Blasphemy: 15Spardy

Chapter 15 Sparta

Things in the City of Oracle can finally come to an end for the time being. Rogge left a bunch of problems for Hughes and was about to leave for Dresden.

His dragon horse is dead. Fortunately, with the Silver Dragon Breastplate, there is no need to wear heavy full body armor. Although the Dragon Slaying Spear is not light, it is still affordable for ordinary horses.

When Rogg came back that day carrying the dusty, ferocious dragon-slaying gun, even Androni was shocked. She originally wanted to try the gun on Biluo Xingkong, but Rogge felt sorry for the hard-earned Silver Dragon Horn and refused, so she gave up.

At this time, Feng Die was still extremely weak, but his injuries were recovering quickly, and it seemed that he would be able to go to the ground in another month at most.

Rogg arranged for the elf craftsmen to produce poison arrows, armor-piercing arrows, as well as magic arrows such as flame arrows, ice arrows, and strong acid arrows. He planned to give full play to the long-range attack ability of the Dark Side of the Moon talent. After spending the money, he could earn more, but if the elf died, it would be much more difficult to create another one. He simply couldn't afford the loss of these elite elf warriors.

The leather armor made of silver dragon skin is no less protective than ordinary full-body armor, and it is also very lightweight, making it suitable for use on the dark side of the moon. Unfortunately, the quantity is not large, only one hundred sets. As for the ten sets of heavy armor made entirely of silver dragon scales, except for the two surviving elven guardian warriors, no one else could wear them.

Now that Fengdie is seriously injured, the Elf King's bow is carried on Raphael's back. This shadow knight who is always hidden in the darkness is like a newborn wolf, desperately absorbing all the knowledge around him and making rapid progress. In just one month, he broke through from level ten to level eleven.

Compared with when he re-entered the City of Oracle, when Rogge left the City of Oracle this time, the troops following him seemed much thinner.

When the dusty Rogge stepped into the Grand Duke's Palace in Dresden, he happened to encounter a fierce dispute between Adele and the two ministers of finance and military affairs, and Hilley was in the middle and found it difficult to make a decision. This dispute has been going on for several days, but Rogge disappears mysteriously every time he leaves. There is no news and no one knows when he will come back. The principal ministers only knew that Rogge's Elf Guards had established a city in the central mountains, and the souls of demons were kept in that kind of city. As for the specific location of the Oracle City, no one knows.

Now that the ancient elven trees have restored their magic power, the Oracle City is once again hidden in the endless virgin forest.

As usual, every time Rogge returns to Dresden, he will first show up at Hilley's house.

While having a secret conversation with Hille, Androni and Froya were also present and listening. Seeing this handsome man and woman, Xi Lai was stunned for a moment before he recovered.

Rogg took a sip of tea, put down the report in his hand, and said: "Sir Shilai, it is not surprising that the Snow Falcon Country will rebel, and it is not a big deal. Although Lord Frey suffered a small loss, as long as our army In the past, I understand that these rebels couldn't play any tricks. It's just that Adele's decision was a bit strange. Spending 5,000 gold coins to hire a mercenary group of only more than 30 knights to quell the rebellion? And this 100% The armor tax of five... Let’s not talk about this tax for now. Lord Heeley, have you seen that mercenary group? What is your evaluation of them?"

Hilai pondered for a moment and said: "They are truly outstanding knights, and I have never seen such majesty and murderous intent in other knights. However, apart from their arrogance, I can't tell how much better they are than the Snow Bear Knights. It stands to reason that the price paid by Grand Duke Adele is enough to hire a mercenary group of more than a thousand people. But you gave the order before leaving, The matter of armaments and officer candidates is decided by Grand Duke Adele. Originally, the senior ministers did not interfere, but this time her two decisions involve the authority of the Minister of Finance and Military Affairs, which exceeds the authority you gave her. Causing disputes."

Rogge said slowly: "There seems to be nothing wrong with selecting talents through open recruitment of mercenary groups. Why are you so fiercely opposed? Do you think Adele is doing something behind our back?"

Hilai hesitated for a moment and then said: "Grand Duke Adele is almost fanatical about her duties. I can't see what she will do behind the scenes. But Lord Rogge, mercenaries are just like prostitutes. Apart from money, there is no other way to gain their loyalty. I think it is very inappropriate to choose officers from mercenaries. My lord, Grand Duke Adele is very smart, and sometimes her actions are crazy and bold, although so far So far, the results have been good, but when ruling a country, you cannot rely on this gambling approach!"

Rogg nodded and said: "I understand. A small mercenary group that allows Adele to pay five thousand gold coins is very interesting! Xi Lai, please arrange it for me. Now I will I want to meet this mercenary group and then go back to the Grand Duke’s Palace."

It was almost dusk, and the barracks in Dresden were noisy, full of shouts, laughter, noises and fighting. Rogge stood at the gate of the barracks, looked inside from a distance, and smiled at Hilley: "Adele, this is a good idea. This barracks is empty anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's free for the mercenary group who came to apply. You can make some money on food."

Hilai clearly disliked the noise and chaos inside. He twirled his beard and said, "Sir Rogge, these mercenaries are lawless. Once we are not selected to carry out the counter-insurgency mission, I'm afraid they will cause trouble. ”

Roger smiled slightly and said: "There are only a little more than a thousand people. Who dares to cause trouble on my territory? Let's go in and take a look before talking."

Androni suddenly grabbed Rogge: "Wait a minute, there is a very powerful guy inside. Well, he has already sensed that we are coming. You'd better be careful."

Roger said: "Don't be afraid, we are not here to fight. Let's go and have a look." After that, he stepped into the barracks first.

Many mercenaries were sitting in various places in the barracks yard. By this time they had already had dinner, and it was time to get together and chat.

The noisy barracks compound suddenly became quiet, and countless pairs of naked eyes fell on Froya. The little goblin once again assumed the awe-inspiring and inviolable appearance of an iceberg. Rogge knew that this was what she really looked like. After that romantic night, he understood that Froya's previous charm and amorous feelings were all disguised. Like Androni, she was not only psychologically but also physically repulsive to men.

As for these vulgar mercenaries, Rogge thought to himself, if he got into trouble with Froya...

In the blink of an eye, Xi Lai led Rogge to the door of an inconspicuous small barracks in the west and said: "The quicksand mercenaries are here."

Roger stood silently at the door and did not enter. Androni put her hand on the starry sky, and Froya also looked at the door intently, turning the blue crystal ring on her slender finger. They all felt the sudden murderous aura behind the door. Rogge even smelled a trace of blood. This is the faint scent of blood that can only come from countless battlefield killings.

"Is there the Quicksand Mercenary Group inside? We don't have any ill intentions. Can we come out and see them?" Rogge asked.

The heavy wooden door opened, and an ordinary-looking man walked out. Rogge felt that he looked familiar and looked at him carefully. The man was also looking at Rogge up and down, with a look of disbelief in his eyes.

"Are you... Mr. Charlie?" Rogge asked tentatively.

"Are you Rogge?"

Roger never expected that he would meet an old friend thousands of miles away!

Now Charlie is wearing ordinary clothes and has a weathered look. At first glance, he looks like a shrewd man in his thirties. How can he still have half of the nobility and glory of the Knights of the Round Table?

Charlie was also a little excited when he first met Rogge, but the two of them were just working together and could not even be considered casual acquaintances. Although I was a little excited about this reunion, I was able to control it.

"Are the quicksand mercenaries inside..." Rogge asked tentatively.

Charlie stepped inside and said with a smile: "It's all the old troops who followed Lord Ofiloch. Lord Rogge, please come in!"

The faces of the thirty former Golden Lion Knights are now somewhat stained with frost. The arrogance that Rogge was familiar with has disappeared, replaced by calmness, murderousness and coldness.

Rogg looked over one by one, and then asked: "Your Excellency's Golden Lion Knights...are these the only ones left?"

Charlie said calmly: "Including me, there are thirty-one people in total."

Roger trembled and asked again: "Master Charlie, why did you... become mercenaries?"

Charlie sighed and said with a wry smile: "Besides fighting, what skills do we have to make a living? The brothers used to be knights, with some respect and principles. If they can't be robbers, they have to be mercenaries. This time The mission in the Principality of Are is going smoothly and the reward is high, so I will bring my brothers over to give it a try."

Roger lowered his voice and said: "Master Charlie, I am now the court magician of the Principality of Arei. Are you willing to temporarily aggrieve yourself and serve in the public army with the brothers? I am in urgent need now. A regiment of heavily armored knights."

Charlie pondered for a moment and said: "Lord Rogge, I have many friends in the Church of Light, and I have also heard a little bit about how you were judged as a heretic. Those of us who have survived Lord Ofiloch's old group are very jealous of you. I admire the behavior of resolutely abandoning everything and fleeing thousands of miles with Miss Elesis. We are in exile anyway, so since we can help you, we will stay in the Principality of Are."

Roger was overjoyed, rubbed his hands excitedly, and said, "This is great! The environment here is too bad, come here, come here, I will take you to your new residence!"

The Golden Lion Knights did not have any extra luggage except armor and weapons. They simply packed up and followed Rogge out of the barracks.

"***! How dare such a small number of people come to accept the mission! It turns out they are familiar with the great nobles of the principality!" A sinister voice came from the waiting mercenaries. The mercenaries in the barracks compound all echoed and booed, but no one came up to provoke.

Rogg looked to both sides, feeling a little strange, and said with a smile: "It's really strange why these mercenaries only shout but don't rush."

Charlie smiled and said: "Why don't you rush? The day we first moved in, almost every mercenary group came to rush once. But they are very smart and usually won't come a second time."

Androni snorted and said: "Competing with the Knights of the Round Table and the Knights of the Golden Lion, these third-rate mercenaries are certainly asking for trouble!"

Charlie heard the thorn in Androni's words, but the smile on his face remained unchanged: "I was no match for Master Androni back then, not to mention that your martial arts skills are obviously better than before. As for Princess Froya, I am absolutely unwilling to be an enemy of a great magician."

Androni and Froya were enemies of Ofiloch and Elesis back then. Nowadays, things have changed, things have changed, and these former enemies have fled into exile, and unexpectedly met in the North Country. All the grievances and grudges back then have faded away. At this time, Charlie was calm and calm, and Androni and Froya were too embarrassed to embarrass him any more. What's more, they all have their own needs from Rogge at the moment, and they won't come to ruin his good deeds out of boredom.

Having said that, Charlie is not willing to be their enemy, and they are not willing to make an enemy like Charlie, the Knight of the Round Table.

In this way, Charlie led thirty golden lion knights and proudly walked out of the barracks under the hostile eyes of more than a thousand mercenaries.

The first thing Rogge did when he returned to the Grand Duke's Mansion was to look for Adele. As soon as he opened the door to her room, a vase came roaring towards him! Rogge took the vase casually and said with a smile: "Why are you so angry every time I see you?"

Adele saw the person coming in clearly and exclaimed: "Roger! You are finally back, I have been waiting for you! Those two old idiots, the Minister of Finance and Military Affairs, are such bastards! ... ”

"Okay, okay! Adele, I know everything you did, and you did it very well! But I have two questions. One is why did you choose the Quicksand Mercenary Group?"

Adele's face turned slightly red and she said: "Roger, well, you know... I know how to look at men very well. Although the Quicksand Mercenary Group is not large in number, the calmness, calmness and murderous aura are all mine. I have never seen anything like this. Their leader, Charlie, is a very capable person at first glance. I talked to him once, and I have only seen his vision, insight, and magnanimity in you. You should be the same He is a humanoid, so I wholeheartedly want to keep him in the principality to serve you so that I can help you."

"He and I are two completely different types of people, but we are similar in some places. In any case, you did a very good job on this matter! Why do you want to levy an armor tax?"

"It's like this, Rogge, you know that there was a rebellion in the Kingdom of Snow Falcon. Lord Frey brought five hundred soldiers to quell the rebellion, but he was defeated! I think this is a good excuse, and it is a great move. A good time to expand the military."

Roger was very surprised, but there was still no expression on his face: "Well, what next?"

"You said that expanding the military strength is the top priority at present, and I also know that your goal goes far beyond the scope of the Holy Alliance. Then a strong army is essential. The Principality of Are is a small country, and it is not Wealth, I don’t know how long it will take if we want to follow the old path of enriching the country and strengthening the military! Now the principality is expanding for the first time in decades, and the territory has almost doubled! I want to take advantage of the excitement of the people of the principality. When the time comes, it will be much easier to collect taxes harshly, whether in the name of counter-insurgency or jihad. If it takes a while to collect taxes, it will definitely arouse the resistance of the civilians. No matter what, try to strengthen it as much as possible now Arms are the most important thing. Let civilians live a miserable life, as long as they don't starve to death."

Roger was even more surprised by Adele's alternative views, but he still asked calmly: "All wise men believe that resorting to violence will not end well. If you do this, you are not afraid of dragging down the national power of the Principality of Arei. ?"

"Roger, although these civilians will have a hard life for a while, the war will divert their attention. As long as you continue to win on the battlefield, these good news will support them to continue to endure a life of hardship, not to mention the future. There will be loot to compensate! The Principality of Are is a small country, and we are like a poor man who does not have many chips in his hand. If we want to win money, we must bet everything we can! Either double it, or lose it all. !" Adele is like an avid gambler!

"What's more," Adele added: "Even if we use all our chips, we may not be qualified to participate in the gambling game!"

Roger was silent. He finally raised his head, looked deeply into Adele's passionate dark brown eyes, and said: "Adele, I have to admit that I did underestimate you. Just as you said. Let’s do it! First, in the name of quelling the rebellion, fully mobilize the duchy and the province of Rector, and then levy as much as possible, whether it’s armor tax or spear tax. Starting tomorrow, Adele, of the duchy The Chancellor of Finance will obey your instructions."

Adele screamed in surprise, took Roger's hand and kissed it hard.

"Okay, okay! No need for this! The Quicksand Mercenary Group has agreed to serve the principality, and I will let them try their best to train a heavy cavalry in the shortest possible time. If they need anything in the future, You have to do everything possible to satisfy them!"

Every minute is precious to Roger now. The next day, he took Charlie with him and assembled all the troops he could, including all the heavy infantry, light infantry and Snow Bear Knights. Even the guards of the Grand Duke's Palace were summoned for Charlie to choose suitable warriors.

After a busy day and repeatedly lowering his standards, Charlie finally selected forty knights and seventy alternate knights. These forty knights were selected from the Snow Bear Knights and only needed intensive training. The seventy candidate knights were selected from various infantry arms. The first step was to train on horseback. Just leave these matters to ordinary instructors. In addition to practicing horseback riding, the Golden Lion Knights taught them martial arts, fighting spirit and battle formation knowledge.

As for the forty snow bear knights, they were trained by Charlie himself.

Rogge could no longer bear to lose any of these extremely precious golden lion knights. He urgently prepared thirty sets of heavy armor reinforced with silver dragon scales for these golden lion knights, and also prepared a set of heavy armor entirely made of silver dragon scales for Charlie.

The new knights were pulled to the training ground by Charlie in the cold wind before dawn the next day. The knights were only wearing thin pajamas, shivering in the biting cold wind.

In the darkness, the milky white fighting spirit flames on Charlie's body looked particularly dazzling. He came to this group of new recruits and looked at them one by one, from beginning to end, then from end to end, and then stood still in front of the team. The snow bear knights looked in awe at the flames of fighting spirit on Charlie's body, which represented absolute strength and was the only thing that could convince these rebellious knights.

"My name is Charlie. From now on, I will be your instructor, boss and... natural enemy!" Charlie almost shouted the last word.

"Now, proud knights, let me see your fighting spirit, use all your strength! It's dark now, you can easily let me see the light of your fighting spirit!"

However, no matter how hard the Snow Bear Riders tried, there was still darkness in the team. The strongest knight among them is only at level eight, and there is still a long way to go before his fighting spirit shines.

Charlie snorted and shouted: "Why didn't I see any light? Are my eyes blind? Obviously not. Then, from today on, I will deprive you of the title of knight! Because you are not worthy! Because I There has never been a knight below level ten under Charlie! When you can let me clearly see your fighting spirit, when will you officially become a knight of the Knights!"

"It's not yet dawn~IndoMTL.com~The wind is also very cold! But compared with the battlefield, this is already paradise! So, how long can you stay in paradise? I can tell you, Fourteen days! Fourteen days later, I will take you to quell the rebellion in the Snow Falcon Country. I hope you will not underestimate these rebels. A fourteenth-level Archdruid has already failed. You now have four Ten people, if you want to still have forty people standing in front of me after the rebellion is over, then in these fourteen days, you have to give me the strength to feed me!"

The Snow Bear Knights have stood up straight. They have been completely angered by Charlie's contempt and rudeness!

"Very good, there is still something going on now! Our new knighthood is called the Spartan Knights! But there are only thirty knights at present! I hope that within a year, you can all join , so that I can have seventy knights in my knights! Do you understand?" Charlie shouted!

"Understood!!"

"Very well, the Spartan Knights only need real warriors! Our slogan is: We don't care how many enemies there are, we only ask..."

Charlie paused, then roared earth-shatteringly:

"Where are they!!!"