Chapter 452 [0447] Trek

The next step of the ennoblement ceremony is to go to the fiefdom.

However, unlike other nobles who travel light and simply, Lux will be followed by thousands of demon-tainted people when she sets off for Fosbyro this time.

In order to provide comprehensive protection and prevent them from taking the opportunity to escape, in addition to the demon-tainted people, Lux will also bring a thousand private soldiers who have just passed the physical examination and received simple training.

Together with the merchants and craftsmen accompanying the Crown Guard Family, the Bouvier Family and the Laurent Family, the number of people accompanying Count Laxana to Fosbyro's fiefdom has reached nearly 3,000.

For the Demacians, the 3,000 people gathered together is not a small number - Demacia, which follows the policy of elite soldiers, has less than 3,000 garrisons in the two absolute strategic locations of the Gate of Sorrow and Greenfang Peak, even in the capital!

There are many issues that need to be considered in all aspects of the migration of such a team. Even though Kalya has left many relevant guidance plans before leaving, it is still a severe test for Lux to implement them.

How to maintain logistical supplies?

How to treat the infected with magic?

How to maintain the order of the army?

At this time, Lux's subordinates no longer have the well-trained and self-organized workers in Zaun. On the one hand, she needs to rely on the housekeepers and guards provided by the Crown Guard family, and on the other hand, she needs to train her own private army to accept her own "new order". At the same time, she also needs to make the already panicked infected realize the difference between themselves and the demon hunters...

With so many things mixed together, anyone would feel overwhelmed.

Lux, who cannot be perfect for the time being, wisely chooses to focus on the big and let go of the small, and first strictly train her own private army - this private army is her real foundation. Only by grasping this private army can she control Fosbyro in the order she expects!

According to Kalya, if you want to control an army, you can start from four aspects: logistics, rewards and punishments, prestige, and reputation.

In these four aspects, Lux needs to do her best.

Needless to say, logistics, although all of Lux's resources are either supplied by the family or sponsored by friendship, but at least they are sufficient.

Rewards and punishments are also very clear. There is no combat mission yet, and the rewards and punishments in training are clear at a glance, and it is easy to convince the soldiers.

Prestige is Lux's strong point. Whether it is the identity of a climber or a strong personal strength, it is a way to gain the recognition of soldiers and accumulate personal prestige. Although she has not yet proved that she has "command ability", these soldiers are also rookies. Lak, who is used to suffering, eats, lives, trains and rests with these soldiers without any burden, without any special treatment, which is more than enough to intimidate them.

Finally, in name, after thinking about it, Lux divided this part into two: on the surface, she is the lord of Fosbyro, and it is natural for her to command this army, but in addition, she has been understanding the ideals of the soldiers since the recruitment.

For ordinary Demacians, ideal is an extremely luxurious word.

In other words, in the eyes of most Demacians, being a soldier with a clear path to promotion is already a dream come true.

This is not enough.

Kalya said it well. If an army wants to become a strong army, it must know the reason for its fighting. For Demacians, joining the army means being able to defend Demacia, getting a clear path to promotion, and becoming a noble lord. This is the idea of ​​most Demacian soldiers.

Therefore, when facing foreign invasions, Demacians will always burst out with amazing fighting power. Even if the king dies on the battlefield, the soldiers will still insist on fighting, and will not retreat or collapse instantly.

But Lux believes that this belief is good, but not enough.

In her plan, the Fosbyro army will not only face foreign enemies from the north, but more likely conservative forces within Demacia. This army will not only defend Fosbyro in the future, but also the new order that is about to be born in Fosbyro!

Therefore, she must make these soldiers agree with this new order and make them willing to fight for it!

Although the reform of Fosbyro has not yet begun and this new order has not yet appeared, it does not prevent Lux from making these soldiers understand her intentions.

Using the excuse of "lack of manpower" and "lack of sheriffs", at Lux's request, the first thing that the Fosbyro army that left the capital had to do was... literacy.

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Cislia did not quite understand why Count Laxana asked everyone to gather together at night to read and learn to read after trekking every day.

Cislia was literate - or in other words, there was a huge difference in cultural level between the Demacia soldiers and the Noxus soldiers who were at the level of prenatal education dropouts, and they were not completely illiterate.

Demacia soldiers who took the elite route generally performed the simplest reading and writing, could read and write their own names and simple sentences, and could recite military regulations.

People who could not write their names could not pass the reserve assessment.

But according to Count Laxana, Fosbyro was vast and sparsely populated, and these 1,000 private soldiers would be officers in the future, so it was not enough to just know basic reading and writing.

There is more or less some empty talk in these words. If you want to be an officer in the future, we can talk about it in the future. There is no need to rush!

If it were another noble lord, the soldiers might not be willing to study together at night after working hard during the day; but Lux is not an ordinary noble after all. She seems to be well aware of the herd mentality. When everyone was confused, she directly named a few people who had their own clear ideals.

"Sislia, you want to become the Wing of Fosbyro. If the Dragon Bird Knight cannot clearly explain the reconnaissance results, how can you pass?"

Among the soldiers in the formation, Sislia, who was suddenly named, stood up straight, blushed subconsciously, and answered loudly: "Unqualified!"

"Chalangze! Didn't you say that you want to assemble a shield formation, a shield formation that is more elite than the Fearless Vanguard shield formation?" Lux named again, "You can't read and have no inheritance. How can you understand how to command the shield formation? How can you compare with the Fearless Vanguard?"

A big man who seemed to stand up like a bear stood up straight, and seemed to not know what to say, Finally, he could only squeeze out a "yes!"

"And you, Perce!" Lux continued to name names, "You are the descendant of the ancestors of Demacia, the blood of the pioneers who pioneered from scratch. How can you restore the glory of the ancestors by just doing it recklessly?"

"..."

"Aster..."

"Here!"

"Hymanli!"

"Yes!"

"..."

"..."

A thousand people is not too many, but not too few. After Lux named more than 30 people with personal ideals in one breath, no one objected, whether because they were convinced or because they were convinced by Lux's understanding of everyone.

What's the point of objecting?

Everyone knows that reading and writing is a good thing. The hesitation is mostly because they are marching during the day and are very tired at night. Now Count Laxana is directly on stage and "leading the class". From the perspective of the soldiers, they no longer have any reason to refuse.

After all, teaching is always more tiring than listening to a class, right?

Then, the soldiers who started learning culture were surprised to find that the cultural courses sounded... quite interesting?

Having been taught by the most outstanding special teachers in the Shurima Empire for nearly ten years, Lux's teaching level is already quite good. Moreover, although she is not very old, she is knowledgeable. Although she is not as knowledgeable as Kalya in astronomy and geography, it is really a dimensionality reduction blow to these young people who have just joined the army.

In order to establish the firm belief of these soldiers, although Lux spoke Demacia, she narrated it from a historical perspective.

Remove the exaggerated praise of the ancestors of the nobles in the historical materials, condense the history into small stories, and share and tell them to many soldiers - talk about the history of the ancestors following Oren to open up Demacia, and talk about the difficulties and achievements on the road of opening up.

With Sona's "accompaniment performance", it is obviously a cultural course, but in the eyes of the soldiers, apart from remembering some new words and new grammar every day, it seems that there is not much difference compared to listening to stories?

Lux's words are very contagious.

The story of Oren leading the pioneers to explore can be called a legend, and the legend of the ancestors is indeed full of the heroic spirit of epic stories.

In addition, these soldiers are also following Lux on their journey, and Lux ​​is also leading the way like Oren...

A very subtle feeling, as if the history in the legend is reflected in reality, makes the soldiers' morale extremely excited.

As she talked, even the magicians who could take a break after dinner and move freely within the prescribed range liked to surround the soldiers and listen to Lux's stories - compared to the soldiers who had to review during the day the next day, these magicians were just listening to stories and killing time.

Then, as they listened, they heard the story of Kalya, the story of the mage who concealed his identity and saved Oren at the cost of his life.

This story had a great impact on everyone.

If there had been no previous narration, I'm afraid the soldiers would not accept the story that "the evil mage once saved His Majesty Oren's life."

But it was precisely because Lux’s story was so wonderful and Sona’s music could resonate with their emotions that the soldiers, although they had never seen the pioneer of Demacia, felt his generous heroic spirit - for such a hero, even if he was an evil wizard, they should have respect for him!

However, for the accompanying demon-stained, this story made them feel completely indescribable.

The demon-stained have always been unrecognized marginal figures. Even at the beginning of this march, Lux once said that "going to Fosbyro is to welcome a new life", and the demon-stained still had no morale, and most of them were still like zombies.

For them, Lux’s story every night was more like a fun - the more glorious the ancestors were, the more ironic they felt.

Until the part about the antiquities dealers controlled by Kalya.

If this story was told alone, the demon-stained would only feel ironic and ridiculous.

However, when Lux explained the follow-up, telling how "the children who followed in his footsteps and followed His Majesty Oren later became the pioneers of the Illuminati and the Demon Seekers", many people's expressions became subtle.

The identity of the Demon Infected is special. Objectively speaking, Demacia's treatment of the Demon Infected is indeed unfair.

But in fact, if they can lose their magic power, most of the infected are willing to stay in Demacia - this is a very contradictory point for the infected.

As a Demacian who grew up in Demacia, the first reaction of the infected after discovering that they are infected is usually not "Demacia treats me unfairly", but "Why am I so unlucky".

Because from a historical perspective, the establishment of Demacia was originally to avoid and fight against those lawless mages in the Rune War!

Even a rebellious person like Silas, after being found to be infected with magic, ended up "surrendering" to the magic hunter accompanied by his parents, because at that time he also thought that being infected with magic was his bad luck and his own problem, and Demacia without magic was a good Demacia.

The real reason why Silas's "heart collapsed" was that he found that the nobles' manors were full of various magical auras, and he found that the policy of banning magic was inconsistent for nobles and civilians.

Civilian demons, even if they hid, would still be caught and dealt with, either by drinking anti-magic potions, being exiled from Demacia, or being imprisoned in the Forbidden Magic Prison; while noble manors were almost never searched by demon hunters.

Like Silas, few people can realize this, so most demons do not think that demons are a talent.

It is Demacia that is unwilling to accept them!

You know, when Silas broke the outer wall of the Forbidden Magic Prison, a considerable number of demons who escaped with him did not participate in the subsequent chaos at all, but just wanted to escape in the chaos - even if they were imprisoned in the Forbidden Magic Prison, they still did not think it was Demacia's problem.

But the "relic dealer from Shurima" in Lux's story is different. He is also a demon, and there is no doubt that he is still a powerful person, but he finally completed his self-salvation and became a founding father of Demacia - although his identity is special and is usually not mentioned specifically, his name is still left on the wall of the ancestors in the Hall of Valor.

Therefore, after hearing this story, many of the demon-tainted people were mocking, and many were silent.

But no matter how they felt, this ancient story was still deeply imprinted in everyone's heart.

Like a seed, waiting to be watered and nourished one day, taking root and sprouting.

The road is long.

Demacia has a long history, and Lux's story is still long.

Kalya's small class: Walking at dawn and staying at night:

Although it is more convenient to rest and stay in villages and towns along the way, Lux still chooses to lead the team to walk at dawn and stay at night, sharing the joys and sorrows.

Marching is a boring thing, but Lux's leading by example has given the soldiers a lot of encouragement.

They don't know that for Lux, this level of marching is not even a drizzle.