Summoning Total War - Chapter 57

Chapter 57: The Cretans (Part 1)

In the morning, Murphy woke up on time just as sunlight was filtering into the room.

He rubbed his forehead to try and dissipate the drowsiness he felt from not getting enough sleep last night. The maid waiting outside heard movements from inside his room and gently opened the door. She walked inside with a basin of fresh water. Under the maids’ simple grooming, Murphy spread out his arms and let the two blonde girls in charge of his clothes help him get properly dressed. Afterward, a fragrant porridge was brought in to his room alongside a piece of buttered bread.

In an era when materials weren’t in abundance, just a morning routine like this was considered luxurious.

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Once you got used to a certain sleeping cycle, you would naturally wake up at the same time each morning because of your biological clock.

Although Murphy hadn’t fallen asleep the previous night until four in the morning, he naturally woke up less than three hours after he fell asleep.

Perhaps because he had overworked himself, Murphy’s appetite wasn’t too good today. He only ate some of his porridge but left the buttered bread untouched. He didn’t have an appetite for greasy food.

“Your Excellency, Murphy, the finance officer is waiting for you outside,” a blonde girl with a beautiful face said as she leaned forward and arranged the lapel at Murphy’s chest. The other girl with light brown long hair, who was slightly older, took out a napkin and carefully wiped off the corners of Murphy’s mouth. After Murphy stood up, the two pretty girls checked his entire body to make sure everything was good to go and gave him a smile to let him know he was okay to go out.

They were the maids that the high priestess had specially selected to take care of him.

The girl with long blonde hair was called Bell. She was 14 years old, petite, and exquisite. She liked to wear a pure white maid uniform. A pimple had recently grown on her pretty face, which had made her extremely frustrated.

The other girl with light brown long hair was originally a new priestess, but for some unknown reason, the high priestess had sent her to take care of Murphy’s daily needs.

At 18 years old, she was two years older than Murphy. With a slender figure, she was far taller than the other maids. In fact, she was taller than Murphy by half a head. She had a pair of gorgeous, slender legs that were very beautiful. In fact, Murphy had always wanted to give her a pair of stockings to put on. Well, she was also a combat sacrifice who had good swordsmanship. She taught swordsmanship to the other maids in the Governor’s Mansion.

She had a very nice name. Angela. Angela Sparta.

This spartan girl was full of youthful vitality.

The other role that she had, and the other reason why the high priestess had sent her to him, was to act as his sex-love teacher.

That is, in the case that Murphy became sexually active, she was responsible for sleeping with him and teaching him about the relationship between men and women. Although she was a virgin herself, the priestess had already taught her about men and women in the temple.

In the eyes of the high priestess, she should have more theoretical knowledge about the subject than Murphy.

No matter what country it was, before teenage nobles were fully matured, the teenagers had a dedicated senior maid who would teach them sex-love skills. This was one of the courses that they had to attend. The more powerful the caste, the more so. Under normal circumstances, between the age of 13 to 14, teenagers would have a relationship with their sex-love personal maid, which would continue until they married a woman as their wife.

If he was an heir who was deliberately groomed by a large family, he would even have to be exposed to at least ten or more women.

This included girls and married women.

This wasn’t **. Instead, it was to make them familiar with all this and learn to be sensible when facing women. It told them that as long as they had power, they would have all of this.

There were many beautiful and mature women in the noble castle. They were wives or serfs or citizens and were responsible for taking care of the inner castle. Occasionally, they would come to serve the lord or teach the noble boy.

This was not surprising, nor was it unacceptable.

Because in those times, when the first-night rights had yet to be abolished, the lower-level people had to pay a fee to the lord, even if they were married.

So-called chastity was actually very cheap.

In the darkest era, when the lords exercised their first-night rights on the bride, they would even reward their attendants after enjoying themselves, because the bride was taken into the castle to exercise such rights. If you met such a lord, you could imagine what the bride would look like when she came out of the castle the next day. And often, they dared not to tell anyone, much less their husbands.

From this, another cruel practice appeared.

And that was to kill the first child.

In that dark and ignorant age, there was holiness and nobility, as well as the filthiest corruption and decay.

It was actually very simple to be a kind and beloved lord by the people.

It could be said without any politeness that Murphy could be labeled as “benevolent” or “wise” in terms of moral standards!

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In the lobby of the Governor’s Mansion.

The newly-promoted finance officer had been waiting for Murphy for a long time.

As a matter of fact, he had arrived just as the sky had started to lighten. It was just that Murphy was still asleep, and after knowing that Murphy hadn’t come back until early in the morning, he had no choice but to wait patiently for Murphy to wake up.

A lot of things had happened in the territory within these past two days, and he had a lot of things he wanted to ask Murphy for advice on.

It was only when Murphy came out to see him that he let out a long breath.

Quickly, he reported what had happened in the territory these last two days.

Murphy listened quietly while he sat in his chair, occasionally interrupting the officer to ask for more details.

There were many things that had happened in the past two days, but only a few were of importance.

The first matter was that the shooting range had been completed. Secondly, after Murphy had left the territory, Lady Elizabeth had left the territory right after. Not only that, but she had also taken a full infantry of the Greek infantry. After deciding to cooperate with Lady Elizabeth, Murphy had given her certain power. She was the clerk of the territory and had the power to dispatch the Greek infantry as her guards.

Lady Elizabeth had left in a hurry and hadn’t offered any explanation.

This was because she was living in the Governor’s Mansion. It could be said that a large majority of people in the territory thought that there was something going on between the mature and elegant noble lady and the Lord Governor, Murphy. This was actually something the leaders liked to see. It was a certain kind of reverence that proved their Governor’s charm and gave the people a strange sense of pride!

They would talk excitedly in private: “Look! Our wise and powerful Governor has conquered a noble lady!”

It had been two days since she left, and no news about her had come.

With regard to Lady Elizabeth, Murphy still trusted her.

Not to mention that he would never believe that a woman with such great ambition and artfulness would spend so much time and energy just to abduct his team of Greek infantry.

This was a kind of reasoning, a reasoning a superior person would have.

Therefore, he believed that Lady Elizabeth must have met with something unexpected that had caused her to leave.

As for any other reasons why, Murphy couldn’t guess, but it was probably something very important!

The last and most important development was that the territory had welcomed a new batch of refugees—the Cretans!

A big tsunami had occurred on Crete Island.

These Cretans had come to this world under the influence of a mysterious force. This time, 1,500 Cretans had been brought in! Among them, half were men and half were women! Like the previous batch of refugees, they had forgotten much of their past.

Cretans.

After Murphy heard this, a sentence popped into his head!

“The skills of Cretan archers are famous all over the world!!!”