Chapter 452
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Wild Bear walked up to Saleen's side . He did not have much reverence for mages, so he sat down very close to Saleen .
"I know you . " Wild Bear laughed lightly .
"I know you too . " Saleen laughed too . Wild Bear looked very approachable . Such a huge body, besides his terrifying muscles, he was a nice person to talk to . As long as you did not compete your strength with him .
"Your female bodyguard, I feel like competing with her again . " Wild Bear said solemnly .
"Oh? There's no need to . You improved a lot, but you are still not her match . " Saleen did not beat around the bush, Sika was rewarded some powers of a warrior priestess . To a mage, it might not be powerful, but mental attacks might not be weaker to a mage . Even with the purest strength, Sika would be able to suppress Wild Bear .
If the two of them competed in fighting, with Sika's one mental attack, she could flip the strong man with ease even without a weapon .
"Huh?" Wild Bear was a little disappointed . He never felt that Saleen was lying to him . The Viscountess told him the mage Saleen was someone trustworthy .
"Let's not compare among ourselves . There will be a surprise attack tonight . If you want to compete, see who wipes out more people . "
"You think so too? I feel uneasy, I think that there will be danger . " What Wild Bear said shocked Saleen . This person who only trained his sword aura for a few years had developed telepathy like a swordsmaster had .
That was an extremely sensitive intuition towards danger, Wild Bear could not analyze and judge . He could predict that there would be something happening that night though .
To people that has such power, judgement could be wrong sometimes, but intuition would not be wrong . It was said that when one reached the level of Golden Grand Swordmaster, even during battle, one could avoid vital danger .
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It was equal to a mage using the Figaro formula to calculate, but a thousand times that in speed . Such ability was what mages were envious of too .
Saleen absorbed the power from the Goddess Necklace and he could calculate many types of danger, but it was definitely much slower than intuition . During battle, he could only calculate by aiming at subjects .
Such calculation expensed quite a lot of mental power . A normal grand mage would need to meditate for a while before he could recover after one calculation .
Wild Bear's mental power must be very special . If he did not learn sword craft, but practiced magic, he definitely would have great achievements . Fate was something strange . No matter how great a person's talent was, without any opportunity, they would just lived their life and did not achieve anything . If he did not run into Lex and the group, Wild Bear would still be in Holy Rock City as a graceless chef .
He was still a chef, but his rank was different . With Lex backing him up and hiring a teacher to teach him sword craft .
"Mister Saleen, hold on . " Wild Bear suddenly stood and turned to the carriage to get his other weapon . He left it on the floor and sat down next to Saleen again .
It was an extremely long longsword . The blade itself was about three meters long . Even a person who was two meters tall like Wild Bear holding it in his hand looked awkward .
"Single edged cut horse sword!" Saleen saw the long black sword and recognized the weapon .
The Fourth Dynasty once had an army of a hundred soldiers and everyone of them held a single edged cut horse sword . These hundred soldiers were specialized in breaking a strong cavalry's assault . No matter how strong the cavalry was, a hundred brawny warriors holding a single edged cut horse sword standing there could easily block and shatter the cavalry's attack .
Saleen was surprised because the single edged cut horse sword was an ancient item and it was definitely left behind by the Fourth Dynasty .
The weapon weighed about five-hundred pounds and a common person could not even hold it up, let alone wave it around to kill enemies . That was a weapon made of Fallenstar . It was made with secret silver in order to lower the weight .
Wild Bear brought along the weapons and put it by his side, even Saleen felt his mind at rest . No matter what kind of metal or magic shield the enemy was using, before the single edged cut horse sword, they were all joke . A single edged cut horse sword only had one natural attribute, which was to tear . Wild Bear had yet to become a swords master, but he was born with a special power . With such a strong weapon, Saleen reckoned, any magic shield below sorcerer level could be splittered with one charge .
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Lex was the luxurious one . If Saleen were to get such a weapon, he would definitely melt it and remake it into other weapons . Fallenstar melted together with any kind of siderite could be made into weapons with the same effects .
He did not know how many weapons Lex had . If she had all hundred of them, it would be a great trick to fight against the cavalry .
The Qin Empire had the heavy blade of a long spear, a heavy infantryman weapons used for attacking cavalry . The heavy blade was only made of steel . There was no magic effect . The value was vastly weaker than single edged cut horse sword .
"Mister Saleen, your skeleton horses, can you give one to me?" Wild Bear chuckled in embarrassment . To ask for this was something embarrassing .
"You mean the skeleton warhorses? Those are the spirits of the dead . You are not a death mage, and you are also not a mage . Even if I give one to you, the skeleton war horse would lose its life very quickly . "
Wild Bear sighed sadly and said, " You don't know, the sword is even heavier than my hammer . If I were to hold it, I could only walk on my feet, the warhorses would be squashed . "
Among the troop, only Wild Bear was riding on a magic beast . His batter hammer was about a hundred pounds, which was a big burden to a warhorse . A normal warhorse could carry a four-hundred pound load . It could be a considered as a kind of magic beast, its bloodline had a strong power . If it was an inferior horse, it could never bear the cavalry's power .
Wild Bear's singled edge cut horse sword itself was about five-hundred pounds and he was about three-hundred pounds . This was under the circumstance of him not wearing armor . If Wild Bear were to be fully armed, he could possibly weigh a thousand pounds . Even if it was a skeleton warhorse, carrying him would be tough too .
"Wild Bear, wait until we return to Metatrin City, I will figure out a way for you . I have no death mage with me now . "
Wild Bear could only sigh . He had not been to Metatrin City for long, but he knew Daniel . He saw Daniel riding on a grade-8 death creature and he was envious of him .
He did not know that a grade-8 death creature would not let him ride on it . If he dared to touch the pikoosi, the pikoosi would burn his soul .
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Not everyone could sign a contract with a spirit of the dead . Wild Bear's mental strength was strong, but he did not have finesse at all when using it . He was definitely not a match for a high level spirit of the dead .
Saleen was not tired, so he sat at the entrance of the campsite and chatted with Wild Bear . Lex did not appoint anyone as sentry . It was quiet in the wild, as thought there were only two of them . Under the starlight, the earth seemed a little pale .
Saleen finally understood what took Lex so long when she returned . She moved all her resources, bought large amounts of food, and expanded her army . Bitter Water Prefecture incorporated twelve cities in its surrounding and expanded its domain by dozens fold . Relying on her twenty thousand swordsmen, Lex brought the nobles around under control very quickly and incorporated their soldiers .
Now that Bitter Water Prefecture had increase the size of her swordsmen's camp to six, the one camp that she brought along was the oldest one . They were all swordsmen that had been following her for many years .
Before the Great Chanake died, he already confirmed the scale of Bitter Water Prefecture . Although Lex used military force, it was permitted by law . What made Safilos pissed was, the Great Chanake allowed Lex to expand her army to ten swordsman camps and join the war in Kroraina .
There was a secret pathway from Bitter Water Prefecture to Kroraina, they were all mountain roads . A big army would not be able to pass through the small road, but Lex could send a troop of two-hundred people to penetrate and train her troops repetitively .
Winning over the nearby nobles, the people under Lex's management were more than a few million . The scale of a prefecture was taking shape . She expropriated the manors of the nobles that she won against and redistributed them accompanied with new titles of nobility .
The millions of people definitely could not feed an army of ten thousand people . Then, the nation would collapse . Luckily the newly formed four swordsmen's camps would not be considered elite and their expenses would be much less . Lex moved one of the elite swordsmen's camps to Metatrin city, to share the burden .
Saleen had to fork out money to support them too .
"If so, Lex had no money?"
"It's not like she had no money . I heard it's called malfunction of capital turnover . The county king could still sell off her asset for money . "
"Oh I see . " Saleen finally understood Lex was in a predicament . The expandsion of her army was so fast . No matter how little she invest in it, it would be a very big pressure . Every month's pay and provisions were at least one gold coin for each soldier, that was not inclusive of investments in equipment . Now that Lex had six swordsmen's camps, every month's pay and provisions for the army would exceed ten-thousand gold coins, the officers' pay was higher after all .
Lex plundered a batch of weapons and armor in Wolf Fang Town . It helped with the problem of lacking of equipment, but the soldiers had to eat . Their pay and daily consumption of food was not something replaceable by other items .
No wonder Lex wanted to produce alcohol . Regardless of the type of alcohol, once there was business, they had to pay heavy taxes .
"Here they come!" Wild Bear pointed at the end of the horizon . Even if he did not speak, Saleen could hear the uncovered clatter of horses' hoofs .
"Heavy cavalry? The robber was linked up with nobles as expected . "
"Humph!"
Saleen snorted and looked upon the sky . There was a black dot floating in the air, that was the flying puppet . It was flying too high up and he had not noticed it . Such height was the limit of a flying puppet . If the weather was slightly worse, the flying puppet would be destroyed .
It was a pity that he did not have a crossbow, Saleen's magic would not be able to reach a thousand meters .
At first, Saleen thought there would be people that seized the night to launch a surprise attack . He never thought that the other party wanted to meet force with force . It seemed that the robbers were very confident in their ability!
They were really a bunch of silly people . Facing eight grand mages, they deployed a heavy cavalry for attack . What was the difference between that and asking for death?
Heavy cavalry was an occupation that burns money . Lex only had two regiments of heavy cavalry .
Wild Bear stood up and shouted behind his back, "Wake up and fight! Those bastards are coming!"