With Ryan's current strength, it was still quite difficult to slaughter a hydra, so he wisely put aside the big guy in the cursed swamp for the time being, and instead chose to return to Cassano......

More importantly, Ryan trained his men through this adventure, although he paid a few lives, but the surviving warriors were hovering on the edge of life and death, this experience made them grow up quickly, more and more mature and stable. And Roger, the scout who performed well in this adventure, as well as Barbara, a student that Ryan focused on cultivating, and others made Ryan, who was overstretched, feel a lot more at ease.

Another major reason for Lane's decision to return to Cassano was his determination to build a stronger army to protect the Cassano Plains. In the battle against the bipedal wyvern, Moses and they could easily support their companions with magic scrolls, but when dealing with those spiders, even warriors like Moses could hardly do everything, and the huge difference between the two battles made Ryan have the idea of creating a magic army like Mochizuki City.

Ryan once heard his teacher describe part of the battle of the "Sunrise War" that year, the part of thousands of magicians forming a phalanx and releasing magic at the same time makes Ryan still remember vividly, so many mages Ryan is impossible to cultivate in a short time, but Ryan now has a lot of magic apprentices who are being trained, and Ryan himself is a prolific enchanter, which also gives Ryan the opportunity to find his own way.

In Lane's plan, this army needs a group of warriors, and it is clear that Vivien's Iron Fist Castle Guards are the right people, and their magical armor will protect them to the fullest. And the core of this magic legion, that is, a large number of magicians, will be piled up by Ryan with a large number of magic scrolls, and this part of the candidates will be produced among those magic apprentices.

This magic legion doesn't need too many candidates, in Ryan's plan, as long as there are almost hundreds of people, they will not participate in the kind of battle that consumes troops, but will be put in the most critical place and play the most critical role, just like Ryan led his mercenary group to stop the Beast Emperor back then.

However, it takes time to achieve all this, especially a large number of magic scrolls, and it takes a lot of time for Ryan, who is now relying on Ryan to use the money from the sale of magic items to support several large expenses, and now he has to hoard enough magic scrolls, and Ryan has to be busy again.

Ryan's adventure actually had an effect that he didn't expect, that is, everyone who saw Ryan's move became rock solid in their hearts for Ryan's loyalty, and Ryan was ready to enrich these soldiers into the army as grassroots officers after he went back, believing that they could bring out a team that they could only trust.

Due to the large amount of loot from this adventure, the speed of Ryan's return to Cassano has slowed down a lot, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Scout Roger and the others rode fast horses and took Ryan's oracle to gallop back to Tekken Castle, and it took a few days to bring back a large number of carriages, and Ryan also used this time to take everyone in batches to experience at the edge of the cursed swamp.

Even without Ryan, the warriors led by Moses or Nancy could slaughter the monsters around level 4 or 5 on the edge of the cursed swamp, and this kind of battle to expand the loot was much easier. The large amount of furs and magic cores harvested also made Ryan smile, after all, these can be exchanged for a large number of gold coins, and these gold coins can attract more caravans to Cassano.

A few days later, Roger and the others finally returned with twenty wagons, which were filled with the spoils of Rhion's curse on the swamp, and of course at least fifteen of them were filled with the bipedal wyvern cubs, who were now Adela's heart and were raised with the utmost care.

The hundred-meter-long convoy is absolutely huge, and it has also attracted the attention of many passers-by along the way, as for these daily trivial matters, Ryan naturally will not bother, all of them are handled by Adams and them, and Ryan pulled Seres in his carriage to discuss the training of shooters.

Training a shooter is a lot of work, but a good shooter can play a very important role. Cassano's strength is quite deficient compared to the surroundings, but the goal of Seke City is the imperial capital, and Mochizuki City is bent on expanding southward, and the imperial capital is naturally unable to take care of such a small plain, even if it is rich in food here, which gives Cassano a chance to breathe.

So in Ryan's plan, Cassano's military system should be divided into three parts, the most elite troops are his magic legion and archer troops, which are the fundamental force to deter other forces, and the second part is the garrison of various castles, manors, and farms, they will swear to guard the area they are responsible for, waiting for the rescue of the main force, and the third should be regarded as a militia, those young farmers can protect their homes as long as they take up arms, and they will become the best supplement to the garrison when fighting.

Therefore, Ryan must improve the combat effectiveness of his main force as much as possible, and Cassano is not large enough to feed too many troops, so Ryan can only work on quality. In hand-to-hand combat, no matter how brave a warrior is, he will inevitably be injured, and the army on Cassano's side cannot be compared with other forces in terms of numbers, so it is a very stupid thing to consume each other's troops, so Ryan naturally thought of the archery troops.

And the key to building this archer army is the Seres elf, which is why Ryan is willing to promise him that he will help him slaughter the Hydra. In exchange, of course, Seres will also help Ryan wholeheartedly, after all, after this army is formed, it will also be used on the battlefield to slaughter Hydra, and he has no reason to get along with himself.

The galloping carriage slowly stopped. After the carriage was steady, the coachman whispered, "Master, it is getting dark, and Lord Adams says to camp here and leave tomorrow." ”

Ryan and Seres stepped out of the carriage together, and Ryan moved a little and said, "I remember camping here when I came, right?"

"Yes, master. The coachman replied respectfully: "This is the first choice of all caravans and mercenaries, the terrain here is higher, the surrounding area is relatively empty, there is no need to worry about being attacked, there is a water source not far away, and it is only a few hundred meters away from the main road." What's more, whether you're going to Mochizuki Castle, Crimson Castle, Paradise of Liberty or taking a detour through the Walo Mountains, it's a must-see. ”

"Oh, that's a big deal. Ryan said casually.

"That's right. Adams' voice came from behind him, Ryan turned to look, and saw Adams, whose face was slightly pale, and he immediately said to Adams: "You have to take care of your body, Cassano can't do without you." ”

"Thank you Lord Fabia for your concern, I can still hold on. Adams laughed, and then said, "It's a pity that this place doesn't belong to our Cassano Plains, otherwise we only need to build a village here, and just collecting tolls will be a lot of money, haha." ”

"yes, that's a shame. Ryan laughed a few times, then took Adams' hand and walked towards the campfire.

The area here is indeed not small, Ryan and their dozens of carriages and more than 100 people actually only occupy a small corner, and before they arrived, there were already 3 groups of people camped here. Ryan sat down, and before he could even take a sip of water, Roger, the scout in charge of finding out the news, returned.

In order not to attract people's attention, Roger did not half-kneel on the ground to salute as usual, but sat quietly beside Ryan and whispered: "Lord Fabia, there are three groups of people over there, one of them is a caravan going to Cassano, most of them are old faces, there should be nothing suspicious." ”

"But the other large group of people is a little suspicious, not to mention the large number of them, and the amount of goods they carry is not normal, unless they carry precious magic cores and other goods, otherwise they must lose money on this trip. ”

Adams sat aside, nodded when he heard Roger's words, and said, "I have an impression of Cassano's large purchases from the outside world, and we definitely don't buy these things in large quantities there, they are indeed very suspicious."

Roger said: "Yes, their personnel are all young and strong, unlike the caravan, which is old and young, and it looks like it should be a mercenary group." I used to chat with them casually, but found that they were very disciplined, only one person came out to send me away, and the others just sat silently in place, which is not so much like a mercenary group, more like an army. ”

Ryan didn't speak, but motioned for Roger to continue, Roger cleared his throat and continued: "There is the last group of people, they are the least numerous, but the team is quite strange, they are all ......"

At this moment, there was a commotion from not far away, and Ryan looked up, only to see dozens of people in the caravan surrounding the group with the smallest number of people in the middle, and faintly heard the intermittent "Why are you beating...... Hand over the beater...... Otherwise, let's teach ...... lessons together" and something like that.

It sounded like an ordinary dispute, and Ryan was not interested in paying attention to it, but just as he was about to wave his hand for Roger to inquire about more detailed information, he heard a familiar wolf howl, followed by a dull collision sound in the distance, which should have been from a human limb being hit hard.

Ryan raised his eyebrows, the voice of the wolf howl was too familiar to him, because it was the cry of Ryan's friend Alendo, for this, Ryan was quite confident that he would not hear it wrong, just when Ryan was excited, the development of the situation was also presented in front of Ryan, but in ten seconds, the caravan to besiege Alendor was all knocked to the ground, and standing proudly in the center of the crowd was his friend Allendo, who had been separated from Ryan for three years.

――――――*――――――*―――――― I'm an invincible dividing line, and the following content is not a money ――――――*――――――*―――――― It's been more than two years since I uploaded the first chapter of the first volume on June 28, 2008. Counting the time it took to start working on the book and pre-coding it, it has taken me almost 800 days and nights. I would like to thank my readers and friends, without whom I would not have been able to persevere. I remember signing a contract with 17k in the first half of last year, and the editor's request at that time was to constantly change the number of supervisors, and now it seems that I actually did it, a whole 2 million words, and I actually came out one by one?

(struggling and crawling back) can you count votes or flowers? My ranking in the PK ticket ranking has dropped one place a day, and it's very unpleasant to watch.