Four-Armed Divine Emperor

But that's only part of it. As the name suggests, the reproductive capacity is horribly improved...

Not sure about the details?

Just refer to the most exaggerated Huangmao and Ni Ge in the anime and comics and multiply them several times to understand.

What does all-you-can-drink mean?

The abilities of the last two, one about "offspring" and the other about "blood", are still to be developed, but the first one alone is probably enough to make countless men jealous to the point of madness.

But although it was fun to applaud, Al didn't forget his business.

After being fucked for most of the night, Ansuna has now barely recovered her mobility with the help of the high-level knights and El's magical "nutritional supplementation" and "physical strengthening" abilities. At El's instruction, she secretly summoned her family's troops in the name of the head of Devangel in the early morning, as well as some retainers and lower-level lords who have not left Devangel City and are considered loyal and reliable.

He gathered an army of 4,000 men, and marched lightly towards the eastern territories that Xerxes had occupied after the last war.

This is what Al requested.

Speed ​​is of the essence in war. He only showed up two days before the expedition, which meant it would take too long for the spies to get the message back. Even if the Xerxes knew about the "magician's whereabouts in Devangel, and was received by the head of the family," they couldn't be sure whether he had decided to join the enemy, what his strength was, whether they would still fight now that the enemy had a mage, or whether they should send an envoy to test the waters...

This series of behavioral ideas.

It can also buy Al a lot of time.

The honorable wizards usually appeared in important decisive battles, and it was impossible for the Xerxes to let a "holy wizard" of high status sit in charge of a fortress.

So Al had the Devingails march out the day after the war was decided, and left behind those small and medium-sized lords who had to return to their territories to gather troops, so as to catch them by surprise. The Xerxes would certainly be unprepared, and he could also use this opportunity to try his hand at the simple difficulty without a mage, and experience firsthand the conflicts among the nations on the Tartarus continent.

Although in the prosperous areas near the center, a free city-state may have a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions, so a war involving tens of thousands of people is simply not acceptable.

But for Devin Gale, this is a decisive battle that involves the fate of the country.

As for the enemy, the Kingdom of Xerxes and the Prince of the West could only mobilize more than 10,000 regular troops, usually with some tamed war beasts, giant monsters, and some equipment and props developed by "Zoroastrians" to imitate fire spells.

They are about the same size as Bleio. Of course, Xerxes has more people, is richer and stronger, but they also have many enemies and cannot expand at their full strength.

El decided to fight this battle to test the waters. If the situation was not right, he would take Ansuna and his property and run away, find a more peaceful environment to survive and seek development, and wait until he fully developed his innate power.

According to Al's analysis, among his four talents, perhaps the talent of [Father of the Tribe] is the most critical, and the most important thing about it lies in the following two: his offspring inherit the talent and grow rapidly, and he can transform other creatures.

If the war fails, I will decisively take Ansuna to a remote place to have a few children and then see how things turn out.

Judging from the records of the Xerxes' mages' attacks, the Xerxes' mages, like him, have mastered the spell talent of [Element Control] and use it as their main means of output.

I don't know what other spells he has mastered, but Al feels that he can protect himself with psychic power, [Mage Armor], [Instantaneous Shadow], [Dimensional Jump], a protective spell, a clone spell, and a running spell.

He hadn't just been reading and flirting with the female knight these past two days, he had also been practicing spells.

The biggest difference between him and the wizards in this world is that Al does not rely on the mana accumulated in his body to release magic, but relies on a "talent" method similar to bloodline ability. Casting spells also consumes his own physical strength and energy, and there is no need for magic power.

This is one of his relative advantages.

Maybe the Xerxes mage is also a novice who has just started out. He uses [Elemental Control] frequently, supplemented by several other spells, and his mana will be exhausted in a short time.

By then, El will be able to capture the opposing mage and interrogate him for more detailed information about the El world.

Chapter 8: Expedition

The army marches out...

Well, four thousand people don’t seem to be a large army.

El was riding a horse. Although the white mare that Ansuna had given up before was very gentle and comfortable to ride, and El liked it very much, but when he thought about the fact that concealment was the main thing on the battlefield, and riding such a gorgeously decorated mount would attract some attention, El simply changed to a dull gray horse.

Following behind a group of knights who were showing off their might and high morale, he was not very noticeable.

Later he found that he didn't have much time to ride because the Devon Gaels had prepared a carriage specifically for him.

The Deven Gaels' march was quite standardized, with reconnaissance cavalry scattered around, lightly armed soldiers leading the way, supplies in the middle section, carried by horses and vehicles, and armored warriors hanging behind the rear guard, occasionally using the transportation tools in the middle of the team to rotate and save energy.

It's quite formal.

The terrain of the Serso area is complex, with many mountains, hills, plains, forests and swamps. The environment is special, and heroes of all ethnic groups gather together again.

Bandit gangs are spreading everywhere like locusts and weeds, and they are impossible to eradicate. Whether the lord is marching to war or the caravan is trading, they like to use a lightweight cargo cart to transport supplies and goods. They put it in the middle of the team and immediately shrink the tail when attacked, remove one wheel, and use it as a defense for the chariot formation.

Of course, Devangel is a relatively well-developed territory overall, and Ansuna, the family knight captain, is also very responsible. There are few bandits and robbers in the territory. Even if there are, no one with the formidable force of more than 4,000 regular soldiers would be so foolish as to rush in and seek death.

With an army of over a thousand people, it is immediately clear that this is a war started by the lords.

So the march in the first two days was very peaceful, and they just kept on traveling every day. Al didn't want to take the carriage at first, but he couldn't stand the boredom so he got in and read a book.

The troops were commanded by Ansuna and two other lieutenants, one of whom was a member of the Devangel family, and the other was a representative of the lower nobles. They respected El very much, and would come to report to El in advance on matters such as when to break camp and march, when to station, and whether to take a detour if there was a mountain road ahead, so that El could make the decision.

The female knight would often ride beside El's carriage, and the two would occasionally exchange ideas. El had mastered another use for his psychic powers:

Confining the conversation between him and Ansuna, outsiders could not eavesdrop and could only see Ansuna talking but could not hear the sound.

This situation made the accompanying soldiers full of awe for the mysterious "Master Mage", and the prestige of Ansuna, who could communicate with the mage through "magic", in the hearts of the soldiers also deepened a bit.

Some lower-ranking nobles accompanying the army cast envious glances.

They didn't envy Al.

But it was Ansuna, and Ansuna’s grandfather, the old patriarch of Devengail.

After El accepted Ansuna's allegiance, the female knight returned and told her family that the mage had softened his stance and expressed her acceptance of her suggestion, which delighted the head of the family. The news soon spread among the nobles:

There is news that the wizard who came to the local area may marry the local lord, Devangel's eldest daughter, Knight Captain Ansuna.

Many noble lords who were not so interested in the call were shocked. After all, the prestige of the Devangel family had suffered a lot after the failure of the last war, and their interests had also been damaged because of the defeat.

They all came to Devangel Castle, nominally to accept the lord's call, but in fact to try to get detailed information about the wizard.

Although the army going to the war was mainly composed of Devengail's direct forces, supplemented by some loyal and reliable lower-level nobles, many of them decided to join the war only after learning that "we also got help from a wizard." Now, seeing that only Ansuna could communicate with the wizard for a long time and receive such kindness, they were all envious.

If only they also had a daughter who was both beautiful and powerful, and if El went to their territory...

After receiving the help of the wizard, the Western Prince of the Kingdom of Xerxes expanded his territory and population by one third in one year, and even forced the elves in the dense forests of the canyon to send envoys to present gifts to the child priest king, hoping to restrain the prince's desire for expansion through the supreme power.

If Al accepted the employment of a subordinate lord of the Devangel family, then as long as the lord of this family had a little ambition and ability, he could even complete a counterattack and replace Devangel within a few years - if the latter could not get the help of the mage.

However, at present, they share the same honor and disgrace. Those who are chosen to join the army are all "loyalists" that Devengail considers to be reliable. In this case, the interests of the lord are tied to them. If Devengail starts to expand with the power of El, then the master will eat meat and they can also gnaw bones and drink soup, so they will naturally work very hard.

I just heard that mages like to delve into the ocean of knowledge and are not very strong physically, so many mages like to recruit warrior followers as their guards.

I wonder what happened when High Knight Ansuna-sama's legs were clamped around Lord El's waist...

Officers would sometimes exchange such dirty jokes in private. The impression that mages were physically weak had been circulating in Tartarus for thousands of years. Even though the White Tower floating city had intentionally destroyed mortals' perception of mages other than "powerful, mysterious, and like gods" and "must not be disrespected or disobeyed, otherwise there would be only destruction!", in the Thurso region, this view was integrated with traditional folk customs, just like the fairy tale where heroes would surely defeat evil, and it was not so easy to erase.

The fact is...

"Sir, we are here."

Al had just gotten out of the carriage to get some fresh air and was riding his gray horse alone outside the team when he saw Ansuna rushing towards him with the two adjutants and several knights.

The morning mist enveloped the surroundings, affecting the soldiers' vision, but Al was unaffected.

I learned from the officers that beyond the hills in front of us was a fertile plain called Wall, which was the land ceded to Xerxes after the failure of the last war.

Muten, once the second largest city in the Devenger territory, is located in the center of the Wall Plain. The total population of the ceded land is more than 30,000, almost the same size as the fiefdom that the Devenger people tried to exchange for Aiel.

After Xerxes took over this place, he moved nearly half of the city's population away and moved in more than 6,000 immigrants from his territory. This is what the Zoroastrians must do every time they have steadily expanded a piece of territory. They add sand to reduce the proportion of local ethnic groups to facilitate control, but this has caused countless ethnic conflicts.

This time they were traveling light, and crossing the hills was somewhat difficult, but it could be done with some effort. There was a small path that had been opened up on the other side, but the problem was that there was a camp set up by Xerxes guarding this more convenient passage.

The scouts came back to report that in the foggy early morning, they were very careful to hide and not be discovered. Based on their reconnaissance, they estimated that there were about dozens of troops in the camp.

The Xerxes didn't seem to be very alert, as this time in the morning was just the time when people were becoming clear-headed.

"Xerxes and his men are worshipping in the camp." The scout also brought back an important piece of news.

The Zoroastrians, as the name suggests, have a long-standing worship of fire, light, and the sun.

They would get up early in the morning to worship and welcome the rising sun, and were called Saint Nova; when the sun was setting in the evening, they would light fires and ask for the light to stay, and were called Saint Set.

Al and his companions arrived just in time when the Xerxes were worshipping.

Seeing that everyone present was looking at him, Al knew that the Devon Gale officers were waiting for his orders. After all, he was the core of this war and the person with the highest status present.

"Then, let's attack." Al raised his hand and confirmed with the scout, "The enemy isn't numerous, right?"

"Only, only a few dozen people, maybe around thirty."

The scout was a little nervous when he saw the mage asking questions, but he still answered Al's questions in full.

"Then attack, be well prepared, and don't let anyone escape."

After El finished speaking, his figure suddenly disappeared. The officers looked panicked. Ansuna calmly gave the order:

"Follow the order, attack!"

"Lord El has gone to prepare for the next battle. Our mission is to do everything else for him!"

After telling the female knight to make her own decision, El used his psychic power to wrap himself up, isolating himself from the outside world's perception and achieving the effect of concealment.

Then they quickly headed in the direction the scouts came from, observing the battle situation outside the Xerxes camp, and also climbed the hilly trail that was the target of this battle. The Xerxes didn't know whether they were arrogant or stupid, they set up the camp in the valley near the Devangel side, instead of in the middle of the road or at the exit.

It didn't take long before the Brio army began to move.

They traveled lightly, crouched under the cover of the morning mist, and slowly crept into the Xerxes' camp. Another small team moved slowly along the road, intending to occupy the entrance.

Al found a hillside with a commanding view, and his sharp eyesight allowed him to easily take in the entire battlefield.

About twenty Xerxes wrapped in white robes and armor were kneeling in the middle of the camp in front of a bonfire that seemed to have been burning all night. They stood up, raised their hands and bowed, and then repeated the process.

A man who looked like a priest was holding something that looked like a scale, but with two burning fireballs at both ends. He was dancing around the bonfire and swinging the scale. Two fire meteors streaked across the sky, which was quite magical.

With the right time and location, the Brio people successfully reached the outskirts of the camp, and Al could clearly see their movements from his high vantage point.

I saw that a dozen or so Devonian soldiers had changed into civilian clothes. Some were riding horses, some were driving carts, and there were some walking laborers at the end of the team, disguised as civilians and slowly moving along the road.

The rider was dressed as a civilian warrior and wore a felt hat. Ellian looked at her several times before he was sure that she was actually a female knight in disguise.

This gave him a new understanding of Ansuna. This woman was truly bold. But then again, hadn't Ansuna led the troops to eliminate him, a "mutant" in the first place? This time, with their army behind them and him supporting them, the risk of personally leading the attack on the enemy camp wasn't that great.

As this disguised army that looked like a caravan appeared, two Xerxes who were guarding the road side outside the camp were immediately attracted. One of them ran back to the center of the camp to inform the large army that was worshiping. The other soldier walked to the front of the team and talked to a Brio pretender who approached, then suddenly raised his spear and pointed it at the horseback Ansuna.

"Exposed?"

El's heart moved, and he vaguely sensed that the female knight was in a very calm mental state.

Then he saw Ansuna remove her hood, revealing her golden hair, a move that seemed to satisfy Xerxes, and he stood his spear again in his hand.

A false alarm.

Six people came out of the worship team in the camp and followed the guard who reported the news to the passage.

The purpose of the Xerxes setting up checkpoints here was to check the travelers. This was a place with a lot of money. Because the current situation was that Xerxes was strong and Devangel was weak, the Xerxes soldiers acted somewhat unscrupulously. They repeatedly extorted and blackmailed money from merchants traveling from the west, and even detained goods hostage in exchange for ransom, causing this trade route, which was once used quite frequently, to become somewhat abandoned.

But the more this happened, the more they couldn't let go of any caravan that passed by, and it was a vicious cycle of taking advantage of every passing caravan.

If they wanted to launch a surprise attack, there were actually other roads that could bypass this valley and directly enter the Wall Plain, but none of them were as fast as this road. After discussion, Ansuna and Ai'er believed that this road was somewhat deserted due to the existence of Xerxes' outpost, and the number of merchants and tourists was decreasing, so the concealment was greatly improved, so they simply took the main road and headed towards the eastern territory.

The Xerxes soon overtook the caravan, striking the wagons with their spears and lifting the coverings.

Two more soldiers walked to the front of the team and stood in front of the horse-riding Ansuna, criticizing her. El felt a sense of disgust coming from Ansuna, but this displeasure was soon ended by the female knight herself.

She dismounted, drew her dagger from the saddle, and killed two men in quick succession. The other men in the team also attacked at the same time, taking off their disguises and drawing their hidden weapons to catch Xerxes' men who came up to check by surprise.

At the same time, the Devon Gale troops who had been lurking outside the camp also launched an attack. They roared:

"Glory and ancestors!"

They rushed into the camp of the Xerxes, kicked over the fences, hacked away, and killed all the Xerxes who were still worshipping by surprise.

Many of Xerxes' soldiers were still kneeling on the ground in confusion from the moment the enemy's war roar sounded to the moment the swords approached them. Some of them reacted very quickly and quickly picked up weapons such as spears and swords to prepare for a counterattack.

The priest presiding over the ceremony reacted quickly. He threw the scale-like object he had been holding in his hand at the Brio people. The object hit the chest of the Brio soldier who was rushing in front. There was an instant bang, and a ball of dazzling fire ignited, turning the soldier into a fire man.

But this did not scare the Devangel regular army who had experienced the methods of the Zoroastrians. In the last war, they were suppressed by the mages and had suffered enough from these "clumsy things that tried to imitate the great creativity of magic - the ancient imperial wizard language". This time they also had the support of the mages, and the enemy was only such an insignificant number, so they naturally would not hesitate any more.

This is an unfair fight.

Hundreds versus dozens.

The knights of Devangel also joined the battlefield as the first war cry was sounded. They were lurking behind a small slope, and when the battle broke out, they immediately whipped their mounts and rushed towards the camp.

After the knights arrived at the battlefield, the last resistance of the Xerxes was also wiped out. They knew that they could not defeat this well-prepared enemy, so they either fled for their lives or simply gave up resistance.

With the cavalry present and the passage blocked, the two most economical escape routes were gone, leaving only one way to go.

Soon, several of the fastest Xerxes soldiers ran to the side of Ai'er's position. They threw away inconvenient equipment such as spears and hammers and began to run upwards, trying to cross the hill.

"Even if you're watching a play, you can still see it on me."

El complained in his heart and stood up. The psychic concealment had dissipated. The Xerxes looked at El who suddenly appeared in front of them with a look of horror. The first one was frightened for a while, but then he gritted his teeth, drew his dagger from his waist and rushed towards El with the momentum of burning his boats.