I didn't open it in another world, I'm sure

"Understood, I will trouble you when I have time." Nangong Xiao nodded and asked again, "The orcs that the scar knight said earlier will join six legions. What is the order of magnitude of the legions here?"

Asuna thought for a while, "There is no exact standard, but to be called a legion, it usually exceeds 3 people, and the number of orc infantry legions is more, but it is also between [-] and [-]."

"That is to say, the orcs are likely to invest more than 20 troops in the northern border of the Stentel Kingdom in the future? To fight the orcs, the Stentel Kingdom must at least invest the same number of troops?" To be honest, how much Nangong Xiao I'm a little bit moved, after all, I've grown up so much, I haven't seen hundreds of thousands of troops assembled, let alone a battle scene.

But Nangong Xiao also knew that it was still impossible to learn something.My current level is there, and I really go to watch, which is essentially the same as courting death.

"It's still not certain, I don't understand, that Senior Randy is obviously just a low-level officer at the rank of squadron leader, but he will know the information of the orc army, and he also said the exact number... This is very strange."

"How to tell his rank?"

"It's the detachable armor piece on the left shoulder armor. The generals of each class have different patterns. The squadron leader is a blue eagle. And the saber tied around his waist is the squadron commander's." Exclusive sword.

By the way, in the Terran military system, all officers, even the lowest-ranked squad leader, must be nobles.This point, Mr. Nangong must keep in mind. "

Nangong Xiao nodded and said, "Perhaps, the identity of this scarred knight is not simple? There should be no hard and fast rules, high-ranking nobles can't serve as low-level officers, right?"

"...That's right." Asuna thought for a while, and had no choice but to think so.

"By the way, have I been underestimated by the other party just now?"

"Ha... Uh-huh~ My entourage, why don't you go with this lady?"

"..." Looking at Asuna's pretentiously charming appearance, Nangong Xiao was a little speechless.

"Eh? Am I not like a young lady?"

"You are originally a young lady, but you are a virtuous and virtuous young lady. You have nothing to do with coquettishness, and even pretending to be coquettish is a bit funny."

"Yes, yes. Haha..." For a moment, Asuna didn't know whether to be happy because of the first half of the other party's compliment, or annoyed by the description of the second half of the sentence, and finally she could only laugh dryly.

"Besides, Missy or something, I always feel that I'm on the same level as a fool."

"Eh?!"

"It's nothing, it just reminds me of a brain-damaged young lady in a game fan comic. Hmm, that young lady is still a paladin, and her must kill is Invincible Hearthstone. Don't imitate her, I don't want to be Uncle Brick."

"That..." Asuna listened in a daze, completely unable to understand what Nangong Xiao wanted to express.

"Don't worry, it's just a sigh, we should continue to set off."

"Ah good..."

Seeing that Nangong Xiao didn't want to continue, Asuna didn't ask any further questions, so she continued on her way with some small doubts...

As Scar Knight Randy said, soldiers and horses from other parts of the Kingdom of Stantel are constantly gathering here, so Asuna and Nangong Xiao encountered several groups of soldiers of different sizes along the way. , was also stopped several times.

Or they want to force conscription, or like the scar knight, they fell in love with their mounts, and even encountered soldiers who blackmailed travelers, which can be described as annoying.

Fortunately, Asuna has not only the certification badge of the Warrior Association, but also the in-service badge of the Mercenary Union. Under the double identity, even if she didn't sacrifice the name of the master, the two of them came here without any danger. Near Union Cole City.

Asuna also explained the identities of the Mercenary Union and the Warrior Association.

The war in this different world has basically never stopped. According to Nangong Xiao's understanding, it is a system problem. The human race countries in this world have adopted a standard noble co-governance system. Under this system, it is surprising that wars do not break out frequently. .

And not all professionals are willing to go to the battlefield to make contributions. Those professionals who are not willing to go to the battlefield are troubled by dealing with issues such as conscription, and gradually form various groups to keep warm.

For example, mercenary unions, magic guilds, warrior associations, etc., these international organizations developed over hundreds of years have become a transcendent existence similar to the Holy See of the Holy Light,

After these organizations have gradually grown, they have also become the best shelters for many professionals who have no intention of fighting.

Under normal circumstances, the identity verification of these international organizations is still very useful. Ordinary hooligans or soldiers and mediocre officials basically dare not provoke professionals certified by organizations.Not even nobles are willing to outright offend an organized and certified professional.

According to Asuna, these international organizations are basically extremely defensive. Although they are not as crazy and twisted as the Holy See of the Holy Light, they will not let their members be bullied by others.Essentially speaking, for professionals without aristocratic status, joining these international organizations would do more good than harm.

More directly, as long as there are not very special conflicts, such as life and death, certified professionals can negotiate with the other party through the organization behind them, even if the other party is a high-ranking nobleman.

Probably this is the original intention of those ancestors to form these international organizations...

On the afternoon of the third day after leaving Poli Plain, Asuna and Nangong Xiao finally entered the outskirts of Eunker City.

It was getting late at this time, and Asuna was not in a hurry to bring Nangong Xiao into the city. After all, the frontiers were in a hurry, and most of the cities belonging to the frontier provinces closed their gates earlier. As the seat of the Romande province, Yun The same goes for Cole City.Entering the city at this time, you will be a little rushed, or you may not be able to catch up. In this case, it is better to rest outside the city for one night.

In this regard, Nangong Xiao has no opinion. Apart from the current goal of buying elemental crystals, Nangong Xiao is still more interested in the folk customs of other worlds.So Nangong Xiao followed Asuna's wishes and went to a market on the outskirts of Eunker City, found a relatively good hotel, asked for two rooms, and the two of them rested for one night before entering the city.

Chapter 030 The Town and the Hotel

Brownie Town, also known as Brownie Market, is located next to a forest about ten kilometers north of Eunker City.

According to Asuna, this is a small town with a permanent population of about [-]. Because it is close to the city of Eunker, where the provincial capital is located, caravans often pass by, and it is a relatively prosperous town on weekdays.

It's just that now that northern Xinjiang is in a hurry, it has become much deserted here.

In addition, it was already dusk when the two entered the town, and most of the residents of the town went home to prepare dinner, which made the streets of the town even more deserted.

Nangong Xiao and Asuna walked side by side on the dirty main street of the small town. At this time, Nangong Xiao realized why Asuna gave him a square that could cover his nose and mouth before entering the town. towel.

Because Nangong Xiao and the others are now in a small town where open drains are drained, residents have no sense of hygiene, dirty water and garbage are dumped casually, horse manure, gushing bird droppings, etc. are everywhere.

To be honest, the moment Nangong Xiao stepped into the town just now, he was almost vomited out of smoke. Fortunately, he was determined and did not make a fool of himself.

Seeing Nangong Xiao quickly cover her mouth and nose with a square scarf, Asuna under the black cloak asked with a smile through the square scarf, "How do you feel?"

"I want to go back to Earth."

"Well, when I first entered a human town, this was the first thought that popped into my head."

Listening to Asuna's smiling and slightly nostalgic tone, Nangong Xiao somewhat understood the other party's mood, "By the way, are there no sanitation workers?"

"You think too much." Asuna said lightly, "Unless a certain nobleman passes by here suddenly, there will be someone to clean it, otherwise what is going on now will be like next year. Just like the pile of horse manure in front, if It wasn't taken away by the rain, maybe you can still see that pile of horse manure when you come back next year."

"If I want to start a family and settle down in this world in the future, I would rather build a house in the wilderness."

When Nangong Xiao complained, he also took a glance at the layout of the town. Generally speaking, except for the unbelievably bad sanitation, it was on the whole similar to a market town in the 80s of the Seventh Dynasty.Of course, there are still some differences in the style of the houses, and the style of the houses here is more in the European medieval style.

It's a pity that Nangong Xiao and Asuna entered the town a bit late, and now most of the hawkers and pedestrians in the town have gone home, and they didn't see the lively scenes of hawkers yelling and pedestrians coming and going.

However, at this time, the houses in the small town are in the state of smoke, coupled with the dusk sky, it looks quite poetic from a distance.

Of course, the premise is to ignore the damn stench.

Hearing Nangong Xiao's complaints, Asuna said, "If you don't mind being visited by monsters occasionally, building a house in the wild is also a good choice."

"Asuna, are you willing to live in this environment for a long time?"

Glancing around, especially the horse manure pile by the side of the road, Asuna raised her eyebrows and said, "It's good to build a house in the wild. Remember to let me know when you really want to build it."

"Oh, good."

Asuna rolled her eyes, and muttered in her heart, straight male cancer, advanced stage.

The two chatted while walking, and soon, Asuna took Nangong Xiao to a hotel that could provide board and lodging at the same time.

At the front desk of the hotel was a blond aunt who looked about forty years old. After seeing the badge on Asuna's chest, her frowning expression suddenly turned into flattery. Nangong Xiaoyuan called it the face-changing technique. For a must.

Asuna was very used to being treated like this, so she simply asked the blond aunt to arrange two guest rooms, prepare two dinners and hot water for washing, and then directly dropped a common human gold coin.

The aunt put away the gold coins with a smile on her face, looking like a miser. She looked at the gold coins, tried and tried, but she didn't delay the business, she quickly recovered, and quickly asked the waiter to prepare dinner and hot water, and personally led Asuna and Nangong Xiao to the guest room.

This hotel is not big. The first floor is about fifty or sixty square meters. It is a dining hall, and the second floor has seven or eight guest rooms. It seems that there are not many tourists now. Whether it is the dining hall or the guest rooms on the second floor No one, probably because of the emergency in the frontier, which affected the business here.

No wonder the blond aunt had a sad face when she was at the front desk.

After arranging the rooms, Nangong Xiao and Asuna went back to their own rooms, and they planned to freshen up before having dinner.

The rooms in this hotel are very simple, except for a wooden square table and corresponding chairs, there is only a single wooden bed and a wooden screen. Behind the screen should be the place to solve personal hygiene.

After glancing at the guest room, Nangong Xiao sat at the wooden table, waiting for the shop assistant to bring hot water.

It didn't take long before the two men brought two buckets of hot water and two buckets of cold water, and poured them into a large tub behind the screen, adjusting the water temperature according to Nangong Xiao's request.

After getting the bath water ready, Nangong Xiao sent the waiter away, closed the door, fastened the peg, and began to bathe and change clothes.

After several days of rushing, Nangong Xiao was also a little tired physically and mentally.

Sit in a bathtub that can accommodate an adult male to lie down and sit down, relax yourself as much as possible, and let those fatigue and irritability evaporate through the warm water in the bathtub.

In the past two days, Nangong Xiao's mood was really not very good, especially when he occasionally encountered some difficult soldiers, it made people even more upset.

Fortunately, Nangong Xiao is not a grumpy person, otherwise I don't know what will happen along the way.

If it was replaced by the protagonists of those Long Aotian-style novels, and they still have the strength, then it might really evolve into a rhythm of killing all the way.

It's not that Nangong Xiao is mocking the brainlessness of those Long Aotian-style protagonists, but that those soldiers are really disgusting, so disgusting that anyone will have the idea of ​​​​hacking each other to death.

Only Asuna, who became an old fritter in another world, can deal with those things calmly. If Nangong Xiao personally handles it, I really don't know if I can continue to maintain my rationality.

Even if Nangong Xiao has always boasted that reason is greater than emotion, he is still not sure.

And the experience along the way also made Nangong Xiao understand a simple and helpless truth - in this world, apart from one's own strength, the most important thing is one's background, or identity.

According to Asuna's dictation, as well as what he saw and heard in the past two days, Nangong Xiao came up with a pyramid-shaped social ladder.

The highest class in the world, that is, the class at the top of the pyramid, is the nobility.

The longer the inheritance, the purer the blood of the noble, the more noble the status.

Usually, this kind of aristocrat with a long history is usually a big boss, or directly a royal family.

And as long as they are nobles, except for a few exceptions, they are basically professionals, and they are all powerful professionals.

There is no other reason, all because the nobles have monopolized almost all cultivation knowledge.

That is to say, only if one is born in a noble family and has a family inheritance, can one have the possibility of cultivating magic or battle qi.

As for those Mowu academies?

That's just a game for the nobles, and the common people are not qualified to meddle.

Chapter 031 Thoughts

The second layer of the pyramid is the professionals.

To be precise, it should be a professional who has no noble status but has noble treatment and is certified by various international organizations.

Although the aristocratic class has always tried its best to monopolize the knowledge of cultivation, it still cannot achieve an absolute monopoly.

After all, no matter which world it is, there has never been a lack of lucky children.

For example, falling off a cliff to pick up cheat books, or getting a certain item, and then a grandfather pops up to guide cultivation, or being inexplicably favored by a legendary boss, who wants to accept it as an heir, etc., these are too old to lose their teeth In this kind of magical world, it is not completely impossible to happen, but it can be said to be unexpected but reasonable.

Many of the founders of international organizations such as the Warriors Association, the Mercenary Union, and the Magician's Guild were of civilian origin, and most of them relied on luck or some special encounters to become powerful professionals. Created various international organizations that gave civilians the possibility to change their class.

It is also because of the emergence of these international organizations that there will be a large number of civilian professionals in this world.

Of course, this 'mass' is also relative.

Until now, the number of civilian professionals is still relatively small.

After all, cultivation is about talents and resources, and international organizations are not charitable associations, so it is impossible to allocate limited resources to ordinary people without talents.

Then there is the suppression of the nobles, which will definitely not be less.

No matter how stupid aristocrats are, they also understand what is the essence of nobility, and it is impossible to watch various international organizations arbitrarily spread their monopolized cultivation knowledge.

Perhaps at a certain period, the nobles forced the leaders of those international organizations to sign some unknown treaties, so that various international organizations could not spread cultivation knowledge at will.

After all, in essence, the reason why nobles are nobles is that apart from blood inheritance, the more important thing is to master and almost monopolize the knowledge of cultivation.

Otherwise, if one day a macho man suddenly descended from the sky among the common people, it might be a different world version of singing the Internationale.

And the third class of the pyramid is ordinary civilians.

The common people are the main source of taxation for the nobles, but they are almost at the bottom of the pyramid, yes, almost, because there are slaves who have lost all rights under the common people.

Needless to say, slaves, in the eyes of the nobles, slaves are property and livestock, and they don't need to care about it at all.

The common people are not bad, except for heavy taxes, as long as they don't directly or indirectly offend the nobles, they usually only need to live according to the laws and regulations of different countries and cities. The unlucky commoners can usually enjoy their old age in peace. Compared with slaves whose life and death depend on the thought of their masters, the lives of commoners are considered happy.

As for civilians who want to change their own class, apart from being talented and being favored by international organizations, the only way is to be loyal to a certain nobleman and become a doorman or a domestic servant, or even a domestic slave, so as to gain cultivation knowledge and Resources, otherwise, will be oppressed and exploited obediently for a lifetime.

On the whole, the social structure of the human race in the other world is very similar to the era of clan rule in ancient China.

The clans in ancient China were equivalent to the nobles in this world. The clans almost monopolized knowledge, just like the nobles in this world almost monopolized the knowledge of cultivation. They directly controlled the upward ladder of the entire society.

The only difference is that since the first emperor of the Celestial Dynasty abolished the fiefdom system, most of the subsequent dynasties were under the fiefdom system.Those enfeoffed nobles, that is, the clans, do not have the actual control over the fiefdom, but only enjoy the taxation of the fiefdom.

This is a special feudal system in ancient China, also known as the virtual feudal system.

However, the human race countries in this world practice the standard aristocratic co-governance system, which is the actual system of splitting the soil and enfeoffing the land.

Theoretically speaking, no matter how small the nobles are, they have their own fiefdoms.In addition to paying taxes to the central government, the noble lords of the fief have all the power of life and death over the fief. From the side view, this is simply a private kingdom.

As long as there is no rebellion, the noble lord can do anything in his own fief. Even if he starts a war with a neighboring noble lord, he only needs to report to the king, explain the reason, and promise not to annex the opponent's fief, then everything is fine.