677 Personal hobbies and choices
In this world, except for a few merchants, mercenaries, or people with unjustified reasons, few people go out at will.
Because there are too many unknowns, diseases, beasts, monsters, and even ...... on the road Robbers, any kind of accident is fatal for ordinary people. A lone person like Beta who goes on the road alone is either a fool or a strong man.
Fools generally don't live long and are rare. Therefore, most of the people who go alone on the road are relied on.
There are few people who go out far away, and even the official road seems very quiet, let alone in the woods.
Heidi wore a purple dress, the first time Beta had seen her wear such a gorgeous outfit, and she usually wore a corset that was easy to move around, or light soft leather armor.
Beta walked up to her and smiled, "I know how to dress up, and the person who is about to become the wife of the city lord is really different." ”
Heidi lifted the corner of her skirt and slowly turned it around, the fragrance was blowing, and then she smiled: "Beautiful, no, it's for you." ”
Beta raised her eyebrows, a little unclear.
"Thank you for killing...... If it weren't for that, Nadette would never have been able to untie the knot, and I would never have been the lady of the city lord. Heidi walked up to Beta, her bright eyes full of gratitude and a heart-pounding enthusiasm: "I will always remember your kindness to me." ”
Heidi put her hands on Beta's chest softly: "So, this is a woman's most sincere gratitude, don't refuse." ”
Heidi tilted her head and offered her red lips.
After a long time, the two lips parted. Heidi gently pressed his forehead against Beta's shoulder and whispered, "I know you still don't look down on me, that's why you don't touch me." ”
"No, you're beautiful."
"Lying." Heidi smiled softly, her face full of teasing, "That paladin girl is your lover." ”
"It's not."
"Lie again, I'm also a woman, and the way she looks at you, I understand it at a glance." Heidi snuggled into Beta's arms and said, "You have younger, prettier maidens, and of course you don't look down on my old and decrepit wildflower." However, if you want to eat some small desserts one day, or want to eat some strange flavors, change the taste, you must come to me secretly, I will wait for you in Echo City. ”
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Half an hour later, Beta was back on the road, a purple shadow looming in the woods.
Echo City is only about 600 kilometers away from the Bright Sanctuary. In the eyes of ordinary people in this world, the distance of 600 kilometers is a very long distance, but in the eyes of a professional like Beta, who has the art of mansioning, it is a comfortable journey. At night, use magic to build a small stone stables for the pack horse, to prevent it from being taken away by wild beasts in the middle of the night, while he himself
Pack horses are very suitable for carrying people on long journeys, they are not picky about food, they have a good temper, they are resistant to diseases, and they are physically strong. Although the war horse is strong and fast, it is too expensive, not only to eat well, but also to take care of it carefully, unlike pack horses, when they arrive at the destination, they can eat the hay with relish, and they will find grass to eat nearby, and most of the green grass can be eaten, which is very worry-free.
The cost of raising a war horse can raise about seven pack horses.
Therefore, when traveling long distances, pack horses are generally used.
In addition, pack horses can occasionally be used as war horses, although they are indeed not as fast as real war horses, but they are also horses after all, and they can run faster than humans, and on the Ugandan side, even camels can form cavalry teams, not to mention faster pack horses.
However, on the battlefield, the real war horse is still the mainstream, after all, the war horse is taller, which is a great advantage on the frontal battlefield.
War horses and pack horses can be contracted into magic pets, and magic pet horses are also the first choice of many mages, after all, in the early and middle stages of the game, except for wind magicians, no other players have a means of rapid transfer, and the map of the whole game is exaggerated, therefore, riding a horse has become the most common means of long-distance movement.
And the casters have contracted the horses into pets, and so, in the early part of the game, the famous battle between the big and the pony begins.
A big horse refers to a military horse, and a small horse refers to a pack horse.
In the early stage of the game, the Malaysian Demon Pet was relatively strong. The demonic military horse not only has a great increase in explosive power and speed, but also has a small increase in endurance, and its combat effectiveness is not weak, which is of great help to the mage.
As for the pack horse demon pets, their explosive power and speed naturally have a small increase, and they continue to greatly strengthen their strengths, better disease resistance, poison resistance, extremely high physical strength, and ...... A wider range of recipes, and you can even eat some cooked meats too.
In the middle of the game, the casters who contracted the horses found that their expenses for raising horses were an exaggerated figure for three or four years. And the casters of the contract pack horses almost don't spend much money to buy horse materials, and the pack horse magic pet can eat enough to eat by gnawing some bark and leaves, and the pack horse magic pet is better adapted to the climate, whether it is a hot desert or a cold snow, it can come and go freely, in contrast, the military horse magic pet is more likely to get sick in these two places.
In the middle of the game, the battle between the ponies and ponies comes to an end, and the pack horse wins.
But there are still many magicians who choose contract horses, after all, the exaggerated running speed is ...... Sometimes it's just a belief.
To put it more simply, big horses and small ponies are the difference between a supercar and an off-road vehicle.
Beta walked all the way, reminiscing about his years in the game...... Although it didn't have a contract horse area as a magic pet, this did not prevent him from joining the debate, he supported the pack horse magic pet, but now that he thought about it, if he had to choose between the two again, he would most likely choose the military horse magic pet.
The reason is simple...... He didn't have any money in the game back then, and he didn't have any money in reality.
But now it's different, he's very rich, it's easy to raise a military horse magic pet, and the most important thing is that the military horse demon pet is handsome, tall and big, handsome and extraordinary, pack horse is much shorter, and the coat color is mixed.
As for pack horses, they can run around...... Now Beta can transmit magic, and he knows the 'human cannon', and the role of the pack horse demon pet is not very good for him.
Of course, this was a case where he had to choose one or the other, and in fact, horse-like pets, whatever they were, didn't mean much to Beta.
It doesn't make sense to him, but it makes sense to others. When he arrived at his booked destination in the evening, he was inadvertently involved in a small turmoil.
He was about to enter the city on a pack horse, when he saw two groups of men fighting against each other in the wasteland outside the city.
One group of cavalrymen on tall horses, apparently high-quality war horses, and the other on shorter pack horses.
The number of cavalry on the high-quality war horse was slightly smaller, about forty people, but the number of pack horse cavalry was much higher, at least more than a hundred.
The atmosphere between these two groups of cavalry was obviously not very friendly, and Beta also found that the coats of arms on the chests of these two groups of people were the same, that is, in fact, these two groups of people were of the same force, and they quarreled for some reason.
In the distance, many people were watching.
Bertador looked twice, and then went into the city, he thought it was just a small episode, but he did not expect that when he rested in the hotel until midnight, he found that the street was very noisy, and when he woke up and went to the window to look, he found that there were soldiers in every house, and even in the hotel to knock on the door.
Beta still thought that this had nothing to do with him, and was about to continue sleeping, but he didn't expect that his door was also slammed, and the sound was very urgent.
He was a little displeased, and when he opened the door, he found the innkeeper standing in front of the door with a soldier-like figure.
This soldier originally had an evil look on his face, but when he saw Beta's dress and grooming, he immediately became intimidated, and he said with some flattery: "This Excellency, the third young master of our city lord, wants to requisition your pack horse. ”
Beta frowned and said, "Don't give it." ”
"Our third young master will give money." The soldier said with a bitter face: "The third young master said, thirteen silver coins a horse." ”
That's a fair price, and that's pretty much the price for pack horses.
But Beta will have to rely on pack horses to hurry tomorrow, although it is much faster to use the combined magic of the 'Human Cannon', but the problem is that this place is close to the Holy Domain, and there are priests of the Temple of Light everywhere nearby, and there are many strong ones, and Beta is originally an impostor, if this exaggerated magic effect causes unnecessary investigation by the Temple of Light, it will be worth the loss.
Beta continued to shake her head: "Not for sale. ”
Then he closed the door.
The soldiers outside looked unhappy, but when they thought of Beta's somewhat luxurious clothes, they held back and turned to leave.
Two hours later, in the manor adjacent to the City Lord's Mansion, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper panted and said to a young man: "Third Young Master, the prime-aged pack horses in the city have all been collected, and there are still a few left. ”
The third young master looked like a delicate man, with brown hair and brown eyes, he groaned for a while and said, "Just a few heads, it's not a big deal." ”
At this time, an officer next to him said: "Third Young Master, in fact, it is not bad at all, some people know that you have launched the order to gather, but they just disobey it." In fact, there are quite a few pack horses in the city."
"Didn't you tell them that I was a conscription order issued by military order?" The third young master was extremely dissatisfied.
The officer said, "Yes, but they don't listen, and they don't seem willing to give you face." ”
"That's it!" The third young master touched his beardless chin, thought about it, and said, "If you don't give face, you won't give face, it doesn't matter, anyway, a few more horses are not enough, and a few less horses are not a lot." ”
The officer was a little surprised: "Third Young Master, the problem is that after this incident, other people will laugh at you, and there will be more and more people who don't give you face and are unwilling to obey your orders." ”
The third young master smiled: "Others will laugh at me for just such a thing?" It's not a real wartime mobilization, and if it's a real wartime mobilization, they don't sell pack horses to me, but I can get them in trouble. Now that we have issued a conscription order in non-wartime, other people are already watching the joke, and if we offend more people because of this matter, won't the other people laugh even more? ”
The officer sighed slightly, and stopped persuading. He left and instructed his subordinates to find a way to get together a pack horse for the third young master.
As soon as the soldiers had summed up, they brought back as many pack horses as they could, and when they heard that there was a head in a certain inn, a few men came with weapons. They did not threaten Beta directly, but threatened the owner of the inn, and while Beta was sleeping, several people came to the stables not far behind the hotel and led the pack horses away.
Because the stables were a little away from the hotel where Beta was sleeping, and the others had entered the mansion space, they didn't know that their pack horses had been stolen.
The next day, after breakfast, he was about to continue walking, when he came to the stable, and found that the pack horse was missing.
The owner of the hotel, who was in a cold sweat, told the story of last night. In desperation, Beta asked, "The third young master of the city lord's family, why are you collecting so many pack horses?" ”
"It's not for today's duel." The innkeeper said: "The eldest young master and the third young master have been at odds for a long time, and they will make an appointment to fight once a year to divide the winners and losers. ”
"What does a duel have to do with pack horses?"
"The eldest young master likes a cavalry regiment composed entirely of war horses, but the third young master said that the number of cavalry regiments is more important, so he feels that the cavalry regiment should pay attention to the number and form a cavalry army with very cheap pack horses." The innkeeper smiled: "The city lord thinks that what they say is quite reasonable, so let them duel once a year, and the people who win ten games in total can inherit the position of the city lord in the future." ”
As interesting as it sounded, not caring that his pack horse had been robbed, Beta asked, "Where are they dueling?" ”
"The wasteland north of the city."
Beta returns to the room and summons Joan of Arc.
As soon as Joan of Arc came out, she subconsciously protected her chest with her wings, glanced at Beta vigilantly, and then flew into the sky.
With Joan of Arc's vision, Beta quickly found the two cavalry to the north of the city, before the duel had begun.
From Joan of Arc's vision, the distance between the two sides was about a kilometer, and on one side were the elite cavalrymen with small numbers but shiny armor and tall horses, and on the other side the ordinary cavalrymen wearing leather armor and riding shorter pack horses.
But the packhorse cavalry regiment was at least three times as numerous as the elite cavalry regiment.
Farther away, there was a high platform on which several noble-looking men sat and maids served.
It didn't take long for the duel to begin.
The two sides charged almost at the same time, but on the way to charge, the pack horse cavalry regiment suddenly divided into three detachments, the left and right detachments scattered, and the middle team directly collided with the elite cavalry regiment.
Seeing this, Beta immediately knew that the pack horse cavalry regiment had won.
Really...... Although the elite cavalry regiment directly chiseled through the middle cavalry team, they were also surrounded by the other two pack horse cavalry teams, and the distance between the two sides was very close, and the elite cavalry regiment did not dare to stop at all, once they stopped, they would be attacked by the other party.
And the cavalry that stopped was inferior in combat effectiveness to the infantry.
Next, the elite cavalry regiment wanted to get rid of the other party's pursuit, but the problem was that although their war horses were brave, the cavalry and horses were wearing armor, and they couldn't run fast at all, and the soldiers of the pack horse cavalry regiment were wearing leather armor, so their speed was not worse than that of the other party.
The chase lasted about three hours, and the elite cavalry regiment kept circling, but there was no way to shake off the two pack horse cavalry teams behind them, and then the problem of insufficient endurance of the military horses came out, and they were caught up by the two pack horse cavalry teams, and they were attacked directly in the rear and were sentenced to lose.