For adventurers who are on the road alone, this era is really good. The arrival of the elemental tide has brought the dawn of a new era of change. Every day is an opportunity, and every day is a new change...
Well, I'm speaking in human terms, that is, as long as your fist is hard enough or your head is good enough, you will have more opportunities to make money and gain fame, and money and honor not only represent wealth, but also buy power and status. In one thought, some not-for-sale products that were unthinkable ten years ago have now become products with clearly marked prices.
"Conscription, conscription, wanted, conscription, reward... These days, why is it so chaotic."
In front of him is a public bulletin board full of various bounty tasks and announcements, but if compared with the past, it is still eye-catching from various recruitment advertisements.
I originally thought that it was a time of war and that a stranger in a new city-state would be very troublesome. After all, spies and spies are terrible. I expected that the inspections would be very strict, but I didn't expect it to be smooth.
In addition to the stricter inspections on traders and the crazy rise in taxes, the levels set up have opened the door for adventurers and knights with weapons, and even the refugees who were regarded as disasters in the past. friendly.
reason? I was a little strange before, but when I saw these conscription announcements with superior conditions, I instantly understood that in a sense, population is an important resource, especially in the current troubled times, who will stop the precious Resources flow into their own territory.
Although it is said to be a conscription notice, in fact, not all kingdoms are recruiting soldiers. Merchants and travelers are recruiting long-term bodyguards, mercenary groups are recruiting mercenaries, kingdoms are recruiting soldiers, lords are recruiting soldiers, and even the mayor and village chief are recruiting militiamen. .
The world is not safe, but it is people’s hearts who are disturbed first, not to mention those nobles and wealthy businessmen who are spending money to buy peace of mind. Mercenary regiments, dominions and slightly more remote villages, are all forming militias and self-defense forces or something.
In the tavern and the newspaper stop, the video data of the front line was played repeatedly with the help of memory crystals. The hard work of the front line and the weakness and despair of other human kingdoms before the magic tide made the rear fall into a frantic war preparation period. The battlefield, but smashed those fresh troops into the infinite battlefield.
And as the holy war progresses, the war potential of the entire human race will be tapped, and now, it's just the beginning...
Along the way, I stopped by to inquire about news, but there are news from various fronts, but none that can arouse my interest.
"Aren't you going to participate? If you enter the battlefield like this, you can change the result in an instant."
Looking at the battle report she had just obtained from the goblin, Heloise offered her opinion with great interest.
"It doesn't make sense, it's too much."
Yes, there are too many. With the active tide of the elements, those harmless beasts have begun to transform into monsters. The sealed monsters and evil gods have broken through the seal one by one. The foreign invaders have come one after another. The Kingdom Knights have something to deal with. Alien invaders, lords have to clean up those increasingly rampant monsters, and even the militia and self-defense forces have to fight with monsters, cultists, and robbers.
This is the test of the jihad for the human race as the overlord of the land, the victory of the individual and a region is meaningless.
However, due to the existence of justice points and the contract hero system, as well as the good overall situation before, the general situation is much better than "history".
I have traveled through countless battlefields along the way. It’s not that I don’t want to take care of it in cold blood, but that I can’t manage it at all. In another sense, these battlefields are also tempering and opportunities for ordinary people. With the help of justice points, Their growth rate is worth looking forward to...
"Hey, if the dragon scale armor is repaired, I don't have to wear it so cumbersome."
At this time, I was wearing a thick adamantine half-armor and carrying an enchanted adamantine long sword, disguised as an "ordinary" high-level knight.
Seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers, wearing "top-notch" equipment and good martial arts, and deliberately worn out family crests and armors, are all too common in this big era when adventures can only be rewarded.
If there is anything special, it is probably not riding a tall horse, but a new mount after the magic civilization - a steel motorcycle, which is not an ordinary expensive thing.
It's not that I don't want to keep a low profile, this thing has helped me attract a dozen robbers along the way, but sometimes I will throw off my mount and fly by myself, and a live horse can be thrown into that dead land and it won't last long.
But the advantage of this thing is that as long as there is enough magic power supply, there is no need to worry about exhausting the horse.
Now the most gratifying thing is that after I exhausted the justice points, I finally matched my real age and appearance, and no longer had to wear the bracelet of that fraudulent age.
What is annoying is that although the physical age has gone up, the dragon armor still shows no signs of recovery. It seems that the means of forcibly recovering by relying on the fruit of age have failed.
No way, in order to increase the defense ability, I just apply a layer of brass coating on the Adamantite Heavy Armor, disguise the ordinary bronze armor, and then put it on the body.
"Others paint a fine gold coating to show their innate power and wealth, but you are painting an extremely sour brass coating, and you are just down and out of the house..."
"No way, swords don't have eyes, safety comes first, and if the fine gold heavy armor is made clear, humans can't wear it at all."
Without the invulnerable, lightweight and convenient dragon scale armor, as a "knight" that relies mainly on melee combat, I can only use ordinary defensive armor, and since it is to increase the defense ability, I naturally take the hardest and most expensive armor. Gold armor.
The hardness brought by the high density of adamantine is trustworthy. At least when passing through several small battlefields along the way, let alone arrows and muskets, bed crossbows and heavy artillery were not penetrated.
The only disadvantage is that the full fine gold heavy armor has long exceeded the strength limit of normal human beings. My Dawn Wars Commemorative Edition Fine Gold Five Nine (Iron Horse) can't bear the weight of this armor. Wherever I walked, it was obvious There are traces of tracks.
In some places, the roads are so bad that they crush the roads and sink the iron horse into the mud.
"Is it overloaded? This road is crushed. Be careful that other lords ask you to lose money. At least when you are in the city, take off your armor. It's like being paranoid."
"... At least after this paragraph, here, the persecution paranoia really isn't fake."
We are now in the Holy Country of Stanley. On the entire world map, it is just a small country that cannot be found unless you look carefully, but it is the core of the "Holy Northern Front". The bishop settled in, as well as several knights and angels.
Since entering the teaching country, I have encountered more than a dozen temporary checkpoints, and as long as it is from the north, the inspection is obviously serious and cumbersome.
Of course, for me, who carried a dozen "identity names" with me and could even smear the fragments of Heloise on my face to disguise me, these simple checks were meaningless.
I chose to cross the "Northern Front" here. I also intend to take a look at this situation and evaluate the ambition of the Holy Light to the north, but the situation along the way is not good. Most of the residents here are devout church believers. Especially those high-level paladins and low-level angels who are constantly patrolling, allocate these combat power to the north where there is no war. Obviously, the Holy Church is very concerned about this place.
And because of my northern accent and the iron horse produced in the north, the number of interrogations along the way was much more than that of other travelers, but I also knew who was in charge of the opponent by the way.
"Archbishop Gabor and Cardinal Thorntou..."
At the same time, an archbishop and a red-clothed archbishop were dispatched. In addition, this place was originally the Holy State, and there was also a regional bishop who was responsible for guarding it. Three high-level bishops refused to be in a small country. Obviously, the Pope did not attach great importance to this place, but these two names, I am somewhat familiar.
"Holy Eagle and Golden Shame? It's an ironic combination."
Due to the importance of the Holy Church in human society, the deeds of the cardinals in "history" are very important, or they have been infamous for thousands of years, or they have been famous for centuries, but few are unknown.
And these two archbishops are also two extremes.
Gaboro has not put on a red shirt yet, but he has made great plans in the "historical" San Antonio battlefield, and is one of the few high-level church leaders with strategic vision.
By the middle of the war, he had a resident angel chapter, paladin and magic guides under his command, which became a mobile fighting force for emergency rescue everywhere.
And his colleague, Thornto Red, has won the legendary title of "As long as the money is enough, even the devil can trade", as long as he gets there, the war situation can be ignored, and the money must be collected enough. Military merit is the norm, and direct trade with the enemy and betrayal of his subordinates also makes it the only one in history.
I'm a little conflicted. Originally, I wanted to try the quality of the person in charge here, but now I think it's a little pity to kill Gaboro, but keeping him is another threat to the North, and killing Sonto, But I feel a little bit of an enemy.
"Sontu keep it. With this guy here, even if the northern front is really blocked, you can spend money to buy a road from him."
Moths are annoying, but if the moths are on the enemy's side, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
The jihad is still in the early stages, the bishops have not yet experienced "trials", and the essence of Thorntu has not been exposed. As a master of internal affairs, he is probably also the leader of the Church in the current sense.
If there are no major changes, he should stay here forever. Then, I should even find a way to give him some "political achievements" and secure his position.
As for the Gaboro...
"Let's keep it for now. No, he is one of the very few sober people in the high-level church. Maybe, I can talk to him."