Summoning Total War - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: System
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
When the auxiliary system completed its data reorganization, Murphy found that he was still standing in front of the statue of the goddess of wisdom, Athena. The people outside the temple had long since dispersed, while he himself had been standing in front of the statue for a long time in deep thought.
The General Guard had remained next to him the entire time, devotedly guarding him. A beautiful woman wearing a snow-white high priestess robe slowly walked over to Murphy.
“Your Excellency,” she said, “I can feel the power of the goddess here, but her power is still weak, and she needs a large number of believers to increase her strength. Only in this way will she be able to bless Athens, and in turn, bless us.” When the beautiful priestess came up to Murphy, her voice was alluring, and it carried a faint charm that inadvertently attracted people to her.
Murphy was shocked when he looked up at the woman!
Because in his trance, the woman in front of him seemed to look exactly like the goddess of wisdom, Athena, in the sculpture!
But Murphy took a closer look and found that the two didn’t look like each other, although they were both equally beautiful.
It was incredible!
Was it just his imagination?
“Is this the power of the goddess?” Murphy asked in bewilderment as he stared at the priestess in front of him.
“Yes, that’s right,” the beautiful priestess said. She slowly raised her hand, and a milky white radiance appeared in her palm. She looked at the bewildered Murphy, and continued in her attractive voice: “The goddess can give the believer the power to heal and judge their enemies. But the power of the goddess is still weak, and she needs a lot of faith to strengthen her power.”
“How many people in the temple have this kind of power?” My god, what was this? Was it magic? Or was it actually divine power?
When Murphy heard the priestess’s words, he felt his mouth dry up.
What was this called?
Could this be considered as furthering the Gods’ plan?
He was just thinking that this world had no magic, and then some God had appeared out of nowhere in his own territory.
Oh my god. If he had the power of magic and divinity, then those gnolls were all goners, even if it was just something like healing magic. With such power, Murphy would no longer have to worry about casualties when the Spartan infantry had to fight against the gnolls.
“At present, I’m the only sacrifice in the temple,” the high priestess said. Briefly, almost as if it were an illusion, Murphy thought he could see a faint blush appear on the beautiful priestess’s face. She seemed a little shy and embarrassed about what she had just said.
It was just her alone?
When Murphy heard what she had said, he felt disappointed.
It would be useless if she were the only one with the power, but one person with power was still better than nothing. After all, there was at least someone who could use divine magic in his town.
At least a bright future awaited him.
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After he left the temple, Murphy opened the auxiliary system again and was shocked!
Because in the system data, there were now several new and different sets of data!
The first one was the deity system.
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Temple: Temple of Guidance
Level: Temple (Upgradable. The magnificent temple is always able to gain the admiration of mortals, thus increasing the chance of gaining believers.)
Deity: Athena
Her job: Wisdom, Warfare, Peace, Abundance, Craftsmanship
Power: Low divine power (Critical), Thunder (This is the power of the King of the Gods of Olympus!)
Divine Skill: Level 1 Divine Gift
Possessed clergy: 1 (Maximum trained clergy: 10) [Remarks: clergy includes priests, guardian knights, etc.]
Believers: 181
The next level: Increase Divine Gift to Level 2, and the temple will carry holy water (which can treat injuries)
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Oh my god!
Was it really a system dedicated to the development of Gods?
But the goddess Athena was too pathetic at the moment, wasn’t she? She was once known as the world’s unparalleled goddess of war and wisdom! How did she become so miserable all of a sudden?
Murphy was at a loss after looking at the data set.
He originally thought he didn’t have anything to rely on, but he had unexpectedly found something big to rely on. It was just that this “something big” was too pitiful at the moment, and he still needed to upgrade it little by little.
There was also an additional set of data in the auxiliary system.
Monster handbook!
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Creature: Gnoll
Attack (8), charge bonus (3), weapon (claws and teeth, crude weapons)
Total defense (6), armor (0) , defense skills (6), shield (0)
Vitality (1)
Morale (6)
Ability: Night vision. Able to hide in dense forest. Able to howl to increase combat effectiveness.
Explanation: These strange creatures called gnolls have decent combat effectiveness. In one-on-one combat, unless their opponents are professional soldiers, they’re a good match. These humanoids are very strong and agile, but their weakness is quite obvious. These creatures have little command and don’t understand what discipline is. This group can’t be considered an army. At best, they can be classified as a group that uses brute force.
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Was this biological data?
Murphy looked at the text in the monster handbook and pondered over it for a while.
There was only this one page in the monster handbook. Obviously, this data had been calculated after fighting the gnolls.
Later, Murphy opened the town management interface again and found that its data had also changed slightly.
After the auxiliary system had been updated, under the town management interface, there was now a detailed new row of data regarding population statistics.
Population: 2,060 (+112 refugees)
There are 270 lumberjacks (cutting trees +1), 430 construction workers (construction speed +1), 1,160 farmers (agricultural output +1), and 200 others.
Obviously, after the auxiliary system had been updated, the citizens had been divided into more detailed categories.
Murphy hadn’t yet built a port. But according to his estimations, if he did build a port, the population would be divided into more categories: shipbuilding workers and fishermen.
Obviously, the auxiliary system had just been upgraded.
It had become more practical and useful!
Before Murphy arrived at the Governor’s Mansion, the herald rushed over to him, panting.
“Master Governor, we found a group of refugees while we were in the process of cleaning up the port. Are we to take them in?” the herald asked as he stood in front of Murphy and tried to catch his breath.
“Accept them and hand them over to the agriculturalist, Hammonia, so he can make arrangements for them.”
A large population was key to town development. Although it wasn’t yet known how the population in the auxiliary system was growing, it was still a good thing to have met these refugees, and it was naturally impossible to let go of such an opportunity.
The town of Athens was in a state of rapid development, and labor was needed everywhere.
They needed to increase the amount of cultivated land outside the town, and a port was going to be built next to the Nidoria River. With the population currently as it was, Murphy had his hands tied.
Naturally, he wouldn’t let the refugees go.
After returning to the Governor’s Mansion, Murphy first asked the maid to prepare some food for him.
But while eating, he suddenly remembered something.
Murphy had never ridden a horse in his previous life, yet he suddenly could after coming to this world.
He hadn’t expected that only the cavalry of later generations had saddles. In past battles, most of the Spartan heavy infantry was the main fighting force, while the General Guard was responsible for protecting his safety. This time, the General Guards had also been involved in the battle, and he found that his General Guard was missing one very important thing!
And that missing thing was the saddle!
For cavalry, the importance of saddles couldn’t be ignored!
The auxiliary system didn’t restrict the cities and towns that could be built, so would it be possible to make saddles after doing some research? Would that help improve the Greek cavalry’s combat effectiveness?
As everyone knew, the Greek cavalry was quite weak.
Even the light cavalry of Rome was much stronger.
If a saddle could be created, would it then be possible to develop a more powerful Greek cavalry?
Because they didn’t have much contact with the outside world, Murphy didn’t know whether a saddle even existed in this world. And even if he knew the approximate shape of a saddle, because the blacksmith shop hadn’t been built yet, he wouldn’t be able to make it at the moment.
However, he made a mental note of this and would follow up on it after the blacksmith shop was created.
Right now, the most important thing he needed to do was organize the governor’s office.
At the very least, he needed to find suitable candidates for the positions of finance officer, logistics officer, military instructor, secretary, and more. As for farming, the agriculturalist Hammonia could be in charge of that, but other aspects, such as financial expenditure, military training, logistics support, etc, required professional personnel to be in charge. After all, Murphy’s personal time was limited, and as a Lord, he needed to focus more on the town’s overall development, rather than waste his time and energy on trivial matters.
As he thought about all this, Murphy realized that there weren’t enough generals and officers.
The newly promoted General Hamilton had strong management ability and was an all-round talent, but he alone obviously wasn’t enough.
The biggest difference between followers in a game and followers in reality is that followers in a game have few helpful attributes.
But in this reality, both the herald and the agriculturalist could actually help Murphy a lot. In just the area of agriculture alone, not to mention other areas, the agriculturalist Hammonia had solved a lot of Murphy’s problems. And the herald could also help Murphy supervise the construction of roads. Certain things that didn’t require much professional expertise could be handed over to the herald.
Followers and talent!
Murphy needed a scholar or an advisor to help him manage financial expenditure and logistical support.
“Alas, how can you get a follower who’s capable of internal affairs?” After all, the auxiliary system was just extracted from a game, and it had a few problems in some aspects. It wasn’t a perfect system.
Would scholars and advisors be available only after a university was built?
That would be too far away.
