Elizabeth shook her head: "No, actually what you see now are all my men who can fight."
Wang frowned: "Aren't you a princess? In Common Language, you are also a princess. Can't you command the Duke's combat troops? There should be two hundred knights in Langdon Territory, and including their retinues, there should be about a thousand well-equipped standing troops.
, if you include the garrison and militia in each town, you should have an army of about 15,000.
"This is a large formation that requires a certain amount of time to be eliminated using nine-ring magic. As a princess, you can't mobilize even one of them?"
Elizabeth looked at the mage apprentice with a speechless face: "You just said it yourself, for the nine-ring spell caster, this ragtag group of fifteen thousand can only delay time.
"We can learn from the history of previous wars that at least 60% of the outcome of a war depends on the result of a high-end combat power showdown. The cornerstone of the Langdon Kingdom is the knights and their retinues."
King: "Yes, Princess, where are your knights?"
Elizabeth was a little embarrassed: "I...not yet."
The catman sitting far away shouted: "She didn't like any of them."
"What she means is that you are not satisfied with the abilities of all knights?" Wang asked.
Elizabeth bit her lip.
Cat Man: "She doesn't like it."
Wang looked confused: "What do you mean? Shouldn't it be used only if you are capable and loyal?"
The tavern owner tried to smooth things over: "The eldest lady's requirements are relatively high. Now, would you like to introduce the members of the team to the mage?"
"Okay." Elizabeth got off the slope and turned her attention to the drow first. "This is our rogue and the most experienced member of the team, Marika."
Drow Elf Marika smiled: "I am experienced in every sense, little mage~"
Wang: "Well, Drow's hometown is far away from Langdon Territory. You must have been adventuring for a long time to appear here."
Zhuo Er didn't know why he laughed.
Elizabeth's expression was a bit incomprehensible, and she turned to the next person: "Cat-man marksman Misha Sarah..."
"What I just wanted to say," Wang raised a hand, "What the marksman means is...she is a magic marksman?"
"No, if we insist on classifying it, she is a ranger who likes to use bows and arrows, and has some rogue skills. The classification of occupations among the cat people is different from ours."
Wang: "I know that they don't subdivide rogues and rangers there, so a cat-man archer is probably also good at fighting with two swords."
Drow Elf: "Is this also knowledge obtained from books?"
"Not entirely, part of it is the teacher's personal experience."
The tavern owner interjected: "His teacher is the protagonist in "Morning of Rochard" and worked with the cat tribe for a period of time."
"What?" The drow looked shocked, "Isn't that a bard's poem? Shouldn't it be made up?"
The tavern owner spread his hands.
Elizabeth continued: "Mark, a master with a sword. Gotrek, a barbarian from the Moose tribe, is particularly good at giant axes."
Wang: "Is it my imagination? You seemed a little perfunctory when you introduced them?"
Mark shrugged: "Because we are just ordinary people. We can't cast magical spells, and we can't touch the money bags on other people's waists without anyone noticing."
Wang immediately lowered his head and checked the bag of spell-casting materials on his waist.
Mark: "Master Mage, during the battle we will try our best to delay until you finish casting the spell."
Gotrik nodded.
The king also saw that the barbarians were either not good at lingua franca, or they just didn't like to talk.
Elizabeth: "Finally."
She put her hand on her extremely prominent "secondary sexual characteristics": "That's me, Elizabeth Langdon."
Wang frowned: "Do you also want to go on an adventure together? Shouldn't you stay in the luxurious mansion and wait for us to come back and report the results?"
Elizabeth's eyes sharpened, and she was obviously angry.
"I'm a warlock!" She raised her voice slightly. "My bedroom has been haunted since I was very young. After my father's mage came over to check, he discovered my warlock ancestry. Then my father spent a lot of money to hire a wizard from Nice.
A master sorcerer came to teach me."
King: "I understand, how many levels of spells can you cast?"
"Second Ring."
"It has one less ring than the third ring~ Sorry, this is a slobbery song that one of my teacher's apprentices often likes to sing. Although this song is used to mock the younger brother who is worse than me in casting spells, I don't despise it when I sing it.
What does your spellcasting ability mean?"
Elizabeth: "I know. Warlocks are not as good as mages in mastering the variety of spells."
King: "You are so beautiful, you must be outstanding as a sorcerer."
This is common sense, the more beautiful a warlock is, the more powerful he is, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman.
Elizabeth accepted the flattery with a fake smile and responded nonchalantly: "Thank you. I am indeed very good at magic missiles."
King: "Yes, from now on the lightly armored and unarmored enemies will be left to you."
Elizabeth frowned and stared at the mage apprentice suspiciously.
Wang stared at her expression for a few seconds before he suddenly realized: "Oh, did you just bury me? I will be careful not to become your enemy."
Elizabeth looked helpless: "Your reaction only made me feel inferior."
"I didn't mean it."
"I know."
"That's good." Wang nodded.
As soon as he finished speaking, Misha Sara became happy.
Elizabeth glared at the cat man: "Stop laughing! Now that we've gotten to know each other, let's go back to the missing cats and dogs. The only thing that seems like a clue now is the goblin tribe that was wiped out last week. Why are you raising your hand again?
?”
King: "We don't have a priest or a paladin yet."
Elizabeth asked helplessly: "Does it have to be a priest or a paladin?"
"According to the current development, the next step is to go underground to investigate the ruins of the goblin tribe, right? There are probably undead in the sewers, and we may need priests to expel the undead. I don't have the magic to process batches of them so efficiently.
Undead."
The king paused and then added: "What's more, the goblin tribe was wiped out just last week. It was a tribe with a hobgoblin war mage. There must be casualties on the human side, and with the dead goblins... there may be naturally occurring ones.
Undead.”
Marika nodded: "The Thieves Guild does have a newly issued commission to exterminate the undead in the sewers. It should be the tail end of last week's big move."
Elizabeth looked at the ceiling, the helplessness on her face obvious.
Wang: "You look like a little girl who had planned an outing with great interest for a long time, but it rained and couldn't go out."
For a moment, the entire tavern became quiet.
The cat-man was holding back laughter, while the swordsman was trying his best to step on the cat-man's feet to hold her back.
The drow looked at the mage apprentice again with admiring eyes.
The tavern owner coughed and broke the awkward silence.
Elizabeth held her forehead: "Thank you for your accurate description. I have indeed been looking forward to my first team adventure for a long time. Wait a minute, why did you think of this description? Haven't you been hiding in the tower? You should have neither participated in it"
I went on an outing and didn’t know any little girls.”
Maybe the princess herself didn't realize that her counterattack was actually retaliating for what Wang just said.
Anyway, the king did not see this, so the mage continued to say in a steady tone: "First point, yes. But I have read about other people's outings in the book. Second point, there is actually a girl of the same age as me in the tower. But
…”
He hesitated, looking back and forth at a certain appearance of the drow and the human warlock girl.
Zhuoer asked with interest: "What happened to her?"
"She doesn't have such prominent secondary sexual characteristics. Now I'm starting to suspect that she might not be a girl."
The tavern was quiet again.
After a moment, Elizabeth asked with an uncertain tone: "Is this a joke? Should I laugh?"
"No, that's a statement."
Mark raised his glass high: "Actually, this mage guy fits my imagination of a mage very well. He is a nerd through and through! Let's drink to nerds!"
The taciturn barbarian raised his glass, which was larger than an ordinary wine glass, and said, "Cheers!"
The drow ignored the human warriors, but stared at the king and said: "With your personality...could it be that you are a mage of the prophecy school?"
"Yes. You didn't listen to me just now..."
"No wonder. You were able to detect my threat just now, not because of experience, but because of the crisis perception ability given by the school. What I hate most is spellcasters like you who are difficult to sneak attack."
Wang hesitated for a second before saying: "Thank you? Should I say thank you?"
Elizabeth tapped the table with her slender fingers: "Let's get back to our mission. I agree, we really should find a priest."
King: "Paladin is also fine."
"No, I don't want those dull cans, let's find a priest."
Wang: "Okay. But I have another question."
Elizabeth: "Just ask. I'm used to you asking questions."
"Were you planning to lead this team to investigate the incident from the beginning?"
Elizabeth: "That's right. At first I thought this was the work of the Necromancer, and I was going to take everyone to search suspicious places like cemeteries, but you overturned my speculation as soon as you came up."
King: "Even if the caster is not found?"
"Yes. Although Bob has been urging me to have a reliable caster before taking action, I can't wait to take action."
Tavern owner: "The eldest lady is indeed like a child planning an outing."
Wang: "I have another question. Who is Bob?"
Tavern owner: "It's me."
"Okay, it's okay." Wang put down his raised hand.
Just as Elizabeth was about to speak, Wang spoke again: "I just summarized the process, so you suspected that the Necromancer was the cause without any concrete evidence, and then prepared to lead a poorly equipped team of adventurers to search around the city.
cemeteries and crypts?
"You don't even have a divine spellcaster on your team that can target the Necromancer?"
Elizabeth rolled her eyes: "Yes, that's it."
Wang spread his hands: "Oh my God, my first impression of you was completely overturned just now."
Elizabeth: "What was your first impression of me?"
"Her Highness, the princess who has run out of clever tricks, is deliberately trying to accumulate strength to show off her skills in the upcoming drama of seizing the heir."
"What now?"
"A silly white sweet warlock who has no idea where he is."
Elizabeth's face turned slightly red, and she didn't know whether it was because of anger or shame.
Anyway, the catman laughed so loudly that even the soldiers muttered: "Don't do this, this is not good."
The king asked another question: "Then I don't understand why a drow wanderer who looks so experienced would willingly become a subordinate of the princess?"
The drow said decisively: "Because of kindness, she accepted me who had nothing, and allowed me to complete my revenge. Listen, mage, you may be very smart, and you may become the princess's think tank in the future, but you remember
, if you dare to go against the princess, my sharp blade will pierce your chest."
Wang nodded: "I remember it. What about the others? For similar reasons?"
Elizabeth interrupted Wang's question: "It's not important. I admit that I was inconsiderate in some aspects. If you are willing to share your...your wisdom, I would be grateful."
Wang stared at the girl's face for several seconds before nodding: "I understand. Then let me tell you what I think. Starting with the goblins should be one of the few actions we can take at the moment. The other one can be taken
The action is to detect nodes in the city that can serve as magic hubs.
"The two actions correspond to the two paths I just mentioned to achieve the extinction of cats and dogs: investing a lot of manpower, or using magic.
"In addition, we can also investigate whether there are a large number of druids in the city. They can also control a large number of cats and dogs at the same time."
The cat-man marksman raised his right hand: "I'll take care of this."
Wang looked at the cat man: "So... there is an association of natural spell casters in the city?"
The catman nodded: "I guess so. Anyway, it's right to leave it to me. In the tribe, I often deal with the druids of the tribe."
Wang: "Then I'll leave this to you."
The drow interjected: "Wait a minute, I don't remember you becoming our leader. I remember that wizards from the Conjuration School like to order others."
Elizabeth: "He just said that he is very good at conjuration spells."
Wang: "Indeed."
Elizabeth: "The education I received is to let people who are good at doing what they are good at. If he is good at thinking and commanding, let him do it. I just need to retain the veto power."
The king blinked at Elizabeth: "I know this, this is called imperial learning! Use knowing people well and doing them well in exchange for the loyalty of your subordinates."
Elizabeth sighed: "This is far from the Imperial Academy. Keep arranging your arrangements."
Wang: "Okay. While Misha is collecting information about druids and other natural spellcasters, I want to visit places in the city that can be used as magic nodes. Some of these places may be in relatively chaotic urban areas, so a guide is needed.
, which can guarantee that I won’t be pocketed.”
Drow: "I'll come. I'll draw you a map. You can find those places by yourself, and I'll sneak in the shadows to protect you."
Mark also raised his hand: "I have some experience in the slums, and I can still give you directions."
King: "Okay, you all come. The last thing is, in order to investigate the ruins of the underground goblin tribe as soon as possible, we need to find a magical caster."
Elizabeth sighed: "If there is really no other way, I know a paladin."
King: "You said you don't want Paladins."
"I mean, if you really can't find it..."
"Then let's find it first. And according to my teacher's experience, it's best to find a dwarf priest."
Elizabeth frowned: "Why? Is there any explanation for this?"
Wang replied solemnly: "The dwarf priest will not block the line of sight and is a reliable front row. My teacher said so."
The cat ranger laughed. As the representative of an impatient race, cat people naturally cannot deal with the slow-paced, rock-like stubborn dwarves.