Chapter 360: First Display of Power
In the forest.
Will rode Druddigon, while Dresa rode a Spring Form Sawsbuck side by side.
Will kept glancing at the deer beside him.
Sawsbuck is a Pokémon that has different appearances in different seasons.
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter are all different.
Like the Sawsbuck in this period, it was already late spring; the small pink flowers on its head were about to wither, and a layer of tender shoots had grown on its antlers.
In the past, Will had no impression of this Pokémon.
Anyway, this Pokémon had no special highlight moments.
Only knew their bodies would change with the seasons.
But coming to the era of magical beasts.
Sawsbuck made people have to look sideways.
The Sawsbuck Dresa rode was 4 meters tall; don't know how fast and fierce it would be when running.
"Oh~ So this magical beast is called Sawsbuck. By the way, who named these?"
Dresa looked at Will beside him.
"...I did."
Will didn't know how to answer, so he said he named it.
"Good name! Well named!"
Dresa gave a thumbs up, grinning and laughing.
His mood now was quite good.
Actually bringing the "Sage in the forest" back to the kingdom so smoothly; spreading it out would be another stroke worth mentioning on his glorious resume.
"Speaking of which, why did you look for me? I am not as powerful as you imagine."
Will looked curiously at Dresa beside him.
He could feel the soldiers around constantly casting their gazes on him.
A magical beast that can speak.
Was quite amazing to them.
Especially.
Will didn't open his mouth when speaking.
He could "speak," essentially using Aura to emit sound.
Aura isn't released from the mouth, so naturally no need to open the mouth.
However, this scene made those soldiers feel it was impressive even if they didn't understand.
Originally many people felt this "Sage in the forest" name didn't match the reality, mostly blown up by people in the city. But looking at it now.
Really had somewhat the appearance of a mysterious sage.
Especially when connecting the two identities of "Sage" and "magical beast," it inevitably added a bit of fantasy color. "Hm? State Preceptor, that healing power you used before was already amazing. Moreover, you seem to have some understanding of pharmacological knowledge?"
Dresa smiled and looked at Will beside him.
He certainly knew Will's combat ability wasn't very strong.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been chased by those people from the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles yesterday.
But people are good at different things.
So it is normal among magical beasts too.
Others didn't know.
But Dresa knew very well.
Although the Divine Dragon of the Vale back then could also speak, according to the journal left by his grandfather, that Divine Dragon's consciousness wasn't very clear, often in chaos, speaking like having drunk fake wine, and had no common sense.
To put it more bluntly, not very smart.
But undeniably, the Divine Dragon of the Vale had invincible might.
So Dresa thought.
Will belonged to the kind of magical beast extremely smart and knowledgeable about various strange arts, opposite to the Divine Dragon of the Vale.
One civil official, one military general.
In that era back then.
One absolutely strong military general was more precious than a hundred top civil officials.
But now it's different.
Civil officials and military generals are equally important.
Could even be said right now the Kingdom of the Vale needs civil officials who can accelerate the development of other fields of the kingdom more, while the Kingdom of the Vale is not lacking in combat power now.
"Indeed quite knowledgeable; if you need, I can teach your people."
Will nodded without modesty, nor stingy.
Since Dresa was so generous willing to let him enter Dragonspiral Tower, and even let him, a magical beast never met before, become a high-ranking State Preceptor.
Then Will naturally couldn't be petty.
As the saying goes, "Throw me a peach, return with a jade" (reciprocate kindness).
Dresa helped Will.
Then Will would also do his best where he could help him.
And it wasn't Will bragging.
In the future League era, he had the ability to serve as a famous pharmacist.
Let alone in this era of magical beasts; he was simply a famous divine doctor far and near.
"That healing power is?"
"That is not healing power, that is called Aura Power. Many uses; for example, I can speak using this power, healing external injuries is also one of the effects."
Will shook his head, suddenly narrowed his eyes.
He raised his hand; a continuously rotating blue energy sphere instantly appeared in his palm.
Then shot towards a big tree in the 10 o'clock direction.
So fast.
That a group of people and horses of the Kingdom of the Vale didn't react.
Boom!
The Aura Sphere exploded on the trunk of that big tree, instantly blasting a spiral hole.
At the same time.
Rustle rustle~
The tree crown shook for a while; a figure fell from the dense leaves. Looking carefully, it was one of the people from the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles yesterday.
"Catch him."
The adjutant beside Dresa reacted quickly, ordering immediately.
But faster than him was Will.
Saw Will raise his hand and beckon.
Before the falling person could get up, five inclined giant stones suddenly rose under his feet, trapping him inside in a triangular shape, unable to move.
When the soldiers of the Kingdom of the Vale approached, those giant stones turned into fragments and fell to the ground, revealing the person inside.
"Made the State Preceptor laugh; let this guy escape yesterday, our soldiers are still searching in the forest, didn't expect him to be found by the State Preceptor first. By the way, how did you find him there?"
Dresa looked at Will curiously.
He thought this State Preceptor was "average in size" and had no combat value.
Now it seems not absent, just not as exaggerated as the Divine Dragon.
According to those few moves revealed just now, he was stronger than the vast majority of magical beasts he had seen.
However.
He was more curious about.
How did this State Preceptor discover that person hiding in the dense tree crown?
That position was at least a hundred meters away from them.
"Still one of the abilities of Aura Power, perception; range quite wide, show you again later."
Will introduced slightly, but didn't say too much.
That person appeared coincidentally.
Accidentally let Will display his power a little.
"Oh~ Really amazing ability; our State Preceptor is indeed an amazing existence, don't you say?"
"Yes!" (xN)
Soldiers weren't fools, of course knew how to answer.
On the road afterwards.
Will and Dresa chatted a lot.
But basically Dresa telling Will about the current status of the Kingdom of the Vale, letting him, the State Preceptor, understand the national conditions, so as to help Dresa govern the country in the future.
For example, the strength and weakness of the combat power of the three major kingdoms and their advantages and disadvantages.
Three major kingdoms.
The Kingdom of the Vale has the strongest combat power; the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles is slightly weaker.
The Kingdom of Plenty is the worst, quite different from the first two countries, but being able to continue the kingdom till now, it must have special points.
The situation causing this is a bit complicated.
What has to be mentioned first is the land.
In the center of the eastern and western continents, there is a continuous snow mountain each.
The snow mountain on the eastern continent divides the entire continent into north and south halves, causing communication between towns in the Kingdom of Plenty to be quite difficult.
And the western continent, besides snow mountains, also has rocky mountains, forest mountains, and plain wetlands; can be said the area of mountains alone occupies half.
Modern people struggle to develop mountains, let alone ancient people; basically half of the land is wasted.
And the central continent is amazing.
Not a single mountain on the entire continent; either forest or plain, and basins.
Like the location of the capital of the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles, it is a vast prairie, which is the vast desert north of Castelia City in the future.
If only looking at the land, the western continent is the weakest, and the central continent is the strongest.
This led to the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles having strong soldiers and horses, and the physical quality of magical beasts is also strong; never encountered the problem of food shortage.
Logically speaking.
The Kingdom of the Blessed Isles located in the central continent should be the strongest one.
But why is the national power of the western Kingdom of the Vale the strongest?
Because the Dragon Veins are here.
Dragon Veins make every inch of land on this earth contain rich nutrition. Although the cultivated land area is limited, the nutritional value is rich, and the grain harvest is not low.
Most importantly.
The biological relationship on this land is more harmonious than in the central and eastern parts.
This gives the army of the western Kingdom of the Vale the most magical beast combat power among the three countries. Moreover, the relationship between magical beasts and soldiers is very good, combat enthusiasm is strong, obedient to command, won't flee from battle, thus being a bit stronger than the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles.
Finally, the eastern continent.
Although there is no existence of Dragon Veins, nor vast prairies, they also have a relatively special land.
On that land, the legendary "Revival Herb" can be planted!
"Dragon Veins value is certainly higher, but the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles can't conquer it. Why not plunder the land of the Kingdom of Plenty first, rely on the effect of Revival Herb to attack the Kingdom of the Vale?"
Will raised his doubt.
The effect of Revival Herb is very strong.
In this era of magical beasts, compared with other medicinal herbs discovered by humans, calling it a "divine medicine reviving the dead and regenerating flesh/bones" is not a problem.
Relying on the powerful effect of Revival Herb, could really let the army of the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles surpass the army of the Kingdom of the Vale, making up for that inherently small gap.
Whether the Kingdom of the Vale or the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles, beating that Kingdom of Plenty should be simple.
The Kingdom of the Blessed Isles is adjacent to the Kingdom of Plenty.
Just separated by a big river; the distance is closer than to the Kingdom of the Vale.
Why not fight the Kingdom of Plenty first, but fight the Kingdom of the Vale first?
"Because they have Gods there."
Dresa looked solemn, unable to help sighing at the same time,
"We used to have one too."
"Forces of Nature (Kami Trio)?"
Will pondered for a second.
The Forces of Nature a thousand years later are on the Forces of Nature Island (Abundant Shrine), specifically in the inland sea between the central and western continents, closer to the western continent.
But where they were a thousand years ago, he really didn't know.
However, hearing Dresa say the eastern continent has Revival Herb, he had a guess.
Land that allows Revival Herb to survive, only the Forces of Nature can create.
"State Preceptor, you know those three gods?"
Dresa looked at Will with shock in his eyes.
He found his State Preceptor really knew a lot of things.
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