In other words, as long as I spend five years working for the Tulip Duke, I can get these coveted treasures. After five years, I will still be free.

In this way, he also preserved his dignity as a magician. After all, a magician is not willing to spend his whole life selling himself to anyone as a subordinate.

So, people started to rush to sign up.

Although many magicians were still watching, on the second day, no one could sit still!

Why? Because Du Wei’s behavior is really outrageous!!

Several magicians came to accept recruitment. The strength of these magicians was really very low. Two of them were only at the first or second level. There were even two magic apprentices who shamelessly went to Du Wei to confront him.

Luck... As a result, this Tulip Duke is like a rich man. With one stroke of his pen, he takes it all!

And the conditions for the release are also complied with!

It’s really… it’s really unreasonable!

Many magicians are indignant, thinking that as a fifth-level (sixth-seventh-level) magician, I have been working for half my life, but I still haven’t been able to get a magic prop made of mithril and a first-grade magic gem! As for the dragon skin...

I've never even seen a dragon bone!

But now, those first- and second-level guys are openly wearing these treasures... Is there any justice?

No! I have to go!! Otherwise, it would be a huge loss!!

The next day, Du Wei recruited thirty-six magicians in one go, and by the afternoon, the number of people Du Wei had recruited had exceeded one hundred!

Don't be surprised. Although the number of one hundred people is a bit scary, only more than thirty of them are truly powerful magicians, while the other seventy or so, most of them are magic apprentices. There are even a dozen magicians.

Pharmacist (What! You look down on people! A magic pharmacist is also a magician!)

On the third day, the news spread to other places, and many magicians from other places quickly rushed to the imperial capital.

For a time, the news spread across the entire continent. Du Wei's sky-high price attracted countless shady guys.

Du Wei didn't feel bad either... Anyway, he had plenty of these things! The Dragon God's lifetime collection, the countless magic gems, all fell into his hands. If he didn't go out to recruit troops, would they be left in the warehouse to get moldy?

As for mithril... Hey, do you still remember the entrance to the Demonic Temple on the Snow Mountain? The entrance walls and floors there were all made of mithril. When Du Wei left, he had already pried more than a dozen pieces off the wall.

A wall panel was taken away.

Walnut? I have the Teardrop, but am I still afraid that I won’t be able to grow walnut?

On the fifth day, Lord Tulip Duke's magician retinue team had grown extremely strong!

This farce ended on the night of the fifth day. Du Wei announced that the recruitment was over and removed the recruitment notice. Then, Du Wei ran to the headquarters again. This time he reported the "magician" he had brought with him.

The number of "retinues".

Well, it was agreed at the beginning that Du Wei could recruit his own magician retinue to accompany him to fight on the front line, which was originally a good thing.

But when Camisillo saw the numbers on Duwei's newspaper, he didn't stand firm and almost fainted.

In the end, he still held on to the wall and stared at Du Wei: "How many people did you say! Did I hear wrongly?!"

"Three hundred and ninety-one people." Du Wei said with an innocent expression: "You heard me right. Could it be that my enunciation was not clear enough?"

Camisillo was really angry this time.

Bang! The Minister of Military Affairs slammed the table and glared at Du Wei: "Du Wei! Do you think I'm an idiot! Add up all the magicians on the mainland, there are hundreds of them! You said you recruited them by yourself?

Close to four hundred? How is that possible!! Could it be that all the magicians in the continent have gone to your Tulip family to be loyal!!"

"How is that possible?" Du Wei suddenly became humble and said with a good-tempered smile: "Among these people, there are only one hundred and fourteen magicians with formal grades, and the rest are all magic apprentices.

And the potion master."

This number is a little less outrageous. But... it's still amazing!

More than a hundred magicians?!

Hell! I’m afraid even the court magician team in the royal family may not be able to gather a hundred people! As for the wealthy nobles, even the first-class big families, it is already extremely powerful to have three or four magicians loyal to them.

It's a matter of face.

Recruiting more than a hundred magicians at once? This Du Wei...

"Actually, I'm quite embarrassed." Du Wei said with a sincere face and a sincere tone: "I thought about it afterwards and found that my recruitment announcement was too reckless... Sigh, these days.

There were even a few magic teachers from the Imperial Academy of Magic who came to accept recruitment and expressed their willingness to resign from the Academy of Magic and come to work with me as followers... I thought about it, after all, it is more important to cultivate future magic talents for the empire, so

I sent those people back. And... some magic students from the academy also came and shouted that they wanted to drop out of school. They thought of working under my command, so they were all sent back."

This...what is this?

Excuse me?

I think it’s just to show off!

Camisillo's fingers trembled and he took a few deep breaths. Then he managed to calm down. Well, it's up to you to recruit as many magicians as you can. I'm the Minister of Military Affairs, so magicians are not my business.

You can make as much trouble as you like.

Camisillo looked resigned to his fate, but then he took a roster from Du Wei, and the anger he had just suppressed began to stir up again.

"Four...four thousand people, the establishment, military pay, and rationing of food, grass, and equipment??" Camisillo growled: "Duwei! What is this!"

"Don't look at me. It's not my fault." Du Wei smiled and patted Camisillo on the shoulder: "Don't be angry, it's not good for your health. I just recovered from a serious illness, but I know that

,The body is the capital! Nothing is better than having a good body."

"You...tell me first, what is this!"

"Magician's retinue." Du Wei said calmly: "Those magicians I recruited are of noble status, as you know. Magicians are a rare and precious profession on the mainland now, and all those magicians are...

It's ridiculous. I recruited a magician. He has many servants, apprentices, and many of his own samurai followers. Well, as you know, magicians are good at long-distance combat but not good at close range.

Therefore, now on the mainland, magicians like to recruit some samurai to serve as their retinue. So that when fighting, there will be someone around them who can make up for their low melee strength... This is also popular. I recruited them.

These magicians, they are loyal to me, which means that even their subordinates have followed me."

Camisillo sighed sadly.

I’ve seen shameless people... but never seen such shameless people!!

What magician's retinue! Fart... fart!!

Even an idiot can see that it was clearly your idea, Du Wei, to mobilize thousands of private troops from your own family!!

It is true that it is popular among magicians to recruit samurai retinues nowadays... but that also depends on who they are! Those intermediate or high-level magicians may be able to recruit some samurai retinues. But most of the magicians you recruited, Du Wei, are

They are magic apprentices, magic pharmacists and low-level magicians! How could these people have a large number of samurai followers!

you you……

Camisillo also tried to argue with reason, but then he sighed in his heart that this was something he couldn't control!

Why?

Just one word "magician" and all roads are blocked!

The empire has a decree: magicians are not subject to the imperial code!

Let alone the Minister of Military Affairs, even if he is the Prime Minister, he has nothing to do with the magician.

What can I do? Capture all the magicians under Du Wei and interrogate them one by one? What a joke!!

There are more than a hundred magicians! If they cause trouble, they can tear down the entire imperial capital! I am a military minister and I cannot afford to offend them.

But... let's forget it.

The previous "knights and retinues" were already five thousand people. Now there are "magic retinues", and there are more than four thousand more.

In this way, it was like Du Wei cleverly made a name and found a legal excuse to get himself a staff of nearly 10,000 people! He could use this to openly draw 10,000 people from his family's private army and hang it

In the name of these "retinues", they went to the front line with him.

Sigh...I'm afraid the regent will have a headache.

Camisillo thought for a long time and finally said seriously: "Duwei, I can't control you anymore, but... when you do these things, you should also consider... the meaning of the person above."

After saying that, he raised his pen and signed the list, which was regarded as approval of the list.

Du Wei smiled, grabbed the thing and stuffed it back into his pocket, and said calmly: "Master Camisillo, don't worry, I know it well."

Ten thousand people... almost, this should be the psychological bottom line of the regent.

If you don't have enough people with you, you won't feel at ease.

The regent was worried about bringing too much.

Ten thousand people, say too much but not too much, say not too little, is just right.

Afterwards, Camisillo simply refused to do anything and signed the transfer order to mobilize 500 soldiers from the Public Security Bureau and 2,000 Royal Guards that he had promised Du Wei last time.

only……

Alas, the regent sent Du Wei to the front line just to separate the Tulip Duke from his direct army. Let him be far away on the eastern front, surrounded by 200,000 troops who are all officers and soldiers of the empire. No matter how hard he goes, there is no need to be afraid.

.

But now, before the Duwei people go north, they have found 10,000 direct relatives for him to come over...

After leaving the headquarters gate, Du Wei jumped onto his horse, kicked the horse's belly, looked at the guard beside him, Elder Yan, and whispered: "Get out of the city!"
Chapter completed!