(I went out to run errands in the afternoon, and I was busy until the evening before coming back.)

There is no interruption, but it is written more late.

It's three o'clock in the morning now, and updating this chapter is Monday 15th!!

The original update on Tuesday 16th will be there again!)

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Chapter 536 [The Old Man of the Ox Fork]

The people brought by Carmen to the northwest are almost all the elites of the magic academy, most of them are top students in the Hogwarts branch, especially Chen Daolin's fancy is more than 20 senior students who will graduate in the coming year, these students have basically obtained the level qualification of intermediate magicians, even if there are a few who have not obtained the intermediate magician qualifications, they have only temporarily not participated in the assessment of the magic union for various special reasons, but their strength has reached the intermediate level.

In other words, there are more than twenty magicians whose strength has reached at least level four or above.

In addition, there are forty junior students, whose strength is uneven, but at least they all have the strength of formal magicians, even if it is only the first and second grades. But at least for the knowledge of magic, the basic skills of magic theory are very solid.

What Chen Daolin values even more is that there are six magic teachers from the Academy of Magic!

These magic teachers are naturally the best in the magical civilization world of the Roland Empire. The worst one of the magic skills has also reached level five, and four levels six. Finally, one of them reached level seven!

At the seventh level, he is already considered a high-level magician!

A high-level magician, even if you look at the entire magical world of the Roland Empire, it is also a first-class master with a resounding name. And this seventh-level magician originally had the title of professor in the magic academy, and his major also happened to be fire magic!

Fire magic is recognized as the most applicable to warfare, the most lethal and the most widely applicable! All have an interesting nickname called "War Magi".

Especially this fire mage named Oscar, according to Carmen, he has mastered three different high-level fire magic spells.

High-level fire-based magic, almost any one thrown out, is a map-pushing weapon suitable for war, and it can be described as a map-pushing artifact!

This guy is simply a humanoid powerful AOE and powerful DPS!

Dean Carmen's support for Chen Daolin this time is almost unprecedentedly strong!

But even so, when Carmen faced Chen Daolin. Still a little guilty.

She vaguely expressed her thoughts to Chen Daolin.

According to Carmen's tenacious and tough temperament, in order to protect the land of the Roland Empire, she would even like to pull all the students and magic teachers of the entire Hogwarts Sorting House over!

It's a pity that the Academy of Magic is not an army after all, in essence, it is just a school.

Even if Dean Carmen had a high prestige in the Academy, it was unlikely that he would order his subordinates to fight for their lives on the battlefield like an army commander would.

Magicians themselves are precious!

This time he brought people to the northwest, in fact, it was clear that Carmen would bring a team of magicians to help Chen Daolin deal with the war. And these people know very well that they are coming to the northwest this time to go to the battlefield.

The sword has no eyes on the battlefield. Every second can kill you.

No matter how prestigious Dean Carmen was in the Academy, she couldn't force the cadets to follow her to fight in the Northwest.

Therefore, what she brought this time was to use her prestige in the academy. At the same time, after Xiao Yiyi, he called on the volunteers after him.

Otherwise, according to Carmen's temper, I'm afraid that the entire Hogwarts branch will be moved to the northwest.

Twenty-four mid-level magic students. Forty low-level magic academies, plus six magic teachers, a total of sixty magician teams......

This made Chen Daolin's heart feel extremely happy!

Look at the entire Roland Empire. What army can have such a luxurious team of mages to assist in the battle?

I am afraid that the only one who can use so many magicians to fight for himself at once is the emperor in the palace, and the number of palace magicians will naturally exceed this number.

In addition, even if it is a few main ace legions of the empire, there is no way that many mage teams work together.

Well, maybe there is an exception...... The Tulip Family's Private Army...... Because no one knows how many magicians have been cultivated in their own family for more than a hundred years.

The team of sixty magicians, plus Carmen herself, made a total of sixty-one.

Chen Daolin's first reaction was...... If the orcs come again, they will simply come to give themselves a head by an army of thousands of people!

Put yourself and Carmen two holy steps here, plus sixty magicians, and a humanoid map weapon with high-level fire magic......

And then, a new problem left for Chen Daolin began to bother him.

The Magician's Samurai Guard!

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The Wizard is a recognized powerful ranged output. Only after a certain distance can the magician exert his powerful combat power. But once the enemy is close, the weak magician can only obediently stick out his neck and be slaughtered - not every magician has a perverted and strong physique and martial arts like Chen Daolin.

When a magician fights, he must have a considerable number of samurai servants by his side as the magician's personal bodyguards to prevent the opponent from raiding the magician's side.

But the question is......

"Where did I go to find so many professional samurai?"

Chen Daolin began to scratch his hair.

This is also the biggest difference between the academic magicians in the magic academy and the orthodox magicians from the magic union.

A magician from the Academy of Magic, because he spends most of his time in the academy all year round, studying, researching, completing his studies, and studying magic. So most of the time is equivalent to being isolated from the world, they don't need to fight with the outside world, and they rarely even fight with people, and they rarely have the opportunity to fight.

Therefore, the magicians of the academy will not recruit or equip themselves with samurai servants - where do you need this if you stay in the academy all day?

But a magician from the Magic Guild is different. These magicians are all over the empire on weekdays, some go to the frozen forests in the north or the swamps in the south to explore, and some even join mercenary organizations. There are also plenty of opportunities to fight.

Therefore, those free magicians often recruit and recruit some samurai servants for themselves, as their personal guards, and they are also the last barrier to guard their side!

Such a magician, Chen Daolin has encountered.

In the imperial capital before, when Dean Carmen was assassinated, Chen Daolin had personally killed two magicians, both of whom were free magicians and both had samurai servants. The strength of the samurai servants around him has even reached the level of the middle rank!

But the group of academics brought by Carmen......

Chen Daolin's heart is really painful and happy at the moment......

"Samurai, samurai...... Where am I going to find so many samurai to serve as personal bodyguards and servants?"

Hell yes!

Sixty magicians, even if each of them is only equipped with two samurai servants...... At least one hundred and twenty samurai are also needed!

These are 120 samurai! They must be real warriors with the rank of professional samurai! Not ordinary soldiers!

Because in battle, if you have the ability to raid the close range of the magician and endanger the life of the magician, it is naturally not ordinary! To deal with this kind of enemy, ordinary soldiers are simply not capable of serving the duties of a samurai.

It has to be a samurai!

And the samurai level can't be too low! Wizards of the intermediate rank and above must be equipped with at least the middle level of the samurai!

Can be a mid-tier samurai...... Chen Daolin will not have more than ten people around him.

The most powerful is naturally Montoya, a holy knight master who dares to assassinate the emperor in the street...... But Montoya is the only battlefield general under Chen Daolin who can come in handy, and it is undoubtedly a waste to use such a fierce general who can lead troops to charge into battle, to deign to be a bodyguard for a magician.

Besides, there is only one master like Montoya, Chen Daolin......

Anyone else...... Ade can be counted as one. There are a few ...... that can be picked out from Sylvester's personal guard camp Even if he is a one-armed knight, Martin's personal martial arts skills are far from being a master, he can only be regarded as a good skill, not to mention that he has broken an arm.

Forget it. Chen Daolin suddenly found that his subordinates were now extremely lacking in powerful force.

"If there is no protection from the samurai, then the magician on the battlefield will become the target of the enemy's key raids, a little careless. A few dead and wounded, that's a huge loss!"

Chen Daolin muttered to himself.

Carmen also seems unprepared for this question......

Where has this beautiful dean ever been on the battlefield? Not to mention that she herself is outstanding, and she used to have a coachman with outstanding military strength by her side. She also served as her samurai servant.

As for these students and teachers under him......

"No, this problem must be solved! Otherwise, we must not let them go to war! In case of a few losses, we cannot afford it!"

"But where can I find so many professional warriors?" Chen Daolin was dumbfounded.

"Perhaps...... Can you go to the Mercenary Guild to recruit?" Carmen came up with an idea.

That's not too bad.

Chen Daolin thought about it carefully and felt that it was barely feasible.

After all, his own foundation is too shallow, and he has not yet become a real wealthy family - those real wealthy families, who will not recruit and raise some samurai retainers with extraordinary skills?

For example, Duke Tulip's personal guards are all professional samurai!

But......

The mercenaries recruited from the Mercenary Guild had a problem.

Most of those mercenaries were undisciplined and unruly.

What's more, these people are all mercenaries, all mercenaries!

It may be okay to work with money, to be a bodyguard, or to be a bodyguard.

When it really comes to the critical moment, they are expected to be the last meat shield by the mage's side, and even sacrifice their own lives to protect the mage they are responsible for when necessary......

Of course, it is not denied that there are many real heroes in the mercenary industry. But after all, it is impossible for everyone to be a hero and be willing to put their lives on the line for their employers......

Most mercenaries actually have a bottom line in their hearts...... It's okay to take your money and fight for you, but it's really time to see life and death at a critical moment...... How many people would really die for that little commission?

Not to mention much, as long as the critical moment, one-third of the guards choose to save their lives first......

Then these magicians are really dead!

Therefore, magicians have always been extremely strict in recruiting samurai servants for themselves. Each magician has been getting along with the samurai who follows him for many years, and everyone has established a deep trust and affection, and at critical moments, they are really willing to risk their lives to protect their magician masters......

Guys who were recruited temporarily...... Do you really dare to entrust your life to the other person?

To put it bluntly, if you apply the gameplay of the game, the magician is specifically responsible for the output, and the samurai is the flesh shield and blood cow in front of the magician!

"Damn! I really can't do it, Lao Tzu to these magicians. Equip each with a powerful set of armor and build them into humanoid turrets!"

However, no magician can wear metal armor, as most metals are naturally repulsive to magical elements.

How do I strengthen the mage's own defenses...... For this question, Chen Daolin went to consult a master.

The first craftsman of the empire...... Master Kang.

This famous master of weapons and equipment manufacturing came to Chen Daolin's territory in the past few months.

Since Chen Daolin took root in the northwest, he quickly wrote a letter to the imperial capital and quietly seduced the first master of the empire into his territory.

The bait used to seduce the empire's number one craftsman was simple: Chen Daolin came up with two steel-making methods that surpassed the world's smelting technology.

So, this master, who has been smelting and making weapons all his life, obediently came to the northwest. gave up the shop in the Wushuang Fang in the imperial capital.

At the same time, this Master Kang also brought dozens of his disciples. They are all excellent blacksmiths with good strength.

At present, Master Kang is in Chen Daolin's territory, erecting the workshop next to the embankment by the river, and is currently studying the hydraulic forging machine that Chen Daolin has made.

And when Chen Daolin ran to see Master Kang, he asked the old man his own questions. Ask him how he can create a non-metallic piece of protective equipment for each of the sixty magicians......

This old man stared at Chen Daolin for a long, long time with an idiot look.

"Why do magicians wear heavy armor? metal armor, don't think about it...... I'm a blacksmith, but not an alchemist, and I don't have the skills to make sixty sets of metal armor. And bless the magic on it. ”

Chen Daolin touched his nose: "I know alchemy, but to make sixty sets of magically blessed metal armor, it is also necessary to eliminate the repulsion of metal to magical elements...... I can't do it. One or two sets might be made, sixty sets...... Unless I don't do anything for three or five years, I have to do this without eating or drinking. ”

"Then why do you ask such an idiotic question?" The old man's tone was very sharp, and he didn't save face for Chen Daolin at all: "Magicians should be able to move and fight at any time during war, and wear heavy armor...... It's a waste! Instead of that, you might as well spend money on sixty turrets and ballistas. ”

“...... Because, I now have a team of sixty mages to help me fight...... But none of these sixty magicians had a samurai to follow. ”

Chen Daolin told the truth.

The old man stared at Chen Daolin with wide eyes, as if a flower suddenly grew on Chen Daolin's head.

The two glared at each other like cockfights.

After a while, Master Kang took a breath: "So, what you lack is a reliable warrior to serve as a personal servant of the magician?"

"Yes! A magician who has the courage to sacrifice himself when necessary, and is even willing to take responsibility for himself!"

"How many people are you missing?"

“...... I don't have any. Chen Daolin spread his hands.

"......" The old man's face showed a little sorrow, he thought for a moment, suddenly turned around, and yelled at a group of blacksmith disciples who were fiddling with the hydraulic forging machine in the workshop: "Grim!

A man with five big and three thick, sweaty face immediately ran over with a hammer, in such a cold weather, this guy was shirtless, revealing a body of tendon meat.

"Master, you called me?"

Chen Daolin stared at this guy for a moment.

Master Kang squinted: "Grim, how long have you been following me?"

"Nine years. The man replied angrily: "Apprentice for three years, and then you asked your second disciple to accept me as an apprentice, and it has been nine years and three months until today, owner." ”

"Hmm. Master Kang nodded with satisfaction: "So, you dare to die for me?"

Grim's eyes widened, and he said loudly without hesitation: "The person who is born is the owner, and the ghost who dies is the owner!"

"Alright. Master Kang pointed at Chen Daolin: "From today onwards, you will follow Lord Darling Chen to do things, and he will do whatever he asks you to do - dare to work hard!"

"Yes!" Grim nodded to Chen Daolin without hesitation, weighed the hammer in his hand, and said angrily: "Lord Darling Chen, you say, kill whom?"

Chen Daolin was already in a cold sweat on his forehead, hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively: "Master Kang, your apprentice grandson...... He looks athletic, but ......"

"Grim, you have the rank of samurai, right?" Master Kang sneered disdainfully.

"Fourth-level samurai. Grim replied in a deep voice.

Chen Daolin's eyeballs almost didn't fall out!

Level 4?!

That's a real mid-level samurai! You can be a battalion-level officer in the army!!

But this thing is shirtless and working hard in the blacksmith shop with a sledgehammer?!!!

Chen Daolin suddenly flashed a flash of inspiration in his mind, and looked at the group of disciples and protégés of Master Kang in the workshop with almost greedy eyes......

These guys are all blacksmiths, naturally everyone is powerful, and all of them are five big and three coarse...... Blacksmiths are all hard work!

"You...... You disciples, you don't all, they are, they are all ......."

"What do you say?" Master Kang sneered: "I have been to the Orc Kingdom for so many years, the territory of the Dwarves, the Frozen Forest, and the territory of the Elven Clan...... If I hadn't had this group of powerful disciples guarding me, I'm afraid my bones would have been ground into powder by the orcs and boiled into soup!"

"I ......"

Chen Daolin suddenly felt that there were 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping through in his heart!!

It turns out that after looking for a big circle, there is such a hidden force group around me!!

"You, these disciples of yours ......"

"Where can a blacksmith not have two strengths? I originally just thought, since it is to work hard, it is better to practice martial arts by the way, it is regarded as exercise, I received a few samurai disciples in my early years, so they have passed on the martial arts, so my disciples, except for a few people who are not good at martial arts, almost everyone practices martial arts - of course, they all take the path of strength-type martial arts, and I don't have the dexterous type here. ”

"How many disciples do you have?" Chen Daolin began to drool.

"Don't dream, many of my disciples have obtained my true inheritance! Many of them are extremely skilled blacksmiths and masters of making weapons and equipment! Such excellent craftsmen are not much easier to train than magicians! You really dare to let them all go to the battlefield to fight! I will give you twenty people at most!"

Master Kang shook his head and said quickly: "Moreover, you have to guarantee that these people are only allowed to be warriors and servants of magicians, and you are not allowed to let them charge into battle as soldiers!!"

"Okay, okay, no problem, no problem!!" Chen Daolin thought for a while: "But that's it...... There are still fewer people. ”

The old man thought for a moment and hesitated: "If you still want some manpower...... I can write to my disciples in the imperial capital, and there are many other places where there are many of my disciples, and it is not a big problem to summon twenty or thirty more people...... No more. ”

"Enough, enough!!" Chen Daolin's heart was full of joy!

There can be forty samurai of good strength...... has greatly alleviated his shortcomings!.

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