Translator: CadmarLegend
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Chapter 122 - Drawbacks of Dragons and Calvary
"Boy, as you asked, I sold off all the cavalry we got in the battle the other day. Here's the money."
"Thank you, old man..... I guess it's a pretty penny, selling the beasts."
"That's right. The most popular kind of beast is the dragon-type ones. They're powerful and strong, and they're not easily injured. A lot of merchants work with the idea of buying a dragon someday."
"I see. But isn't it a bit too delicate to use it as a calvary beast?"
"Well, it's not surprising that you would think so since you quickly annihilated the Uruk cavalry, but normally, a cavalry corps is a symbol of fear. Just the thought of that many cavalrymen attacking is enough to freak me out."
"Hmmm. Well, I don't deny that those cavalries were strong. But it doesn't mean that they are completely immune to magic, and more importantly, there are too many types of cavalrymen in the cavalry corps. There's no uniformity."
I told the old man what I felt when I fought the cavalry of Uruk.
The idea of creating an army using cavalry is certainly a natural one that comes from the will to create a strong army. It's also a concept that I'm certain is true, since I built such an army using the Valkyries as a backbone.
However, this was only possible because of the existence of the Valkyrie.
Still, I thought that Uruk's cavalry might have a subtle difficulty in using them.
This was because there were actually many different kinds of Familiars, even though they were all calvary animals.
Some were bipedal lizards with a weird appearance, while others were bipedal when they stood, but quadrupedal when they ran, or vice versa.
I think this is because of the way the Uruks obtain their beasts.
After all, in order to raise a Familiar, one must raise the eggs of it manually.
The same person will produce the same Familiar, but every other person will produce a different one.
In other words, it is very difficult to unify all the legions with the same Familiars.
However, if I leave it to the Valkyries, I can keep breeding (?) more and more of the same beasts.
If you're going to use them as cavalry, it's definitely better to have a single type of Familiar to use.
This is because the running speed of different types of beasts is inevitably different.
Some are faster, some are slower, and you will inevitably have to march with the slower ones.
In fact, when I surrounded the enemy cavalry with a wall, there was a lot of confusion.
When they changed their running course to avoid crashing into the sudden wall, the difference in foot speed caused the group to form a traffic jam and stretch out vertically.
I was waiting there, and that was the target, so it could be said that the situation was that one-sided.
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After all, it would be better to unify the types of Familiars if possible.
Then, I thought, why don't we unify the types of beasts other than the Valkyries?
The reason why Valkyrie learned [Mana Injection] was because of me naming her.
In other words, I thought it would be a good idea to name a cavalry dragon that I thought would be a good fit, and then hatch the eggs of Familiars with the magic given to it.
But I didn't go ahead with this idea, because I felt that there would be a problem with the food that the dragon-type Familiar would eat.
It seemed that all the enemy's calvary that we had seized seemed to eat meat as their staple food.
I was amazed that the Uruks were able to keep enough meat to feed so many of them on a regular basis.
If I had that kind of meat, I'd want to eat it myself.
In this regard, Valkyrie is also kind to the food situation.
The Valkyrie's staple food is hatsuka, which can be harvested in a few days from a field using [Soil Improvement].
I thought to myself, 'Valkyries are the best Familiars after all.'
"I see. It's true that a Valkyrie is better than a dragon-type when it comes to food. I guess the land of Uruk is what makes the Cavalry Corps from there what it is."
"......? What do you mean, old man? What about the Uruk Territory?"
"An. Well, there are mountains on the east side of the territory of Uruk. There are a lot of goats there."
"Goats. Are they domesticating them?"
"No, they don't raise them as livestock. The goats live on their own in the mountains. There are quite a few of them. I guess they're good food for the cavalry."
"Hmm. There are goats? That must be nice. The Uruk people can eat their meat and get milk, right? Also, I wonder if they can get cashmere from goats. I want a goat. I wonder if I can get some, old man?"
"What? Do you want to get a goat? Boy, do you know what a goat is? They use magic, you know, those goats."
What?
They aren't the kind of goat that I know?
I've heard that goats are sometimes associated with the devil, but I wonder if the goats here can really use magic.
But if I think about it, the big boars that live in the forest can also use the magic of [Hardening].
Maybe it's not so strange.
Once again, I was reminded of the wonders of this world.