Chapter 3: Deputy Commander Ben Burt

The Green Flag Camp is stationed by the Green Flag Army of the Seven Color Flag Legion of the Jeff Kingdom. Compared with other troops of the Seven Color Legion, the combat effectiveness of the Green Flag Army is undoubtedly at the bottom.

The main task of the Green Flag Army is not only to build military roads so that the army can quickly support the front line, but also to protect the merchant caravans that transport food and goods to the Red Flag Camp at the front line. The Red Flag Camp is also the front line where the Ou Yun troops engage in close combat. Not only does it have the most outstanding weapons and equipment of the Seven Color Legion, it also has a wizard group of 100 people, which has the largest number of wizards among the seven armies of the Seven Color Legion.

If the Red Flag Legion did not refuse to accept untrained wizards, Richard's registration documents would probably have been sent directly to the Red Flag Camp.

Compared to the Red Flag Camp, the Green Flag Camp was much more chaotic. It not only received a large number of novice wizards like Richard who were facing the battlefield for the first time, but also a large number of caravans.

The convoys parked outside the Green Flag Camp. Many merchants spread gray cloth on the ground and started hawking their wares next to the convoys. Some other merchants put up wooden signs that said they were purchasing goods.

On the wooden signboards, the cheapest items are the weapons and animal skins of the Ouyun people. Wild boars are edible and are priced quite high. The most expensive items are magic herbs and magic crystals of magical beasts. The highest prices can even sell for thousands of gold coins.

Richard and his party walked through the caravan and saw the heads of the Ouyun people and the wild boars tied to their carriages. Merchants came up to them from time to time and wanted to buy these goods at a low price. Their words also revealed that they were willing to pay a high price for these military heads.

Richard was surprised by the audacity of these military merchants. The Kingdom of Jeff had a clear rule prohibiting the sale of military merits. Unexpectedly, right next to the Green Flag Camp, these military merchants actually wanted to buy military merits openly. Looking at the calm expressions of other military merchants nearby, it seemed that selling military merits here had obviously become a common practice.

When Richard first arrived here, he was naturally cautious. He was not tempted by the high prices offered by the merchants accompanying the army and decisively rejected them.

When he arrived at the reporting office, he passed the inspection of the reporting clerk smoothly, and the reporting clerk asked him to lead his subordinates to report to the wizard group at the Green Flag Camp.

When Richard arrived at the place, he was surprised. The barracks of the wizarding corps were very large, but there were hardly any people there. One should know that the wizarding corps consisted of more than just wizards, there were also retinue knights following the wizards. A wizard like Richard with ten retinue knights was already considered shabby.

But now, the entire wizard camp is just an empty space, and where the military tents were supposed to be, there is only a magic workshop made of metal.

Three wizard apprentices were busy in the workshop, making alchemical machines that Richard was unfamiliar with. A wizard was walking among the alchemical instruments, scolding the magic apprentices from time to time.

Is this the wizard group of our Green Flag Camp? How shabby.

The magician saw Richard and the others coming out of the magic workshop and asked, "Who are you? Which unit do you belong to?"

"My name is Richard. I'm a new wizard who just reported in. These knights are my followers." Richard replied.

The wizard was plain-looking and thin, but the rings and necklaces on his hands sparkled with magical luster.

He carries a wizard badge on his chest, with three brass rings on it that symbolize the ultimate in magic. This means that the wizard's magic level has reached level three, and he is only one level away from becoming an intermediate wizard.

On the left shoulder is painted a green flag symbolizing the Green Flag Army of the Seven-Colored Flag Legion, and on the right shoulder is a golden dog-head medal. The golden head is already a military rank of army leader.

The Kingdom of Jeff has six major legions. The marshal is Jeff III, the king of the Kingdom of Jeff. Below him are six legion commanders and twelve deputy legion commanders. Under the legion commanders are the military lords who command each army. These military lords are at least intermediate warriors or intermediate wizards.

The Green Flag Army is relatively weak. Except for the army leader who is a mid-level knight, the two deputy army leaders are both low-level.

The Golden Dog-Head Medal, which means that this wizard is one of the two deputy commanders of the Green Flag Army.

Richard quickly bowed and said with Hansen and other knights, "Greetings, Lord Commander."

The deputy commander waved his hand and said, "I am Viscount Ben Burt, the current deputy commander of the Green Flag Army and the head of the Wizard Corps. Since you have reported to the Wizard Corps, I will be your direct superior."

Ben told Hansen and the others to set up a marching tent on the open ground, and let Richard enter the magic workshop.

"Which magic school did you graduate from?"

Ben took out a cigarette from a small box, and the wizard apprentice beside him helped him light it with great tact. Ben took a puff with great satisfaction and asked while puffing out smoke.

Well, it is said that wizards are very rich, and it seems to be true. Cigarettes in the wizarding world are made of refreshing magical herbs, and the cheapest cigarettes have to be paid with gold coins.

Richard thought for a moment and replied, "I graduated from St. Sainte-Neagh School of Magic. My major in magic was elemental, and my minor was chaos. My major in discipline was alchemy, and my minor was herbology."

Elemental system, Ben nodded, most wizards major in the elemental system, the low-level spells of the elemental system have powerful power, chaos system, it is estimated that it will not have much effect, warriors often have extraordinary willpower, chaos system magic has far less effect on warriors than elemental magic.

The fact that Ben was majoring in alchemy really caught his eye. Most wizards in Jeff Kingdom majored in enchantment. Jeff Kingdom had rich mineral resources that could be used to make various weapons. Through magical enchantments, the power of these weapons could be enhanced.

Compared to enchantment, alchemy and herbology are not so popular in the Kingdom of Jeff.

Alchemical formulas are often a money-making machine for wizards, and even if they are sold, they are at a sky-high price. The desert terrain of Jeff's Kingdom is not suitable for the growth of most magical herbs.

"What is your major in alchemy?"

“Alchemical materials.”

In fact, Richard's main purpose of learning alchemy was to make gunpowder, but Richard soon discovered that there were several materials similar to gunpowder in the field of alchemy, such as explosive powder, but these materials had a common problem with the black gunpowder refined by Richard.

That is the elemental fluctuation of the wizarding world.

The elements ripple through the wizarding world like tides, sometimes causing the earth's crust to shift, water to catch fire, and arid deserts to fall into torrential rain.

The black gunpowder made by Richard would spontaneously combust under the influence of elemental fluctuations. Fortunately, he had suffered a loss in Baron Henry's castle, so the dosage of the newly made black gunpowder was relatively small.

Unless he could find a way to keep it properly, Richard's plan to make a fortune from gunpowder would be shelved.