The Witcher: Son of the Planes

A month passed in a flash.

Today is Barrick's one-month vacation. Jenny went to buy food early to prepare a good meal for Barrick. Colin also stopped studying space magic and prepared to do "business".

When Barrick returned home, it was the picture he imagined. His sister was busy making delicious food for him, and his elder brother Colin was looking forward to his "holiday". Oh, by the way, he might also have to test his strength growth.

Barrick practiced the stick method skillfully, and released the berserk skills he had learned this month. Fortunately, Colin, a master, was there, so Barrick didn't tear down his house.

Obviously, Barrick has not mastered the berserk skills skillfully. After the berserk, Barrick only knew to destroy everything in front of him. There is a saying, "I don't even recognize myself when I go crazy," which is what Barrick is now like.

Seeing that Colin and his younger brother had finished their drill, Jenny called them into the house for dinner. During the meal, Jenny looked at her younger brother and then at Colin, feeling 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.

Unlike Jenny's idea, Colin has begun to inadvertently guide Barrick to talk about some of the conditions of the new recruit camp.

According to Barrick's understanding of this month, the new recruit camp in Steel Mane City is not small. As an important border town in the south and a military station for replenishing troops, the number of new recruits in the camp has always been high.

There are more than 130 people in the 53rd squadron where Barrick is located, and this is not a full staffing situation. According to their captain Feni, the full staffing should be 200 people. For a squad like theirs, 10 form a squadron, and 5 squadrons form a battalion.

There are five battalions in the new recruit camp, and one battalion contains five battalions. A simple calculation shows that if this new recruit camp is fully staffed, there should be 100,000 people.

The Orc Empire has several border towns like Steelmane City, which means that the Orcs can always recruit hundreds of thousands of new soldiers to support the front line.

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, while the training of a human warrior takes at least two years, but orcs and half-orc warriors only need half a year. With the increase and decrease of one, the human coalition has no advantage at all.

As for our elves, their long lifespan is both an advantage and a disadvantage. If the elves were not forced by the repeated invasions of the Orcs, they might get married later, and the birth rate of their offspring is very low, which can only barely maintain a positive growth trend.

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

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

Taking the squad as an example, the squad leader is generally equivalent to the strength of the intermediate knight attendant. The orcs in the team are mainly low-level knight attendants and trainee knight attendants. However, those who can use the berserk skill must reach the low-level knight attendant. If they can barely control it, such as the level of the squad leader, they can use it.

The captain is generally the strength of the high-level knight attendant, the captain is generally the strength of the quasi-level knight attendant, and the battalion commander is the strength of the formal knight. As for the commander of the recruit camp, Barrick is not very clear, but according to Colin's estimation, it should be no less than the city lord, at least a second-level orc.

In this way, the apparent strength of Steel Mane City includes 2 second-level warriors, 5 first-level warriors, and 25 quasi-level warriors, which does not count the guards of the city lord's mansion.

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

Seeing that Colin's eating speed had obviously slowed down, Jenny thought that the food was not to Colin's taste, but Barrick thought that it was Colin's elder brother who envied him for being able to join the new recruit camp. He pulled Colin and said that he wanted to introduce Colin to the new recruit camp, saying that with Colin's elder brother's strength, he should at least be a captain.

Colin came back to his senses, patted Barrick's shoulder, and then led the topic elsewhere, which dispelled Jenny's doubts.

At night, lying in bed, Colin thought about the focus of the next task. He couldn't just kill randomly, which would have no effect at all, and it would be easy to be exposed. If he wanted to kill, he had to kill some important people. With Barrick's identity, he could only contact their captain at most.

A squad leader, a mid-level warrior, was not worth Colin's effort. Barrick had to be made a squad leader, so that he could get closer to the squad leader. The squad leader was the backbone of the recruit camp. If there were too many losses, the recruit camp would be seriously injured.

The next day, under Colin's conscious suggestion, he got the conditions for promotion to squad 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 thought you had the strength to challenge, you could put it forward. If you won, you would naturally replace the loser's position. If you lost, you would not suffer any loss. This was determined by the orcs' tradition of advocating the strong.

But in order to avoid multiple rounds of battles, each challenge must be registered in advance, and only the three strongest people are eligible to challenge. This also gives some newly promoted orcs an opportunity. Orcs not only admire the strong, but also like to fight and fight. No one wants to miss such an opportunity.

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

Barrick's monthly vacation is only two days, and he has to return to the team in the evening. Before leaving, Barrick persuaded Colin again, hoping that brother Colin could join the recruit camp like himself, but Colin refused Barrick on the grounds that he didn't like being constrained.

Although Jenny was very pleased with Barrick's growth in the past month, she was a little worried about her brother's constant persuasion of Colin to join the new recruit camp. She thought it was good now. If Colin joined the camp, she would be alone again. Fortunately, Colin had the right idea and refused his younger brother.

After Barrick left, Jenny didn't know what she thought of. She pulled Colin to measure his size, saying that Colin had been wearing this clothes for five months and had never seen Colin buy new clothes. There were some animal skins at home, so she wanted to make a piece of clothes for Colin.

Colin was a little speechless. It's not that he had no clothes to wear, but he was just too lazy to change. After a routine cleaning technique every day, he was not dirty at all. Moreover, in this orc city, wearing too alternative clothes would be easy to be discovered, right?

However, seeing Jenny's enthusiasm, Colin couldn't refuse, so he had to let Jenny do it.