Noble Emblem

In this world, except for a few businessmen, mercenaries, or people with unwelcome reasons, few people travel far away at will.

Because there are too many unknowns on the road, including diseases, beasts, monsters, and even...robbers. Any kind of accident is fatal to ordinary people. Anyone like Beta who goes on the road alone is either a fool or a strong person.

Fools generally don't live long, it's rare. Therefore, most people who travel alone on the road have someone to rely on.

There are few people traveling far away, so even the official road seems very quiet, let alone the woods.

Heidi was wearing a purple dress. This was the first time Beta had seen her wearing such gorgeous clothes. Normally, she would wear a corset that was convenient for movement, or a lightweight soft leather armor.

Beta walked up to her and said with a smile: "The person who is about to become the wife of the city lord is really different now that she knows how to dress up."

Heidi picked up the hem of her skirt and slowly turned it in a circle, letting the fragrant breeze hit her face. Then she smiled and said, "Isn't it beautiful? I wore it for you."

Beta raised her eyebrows, a little confused.

"Thank you for killing...if it hadn't been like that, Nadette would never be able to untie her knot, and I would never be able to become the wife of the city lord." Heidi walked up to Beta, her bright eyes were full of gratitude, and there was also a kind of Passion that makes people's hearts beat faster: "I will always remember how good you are to me."

Heidi put her hands softly on Beta's chest: "So, this is a woman's most sincere gratitude. Don't refuse."

Heidi raised her head and put on her red lips.

After a long time, their lips parted. Heidi gently touched her forehead to Beta's shoulder and whispered, "I know you still don't like me, so that's why you don't touch me."

"No, you are beautiful."

"Lie." Heidi smiled softly, with a face full of teasing: "That paladin girl must be your lover."

"no."

"Lying again, I am also a woman. I can understand the way she looks at you at a glance." Heidi snuggled into Beta's arms and said: "You have a younger and more beautiful girl, of course you don't like it. I am an old and faded wild flower, but I will get tired of eating too much fish, meat, and delicacies every day. If one day you want to eat some desserts, or want to eat some unique flavors, you can change your taste. You must come to me secretly, I will wait for you in Echo City."

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Half an hour later, Beta was on the road again, a purple shadow looming in the woods.

Echo City is only about 600 kilometers away from the Holy Land of Light. In the eyes of ordinary people in this world, the distance of 600 kilometers is a very far distance, but in the eyes of professionals like Beta, who possesses the mansion skill, it is a comfortable journey. At night, use magic to build a small stone stable for the pack horse to prevent it from being picked up by wild beasts in the middle of the night, while you

Packhorses are very suitable for carrying people on long journeys. They are not picky about food, have good tempers, are resistant to disease, and have sufficient physical strength. Although war horses are powerful and fast, they are too expensive. Not only do they need to be well fed, but they also need to be taken care of carefully. Unlike pack horses, when you arrive at your destination, you can eat hay with gusto and even look for it nearby. Grass-eating, most green grass can be eaten, which is very worry-free.

For the cost of raising one war horse, you can raise about seven draft horses.

Therefore, when traveling long distances, pack horses are generally used.

In addition, pack horses can occasionally be used as war horses. Although they are indeed not as fast as real war horses, they are still horses after all, and their running speed is faster than that of humans. Over in Urganda, even Camels can form cavalry, not to mention faster packhorses.

However, on the battlefield, real war horses are still the mainstream. After all, war horses are taller, which is a great advantage on the frontal battlefield.

Both war horses and pack horses can be contracted to become familiars, and familiar horses are also the first choice of many mages. After all, in the early and middle stages of the game, except for wind magicians, no other players have the means to quickly transfer, and the map of the entire game is huge. Exaggeration, therefore, riding horses became the most common means of long-distance travel.

Spellcasters contracted horses into magic pets one after another, and thus, in the early stages of the game, the famous battle between big horses and small horses began.

The big horse refers to the military horse, and the small horse refers to the draft horse.

In the early stage of the game, Malaysia's magic pet is relatively strong. Not only does the war horse's explosive power and speed have been greatly improved, but its endurance has also been slightly improved, and its combat effectiveness is not weak, which is of great help to mages.

As for the packhorse familiars, their explosive power and speed have naturally increased slightly. They continue to greatly strengthen their strengths, with better resistance to disease and poison, extremely high physical strength, and... a wider range of recipes, and even Eat some cooked meat.

By the middle of the game, the spellcasters who had contracted military horses found that the cost of raising military horses after three or four years was an exaggerated figure. The casters who contracted with the packhorse rarely spent money to buy horse feed. The packhorse demon pet could eat just some bark and leaves, and the packhorse demon pet was better adapted to the climate, whether it was a hot desert or a You can come and go freely in the cold snow. In contrast, the military horse demon pet is more likely to get sick in these two places.

In the middle of the game, the battle between big horses and ponies came to an end, and the packhorse familiar won.

But there are still many magicians who choose contracted military horses. After all, the exaggerated running speed... sometimes is a kind of belief.

To put it more simply, the difference between big horses and small horses is the difference between supercars and off-road vehicles.

As Beta walked, he missed his years in the game... Although he did not have a contracted horse as a familiar, this did not prevent him from joining the debate. He supported the packhorse familiar, but now that he thinks about it, If he had to choose between the two, he would most likely choose the military horse familiar.

The reason is simple... He didn't have much money in the game back then, and he didn't have much money in reality either.

But it's different now. He is very rich. It's easy to raise a military horse magic pet. The most important thing is that the military horse magic pet is handsome. It is a tall horse and handsome. The pack horse is much shorter and has mixed coat color.

As for the packhorse being able to run around... Now that Beta can teleport magic and knows the 'human cannon', the packhorse's magic pet is not very useful to him.

Of course, this is a situation where he has to choose one of the two. In fact, horse-type familiars, no matter what kind, have no meaning to Beta.

What didn't mean anything to him was very meaningful to other people. When he arrived at his scheduled destination in the evening, he was inadvertently involved in a small disturbance.

Riding a packhorse, he was about to enter the city when he saw two groups of people confronting each other on the wasteland outside the city.

One group was cavalry riding tall horses, which were obviously high-quality war horses, and the other group was cavalry riding shorter pack horses.

The number of high-quality war horse cavalry is slightly smaller, only about forty, but the number of packhorse cavalry is much larger, at least a hundred or more.

The atmosphere between the two groups of cavalry was obviously not friendly. Beta also discovered that the coats of arms on the chests of the two groups were the same. In other words, in fact, the two groups were from the same force, and he didn't know For some reason, there was a quarrel.

From a distance, many people were watching.

Beta took a second look and then entered the city. He thought this incident was just a minor incident, but he did not expect that when he rested in the hotel until midnight, he found that the street was very noisy. He woke up and walked to the window. When I first looked, I saw soldiers knocking on the doors of every house and even a hotel.

Beta still thought that this matter had nothing to do with him, and when he was about to go back to sleep, he didn't expect that his door was also knocked by someone, and the sound was very urgent.

He was a little unhappy, so he opened the door and found the hotel manager leading a soldier-looking man standing in front of the door.

The soldier originally had an evil look on his face, but when he saw Beta's dress and appearance, he immediately gave in. He said somewhat flatteringly: "Your Excellency, the third young master of our city lord, wants to commandeer your pack horse."

Beta frowned and said, "No."

"Our Third Young Master will give you money." The soldier said with a grimace, "The Third Young Master said, thirteen silver coins a piece."

This price is indeed quite fair, and the price of a pack horse is roughly the same.

But Beta will still have to rely on pack horses to travel tomorrow. Although the magic combination of 'Human Cannon' is much faster, the problem is that this place is close to the Holy Land, and there are priests from the Temple of Light everywhere nearby, and there are also many strong ones. Shao, Beta was originally an imposter. If this exaggerated magical effect caused unnecessary investigation by the Temple of Light, it would be more than worth the loss.

Beta continued to shake his head: "I won't sell it."

Then the door was closed.

The soldiers outside looked unhappy, but when they thought of Beta's somewhat luxurious clothes, they resisted and turned around to leave.

Two hours later, in the manor adjacent to the city lord's palace, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper panted and said to a young man: "Third Young Master, all the prime-age packhorses in the city have been collected, and there are still a few shortcomings." head."

The third young master looks handsome, with brown hair and brown eyes. He pondered for a moment and said, "Just a few heads, it's not a big deal."

At this time, an officer next to him said: "Third Young Master, in fact, you are not bad at all. Some people know that you have issued the assembly order, but they just disobey. In fact, there are still many pack horses in the city."

"Didn't you tell them that I issued the recruitment order with a military order?" The third young master was extremely dissatisfied.

The officer said: "I told you, but they didn't listen. They seemed unwilling to give you face."

"That's it!" The third young master touched his beardless chin, thought for a while, and said, "If you don't give me face, don't give me face. It doesn't matter. Anyway, a few horses are not too much, and a few horses are less."

The officer was a little surprised: "Third Young Master, the problem is that after this incident, other people will laugh at you, and more and more people will not give you face and are unwilling to obey your orders."

The third young master laughed: "Will others laugh at me for such a small thing? It's not a real wartime mobilization. If it is a real wartime mobilization, if they don't sell pack horses to me, I can make trouble for them. Now we are not in wartime. When the collection order is issued, other people are already laughing. If more people are offended because of this, won't other people laugh even harder? "

The officer sighed slightly and stopped persuading. He left and told his men to find a way to get a pack horse for the third young master.

As soon as the soldiers gathered together, they used some small tricks to bring back as many pack horses as possible. Then they heard that there was a leader in a certain hotel, and several people came over with weapons. They did not threaten Beta directly, but threatened the owner of the hotel. Then while Beta was sleeping, a few people came to the stables not far behind the hotel and took the pack horse away.

Because the horseman was a little far away from the hotel where Beta was sleeping, and others entered the mansion's magic space, they didn't know that their packhorse had been stolen.

The next day, he had breakfast and was about to continue walking. When he came to the stable, he found that the pack horse was missing.

The hotel owner, who was sweating profusely, recounted what happened last night. In desperation, Beta asked: "Why does the third young master of the city lord's family recruit so many pack horses?"

"It's not about today's duel." The hotel owner said: "The eldest young master and the third young master have been at odds for a long time. They make an appointment to fight once a year to decide the winner."

"What does dueling have to do with packhorses?"

"The eldest young master likes a cavalry regiment composed entirely of war horses, but the third young master said that the number of cavalry regiments is more important, so he feels that the cavalry regiment should focus on quantity and use very cheap pack horses to form a cavalry army." The hotel owner smiled and said: "The city lord I think what they said is quite reasonable, so let them duel once a year, and the one who wins ten games in total can inherit the position of city lord."

It sounded interesting, and he didn't care that his packhorse was robbed. Beta asked: "Where are they dueling?"

"The wasteland in the north of the city."

Beta returned to the room and summoned Jeanne.

As soon as Joan of Arc came out, she subconsciously covered her chest with her wings, glanced at Beta warily, and then flew into the sky.

With Joan of Arc's vision, Beta quickly found the two cavalrymen in the north of the city. The duel had not yet begun.

From Joan's field of view, the distance between the two sides was about one kilometer. On one side were a small number of elite cavalry with shiny armor and tall horses, and on the other side were ordinary cavalry wearing leather armor and riding shorter pack horses.

But the number of packhorse cavalry regiments was at least three times that of the elite cavalry regiments.

Farther away, there was a high platform with several noble-looking people sitting on it, and there were maids serving them.

Before long, the duel began.

The two sides charged almost at the same time, but during the charge, the packhorse cavalry regiment suddenly divided into three queues. The two queues on the left and right dispersed, and the middle team directly collided with the elite cavalry regiment.

Seeing this scene, Beta immediately knew that the Pack Horse Cavalry Regiment had won.

Sure enough... Although the elite cavalry regiment directly penetrated the middle cavalry group, they were also surrounded by the other two packhorse cavalry groups. The distance between the two sides was very close. The elite cavalry regiment did not dare to stop. Once they stopped, , you will be impacted by the other party.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the stopped cavalry is worse than that of the infantry.

Next, the elite cavalry regiment wanted to get rid of the other party's pursuit, but the problem was that although their horses were brave, the cavalry and horses were covered with armor and could not run very fast at all. The soldiers of the packhorse cavalry regiment were wearing all the armor on them. It is leather armor, so the speed is not comparable.

The chase lasted for about three hours. The elite cavalry regiment kept circling, but they were unable to get rid of the two pack horse cavalry teams behind them. Then the problem of lack of endurance of the army horses came out, and they were overtaken by two pack horse cavalry teams, directly behind them. Attacked and sentenced to defeat.