Following Thacker back to the Grand Duke's Palace, I kept thinking about how to organize my future army, build a defensive force, or a harassing force, or an offensive force? And how to ensure the logistics and long-term combat effectiveness of my army.
It is undeniable that the longbow has super strong attack power and can eliminate the enemy more effectively and safely. But an ordinary longbow alone weighs more than ten kilograms, and with my future improvements, this weight may even approach or reach 20 kilograms. And another ordinary rapid-fire bow and a multi-string crossbow, plus a long sword for close combat, all these things together reach nearly 35 kilograms, which is almost equivalent to the weight of an ordinary heavy cavalry without weapons.
What's even more troublesome is that the special long arrows used by those longbowmen are much larger in size, length and weight than ordinary long arrows. Even if all soldiers carry an extra warhorse, it is still very inconvenient. Not to mention that the soldiers can't take care of the warhorse during the battle, even in the battle, if the soldiers run out of arrows, how can they run to another warhorse to get arrows? War, you can't always do what you want... Trouble!
"Hanlong, the Duke has already delivered all the materials you need to your residence as you requested. Just now, the Duke also instructed that you can ask the Duke for any materials except rare magic crystals and a large amount of dense silver at any time." As soon as I arrived at the Duke's Mansion, the captain of the guards of Duke Shalo handed me a list and then prepared to leave.
"Oh, by the way, Lord Carlo was looking for you just now. He said that in order to help you adapt to the situation in the Imperial Magic and Martial Arts Academy as quickly as possible, he is going to give you a special training to prevent you from being unfamiliar with the situation in the academy and causing unnecessary trouble. Now the Lord may be waiting for you in the open space in the back garden!" As soon as I turned around, Carlos turned back and reminded me.
After thanking Carlos, I took Yaruo and Aof to my own residence. Special training? In my concept, special training seems to mean being ravaged, or being played like a dog by others, but with the knowledge I have gained on Earth and on the Internet, I am not afraid that Carlo will do anything to me? At worst, I can just pretend to be dead by falling to the ground. To be honest, until now, I still feel like this is a dream, or I am acting unconsciously, and everything seems fake. Since it is a dream and a play, what should I worry about? If it is a dream, at worst I can do it again tomorrow; if it is a play, then at most it is just a replay.
Walking to the back garden, the open space where I tested the ice storm magic was now covered by a fiery red hemisphere with a diameter of hundreds of meters. The absolute fire magic shield - the Fire Shield, it must be this!
Shit, that Carlo, although I also know that fire magic is good at attacking but not at defending, and the so-called super magic shield can only be compared with other high-level protective magic, but at least the name of the super magic shield is scary enough. Could it be that he made such a big fuss all of a sudden just to give me some special training? That would be too much of a move on his part...
"Yaruo, go back first! When you have time, make more magic scrolls and magic arrows. I'll go see what the fat guy Carlo is up to." I persuaded Yaruo to go back to the residence first. I didn't want her to see me in such bad luck. And when Yaruo saw the glazed eyes of the fire shield, I knew she didn't want to go in. After all, their main attributes are mutually exclusive.
"Hahaha, Hanlong is back? That's great. If you had come back a little later, I might not have been able to wait and left first. Come on, the real boss is here, so it's time for us to start." Seeing me approaching the Fire Shield, Carlo immediately brought me in and waved his hand to let several subordinates who were still sitting stand up.
"Lord Carlo, what are you doing?" Damn it, just go if you want to, I won't keep you here. Don't say it's my hunch, just looking at the layout here, I know that he has brought so many people here, just to let them compete with me in magic.
Pretending to be an idiot, I tried to check the people inside. In addition to Carlo, there were 6 white-haired old men maintaining the flame shield. Standing outside the nearly 50m x 20m field in the middle, there was a senior priest and a great magician of the light system. Inside the field, there were 12 magicians of various systems, one intermediate and one senior magician of each system. Damn, I haven't even got the apprentice magician certificate, how can I fight with the intermediate magicians here? Isn't this asking for death
"Hanlong! In order to help you adapt to the life in that perverted school as quickly as possible, I have found some magicians to practice with you. This will not only improve your practical magic skills, but will also be of great help to you in dealing with the challenges of those students in the future. Today, I have spent a lot of effort to find a high-level priest and a great magician of the light system. This way, no matter how badly you are injured, it will be no problem."
"Lord Carlo, I... I wonder if I can skip the sparring? After all, I think my magic has progressed fast enough, and I think I can learn these slowly in school..." Damn it, I'm not a masochist. No matter how badly I'm injured, it's okay? Don't I feel pain
"You must attend. I think it's too late to start studying at school as you said. If you don't want to be beaten half to death in your first month at the academy, I advise you to change into the magician's robe as I say... Otherwise, the troublemaker of the finance minister will definitely make you lie down at the end of every month."
Carlo nonchalantly dragged a chair over and sat down, and said casually, but this sentence immediately made me feel overwhelmed. Damn, how could I forget this guy? Although I felt cold sweats, I was still very hard on the surface.
"Isn't he just the Minister of Finance? His main enemy is Jerry. Would he target me? And Jerry won't just watch me suffer, right?"
"Hehe, it's a pity that you two are going to the Magic School, not the Martial Arts School. If you were in the Martial Arts School, Jerry could teach all the students a lesson every month, but in the Magic School...Hehe, no matter which one of you two is a rookie, the worst little trash. Don't even mention that the Finance Minister's son can bribe the students to teach you a lesson, he can make you two lose your teeth on the ground just by himself."
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