Chapter 382 - 256: Suppression (Part 1)
The nobles quickly settled the details of the action, and Malin was, well, "assigned" is a better word, by the combat priests of the Church of Justice.
Anyway, Malin needed to follow the third assault team into the village located at the southwesternmost part of this region. The village had a rather pleasant name, Remo Village, a seaside village. It was said to have a population of nearly nine hundred people, with a temple for the God of the Seas, a temple for the Goddess of Fortune, and a temple for the Shepherd God. According to the nobles, such a small place had only one priest and a few assistant priests, as well as being guardians of the faith—because it was too small, the Church couldn’t possibly provide dedicated guards and a garrison for this place.
The third assault team consisted of nearly two hundred soldiers, eighty sword-and-shield soldiers, eighty with long pikes, and forty crossbowmen.
Without any rifles, the only thing Malin felt when he saw these soldiers was that he had traveled back in time to the Middle Ages—from the motorcycle, the bar, and even the life pod that had served as a coffin, it all seemed like nothing more than a fleeting dream.
After reflecting on this, he shook his head—the Farole Principality was a very poor country, much like Carterburg, both being coastal areas. However, this particular marine area had a plethora of Ocean Spirits and various treacherous sea conditions, so much so that fishermen could only fish in nearshore waters and relied more on animal husbandry.
Raising sheep, Sharo beasts, and horses was the mainstay, with horses being an important source of income for the village. They would be purchased by the state and then sold off.
It sounded like an exploited existence, but even so, the breeding of horses was still an important source of income for the village—almost fifty percent of the villagers were followers of the Shepherd Church, thirty percent worshipped the God of the Seas, and as for the Goddess of Fortune... she didn’t really need worship, but being a True God, there would always be people who believed in her, even if only nominally, so there were also about twenty percent of believers.
Since the people here mainly ate fish and animals and didn’t grow grain, the Goddess of Harvest had no foundation in this region.