Although the Parliament had previously determined the four armed forces of the royal court, namely the militia, the Queen's Guard, the Phoenix Army and the Hand of Isa, the Phoenix Army, the real army's main body, has only one empty stand, and the reason-
Doral didn't say it, but Soshyan knew it very well.
In order to maintain order, Doral had to fill his limited team of people into the hands of Isa. On the one hand, he performed various task forces, and on the other hand, he served as a similar patrol role in the royal court, monitored and corrected possible violations of the royal court laws in various settlements, and arrested violators when necessary. This greatly diluted the armed forces at hand. The number 1,000 people sent on the expedition was still organized by him after using his relationship to rambling from various families, including the Dark Death and the Howling Banshee's shrine to help.
When Soshiyan heard this, he sighed. He always thought that the Eternal Court should have been very powerful. After all, it has added such powerful warships, two Black Stone Fortresses, and absorbed so many Adas, as well as two Ark Worlds... It should have far surpassed all Ada forces except Comoros.
But reality is not a simple game of numbers addition and subtraction, especially when it comes to military politics. He and Veronica may have ignored this point. The Ada Empire has been destroyed for more than 10,000 years. Except for the only ancient existences, most of the Ada Empire are born after the demise of the Ada Empire. They have long lost the concept of a country, and they will not have the consciousness of being a "national". Even those prophets, they don't know how to organize a real country, but they just imitate the system of ancient empires.
Of course, this is inseparable from the long-term offline between the Phoenix King and the Eternal Queen. It was normal that the situation of the couple playing like this in the entire royal court should have been in a state of internal struggle. But here we have to say that as a consul who wandered around the Ark World and Comoros, who endured humiliation and crawled from the bottom to the top powerful people in the dark capital, his political struggle and power skills really crushed the group of Ark Spirits who were used to clan life. On the other hand, the Eternal Royal Court essentially integrates politics and religion and even the unity of man and gods, which also prevents the lord from causing trouble when he is "offline". At least no one dares to deny Veronica's legitimacy for any reason.
But relying solely on prestige cannot allow the people to form a large army on their own...
In this case, considering the larger wars that may occur in the future, Doral had to turn his attention to mercenaries, which was also a continuation of his flexible thinking as the consul of the conspiracy group, because for various purposes or special battlefield needs, the conspiracy group of the Dark Spirit Clan will be filled with various non-spiritual mercenaries, the most famous of which is the Snake Man.
Speaking of Snake Man, we have to mention the dozen or so brought out by Doral from Comoros, which were originally conspiracy mercenaries, which seemed to have changed under the influence of Veronica, but Soshiyan didn't understand much, but just heard Veronica mention it by chance.
So Doral's reason is very simple. If it is just defense, then the power in his hands is indeed more than enough. However, if he wants to launch an offensive action, the current situation will not support it at all, unless Soshiyan can quickly rectify the armed forces of the royal court, but this will take a lot of time no matter how you look at it. Therefore, the most convenient way is to use the power of mercenaries.
Soshyan accepted Doral's view. After all, he also hired short men during the Great Vortex Expedition, but he was very curious about what mercenaries Doral found? After all, Ada still despises other races very much. In addition, how should he pay the rewards of these mercenaries?
So Doral took him to meet the mercenaries who were temporarily staying in the orbital facilities-
"This is..."
Soshiyang, who had changed into the armor of the Phoenix King and wearing a mask, looked surprised at the large group of creatures in front of him.
They have strong bodies, huge diamond-shaped heads without necks, black eyes on their heads, gills on both sides of the back of their heads, four webbed limbs and a long finned tail. They can almost be seen in the big mouth behind their heads, and can stand a little taller than a Space Marine. They are all wearing indigo-green metal armor and have a water tank similar to a power pack on their backs. This tank is connected to their gills through tubes, with swords and weapons resembling bomb guns hanging on their waists.
But these are not the key points, the key points are-
They are so fishy!
Or it's a fish with legs!
Still a shark!
Soshiyan has seen many times, but he has never seen a fishman with legs and walking upright before.
"Your Highness, this is the Sahaduin tribe. Their home was destroyed by the Empire's Space Wolf Legion in the past. Although some of the world survived, they lacked survival resources. Therefore, they often operated in the Galaxy in the form of mercenaries to exchange for various survival materials for their distant homes. Their individual weapons are comparable to those of the Empire, but they are very united. The mercenaries who roam outside are called Pisces Warriors. They usually receive employment in the unit of tails, and one tail is ten Pisces Warriors."
After hearing Dolar's introduction, Soshiyang glanced over and there were about a few hundred of them.
There are so many, but it doesn’t seem to be a lot.
"I would rather be the Phoenix King, um?"
At this time, a particularly huge, half white and half blue-brown Sahaduin came over. It was a small piece higher than its kind around. The leaking cloak was full of scars, and one of its eyes was gone, leaving a terrifying scar and a black hole. It can be seen that it was an old warrior who had been through the battlefield, and naturally it was very likely that it was the leader of these group of Sahaduin mercenaries.
It just speaks strangely, and with the help of the translator Soshiyang can understand it.
"That's so tall, Ning is Aida, M?"
Standing in front of Soshyang, the man had to raise his head, and his slightly opened mouth were sharp teeth with barbed teeth.
"rude!"
Several captains behind Soshiyang immediately knocked the spear gently to the ground and scolded him, but Soshiyang raised his hand and signaled not to be nervous.
"Since I'm standing here, there is nothing to ask. Why are you here?"
The leader of Sahadouin glanced at Doral and said directly:
"Treasure, um."
Well, Soshyan can confirm that this race speaks with a strange oral sex.
At this time Doral explained:
"Your Highness, in the eyes of most backward races, Aida's handicrafts are rare treasures, and this is also our main commodity for the Galaxy trade."
Chapter completed!