…
He observed secretly and the result was within his expectations. Of the thousand refugees, most were Humans, with some Half-Elves. But they all had one characteristic: they were in the prime of their lives.
This actually showed a very cruel fact. The elderly and the young had already been annihilated when trying to escape the disaster.
Only the strongest people could survive and reach White River Valley.
But this was good news for Marvin.
Unless something was wrong, not many people would choose agriculture.
Regardless of their previous occupations, in the new Sanctuary system set up by Marvin, the fighters were clearly more important than the farmers. They would receive a larger amount of food, with more meat, and even ale. Their training would have priority, and they would have more freedom with their work. They only needed to participate in hunting once a week.
However, Marvin promised that those who chose to fight wouldn’t be thrown out of the Sanctuary into battle before their training was completed. This gave people a lot of reassurance.
Moreover, these hot-blooded youths had too many friends or relatives who had died under the Wizard Monsters’ hands.
They thirsted for revenge.
They would fight.
…
Just as expected, in only one day, a chart appeared in front of Marvin.
“Your expectations weren’t off, most of them chose to fight.”
Anna didn’t seem happy about it. “To be honest, their courage is admirable, but we might not be able to raise so many fighters.”
“Moreover, we don’t have so much equipment…”
Marvin blinked. “Don’t worry, food and equipment will soon arrive. Since they made their choice, let them do the preliminary militia training.”
“Here are the – Sanctuary’s New Regulations –. The upper management of White River Valley will gather tonight to perfect it, and if there are no problems, they’ll be released tomorrow.”
The Sanctuary’s New Regulations were written down by Marvin before the Great Calamity.
Extraordinary situations needed extraordinary measures, there was no doubt about it.
The Sanctuary would protect everyone, but Marvin would never support these people for free. That would only make them lose their will to fight and would cause White River Valley to perish sooner or later.
In the New Regulations, he detailed the new currency system, the reward and penalty system, the Sanctuary’s rules, the division of hierarchy, and so on.
Marvin only wanted to protect this land and these people, but that didn’t mean that he would give everyone the same treatment and status.
Blind freedom and equality was not fair.
People who didn’t invest themselves didn’t deserve the same benefits. It was a simple reason.
The roles everyone had in the territory were different, so each person’s status would inevitably be different.
Hierarchy would make it easier to manage, it would also encourage lower people to work their way up. After all, in the completely new background and system, those who made great effort were very likely to be promoted.
Those regulations were written down by Marvin after careful consideration.
They would dictate the future of White River Valley Sanctuary.
They would be the future laws of White River Valley!
And the guarantee behind those laws was Marvin’s absolute might. It was his complete control over the Sanctuary and the people’s acknowledgement.
…
By evening, everyone was gathered. Anna explained the new regulations once to everyone.
White River Valley’s higher ups voiced their own opinions, but Marvin’s regulations were truly thoughtful on multiple points of view. After they added some details, the New Regulations were more or less decided.
The New Regulations were released the next day and they created a stir in the entire White River Valley.
Many dissatisfied voices were heard after people read through them.
Especially about the hierarchy system.
This made many people feel discontented. A lot of these people were refugees who had escaped from all over the surroundings.
“Why do White River Valley’s original inhabitants have a higher social class than those of us who bravely fought our way over here? And why is it that the people who arrived later and chose to farm are at the very bottom?”
“Right? Why can those people supervise us?”
“Didn’t Lord Marvin advertise freedom and fairness? With him doing this, what’s the difference between him and those Gods?”
Chapter 446: Eye of Justice
Chapter 446: Eye of Justice
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Facing these rebellious voices, Marvin chose to be indifferent.
In the current situation, he had too many matters to deal with. There would invariably be those that disagreed, and everyone always wanted more, especially in such difficult circumstances. Some would show good will, and some would appear greedy.
These refugees were unrelated to Marvin, so he had no real obligations to them. They escaped to the Sanctuary that Marvin painstakingly established and he provided them food and shelter, but now they were still arguing against his conditions.
Some of them were even worse and gathered in a group, criticizing his morals.
Marvin didn’t feel like dealing with them and only told Anna to pacify the people.
And then the night was peaceful.
The next morning, the leading troublemakers were hanging on a cross outside the refugee camp, which made many people remember. This territory’s Overlord was no saint. He did a lot of things for Feinan, and for White River Valley. He got rid of Diggles, Dark Phoenix, Black Dragons and other menacing lifeforms.
And though he did this, he definitely wasn’t like a hero from those novels.
That morning, there were no more complaints.
In fact, many had only been testing Marvin’s reaction, to see whether they could argue for more benefits.
But they hadn’t expected Marvin to be so decisive.
All voices of resistance were suppressed.
White River Valley’s original inhabitants were calm in the face of these events. They understood their Lord.
As long as they calmly lived their lives, Lord Marvin wouldn’t make things difficult for them. On the contrary, he would protect them. He had always been doing so.
Ever since the start of the Great Calamity, only White River Valley and a few other locations were left unscathed. This was clear proof.
But if someone dared to question Marvin’s commands or try to destabilize White River Valley’s government, even if it was just signs of it, Marvin would immediately eradicate them, leaving no room for negotiations.
And the Sha clansmen were very clever about this matter.
They stayed low-key and silent during the ruckus. After it was over, in light of Marvin’s request, they organized fifteen hunting teams on the same day.
The hunting teams were a way to distribute the military strength.
Regardless of whether they were adventurers, militias, army troops, Shas, or refugees, as long as they chose to battle, they would immediately be formed into 60-man teams.
Each hunting team would be tasked with wiping out monsters around the Sanctuary once a week.
The mission would have a quota and as long as it was completed, they would be credited with a certain amount of contribution points.
Their points could be used to exchange for food and other items, and if they exceeded their quota, they would receive extra rewards.
This series of rewards had already been quantified by Marvin and everyone could see them.
Marvin didn’t do all this for no reason.
The current White River Valley wouldn’t face a large-scale battle in the near future. However, there were countless monsters in the Sanctuary’
s surroundings.
This territory was rather close to the wilderness, so there were many strange beasts.
It had to be known that most beasts had willpower far inferior to that of Humans. They would be easily influenced by the Chaos Magic Power, which would turn them into Monsters.
Although these Monsters would be repelled by the power of Order and wouldn’t dare attack the Sanctuary in a short time, they would always be an underlying danger.
Moreover, after becoming Monsters, their rate of reproduction would substantially increase.
Marvin remembered that Post-Calamity, each Sanctuary would have these kinds of hunting teams.
They would clear up the surroundings at regular intervals.
But White River Valley’s area was too large. There were the northern Shrieking Mountain Range, the southern wilderness, the eastern Sword Harbor’s sea, and the western Deathly Silent Hills!
Based on the information gathered by his scouts, there was a frightening amount of Monsters close by.
Although most of the Monsters were just 2nd rank trash, he couldn’t let them build up.
He had to eradicate them.
He couldn’t take care of everything himself, as he had other things to do.
This time, the people in the Sanctuary had to stand up for themselves.
This was everyone’s Sanctuary. It wasn’t only up to Marvin to protect it. They also needed to fight for their own survival and not wait for Marvin to distribute food every day while idling away.
…
In short, at Marvin’s urgent orders, most of the Sanctuary’s inhabitants made new preparations.
Everything was led by Anna. As a Legion Commander, she was well-suited to dealing with this kind of matter.
Soon, she made enough preparations for the first month.
Lola and her little attendant were in charge of releasing the missions, monitoring the execution, and providing contribution points.
Lola was a lot loftier now. As one of the people trusted by Marvin, her power in White River Valley was quite considerable.
Marvin actually didn’t care much about the production of the northern mine currently, so he directly transferred her to this new task.
Contribution points and food exchange were very important matters and could easily create a lot of troubles.
He believed that with Lola’s shrewdness, she would be able to handle this work.
As expected, after Marvin’s explanation, Lola quickly adapted to the position.
Besides the little attendant, she also picked two accountants as helpers from the refugees.
On the edge of the White River’s pier, she set up an exchange location specialized in settling the matters of the daily hunting teams.
From Marvin’s assessment of the situation, Lola would have to do everything by herself at the start. Things were difficult at the beginning, after all, and it was vital to get the Sanctuary running. For now, she would have to oversee everything herself. Only when everything ran smoothly would she be able to delegate jobs to others. Naturally, she would still be in charge of supervising them.
…
After the new system was established, Marvin could feel that White River Valley had been re-energized.
Before, people only talked about the battle between the Gods and Legends as if that matter was unrelated to them.
But now they were beginning to research how to handle the Monsters outside the Sanctuary.
Some experienced adventurers even began to sell some basic Monster information.
Some of them were scouts sent out by Marvin.
However, the Sanctuary had only just been created and the currency system was still not fully established. Food was the current hard currency and everyone had 100 base contribution points. Everyone needed to exchange those for food to fill their stomachs, so only a few people clenched their teeth and bought the information.
Even among the refugees, some were attracted to the fine wines and fine food, giving them the motivation to train hard.
Although the couldn’t immediately perform those tasks, they would be able to after completing their training.
As for the military instructors, Marvin actually prepared a lot and they enjoyed a relatively good treatment. The goal was to train all the able men, and even women, into soldiers.
…
With all this settled, Marvin went to the peak on his own.
After the Sanctuary was set up, this peak became the symbol of White River Valley, but only Marvin himself could approach.
The Source of Fire’s Order was slowly burning at his side.
He walked in front of the Wish Pillar and activated its power, using part of its magic energy to make an [Eye of Justice]!
In a flash, the Eye of Justice slowly rose up like a ball of fire and began to sweep across every corner of White River Valley.
The effect of the Eye of Justice was to find those who violated Marvin’s laws in White River Valley.
After the Great Calamity, it was like the end of the world in Feinan. Even if White River Valley was a Sanctuary, when it was the end of the world, people would always act crazily.
Marvin had to erase those crazy elements.
With the Eye of Justice keeping watch, all crimes would be exposed
And his trusted nineteen Dark Knights were in charge of enforcing his laws.
The Eye of Justice would last a month, and during this month, the Dark Knights would gain the Adjudicator halo. When the Eye of Justice detected a crime, the Adjudicators would immediately find out and rush to the scene to handle it as they saw fit.
Enough time had passed that the Dark Knights had already regained most of their rationality.
Their loyalty remained unchanged and they became even stronger.
The stronger ones among them were Zero and One, who seemed to be close to advancing to Legend. Marvin was looking forward to this.
The Dark Knights’ slaughtering abilities were unequalled within their own levels. Who knew what strength they would display after recovering to their peak?
…
With the Adjudicators defending the order of his Sanctuary, Marvin fixed the last loophole.
It was now time to resolve a few thorny issues.
First, food. It was still food. Even if White River Valley had stocked a lot of it, with the increase in people, there would definitely be a shortage of food in the future.
There weren’t that many people farming in the territory, and White River Valley wasn’t fertile enough, so the crop yield wasn’t high.
But Marvin had a solution to this problem.
That was to deal with Arborea!
Arborea was a fertile world with an abundance of food there and as long as they knew the location of the entrance to Arborea, Marvin would be able to trade with them.
After all, Prince Aragon was still in White River Valley.
Entering the Ashes Plain wasn’t as easy after Hathaway became the Witch Queen, but there was an entrance to the Ashes Plain in the Ashes Tower, so Marvin could return to Arborea through there.
…
The food problem could be solved through the interplanar transactions.
The second issue was really problematic.
It was the matter of weapons.
There were so many fighters in the territory now… How could he solve that weapon issue?
Chapter 447: Trial’s Outcome
Chapter 447: Trial’s Outcome
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After careful consideration, Marvin decided that although they did lack weapons, it wasn’t an emergency.
First, the Shas completely produced their weapons themselves, and the guards of River Shore City and White River Valley already had their weapons and armors. They also seized a lot of weapons in the previous war against the South Wizard Alliance, and although the workmanship of those weapons was average, they had been good enough for the military and would be effective i
n battles.
Moreover, most people needed to train for some time before they would actually fight. They didn’t need the best weapons for training.
Of course, the issue had to be settled eventually.
If they only had ordinary weapons, they would suffer many losses when facing Monsters.
Marvin thought for a bit before coming up with a solution.
The Great Calamity had caused many cities to fall to ruin.
But these cities still had many supplies.
Marvin thought of the first location of the battle against Dark Phoenix, Steel City!
Steel City was an inner city of the South Wizard Alliance and had four fine iron mines. It was the place where the Alliance produced the best iron.
In addition, the city had a substantial weapon production industry and it had all kinds of weapons stored in warehouses. The city had always been tightly guarded by the Alliance.
But the Alliance had already collapsed and the warehouses were now ownerless.
If they could get these weapons, the issue would be settled.
The problem was that Steel City was rather far from White River Valley. It was also in chaos due to being occupied by Evil Spirits, Wizard Monsters, and all kinds of other Monsters.
Marvin would have to go personally to get enough weapons.
And this would be a major venture that would be troublesome for him alone.
But if a Legend Wizard helped, it might be fine.
Just when Marvin was planning to take Madeline to Steel City, he received two shocking pieces of news.
…
The first one was that… Wayne was leaving White River Valley.
An adventurer from the Adventurer Camp had relayed him the news.
He apparently met Wayne on the south side of White River Valley, and the latter was mumbling something while looking further south.
But the adventurer only saw endless wilderness in that direction, so what could he be looking at?
Wayne didn’t explain. It seemed that the matter happened very suddenly and he just hurriedly wrote a letter to Marvin before leaving.
That adventurer passed him the letter.
Marvin took it and didn’t see much written on it. In short, Wayne suddenly sensed something unique in the wilderness.
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