Chapter 171 Rapid Development

In addition to the large-scale knight training for ordinary soldiers, Roland naturally did not give up on the training of spellcasters.

Although Donnar is the hometown of knights, the blood of the Donnar people has been continuously influenced by several legendary knights. Therefore, most Donnar people are more suitable to be knights rather than spellcasters.

However, there are so many people in Donnaran that there are always places that the legends cannot reach. In addition, the people of Donnar intermarry with the people of Sinnar and the people of the North. Therefore, although there are few Donnar people with spellcasting talent, some talents can still be screened out.

As for these spellcasters, Roland did not send them to the boot camp to improve their physical fitness. Instead, he directly allocated an area for them in the military camp and taught them the basic meditation method, allowing them to start meditating directly.

Roland did not plan to train these spellcasters as meticulously as he had trained Hela, nor did he plan to train them to become legal spellcasters that met the definition of the Tower of Truth like Sinnar did. What Roland wanted to train were war mages who specialized in warfare.

If ordinary spellcasters are scholars and researchers, then war mages are soldiers.

Of course, Roland did not completely negate their innovations. As long as they could meet Roland's requirements and practice the spells that Roland had chosen for them, Roland would not care what they wanted to do.

However, even so, due to the culture of Donnar, some soldiers with spellcasting talent refused to become spellcasters. Roland did not force them, but respected their choices and sent them to the recruit camp or kicked them out of the barracks.

In the end, after Roland screened for most of the day, he only found less than a hundred soldiers who had the talent to be spellcasters and were willing to become spellcasters.

Moreover, compared to the smooth popularization of the breathing method among the knights, the meditation method here is full of difficulties.

Although there is no difference between the paths of knight and spellcaster, the threshold for spellcasters is indeed much higher than that of knights.

A knight's breathing method can be developed through practice, but a spellcaster's meditation method really depends on talent and wisdom. Even if there are auxiliary props, it is still very difficult for an ordinary person to enter a meditative state and capture his or her own soul.

Moreover, meditation is the most dangerous method. If you do not practice the breathing method well and damage your body, you can still eat something good to replenish your body and rest for a few days and maybe it will be fine. However, meditation may hurt your soul if you are not careful. At that time, you can either spend a lot of money to buy alchemical potions to nourish the soul, or you can only lie down for a month or two and wait for your soul to recover slowly.

Therefore, even on Sinar's side, the number of spellcasters is much smaller than that of knights.

Therefore, even though Roland's soldiers, who knew nothing, tried to meditate for several days, less than twenty of them were able to successfully capture the soul and complete the first meditation.

Fortunately, Roland had prepared a large amount of alchemical potions in his space bracelet in advance, and with his personal guidance, these reserve battle mages were all on track in about a month.

While Roland was training his troops, Hela was naturally not idle either.

After the makeshift team of Jiuqi was established and expanded rapidly, Hela no longer handled government affairs every day, and in terms of food, Hela had nothing to do.

Since Jiuqi's makeshift team provided Hela with sufficient manpower, Hela basically did not need to collect materials herself. As for extracting life force, after Hela commanded her workers and set up dozens of magic arrays of various sizes, Hela no longer needed to do it.

All the work can be done by ordinary workers, and Hela only needs to be responsible for monitoring to avoid any accidents or corruption.

Therefore, after leaving the empty space, Hela began to prepare the equipment for the army.

Although there are many mineral veins in the old Qi City, most of them have been abandoned due to the green tide. Even if more manpower is assigned to handle these mineral veins, not much resources can be dug out in a short time.

Moreover, all the blacksmiths in the old Qi City had run away, and there were only a few left. It was basically impossible to rely on them to forge sufficient weapons and equipment.

Therefore, Hela chose another method, planting trees. After Roland made the decision to establish his power, he considered the issue of weapons and equipment when he went to Donnar.

Although strange machines are the answer for future versions, in the current era, only the dwarves in the North Sea have the technical ability to form a strange machine army.

Although Roland knew something about strange machines, and his knowledge was even more advanced than that of the dwarves, he couldn't possibly focus all his energy on making strange machines. Moreover, without a strange machine master accompanying the army, how would he do the daily maintenance of the strange machines?
Therefore, after thinking it over again and again, Roland gave up the idea of ​​building a legion of strange machines.

The Strange Machine Legion should think about this before it has a stable territory and the capital to attract and trick a dwarf tribe to come and join them.

Therefore, after checking his own conditions, Roland turned his attention to the plants he had cultivated in the Kes Mountains a few years ago: the golden tree and the blue-leaf tree.

These trees can be used, especially the golden tree, whose main purpose is to make armor.

The golden bark is light, comfortable, and has excellent magic resistance and physical defense properties. It is undoubtedly an excellent choice for making armor.

Even if it is only processed and hardened into armor, it is still much stronger than ordinary armor. If it is enchanted, the defense will be even stronger.

Moreover, in addition to the bark, other parts of the golden tree are also useful. The leaves can be used as raw materials for making meals. Moreover, as an extraordinary tree, the amount of life force that can be extracted every day is also not small.

As for the blue-leaf tree used for papermaking, Roland did not let it go. He used it to make a set of paper underwear for the soldiers. Maybe it could save their lives. If the golden tree armor was penetrated, the paper underwear could still provide some protection.

In addition, in terms of weapons, Roland also specially cultivated a new extraordinary vegetation, Ironwood, a special tree that is completely black and has no leaves. The hard wood it produces is more suitable for making weapons.

Since Roland was busy training his troops, the planting of these plants was naturally left to Hela.

Therefore, after leaving the task of making the cakes to others, Hela has been busy planting and promoting the growth of these vegetation. At the same time, she also has to command her subordinates to collect bark and leaves, carry out various processing, and continuously produce various weapons and equipment.

While Roland and Hela were focusing all their energy on the military, the administrative expansion of Jiuqi was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

Since Jiuqi's makeshift team was already in place, apart from some major issues that required Roland to occasionally take some time out to solve, it was basically able to operate independently.

Especially since Roland was the one above them, as ordinary people, they couldn't hide anything from Roland.

This means fairness. As long as you do a good job and have achievements, Roland will promote you. If there is really no position, you will be rewarded. For example, Roland will give several best-performing officials an extraordinary opportunity each.

Although Roland planned to give every official an opportunity to become extraordinary in the future, after all, extraordinary people are much better than ordinary people no matter what job they do, but at present Roland still has to concentrate on training the army.

Therefore, the number of places available to officials is relatively limited.

Under the temptation of extraordinary power, the officials of the old Qi city also worked frantically to get a chance.

But if someone is lazy, doesn't do his job well, or even tries to deceive his superiors and subordinates and engages in corruption, the former will just be fired and replaced, while the latter will be killed directly.

Therefore, even without Roland and Hela's deliberate promotion, after the makeshift team of Old Qi City had incorporated all the refugee camps, in order to gain more merits, they also turned their attention to the villages around the city and took the initiative to send people to prepare to control all these villages that nominally belonged to Old Qi.

(End of this chapter)