Chapter 360: Thousands of Miles to Help (Part 1)
Chapter 360: Thousand Miles of Rescue (Part 1)
Salin used to only hear that a level 3 war horse with pure blood can run for more than 60 miles, but that can only last for two or three hours. The war horse must rest completely and cannot move for ten or eight days. At a stable speed, that kind of pure-blooded horse can run for forty miles, which is almost equivalent to the speed of an ordinary cavalry charging.
The skeleton war horses that the winged skeleton deliberately created obviously exceeded Salin's perception of horses. This kind of war horse can catch up with flying mages, and its speed will run for a day without any change.
The cavalry could not control the speed of eighty miles. If there were no winged skeletons to control them, almost every cavalry would break their bones and tendons.
The Winged Skeleton showed his powerful advancement ability. Salin's contract did not control his development. The eighth level undead was already comparable to the great magician. Although this was related to Salin's powerful mental power, he and Naris were both soul contracts. As long as Salin's mental power could reach the level of a level nine magician, the Winged Skeleton could also advance to the ninth level.
However, this also requires the efforts of the Winged Skeleton itself. As the master, Salin cannot provide him with any other help now.
Salin himself was strong and the two magicians were even more powerful than him. Isabella and Erinno were both considered to be both magical and martial arts practitioners. They ran all the way and ran for ten hours on the first day before they rested.
If it were other mages, they would have been paralyzed long ago. Even if they kept using magic to bless themselves, they would not be able to hold on for ten hours and run wildly.
The two hundred warriors with Zesarin were the most tired. During the rest of the middle, the magician also imposed magic on everyone. At night, everyone fell asleep deeply, leaving only the winged skeletons and the demons awake.
The winged skeleton was wearing the armor made by Salin for him. On the front of the helmet was a crystal mask. The soul fire behind the mask was slowly leaping, and under the night, it showed a strange silver color.
Tris looked at the Winged Skeleton, remembering Neris' warning, and did not provoke the undead. He commanded the other three demons to carefully guard outside Salin's tent. The undead under the Winged Skeleton was responsible for the safety of the entire camp.
The Winged Skeleton stood at the camp gate, and in his hand was a weapon of more than four meters long.
The front end of this weapon is a circular axe blade with a diameter of more than one meter. The giant axe with both sides appears to be a blood-red color. There is a magic array on both sides of the giant axe, which is inlaid with colorful magic cores, like six strange eyes.
This weapon was salvaged from the sea by the winged skeleton, and it is estimated that it has a history of at least 20,000 years. It is not that the longer the history, the better the weapon, but a weapon that can be damaged for 20,000 years without any damage to the sea water corrosion and high pressure is definitely the best equipment.
The long pole of the giant axe is oval and is covered with magic patterns. However, these magic patterns are not refined on the surface, but are naturally refined inside the entire metal giant axe. No matter how they are polished, these magic patterns will not disappear.
The breath of the undead seeped out of the gloves of the winged skeleton and entered the giant axe. The colorful magic core embedded in the giant axe lit up, and the blood-red magic pattern flowed on the black giant axe.
The six jade skeletons following the Winged Skeleton stood behind the Winged Skeleton, and each of them also held a giant axe of the same shape in their hands, which was a weapon that Salin imitated and refined.
The Winged Skeleton and his men are extremely powerful, and no one dares to take such a giant axe head-on. Even the Silver Sword Saint must consider whether his own strength can be withstand it.
Seven skeletons stood at the camp gate, and the monsters that were foraging at night fled far away. Six gray auras floated on the giant axe of the winged skeleton, and were sucked into their giant axes by the jade skeleton behind them.
Seven skeletons are like one. Salin dared to take two hundred people to Daliang City. In addition to his own abilities, the winged skeleton is already an eight-level undead, and its combat power is comparable to the three kings. Judy Koko's soul fire was given to the winged skeletons. As long as Salin advances, he can immediately reach level nine.
The winged skeleton looked up at the bright moon, and the silver moonlight sprinkled down, penetrated through the crystal mask and entered his eye sockets, and was absorbed by two balls of soul fires. The soul fire absorbed the moonlight and became more and more intense.
He spent the night safely and the camp was not disturbed. Salin led his team to continue his journey. It is mid-September and he is about to arrive in Daliang City before the end of October. He does not consider the road factors, but also considers whether he will encounter enemy attacks.
From Metatratlin to the new city that Aini is under construction, all the way is safe. Salin turned around on the Rhine border and headed south along the border of Galoran toward Daliang City.
These more than 200 fully armed people could not be ignored. However, Salin and others did not walk along the lane, and did not need supplies along the way. They bypassed the town and ran wildly in the wilderness.
Those who are willing to intercept cannot catch up with the skeleton war horses. These more than 200 skeleton war horses, with Sarah's two hundred soldiers and mages, advanced at a speed of 700 miles a day.
All those who made the decision on the official road miscalculated, whether it was the local nobles with ulterior motives, the army of the Holy Rock City, or even some thieves, who were left behind by Salin's strange marching method.
In mid-October, Salin brought his more than 200 men into the land in Galoran, which was actually controlled by Rex's Kushui County.
The border is a military town with five thousand soldiers stationed. Salin showed his badge, but the highest commander in the town was an old noble in Kushui County. Seeing Salin's badge, the old noble warmly received Salin.
"His Royal Highness Salin, I didn't expect you to arrive so soon!" The old nobleman greeted Salin's team outside the town. Seeing that Salin had only more than 200 people, he did not show any disappointment.
Salin secretly praised this as a wise, or cunning old man. His town, bordering the area controlled by Holy Rock City, requires such wisdom to allow both sides to live in peace.
This old man was originally a first-class viscount, and was also the nobleman arranged by Emperor Chanak to Rex. After Rex founded the country, he was promoted to second-class earl and promoted two levels in a row. Now he commanded five thousand soldiers and guarded here.
"Earl..." Salin was taken to the Earl's mansion and the Earl held a banquet. When Salin spoke, the Earl smiled and said, "Your Highness, just call me Besta. I watched the princess grow up, not an outsider."
Salin smiled and said, "Besta, can we contact Daliang City here?"
"It's ok, but..." Besta felt a little embarrassed. The number of magic cores here was very limited. If he could not consume it, he tried not to use it. Once he sent a letter, he would consume a magic core. This low-level teleportation array would consume six level 4 magic cores each time.
Salin immediately heard what Besta meant and said, "Although Rex will supplement your consumption, it will not be delivered to you until the end of the year. Okay, I will pay for this money. You must guard the town and not be exploited by the people in the north." Salin said, taking out a box specially equipped with magic cores, which contained 60 level four magic cores cut and handed over to Besta.
This old count worked diligently and guarded the border in such a place with no future. It was very difficult for Salin to care about these sixty magic cores.
Besta blushed. Rex did not release magic cores for a long time. The last attack captured three important cities, but the consumption of magic cores was also very huge. There were still many low-level magic cores here, but there were indeed not many intermediate magic cores.
"Your Highness, how can this be done?"
"Don't worry, Rex will return this to me." Salin joked. Besta was embarrassed to get up. Salin could help thousands of miles away, so how could he care about these sixty intermediate magic cores. Even though this thing is put on the market, it will cost more than 10,000 gold coins.
Salin did not write to Rex immediately, but asked Besta about the troops in the nameless town.
After asking, I found out that except for the more than 500 personal soldiers of Earl Besta, the others were just novices who had been trained for two or three years. This kind of training was not the kind of training that Rex gave to Salin's soldiers, but the simplest training method according to Qin Yin's law.
Will the soldiers manipulate most ordinary weapons and combat power? Five soldiers should be able to kill a junior swordsman.
Rex did not arrange elite soldiers at the land border controlled by Saint Rock City. Salin heard it in his heart and understood Rex's general situation. The soldiers controlled by Rex must have exceeded 500,000, but half of them were not very good at combat effectiveness.
Defending the city is enough, attacking the city or fighting in the field is basically a fate of being destroyed. In this case, there is no need for Salin to leave any equipment for Earl of Besta. His equipment is for the main legion.
Then Salin wrote a letter to send Besta to Daliang City. In the letter, he wrote about the equipment and materials he carried and told Rex about the battle plan.
Many of his materials have not been spliced into equipment, and the magicians under Rex need to prepare the corresponding alchemy equipment. So Salin wrote a letter to Rex when he was still more than a thousand miles away. He couldn't get to Daliang City before he started preparing.
Salin and others rushed on their way, physically and mentally exhausted, so they had to rest in this town for a day, completely recover and then set off.
Salin and others fell asleep. Earl Besta was handling military affairs in the mansion. At this time, personal soldiers hurriedly came to report that a cavalry had approached the town, with about 2,000 people. Earl Besta was shocked. Two thousand cavalry was the standard of a battalion, and behind it was probably two thousand heavy cavalry plus six thousand infantry.
The old count did not alarm Salin and said to his personal soldiers: "Call all the people and I will go up to the top of the city to take a look."
"Sir, can I go with you?" As soon as Besta finished speaking, the winged skeleton appeared in front of him, with the terrifying giant axe already in his hand. Under his crystal mask, the soul fire slowly jumped.
The Winged Skeleton was always following Salin. When Besta saw him, he thought he was just an ordinary undead. Unexpectedly, this undead had wisdom and could speak human language.
Chapter completed!