Mount & Blade: Wind of War

In the afternoon, at Lonely Mountain Castle, as the door of the conference room opened, senior knights and civil servants walked out quickly, and they were still communicating.

"The Duke's request is not easy to do."

"Yes, the orcs' vanguard lost their main general in this battle, and they will definitely be more cautious in the next action. It is not easy to swallow up this 50,000-man army under such circumstances."

"Mr. Atiman, I heard that your latest modified destruction cannon is very powerful? I have seen the power of the cannon test before, which is already quite amazing. Is the modified destruction cannon more powerful than that?"

As the chief instructor of the entire army of Lonely Mountain Castle, although Resarit's personal cultivation is not high, he is also a person of high power and is highly valued by the Duke.

And for such a person, the great engineer Atiman is willing to communicate with him, so the relationship between the two is considered to be quite close colleagues.

"It won't be long before your Excellency sees it in actual combat. Believe me, the power of this masterpiece will surely surprise you!"

"Haha, is that so? Then I'll wait and see."

Because of long-term exchanges with Duke Rhodes, the senior officials of Lonely Mountain Castle have adapted to many phrases.

This phrase can express a lot of information in a few words, and it has become a trend in the upper echelons of Lonely Mountain Castle.

Everyone learns one or two sentences from Rhodes, and gradually this trend spreads among the middle-level officials and businessmen of Lonely Mountain Castle. If you don't know a few sentences, you are uncultured. As time goes by, this trend will gradually affect the entire North.

The behavior habits of the ruling class and the upper class are themselves easily imitated by the middle and lower classes.

But although the words are said, in fact, Resarit has some disapproval in his heart. He is a more old-fashioned old-fashioned military strategist. Although he is keen on learning, he basically only studies military classics.

In Resarit's mind, war is ultimately a fight between people. It is foolish to rely too much on external objects. It's just a cannon. How powerful can it be? Can it affect the outcome of a large-scale war?

He even disapproved of the obsession of the chief knights Fatis and Airen for supernatural powers. He still believed that with the advent of the supernatural era, the strength of the army would also increase year-on-year. Even if individual supernaturals were strong, they would not be as valuable and powerful as a strong supernatural army in the end.

In a sense, Resarit's cognition could not even be considered wrong.

It's just that his and Airen's cognitive thinking went to extremes. Resarit gave up personal military improvement and devoted most of his mind and energy to understanding and mastering military tactics.

Airen, on the other hand, completely gave up his military talents after the advent of the supernatural era and turned to pursue supreme power.

In Airen's view: no matter how exquisite the layout and powerful tactics are, if there is no strong person of a sufficient level to cooperate, it is meaningless and will be defeated by force. This is the sadness of all military generals and tactical experts in this plane world.

Fatis is a humble person. He abides by the knight code. Even after he was promoted to a legend, he would not show off his strength at will. Therefore, Resarit could not see his strength.

However, Airen could sense it faintly. For example, the restless and bloodthirsty magic sword in his hand would become manic and restless if it did not drink fresh blood every period of time. However, during this process, as long as Airen approached Fatis, the magic sword in his hand would immediately become obedient and quiet... If there were ten legendary knights of this level, what would happen even if they faced thousands of troops?

They would still charge into the army formation if they wanted to, kill the main general if they wanted to, and as long as they fought and marched back and forth for a few rounds, even the army with the highest military discipline would collapse completely.

Fatis is different from Airen and Resarit. He cultivates both personal combat power and military tactics, and can fully absorb the nutrients of the two, and even complement each other.

This is the difference between character and talent.

Of course, this is also because Fatis met Rhodes, otherwise, he might not be in such a state of mind at this moment after all the hardships he has experienced.

In the meeting room, everyone left.

Rhodes opened the system panel and added points for the upgraded Yannick, himself and Remo Mac.

Although Mokali was not killed by Rhodes himself, the killing experience was somewhat reduced, but it was a legendary master after all, and all the troops he led were elite.

Fighting with them and successfully defeating them was undoubtedly a brilliant victory. Yannick, Rhodes, and Remo Mac all benefited a lot, and even for Fatis, it was a lot of experience.

After being promoted to a legend, Fatis's killing experience from killing ordinary soldiers was already negligible. Only by killing high-level soldiers or even extraordinary people of the same level can he see the experience bar moving:

[One of your elite heroes has broken through his own limit and promoted to a growth hero. 】

[Name: Remo Mac

Level: 14

Strength: 16

Agility: 9

Intelligence: 9

Charm: 7

Remaining attribute points: 1

Skills: Iron Bones 3, Power Attack 5, Weapon Mastery 3, Running 2, Shield Defense 2, Riding 2, Looting 2, Domination 1.

Remaining skill points: 1

Weapon proficiency: One-handed weapons 69, two-handed weapons 148, long pole weapons 42, bows and arrows 52, crossbows 22, throwing 31, Fiery Fighting Breathing 219.

Remaining weapon proficiency: 24

Hero characteristics:

Blood Drinker, for every group of enemies killed (including summoned creatures), the attack power of the hero and the troops led by the hero increases the hero level/6 points (rounded up). Dominate-2.

Crusher, the hero's direct attack damage +5 per level, and greatly increases attack priority level at the beginning of combat. 】

During the battle in the Centaur Forest, under the order of Yannick, the deputy commander of the Dark Knights, Remo Mac, led five groups of people to forcibly block the elite wolf cavalry soldiers led by Mokari. When Yannick returned to rescue, fifty The brothers of the Dark Knights were about to die together with their opponents. Most of them were killed or injured, and only a dozen of them were left standing in the end.

Remo Mack himself fought so bravely that his armor was shattered and his whole body was covered in red. If it weren't for the superb treatment methods of Lonely Mountain Castle, he might not have been able to be saved.

However, there is still the old saying: "Life and death are the precious keys to unlocking the secrets of martial arts!"

After this battle, Remo Mike successfully exceeded the limit of his potential and was promoted from an elite unit to a hero template. While his personal level dropped significantly, his attributes increased and his personal hidden characteristics were activated.

"These attributes and characteristics seem to be at least much more reliable than that guy Yannick."

Yannick

Hero Traits:

The Cursed Spirit Devours. Every time a Cursed Spirit Knight is killed in battle, the basic attributes and fighting spirit of the hero unit will increase.

Remo Mack

Hero Traits:

Blood drinkers, omitted.

Crusher, slightly.

"Although the blood drinker has the negative effect of reducing two points of command, it is really suitable for commanding a small number of elite troops. Although the hero characteristic of the crusher is a bit brave, it is very practical. In actual combat, it greatly improves the speed and power of the first move. In the battle of masters' fighting momentum, it can be said to be an extremely advantageous one, and can often suppress the opponent at once. "

Thinking like this, Rhodes added some of the attributes brought by Remo Mike's upgrade to the intelligence attribute, and then upgraded the command by two levels, so that the power of the "blood drinker" characteristic can be more fully utilized.

"When Yannick was first promoted to a hero, his intelligence attribute seemed to be only 8 points. This Remo Mike usually seemed outspoken and a bit reckless. Unexpectedly, his intelligence attribute was even higher than Yannick's. This is because he is talented and smart but Don’t like to use your brain very much?”

Rhodes thought about it for a while and was no longer too entangled in this.

Today's Gushan is no longer what it was five or six years ago. Acquiring a hero is certainly a good thing, but it is no longer likely to affect the overall development of Gushan Castle. Even if they break through, Rhodes will no longer be able to focus on the main force. The investment is transferred to them.

Because heroes like Fatis and Alleyne have been trained for a long time, and their growth in all aspects is satisfactory. At least in the near future, Rhodes has no intention of giving up on anyone or promoting anyone to replace them and retrain them.

For Yannick, Remo Mike chose to add points to improve the direction, and added points of the attributes obtained from his upgrade to the agility attribute. Then Rhodes began to exercise his skills and change his skills to nurse his injuries.

There are many ancient runes in this plane world, and these ancient runes themselves can trigger or even control the energy movement in this world.

The ten fingers of the human body are closely connected with various organs in the body. If you skillfully use the dexterous fingers to make various talisman postures and cooperate with meditation to harmonize with the various organs in the body, you can achieve extremely magical effects.

Furthermore, if it matches the energy of heaven, earth, and the universe, the power generated at that time will be incalculable, indescribable, and unimaginable.

In the world of the previous life, whether it was Taoism, Buddhism, or even Christianity or Orchidism, there were similar cultivation methods. However, that world was a low-demon world. Even if the talisman posture was accurate, combined with meditation, and the body and mind were in harmony, it would not work. It is difficult to obtain extraordinary power.

However, this world is different. Rhodes's hands transformed into "healing, first aid, surgery, and holy healing" symbols that faintly merged into his body and mind, and at the same time he imagined the sun shining in his mind.

During this process, Rhodes' whole body gradually condensed and shrouded in a white-gold light field, and his body was covered with layers of circuit-like light patterns. However, it was very strange that Rhodes was not like all the extraordinary people in this plane world. , begin to sense order, kindness, power or chaos, evil, destruction, and all neutral energy planes, and focus your spirit on the Dantian.

In fact, he has already had the confidence to form a domain and advance to the fifth level of legend. However, Rhodes has not dared to take this step because the path chosen is different from everyone else in this world. It is extremely powerful and extremely dangerous. , Rhodes had an inexplicable feeling, and it became clearer after he realized the power of "Prophet" in today's battle:

If you don't get promoted when the time is right, and if you are forced to get promoted based on the difficulty of the path you choose, you will definitely die. Your whole body will explode and die, and you will die without even a trace of scum left.

"What's the problem?"

Closing his eyes, Rhodes once again recalled in his mind all the knowledge about the transformation of mass and energy that he had learned in his previous life, and repeatedly deduced his own theory of practice.

In terms of common sense in today's world, the human body is almost negligible compared to the realm of heaven and earth. Therefore, in the evolutionary path of this world, after being promoted to the fourth-level extraordinary peak, one must use one's own fourth-level peak spirit and energy to form It has its own unique domain, and then senses and matches those energy planes, guides the energy of those energy planes, infuses, cleanses and strengthens itself.

Fatis, currently the only fifth-level legendary paladin in Gushan Castle, has followed such a path.

During the cultivation process, the whole person is enveloped by a faint white-gold light, and a brilliant hymn seems to be coming from the void. This is the result of resonance with the positive energy world. Because of the integration of body and mind, progress is extremely fast.

However, Rhodes, with thirty points of intelligence attributes and thirty points of strength attributes, has reached the pinnacle of mortals both mentally and physically. Coupled with his extraordinary cultivation, the power of the domain he formed was also extremely powerful.

Rhodes has long sensed the energy planes that exist in this plane world.

However, as a modern person, Rhodes also knew very clearly: as long as a tiny bit of matter is transformed and released, terrifying energy can explode.

In a sense, there is no "matter" in this world. In fact, the entire universe is formed by time, space, and energy.

So Einstein said: "Mass is energy!"

Therefore, the more he practiced, the more Rhodes believed that instead of looking to the outside world, it was better to look to himself. He built an extremely complex and extremely stable energy circulation system in his body, trying to ignite a ray of stability in his body. Controllable fire of mass-energy transformation.

This is the theoretical basis for the design of the fifth characteristic "Light Immortal Body". Once successfully completed, it will not only have nearly perfect characteristics of bright flames, but also be almost invincible to all laws and indestructible to all laws, even for thousands of eons. obliterate.

Of course, this is the theoretical assumption after the final success. Even Rhodes did not expect to complete it in one step. The original light immortal body only has extremely high attack and defense and extremely high recovery. Even if it is cut out of a The wound will heal completely the next moment after the blade passes by.

To achieve this, a huge amount of energy is required to make it possible, and as long as the fire of mass-energy conversion is completed, even a minimal conversion rate is acceptable as long as it is stable.

"Huh, no, the feeling of fear in my heart has never gone away. It seems that as long as I forcefully take this step, I will die immediately. After gaining the ability of 'prophet', this feeling has become clearer and stronger."

"But what's the problem? I've combined the ogre's anti-magic skin with the dragon's anti-magic skin textures to design the most energy-consuming operation mode. In addition, my mental and physical strength have already improved. He has been promoted to the pinnacle of mortals, and even slightly surpassed it. Even so, can't he ignite that ray of golden sun flame?"

The fire of mass-energy transformation/sun gold flame.

Of course, Rhodes would not be stupid enough to tell the core secret of his technique directly, so he recorded it in his notes as Sun Golden Flame: It is impossible to design this extraordinary technique without a lot of calculations, otherwise, Even with thirty points of intelligence attribute, it is impossible to remember it completely, exactly.

In a life-and-death battle, Rhodes gained the ability to activate the enchantment of the Archangel Sword "Prophet", which was also of great benefit to his practice. At least, Rhodes would not step out of that life-or-death situation until he was confident enough. of one step.

On the other hand, outside Lonely Mountain Castle, a few days later, the advance army of the Northern Orc Destruction Legion arrived at the city.

Then, they actually started preparing to attack the city.

This was beyond everyone's expectations. After all, the general had just been killed in the battle, and the morale of the army was declining. Then he would forcefully attack a strong city like Gushan Castle?

This kind of prediction error occurs because the senior knights and civil servants of Gushan Castle do not understand the culture of the northern orcs. Now they are in charge of the advance army orc adjutant. Even if it does not want to fight this battle, it has to fight. In this battle, the city may not be captured, but it must be attacked. Otherwise, it will be cowardly and incompetent, and the succeeding general may even kill it to sacrifice the flag.

If this was the Kingdom of Rayamond and Saint Laurent, which had been dealing with the orcs for a long time, no one would be surprised by this.

In comparison, Lonely Mountain Castle still had too little experience in fighting the northern orcs.

"The newly recruited soldiers and veterans will be mixed in half and half. Since they don't mind dying, we will use them for training."

On the city wall, Rhodes, who was wearing the heavy armor of the Wind King, was wearing purple silk clothes with gold patterns, holding a telescope to observe the orc advance army in the distance.

Then he put down the telescope and said this.

After the strong walls and clear fields, the populations of White Stone Fortress, City of Redemption, and Gushan Castle were brought together. Now the population of the entire Gushan Castle has reached more than 200,000.

The specific number of people cannot be counted due to the lack of low-level civil servants, but there is still no problem in general control. Gushan Castle has enough money and food, and the people have been war-torn. Of course, they don't know how many people the northern orcs are coming, or even how many people there are. The soldiers and low-level officers didn't know it, but they knew that since the establishment of the Gushan Castle, it had been stationed and developed between swords and fire.

The dragon slayer, Archduke Rod Hart, has never failed in the past, he has not failed now, and he will never fail in the future.

This is the confidence that countless people have formed after going through blood and fire together.

The enemy is approaching, and there are sufficient sources of troops. Of course, Gushan is expanding its army to prepare for war on a large scale. Basically, the heavy cavalry regiment, the fine cavalry regiment, the sacred heavy crossbowman legion, the priest legion, the giant shield heavy step, the long Archers, medium armor swordsmen, two hundred griffin legions, all legions have been expanded.

The total military strength has doubled, and if they want to continue to expand, they can do so with money and food. However, the knights in charge of training, such as Resarit, can't hold on any longer and are about to vomit blood from exhaustion.

In this world, a large number of low-level militiamen are really worthless, so Rhode temporarily decided to expand the army by 10,000. Now there are about 20,000 full-time regular soldiers in the Lonely Mountain Castle.

There is a huge gap in combat power between the new recruits and the old soldiers in these 20,000 full-time regular soldiers. There was originally no good way to deal with them. Now that the northern orcs' advance troops have come, they can just use them to train the new army. An army that has survived a hundred battles is of course terrifying in combat power, especially when discipline and morale have never been relaxed.