Chapter 274-1: Kyoto Imperial Palace, the Great General (1)

[You step forward to touch the Resting Page. The powerful wandering soul resonates with the page!]

Lin Xun decisively set the High Throne Chamber as the respawn point.

As the Head of the Ogiwara Clan, he really couldn’t think of a place safer than this.

An order to strengthen the Red Armor army could be issued once per day, and the financial and material costs would naturally be covered by the clan head’s treasury.

According to the instructions of the cursed game, the Red Armor army had a reserve force of samurai. Recruiting could directly bring up to five hundred reservists into the army.

After the reserve force numbers dropped, they would gradually replenish, but training would still be needed to reach the combat standard of formal samurai.

If they were drafted into the Red Armor army without training, it would affect morale and reduce the army’s combat effectiveness.

Forging weapons and appointing officers could increase the number of heavy equipment and front-line commanders, as well as improve morale, thereby enhancing the overall strength of the Red Armor army.

After studying how the army system operated, Lin Xun couldn’t help thinking of the Demon-Banishment Merit of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord.

“By having the army samurai kill monsters, could I gain Demon-Banishment Merit?”

“Or perhaps have the Greedy Wolf Star Lord personally lead the army to massacre a city to improve the shell’s strength.”

“If not, then could I have the Greedy Wolf Star Lord’s shell kill the army soldiers to obtain Demon-Banishment Merit instead? After all, the troops can be replenished endlessly…”

All sorts of bizarre Fourth Calamity notions kept surging in his mind.

Lin Xun shook his head. The immediate priority was to proceed to Sakura Falls’ Kyoto to join forces with the Great General and resist the Extreme Delusion Fruit.

Once the main storyline was complete, he would have plenty of time to slowly experiment with the army gameplay.

All the explorable locations in Thousand Orchid City had been fully cleared. Next, he would leave the city and head to Kyoto.

However, before going to Kyoto, he had one more thing to do.

Lin Xun controlled the Ogiwara Clan Head’s shell and directly teleported to Dharma-Aspect Temple.

Then, in full view, he summoned five hundred fully armed Red Armor Samurai, broke the cages, and freed a group of little yokai.

Such commotion naturally drew the attention of the samurai on duty and many curious onlookers.

[A few of the samurai on duty hurried over, dropped to their knees before you, and dared not question your actions in the slightest.]

[Instead, the gathered crowd around you kept whispering among themselves, unable to understand why the Lord of the City would release these remnants of demonic abominations…]

[But under the oppressive stares of the five hundred murderous samurai, their voices grew quieter and quieter until they fell completely silent.]

[You tore down a bloodstained whip hanging by the cage, raised it to point forward, and loudly proclaimed that two days prior, a group of demonic remnants had dared infiltrate the Tenshukaku to assassinate you. Today, you would take these vermin outside the city to be executed as a warning to all!]

[At these words, the crowd burst into applause, and the samurai’s eyes turned from confusion to even deeper reverence!]

[You ordered your five hundred loyal Red Armor Samurai to escort the dozens of little yokai out of Dharma-Aspect Temple…]

[…]

[Word spread quickly that the Lord of the City intended to execute these many demonic remnants. Before you even left the city gates, countless citizens lined the streets, cheering and praising your wisdom and martial prowess.]

[Many of them even spontaneously followed behind the Red Armor army, hoping to witness the grand spectacle of all those yokai losing their heads…]

Lin Xun frowned slightly.

Human hatred toward yokai had accumulated for many years. Ordinary people subconsciously regarded them as irreconcilable enemies, to say nothing of the higher ranks who had actually fought against yokai.

This made it clear that trying to persuade the Great General in Kyoto to set aside that hatred would not be easy.

[You couldn’t help recalling the Samurai Duels the Great General had instituted to settle disputes among the daimyos.]

[To promote this system, the General led by example and once declared before all of Kyoto’s Imperial Palace that any grievance between daimyos could be resolved through the outcome of a Samurai Duel.]

[Anyone dissatisfied with the Great General could even issue an Imperial Court Duel right in front of the palace.]

[If you could defeat the Great General, he would grant your every wish, even if you desired the Great General’s own position, taking his place…]

“Damn, do I really have to do some ‘physical persuasion’?”

Lin Xun’s mouth twitched.

From the previous text alone, it was obvious that the Great General’s strength could already be called invincible among mortals.

He had not only forced all the legendary great yokai into hiding but also unified all of Sakura Falls by force… The Great General was surely the strongest combatant in this chapter aside from the gods themselves!

[…]

[You led the Red Armor army out the city gates and ordered the samurai to disperse the crowd trailing behind.]

[Escorting the dozens of little yokai, you veered off the road and headed into the wilderness…]

With the Ogiwara Clan Head’s identity, rescuing the little yokai was remarkably simple.

After spending most of the day, he finally delivered the yokai safely to Dragon Marsh Temple.

When the Sea Calamity Mage saw that he’d freed so many yokai all at once, he burst into tears on the spot, overcome with gratitude.

[You successfully rescued 58 yokai from Dharma-Aspect Temple. They are sincerely grateful and have decided to erect a statue in your honor, burning incense day and night in worship, to express their devotion to the Chaotic Origin Dragon and their gratitude to the Dragon God’s Descendant…]

The cursed game didn’t immediately grant any rewards, but Lin Xun guessed the reward would come after the yokai began their worship. In all likelihood, the reward would be Incense Power!

The more yokai he saved, the more Incense Power he’d receive.

Once everything was settled, Lin Xun teleported back to the Tenshukaku and left Thousand Orchid City in the shell of the Daimyo.