Chapter 614: Payne's Magical Experience

At this time, Payne took the transformed terrifying general and hid in Dragonmaw City in fear.

It needs to be said that because Payne's hands are too wet, the effect of undead transformation is not good. In the end, he only got a terrifying general at the level of a great knight commander.

Necromancers can transform the dead into undead warriors. According to the strength of the dead before death, there are differences after transformation.

However, the strength after transformation is generally much lower than before, sometimes even two levels lower. Payne has just mastered the inheritance of the undead tyrant, and his heart is a little swollen. He thinks that he can transform Ryan, who is a first-rate peak, into a first-rate terrifying general, but in the end he only retains second-rate strength.

By the way, in the history of magic and civilization, knights are equivalent to military generals in China, and knight retinues are the real cavalry. Junior middle and senior knights correspond to junior, senior and third-level generals. Great knights, great knight commanders, earth knights, epic knights, and legendary knights correspond to generals from third-rate to top-notch generals respectively.

The characteristic professional magicians of magic civilization are divided into junior magicians, intermediate magicians, advanced magicians, great magicians, wizards, magisters, great magisters, and magic gods.

In addition, in the magic civilization, there is a kind of god-favored person, which is equivalent to the historical generals in Huaxia District, and is also divided into d, c, b, a, s, ss and other levels.

Payne was originally a B-level great magister-level divinely favored person. The magic attainments in the Kingdom of Carter are comparable to the chief archmage of the court.

However, after obtaining the inheritance of the undead tyrant, Payne has successfully been promoted to an S-level great magister. After spending some time accumulating, it is not difficult to be promoted to an S-level Dharma God!

Although Ryan's transformation was not as perfect as expected, with a knight at the level of Grand Knight Commander protecting him personally, Payne finally had some confidence in his heart and began to explore outwards.

Payne was able to stay in King Carter for ten years and gain the trust of the king and the eldest prince, so he was naturally not a reckless and impulsive person.

Because he didn't know the situation here, Payne seemed very cautious.

For some unknown reason, the eldest prince's interspatial ring actually contained items necessary for disguise. Payne simply dressed up while covering up the features of Ryan's undead.

Although he didn't know where he was, the undead were unwelcome in most worlds, and Payne knew this very well.

Dressed as a traveler, Payne slowly explored the wilderness with the undead Ryan until they encountered a village!

Using the Eye of True Spirit to observe from a distance, Payne was greatly surprised.

Because the people in the village are far from the Carter Kingdom in terms of skin color, appearance, clothing, etc.!

Payne has always considered himself knowledgeable and talented, but he has never heard of this kind of existence, and he can't help feeling a little flustered.

Then, something happened that made him even more startled. In this small village with a total population of only 2,000, there were actually a hundred Tier 3 fighters!

You know, Tier 3 fighters can enter the main force of the Kingdom Army in the Carter Kingdom, and they are the absolute main force like the mainstay in the noble lords!

In this small village with a population of only 2,000, there were a hundred third-tier fighters, which shocked Payne a lot.

Among the further scouts, his True Spirit Eye was noticed by a senior military officer led by the village guards. Before he could react, Payne had already fled. It made the guard commander think that he had made a mistake.

With Payne's strength, coupled with Ryan, a second-rate terrifying general, it is more than enough to wipe out a small village with only one hundred and three soldiers, but Payne dare not do it!

Caution is the most important factor for Payne to become the second archmage of the kingdom's court as the dark speaker. Before he has a thorough understanding of the situation here, Payne will never dare to do it lightly.

Next, Payne dressed up in disguise all the way, explored a lot of villages, and found that the results were basically the same as the first village, and even some of them were stronger. This shattered the last luck of Penn Newtown!

He thought that the special situation in that village led to so many Tier 3 fighters, but he investigated all the way and found that the situation was even worse. He even found at least 2,000 Tier 3 guards in a relatively large town, and the captain of the guard was even more A land knight!

This horrible situation almost frightened Payne silly, and he flew away from the small town as if flying.

After the investigation, Payne became more careful. Not only did he try his best to cover up the characteristics of the undead, he even covered up his exotic appearance, for fear of being hunted down if exposed.

In fact, Payne misunderstood a bit. Although Pingzhou's military strength is strong, it is not strong enough to equip a village of 2,000 people with a hundred third-tier soldiers. The reason for this abnormal ratio is entirely because of the situation here. special.

The Longhou Mountains are already the eastward boundary of Pingzhou, and further east is Pu Yin's control area. Since ancient times, the folk customs at the junction of the two countries have been much tougher, and it is nothing if the military-to-civilian ratio is slightly higher.

But the real cause of this extreme situation is a reserve system established by Shang Ji.

Although the last battle with Pu Yin ended in Pingzhou's victory, Pu Yin's army also left a deep impression on Shang Ji. Near the throat canyon, a reserve system that is almost all soldiers is implemented.

The middle-aged men were recruited in the village, and all of them were brought close to the barracks for training. After the training, they were given simple weapons and armor, and then they were immediately retired and returned to their hometowns to continue their normal work before.

After retiring, the strength of soldiers will drop significantly, but no matter how much they drop, they will be better than ordinary farmers. Select a group of potential guards to form a guard team, Pingzhou will allocate a part of the subsidy, and the village will add an additional sum to form a villager guard team between villages, conduct regular training, and maintain normal combat power.

Ordinary retired soldiers also train during slack time to ensure that their strength does not degrade too much. Once the worst situation occurs, it can replenish troops in time, delay the enemy's attack speed, and buy time for the mobilization of large troops in Pingzhou.

This kind of reserve service system is limited to some areas in the east of the original Goguryeo adjacent to the Longhou Gorge. As for why it is not extended to the entire Pingzhou, the reason is simple-no money!

It costs money to train soldiers!

Training a Tier 3 soldier does not count as equipment, and the training fee alone costs two gold plus ten units of food, and there is no guarantee of success!

Counting some of the simple equipment provided, it would cost an average of six gold to complete the training of a Tier 3 soldier.

As for after retiring, to ensure that the combat power will not decline significantly, the comprehensive expenses such as training and subsidies need to be at least ten gold per person per year on average.

There are a total of 2 million reserve soldiers scattered in the eastern part of Koguryo, and the funds spent on this area alone are no less than 25 million a year!

If such a huge expenditure is fully implemented in the entire Pingzhou, the required funds will not be enough to add a zero at the end.

Counting the 7 million regular army with even more terrifying expenses, within a year Pingzhou would be completely ruined due to the huge excess of military expenditure and financial bankruptcy.

The reserve force in the entire Pingzhou is less than five million, and nearly half of them are distributed near the Dragon Throat Canyon. The rest are mainly distributed in the vicinity of Lulong Fortress in the west of Liaoxi County, Haiyang, Lingzhi, Feiru and other cities on the border with Youbeiping.

Payne spent half a month cautiously in the wilderness, and understood some of the situation piecemeal. He is currently in a very powerful empire.

The vast territory of this empire, the richness of the country, the variety of people, and the strength of the army can only be compared with the rumored Empire of Light (the most powerful country in the magic civilization, which is actually the country that is the beacon of the American emperor).

What he saw and understood was far from the core area of ​​the empire, but a remote area ruled by a governor named Shang Ji. And his location is still a remote area in a remote area.

Thinking of the strength of the army of villages and towns under the command of the governor of a remote area, Payne felt like his three views collapsed!

Uh, I have to say that this is a misunderstanding. Although Pingzhou is indeed a remote area, far from the core territory of the Han Dynasty, Pingzhou's military strength is not weak at all. The overall strength can at least rank among the top five among the princes of the world.

For the necromancer, the most important thing is of course the army of the undead.

If you want an army of undead, you must have enough corpses. Under normal circumstances, Payne took the undead Ryan to attack a small village, converted all the village names into undead, and then developed and expanded in a snowball manner before the local noble lords reacted, until finally he could fight head-on or even Destroy the Lord's army.

It's a pity that here, Payne didn't dare to attack the village at all. He had seen the village's reaction to the attack of a large group of wild beasts, and the nearby villages arrived within a quarter of an hour. In less than an hour, the cavalry vanguard of the local regular army wiped out all the beasts. The speed of support made Payne desperate.

Before the snowball could roll, Penn had to be twirled like a rat by the local army.

Once the appearance of the undead caught the attention of the authorities, Payne could already imagine his miserable situation!

After spending half a month, carefully disguising himself, and conducting careful experiments in three different villages and towns, after making sure that they couldn't see any flaws, Payne stepped into Dragonmaw City cautiously!

Whether as the Speaker of the Dark Parliament or the Second Archmage of the Carter Kingdom, Payne Makart has never had a hard time.

In the past half a month, eating and sleeping in the wild, it can be regarded as tossing the archmage enough. After enduring it for half a month, Payne resolutely stepped into the largest nearby city.

As soon as he stepped into the city, a group of heavily armed patrolling infantry walked up to him. Payne was so scared that he almost turned his head and left!

Fortunately, the long lurking career abruptly stopped this impulse, and passed the patrol head-on.

Payne took a closer look at the strength of the patrol team. They were all fifth-tier elites. They were the main force of the King's Blade Knights in the Kingdom of Carter, but they were used for patrols here.

After staying in Dragonmaw City for two days, Payne became even more desperate.

The combat power in this city surpassed that of the entire Kingdom Blade Knights, and what was even more exaggerated was that the city defense general of this city turned out to be a legendary knight!

This powerful knight who could sweep the world in the Carter Kingdom, under the command of that noble lord named Shang Ji, couldn't even make it into the top ten!

Under the shock, Payne temporarily stopped his thoughts of sweeping the world with an army of undead, and quietly lurked in Dragonmaw City.

Tens of thousands of gold coins were placed in Prince Lane's space ring, which would not make the heirs of the imposing undead tyrant worry about their lives. After getting rich, Payne suddenly found that this place is much more interesting than the poor and backward Carter Kingdom.

Eating, drinking and having fun all day long, there is an attitude of "have fun here, don't think about Sichuan".

The good days continued until he met a bohemian young scholar in a restaurant!