The monsters' offensive was broken.
However, it will take some time for the panic they cause to subside.
With a sword on her waist, Andesa walked steadily on the wall of Winter Wolf Fortress. She inspected the defense line after the battle, and the sight she saw made her frown.
Those bloody giants who came from nowhere did not even step into the fortress. The heroic Typhon soldiers repelled those terrible enemies on the city wall. However, those monsters were not afraid of death when they attacked. The posture and the strange "corrosion" destructive power are still shocking. Huge scars caused by corrosive energy arrows can be seen everywhere on the city wall. Soldiers who were directly attacked by energy arrows either died miserably or were seriously injured. Ordinary metal Armor has almost no protection against that kind of weird attack. It seems that only armor that is enchanted or made of magic metal can effectively resist monster attacks - but how many people in the entire army can be equipped with a complete set of magic weapons?
Andesa stood by the city wall and glanced down. She saw a large number of mottled scars on the surface of the huge stone wall below, and several huge erosion marks that even spread all the way to the height of the wall stacks. ——In the final stage of the battle, several special individuals with extremely large sizes and extremely strong resistance to strikes appeared among the bloody giants. A round of attacks from the magisters failed to stop their progress. Those monsters used a strange The magic lightning destroyed the defenses of the magisters, and then they climbed the city wall against rolling rocks and raining arrows. Although they were eventually eliminated, they left several horrific injuries on the city wall.
An adjutant came from the rear and handed a report to Andesa: "General Andesa, the dead and wounded soldiers have been counted. Please take a look."
Andesa Sha took the report with a heavy heart. The monster attack was sudden, and the soldiers had never fought against similar enemies before, so winning this battle was not easy. This report was even a bit dazzling in her opinion.
"Take it down, provide pensions to the families of the fallen, treat the injured according to the rules, and send those who can no longer fight back to the country - write them a certificate of heroic fighting, and at least they can hang out after they go back. Food and clothing," Andesa returned the report to the adjutant with some irritation, then turned to look at the plain that was covered with a layer of dirty blood, "You said...where did these monsters come from?"
The plain in front of the Winter Wolf Fortress was originally covered with heavy snow and was a silvery white. However, those giants dyed the entire land an unknown dark red. The killed monsters fell on the land, and their flesh and blood and internal organs were like mud. Melting, flowing, corroding the earth while rising into billowing smoke, soon only huge skeletons will be left, which is terrifying to look at - Andersa has faced various enemies, but similar scenes have left her It’s the first time I’ve seen it.
The adjutant did not expect that the general would ask him this question. He was stunned for a moment before saying uncertainly: "The initial sentry reported that the monsters were coming from the pass of the Dark Mountain. That...should be An Sue's direction."
"Ansu? "Andesa's expression gradually darkened, "That country..."
"But it's not necessarily Ansu," the adjutant then added his thoughts, "General, the Dark Mountains are right next to us. From the Wasteland of Gondor..."
"Do you suspect that those monsters came from the Wasteland of Gondor? "Andesa raised her eyebrows and looked at the always cautious adjutant with some surprise, "This idea is very bold. "
"We once received intelligence that Anzu was attacked by an 'unknown monster'. Rumor has it that it is some kind of monster wandering out of the Gondor Wasteland," the adjutant reminded Andersa, "If there is If more monsters wander out of the wasteland, and if they wander along the natural barrier of the Dark Mountains, it is indeed possible for them to wander here..."
"But the Gondor Wasteland is magnificent. "The wall is blocking it," Andesa frowned immediately, "Didn't the watchtower on the border also say that the barrier was fine? "
"Those watchtowers are useless, they are too far away from the wasteland. "
"...Go prepare the gryphon," Andesa said after a brief pause, "His Majesty the Emperor must be told what happened here! ”
After giving the instructions, Andesa raised her head and looked at the hazy mountains in the southwest with uneasiness. Although the scene behind the mountains could not be seen with the naked eye, she knew , the Wasteland of Gondor is in that direction, and the Magnificent Wall built by the elves is also there
Thinking of the Magnificent Wall and the Sentinel Tower that supports the Magnificent Wall, Andesa couldn't help but feel sad. A trace of envy - it is said that those ancient magic towers have powerful communication power, which can transmit information back to the Silver Empire along the border of the entire magnificent wall in an instant. The elves use this incredible ancient technology to maintain It monitors the entire barrier system, and in the Gondor era seven hundred years ago, humans also had similar technologies.
But now, these technologies have been seriously out of date and degraded, and the existing communication magic has become too expensive. High or ineffective, most magic communication towers can only transmit information within a few kilometers, and the cost of building a tower is terrifyingly high. Several major fortresses on the border can still rely on magic to communicate, but if To send news from the border back to the Imperial Capital... we still have to rely on traditional gryphon messengers
There is no proposal to set up hundreds of magic towers from the border to the Imperial Capital to transmit information. Similar proposals have been discussed repeatedly in the Noble Council for many years, but the discussion has only one result: no money, no one.
The cost of hundreds of magic communication towers is enough to cover the entire empire. Years of tax revenue will be drained, and the magic materials used as strategic reserves in the national treasury will also suffer huge losses - you must know that the magic circle for transmitting spells is extremely complex and can only be made with the rarest high-grade materials, but take out all those materials It is absolutely impossible to build hundreds of immovable towers. What's more, even if they are built, who will maintain and control them?Only mages can control magic, and complex large-scale magic devices require multiple spellcasters to maintain them together. Hundreds of permanent magic communication towers mean that half of the magicians in the Empire's magic corps have to become "tower keepers" , compared with the monetary cost, this part of the human cost is even more unacceptable.
Andesa had various thoughts running through her mind. As an aristocratic officer who took charge of the military at a young age and had a family background, she knew better than anyone how the transmission of information would play out in war. What a crucial role it was, yet there was nothing she could do about it.
After all, she has no magical talent.
Cecil led Jenny Perot, who served as the director of the Rune Research Institute, to put down the drawings and rune substrates in her hands and stretched out.
She raised her head from behind the desk and looked at the apprentices at a few tables not far away who were immersed in calculations or gathering together to exchange opinions, and couldn't help but smile.
These apprentices are the new ones that have been added to the Rune Research Institute since its establishment. The number is very small, but it is much better than the original situation where she was the only commander.
Half of these apprentices come from the Cecil Territory. They are "transferred" from the original rune craftsmen or rune masters in the territory. They themselves have basic knowledge in the field of practical runes, and they are also good at logic. , has good talent in mathematics and physics, so he was assigned here to serve as Jenny's assistant after a certain "talent skills inspection", and the other people are down-and-out scholars and mage apprentices that the lord tried to recruit from other places, because they have good qualifications , was also sent over.
To be honest, these people need to be trained when they first come here. After all, rune logic is a brand new field. Apart from Jenny, Rebecca, Hetty and Gawain, there are only four people in the world. No one knew what they meant. The minds of these apprentices (assistants) were still stuck in the traditional magic theory at first. It took Jenny a lot of effort to change their ideas, but after a period of hard work, these people have become Gradually it comes in handy.
When they become professionals in the field of runic logic, Jenny will let them take turns teaching courses at the General Academy. By then, Mr. Santis should have completed the children's knowledge of runes, A basic course in magic theory. After laying the foundation, you can learn rune logic and everything will be connected.
Subsequently, the children on the territory will grow into a new generation with knowledge and skills, and these knowledge and skills will continue to be passed on and expand. Driven by the lord, everyone There will be opportunities to learn all this.
As soon as teaching, learning, dissemination, and the transfer of knowledge start, it will not stop easily. It will continue until everyone has the right to access knowledge, and the right to think and explore the truth, and All this... is probably what Mr. Ravencase wants to see.
Jenny lowered her head again, looking at the complex arrangement of runes in front of her, as well as some calculations and charts that looked like heavenly books to outsiders, and fell into deep thought.On the ropes.
These are not conventional magic array designs, but a special "observation record" given to her by Master Kamel. They include the control and output unit structure of the magic energy obelisk. As well as the readings of the magical energy escaping from the magical obelisk observed by Kamel through the "Arcane Eye", which includes regular fluctuations of magic power and a series of complex diffusion and decay data. .
These things are not easy to deal with. They have gone beyond the areas Jenny was exposed to when studying rune logic. Even Rebecca, who has strong mathematical abilities, was confused when she first saw these things. My head has been hurting for a long time - they are no longer simple rune arrangement problems, nor are they examples that can be solved by simply comparing interference values. These massive and pure data make Jenny feel unable to start. However, she knew that mathematics would definitely not let her down.
These data may hide the most essential secrets of magic. The lord is also waiting for these data to reveal the mystery of "magic remote transmission" and use this as a breakthrough to find ways to simplify the communication circle. , so after Jenny regained her composure, she picked up the manuscript paper and pen again, and once again devoted herself to thinking and calculation.
Paper and pen are her bridge to magic. Only with the help of this bridge can she go further than others in this mysterious field.
After all, she has no magical talent.