Chapter 82 Origin of the Name

Chapter 82 Origin of the Name

Knight Willy's house had been requisitioned by Ronin. He sat on the bench and continued to question Wharton and Dandy to get more information from them.

"I'm curious, how did your tribe of wildlings get their names?"

Luo Ning asked, "The Qingzhu tribe is located in the bamboo forest, so I can understand why it is named Qingzhu. Then what do the purple fruit, gray soil, and black collar represent?"

"Sir, as far as I know, the Purple Fruit Tribe is called this because their tribe produces purple-black and purple-red fruits around June every year."

Wharton replied, "I had the pleasure of eating it once. The taste of the purple fruit is different from grapes and plums. It is sweet and sour, juicy and very thirsty. It's a pity that it's September now, and you may not be able to enjoy it in the past."

Purple-black fruit?

Luo Ning searched for information about this fruit in his mind but found nothing. It seemed to be a specialty of the mountainous area.

He had already decided that after he conquered the Purple Fruit Tribe, he would ask for detailed information about the Purple Fruit.

"What about the gray dirt and black collar?"

"I know that."

Dandy rushed to answer, "The Gray Earth Tribe is called this because there is a kind of gray-white soil in their tribe. Because it can be seen everywhere, they are called this name."

"The Black Collar tribe is very similar. Their soil is darker, so they are called 'Black Collar.'"

Luo Ning nodded slowly. It turned out that the names of these two tribes were related to soil.

"Do you know what the functions of these two types of soil are?" Luo Ning asked.

In response to this question, Dandy shook his head. "It doesn't seem to have any special effect. It's just a little bit special and can attract people's attention."

Is that so?

Roning tried hard to recall.

He didn't have a deep impression of the grayish-white soil, but he knew the black soil.

"Could it be black soil?"

He always felt that the soil quality in Shanlin Town was good; otherwise, there would not have been such a high yield with such sloppy planting techniques.

If this black soil is black land, then once he occupies the Black Collar Tribe, the issue of food in the territory will not be a problem.

"Okay, I have asked almost all the questions I should ask. Since you have surrendered to me and are willing to offer your loyalty, I will give you two a chance."

Roning looked at the two knights in front of him. "Today is the 21st. You will all be on my probation period until the end of this month. If you pass the probation, I will accept your loyalty and give you a daily salary of 20 copper coins per person according to the probation period standard."

"If you have no other intentions in the next three months and perform well in the tasks assigned by me, the commander, or the guards, I will allow you to become regular employees. You will then receive a daily salary of 30 copper coins."

Salary?

Thirty copper coins per day?

Walton and Dandy's eyes were wide open!

Although they had lived in the Qingzhu tribe these years, they would go out and secretly buy some daily necessities such as salt every once in a while.

They are no strangers to money.

But the money has always been in the hands of Knight Willy, and they have no chance to touch it.

But now Luo Ning actually offered them a salary of twenty copper coins, which was enough for them to buy a pound of Gaza salt!

More importantly, these twenty copper coins were only the daily salary, so how much was it a month?

They subconsciously counted on their fingers and found that they couldn't figure it out.

At this time, Roning's voice interrupted their confused thoughts.

"You don't have to suspect that I'm lying to you."

He pointed at Tom, who was standing beside him. "His name is Tom. When I defeated the person he once served, he chose to surrender. At first, his daily salary was also 20 copper coins, but in view of his excellent performance, I made him a regular employee in advance. Now his daily salary has reached 30 copper coins."

Concrete examples are more convincing.

Of course, Roning would not allow Walton and Dandy to become regular employees in advance because they are not as good as Tom.

But this sounded different to the other two people, and they couldn't help but look at Tom as if for confirmation.

Tom straightened his chest. "Yes, the Lord not only forgave my crime but also gave me everything I have now. If you can serve the Lord sincerely, I think you will do the same as me."

After Tom's confirmation, Walton and Dandy were completely relieved.

"Thank you for your kindness, my Lord. I, Dandy (Wharton), will be your loyal follower from now on!"

They have made up their minds to work hard and strive to become regular employees as soon as possible.

Luo Ning smiled and motioned for the two to stand up.

At this time, Elrond, who had been busy for a long time, walked in from outside.

"Sir, I have already calculated the exact number of people and casualties of the Qingzhu tribe."

Luo Ning adjusted his sitting position and said, "You go ahead."

"There were originally 362 wild men here. In the battle just now, including Knight Willy, a total of eight people died. In the end, the remaining 354 people all became your prisoners and are now under centralized custody."

Or eight dead?

Roning didn't expect so many people to die. He thought that, at most, only Willy and the sentry he knocked down would die.

As expected, once the battle begins, many things that happen during the process are uncontrollable and unpredictable.

"What about our casualties?" Luo Ning asked.

Elrond smiled and said, "Congratulations, sir. No one of us was seriously injured in this battle, and no one was killed. The only regret is that four militiamen were slightly injured, two of whom were because they did not see the road clearly and fell from the slope."

He added: "This battle against the Qingzhu tribe can be described as a great victory!"

Riedal at the side also laughed, but he seemed to be unsatisfied. "It's a pity that I didn't put in much effort from beginning to end. I just used up some fighting spirit and yelled twice."

"You at least fought that, Willy; what about me?"

McKen spread his hands helplessly, "I didn't even have the chance to do anything before the other side surrendered. I feel like I followed you on this expedition just to make up the numbers."

"Me too, hahaha; I didn't even cast a healing spell."

Hearing his men complaining to each other, Roning also started laughing.

It seems that he made the most attacks in this battle, using one fireball and one wind blade to take away one person each.

"There will be a time for you to take action later."

Roning interrupted everyone's complaints with a smile, "Wharton and Dandy have just told us the details about the Purple Fruit Tribe and the Gray Earth Tribe. Since we have suffered almost no casualties this time, let's take down these two wild tribes in one go!"

The Green Bamboo Tribe, the Purple Fruit Tribe, and the Gray Soil Tribe are a tripartite alliance that jointly fights against the Black Collar Tribe.

As the few extraordinary people in the tripartite alliance, Walton and Dandy are naturally considered to have entered the core layer. They definitely know more than the hunter caught by Redal.

According to the two people's explanation, the Ziguo tribe has the fewest extraordinary people, only two. They are a couple: the woman is an intermediate water magician, and the man is an intermediate knight.

In Roning's eyes, such a tribe had no ability to resist at all, and he was afraid that he could take it over at a very small cost.

As long as these two people are captured, the savages living in the Ziguo tribe will definitely surrender.

"A magician! I didn't expect a magician would be born in the savage tribe."

Roning was somewhat looking forward to it.

Although the female magician named "Jenny Frank" is already thirty-six years old, which is a bit old, the benefits of recruiting a magician for one's own use will be huge.

If the other party can have a relatively high success rate in making spell scrolls like Elrond, then the spell scroll industry in Hillwood Town will be taken to a higher level.

However, Roning did not have high expectations for this matter.

Jenny Frank was thirty-six years old and still only an intermediate magician; her level was probably about the same as Pedro's, so it was unlikely that she could make spell scrolls.

In addition to the details of the Purple Fruit Tribe, Roning also has a relatively clear grasp of the situation of the Gray Earth Tribe.

As the most powerful existence in the tripartite alliance, the Gray Earth Tribe, while fighting against the Black Collar Tribe, also absorbed some extraordinary people and ordinary people who originally belonged to the Purple Fruit Tribe and the Green Bamboo Tribe.

Yes, it absorbed the population of its allies.

Otherwise, the Gray Earth Tribe would not have had one senior knight, two intermediate knights, and three junior knights as it does now, a total of six professional knights.

It would be much more difficult to take down the Gray Earth Tribe than the Green Bamboo Tribe, but once they were taken down, plus the two extraordinary people from the Purple Fruit Tribe, the number of extraordinary people under Luo Ning's command would probably exceed twelve!

By then, he would be able to form his own knight squad like a normal baron.

The only difficulty is that these conquered subordinates are not as loyal as David, Jewett, and Sim and cannot be compared with Tom, who surrendered voluntarily. It will take a long time to make them submit sincerely.

However, Ronin was not worried about this. In this world, apart from the three followers he summoned, namely, Macken, Elrond, and Rydar, who among the remaining followers did not have their own little thoughts?

Tom wanted to restore the glory of his ancestors, David, Jewett, and others wanted to achieve success and even rise to higher ranks, Chahar wanted to become the chief steward of the nobility, and so on.

Everyone has their own little thoughts.

Therefore, as long as Roning is strong enough and lets these people know that following him can help them realize their own little dreams, they will be willing to be driven by Roning.

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