Lord of War

Sean naturally didn't know that the unlucky monitor was directly given to the old lich by Cecilia as an experimental material.

He is now moving the Golden Knight's mechanism puppet out of the dungeon together with nineteen mercenaries who have just joined Mai En's command. The place with the thorn trap was paved with wooden boards. Moreover, at intervals between the spiral stairs, there are torches inserted on the left and right walls, and the light emitted by the torches can just illuminate the area between each section of the torches, making the entire spiral staircase bright.

"Damn obsessive-compulsive disorder." Sean muttered.

Even though the organ puppet and the golden knight are wreckage, its weight is still not light.

In other words, none of the mechanism puppets produced by the technical nerds of the mermaid clan contain water, and all the materials selected are real. Even if someone as physically strong as Sean was able to carry it, Harding and Rotika Bass would be needed to carry it, not to mention these people whose strength was only at the silver level.

After leaving the dungeon and returning to the long-lost land, Xiao En discovered that the entrance to the water monster's secret store had undergone some modifications.

All the huge boulders around had been dragged away at this time, revealing a flat land. But Mai En obviously intends to enclose this area as his own private domain, so Sean saw many fortifications under construction here, including civil structure walls, sentry towers, wooden houses, and so on. Of course, at the current level, this place is not that fortified. There aren't even many guards, probably because they haven't officially settled in yet.

Sean carefully observed the surrounding situation, memorizing the terrain. While putting the golden knight's puppet wreckage on a cart.

This cart has been specially reinforced and rebuilt, so even if it is loaded with something as heavy as the Golden Knight, it will not cause the entire cart to fall apart. Of course, the carts will not be ordinary horses. It may be difficult to find ordinary creatures in the deep belly area of ​​the wild land, but for Dragon Slayer Maien, he can always catch a few sub-dragons or dragon-like creatures. , and the one pulling the cart is an earth dragon beast that only a big chamber of commerce would use as a coolie to pull goods.

"Come up."

Other mercenaries got on the cart one after another, and of course some of them rode horses. At this time, it was a middle-aged man who greeted Sean to get into the car.

The middle-aged man had a scar on his face, extending from the left forehead to his chin, although it didn't look particularly hideous. But to mercenaries, such scars are a symbol of bravery. He is probably the leader of this group, and his strength has barely reached the level of the upper silver, but in Xiao En's real eyes, the attributes of this middle-aged man are simply horrible. So no doubt. Even if he was given an adventure in this life, he would not be able to step into the golden realm.

Of course, if the will of the world gave him ten or eight strength-enhancing miracles one after another, then Xiao En would pretend that he hadn't said anything.

"Which team were you with before?" The middle-aged man asked after seeing Xiao En get into the car, and at the same time signaled that he could start.

"I don't know too well." Sean scratched his head and said with an embarrassed smile, "I'm from the Eagle Mercenary Corps, and the old leader said he wanted to train us newcomers. So he took us out for training. But halfway through because we were involved in a tribal fight, we suffered heavy casualties. The old captain died in the battle. I ran around in a panic, and was caught by a slave hunting team who called themselves a gray flag. I thought it was impossible to escape the life of being a slave, but I didn't expect..."

Speaking of which,

Sean didn't continue talking, but let out a chuckle.

The middle-aged man showed a knowing smile, and then reached out and patted Sean on the shoulder: "Grey Flag, it's really not easy to survive from their hands, and it's no wonder you want to change doors....Okay, turn around I’ll take you in after I tell the boss, and now there are not many people at Huiqi’s side, and those who have the strength to speak are all dead, and you are not from Huiqi in the first place, so it’s not a big deal to change doors.”

"Ah, really?" Sean's face showed excitement, "Thank you, boss."

"Hey, I'm not the boss." The middle-aged man smiled, his voice was very hearty, but Sean knew very well that these people may seem quite bold now, but if they violate the work they are doing If you are rushing, you are also very bold when you start your hands, "We are following Mr. Ronalds, the pedantic Ronalds. He was originally a staff member under Lord Mann, but now he has more power than before. There are many senior leaders, and they are also the heads of several major cadres, and their status is second only to Lord Mai En."

"Wild Legion?" Sean was taken aback for a moment, he had never heard of this name before.

"Hey, you really don't know anything." Another thin young man sitting next to the middle-aged man made a mocking voice, but this voice didn't sound much malice, on the contrary, there was a kind of I finally saw the sense of superiority of someone who doesn't know the market better than me, "Lord Maien has accomplished the feat of unifying all the slave hunting teams in the deep belly of the barren land this time. There has never been such a thing in the past hundreds of years." ... So, after this, Lord Mann formed a new legion, and now we are no longer a slave hunting team, but a mercenary legion!"

"Of course, I won't give up on my old business like slave hunting." The middle-aged man also showed a longing smile on his face, "But at least I don't have to worry about being stabbed by my colleagues in the future. It’s one of our own.… However, I think you’ve been with the mercenary group, so you should be very clear that in the current situation, some factions must be divided and established. Repression is minimal, but there will still be some friction."

Sean nodded clearly.

This situation, just like the situation in which the Principality of Ryan annexed the Kingdom of Darbion and then upgraded to a kingdom, has evolved from the conflict between the established nobles and the emerging nobles to a conflict of interest between the nobles inside the Great Wall and the nobles outside the Great Wall. Maien unified all the slave hunting teams in the wild lands, which had never happened before in the game. Moreover, after the unification, all the slave hunting teams were directly reorganized into a mercenary army, thus establishing the corresponding rules and regulations and integrity, which can be seen from this point. Mann's ambitions are bigger than the game makes it out to be.

Of course, to integrate such a new mercenary army, Mai En needs to spend a lot of energy and time, at least in the next few years, he will definitely not make any more moves. But once he is successfully integrated, the fighting power of this barren army will become very terrifying. As long as he maintains a sufficiently neutral attitude in terms of income, then he will be the local emperor in the deep hinterland of this barren land. Whether it is the major tribes, the major empires or even the alliance of chambers of commerce, they must also come to negotiate with them.

"Then, how many cadres are there in the Savage Legion now?" Sean chatted casually with the other party, and at the same time couldn't help but secretly rejoiced that his timing was really good. It happened to be the time when Mai En's internal forces were the most chaotic, so as long as he could fool the past, no one would discover his existence, and this would naturally not hinder his next plan.

"There are only five now." The middle-aged man said. "Originally there should be six. But I heard that Lord Jebba died in battle, so now Lord Mann's old team only has two cadres, the red-haired Klee and the pedantic Roernas, and the newly promoted cadres are Our head executioner Dave, the red-lined viper Banr, and a man named Nabas... But I heard that a total of twelve cadres will be elected, so now those who have the strength to compete are gearing up Woolen cloth."

Xiao En responded, but he didn't continue to discuss in depth on this issue.

As a lord, he knows how difficult it is to establish a legion. Every captain of the slave hunting team may be qualified to be the head of the mercenary group. After all, to be a mercenary group leader only needs to deal with the interpersonal relationship in the group, ensure the even distribution of spoils and a relatively complete reward system. . But I want to be a legion commander. This is not an easy task, at least one must be good at military strategy. Otherwise, how to march and fight?

The individual strength of the mercenaries is indeed very strong, but compared to the legion, they are nothing more than a piece of loose sand. Under the premise that the number of mercenaries reaches a certain scale, the mercenary group is absolutely impossible to be the opponent of the legion. And Mai En obviously knows this truth very well. If he wants to become the emperor of the wild land here, then he must train this slave hunting team into a real army. Under the pincer attack of the three forces of the alliance, they gained a firm foothold, and even made them dare not easily send out the sanctuary powerhouses to execute the beheading tactics.

And if it was still just a slave-hunting team or a mercenary group, then even a strong man in the sanctuary would not need to take action, just a few main forces from the major empires would be enough for Maien to go around.

Therefore, in the next selection of these so-called cadres, Mai En will definitely not focus on the strength of personal strength, but the vision of military strategy.

Sean rubbed his chin, a new plan was being quickly constructed in his mind.

After a brief chat, the cart, escorted by a dozen or so accomplices, quickly arrived at a camp about one or two kilometers away from the entrance to the Water Demon's Secret Vault. It can be clearly seen that this camp is just a temporary camp, so the construction seems to be much more casual, without any planning at all, not even a fence. However, in terms of guards, it can be seen that there is a lot of strictness, almost reaching the level of one post at ten steps.

As Sean helped carry the mechanism puppets, he saw that there were already many mechanism puppets piled up in the camp, including the remains of twin knights, guard warriors, and giant sword knights. But now that these wreckages have been dismantled to pieces, it can be seen that Ronalds is really doing research on these wreckages, and Sean already knows what this pedant is doing after just a few glances. idea.

Obviously, he wanted to imitate these puppets.

Although Sean wouldn't scoff at this crazy behavior, he also didn't like it.

The reason is simple, these puppets represent the peak scientific and technical strength of the First Mermaid Empire. Although they have a high sense of independent judgment and combat ability, they are actually shared by a central power source, which ensures the stability of the combat effectiveness of these mechanism puppets, as well as a large number of calculation evolution and learning capabilities, and this A few points are why these puppets are so powerful.

Although with today's technology, it is no problem to reproduce these mechanism puppets, but before the arrival of magic device technology, there is no energy that can drive such mechanism puppets.

So Ronalds wanted to imitate such an organ puppet, which was basically ten years ahead of schedule. If it is changed ten years later, then maybe it is really possible for him to imitate the success. As for the present, before the power problem is solved, he can only imitate a frame model at most, to put it simply, it is to make a pile of scrap iron.

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