For adventurers who are on the road alone, this era is really good. The arrival of the elemental tide has brought the dawn of change in a new era. Every day is an opportunity and every day is a new change.
Well, in human terms, as long as your fists are strong enough or your brains are good enough, you will have many opportunities to make money and gain fame. Money and honor not only represent wealth, but can also buy power and status. Even a poor family can become a wealthy family.
In the blink of an eye, some items that were not for sale that would have been unthinkable ten years ago have now become items with a clear price tag.
"Conscription, conscription, wanted, conscription, bounty, why is it so chaotic these days?"
In front of me is a public bulletin board, full of various bounty missions and announcements, but compared with before, the various recruitment advertisements are still more eye-catching.
I originally thought that it would be very troublesome for a stranger in a new city-state now that we are at war. After all, spies and spies are very important. I expected that various inspections would be strict, but I did not expect that the journey would be smooth.
In addition to the stricter inspections on merchants and the crazy rise in various taxes, the checkpoints set up have opened the door to adventurers and knights with weapons, and even the refugees who were regarded as disasters in the past are a bit excessive.
friendly.
The reason? I was a little surprised before, but after seeing these recruitment announcements with excellent conditions, I instantly understood. In a sense, population is an important resource, especially in the current troubled times, who will stop it?
Precious resources flow into your own territory.
Although it is said to be a recruitment notice, in fact it is not all the kingdom that is recruiting troops. Merchants and travelers are recruiting long-term bodyguards, mercenary groups are recruiting mercenaries, the kingdom is recruiting troops, the lords are recruiting troops, even the town mayors and village chiefs are recruiting militiamen.
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The world is unsafe, but the people's hearts are in turmoil first. Not to mention the nobles and wealthy businessmen are spending money to buy peace of mind. The lords are spending all their savings in the castle and desperately recruiting soldiers. Kingdoms and empires are forming various knights and knights.
Mercenary groups, autonomous territories, and slightly more remote villages are all forming militias and self-defense forces.
In the tavern and at the news stop, the video data of the front line were played repeatedly with the help of memory crystals. The hardship on the front line, the powerlessness and despair of other human kingdoms in front of the demonic tide, caused the rear area to fall into a crazy war preparation period, and each new opening
battlefield, but threw those fresh troops into the infinite battlefield.
As the Holy War progresses, the war potential of the entire human race will be tapped. Now, it is only the beginning.
Along the way, I asked for news, but there was news from various fronts, but nothing that aroused my interest.
"Aren't you going to participate? If you enter the battlefield like this, you can change the outcome in an instant."
Looking through the battle report she had just obtained from the goblin, Heloise put forward her opinions with great interest.
"It makes no sense, there are too many."
Yes, there are too many. As the tide of elements becomes active, those harmless beasts begin to transform into monsters. The sealed monsters and evil gods break through the seals one by one, and the foreign invaders come one after another. The Kingdom Knights have something to deal with.
The alien invaders, the lords have to deal with the increasingly rampant monsters, and even the militia and self-defense forces have to fight against the monsters, cultists, and bandits.
This is the test of the Holy War for the human race as the overlord of the earth. The victory of an individual or a region is meaningless.
But due to the existence of justice points and the contract hero system, as well as the good overall situation before, the general trend is much better than "history".
I have passed through countless battlefields along the way. It’s not that I don’t want to take care of it cold-bloodedly, but I simply can’t take care of it. In another sense, these battlefields are also training and opportunities for ordinary people. With the help of justice points,
Their growth is worth looking forward to
"Hey, if the dragon scale armor is repaired, I won't have to wear it so bulky."
At this time, I was wearing a heavy adamantine half-armor and an enchanted adamantine sword, disguised as an "ordinary" high-level knight.
A boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, equipped with "top-notch" equipment and good martial arts skills, with his family crest and armor equipment deliberately worn out, is all too common in this era where risks are rewarded.
If there is anything special, it is probably because he is not riding a tall horse, but a steel motorcycle, a new mount after the magic civilization. This thing is not ordinary expensive.
It's not that I don't want to keep a low profile. This thing helped me attract a dozen bandits along the way, but sometimes I would throw off the mount and fly away. A live horse wouldn't survive long if thrown into that place of death.
But the advantage of this thing is that as long as you use enough magic power, you don't need to worry about exhaustion.
The most gratifying thing now is that after spending all my justice points, I finally matched my true age with my appearance, and no longer have to wear that age-frauding bracelet.
What's annoying is that even though the body's age has increased, the dragon armor still shows no signs of recovery. It seems that the method of forcibly recovering through the fruits of age has been exhausted.
No way, in order to increase the defense capability, I just put a layer of brass coating on the adamantine heavy armor to disguise it as ordinary bronze armor, and then put it on my body.
"Others use their wealth to coat themselves with fine gold in order to show off their natural power, but you paint it with the brass coating of extreme poverty. You are simply down and out."
"No way, swords don't have eyesight, safety comes first, and if it were made clear that heavy gold armor would be impossible for humans to wear."
Without the invulnerable, light and convenient dragon scale armor, as a "knight" who mainly relies on melee combat, I can only use ordinary defensive armor, and since it is to increase defense capabilities, I naturally took the hardest and most expensive armor.
Heavy gold armor.
The hardness brought by the high density of fine gold is trustworthy. At least when we passed through several small battlefields along the way, not to mention the arrows and muskets, even the crossbows and heavy cannons were not penetrated.
The only drawback is that the full adamantine heavy armor has long exceeded the limit of normal human strength. My Dawn War Commemorative Edition Adamantite Five-Nine (Iron Horse) cannot bear the weight of this armor. Wherever I go, it is obvious that
Traces of tracks appeared.
In some places, the roads were so bad that they damaged the roads and caused the iron horses to sink into the mud.
"Are you taking it? The road is damaged. Be careful if other lords ask you to pay for it. At least take off your armor when you are in the city. It's like a persecution delusion."
"At least after this period, the persecutory paranoia here is really not fake."
We are now in the Stanley Theocracy. On the entire world map, it is just a small country that cannot be found without looking carefully. However, it is the core of the "Holy Northern Front".
The bishop settled in, as well as several knights and angels.
Since entering the Theocracy, I have encountered more than a dozen temporary checkpoints, and as long as someone comes from the north, the inspection is obviously serious and much more cumbersome.
Of course, these simple checks are meaningless to me who carries around a dozen "identity names" and is able to paint pieces of Heloise on my face to disguise myself.
I chose to cross the "Northern Front" here, also intending to take a look at the situation and evaluate the God of Holy Light's ambitions for the north, but the situation along the way was not good. Most of the residents here are devout church believers.
Especially those high-level paladins and low-level angels who are constantly patrolling, and deploying these combat forces to the north where there is no war, it is obvious that the Templar Church is very concerned about this place.
And because of my northern accent and the iron horse produced in the north, I had to undergo many more inquiries along the way than other travelers, but I also learned about the person in charge of my opponent.
"The Archbishop of Gaborro and the Cardinal of Thornton"
At the same time, an archbishop and a cardinal archbishop were sent. In addition, this was originally a theocracy, and there was a regional bishop responsible for guarding it. The 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'm quite familiar with it.
"The Holy War Eagle and the Golden Shame? This is really an ironic combination."
Due to the importance of the Holy Church in human society, the deeds of the cardinal archbishops in "history" are very important. Some are infamous for thousands of years, or they are famous for generations, but only a few are unknown.
But these two archbishops are also at two extremes.
Gaboro has not yet put on the red shirt, but he has made great achievements in the "historical" San Antonio battlefield and is one of the few high-level leaders of the Templar Church with strategic vision.
By the middle of the war, he had a permanent group of angels, paladins, and magicians under his command, which became a mobile combat force that could provide emergency relief everywhere.
But his colleague, Thorntu Red, has gained the legendary title of "As long as you give him enough money, even the devil can make a deal." As long as he gets there, he can ignore the war situation and make enough money to trade.
Military merit is the norm, and directly trading with the enemy and betraying his subordinates makes him the only one in history.
I'm a little conflicted. Originally, I wanted to test the quality of the person in charge here, but now I feel it's a bit of a pity to kill Harbor, but keeping him is a threat to the Northland, and killing Thorntu,
But I feel a little bit hostile.
"Keep Soun Tu. With this guy here, even if the northern front really succeeds in blocking it, you can still spend money to buy a road with him."
Bores are very annoying, but if they are from the enemy's side, they may not be a bad thing.
The Holy War is still in its early stages, the bishops have not yet experienced "trials", and the true nature of Thornton has not yet been exposed. As a master of internal affairs, he is probably the de facto leader of the Theocracy now.
If there are no major changes, he should stay here forever. Then, I should even find a way to gain some "political achievements" for him and secure his position.
As for Gaboro
"Let's keep it for now. No, he is one of the very few sober people among the higher-ups in the church. Maybe I can talk to him." (To be continued.)
