Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Heavyweight Appears
King Charlotte, who was the first to receive information about the movement of Faustin's army, supported his weak and old body, and despite the opposition of his ministers, he personally climbed the tower of Otis City.
"It turned out to be such an army that defeated our army of Charlotte. The aged king, stretching out his wizened right arm, pointed at Faustin's army outside the city.
At this time, Faustin's army was still in the process of mobilizing, but it was in order, the order was still, and the glorious Faustan army was in stark contrast to the anxious Charlotte soldiers in the city and on the city walls.
It's no wonder that King Charlotte sighed like this, at least more than half of the Faustan army outside the city are veterans who have participated in several battles, and there are many veterans like Locke, who have joined the army for several years, and they will not be able to pass through a hundred battles.
As for the Charlotte garrison in the city, except for the 20,000 people who were originally defenders and the army brought back by Marquis Philip when he retreated, the rest were all recruits who had only recently been recruited.
This group of refugees, farmers, and recruits from the burghers and citizens can simply stab, which is already very good, but do you still have the luxury of having a cool head and willpower?
In addition to the king, the nobles of Charlot climbed the tower, the southern and most fortified gate of Otis and where most of the Praetorian Guards of Otis were stationed.
The Praetorian Guards of the Iron Armor Forest gave many nobles who came here a lot of security in their hearts. In fact, since King Charlotte ascended the throne, he has to spend a lot of money on the Janissaries of the royal city every year, which once puzzled and opposed many nobles of Charlotte.
But now it seems that His Majesty the King was really prescient. The reason why the Lion Legion besieged Otis City two months ago and could not be attacked for a long time was because of this well-equipped Praetorian Guard.
Charlotte doesn't specialize in ores, and they rely on food, crystal nuclei, and magic items for export.
The vast plains of Peters' territory and the surrounding hills make the environment suitable for growing wheat and terraced fields. Every year, half of Charlotte's grain is sold to neighboring countries, except for self-sufficiency and storage. That's the main reason why Faustin would have done Charlot five years ago.
Whether it is Faustin in the west, the Likia League in the south, or the Karaman Kingdom in the northeast, they are not large producers, and sometimes when the Charlotte crops are harvested, the shrewd nobles and merchants will sell their grain far away to the suzerainty of the northwest, the O'Moore Empire, in exchange for more cherished items.
On top of that, there's the Murphy Forest, a treasure trove. The land area of Charlotte is a quarter less than that of Faustin, and the reason for this is that the huge area of the Morphy Forest occupies the entire province of Charlotte.
Nominally, the Murphy Forest also belongs to Charlotte's territory, but this inaccessible place where demonic beasts are rampant, and Charlotte has not reached the center of the Murphy Forest where he can explore until now. It is said that this is a forest with rank demonic beasts.
Rank Warcraft, corresponding to the level of humans, is a formal knight and a formal magician. Under normal circumstances, rank demonic beasts will be more powerful than humans of the same level, because in addition to their strong bodies, they also have good magical abilities.
However, it is precisely because of such a treasure trove of magic that Charlotte attracts magicians from many surrounding places to come and live, and the crystal nuclei and demonic beast blood, bones and other items produced by the Murphy Forest every year make those little-known magicians gather here and go crazy about it.
Today, most of Charlotte's Praetorian Guards are heavily armored warriors. Dressed in sturdy armor and armed with giant grass, Charlotte warriors are not good at field combat and siege warfare, they are good at defending cities.
On the city wall, beside King Charlotte, three layers inside and three layers outside, stood nearly two hundred Praetorian Guards. Their armor is so strong that it has been evaluated by professionals to be able to resist a catapult's rolling stone attack, and ordinary arrows can be shot up from under the city, and they may not even be able to break through the defenses.
It was precisely because of this self-confidence that King Charlotte and the nobles had the courage to walk on the city wall at the key point of Faustin's upcoming siege.
"Where is Master Kareda now?" asked the king, a chamberlain next to him, an absolute close confidant of the king.
"Master Kareda is working with Master Maris to make magic crystal cannonballs. The attendant replied.
"Call the master, Charlot needs him now, and the magic crystal is enough with his apprentice, Master Maris. The king said in a calm voice.
The attendant first showed a look of surprise, and when he saw that His Majesty the King was serious, he bowed down and took his leave, and went to invite Master Kareda.
Kareda, this name has no prestige among the Charlottes, and many Charlottes have not even heard of this name, but among the high-ranking nobles, this name is like thunder.
In addition to owning a Murphy Forest as a treasure trove, at least half of the reason why Charlotte is able to rank among the surrounding nations is because Charlotte is home to a magician named Kareda.
Outside the city, Faustin's army moved faster and faster, and the military formation became more and more neat, and many generals standing on the walls of Otis City could predict the time when Faustin's army was about to attack.
At this moment, an old man in a gray robe, with a silver-white bald head with few hairs left, and a black cane taller than him, walked towards the city wall step by step.
At this moment, whether it was King Charlotte or the rest of the nobles led by Marquis Philip, they all turned around and greeted, "Master!"
Master Kareda, without answering the greetings of the king and the nobles, walked slowly up the walls of the city of Otis with slow steps, but everyone who fell on the city wall had a heavy illusion in their hearts.
This Master Kareda, although he did not exude any dangerous aura around his body, and did not even have any energy fluctuations, he was completely an ordinary old man, but it was this momentum that made every big man who had been in a high position for a long time dare not underestimate him.
Finally walking up the city wall, Master Kareda squinted, with a slight coldness in his indifferent eyes, "This is Faustin's army?" the old man finally spoke. The words that came out of the mouth of an old man had a muffled sound of Huang Zhong Dalu, which made many ordinary soldiers standing on the city wall sway.
"Mister and Brunei died at the hands of these soldiers?" Master Kareda continued, his voice filled with a sense of desolation and sadness in addition to the terrifying illusion.
Master Carreda, the legendary mage of Charlotte. Why would the common people of Charlotte forget the name of this master, because the actual age of this master is 400 years old. When the legendary mage was just starting to make his mark in Charlotte, Charlotte had not been founded many years ago.
At the age of 400 years, he has already broken through the upper limit of human life, and ordinary magic apprentice-level magicians simply cannot reach this lifespan.
Yes, the Wizard of Carreda is the first time in Charlotte's history to break through the shackles of life and advance to become an official magician.
This old man was promoted to a peak-level magic apprentice at the age of 89, and a magician who was promoted at this age had no hope of trying to reach a higher realm.
However, this legendary magician, when he was 90 years old, resolutely left his native kingdom of Charlotte to study, and has not been heard from in Charlot and the surrounding countries ever since.
Everyone thought that the legendary magician had either come to the end of his life, or perhaps had fallen into a foreign land.
But what no one expected was that two hundred years later, Master Kareda would once again return to Charlotte in the form of a full-fledged magician. Since then, he has lived in Charlotte for more than 100 years.
It is precisely these more than 100 years of protection that have made Charlotte's national strength skyrocket, especially the power of magic.
In the past 100 years, Master Kareda has taken in dozens of apprentices, three of whom have achieved the highest achievements.
They are Mister with the title of 'Hand of Fire', Brunei with the title of 'Winter's Bite', and Maris with the 'Yellow and White Warlock'.
Unfortunately, Mister and Marquis Campbell died in Ellis City, and Brunei died in Gordon Heights two years earlier. Now, the proud disciple of the Wizard of Kareda is only one Maris, who is not good at fighting, but is keen on alchemy.
"Master, we Charlotte will definitely make this group of Faustins pay!" the nobles were overwhelmed by the magician's momentum, and finally the king of Charlotte stepped forward and said in an unusually firm voice.
His Majesty the King of Charlotte, although he was not a very eloquent monarch, was also conscientious during his reign, and in the face of the invasion of the Faustan Kingdom, he fought back with a tough attitude, leaving a good impression on Carreda.
The old man did not say anything to the king's words, but only nodded slightly. Standing at the pinnacle of strength, secular power can no longer restrain the detached strong.
The existence of the official magician-level is, in the eyes of ordinary people, a mysterious and unpredictable representative. With the limited imagination and experience of mortals, they don't know where the powerhouses of the official magician and the official knight level are really powerful.
There are only two such powerhouses in Charlotte, one is Master Carreda, and the other is the late 'God of War', Marquis Clark.
The Faustan army outside the city is gathering more and more, and the siege of Otis City is getting tighter and closer, and the sharp-eyed soldiers can even see that outside the city, in the Faustan army array, catapults and other large engineering equipment have begun to load, and the war is about to break out.
Master Kareda stared at the Faustan army outside the city with a gloomy face, and a visible storm began to gather at the head of Charlotte City, if you look closely, you will find that the phoenix eye of the storm is directly above Master Kareda.
This spectacle not only surprised the nobles of Charlot on the city tower, but even the Faustan army outside the city became slightly commotion. Although many of Faustin's soldiers had seen mysterious magic before, this level of celestial change was really terrifying.
The strange screams of the war horses, the constant shaking of their heads and the trampling of the horses' hooves, showed their uneasiness. Marquis Sandru, who was the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Eagle Legion, kicked his beloved horse to suppress its panic.
The Marquis of Mammon beside him looked solemnly at the storm not far away, turned his head sideways and said to the Marquis Sandru, "That guy may be going to make a move! This time, it's up to you." ”
Marquis Sandru didn't speak, but calmly got on his horse and drew his long sword. As if he had not been affected by the surrounding atmosphere and environment at all, even the war horse under his crotch quieted down.
Master Kareda on the city wall took a deep breath and meditated in his heart: this kind of treaty without binding force, tear it up.