Chapter 43: The Holy Sword Legion II
(Thanks to the falsehood in the mirror, this book has a new introduction, I don't know how it looks!The second chapter is complete, please recommend!)
Although this camp tent is not large, it looks very gorgeous on the outside, and it stands out among the military camps.
The recruiter explained that this was a military tent arranged by the Legion Commander for the reception of important people, and as a small recruiter, he was not qualified to assign a mage position, so he had to bring Donald here.
Entering the tent, Donald did not see the commander of the legion here, only two high-ranking officers and a mage in charge of recruiting special professions.
However, it is also expected that the commander's tent in the general military camp should not be independent, there are too obvious signs, and the commander will not easily leave the protection of his subordinates, this is for safety reasons, otherwise the situation of the commander being assassinated will greatly affect the momentum of the entire army. And as an army commander who is about to face a war, he will inevitably be busy with affairs, and he will not have time to receive all the conscripts one by one.
Of course, the three people in the camp would not make the mistake of the recruiter outside, and despise those who came to apply. After all, it won't be ordinary people who can get here.
"Mage Donald, welcome to the Holy Sword Legion, this is our legion's mage, Mage Perry, and he will arrange all the formalities for you!"
The officer gave up his position to the mage behind him.
"Hello, Master Perry, I'm Donald Melinner from the Northshire Mage Club, and here's my badge and letter of introduction!"
This mage named Perry is in charge of verifying the qualifications of the spellcasting professionals who came to sign up, and he is only a high-level black iron himself, seeing Donald's performance, and seeing the name of Messer, the first mage of North County, he immediately became much more enthusiastic.
Handing over a letter of introduction from his teacher, Messer, and after a brief verification, Donald's condition was recorded on the official roster of the call-up order, and he was at the top of the list.
According to the Black Iron Mage who belonged to the Holy Sword Legion, in addition to Donald, there were three free mages who came to apply for the battle this time, all of whom were mages below the bronze level, and the highest was only the high level of Black Iron. However, there are several swordsmen and assassins and other professional strengths that have broken through the black iron rank and reached the level of bronze. As for the powerhouses at the level of the silver rank, they have generally gained their own power and status very early, so they naturally will not compete with their juniors for such an opportunity. The few silver powerhouses who wander outside and do not belong to any faction are also the kind of character that does not like power struggles, and they will not appear among the conscripts.
As a result, those who come to fight are generally below bronze, but even if a silver-level warrior appears, Donald won't care about it.
No matter how high the level of melee professionals and their personal strength is, their combat effectiveness is reflected in small-scale battles, and if they do not reach the golden rank, the large-scale lethality on the battlefield is far less than that of casters of the same level or even low-level, and those people cannot compete with themselves for merit.
These professionals alone can't take much credit, and Donald is worried about other aristocratic forces and the Ansel family as landlords.
Because some nobles' private armies also have mages and other professions they support, the quality of those mages is higher than those low-level free mages, basically there is no existence below the high level of black iron, most of them are bronze mages, and there are two bronze high-level mages, once these mages cooperate with the army under the nobles, they will exert great power, which is the most powerful force in this beast slaughtering army.
So Donald knew that if he wanted to achieve the greatest feats, he couldn't follow the crowd, but found another way to make enough merit to leave others speechless.
It is said that in addition to the powerful swordsman, the Marquis of Ansel also has a silver mage, but outsiders have never seen it, and maybe in this biggest orc war in decades, the powerful silver mage will show up.
However, according to Donald's pre-calculation, the Ansel family, which has become more and more powerful in recent years, may not invest too much strength to compete with other nobles for military merit this time, after all, their family already has too much aura, and adding a few more will not have a big impact, but it will only provoke the royal family.
When you have the strength that those in power cannot control and balance, then you have to be careful, because this kind of opposition cannot be changed by any relationship. Unless one of the parties relinquishes his position and power.
Donald, who had learned about the general situation of the participants in the battle, was told that there would be a reception banquet in the evening, and that the participants were all nobles and powerful professionals, and he was escorted by two soldiers to several separate tents on the right side of the barracks to rest.
As soon as Donald left, one of the two officers in charge of reception and recording left the tent and rode to the fortress not far away.
Summoners, even if they are just a black iron summoner, are more worthy of attention than bronze mages, you must know that summoners can be summoned by skipping levels, although there is some price to pay. Moreover, the summoner's summoned creatures are different from the spells of ordinary mages, as long as they do not die, they can engage in continuous battles for a short time, which is equivalent to countless spell attacks, which is much stronger than the low-level mages whose spell effect is short-lived and will exhaust their mana after casting a few spells.
If such a talent appears this time, it is inevitable to report the situation to the above.
Soon, in the office of the military headquarters of the fortress, the supreme commander of the human side, the third commander of the Holy Sword Legion, a young general had one more piece of information in his hand.
The same content that Donald had just reported, and there were descriptions from other insiders.
"A noble mage?"
After reading this information, the young general said to several officers under his command:
"What do you think?"
One of the officers immediately analyzed:
"Since this mage can be valued by the first mage of the North County, he has been accepted as an apprentice. After becoming a mage apprentice for only one month, he was promoted to a full-fledged mage, and in less than three months, he was promoted again to the middle stage of Black Iron. In this way, his strength and talent should be good, and he can be assigned some important tasks on the battlefield!"
The young general nodded:
"The orcs are powerful, and the number is dozens of times that of ours, but fortunately, the kingdom issued a conscription order and brought a large number of people, but it is not as large as the number of orcs. Our only advantage is that we can hold on to our forts. ”
Then he turned to another young officer who was writing at the desk:
"How's the situation outside the fortress?"
The young officer replied without raising his head: "Most of the mountain people in the mountains on both sides of the fortress have fled to the territory, and now the place has been cleared, and many traps have been set, but this can't stop the barbarian orcs for long, if these guys are allowed to sneak into the territory from the mountains on both sides of the fortress, then the civilians in the territory will suffer great losses!"
The young general didn't care about the attitude of this subordinate, nodded and said:
"My mother will come tomorrow, she has the strength of silver, even if the orc 10,000 brigade attacks, it can ensure that the fortress will not be lost, and the remaining three hundred swordsmen of the third battalion of our Holy Sword Legion and the three thousand soldiers of the auxiliary legion can completely control the scene, although the strength of those conscripts is uneven, but there are several strong hands, it should be a good plan to assassinate the enemy strong!"
An old officer's face showed a hint of joy when he heard this.
"This is really good news, Your Highness can come to the town, and our fortress is safe and secure, but how to repel these tens of thousands of orcs is still a problem. ”
"Don't be too happy, mother, she is also for the civilians in the territory and the soldiers of our third battalion not to lose too much, so she will come here, due to the attitude of the royal family, she will not make a move until the critical moment, so the only one who can count on is ourselves!"
The last officer, who did not speak up, also made his own opinion, saying:
"My lord, don't forget those noble private soldiers, although the discipline and strength are not comparable to ours, but the number of people adds up to five or six thousand, no matter how bad it is, it is still possible to contain the non-main force of the orcs! As long as we can eliminate part of the main force of the orcs, the other party will feel that we are going to plug a difficult bone to gnaw, and maybe they will choose to retreat!"
"It's arranged like this for the time being, I hope there will be no accidents, those bronze powerhouses will be used well, maybe there will be some surprises!"
After speaking, the young general looked out the window with deep eyes, and his thoughts seemed to fall into another world.