The Origin of Arcane

At the beginning, Starbuck wanted to use airs to cut off the trade channel between the Eternal Night Army and the nobles of the Lord Manyu Army as a threat. He wanted the Eternal Night Army to be subdued, and he took the initiative to beg them for business. , Squeeze flat and round, it's not what they say.

The result can be imagined.

The Eternal Night Legion didn't care about them at all, the mountain pass was blocked, and no one was allowed to enter or exit.

After a long time, Starbuck couldn't hold back anymore.

After Philip, the first heir of the Phelan family, and Patlem, the second heir of the royal family of Lancelot, colluded with the Holy See of Saint Ether, the pressure on the slave rebels doubled.

Although the royal family of Lancelot did not mobilize their troops, a large amount of material resources were continuously sent to Philip. The prosperity of the Asia Minor Plain was famous all over the world, and the Lancelot royal family, which occupied most of the Asia Minor Plain, was also famously wealthy. Especially in the past two years, after the iron princess Sophielina took part of the wealth from the Holy See of Saint Ether, it is said that the mice in the granary are as fat as cats.

Money and food is Philip's biggest shortcoming. After making up for it, it will naturally snowball and grow stronger. A large number of nobles who led the Manyu Army began to move closer to him, and turned a deaf ear to the orders of the new Grand Duke Patlem of the Manyu Army.

It's not that Philip is the heir to the famous saying Zhengshun of Man Yu's army leader. This kind of nonsense reason can only fool those new nobles, but that he holds the first elite army of Man Yu army leader - the Golden Camel Heavy Cavalry.

Compared with Patraim, who adopted back-to-back tactics, Philip advocated offense more, and the golden camel heavy cavalry attacked frequently. Those small groups of slave rebels were not their opponents at all. hundred kilometers.

If one could seek protection from him, those nobles would naturally move closer to him. In this chaotic situation, survival always came first.

Compared with Lancelot's more tactful approach, the Holy See of Saint Ether is more direct. The red-clothed archbishop St. George who came to baptize Patraim directly brought a Holy See Knights. No, the Holy See Knights are more suitable. .

There are all kinds of Holy See knights and fanatics, plus their followers, there are tens of thousands of people, and their composition is very complicated.

There are the guards of the Holy See brought by St. George from St. Andrea, the holy place of the Holy See.

There were also pious Holy See knights who heard the news along the way and joined in the name of Saint George, the guardian of the living saint.

There are also passionate and desperate fanatics who were educated by St. George along the way.

In addition, there are also a large number of unbelievers following them. Most of them have a certain degree of confidence in their own force, and they are a bit unsatisfactory in the local area. They have long heard of the chaos led by Man Yu's army and want to join in and share a share Tang, but limited by his own strength, could not go alone. Now that he heard that St. George was going to go, he naturally took his own belongings and actively participated in it.

St. George did not refuse this, thinking that this was a great opportunity to strengthen his power.

When the mighty and mighty arrived at Manyu's army leader, it would have such a scale.

Regarding this situation, Patraim was not surprised but delighted. Not long ago, because of his attitude towards the Holy See of Saint Ether, he had a complete falling out with Angel Bena.

Angel Bena took General Christopher and withdrew from the city of Faerun, retreated to the territory of General Christopher, declared neutrality to the outside world, and officially announced the establishment of the Knights of the Red Cross Hospital, with the mission of saving lives and wounds and eliminating wars, and began to run around to promote their own. peace concept.

Maybe it's because the turmoil of Man Yu's army leader has been too severe in the past few years, or maybe her brand-new idea has won the approval of some people, and a large number of people have joined it, not only those low-level citizens and farmers, but also some Little nobles, knights and farmers, they were also ravaged by the war, and they wanted to end the war as soon as possible, and return to the stable life that was not rich.

It was the time when Patraim was weak and frightened all day long, lest Philip would lead his iron cavalry to rush in front of him like a flood, lest the help given by the Holy See of Ether would not be strong enough, where would he have the energy to consider the guest? The reason for overwhelming the Lord?

Even if you know, you don't care.

Although the Holy See of Saint Ether has been extending its hand to secular power, it always has to take into account the reactions of other nobles and nobles. Therefore, even if it is done, it must be done in a very subtle way, so as to prevent others from taking advantage of them. It is to control the Man Yu army leader, and it is also done by evacuating Patrem.

Patlem has long been used to this. In the past, many people took refuge in him not because of his ability, but because they wanted to take advantage of his status.

So is Conrad, and so is Angie Bella.

The grass on the former's grave was already a foot high, while the latter took her followers away from the center of power.

And he, Patraim, took one step at a time, leading to the pinnacle of power.

Now it is just a change to the Holy See of Ether. If it was in the Asia Minor Plain, the core of their power, Patraim would definitely sell himself if he dared to do this, but here is the turbulent and chaotic leader of Manyu.

Even if the Holy See of Saint Ether is a strong dragon, it has to rely on him, a local snake, to make waves.

Once a person is overconfident, the result is usually not particularly good.

Patlem was clearly overconfident.

St. George, who has the reputation of a living saint in the Holy See of Saint Ether, is known as a genius who has not appeared in the Holy See of Saint Ether for a thousand years. He is the reincarnation of a saint and the strongest contender for the next pope. He is not a mighty dragon, but an ancient dragon king.

St. George has not concealed his strength from the beginning, and has extraordinary eloquence.

The tongue is full of lotus, every word is pearly, eloquent, eloquent.

These adjectives are very suitable for him, and he never talks in empty words, he is very good at catching people's desires, and using words to arouse and magnify them, so as to generate a sense of identification with his views.

After two public lectures and sermons, most of Patlem's followers became his believers, including Patlem himself.

Because St. George not only baptized Patraim, but also adopted him as his godson, opening up a wider world for him—the Manyu army is only a corner of the Arshan Continent and the Byron Alliance.

If he can really integrate into the big family of the Holy See of Saint Ether, Patlem's achievement is far from being a military leader.

And St. George will be Patram's best guide.

In other words, it is no longer Patraim, but St. George, who is now leading the Patraim group.

Unlike Patraim, who is conservative, St. George, who is lofty, ambitious, and young, is more aggressive. He hates any form of rebellion, and thinks they are destroyers among the flock. He can only convert to the Holy See and believe in the God of Truth , is the correct way out.

Although St. George and Philip did not communicate with messengers, they reached a consensus on this point, deployed troops, and began to consciously transfer to the slave rebel army.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it won't take long for the Man Yu army to have a big battle, and the slave rebel army will be the first target.

Naturally, the pressure on the slave rebels doubled, and they tried every means to expand their strength.

However, their origins meant that they were the target of public criticism. They were the natural enemies of all lords and nobles. No one would risk the world to trade with them, not to mention all that could be robbed by them had already been robbed.

There is always a limit to the harvest of plunder. When there is no object for them to plunder, they can only rely on self-reliance and trade.

However, their ability to rely on themselves is really unflattering.

Their main components are slave gladiators and the lowest level of serfs.

Needless to say, the former can basically do nothing except kill people.

It is also difficult for the latter to say that they have any skills at all. After all, they used to do the heaviest repetitive labor, and many people would not be able to work without the slave owner's whip.

They didn't pay attention to recruiting those handicraftsmen at first, and they didn't think about it until the time came. The effect can be imagined. Many people have almost been harmed. Even if they were forced to join them, they would not do things sincerely.

Without the accumulation of time, they would not be able to complete the transition from bandit to leader. What they lack the most right now is time.

The Eternal Night Legion became their only choice, even if the conditions proposed by the Eternal Night Legion were very harsh and the price was very high, they could only hold their noses and accept it.

Marshall may not have been a qualified profiteer in the past, but the financial pressure on him was too heavy, so he had no choice but to take a black heart and ruthlessly peel off a layer of skin from the slave rebels.

Not only did the Eternal Night Legion repackage the rags, they sold them to the slave rebels at a price that was 30% higher than the new equipment.

He even sold the Andis longbow and Tang's inlaid nail armor at a price three times higher than that sold to the lord and noble, which was about the same as gold and silver of equal weight.

Not only did most of the wealth robbed from the slave rebel army be seized, but also a large amount of new labor force was finally obtained from the opponent's hands.

Some of the slave rebels were Andean slaves. They joined the slave rebels just to get rid of their slave status, not to agree with their ideas.

In the past, they were in the hinterland of the Man Yu army. They had no choice but to hang out with the slave rebel army. But now that they are close to their hometown, many people have expressed their desire to go back to the mountains. Some people secretly contacted the Eternal Night Army.

When this incident was discovered, the high-level leaders of the slave rebel army were furious. At that time, when the two sides first came into contact, there was resistance from the slave rebel army.

However, some things cannot be suppressed. The longer the pressure is, the stronger it will be, and the more terrifying the power will be.

They had built their fortunes on this, and of course they were well aware of it.

Therefore, there is a supplementary agreement between the two parties.

If there are slave rebels who voluntarily go to the Eternal Night Army, the slave rebel army must not stop them, but for every person who goes there, the Eternal Night Army should give corresponding compensation and use the military supplies as a deduction.

Such people are neither too many nor too few, there are always nearly ten thousand, young and middle-aged laborers are less, and most of them are women and children. Compared with the former, the latter yearn for a more stable life.

The Eternal Night Legion does not reject anyone, from ordinary people, regardless of the old and young, women and children, they can play a role in the Eternal Night Legion and create value, it is only a question of how much, the fear is that no one will use it.

Starbuck was a decisive person, he tried his best to fight against all opinions, and took the slaves from the rebel army, who had no sense of belonging to them, especially the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, so he simply packed them all and stuffed them with half-bought and half-gifted ones. Night Legion.

The benefits of doing this are obvious. Not only do they get more equipment, but they also simplify their own composition, and their combat effectiveness increases instead of diminishing—at least when they rise up, they are faster without the drag of these people.

As for the slave rebel army stationed here.

If Starbuck and Dick Long dared to make such a decision, they would not be far from their doom.

Their advantage lies in the flow, and then engulf more refugees.

They moved closer to the Andes Mountains, in addition to preventing the enemy from the front and back, but also because the Manyu army had almost been harmed by them, and they were looking for a new direction of harm.

There are only a few options for them.

One is to go west, to the Broken Blood Prairie, but it is the fiefdom of the Strachey family, not to mention the flat prairie. Since the ancient Andes Empire, the Strachey Family has been guarding the Broken Blood Castle. , has the world's most elite, most powerful knights - broken blood knights.

This name is not self-proclaimed by them, but they have been killed. It is piled up with the blood of countless Strachey families and the bones of Odin orcs. The perennial wars have always kept them at their peak——every time Streich When the Leitch family fell into a trough, it must also be the time when the Byron Alliance was unlucky. Once the Odin orcs broke through, it would be a bloody massacre.

Therefore, the Strachey family, which has been guarding Blood Fortress for generations as its own responsibility, is the most prestigious and respected family in the Byron Alliance, and to a certain extent, it is even higher than the Lancelot royal family.

Anyone who dared to attack the Strachey family would risk the world's disgrace and stab the lungs of the entire Byron Alliance, and it was inevitable to attack them in groups.

Those slave rebels didn't understand this truth, and Starbuck, who was born as a lord and aristocrat, would not fail to understand this truth. Their withdrawal to the east has already explained this point.

The slave rebel army not only gave up the possibility of advancing westward, but also gave up the possibility of advancing to the southwest of the Asia Minor Plain.

Although the Asia Minor Plain is known as the most affluent place on the continent of Arshan, it is also the most difficult place to mess with. Not only is it the territory of the Lancelot royal family, but it is also the most prosperous place of the Holy See of Ether. Attacking here is like stabbing a hornet's nest , the Saint Ethereal Holy See believers in the whole continent will become their enemies.

Needless to say, the northern side is blocked by the Severe Mountains. Small-scale entry and exit are fine, but large-scale movement is unthinkable. Moreover, when they reach the north, they are not robbing others, but being robbed by the poorer Odin orcs.

The slave rebel army now has only two directions to choose.

Going east to fight the idea of ​​the Andes mountain people, in fact, they have tried it, there are Xiao En and the Eternal Night Legion standing in the way, if you want to enter the mountain, you must destroy them now, judging from the current situation Look, the difficulty is not generally high.

The last one is to go south, with the idea of ​​the Kingsley family in the Cult Hills area, which has the largest mining area in the entire continent, rich in copper and iron. It is no exaggeration to say that among the three iron utensils used on the Asharn continent, there must be one The piece is from the Kingsley family.

Therefore, the Kingsley family is also known as the richest family in the entire continent, and has the reputation of being a stag minted by gold coins (the badge of the Kingsley family is a golden stag running among flying gold coins), but their money is not golden, It is bloody, and it is built on the corpses of millions of miners. This is the largest export place of slaves in the Manyu Army.

This is also the biggest move of the slave rebel army, and the benefits of attacking here are too numerous to enumerate.

This place is rich enough to obtain a large amount of supplies and wealth, especially a large amount of weapons and equipment - even if the Eternal Night Legion traded with them in large quantities, it would not be able to fully meet the needs of the slave rebels for weapons and equipment. There is a shortage of ironware, and the weapons and equipment are mainly bows and leather armor. For ironware, the Eternal Night Legion does not have enough for themselves, so how can it be traded.

There are enough slaves here, which are their natural source of soldiers. If they can take this place, the scale of the slave rebel army will reach a terrifying level.

The Carter Hills terrain is complex enough that once you enter here, you can play hide-and-seek with the enemy.

The only disadvantage is that the target is too obvious. Everyone knows that the slave rebel army is most likely to go south, so they will naturally take precautions. The Kingsley family has already mobilized heavy troops on the border to guard against death.

Once the slave rebels were unable to quickly break through the Kingsley family's line of defense, Man Yu's army would inevitably lead the coalition to make dumplings after hearing the news, and there would be no chance of turning over.

As for the large amount of valuables traded from the hands of the slave rebels, the Eternal Night Legion is of little use. Too luxurious.

To be more precise, they are just a group of bumpkins who have never seen the world. With their relatively simple thinking, they have no way to imagine what a luxurious life is like. Perhaps in their eyes, eating three meals a day and eating every meal Being round is a luxury.

The lords and nobles of Man Yu's army looked down on the Eternal Night Army, and in a certain way, it was not unreasonable.

Sean is also very happy to keep the Eternal Night Legion in this purity. Although there is no way to last forever, if you can keep it for a while, let's keep it for a while!