284: Chapter 143: Aphrodite’s Miracle 284: Chapter 143: Aphrodite’s Miracle Post-war Longka was still in the midst of fortification construction.
Relieved from the crisis and with ample time and support from the Thorns Flower family, Mr.
busily fortified the simple wooden encampment.
Soldiers and laborers constructed a second layer of walls outside the single-layer wooden ones surrounding the village, filling the space between the inner and outer walls with compacted earth.
Once completed, this place would truly transform into a defensible earthen and stone fortress, no longer fearing fire.
In the future, if wealthy enough, they could further replace the wooden walls with stone, turning it into a real castle.
By then, should enemies attack again, the soldiers would not need to face great risk and casualties by lining up outside to confront them.
They would merely hold Longka’s walls and wait for reinforcements.
Of course, that remained a comparatively distant future, and Longka was just beginning its transformation from a small village to an earthen wooden fortress.
After a brief meeting, Leon sent off Baron Eriv, who had stopped in Longka, without any delay.
After all, the place was still under construction, lacking facilities and far from having enough provisions to supply Baron Eriv’s accompanying troops—the daily fodder needed for those warhorses was an astonishing amount.
Standing outside the drawbridge gate, Leon watched a vast expanse of cavalry troops leave, making their way to Sir Marcello’s Wacht Castle.
The Farolis Family’s cavalry were eager to travel, and the thundering sound of hundreds of warhorses’ iron hooves trampling across the fields was truly a sight to behold.
Even though that was merely “merely” two hundred light and heavy cavalry with their backup packhorses.
Compared to the tens of thousands of cavalry seen in past war entertainment works, this was hardly worth mentioning.
It seemed almost “laughable,” like a village brawl.
In fact, standing there witnessing the scene of armored and armed cavalry charging in such dense formations, Leon had long since swallowed back any such thoughts.
Now having led an army for a while, he was able to estimate soldier numbers, but if he had seen such a cavalry force thunder past him right after his initial arrival, and someone had told him there were thousands there, he wouldn’t rise to the heavens even if he couldn’t tell the difference.
Witnessing the scene in the flesh, as opposed to just imagining it on paper, was worlds apart.
“…Having to perform this charade in front of Eriv is such a hassle.
Remember your promise to give me more time out,” Canis complained with his arms crossed, standing beside Leon.
“That’s assuming I don’t run into trouble and have enough Magic Power,” Leon glanced at Canis, who had become one of his “Heroic Spirit Cards,” the Wolf Family Young Master.
These words sounded like he had a dog and needed to schedule regular walks and time to play outside.
Shaking his head, Leon thought Canis really should learn from old Mr.
from the Thorny Flower Family—Galron would just sleep in the card every day without any complaints…
Okay, it seemed that even if Galron had complaints, Leon didn’t have enough Magic Power to summon that ancient Forbidden Guard every day.
The battle of Longka had really drained Kovis’s Magic Power, and after half a month, his young mage hadn’t recovered yet, unable to endure such a depletion again for a while.
Turning around with Canis, Leon returned to Longka City and found a secluded room.
He stopped supplying Magic Power and deactivated the Netti Card.
The burly figure of the Wolf Family Young Master immediately turned into particles of light, reconverging into the card…
Of course, he couldn’t reveal to Eriv the truth about Canis’s current state, so for now, he used the excuse that he had saved Canis’s life from a near-fatal stabbing, garnering his gratitude, to explain his current cooperation.
Baron Eriv was surprised that he could persuade the eldest son of his sworn enemy’s family to help clarify the disputes for the Thorny Flower family, but he couldn’t guess the true nature of the facts.
After all, a card like the Netti Card that could so vividly and completely allow the deceased to keep their consciousness and reasoning, almost like reincarnation to a second life, really surpassed common knowledge.
Speaking of resurrection, the Undead’s terrifying state of soul Desecration, half-dead and half-alive, was what most people recognized as Spellwork.
True resurrection was purely mythical.
It was only because he, like Miss Lora, who also possessed an unscattered Spiritual Body, had been exposed to such phenomena for a long time that he had sufficient immunity to deal calmly with it.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to maintain such composure.
Moreover, this Miracle-like Magic didn’t require the spellcaster to pay any price beyond the Magic Power needed to maintain the Spiritual Body.
He truly didn’t understand why the Dragon of the Dead Sea, similar to a Netherworld God, would allow such a Great Magic that broke the taboo of life and death to exist.
When he first encountered the Netti Card, Leon felt it was a special type of Undead Summoning Magic, but now, having studied Magic for a while, he realized the Magic created by Lady Aphrodite was far too extraordinary upon deeper reflection.
Catching the floating card, Leon studied the standing painting of the Wolf Family Young Master.
In the painting, Canis roared, swinging his long sword, cleaving the enemy’s Flag Officer in two along with the flag, set against a background of a bloodied battlefield—location unknown, but definitely not Longka.
The enemies surrounding Canis were the well-armored Knight Kantadars.
As for the back of the card, it was not the Wolf Family emblem Leon had expected when he flipped it over for the first time, but the symbol of the Orland Kingdom—a black Dragon crest.