Obviously, if Cai Dao wants to implement the idea of ??establishing a country, the most ideal place is York, and it will never be the powerful Warda. This is the key reason why Cai Dao chose to be close to York.
The York Emperor was incompetent and fond of luxury. The domestic situation relied on those national nobles to support him. If the Holy See had not supported the York Emperor for the sake of continental peace, I am afraid that the old boy would have been overthrown long ago.
Cai Dao likes chaotic situations. The more chaotic the situation, the more opportunities there are to fish in troubled waters, although with his strength, he does not need to fish in troubled waters. However, it would not be a bad thing to take advantage of the chaos in York country to form his own force and complete three evolutions before seeking national power.
The province of Brada is one of the provinces bordering York in the north of Voda. It is rich in copper and iron ore, and produces various rare metals. The climate is not as hot as in the southernmost part of Voda, and there is occasional snow in winter. The terrain of this region is mainly hills and plains, and it is a province with relatively developed planting and agriculture.
What Cai Dao is more concerned about is that there are quite a lot of mercenaries in Brada Province. The headquarters of the Rhapsody Mercenary Group, which ranks eighth among the top ten mercenary groups in Warda, is in Brada. Because many mercenaries from the Kingdom of York are willing to seek a living in Voda, Brada has become one of the provinces with the highest density of mercenaries in Voda.
There is always something to do to pass the time on a long journey. Levin and Feili finally mastered the marksmanship and swordsmanship taught by Cai Dao. The two unlucky guys were kicked off their horses by Cai Dao and asked to walk or run to build up their physical strength. He then took advantage of some free time to teach them external skills!
Now, the effect of the spiritual energy filling the body is finally reflected. The two people, whose marrow and bones were cleansed by spiritual energy, have made rapid progress in practicing their internal strength in these days. It didn't take long for Levin to be able to emit light cyan mutated internal energy all over his body, and Fili could barely emit light emerald green when attacking. However, Cai Dao and Qing Niu have always been puzzled. They are all internal skills. Why do people from the Western Continent gradually show color after practicing them?
However, mutated internal strength is still different from authentic fighting spirit. The most typical one is that even a third-level warrior can spray colored fighting spirit. And Levin is now strong enough to be a ninth-level warrior, and he can gradually release colored fighting spirit all over his body.
Cai Dao didn't know the division of levels of strength, but Feilin knew it very well. After fighting several times with Feili and Levin, he quickly deduced: "I'm afraid Feili is about to have level seven now, and Levin now has nine." Super strength! Dao, what on earth did you teach them to make them progress so fast."
Cai Dao frowned, his apprentice's progress obviously made him a little unhappy. Levin has considerable martial arts talent, and his progress is barely satisfactory to him, but Fili seems a bit mediocre. However, Fili's mutant fighting spirit did not develop quickly, but he was surprisingly sharp in his moves.
Facing Feilin¡¯s question, Cai Dao smiled. These days, Feilin has clearly positioned herself as his subordinate, which makes him very satisfied. Regardless of whether Feilin was dissatisfied with this or not, he had to admit that this woman who liked to seduce him would be a very powerful competitor. He thought it might be time for him to give Feilin some sweetness: "You want to learn? I'll teach you!"
Before teaching Feilin, Cai Dao did some research and found out that Levin had practiced authentic Dou Qi before, so his internal strength had no conflict with Dou Qi, and he had gradually transformed Dou Qi into internal power. Therefore, he confidently and boldly taught a set of internal skills suitable for Feilin's style, and wondered if he would find an opportunity to help Feilin and Haide fill their bodies with spiritual energy.
However, now that the materials for the second evolution are fully complete, it is more serious to find a place with abundant spiritual energy to evolve. Cai Dao touched his chin with his fingers. He paid close attention to the surrounding environment along the way, but he still didn't see any suitable place, which made him deeply annoyed.
"Little monster, what are you thinking about? Pelo, have you thought of a way to solve it?" Qingniu has always been worried about Cai Dao not killing Pelo, and said more than once that he would definitely kill him if he were replaced.
"Perlo?" Cai Dao was slightly startled. Yes, Perlo was also in this team, but she was gradually ignored because of her taciturn nature. Yes, maybe it's time to deal with this troublesome woman. He has never hated the Holy See as much as he does now. To completely brainwash a person when he has nothing to do is to be more cruel than using a knife to strike.
"That's all, just admit that you are fascinated by her beauty!" Qing Niu angrily expressed his contempt to Cai Dao: "Then do you want to teach Haide to practice Taoism? I always feel that you kid has this tendency!"
Cai Dao blinked. He had considered it. However, Haide was already very old. Even if he practiced Taoism, he couldn't do anything. At best, he could only prolong his life. So he quickly rejected this idea, and now he just used some theory to fool him. In the future, he would tell him the role of the power crystal in the formation, and maybe there would be unexpected surprises.
What he is considering is whether to teach Feilin and his apprentice Taoism.After being filled with Qi, they already have the physique to practice Taoism. If they are not taught, if they encounter angels and gods in the future, I am afraid that martial arts alone will not be enough to defeat them. Li Mingru can achieve the legendary ultimate martial arts, but that does not mean that everyone can achieve it. It is better to teach the disciples how to get started in an upright manner, and it will come in handy in the future.
"The situation is different now. If you want to teach me, you can teach me, but you must silence me in the future and never let these foreigners learn our Taoism!" Qingniu looked at Cai Dao fiercely, and then became frustrated: "If my body doesn't Just destroy it, otherwise if we join forces, we can destroy the Western Continent!"
Cai Dao rolled his eyes. Sometimes he always felt that Qing Niu was more like a murderous magic knife than him. However, he agreed with Niubi. If Niubi's body was not destroyed, why bother making it so complicated? With their strength before the nuclear explosion, they could completely sweep across the continent.
"I'm thinking, doesn't Pero believe in God? Doesn't God emphasize kindness and care?" Cai Dao smiled grimly: "Then I will let her personally violate God's creed. If so, her faith will not be shaken. Then I admire her"
A few days later, after browsing the map, Cai Dao separated from Feilin and the others. After making an appointment with them to meet in a small town a few days later, Cai Dao led Pelo towards a fork in the road.
On the third day, Cai Dao and Pello arrived in a small town. The town was full of peace. Looking at these simple people, Cai Dao had a cruel smile on his lips.
When the sky gradually darkened, Cai Dao tapped Pello's mute point and walked into a private house with the flying sword. The atmosphere here is indeed very simple, and there is no custom of closing the door at night. Cai Dao sighed leisurely, looked at the surprised owners in the house, and put his arm around Pello's slender waist. Suddenly he put the sword into Pero's hand, then held her hand sword and stabbed someone in the chest!
Everyone was stunned, even Pelo was stunned. In the blink of an eye, Cai Dao's body skills were running around the room like a ghost, piercing the hearts of these people one by one before they screamed. When Cai Dao smiled and manipulated Pello's sword-holding hand to pierce the child's neck, blood fell drop by drop along the tip of the sword to the ground, dyeing the place bright red
Everything happened so suddenly, before Pero even realized what was happening, Cai Dao manipulated her to complete everything. Staring blankly at the six corpses lying in a pool of blood, Perlo's beautiful and proud eyes were full of holes, and his former look had disappeared without a trace.
Cai Dao lowered his head and whispered evilly in her ear: "This is just the beginning. Tonight, everyone must die in your hands. Where is God's mercy? Where is your faith? They will die in your hands." In their hands, you are no longer the one who protects and cares for them. You are a murderer of civilians. In their eyes you are a devil!"
devil! Pelo stared into the dead eyes of the six corpses, and his body trembled involuntarily, trembling like a lonely grass in the wind, so pitiful and helpless. Tears rolled down, and those lifeless eyes darted into her heart like poisonous snakes. She tried all her strength to just shout: "The devil is coming, run away!"
However, the devil placed a restraint on her body, making her speechless. Her body fell limply into Cai Dao's arms, and the hatred and anger in her eyes seemed to be burning. Cai Dao shrugged: "It seems you still refuse to admit defeat, so let's continue!"
Manipulating the weak Pelo into another private house, Cai Dao could never make any mistakes in the process even though he was never used to using a sword.
??Perlo looked at her with empty eyes as she stabbed civilians to death with her sword, piercing their throats. The other party's frightened eyes were deeply imprinted on her heart and became a lifelong shadow for her!
Every living and breathing civilian, including the elderly and children, men and women, turned into lifeless corpses one by one. The strength in Pelo's body seemed to gradually disappear along with the vitality of these civilians, and he fell weakly into Cai Dao's arms, tears rolling down his face.
In the silence, all the civilians in the town turned into corpses. In this quiet night, Pelo seemed to have fallen into the extreme cold, curling up like a helpless child, making people sympathize and pitiful. She longed to break through Cai Dao's restraint and shouted not to kill anymore, and also wanted to commit suicide, but Cai Dao's restraint and manipulation prevented her from even committing suicide.
Regrettably, she met Cai Dao - the magic sword who knows no mercy! When Cai Dao manipulated her to kill all the civilians in the town, she shed tears silently. The night was quiet, but she seemed to hear the desperate cries of the civilians. The noises in her ears made her almost collapse
Cai Dao's smile turned into the most terrifying and evil devil's smile in her eyes, and she looked at him pleadingly. Cai Dao only?Smiled leisurely: "I just want to know what you will choose now!"
Peluo shed tears again, looked at Cai Dao, his eyes were firmer than ever before, and he slowly shook his head! She would rather die than give in to the devil Cai Dao!
"Okay! Very good!" Cai Dao smiled like a spring breeze caressing his face. Looking in one direction, the spire of the only church in the town trembled under his gaze, and Perlo also trembled
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Yesterday, a reader friend talked about the ratio of the army to the population in a book review, thinking that it is unreasonable to have only 300,000 regular troops for a population of 50 million. Let¡¯s briefly explain it here.
The first is the social background. This is a social background that is relatively close to modern capitalism. The ratio of population to military strength cannot reach the exaggerated seventy to one or even fifty to one in ancient history. Woda itself is a peaceful place with few wars. It is understandable that the ratio of military strength to population is large. In fact, except for Woda, other countries have basically reached a ratio of 100 to one conventional army, but this is only a conventional army. Don't forget, mercenaries are also a large part of the army. Besides, the mainland is not invaded by annihilators as often as our country, and there is also the factor of the Holy See. One hundred to one, I think this ratio is acceptable.
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