A group of huge horned eagles flew over a village in the kingdom. Their huge figures caused many farmers who were preparing to finish work in the evening to look up.
"What a huge flock of birds. Speaking of which, is it the time for migratory birds to migrate?"
"I don't know, but isn't it summer now?"
"No, it seems to be a kind of hawk, right? If those carnivorous birds swarmed down, we would be in trouble."
But anyway, such a big eagle didn't do anything like swoop down and take away children and livestock. It gradually moved away, and everyone didn't care anymore. They left the farmland and walked back to the village.
"But would an eagle do this? It's not a migratory bird."
"Who knows, I don't know much about birds. It's an adventurer's job to deal with those."
Regarding this topic, someone jumped to another topic. Adventurers are relatively far away from ordinary rural people. There may be some young people who leave the village and embark on the path of adventurers due to certain opportunities, but they are also a minority.
, a dangerous life of fighting wild beasts and monsters is not a life that most people are willing to live for a long time.
But if adventurers and adventurers have something in common about being soldiers, they will talk more about it.
"Are adventurers free? It's enviable that you don't have to join the army at this time."
"Stop talking so much, I won't be envious when you are accidentally killed by a monster."
"Adventurers don't have to fight monsters, right? My brother is a bronze-level adventurer. Although his income is a little less, he still has jobs that can be done in big cities."
"Envy my brother? Then why don't you go?"
"I inherited the family property and the land, so why should I go? But... gradually, life has become difficult."
Some people began to sigh as they spoke.
"Yes, those noble lords. What kind of war are they waging? Those bastards will only continue to squeeze us."
"Hey, not only do they usually make us spit out taxes, but now they also make us spit out our lives."
Many of the prime-age labor force in the village have been conscripted into the army. In order to prevent the farmland from being abandoned and reducing the harvest and making life after paying taxes difficult, the remaining people have to share more farm work. Maybe this is lucky.
I don’t know how many villagers who were forced to participate in the war will come back - people generally don’t mention this.
If it is to protect their homes from enemy destruction and plunder, it is not unacceptable for them to take up arms and fight. However, if this is the case, the villages that have sent people to the army should not reduce taxes, pay military salaries and war rewards.
Such things? However, none of these are found in the kingdom’s system.
What's more, the kingdom has not been invaded by any foreign enemies yet, so there is even less motivation for the war.
"At times like this, I actually remember the time when I was a kid, holding a wooden stick and shouting to defeat the beast."
"What do you say when it's embarrassing?"
"Aren't adventurers free?"
"Kill you, it's better to envy the birds in the sky." Someone looked up at the group of horned eagles that had already gone away.
Hmm? The bird's back is a bit arched? Is it carrying something? Food hunted for the children at home? It seems that the life of animals is not easy.
This small talk sparked by a passing horned eagle had no unexpected impact on their lives.
Dozens of horned eagles still lined up in irregular formations, flying over villages? Over small and medium-sized cities? After the sun went down, they came to the sky above the largest city in the southeast of the king's capital - Ye Pespel.
"Sir Victor? How strange." A human voice appeared on the back of a horned eagle.
This is the Hippogriff Knights unit of the Bajas Imperial Air Force. The Hippogriff is the beast that has been found so far and can be used as the beast with the lowest domestication and feeding costs among aerial mounts. However, due to its power limitations? The combat effectiveness formed by people riding it,
It's probably better to let the trainer drive the hippogriff to fight.
But the empire still incorporated such a unit into the air force? First of all, it is really not that difficult to take care of compared to griffins and dragons? And then the war does have the survivability of this unit.
If there were rare things like dragons and griffons flying over villages and cities, it would be difficult not to cause a sensation.
"Captain Yulia, what's strange?" Waikea turned around and asked the magic caster captain sitting behind him in a hooded robe.
"This is not the transportation hub city between the royal capital of Estij and E-Rantel on the front line of our empire - E-Pespel, right? There is no atmosphere of war at all? You are right.
?"
"Are you questioning my unit's ability to navigate?"
"No? It's just a question about the strange current situation."
"Then let me tell the truth - actually I feel very strange." Victor said.
How many decades has it been since the establishment of the Imperial Air Force? And the plan to invade the kingdom of the empire is already something that the more knowledgeable citizens of the human kingdom can understand, but the kingdom has no air defense preparations at all?
Although I really hope that the kingdom is really that stupid, we still have to be wary of the possibility of traps. For example, if the anti-aircraft firepower has insufficient hit rate at high altitude, we will wait for them to suddenly focus fire when they land.
"Captain Yulia, release the scouts." Victor ordered.
"Understood." Yulia took out a small, palm-sized bottle from the pocket of her robe, poured a few grains out of it, and scattered it into the air.
Is that the zombie flying insect she made? Although the audio-visual sharing of excessively low-level animals will cause problems due to scale, but if it is just visual sharing? It is still visible at a suitable distance for detection. Moreover, bugs have the characteristic of not being easily noticed.
? The zombie worms are made into dried worms and are easy to store without feeding? Sealed packaging for ready use.
After some time——
"The mount's physical strength is almost reaching its limit even if it is maintained by magic items." Victor urged, "Furthermore, opening a magic circle over the enemy city at night will increase the risk of exposure. Report the investigation situation immediately."
"There are a large amount of military supplies and tens of thousands of troops stationed in the city. With my familiar ability, I cannot quickly count them. The sentries and patrols have not been confirmed yet, but the key cemeteries have been confirmed." Yulia quickly drew a picture of the cemetery.
With the simple defense map, he moved forward a little, stretched out his hand in front of Victor's eyes and waved the map in front of his eyes.
At this moment, Victor felt like he was being pushed against his back - this girl was wearing clothes that did not reveal her figure, but she turned out to be quite big, although it had nothing to do with his sexual interest.
Of course, he calmly ordered the Horned Eagle Knight Brigade responsible for carrying the Magic Caster Squadron to land at Ye Pespel's cemetery based on that picture.
Because the law of this world is that corpses that have not been divinely purified will become undead sooner or later, so cemeteries in large cities with densely populated areas will be built like low fortresses, which can be easily occupied.
