Riding and slashing the stars of empire civilization

After calculating the daily consumption of more than 30 armored cavalry and 60 followers, including men and horses.

As Mirin's finance minister, Ella decisively postponed the suggestion of summoning more soldiers.

Even if the minimum consumption is maintained, Milin will be in trouble in half a month at most.

"Oh, it would be great if those retinues could become soldiers." Ella said with a resentful tone:

The reason why Ella is so resentful is that, according to Milin, the attack power of those summoned followers is zero on the system panel.

Once the attack power is zero, these retinues wear armor that is as good as armored swordsmen, have better physical strength than normal adults, and their pain tolerance has reached the limit.

Then you can't fight as a real soldier.

Even if they are framed and ordered to attack a certain target, these followers will only get as close to the target as possible, instead of picking up weapons or simply attacking the opponent with fists as big as sandbags.

...Looking at it this way, it can be used to absorb damage and act as a medieval version of the doctor sister.

But no matter how cheap it is, letting these five hundred dinars worth of followers go to the battlefield to absorb damage is just a crazy idea.

Although unable to fight, these retinues can complete other tasks properly after being assigned to the armored cavalry.

Tasks such as taking care of horses, maintaining weapons and armor, cleaning, and cooking can all be done well.

Even for some relatively complex tasks, such as delivering messages or purchasing supplies, as long as the task is clearly explained to the armored cavalry following these retinues, they can complete it properly.

"Actually, it's not impossible to give these followers the ability to fight." Milin, who knew what Ella was struggling with, said.

"What can I do?" Ella asked immediately.

Even if these retinues are not reserve knights like the knight retinues in real history, they are still a considerable force as long as they can pick up weapons.

"Upgrade" Milin replied to Ella.

"Um...do I need to spend money?" Ella, who dealt with expenses every day and had very little income, had a stiff expression.

"It doesn't cost much... To be precise, it's not a big expense." Milin said to Ella.

"What's the big head?" Ella asked curiously.

"...Combat experience." Milin looked at the instructions for using these retinues in Goldfinger and said with a strange expression.

"Huh? The question is, how can you get combat experience without combat ability?" Aila, who understood what Milin was talking about, had the same strange expression on her face.

For a moment, a conversation scene appeared in both of their minds.

"I want to upgrade!"

"You need combat experience to upgrade!"

"I need to level up before I can fight!"

"You must have combat experience if you want to level up!"

"But I have to level up before I can fight!"

Before the roaring style in her mind completely dissipated, Ella asked Milin in a subtle tone:

"Admiral, have you done any user research on your golden finger?"

"Probably not." Milin spread his hands and said.

"Can I complain?" Ella asked speechlessly.

"Then we have to ascend first." Milin said.

"Well, high-dimensional creatures really don't need to care about complaints." Ella, who knew what Milin meant but didn't know if Milin was joking, said.

"Actually, it's not that contradictory." Milin said to Ella: "After all, he is a follower."

"They are retinues after all?" After repeating what Milin said, Aila came back to her senses and said, "Admiral, do you mean that these retinues can share the experience of armored cavalry?"

"That's what the instruction manual that comes with the summoning says so," Milin said.

"...e" Ella was silent for about half a minute, and then asked a series of questions:

"What kind of battles can gain experience? How efficient is the experience? Can the armored cavalry that has been summoned continue to be upgraded?"

"Wait a minute, I'll just show you the instructions." Milin said, raising his hand and snapping his fingers, and the bright stars that had appeared appeared next to Milin and Ella.

Ella was shocked when she saw this scene for the first time. After all, not just anyone could be pulled into the stars like Gray Wind and still remain calm.

Seriously speaking, Alori is calmer than Gray Wind, because as a dragonborn, Alori can also summon a similar starry sky.

Although the starry sky belonging to Alori is much smaller than the one on Milin's side, compared with most of the stars on Milin's side which are dim, the stars on Alori's side are all lit up.

After recovering from the surprise, Ella asked Milin curiously:

"Admiral, what is this?"

"My golden finger." Milin replied.

"All of them?" Ella was surprised again.

There are so many golden fingers. The high-dimensional creatures who made these golden fingers are really generous.

More importantly, can so many golden fingers really be used?

"Well, they are all, for example, this one belongs to you." Milin raised his hand and picked up a shining star from among the stars and threw it into Ella's hand.

The shining star turned into a personnel file after falling into Ella's hands, instead of directly turning into a tablet like when it was handed to Gray Wind, or a stone slab like when it was handed to Alori.

After taking a look at her bare ID photo on the file, Ella twitched her lips and returned the file to Milin.

As we all know, it is difficult to take good-looking ID photos, especially since Ella’s ID photo is stamped with the stamp “Rarity☆☆☆”... which is still hollow.

Milin, who knew why Ella reacted like this, smiled, threw the file that turned back into a star when it was in his hand and threw it back among the stars, then picked out two more and handed them to Ella.

One is the information of the armored cavalry, and the other is the information of the knight's retinue.

After temporarily forgetting the rarity steel seal, Ella took the information turned into a scroll and read it quickly:

"As long as you follow the expedition, you will have 10% experience sharing. If you upgrade to a guard knight, you can participate in the battle. Armored cavalry cannot be upgraded through combat. You must upgrade your capabilities by building a blacksmith shop and stables, and build a castle for elite upgrades."

"Uh..." Ella blinked after reading the information.

"What's wrong?" Milin asked.

"Admiral, are you playing Age of Empires?" Ella looked at the information and thought of a game.

"You've actually played it?" In fact, what Yonebayashi wants to complain about is that there is also a game called Age of Empires in the Kanmu world?

"I'm just wondering why, Admiral, you refer to the armored holy cavalry as armored cavalry. It turns out that's why." Ella said speechlessly.

By the way, Ella also understood why Milin had the mentality of treating everything as a game. If Ella had this golden finger that was no different from the game system, she would have almost the same mentality.

"Well, armored cavalry is indeed a term used in the imperial era, but the upgrade in the first half of the period is not armored cavalry." Milin said.

"It should also be the setting of a game, but I haven't played it." Ella said that she had not played many games, and after the invasion of the deep sea, the entertainment industry in the ship girl world almost came to a halt.

"...By the way, what year was the Deep Sea Ship Girl invasion?" Milin suddenly asked, seeing Aila looking like she didn't play many games.

"It's a millennium! Admiral, how did you graduate from the Naval Academy?" Ella once again questioned whether Milin became the admiral by falsifying his academic qualifications.

"Oh, that's it..." Milin said words that made Ella confused.

Age of Empires 2 is a game from 1999, just before the millennium, and it should be considered the last game Ella played.