452 Night Raid Part 2 (2/2)

Among the troop, only Wild Bear was riding on a magic beast. His batter hammer was about a hundred pounds, which was a big burden to a warhorse. A normal warhorse could carry a four-hundred pound load. It could be a considered as a kind of magic beast, its bloodline had a strong power. If it was an inferior horse, it could never bear the cavalry's power.

Wild Bear's singled edge cut horse sword itself was about five-hundred pounds and he was about three-hundred pounds. This was under the circumstance of him not wearing armor. If Wild Bear were to be fully armed, he could possibly weigh a thousand pounds. Even if it was a skeleton warhorse, carrying him would be tough too.

”Wild Bear, wait until we return to Metatrin City, I will figure out a way for you. I have no death mage with me now.”

Wild Bear could only sigh. He had not been to Metatrin City for long, but he knew Daniel. He saw Daniel riding on a grade-8 death creature and he was envious of him.

He did not know that a grade-8 death creature would not let him ride on it. If he dared to touch the pikoosi, the pikoosi would burn his soul.

Not everyone could sign a contract with a spirit of the dead. Wild Bear's mental strength was strong, but he did not have finesse at all when using it. He was definitely not a match for a high level spirit of the dead.

Saleen was not tired, so he sat at the entrance of the campsite and chatted with Wild Bear. Lex did not appoint anyone as sentry. It was quiet in the wild, as thought there were only two of them. Under the starlight, the earth seemed a little pale.

Saleen finally understood what took Lex so long when she returned. She moved all her resources, bought large amounts of food, and expanded her army. Bitter Water Prefecture incorporated twelve cities in its surrounding and expanded its domain by dozens fold. Relying on her twenty thousand swordsmen, Lex brought the nobles around under control very quickly and incorporated their soldiers.

Now that Bitter Water Prefecture had increase the size of her swordsmen's camp to six, the one camp that she brought along was the oldest one. They were all swordsmen that had been following her for many years.

Before the Great Chanake died, he already confirmed the scale of Bitter Water Prefecture. Although Lex used military force, it was permitted by law. What made Safilos pissed was, the Great Chanake allowed Lex to expand her army to ten swordsman camps and join the war in Kroraina.

There was a secret pathway from Bitter Water Prefecture to Kroraina, they were all mountain roads. A big army would not be able to pass through the small road, but Lex could send a troop of two-hundred people to penetrate and train her troops repetitively.

Winning over the nearby nobles, the people under Lex's management were more than a few million. The scale of a prefecture was taking shape. She expropriated the manors of the nobles that she won against and redistributed them accompanied with new titles of nobility.

The millions of people definitely could not feed an army of ten thousand people. Then, the nation would collapse. Luckily the newly formed four swordsmen's camps would not be considered elite and their expenses would be much less. Lex moved one of the elite swordsmen's camps to Metatrin city, to share the burden.

Saleen had to fork out money to support them too.

”If so, Lex had no money?”

”It's not like she had no money. I heard it's called malfunction of capital turnover. The county king could still sell off her asset for money.”

”Oh I see.” Saleen finally understood Lex was in a predicament. The expandsion of her army was so fast. No matter how little she invest in it, it would be a very big pressure. Every month's pay and provisions were at least one gold coin for each soldier, that was not inclusive of investments in equipment. Now that Lex had six swordsmen's camps, every month's pay and provisions for the army would exceed ten-thousand gold coins, the officers' pay was higher after all.

Lex plundered a batch of weapons and armor in Wolf Fang Town. It helped with the problem of lacking of equipment, but the soldiers had to eat. Their pay and daily consumption of food was not something replaceable by other items.

No wonder Lex wanted to produce alcohol. Regardless of the type of alcohol, once there was business, they had to pay heavy taxes.

”Here they come!” Wild Bear pointed at the end of the horizon. Even if he did not speak, Saleen could hear the uncovered clatter of horses' hoofs.

”Heavy cavalry? The robber was linked up with nobles as expected.”

”Humph!”

Saleen snorted and looked upon the sky. There was a black dot floating in the air, that was the flying puppet. It was flying too high up and he had not noticed it. Such height was the limit of a flying puppet. If the weather was slightly worse, the flying puppet would be destroyed.

It was a pity that he did not have a crossbow, Saleen's magic would not be able to reach a thousand meters.

At first, Saleen thought there would be people that seized the night to launch a surprise attack. He never thought that the other party wanted to meet force with force. It seemed that the robbers were very confident in their ability!

They were really a bunch of silly people. Facing eight grand mages, they deployed a heavy cavalry for attack. What was the difference between that and asking for death?

Heavy cavalry was an occupation that burns money. Lex only had two regiments of heavy cavalry.

Wild Bear stood up and shouted behind his back, ”Wake up and fight! Those bastards are coming!”