"Of course, there will be accidents, because many followers have higher levels than magicians, and the competition is not a battle of life and death. If some special situations occur, the magician will not be punished by the imperial code, and this is only a personal problem. Therefore, when accepting followers, the magician will be extremely careful."

"What you said seems to be beneficial to the follower of warriors. In this case, why should I accept the follower of others?" Felleg asked. Among the magicians he had met, no one seemed to have a follower around him.

"In peacetime, the magician is indeed unwilling to accept the follower of the warrior. Even if the warrior has a very high class, he is also unwilling to accept it. He has obligations and rights. The magician can issue any orders to his followers, and the followers also have the obligation to protect the magician."

"Any order? What if I let him kill?"

"Of course, but any responsibility arises after the murder is borne by the magician who issued the order, not by the follower warrior, so the followers must be careful." Merlin explained patiently, thinking that this is very important for the tutor Ferig.

"I don't need their help to kill people, and I don't think they need their protection. Is this necessary?" Ferig thought for a while, but still didn't think it was necessary to accept his followers.

If the followers are too strong, they will be in danger when accepting the challenge. What's the reason why warriors who are stronger than magicians have to follow them?

"I just said that if it is peace, of course there is no need, but war is coming, and it is very necessary at this time." Merlin said.

"Come a group of thugs?" Feleg shook his head and laughed. It is inevitable that a magician will go to the battlefield, but the empire will not let the magician go to the battlefield by itself. What's more, all magicians have the title of an earl and can have three thousand private troops. Before the war begins, they will definitely replenish enough personnel. These private troops are much more reliable than followers.

"It's not a thug. On the battlefield, if you have a group of followers who can rely on, the benefit is very obvious. With them, you can use magic with confidence. You don't need to place half of the magic power on the magic shield, which can greatly increase the strength of the magic attack and the time to release magic. After all, the magic shield almost consumes half of the magic power of the magician." Merlin said.

"Ah..." Felleg finally understood. It turned out that following people had such benefits. She was right. If the magic power in the magic shield was saved, the magician's attack strength and time on the battlefield could be extended at least by about twice.

"But... but how can I rely on those followers?" Feleg knew that the private army was relatively loyal, but their abilities were limited. If the enemy sent out samurai with high martial arts skills, these private army might not be able to stop them. The followers themselves are mid-level or high-level warriors.

"This takes time, and the magicians will not easily trust their followers. The warriors are very clear about this, so they need to touch each other for as long as possible. When the warriors grow, the magicians are also growing, so they can always give different inspiration to followers and help them break through the bottleneck. Followers who are worthy of dependence, like your brothers, are people who can hand over your life to them on the battlefield to protect."

"It's so difficult, how many years will it take? Without ten or eight years, I'm afraid I can't trust them completely." Felleg shook his head. The war will begin next year, so how can he have ten years?

"Yes, starting next year, it will be a decade-old war between the eight empires in the East Continent. The purpose of this kind of war is actually to train troops. Each empire will reduce the casualties of the army as much as possible, and there will be no such incidents as killing prisoners or abuses prisoners. As for the harm of civilians, it will not happen. Relatively speaking, the Ten Years War is a war of minor casualties, and it is just a matter of using this period to get along with each other. Get to know each other." Meilin said.

"Oh? Some reasons, can I tell me about the rules of the Ten Years War?" Feleg said. He was still very interested in this Ten Years War aimed at training.

The gods in the sky are really strange, forcing the empires on the two continents to make such a choice. Even if the Ten Years War is minimized, I don’t know how many people will die.

"Ten Years' War is also a real war. This is not a pretending thing, but a to train a real iron-blooded soldier. Although everyone should minimize casualties as much as possible, it will actually be very tragic. The soldiers and generals with red eyes will sometimes completely forget the purpose of this war."

"But during the Ten Years' War, when it is inevitable to lose, surrender, redemption, and slaves are allowed." Merlin said.

The first two points are not difficult to understand. It is not surprising that they surrender if they lose. As for redeeming the hostages, it is even more normal. The Prince of Wenfu is his own prisoner. When he captured him, Ferleg inexplicably said his victory. He did not know at the time that there was no victory speech on the battlefield.

"Slaves are allowed?" Ferlig knew that in the entire Eastern Continent, no country allowed slaves to exist in the eight empires. The lowest places were not slaves, nor were they slaves. They were also personal freedom, and only criminals would lose their freedom. The obligations and rights were different between classes.

Slave, this is a word that only exists in books, represents the loss of everything, not only freedom, but also rights, and even personality.

"Yes, in the Ten Years' War, slaves are allowed to exist. If captured soldiers do not have money to redeem their freedom, or if they fail to send the ransom on time within the prescribed time, they will become slaves of the victor. According to the regulations of our empire, two slaves will be obtained on the battlefield, and one of them will be handed over to the empire."

“What is the prescribed time?”

"It depends on the status of the enemy you captured, the distance of the empire to which he belongs, and depending on the circumstances, there will be different redemption time."

"I think you have touched me, but I don't know how many followers I should accept and what kind of followers I need?" It seems that war is not as simple as I imagined. It is also good to have a group of followers I can rely on.

The Ten Years War may be easier. When the Centennial Continental War begins, I don’t know how bad the situation will be at that time. It is always not a bad thing to increase our strength.

Fortunately, the Auckland Empire is not a country close to the Hengduan Mountains. Before reaching the mountains, there were two empires. I think the Western continent is not as powerful as it can soon destroy the two empires.

"You are now a junior magician. I would like to accept five to eight followers, otherwise you will have to spend too much time accepting their challenges, which is not worth it. As for the level, I think you should collect at least 13 to 15 warriors. Their combat power is similar to yours. Maybe it is difficult for you to defeat 15 warriors, but it will not be much different." Merlin said very seriously. Followers are very important to magicians, especially magicians in war.

"Okay, I'll notice, or should I send a notice or something?" Felleg really didn't know where to find followers, whether the high-level warrior would be his followers?

"It's easy. There is an elite samurai school in the Imperial Magic Academy, where you can just issue a notice. The samurai school in the elite samurai school is all above level 10, and some of them are very excellent, so you can also consider it. In addition, many of the samurai graduates from there are at the level of high-level samurai. They will often go back to the school to visit teachers or play guest-stars as lecturers."

"It's very good. I'll post a notice when I go back." Ferlig nodded and responded.

After talking about the followers, Merlin entered a meditation state to replenish her exhausted magic power, while Ferlig began to create new armor. As he said, magic control is like the increase in magic power, and it will never end and requires continuous practice and training.

Every time I create something new, whether it is weapons or armor, Ferleg will do his best to show off his energy and complete it in the best state.

It is not difficult to extract memory metals from ores. Even magic apprentices can do it, but it is just a slower speed. However, during the refining process, it is very difficult to control their shapes and slowly turn them into a pair of armor. The most important thing among them is naturally the level of magic control.

Unfortunately, the alchemists have worse magic power. They are much worse than magic apprentices. Although they know more about armor and weapons, they cannot refine and create memory metal equipment.

I spent a lot of time running back and forth in the past few months, but Felleg never gave up practicing, especially during the time in Little Bear City. Seeing Merlin working so hard, he also focused on practicing magic. There were too few magic elements there, and he also used elemental crystals to meditate. The effect was not as good as Merlin, but it was quite OK, at least not worse than extracting magic elements from space.

It took only two hours this time, and the armor was basically completed. A moment of emotion, Ferleg controlled his surname with magic power under the armor, engraved his abbreviation of "Randy". He still remembered that when he started to build broadswords and staff, he engraved the words on it. But at that time, the level of magic control was still too poor.

The words above are engraved big and ugly. If you don’t make a careful judgment, you can hardly recognize what words you engraved on it. Now it’s different. Randy’s two small characters are beautiful and clear, and very small. Looking at these two words during meditation, Felleg was very satisfied. It seems that his magic control level has improved a lot.
Chapter completed!