Originally, Su Lun thought that the five thousand gold Nars he 'borrowed' from his cheap brother who didn't even deserve to have a name was already a lot. But when he really got here, he realized that the five thousand gold Nars was only enough for the initial investment.
5,000 Kinnar was equivalent to a city's tax for a year, but it was only enough to support a hundred regular soldiers.
Other than some tattered clothes, the barbarians didn't have anything else. Suhlen even had to prepare clothes for them. He brought the group of brutes to the West Market of Calt City. It was the biggest market in the city.
Needless to say, bringing along thirty two-meter-tall burly men to swagger through the streets was truly outrageous. Most of these barbarians were topless, and each of them had scars on their bodies. Each of them had bulging muscles and tattoos on their bodies. Coupled with their stoic faces, tsk tsk, their aura was truly tyrannical.
Walking on the street, a three-meter-wide barrier formed around them. Suhlen looked like a hedonistic young master with a group of bullies. Unfortunately, he didn't meet any hot-blooded youths who liked to fight for justice. Suhlen even prepared to teach them a lesson and let them experience the harsh beating of society.
When they arrived at the West Market, Suhlen brought the barbarians to the shop where he had pre-ordered the goods. As the Kinnar was spent like flowing water, carts after carts of goods were brought back. Even the barbarians had changed into new clothes.
Those rough-looking men were wearing brand-new leather armor and holding sharp axes. Their palms, which were as big as palm-leaf fans, were gently rubbing against the skin. Their expressions were as if they were caressing the skin of their lover. Eh, that's not right. Su Lun dared to bet that even their wives had never enjoyed such treatment before.
Suhlen chose two-handed axes for the barbarians. Of course, the axes were made according to the size of the Florentine people. However, the barbarians could lift them with one hand. One could imagine how it would be like if a group of barbarians wielded the axes, activated their berserk state, and charged into the enemy's formation and swung the axes like a windmill.
Flesh and blood splattered everywhere, and corpses littered the ground.
Especially when facing undisciplined and unarmored monsters in the wilderness, the barbarians were like human meat grinders. Their killing speed was much faster than regular soldiers.
Of course, they weren't without weaknesses. The berserk barbarians had their rationality lowered to the lowest. They could only distinguish between friend and foe. Although they were powerful, they had no discipline at all. After the berserk state ended, they would enter a weakened state.
During the weakened state, the barbarians' condition would drop by 50% and their stamina would drop to 30%. They were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Many times, the barbarian berserkers suffered heavy casualties because they rushed too far and got surrounded. Once the berserk state ended, they would be easily killed.
It wasn't that no one wanted to solve this problem. Whether it was the Kingdom of Florence, the Kingdom of Gallent, or even the Ellenst Federation in the south, they had all studied this problem. After all, the barbarians were still very powerful when they went berserk.
However, they soon discovered that there was no way to solve this problem. If the Barbarians maintained their rationality, they wouldn't be able to maintain their berserk state. If they wanted to maintain their berserk state, they would have to lower their rationality.
The experiment fell into an endless cycle. In the end, all the countries gave up on this thankless experiment.
After spending a day, Suhlen finally transported all the resources back. As for whether he was cheated or not, there was no need to worry. Suhlen purposely brought more than 30 strong barbarians to intimidate the merchants. If the price they offered was unreasonable or there were problems with the resources, he wouldn't mind letting them have a taste of their own medicine.
After preparing all the supplies, Suhlen left a month's worth of food for the barbarian women and children in the camp. Then, he led the convoy out of Calt City.
To use an old saying, the wheel of history had begun to roll.
After leaving Calt City, Suhlen's group headed northeast. There were more than a dozen cities of various sizes to the north of Calt City. There were many human settlements around Calt City. This was the actual area under Calt City's control.
If Suhlen wanted to expand his territory, he could only go further away. After leaving Calt City's area of control, the road became bumpy again. The north was different from the south. There were large stretches of wilderness between the cities. There were many bandits, goblins, kobolds, gnolls, and even humans living in the wilderness.
Every once in a while, the garrisons of the surrounding cities would conduct a 'clean-up' in the wilderness near the cities. Their goal was to reduce the number of these creatures. It was unrealistic to say that they had completely cleaned up the area. Goblins and kobolds were like weeds in the wilderness. Moreover, their reproductive abilities were too strong. They were born in groups every time. Even if there was no food, they could still survive by eating grass or even soil.
Suhlen's group was huge. There were 30 carriages fully loaded with goods. In order to transport these goods, Suhlen specially hired a mercenary group. The entire group had more than 100 people. With such a large caravan, the smaller tribes in the wilderness didn't dare to attack at all. They didn't have the ability to do so either.
This also made Suhlen's plan to take advantage of this opportunity to farm monsters go down the drain.
After traveling in the wilderness for five days, Suhlen's group finally arrived at Blackstone City, the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Florence. It was a small border city with only 5,000 permanent residents. However, it had 1,000 soldiers. The city wasn't large either. Suhlen didn't see any human settlements outside the city. It was obviously a fortress city.
The caravan didn't enter the city. They went around the city and officially entered the wilderness. From then on, Suhlen's group didn't encounter any human cities.
At this point, the real test had just begun.
After passing Blackstone City, the number of monsters in the wilderness increased significantly. Suhlen had found that there were many eyes peeping around the caravan. However, these monsters hiding in the dark didn't directly attack. As the caravan went deeper into the wilderness, there were more and more tails around the caravan.
By the fourth day in the wilderness, the number of tails around the caravan had swelled to hundreds. This number was enough to clean up once.
He was going to let these Barbarians try their axes and see the combat power of these Barbarians.
In fact, after he officially left the city with these Barbarians, his system had already sent a notification. Suhlen had an army of 35 people.
There were also the attributes of this army on the system panel:
Northern Barbarian Guard; Number: 35
Unit: Barbarian; Morale: 85
After these Barbarians joined Suhlen's army, they directly surpassed the Barbarian Soldiers and became second-level Barbarian Warriors. The leader, Johnson, was a Barbarian Warrior and also a hero unit.
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