Chapter 43: The Old Man
Charlotte is still gone after all, and her speculation about her successful promotion to the knight and Ed has not been confirmed by the teenager, of course Ed will not tell her that she has done something through Guò Engraving, Charlotte can succeed, the most important thing is because she herself has a heart to insist on fighting, and she really tries hard to become stronger, and all she and the Engraving can do is shorten the time of this test.
The departure of the female knight did not alarm everyone, and this confident and flamboyant woman still hated parting as much as ever, leaving only a dashing back.
The army left the camp, and the group began a new journey.
Ed now spends his days with Tennison and the other knights, listening to them talk about psionic knights, occasionally practicing kung fu and practicing some charging tactics and techniques.
On the other hand, Delia and Andre have more important things to do, in addition to thousands of mercenaries, most of this team are ordinary soldiers recruited by the Roland Kingdom itself, and many of them are also from poor backgrounds and suffer from the hardships of lords and wars.
Before arriving on the battlefield, Andrei's Delia's secret mission was to absorb these people into the ranks of the Star Spirit, and thanks to Andrei, they had a team of less than a thousand people who had been trained and became Deria's loyalists.
As the commander-in-chief, Delia constantly adjusts the personnel placement, using her original team to slowly assimilate more people to join in, and she herself also goes deep into the soldiers from time to time, unleashing magic and giving speeches, lighting up the hope in the hearts of ordinary soldiers little by little, and the great dissatisfaction with the current life at this moment is the best fuel.
The world itself is unfair, especially ordinary people are always bullied by the strong, and when Delia appears in front of them, showing the magical power of the star spirit, telling them that as long as they believe that she can have this power to compete with the knights and fight for their own freedom and power, everyone flocks to her.
The thirst for power can attract a bullied person immediately, but it doesn't last, and Delia also tells them about her vision of the world, portraying them a society that is more egalitarian and everyone has a certain voice, in which everyone does not necessarily have the right to choose what to do, but must have the right to choose what not to do.
Lords will plunder your property unconditionally, you can choose to say no, they want to enjoy your new wife, you can choose to say no, when they raise their butcher's knife to kill you, you can also choose to say no, and stand up and unite more people to overthrow the tyrannical rule.
There is no doubt that this series of direct measures made Deria's ideas quickly spread among the soldiers, and even the spontaneous organization, which originally consisted of only a few hundred people, was able to grow rapidly, and if this situation continued, it would not be long before this army could become a strong army commanded by Deria.
Of course, in the end, how to show Xiàn on the battlefield depends on the power of the star spirit of Delia and the battlefield command ability of the officer, this process is hidden from Tennison and other knights, it is difficult to say what these arrogant knights will do if they find out that another ability in the world may threaten the spirit knights.
Even though Deria and Ed both believed that the knights were good and kind-hearted, the circumstances in which they lived were destined for class distinctions between them, so they decided that it would be better to keep a low profile until a qiē became a fait accompli.
Fortunately, there are not many knights on this expedition, Ed can hold them all, and these high-ranking knights never care about the state of ordinary soldiers, in their opinion, these people only have the share of waving flags and shouting for them on the battlefield, as well as cleaning the battlefield after the battle, helping to occupy facilities, etc., and the real battle has to rely on the weapons in the hands of the psionic knights.
Most of them want to rush into the battlefield, at least launch a charge against the outnumbered Ingier knights, and then retreat with their lives, as long as they don't resist desperately, even if they are captured, they don't have to worry about their lives.
When the time comes, the reputation of less than ten of them daring to charge at a powerful enemy spreads, then the disgraceful image of being captured by the enemy will also be subverted, and the reputation of the knights will only grow stronger afterwards.
This is the knight's war, as long as you don't lose your life on the battlefield unlucky, then the worst result is just a loss of reputation, unlike ordinary people, who often suffer a war is the result of ruining their family and dying unexpectedly.
The march of more than 10,000 troops was also much slower than that of Eddard's small troops, giving Delia more time to work among the soldiers.
That evening, Ed had enough of chatting with the knights, and ran to the group of special mercenaries alone, he still remembered these druids, the "elves", who had eaten several times before, and the mercenaries had limited good feelings for this interested knight, and most of them were perfunctory.
Yesterday I went to those magicians and talked about the principles of spells for a long time, although the professional terms of the other party sounded completely heavenly to Ed, but at least he knew a little, this group of guys is definitely very erudite, astronomy and geography, gold and stone everything, there is nothing they don't know, which reminds the boy of a profession in another world, scientists.
Ed hesitated to reveal a little bit of the science in the inscription to their leader, Mr. Gray, but to the disappointment of the time-traveler, it was completely impossible to tell if he was interested in it.
Although the technology Ed spoke of seemed to be very magical and could do many whimsical things, Mr. Gray's tone was always so smooth and unhurried, that Ed once thought that he was talking to a high-tech crystallizer, a machine.
In the end, Ed gave up the attempt, directly took out a junior **, and asked Mr. Gray if he could find a replacement of the corresponding nature.
The leader of the magicians casually recorded the description of the ingredients dictated by the young man, and said in a tone that was still so rigid: "I will arrange the task as a lesson for my apprentices, and I will give you similar samples before I arrive in Ovalé City, now please leave, I will do today's homework." ”
"Hey, be careful, that thing is really powerful, you must remember to let your subordinates pay attention to safety precautions!" Ed stood up unwillingly, seeing that his big killer weapon from the original world was casually placed on the table by this guy.
Mr. Gray waved his hand, politely and indifferently invited the boy out, and the curtain fell automatically behind him without wind, showing his subtle and delicate magic.
"Rest assured, the dangers of the material realm are far from being comparable to the dangers of your psionic spiritual cultivation, and even less than the cultivation path of our magical world. ”
The other party's words seem to have another deep meaning and it seems to be just a stinky fart, Ed, who returned to his camp, thought about it for a long time, but was still in the clouds, so today Ed decided to stay away from those troublesome magicians, and came to the camp where the rangers were to ask for advice, as for the druids, they were sent out by Delia to the front to inquire about the enemy's movements in the past few days.
After a long time of grinding and soaking, Ed couldn't get any more useful news from the mouths of these pretty rangers, and at first he ran to the door, and at one time these girls thought that he was interested in their leader, and even the beautiful and bold female leader Shirin probably thought so too.
This world often experiences wars, and most people on the verge of life and death are very open to two people together, like Charlotte before, and this mercenary captain are the same, not to mention that Ed has become a psionic knight who is valued by the commander of the expeditionary force at a young age, and his appearance is not bad, so he is naturally very popular.
However, after being secretly rejected by Ed several times, Captain Shirin also didn't have a good face for him, and even his subordinates didn't like him very well, but Ed found out the identity of the other party in the end.
The pointy-eared ranger leader does have non-human blood, and it is said that there was an elf in her ancestry, and naturally she has inherited some of these rare humanoid bloodlines in her body.
It's just that in her generation, the elven blood is already relatively thin, and the more pointed ears can barely be regarded as half-elves, and not everyone with elven blood can stimulate this bloodline trait.
These are all things that Shirin and her subordinates said to Ed, and the information about the elves in the engraving is still blank, obviously not very much in agreement, so Ed still wants to find an opportunity to find out more information.
Speaking of engraving, Ed checked it, the progress of the analysis of the power of the star spirit is about 7%, and now he is a little skeptical about what the use of this is, recently his strength has improved much slower than before, ** is still bronze-level, and the spiritual energy is growing rapidly, but it is only worthy of reaching the lower bronze level, in addition to soft power, such as self-learning from the engraving materials to improve the level of fighting.
As Ed left the ranger's tent in a huff, a figure suddenly popped up next to him, gestured to Edby, and ran off into the distance.
Seeing that the other party was deliberately waiting for him here, as if he had deliberately invited him to meet outside alone, Ed couldn't help but not alarm others, and followed with his strength.
The petite figure of the other party looked very familiar, and walked faster and faster, and left the barracks after a while.
Ed felt that the other party accelerated, and gradually surpassed the limit of his ordinary state, you must know that if he doesn't turn on the psionic energy, he is also a bronze **, and the speed of letting go of the full gallop is definitely not slow, but he is not ready to spend the psionic energy group for this unknown guy to stimulate his psionic energy.
Ed slowly slowed down, and if he ran again, he was too far away from the camp, and he wasn't ready to take any chances.
Seeing that the target behind him was no longer ready to chase after him, the figure in front of him also stopped, and when Edra was close and dozens of steps away from him, he spoke:
"Big villain, your speed has slowed down a lot, don't you drink with those stinky knights every day, and don't exercise diligently!