The Witcher: Son of the Planes.

A month passed by in a flash like a white horse.

Today is Barrick's one-month vacation day. Jenny went to buy food early, preparing to give Barrick a good meal. Colin also stopped his research on space magic and prepared to do "real work".

As soon as Barrick got home, he saw the scene he had imagined: his sister was busy making delicious food for him, and his eldest brother Colin was looking forward to his "holiday". Oh, by the way, he might also have to test his own growth in strength.

Barrick practiced the stick techniques skillfully and unleashed the frenzy skills he had just learned in the past month. Fortunately, with the help of Colin, a master, Barrick was prevented from tearing down his house.

It is obvious that Barrick has not yet mastered the berserk skill. After going berserk, Barrick only knows to destroy everything in front of him. There is a saying that goes, "When I go crazy, even I don't recognize myself," which describes Barrick's current state.

Seeing that elder brother Colin and younger brother had finished the rehearsal, Jenny called them into the house to eat. During the meal, Jenny looked at her younger brother, then at Colin, and felt that it would be great if it could always be like this, and life would not only be hard and difficult, but also very happy and sweet.

Contrary to Jenny's idea, Colin has begun to inadvertently guide Barrick to talk about some of the situations in the new recruits' camp.

According to what Barrick had learned over the past month, this barracks for new recruits in Steel Mane City was not small. As an important frontier town in the south and a military station for replenishing troops, the number of new recruits in the barracks had always been high.

The 53rd squad that Barrick is in has more than 130 people, and it is not fully staffed. According to their captain Feeney, the full staffing should be 200 people. For a squad like theirs, 10 teams form a squadron, and 5 squadrons form a battalion.

There are five battalions in the recruit camp, and each battalion contains five battalions. A simple calculation shows that if this recruit camp is fully staffed, there should be 10 people.

The Orc Empire has several border towns like Steelmane City, which means that the Orc Alliance can mobilize hundreds of thousands of new recruits to support the front line at any time.

Although humans reproduce very quickly, orcs are not slow either, especially after the introduction of human women to give birth to the half-orc race. The overall reproduction rate of orcs can reach 60% of that of humans. The training of a human warrior takes at least two years, but an orc or half-orc warrior only takes half a year. As a result of the increase and decrease, the human coalition has no advantage at all.

As for our elves, their long lifespan is both an advantage and a disadvantage. If they had not been forced to do so by the repeated invasions of the orc coalition, they might have married even later. The birth rate of their offspring is very low, and they can only barely maintain a positive growth trend.

All of the above are also the reasons why the Orcs' Alliance can repeatedly go south to plunder the human kingdom and the elven kingdom, but they do not attack the Orcs' Alliance to the north.

After talking about the number of people in the recruit camp, Colin guided Barrick to talk about the leadership strength of the recruit camp, because Colin knew Barrick's situation very well. After comparing with Barrick, he further understood the situation of the generals in the recruit camp.

Taking the squad as an example, the squad leader is generally equivalent to the strength of a mid-level knight squire. The orcs in the team are mainly at the strength of low-level knight squires and apprentice knight squires. However, those who can use the berserk skill must reach the level of a low-level knight squire. If they can barely control it freely, such as at the level of a squad leader, it can be used.

The squadron leader usually has the strength of a high-level knight squire, the captain usually has the strength of a quasi-level knight squire, and the battalion commander has the strength of a formal knight. As for the commander of the recruit camp, Barrick is not too sure, but according to Colin's estimation, he should be no less than the city lord, at least a level 2 orc.

From this perspective, the apparent strength of Steel Mane City includes 2 level 5 warriors, 25 level warriors, and quasi-level warriors, not counting the guards in the City Lord's Mansion.

Colin had a headache. It was a difficult task. He thought he only had to consider the pig-headed man in the City Lord's Mansion, but he didn't expect that there was a level 2 soldier in the recruit camp, not to mention that there were several level 1 soldiers. How should this task be carried out?

After seeing that Colin's eating speed had obviously slowed down, Jenny thought that the food was not to Colin's taste. However, Barrick thought that Colin was envious of him for being able to join the new recruit camp, so he pulled Colin and said that he wanted to introduce Colin to the new recruit camp, saying that with Colin's ability, he should at least be a captain.

Colin came to his senses, patted Barrick on the shoulder, and then changed the topic elsewhere, which dispelled the doubts of Jenny and her brother.

At night, Colin was lying in bed, thinking about the focus of the next mission. He couldn't just kill people indiscriminately, as that would have no effect at all and would easily expose him. He had to kill some important people. With Barrick's identity, he could only contact their team leader at most.

The squad leader, a mid-level soldier, is not worth Colin's effort. Barrick has to be made a squad leader so that he can have closer contact with the squadron leader. The squadron leader is the backbone of the recruit camp. If there are too many losses, I believe the recruit camp will also be seriously damaged.

The next day, under Colin's conscious suggestion, he obtained the conditions for promotion to team leader from Barrick. It turned out that the positions in the recruit camp were not static. There would be a competition every three months. If you think you have the ability to challenge for a higher position, you can put it forward. If you win, you will naturally replace the loser's position, but if you lose, there will be no loss. This is determined by the orcs' tradition of respecting the strong.

However, in order to avoid multi-player round-robin battles, each challenge requires advance registration, and only the three strongest people are eligible to challenge. This also gives some newly promoted orcs opportunities. Orcs not only admire the strong, but also like to compete and fight. No one wants to miss such an opportunity.

After learning that the next competition would be held in half a month, Colin encouraged Barrick to participate. As the saying goes, an orc who doesn't want to be a team leader is not a good orc. After Colin's brainwashing, the confident Barrick said that he would sign up when he returned, and he must get the team leader position to show his sister and brother Colin.

Barrick only has two days of vacation every month, and he has to return to the team in the evening. Before leaving, Barrick once again persuaded Colin, hoping that Colin could join the recruit camp like himself, but Colin refused Barrick on the grounds that he did not like being constrained.

Although Jenny was very pleased with Barrick's growth in the past month, she also had some concerns about her younger brother who had been encouraging Big Brother Colin to join the new recruit camp. She felt that the current situation was fine. If Big Brother Colin also joined the camp, she would be alone again. Fortunately, Big Brother Colin had the right ideas and refused his younger brother.

After Barrick left, Jenny suddenly thought of something and pulled Colin to measure his size. She said that Colin had been wearing this shirt for five months and Colin had never bought any new clothes. There were some animal skins at home, so she wanted to make a piece of clothing for Brother Colin.

Colin was speechless. It wasn't that he had no clothes to wear, he was just too lazy to change. After a routine cleaning every day, his clothes weren't dirty at all. Moreover, in this orc city, wouldn't it be easy to be discovered if he dressed too differently?

But seeing Jenny's enthusiasm, Colin couldn't refuse, so he had to let Jenny do what she wanted.