Chapter 159: Seeing Aini Again (Part I)

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"Will those devils of the Holy See come back?" asked Conan, with a sigh of relief.

"If there is no accident, next spring, there will be a small force infiltrating the army, and in two years at most, there will be warships of the Holy See in the northern seas. ”

Conan lowered his head and carefully analyzed what Saleen said. He didn't quite understand what Saleen meant, but he knew that the barbarians had two years left at most before they could continue to face the devils.

The barbarians are not afraid of battle, but those devils are protected by evil gods, and the gods of the barbarians have long since fallen.

Salin stopped talking, silently waiting for Conan's answer. It took a long time for Conan to straighten out his mind and re-describe to Saleen the affairs of the Holy See in the north.

According to Conan's knowledge, the Holy See had been active in the North for at least five years or so, and at the beginning, the Holy See came to the North to preach and develop believers among the barbarians. After two years of inconclusive work, the Holy See's people in the north were replaced by black-armored warriors of the Inquisition on a large scale.

Then came the beginning of the killing, the barbarians had a large range of activities, the tribes were not concentrated, and there were not many people in the Holy See at the beginning, but after gradual encroachment, after only two years, tens of thousands of barbarians completely disappeared from the northern wilderness.

The methods of the Holy See are very cruel, they do not want children, they do not want old people, only barbarians who can fight. Often after a barbarian tribe is swept away, the number of surviving barbarians is in the single digits. Most of the barbarians who escaped were also spared because they were not in the tribe and went out hunting.

The area where the Conan tribe operates is quite large, and it knows the location of hundreds of tribes within a radius of thousands of miles. After three years, none of the more than 100 tribes has survived.

After a brief analysis, the Northern Wasteland is a prominent piece of land in the upper right corner of the Myers Continent, with a vast area. Judging by such a density of divisions, there are at least a hundred thousand barbarians in the northern wasteland. A tribe controls a range of about a hundred miles, and the number of people is not large, probably about a hundred people. Such a density of living is already lower than that of the Caucasians. It's no wonder that for so many years, I haven't heard of any big forces in the north.

The barbarians are still living in a primitive way, and they are not willing to run around as mercenaries like the Caucasians, a race that has been almost forgotten. The first time they were remembered, it brought about a tragic end.

The internal body of the Holy See is divided into three forces. The Inquisition is one side, the oracle is another, but the secular subject is the Council of Cardinals. Capturing barbarians to refine blood knights, this is something that the Cardinal will not do, and the contract signed with the three empires back then was the Cardinal's intervention.

The first to preach is supposed to be a force on the part of the divine angels.

The seven divine envoys of the Holy See have special believers, and they are more secretive, and they can turn a blind eye to the point of refining blood knights. The power of the oracle must have seen that the preaching was hopeless, and only then did they let the men of the Inquisition in.

According to Conan the Barbarian, the Inquisition captures a Barbarian, and it probably takes two to kill one to catch one. The losses at the beginning of the Inquisition were also huge. However, after a year of fighting, the situation was completely reversed, and the Inquisition sent a large number of magicians, and the mortality rate of the black-armored warriors was suddenly reduced, while the barbarians did not sacrifice, and the wounded were not rescued.

If the number of barbarians is around 150,000, then the Inquisition can capture a total of 50,000 people, and these 50,000 people are refined into blood knights. That's five knights.

The five knights of the sword division level are really a terrifying force. If these Blood Knights do not attack the city, they will cause horrific damage in the field.

The swordsman battalion in Rex Bitterwater County is already considered a rare elite, and after ten years of training, the ratio of swordsmen to swordsmen is only one to four. That is, out of ten warriors, two will be swordsmen.

But Rex has been in business for ten years, and such an elite is only a battalion, that is, 10,000 people, including 2,000 sword-level warriors. The Holy See searched for barbarians in the north, and in three years, it was able to create more than twenty times the strength of Kushui County, and if the two sides fought in the field, Rex's swordsman battalion would be killed to the bone.

Of course, Rex still has a large number of low-level mages in his hands, but the Inquisition also has a large number of magicians and ascetics. These people have the power of magicians, which is a divine skill given by the gods. Perhaps with the addition of the mage, Rex's swordsman battalion can defeat one against two, but the enemy's strength is more than twenty times, which is not something that the mage can solve.

In terms of time, the Inquisition's capture of the barbarians coincided with the appearance of the Dark Mage. Salin suspected that the Dark Mage's affairs were the work of the Inquisition to distract attention from what was happening in the northern wilderness. The question is, how did the Inquisition bring these more than 50,000 barbarians back to the Tangulas Empire?

Could it be that the Grand Duke of Phoenix was involved in this? If this is true, then there is probably already a large amount of latent power of the Holy See in the territory of the Duchy of Phoenix. As soon as the fighting on the Western Front became tense, these hidden forces attacked from the north. Worst of all, it could be. There are already Blood Knights deployed in the Duchy of Phoenix.

The new Grand Duke of Phoenix is still in Holy Rock City, saying that he will not return to his homeland. The entire territory of the principality was supported by the local nobility.

Saleen's suspicions were not unreasonable, and the appearance of the black mage seemed to be short-lived, and was later suppressed by the local nobles of Phoenix. With Phoenix's power, if it was really the resurgence of the black mages and the preparations, without Qin Yin's help, those Phoenix nobles would not have been able to exterminate the huge number of dark mages at all.

If this is the case in the Duchy of Phoenix, then the newly built city of Salen is extremely dangerous. The straight-line distance of Phoenix is less than two thousand miles, and if it is a Blood Knight, it can be killed in two days at most.

If Saleen's city had already been built, he would certainly not be afraid of the Knights, but now he hadn't even built a city wall, let alone a magic tower to help defend the city. If the Blood Knight attacks before the city is built, Salin will not be able to defend the city base at all, not even if he has a magic cannon.

Worst of all, if Rex comes back with a large group of men, he will have to travel through the Duchy of Phoenix. Rex didn't know what was dangerous, and if it was really as he judged, Rex's men and horses were almost completely wiped out.

"Lord Saleen, I'm going to ask the Elder to contact the other tribal survivors. Conan finally made up his mind. In the city base of Saleen, the barbarians lived well. There was no more starvation, all that remained was hunting, fighting, and training that the barbarians were all too familiar with.

"You...... Go ahead. Saleen's heart was a little heavy.

After Conan left, Nellis said, "Master, do you want to send someone to Kushui County?"

"It's too late, Rex may be in the Caucasus now. Moreover, there is no teleportation array in Bitterwater County, and it is almost impossible to find Rex. ”

"Then go to the Phoenix border and wait, it's only two or three ways to get into Phoenix anyway. ”

"I have no one to send. For the first time, Saleen grimaced. In the past, he had almost nothing, no foundation, and it was a big deal to run away when he was in trouble. Now he is saddled with a city, which the teacher asked him to establish. There was no way he could run away.

The three battleships that Jason gave to Salin were originally halved. Rex took a third with him, Pasatero and Kornuco took another third, and if the remaining third were to be sent out again, the city would be completely shut down. Of course, those pirates couldn't be sent to Phoenix, and Saleen wasn't quite at ease with them.

And if all the people here are transferred, what will happen to the three kings and those undead? Once Salin is a little surprised, then this place will completely belong to the three kings, and the teacher's hard work will become a failure.

"How's Daniel?" Naris could only shake her head at the mention of the necromancer.

"Daniel is willing to follow me honestly now, but his level is too low. And it takes at least three people to get to Phoenix to guard all the intersections. ”

Nellis can't help it, Wingskull wants to control the turtle alchemy ship and can't leave, she wants to protect Salin, and she can't leave. In addition, there are only four three-pole mages left by Sarin's side, and their strength is about the same as Daniel's. As soon as they were sent away, there was only one bare-bones commander left here.

"No wonder those legendary magicians have so many followers around them, ......," Salin sighed frequently. He is not short of money, materials, but manpower.

"Master, in fact, the Holy See may not immediately think of how to deal with you, so it is better for us to divert the attention of the Holy See......"

"How to transfer?"

"There are a lot of reputable mercenaries in Scochenia, we can hire a group to go to Phoenix, if the Holy See really has hidden power there, it is easy to make a disturbance that cannot be hidden, Rex will naturally be careful. ”

"After a certain number of mercenaries, they cannot freely enter other countries. Although Phoenix is only a principality, it is subordinate to Qin Yin and will not let a large number of mercenaries enter the country. If the number of mercenaries is small, it will not make any difference at all. Rex is also the king of Qin Yinjun, leading troops across the border, the Grand Duke of Phoenix is not there, and no one dares to stop her, but the mercenaries cannot. ”

While Saleen was worrying, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in. Salin shouted. A magic apprentice walked into the hall of Salin's cultivation and said, "Lord Salin, Passatro and they are back. ”

"Coming back?" said Saleen. Worried about the lack of manpower, Passatro and Kornuco returned, and they really wanted to sleep with their pillows falling from the sky. "Take me to see me!"

"Salin, are you in such a hurry, do you want to see me?" a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar came from outside the door.

"Aini?"

"It's me, I didn't expect that you would be so worried about me, and send people to find me from thousands of miles away, I didn't make you a friend in vain. Aini said, pushing open the door and walking in from the outside.