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Chapter 560 Storybook (Happy New Year)

"May Heavenly Father bless you, Sir."

Richard looked at Lothar, who passed by him, and the army that he thought was extraordinary earlier. After seeing them in actual combat today, he felt that this was an elite army that was rare in the world - this guy had just come to the Holy Land. how long?

Even with the support of many witches, it would be unbelievable for Li to train such an elite force from scratch.

The Captain of the Earl Guard, who was following him closely, frowned and said, "Even during the march, Lothar's army was still in good order. The commander gave the order and even ignored the confiscated trophies. No wonder the lords in the east were He calls Lothar a military training wizard. Your Majesty, it would be great if you could get their training manual."

Richard nodded in agreement: "Indeed, you are interested in this matter. Please inquire about it privately after you go back."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the little witch beside him: "Martha, you also saw the battle just now. How is the quality of the spellcaster beside Lord Lothar?"

Martha's delicate little face was full of seriousness, and she earnestly advised: "Your Majesty, I advise you not to make enemies of these lords. At least, don't do this before Her Majesty the Queen arrives."

Interlaced like mountains.

Although Richard has mastered extraordinary powers, he is not a real spellcaster like Martha.

A body's strength is achieved by innate divine power, martial arts, magic potions, and precious phantoms.

Richard sighed: "Of course I know this, otherwise I wouldn't give in."

Richard smiled bitterly: "Yes, but although the inner guards are strong, their number is too small. They can only be used as blades in battle, but they cannot directly crush the enemy like a torrent like the cavalry of Marquis Lothar."

Moreover, she didn't really think that a witch who cast necromancy was so sinful.

The fighting ability at the extraordinary level may not be weak, and it may even be able to kill many spellcasters with advanced spell attainments, but its eyesight is far behind. A powerful spellcaster can not only cast devastating spells, but is often a master in medicine, astronomy, astrology, alchemy and other aspects.

With this calculation, Marquis Lothar has almost an entire school of witches joining him.

The strength of this Saracen army is actually not weak. At least the combat effectiveness of the hundreds of Mamluks in armor is definitely comparable to the knights from Europe. In terms of all-around, it is even inferior.

Western European monarchs were still far inferior to their Eastern counterparts in terms of financial resources.

How esteemed was Richard, the king of Albion and the monarch of half of Gaul? After coming to the East, he had to make concessions one after another to a small German country lord?

"It would be great if I could have such an army. With this kind of army, I would dare to lead the Crusaders directly from Alexandria to Damascus."

He couldn't help but think in his heart: It would be terrible if this soldier was really trained by Lothar and not by drinking medicine.

Although Richard's internal guards are not only limited to these dozens of people, which is the limitation of the teleportation array, but the total number is less than 200 people.

In addition, Marquis Narosa has at least one witch named Jeanne who can use the holy spear, known as "Seraph of the Arrival", and a powerful assassin who can easily kill spellcasters stronger than her.

Richard was a little jealous.

But in front of Lothar's army, he was as defenseless as a young child.

Even if you look at the entire European continent, this is a first-class army. Moreover, for such an army, Lothar has as many as a thousand people under his command!

"I heard that Anna of Constantinople concocted a thousand-man army that drank magic potion for her empress. On the battlefield of Sicily, they attacked the city and were invincible. They killed the Hauteville family. The Duke was defeated. If the Hauteville family hadn't invited a powerful spellcaster, Sicily would have been retaken by the Greeks."

She very much suspected that the army of dead people that appeared later had something to do with the cold-faced beauty next to Lothar. However, she had no evidence. If she were to point it out rashly, she would be worried about another conflict between Richard and Lothar.

Fuller whispered: "His Majesty's internal guards are not inferior to them in the slightest. If all the internal guards are present, and the mounts are replaced by horses that have drank the magic potion with them and have the same mind, they will be able to easily crush the enemy in this battle, even if they are Those dead horsemen.”

If you really want to count, which spellcaster has not done anything blasphemous?

The anatomy course taught by Her Majesty the Queen alone is guilty of desecrating the dead.

What's more, many of the ingredients for preparing potions are expensive spices brought from the East, such as frankincense and myrrh, which are used in many magic secrets and rituals.

Although Western Europe also has many materials that are difficult to find in the East, they are also difficult to find. These Western European specialties such as "oak solids", "ghost brains" and "bad ghost tongues" are difficult to sell at high prices. On the other hand, they are It can be sold at a high price, and when competing with Eastern monarchs for financial resources, European monarchs have no chance of winning.

Fuller couldn't help but sigh: "In just a few years, the world seems to have changed. Is it possible that in future wars, both sides will have to form military formations and let the spellcasters go to the formation to fight. Which caster is more powerful, and which caster is more powerful?" Even if Fang wins? The majority of mages are still women. By then, will knights be useless, and the lords will have to entrust their territories to witches one by one? Will the inheritance law also have to be changed, to the eldest daughter inheritance system? " Martha frowned and said: "If you are a normal spell caster, who would be willing to fall into the army and help others fight if you are not forced to do so? It would be okay if the wizards invited by Her Majesty the Queen help prepare potions and study classics. If so, Let them go to the battlefield, fearing that they will turn around and run away. Moreover, Count Fuller, a spell caster is not a cabbage, and you cannot just find a peasant woman to be a caster."

The wizard cherishes his life. If he is not deeply bound or thinks too highly of himself, how can he easily fight for the secular monarch?

Richard then thought about it and sneered: "But Count Fuller is right, the world has indeed changed - the emperor from the Hohenstaufen family built the first wizard tower in Aachen It changed from the beginning.”

Richard understands these spellcasters very well. Although most of them live in isolation, it is definitely not out of their true intentions, but just to cherish their lives.

How can anyone want to live like a savage when they can hide in a splendid palace, have people taking care of them in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and have people provide them with whatever magic materials they want? Spell casters are also human beings, and they cannot escape from their human nature!

The power and wealth held by secular monarchs are definitely not something that spellcasters can ignore.

Moreover, no matter how powerful a spellcaster is, sometimes, just an arrow made of magic-blocking gold can kill them.

From Richard's point of view, although spell casters are powerful, they are by no means invincible, let alone replace the knight class.

Richard became serious and told Fuller: "In short, we have to take a warning from this battle. These Saracens have been bullied by Lothar for so long with his extraordinary power. They should have a long memory, but I I didn't take this into consideration, which was my negligence. Today, it is fitting that Narosa suppressed me."

Richard thought that he had indeed underestimated the Saracen lords before.

After all, the image of the Saracens as not good at fighting was actually deep-rooted in the eyes of the Franks. They usually outperformed the Crusaders, mostly because they had superior numbers or took advantage of the geographical convenience. Think about the fact that the Crusaders came from afar and were exhausted. It was difficult to supply, but they could often defeat the Saracens, which is evident from this.

In addition, the spell casters in the East are indeed not well-known. On a transcendent level, the Levant Wizards Association barely caught his attention, but he never thought that today he is just an unknown little Saracen lord, and his subordinates are not only There is an elite cavalry, and a not weak spellcaster to help.

Based on this calculation, wouldn't Saladin have to have a few legendary spellcasters under his command?

Fuller suddenly said: "Your Majesty, what do you think of our soldiers?"

Looking up, the unruly Crusaders who couldn't wait to capture the enemy city and plunder the enemy's city saw Lothar snatching away the fat that was about to reach their mouths. However, their morale was not low. On the contrary, because Lothar The army gave up a large amount of loot and was very excited that it was all theirs.

"The Saracens are rich. I stripped a complete set of armor from a dead man. I only need to find an armorer to modify it and then I can keep it for my own use."

"Marquis Lothar's cavalry is really powerful. Is it possible that all those legends are true?"

"It looks like it's probably the case!"

"Today, we have fought against the army of the dead. I even chopped off the head of a skeleton with my own hands. Based on this, can I be considered a demon hunter?"

"Yes, that's right, we killed many armies of the dead, and I even inserted a cross into the eye socket of a zombie demon, just like a demon hunter like Van Helsing!"

The soldiers were talking excitedly. The pack animals in their hands were loaded with trophies, but there was very little damage. In fact, it was a great harvest. That is to say, Richard was too ambitious to see the gains from the trophies. .

In fact, he didn’t lose at all!

"Witcher?"

Richard was a little confused. He had heard of demon hunters, but they were just a group of poor people who sealed demons in their bodies and barely used them to obtain a ray of extraordinary power. Generally, their lives in this profession were short.

Therefore, even though the demon hunters have produced some powerful characters, they have never been taken seriously by mainstream spellcasters.

This group of unruly murderers doesn't want to be a lord. How come, Sir, in their words, they praise a demon hunter who rarely appears in Western Europe?

Fuller explained: "Your Majesty is unaware of something. There is a storybook that is very popular in the East recently. The dead cavalry that appeared just now are very similar to the 'Wild Hunt' cavalry described in the story, and they hunt and kill Those undead armies disappeared. Therefore, the soldiers felt that this storybook was more than just a storybook, and the plots described in it were probably true."

"story book?"

Richard frowned: "It is indeed possible."

In Western Europe, many legends are not groundless. King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, and the Fairy in the Lake are all popular legends. Didn't the bard's bad script also get confirmation from him?

"Let's go back to Damietta. Martha, the two of us will study this so-called story book."

(End of this chapter)