Chapter 45: Defeating the Enemy
"Ding, your soldiers under your and have killed the Level 3 Rover Carter. You have gained 30 experience points, with a total of 4500 experience points."
"Ding, you have achieved a great victory and earned an additional 1000 experience points and 1 skill point, bringing your total to 7."
"Ding, you have ged the fate of 872 people and gained 1072 Fate s, with a total of 1080 Fate s."
The crisp and pleasant notifications sighe final clusion of this battle, giving Matthew an odd sense of jarring surrealism from the peculiar and abrupt attack.
"The other members of the sver group all cimed it was Bloodhand Kahn's order. Their inal target was just Liana, but ter it expao the entire Bay Vilge..."
"If they were only after Liana, how did they know about her potential?"
"Did they use some kind of mysterious prophecy spell?"
"Or is that just an excuse to cover up the truth, and their real target was actually me?"
"Logically speaking, I have ne against the Pfizer Mert Guild, and the Ser Family hasn’t had any flict with them either. So why were we attacked?"
The oddity surrounding Bloodhand Kahn and the eerie attack imbued with a strong sense of fate led Matthew to focus on the choices of destiny.
Uo figure it out for now, he simply decided to stop thinking about it.
However, based on this experie was clear that developing military strength was essential.
Gng at the soldiers quickly ing up the battlefield, Matthew keenly noticed.
After two secutive battles, the inal 20 professionals ieam had increased by 8, bringing the total to over 30.
Moreover, Matthew believed that with tiraining, having professionals guide and train the soldiers and providing them with ample food supplies,
As long as they solidified their foundations, they should all be able to absorb the bat experiend successfully bee professionals.
Matthew felt a sense of eager anticipation, imagining the future arrival of a fully professional army.
After ting all the spoils, Ange walked briskly to Matthew with a hint of joy and asked respectfully and expetly:
"We are about 2 kilometers away from the Bloodhand Sver Group's camp. If we adva full speed, we reach it in just 15 minutes."
The step was for Matthew to develop the Dark Forest, which required eliminating any possible strongholds and influences from other forces, so he responded decisively:
"For these heinous scum, we must extermihem pletely. Rest for 10 mihen move out again."
"Send someone back to notify them of our victory, but still assign people to patrol and be cautious of any stragglers."
Matthew's orders were quickly carried out.
The somewhat tense soldiers rexed slightly as Ange prepared some food and water to help them replenish their energy.
Many soldiers gathered together, enthusiastically discussing their tributions during the battle.
"Hehe, I hope my rewards break two gold s this time!"
"I think you will—I took down two rovers..."
"Acc to my estimate, our tributions could be exged for those ons and gear. I want to trade for a longsword..."
"I've got my eye on a shield, but it’s probably expensive..."
"I want to trade for a mail shirt. It’ll give me some extra prote in the battle."
"..."
Hearing the soldiers' aspirations for the future, Leoly stroked his longsword, which had developed a couple of small nicks, and his eyes were also filled with expectation.
During this time, Matthew went through the spoils of war.
Most of the professionals' ons and equipment were of quite good quality, ade military-grade products.
pared to a 50 silver piece spear, their value generally ranged from 2 to 5 gold s each, totaling around 600 gold s in worth.
The only ented item was the rge axe that Bloodhand Kahn hadn't mao take with him.
"Sughter—Replica, made of Mithril and Fieel, excellent quality, Sharpness +3, Durability +4, Anti-Magic +1, Entment—Fortitude, stitution +1, Strength +1."
"A high-standard replica with a market value of 5000 gold s."
Matthew raised an eyebrow in delight. With this on alone, all the costs of the battle had been recouped.
Indeed, fighting against professionals was the most satisfying—victory brought rich spoils and high returns.
Matthew overheard the soldiers' discussions, his gaze sweeping over the pile of ons and gear.
The soldiers' thoughts were positive, bold, and proactive, mostly focused on improving their bat abilities for the fight.
Matthew was more than happy to ence this attitude, so he turo Old John and whispered:
"Spread the word that these ons and equipment will be avaible for purchase with tribution points."
"Each tribution point will be worth 2 gold s' worth of equipment."
"tribution points also be exged fold s at a 1:1 ratio, but gold s ot be used to buy tribution points, and tribution points ot be traded."
While saying this, Matthew pretended not to notice the sho Old John's eyes and patted him on the shoulder, speaking leisurely:
"Every soldier's tribution will be richly rewarded!"
Watg Old John’s somewhat dazed figure walk away, Matthew couldn’t help but ugh inwardly.
tribution points are a good thing!
Market value is also a good thing!
With these two tools, Matthew believed he could maximize the soldiers' enthusiasm for battle.
"Alright, guys, keep up the good work!"
"The harder you work, the stronger your lord will bee."
"Building a Mage Tower and strug a floating city all depends on you guys..."
When this news spread among the soldiers, everyone became excited, looking in disbelief at the lord standing in front of the kobolds.
If reputation could be dispyed, Matthew figured he would have gai least reverence from this wave.
After settling the matter of the spoils, Matthew's attention turo the kobolds kneeling on the ground.
These trembling little creatures dared not move under Yaya's watchful gaze.
The little one blinked curiously and turned her head to look at Matthew:
"Papa, they seem to listen to me well, huh?"
"Do these guys have any use for the territory?"
"If we take in so many at once, won't we be uo feed them?"
Taking kobolds as subordinates?
"Being a boss? That’s not something I taught you!"
"Could it be... that this is just a dragon's nature? Naturally drawing in followers."
Matthew could see that Yaya was very ied in subduing the kobolds, just like many dragons in his memory.
On this vast ti, various races had established kingdoms, including dragons.
For example, to the northeast of the heril Kingdom, oer edge of the High Mountains, there owerful Red Dragon Kingdom.
Its ruler was an a red dragon with a challenge level as high as 28!
The Red Dragon Kingdom had a powerful ogre army and tless gnolls, and in earlier years, they frequently raided the northern regions of the heril Empire.
Right now, with Bay Town's popution of only around 2000 people, even with all of Matthew's ideas, it was hard to implement them.
Although the Bloodhand Sver Group had made a fatal mistake, Matthew believed that if he could successfully subdue these kobolds, they would py a huge role.
When it es to magical research, I may not be a match for the great arists of the heril Kingdom.
But when it es t and development, who pare to the Super Iors of a?
Matthew had already verified this point in his previous life!
