Chapter 47: Recruiting

When it was dark, a large group of people gathered at the lord's mansion. Half of them were the leaders of the rebels, and the other half were officials under the "former" lord Kasek. They included the original sheriffs, tax collectors, and financial officers in the city. After he occupied the city, these people were hiding at home and dared not go out. Fortunately, Neil was very familiar with all kinds of people in the city. So he found them one by one. Occupying a city, if

If they were not planning to razed it to the ground, then these people were indispensable. Although the guards of the deserted graves he awakened were ideal soldiers, they were just puppets and did not have real rationality and complex thinking ability. Most of the members of the rebels were illiterate farmers or hunters. There were too few people like Neil, and the responsibilities that Neil shouldered, that is, intelligence work was too important to allow him to take on the responsibility of managing the city.

Although Kasek is a very poor count and Meno is just a small town, the lord's mansion is large enough to hold such a meeting.

Asu Ruffat used to capture (of course, it is more appropriate to use "recovery") many cities. However, in that war, it was never a problem to achieve effective rule over the newly occupied cities. The Casillos people welcomed the arrival of their own troops (for granted) the arrival of their own troops. Local squires, merchants, elders and others enthusiastically came forward to provide services to the army to ensure that the two armies could effectively rule the city. After he invaded Paro's land, he did not consider the issue of rule at all, and directly destroyed everything with sword and fire. So this time, he could only listen to Carrie and Neil's opinions in this regard. However, the latter was still very afraid of him at this time and did not dare to give advice at will.

These officials were trembling and trepidated at this moment. It must be noted that even by the standards of human war, the casualties caused by the city's change of hands were very few. This half was because this was indeed a small city, and the residents immediately retreated to their homes when they saw that the situation was wrong. The other half was because the Immortal Legion was completely under the control of vampires, so there was no inevitable plunder and massacre in normal wars.

After defeating the remaining garrisons in the city, their action to take over the city was no longer difficult. At this moment, the lord was dead, and all the surviving soldiers who had no time to escape surrendered to the vampire.

Ashu Rufate stood in the middle of the room, and in front of him was a long table that was temporarily pieced together with several square tables. He was still wearing his own armor, and the thick black energy was churning on the blood-red armor. This was actually intentional, because Carrie repeatedly emphasized that Ashu Rufate could shock the group of people at the first time, so as not to be distracted. He should give them a strong impression and avoid the wavering and repetition of these people. Otherwise, they would betray at a critical moment and would likely directly take the rule of the city from him.

The speech to the old officials was soon over. After Ash Rufate intentionally or unintentionally deterred and intimidated as a vampire, all of them made the right choice, swore all loyalty to him, and was willing to serve the immortal lord. He could temporarily control the city through them and keep the city running day by day.

Late at night, Ashu Rufate (actually Carrie) drafted an announcement. The content of the announcement was very simple, which was to declare his identity and appointed himself as the Grand Duke of Sivania, the only ruler of this land. Ashu Rufate originally thought there was no need to make such an announcement, but Carrie insisted that it was indispensable.

Finally, all the trivial matters were temporarily dealt with. The others also left. Now, only Ash Rufate himself was left in the room.

He sat down and felt a little scared for some reason. Today, he was very lucky. Except for a few people including Neil, they didn't know that the "Baron Pinold" that Neil said before was a completely lie. They thought it was just a plan to hide his true identity. Therefore, the leaders of these rebels believed that they had always been subordinates of vampires. They easily accepted the existence of Asu Ruffat and the guards of the deserted tombs and were willing to fight for him. Not only that, they were a little excited to win the city of Meno in one fell swoop and the victory of killing Kasek. A day ago, they were still hiding in the mountains, hiding in a camp transformed by ancient tombs, but now they have become the masters of the city.

However, Ashurufate himself could not deceive himself. This victory was only short-lived. When he calmed down his mind and looked around, he found that the situation was far from as beautiful as expected. In Sivania, there were at least three powerful forces. Via, Istria and the excavation ground all had an independent force. In addition to the lord's private troops, Istria also had a Ryan royal army stationed. The excavation ground was stronger, and the total garrison stationed there would not be less than 5,000 troops, and there were also the Holy Knights as the backbone.

The main reason why he won such an easy victory today was that he was unprepared for it. Kasek failed to play the advantages of his army, and the cannons and muskets in his army had no chance to play at all - even his army did not have the opportunity to show off his combat effectiveness. If the environment was changed, the two sides would go all out to decide the outcome with all their strength when they were prepared, the victory might still belong to Ashu Rufate, but the battle would never be so easy and fast.

But there will be no chance for this kind of raid. After all, Meno is the place with the deepest mass base of the rebels, and there are enough spies and supporters in the city to seize control of the city gate in a short period of unexpected time. Via, Istria and the excavation site are unusable. Unlike Kasek, who is so poor that he cannot even pay the military pay for soldiers, Istria and the defenders of the excavation site have magicians, and there must be more than one on the excavation site. As long as he is a qualified magician, he can feel the fluctuations of the black magic energy and thus detect the movements of the undead army.

Ash Rufate sighed. The situation in front of him was not optimistic. Especially in terms of military strength, he awakened about five or six hundred guards of the desolate graves and two or three hundred skeleton horses, but this was his limit. Although the black magic can awaken the dead ancient warriors as the undead and use it for him, all the activities of undead creatures require the consumption of black magic energy. It is the black magic that replaces the body that has long lost these corpses to play a role in connecting. If the black magic energy that maintains the movement of an undead creature is exhausted, it will be restored to its original appearance and become a pile of dry bones that cannot move. Therefore, a black magic user cannot control the undead creature infinitely.

Of course, among these undead creatures awakened by black magic, perhaps a very small number will gain the ability to draw black magic from their surroundings, just like his Nightmare Horse. But this is an unrepeatable exception. Even Carrie doesn't understand why Nightmare Horse gets this ability.

"Master, are you worried about the battle?" Carrie asked in her mind.

"Well, the troops are insufficient." Ashu Rufate replied. Neil had reported to him the details of the rebels - all of them were only one thousand people, and their equipment and training were poor, so they could not fight head-on with regular troops. If a battle really occurred, then Ashu Rufate could only rely on this undead legion. "Carrie, it would be impossible to complete the plan to conquer Sivania with this kind of appearance."

In terms of strength, it is not only "impossible to conquer", but also has problems with self-protection.

"You must recruit more subordinates." Carrie suggested. "But in the short term, I suggest you use the power of the Dimension Stone."

Ashrufate took out the two dark green stones emitting faint light from his arms. Today, he found a second one from Cade. I don’t know where Cade found these stones.

"This thing? Isn't this for poisoning?"

"Poisoning is a waste of money," Carrie replied in her mind. "These stones are essentially formed by the condensed black magic energy. Under the appropriate conditions, they can also be restored to black magic energy. Although they are just disposable items, it should be enough to temporarily form an army."

"Build a large army?" Ashurufate asked in confusion. In places like Sivania, it may be possible to build a large army of corpse monsters, but it will take him several months to travel throughout Sivania and search through all ancient tombs. However, in this way, the black magic energy of the corpse monster that was initially awakened may have been exhausted. In other words, everything is in vain.

"It's not like that, master, I have a plan..." Carrie whispered the plan she planned.

"Carrie... Why do I think... it seems you have planned everything long ago?" Asu Ruffatt immediately asked after hearing Carrie's plan.

"Ah, this is a complete misunderstanding. I just designed different plans based on changes in the specific situation. It's just a plan! But to be honest, master, after you got the dimensional stone, I calculated this action and finally thought that it had almost 100% success rate. It's time to implement this plan, because you really need a real army."

...

It's already late at night.

He returned to the excavation site and stood in the cemetery where he first met Eric. Perhaps because he no longer suppressed his black magic, at this moment, he could clearly feel the commotion of the dead around him. It was the last thought left by the dead, and the people who died unwillingly were chattering and singing their resentment.

This time, it is very easy to enter the excavation site. Carrie has the ability to cast a magic (usually Carrie is extremely reluctant to do so, and would rather keep this opportunity to cast a magic in case). With Carrie's magic, Ash Rufate summoned a charcoal-black, non-entitled two-legged flying dragon, and easily brought herself here.

If there were magicians locally, they should have felt the magic, but there was no time to do anything.

"Master, you can start." Carrie urged in her mind.

Ashrufate held the dimension stone in his hand and raised it high. With the waves of black magic, the dimension stone in his hand began to dissolve and turned into pure black magic energy. With each fluctuation, his perception could rise to a new level. He could smell the sour smell of dirt and blood in his clothes, and he could clearly distinguish each scent. He could sense the weakest fluctuations of air between his hair and his skin. Even those unsensible things, the magic winds flowing in the air, have now displayed every tiny flow of himself within his perception range.

He didn't know how much power he had manipulated. The flames of the sun burned his brain, and all the cold of winter since ancient times was compressed into his heart.

"Master, it's your physical limit!" Carrie shouted a loud warning in her mind.

Ash Rufate injected all the black magic energy gathered beside him into the Withering Sword inserted on the ground and directed it to this land.

"Those who want peace will return to the arms of darkness forever. Those who want revenge will join my army!"
Chapter completed!