The First Order

Chapter 1093: The all-star crew of the Prosperous Northwest

While Melgor and company were hurrying to York County, the two sheeple suddenly realized Ren Xiaosu seemed to be in a very good mood.

At this moment, the neat-looking cotton sorcerer robe Melgor was wearing was dirty beyond recognition. The wrinkles in his attire made it look like a crumpled piece of paper that had been unfurled.

The two sheep apprentices looked even more exhausted. They were in a worse state than Melgor because they did not know how to use sorcery to enhance themselves.

However, Ren Xiaosu was in an extremely relaxed state. With his current physical fitness, it was as good as taking a stroll even though they were rushing towards their destination. In fact, he even felt quite pleased.

Of course, the most important thing was that he had gained two Eyes of True Sight.

Ren Xiaosu felt that it was a good omen that someone had sent him such big gifts as soon as he arrived in the Kingdom of Sorcerers. He thought he could definitely gain more Eyes of True Sight in the future.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, “By the way, Mel, do you think those bounty hunters won’t dare to act so insolently after we get to York County?”

“Yes,” Melgor answered firmly. As for the nickname “Mel,” he could only acknowledge it since Ren Xiaosu had saved his life.

Ren Xiaosu felt it was a little wasteful. It would be good if he could use Melgor to lure more bounty hunters.

“Um… why don’t we take a rest here?” Ren Xiaosu said, “It feels like y’all might suddenly die if we keep running like this!”

Melgor was stunned for a moment. “How can we stop at a time like this? York County is just up ahead!”

Liu Ting wondered, “Ren Xiaosu, are you a spy for the bounty hunters? Are you trying to delay us because you’re afraid they can’t make a move once we arrive in the county?”

Ren Xiaosu slapped Liu Ting on the back of his head angrily. “If I were a spy, all of you would already be dead! Y’all didn’t even have a chance of fighting back when you were caught in the quicksand. And if I hadn’t pulled Melgor aside, he would’ve been burnt to ashes!”

“Well, I guess…” Liu Ting said aggrievedly. “But why are you suddenly telling everyone to stop to take a break…”

“Don’t worry, with me around, even if that bounty hunter comes again, he won’t do anything to y’all!” Ren Xiaosu promised.

“Who do you think you are?” Liu Ting muttered, “You can’t even defeat Melgor….”

Melgor said to Ren Xiaosu, “Let’s continue. There’s really no need to take such a risk.”

“Alright then,” Ren Xiaosu said reluctantly. He would have to find another opportunity in the future. “By the way, how many grades of the Eye of True Sight are there?”

“Five.” Melgor said, “White, orange, red, gold, and black, in that ascending order.”

“What’s the difference?” Ren Xiaosu wondered.

The Eyes of True Sight the two bounty hunters had just contributed to him were white and orange in color respectively.

It was obvious the middle-aged man who had suddenly appeared later to check on the field of battle was higher ranked. He was probably a commander or something.

However, in Ren Xiaosu’s opinion, those two should also be fringe figures at most.

Melgor explained, “I’ve never used the other grades of the Eye of True Sight before, so I’m not too sure of the differences. I only heard the higher the grade the Eye of True Sight, the more stable a sorcerer’s spellcasting will be, and it’ll even have a certain amplification effect. They say with the highest grade of the Eye of True Sight, the black one, even a young sorcerer who’s never practiced spells before can cast them successfully at will. In other words, if an archmage who wields the black Eye of True Sight passes it on to his children, his offspring will naturally have a head start in the world of magic.”

“So that’s how it is.” Ren Xiaosu nodded. So it turned out he only managed to cast a spell that easily because he had the black Eye of True Sight.

This made Ren Xiaosu a little sad. He managed to successfully cast a spell even without practicing it a 1,000 times, which made him think he was talented at sorcery. However, it seemed like that was not the case.

But from the look of things, he could not give the Eye of True Sight he had seized to P5092 yet. After all, how could the all-star crew of the Prosperous Northwest use such a low-level Eye of True Sight?

For Eyes of True Sight of either the white or orange grades, he could just give them to people like Zhang Xiaoman to use.

Before long, a dirt road gradually appeared under the group’s feet. This meant there were often vehicles traveling here.

He observed things and realized the tracks on the dirt road did not seem to be made by motor vehicles. They were probably left by oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages instead. This made Ren Xiaosu very curious about the technological level of the Kingdom of Sorcerers.

It was not like he had never met people of other nationalities before. Take, for example, the expeditionary army. They were most affected by the Cataclysm and ended up suffering a complete regression of their industrial system.

And how about the Kingdom of Sorcerers?

The clothes Melgor and the servants were wearing were made from coarse cotton and linen textiles, and the bounty hunters they encountered were actually still using weapons like concealed arrows. Wouldn’t they be better off using sniper rifles instead?

Ren Xiaosu asked Melgor, “Are there firearms in the nation of sorcerers?”

“Of course there are.” Melgor said, “But firearms are very strictly regulated and only carried by those in the royal army. Of course, our firearms here are not as sophisticated as those found in the Central Plains.”

“How’s the level of physics and chemistry in the Kingdom of Sorcerers?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

Actually, it was possible to roughly estimate the technology of a civilization based on the level of physics and chemistry in their society.

Melgor looked at Ren Xiaosu and said, “I suggest you don’t mention these words when you get to the Kingdom of Sorcerers. Chemistry does not exist there, only alchemy. Of course, only I am willing to discuss such topics with you. If the magus order portrays themselves as gods, then science is naturally their enemy. That’s because science is the natural enemy of pseudoscience.”

Ren Xiaosu pondered this. He had read in books that there was a saying that theology was what lay at the end of science’s path. No one could prove whether that was true or not, and Ren Xiaosu did not intend to pass any judgment on that either.

However, sorcerers were not true gods. They had only played up their own statuses as gods, but they could not stand up to the test if it came down to it. Therefore, science became their greatest enemy.

In Ren Xiaosu’s opinion, no matter how powerful a sorcerer was, they would still die if they got sniped by someone. That was why the control of firearms in the nation of sorcerers was so strict.

Sorcerers were unlike some supernatural beings in the Central Plains who would not even suffer a scratch after getting shot. At most, the bullet would get stuck in their muscle fibers, and Ren Xiaosu was an example of such a person.

However, sorcerers themselves were extremely fragile, and that was their shortcoming.

Therefore, it was only natural that sorcerers did not want anything that could harm them to appear in the secular world.

And Melgor was only a low-ranking sorcerer. What he said might just be hearsay and not necessarily true.

Ren Xiaosu would have to personally go and find out what the magus order was really thinking.

The sound of horse trotting suddenly came from ahead on the dirt road. Ren Xiaosu pulled Melgor behind him and said, “Be careful!”

As Melgor looked at Ren Xiaosu’s upright stature, he felt a little touched..