Reni Tross, a blonde and personable nobleman, is the eldest son of Duke Héctor Tross, Lord of the Riverbend, and has a hidden identity: a mage.

In this era, the path of the professional has not yet risen: the warrior, knight, ranger, mage these professions are still in the initial stage, relying more on the talented, God-given people to study and develop, especially the mage, witch these paths, until now are particularly discriminated against, ostracized, is considered the devil's spokesman, once discovered, expelled or very gentle treatment, the vast majority of will be arrested by the locals, burned at the stake.

"I'm not a God-given person, my enlightenment mentor is my uncle, because my mother died early, so my uncle has been secretly teaching me spells, hoping that I can protect myself from this." In the conference hall, Reni Tros spoke very calmly about his life.

Although it is a very lucky thing to be the eldest son of the duke, if you have a powerful stepmother and younger siblings, it will be a headache, especially Duke Héctor doesn't like his son, and the father and son are not in harmony, resulting in Duke Héctor never knowing that his eldest son is a mage. Although the people generally reject mages, among the powerful nobles, it is a long thing to secretly cultivate mages.

"I've got spider webs, greasy spells, flaming hands, and ranged attack protection, and if I attack with all my might just now, I won't be able to stop you from winning, but you'll have to lose at least one general." While saying this, the young man also squinted at the stupid big tank next to him? Olmedo glanced at it, and was noticed by this stupid big man, and shouted with dissatisfaction at that time.

(Is this an attempt to show one's worth?) Deliberately provoked the tank, so quickly noticed who in this room was the least troublesome, and his brain turned really fast. Sitting on the throne, Shi Yi looked at the subordinates below, judging in his heart the most suitable position for each person.

"Tank, stop yelling, let him put on a show, if it doesn't satisfy me? I allow you to blow his head off. ”

Hands folded in front of you? Shi Yi said. Because of his gaze and that sense of oppression, this made Reni Tross's face a little pale? But it recovered quickly? After all, this young man has real talent and learning.

Coming to the archery range outside the big house, tanks? Olmedo points to a target in the distance? Signaling Reni Tros to attack, if it's just a normal arrow attack? Today's tanks may not die if they carry dozens of arrows? A beastly man like him is terrible on the battlefield of this era.

However, after closing his eyes and silently holding the spell for a moment, Master Reni suddenly reached out to the target? And then suddenly a large squirt of black liquid from his sleeve? While the liquids were still in mid-air, a small tongue of fire ignited them.

Crackling, when looking at the sea of fire, looking at the target of the arrow that was burned to slag in the sea of fire, the people present were Tem, Anos or Tank? They were all scared.

Only Shi Yi's expression remained the same, and the mages of this era actually needed various auxiliary materials to cast spells? Compared with the mage profession that will really take shape in the future, there is no doubt that it is weak.

Reni Tros is also happy with the effect of his spells? But when he saw the frostwolf lord's colorless face, he couldn't help but feel a tense in his heart? Immediately stepped forward and said, "Lord of the Frost Wolf? Would I like to be the eldest son of the Tros family? Recruit captured warriors from the Tros family, and I can help you make it much easier to pacify the lords of the Bend. ”

"So, what do you want?"

"I want to be your royal mage."

"Huh? You don't want a territory, you don't want an official position? When he heard this request, Shi Yi was a little surprised.

"I am willing to devote my life to studying the mysteries of the secret method, but I also ask you to provide me with sufficient funds and materials when the territory has sufficient funds."

"I'll give you a portion of the revenue from the Territory of Riverbend, and as for how much it is, it depends on your next performance."

"Minister, I won't let you down." Hearing this, Reni Tros touched his left chest with his right hand and bent down to salute.

That battle last night...... It is indeed a battle, and in Shi Yi's cognitive concept, it is really not a war of this scale, although in this world its definition is indeed war.

The Frostwolf Leader captured more than 240 Kaiyan and Riverbend coalition forces, of which 100 were directly trapped in the net, so they were uninjured and not taken prisoner of battle, while the 180-man coalition army was killed, wounded and disabled, and the remaining 140 were led by Reni Tros to lay down their arms and surrender under the absolute disadvantage.

Among them, there were 50 people under the leadership of Kaiyan and 90 people under the leadership of Riverwan, because of the command error of Cyplyn Simpson, the crossbowmen of the Kaiyan leadership suffered more losses.

On the side of the Frostwolf Lord, no one was killed, only two infantry were seriously wounded and needed to be temporarily withdrawn from the battle sequence.

"Even if the Kaiyan Territory has been urgently recruited before the plan is launched, there will not be more than fifty soldiers in their territory now, and it is a new recruit who lacks veterans, let that guy Renny go and recruit the fifty elite infantry of the Riverbend Territory who have not yet attacked, and cooperate with my frostwolf spearman to personally defend and defeat the Kaiyan Territory."

"Wolf Lord, who are you going to send as a general?" The military commander Yanos asked a little nervously, after seeing the bloodthirsty beast-like combat power of the tank last night, he also felt threatened, before, although the giant man was also loyal and brave, it seemed that it was far less terrifying.

"I'll go in person and gnaw this piece of the most famous bone in the five major territories, don't worry about Arnos, you guard your home well this time, there are still countless battles for you to fight in the future, remember to take good care of those captives, don't abuse them too much but don't let them unite with each other."

"Yes." Yanos felt the reassuring meaning in the monarch's words, and finally put his mind at ease, and at the same time he also understood what Shi Yi meant, even if the two hundred and forty captives surrendered fifty people, there would still be one hundred and ninety people, and the one hundred and twenty troops in the frost wolf domain were transferred away from the frostwolf spearmen with the strongest combat power, and there were only eighty people left not counting the wounded, and the prisoners were more than twice as many as the army.

"Tem."

"My noble master, your servant awaits your command." Because he has always been responsible for the affairs of the mutual market, Tem has been very nervous all night, afraid that Shi Yi will directly call someone to push him out and cut it down.

Fortunately, Shi Yi didn't mean this. Because the person in front of him is still loyal, the failure to find the problem in time is not that he betrayed himself, but that he is not talented enough, but the entire Frost Wolf Territory is no stronger than Tem in terms of government affairs and finances.

"Use the private treasury and recruit sixty more adult men, all of whom will be trained to become frost wolf spearmen, and I hope that when I return from the capture of Kaiyan, these people will have already entered the training stage."

"Yes...... But, master, your people can't feed so many warriors? The burden on the people is already heavy. ”

"Then it's a little harder, when I take the territory of Kaiyan and the territory of Hewan, the private collections of these two families are enough to cover the military expenses, but I think our neighbors to the north will not allow us to easily occupy the land of the three cities, this bet will survive, we can build a country, and you, you will also be the founding fathers of the country of frost wolves, and now you are all working harder." I didn't care about drawing a flatbread paste on the faces of my subordinates.

After looking at Tem and Yanos looking at each other, with ecstasy in their expressions, Shi Yi suddenly understood why those bosses on the earth were so fond of painting pies, this kind of method that could directly brush the morale of his subordinates without paying any price was really affordable and cost-effective.

In the room, there are only tanks? Olmedo was still scratching his head stupidly, and he didn't seem to quite understand the meaning of the sovereign's words.

The Frostwolf Lord's strategic decision was made overnight, and the next day, in Renny? After Tros successfully recruited fifty elite infantry soldiers from the Hewan Command, Shi Yi took the tank? Olmedo vs. Reni? As a lieutenant general, Tros went on an expedition to the leader of Kaiyan.

In fact, if it is possible, it is more cost-effective to recruit the ninety defeated soldiers of the Lords of the Riverbend, the Lords of Kaiyan are known as the strongest in defense construction and the most difficult to fight the Rock Lords, even if the garrison in the territory is seriously insufficient now, and most of the soldiers are new recruits, but it is still difficult to fight with an army of ninety people (fifty infantrymen and forty frostwolf spearmen).

Cyplyn Simpson is a very tough guy, he committed suicide in prison directly last night, the Simpson family was famous for its stubborn personality in the old era, smelly and hard, of course, if there is no such tenacity, this family with only the title of viscount may be difficult to climb out of the catastrophe of the old era, and gradually grow and develop, it can only be said that there are advantages and disadvantages.

Why Shi Yi didn't allow Rennie? Tros went to recruit the ninety infantry of the river bend lord first, but because he was worried that the other party would turn against him, forty frostwolf spearmen could not defeat ninety infantry in the wilderness and in close proximity on flat ground, even if they were led by Shi Yi and tanks.

These ninety are not civilians, but professional soldiers, and there is Rennie? Tros is a guy assisting, if he sneaks up, he can directly kill the tank with a greasy technique and a burning hand, and even an agile warrior like Shi Yi is a big threat.

But if it is fifty people, forty frostwolf spearmen, under the leadership of Shi Yi and the tank, can bite the opponent and suppress the rebellion, so Shi Yi would rather attack Kaiyan's Territory a little more difficult than let the army itself have problems.

In the course of several days of marching, Shi Yi wrestled with the fifty infantry of the Hewan Lord, these fifty professional soldiers were broken by the general's calculation, so they became prisoners, and they were somewhat unconvinced, when they camped at night, Shi Yi arranged for the Hewan infantry to wrestle with the frost wolf spear thrower for entertainment, Shi Yi himself was the first to get off the field, he fell down twenty-five Hewan infantry with his bare body and bare hands.

At the beginning, the Hewan infantry was really a little afraid and intended to give in, but when Shi Yi won ten people in a row, the morale of the Hewan infantry also exploded, and they couldn't stand such humiliation and grievances, and one by one the sturdy men shot with all their might, and then Shi Yi was rolled over by hell (基♂情の), and he was pressed on the ground with passion and rubbed repeatedly.

In martial arts, the wrestling method is the simplest and most practical, using fists and feet to beat people and kill, that requires a deep foundation and great strength to do it, but it is the wrestling method, with the help of the earth as a weapon, after ordinary people have certain skills, they will fall down one on the ground, especially on the battlefield, it is extremely used melee killing weapon, because there is a distance when it is used with knives and guns, once the bullying and fighting melee, it must be used to wrestle, and the boxing method is not practical.

Human beings are all strong, especially soldiers, because only the strong on the battlefield can lead their subordinates to have more and greater chances of survival and victory, so five days later, Reni? Tros was stunned to find that he had completely lost control of the entire army, and almost all the soldiers looked at Arno? Afar's eyes were full of adoration, that was the worship of strength, that was the worship of the strong, compared to Wenwen's weak and handsome Rennie, they recognized Arno more? Afar.

What's more, the charm of Shi Yi's body itself is not low, but it is not the handsome style of painting, it is more similar to the medieval tough guy appearance of the male protagonist Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, and this appearance is undoubtedly more suitable for the character and identity of a talented monarch.

After five consecutive days and nights, the army finally came to the vicinity of the territory of the Kaiyan Domain, at this time, Shi Yi asked the army to be stationed and rest first, while he took the young mage Rennie? Troth, go to Scouting.

"Do this kind of thing, in fact, tanks? Isn't Olmedo-sama a better fit than me? Why, my lord, do you like to take me on adventures with you? "In the mountains and streams, the mage Renny in a cloth robe reluctantly followed behind Shi Yi, like this kind of reconnaissance, he is very reluctant to do it, this guy doesn't know if he is really lazy, or he intends to show it in front of Shi Yi, in short, he can lie down and never sit, he can sit and never stand, if he can be fine, he will be fine, it is best to only make money and not work is the most suitable for him.

"If I let the tank come out with me to reconnoitre, in case I encounter the enemy, he will fight to the death for me, I am quite safe, but the tank is dead. Come out with you, even if the enemy finds out, I think you can escape with the two of us, in addition to the spider web, greasy, protective spells, and burning hands, you can at least have one wind blast, right? Even if it can't take us flying, it can make us escape as quickly as possible. ”

While saying this, Shi Yi was walking in front, and Rennie? Tros was suddenly stunned in the back, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stared at the back of the man in front of him, and instantly had a feeling of being seen through.

"You...... How do you know? ”

"Renny, I know the mage profession much better than you think, and people like you value their lives more than anything else, so how could you choose a spider web technique that overlaps slightly with the effects of the greasy spell instead of learning a life-saving spell? There's only one possibility, either you don't have a model for that spell, or you hide your hole cards to save your life, and I'm leaning towards the latter because you were so calm the day I caught you. ”

The acceleration of the wind technique, coupled with the war horse, the opening of the way with the flaming hand, and the long-range attack protection, these spells were enough for a mage with sufficient mana to flee for his life in the chaos of the army, so that night when facing Shi Yi, Renny? Tros was so calm, but when he was in the big house later, he was not so calm, because at that distance, in front of the tank and the unfathomable Lord of the Frost Wolves, he did not have enough self-preservation.

“……… Call. After hearing Shi Yi's words, Renny was silent for a long time, and then let out a long breath and quickened his pace to follow.

"That night, you had a good chance of escaping, so why did you stay with me as a prisoner?"

"Run? Where to flee? My father doesn't like me, my stepmother and my younger siblings want me to die immediately, and after such a great defeat, if I flee back to the Bend Territory, there will be no more good results, and instead of being imprisoned by my father for the rest of my life, I choose to surrender to you, at least I can freely study the secret method I am interested in in the future. ”

At this time, both wizards and witches called magic a secret method, and they were very taboo about this magic word, but in later generations, as the caster became more and more powerful, the secret method became magic, because it didn't matter how to call it, and the mages were already merciful if they didn't send civilians to the dissection table and experimental table, and no one could send the caster to the stake. Oh, of course, I'm afraid I'll have to cut out the period when the Void Demon Low Demon was removed.

When weaving through a shade of trees, the soldiers in a guard tower found two people, because there were only two people, and one of them was wearing a scholar's robe, so the soldiers in the guard tower did not ring the alarm bell immediately, but angrily scolded and led the dog around.

There are five warriors of the Kaiyan Leader in this watchtower, and one of the captains is leading a large dog, and they mistake Shi Yi and Renei? Tros is a merchant in the wilderness or other territories, and the infantry captain who is the leader is scolding and saying something, just seeing his attitude, Shi Yi knows that this guy is used to extortion.

"Where are you from, are you spies of an enemy country? Hmm, this knife looks good. Just when the two pikemen and two crossbowmen surrounded the two, and the captain thought that the situation was decided, he touched his fat hand to the hilt of Shi Yi's waist.

The next moment, his arm was broken.

Before the cry of pain could be spoken, Shi Yi's knife had already split it from the middle.

"Poor Cyplin, that guy would rather die than hand over his family, but he didn't expect his kingdom to be destroyed by these miscellaneous hands."

It is indeed stupid to blindly ring the alarm bell because of two people, but this team leader can at least arrange for one person to be on the tower and the alarm bell is next to it, so that even if Shi Yi can kill everyone, the alarm will be transmitted.

However, this squad leader may have gotten some news that the Kaiyan Territory is about to attack the Frost Wolf Territory, so he is not vigilant or anything. In this era, the vast majority of people are generally illiterate and lack of knowledge, so it is difficult to talk about the concept of any talent, so nepotism is not wrong, at least there is a natural trust and loyalty between relatives.

Overall, there are more pros than cons. However, sometimes there are not many drawbacks, but they are often fatal.

There were only five people in total, and Shi Yi's knife skills were too fast and sharp, and the mage behind him, Renny, only felt that the cold light and blood light flashed in front of him, and the people around him fell one after another, five people, only six knives were cut, except for the two knives used to kill the team leader, everyone else was slashed with one knife, clean and terrifying!

Looking at the stunned expressions on the faces of the dead around him, Reney only felt that they probably didn't even feel the pain of death.

(It's so strong, I've seen swordsmanship masters, but even those great swordsmen don't seem to be so strong, and if he wants to kill me, he only needs to blink his eyes.) Despite this thought in his mind, Reney smiled and said:

"Lord, now that this place has been cleared, I'm going to call the tanks and them?"

"Okay, be careful on the road, don't scruple if you encounter a void beast, use spells, it's a big deal for us to attack next."

"Understood." Hearing this, whether the other party was sincere or false, Renny felt a warmth in his heart. He bowed and departed.

Shi Yi, who was dressed in civilian clothes, put away his knife and returned it to the sheath, and before coming to the guard tower, he walked directly in, on the first floor of the guard tower was a wooden table and gambling equipment, and there were some coins on the table, they were gambling money before, Shi Yi walked up the stairs step by step, and finally came to the top of the guard tower, on the side of the clock, from here you can see far away, the field of vision is vast, and not far away, is a stone city: Kaiyan Domain.

This stone city has not been breached even in the previous plague of alien beasts, of course, this is more due to its remoteness, but even so, the strength of its defenses is very impressive.

"It's good if you can outwit it by surprise, but even if you hit it hard, it's not a bad thing." Holding his palm against the stone and looking down, the blood in his body was surging faster as the battle approached, and at the same time, the basic quality of this body was constantly improving. Qi and blood martial arts have been upgraded to the level of strength, and it is easy to wash the muscles.

…………

Towards the end of the evening, five more Kaiyan Commander soldiers came to change their guards, and after being surrounded by a large army, they had no choice but to surrender wisely.

Then Shi Yi asked the squad leader to open the city gate for himself, and the four infantry soldiers of the Hewan Leader changed into the armor and equipment of the Kaiyan Leader's soldiers, and then added six people who took off their armor and wore cloth clothes, such a number would not make the city defense troops too nervous.

"Lord, take me!" Tank? Olmedo had already been itching for a long time, but his size was too intimidating, and he was directly rejected by Shi Yi.

"No, tank, you still have to lead the army, this time it is still me and Reni who go together, after you see the fire, you will lead the troops to start storming the city, you must be fast, my life will be in your hands."

"Okay, the tank will definitely save the lord." As soon as he was fooled by Shi Yi like this, this stupid big man suddenly thought that he was shouldering a heavy mission, and nodded vigorously and said so.

Do a good job of general arrangement, repeatedly deduce the details of the plan, until the night is dark and you can't see people clearly, Shi Yi let the plan start.

In front was a traitor from the Kaiyan Territory and four disguised infantrymen, and in the back were Shi Yi, Rennie, and four infantry disguised as desolate people, Shi Yi and the other six people also tied their wrists with ropes, of course, they were tied virtually.

When he came to the towering stone city, the traitor began to call the door.

"Taoma, why are you back again? And who are those people tied up behind you? Such an inquiry was heard from above the city walls.

"That guy in Vicky has a stomachache, he can't come back, just stay at the watchtower for a night, and discuss with me about changing shifts, as for these guys, they are the discrete business trips that Vicky they happened to catch, that guy is really lucky, he can make a fortune when he is on duty, you open the door quickly, freeze to death." The traitor's voice trembled a little because of the knife against his waist, but fortunately in the bitter mountain wind, this tremor was not abnormal.

"Tao Ma, it's not a brother, I'm not righteous, it's just Lord Bradley who came to patrol, he said that the recent is a special period, you came back a little late this time, you can't open the city gate, you can only use a rope to come in."

The captain of the "........." team named Tao Ma had a green face at this moment, but fortunately, no one could see it in this night.

"Lord, there may be fraud, let's retreat first, shall we?" Renny was extremely sorry for his life, and then he leaned over to Shi Yi and said softly.

If you are caught in the air by a rope, you can't go up the city wall and under the ground, and then you are shot by a crossbowman, then there is basically no way to live, even if you are yourself, you will almost die.

"Lynn, you guy is not righteous, such a cold day, such a high wall, you let Lao Tzu climb the rope, do you want to fall to death Lao Tzu, you still let Lao Tzu promise your sister to you, I bah, I promised my sister to the stupid son of the old man Ba Ye's family, I won't give her to you" Under the huge pressure ......of death, the squad leader named Tao Ma almost broke down, and there was some crying in his voice.

This also made Lynn at the head of the city a little puzzled, thinking that this kind of thing would not happen, and this guy Tao Ma overreacted a little.

However, at this time, Shi Yi had already come to Tao Ma's side and instructed, "Let them put the rope." ”

Although it is dangerous and troublesome to climb up, Shi Yi feels that there is no murderous intent condensed around him, in other words, this should not be an ambush situation, the martial artist with the strength of the qi and blood system is very keen on the sight with killing intent, and Shi Yi also believes in his judgment ability.

"Hey, Taoma, what's wrong with you?"

"You kid, hurry up and put the rope down, or I really won't let my sister meet you." Under the dark city walls, such words were heard.

Lynn inexplicably felt a sense of danger, just like when she was a teenager when she accompanied her father out hunting and encountered fierce beasts. However, Lynn could not refuse his colleague's request to return to the city because of this psychological intuition, and he could only throw the thick cable down after telling his subordinates to be careful.

It was Shi Yi, Reni and other six people who untied the ropes on their wrists and went up first, of course, because they were afraid that they would run away, and in this era, the people of the city-state could directly use them as their slaves if they captured the wasteland, so this was a lot of wealth.

And when he was pulled up, Reni had already cast the wind spell and protection technique on his body one after another, and even prepared the hand of flame, he originally wanted to bless the spell on Shi Yi's body, and enhance his value and status in the heart of this lord, but this was rejected by Shi Yi, if he relied too much on external forces, even if he fought more, I am afraid it would be difficult to comprehend the ultimate mystery of qi and blood martial arts, of course, cold weapons such as swords can still be used, but bows and crossbows blessing spells and the like, It is to avoid it if it can be avoided.

The people under the city grabbed the rope and were pulled up to the city little by little, Shi Yi and the other six "desolate people" wearing cloth clothes did nothing, and then it was Tao Ma and others, in this process, Shi Yi lowered his head and looked at his fingernails, until when everyone pulled up, a soldier asked with some confusion: "Who are you, why don't I seem to have seen you?" ”

It was at this moment that Shi Yi punched the head of a soldier of Kaiyan Leader beside him, under the explosion of torrent-like strength, the soldier's head was almost collapsed, Shi Yi pulled out the single knife on his waist, and now there are at most forty professional soldiers in the entire Kaiyan Domain, most of them are urgently recruited recruits, and it is impossible to be stationed in this city wall area at the same time, so there are at most twenty people on this wall, if there is no accident, Shi Yi can take this city alone.

Of course, this refers to the situation of climbing to the top of the city, as it is now. That squad leader Lynn is still quite literate, he was originally on guard, and at this moment, he also drew his knife in time and shouted at the same time: "Someone is attacking the city!" ”

And instinctively found the leader of these people, and slashed at Shi Yi's head with a fierce vertical slash.

It's a pity that the difference in strength between the two sides is too great.

With a bang, the stars exploded, and Lynn couldn't believe that the knife in his hand was directly cut off by the opponent's oblique cut.

Normally, this is impossible, Lynn's knife was purchased privately, and it was much better than a single knife for a soldier, both in terms of texture and maintenance.

However, this is the gap in the level of martial arts swordsmanship, when the two knives are split, the strength of one knife is condensed and the strength of the other knife is loose, even if the texture is not as good, the knife that will eventually be split will only be a knife with loose strength.