Chapter 25: The Hunting Squad (I)
"Hah!"
"Hey!"
"Yikes!"
Edward sat next to the Iron Brave and watched the pitiful man practicing his spear fighting skills in the clearing, the other party always likes to shout hey-hey when he attacks, or this is the instinct of flesh and blood creatures, for example, beasts also like to roar when attacking and exerting force, and if you explain it in words, it is a blow, like a tiger's roar.
"Poor, are you going to go on this hunt?" Edward felt pitiful that his combat power was already very high now, and it was time to go out and exercise.
The advantages of the spear can only be brought into full play on the battlefield, especially when the luck of a spearman reaches A or above, then the lethality brought by it far exceeds that of the rest of the professions.
"Go!" Unfortunately, I have been bored in this place for a long time, and I have a chance to go out, so I am naturally willing to participate.
Edward nodded and stood up, "Then you change your clothes, we will go to the city to buy some supplies, and your clothes and shoes will also be changed." ”
"You go and get ready, I'll wait for you here. Edward paused.
"Okay!" the poor man ran back with a spear in one hand, and he had to get dressed when he was going to the city.
In the poor cognition, it is very rare to go to the city, and you must dress well, otherwise you will be looked down upon.
Edward looked at the pitiful back of the departed, the two had been together for a while, and it had always been plain, Edward did not dare to provoke the pity, and he was not interested in trying what would happen after the combination of positive and negative bodies.
The relationship between the two parties cannot be said to be friends, but more like two unfamiliar relatives, and the poor relatives who have taken refuge in Edward because of poverty are a little restrained and careful in all aspects, and Edward cares for her and takes care of her, which is a favor, not the kind of exchange between friends.
Summoned the veloc spider, the current veloc spider is a little smaller in size, a little stronger, and all the essence is condensed, and instead it can only take one person, and the two of them are a little awkward when they stand on it.
But it doesn't matter, people have to learn to be flexible.
Swift Spider + Box Spirit = Dual-powered Spider Car
Set up a floating circle on the box spirit, and then let the swift spider use spider silk to link the two hooks of the box spirit, so that Edward can ride on the swift spider to drive, and poor sit on the box spirit, because of the floating circle, there is no need to worry about the bumps in the road.
The pity came out soon, she just had a dress that she could wear out, there was no need to be tangled at all, and she could set off after taking a shower and changing clothes.
In fact, the speed of the poor running far exceeds the speed of the velociraptor spider, and it throws a large part of the velociraptor spider in terms of endurance and explosiveness.
"I'll go take a look at the Swordsmen's Guild, you can come with me!" Edward hadn't formed a team yet, and hunting was usually a team, otherwise it would be difficult for one person to deal with swarms of bugs.
Poor can go anywhere, but after looking left and right, he asked strangely, "Is this the way to the swordsman's union?"
"There are three swordsman unions in the city, one is in the Imperial Academy, one is in the city, and the other is on the first floor, and we are going to the swordsman union in the city this time, which is the largest swordsman union. ”
The Imperial College is an academy, and the swordsman guild is here mainly for the convenience of the students and teachers in the academy, and the main group is also students like Edward who have nothing to do.
The Swordsman Guild in the center of the city is an organization open to everyone, and at this time, the low-level mercenaries of the Wind Continent have gathered in the city of Andulon, and the Swordsman Guild has become the largest organization, responsible for issuing various tasks and dispatching troops.
Hunting is an attack by humans on bugs, relying on a variety of professions, and the city of Andulon will also send troops and mage regiments to advance on the battlefield.
Each heavenly city will provide those mage apprentices with corresponding resources and remuneration, and these people will need to serve the local city lord, must fight in the attack and defense against the bugs, and usually take on some duties according to their rank.
"Okay!" Poor didn't care about the swordsman's union, and he didn't know much about hunting, and all he was thinking about now was going to the city.
Poor came directly to the Imperial Academy through the teleportation array in her hometown, so she was always a country girl in a small country place who didn't even know the courier brother, and she was full of expectations and yearning for the big city.
Of the nearly 20,000 freshmen this year, the last student to emerge from the teleportation array was wearing this wolfskin coat.
Edward's tailoring skills have been very high, so the wolf skin coat on the poor body was transformed into a wolf skin suit by Edward, divided into a long-sleeved shirt and trousers, and a wolf head hat was added to the head, as for the tail, it was reduced, and the humans with tails did not meet Edward's aesthetics.
Fortunately, there are not too many people in this world, so the poor costume does not seem very special, when entering the city, Edward saw a lot of creatures of other races, this time is the time of excitement, insects are not only the enemy of humans, it can be said that it is the enemy of all creatures on this continent except insects.
The reproduction rate of insects is very fast, so every year the hunt must be carried out, and last year's hunt did not know why it was very small, and even because the attack was not strong enough, the insects bit a large area of land, causing the surrounding races to have a very difficult year.
Today's hunt is sure to be fierce, and it is more dangerous.
The land with a good growth environment will attract the gathering of insects, and the more insects in one area, the stronger the attraction to the insects in the rest of the area, and in just one year, many insects that can't get along in the central area have come to the edge of the Bug Empire, that is, the border with the city of Anduron.
Edward had a negative attitude towards the hunt.
After being killed by Elsa and entering the Time Corridor to learn about the time he was married, Edward had a vague idea of the strength of the bugs, which were too strong.
Edward also learned a few things from the library and the documents of the city of Andulon, which only recorded bugs of the third level and below, and did not mention anything about the higher bugs, and the conversation between the inhabitants of the city and Edward also made Edward understand that in these people's perceptions, the only advantage of bugs is their numbers.
"If it weren't for the fact that the number of human beings is not as good as the insects, where would they be suppressed by these insects!", "The advantage of insects is the number, they are all low-level insects, and these insects can become the enemies of human beings only because of their numbers!"
Edward felt that humans were actually more capable of living than insects.
The human lifespan of the Wind Continent is more than ten times that of bugs, and those bugs that die in the twilight of life and in the spring and winter are simply not enough to become the enemies of ordinary humans. Moreover, the insects can live, but not many survive, and the number has been maintained at a very stable level under the hunting of the same kind and high-level insects.
Human beings do not have the upper limit of this number, in this world with a production capacity of 100,000 per mu, there are no human beings who starve to death, the land resources here are sufficient, and the human beings who are used to oppression do not have the ability to resist, so there is no exploitation and oppression, and there are not many people who die.
Putting aside the need for those mages to buy and sell and some research, experiments and other messy things, humans have almost no natural predators, and those who die at the hands of bugs every year are killed by hunting, and in the area outside the Andulon line, few bugs enter.
A couple can have eleven children under normal circumstances, but if the restrictions are relaxed, they can have twenty or thirty children in a lifetime, and these twenty or thirty will have the ability to have children after the age of ten years, and then continue to have twenty or thirty, so that after a hundred years, the number of human beings will reach a terrifying number.
Never doubt a mage's bottom line, as long as there is a need, even asexual reproduction can be done for you, let alone create a potion that can make a woman give birth to only girls or only boys.
The first and second floors of the city of Andulon, plus the human kingdom of Alboga on the surface below, have a total of more than 10 million civilians, and it is not difficult to quadruple that number in a hundred years.
Most of the inhabitants of this world are humans with the blood of Serth, and if Serth exerts her divine power and directly comes to a magic technique of midwifery, multiple births, and ripening, then the number of insects is really not comparable to that of humans, and humans will let the insects know what locusts are.
For spellcasters, quality is always more important than quantity! If you die of 10,000 excellent talents, you must also cultivate one of them! Ordinary mortals can have as many as they want, so they don't have to protect or hunt, and they don't care about the worldliness of mortals.
Edward knew very well the temperament of the mages, so he also knew very well that those mages did not come to farm bugs with large-scale spells, and it was definitely not that they could not bear to kill, but they were unwilling to come and take risks.
The mages are not in normal minds, but they will not commit suicide properly, and the mages who die usually die on the road of pursuing the truth, because they have ideals, and they can't think about dying if they don't really want to die.
Just like Elsa, this woman knew that Edward had a negative body that could kill her, but she still bit Edward, because for Elsa, this exciting experience was unprecedented, and she regarded it as a kind of enjoyment, and she wanted to bite off a piece of meat from Edward when she knew that it would be.
If they don't have what they want or are interested in, they won't be okay to provoke Edward, such as Darren and others are very polite to Edward, and the lich just insists on following the rules of the game.
Interest is the best breakthrough point to solve problems, and those advanced spellcasters are not interested in bugs now, which means that they will not put 12% of their energy into dealing with bugs. In this situation where the top is paddling, Edward has a negative attitude towards the safety of these people at the bottom.
Upon entering the city, Edward and Poor also dismount from their mounts, which is not suitable for summons.
The streets are very wide, which was originally built for this situation, naturally there will be no crowding and inconvenience for vehicles, and the poor performance is also fully in line with the performance of a country girl from a small country to a big city, looking at all kinds of strange creatures and vehicles, machines, as well as street lamps and signs, showing a complete stupidity.
The people in front of Edward gave way to Edward after seeing that Edward was covered with a black cloth on his eyes, so he didn't encounter anything unhappy along the way, and those who saw Edward blind and still in front of him were directly knocked aside by Edward.
"Carl!"
Edward heard someone shouting to him, and looked in the direction of the voice, where a girl in red was waving at him.
"We passed. Edward said to the pity beside him, and then walked towards the girl in red with the pity.
"Oh" looked at the girl pitifully, and carefully followed Edward.
Edward and Poor said that if you call him Carl in front of outsiders, if you accidentally call yourself Edward, you can just say that your name is Edward Karl.
"Barron, are you alone?" Edward greeted the girl, who was someone Edward had met at the Imperial College, and was the same time as Edward.
Barron is the eldest daughter of the Phoenix family in the city of Arjeplug, and uses the Flame Fighting Qi.
Phoenix means firebird, and generally those who use fire will say that they are Phoenix, just like ancient emperors always like to say that they are the sons of God.
Barron smiled and pulled a girl next to him over, and said to Edward, "No, I came with Vivien to buy some spell supplies." Vivien knows you, and she's always thinking about you!"
Edward looked at the girl named Vivien, and couldn't remember seeing each other.
Just like Edward, Tom, Peter, and Jack, Vivien is also the name of the rotten street.
Vivien also greeted Edward after Barron finished speaking, and said kindly, "I'm Vivien from the mage department, majoring in thunder and fire. Carl, do you remember Grevas, from the Puppet Guild?"
"Remember, are you her sister?" Edward remembered a magic stone he had gotten from the Puppet Guild, which had been left in the house useless, "I said I was trading for a spell, but you never looked for me." ”
Vivien nodded, after hearing her sister's description, Vivien knew that her talent and ability were insufficient, even if she still couldn't meet the requirements of Edward's spell, so naturally she didn't go to Edward.
"Yes, I want to wait until I have the ability to learn this spell, I don't think it's too far!"
Edward didn't care, but still reminded: "Then you better hurry, when this hunt is over, I shouldn't stay here for too long, and then this transaction will be automatically invalidated." (To be continued.) )