Chapter 152 – Human as a tax (1/2)

Note: Regular chapter 4/7

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Chapter 152: Human as a tax?

From each of the eighteen metal ships, five to six proud and aggressive Jia Clan warriors walked out, while swinging their arms.

They were wearing the same metal armors, and carrying exactly same weapons, and had the same totem embossed on their chest armors. Obviously, this was an official troop that had strict rules and a hierarchical system.

Along with a series of metal clashing sounds, a door opened on the deck of each ship, from which, a zhang-wide metal ladder was being thrust out, step by step. The ladders seemed as thin as the wings of a cicada and quickly reached the caravan city. It hooked firmly onto the city wall with two metal claws on the beginning of each ladder.

Groups of slave warriors, wearing partial armors and carrying round shields and sharp swords, walked out through the ladders, onto the city wall. They seemed very familiar with the caravan city, and soon occupied the central area of every single watch tower and other vital spots of the city.

The faces of Gui Three and the other caravan members had all turned extremely dark, but they still politely ordered the caravan guards to move away from all of the vital spots of the city.

Ji Hao crossed his arms in front of his chest, and looked coldly at those slave warriors from head to toe.

He had killed quite a lot of these dark-skinned slave warriors when he had fought against the Blood Fang. Those slave warriors of the Blood Fang had all been pure cannon fodder, with no good use but to be killed. They had even looked a bit decayed.

But these slave warriors, who had just rushed into the caravan city, were completely different. Apart from their armors and weapons, which were a lot better than what the slave warriors of the Blood Fang had, they were also much more energetic and stronger them the Blood Fang’s slave warriors, and the senses of powers that was being released from their bodies were a lot stronger.

These were real elite warriors who could really fight in battles, instead of those lowly and stupid slave warriors who could do nothing but carry things around.

Ji Hao quickly scanned the bodies of these slave warriors with his spiritual power, and subconsciously frowned. These slave warriors were all above the Tenth Level of the Junior Magus; the team leaders who supervised over ten team members, were all Junior Magi, and the commanders, who had over a hundred warriors under his command, were all Senior Magi.

“Such a powerful army,” murmured Ji Hao with his eyes narrowed, “A Junior Magus every ten people, and a Senior Magus every hundred people...even our newly formed Gold Crow Army is not as powerful as this...”

Si Wen Ming silently walked up to Ji Hao, stood behind him, without Ji Hao even noticing.

Si Wen Ming took a glance at the totem that was embossed on the chest armors of those Jia Clan, and said blandly, “The High Moon army, of course, they’re all elites. Look at their totem, the high tower and the erect eye above it are silver white, and the patterns on that high tower are swords and daggers. They’re the people from the High Moon. Every single one of them is one of the finest warriors; these people possess the strongest fighting instinct among the entire Jia Clan.”

Ji Hao carefully looked at the totem on their chest armors.

A high tower, with an erect eye floating above it. Ji Hao had been familiar with this totem since long time ago, but due to the descriptions Si Wen Ming gave, Ji Hao noticed the slight differences. The totem that had been embossed on the chest armors of these warriors was indeed silver white, and symbolized the most common and natural color of metal that was used to forge swords and daggers, while the surface of the tower was decorated with exquisite and fine patterns of swords and daggers.

Ji Hao remembered vaguely the totem on the badge that had been worn by Di Luo, who had given Ji Hao some trouble. Di Luo’s totem was had been coloured blood-red, looked similar to this silver white totem in shape, but the details differed largely.

“When you get to Pu Ban City, you will learn what these totems represents.”