PS: Thanks to the book friend "People under the Sycamore" alliance leader, the boss is atmospheric, the boss is wild consumption, thanks to the book friend "Dragon Eagle Wing" helmsman, the boss Niu Pi, the boss four gods bless.

PS2: Because of force majeure, this chapter is currently in a blocked state, but everyone can speak enthusiastically, I can see it in the background, thank you.

Millman Raul, Countess of Arabell, devout of Lady Lucky Tymorrah, Master Ranger.

The situation of this countess was not very good, since the Goblin War, she lost her territory and was forced to retreat to Susar with her people.

No one dared to laugh at the countess, because she did her best, she fought for her city with her army until the last moment, but the enemy was so strong that even the legendary warrior of Asan IV was killed, and Millman chose to retreat in desperation, the master ranger is currently temporarily residing in the temple of Tamoura in Susar, with her few remaining vassals and loyal attendants.

It's normal for Millman Raul to want her territory back, she's the lord of Arabel, the owner of the largest city in the north, and it's embarrassing to be a landless count now.

But how does Millman Raul plan to assemble an army strong enough to face off against the orc Great Khan Tugin?

Aaron pondered.

There are three ways to form a large army in the kingdom, which are independent of each other and can be used together.

The first channel is the traditional vassal service allegiance system, that is, the vassals are obliged to serve the lord, when the lord thinks that there is a need for war, he will call the vassals to declare war mobilization and gather their direct troops, the vassals will return to their territories to gather the lower vassals and their direct troops, and the lower vassals will then gather the knights and their troops.

This method of recruitment is called "vertical recruitment", and the big lord can quickly rely on this feudal military structure to gather a large number of good and bad troops, some vassals have a good relationship with the big lord or have direct interests to tie up, they will contribute to the elite full force, and some vassals have a general relationship to deal with it according to the minimum requirements.

Aaron is currently a "lower nobleman", and if the regent on the throne asks for an army, Aaron must prepare his own weapons and equipment to participate in the callup.

The second way is to issue a conscription order directly to the territory, calling troops from the citizens of the city and the freedmen, this method of conscription will bring great damage to production, and the lord must also provide weapons and equipment, food supplies, small commissions and promises of promotion.

This type of recruitment was known as "horizontal recruitment", and the lords could get a decent army in a short period of time, and although they were poorly trained, demoralized, and ill-equipped, they were large in number and often useful in defending cities and fighting within their own borders.

The third channel is simple, mercenaries, that is, those military groups composed of adventurers, mercenaries, and idle professional soldiers to fight for themselves, mercenaries mean extremely high mercenary costs, unreliable loyalty, limited obedience, but also represent high efficiency, strong combat effectiveness and organization.

This is a fantasy world, and the combat power that adventurers are able to offer is amazing.

Generally speaking, these three methods of recruitment are the source of all armies in the kingdom, and requests for reinforcements are generally grouped into the third type.

Aaron thought to himself, what is left of Countess Millman-Lauer?

Vertical recruitment? She and her vassals didn't even have fiefs.

Lateral recruitment? How much combat power can these northern refugees in Susar provide?

Mercenary recruitment? Where does the money come from?

Aaron was genuinely curious about how Millman Raul was confident that he would be able to organize a large army to retake Arabel.

It's a pity that cousin Robert only heard about it and didn't know the specifics.

"You also need to know more about some hot things, especially the Adventurer's Guild, what tasks are there, what events are there, what everyone has been talking about recently, these things often contain opportunities." Aaron couldn't help but say, "Don't just bury yourself in being your scribe all day, you don't want to just get a dead salary, do you?" ”

"But what else can I do but be a scribe?" Robert muttered dissatisfiedly, "I didn't ask you to try to change my position, and you didn't want to." ”

"If you want to change positions, you have to show enough skills!" Aaron tapped his index finger on the table, he frowned and said: "Look at what you usually do, you have time and money, what you think of is always to go to Downtown to spend the money, to eat and drink, to play darts and cards and chess, or even to spend money on a woman's belly, if I guess correctly, you have a woman you know in Downtown, right?" ”

"You know?" Robert was so frightened that he stood up.

"......" Aaron looked at him with a cold expression.

"I always felt that I deserved a better job, Aaron." Robert sat down reluctantly.

"You do your job in the Adventurer's Guild first, and in addition, help me understand and inquire about all the hot events regularly, and if I'm in Susar, you report to me once a week." Aaron whispered, "Pay attention to the timeliness of things. ”

"Got it." Robert reluctantly agreed.

"Alright, let's hang out with those fox friends of yours." Aaron waved his hand to signal that he could go out.

"Aaron, you know, I ......" The cousin's face turned red, his mouth was open, and he didn't walk where he was, nor did he sit down.

"I know I'm not going to tell Melly and Lothair about it, but you'd better know what the hell is going on in Downtown, I think you know very well." Aaron said casually.

Robert went out, and Aaron thought about it and decided to check out the market in Uptown.

He was carrying a golden ticket of 1,000 gold coins, which was a waste of money.

Money is to be spent!

Susar's markets are full of everything, and the wars of recent years have taken on a grotesque situation - the market is more abundant than ever, and many people who have lost their jobs and homes are forced to sell their possessions cheaply, but not many have enough cash on them, so many valuable magical items are discounted to a greater or lesser extent.

Just like the red dragon dragon scale essence gold full-body plate armor in Aaron's house, normally this heirloom should be able to sell for 20,000 gold lion coins if it is put up for sale, but if Aaron is in a hurry to sell and encounters this situation in the market, it is difficult to say whether it can be sold for 10,000 gold lion coins.

Aaron thought to himself to see if I could get some good food from the big market.

Ordinary equipment, the Purple Dragon Knights will distribute it uniformly, so Aaron walked around the market, and didn't see anything he wanted to buy, he quickly slipped to the door of the largest battle mage trading house in the market.

This is a semi-official arcane magic firm in Susar, and the War Mage Corps often sells things here, and by the way, also buys some spell casting materials.

The Masters are very powerful!

The Masters are also very money-burning, burning money to the point that any Wizard will always be in a state of poverty, and a Magician's finances are generally only in two situations: lack of money, especially lack of money!

Pushing open the heavy wooden door, the battle mage business house is particularly empty, and the counter is full of all kinds of equipment, magic items, potions, raw materials, luxury goods, magic scrolls, books, all kinds of things, but there are few customers.

Because stuff here is expensive! Very few people can afford it!

A young and beautiful girl in a purple dress greeted her, and she smiled brightly at Aaron: "Welcome, sir, do you want to sell or buy?" ”

What a handsome guy! The girl's eyes lit up, and her attitude immediately became enthusiastic five levels.

Or the local aristocracy!

"Buy." Aaron's gaze swept and he noticed an older battle mage sitting behind the main bar, most likely elite in strength, wearing a pair of glasses thicker than the bottom of a wine bottle, focusing on a piece of parchment in front of him.

Aaron knew what he was doing.

He's mnemonizing spells.

Mages in the realm can theoretically learn infinite magic, but due to the limitations of Mystra, the goddess of the net, although mages can learn all the magic, the magic they can remember is limited.

For example, a mage may know 20 spells, but due to the limitations of the magic web, he can only memorize and use 5 of them in his head at the same time, and the rest of the magic will automatically be blocked from his mind and cannot be used, if he wants to use other magic, he will need some time to rest or meditate, and then re-memorize the spell he needs from his spell book or magic scroll, replacing 1 of his existing 5 spells.

It's like a mage who has a large warehouse with a large amount of goods in it, but his cart can only hold a limited number of things, and all he can use is the goods in the cart, and he wants to use something else? No problem, you need a little time to go into the warehouse and replace the things you don't want in the trolley with what you want, and then push it out of the warehouse to use.

How big the trolley is and how many things it can hold is directly related to the professional level of the mage and his intellectual attributes.

The old mage raised his eyelids from behind the bar and glanced at Aaron, and when he saw the Salian coat of arms on his chest, his expression was a little serious: "Take a look, tell me what you want, Fanny, you are in charge of this Excellency." ”

Aaron nodded, and he walked around the Secret Shop a few times, and soon found two magic items.

The first magic item is called the "Storage Staff", a simple, magically enhanced staff that looks like a short stick on the surface, but is stronger than a wooden one.

The effect of this storage staff is that when someone nearby casts a spell, it can absorb a small amount of magical elements and store them, waiting for the user to release them in one breath when they need it.

This staff is not a perpetual magic item, and it has a 3-6% chance of being damaged every time it releases mana, and it is constantly stacked, i.e. if there is no problem with the first release, the second release has a 6%-12% chance of damage.

"This item is a prototype product, and there is a probability that it will fail to be stored."

The staff could be used for transition, and a spellcaster like Aaron was free to decide how to release the magic element in it, and Lord Viscount was pleased with this.

The second magic item is called the "Shield Brooch", which protects the wearer from damage caused by a ring of magic and has some resistance to other field magics.

"That's all." Aaron said softly.

"The energy storage wand is worth 400 gold coins, and the shield brooch is worth 550 gold coins, young man, for the sake of the local nobles, you are cheaper by 20 gold coins." The old battle mage glanced at Aaron: "A total of 930 gold lion coins, do you have any cash?" ”

Aaron turned his head and left: "Excuse me, I'm going to the Magical Lady Church!" ”

"Hey! Wait, boy, you're coming back for me! The old battle mage hurriedly stopped Aaron from leaving: "This is an extraordinary item!" ”

"I'm a local and it's not your reason to cheat me, the shield brooch only needs 500 gold coins to be ordered directly from the Magical Lady Church, don't think I don't know the market, as for this storage wand...... Although I don't know the production cost, this is obviously a defective product, and you dare to ask me for such a high price? ”

"If I want something like that, I might as well go down downtown and find it, someone will dispose of it for me at half price!"

The old battle mage looked at Aaron with some surprise: "Young man, you know the market very well. ”

"Then you make a price, I'll think about it."

Aaron didn't bargain directly, he said to the young girl who led him, "Is there a stocking here?" ”

"Yes, sir, which one do you need? From Silvermoon City, from the Dark Regions, or from the local magic workshop? The girl replied enthusiastically.

The highest-end unicorn wool stockings in Silvermoon City range from 20 to 30 gold coins (fluctuating with the supply), and the high-grade spider silk stockings in the dark region also cost 10 gold coins, and the market price of the local magic workshop stockings is about 2 gold coins.

Aaron asked for two white lace lace suspender stockings from the dark region, with two magical items: "800 gold lion coins, a fixed price, connected to these." ”

Hey, Miss Pastor, just waiting for you to come back!

"Too little, young man." The old battle mage shook his head: "That's it, 850 gold lion coins, for the sake of you being a local nobleman, I will give you 3% off, 825 gold lion coins, I still say the same, did you bring cash?" ”

Aaron also smiled, he first took out the golden ticket of 1,000 gold coins, and then pointed to the magic scroll in front of the battle mage: "Listen, sir, I also want to complete this deal, time is money, my friend, for you, and for me." ”

"I could have gone shopping somewhere else, and I think the Church of the Lady of Magic also has these things, but considering I'm a local nobleman, I'm certainly willing to trade with you."

"And for you, of course you can decline my deal, that's fine, trade freely."

"So these things will continue to be on the counter tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and a week later, they will continue to be on the counter."

"My trade will continue, and you'll continue to sit here and wait."

"The decision is yours, friend."

Aaron propped his hands on the bar, staring at the mage with his azure eyes.

“………… Oh well, 800 gold coins, a fixed price. The old mage looked at Aaron, hesitated for a minute, and finally nodded: "This is my first business of the day, count yourself lucky, young man." ”

Charm succeeds!

Aaron handed over the golden ticket, the old mage waved his hand, and a stone golem took out two bags from the room, which were full of gold coins, he glanced at them, and the mage's hand took out 200 gold coins from the bag and put them in front of Aaron.

A Cormier Lion is the most standard 0.02 pounds, and 200 Gold Lions weigh 4 pounds, and Aaron puts the bag in his arms.

Before leaving, he glanced at the Mage's stone golem.

This is an alchemy constructed creature, two meters tall, strong enough to handle most weapon attacks, and its own charm will have no effect on it.

Seducing humans doesn't always work! Aaron warned himself that you never know what's in your opponent.

If you go out on an adventure with your current strength, there is a high probability that you will not be able to defeat a kobold dragon vein warlock.

Don't want to look at kobold dragon vein warlocks, although people have a very low IQ, but they have dragon blood on their bodies, if they want to become kobold dragon vein warlocks, kobolds must at least have elite-level strength, and a precise fireball technique can blast a group of elite-level heavily armed warriors into a mess, not to mention that kobold dragon vein warlocks also know a lot of other small spells.

I just went out for a walk, bought two pieces of magic equipment, and went back to read the country's famous best-selling novel "Ilminster in Comandor" borrowed from the royal library in the evening, and the rest day was over.

For the next five consecutive days, Aaron trained as a recruit in the Knights, and he always got a perfect score in his cultural classes, while his swordsmanship classes were at an upper-middle level, and he quickly mastered his first sword skill [Sword Momentum-Heavy Split].

He began to learn the second sword technique, [Sword Momentum - Revenge Strike].

However, on the Saturday of the second week, when Aaron was about to continue mastering his second sword technique, his knight mentor Lucian stopped him.

"Aaron, that's all for your training today, there are some things you need to prepare."

"Prepare what?" Aaron lowered his wooden sword.

"Your magic mentor will arrive in Susar tomorrow." Lucian took out a letter with a ring stamp from his body: "Prepare well, don't lose your etiquette." ”

"After all, this magic master of yours has a well-known personality...... Lively. ”