Summoning Total War

Chapter 109 The world is in chaos!

iron ore.

What a troublesome question.

Judging from the level of civilization in this era, it is definitely not an easy task to develop a mine. Although there are a large number of kobold slaves that can be used to mine mines, the problem is that Murphy must first find a mineral on the surface. Humans are not as talented as dwarves. Not only are they good at digging holes, but they can also tell where minerals are by just smelling them with their noses.

The above point is definitely not a big score, and it has nothing to do with exaggeration.

Because when dwarves are really looking for minerals, their nose is one of their very important tools. These guys with amazing talents in forging and smelting can smell the location of the mineral veins just by sniffing with their noses. This talent is the envy of other intelligent races, but they cannot learn it even if they want to. Most of the mineral veins mined by humans in the southern plains were excavated with the help of dwarves.

Murphy has a good relationship with the barbarians, but his relationship with the dwarves is quite cold.

Perhaps using the newly brewed high-altitude soju in Athens can defeat these grumpy guys, but the problem is that Murphy has no way to get on the line with them now. Since these dwarves migrated out of the mountains, their whereabouts have been rather strange. It would take too long to find them and then exchange the liquor for friendship, not counting the time of transporting the liquor.

Murphy couldn't afford it.

However, there is no solution at all.

There is a very commonly used device in the advanced tutorial of "Goblin Alchemy" called the Goblin Prospector.

The principle of operation is to use magic waves to check whether there are mineral veins underground, their location and depth. This is the most commonly used device among goblin engineers and is one of their required courses. The only troublesome thing is that this device called the Goblin Prospector requires a high level of magic to make, and more than 800 magic marks need to be burned into it to activate it.

It must be made by a mage of level three or above.

Murphy's current level is about a second-level mage, which is still a little short of the level required to make a goblin prospector.

Although it is necessary to have his own iron mine, it should be able to wait for more than half a year. Murphy only needs to have a self-sufficient iron mine before falling out with the noble council. After all, during the Orc War, Athens captured a large number of standard weapons. These weapons could not be resmelted to meet the needs of the territory.

Athens has an open-pit coal mine, which is undoubtedly quite advantageous.

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July 5, Year 376 of the Second Age.

After a few days of lingering, although she was still reluctant to leave, after news from various places came in, Mrs. Elizabeth finally had to set out to arrange the plan to establish the mercenary union. She will unite with the small and medium-sized nobles nearby to build the prototype of the mercenary union. Then in the name of Athens, order all nearby mercenary teams to register! The Principality of Athens Alliance will give them corresponding identities and lay the foundation for hierarchical production after the mercenary union is established.

With the territory of Athens and Lady Elizabeth as its core, it covered 24,000 square kilometers of the southern plain.

A total of thirty-two nobles, big and small, issued new orders in the name of the Southern Front Nobles Alliance!

All mercenary groups established within the territory must be registered in the town before they can be recognized, and the official mercenary status will be issued by the mercenary union. Otherwise, it will be deemed as an illegal private armed force! There is no fee to register as a mercenary group. After registration, the mercenary team can accept employment tasks from various places and be recognized by Athens!

Athens will protect them!

Lady Elizabeth's financial and material resources began to come into play. Relying on the reputation of the [Purple Thorn Flower] and the military support behind Athens, in just one week, large nobles and towns were established on the front lines of the southern plains. Large and small mercenary union branches. These mercenary unions are respectively responsible for the affairs of the large towns where they are located and the surrounding small towns and villages. Once there is a danger that ordinary mercenaries cannot deal with.

The news will be delivered to the city of Athens within two days, and General Leodalius will send Spartan warriors there!

In addition to the large-scale mercenary group secretly controlled by Lady Elizabeth, Murphy also established a nominally completely public mercenary team in view of the increasing number of mutated beasts and other creatures flowing into the southern plains. This mercenary group was composed entirely of Spartan warriors and passed the news to the surrounding nobles. They do not accept ordinary mercenary tasks. Only when there is a danger that is difficult for ordinary people to deal with, can nobles from various places ask for help in the name of the lord.

——Bless!

This was also Murphy's promise when they were in the league.

However, Murphy has now transferred the power of blessing to the newly established mercenary union.

The purpose is to make the establishment of the mercenary union smoother, because only when it is related to their own interests, those greedy nobles will spend a lot of effort!

Just ten days.

Under the threat of Murphy's rising reputation and the military power of Athens, nearly a hundred mercenary teams established on the southern plains front line were all registered, and previous adventurer organizations were also attracted by Athens' strength to join. They do not need to pay any fees. As long as they join this organization, they can be recognized by Athens, obtain formal mercenary status, and can learn about employment information in other areas through the mercenary union.

One piece of information was sent to Athens, and with the mercenary union as the central point, a post system covering more than 18,000 square kilometers of land on the front line of the southern plain was established invisibly! Athens' intelligence organization "Jiang Ye", as well as spies and spies trained successively, were sent to mercenary unions in various places to take charge. Although it is only a simple prototype now, there is no doubt that as time goes by, this huge intelligence network will gradually be improved. When Murphy is in charge, the power in his hands will definitely be able to make anyone * **Surprised!

Is there a better intelligence network in the world than the mercenary union?

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The eighth day after the mercenary union was established.

On the southern front of the southern plain, a total of 176 large and small mercenary groups, with a total of more than 3,400 mercenaries, were absorbed.

Their rosters were uniformly sent to Athens, and an initial rating was conducted based on the size of the mercenary team and the number of tasks completed. The rating system from the first-level mercenary group to the ninth-level mercenary group is being formulated piece by piece with the efforts of scholars trained at the University of Athens. During the bureau, these scholars will develop a task level system, grading according to the difficulty of the task and the size of the mercenary team.

At the same time, with the progress of the eradication of mutated beasts in various places.

The data collected in the mercenary union on the strength and intelligence of various mutant beasts were sent to Athens. Scholars from the University of Athens are classifying and trying to compile statistics on the strength characteristics of various mutant beasts!

A huge prototype is gradually taking shape under Murphy's concept of consciousness that is far ahead of his time.

The scholars and talents in various fields cultivated in Athens over the past year have begun to play a role. As Murphy's think tank, they have begun to assist him in handling many matters. At the same time, more and more citizens are being sent to universities to receive various basic educations. In the future, they will be the pillar force in Murphy's hands!

at the same time!

As the mercenary union expanded rapidly, Murphy also began to search for apprentices with magical talents throughout Athens.

Among the courses at the University of Athens, Murphy has officially included introductory alchemy and basic magic tutorials into classified subjects! At the same time, he also sent invitations to the wizard Merlin and the gray robe wizard Gandalf through Artoria. After briefly talking about the changes that are taking place in the world and the great changes that may occur in the future, Murphy said very directly that with the beginning of the second elemental tide, the threshold for humans to learn magic has become lower, and the number of future magicians It will increase greatly.

He plans to build the first magic school in the human world and invites two people to teach magic courses.

Murphy didn't know whether it was possible to invite these two masters from the human world, but according to his estimation, it was still possible. After all, the number of magicians among humans is very rare now, and given the strength of Athens, it is still very attractive to them!

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busy!

busy! busy!

So busy!

Murphy has never been so busy since he can remember! There seemed to be no way to finish the complicated affairs, which made him very nervous even when he had time to eat and sleep! During this week, Murphy and General Jerry Rivard almost lived and ate in the executive government. The two of them only slept less than three hours a day. They were busy from early morning until late at night, and they couldn't even spare time to take a shower!

But even so, the complicated things that cropped up in various places still forced him to arrange manpower to deal with them non-stop.

It was only then that Murphy realized how troublesome it was to establish a mercenary union! With the strength of Athens and the material and financial resources accumulated by Lady Elizabeth's family over the past century, there were still problems such as insufficient manpower and financial shortages in the early days of establishing the mercenary union. You must know that after the two are combined, they will have a total of 12,000 square kilometers of land! Their financial and material resources are somewhat tight, so you can imagine how expensive it is to establish a mercenary union!

Twelve thousand square kilometers of land!

You must know that in the previous life of the earth, Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province of the People's Republic of China, was only a little over 7,400 square kilometers.

Even Murphy could not have expected that it would be so tight to support the initial establishment of the mercenary union with the financial and material resources equivalent to three to four prefecture-level cities in the previous life!

But the good news is that ‘everything is difficult at the beginning’. After the difficult initial period has passed, all the infrastructure has been developed.

Murphy was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Fifteen hundred people!

Not counting the manpower recruited and the manpower spent by Lady Elizabeth, the number of people sent out by Athens alone has reached 1,500!

The total materials and funds consumed were nearly 200,000 silver coins!

One month's time.

Within the 24,000 square kilometers of land on the southern line of the southern plain, mercenary union branches have sprung up everywhere in medium and large towns with the manpower of Athens and the financial and material support of Lady Elizabeth. With the establishment of the mercenary union, nobles from various places also began to actively clean up the mutant beasts that appeared within their territories with the assistance of mercenaries.

Over the course of a month, more and more beasts operating inside the forest mutated.

Not only have their body shapes changed, but their intelligence has also improved a lot. They frequently appear within the scope of human activities, attacking caravans or lone travelers, and even threatening some villages and small towns. Almost all the nobles realized that a danger was brewing, and for a time the military strength in various places was increasing. This situation is not limited to the southern plains. Other races living in areas around humans are also beginning to be threatened by the same threat. Half-elf villages, mountains where dwarves live, and territories where half-orcs have migrated, more and more people live in the mountains and old forests. The wild beast emerged.

And now they have become the Orcs on the front line of Athens. After their migration, some Warcraft that are active in the Dark Area have even appeared in their territory!

Don't know when it started.

A saying began to spread among people.

——The evil disaster has begun.

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Because of the establishment of the mercenary union, the mutated beasts around Athens were cleared away in time.

Even if there is a monster that is difficult for ordinary people to deal with, there are Spartan warriors sent by Athens to deal with it specifically. As a result, compared to the chaos and distress in other places, the order within the Principality Alliance is undoubtedly much better. After witnessing the powerful strength of the Spartan warriors with their own eyes, many surrounding small and medium-sized lords were even more convinced by Murphy, and it seemed that Athens was taking the lead in everything.

Compared to Athens, other places in the southern plains are much worse!

Not only are mutated beasts appearing frequently, but the southern wilderness area also has unknown reasons that have caused a large number of kobolds, gray-haired gnolls, and hobgoblin bandits to migrate into human territory. In almost just one month, a large number of kobolds and gnolls appeared in towns all over the country, and some groups of hobgoblin bandits even attacked human towns!

As if there were some terrible creatures driving them away, these creatures that were originally fearful of human territory were driven away in large numbers.

Group by group, enter the southern plains!

At this time, the disadvantages of not having a noble council and having a unified leadership finally became apparent.

Although the Parliament has nominal regulation, how many lords are willing to actively mobilize soldiers from their territories to clean up the goblin bandits and jackals for other nobles? What if after the army is dispatched, your territory is threatened by those creatures?

With selfish motives, almost all other areas in the southern plains formed factions and fought on their own!

The authority of the three Grand Dukes could not be completely controlled at this time. Most of the nobles from all over the country disobeyed the Grand Dukes' orders to send troops to assist in the cleanup! This is not like the Jackal War. At that time, there was a front line supporting us. As long as the front line did not collapse, the rear would be safe no matter what.

But what about now?

Countless kobolds, gray-haired gnolls, hobgoblins and other creatures entered the southern plains in large numbers. Even the wild boars living in other areas have appeared in human sight!

what does that mean?

Coupled with the vague talk about 'magic disaster', nobles everywhere are even more reluctant to send troops. With so many other creatures invading, I can't even kill them all in my own territory, let alone help others clean up.

This is no longer just a racial war.

This is simply—the world is in chaos!

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Compared to other places, Athens' strength has improved a lot during this period, not only in terms of military training.

Similarly, Athens once again gave birth to a general in the process of eradicating the mutated beasts.

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Character attributes.

Name: Aiagos-Sparta (this is a noble surname)

Commander: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ (He is an excellent general.)

Management: ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ (He has almost no management talent.)

Reputation: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ (He has a slight reputation.)