Charles regarded the army's training as his highest priority.
He had drawn up a training syllabus for the army and required it to be carried out strictly.
This round of expansion brought the forces in Charles's hands up to a thousand men.
But this time, they were not all cavalry.
After expanding the cavalry to five hundred men, Charles made the remaining five hundred infantry.
Compared with cavalry, infantry cost far less.
You never know how costly rice and firewood are until you run a household; maintaining an army was enormously expensive.
There were many expenses involved in a cavalryman. First came the mount, the Gray-Scaled Horse, which was considered the most ordinary kind of warhorse.
Yet even such a warhorse cost around fifty Magic Stones in this plane.
Then came the cavalryman's armor and weapons. A full set of metal armor, together with a cavalry lance, cost roughly forty Magic Stones.
Add in other consumables, arrows, miscellaneous supplies, and training costs.
Outfitting a single cavalryman required at least a hundred Magic Stones.
In the Wizard World, that price could be cut by at least two-thirds, but this was the world of Osela.
And one warhorse was not enough for a cavalryman. Ideally, he needed two warhorses, plus a packhorse to carry equipment and serve as his mount during ordinary marches.
That meant a cavalryman in his strongest form cost roughly one hundred sixty or seventy Magic Stones.
Reality was not a game. You could not simply tap a button to level up a soldier and have all his equipment replenished.
Buying these mounts and equipment cost money, and obtaining them also took time.
Fortunately, not many cavalrymen had been added this time. Altogether, they had cost less than twenty thousand Magic Stones.
By comparison, infantry consumed far less.
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