Chapter 454

West of Raven Town, Paladin residence.

"Your Excellency Kent, this is a kind of close fitting soft armor tanned with giant skin. The giant skin in lizard swamp has infinite power and is hard to be hurt by swords. Their leather is extremely tough and has strong resistance to cutting and puncture damage, but the skin is not thick enough to deal with blunt impact damage. But because the skin is light and smooth, it can be worn inside the armor as close fitting soft armor. York The craftsmen of the family used a special technique to blend two layers of skin into a whole, and sandwiched a layer of finely woven casan silk rattan armor with light and soft sweat absorbing antelope leather in the middle to finally make this soft skin armor. After testing, this soft skin armor can resist the accumulation of crossbows at a close distance. If equipped with dragon lizard skin armor, even military heavy crossbows can't pierce it 150 meters away Wear. "

Victor presented a gift and looked at Kent, the sixth level combat priest of the temple army.

He is about 60 years old. He is wearing exquisite dragon lizard skin armor and purple glittering fine gold lock armor. He is tall and strong. His muscle lines are full and symmetrical. He looks strong and flexible. His exposed skin presents an oily bronze color. That is the characteristic of three times of body reshaping and external application of church secret medicine.

Level six priests are called legendary priests. This is not to say that the personal force of level 6 priests can be comparable to that of legendary knights. In fact, their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of ordinary knights. However, level 6 priests play a greater role in the battlefield than Golden Knights, and have the ability of legendary strong men to turn the war around.

However, fighting priests fight full-time. Their martial arts are much stronger than ordinary priests, and can basically reach the level of junior trainee knights. But the battle priest will be taken care of by the strong orcs on the battlefield. A combat priest who can be successfully promoted to level 6 is indispensable for luck, personal strength, wisdom and combat experience.

Therefore, level 6 combat priests play the role of temple army commander among the church clergy. Their number is much smaller and much younger than level 6 missionary priests.

Kent is the best fighting priest. He was born in an ordinary vassal family in Teutonic principality. Because he had no background, he could only start from the combat priest of the temple army team. After countless fierce battles, he was promoted to level 6 priest step by step with his personal efforts and combat grace.

As an ordinary priest, Kent ignited the fire of his heart in the fight with the orc tribe. The forging secret method of the church made his physical quality break through the limits of mortals and reach the level of a senior trainee knight. He can compete with the junior Knights only by his martial arts skills. If he inspires the crystal of the senior Paladin and cooperates with the divine skill of the level 6 priest, he even has an amazing record of dealing with the golden Centaur Khan.

Today, Kent is the assistant of Wallace, the deputy commander of the temple army, with 200 Cape wolf paladins and 1800 junior paladins. His extraordinary power and social status are equal to the Golden Knight.

Victor looked at the Reverend Kent, who was also secretly observing the famous Viscount Randall.

The young Lord with black hair and eyes has a beauty beyond the mundane. His skin is white and shining with the luster of life. The occasional breeze surrounds his body, highlighting the mysterious and noble temperament. Under his slender and straight eyebrows are a pair of dark and deep eyes. His eyes are calm and deep, as if he has the extraordinary ability to insight into the truth, which is obviously head up, But it gives people a sense of condescending examination.

Kent can't help but be a little discouraged. The moon elves originally belong to the silver level immortal race, and their life level is naturally higher than that of human beings. Viscount Randall, if not a pure moon elf royal family, is not much worse. He made friends with top figures in power. In front of him, a level 6 combat priest was not proud enough, and even was at a disadvantage.

As soon as Wallace left, viscount Randall came to the door... It must be bad!

Kent muttered in his heart, maintaining a friendly smile on his face, holding a soft shell and exclaimed: "What a good thing... Fighting priests are not as strong as paladins and can't wear heavy fine iron scales. Moreover, in close combat, dexterity is more important than solid defense. In order to confuse orcs, fighting priests usually imitate paladins and wear only leather armor. This is also the main reason for the sacrifice of fighting priests. If this kind of soft leather armor can Popularization can save the lives of many fighting priests. "

"The number of giant beetles is not large. They are still very dangerous."

Victor shook his head and said in embarrassment: "the swamp Scouts of Randall family only captured three giant beetles last year and sacrificed two lives. The leather of three giant beetles can only make eight sets of soft armor... I'm afraid it's difficult to popularize soft armor."

Kent sighed and turned to smile: "the rattan skin hard armor of Renma hill is also very good... I just don't know when Renma Hill will be willing to make the rattan skin armor public."

Pastor Kent rambled and refused to get to the point, but Victor was patient enough. He shook his head and said with a smile, "it's almost impossible unless the church can persuade other families to disclose their technology... Including the church's monastery."

Pastor Kent laughed, shook his head and said, "I've always been puzzled. The Lord and the church have a common enemy. Why do we not want to share each other's achievements? Although I repeatedly appealed to the Holy See to disclose some secret skills to secular lords, they were rejected by the Privy Council."

Victor thought for a moment and said: "I admire your character and virtue, but it is necessary to keep your secret skills. If everyone can wait for other people's invention and creation, no one is willing to innovate. Take Tengpi armor as an example. If the temple army is willing to invest in purchasing Tengpi armor, Renma hill can expand the production scale and reduce the production cost. Only when the York family makes money will they be willing to invest more kinsol to support the family Scholars are engaged in technological innovation. The Lords of the human horse hills have become rich, and the church's 11 taxes have naturally increased. This is actually a win-win way of cooperation. "

Kent was stunned for a long time and murmured, "I think your opinion is very reasonable... However, the servant of the Supreme Lord cannot run business, so as not to be corrupted by greed."

"Of course the servants of the most High Lord cannot trade."

Victor smiled and said, "but we can pay attention to methods, such as the Lord donating rattan armor, the church giving rewards or... Relief."

Pastor Kent put down the soft armor in his hand, shook his head seriously and said, "donation is piety to the Lord and can't be mixed with selfishness."

Victor smothered slightly, then stood up, stroked his chest and said sincerely, "sorry, I made a mistake."

"Your Excellency is also kind..." Kent waved his hand and said seriously, "but the teaching of the Lord cannot be exceeded!" There was a hint of regret and distress in his eyes.

Victor sat down again, smiled and said, "then let the temple army get enough rattan armor by specifying eleven taxes."

"What?" Reverend Kent raised his head with a look of amazement.

Victor smiled faintly: "the Privy Council issued a decree to let the Sassanian Empire purchase rattan skin and hard armor from the horse hills as eleven taxes and hand them over to the paladins of the temple army."

"Yes, that's a good idea!"

Pastor Kent got up excitedly and paced back and forth in the room with his hands on his back. When he stopped, he laughed and said, "Your Excellency Randall, you have really helped me a lot."

Kent is over 60 years old, his physical strength is declining, and his personal strength has passed the peak period. He is no longer suitable to serve as a combat priest of the temple army. The glorious Knights sent him to guard the barbarians for the purpose of protection. When the barbarians cross the river and go south, he will leave the temple army. Pastor frieds plans to let Kent be a bishop, but Kent believes that the level 6 priest should be at least a priest in red As a bishop, he even hoped to get a seat on the Council of Cardinals. However, Kent is now far away from the command center of the temple army and has no chance to move. He urgently needs to put forward his own political ideas and re-enter the vision of the shining knights.

Victor's proposal was right in Kent's mind. Whether the Privy Council accepted the proposal to designate 11 taxes or not, Kent's patron in the shining knights, the eresrell family, could speak for him.

Pastor Kent naturally lifted his guard, returned to his chair and asked enthusiastically, "Lord Randall, what can I do for you this time?"

Victor has long found out the details of Kent through Sylvia and Sophia. He may be an excellent military commander, but his political wisdom and historical knowledge are far inferior to Wallace, who was born in the eresrell family. Victor wants to confirm the relationship between the gold refining Empire and harlottes fortress from the mouth of the barbarian elders. However, due to the existence of Wallace, Victor has never been able to find out Face to face communication with elder Harald to avoid being seen by the eresrell family.

Wallace accompanied Sophia to the Sassanian Empire, and Victor finally had the opportunity to visit the barbarian elders.

In fact, the proposal to designate the eleventh tax was not Victor's temporary decision. It was a matter negotiated by him, Sylvia and Sophia.

For a long time, the stationed priests always master the non core technology of each family through the craftsmen of the Lord. The church does not need to change the collection method of the eleventh tax for a new product. However, the rattan beetle is really a good thing, but the church will not stimulate the divine knights for the production technology of the rattan beetle family. There are rattan beetles in the human horse hills, but there are no large orders, which is a problem after all.

If the church issued a decree to designate the Lords of the Sassanian Empire to pay 11 taxes with rattan skin armor, the man horse hill can bypass the arms export ban of the Gambis royal family. With more buyers, the price of rattan skin armor will naturally rise, thus increasing the financial revenue of the man horse hill. Similarly, the Lords of Gambis can also buy the technical products of other kingdoms in the name of paying 11 taxes In the context of the great development, as long as everyone is willing to sit down and talk, no armaments can not be exchanged.

Frequent commercial activities not only create favorable conditions for the development of the golden mission, but also the Privy Council needs to entrust a neutral commercial organization to settle and transport the commodities of the eleventh tax. The golden mission, in cooperation with the church, is bound to become a big Mac like commercial organization.

Pastor Kent didn't know that even if he didn't make suggestions, some clergy would advise the Privy Council. Pope Clement would make this happen, because the neutral gold regiment could help him further expand the influence of the Privy Council.

Victor smiled and said, "Your Excellency Kent, I came to thank you. The paladin and the barbarian helped Raven town dig two River reservoirs, one solved the water problem in the town, and the other gave me an additional 21000 mu of cultivated land. By the way, the wall of Raven town was built with the help of the Paladin..."

"The city wall is still more than half closed. However, please rest assured that the paladins will build the rest of the city wall next year." Pastor Kent leaned sideways and smiled at Victor: "speaking, it was your wife's idea to ask the barbarians to help Raven town build walls and canals. In fact, I'm also worried that the barbarians would be bored and cause trouble. Viscount Randall asked the barbarians to dig useless soft silver ore and build walls, which helped me solve a big problem."

Hehe, this is my idea... Victor was secretly proud and said politely, "Your Excellency Kent, I'm going to visit Harald and express my gratitude to him in person."

Kent's gray eyes shrunk, sat up straight, smiled and said, "Sir, elder Harald and the barbarian live in the lark mountain in the West. Now the mountain is closed by heavy snow, and the mountain path is difficult... Why don't you visit elder Harald when the weather gets warmer and the barbarian goes down the mountain?"

"Then I'll stay in Raven town for a month. Anyway, the water season is not a few days." Victor smiled disapprovingly.

Kent frowned, and he calculated that Wallace would never come back in a month. So he shook his head reluctantly and said, "Viscount Randall, to tell you the truth, many lords are interested in barbarians, but barbarians have a great diplomatic relationship. The LORD had better not establish private relations with elder Harald directly, so as not to cause misunderstanding among other families. I think it's better for you to avoid suspicion."

"This is Raven town."

"The barbarian camp is located in Lark mountain, which is not the territory of the Randall family."

"As the Lord of Raven Town, I should have a good relationship with my strong neighbors."

"The paladin will protect the safety of the town. Moreover, his highness Sylvia and elder Harald have reached an agreement not to hurt each other." Reverend Kent shook his head and refused to budge.

Victor smiled, tapped his index finger on the table and said bluntly, "but I doubt your position. If the barbarians conflict with my people, I don't think the paladin can maintain justice."

Kent was very annoyed by the aggressive attitude of the young Lord. He was silent for a long time and said dully, "Viscount Randall, please pay attention to the overall situation." After a pause, he said, "I can't agree even in front of his highness Sylvia."

Victor stood up and said coldly, "either you go with me or I'll go myself."

Kent was angry, but he suddenly caught a golden streamer in Victor's eyes. He was surprised. When he looked carefully, he was still a pair of dark and deep eyes, as if the golden streamer was just an illusion.

How could the legendary priest hallucinate?

Kent was sure that he had never looked at the dazzling eyes. He pondered for a moment. Facing Victor's surprised eyes, he said slightly modestly: "Sir, please forgive me for my impoliteness. If you agree to let me examine your state with true vision, I can take you to see elder Harald."

Victor thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

A small circle of runes floated in pastor Kent's eyes, dyeing the gray eyes into a sacred and solemn white gold. He studied Victor carefully for a moment, and the white golden pupils gradually returned to normal.

"What's wrong with my body?" Asked Victor curiously.

"Ah, no, no problem. Your excellency is very healthy." Pastor Kent woke up and said, "well... If you have any doubts, you can ask your highness Sylvia... It's not convenient for me to talk about the matter between you and your highness Sylvia."

"Why don't you prepare first, and we'll set out right away to visit elder Harald?" Reverend Kent lowered himself and asked Victor for advice.

Victor thought for a moment and decided to see Harald first, then look for Sylvia and ask about true vision. He said, "OK, I'll go back to Raven castle and prepare gifts."

Pastor Kent personally sent Victor out of the paladin residence gate, turned back to his study, took out parchment and quill pen, and wrote on his desk: Victor Wimbledon Viscount Randall, the whole body presents the emerald color representing the void water element, and there is a small golden glow in the brain area, which spreads to the eyes.

Kent put down the quill pen, rolled up the letter, covered it with fire paint, and shouted to the outside: "ZMAN, ZMAN, for the sake of my Lord, get over here quickly."

Before long, a warrior in dragon lizard skin armor walked into the study and saluted, "Sir, what can I do for you?"

Kent put the letter in a wooden box, stuffed it into his confidant, patted him on the shoulder and said, "give this letter to Lord eresler. Remember, no one else can see it."

"Lord herrere? Lord Wallace?"

"Idiot, would I call that Wallace guy an adult? I'm talking about his highness eres Rael of the shining Knights!"