Chapter 703: Church Country
For adventurers on the road alone, this era is really good, the advent of the elemental tide has brought the dawn of a new era of change, every day is an opportunity, every day is a new change......
Well, I'm talking about people, that is, as long as your fists are hard enough or your head is good enough, there are many opportunities to make money and gain fame, and money and honor not only represent wealth, but also buy power and status.
"Conscription, conscription, wanted, conscription, bounty...... These days, why is it so messy. ”
In front of me is a public bulletin board, full of various bounty missions and announcements, but if compared to before, it is still eye-catching from various recruitment advertisements.
I had thought that it would be very troublesome for a stranger to be in a new city-state now that we were at war, after all, spies and spies were very bad, and I expected that the inspections would be very strict, but I did not expect that the road would be smooth.
In addition to the stricter inspection of merchants and the crazy rise of various taxes, those checkpoints are open to adventurers and knights with weapons, and even to the homeless people who used to be regarded as disasters, they are very overly friendly.
Cause? I was a little strange before, but when I saw these conscription announcements with superior conditions, I instantly understood that in a sense, population is an important resource, especially in the current troubled times, who will stop the flow of precious resources into their territory.
Although it is said to be a conscription notice, in fact, not all kingdoms are recruiting, merchant travelers are recruiting long-term bodyguards, and mercenary groups are recruiting mercenaries. The kingdom is conscripting. The lord is conscripting. Even the town mayor and village chief are conscripting the militia.
The world is not safe, but the first thing to mess with is the hearts of the people, not to mention those nobles and wealthy merchants who are spending money to buy peace of mind, the lords are spending all the savings in the castle and desperately recruiting soldiers, the kingdom and the empire are forming all kinds of knights and mercenary groups, and the dominions and slightly remote villages are forming militia self-defense forces and the like.
In the tavern and at the stop. The video data of the front line was played repeatedly with the help of engrams and the struggles of the front line, the powerlessness and despair of other human kingdoms in front of the demon tide, which made the rear fall into a crazy period of war preparation, and the newly opened battlefields smashed those new forces into the infinite battlefield.
And as the holy war progresses, the war potential of the entire human race will be tapped, and now, it is only the beginning......
Along the way, I stopped by to inquire about the news. But there is news on all fronts, but there is no interest that can arouse my interest.
"You're not going to get involved? That's how you enter the battlefield. It can change the result in an instant. ”
Flipping through the battle report she had just goblin, Heloise offered her opinion with interest.
"No point, too much."
Yes, there are too many, with the active elemental tides, those harmless beast groups have begun to demonize, the sealed monsters and evil gods have broken through the seals one by one, the foreign invaders are one after another, the kingdom knights have alien invaders to deal with, the lords have to clean up those more and more rampant monsters, and even the militia self-defense forces have to fight with the monsters, cultists, and robbers.
This is the test that the holy war gives to the human race as the overlord of the earth, and the victory of the individual and the region is meaningless.
However, due to the existence of justice points and the contract hero system, as well as the previous good overall situation, the general trend is much better than "history".
I have traveled through countless battlefields along the way, not that I don't want to manage it in cold blood, but I can't manage it at all, and in another sense, these battlefields are also tempering and opportunities for ordinary people, and with the help of justice points, their growth rate is worth looking forward to......
"Hey, if the dragon scale armor is repaired, I won't have to wear it so bulky."
At this time, I was wearing a heavy Adamantite Half-length Armor and an enchanted Adamantite Long Sword, disguised as an "ordinary" high-ranking knight.
Seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys, dressed in "top-notch" equipment and good martial arts, deliberately worn out family crests and armor equipment, in this big era of adventure and harvest, it is too common.
If there is anything special, it is probably not riding a tall horse, but a new mount after the magic civilization-steel motorcycle, which is not ordinary expensive.
It's not that I don't want to keep a low profile, it's got me a dozen robbers along the way, it's that I sometimes throw off my mount and fly on my own, and I don't have long to live if I throw a horse into that place of the dead.
But the advantage of this thing is that as long as you use enough mana supply, you don't need to worry about exhausting the horse at all.
The most glamorous thing now is that after I have exhausted the points of justice, I have finally matched my real age and appearance, and I no longer have to wear the bracelet of that fraudulent age.
And what is annoying is that although the physical age has gone up, there is still no sign of restoration of the dragon armor, and it seems that the means of forcibly recovering by relying on the fruits of age have failed.
No, in order to increase my defense, I just smeared a brass coating on the Adamantite Heavy Armor to disguise it as ordinary bronze armor and put it on my body.
"Others are coated with pure gold to show off their innate divine power and wealth, but you are coated with a very sour brass coating, and you are simply down-and-......"
"No way, the sword doesn't have long eyes, safety comes first, and if it is clear that the pure gold and heavy armor are displayed, humans can't wear it at all."
Without the invulnerable and light dragon scale armor, as a "knight" who relies on melee combat, I can only use ordinary defensive armor, and since it is to increase my defensive ability, I naturally take the hardest and most expensive Adamantite heavy armor.
The hardness of the high density of Adamantite Gold is trustworthy, at least when passing through several small battlefields along the way, not to mention stray arrows and muskets, even bed crossbows and heavy artillery have not penetrated.
And the only drawback is that the all-Adamantite Heavy Armor has long exceeded the limit of normal human strength, and my Dawn War Memorial Edition Adamantite Five-Nine (Iron Horse) is also a little unable to bear the weight of this armor, and wherever I walked, there were obvious traces of tracks.
In some places, the roads are so bad that they crush the roads and then sink the iron horse into the mud.
"Overloaded, huh? The road was crushed. Beware of other lords looking for you to lose money. At least when you're in the city, take off your armor, it's like paranoia of victimization. ”
“…… At least after this paragraph, here, the paranoia of victimization is really not fake. ”
We are now in the Church of Stanley, a small country that cannot be found on the entire world map, but it is the core of the "Holy Northern Front", with not only the high-ranking cardinals of the Templar Church, but also several knights and angelic warbands.
Since entering the country, I have encountered more than a dozen temporary checkpoints, and as long as people from the north come from, the inspection is obviously much more serious and cumbersome.
Of course, these simple checks were pointless for me, who had a dozen "ID names" with me and could paint fragments of Heroise on my face to play with disguise.
I chose to pass through the "Northern Front" here, also to take a look at the situation and assess the ambitions of the God of Light for the north, but the situation was not good along the way, and most of the residents here were devout Templars, especially those high-ranking paladins and low-level angels who kept patrolling, and they were deployed to the war-free north, and it was obvious that the Templar Church was very concerned about this place.
And because of my northern accent and the iron horse from the Northland, I have made many more checks along the way than other travelers, but I also know the main person of the opponent by the way.
"Archbishop Gaboro and Cardinal Thorneu ......"
At the same time, an archbishop and a cardinal archbishop were sent here, plus this was originally a pacumen, and there was a regional bishop in charge of guarding the town, and the three high-ranking bishops refused to be in a small country, obviously the pope did not attach great importance to this place, but these two names, I am very familiar with them.
"The Eagle of Jihad and the Golden Shame? It's an ironic combination. ”
Due to the importance of the Church in human society, the deeds of the cardinal archbishops in "history" are all very important, either they have been infamous for thousands of years, or they have been remembered for centuries, and there are only a few who are unknown.
And these two archbishops are also two extremes.
Gaboro is not yet dressed in red, but he is one of the few Templar leaders with strategic vision for the "historical" battlefield of San Antonio.
By the middle of the war, he had a permanent Angel Warband, Paladins and Wizards under his command, and became a mobile combat force for emergencies everywhere.
And his colleague, Thorntu Red, has won the legendary title of "as long as the money is enough, even the devil can trade", as long as he gets there, the battle situation can be ignored, the money must be enough, buying and selling military merits is the norm, and directly trading with the enemy to sell his subordinates also makes him the only one in history.
I'm a little conflicted, I wanted to try the quality of the steward here, but now I think it's a little pity to kill Gaboro, but keeping him is a threat to the Northlands, and killing Thornu feels a bit of a rival.
"Keep Thorntu, with this guy here, even if the northern front is really blocked, you can spend money to buy a road from him."
Moths are annoying, but if they are moths on the enemy's side, they are not necessarily bad.
Now that the holy war is still in its infancy, the bishops have not yet experienced the "trial", and the essence of the Thorntu has not yet been exposed.
If there is no major change, he should always be here, and I should even find a way to make some "political achievements" for him and sit in a stable position.
As for Gaboro......
"Let's keep it for now, no, he's one of the very few sober people in the upper echelons of the Templar, maybe I can talk to him." (To be continued.) )