Volume 4 Chapter 42 - Luxurious Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards (1/2)

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a production base at the Frestech Farm, while at the same time, to the north of a farm, in a place that was twenty miles away from the Black Rice Wasteland border, they had opened a stretch of land to create barracks for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards.

The place that Xu Yi and Seveni was talking was at this base.

When the two came out, there were two neat groups that were gathered on the drilling grounds. The ones on the left were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards and the ones on the right were Seveni’s five hundred private guards.

Based on this, the idea that Anklo always felt emotional about and Xu Yi deeply understood that “the Stantine Duchy wasn’t a real country” was very accurate.

Otherwise, how could a princess of the Lampuri Kingdom like Seveni bring five hundred private guards into a country under another’s sovereign, that would be impossible.

But for here, Xu Yi just told Count Wein about this before Seveni easily brought her private guards into the Stantine Duchy.

The people on the drilling grounds were in two lines, with a clear difference between them.

Seveni’s five hundred personal guards were all the same. They were wearing the same symbol of the Lampuri Kingdom’s royal family and the most important thing, they were all humans. Standing in a line, it looked very uniform and it was a complete square formation from as far as the eye could see.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards were a bit chaotic.

The most obvious thing was that it was quite a mix when it came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards.

There were also five hundred people, but only a hundred of them were humans. Of the other four hundred, there were a hundred and fifty elves, two hundred dwarves, and the remaining fifty were beastmen guards who had just been recruited not long ago.

Moreover, because each race had a different custom, these guards were all wearing different equipment.

The elves were used to wearing soft armour, the dwarves preferred armour that was as heavy as possible, the beastmen didn’t like putting on armour at all. If Xu Yi didn’t force them to wear the Magic Barrier Armour, they wouldn’t fear going into battle just wearing cotton clothing.

Those hundred humans were all wearing the same armour, which had the Magic Barrier ability, but their weapons were strange. There were all kinds of weapons.

Xu Yi had asked the human guard leader Hart about this before, feeling that these random weapons might affect their battle strength, but Hart confirmed that it wasn’t an issue.

Having the same equipment was necessary for a large army, but there was no need for a small group of guards.

If they really wanted to discuss battle strength, for a mixed group of guards like this, because there were elves, dwarves, and beastmen warriors with powerful battle strength, they were far stronger than human warriors of the same scale.

Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had all kinds of military magic machines. The battle strength of just a single guard was not something a normal human warrior could match.

Seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards’ equipment, Seveni couldn’t help sighing in her heart.

“Xu Yi, when you said that they wanted to change the equipment of my five thousand guards, were you planning to equip them like this?”

“Un…..Probably not this far because we hadn’t developed much of this equipment yet. For example, the miniature Magic Repeating Crossbow and the Magic Rupturing Arrows, they were developed not long ago.” Xu Yi replied.

“Miniature Magic Repeating Crossbows and Magic Rupturing Arrows?” Seveni looked over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards, but she couldn’t find these equipment anywhere.

“Only the human guards are equipped with this, they are all hiding it and won’t take them out easily.” Xu Yi explained with a smile, “Other than the human guards, the guards of the other races disdain small things and it doesn’t suit them, so they didn’t equip it.”

“It’s like this……” Seveni nodded and paused before asking, “If my guards were equipped with the same equipment, how much would it cost?”

Xu Yi looked at her and laughed, “This…..If they each had their individual military magic machines, it would cost three hundred gold coins each right now. How about it? Your highness, are you interested?”

“Three hundred gold coins?!” Seveni’s eyes opened wide, “This expensive! Your company’s guards already surpass one thousand people, right? If each guard gets one set, isn’t that over three hundred thousand gold coins? This…..This is close to our Lampuri Kingdom’s royal army’s yearly budget!”