After arguing and debating countless times, Zhang Yang still persuaded Tonks to rush to recruit mercenaries, and the 1,430 silver dinars were equal to the start-up capital of their mercenary group, which had to be decided carefully.

Then, Zhang Yang took out 100 silver dinars and booked three rooms in the Lion Tavern for twenty days, this is to allow Tonks to completely recover from his injuries, although this guy's physical recovery speed is comparable to that of a beast, but since there is no shortage of money now, of course, it is to condition his body better.

Zhang Yang also hopes that Tonks can go one step further and upgrade to the highest class.

Of course, he was still selfish, which was undoubtedly boring for Tonks to be such a long twenty days, just in time for him to train Carly.

As for himself, after everything was arranged, he went into his room and began his long-lost retreat.

What he had to do was to copy the Soul Nourishing Talisman, which was a method that could be practiced without cultivating or needing too much heaven and earth aura, and he had to try it.

After all, for Zhang Yang, his body was just taken away, and the real core was still his soul.

However, the entry of the soul nourishing talisman requires some medicinal materials, or some heaven and earth aura, and Zhang Yang can't get it, so after thinking about it, he decided to use the 1.4 unit of elven blood, he took out the elven blood, dipped his hand in his forehead and quietly copied it, and then used this to condense his mind and visualize this soul-nourishing talisman in his soul.

He has experience, but he doesn't know if the blood of the elves is reliable.

As he continued to meditate, the soul nourishing talisman on his forehead that was copied with the blood of the elves suddenly sank into his skin, and at the same time, in his soul, a faint soul-nourishing talisman gradually took shape, but this was not the end of the process, but the first step.

Through the soul nourishing talisman in this soul, Zhang Yang carefully fused his soul with the soul nourishing talisman, and the mutation also appeared at this moment, and many fragments of knowledge emerged, which was actually the cultural inheritance of the elves, as well as some magical knowledge that the elves would only master.

Zhang Yang recorded it carefully, which was an unexpected joy.

In the following three days, he successfully visualized the first soul nourishing talisman, and at this moment, there was an extra layer of defensive barrier in his soul.

However, I don't know if it's because he has mastered the knowledge of those crippled elves, or because of this heavy soul nourishing talisman, the intelligence of his body has increased by 1 point, from the original 16 points of intelligence, to 17 points of intelligence, and thus has an additional free skill point.

After a little thought, Zhang Yang added this skill point to the mounted archery, and it became a level 3 mounted archery.

Next, he continued his retreat to visualize the Soul Nourishing Talisman, because if he could increase his intelligence in this way, he would not be able to ask for it.

However, every evening, Tonks would complain, he was responsible for training Carly during the day, but he was quite depressed, but Zhang Yang did not let go, anyway, the initial funds of the team were in his hands, and Tonks would never be given a chance.

In this way, twenty days passed in a blink of an eye, Tonks's injuries recovered intact, and Carly was promoted to three levels in a row because of Tonks' desperate training.

As for Zhang Yang, he thought of the soul nourishing talisman as the second level, and then, as expected, his intelligence increased a little, and he still added skill points to the riding and archery skills, so far, his attributes have become-

Name: Theo

Age: 17 years old

Level: 11

Primary Class: Mercenary Cavalry,

Life: 62

Strength: 16

Dexterity: 12

Intelligence: 18

Charm: 6

Long Pole Proficiency: 70

One-handed proficiency: 65

Throwing proficiency: 205

Skills: Iron Bone Level 1, Throwing Level 4, Riding Level 5, Riding Archery Level 4, Healing Level 2, Surgery Level 2.

Equipment: Sapphire Rune Throwing Knife, Heavy Assassin Throwing Knife×9, Sapphire Rune Sword, Cavalry Shield, Ancient Imperial Javelin.

Level 4 throwing + level 4 riding archery + level 5 riding skills, this combination can already allow Zhang Yang to have an 80% hit rate when galloping at medium speed.

He's happy with this, as it means that his combat style will change to high mobility, high lethality, non-melee, and he will be able to fly a kite to kill enemies as long as they don't have ranged units.

"Then, it's time to go. ”

Zhang Yang finally relented, but before leaving, he still took out 500 silver dinars, added a shield to Tonks, added a hunting crossbow and a bundle of crossbow arrows to Carly, and added two sets of heavy javelins to himself.

"Tonks, are you still sticking to our bet?"

"Of course, Theo, I will surely become the greatest mercenary captain. ”

"If I win, will you walk away?" Zhang Yang asked half-jokingly, mainly because he was the son of a farmer, and his identity was a big problem in this world, and he was worried that Tonks would not be able to save face.

"Ha, don't worry, Theo, as long as you kill more enemies than I do, I'll keep my word. Tonks was clever enough to pick up on the implications, "But, with all due respect, you really don't have a chance. ”

"Haha, Tonks, we'll see!"

Three men and three horses rushed out of the city of Salion in high spirits, targeting a group of robbers of the caravan of the Green Woods, this was the task that Tonks took over from the city councillor yesterday, and he had already obtained the specific course of action of the group of Green Forest bandits.

Facing the rising sun, Zhang Yang and the three of them let their horses run wild on the flat road, well, the main thing is to Zhang Yang himself galloping, Tonks's riding skills are only level 2, and Carly is only level 1, they can only ride their horses slowly, and Zhang Yang, a master who can unite people and horses and can make all kinds of thrilling actions, cannot be compared.

So after walking all morning, they didn't rush to the area where the gang of green forest robbers was infested.

But there was no hurry, the three of them happily replenished their lunch, rested their horsepower, and did not continue on the road until two hours later, this time their luck was good, only to go out of more than ten miles, they met two suspicious people sitting on the side of the road, at first the other party did not move, until Zhang Yang deliberately dropped the pocket containing the silver dinar on the ground, the other party immediately turned around and whistled, got on the horse and ran.

Just a moment later, a group of more than thirty Green Forest bandits surrounded Zhang Yang and the others.

I have to say that this group of green forest bandits is very professional, they have sentry, some are responsible for breaking off, and some are responsible for laying down barricades to intercept, no wonder they can rob those cunning caravans.

"Don't be verbose, just do it! Carly, you hide to the side and try to avoid close combat. ”

Zhang Yang shouted, and then urged his horse forward, rushing towards the group of green forest bandits with the largest number of people in front of him.

"Boom!"

Two crossbow arrows broke through the air, this group of green forest bandits is also very fierce, but unfortunately the head is not very good, Zhang Yang holds the shield in his left hand, hides his body behind him, and controls the horse purely with his legs, and kills in a few breaths to the front, and then makes a sharp turn, avoiding a tripwire, and at the same time two heavy assassins are shooting with lightning with flying knives.

The level 4 mounted archery skill worked very well at this moment, and the two robbers who were pulling the tripping rope were shot over without saying a word.

Then Zhang Yang turned his horse to the right again, opened an arc, and two heavy assassin throwing knives shot the two robbers with hunting crossbows more than thirty meters apart.

Immediately after, the throwing knives in his hand did not stop, and in a short time, nine heavy assassin throwing knives were thrown, hitting eight people, killing one, seriously injuring five, and lightly injuring two.

The results are quite impressive.

Among those robbers, there were also three riders chasing after him at this time, but Zhang Yang was not afraid at all, he took out an ancient imperial javelin, deliberately slowed down, and waited until a robber rider rushed more than ten meters away, then he twisted his waist and turned around, the javelin flew out of his hand, and a blow passed through the neck of the robber rider, and the blood suddenly rose like a fountain, and he screamed and fell off his horse.

The remaining two robber riders were shocked, and immediately reined in their horses and wanted to escape, they had already realized that they had encountered a hard stubble this time, but Zhang Yang turned his horse's head and did not chase after him, he took out an ancient imperial javelin, threw it violently, and hit a robber rider's vest, they were wearing only a little leather armor, and they could not defend at all, and they fell off their horses and died miserably.

However, the last robber rider rode quite well, and he stabbed in and fled, and opened up the distance, Zhang Yang knew at a glance that he could not hit, so he immediately turned back, drew the sapphire rune long knife, and slaughtered the remaining robbers on foot.

Well, it's a slaughter, without the stumbling rope, without the confrontation of the cavalry, with the flamboyant fast horse long knife, it is like a strong wind, and every time the long knife is waved, it will inevitably roll up a puddle of blood.

In just ten minutes, the nineteen Green Forest bandits were all killed by Zhang Yang.

At this time, Tonks had only finished clearing the 6 robbers intercepted behind, not because his strength was not high enough, but because his two legs couldn't run on four legs at all.

Even two of the robbers who escaped were brought down by Carly with a hunting crossbow.

"It's not fair, these bastards just know how to escape!"

Tonks muttered, and then cleaned up the battlefield, in fact, he was very surprised in his heart, he couldn't imagine how long it would take, a low-level soldier would have such combat effectiveness, although it is said that these green forest bandits are garbage, but it is not easy to fight if there is too much garbage, especially since the other party also has a hunting crossbow, just now thanks to the shield prepared for him by Zhang Yang, otherwise he would have to be shot into a few blood holes even if he rushed forward.

Zhang Yang was also busy cleaning up the battlefield at this time, and it was unnecessary to show off, after all, the difficulty of this battle was not high, and the strength of the green forest bandits was not even comparable to that of the regular army, but even most of the mercenaries.

However, killing 19 Green Forest Bandits took him up another level, and he is currently level 12.

After thinking about it, he added a little agility and increased his throwing skills to level 5, so that he could increase the throwing damage to 50%, and if he was lucky, he could use the Sapphire Sigil Throwing Knife to seriously injure a veteran like Tonks with one hit, and kill it with two hits.

However, in this way, his melee will become a shortcoming, and if he doesn't have a warhorse, he will have a high probability of being bad, so he will be able to gain agility if he upgrades in the future.

The intelligence attribute can be improved by visualizing the soul nourishing talisman, and as for the charm attribute, it is useless for the time being.

After cleaning the battlefield, the three of them returned with a full load, Zhang Yang did not mention the matter of the mercenary captain, returned to Sarion in the evening, first went to the city magistrate to hand in the task, and received a bounty of 200 silver dinars, and as for the sale of the captured booty, he got another 850 silver dinars.

At this point, the team's assets have accumulated to 1,550 silver dinars.

Other assets, one Daxia war horse, one armored war horse, and one ordinary hunting horse.

Personnel, Zhang Yang level 12, Tonks level 35, Carly level 8.

"Congratulations, our mercenary group has officially opened!" "At the city magistrate's place, the Flame Mercenary Group was registered in a serious manner, yes, this needs to be registered, and each major city in the kingdom must be registered, otherwise it will be considered illegal to go to other cities without permission in the name of the mercenary group.

And only when the more registered cities there are, the higher the reputation and the more tasks you complete, will you gain a higher status and higher prestige.

When the time comes, he can even be given a fief by the kings of the major kingdoms and become a noble vassal, which is the ultimate goal pursued by Tonks.