Unknown Knight

Seeing that the Hammer of Justice had great effects and yielded good results, Aix felt that it could be expanded, so he immediately formed two mercenary groups using the existing tactics.

They also marched under the name of Hammer of Justice, and cleared out pirates and snowfield bandits near the countries of Nord and Vaegir. The composition of their forces was similar to that of the first mercenary group, and they were led by Fatis.

One group headed to the more distant Rhodok Kingdom to clear out the bandits there. It was led by Resarit. This mercenary group had a different composition from the previous two groups. It was mainly composed of array infantry and had a larger number of people, consisting of more than one hundred people, supplemented by twenty light cavalry for reconnaissance.

These three mercenary groups mainly receive bounty orders issued by various countries, city lords and overlords, and carry out operations based on the bounties. This is legal and compliant, and it not only builds up good relations with local official forces, but also does not excessively touch upon certain invisible interest chains.

They also traveled around various villages, helping the villagers who had been harmed to deal with the notorious bandit gangs around them. According to Aix's instructions, they did not charge these poor people any fees, thus gaining honor and reputation without being accused of having any ill intentions.

This left the Hammer of Justice with a stellar reputation wherever it went. In less than two months, it had established a huge reputation in the Kingdom of Vaegir, the Kingdom of Swadia, the Kingdom of Rhodok, and the Kingdom of Nord.

There were even some remote villages that had been attacked by bandits and had nowhere to turn for help, so they sent people to look for them specifically, hoping to get help from the Hammer of Justice.

Since the Hammer of Justice stood at the highest moral point and never harassed local people and officials, even if some lords had objections, they would not cause trouble for the mercenary group in public. They could only turn a blind eye and allow them to pass through cities and villages and wander around the territory.

After more than two months, the mercenary group had made considerable gains, gradually transporting back more than a thousand prisoners to the territory.

This does not include the various materials seized. The worthless ones were sold on the spot, and the valuable items and raw materials urgently needed in the territory were all packed up and shipped back.

When a large amount of supplies were captured, the caravans led by Manid were sometimes requisitioned by them to help transport supplies to the territory and escort prisoners.

According to the accounting office led by Li Da, in more than two months, the three Hammer of Justice mercenary groups obtained property worth no less than five thousand silver coins.

In fact, Aix didn't really care about the money. What he wanted most were the more than a thousand prisoners. With these people, all projects could be carried out at full capacity, especially the Black Rock Mountain Mine that he had been thinking about.

This really made the people led by Bandak and Atiman very busy. They mobilized a large number of human guards to conduct detailed isolation and examination of these prisoners, which took more than a month to complete.

There were almost no good people among these people, and some of them were even abnormal humans. They enjoyed killing and their psychology was twisted to the anti-human level. For such people, Aix instructed Bandak to directly destroy them humanely. A total of more than 30 people were hanged.

Not for anything else, just to reduce hidden dangers in the territory in the future. There is no need to talk about law and humanitarianism with these people, they don't deserve it. They have several or even dozens of lives on their hands. A few death sentences are more than enough. Death is the best destination for them.

At the same time, Bandak and others also put a lot of thought into managing these nearly two thousand prisoners.

Fortunately, the previous measures for managing criminals were quite good. The procedures for trial, custody, and labor reform had been rationalized and standardized, and a group of experienced custody staff had been accumulated.

Bandak also followed Aix's wishes and made timely public commutations of sentence for prisoners who had performed well in their early reforms, and even released a group of people with positive and outstanding performance early, and let these people released early be responsible for guarding other prisoners, which played a strong demonstration effect.

With the implementation of measures from all parties, although this group of prisoners occasionally behaved strangely, they were quickly discovered and quelled. In serious cases, the army was sent to directly and brutally suppress them, and then the ringleaders were killed, which had a good deterrent effect.

After all the efforts, the prisoners were generally stable and did not cause too much harm to the order of the territory.

The Hammer of Justice mercenaries traveled through the four countries, nominally to punish evil and promote good and uphold justice, but in reality they were arresting villains to replenish the lack of labor in the territories, and secretly they were also responsible for the intelligence gathering work assigned by Aix.

The intelligence gathering mentioned here is not limited to the military aspect, even commercial intelligence is within the scope of mercenary group's collection. These precious first-hand intelligences have a first-mover advantage in time. With this first-mover advantage, Manid has made full use of the business advantages for the caravan he leads, and the overall profit has increased by nearly 20% compared with before.

This also made Aix see the so-called comprehensive linkage effect. Originally, the labor force in the territory was almost sufficient. He also planned to call back the mercenary group to avoid being involved too much and causing unnecessary trouble in secret.

However, it is now felt necessary to set up bases for mercenary groups in important cities, and their main function has changed from actively suppressing bandits and capturing prisoners to only accepting bounty missions issued by local lords, and no longer actively suppressing bandits and capturing prisoners.

Moreover, under the guidance of Aix, he started to provide security guards and escort materials, and engaged in business similar to that of a security guard agency.

After some communication, Aix used existing relationships or simply spent money to purchase them, and set up bases for the mercenary group in Viruga, Dehrim and Kulau respectively.

These three places had nothing to do with the Viruga City of Aix. Chunchun used one thousand silver coins to pave the way, bought a property, and spent another five hundred silver coins to build and set up a mercenary group’s base, which was garrisoned by people led by Resarit.

Marquis Claude, the lord of Dehrium City, was an old acquaintance of Aix. He proposed to invest in the mercenary group by bringing in people, capital and venues, and took away 40% of the profits of the mercenary group.

Rodelaboye, the mayor of Kulau City, is now a good brother of Aix. He also brought people, capital and venues to invest. Aix wanted to give him 40% according to Dehrim's precedent, but this man was determined to be tied to Aix and was willing to only take 30%.

Aix couldn't persuade him and had to return the capital to him. He couldn't do such a thing as to treat his friend unfairly.

This mercenary group model with a fixed base is more credible than those bounty hunters who roam around everywhere. Gradually, the business volume of the Hammer of Justice increased, and the reputation of the mercenary group became more and more famous.

At the same time, it also made X's reputation reach an unprecedented height. Now everyone in the world knows about the Hammer of Justice Mercenary Group, and no one does not know X, the legendary inspirational figure.