The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 544: Witches' Night Raid
Soon, the battlefield was cleaned up and these people stripped off all the weapons and equipment from the witchers and templars.

If Richard hadn't stopped them, these people would have even stripped off their clothes.

After all, these exiles had almost nothing, and even though their clothes were stained with blood, they didn't care.

The Templar wore two sets of armor, but the chest was damaged, and the other nine demon hunters and demon hunter instructors wore iron-studded leather armor. In addition to these, there were more than a dozen war horses, more than a dozen gold coins, a dozen silver coins, and some copper coins.

"What are you going to do next?" Richard asked the witch in front of him.

"Thank you for saving my life." Aleiya looked at Richard and thought he looked like the person in a recent rumor, so she asked, "Is your name Richard?"

"Yes." Richard nodded.

"So the rumors are true!" Alia said in surprise.

"What rumor?" Richard asked curiously.

"It's circulated among us 'heretics'. It is said that in Gaul, a child of destiny has been born who can save us." Alea said self-deprecatingly.

"We have heard this rumor more than once over the past few decades, but all of them have failed without exception."

"In the beginning, we found Julian and wanted to fight against monotheism by supporting him to become emperor, but we failed in the end."

"We then tried various methods to resist, but unfortunately none of them succeeded. After that, we never got an answer from our prophecy again."

"There is only fire and darkness."

The sea of ​​fire should symbolize that the witches will eventually be burned to death, and the darkness refers to the medieval era that lasted for the next thousand years, which was also the darkest era in Europe.

"We have also heard the recent rumors, but we used the prophecy technique and the results did not change, so we feel that the child of destiny has not appeared."

Richard glanced at her and did not comment on their predictions. Not to mention their predictions, even the predictions of gods could not predict Richard's.

This was just a prophecy they made unintentionally. If they had predicted Richard directly, the backlash of the prophecy would probably have cost them half their lives.

"The art of prophecy is not accurate, and if you can predict, others can naturally predict as well, so what do you think the outcome will be?" Richard said with a smile.

The magic of prophecy can only be used as a reference. If you really take it as the real future, you will be close to death.

In the history of Motera, many prophecy mages died in this way.

Moreover, can you be sure that the prophecy you see is true? The prophecy school also has a spell that can make you see the prophecy he wants you to see. Of course, it is difficult to cast this spell successfully.

"Sir Richard, could you please leave a way to contact you? I need to attend a witch gathering this time, and when I come back, I want to do something for you." Aleyya said.

Richard told her the contact information. Although these witches have declined, they still have a lot of power. For example, this Alea is not only a noble who owns several manors, but also controls several fleets.

The fleet traded with Egypt, Damascus, Carthage and other places, but because of the war, the fleet was also affected.

This time she went to Gaul to attend a witches' gathering, because the Roman Church had begun to purge heretical witches. In order to protect themselves, these witches had to form a witches' gathering to seek self-protection, and at the same time they were also preparing to escape from Rome.

However, her whereabouts were obviously known to the Roman Church. In Rome, because of her noble status and many marriages with her family, the Roman Church could not find trouble with her. But after leaving Rome, the church could not help but take action.

The Roman Catholic Church has swept polytheism into the dustbin of history, and these people are just some remnants of polytheism hiding here and there.

After today's pursuit, Aleiya has decided to evacuate early. But before leaving, she needs to deal with her property in the empire.

Even if they want to flee the empire to other places, they still need money. The purpose of the witch gathering is to work together to find a place where they can live.

After knowing the location of Richard's camp, Alea hurried away with the remaining three guards.

Richard led the convoy back to the camp. This time he brought back a large amount of supplies, enough for the people in the camp to live for a long time.

In the following time, Richard continued to search for other escaped slaves, deserters, and surviving Celts in the mountains and forests, while continuing to build camps to expand the output of the ironworks.

With the coming of troubled times, weapons and armor became particularly important. During this period, these things were in great demand and could not be bought at all, so people had to produce them themselves.

After trading with the outside world, not only were some supplies replenished, but a lot of information was also obtained.

For example, recently, the garrisons of some towns outside were withdrawn. It is said that the empire's defense in the province of Pannonia was defeated by the Huns. In order to resist the Huns, the Roman emperor could only draw troops from all over the country to resist. Pannonia is actually today's Hungary, Romania, Serbia and other regions. Now it has become the territory of the Huns.

At the same time, Rome could no longer withstand the attacks of the barbarians in Germania. The Danube defense line had been breached by the barbarians, and the northern provinces of the empire had now become a racecourse for the Germans.

These Germanic peoples came and went as they pleased, and Rome was powerless to resist them.

At this time, the Roman Empire had become precarious, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was about to perish.

In the following period of time, Richard used various means to subdue the exiles scattered in several other camps in the mountains and forests.

This allowed the population under his rule to continue to expand, and the population has now grown to more than 4,000 people. He has basically searched all the nearby mountains and forests within a few hundred miles.

If they wanted to gather more people, they could only go to other places. There were tens of thousands of exiles scattered in the Gaul Mountains, and they could all be recruited.

However, Richard cannot support so many people now, and the development of mountainous areas is ultimately limited and it is impossible to expand indefinitely.

After the population reached 5,000, Richard finally formed an army of 500 people. The 500 people were divided into five hundred-man teams, one led by Sean, Cruz and Betley, and the other led by the Celtic priest Dranos.

The remaining team was led by Richard himself.

After several months of development, the camp is now developing well. Previously, these refugees were skinny and pale, but after several months of recuperation and training and sufficient food supply, they have become very strong.

After rigorous training, the five hundred soldiers were able to form a qualified military formation.

Although their martial arts skills were mediocre when taken individually and they only knew some simple assassination moves, when they were formed into a military formation, they were enough to fight against the same number of Roman soldiers.

The only problem is that the army still lacks armor and weapons. Although production has been increased several times, the output of armor and weapons in the camp is still not high.

Twenty sets of armor can be produced per month, along with five thousand bow and arrowheads, five hundred javelins, three hundred spear heads, and some long swords.

Now in the entire army, the total number of armors is just over 100, and the armor-wearing rate is just over 20.

With such a low armor-wearing rate, if they were to face the Roman garrison and the Germanic barbarians, they would probably be defeated in one battle.

In order to make up for the lack of armor, Richard had to have people make a large number of shields. He wanted to use a large number of shields to make up for the lack of defense.

The problem now is that development in the mountains and forests has reached a bottleneck. If we want to continue to grow and develop, we must obtain more resources.

Seeing this situation, Richard decided to start intervening in the war between the barbarians and the Roman Empire. Of course, he did not charge head-on into it, but led small troops to deal with some small troops or defeated troops.

At this time, the Germania region was in chaos. The Germania region was very broad, including Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc.

Almost all of Europe was in chaos, with barbarians, rebels, and Huns looting everywhere. Richard didn't want the empire to collapse completely here yet.

Now that the empire is here, the Roman Empire is responsible for resisting the invasion of the Germanic barbarians. But if Rome falls and the Germanic people enter here, then if he wants to develop, he will have to fight with the Germanic people.

With the little strength Richard had, he was no match for the Germans.

Therefore, he needed Rome to continue to stand in front of him and give him enough time and space to develop. At the same time, the training of the army must be tempered by actual combat. Only through actual combat can the army be considered qualified.

Richard took his 100 most elite men and hid in the mountains. On the plain outside the mountains, two armies were fighting on the plain. The scale of this battle was not large, with a total number of no more than a thousand people.

It's a battle for a stronghold.

The Roman army mainly relied on these strongholds to resist the invasion of the Germanic peoples. Once these strongholds were breached by the Germanic peoples, a large number of Germanic peoples would rush in and plunder.

The battle ended in the evening, with the two sides barely tied. In fact, the strength of the Roman legions had fallen behind that of the Germans, and they could only barely defend against the German attacks.

Richard and his men continued to hide in the woods. Soon night fell and the Germanic barbarians set up a military camp nearby. However, their camp was not well defended. It was obvious that these Germanic people had never thought of a night attack by the Romans.

In fact, these Roman legions had no intention of launching a night attack. A night attack requires a very high level of organization from the army, and the current Roman legions simply did not have this capability.

But these Germans had no idea that another army had already regarded them as prey.

(End of this chapter)