Can't I develop my own character?

"The Grand Duke will probably listen to what I say, right? But... I still feel like there's something a little dangerous going on."

Forget it, let's talk about this after we conquer the Augustus Empire. It's still too early now. Besides, the Grand Duke is so understanding, he should understand that he faked his death.

"The key point now is to expose the old emperor's blood sacrifice. This is the opportunity to break the whole situation. As long as this fire is lit, everything will fall into place."

Ryan didn't know that Kasradi had volunteered to go find Blood Sacrifice. He was still thinking about Lin Qi going to find Blood Sacrifice. The latter would definitely have a hard time moving in the imperial capital, which was really troublesome.

However, the Janus Gate always has its own methods. Ryan does not intend to worry about these things. Compared with this, getting the fat piece of meat of the Lot Kingdom as soon as possible is the kingly way.

With this place as a stronghold, if Augustus's plan fails temporarily, he still has the Kingdom of Lot. If it succeeds, then using the Kingdom of Lot as a springboard, it will not be a problem to further take over the Northern Alliance.

Once the Northern Alliance is defeated, the entire Northern Continent will fall into Ryan's hands. As for little Camillas like Cainte, just let "Charlie" take the Holy Blood Legion to visit their homes for two months, and they will be killed most of them.

At present, 'Charlie' has led the Holy Blood Legion to intercept Grand Duke Frank's army. The latter's team has almost gathered the attention of the entire kingdom at this moment. Everyone knows that Frank is going to 'welcome' the king, and Ryan also asked Anjia to spread the news that the king is in Astor City and can't go anywhere else.

As long as Frank's army is destroyed head-on, the situation in the entire Lot Kingdom will be reversed immediately. However, Ryan has to recruit some manpower for the Holy Blood Legion first, and this matter is still left to Anjia to handle.

This is the advantage of having a base. Otherwise, the conscripted men would not know where to go. Anyway, Ryan does not force them. If they are willing to come, they can pay, eat and drink well, and have money to spend. These conditions alone can attract a lot of people.

After all, no matter how well Astor City is governed, it is only on the border, and there are a lot of poor people and refugees. After Ryan offered the conditions, there are still many people willing to join.

Moreover, there is a large and convenient channel for the Holy Blood Legion to obtain personnel, and that is slaves.

The slave market is a huge industrial chain. Ryan had experienced it deeply when he was in Berman City. The status of slaves is not even as good as that of civilians or even refugees, so being able to join the Holy Blood Legion is actually the greatest gift for them.

Anjia did not ask Ryan about his purpose of recruiting people, but she had some vague guesses. After all, the bloody power when the Holy Blood Legion fought was not normal in any way.

But, so what?

The means are used by people, and whether they are good or bad depends on the person. She stands on Amabena's side. If she can't figure this out, then Anjia will not be able to govern Astor so well.

So in the next two days, Anjia put a lot of effort into recruiting people, and even transferred a lot of people from surrounding towns in his capacity as a viscount.

A large number of people means that money, equipment and food are needed to support them, and Ryan does not have any of these three.

Wei Nei's money isn't even enough to support her own army, Lin Qi never makes any money, Xia Li has even less, and Ina? She's still waiting for the Grand Duke to pay her salary!

As for the newly born 'fifth wife' Mortis, haha ​​~ bounty hunters don't talk about money, talking about money will hurt feelings.

Just when Ryan was thinking about how to make money, his adopted daughter Amabena suddenly took out a "mountain of gold".

"Why didn't you tell me you wanted money? I have plenty of gold coins!"

Ryan was stunned: "Where did you get these?"

"Of course I brought it with me before I escaped from the palace. After all, I was running for my life, so how could I be without money?"

"Didn't you say that the country was ruined by your father?"

"Yeah, so I exchanged the rest for money, and then emptied the treasury. Anyway, I took everything I could."

Ryan: "..."

Well, the Kingdom of Lot is really lucky to have you and your daughter. If your ancestors knew about this, they would probably be so angry that they would lift the lid of their coffin.

However, with this money, it is enough to put together a Holy Blood Legion for the time being. Ryan was thinking about whether to create a small account specifically to make money, but then he thought that as long as he could take down the Augustus Empire and the Lot Kingdom, he would not have to worry about money.

As for the Gilded Corps, Ryan was a little interested in the God of Order. The extraordinary professions in this faith path were relatively rare. As far as he knew, there was a profession that was particularly popular, but Ryan forgot what it was called. Anyway, it was very awesome.

The career path of the God of Order is all about playing with mechanics, which is different from characters like 'Xia Li' and 'Lin Qi'. It will be very interesting if you know how to play it.

Just when Ryan was busy recruiting the Holy Blood Reserve Army.

On the other side, a great battle was breaking out in a forest ten kilometers east of Astor City.

Where the blood-red fog spread, figures in silver armor were fighting frantically.

The armor of the Holy Blood Legion is mainly silver with blood-red stripes printed on it.

"For Lady Xia Li, kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Amidst the blood, an officer rushed out, greatsword in hand. With a roar, the sword slashed out with a blood-red blade of light—boom! The blade exploded at the end, shredding the oncoming enemies. Then he suddenly rushed out, swinging the sword wildly through the crowd. The blood-stained blade was enough to pierce the enemy's armor and split them in half!

Soon, the Holy Blood officer was surrounded by corpses, with broken debris mixed with blurred flesh and blood. The pungent and foul smell of blood made the soldiers in Frank's army want to vomit, but the Holy Blood soldiers did not even frown. At this moment, they had only one thought in their minds, and that was to follow Lady Charlie and kill all the enemies in front of them!

The strengthening of the will to 'war' has a screening effect. The most basic thing is that those who cannot withstand the mental influence will degenerate into blood demons, while those who can withstand the pressure and transform into true warriors will be further strengthened in the constant fighting and combat. The more outstanding ones will become more and more powerful.

At this time, the officer who killed the enemy did not obtain an extraordinary profession, but with the enhancement of "war", he could still release attacks similar to magic.

'Xia Li' called it Holy Blood Power.

The source of the Holy Blood Power is also the faith path of the Blood God, but it does not belong to any one person, but to the entire 'Holy Blood Legion'. Only those who join this team can gradually comprehend and master this ability in constant battles.

Although there are very few people who can use the power of holy blood, compared to the extraordinary people's screening of people's qualifications, this is already one of the easiest ways for "mortals" to obtain extraordinary powers.

But the Holy Blood Legion does not allow betrayal. For those who waver for any reason, the will of war will destroy their spirits and turn them into monsters without 'Xali' giving any orders.

Let Ryan evaluate it. The Holy Blood Legion is an army born entirely for war. There is no secret to their strength, only their courageous fighting.

Once in combat, the madness of the Holy Blood Soldiers will be unleashed, and they will use the most brutal and violent aesthetics to show the enemy what cruelty on the battlefield is.

Generally speaking, the armies fighting against the Holy Blood Legion would be unable to hold out and would have to retreat in less than half an hour. Even if they were not defeated, they would suffer a mental breakdown because they could not endure the cruel battlefield that was like hell, and eventually they would go crazy and just want to escape.

If the Holy Blood Legion completely frees itself from its mental shackles, they will enter a rampage state similar to that of the Blood Archbishop's extraordinary beings. However, that would be too mentally oppressive and too dangerous. Unless 'Charlie' is present, it would be easy for the Holy Blood soldiers to lose themselves after going crazy.

As for the current battle, except for the initial slight excitement on the part of Frank's army due to their absolute numerical advantage, they realized that something was wrong less than ten minutes after the war broke out.

A bloody mist of war filled the air. 'Xia Li', with the blood will and blood strengthening buffs superimposed on her, fought her way from the junction of the two armies to the core of the enemy army and successfully killed the commander of this army.

Then, the killing mode began!

What the hell does Blood Knight mean by invincibility?

Facts have proved that in a world where extraordinary powers exist, the number of people is sometimes just a number. Although there are extraordinary people hidden in Frank's army, they can only kill a few Holy Blood soldiers at most, and then they will soon be targeted and eliminated by "Charlie". Even several Holy Blood officers working together can kill these low-level extraordinary people.

If we really want to talk about who can cause large-scale damage to the Holy Blood Army, it is actually those ordinary people holding firearms. After all, no matter how powerful the Holy Blood soldiers are, they are still at the mortal level and cannot ignore firearms.

Therefore, Xia Li equipped the Holy Blood soldiers with essentially all-encompassing heavy armor, crafted at great expense. While this would somewhat affect mobility, wasn't the point of war hardening to strengthen physical fitness for combat? Killing people alive on the battlefield was far more effective than killing them dead. Furthermore, considering mobility, Xia Li had specially assigned a squad of Holy Blood cavalry to charge the enemy lines.

Although she is a horseless knight, all her subordinates have horses!

"For Lady Shirley!!"

“Blood sacrifice in the wilderness, holy blood is invincible! Blood sacrifice in the wilderness, holy blood is invincible!”

In the midst of the battle, Xia Li turned around and asked, "Who shouted such an ugly slogan? I'll whip him with fifty military sticks."

An hour later, the battle was coming to an end.

This overwhelming numerical disparity in this attack ended in victory for the Holy Blood Legion. The defeated Frank army began to retreat, but the Holy Blood Legion pursued them relentlessly. "Don't pursue a desperate enemy," she didn't understand. She only knew she couldn't let the experience get away.

【You have completed the advanced task. 】

【Congratulations on reaching the fourth level. 】

[You have mastered the advanced skill - 'Bloodthirsty Assault']

[You have learned a new professional skill - 'Blood Armor']

[Bloodlust Assault: Extracts energy from blood, recovering from injuries while increasing damage by 10%. This effect also applies to allied units affected by the Blood Knight's power.]

[Blood Armor: After using, magic and physical defense abilities increase by 25%, and HP increases by 25%.]

Bloodthirsty Assault is an advanced skill after the 'Bloodthirsty' skill is mastered. Ryan had been wondering why he hadn't successfully advanced to it yet. This thing is related to the character's comprehension.

Blood Armor is an essential skill for the Blood Knight. Ryan had only read the information and remembered that there was such an ability, but he didn't expect that it was learned at the fourth level.

High attribute defense improvement and health bonus, this is one of the reasons why the Blood Knight is called the Blood Bull Knight, and this thing is a passive skill, which is equivalent to directly adding it.

"There's no Blood God Blessing in the game that adds Blood Will, so I'm the real Blood Cow."

Ryan smiled slightly, our Xiao Xia is really awesome.

However, what he valued more was the ability of Bloodthirsty Assault. In the game, it could only be used against blood mercenaries, but now after comprehending the realm of war and the uniqueness of the Holy Blood Legion, Ryan discovered that those Holy Blood soldiers could be covered!

what does this mean?

This means that the Holy Blood Corps' battlefield survival rate will increase significantly in the future!

Every Holy Blood soldier is a berserker on the battlefield. With their strengthened will to fight, they are extremely brave and have enough ability to kill the enemy, so the first thing Ryan has to consider is their survivability.

"Once the Holy Blood Legion is fully stabilized and formed, it will be an invincible army."

Two hours later, the pursuit was completely over. Ryan didn't know how many people in Frank's army were killed, but it was definitely more than 6,000.

He asked the main force of the 'Holy Blood Legion' to stay and rest, and then asked 'Charlie' to take a few people back to Aster. A lot of new recruits had been recruited in the past two days, and those who were qualified to join the Holy Blood Legion still needed 'Charlie' to select.

beep~

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Ryan closed the game interface casually.

Amabena pushed the door open, squeezed her head in through the crack, and blinked: "Father, someone is looking for you."

"Who?"

Ryan asked Amabena to call him father-in-law. There was no other way, otherwise he would have gotten used to calling him father. He didn't have a daughter this 'old'.

Come to think of it, Hainuo is also quite big. Who is bigger between these two?

Hainuo is more popular, mainly because Hainuo is a later-stage character, he looks handsome and awesome, and has a great figure... But Ryan still thinks Amabena is better, because this guy is obedient.

"It's the one in Melde Town."

"Oh Mortis is here."

Ryan called Xiao Mo back before, but it seemed that this guy went out to carry out some bounty mission and only arrived now.

And not only did she come back, she also brought a group of people with her.

"Mortis, this is the City Lord's Mansion, what are you doing here?"

"Yes, otherwise we should leave quickly. It will be troublesome if the city lord gets angry."

"I heard that the King is also in there."

When Ryan came out of the castle, he saw Mortis followed by twenty or so bounty hunters.

"They want to create a bounty hunting group with me." said 'Mortis'.

"Hunter Group?"

Ryan touched his chin and looked at these people. Bounty hunters are indeed a huge system, but there are no outstanding hunter groups in the Northern Continent. It would be great if 'Motis' could form a Hunter King team.

"Mortis, who is this?" asked the person next to him.

Mortis tilted his head slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "A lover with the same heart?"

"Wow! Mortis, you actually have a lover?"

"I thought you were some cold-blooded bounty killer."

Ryan's mouth twitched slightly. He felt that 'Mortis' was a little stupid. Sure enough, his emotional intelligence was definitely lower than 'Lin Qi'.

"Mr. Ryan."

At this time, Anjia came back from outside and saw them.

"Lord City Lord!" The bounty hunters bowed and saluted. They didn't know Ryan, but they definitely knew Anjia.

"You are?"

"Oh, a friend of a friend." Ryan said, "Viscount Anjia, I need the people I recruited earlier. I'll have someone come over later. Also, Frank's army has been wiped out. Please help build momentum. The king will be returning to the royal city in a few days."

"Frank's army was defeated?" Anjia was shocked. "When did it happen?"

Ryan chuckled. "Just now, it's normal that you didn't know. After all, this is the king's secret weapon. She just told me to tell you. Viscount Anjia, our king is not as simple as you think."

"I see!"

Anjia looked serious.

She seemed to understand that King Amapena's usual innocence and naivety were all a disguise. He was worthy of being the king, who had been dormant for many years and suddenly made a big splash!

"I'll do it right now!"

Anjia ignored the bounty hunters and left in a hurry.

"Mortis, your lover is amazing. He can even talk to the Lord." A girl next to Mortis exclaimed in a low voice. "He even mentioned the King just now."

"Why do I feel..." The young man beside him scratched his head, "Did we hear something we shouldn't have heard?"

King, Frank and so on, isn’t this the hot topic recently?

"Everyone, you guys go back first. Mortis and I still have things to do. I'll ask her to contact you later about the bounty hunter group." Ryan said with a smile.