For Isakalasa of Silver Frost City, her biggest need now is to ensure victory in the war. As for the City of Sin, a city built by slaves and located in a remote area, she is not very interested.
Coming to the fore from behind the scenes has great benefits, but it also carries huge pressure. Once the foreign war fails, it may even affect and reduce the authority of the mother. This is what Isakalasa cannot accept.
On the other side, Lonely Mountain Castle.
Although it has been decided to go to war with the Dark City, Rhodes still stayed in the Lonely Mountain Castle and did not go to the battle in person at the first time.
The soldiers and horses have to move before the food and grass. Now it is different from before. Now there are one or two thousand people eating and the horses have to chew. This consumption is no longer supported by the food that can be carried by a single soldier.
Therefore, Rhodes appointed Fatis as the commander-in-chief, with nearly two thousand regular troops and five hundred hired farmers, and set off first to advance in the direction of the Dark City.
Since the establishment of Lonely Mountain Castle, food security has been attached great importance. In addition, after obtaining the secret library accumulated by witches for two hundred years, the initial funds are sufficient. Therefore, even in the face of war, the reserve warehouse can easily push out enough food.
Lonely Mountain Castle is positioned as a commercial city. In theory, even if there is no farming, the huge commercial tax can support the purchase of enough food for the life and development of the entire town.
In fact, while obtaining huge commercial taxes, Rhodes insisted on the principle of food security. He not only let Caitlin cast a spell to maintain the rat nest building, but also encouraged setting fire to the forest for agricultural reclamation, and encouraged the development of fisheries and animal husbandry.
Because Rhodes knew very well that no matter how good the gold coin is, it cannot be eaten or chewed. It is a general equivalent, but it has almost no actual value.
Under such policy leadership, the first wave of harvests in the farmland around Lonely Mountain Castle has been completed, and coupled with the purchase of food at a reasonable price, the food reserves of Lonely Mountain Castle have been very sufficient to this day.
Launching a large-scale war again did not cause a big impact on people’s livelihood.
“Due to long-term reading and research, your growing hero Resarit has gained insights from the book “Weapons and Military System”. Intelligence +1, understanding hero characteristics training expert 2.”
Hero characteristics:
Training expert 2, instructor’s professional skills, can improve the professional level of the trained soldiers by 1.
When Rhodes was busy working and suddenly saw this system prompt, his heart was full of emotion.
Recruiting heroes with good personalities has this advantage. Due to his spontaneous efforts, he can bring some unexpected and reasonable benefits from time to time.
Of course, objectively speaking, Resarit’s personality is not good. He is old-fashioned, stubborn, dogmatic, and has a strong desire for victory. His loyalty is not very high. Even if the recruitment is successful, if you fail repeatedly, then even if you treat him with all your heart and soul and treat him well, he will eventually leave you without any attachment, and even spit on and curse you.
After spending some time together, Rhodes discovered that Resarit did not pay attention to human nature and changes in people’s mentality. His so-called tactics were more like admiring the past and despising the present, and had a sense of talking about war on paper. All these showed that he was more suitable for being responsible for modeled mechanical training, as an instructor of recruits, rather than becoming a general who could take charge of everything.
It was okay to let Resarit be a general. He was basically qualified, but he should not have too many expectations. In terms of leading the army externally, the first one was Fatis, and the second hero that Rhodes expected was Cress, not Raymond or Resarit.
The reason why Rhodes thought Resarit had a good character was that after satisfying Resarit’s desire for victory, honor and wealth, he himself was a very diligent person, strict with his soldiers and himself.
Even if such a person had no talent, he could achieve achievements beyond most ordinary people in the world if he persisted and kept doing it consistently, and with a little help from the opportunity, just like at this moment:
Four heroic characteristics, his subordinates, except for the top-ranked general Fatis, only had Resarit.
In fact, all four hero characteristics are strategic hero characteristics, which makes him a top-notch auxiliary hero at the beginning of the game. Which lord would not be confused?
Originally, Rhode intended to punish Resarit’s wife Jera because she was too greedy and domineering, bullying soldiers and occupying public assets.
Now, forget it.
A woman, a famous general, what’s wrong with greed? Is he forming a clique for personal gain? Does he deceive his superiors and subordinates? If he is greedy, he is greedy, if he is arrogant, he is arrogant. Anyway, it is for his master Resarit to make enemies, and it does not harm Rhode.
The land that Mrs. Jera greedily took away still produces food, and the money obtained from it is not enough to cover the income from two days of city entry tax.
The strong training of elite soldiers allows Resarit to have a hidden effect of +2 coaching skills. Under the condition of the same coaching level, it is much more efficient than others in training soldiers.
The characteristic of Training Expert 2 is to further stimulate the potential of the soldiers under your command and improve the level of a type of soldier out of thin air. That is to say, a type of soldier that originally had a maximum level of improvement of level 4 can be trained to level 5 under Resarit’s command, and a type of soldier that originally had a maximum level of improvement of level 5 can be trained to level 6 under Resarit’s command!
There should be some hidden restrictions, such as the trained soldiers cannot exceed the level of Resarit himself, but at least in the current Lonely Mountain Castle, such soldiers are not seen.
The next day, the underground mining area, near the Undead Magic Tower.
This place can be regarded as a core secret place of the Lonely Mountain Castle, but basically all high-level civil servants and knights know about this place.
Those frost spiders that have been thriving in the underground world for hundreds or thousands of years have emerged from the cracks in the ground, but what they are facing are the fully armed elite soldiers of the Lonely Mountain Castle and almost endless skeleton soldiers.
Just near the Undead Obelisk, Caitlin is extremely powerful, and the number of slave corpses accumulated here is enough, and there is a steady stream of slave corpses thrown in, which makes her almost have the ability to suppress the spider tide independently.
In addition to direct killing, there will be farmers who cut off the legs of the severely injured frost spiders that have no ability to resist, tie them up and transport them out.
Rhodes did not intend to completely exterminate these underground frost spiders, but he also consciously controlled their numbers to prevent them from rushing out of the ground due to lack of food and harming the people of Lonely Mountain Castle.
