Chapter 403 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Sui Xiong had been more than satisfied to recruit such a powerful evil god as Leonard. But then he found that there was more good news.

As an evil god, Leonard was not a general without an army. Instead, he also had some subordinates.

These subordinates were mainly rangers. They weren’t good at riding and shooting arrows nor did they wear light armor or use short weapons—they were vagrant heroes. Most of these subordinates could read and write, and the rangers had higher education and more social experience. They were capable of completing official work.

Although most young rangers were not interested in settling down, they would eventually grow old. Older rangers were happy to have a stable job and to use their wisdom to do something beneficial later on.

These rangers had been a part of society for many years. They used to deal with trouble by themselves and gathered a lot of experience. Even the older rangers who didn’t have enough energy to deal with government affairs could be teachers at a school. They could pass on their own experience like passing a flame from generation to generation.

Both those rangers and Leonard were satisfied with that.

Leonard had been less active these years mainly due to the gradual increase of his older subordinates. He always worried about them. Most of them worshipped the hero, Paul in their youth and then followed in his footsteps to be heroes and maintain social justice. No matter what, he could not ignore these people. So he was very happy to find them a good place to settle down in.

So was Sui Xiong.

These rangers were excellent, but Leonard could do much better.

This relatively young, perhaps even the youngest, evil god of his time had remarkable abilities. He was good at civil affairs but even better at military affairs.

In the entire Republic, he was the only one that had commanded an army, fought in a battle, and finally won among all the subordinates of Sui Xiong.

In the past, this “rebuilt brave lion” Leonard was one of the marshals in the Southern War Zone of the Orc Empire. Although he preferred defense to attack, he had been in charge of tens of thousands of soldiers to fight with the Eagle Kingdom on many occasions. Neither of them had been the winner, but Leonard never really suffered any losses.

His military talent was even higher than that of Leon, who had almost been the King of the Eagle Kingdom.

To Sui Xiong, it meant that finally, there was a really talented high military official in his camp. So he arranged for Leonard to be a drillmaster.

Hearing his arrangement, Leonard was quiet for a while and asked, “Are you asking me to give lectures to those soldiers? To teach them military discipline, tactics, and strategies? How many soldiers there?”

Sui Xiong estimated and answered, “About… three to four hundred.”

“Such a small number.” Leonard was surprised. “I can’t teach those who lead less than one hundred soldiers. I’m not good at small-scale fighting.”

“Weren’t you a ranger for a period of time?”

“At that time, I was a lone ranger.” Leonard shook his head. “I have experience in both commanding an army and fighting alone, but I have never led a team of thirty or fifty soldiers.”

“You have never commanded a team of that size?”

“Never. When I was young, I joined the army and kept fighting. My military rank was high just because I had been brave enough to fight. It wasn’t until entering the Legendary Realm that I really took the lead and directly took over half of the southern theater,” Leonard laughed and said. “There were at least ten thousand soldiers under me.”

Sui Xiong was in silence for a moment and then sighed deeply.

The Republic of Northwest was still too small!

But his disappointment didn’t last long. He soon cheered up again.

“Don’t worry. Your experience will be useful one day,” he said. “The Ashes Woods is large enough. As long as we purify all the negative energy, there will be enough space to build a large country.”

Leonard was surprised at his answer. He asked, “Do you know how to purify the entire Ashes Woods?”

“The head of my mage group has been studying this.” Sui Xiong laughed. “It works quite well.”