The astral spirit body refers to the first stage of wizarding that ordinary people enter through meditation.

This stage has the largest number of wizards, named for the fact that when meditating, the consciousness seems to turn into a star and hang in the starry sky.

Wizards in the astral stage are only regarded as apprentices, and most of them can only use some small spells at the level of tricks, which is far from a real wizard.

You have to be promoted again, and you can be considered a wizard with low-level magical powers, and you have completely entered the door of the transcendent world, and you can use magic proficiently.

Lothar is currently at the stage where she has just been promoted from a star spirit to a wizard with low-level magical powers.

Of course, this is the division of orthodox wizards, and some casters of unpopular schools, like the desert bandit leader that Lothar once encountered, have average spiritual power of their own, but they can cast very destructive magic through ritual magic.

The female voice on the other side became more solemn:

"It's the first time I've encountered you in this situation."

"I'm sorry, I can't help much, but listening to your description, it's likely that you're just overexerting your mental energy, and meditation isn't as long as possible, and a good night's sleep may alleviate the symptoms."

Lothar rubbed her eyebrows: "It's okay, my situation here is indeed special." ”

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you one thing, I asked Nishaya to stay in Jerusalem as Baldwin IV's court mage advisor. Nominally, of course, only a court physician.

This is only part-time, and the real position should be the Jerusalem office of the Levantine Wizards' Association.

If you have any materials you want to sell, you can always give them to her, and she will give you a satisfactory price. ”

Lothar remembered the subspecies sea dragon he had killed last night, and if it wasn't sacrificed to the Scourge of the Seas, it would have been a lot of money if it had been sold to Nisaya.

"I know that."

Baldwin IV had sent a personal letter not long ago to inform him of this.

What's more, Nisaya, as Baldwin IV, the new court physician, is not a secret, and Lothar still has eyeliner in Jerusalem.

"By the way, can you cure His Majesty's leprosy?"

Lothar's tone was slight: "Just repay the favor you owe me." ”

Anna sighed softly, "I'm happy to return the favor." But healing and saving people is not what sorcerers are good at, at least not what I am good at, and if Ragmani hadn't died, his alchemy might have been able to help the king. ”

"But fortunately, his condition has been controlled and will not deteriorate in a short time, that priest named Ulding is your person, right?"

"Hmm."

"You really have a lot of talents under your hands, to be honest, I can't figure out why you want to serve such a small king in a critical situation and with weak power?"

"Pledge your allegiance to Empress Lagaia, and how about I guarantee you the title of Despot?"

Despotism is a recent title in the Eastern Empire, said to have originated from the Hungarians, and can be compared to princes, kings, often canonized only princes and concubines.

What Anna's subtext represents is self-evident.

You must know that Empress Lagaia and Emperor Alexios of the Eastern Empire left only one daughter and no other heirs, and this position is full of gold.

Far from being comparable to the distant Eastern dynasties, which can rarely even touch the real power.

"No need, I'm a devout Catholic, and I don't have the idea of changing my court."

Lothar smiled and rejected Anna's proposal, this purple-clothed princess, recently, has not been recruiting him for her family's regent.

However, although the price offered was excellent, it did not make Lothar tempted at all, and his current foundation was in the beginning of development, and he developed steadily for a period of time, and took the Sinai Peninsula, using it as a springboard to take the granary of Egypt.

When the time comes, isn't it more comfortable to be the king yourself than to eat soft rice under the empress of the Eastern Empire?

Lothar felt that it was better to be the founding monarch of a rising kingdom than to be the regent of a decaying and dying empire.

Because it is absolutely impossible for him to treat the deep-rooted aristocratic groups of the Eastern Empire in the same way as he treats those pagan leaders in Transjordan, which is no different from looking for death.

Lothar hung up and lay back on her bed.

By this time, the pain in my head had subsided a lot.

In its place, there was a deep sense of sleepiness.

"I'll sleep for a while, if it's a little longer, you don't have to worry, all government affairs will be handled by Cours, and all military affairs will be handled by Jeanne."

After giving these orders, Lothar could no longer restrain her eyelids from fighting up and down, and fell into a deep sleep.

…

Otto and Ulm rode side by side in the wilderness on their horses.

Behind them, they were followed by more than a dozen hussars.

During this time, he participated in the border patrol team formed by Lothar, patrolling the territory on horseback every day, and the whole person was tanned in a large circle.

The climate of the Holy Land is very different from that of the mountainous Transjura Burgundy.

Hussars most don't have knighthoods, and even if they do, they don't have fiefdoms to match them.

Otto wondered, how did Lothar make this group of brave and skilled cavalrymen die for him?

It can't be cultivated from a young age, right?

It takes at least three years to train a knight who is skilled in horsemanship and combat skills, and it has to be the kind with outstanding talent, and Lothar has only been in the Holy Land for a few months?

"What are you thinking, Lord Otto?"

Otto spoke out his doubts very calmly.

A smile appeared on Ulm's face: "My lord, I used to be just a groom, but it was Lord Lothar who gave me the title of knight, and gave me armor and a war horse. ”

"As far as I'm concerned, I don't care about the king, and I don't care about any fiefdom, and it's my greatest honor to serve my lord."

He looked at the robes behind him and smiled, "They're the same. ”

"But..."

Otto was about to speak, when he saw Ulm's face change suddenly, he raised his hand, stopped the crowd, and listened intently for a while.

Immediately, his complexion changed drastically, and he shouted: "There is movement! ”

"Everyone's on alert!"

In the distance, smoke and dust billowed out.

Dozens of heavily armed Mamluk cavalrymen, dressed in black scale armor and horse gear, slowly appeared on the high ground in front of them, painted with flags of raging holy flames, fluttering in the wind and sand.

Otto's mouth subconsciously opened wide.

Then, shouting at the top of his voice: "Enemy attack, go and notify it!" Let all the militiamen take their family rolls and quickly hide in the fortresses on the border. ”

The militia is not the same as the peasant soldiers, and in Port Eyra, the peasant soldiers are often referred to as the newly formed Black Eagle Banner Brigade, which has been organized into a standing army and is well equipped.

The militia refers to the border villagers' self-defense army, which was recently commissioned by Lothar to form.

In the arsenal of Port Ella, there are piles of old weapons, all of which have been distributed by Lothar to the families of villagers whose land is distributed on the frontier.

They work in groups of several families and can quickly take their families with them to the nearest rudimentary rammed-earth fort nearby when the enemy invades.

The three hussars at the tail of the group immediately scattered in all directions.

Ulm frowned and said, "Lord Otto, what are we going to do?" ”

Otto rightly said: "What else can we do, retreat, we only have a dozen people in total, no, now there are only ten people left, do we still have to fight with an unknown number of enemies?" ”

Knights are supposed to be brave and fearless, but they can't kill themselves, right?

Otto has never been a brave and ruthless person, which has something to do with the fact that he has never won a battle against Lothar since he was a child.

Ulm frowned, "However, we haven't figured out how many enemies there are. ”

Otto hurriedly said, "Wouldn't it be better if we retreated into the fortress and let the falconer from Mueller go and investigate?" ”

Ulm's expression was solemn: "Lord Otto, Lord Lothar has asked us to protect his people, and it is our duty.

If we retreat like this, at the speed of these pagan cavalry, the inhabitants of several nearby estates and villages will suffer a massacre. ”

"Lord Lothar has said that he wants to prove to the people of Ila Harbor that he is capable of protecting the lives and property of the freedmen in this realm."

Otto looked at Ulm's determined eyes and couldn't help frowning, "But I'm sure that for Lothar, you are much more important than these newly converted civilians. ”

"Perhaps, but..."

Ulm looked back at the crowd: "What do you think?" Do you do your duty, or do you live in secret? ”

Without the slightest hesitation.

The hussars shouted in unison: "Duty, of course!" ”

"We are hussars, brave and fearless, hussars who have never been defeated!"

"Kill all these infidel bandits!"

Ulm and Otto looked at each other and said in a deep voice: "You better get out of here immediately, I will lead someone to slow down the progress of these infidels." ”