Chapter 20 Reorganization of the Mercenary Group:
In order to meet the new needs of the "Armed Merchant Group + Mobile Order", and more importantly, to meet the new needs of exploring the underground, the reorganization of the Sanzang Mercenary Group is imperative.
The Dark Regions - or the Underworld according to the ancient Nether trichotomy of the sky, the surface, and the underground - are intricately complex, and the mercenary groups have no maps, so they need a large number of pathfinders. At the same time, the underground passage can be very narrow, so there can't be too many tall races like the Bear Goblin Gnolls. Considering that there is a possibility that he will never return, Mike is ready to go with a large number of miscellaneous soldiers and a small number of elite configurations.
The miscellaneous soldiers are the miscellaneous soldiers recruited before and the ruins kobold who have recently surrendered. Either because of Thrall's aura of kingship, or because of the strength shown by defeating the ruins goblins in one day, in short, all 443 ruin kobolds surrendered under the leadership of the big leader. Mike is ready to select 100 of them to go underground. The equipment is mainly composed of pickaxes and cloth armor captured on the battlefield, and a small number of elites have inlaid leather armor and short bows.
Probably because he often fights with goblins and has more experience points, the proportion of ruins kobold warlocks is more than 1.5%, which is the same as that of the kobolds of the Dragon Palace. The big boss himself is a warlock who can use 4-order spells, and there is a 3-order, three-order, two-order, and two-order 1. It's a pity that none of them would use the fireball technique as a group battle weapon, otherwise they would have been able to level the goblins and fight the gods.
This time I went underground, and the caster would definitely have to bring it, but it was hard to say how many I would bring. The Great Chief, who is well versed in current affairs, will definitely be left behind in the ruins to assist in the management as a deputy, and at the same time be responsible for training warlocks. The other 6 kobold warlocks were all sent to the Dragon Palace for training, and they could only determine how to place them before they set off, and the 6 goblin priests who knew Tier 0 magic were also trained in the Dragon Palace, and they could only determine how to place them before they set off.
The elite is more than 300 warriors who have experienced the baptism of war one after another, and now they are being further trained and reorganized, and it is expected that 5 bear goblins, 10 gnolls, 15 goblins, and 30 goblins will be selected from them to form the 2nd Regiment of the Knights of Truth, and follow Mike and others to the underground. The tall races in the Knights will all use the Demonized Giant Axe and Giant Sword, everyone is equipped with a primary anti-demon cloak, those with the right body are equipped with a Demonized Breastplate or Demonized Mixed Woven Iron Armor, and a few also have a primary strength glove physique talisman, plus a little drizzle of spare weapons, the average price of a single person's equipment is about 1500 gold coins, and the sophistication is close to the sky. Goblins will be equipped with chainmail, armours, crossbows, and short spears, which are not bad for 120 gold. The Knights of Truth are indeed worthy of this kind of equipment, they have endured the baptism of war, and they have undergone rigorous training and selection, and everyone is a true elite of one out of fifty.
In addition, there are five super-elites. In terms of equipment, No. 9 Lazer, who has a top-of-the-line vampire sword worth 18,000 gold, is at the top of the list by an overwhelming margin, No. 8 Luken, who has a Mithril Elf chain mail worth 6,500 gold, is in second place, Archbishop No. 1 with a total equipment value of about 4,000 gold is in third place, and then Hazi, a No. 7 semi-troll who is only comparable to the Knight of Truth because he has not been attached for a long time, and Kobold No. 10, who has no magical equipment before he has recently been attached, only has a secondary bloodline cloak of 400 gold.
The vast majority of this batch of equipment, with a total price of nearly 80,000 gold coins, was directly captured by the Preg pirates and the Flame Mercenary Regiment, and it is conceivable that without them, the Knights of Truth would definitely have a set of inlaid leather armor and an ordinary weapon.
The Sanzang Mercenary Regiment, or the Sanzang Shinrikyo Sect, or the Sanzang Armed Merchant Regiment, has a lot of storage equipment. Personal equipment Mike has a dimensional hole and buys a small storage bag, Goku has a small storage bag, and Sal and Sermena each have an oversized storage bag. The public equipment was a total of 6 small storage bags captured from the Preg Chamber of Commerce and exchanged from the Dragon Palace before the start of the war, and the second was the recent fierce battle to clear the ruins of Fort Santil, and a total of 14 small storage bags were seized.
However, even if all these storage bags are combined, they can't transport a few tons of goods, and the trade is simply unreliable. It is only by Mike's shrinkage that a caravan can truly be called a caravan.
Shrinkage, a third-order spell, can reduce the volume of items to one-fourth of the original level, Mike's current level, with the last secondary delay scepter, each time shrinking more than half a cube, lasting 20 days. He can use 24 spell slots for Shrinkage, 10 for Tier 4, and 5 for Tier 5, with a maximum of 441 cubic meters. Therefore, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and even if a master can't use teleportation for various reasons, it is better than a thousand dishes B.
Of course, Mike's spell slots can't all be used for this, but isn't there still mana pearls, although the 3rd order dragon palace is not sold to the outside world, but it has made a lot, Mike has used Rex and a set of equipment for 10 each of the first, second and third orders, and divided 3 in Koria and 7 in each mercenary group. This time, Mike exchanged a large and four medium-sized storage bags under the name of the mercenary group with the Dragon Palace, and the first- and second-order mana pearls were also returned, and a little else was added, in exchange for a total of 10 small storage bags, 6 third-order mana pearls and 8000 gold coins, plus a total of 2 captured before and after, it was 15, and there were 17 secondary delay scepters that could be used three times a day, and about 400 square meters could be reduced with 36 shrinking techniques every day. A total of 30 small storage bags were given to the Knights of Truth to bring supplies.
Sermena was stunned, even considering the mana pearls, Mike's spell slot was still clearly wrong.
"My ring doubles the level 3 spell slot. Mike held out his left hand with the top-of-the-line ring enchanted by Mr. Ovo. It's okay to hide this kind of thing from others, but it's hard to hide it from Sermena and the others, who have been fighting together for a long time.
"You've always said it's just a wedding ring with Kenael...... Sermena feels like she's been cheated on her feelings.
"It's a wedding ring, yes. Mike confirmed.
"......" Sermena hated the root of her teeth.
As for the origin of the ring, Mike refuses to say, and Sermena can't torture him. Goku guessed at once, it must be the reward for completing the task of wooing Koria last time.
However, Sermena immediately thought of another question, "You use so many spells every day, can your body stand it?"
"I'll try not to use battle spells. Mike didn't care.
"That's fine, pay more attention to yourself. Sermena nodded.
When a spellcaster casts a spell, in addition to the spell bit, it will also consume a lot of energy, which is much more than the mental work consumed by learning, otherwise a top caster will be invincible to come to thousands of mana pearls and engage in production and transportation. Like ordinary people, the caster is also the better the physique, the more energetic they are. Mike's body is made and he is in his prime, and the fighters of Brad, Lucan, and Lazer are not necessarily comparable to him in this regard. At the same time, after being greatly strengthened by the energy core, he has excellent intelligence, will, blood, and three talents, and has also learned valuable experience from the memories of the Grand Arcanist, and casts the same spell, consuming less energy than Master Zevahid. Therefore, Mike didn't think that he would have any burden if he used more spells, and he also wanted to make a second- and fourth-order spell slot doubling ring. Besides, I really found that I couldn't keep up with the energy, so I just threw some of the goods.
The mercenary group's recent war wealth, the cash part has a total of 13,000 gold coins, mainly to catch four rich people who also want to make war money, and their ransom is 5,000 gold coins. Coupled with the 8,000 gold coins exchanged for the space bag, plus the various equipment that Viscount Tarangard and the Dragon Palace were willing to accept, the mercenary group could use a total of 35,000 gold coins to supply and carry goods. Sermena calculated that it was almost spent, leaving only 500 gold coins for emergencies.
The goods include Darmshal jerky, soybeans, rice, millet mixture 240 square meters for a total of 20,000 gold coins, Sentia cloth 8 square meters for 9,500 gold coins, and Longgong wood for 150 square meters and 1,500 gold coins, with a total price of 31,000 gold coins. The supplies include 1 ton of weapon steel, 1 square of leather, 5 square meters of wood, orange orange juice and a number of other supplies, with a total price of 3500.
In addition, the Kingdom of Koria gave 400 pearls and 200 kilograms of shells, with a total estimate of 7,000 gold coins, and the Dragon Palace gave 1,000 red crystals, with a total estimate of 5,000 gold coins, and the accounts were settled after the return of the merchant group.
It may seem like a lot, but if you consider that 15 Tier 3 Mana Pearls are worth 3 to 50,000 gold coins, 2 oversized 30 small space bags are worth 40,000 gold coins, and 15 secondary delay scepters are worth 15,000 gold coins, you can know that this method of transportation is not very cost-effective. What's more, the value of Mike's 21 tier 3 spell slots hasn't been factored in.
Everyone was a little bit entrained, but only Mike could use shrinkage to entrain. He brought three cubic meters worth 23,000 gold coins, that is, twenty-three tons of non-weapon steel, and the "raw material cost" of small commodities was removed from the investment in Sanzang Town, which was basically so much.
"Brother Mike, why do you have to bring this, are the dark elves still short of steel?"
"It is estimated that it will take a short time on the road, and I am going to activate the constructival technique, make full-body plate armor and sell it to the mercenary group to equip the Knights of Truth, and maybe even sell it to the dark elves. Mike replied.
Sermena thumped her chest, hating herself for being a druid. She can use Tier 5 spells now, but she can't make any money on the road!
Almost all of the full-body plate armor is a fine product that can be enchanted, and an excellent blacksmith with five or six apprentices can make a set in about a year, and the market price is usually around 1,000 gold coins. The master who can construct the spell is relatively fast, the standard process requires 30 spells, and several sets can be made depending on the proficiency, the master with high proficiency can do one set, the master with high proficiency can do two sets, and the master with proficiency breaking through the sky can make three sets.
Mike, an omnipotent traverser and a high-end mage, can actually use that second-order metal softening technique and stamping to make it, but using the constructing technique to build plate armor to arm the Knight of Truth is still secondary, and the proficiency of the punching constructing technique is the main purpose. This spell is extremely important for the well-informed time-traveler who has the memories of the Great Arcanist in his head, and it is very necessary to rush his proficiency to the Skyrim. It's just that it's extremely difficult to directly stimulate the construction technique, and Mike plans to learn the creation technique through the mage first, and then use the warlock method to compare and excite it.
A warlock's bloodline stimulation can be divided into three independent parts: one is talent development, which aims to develop existing talents to the extent that they can stimulate spells, the second is stimulation preparation, which aims to adjust the bloodline to ensure that the desired spells are stimulated, and the third is talent breakthrough, which aims to break through the limitations of one's own talent, and each time the bloodline breaks through, it can stimulate a higher level of spells.
The difficulty of talent development is lower and the method is more mature, to improve the first-order spell level, the average time it takes for Mike to use the special training method passed down by a certain family is nine and a half months, and the general training method that wild warlocks can also access as long as the type is correct, it generally does not take more than a year.
The difficulty of talent breakthrough is very high, and the method is also very immature, if you want to break through once, the average time taken by Mike to break through with the special training method passed down by a certain family is twenty-one years, and there is no clear data on the general training method used by wild warlocks.
Provocation preparation is the most important difference between the two. On the one hand, the difficulty of activating different spells in a specific bloodline varies greatly, taking the red dragon bloodline as an example, it is very easy to activate the talent spell of the red dragon to locate the item at the second level, and it can be adjusted in a day or two, but if you want to stimulate a second-order fog spell, the difficulty is so high that it flies. Therefore, it is extremely important to accurately determine one's bloodline and figure out what spells one is suitable for activating. On the other hand, the adjustment methods of different bloodlines to stimulate the same spell are also very different, and the warlock family will definitely carefully study how their bloodline stimulates important spells, although the general training method of wild warlocks has also conducted in-depth research on the study of important spells, but there are too many bloodline types and the bloodline judgment is not detailed enough, and there is a big gap with the special training method. Combined, the time required to provoke preparation can be tens or even hundreds of times worse.
Warlocks divide the method of excitation into three categories.
The first type is fully directed excitation, that is, it can be 100% guaranteed before excitation, and the spell that is stimulated is what you want. Although this method is the most effective, it takes too long, and only spells suitable for bloodlines can do it, and even members of the Warlock family often use this method to activate no more than half of the spells.
The second type is completely random excitation, that is, it is directly activated without any preparation, and what spell is stimulated depends on the bloodline and luck. This method is not very effective, but it is extremely time-saving. People who have nothing else to do but the higher-level warlock spell slots love it. For example, if a strong person who cultivates both spells and spells, when they have the same level of warlock and mage, they will basically activate the new first-order warlock spell as soon as possible, so that they can use the mage method to learn from and improve.
The third type is semi-directional excitation, that is, the bloodline can be adjusted after stimulation, but due to time or ability, it is not fully adjusted to be stimulated, and it is often supplemented with potions to improve the success rate. The vast majority of people use this method, which can balance time and probability according to the actual situation. Well, if you're unlucky when you awaken a key spell......
Thunder Swordsman Rex is just out of luck. The Tier 4 spell he wanted to activate was Transfiguration, but he couldn't do it with full directional activation. The first time he activated the Tier 4 secondary spell Void Enchantment, he could still comfort himself, after all, this spell could effectively defend against Tier 3 spell attacks, which was quite useful. But when he was forty-two years old, he thought he had made all the preparations and confidently activated the bloodline for the second time, and as a result, he inspired a fourth-order group to become a human being, and Rex couldn't eat for two days. Regardless of whether the spell is useful or not, if you want to have another chance, you have to be able to break through the talent to stimulate the 5th order spell, which is not easy to say, it is estimated that there is not much hope in this life, and it is impossible to become a real golden dragon knight.
However, the excitation difficulty mentioned before is only effective for people who only have the ability to cast spells, and if it is a strong person with dual cultivation of spells, there is a solution with a very low difficulty. Just as they can meditate to sense the power of their bloodline, and quickly learn the spells mastered by the warlock method in the way of a mage to improve the rank of the mage, they can also use the bloodline to echo the memorized spell position through meditation, and adjust the state of the bloodline to quickly activate it, and it is 100% successful.
The reason for the fast progress in the late stage of the dual cultivation of spells is here. The warlock has a high rank, and the mage can learn from it and is easy to improve, and the mage has many spells, and the warlock's side can be compared and easy to excite. Not to mention that there are double spell slots for practicing spellcasting.
Mike always tries to ensure that the Warlock's spells are one level higher than the Mage's, and it is for this reason that it is the most time-saving and the most ideal to activate spells. Most of his spells are contrasting excitation, and the invisibility techniques, arbitrary gates, teleportation techniques, etc., which are easy to activate by his own bloodline and have mature special activation methods.
Mike is now preparing to stimulate the construction technique, but his bloodline is not suitable, and if the omnipotent traverser wants to achieve directional stimulation by adjusting the bloodline alone, it will take at least three or five years, and the success rate is not guaranteed. But if you first use the mage method to learn and then memorize, and then use the bloodline to adjust the comparison, it can be stimulated within ten days.
Mike's choice of the mage prohibition school is also based on this, he banned illusions at the beginning, and when he became a red robe, he supplemented the ban on enchantment, the biggest reason is that his warlock bloodline is the easiest to stimulate these two types of spells. In the same way, his Warlock Bloodline practiced the Secret Magic Method, and he couldn't activate a level 4 or higher necromantic spell, also because it was the most difficult to activate a necromantic spell.
Wild warlocks have low combat effectiveness, and the key is that the difficulty of reasonably stimulating spells is too high, so they are more inclined to be demon swordsmen, and a few spells can be awakened appropriately.
Kobold Warlocks are even less combative.
Because of the thin dragon bloodline, kobolds generally have some warlock blood, and the research on the bloodline awakening method is also relatively in-depth. Generally speaking, the human race, which has the strongest research and development capabilities, has been researched for a long time with the strength of the whole country, and the artificial bloodline with extremely obvious advantages in scientific research points belongs to the first grade, and the magical creatures with innate advantages such as dragons and goblins belong to the second grade, and the kobold belong to the third grade.
However, the independent research and development of other races is different, and the kobold, the bloodline awakening research, mainly relies on others, to be precise, on black-hearted mine owners like the Red Dragon Lady.
The black-hearted mine owners are not satisfied with just squeezing the kobold's labor, but also hope to cultivate enough kobold warlocks with "higher economic value" who can take the initiative to strip standard soul fragments with a massive base. A large number of kobold slaves inevitably ran away, so the wild kobolds also learned all kinds of scientific training methods.
The training method of the ruins kobold is very similar to that of the dragon palace kobold, both of which are "Big Waves and Sands Bloodline Awakening Training Method" - this 'Big Waves and Sands' prefix was added by Mike himself, because the kobolds belong to the kind of race that can become warlocks with only a little warlock talent, and there are almost no individuals who are talented enough to be able to become warlocks, so a lot of training is required to find a few warlocks.
The training method is the same as the method of training the kobold to awaken, and the small difference refers to the difference in the spells trained after awakening. The kobolds of the Dragon Palace must learn the water-making technique at the zero level, the summoning horses at the first level, the levitation technique at the second order, and the bread-making technique at the third order, which are either good spells they use for production, or have high economic value, and the black-hearted mine owners have studied very deeply; These eight spells, kobold people can achieve a single excitation probability of more than eighty percent, and other spells are not easy to say.
Mike doesn't have any good suggestions for Datong's part, so let's continue to be so tao, he must have his own requirements for Xiaoyi's part, but he can't make a decision for a while. He has a few spell sequences he wants, and he also wants all the kobolds to be stimulated according to his requirements, but the Football Association still wants the Chinese team to enter the World Cup, which is what they can do. Therefore, he can only let the kobold practice according to the method of the Dragon Palace first, and if anyone has a particularly great future, maybe he has become FIFA at that time.
The bloodline test is a bit useful for kobolds, but it's not particularly useful. This is very easy to understand, that method was originally developed for humans, and races with a high degree of similarity to humans, such as elves, can also be used with a slight change, but the difference between kobolds and humans is too great, and it is easy to understand that the measurement is not accurate. What's more, each of them has several thin dragon bloodlines, which makes it even more difficult to measure.
Fuerna, a multi-hybrid child, has been practicing the secret method of demon transformation for more than two months, and with some results, the hair on her body has fallen out a lot. She was very happy, and felt that her inhuman characteristics were finally missing, so she practiced more diligently. Mike tested her bloodline again, and he was indeed able to rule out the interference of the devil's bloodline, but he still couldn't find out what type of warlock bloodline she was, and too much mixed blood was the consequence. Mike can't help it, it is impossible for a person to transform into a dragon and a devil at the same time, so the secret method of transforming X can only practice one, and it can only eliminate the interference of one bloodline. Anyway, according to speculation, it is very likely that Fuerna is the bloodline of the water dragon, so let her practice according to that.