"When are you going to get the elemental artifact?"

The High Elves did not have the grace of this race, and the storm around him made his anxiety clear, and as time passed, the patience of the wind elemental god Kamdil'an became less and less.

"When are you going to the Dragon Realm? The elders are all here, and you should have read the information as well. ”

This time, it wasn't always the smiling brass dragon who came to urge me, but the indifferent blue dragon Yiwenli surprised the others.

“…… Your Highness, when will the Earth Elemental Throne be restored? ”

The Great Stone Sculptor was also a little anxious, in a sense, when she learned that she was the highest priority candidate for the Earth Elemental Throne, her emotions had been in a state of excitement.

"Wait, how to open a boss if people are not together."

Yes, I'm not the trio of Snake Baroness who have lost all of themselves, since I have already learned from the intelligence around me how outrageous the opponent I am about to face, how can I start an expedition to the other world when my combat strength is insufficient.

"Perhaps, this is the real test of the holy war."

This time, I can be regarded as having made a bloody investment, and now judging from the combat power I have gathered, I am considered to have come out of the nest, and there are really a lot of people who have come, but it is divided into three categories.

First of all, the royal knights of the past Arashi no Country, the immortal undead warriors, the total number of nearly 25,000, that is, the knight I trust the most, and the combat power is also the strongest being, among which there are not a few who have reached the level of heroic spirits, and they are always my strongest trump card.

Due to the troubles caused by the identity of the undead, only about 2,000 of them were active on the surface, and they joined the organization of the Lan League. Some served as instructors and regiment commanders in various major war regiments in Donglan. Some are active in the realm of the undead, the Xilan Empire. They are trying to rebuild the Legion of the Eternal Night, and of course, unlike the chaotic union of undead lords, this time it is my own legion.

Their battle flag is the traditional Arashi battle flag, which is both a trace of the past and a symbol of the glory of inheritance, and it is time to make up your mind to wave the command sword. When the old banner is flown again, the immortals who are not willing to sleep forever will use blood and fire to warn the glory of warriors and immortal knights.

Although this power is the strongest trump card in my hand, it is also the most inconvenient trump card to use, and just convening it can arouse the high vigilance of countless countries.

Therefore, most of the members can only be allowed to hone their combat skills in the underground world, but recently they have another responsibility, that is, to sharpen and train newcomers, and inherit not only combat skills and abilities, but even honor and inheritance.

And this time, with the Tongguò Jumen and the just-completed Greedy Wolf No. 1, I have gathered six thousand undead knights. And along the way, let the two demon bone warships surrounded by black mist pass through various countries, or rely on Bayer's face and guarantee.

And if the Crimson Hound is the most inconvenient but trustworthy force in my hands. The following combat power is probably the most convenient to use but the most untrustworthy force.

"Oops, why did you add two eggs and a chicken leg to lunch today?"

"Don't you know? To celebrate the official establishment of the Northland Lan family, there will be a lunch and a bottle of ale wine for dinner today. ”

“…… Has His Highness Roland finally made up his mind? Wait, isn't that a super happy event? Celebrating feasts and revival ceremonies? Our boss is a living legend, and if he speaks, the superpowers will send people too, right? Could it be that the official ceremony has been postponed? ”

Generally speaking, the revival and establishment of a family is the number one event, and it is simple to invite guests all over the place, and it is not uncommon for a year to celebrate in a row and spend three years of territorial taxes.

This is not only for the sake of face, but also to show the family's connections and heritage.

"No, lunch and dinner are celebrations, His Royal Highness Roland said that he has been busy lately, and his career is important, so he can save money on courtesy, so is it enough?"

“…… How I think he's too troublesome. ”

“…… I think so too, after all, we are the boss of our family, and we are different. However, there are some things that have not been omitted, you know the fifth child of the Eston family. ”

"That lame fifth? Didn't he step back into the second line when he lost his foot in the Northern Orc War? The second child of his family also died in the meat grinder battle, which is really miserable. ”

“…… His Royal Highness Roland made him a knight, at least he didn't have to worry about starving to death in his life. ”

"Really lucky, His Royal Highness Roland has begun to canonize knights? Great, do we have hope? Forget it, we're just a bronze-rank warrior, and we can't take our turn, when I didn't say it. ”

According to the practice on the mainland, the lowest knight rank can generally be canonized, and at least the silver rank is required, which is often something that ordinary people can't do in their lifetime.

"His Royal Highness Roland is different from others, he doesn't look at strength very much, but on merit. There are only thirty people in the first batch, and there are sixteen of us in the mercenary group! All of them are first-class combat merits, and all of them played self-destruction in the Titan Mecha that day. We alone have a third-class combat achievement, so don't count on it this time. ”

"But at least there is hope! Ah, the fifth child is really good, even if he can't go to the battlefield in the future, he will be able to eat this title for a lifetime in the future. ”

"Hmph, don't underestimate other people's lame old five, if he is as ruthless as you, how can he win the Bloody Night Medal. The old guy is now urging the group of goblins in the mechanical branch of the Demon Research Institute every day, forcing them to take out prosthetic limbs with cannon barrels, the old guy doesn't plan to be a knight rank to the end, he also wants his son to be a knight master. ”

The lowest-ranking knights have no right of inheritance, and they can inherit when they reach the baron, but if they do not make military achievements, they will be demoted, so generally speaking, the baron is the real aristocratic class recognized by the public.

A small knight's rank, even if he is lucky enough to get the territory, there are at most thirty or fifty households in a village, maybe this is not worth mentioning for the strong, but for the mercenary who is bloody with the blade, it is a lifelong expectation.

Yes, it's a mercenary, a mercenary from the Super Mercenary Group Absolute Gentlemen's Alliance,

Although I wanted to talk to them about the common ideals and the dream of saving the world, and the long dark night that was coming, but for them. The ideal is the luxury of an aristocratic lord who does not have to worry about his stomach. A stable income and the opportunity to become a nobleman will be a lifelong dream.

As for the end times? If you don't have enough to eat or are fatally wounded. After being disabled, I didn't save enough money for retirement, and every day was the end of the world.

"Mercenaries are not to be trusted."

This is the general perception of these people who do things with money, and for the most part, they are not wrong.

As mercenaries who fight with money, they must think about their own future, if they die or become disabled, their past savings are not enough to support them for the rest of their lives, and as a warrior on the battlefield. Lack of will to fight is absolute, when the Ace Knights can reach 70% of the battle loss rate and still hold on, these guys who take money to do things will collapse with 10% of the battle damage, if they rely too much on it, it will become the weakness of the military formation.

"No matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, it cannot be reciprocated with trust and expectations."

And since it is done with money, if there is a higher price on the other side, there are many examples of betrayal of the whole regiment, and as for the betrayal and bribery of individual characters, it is even easier, so for a large war. Even if they are allowed to participate in the war, they often only act as cannon fodder.

This is the mercenary. Battlefield vultures who fight for profit, they are not bound by the knight's creed, they come more realistically than anything else, but as long as they are given enough bait, they will turn into fierce lion dogs again.

And the general mercenary group will not take on the battlefield mission with a very high death rate, but there are also some battlefield mercenary groups that still choose to cruise on the cliff border even if they serve as battlefield cannon fodder, in addition to the extremely high reward of this kind of battlefield mission, it is more that if it is appreciated by a big nobleman, it will be acquired as a whole.

If you become the private soldier of a big nobleman, the top of the mercenary group will have the opportunity to become a nobleman, and ordinary soldiers will also become a regular army, at least military pay and pension in case of disability or death in battle.

But this alliance of absolute gentlemen mercenaries is a little different from ordinary mercenary groups.

Intentionally planting trees and trees do not live, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade, this mercenary group established as a joke has become stronger and stronger in recent years.

The head of the mercenary group is me, and I can be called my disciple soldier, and my will to fight and loyalty are far beyond that of ordinary private soldiers.

With the expansion of the scope of activities of the Mercenary Group Absolute Gentlemen Alliance, with the strong support of the northern countries, with the northern land as the core of their activities, they have already had offices in more than 30 countries, and even have 17 large sub-groups in various countries, and the total number of registered mercenaries has exceeded 300,000.

More than seventy percent of the mercenaries are Donglan and Siluwei, and it can be said that more than eighty percent of the members are Lan people, and they are willing to join this mercenary group, in addition to the fact that the treatment and reputation of this mercenary group are very good, and more, they still trust me as the leader of the mercenary group, thinking that I will give them a bright future.

And in the past wars, they showed that they were really good, whether it was the flesh and blood battlefield of the Northern Orc Campaign, or the successive battles in the South, they all showed enough loyalty and ability.

But as mercenaries, they naturally have their own expectations, hoping that they can get a bright future, get rich rewards, and get the opportunity to return to their hometown.

Of course, this super-large mercenary group is also hierarchical, and the outsiders only require ability and clean reputation, but when it develops to a certain extent, the backbone of the war group is always the core.

For the warriors who showed sufficient ability and loyalty in the past, the mercenary group will sign a long-term contract with them for twenty, thirty, and fifty years, and once the contract is broken, they don't have to be mercenaries, basically they don't have to think about the future in this life, and while getting paid and guaranteed, they will also return the duties and requirements given by this long contract.

In fact, these mercenaries who have received a long-term contract called a "lifetime contract" do not regard themselves as mercenaries in their words and deeds.

"We are all warriors of His Highness Roland, but it is inconvenient to set up a war group now."

"Anyway, they are all soldiers of His Highness, there are some things that you still need to pay attention to, at least you can't stain that battle flag."

And now the canonization of knights and the erection of the banner of the Lan family seem to verify this statement, so there are countless mercenaries who have applied for a long contract within the mercenary group.

And now, after the news of my decision to rebuild the Northland Lan family came out, in just three days, the number of new applications for joining the group suddenly increased by nearly 20,000, and after the news of my canonization of sixteen knights from the mercenary group came out, the number of new applications for joining the group increased by 50,000.

In a sense, there were no fiefdoms. I'm not a king and I don't owe allegiance to a lord. None of them can be regarded as pure fiefdom aristocrats. It stands to reason that there is no right to canonize knights, but it seems that neither the outsiders nor the group under my command have ignored this most basic aristocratic convention.

Of course, I won't talk nonsense, the knights I canonized will be recognized by the Northlands, and when they have made enough achievements to become fiefdom nobles, I will also find a way to get a territory for them (only barons and above can get a territory, but generally only military counts have it). and the success rate is extremely low).

This time, the Northern Lights brought in 5,600 long-term mercenaries, which doesn't seem like much, but being able to pass the test and sign a long-term contract has proven their ability and loyalty, and their average strength has reached an astonishing bronze position, in a sense, they are indeed my backbone private soldiers.

The development of the shape shì to this point may have proved the role of fame and orthodoxy from one side, and in Diefend, the capital of Donglan, and Antun, the capital of Sluwell, all kinds of "big chess theories" and "premeditated theories" have filled the streets and alleys. Even the vendor on the street corner can tell how "His Highness Roland used the name of the mercenary group to call on those warriors who yearn for the battle banner of Lan." "The royal families of the two countries are deeply disgusted by this kind of digging into the wall, but there is nothing they can do. "Among those mercenaries are not only the Four Spirit Sword Envoys and the Demon Bullet Marksman, but also the Aurora Knight. How can these ace soldiers be wild, it's obvious that they dare to say that they are mercenaries. ”

In fact, I was really just going to make a joke, and I didn't even manage the development of the mercenary group for a long time, and I was able to get to this point, except for the few guys who didn't fall behind, maybe it was simply the trust of the Lan people in that shabby battle flag.

"He is our Highness, and he will lead us to good times."

"Well, it was he who came to let us survive the most comfortable winter in the past fifty years, and this year there were no people who froze to death on the streets, and those who had moved to other places also returned to their homeland."

It would be a joke to say that just by virtue of the past reputation and the so-called orthodoxy of the Lan family, so many Lan people can be attracted to fight for me, but the honor and trust accumulated by the Lan family in the north for more than 2,000 years is my heaviest wealth, but it is also a burden that weighs on me.

“…… Not to mention the mercenary group, if you use your own name to open a circus with that battle flag, it will be crowded by the Lan people, if you don't believe me, you can ask those undead knights of yours. They have long since achieved the foolish loyalty of not asking 'why', but only 'what'. ”

I didn't know how to answer Heloise's teasing, and I knew she was telling the truth.

As for their trust, the only thing I can repay as a down-and-out prince who can't keep my family can do is to find a way to lead them through this eventual apocalypse.

"Maybe it's going to be hard, but at least...... At least we'll be together. ”

They may still be just mercenaries in the eyes of outsiders, but these young lives that have entrusted themselves to me are already part of my body.

The battle flag of the Absolute Gentlemen's Alliance is a black ball mask, and there are countless sayings on the market as to what the symbolism is, but at the time I used this just because I wanted to remind the group of bastards who had become the big cadres of the mercenary group "Remember to wear a mask when you do bad things, I don't want to go to the security bureau to get people." ”

As for "looking at the light from afar in the night", "the enlightened person who has lost a qiē", "the night ranger who does not need a face", etc., it is obviously just their over-interpretation.

In addition to the "Crimson Hound" and the "Gentlemen's Alliance", the third largest organization is the Institute of Magic Mechanics and the Schindler Chamber of Commerce, which are simply called the "Magic Research Institute".

They are not only the dawn of the new era, but also the logistics department of the Lan Zhi forces that are gradually uniting, but not only researchers, but also the four spirit sword envoys and magic catapult shooters, great engineers, and great alchemists are all real combat power.

There are three super battleships, the Northern Lights, the Greedy Wolf, and the Giant Gate, six medium-sized warships, three small gunboats, a total combat power of 13,000 people, 67 grand engineers above the gold rank, 427 engineering and alchemy experts, and countless war equipment, which is enough to start a small war on the scale of a small country.

Of course, with so much to give, I expect to be able to get more...... Even I feel too greedy.

"I think those dragons would have found a way to kill you if they knew what you were up to. Since the idea of fighting their most precious treasure, is this considered an open door thief? ”

“…… I think I will, but by the time they know, my goal should have been achieved. Besides, it would be a waste to give them a treasure of this grade, so it would be better for me to make the most of it. After all......"

“…… Winter is coming? ”

I shook my head, winter sounded like spring was not far away, and I flipped through the calendar, but I didn't seem to see any sign of spring, and my time was running out.

“…… If you really want to describe it, you can only use the end of the world. However, it is so much better than in 'history', at least, there is hope for us this time, as long as my plan can be realized. ”

"So, how sure are you about your plan?"

"I'd love to say 10 percent, but unfortunately 10 percent is too much."

"But at least it's not hopeless."

Looking out the window at the trees that have just sprouted, it seems to be a rare good omen.

"yes, at least not hopelessly. And this time, our goal is to create our own hope and make the future better. ”

"What about destroying the hope of others?"

"Of course." (To be continued......)

PS: What, the foreshadowing has been almost done, although the paving is not very satisfying, but it's time to start the forgotten main line.

What's that, there are very few monthly passes this month, and there are book friends with monthly passes to support them