Warhammer: Return of the Dragon

Chapter 202 Banquet and Ideas for Soldiers
At the entrance of the palace, Masno was surrounded by several curious Avalon sisters. Obviously they were very curious about this famous high-ranking dragon prince, especially the ice crystal holy sword on his waist. There has never been a similar artifact, coupled with the incomparable martial arts and glory, he is also a warrior favored by girls.

Surrounded by girls, Masno was unmoved. Even though he had already smelled the fragrance from the side, he was still standing guard meticulously. If it wasn't for the relationship between the Prince and the Eternal Queen, he would never let these Avas go. Sister Long touched the dragon armor on her body that symbolized glory.

But looking at his embarrassing face, it was obvious that he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of these girls. After all, several people had already photographed his armor three times, indicating that they would meet secretly at three o'clock at night.

Seeing the prince coming out of the palace, Masnow immediately walked out of the encirclement of the Avalon sisters. No wonder those people asked to return to Caledor. With this posture, even a dragon couldn't stand it.

"Prince."

Seeing the coldness on Imrik's face, knowing that the situation of the Eternal Queen is not optimistic, Masno didn't dare to ask any more questions, but just brought the horse back, and then the two left here.

After returning to the barracks, Imrik immediately ordered Randy to prepare to return to Caledor. Even though Lothern prepared a grand celebration banquet under Finnubar's order, the Dragon Prince knew that there were still some things to come To do it, instead of wasting time on it, it is better to make Caledo's next plan well.

This battle made me discover many disadvantages, that is, the population of Caledor is too small. Thinking of the next few expeditions across the vast ocean, judging from the current situation, even if it succeeds, there will be some Lots of casualties.

Imrik temporarily thought of a way to solve this problem, but this way may be very ugly in name, and the specific details need to be discussed with Alagir.

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Caledor's army directly crossed the Lothern Strait and did not enter Lothern. They only obtained some supplies and supplies along the way. The long-standing regional discrimination cannot be changed by a big war.

Caledon discriminated against lowly businessmen like Lothern, and Lothern also looked down on these country bumpkins who spend all day blowing in the mountains. The Phoenix King gave Caledon so much support. It should have been Kaledo's victory over the Witch King. Ledo's responsibility.

The only ones left were several high-level officials of Imrik. Although the Dragon Prince didn't want to show his face at this kind of banquet, he still wanted to get in touch with some people for a while to arrange the next thing.

In the familiar courtyard of the Phoenix King, Tyrion raised his wine glass to Imrik, with a little apology and gratitude in his tone,

"Thank you for stopping the Shadow King and saving my brother Teclis. I owe you a favor."

After finishing speaking, he first drank the contents of the cup to show his sincerity. His posture was very low. After his father passed away, Teclis was the only blood relative. Tyrion knew that this was for some purpose, not purely family affection.

"Your brother Teclis..." To be honest, Imrik didn't know how to speak. Except for being irritable because of Kane's curse, Tyrion was actually a trustworthy person. In many ways, he was better than those who liked to intrigue His prince is much better, but the person who harmed him the most is his most trusted brother.

I don't know whether Teclis understands Lilith's small world plan now, and this is the reason why he was left alive.

If he thought Lilith's plan was correct from the bottom of his heart and was willing to take action for it, he should undoubtedly be hacked to death on the spot.

But if he is only a God-Chosen who relies on Lilith's divine power to stand, and Moras was guided or bewitched by Lilith when he lifted the Maelstrom and Phoenix Stone before, then there is still hope for salvation After all, Teclis' ability is definitely not inferior to Tyrion's. If he is successfully instigated against him, it will also be of great help to the next action.

"Forget it, you don't need to mention these things at this time. I pay tribute to those warriors who fought bravely on the battlefield. It is their sacrifices that have brought us this victory." Imrik raised his glass, and the crowd around him They immediately raised their wine glasses and said, "To the warrior, to the sacrifice, to the victory."

The current Dragon Prince is the most popular figure in Ulthuan. Although many people still maintain a wait-and-see attitude towards Caledon because of tradition, there are still many people who take the initiative to show their favor to the dragon court. The terms of cooperation have been successfully passed, and many chambers of commerce have opened their doors to Caledonian, willing to introduce Caledonian specialties at a "appropriate" price, and even some organizations that provide security services also want to introduce some Caledonians, especially It is a mountain ranger unit that performed well on the battlefield.

There is no way to introduce the three troops directly subordinate to the Dragon Lord, but the Mountain Rangers do not belong to Caledor's standing military order. A large bow shoots arrows, and after being near the Longji Mountain Patrolman who can chop off the enemy's dog's head with a large sword, many people have thought about him.

Imrik also said that he could send a small number of mountain patrollers to provide security services for the nobles of the kingdoms, but he had to provide an intermediary fee to the dragon court. The final price can only be said to be very touching, but there are still many Lothern The great nobles were willing to pay this high fee, and took away the hundred-man mountain patrol from the hands of the Dragon Prince, and provided him with five years of service.

Etila, who was standing beside Imrik, was also full of smiles. At the beginning of this banquet, many people expressed their kindness to the Bel Keke family. Anyway, this war is outside Under the leadership of the Ring Kingdom, the victory was achieved, which gave Tyren Locke a lot more power to speak in the Phoenix Court. As the queen after Ai Zhuo, she was of course happy to see this situation.

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After the banquet, Imrik returned to the Prince's Manor, looked at Alagir who had rushed over from Kared, and asked,

"Do we have access to the slave market in Araby?"

These words made Alagir shudder immediately. You must know that slavery is a culture that Ulthuan deeply hates and hates. First of all, Asur, who considers himself the best race in the world, can't look down on this kind of thing.

The second is that every year Drucci has some slave ships break through the protective magic of the ocean to capture slaves, both of which have put an end to the slave system in Ulthuan.

But this is also stated on the surface. In fact, many human beings in the kingdoms of Ulthuan provide services for Asur. In name, they sign service contracts, but in fact they are hereditary slaves. In addition, the living conditions of these human monkeys are also very poor. It is still acceptable, so this matter has been tacitly approved by the kingdoms.

Because of Caledon's special environment and the fact that the previous dragon princes did not allow those monkeys to approach the dragon's homeland, only some families raised some humans in private for use as labor.

But according to Imrik's usual thinking, Alagir felt that the prince would definitely not want to buy some slaves to fill the service staff of the Dragon Palace.

"Your Highness, what are you asking?"

"The population of Caledor is too small, and the palace needs some channels to supplement the shortage of grassroots soldiers." After speaking, seeing Alagir's worried expression, Imrik continued,

"After purchasing these slaves, I will give them freedom in the name of Caledon, but in essence, as future soldiers, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Alagir breathed a sigh of relief. He was worried that Imrik planned to organize an expedition against Naggaroth, but because of the shortage of labor in the country, he planned to throw these slaves into the mine to dig stones. Now mining is done with magic equipment, but the price and maintenance cost of these mining equipment are very high. Once an all-out war starts, there may be a shortage of raw materials.

After thinking for a moment, he answered the prince's question, "The situation in Araby is a little unclear now. Humans in Bretonnia are still going to the desert in a steady stream, carrying out their so-called knightly expeditions. The sultans and caliphs of the Araby desert Due to the pressure of the war, the size of the slave market has been gradually reduced over the past few hundred years. We can let Vaal Anvil produce some human-style equipment, and the Arabians will definitely give priority to providing slaves to Caledor. "

Imrik touched his chin and thought for a moment. This is actually an experiment. In the future, he will definitely get a large number of slaves from attacking Naggaroth. Those who can survive in that cold wasteland can step into it after some training The battlefield, and he couldn't even kill these slaves after the city of Duruqi was brought down, so he could only send them to the colonies as free people, or as a reserve source of soldiers.

Buying slaves from Araby now is to test the effect first. I will not incorporate them into Caledor's official sequence for the time being. It sounds like it is an auxiliary army, but it is actually a cannon fodder army.

The ass determines the head. Now that I am the Prince of Caledon, I must maximize the benefits from the perspective of Caledon. It is impossible to treat these Arabians better than my own people. From a mutual point of view, even if No matter how good their attitude towards human beings is, they will still feel shackles in their hearts, thinking that the different attitudes of races are so good, it must be some tricks of these sharp ears.

Get gunpowder from the old world, get knowledge about mechanical engineering from Altdorf University, and make modern equipment for these Arabians. This is what I think now. As for whether they will betray, this is a question Im Rick thought about it too.

But in a blink of an eye, thinking of the giant dragon, dragon prince, and flame mage under his command, coupled with the huge difference in the individual strengths of the mortal races, those poor and weak Arabians must not dare to disobey the will of the dragon lord, and they will be given the big stick. Give some radishes, and those who have served the Dragon Palace for five years will be able to obtain the status of free people and be arranged to work in the future colony.

"I will leave this matter to you. I need an army of at least 3000 people as a test product. If someone asks about this matter, you can say that the Dragon Palace can't bear to send these miserable people to Calondekar. And after they saw Caledor's army, they hoped for asylum and voluntarily followed the fleet to Caledor."

"Yes, I will try my best to arrange this matter properly."

(End of this chapter)