Chapter 59: The Power of the Scroll (I)
Salin sat in his car, and Emperor Qin Yin not only gave the Lord of Rex ten battalions of military power, but also directly gave a thousand swordsmen. Qin Yin's Royal Swordsman, like the Holy Knights of the Holy See, is a lifelong profession. Their birth, old age, sickness and death, food, clothing, shelter and transportation are all the responsibility of the state. The life of a royal swordsman is to fight.
No matter what his background is, as long as a swordsman cultivates to the level of a great sword master (that is, a senior sword master), he can become a middle-level officer, and if he becomes an ordinary sword master, he can be promoted to a low-level officer, and his children will be cultivated by the state. This is a great temptation for many civilians.
It's just that the selection of royal swordsmen is extremely strict, and the number has been maintained below 100,000, and in the past four hundred years, there has hardly exceeded 50,000.
In addition to qualifications, loyalty to the empire is also very important, often the son of a royal swordsman can easily become the next generation of royal swordsmen, and the chances of civilians are almost slim. Because many children of minor nobles could not obtain the right to inherit, allegiance to the royal family and becoming a royal swordsman became a good way out.
Salin's chariot was designed for mages, and like the carriage of Lord Rex, the wind was visible on all sides, and it could seat ten people. Officially set out on the expedition, Rex couldn't let Saleen and the others in her carriage, and all the soldiers who were protected were arranged.
For Salin, this treatment is not bad, in addition to Sika and Neris, there are six more swordsmen in the car, one of which is the Tinis he is familiar with. Around the Salin carriage, a squad was also arranged, and a hundred swordsmen were arranged to protect it. Salin doesn't know why his salary has improved so quickly, maybe it has something to do with Joey.
Ten battle mages followed behind in a car, Qin Yin's chariot was exquisitely designed, and when it encountered an enemy, it could form a simple fortress, and it was difficult for even a Yunliu Warcraft swordsman to break through.
The 1,000 swordsmen brought by Rex have been transferred to North Town, and the size of the Bitter Water Army will expand to 2,000 by then, and with the auxiliary soldiers, there will be close to 3,000 people.
With such combat effectiveness, he is not afraid of the nobles of Hadisai City. Emperor Qin Yin thought thoughtfully, the elite of Haditha City would not exceed 5,000 people, and half of them were recruited by the emperor, leaving only 2,500 people, at least 2,000 people should be left to defend the city, and the remaining 500 people would not be able to pose a threat to the Kushui Army.
If there are assassins, there is no need to worry, the combat power of assassins lies in concealment and explosion, but in the army, the role of assassins is very small, unless there are assassins of the level of Byrne.
Salin didn't expect Rex to hand over Tinis to himself, Tinis was already a high-level swordsman, and he was not too old, he looked less than thirty years old, such a person would be Rex's arm in the future. Salin now knew the importance of swordsmen to magicians, and instead of rushing to practice magic at this time, he chatted with Tinis.
"Tiness, where have you been all these years?"
"Cloud flow. Tinis didn't say a word of nonsense, and replied unusually succinctly.
"Have you ever seen a Warcraft swordsman?" Salin was not discouraged, he always found a way to communicate with Tinys. Sure enough, speaking of this, Tinis also said a little more.
"I've seen it, Yunliu doesn't have any place to go out of war horses, and there are a lot of Warcraft swordsmen. ”
"A swordsman is not a magician, how can he sign a contract with a demonic beast?" Salin asked curiously.
"You don't need a contract, you just need to subdue the Warcraft, so the Warcraft swordsmen are not so terrifying, and their Warcraft are generally of a very low level. ”
Salin remembered the Silver Sword Saint who was captured by Rex's design, and the one he was carrying was only a sixth-level demonic beast, and he was sure of his thoughts. Contracts are only magic that acts on intelligent creatures, and for low-level magical beasts, contracts are a waste of the spiritual power of magicians.
No wonder magicians would rather make puppets than subdue them, puppets don't need to eat, drink, take care of, and can be discarded at any time, but monsters are living beings and carry trouble.
Qin Yin's regular army did not have infantry in the pure sense, and the infantry also had to ride horses, and the speed of movement was very fast. If the battle calls for it, a large number of mages can give thousands of cavalry accelerations, making the Imperial cavalry more mobile than any other nation.
Soon the army left Yanjing and advanced north. It is impossible for 100,000 people to advance at the same time, and the 10,000 troops of the forward battalion will be at least 100 miles away, and then the large force. The large army will also be divided into three parts, each with 30,000 men, and finally 10,000 troops will be left behind.
Even if it is 10,000 people, it will not be gathered together, it will be divided into ten flag groups. Two of the flag regiments are mage battalions, and 200 low-level mages will be placed in them. These two banner regiments are the main force of the entire swordsman battalion, one of which is the infantry and the other is the reserve, which is the cavalry formation.
It is the auxiliaries who affect the speed of the army, and the auxiliaries generally only have a war horse, and some even need to ride in a car. This is not a problem in the territory of Qinyin, there are more than enough roads to choose from. If in an area with few cities, the roads are bumpy, and the auxiliaries will affect the speed of the entire army.
But there is no way, when attacking the city, the auxiliary soldiers are the vanguards, and the mortality rate is high, and no army will let the elite soldiers attack the city in the first wave. At the same time, the auxiliary soldiers are also responsible for serving the war horses and swordsmen, so that the elite troops can always maintain a high combat effectiveness.
The army on this expedition can reach the border in a month at most, but it will also take a month to cross Garudan. During this time, more nobles would respond to the emperor's call and send troops into Garulan. At that time, there will be at least nearly 200,000 Qin Yin elites and more than 500,000 auxiliary soldiers in the entire Garolan. If the peasant soldiers recruited at Garolan were included, the expeditionary force would soon be able to expand to a million in size.
The Emperor not only wanted to pacify the situation in Garudan, but also obviously invaded the Principality of Divine Grace. As long as the war goes well, more nobles of Qin Yin will join the ranks and divide the land.
In the past two hundred years, the number of commoners in Qin has skyrocketed, many nobles are eager to expand, and the same is true for other countries, the source of instability has already been planted, and the turmoil of the black mages is only the fuse. It doesn't matter in an isolated land like Phoenix, and when Garudan is in chaos, all countries can't sit still.
Salin quickly became acquainted with the six swordsmen, and the Lord of Rex County did not hide the matter of sending the Green Dragon Demon Core to Bitterwater County, and everyone had a good impression of this magician.
Saleen described the battle with the Red Line Bandits, and even Tinis was impressed. At that time, Salin was only a first-class magician, and against the thieves, the possibility of death was very high.
In this way, with the advance of the army, Salin exchanged feelings with the sword masters during the day, and practiced frantically when he rested at night, and he faintly touched the edge of the third level, and he was only close to breaking through.
Salin knew that this was because he had accumulated too little and the cultivation time was short, but with Joey helping him transform his body, the boundary between level three and level four was much smaller, and there was not even the so-called threshold in the cultivation of other magicians.
So Salin is not in a hurry, it is only a matter of time before he becomes a great magician, and during this time, he will have to master more third-level magic.
Magicians don't always release high-level magic when they fight, in fact, many great magicians fight with low-level magic. If you can kill your enemies with acid splashes, why unleash an elemental storm? Magic Strings are finite, and with the least cost, the greatest result is how mages fight.
Salin is not stupid enough to charge into battle, there are already six third-level magic stored in the Demon Magic Book, and when he really needs to output attacks, this is the capital. He had also studied the bronze magic book he had obtained from the temple, and he had some regret to find that unless he became a great magician, he could not make the bronze magic book a weapon.
This reflects the value of the Demon Magic Book, which is not limited by level, as long as you can cast the magic, you can store it in the Demon Magic Book for later use.
As for the scroll that Ranny had given him, Salin was reluctant to use it. He is only a second-level magician now, and this strange scroll can span two levels of spellcasting, which means that under the current situation, if he asks someone to make this blank scroll successfully, he can only release fourth-level magic once.
The scroll is an item with a surname, and Salin has a plan in his heart, the next time he sees Joey, he will find a way to let him make a tenth-level scroll for himself, so that when he is at the eighth level, he can release a tenth-level magic.
Level 10 magic, as long as it is used properly, can kill any powerhouse below level 9 on the Myers Continent. Even if a ninth-level magician encounters a tenth-level magic, it is also extremely dangerous.
The army had already begun to turn, and the troops of the Lord of Rex had split off from the expeditionary army and advanced to the southwest, while the emperor's expeditionary force was to go directly west, into the Duchy of Garulan.
Kusui County has a large road to the east and a large road to the north, but there are only rugged paths in the mountains to the west and south, and the terrain is closed. The Bitter Waters bypassed the city of Hadisai, and although they showed some weakness, they saved themselves from a lot of trouble. If the army of Hadisai wanted to attack the Bitter Water Army, they had to travel more than 500 miles. Moreover, the emperor has already transferred half of the elite of Haditha City, and less than a thousand people can be sent, so the Lord of Rex doesn't have to worry about it at all.
Salin was a little worried, did the Silver Sword Saint who killed Count Mokolari return to Tangulas? If not, will there be another assassination? If it happens again, although there are more soldiers around Rex, the Silver Sword Saint will also be more careful and will not easily fall into the trap.
The ones who can really deal with the Silver Sword Saint are still those people like Fei Lun. A mage like Saleen is nothing more than a scrap of wood that can be destroyed with a wave of his hand in front of the Silver Swordmaster.
However, it seems that Fei Lun has taken a lot of eighth-level magic scrolls in the emperor's treasury, and the scrolls that can be stored for a long time are all superb, and if the Silver Sword Saint faces Fei Lun, he may not be sure to win.
[You don't have to worry about the level of the protagonist, according to the laws of the Myers Continent, the protagonist's strength is not the fastest, it's about the same. Having a large number of magic books,It's an irreplaceable advantage.,Imagine,When the protagonist is at the third level,,You can release 7 more fourth-level magic than the same level magician (6 comes from the magic book,It can release one more),If the protagonist is promoted to level 6,,You can release 7 more magician-level magic.,So I don't dare to let the protagonist soar.,Soar too fast.,It's going to be invincible.,So what else do you want Xika to do.,What else do you want Neris to do.,After the little devil becomes an adult.,Everyone looks forward to it.,Magicians are not used to charge into battle.,It's good to be able to make a final decision. 】
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