In this world, except for a few merchants, mercenaries, or people with reasons beyond their own control, very few people travel far at will.
Because there are too many unknowns on the road, diseases, beasts, monsters, even... robbers, any kind of accident is fatal to ordinary people. Those who go on the road alone like Beta are either fools or strong.
Fools generally don't live long, it's rare. Therefore, most people who walk alone on the road have something to rely on.
There are few people who travel far away, even the official road is very quiet, let alone in the woods.
Heidi was wearing a purple dress. This was the first time Beta had seen her wearing such gorgeous clothes. Usually, she would wear corsets for easy movement, or light soft leather armor.
Beta walked up to her and said with a smile: "You know how to dress up, the person who is about to become the wife of the mayor is really different."
Heidi picked up the corner of the skirt, turned it around slowly, and the fragrant wind hit her face, and then she smiled: "It's beautiful, it's for you."
Beta raised her eyebrows, a little confused.
"Thank you for killing... If it weren't for that, Nadette would never be able to untie the knot, and I would never be able to become the wife of the castellan." Heidi walked in front of Beta, her bright eyes were full of gratitude, and there was also a kind of lethargy. Heart-beating enthusiasm: "I will always remember the kindness you have done to me."
Heidi gently pressed her hands on Beta's chest: "So, this is a woman's most sincere gratitude, don't refuse."
Heidi raised her head and offered her red lips.
After a long time, the two parted lips. Heidi gently touched Beta's shoulder with his forehead, and whispered, "I know you still don't like me, so you don't touch me."
"No, you are beautiful."
"Lie." Heidi smiled softly, his face full of jokes: "That paladin girl is your lover."
"no."
"I'm lying again, I'm also a woman. I can understand the way she looks at you." Heidi snuggled into Beta's arms and said, "You have younger and more beautiful girls, of course you don't like them." I’m an old and faded wild flower. However, if you eat too much delicious food every day, you will get tired of it. If one day you want to eat some small desserts, or want to eat some strange flavors, for a change, You must come to me secretly, I will wait for you in Echo City."
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Half an hour later, Beta was on the road again, a purple shadow looming in the woods.
Echo City is only about 600 kilometers away from Bright Sanctuary. In the eyes of ordinary people in this world, a distance of 600 kilometers is a very long distance, but in the eyes of a professional like Beta who has the mansion technique, it is a comfortable journey. At night, use magic to make a small stone servant for the packhorse to prevent it from being taken away by wild beasts in the middle of the night, while he himself
Pack horses are very suitable for carrying people on long journeys. They are not picky about food, have a good temper, are resistant to diseases, and have sufficient physical strength. Although war horses are explosive and fast, they are too delicate and expensive. Not only must they be eaten well, but they must also be taken care of carefully. Grass eating, most of the green grass can be eaten, very worry-free.
The cost of raising a war horse can raise about seven pack horses.
Therefore, when traveling long distances, pack horses are generally used.
In addition, pack horses can occasionally be used as war horses. Although they are indeed not as fast as real war horses, they are still horses after all, and they can run faster than humans. In Urganda, even Camels can form a cavalry team, not to mention faster pack horses.
However, on the battlefield, real war horses are still the mainstream. After all, war horses are taller, which is a great advantage on the frontal battlefield.
Both war horses and pack horses can be contracted into magic pets, and magic pet horses are also the first choice of many mages. After all, in the early and middle stages of the game, except for wind magicians, no other players have the means of quick transfer, and the map of the entire game is huge. Exaggeration, therefore, riding a horse has become the most common means of long-distance movement.
And the casters have contracted the horses into magic pets one after another, so, in the early stage of the game, the well-known battle between big horses and small horses began like this.
The big horse refers to the army horse, and the pony refers to the pack horse.
In the early stage of the game, Malaysian magic pets are relatively strong. The pet-turned military horse not only has a great increase in explosive power and speed, but also a small increase in endurance, and its combat effectiveness is not weak, which is of great help to mages.
As for pack horse pets, their explosive power and speed have naturally improved slightly, and they continue to greatly strengthen their strengths, better resistance to diseases and viruses, extremely high physical strength, and... a wider range of recipes, and they can even be eaten Some cooked meat.
In the middle of the game, the spellcasters who contracted the military horses discovered that the cost they spent on raising the military horses, after three or four years, was a very exaggerated figure. And the spellcasters of the contracted packhorse hardly spend money on horse feed. The packhorse familiar can eat just some bark and leaves, and the packhorse familiar is better adapted to the climate, whether it is a hot desert or a They can come and go freely in the icy and snowy fields. In contrast, the military horse magic pet is more likely to get sick in these two places.
In the middle of the game, the battle between the big horse and the little horse came to an end, and the packhorse magic pet won.
But there are still many magicians who choose to contract military horses. After all, the exaggerated running speed... sometimes it is a kind of belief.
To put it more simply, a big horse and a pony are the difference between a supercar and an off-road vehicle.
Beta walked all the way, thinking about the years in the game... Although it does not have a contracted horse as a magic pet, this does not prevent him from joining the debate. He supports the packhorse magic pet, but now think about it, if If he had to choose between the two again, he would probably choose the military horse magic pet.
The reason is simple... At that time, he didn't have much money in the game, and he didn't have much money in reality.
But now it is different, he is very rich, and it is easy to raise a military horse magic pet. The most important thing is that the military horse magic pet is handsome, tall and handsome, and the pack horse is much shorter and has a mixed coat.
As for the ability of the packhorse to run around... the current beta can teleport magic, and also understands "human cannon".
Of course, this is the case where he has to choose one of the two. In fact, horse-like familiars, no matter what kind, are meaningless to Beta.
What was meaningless to him was very meaningful to others. When he arrived at the scheduled destination in the evening, he was inadvertently involved in a small disturbance.
Riding a pack horse, he was about to enter the city when he saw two groups of people confronting each other on the wasteland outside the city.
One group of cavalry rode tall horses, obviously high-quality war horses, and the other group of cavalry rode shorter pack horses.
The number of high-quality horse cavalry is slightly smaller, only about forty, but the number of pack horse cavalry is much larger, at least one hundred or more.
The atmosphere between the two groups of cavalry was obviously not very friendly. Beta also found that the coat of arms on the chests of the two groups of people were the same, that is to say, the two groups of people belonged to the same faction. For some reason, they started arguing.
From afar, many people were watching.
Beta took a second look, and then entered the city. He thought it was just a small episode, but he didn't expect that when he rested in the hotel until midnight, he found that the street was very noisy, and he woke up and went to the window When I saw it before, I found that there were soldiers knocking on the door of every house, even a hotel.
Beta still thought that this matter had nothing to do with him, and when he was about to continue to sleep, he didn't expect that someone knocked on his door, and the sound was very hasty.
He was a little displeased. He opened the door and found that the manager of the hotel was leading a man who looked like a soldier standing in front of the door.
The soldier had a wicked face at first, but when he saw Beta's clothes and attire, he was immediately discouraged. He said flatteringly: "Your Excellency, the third young master of our city lord, wants to requisition your draft horse."
Beta frowned and said, "No."
"Our third young master will give you the money." The soldier said with a bitter face, "Third young master said, thirteen silver coins per horse."
This price is indeed quite reasonable, and it is roughly the price of a pack horse.
But Beta will have to rely on pack horses to go on the road tomorrow. Although it is much faster to use the magic combination of 'Human Cannon', the problem is that this place is close to the sanctuary, and there are priests from the Temple of Light nearby. At least, Beta was originally an imposter. If this exaggerated magical effect caused unnecessary investigation by the Temple of Light, it would be worth the candle.
Beta continued to shake her head: "Not for sale."
Then he closed the door.
The soldiers outside looked unhappy, but when they thought of Beta's somewhat luxurious clothes, they held back abruptly, turned and left.
Two hours later, in the manor adjacent to the city lord's mansion, a middle-aged man with the appearance of a housekeeper said to a young man out of breath, "Third young master, all the strong-aged pack horses in the city have been confiscated, and there are still a few head."
The third young master has a handsome appearance, brown hair and brown eyes. He pondered for a moment and said, "It's just a few hairs off, it's not a big deal."
At this time, an officer next to him said: "Third young master, it's not bad at all. Some people know that you have launched the order to gather, but they just don't obey. In fact, there are still quite a few pack horses in the city."
"Didn't you tell them that I issued the recruitment order with a military order?" The third young master was extremely dissatisfied.
The officer said: "I said it, but they didn't listen, it seems that they don't want to give you face."
"That's it!" The third young master stroked his beardless chin, thought for a while, and said, "If you don't give face, don't give face. It doesn't matter. Anyway, a few horses are not too many, and a few horses are not much."
The officer was a little surprised: "Third young master, the problem is that after this incident, other people will laugh at you, and will not give you face, and there will be more and more people who are unwilling to obey your orders."
The third young master smiled: "Is it just such a small thing that people will laugh at me? It's not a real wartime mobilization. If it was a real wartime mobilization, if they don't sell me pack horses, I can make trouble for them. Now we are not in wartime When the solicitation order is issued, other people are already laughing at the joke, if more people are offended because of this matter, wouldn’t the other people laugh even harder?"
The officer sighed slightly and stopped persuading. He left and ordered his subordinates to find a way to gather the pack horses for the third young master.
As soon as the soldiers made up their minds, let's use some small means to bring back as many pack horses as possible. Then they heard that there was a leader in a certain hotel, and several people came with weapons. They didn't threaten Beta directly, but threatened the owner of the hotel. Then, while Beta was sleeping, they came to the horse boy not far behind the hotel and took the pack horse away.
Because the horse boy was a little far away from the hotel where Beta slept, and he entered the space of the mansion again, so he didn't know that his pack horse had been stolen.
The next day, after breakfast, he was about to continue walking, but when he came to the stables, he found that the pack horses were gone.
The hotel owner, who was sweating profusely, recounted what happened last night. In desperation, Beta asked, "The third young master of the city lord's family, why are you recruiting so many pack horses?"
"It's not for today's duel." The hotel owner said: "The Eldest Young Master and the Third Young Master have been at odds for a long time, and they will make an appointment every year to decide the outcome."
"What do duels have to do with pack horses?"
"The eldest young master likes a cavalry regiment composed entirely of war horses, but the third young master said that the number of cavalry regiments is more important, so he thinks that the cavalry regiment should focus on quantity and use very cheap pack horses to form a cavalry army." The hotel owner said with a smile: "The city owner I think what they said is quite reasonable, let them duel once a year, and whoever wins a total of ten games can inherit the position of city lord in the future."
It sounds very interesting, and he didn't care that his pack horse was robbed, Beta asked, "Where are they dueling?"
"The wasteland in the north of the city."
Beta returned to the room and summoned Joan of Arc.
As soon as Joan came out, she subconsciously covered her chest with her wings, glanced at Beta warily, and then flew into the sky.
With Joan's vision, Beta quickly found the two cavalry in the north of the city, and the duel had not yet begun.
From Joan's point of view, the distance between the two sides was about one kilometer. On one side were the elite cavalry with small numbers but shiny armor and tall horses, and on the other side were ordinary cavalry wearing leather armor and riding shorter pack horses.
However, the number of pack horse cavalry regiments is at least three times that of elite cavalry regiments.
Farther away, there was a high platform, on which sat a few noble-looking people, and maids were serving.
Before long, the duel began.
The two sides charged almost at the same time, but during the charge, the packhorse cavalry regiment suddenly divided into three formations, the left and right formations dispersed, and the middle formation directly collided with the elite cavalry regiment.
Seeing this scene, Beta immediately knew that the packhorse cavalry regiment would win.
Sure enough... Although the elite cavalry regiment directly pierced through the middlemost cavalry team, they were also surrounded by the other two pack horse cavalry teams. The distance between the two sides was so close that the elite cavalry regiment did not dare to stop at all. will be impacted by the opponent.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the stopped cavalry is worse than that of the infantry.
Next, the elite cavalry regiment wanted to get rid of the opponent's pursuit, but the problem was that although their horses were brave, the cavalry and horses were covered with armor, so they couldn't run fast at all, and the soldiers of the pack horse cavalry regiment wore It is leather armor, so the speed is not worse than the opponent.
The chase lasted for about three hours. The elite cavalry regiment kept going around in circles, but they couldn't get rid of the two pack horse cavalry teams behind them. Then the problem of insufficient stamina of the army horses came out, and they were overtaken by the two pack horse cavalry teams. Attacked and sentenced to negative.