"Is there no more accurate data?"
Standing on the wide flat ground, Athir frowned as he listened to what Sid said.
"Um, sorry..."
Seeing the expression on Athir's face, Sid's legs softened and he half-knelt down in front of Athir: "Because there are too many wanderers and beasts outside the wilderness, the population in those villages is constantly changing, and it is too troublesome to count, so there has never been an accurate statistics..."
"If you don't count the population, how do you collect taxes?"
Looking at Sid who was half-kneeling in front of him, Athir asked with some surprise.
"Collect taxes?" Sid was stunned for a moment: "Just collect taxes from the farmland when the crops are ripe."
Hearing this, Athir was somewhat speechless: "Send someone to give me a clear count of the population in the territory in a few days. I want to know the detailed data."
"Yes!" Standing there, listening to Athir's instructions, Sid nodded quickly with cold sweat on his face.
After talking about these trivial matters, they slowly walked into the manor.
The area of this manor is not very large, but it is not small either, and there are some simple walls around it.
Inside, some servants were working on the farm, and among them were some children, making tiny noises from time to time.
Overall, Athir is quite satisfied with the environment here.
The reason he came to this world was to search for some resources unique to this world.
In order to better achieve this goal, it is also necessary to establish a stable rear in this world and gather some of the natives of this world to serve oneself.
"But before that, we need to train some suitable subordinates."
Walking on the stone-paved path, looking at the dozens of servants kneeling on the ground around him, Athir thought to himself.
The people in this world are too weak. If they are just ordinary people, they will not be able to handle even some ordinary mutant monsters, let alone those weird ones. In the end, they may not be able to help Athir, but may need Athir to act as a nanny for these people.
Thinking of this, while walking in the manor, Athir issued his first order as a territory master.
In the name of recruiting personal guards, he gathered all the people around him who were under the age of thirty.
However, he was somewhat disappointed that, perhaps due to the dangers of this world, even in the nobles' manors, people who met his requirements were still very scarce, forcing him to relax the conditions and allow people under the age of 40 to participate in the selection.
This age is already the limit.
The practice of Knight Breathing Technique has its limitations, and it places high demands on the practitioner's own vitality. The younger the practitioner, the better the effect of the exercise.
Once you are over forty, it is basically impossible to achieve any results in training, unless you are like Thor before, whose body is stimulated by Athir with violent and precise methods, and it will only waste Athir's time.
After the conditions were set, out of more than 500 people in the entire manor, including underage children and women, only less than 200 people met the conditions. In the end, only one person had the qualifications to be a knight.
"May I have your name?"
On the widened flat ground, Athir stood on the ground, looked at the young man in front of him and asked.
"Master... My name is Xi... Xidem..."
Standing in front of Athir was a skinny young man wearing a tattered black cloth hat. His sallow complexion looked obviously malnourished. Facing Athir, Sid and others standing in front of him, he spoke stutteringly.
He was wearing a worn black suit that was obviously too big for him and had many patches on it, making him look very tattered. His face looked a little nervous.
"Sydem, huh?"
Looking at Xidem in front of him, Atir suppressed his impatience and reluctantly said, "From today on, you will be my bodyguard. Do you understand?"
"Yes... yes, I understand." Standing in front of Athir and listening to Athir's words, Sidham nodded quickly. Although his face was nervous, he could still see the obvious excitement.
"As a reward for becoming my guard, your status as a private slave can be cancelled, and you will be a free man from now on."
Seeing his excited face, Athir said directly: "I will allocate ten acres of land in the manor as your private land, and all the produce there will belong to you in the future."
"Sid, have someone take him down to change his clothes."
Without waiting for the other party to speak, Athir waved his hand and signaled to Sid who was standing nearby.
Listening to Athir's words, Sid nodded first, then asked the servant beside him to take Sidm away.
"Sir... Isn't this a bit too much of a reward?"
After Sidrum left, Sid couldn't help but stand up and say, obviously a little indignant about the reward Sidru received: "It is a great honor to be selected as a guard by you, sir. There is no need to give any reward to these lowly people."
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge pressure suddenly hit him, making his eyes go dark and he almost fainted.
In front of him, Athir glanced at him lightly, and the mental power in his mind moved, causing great pressure on the other party: "Don't worry, there won't be too many guards like him."
"Take me to visit a few other villages tomorrow."
He glanced at Sid standing in front of him and walked straight forward.
the next day.
Accompanied by several knights in green leather armor, Athir walked towards the distance.
"Sir, the next village is coming soon."
After walking on the path outside the wilderness for several hours, the guard beside him reported to Athir.
At the end of the road ahead, a small village appeared, where some people were already gathering.
Because he was going to come and investigate today, Atier sent people to these villages yesterday to notify them and asked them to be prepared for the reception.
When they reached the village ahead, they saw Athir's figure, and several people quickly came forward.
This was the guard officer stationed in the local village. When he saw Athir coming, he hurried over to greet him.
After chatting casually for a while, Athir walked to the front, where some people were already waiting.
According to what Athir had done yesterday, all the people under the age of 40 had gathered here. Now they all stood aside with their heads down, not daring to look at Athir.
Most of the people in front of me were wearing tattered clothes, were skinny, and looked malnourished. Very few of them were physically strong.
This is because survival in the wilderness is too dangerous. Without enough meat, it is difficult to develop a good physique by relying solely on scarce rations.
Jingjing rode aside and looked at the people in front of him. Athir frowned: "So there are only adult men? What about children and women?"
The village guard, standing next to Athir and listening to these words, was stunned.
The order he received was merely to select guards, so he simply excluded women and children without giving it much thought.
When he heard Athir's words, although he was confused, he quickly called out the women and children who met the requirements from the surrounding villages.
Soon, in the center of the village, hundreds of people stood there, looking at Athir in the distance, with some expectation in their eyes.
"Let's get started."
Looking at these people in front of him, Athir dismounted and ordered the guards beside him: "Let them come up one by one."
After saying this, he sat on a wooden chair beside him, quietly waiting for the person in front to slowly come up.
"Next."
After a while, sitting on a wooden chair, looking at the young man in front of him with an expectant look on his face, Atier spoke directly with an expressionless face.
Suddenly, the young man in front of him showed disappointment in his eyes. After he turned and walked out, another tall middle-aged man came up.
This was a man with a stubbled face, wearing a very tattered robe, and with cloudy eyes. He was standing in front of Athir with a somewhat numb expression.
Looking quietly at the middle-aged man in front of him, a large amount of data continued to emerge in Athir's mind, building a detailed image of the human body.
"Testing completed...the target does not meet the requirements..." The mechanical voice of the chip sounded in my mind.
Listening to the mechanical prompts in his mind, Atier had a blank expression on his face, but he sighed secretly in his heart.
Since he was promoted to a third-class apprentice, in addition to the fact that the speed at which his supernatural power accumulates energy has increased, the function of the chip bound to his soul has also been greatly improved. It is now possible to roughly detect whether a person has the qualifications of a knight through a detailed analysis of the human body.
Compared with the wizard's qualification, which involves the soul, the knight's qualification is more reflected in the body. People with knight's qualification will have certain data on their bodies that are different from ordinary people, which can be detected by the chip, thus roughly detecting whether they have the qualification of a knight.
However, despite this, Athir still did not achieve any results in these two days.
In this regard, it has to be said that in the wizarding world, there is indeed a certain reason why blood and family are so important.
Without the blood of knights and wizards, although it is possible that there are people with the qualifications of knights and wizards among ordinary mortals, the probability is too small, so small that even Athir finds it difficult to accept.
During these two days, in addition to the manor, he also walked through four villages and saw at least five hundred people. In the end, the only one who had the qualifications of a knight was Sidham, whom he had discovered earlier.
This probability made Athir speechless.
"Unfortunately, this world has never had a knight who activated the seed of life, and there is no family with knight blood. We can only slowly look for it among these civilians."
After testing the last person, Athir stood up and prepared to leave the village.
"Lead the way, to the last village."
Riding his horse on the road, he gave instructions to the guards beside him.
(End of this chapter)