Ryan was sitting on the carriage, his body bumping up and down with the rhythm of the carriage axle, but this did not affect Ryan. He still slowly and clearly explained the release principles of magic missiles, as well as some of his own tips on meditation, opposite Ryan Sitting there were four engrossed magic apprentices, including Barbara. This time Ryan went on an adventure in the Cursed Swamp. The main purpose was to train his subordinates. After all, Cassano is now truly powerful and confident about himself. There are not many loyal people;
In the past, Ryan also had the experience of going on adventures with his companions. He even served as the leader of a mercenary group. However, this time, Ryan felt like he was taking care of the family. According to the discussion of the five people in the Cassano Council, As a result, Ryan and his party consisted of 100 people. This was completely a small army.
Among this group of people, Ryan himself brought the best 10 of the 500 magic apprentices. As a result, the Carter patriarch of the Seremis family also added his 13-year-old niece and two other family members. According to Carter, these three women should be the most suitable young people in the Seremis family to learn magic. I hope Ryan can take more care of them.
Since Ryan was still in a state of hostility with the Seremis family when he was selecting magic apprentices, there were no members of the Seremis family among the 500 apprentices. In order to reassure Carter and his tribe, Ryan had no choice but to I took this young lady who didn’t know what magic was, plus her two cousins and maids,
In addition to the magic apprentice, Ryan also brought Nancy and the 10 scouts trained by Nancy herself. They will become Ryan's eyes and ears in the adventure of the cursed swamp. Of course, Moses, who is almost inseparable from Nancy, also brings With his carefully selected 40 warriors and 10 shooters,
Vivian originally planned to follow, but there must be trustworthy personnel staying at Iron Fist Castle, and Vivian will accompany Ryan to the Imperial Capital in November, so she gave this opportunity to Adela. Adela only brought two personal maids, and her father Adams only brought four attendants.
In addition to these people, Vivian also handed over 20 of her personal guards to Ryan. These personal guards were all wearing magic armors drawn by Ryan himself. The purpose of their trip was to test the defensive capabilities of these armors. Necessary testing so that Lane can have more references for future productions,
Of course, since he already knew that the cursed swamp was very dangerous, and the two poisoned mercenaries were examples, Ryan still asked his men to hire two priests. One was the priest Rocheld hired by the fat businessman. He saw the two poisoned mercenaries at the first moment, and he knew exactly where he met them, as well as Simba, who had been poached from another caravan with a lot of money.
These people should be regarded as combatants, but there are also as many as 20 non-combatants, including horsemen, cooks, etc., so the total number of people in the entire team exceeds 100, which is completely more than a medium-sized team. mercenary group. In fact, this is the result of Ryan trying to streamline it as much as possible. Otherwise, Adams and the others would have completely planned to double this number.
For a real mercenary group, it is impossible to have such non-combat members. Even the guy who drives the car and cooks can pick up weapons and fight hard. Ryan now has the feeling of going on an outing instead of going Going on that kind of adventure that wanders between life and death, but since Adams and the others are satisfied with the current arrangement, Ryan will let them go,
It took almost 2 days to travel by carriage from Iron Fist Castle to Cursed Swamp. Ryan was not willing to waste this time, so he asked the 10 magic apprentices to sit in his carriage in batches and listen to him explaining magic to them. In total, these The magic apprentices have been studying with Ryan for several months, and there are now only 500 of the more than a thousand people left.
When Ryan first learned magic, he was able to gather arcane energy through meditation in about 3 months and release his first magic missile. However, even the best person he selected from the more than a thousand people could not do it. In this regard, better people like Barbara have felt the existence of magic energy, but it is obviously not possible to release it.
Ryan reminded these magic apprentices not to be impatient more than once, so he could not put any pressure on them. Those who did not continue to learn magic with Ryan had given up on their own, but in his heart, Ryan still had a lot of feelings for these magic apprentices. Expectations, after all, they represent Cassano’s future,
"Teacher Fabia, I can feel the magic energy you mentioned when I was meditating, but it is very thin and rare. It is like mist and cannot condense together at all." Barbara said softly,
"Well, where are you?" Ryan did not reply to Barbara on the spot, but asked several other magic apprentices,
"I'm the same as her, that kind of fog is really difficult to control."
"I'm a little bit close, I don't feel it every time."
"me too."
Ryan thought about it for a while, and he felt that since the magic apprentices in front of him could feel the energy of spells through meditation, he might as well use the method that his teacher Delanai used on him back then. It should be very effective, so Ryan He said, "I already understand your situation. Let's do this. When we camp at night, we will perform a small ceremony. I will help you feel the whole process of releasing magic."
Barbara and others are naturally very happy. They are now stuck in a bottleneck, which is also the first threshold on the road to magic. It may take a long time to break through, and Ryan said that there is a way to help them. Of course they all I can’t wait to hope that moment comes soon,
Finally in the evening, Ryan's long caravan stopped in a large open space on the roadside. According to Moses' arrangement, the grooms pulled the carts until the horses were relaxed and put them together for feeding, while the carts were circled. It formed a large circle as a temporary defensive fortress to deal with emergencies.
I have to say that those cooks were very good at their craftsmanship, and Ryan enjoyed a sumptuous dinner. After the dinner, the sky gradually became dark, and the scene a few hundred meters away became blurry. Ryan said hello and took the chef with him. The 10 magic apprentices and the 20 Vivian's soldiers started his special course dozens of meters away from the camp.