Chapter 158: Dynasties Online - 158 Caught Up
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer."
"Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror."
"Kill them all, and you are a god."
Jean Rostand
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Demarcus Flintcut jumped down from the longboat as it beached his leather boots, sinking slightly into the wet sand, which had now turned brown and muddy as the sea passed over it and the tide crashed in and out. He smelled the salt that was carried with the breeze and looked at the now mostly empty village, having seen many of the villagers scurry about and run like ants away into the distance, afraid to be crushed under his boot.
He was a player in charge of this raiding party, spending the last 6 months in the game working hard to rise in the ranks of one of the leading Jarls in the service to the Grand Duke of Ubernoss. While his band of raiders could not be said to be small, it was not large either; it was big enough to be able to intimidate the local powers as they pillaged and plundered the countryside, never staying too long as they did not have the manpower to fight against the nobles who would quickly raise their armies to relieve their lands of their presence.
This is because the noble’s wealth and power relied on the peasants and what they produced. It was they who tilled the fields and reaped the wheat, providing the food for the noble, his household, and his army.
And it was they who worked and built the wealth that the noble taxed, and in exchange, it was the noble’s duty to look after his subjects and protect them from hostile forces and invasions.
Well, that is the theory anyway; unfortunately, as with all systems in the world, they rarely work as intended or are implemented in their ideal sense.
As a result, unless he came to an arrangement with a particularly powerful noble to help compensate them for their losses, then he would have to run the moment they dispatch their armies to crush him and the little raiding party.
He and his men rushed into the village and began looting, searching through the houses for whatever valuables they could find that had been left behind by the panicked villagers, but before doing so, he turned to one of his lieutenants and ordered him.