Chapter Forty-Eight: Return to Norma
Of course, Panda is not the only traverser who needs to change their vests, but also the dwarf Loma Copperbeard (Horus) and the crossbow knight Nexhart (Huck).
They all participated in the death squad, and they all died in front of everyone, and if they didn't change their vests, the resurrection of the dead would not be a trivial matter. Especially since they are not ordinary dead people, they have no bones left after the self-explosion. It is absolutely impossible to resurrect such a dead person, at least in the Western Continent, and all the churches cannot do it together.
There are such means on the eastern side, but the cost is also jaw-dropping. In the game, one of the big plots of Dongtu is the "Return of the Ancestral Dragon" - the Legalist sect that has been hidden in the shadows wants to resurrect the ancient tyrant "Zulong" who was defeated and burned to ashes by the heroes "Heavy Pupil", "Red Emperor" and "Honghuzi" through the Great Festival of Five Mountains and Four Seas and Kyushu, which led to a major war.
Loma Copperbeard has changed himself into a heavy armor, a large shield sharpened with edges and a heavy war hammer, still in the form of a dwarven shield defender, a radical departure from the berserker before him, and the crossbow knight has changed into a light armor, a light crossbow, and a spear, becoming the usual guerrilla knight.
As for skills, the traversers are versatile, they originally relied on skills rather than years of hard training to gain combat effectiveness, and if they want to change their fighting style, it is nothing more than to change their equipment, improve their related skills, and carry out some special training. With just a week of training, you can change your fighting style into something completely different that outsiders will never see.
Who would have thought that the berserker-like dwarf would use a good shield and wield a warhammer like a shield-keeper trained since childhood? Who would have thought that the guerrilla knight, who was quick and fierce in marksmanship and had great courage to open and close, would be a crossbow knight who had previously worn heavy armor and relied on strong defensive power to snipe at the enemy?
Isn't that scientific!
However, for the traversers, science can use the relevant fighting style if they have relevant skills, which is very scientific, is there a problem?
Two weeks later, the three of them had completed their cultivation almost at the same time, so they formed a grass platform team and organized an adventure team called themselves "Swords and Sandals" to go in the direction of the Norma Line.
Coincidentally, they also met three of Panda's students on the way. Erwin, Wren, and Ryana have now become truly skilled adventurers, operating in the border areas of Trera and Mora, both as adventurers and as smugglers. The main items they smuggle are food and simple enchanted equipment, the former being an unlimited amount of money that the Tara Khan Collar has been purchasing, and the latter being the fist product of the "Golden Flash Workshop".
The Golden Flash Workshop is an organization established by Ilo (Binglin). Selling mainly enchanted gems and equipment, this workshop features a simple and crude style, with no elaborate meaning and no "artistry" to speak of. The advantage is that the price is relatively low, and the quality is stable and reliable.
There aren't many products in the workshop, and Ilo is not short of money, and they don't plan to make and sell them in large quantities. In addition, he had a bad relationship with Count Tara Khan, and he was unwilling to supply his products to the Tara Khan Chamber of Commerce, so that the other party would have one more way to make money, and as a result, many products were piled up in the warehouse and suffered.
Not long ago, the disciples of the panda returned to Tara Khan, and after the experience, they have matured a lot, and even the character templates have been upgraded to the blue level. When Ilo saw them, he had the idea to sell these products to the Federation by smuggling, and the profits would be divided into 37%.
He didn't care about money, but wanted to see if these students of Panda could continue to grow.
The blue template is not a great thing, but if you can grow from the blue template to the purple template, these three young people have a bright future!
To improve the character template, it is natural to go through a variety of things. Smuggling isn't a very special thing, but if it's big enough, it's no less than some legendary adventure.
Don't you see, did the famous legendary powerhouse "Pirate King" in the Western Continent start as a small smuggler?
Ever since that windfall, money has long been just a number for Iro. In contrast, he was more curious about whether it was possible for the three young people to go further. Coupled with the good relationship between him and Panda, he is willing to try his best to facilitate these young people and promote their growth as long as conditions permit.
Let alone...... Selling the products of the workshop through smuggling channels is actually more profitable than selling them through the Tarakhan Chamber of Commerce.
It can not only promote research, but also make money, and enhance the friendship with pandas, such a good thing, why not do it?
Panda talked to the three disciples in detail, knew the cause and effect of the incident, and chatted privately with Ilo again, and then put his mind at ease.
Smuggling arms is, of course, a lucrative affair. The three apprentices all have life-saving equipment sent by Iro, and they can directly teleport back to the castle at a critical moment, but they don't have to worry about dying.
High profits come with high risks, and high risks come with high returns – the benefits are not about money, but about experience.
Whether you're a traverser or a native of this world, you need to gain experience to grow. It's just that one experience is highly efficient and the other experience is inefficient.
Panda is still very confident in his apprentices, as long as they can get enough experience, even if they can't push the template to further upgrade, they can become outstanding characters.
For example, like the Knight of Galil, he is just a blue template, but he has accumulated a deep foundation through years of hard work, and finally became one of the top death knights after he died in battle and was transformed into an undead.
Of course, the pandas don't want their apprentices to become necromancy, but if they want to, it is okay to change races and move forward after the path of "human" has reached its limit.
In order to be able to soar to the sky at that time, they need to lay a deep foundation now.
He hopes that one day, he can see his apprentices step into the realm of legends and become important figures in the human world.
After staying for four or five days to give guidance to Erwin, who had grown again, the three of them set off again, and soon after, they came to the Norma Line.
By this time, the situation on the Norma Line was already quite bad.
The Thracians again built the giant catapults, and when the boulders fell from the sky and smashed one by one on their heads, the "gold" defense line finally could no longer be maintained and had to abandon the entire line.
To make matters worse, seeing that the situation was not right, many nobles withdrew their troops one after another.
Their meaning is actually very clear, that is, to preserve strength. In the future, when the Thracian army arrives in the city, they will probably not fight at all, and will choose to surrender directly.
Panda remembered that in the "history", many lords of the Molai Commercial Federation fell from the wind in this way. The character of the businessman is clearly displayed in them.
Fortunately, there are still many people in the federation who refuse to surrender, or cannot surrender.
Let's say, the federal top.
Lu Su once said to Sun Quan: The minister surrendered to Cao Cao, and he is still a minister, but the lord you surrendered to Cao Cao, can you still be the lord?—— the same is the case of these high-level leaders of the federation, since they want to continue to be their high-level rulers, they cannot choose to surrender, but can only fight to the end.
So, the day after the three of them became members of the Volunteers again, they saw a reinforcement from the federal capital of Molai City.
The arrival of this support army was huge, and there were many masters in the army, and their arrival immediately reassured the soldiers of the Norma defense line, so that they who were already panicked and almost demoralized collapsed once again mustered up their fighting spirit and firmly held the "silver coin" defense line.
This Norma offensive and defensive battle, there is still a fight to be fought!
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