Summoning Total War - Chapter 29
Chapter 29: Murphy’s Attribute (Part 2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It was nice and sunny the next day.
When Murphy woke up, the high priestess was nowhere to be found.
Murphy’s face couldn’t help but break out into a small smile when he smelled her faint fragrance still on his fingertips. To be honest, Murphy didn’t remember much of what had happened the night before, because he really had been extremely tired! One night’s battle had exhausted all his energy, but as a lord, he couldn’t drop everything rest.
He was the heart of the town! Their leader! Their banner!
He had to first properly plan everything in the territory.
He could only afford to rest after everything was in order. So yesterday, throughout the day, Murphy dragged himself around town and forced himself into good spirits in order to deal with the affairs of the territory.
Holding the high priestess to sleep was simply an idea he had thought of on the spot.
Because at that moment, he suddenly felt that it would be comfortable to sleep while holding onto the high priestess’ supple and tender body.
He thought about it, so he did it.
As for what had happened after that, he couldn’t really remember.
As soon as he had squeezed himself into the high priestess’s arms, he became lethargic and sleepy. He could hear some voices outside, but he couldn’t open his eyes or think. He had exhausted all his energy in the battle the night before. This, coupled with the blood loss from his injuries and the exhaustion from dealing with the territory’s affairs the next day, had stripped Murphy of all his strength! He only vaguely remembered that he had succumbed to the high priestess and that he had switched to a more comfortable position. The next thing he knew, he was woken up by the morning light.
That was all there was to it.
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As if they were aware of Murphy’s fatigue yesterday, the people who passed by the temporary Governor’s Mansion deliberately stepped more lightly when they passed the mansion.
The residents in the town tried to be as quiet as possible as they handled the moving of materials so as to not disturb the pleasant dreams of their beloved and respected governor.
A leader’s greatness is best displayed in war.
If you understand this sentence, then you know why great leaders are often compared to the sun.
At the head of his bed was his breakfast, but it was different from what Murphy had eaten in the past. It didn’t look like it had made by his dedicated cook.
The fragrant porridge was garnished with some finely ground reddish powder. It had an appealing smell. As if the person who made it knew that Murphy needed a lot of nutrients after being injured, there was a side dish of golden-brown roasted lamb leg and a little cheese.
There was a small note written in beautiful and neat handwriting next to the table.
“Have a good rest.”
Murphy smiled. Then he picked up the porridge and ate it in big mouthfuls.
He was really hungry.
After eating breakfast, he took advantage of the little bit of time he had and closed his eyes. Then he carefully started studying the attributes table in the auxiliary system.
If he remembered correctly, the auxiliary system had given him several system prompts yesterday in quick succession.
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City Management Interface
City: Athens (Large Town)
People’s Sentiment: Loyalty (Loyal, Doubt, Rebellious)
Tax rate: Medium-rate tax
Revenue: 2,350 (silver coins, half a year), 1,600 (crops, half a year), 1,200 (fishery, half a year)
Treasury: 1,140 (silver coins), 4,850 (rations)
Population: 2,448
Farmers 672 (Agriculture +1), lumberjacks 471 (Logging +2), shipbuilders 384 (Shipbuilding speed +2), construction Workers 212 (Construction speed +1), fishermen 852 (Fishery +1), several other personnel.
Social security: 185% (Garrison +110%, Agriculture +20%, Culture +20%, Sanitation +10%, Shrine +20%, Medium-rate tax +5%)
Population growth: +7.5% (Agriculture +5%, Happiness +1%, Medium-rate tax +1%, Sanitation +0.5%)
Population required for upgrade: 6,000
Armies owned: Four teams of Greek infantry (Experience +2, 320 people), one team of Spartan heavy infantry (Experience +3, 11 people), one team of General Guards (Experience +2, 24 people)
Officers possessed: Diplomat (1)
Amount of sustainable reserve crops when the city is surrounded: 12 rounds (one round is equivalent to one month in real time. One unit of crops weighs about 100 kilograms per picul. Soldiers will consume roughly one kilogram per day over two meals. 2,000 people consume about 6,000 piculs in one year.)
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List of existing buildings:
Governor’s Mansion, shrine, town military barracks (damaged), wooden palisade (damaged), cultivated land, roads, ports, shop (progress at 25%).
Units recruitment interface:
Farmers, citizen hoplites (needed to repair the town military barracks), Greek infantry (needed to repair the town military barracks).
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First of all…
Murphy found that the town’s population had changed quite a bit.
Because the focus of development had shifted from agriculture to fisheries, a large proportion of the urban residents had changed jobs to become fishermen. The ratio of fishermen to farmers was a hundred to one. Once the shipyard was able to keep up with this pace, a large number of fishing boats would be scattered around the channel of the Nidoria River. The channel wasn’t far from the sea, and Murphy believed that it wouldn’t be too much longer before there would be a lot of revenue from the fishery.
After the post-war veterans were reintegrated into the army, the army’s strength had improved. Murphy looked at the attributes table and surmised that in the auxiliary system, the armies with +2 experience had gained a +2 bonus in melee ability and defensive skills, which roughly equated to a more than 30% power increase. Of course, this was only Murphy’s rough estimate based on his experiences in the game, but that +2 boost in combat power wasn’t an insignificant increase.
The army’s combat survivability would increase, and soldier casualties would be greatly reduced compared to the past.
Additionally, another major change in the auxiliary system was the addition of the temple system.
After a war was the time when most people’s hearts were empty.
On the night of the battle, the high priestess’s decision to stay and fight had been recognized by the residents. In the span of a day the number of believers in the temple had more than doubled, and nearly 1,800 people in the entire town had become believers in Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
In the auxiliary system, there was a prompt that said that the temple could be upgraded.
In the system data, the only thing that Murphy didn’t clearly understand was the [Heroic Spirit] attribute mentioned in the temple. It was a pity that the feature couldn’t be tried out at the moment, and that the feature would only be enabled after the temple was upgraded.
“[Heroic Spirit]?”
Murphy had a hunch about what it might be, but he would have to explore the specifics in greater detail.
This aside, what surprised Murphy the most was that this prompt had been given in the strategy system.
“Ding! You have achieved a brilliant victory!”
“Greek Civilization—seleucid factional data import. Data import success. Importing progress 10%…”
“Ding! With the data of the Seleucid factions, you can construct this after training a blacksmith—the scythed chariot!”
Scythed chariot!!?
Murphy was immediately taken aback.
Imported Seleucid faction data? What did that mean!?
Could it be that in the future he could potentially recruit the Seleucid Silver Legion Infantry, Silver Shield Spearmen, Armored Cavalry, Royal Cavalry, and the War Elephant Legion that perfectly imitated that of Carthage?
The greatness of Seleucid was undeniable, but their downfall was inevitable.
Because this faction was surrounded by nearly five early strong factions, such as Egypt, Bendu and Numidia. Therefore, they were a weak mess in the early stages but unbelievably strong in the later stages. Thus, it was very unlikely Seleucid would be able to develop.
The Seleucid Silver Legion Infantry also perfectly mimicked the Roman military system. The Silver Shield Spearmen were one of the representative combat powers of the Greek phalanx. The Armored Cavalry was known as the only cavalry that could directly hit the heavy infantry legion and was seen as a wonderful prototype for Armored Cavalries.
As for the Royal Cavalry and the War Elephant Legion, the former was Alexander the Great’s most trusted knights, who he had used to conquer the world, and were also known as the most powerful companion knights. The latter was a colossal deadly weapon infamously known as an infantry roller, which was a behemoth that could be used as a bulldozer or a tank!
The scythed chariot’s combat powers weren’t very strong, and its flaws were immediately obvious.
It was a semi-finished product of Seleucid imitating the Egyptian chariot, but as a weak and messy faction in the early stages, this type of armament could be recruited as long as you had a blacksmith shop. It was already very valuable and very useful!
At least until the war elephants came, using the scythed chariot correctly was the key to victory.
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Murphy’s head started spinning from all his rapid thoughts.
If there was one thing he really wanted the most, it was undoubtedly the Seleucid War Elephant Legion. Because if there was an army of war elephants, if he met an enemy with a size advantage, like the elite gnolls, in the future there’d no longer be a need to send out the Spartan infantry to stop them.
Oh, you think you have the size advantage?
Then try your hand against the elephants of the planet Earth.
I’m sure you’ll have a blast!
After daydreaming about the rosy future ahead of him, Murphy pulled himself together and opened his attribute page.
After glancing at it, he was greatly taken aback.
This was because he now found himself with an extremely unusual title!
That was—Dragon Slayer!
What was this?
What was going on?
The Karazan Hurricane Pterodactyl didn’t seem like it had been killed by him at all! What had really killed the Hurricane Pterodactyl was that arrow that had been shot seemingly out of nowhere!
What if…
A situation like this could award him with the title of [Dragon Slayer] as well?
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Character attribute:
Name: Murphy-Sparta. (A great surname can have many benefits.)
Commander: ★★★★ (Increases the morale of the leading army.)
Management: ★★ (Increases administrative capacity and city revenue.)
Influence: ★★★★★★★★★ (Increases security, increases the number of guards, and slightly increases morale.)
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Title:
Outstanding Commander (you have proven your military talents to the people! Commander +2)
Handsome (Your appearance makes it easy for people to feel close to you, influence +2)
Strong physique (You have an exceptionally strong physique, vitality +6)
Smart (You were born a quick thinker, commanding +1, management +1, influence +1)
Brave (You are a warrior, and your bravery inspires those around you. Battlefield morale +2, citizen support +5%)
Instigator (Your words have strong appeal! Influence +1, citizens support +5%)
[Dragon Slayer]—You have killed a legendary monster, and tales of your bravery will be sung by the world! (Influence +5, battlefield morale +2, citizen Support +25%)
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Attendants:
Herald (Every qualified ruler needs a herald, Commander +1)
Agriculturist (A scholar who is proficient in agriculture, Agricultural income +1)
Secretary (An experienced secretary can help you with a lot of things, Management +1)
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[Dragon Slayer]!
Only then did Murphy finally understand why the citizens in the town respected him so much.
It turned out that this was the reason!
The citizens thought he was the one who had killed that terrible monster.
The citizens thought he was the dragon slayer!
Because this wonderful mistake had already happened, he thought he would just let the townspeople continue to think that he was the one who had slain the dragon.
if the people mistakenly thought he was the dragon slayer, it would give them the confidence, hope, and strength they needed during these most difficult times in the territory!
It was only slaying a dragon.
One day he would be able to kill one with his own strength!
