"No need, Mr. Zhang Bo, perhaps you haven't fully understood."
Lord Shen Mu's face was beaming with a bright smile: "Although they are not captives, they are the defeated. If they want to negotiate peace, then let's negotiate peace. After all, peace negotiation is my grace towards them. If they don't want to negotiate peace, then there is no need to negotiate peace. Next, my army will destroy their Green Leaf Group and their Wood Elf Village."
At the same time, Lord Shen Mu also patted Mr. Zhang Bo's shoulder, his tone filled with emotion: "Of course, this is also why I chose to trust you, Mr. Zhang Bo. You and I are the same kind of people, both fond of showing mercy to others."
"Yes, we both like to show mercy to others." Mr. Zhang Bo was stunned when he heard Lord Shen Mu's words, then lowered his head, appearing extremely submissive and obedient.
But he had no other choice; he could only follow Lord Shen Mu's words.
"Alright, that's it, Mr. Zhang Bo. Since you have paid the blood tax, we are now on the same side, truly on the same side. Next, you will be responsible for the negotiation work with the Green Leaf Group." With a wave of his hand, Lord Shen Mu directly appointed Mr. Zhang Bo as the main person in charge of the negotiations.
However, this arrangement even surprised Mr. Zhang Bo himself: "Wait, Lord Shen Mu, do you mean for me to be the person in charge of negotiations with the Green Leaf Group?"
"That's right, wasn't what I said clear enough?" Lord Shen Mu smiled, looking at the surprised Mr. Zhang Bo in front of him, and reached out to pat his shoulder again: "Use your wise head to think about it. As a Prophecy-type Mage, you can easily detect whether the other party is lying. Can't you also check if I am lying to you?"
"No, no, no." Mr. Zhang Bo immediately showed a look of panic, waving his hands repeatedly: "I just said that, I didn't mean to suspect you of lying to me at all, Lord Shen Mu. You are so generous and benevolent, how could I possibly suspect you?"
"Hahahahahahaha." Lord Shen Mu immediately burst into laughter: "I'll leave it to you from now on."
"Of course, Respected Lord Shen Mu, I will absolutely not fail to meet your expectations." Mr. Zhang Bo immediately showed an extremely solemn expression, stood up straight, and nodded very seriously at Lord Shen Mu.
"I don't think I've misjudged you either." Lord Shen Mu encouraged Mr. Zhang Bo again.
It was as if he had truly accepted Mr. Zhang Bo as one of his own.
However, they didn't chat for much longer. Lord Shen Mu used the excuse of having other matters to attend to and waved for Mr. Zhang Bo to leave and return to the Town Area to handle matters there.
After all, there had been unrest in the Town Area, and although things seemed to have calmed down for now, it was still unrest.
There would definitely be some remnants of the Diesel Company that Mr. Zhang Bo had mentioned before.
Since Mr. Zhang Bo had become one of them, sending him back to meet up with Cai Dong, including Sun Zhiru and those senior managers and middle-level managers, to investigate and deal with the remnants of the Diesel Company was the primary task.
After all, these tasks required the cooperation of Blue Star Humans and their involvement as the main investigative force.
It was certainly a very good thing for Mr. Zhang Bo to do it.
And he was very qualified.
If mount & blade Humans were to handle these matters, it would definitely seem very unreasonable, and there would be no way to communicate with these Blue Star Humans about any issues, as there was a world of difference in their understanding.
It was better to let these Blue Star Humans handle it themselves.
"In that case, I will take my leave, Respected Lord Shen Mu. I will not fail to meet your expectations. I will diligently and wholeheartedly complete all the tasks you have assigned." So, after respectfully bowing to Lord Shen Mu, Mr. Zhang Bo left the third-floor balcony and the Castle District at the same time, returning to the Town Area.
However, after Mr. Zhang Bo left, Lord Shen Mu still stood on the balcony, a faint smile on his face.
"Lord Shen Mu, he has left." At this moment, James, who was behind Lord Shen Mu, spoke again.
But now, James's face didn't show much of a smile. Just a moment ago, when Mr. Zhang Bo was leaving, his face still held a faint smile, as if they were old friends, and he even nodded to encourage Mr. Zhang Bo.
But unexpectedly, now that Mr. Zhang Bo had left, James's face was only stern.
It was as if Mr. Zhang Bo was a stranger.
Of course, that was indeed the case. For James, this mount & blade General, Mr. Zhang Bo was a stranger. If it weren't for the message from Lord Shen Mu ordering him to have friendly interactions with Mr. Zhang Bo, he would have completely ignored this Mr. Zhang Bo, not even bothering to say a word.
He was busy studying magic, and he and those 20 Eden Guard Believers had been tirelessly studying magic.
Although this Mr. Zhang Bo brought some more solid and basic magic theories.
But there was no need for him to interact with the other party in such a humble and equal manner.
One should know that they could tell that this Mr. Zhang Bo's magic power was quite shallow, and what he understood was just some relatively rigid magic knowledge.
In terms of using magic, or rather, controlling magic, he hadn't even figured out the magic structure. He was far inferior to these Eden Guard Believers, who were already considered low-level mages.
If that was the case, why should they interact with Mr. Zhang Bo on equal terms?
This was like taking off your pants to fart. James even secretly sensed that Mr. Zhang Bo had some ulterior motives towards him and these 20 Eden Guard Believers.
Even when observing the Castle District, his eyes revealed some deep-seated hatred, and he realized that this Mr. Zhang Bo absolutely could not be befriended.
He even had to be secretly guarded against.
Of course, in the end, he had already learned about Mr. Zhang Bo's plan to destroy Deherim through Lord Shen Mu, so he understood that Mr. Zhang Bo was actually his enemy, an enemy that had to be seriously and secretly guarded against.
Even at the most crucial moment, James expressed his protest about Mr. Zhang Bo leaving those twenty Eden Guard Believers in the library.
After all, leaving those 20 precious spellcasters, the Devotees from the Aiden Gaarde Kingdom, in that library was equivalent to surrendering and being controlled by the attacking enemies. If those enemies were completely insane and ultimately chose to kill these Devotees, then these Devotees would ultimately only die.
After all, the melee ability of these Eden Guard Believers was very weak, or rather, it could be said that they had no melee ability at all.
They just wore cloth robes and held wooden staff-like wands.
Hoping that these Eden Guard Believers could fight hand-to-hand with those melee soldiers wearing armor and holding sharp blades within a distance of one or two meters would obviously be overestimating these Eden Guard Believers.
It is estimated that these Eden Guard Believers would be directly killed by those soldiers in one encounter.
Of course, in the end, it was just as Lord Shen Mu had predicted. The attacking enemies did not choose to harm the 20 Eden Guard Believers. They even chose to cut the ropes that bound them when they left, choosing to set them free. They completely expressed their final goodwill, which could be considered a small friendly gesture at the end of this outcome.
"You are truly wise, Respected Lord Shen Mu." Thinking of this, James expressed his respectful admiration for Lord Shen Mu, who had already foreseen everything.
"These are minor matters, nothing to make a fuss about." Lord Shen Mu's lips curved into a slight smile. He was quite satisfied with James's praise.
This also meant that the praise touched his heart.
He was actually not sure whether these Eden Guard Believers would be killed in the end, but in the fifth stage of the mission, the System gave him the option of whether to leave the Eden Guard Believers in the library.
Leaving them could result in two outcomes.
One was that the Eden Guard Believers were killed, providing an excuse to declare war on the Green Leaf Group and boosting the morale of all soldiers with a shared hatred, resulting in a 50% morale increase when attacking the Green Leaf Group.
The other was that if the Eden Guard Believers were not killed, then a reason for peace talks could be obtained.
This was a praise for the Holy Light.
Through the Holy White Council's Holy Light Torch Tower, a building from the mount & blade: Warband world, a connection could be established with the mount & blade: Warband world, thereby obtaining the Holy Light guidance effect of the Aiden Gaarde Kingdom.
If a soldier reached Tier 4, they could go to this building to change their profession and become a Tier 5 Eden Guard Believer, a special spellcasting unit.
"Everything is still good." Lord Shen Mu nodded with satisfaction.
The former meant that the attack capability against the Green Leaf Group would receive a 50% morale increase, which would ensure that these soldiers could maintain high combat effectiveness in the subsequent attack on the Green Leaf Group or the Wood Elf Village.
It could even result in a fight-to-the-death effect.
Let those Wood Elves know how terrifying the combat effect of fighting to the death among Mount & Blade Soldiers is.
In that case, Lord Shen Mu would immediately, after the end of today's night, mobilize all the soldiers to form a war coalition and directly launch an attack on the Green Leaf Group.
Taking advantage of this effect while it was still active, he would completely annihilate the Green Leaf Group, which had suffered heavy losses tonight, and make it completely disappear.
Then he would exclusively occupy this Bali River Street and even the future Long City.
This was Lord Shen Mu's battle plan.
However, as mentioned before, if it was the second option, as long as these 20 Eden Guard Believers were not killed, peace talks could be held, thereby promoting peace and the arrival of the Holy Light, allowing the Aiden Gaarde Kingdom and this Holy White Council's Holy Light Torch Tower to establish a special connection.
This would allow his Tier 4 soldiers to go to the Aiden Gaarde Kingdom for training and profession change, becoming Tier 5 Eden Guard Believers.
"Looking at it now, it's still good. From now on, I can start training Eden Guard Devotees in large quantities."
Lord Shen Mu stroked his chin, growing increasingly satisfied.
However, he also understood that although these were nominally Tier 5 Eden Guard Believers, in the mount & blade: Warband world, these Eden Guard Believers were only Tier 1 soldiers.
Although they could use Sun Flame Ray to kill enemies within a distance of thirty to fifty meters, their power was quite strong, and they were spellcasters with healing effects.
But if they were truly compared to Tier 4 ranged archers, Tier 4 heavy cavalry, or Tier 4 infantry.
These Tier 5 Eden Guard Believers were quite weak.
The only thing that could be trusted was that if these Eden Guard Believers were upgraded, they might become higher-level soldiers.
It seemed likely at the moment.
After all, Eden Guard Believers had already been classified as Tier 5 soldiers, so there were still 4 levels of upgrade space above Eden Guard Believers.
Even according to Lord Shen Mu's understanding, the highest-level troops in the Aiden Gaarde Kingdom were truly holy beings with the ability of divine flame – Angels.
They were truly divine creatures.
Not only could they resurrect.
Moreover, every time they swung their weapon, they could bring forth a large area of divine flame, just like the effect brought by the Holy Light Enchantment Scroll when he fought against the Undead Monster before.
"The future is promising, so to speak." Lord Shen Mu was still very satisfied in his heart.
"Oh, right."
But at this moment, Lord Shen Mu suddenly thought of something and turned to look at James beside him.
"Is there anything you need, Lord Shen Mu?" James asked.
"Later, you will inform the entire Deherim to rest well during the day, and then prepare to gather all the troops around two or three in the afternoon, ready to launch an attack." Lord Shen Mu suddenly said.
However, these words made James a little stunned, and he couldn't help but look at Lord Shen Mu in surprise and ask: "Lord Shen Mu, gather all the troops around two or three in the afternoon, where are we going to attack?"
"Of course, the Green Leaf Group." Lord Shen Mu's lips revealed a ferocious smile: "They directly launched a surprise attack on our Castle District and even wanted to kill me directly in a decapitation plan. Do they really think I will let them off so easily?"
Facing the look of astonishment on James's face, Lord Shen Mu also patted his shoulder: "This is not a shameful sneak attack, but equal retaliation. As you know, Zhang Bo is actually a spy sent by the other side. I let him choose one of our own to negotiate with the Green Leaf Group. He will definitely negotiate some unfavorable terms for us, or even bury some traps in the terms. And now, I need him to launch a surprise attack on the Green Leaf Group during the negotiation and completely resolve the Green Leaf Group's threat to us."
And at this moment, a new dialogue box suddenly appeared in front of Lord Shen Mu.
【Ding! Stage 9 mission begins - Destroy the Green Leaf Group!】 (End of this chapter)
