677 Personal hobbies and choices
In this world, except for a few merchants, mercenaries, or people who have reasons for their own gain, few people travel far away at will.
Because there are too many unknowns, diseases, beasts, monsters, and even... robbers. Any accident is fatal to ordinary people. Those who walk alone like Beta are either fools or strong people.
Fools usually don’t live long, and they are rare. Therefore, most people who are alone on the road rely on something.
There are few people traveling far away, and even the official road seems very quiet, not to mention the woods.
Heidi was wearing a purple dress. This was the first time Beta saw her wearing such gorgeous clothes. Usually, she wore a tunic that was convenient for movement, or a lightweight soft leather armor.
Beta walked up to her and smiled and said, "The person who can dress up and become the city lord's wife is indeed different."
Haidi picked up the corner of her skirt and slowly turned around. The fragrant wind blew on her face. Then she smiled and said, "Is it beautiful? I'm wearing it for you."
Beta twitched his eyebrows, and was a little confused.
"Thank you for killing... If it weren't for that, Nadette would never be able to untie the knot, and I would never be able to become the lord's wife." Hedy walked to Beta, and her bright eyes were full of gratitude, and a passion that made people's heart beat faster: "I will always remember your kindness to me."
Heidi pressed his hands softly in front of Beta's chest: "So, this is the most sincere gratitude of a woman, don't refuse."
Haidi raised his head and presented his red lips.
After a long time, the two of them separated their lips. Hedi's forehead gently pressed against Tobeta's shoulder and whispered: "I know you don't like me yet, so I don't touch me."
"No, you're pretty."
"Lying." Heidi smiled softly, his face full of jokes: "That paladin girl is your lover."
"no."
"I'm also a woman. I can understand the look she looks at you." Haidi snuggled into Beta's arms and said, "You have a younger and more beautiful girl. Of course, you don't look down on me as old and despicable wild flowers. However, if you eat too much delicious food every day, you will get bored. If you want to eat some small desserts, or want to eat some unique flavors and change your taste, you must come to me secretly. I'll be waiting for you in Huiyin City."
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Half an hour later, Beta set off on the road again, a purple shadow looming in the woods.
Echo City is only about 600 kilometers away from the Holy Land of Light. In the eyes of ordinary people in this world, the distance of 600 kilometers is a very long distance, but like Beta, a professional who possesses mansion art, is a comfortable journey. At night, he uses magic to build a small stone horseman for the pack horse to prevent it from being taken away by wild beasts in the middle of the night, and himself
Pack horses are very suitable for long-distance travelers. They are not picky about food, have a good temper, have strong disease resistance, and have sufficient physical strength. Although war horses have strong explosive power and fast speed, they are too expensive. They not only need to eat well, but also have to take care of them carefully. Unlike pack horses, when they arrive at their destination, they can eat hay with relish and they will also find grass nearby to eat. 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 for a long distance, pack horses are usually used.
In addition, pack horses can be used occasionally as war horses. Although they do not run faster than real war horses, they are also horses after all, and their speed is beyond humans. In Urkanda, even camels can form cavalry teams, not to mention faster pack horses.
However, on the battlefield, real war horses are still mainstream. After all, war horses are taller, which is a great advantage in the frontal battlefield.
Both war horses and pack horses can be contracted to become demon pets, and demon pet horses are also the first choice for many mages. After all, in the early and mid-stage of the game, except for the wind magicians, no other player has the means of rapid transfer, and the map of the entire game is exaggerated. Therefore, riding a horse has become the most common method of long-distance movement.
The casters all contracted the horses to become magic pets, so in the early stage of the game, the battle between the horse and the pony began like this.
A large horse refers to a military horse, and a small horse refers to a pack horse.
In the early stage of the game, the Malaysian magic pet is relatively strong. The magic pet's military horse not only greatly improves its explosive power and speed, but also has a slight increase in endurance, and its combat power is not weak, which is very helpful to the mage.
The explosive power and speed of the pack horse demon pets are naturally slightly improved. They continue to greatly strengthen their strengths, better anti-disease, anti-toxicity, extremely high physical strength, and... a wider range of recipes, and even some cooked meat.
In the middle of the game, the casters who contracted military horses found that their spending on raising military horses was an exaggerated number in three or four years. The casters who contracted the pack horses hardly spent much money to buy horse materials. The pack horse magic pet could eat enough if they ate some bark and leaves. Moreover, the pack horse magic pet adapted better to the climate, and they could come and go freely in hot deserts or cold snow. In contrast, the military magic pet was more likely to get sick in these two places.
In the middle of the game, the battle between Malaysia and Pony came to an end, and the pack horse demon pet won.
But there are still many magicians who choose to contract military horses. After all, the exaggerated running speed... sometimes it is a kind of faith.
To put it simply, Malaysia and Pony are the difference between supercars and off-road vehicles.
Beta walked along the way and missed the years in the game... Although it did not 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 thinking about it, if he had to choose between the two again, he would probably choose the military horse magic pet.
The reason is very simple... He didn't have much money in the game back then, and he didn't have much money in reality.
But now it is different. He is very rich, and it is easy to raise a military horse demon pet. The most important thing is that the military horse demon pet is handsome, tall and big, handsome, and a pack horse with a lot of shortness and mixed colors.
As for the pack horses that can run around... Beta now can teleport magic and understands the "human cannon", the effect of the pack horse magic pet on him is not very important.
Of course, this is to ask him to choose one of two. In fact, horse-like magic pets, no matter which one, have no meaning to Beta.
This is meaningless to him, but to others, it is very meaningful. When he arrived at the reservation destination in the evening, he accidentally got involved in a small storm.
He was riding a pack horse and was about to enter the city when he saw two groups of people facing each other on the wasteland outside the city.
One group of cavalry riding tall horses, obviously high-quality war horses, and the other group of cavalry riding shorter pack horses.
The number of cavalrymen with high-quality war horses was slightly smaller, about forty, but the number of cavalrymen on the pack horse was much higher, at least one hundred.
The atmosphere between the two groups of cavalry was obviously not very friendly. Beta also found that the emblems on the chests of these two groups were the same, which means that the two groups of people were actually from the same force, and for some reason, they started to quarrel.
Afar, many people were watching.
Betado glanced at it and then entered the city. He thought it was just a small episode, but he didn't expect that when he was resting in the hotel until midnight, he found that the street was very noisy. When he woke up and walked to the window, he found soldiers in every household, or even a hotel to slap the door.
Beta still thought that this had nothing to do with him. When he was about to continue sleeping, he didn't expect that his door was also snapped and his voice was very fast.
He was a little displeased and opened the door and found that the hotel manager was leading a soldier-like man standing in front of the door.
The soldier had a look of evil on his face, but when he saw Beta's clothes and dress, he immediately became timid. He said a little flatteringly: "Your Excellency, the third young master of our city lord, wants to requisition your pack horse."
Beta frowned and said, "No."
"Our third master gives the money." The soldier said with a bitter face: "The third master said, "The third master said, thirteen silver coins per piece."
This price is indeed quite fair, and the pack horse is roughly the price.
But Beta will have to rely on a pack horse to travel tomorrow. Although the magic speed of using the "Human Cannon" combination is much faster, the problem is that this place is close to the holy realm, and there are many priests from the Temple of Light everywhere, and there are many strong people. Beta is originally an impostor. If this exaggerated magic effect causes unnecessary investigations from the Temple of Light, it will be more than worth the loss.
Beta continued to shake his head: "No sell."
Then the door was closed.
The soldiers outside looked unhappy, but when they thought of Beta's somewhat luxurious clothes, they held back and turned away.
Two hours later, in the manor adjacent to the city lord's mansion, a middle-aged man with a butler looked like a young man panting, "Third Master, the middle-aged pack horses in the city have been collected, and there are still a few shortages."
The third young master looked pretty and brown-haired and brown-eyed. He pondered for a moment and said, "It's not a big deal if it's a few shorts."
At this time, an officer next to him said, "The Third Young Master, it's not bad at all. Some people know that you have initiated a order to join the party, but they are not convinced. In fact, there are still many pack horses in the city."
"Didn't you tell them that I used the military order to issue a solicitation order?" The third young master was extremely dissatisfied.
The officer said, "I said it, but they didn't listen and seemed unwilling to give you face."
"That's how it is!" The third young master touched his beardless chin, thought for a while, and said, "If you don't give face, don't give face. It doesn't matter. Anyway, there are not many more horses, and there are not many fewer horses."
The officer was a little surprised: "The third young master, the problem is that after this, other people will laugh at you, and there will be more and more people who will not give you face and are unwilling to obey your orders."
The third young master laughed: "If only such a thing is going to be laughed at me, will others laugh at me? It is not a real wartime mobilization. If it is a real wartime mobilization, they will not sell pack horses to me, so I can cause trouble for them. Now that we have issued a collection order during the wartime period, others are already watching jokes. If we offend more people because of this, wouldn't others laugh even harder?"
The officer sighed slightly and stopped persuading him. He left and asked his men to find a way to get a pack of horses for the third young master.
As soon as the soldiers planned to use some small tricks, they tried to bring as many pack horses as possible. Then they heard that there was a head in a hotel, and a few people came over with weapons. Instead of threatening Beta directly, they went to the hotel owner, and then while Beta was sleeping, the few people came to the horse servant not far behind the hotel and took the pack horse away.
Because the horses were a little far from the hotel where Beta was sleeping, others entered the mansion space again, so they didn't know that their pack horse had been stolen by someone.
The next day, he had breakfast and was about to continue walking, but when he came to Masi, he found that the pack horse was missing.
The hotel owner, who was sweating in a cold sweat, told me what happened last night. In desperation, Beta asked: "Why are the third young master of the city lord's family collecting so many pack horses?"
"It's not for today's duel." The hotel owner said: "The eldest and third masters have been in disagreement for many years. They will make an appointment to fight once a year to determine the outcome."
"What does the 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 felt that the cavalry regiment should pay attention to quantity and form a cavalry army with very cheap pack horses." The hotel owner smiled and said, "The city lord thinks that what they said makes sense, so he asked them to duel once a year. Those who win ten games in total can inherit the position of the city lord in the future."
It sounds quite interesting, and doesn't care that his pack horse was stolen. Beta asked, "Where are they duels?"
"There is the wasteland north of the city."
Beta returns to the room and summons Joan of Arc.
As soon as Joan of Arc came out, he subconsciously protected his chest with his wings, looked at Beta vigilantly, and then flew into the sky.
With Joan of Arc's vision, Beta soon found two cavalrymen in the north of the city, and the duel had not yet begun.
From Joan of Arc's vision, the distance between the two sides was about one kilometer. On one side was a small number but with shiny armor, elite cavalry with tall and big horses, and ordinary cavalry with leather armor and shorter pack horses on the other side.
But the number of pack horse cavalry regiments is at least three times that of elite cavalry regiments.
A little further apart, there were a high platform where several noble-looking people sat on it, and maids were serving.
Not long after, the duel began.
Both sides charged almost at the same time, but on the way to the charge, the pack horse cavalry regiment suddenly divided three horses, and the left and right sides spread out, and the middle team directly collided with the elite cavalry regiment.
Seeing this scene, Beta immediately knew that the pack horse cavalry regiment was sure to win.
Sure enough... Although the elite cavalry regiment directly drilled the cavalry team in the middle, they were also surrounded by two other pack horse cavalry teams. The two sides were very close, and the elite cavalry regiment dared not stop at all. Once they stopped, they would be impacted by the other party.
Moreover, the cavalry that stopped was not as good as the infantry.
Next, the elite cavalry regiment wanted to get rid of the opponent's pursuit, but the problem was that although their war horses were brave, the cavalry and horses were armoured and could not run very fast. The soldiers of the pack horse cavalry regiment were wearing leather armor, so their speed was not worse than that of the opponent.
The chase lasted for about three hours, and the elite cavalry regiment was in circles, but they could not get rid of the two pack horse cavalry teams behind them. Then the problem of insufficient endurance of the army and horses emerged. They were caught up by two pack horse cavalry teams and attacked directly in the rear and were sentenced to be lost.
Chapter completed!