After declining Li Kaixin's suggestion to help mediate, and only asking her to help pay attention to reports related to the Green Cross, Lin Ze put away his cell phone.
The taxi just arrived at the school gate. He paid and got off, returned to the dormitory downstairs, climbed over the gate skillfully without disturbing the aunt in the small room, and returned to the dormitory quietly.
The three roommates have already gone to bed. They are used to Lin Ze coming home late from time to time, so they have no worries or questions.
Lying down on the bed, Lin Ze took out his sunglasses, put them on, and logged into the Spirit King's Court.
As usual, he first went to the arena to apply for actual combat. After killing dozens of Gray Horns, he finally received a message indicating that the achievement had been achieved.
Congratulations to player Crow for achieving the achievement Horned Clan Slayer III and earning 20 points.
"Next is the Horned Clan Slaughterer IV achievement. If nothing unexpected happens when the conditions are met, 10,000 Horned Clan should be killed."
Lin Ze thought for a while, then returned to the Shu family's residence and found Shu Song who was reading in the study.
"You plan to take over the army today."
After hearing Lin Ze's intention, Shu Song looked thoughtful and nodded gently after a moment, "That's good. Li Baoshan and the others should have almost integrated the army. It's just right for you to take over now."
After saying this, she waved her hand to summon a servant and whispered a few instructions.
The servant responded respectfully and stepped back. Shu Song turned to Lin Ze and smiled, "I'll ask Li Baoshan and Ye Zheng to come over. You can meet them first."
"They are"
"Your deputies, the two deputy commanders of the army, happened to serve in the Horn Exterminator Army before they were transferred here. They have extremely rich experience in dealing with the Horn Clan, and their leadership skills are also good. Is there anything you don't understand?
You can ask them for advice."
"I see."
Not long after, deep footsteps were heard outside the study. Under the leadership of the servants, two middle-aged men in light armor stepped in and saluted Shu Song and Lin Ze respectfully.
As the name suggests, the Li Baoshan people are really as big as a hill. The muscles on their upper body are arranged as tightly as iron knots, holding up the clothes and armor tightly, making them look like a muscular fortress.
It's hard to imagine that he is actually a spiritualist.
If this wasn't a Wanfa type game world, Lin Ze might have thought he was taking the body-training route.
Ye Zheng relatively fits the image of a spiritualist. He is tall and elegant, with a faint smile on his face, which makes people feel good about him just by looking at him.
"Sit down."
With outsiders present, Shu Song regained his indifferent expression and waved his hand gently.
After Li Baoshan and Ye Zheng sat down on the seats at the bottom, she continued, "Ye Zheng, you are the most familiar with the situation of the city guards, so you can explain it to Ozawa."
"Yes, my lord." Ye Zheng responded respectfully first, then looked at Lin Ze and said thoughtfully, "Now, there are more than 20,000 people in the city guard army, divided into five battalions, each battalion is about 4,000 people.
The person you serve is the commander of the fifth battalion, and Baoshan and I are your deputies, the deputy commanders of the fifth battalion."
"The current top officer of the City Guards is Army Commander Huang De, but he is relatively old and will probably retire from the position of Army Commander soon, so he doesn't care much about many affairs in the army now. Most of them
Xanadu is left to the five battalions to deal with each other, and therefore, the current situation of the city guards is a bit complicated."
Lin Ze asked curiously, "Complexity refers to the struggle for power and profit."
If the legion commander doesn't take matters into his own hands, without a sovereign person, it will probably be difficult for the remaining five battalions to live in harmony.
“My guess was correct”
Ye Zheng nodded lightly, "The power conflict between Daxia and the eldest princess has also spread to the city guards. Now the two sides are evenly matched. The first and second battalions are Daxia's people, and the two commanders of the third and fourth battalions have also been
The eldest princess has won over. Except for the fifth battalion, the city guards are now almost completely divided and controlled by Daxia and the eldest princess."
"That's it." Lin Ze felt slightly surprised.
No wonder the commander of the army, Huang De, didn't want to get involved. He wanted to stay out of the matter and not get involved in the struggle for the throne.
etc.
Lin Ze's expression suddenly changed. In this case, wouldn't he be a third-party force in the city guard army? He wouldn't be mistaken by the two cheap brothers and sisters for interfering in the struggle for the throne.
Although he had absolutely no intention of doing so.
Ye Zheng had been secretly paying attention to Lin Ze's expression, and seemed to have guessed his thoughts. He said seriously, "According to the instructions of the master of the family, Baoshan and I have declined the invitations of the other four battalion commanders during this period, and try to minimize our private interactions with them."
of dealings with each other and made it clear that he will not participate in the struggle between them."
Lin Ze looked at Shu Song, who smiled slightly, "Didn't you say that you don't intend to get involved in the struggle for the throne?"
"That's right." Lin Ze nodded and looked at Ye Zheng and Li Baoshan, "Let's continue to do this from now on. We will only focus on hunting the Horned Clan and will not get involved in other things."
"Yes" Ye Zheng and Li Baoshan responded respectfully.
Shu Song had known each other for a long time, and Lin Ze joined the City Guards just to kill the Horn Clan, so the two of them were not surprised when they heard this.
Even so, they were still full of doubts in their hearts. They really couldn't figure out why Lin Ze was so determined to kill the Horn Clan and joined the city guard just for this reason.
It's really puzzling
However, doubts were doubts. Li Baoshan and Ye Zheng did not dare to object, let alone neglect. Not to mention that Lin Ze was a member of the royal family. Behind him was the Shu family, a powerful aristocratic force. He was also a rare genius in a century.
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The results of the Spiritual Arts Zhenyang Academy Competition have spread throughout the entire royal court. Everyone knows that Erxia Lin Ze was promoted to a fourth-level spiritual master after practicing for less than four months and created many compound spiritual arts.
Even Dean Su Xi was so impressed by his outstanding talent that he would definitely be promoted to a great spiritualist within three years, and even the seventh level was not impossible.
Geniuses with potential and strength are respected wherever they go, and some unpredictable thoughts are understandable.
"Then, without further ado, let's arrange to go out of the city to kill the Horned Clan as soon as possible." Lin Ze made the decision immediately.
Ye Zhengdao said, "Every half a month, the City Guards will patrol within a ten-mile radius of the royal court to clean up the Horned Clan wandering nearby. The next patrol will be in exactly two days. If you want, I can go up immediately."
Apply in person to be dispatched by the Fifth Battalion this time.”
"Well, let's do that."
After deciding on the time to leave the city the day after tomorrow, Lin Ze said goodbye to Shu Song and went to the military camp accompanied by Li Baoshan and Ye Zheng. First, he visited the regiment commander Huang De.
Huang De looked like an ordinary old man with good spirits. He had no airs at all and seemed very easy-going, which was a bit beyond Lin Ze's expectation.
After returning to the fifth battalion, Li Baoshan immediately summoned all the middle and lower-level officers and held a short meeting, mainly to let Lin Ze get acquainted with them.
After the meeting, Lin Ze left the military camp and rushed to the quiet room of the academy without stopping to continue practicing spiritual arts.
He has not yet fully mastered the Wind Feather Spiritual Technique, let alone the need to fuse soul energy and transform it into the Red Lotus version of the Spiritual Technique. In the next period of time, most of his training energy will probably be spent on this.
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Two days flew by in a blink of an eye.
Ye Zheng was very reliable in his work. When Lin Ze arrived at the fifth battalion that day, he had already arranged everything. A total of two thousand sergeants lined up in an orderly queue and stood in the spacious square with great momentum.
In addition, there are fifty spiritual masters in robes waiting aside.
"Next, considering that the scope of this operation is only within ten miles of the royal court, I suggest that you only bring half of the troops. In this way, the marching speed can be slightly faster and the efficiency of clearing the Horned Clan can be improved."
"Well, you're relatively familiar with this area, so I'll just follow what you said."
As Lin Ze spoke, he looked at the team of spiritualists in front of him.
According to Ye Zheng, the average strength of the spiritual masters in the city guard ranks last among the three major legions, and most of them only have first- and second-level strength.
Just like the team in front of us, more than 80% of them are first- and second-level spiritualists, and very few have reached the third level. Even the leader of the team is only a third-level spiritualist.
Withdrawing his gaze, Lin Ze turned around and said, "Let's give the order to set off."
"Yes, down"
As the order was passed down, Nuo Da's army began to move, marching toward the city gate in a mighty manner.
The city guard's barracks are set up in the outer courtyard, not far away from the towering and huge city wall.
In the world of Wangting with a spiritual system, building city walls is much simpler than in the world of swords. A spiritual master who has mastered the spiritual art of imitating the element and can control earth energy can be worth hundreds of ordinary laborers.
, so the city wall of the Royal Court is much taller. It is made of hard granite. The height is visually estimated to be more than fifty meters and its thickness is more than ten meters. It completely crushes the huge wall of the Black Stone settlement area.
Passing through the huge and thick city gate, the fifth battalion of troops marched slowly, with Lin Ze, Ye Zheng, and Li Baoshan walking at the front of the team.
Looking up, what you see is a spacious and flat loess avenue, with large areas of vibrant farmland not far away on both sides. The golden wheat and rice are undulating like waves in the breeze.
Lin Ze looked at it a few more times with a sense of novelty, and then turned his gaze further away.
At the end of the field of vision, a large expanse of desolate and dilapidated yellow can be vaguely seen, giving people a sense of desolation.
As we progressed, the surrounding environment gradually became desolate. All we could see was sand, stone and loess. Towering giant rocks were scattered in the open wilderness. Occasionally, we could see a little bit of green, which was scattered small bushes.
of shrubs.
"It looks quite similar to the wilderness in the World of Swordsman. They are both desolate and sparsely populated. I don't know how the Horned Clan survived in this environment."
As soon as Lin Ze's thoughts came to his mind, he saw a spiritual beast running back in front of him and coming to the queue of spiritual masters. Not long after, someone came to report that a small group of Horn Clan had been spotted ahead.