Chapter 608: Assemble
In the realm of the Soul Blood Secret Method, Victor is a well-deserved first. He spent a few days designing a set of forges for Father Miller to prolong his life and nourish his soul, and at the same time taught the two forges he had conceived at the royal estate of Lake Basel to sisters Lilia and Alina, as well as the minor noble attendants.
The root talents of these two sets of forging methods are very simple, and they don't even have the potential to expand the transformation of the talents, and because of their simplicity, their cultivation effects are particularly significant. One of them is a secret way to maintain beauty and fitness, and to improve perception and balance, specially designed for sisters Lilia and Alina.
Lilia worked hard to train the Gripen Secret Form, and after three body reshapes, her physical strength, strength, and vitality were three times that of ordinary people, and her combat skills were also very good. Sister Alina is a trainee knight herself, and as long as she takes the golden potion, she can resonate with 11 elemental slots and become a senior trainee knight. The three of them are more than capable of handling most emergencies, and improving their perception and balance will help them escape, such as being able to spot enemies before they are clear, or having a superior sense of balance to climb over obstacles and traverse difficult terrain.
In short, Victor doesn't need them to fight, but he wants them to have the ability to run for their lives. As for beauty and fitness, it is due to the strong desire of the three women. Victor skillfully grafted together the bloodline forging method of beauty, fitness, and improving perception and balance, and the more beautiful they became, the stronger their physical functions, perception, and balance became. However, the life force is outward, and the lifespan will not be too long, Lilia will live to 70 years old at most, which is only a little higher than ordinary people, and the Alina sisters are slightly better, and they have only reached the average lifespan of 75 years old for beginner trainee knights. This is also the result of the forging method locking the reproductive bloodline, otherwise their lifespan would not exceed 50 years.
Victor is not a god, and the beauty forging method he designed can only do it to this extent. Anyway, Lilia and Victor can't have children, and no matter how long they live, they won't live longer than their husbands, and it's better to be by their husband's side than to be old and lonely.
There is also a benefit to the beauty cultivation method, you only need to take general beauty elixirs. Although beauty potions are closely related to life vitality, and the raw materials of the potions are particularly rare, and the cost of configuration is twenty times that of strong potions, for Victor, these are not a thing. Another set of forging methods for the cultivation of the little nobles is not good, it is actually an ordinary knight bloodline forging method, and it has to use the Dawn Elixir that has not yet been developed.
Victor could only let the little noble attendants of Silvermoon Manor practice first, and when Sylvia got the formula for the Dawn Elixir, he would design a more clever divine blood secret method according to the effects of the little attendants' exercise and medication.
Miller didn't need the help of the Dream Elixir, he easily entered a state of deep meditation, and he didn't encounter any difficulty in cultivating the forging method that was born from the Golden Toad Pile and the Barberry Stake.
The deep meditation of the Golden Toad Secret Form is the key to adjusting the body and mind and nourishing the mind, as long as the complex soul talent is not constructed, other forging methods and body strengthening elixirs only play an auxiliary role. Miller affirmed the effect of this method of forging to nourish the mind, and his success was the envy of Victor. The Divine Servant is also a wizard at heart, and if the mind-nourishing forging works for Miller, it will also work for Emerson. It's a pity that Imosen's talent in training is really flattering, and he can't even practice the most basic first-level source blood secret method, let alone the more advanced soul nourishment method?
The safety of the Dream Illusion Potion has not been tested by time, and Victor will not let his wizards take the risk of taking the Dream Illusion, and the Spiritual Blood Forging Method suitable for the Emerson father and daughter can only be put on the first place.
However, Father Miller, who was in a good mood, revealed a message to Victor, intentionally or unintentionally:
The senior priests of the church also have unique meditation methods that are designed to harmonize the divine powers, the divine model, the inner and outer forces, and the heart. The High Priest's meditation method may be borrowed from the wizarding meditation method pioneered by the Council of the Chosen One.
Victor took this to heart, and left Randall's territory early on the morning of the ninth day and went to the Minsk fortress assembly site. He took Caligula, Charlotte, eight alchemy soldiers, and 36 third-level Gripen militiamen, but left Renault and Shaq to Nicole.
Nelson and Randall's personal guards set out from Goldwater City ten days ago, and the 180-strong personal guards were the most elite Swiftbird light cavalry under Victor, including 20 barberry militia, 50 spirit monkey militia, 70 alchemy auxiliaries loaded with spirit monkey secret forms, and 40 vassal children.
Victor's alchemy militia was scattered all over the human realm, and he drained the personal guards, and the backbone of the Randall family's army suddenly became blank. Fortunately, the Alchemy Tower is producing an infinite number of third-level Gripen militiamen with the talent of life tenacity, their elemental attributes are comparable to those of mid-level knights, and they can crush 4 ordinary alchemy militias at the same time in actual combat.
Before leaving, Victor told Nicole that if necessary, Renault or Shaq would help her mobilize a group of powerful arcane warriors, but the memories of those warriors had been cleansed, and they had to work hard.
Nicole understands and naturally doesn't ask too much.
Victor said goodbye to Nicole and the three maids-in-waiting, and walked north along the Silvermoon River with dozens of retinues. Although the thirty Gripen militia had no talent for life tenacity, and their recovery speed from physical strength and muscle fatigue was much worse than that of the alchemy soldiers, they still had 18 points of physique, 17 points of perception, and their endurance and speed were not inferior to those of mid-level knights, carrying 400 pounds of equipment and supplies, and at a speed of 45 kilometers per hour, they could still maintain their complete combat effectiveness after trekking for 30 hours in a row, not to mention crossing mountains and mountains.
Before the sun went down, Victor arrived at Goldwater, where he had a brief meeting with the Duke of York, Lady Caterina, and the Earl of Terrandon, the commander of the expeditionary force, and Viscount Girris, the lieutenant commander of the expeditionary force.
Madame Caterina told Victor that the two knights, eight probationary knights, and 40 arcane warriors he had sent from Rose Manor, forming two squads of knights, had set off ahead of Nelson, Terrandon and Gilris led 2,000 main cavalry in 10 days, and the 3,000 mercenary soldiers from each family were ready to go to the Whitewater Fortress assembly site in the Kingdom of Duoduo in three days.
The mercenary corps of the Centaur Hills all use the standardized training methods developed by Victor and Katarina, and there is no problem for the mercenary soldiers of each family to connect with each other. They were also only responsible for protecting the military operations of the Sassanian refugees moving south, and the 2,000 elite cavalry were there to fight tough battles with the orcs. Tellandon and Gilis are both Silver Knights of the previous generation of the York family, and for this war, they resonated with 36 elemental slots, promoted to the Silver Rank of Earth Knights, and each had five standard knight squads as assistants.
The York family sent a total of 2 Earth Knights, 12 Knights and 48 Trainee Knights, all of whom took the Golden Potion, but the number of potions was limited after all, and not all of them could be promoted to Senior Knights. Even the veteran knights can survive the brutal orc war depends on luck, and the high-ranking knights are the targets of the fierce centaur heavy hits.
With Nicole, there are only 10 big knights in Centaur Hills in total, and 2 silver knights were sent out to participate in the orc war at once, and Victor also felt miserable in his heart. However, Terrandon and Gilres talked and laughed, not at all concerned about the danger of war, but rather excited.
For them, isn't this an opportunity to communicate the sea of elements and promote semi-gold?
As the guardian of the Kingdom of Gombis, Victor does not have the authority to transfer them away from the most dangerous fronts. For thousands of years, fighting against orc invaders and dying on the battlefield is the most romantic fate of knights, if Victor really uses his love for Roland to avoid the fiercest battles of the great knights of the centaur hills, it will inevitably bring them an indelible sense of shame, which is tantamount to cutting off their knightly path.
The only thing Victor could do was to equip each of them with 12 Gripen Militia Guards of the Third Level, and forbid them to probe the origin of the Gripen Militia.
It's useless to ask, the alchemy militia won't reveal any secrets at all.
In fact, the core high-level of the Centaur Hills knows a little about the Randall family's psychic warriors. Moreover, now is not the time to hide, the return of the alchemy militia to the alchemy tower can still be made for money, and the great knights of the centaur hills die one less one.
Early the next morning, Victor left Goldwater City and headed straight for Raven Town, the northernmost point, where he arrived at his destination and met Sophia, who had come to appease the barbarians.
The Church mobilized half of the clergy of the Kingdom of Gombis, but did not send the clergy of the Centaur Hills to the Sassan Empire. The Sidonians and horses were full of suspicions about the attack on Sassan, and the upper echelons of the church were alert, and they also knew that if the kingdom of Gangbis in the rear was suddenly attacked by Ant-Man, it would really be all over. Cambis kept the main force of the army on guard against threats from the western side of the Centaur Hill, and the Knights of Radiance and the Cardinal did not say anything, but they transferred the Revisor Duncan and 1,500 paladins from Raventown, leaving only 500 paladins.
The Barbarians can't afford to mess with each other at this time, and Sophia will sit in Raven Town until Sylvia returns to the Centaur Hills.
Victor and his wife, Sophia, visit Elder Harald and give a detailed account of the human kingdom's war in the north. The barbarian Gorsa has a keen interest in hunting the Centaur powerhouses, as they cross the Jinshui River and sooner or later encounter the centaurs of the Southern Continent. However, Victor rejected Harald's request to join his human allies.
The barbarian berserkers are brave and good at fighting, and if they really fight with the wild centaurs, they will definitely not be able to pull it. In the event that Elder Harald dies in battle, how will Sophia account for the Harlotus Fortress?
The Sassan Empire also counted on the barbarian tribes to defend the Great Rift Valley of the Arret Plateau and keep the locust-like Guerrero sheep at bay.
Harald is a calm barbarian elder who also respects the sharp and ruthless strength possessed by Sophia Urusa's husband. He took out a bracelet polished from animal bones and gave it to Victor, stating that he could use his Gorsa token to ask the barbarians of the fortress of Harlotus for help.
Victor was both surprised and delighted, and gained a new understanding of the strategic vision of the Barbarian Elders. Involving the Barbarian tribe in the human kingdom's war against the orcs is never a good option, but the resources of Mount Arrett and the barbarian trade are vital to the Golden Order, and even to the Kingdom of Gambis. In the same way, once the Sassan Empire is lost, the mountain tribes will also lose the material supplies provided by the human allies, and the barbarians will sooner or later have to go down the mountain to compete with the orcs for living space.
Although it is easy to invite the gods and difficult to send the gods, it is best not to invite the barbarians down the mountain, and you cannot hesitate when you should invite them.
Of course, Victor has full confidence in defeating the orc army. The current human kingdom is not a state of division between knightly lords and clergy under the Pope. The aristocratic clergy held the power of the church, and the "Bright New Covenant" jointly signed by the secular lords and the church unified the ideology of the human kingdom, otherwise, how could the tenant system proposed by Victor be implemented so smoothly in the human kingdom?
The current war potential of the human kingdom is by no means imaginable for orcs. Even if there really was an orc king behind the Sidon centaur, it would never be able to defeat the humans. The longer the war stalemates, the first orc coalition will collapse from within, this is almost the consensus of the church and secular lords.
The thoughts of the royal highnesses and the upper echelons of the Church are to try to preserve the vitality of the human kingdom in this sudden war, so that the thriving momentum of the kingdoms will not suffer a serious setback. People have died too much, and they can't make up for it without twenty or thirty years of recuperation.
Victor accepted the barbarian's token and expressed his sincere gratitude to Elder Harald. Then, back at Raven Castle with Sophia, the husband and wife exchanged information with each other behind closed doors, and had a very in-depth exchange.
The Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce is well-informed, and the information transmitted by the caravans distributed in the Sassan Empire and the Kingdom of Duoduo shows that the kingdoms are continuously transporting soldiers and armaments to the Sassan Empire through the traditional trade routes of the Kingdom of Duoduo, and the Lord of Duoduo and the priest stationed in the country try their best to coordinate, but due to the restrictions of road conditions, there are still congestion in transportation, especially near the Whitewater Fortress, there are a large number of horse-drawn carriages queuing up to cross the bridge across the Whitewater River, and many transport convoys have to abandon the nearest Prairie 12 Holy City Trade Road, choose to take a long detour, and venture through the no-man's land of the Wharton Grassland to enter the territory of the Whitewater Empire。
The 12 holy cities of the steppe were overwhelmed, and only troops and convoys were allowed to pass through, and travelers were strictly forbidden to enter the city to rest and resupply, in fact, it was forbidden for the displaced people of the towns of the Sassanid Empire to flee south. A large number of refugees flocked to the western part of the Sassanian Empire, to the sphere of influence of the Barcelius family.
On the other hand, the kingdom of Duoduo took out the army that had pioneered the Ghost Forest, reorganized it, and prepared to go to the aid of the Sassan Empire. Only a small number of elites and a few mercenary groups were left at the frontier near the Wraith Forest, and Victor's bear group was one of the main forces. Although the Kingdom of Duoduo offered a rich bounty in the hope that the mercenary group would stay behind to defend the Ghost Forest Exploration Point, the main cavalry of Duoduo withdrew, and the prairie gnolls became active again, and the bear group and other mercenary groups were under great pressure.
Victor originally wanted the bear group to be on standby in the steppe holy city, to receive the 3,000 mercenaries in the centaur hills, and to assist the mercenary army in evacuating the urban displaced people of the Sassan Empire to the south. But when Sophia said this, he immediately realized that this plan would not work.
Once the bears leave the station, the Dodor Kingdom's frontier in the Wraith Forest will not be able to hold on. When the bear group arrives in any of the steppe holy cities, they will be forcibly recruited by the Sassang lord to fight the orcs on the front line. Moreover, the 12 Holy City of the Steppe closed its passage to the displaced people, and all the refugees fled to the western part of the Sassangian Empire. Even if the Steppe Holy City is now open to Sassangian refugees, the mercenary corps of the Centaur Hills will not be able to carry it.
Victor immediately made a decision and issued two directives, asking the bear regiment to hold on to help, and asking 3,000 mercenaries to stand by in Raven Town.
The Spirits Forest is located on the western side of the Wharton Prairie, north of the Centaur Hills of the Kingdom of Dordor, and south of the Barcelius family's territory, which connects the western part of the Sassan Empire with the Centaur Hills.
Since the towns and cities of the Sassan Empire are crowded to the west, why not rely on the pioneer points established by the Dordors in the Wraith Forest to establish a new trade route connecting the western part of the Sassan Empire to the Centaur Hills and transport the population directly to the Centaur Hills?
It is better for them to cooperate with the Kingdom of Duoduo to fight the steppe gnolls and open up a new lifeline by letting the bear regiment and three thousand mercenary soldiers be dragged to the front line by the Sasanan lords as cannon fodder.
The issues involved in this matter are very complex, requiring clever layout and careful planning, and it will not be possible to operate for a while. Victor put the matter on hold for the time being, and then discussed with Sophia at length the rescue of Jacob Ludwig and the reform of the kingdom's finances, and asked the Marquis of Wimbledon to try to regain the position of the kingdom's chancellor.
Sophia had enough time to sort out her thoughts, but Victor didn't have time to accompany her in Raven Town to think slowly, so the two sides agreed on the contact information, and Victor took his entourage all the way east from Raven Town, and arrived at the Minsk Fortress assembly site five days later.
At this time, there were still 18 days before the most elite vanguard army of the Gambis Kingdom started, and the high-ranking knight squads of the five major families were rushing over one after another.