At this time, Payne took the transformed terrifying general and hid in Dragon's Throat City in fear.

It needs to be said that because Payne's hand is too trendy, the undead transformation effect is not good, and in the end, he only got a terrifying general at the level of a great knight.

Necromancers can transform the dead into undead warriors, depending on the strength of the deceased during their lifetime.

However, the strength after transformation is generally much lower than before death, and sometimes it can even be two levels lower. Payne had just mastered the inheritance of the Undead Tyrant, and his heart was a little inflated, thinking that he could transform Ryan, who was at the peak of the first-class, into a first-class terrifying general, but in the end, he only retained his second-rate strength.

By the way, in the magical history and civilization, knights are equivalent to military generals in the Huaxia region, and knights are the real cavalry. Junior and senior knights correspond to junior and senior generals. The Great Knight, the Grand Knight, the Earth Knight, the Epic Knight, and the Legendary Knight correspond from the third-rate to the top generals.

The characteristic professional magicians of the magic civilization are divided into junior magicians, intermediate magicians, senior magicians, great magicians, magicians, magicians, magicians, archmagicians, and magic gods.

In addition, in the magical civilization, there is a kind of divine favorite, which is equivalent to the historical generals of the Huaxia District, and is also divided into D, C, B, A, S, SS and other levels.

Payne was originally a B-rank Grand Magister-level god. Magical attainments are on a par with the chief archmage of the court in the Carter Kingdom.

However, after obtaining the inheritance of the undead tyrant, Payne has been successfully promoted to an S-level archmage, and it takes some time to accumulate precipitation, and it is not difficult to be promoted to an S-level law god!

Although Ryan's transformation was not as perfect as expected, with a knight at the rank of a great knight at his side for personal protection, Payne finally had some confidence in his heart and began to explore outward.

Payne was able to survive in King Carter's capital for ten years and gain the trust of the king and the eldest prince, so he was naturally not a reckless and impulsive person.

Unclear about the situation, Payne was cautious.

For some reason, the Grand Prince's Space Ring actually contained the items needed for disguise, and Payne simply dressed it up while covering the features of Ryan's undead.

Although he doesn't know where he is, the undead are undesirable in most worlds, and Payne is very aware of this.

Dressed as a traveler, Payne slowly explores the wilderness with the undead Ryan until they come across a village!

Observing from afar with the eyes of the true spirit, Payne was greatly surprised. Because the people in the village are far from Carter's kingdom in terms of skin color, appearance, clothing, etc.!

Payne has always considered himself to be knowledgeable, but since he heard about this kind of existence, he can't help but feel a little panicked.

Then, what made him even more frightened appeared, in this small village with a total population of only two thousand, there were actually a hundred third-order warriors!

You must know that third-order warriors can enter the main force of the kingdom army in the Carter Kingdom, and they are the absolute main force like a mainstay among the noble lords!

In this small village, with a population of only 2,000, there were a full hundred third-order warriors, which frightened Payne a lot.

Among the Scouts further, his True Spirit Eye was detected by a high-ranking military general under the command of the village guard, and before he could react, Payne had fled. It made the Guardian Commander think he was mistaken.

With Payne's strength, combined with Ryan's second-rate level terrifying general, it was more than enough to destroy a small village with only one hundred and thirteen-order soldiers, but Payne didn't dare to do it!

Prudence is the most important factor for Payne to be able to become the second archmage of the kingdom's court as the Dark Speaker, and he will never dare to do it lightly without thoroughly understanding the situation here.

Next, Payne disguised himself all the way and explored many villages, and found that the results were basically the same as the first village, and even many of them were stronger. This shattered the last chance of Payne Newtown!

He originally thought that the special situation of that village had led to so many third-order warriors, but as a result, he investigated all the way and found that the situation was even worse, and even found at least two thousand third-order guards in a relatively large town, and the captain of the guard team was an earth knight!

The horrible situation almost scared Payne stupid, and he flew away from the town.

After the reconnaissance, Payne became more careful, not only did his best to hide the characteristics of the undead, but even concealed the exotic appearance of his body, for fear of causing a hunt after exposure.

In fact, Payne was a little misunderstood, although Pingzhou's military strength was strong, it was not strong enough to equip a village of two thousand people with a hundred third-order soldiers, and the reason for this abnormal ratio was entirely because of the special situation here.

The Dragon's Throat Mountains are already the border of Pingzhou to the east, and further east is the area controlled by Pu Yin. Since ancient times, the people at the junction of the two countries have been much stronger, and a slightly higher military-civilian ratio is nothing.

But what really led to this extreme situation was a reserve system practiced by the merchants.

Although the last battle with Pu Yin ended in the victory of Pyongju, Park Eun's army also left a deep impression on Shang Ji, in order to prevent Park Eun from suddenly going crazy and raising the strength of the whole country to attack Pyeongju, Shang Ji implemented a reserve system near the Longyu Gorge that was almost a soldier for all people.

Men in the prime of life were recruited from the villages, all of them were brought close to the barracks for training, and after training, they were given simple weapons and armor, and then immediately retired and returned to their hometowns to continue their normal work.

After retiring, the strength of the soldier will be greatly reduced, but no matter how much it declines, it is better than that of an ordinary farmer. A group of people with good potential will be selected to form a guard team, and Pingzhou will allocate a part of the subsidy, and the villages will add an additional amount to form a villager guard team between villages, conduct regular training, and maintain normal combat strength.

Ordinary retired soldiers also train in their spare time to ensure that their strength does not deteriorate too much. Once the worst situation occurs, it can replenish troops in time, delay the enemy's attack, and buy time for the mobilization of large troops in Pingzhou.

This reserve system was limited to some areas in the eastern part of the former Goguryeo adjacent to the Longyu Gorge, and as for why it was not extended to the whole of Pyongju, the reason was simple - there was no money!

It costs money to train soldiers!

Training a third-order soldier, not counting equipment, will cost two gold and ten units of food for the training cost alone, and there is no guarantee that it will be successful!

Counting some of the simple equipment provided, it would cost an average of about six gold for a third-order soldier to complete the training.

As for the retirement from the army, it is necessary to ensure that the combat strength will not decline significantly, and the comprehensive expenses such as training and subsidies will need at least 10 gold per person a year on average.

There were two million such reserves scattered in the eastern part of Goguryeo, and the funds spent on this piece alone were no less than 25 million a year!

Such a huge amount of expenditure, if it is fully carried out in the whole of Pingzhou, the required funds will not be enough to add zero to the back.

Counting the 7 million regular army, whose expenses were even more terrifying, within a year Pingzhou would have to be completely destroyed due to a large excess of military spending and financial bankruptcy.

There are less than five million reserves in Pingzhou, nearly half of which are located near the Dragon's Throat Gorge. The rest are mainly distributed in the western part of Liaoxi County, Lulong Fortress, and Haiyang, Lingzhi, Feiru and other cities bordering Youbeiping.

Payne spent half a month in the wilderness cautiously, learning some of the situation, he is currently in a very powerful empire.

The vastness of this empire, the richness of the country, the diversity of its people, and the strength of its army can only be matched by the rumored Empire of Light (the most powerful country in the magical civilization, in fact, the beacon counterpart of the American imperialists).

Far from the core of the empire, what he saw and understood was a remote region under the command of a governor named Shangji. And his location is still a remote area in a remote area.

When he thought of the strength of the village and town armies under the command of the governor of a remote area, Payne felt like his three views were collapsing!

Well, I have to say that this is a misunderstanding, although Pingzhou is indeed a remote area and far from the core territory of the Han Dynasty, but Pingzhou's military strength is not weak at all. The comprehensive strength can at least rank among the top five princes in the world.

For necromancers, the most important thing is, of course, the undead army.

If you want an army of the undead, you have to have enough corpses. Under normal circumstances, Payne would take the undead Ryan to attack a small village, convert all the names of the village into undead, and then snowball into growth before the local noble lords could react, until they were finally able to resist or even destroy the lord's army.

It's a pity that here, Payne didn't dare to raise the mind to attack the village at all. He had seen the reaction of the village to the attack of a large number of wild beasts, and the nearby villages had arrived within two quarters of an hour. In less than an hour, the cavalry of the regular local army wiped out all the beasts. The speed of support made Payne despair.

Before the snowball could roll, Payne would have to be twisted like a rat by the local army.

Once the undead appear and get the attention of the authorities, Payne can already imagine his tragic situation!

After half a month, carefully camouflaging himself, and conducting careful experiments in three different villages and towns, after making sure that they couldn't see any flaws, Payne cautiously stepped into Dragon's Throat City!

Whether as the Speaker of the Dark Council or the Second Archmage of the Carter Kingdom, Penn Makat has never had a hard time.

In the past half a month, he has been sleeping in the wilderness, which can be regarded as enough to toss the archmage. After enduring it for half a month, Payne resolutely stepped into the largest city nearby.

As soon as he stepped into the city, he was confronted by a group of heavily armed hoplite patrol infantry, and Payne was so frightened that he almost turned around and left!

Fortunately, the long latent career forcibly stopped this impulse and passed by the patrol head-on.

Payne carefully observed the strength of the patrol, all of them were fifth-order elites, and they were the main force of the King's Blade Knights in the Carter Kingdom, but they were used to patrol here, Payne really wanted to scold the tyrannical things!

After two days in Dragonmaw City, Payne became even more desperate.

The combat power of this city is even more powerful than that of the entire Kingdom Blade Knights, and what is even more exaggerated is that the city's city defense general is actually a legendary knight!

This powerful knight who can sweep the world in the Carter Kingdom, under the command of that noble lord named Shang Ji, can't even enter the top ten!

Under the blow, Payne temporarily rested his thoughts of sweeping the world with an army of undead, and quietly lurked in Dragon's Throat City.

Prince Ryan's space ring put tens of thousands of gold coins, but it would not make the inheritor of the dignified undead tyrant worry about life. After getting rich, Payne suddenly found that this place was much more interesting than the poor and backward Kingdom of Carter.

Eating, drinking and having fun all day long, there is a kind of "happy here, don't think about it" posture.

The good days lasted until he met a bohemian young scholar at the liquor shop!