and we didn't kill them all. If we don't kill them all, the hatred will never end. If we kill them all, there will be no enemies, and there will be no hatred."

At this moment, Rhodes and Alos had obvious differences in concepts. Both people are right, and their opinions are based on their historical knowledge.

Alos has been reading history books since she was a child, and found that since the Hundred Races War, various races on the continent have been killing and fighting each other for countless thousands of years, but the entire continent is still at war. Therefore, she came to the conclusion that using the sword Governing a country is fruitless.

What Rhodes viewed was not the history of this world. The world he knew was dominated by strength. If benevolence, righteousness, and morality were useful, then the one who unified the six kingdoms would not be the Qin Dynasty that killed millions. If benevolence, righteousness, and morality were useful, Then it should be Liu Bei who unified the Three Kingdoms. The so-called will not give in to the butcher's knife, just because they didn't kill enough, the Meilican people slaughtered all the Indians. Hundreds of years later, the Indians, who were deliberately protected like animals, could only complain by playing and singing the songs of their ancestors. That history was stained with blood and tears.

In Rhode's vision, the world is extremely objective, and morality is just a decoration of power, like bright flowers decorating a long sword.