Volume 2 Chapter 133 - Lotte’s night invitation (1/2)

After the City Lord Manor’s year end banquet was over, it was already night time. Adding in the fact that there was no moon and few stars in the sky, once one left the light of the City Lord’s Manor, they would be surrounded in darkness.

Xu Yi was slowly walking in a dark corner and seeing that no one was chasing him, he let out a long sigh and relaxed.

When he walked out of the City Lord’s Manor, there were several noble ladies that chased him, proposing to Xu Yi and inviting him to spend the night.

There was even one girl who made bold promises while taking Xu Yi’s hand and placing it on her rich mound. The scared Xu Yi immediately pulled out his hand and ran off.

Looking at his hand that had touched that rich mound, Xu Yi couldn’t help shaking his head. If he hadn’t been thinking of Still, he might not have been able to hold on and would have been swallowed by those noble ladies.

After calming his heart, Xu Yi confirmed where he was and began heading home.

Every time he left a banquet at the City Lord’s Manor, he was used to walking home.

One reason was because it wasn’t far and a second reason was because he wanted time to think about the issues that he had encountered at the banquet.

What he was thinking about now was the matter of guards that chairman Cruise had mentioned.

It was like chairman Cruise had said, the Sines Continent wasn’t as peaceful as China on earth. Because of the inconvenience of communication while transporting goods and adding in the backwards nature of society, there were many places that still had bandits.

So normally large companies would have guards that belonged to them. Even when a small company transported goods, they would have some guards protecting the cargo.

Otherwise, even if just a single load of cargo was taken, it would mean destruction for a small company.

The Lampuri Kingdom was stable right now and he didn’t need to worry about this problem, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was about to cooperate with the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, so it was hard to ensure that nothing would happen.

Not to mention that there was the real problem of the beastmen tribes from the Black Rice Wasteland.

If they established the mine and factory near the Voller wolfmen tribe, because the mine was built with cooperation from the three companies, he could let the Armit Chamber of Commerce or the Renekton Chamber of Commerce take care of guard duty. At most, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give up some profits.

But the non-ferrous metal processing plant was owned by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone. When chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa wanted to cooperate, they were rejected by Xu Yi, so of course he couldn’t just ask them for help with guarding it.

So chairman Cruise was right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to train guards.

As for the advantage that Xu Yi said the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, he was naturally referring to the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only had good relationships with the dwarves and elves, they even hired large amounts of dwarves and elves as workers.

With this relationship, if Xu Yi were to ask for help, it wouldn’t be hard to get dwarves and elves as guards for their company.

On the Sines Continent, there were appraisals of each race. For example, humans had creativity and learning capabilities, the dwarves were naturally talented in forging, and the elves were specially talented in designing…..It should be said that these were their fortes.

But when it came to appraising battle strength, humans were publicly known as one of the weakest when it came to single person combat abilities.

Other than the powerful magicians among humans, there were few warriors that could compare to other races when it came to personal battle strength.

When the humans snatched the continent from the elves’ hands in the past and suppressed the other races, they relied on the human’s strong sense of discipline and powerful cooperation. Of course, the more important thing was the fertility of humans…..

However, even though humans had already ruled the continent for thousands of years, one had to admit this difference in terms of single person combat ability.

Based on public opinion, an adult elven warrior had the single combat abilities that surpassed five normal human warriors. If they were fighting in the jungle or at night which elves excelled in, an elf could take out a whole human platoon by themself.

Although dwarves weren’t as mysterious and hard to deal with as the elves, because of their shockingly powerful physiques and their natural mastery of weapons, an adult dwarf could take care of three to five human soldiers.

And if it was a trained dwarven soldier, they could easily deal with ten human soldiers.

The sense of discipline and teamwork among dwarves was the best apart from humans. If a group of dwarven soldiers came together, with their powerful combat abilities, they could even push back the same number of elves.

Of course, the weakness of the dwarves was that they couldn’t learn magic.

To make up for that, they had very high natural resistance to magic. Normal low level spells couldn’t hurt them at all.

In short, if a company could recruit guards from elves and dwarves, they would be much stronger than normal guards.

Only after the race wars of thousands of years ago, the other races separated themselves from humans, so it was impossible for companies to hire other races as guards.