Twenty kilometers west of the Dordor's Wraith Forest Frontier, the old leader Barrett sat on the main seat of the council hall, distraught by the secret order that came from Silvermoon Manor ten days ago.

The secret order was written by Lilia herself, stamped with the seal of the head of the family, asking him to bring the bear group to Raven Town, which is located at the northern end of the Centaur Hill, within two months to rest, and then the Randall Fourth Legion will reorganize the bear group mercenaries, and from then on they will be included in the Fourth Mercenary Legion. The families of the mercenaries of the bear regiment were all given Randall tenant household registration, and each family was allocated 50 acres of rotational cultivation land, and they were exempted from tenant rent for two years.

Lady Lilia's offer was generous, and it was the capital to buy Barrriet's heart, but her secret order did not mention Barrett's position after returning to the family.

Barrett is a war bear veteran who watched the Nelson siblings grow up. At that time, although the life of the War Bear Mercenary Group was difficult, Lilia was also the pearl of the big guy's palm. If Lilia were to use her power and wealth to buy Uncle Barrett now, it would make the old mercenary feel sad.

The reason for Barrett's upset is definitely not because he is greedy for the position of Grand Master of the Bear Regiment. Ordinary people are 15 years old and can live to 65 years old, he is 55 years old this year, has entered the twilight of his life, although he practiced the secret method diligently, and the family regularly provided valuable life-prolonging potions, but his energy can not be compared with the prime of life, the little ambition of his youth has long been exhausted in the turbulent mercenary career. Even if he returns to Randall, he does not want to hold a position in the family, but only wants to carefully teach his children who have not yet reached adulthood to pave the way for future generations.

The reason Barrett was embarrassed by the old leader was that he had now lost control of the bears, or it would be more accurate to put it another way: he had not yet mastered the real bears, not in the past, not now, and even less likely in the future.

The Bear Regiment originated from a whim of His Highness Randall, and the infantry phalanx he designed was worthless by Lady Nicole, and the result of the war games was even more defeated. At that time, His Royal Highness Randall, who was still too immature, was very unwilling, and in order to accumulate the actual combat experience of the large army, he decided to form a super-large mercenary group. Then, a group of unseen Tubaozi War Bear mercenaries raised their hands and feet in approval, mainly because the elite guards of His Highness Randall were strong and gave them inexplicable confidence. Later, Barrett became the leader of the Bear Regiment, carrying a large sum of money and more than 30 Randall's elite guards, and happily ran from the centaur hills to the southern border of the Kingdom of Dordor to contain wandering mercenaries, scoundrels, and small outcasts, and pulled up a team of hundreds of people to form the Bear Regiment.

Barrett now thinks back that the Bears were actually a large outright outcast gang in the early days, and they couldn't receive any mercenary tasks, and they did grab a lot of hired labor such as building roads and building houses, which were also won by fighting, mainly through low-price competition. Therefore, Barriet, the head of the regiment, still has to pay out of his own pocket to feed hundreds of mouths.

It wasn't until His Highness Randall ordered Barrett to cooperate with Nelson to ambush Count Ludwig in the city of Ascending Rock in the Kingdom of Dordor that the Bears transformed from a gang of outcasts to an armed mercenary.

With the elite guards and mountain hunters sent to him by His Highness Randall, the bear regiment not only completed the ambush mission, but also improved its strength by leaps and bounds, hanging under the name of Sophia's mother and making the Lord of Duoduo look sideways.

The Bears' rise to prominence in the mercenary world began when they were hired by the Duoduo Lords at the Wraith Forest Frontier to fight against the Steppe Gnolls and the Forest Gnolls.

At that time, the main army of the Lord of Duoduo marched north to fight against the centaur army, unable to take care of the defense of the Wraith Forest Frontier, and the outcasts and hired men of the Frontier fled one after another. In order to stabilize the situation, the Lord of Duoduo offered very favorable conditions, and recruited mercenary groups and rangers to take over the garrison mission of the Wraith Forest Frontier.

The disbanded mercenary group of Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce was worried that there was no work, and they united to accept the employment of the Lord of Duoduo, mainly the strongest Barritt Leader, and for the first time played the banner of the Bear Regiment.

The number of troops left in the Dordor's Frontier in the Wraith Forest was meagrely, and the Mercenaries and Ranger became the main armed forces against the Gnolls. In order to facilitate the unity of command, the god father stationed at the pioneer point came forward by himself, and he took the initiative to organize all the large and small mercenary forces under the name of the largest bear regiment.

It was the heyday of the Bear Regiment, with more than 3,000 armed mercenaries and more than 8,000 mercenary families. The mercenaries fight, the family members work, and the income collected by the bear group in the development point only needs to deduct eleven taxes, and then pay 20% to the lord of Duoduo, and the rest is sold to the development point, all owned by the bear group. The Duoduo also sold half-worn armaments to the Bears, and even helped them form a cavalry force of 200 men.

The Ghost Forest Frontier has become an independent kingdom of the Bear Regiment, and the old Captain Barrett is the consul of the Frontier Colony, if not the king.

However, the Bear Regiment seems to be huge, and it is a combination of outcast mercenaries and rangers after all. No matter what their strength is, all of the mercenary captains in this group are treacherous and cunning. They joined forces in the battle, and gradually formed several powerful forces, which were able to compete with the old leader for the right to speak for the bear group. Barrett only scored eight deputy captains to them, in fact, he adopted a compromise strategy.

After all, he is old, and his own talents are limited, and even the mercenary groups of the Chamber of Commerce that were with him at the beginning were also pulled away.

To this day, the mercenaries of the Bear Regiment controlled by Barrett only account for one-tenth of the total number, and Lilia asked him to bring the Bear Regiment back to Randall, and the eight deputy captains have their own thoughts, so I am afraid it will not be so easy to dismiss.

When Barrett was secretly worried, the door of the council hall was pushed open from the outside, and a young female mercenary with a brown and red ponytail broke in, and shouted with a high spirit: "Hey, Uncle Leader, have you asked me to come over, have you thought about it, and are you going to beg me to take over the position of Grand Master of the Bear Regiment? I tell you, I can't agree so easily, you have to beg me sincerely three times...... Well, twice, I would reluctantly agree. ”

Her voice was slightly hoarse but full of youthful energy, revealing a lovely enthusiasm.

Barrett forgot his sorrow for a while, and couldn't help laughing: "Deputy Head Vier, you are not the only one who is staring at my seat, as long as everyone obeys you, you can just take the position of Grand Master of the Bear Regiment." ”

"Uncle Commander, you're ready to give way to me! Don't worry, the bear group will be handed over to me, and I will take it to the top and become the largest mercenary group in the history of the human realm!" The ponytailed female mercenary's eyes lit up, patted her full chest, and reassured in a loud voice.

Barrett couldn't laugh or cry, he was no longer surprised by the other party's behavior. The eight deputy leaders of the Bear Regiment all wanted to remove the old leader from power, but only Octavir openly stated that he wanted the position of Grand Master but did not disgust him.

He deliberately joked with Weile, and reminded with a smile: "I have been a mercenary for most of my life, and I have never heard of a mercenary group larger than the bear group. ”

"I will carry forward the Bear Regiment and make it a legendary mercenary group. The mercenary said very seriously.

She was about 20 years old, wearing bright and clean half-body armor and half-heeled women's long combat boots, this tight-fitting outfit was clean and powerful, highlighting her tall and slender figure and straight and slender legs, giving a good impression of shrewdness and ability; 。

Barrett looked into her sparkling eyes and couldn't help but wonder about the grandeur of the bear group becoming a legendary mercenary group in her hands. The old mercenary had to admit that Deputy Head Octavier was a convincing leader.

He shook his head, pushed the unrealistic fantasy out of his mind, raised his hand to the chair in front of his desk, and said, "Let's sit down and talk." ”

The youngest deputy head of the Xiong regiment sat on the chair and asked with a smile, "Uncle Leader, how do we hand it over?"

Barrett waved his hand and said tiredly, "No kidding, let's get down to business...... Since the end of the Five-Day War, the situation of the Bears has become worse and worse. You've probably heard that rumor in the group, do you have any ideas?"

"Rumors...... What rumors?" asked the young mercenary with a wink of her eyes and an innocent expression.

Octavier, a 23-year-old female ranger, a junior trainee knight, and the leader of the Fire Lion Mercenary Regiment, she has joined the Bear Regiment for the shortest time and has the weakest power to gather, but she can stand out from many mercenary captains and rangers and become the deputy leader of the Bear Regiment to show her ability.

Barrett didn't expect to bring the entire Bears back to the Centaur Hills right now, but if anyone could help him get more than half of his men away, it would be Octavier.

It all started with last year's Five-Day War.

Last year's Windy Season January, when the southward movement of Sassanian refugees officially came to an end, and more than 5,000 mercenary soldiers from the Centaur Hills no longer needed to protect the refugee migration routes, and they were evacuated from the Ghost Forest Frontier on the orders of the Duke of York. The Duoduo demanded that the Bears take over the outpost camp abandoned by the Combis mercenaries until the Duoduo army was officially settled.

At that time, there were only more than 3,400 armed mercenaries of the Bear Regiment, and in order to take over those abandoned sentry camps, Barit urgently armed more than 600 young men and women, but the troops were still stretched, and the Bear Regiment had to withdraw all the vigilant mercenaries on the front line of the Ghost Forest. More than 4,000 bear group mercenaries were scattered among the large and small sentry camps, with weak garrisons and the ability to mobile reinforcements.

However, the Dordorians promised to send troops to settle in there was no movement. And the gnolls in the Wraith Forest have long been unifying under the oppression of human pioneers. Late on the night of February 11, more than 6,000 gnolls gathered three times the number of goblins and kobold slaves, pounced out of the ghost forest and attacked the forward sentry camp where the mercenaries of the bear regiment were stationed.

The main garrison of the bear regiment bore the brunt, and tens of thousands of orc monsters kept crashing into the garrison defense line like a raging tide. The Bear Mercenaries repelled their attacks with their crossbows, but the cunning Gnoll Leader saw the weak point in the garrison's defenses and drove the powerful Bear Goblins and Kobolds to break down a section of the ironwood fence.

The orcs rushed into the bear regiment station, which contained thousands of mercenary families, old and weak women and children. In the face of man-eating monsters, humans have no way out, the mercenaries of the bear regiment show unimaginable courage and strength, anyone who can hold a weapon is fighting hard even with wooden sticks and pitchforks, the station is infected with blood, and the corpses of orcs and mercenaries can be seen everywhere. The mercenaries drove the orcs out several times, and then were attacked several times, and the brutal tug-of-war lasted from night until dawn to finally repelled goblins, kobolds, and gnolls, filling the gaps in the fence with obstacles.

Both sides were wounded and exhausted, and the gnoll leader, seeing that the attack had failed, led half of the orcs to the north.

The mercenaries stationed in the bear regiment soon realized that the gnolls were preparing to attack the rest of the small strongholds, and that the sentry camps were empty, with hundreds of men at most and dozens at least, and they could not stop the gnolls from attacking at all. However, the mercenaries in the garrison were no longer able to fight, and more than half of the monsters outside the fence were eyeing them. Everyone could only release the letter crows to inform the bear group mercenaries in each stronghold that an orc was coming, and urge the commander of the rear frontier to send cavalry to support.

The mercenaries can't outrun the gnolls on the grassland on their legs, and they can't hold their strongholds. How many mercenaries will be able to reunite with their families alive depends on the speed and direction of the Dordor cavalry reinforcements. The only thing you can do is to pray to the Lord of the Most High Radiance.

In addition to Octavire......

She tied the banner of the bear regiment to her spear, the sword at her hip, picked up a shield of the dead, and despite the dissuasion of her companions, she jumped over the barrier at the breach of the fence and rushed to the open field beyond the range of the bow and arrow, facing the black crush of the orcs alone.

No one dared to chase Oktawil back, and no one understood what she was trying to do, the only explanation was that the young and beautiful mercenary was stimulated and deliberately sought her death. This kind of thing is not uncommon for young mercenaries.

Everyone watched numbly as she used her shield to fend off the goblins' throwing stone projectiles, and stabbed the gnolls and bear goblins who approached her with a spear wrapped in a bear ball. She danced like a lithe fawn among the fangs and claws of the gnoll, she was like a sturdy leopard who slew every monster that showed her flaws, and she was like a cunning head wolf who rushed back to her station unscathed before being surrounded by monsters.

The mercenaries of the bear regiment used their bows and crossbows to meet Octavir who had regained consciousness, some congratulated, some were indifferent, some mocked, and some praised, but she responded to all the voices with her chin raised and pursed her lips, and after a short rest, once again held the mercenary flag embroidered with a bear's head, and rushed out of the garrison defense circle.

Then came the third, fourth, and fifth......

Barrett will never forget that lonely and slender back, proudly holding high the broken flag red with blood in the morning light. She is a ray of light on the battlefield, dispelling the fear and weakness of the mercenary's heart.

Octavier's sixth attack, the Fire Lion Mercenary Regiment's warriors accompany her, the seventh time, the Bears' deputy leader "Spur" Bikedorn leads his men to follow her, the eighth attack, the ranger's blind swordsman Quakel, and the Bears' deputy leader "Blood Eagle" Harlem join her command, and the ninth attack, the old regiment leader Barrett hands over his most elite crow guards to Octavir, and she takes over the command of the Bears' station in a cheer.

Great leaders always inspire courage in their followers and point them in the direction of victory.

Octavier proves it. For the first time under her leadership, the mercenaries of the bear regiment condensed into one, and after paying the price of blood, they gradually became united and advanced and retreated freely.

She can always accurately predict the situation on the battlefield, exchange the minimum price for the maximum result, and command the mercenaries of the bear regiment to attack, retreat, and alternately rest. The distant gnoll leader was drawn back by the battle outside the station, but to no avail, and the stupid orcs were still being led by the nose by Octavir's simplest tactics.

Relying on the fortifications of the station, Octavir commanded the mercenaries of the bear regiment to entangle with the orc monsters for four days and three nights, and the mercenary companions stationed at the sentry points along the way survived.

On the morning of the fifth day, the rousing trumpets of the Duoduo cavalry resounded across the battlefield, and the Knights of the Iron Wall annihilated the forest gnolls besieging the Bear Regiment's garrison.

The Five-Day War was over, and the Bear Mercenaries used countless hands to lift their Valkyrie Octavir and the dark red Bear banner into the air.

Octavier, a young ranger, deputy head of the Bear Regiment, and the Valkyrie of the Bear Regiment.

The scar on her face was left by the leader of the gnolls, but the rampaging and cunning beast paid with his life, a dozen crow guards desperately pounced on it, Octavir's spear banner piercing its heart.

The resident priest offered to ask the senior priest to remove the scars from her face, but Octavir refused, saying it was a testimony of glory and that she would remember her sacrificial companions every day when she looked in the mirror.

The aristocracy pays attention to grooming, and Octavir is a beginner trainee knight who has awakened by refining potions, and she originally had the opportunity to marry a small nobleman by virtue of her military exploits, but because of the scar on her face, her chances are slim.

The Randall family also values the blood and strength of the knights, but also the talent pattern of the people. Barrett felt that if he could bring Octavir back to Pinghu Town, even if most of the Bear Mercenaries were unwilling to follow him, it would be earned.

The old leader's heart was hot, but his expression was extremely serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Octavir, there are rumors within the bear group that the Five-Day War may be a conspiracy of the Duoduo...... I think so. ”