Mount & Blade: Wind of War

Whoosh.

With the sound of waving wings in the wind, a griffin knight landed from the sky. He quickly entered the castle, saluted and half-kneeled to report to Rhodes:

"Lord, Generals Alleyn and Raymond have successfully recaptured two magic crystal mines and are resuming production. No one was injured in this battle."

"Well, even if I go there in person, I may not be able to achieve such a perfect victory. Alleyne and Raymond, well done."

Rhodes took the battle report, read it quickly, and nodded with satisfaction. This is the benefit of cultivating famous generals. It makes people feel at ease when they are released to do things.

At this time, another reconnaissance griffin knight descended in the courtyard outside the castle. Even today, two years later, the gryphon knight, a powerful and expensive high-altitude reconnaissance unit, is also an important strategic unit. Although It has strong combat power, but it hardly participates in battles, because there are only more than 120 Griffin Knights in the entire Lonely Mountain Castle.

This was the result of an unexpected search for a griffon nest in the wild. There may not be such good luck in the future.

The griffin knight gave Rhodes the information he had obtained. The information showed that a wandering special (suspected middle) demon was about to pass through the territory of Burning Fire Castle with his regiment.

Attached to the information is all the information that the Griffin Knight can detect while ensuring his own safety. As for whether the next step is war or peace, it depends on Rhodes' own decision.

"A special type of demon that has never been seen before, suspected to be the center? It is wrapped in linen shrouds. Isn't this a mummy?"

Faced with this situation, the lord needs to make a choice. If he chooses peace, then of course there is a high probability that the two will get along well and miss each other.

If you choose to fight, you may annex a demon army to strengthen your own power, or you may provoke a particularly powerful high-level demon. Even if you can defeat it, the gain will outweigh the loss and the loss will be huge.

"Go on and carry out focused reconnaissance on this army. Under special circumstances, the Griffin Knights are allowed to take certain risks."

"yes."

Because of their scarcity, under normal circumstances, the first rule for griffin knights to carry out reconnaissance missions is to protect their own lives. Sometimes they can give up the mission directly for this reason.

However, this time it is different. Rhodes needs to know about the demon army that is about to pass through his territory. Whether it has fought before and what its current strength is. This information will affect Rhodes' next decision-making.

"Lord, a lot of our troops have been taken out by Lord Alleyne. It seems that it is not suitable to continue to arrange combat missions at this time. Those demon troops are not trustworthy after all." In the castle hall, two griffon knights retreated. Afterwards, Artiman stepped forward and said this, and Caitlin on the side also agreed with this.

Although war and killing are eternal themes in the lower plane, sometimes specific situations need to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

Not long after, an injured griffin knight returned with the information Rhodes needed.

There was blood flowing on his left shoulder, and the wound contained terrible poison. The blood that flowed out was black and exuded a stench. If he had not rushed back in time and was relieved by Caitlin's spell, he would have died soon.

"Lord, the enemy army is well-organized and does not look like it has just experienced a battle. However, the demon general is very powerful. His subordinates were almost instantly killed by him just by getting closer. His weapon was on his body. The cloth belt..."

"Yeah, I got it. You go down and rest, you did a good job."

From what this scout knight said, he learned that the opponent's demon legion was about 600 units. Once he got close, he would be attacked by the opponent with a shroud at a super long range. He was a rather powerful undead demon general.

"I still decided to fight it. The six hundred units of the Hell Legion are quite powerful for us now. But since the knight can escape without dying, it means that the mummy's individual strength is not particularly strong. The fact that we can only maintain this kind of military strength without experiencing any battle shows that it is not the defeated army of a high-ranking demon, and is just right for us to eat."

"Caitlin, how are you preparing for your dark contract?"

"Sir, two copies have been completed at your request. Their effectiveness is about five levels of certainty and can trap a mid-level demon. However, if it is a high-level demon, this kind of forced contract will have no effect."

"Very good, two 50% chances are enough. If we can enslave a mid-range demon, at least we won't have to worry about the safety of the magic crystal mine in the future."

"As you command, my lord."

"As you command, lord."

Artiman and Caitlin are both big consumers of magic crystals. On the contrary, warriors such as Rhodes, Fatis, Alleyn, and Raymond do not consume such extraordinary resources to a high extent.

Therefore, it is said that the overall value of extraordinary people in the Dharma class is higher than that of the extraordinary people in the melee class. This universal view is actually not that correct. The overall value of the combat class is lower but consumes less resources. The overall cost performance is actually very good. High, but it is difficult for most lords to select the characters with real potential among them.

The total strength of the Burning Fire Castle: eighty dark black armor knights, fifty giant shield heavy infantry, one hundred priests, two hundred medium armor longbows, two hundred medium armor swordsmen, twenty gryphon scout knights, There are also more than two hundred hell demon auxiliaries.

Aileen and Raymond took away all the dark armored knights, 20 giant shield heavy infantry, 20 priests, 40 medium armor longbowmen, 60 medium armor swordsmen, 2 griffin knights, and 100 demon auxiliary soldiers for restoring production.

In this way, Rhodes had to use almost all his strength to snipe the mummy demon general. In the past two years, they had hardly provoked demons above the lower level, because the strength of hell magic was extremely high, and the combat power of the extraordinary could be fully exerted in this world (now it is basically possible in the main material world, but the hell demons will still be suppressed if they enter.), the more Atiman and Caitlin practiced, the more they felt the huge gap between the extraordinary and ordinary people.

When the extraordinary practiced and promoted to the fifth-level legend, they could break through the restrictions of their own race and gain a longer youth and a longer lifespan, and the fifth-level soldiers obviously could not have such power. Not to mention that they had not seen a fifth-level soldier, even if they had seen it, at least the fifth-level soldiers of the human temple would not have such power.

The fifth-level soldiers of the elves and demons are immortal because they are immortal, and the first-level soldiers are also long-lived.

Hero units, elite units, and soldier units, the same level of combat power is very different. The difference is not too obvious at the low level, but the higher the level of extraordinary people, the more obvious the difference is.