After the berserk effect ended, Dane, who fell into an inevitable weak state, still insisted on patrolling the battlefield where the battle had ended.
When the reinforcements from Oriento arrived, the battle lasted less than twenty minutes before it was declared over. When cleaning the battlefield, only one tenth of the two hundred faceless men escaped, and the rest died here. As for those hairless hyenas, none of them escaped. At his request, the heads of these monsters were all chopped off. The mercenaries thought they were happy to do this job, and they all hated these monsters with no facial features and messy tentacles all over their bodies.
This is undoubtedly a big victory. Although, the mercenary team he led, which was guarding Ghost Knife Port from the very beginning, also suffered certain losses. The casualties of the two teams made him feel distressed. Moreover, the losses of the soldiers from Oriento would be as high as a lot less. Three sword dancers were killed and six mercenaries were killed in battle. However, in the end, Dane still achieved his intended goal: to win the entire battle without the total number of deaths exceeding thirty.
One or two quotas were slightly exceeded, but this did not affect Dane's mood. At such a price, it is quite valuable to solve the serious problem of stepping into Comilla Island.
Dane yelled: "Let the brothers rest, eat something, replenish their strength, and start in two hours. We will completely eliminate the lairs of those disgusting monsters!"
"Okay!" Everyone cheered.
Although Dane has already made the decision to take advantage of the victory, a rest of one or two hours is necessary. The No. 3 Squadron, which was originally stationed at Ghost Knife Port, was quite tired without even having a meal for a day during the successive battles. As for the first squadron and half of the second squadron that came from Orienado, although they only participated in the battle at the climax, it was not an easy task to march from thirty kilometers away. What's more, Dane himself is suffering from the weak state after the berserk ends,
While waiting for his weakness to pass, Dane approached Lancelot.
"Your Excellency." When Dane approached him, the sword dancer instructor with a naked upper body and tattoos was cleaning up the blood stains on his two elf-style long knives.
Dane casually found a slightly cleaner place to sit beside him. The battlefield was full of blood and corpses. He said, "Just now, your performance in the battle was really good, which made me want to compete with you a little bit."
Lancelot raised his head, looked at Dane, smiled and said: "Okay, after the war is over, we can try it when we have time. I also want to see, Dane, your sword skills."
The two of them, because of the 'tradition of the elves' before, were somewhat grudges. Lancelot was reluctant to train sword dancers for human and half-orc mercenaries at first, but he had to obey the order under Dane's pressure.
But at this moment, the change in address from 'Your Excellency Sir' to calling him by his first name proves that the distance between the two is not as far away as it was at the beginning.
After chatting for a while, Dane mentioned the business: "Didn't I hand over ninety mercenaries to you? Why are there only three teams of sword dancers I see now?"
Lancelot shook his head and said, "Not everyone can complete the training of a sword dancer. Even an adult and healthy elf will have a 10% to 100% elimination rate after three months of training. About 20% of them, let alone human beings. Although the mercenaries you handed over to me all have a certain foundation in martial arts, after half a month of quick training, more than 30 out of 90 people can pass the sword dance. The orc test is beyond my expectation. Moreover, it has been proved by practice that half-orcs cannot become sword dancers. All trained half-orcs cannot comprehend the secrets of elves. This should be related to racial barriers .And human fighters, after receiving training, the elimination rate is as high as half."
Dane hadn't noticed this before, but looking at it now, the mercenaries under him who were sent to the War Garden for training and successfully became sword dancers were all human beings.
"And..." Lancelot looked hesitant to speak.
Dane said: "If you have anything to say, I don't like others who are hesitant."
Lancelot nodded and said, "It seems that our resource reserves are not enough, and the training of sword dancers has consumed a lot."
"Huh?" Dane frowned, and in Lancelot's subsequent explanation, he knew the reason.
Of course, the training of sword dancers does not cost money, but the tattoos on the soldiers who have passed the training are not simple decorations. These tattoos can be said to be one of the sources of strength for sword dancers. It contains the secret method of the elves, which can greatly enhance the agility and flexibility of the person receiving the tattoo, and allow them to use the secret method of the elves to perform special sword dance moves. And engraving tattoos on their bodies cost money.
Lancelot is the sword dancer instructor, and the person who has mastered the ability to depict sword dance tattoos is of course himself. A clever woman can't cook without rice, and the raw materials needed for tattoos on the body of a team of sword dancers cost one unit of gems and mercury.
Dane grimaced at the news. His brain turned quickly, and he immediately converted the resources into gold coins.
Mercury and gems, converted into one unit, are almost equal to two hundred gold coins. A team of 12 people will spend 400 gold coins for tattoos, and on average, one person will cost nearly 40 gold coins. In other words, a sword dancer is about equal to a soldier plus a set of weapons plus 400 gold coins to be armed. This figure is simply too expensive!
In Schindler, the price for a warlord to arm a soldier is only ten gold coins. Even an elite warrior in metal armor costs about twenty gold coins. For a light cavalryman, forty or fifty gold coins with man and horse is about the same. But in Dane's place, the naked sword dancer will cost forty gold coins just for the tattoo, which is about the price of a light cavalry with a man and a horse. The elf long knife, these all cost money!
Looking at it as a whole, Dane spent about fifty gold coins to cultivate a sword dancer. Right now, the three squads of sword dancers sitting aside to rest cost him 1,500 gold coins. How could this not prevent him from having a toothache
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