Ch 149: A Grand Procession
Lin Che’s military training has been going on for four days.
The Blade Servant has not yet received a letter from Your Majesty, which makes her extremely anxious.
Lin Che has recruited 40,000 soldiers, a decision that is now final, but she is still unsure what to do. If Your Majesty has not yet sent a new Imperial Edict, she can only proceed according to Your Majesty’s original edict.
“Is anyone there?”
“Is Blade Servant inside? Are you the Divine Child’s Head of Family?”
At this moment, the Blade Servant heard someone calling her name outside again.
This was the nth group of people from the village to come looking for her; she had lost count.
Moreover, these villagers would not leave without seeing her, continuously shouting outside. The Shadow Guard were staying in other people’s village, so it was naturally not appropriate to actually drive them away.
The Blade Servant had no choice but to force her weary body to leave the camp.
Outside was a large group of people, each incredibly excited.
“Are you the Divine Child’s Head of Family?”
“It’s not called Head of Family, it’s called Your Honor. Don’t you understand this? It’s equivalent to our Clan Leader.”
“Your Honor, since you are the Divine Child’s Your Honor. Then it’s easy. Quickly help us speak to him, this Divine Child only recruited so few people, look at us, what is lacking in us? He didn’t even accept us. Tell him, he must accept us.”
“That’s right, that’s right. We have prepared everything, just waiting to follow the Divine Child. But there are no positions for us. This won’t do, people should be fair, right? Even Divine Children should be fair. They can choose not to take some, but they must take us.”
“Why? Take me. I was the first to speak to the Divine Child.”
“I have eight brothers in my family. Even if I don’t come back after following him, my brothers will take care of our parents. Your family only has three brothers. Who will hunt? Humph!”
Listening to their arguments, the Blade Servant had a splitting headache.
She really couldn’t understand why these people were so frantic.
Even if it was the Divine Grace Bathing at the Temple, it was only a kind of power, it shouldn’t cause such madness, right?
The Blade Servant quickly shouted, “Stop, stop, stop, be quiet!”
The group of people, who had been arguing with each other, gradually quieted down.
The Blade Servant frowned and said, “What’s all the commotion about? Don’t you know what Lin Che is actually going to do? He’s conscripting soldiers, he’s taking you to war!”
“War, means people will die, you know? You are doing well here, with food and shelter. Why would you follow him to fight? You will face 100,000 enemy troops, you will be massacred, you will never see your parents, your children…”
“Listen to me, this is definitely not a joke. Right now, your Divine Child is penniless, in a couple of days, you will be starving. Let alone fighting a war. Go back!”
“Go back and tell your families to withdraw now, it’s still not too late. Staying alive is the most important thing.”
After speaking, the Blade Servant quietly looked at the group of people.
These words were only thought of today. She said this, analyzing the pros and cons, it should be able to wake up this group of frenzied people.
If these people withdrew from Lin Che’s ranks, then Lin Che would have no choice but to leave with her to Yan Yun Kingdom.
“What? What did she say?”
Suddenly, the villagers seemed to have heard something shocking, and looked at each other.
“She said the Divine Child is going to war, people will die.”
“She also said the Divine Child doesn’t have food for us, we’ll starve soon.”
Wow.
The crowd immediately became excited again.
“How can this be? Your Honor, we are not afraid, we brought our own food! My house is full of sweet potatoes, and cured meat. I can bring two months’ worth.”
“What if the Divine Child gets injured in the war? I must go. Look at all this meat on me, I can take several blows for the Divine Child.”
“Yes. Your Honor, please. Let us follow the Divine Child. Our cultivation levels are very high. I can go without food, and give all my cured meat to the Divine Child.”
“It is too dangerous for the Divine Child to go out. I will go back and tell the Clan Leader to keep the Divine Child here, and we will go out and fight for him. We will conquer The World and give it to the Divine Child. That way the Divine Child will not be injured.”
“Big Dog, you are so clever! How come I didn’t think of that? That’s how it should be done!”
Looking at these frantic people, the Blade Servant did not know what to say for a moment.
Just a “Divine Child” could drive so many people to such madness?
What kind of magic was in this place?
She sighed helplessly and walked back into the camp.
Your Majesty still hadn’t replied, which made her even more worried. She had been thinking of sending the Spirit Binding Shadow Guard to send another message back.
But this Spirit Binding Shadow Guard had been working overtime these days, and now they were suffering from mental exhaustion. After vomiting blood, they immediately fell into a coma.
There was nothing to do but wait.
Unexpectedly, there was a change of events the next day.
The Blade Servant thought Lin Che would stay here and refuse to leave, but the next afternoon, Lin Che came to her proactively.
Lin Che’s face was serious, his expression earnest:
“Blade Servant Your Honor, we have been delayed here for several days. This will absolutely not do. Our main mission is to go on a diplomatic mission to Yan Yun Kingdom. We must leave immediately!”
The Blade Servant sneered, thinking: You still remember that our mission is to go on a diplomatic mission to Yan Yun Kingdom?
I thought you were going to stay here and become a mountain king.
“Oh? Great Divine Child, you really want to go on a diplomatic mission to Yan Yun Kingdom? Don’t you want to recruit more troops elsewhere?”
Unexpectedly, the Blade Servant, with her usual personality, would also make a sarcastic remark at this time.
Lin Che didn’t mind, and sighed, “Blade Servant Your Honor, don’t you know my difficulties? Duke Zhen Guo has 100,000 troops waiting for me, and there are many dangers along the way. The Second Prince faked his death, you also know this, if I don’t have troops, how dare I go? Who will protect me?”
“Humph. My duty is to protect you, what are you afraid of?” The Blade Servant said through gritted teeth.
“Alright. Then let’s set off now.” Lin Che immediately gave the order to set off with his 40,000 troops.
Looking at the full 39,000 “Champion Marquis Manor Retainer Extra Personnel”, she gritted her teeth and said:
“You’re taking so many people, I don’t have any extra rations. If they starve to death on the way, don’t come begging me.”
“It’s fine. They won’t starve, they all brought dry rations. Besides, their Yan Shexiang Clan Leader is also coming, she will be responsible for their food.”
There was nothing she could do.
This was also something Lin Che hadn’t expected, Yan Shexiang actually offered to join the army. There was only one reason: without a Clan Leader to look after and manage these 39,000 people, they might cause trouble.
Lin Che could only agree.
Not long after.
The whole team set off in a mighty procession.
The 40,000 Retainers were already a large enough force, but there were even more people seeing them off, families and children, filling the roadsides, the hilltops, and the branches of the trees, everywhere was packed with people.
Moreover, these villagers saw them off for a full ten miles before the Clan Leaders managed to call them back.
The whole team, in a mighty procession.
Left that dangerous place and began heading towards the Border…
