The sun is high - #146 - Chapter 145 “Magic”

Alfred didn’t stay in front of Shuge for long. After a few words with the equally disgraced Master Krauts, he hurried to other places – because of today’s unexpected events, the fifth hunter The workload of the Corps has increased significantly. In addition to restarting recruitment work, on-site aftermath, and investigations, Alfred also has many official matters to deal with.

Although the Fifth Chasseur Regiment was also a “victim” in this shelling incident, he still had to be present when Votel’s royal family and government began to hold them accountable.

Most of Walter’s mages are pragmatists, especially now that we have entered the war period. Most of the mages who come here have many magics that can be used to deal with special situations. In this case, The cleanup of the site went very smoothly.

In this process, everyone inevitably needs to pick up some human bodies from the damaged and collapsed buildings. Most of these dead people died from the magical impact caused by the explosion of the shells, so their bodies were often torn apart on the spot and dropped. It fell everywhere.

Some younger spellcasters who had not seen such a tragic situation inevitably had some physiological reactions after seeing the human bodies that had been completely mixed with the wall.

In contrast, the students at the Medical College were much calmer, but when they personally identified the identities of the deceased, they still felt sad.

Master Krauts came to Xiuge’s side. Although he was now disgraced, he still looked cold and paralyzed, as if everyone present owed him hundreds of magic crystals.

This time, he did not cause any trouble for Shuge. After observing Shuge’s condition, Krautz nodded: “Yes, you seem to have adapted quickly. Have you seen it in Salem City?” “

“This is my first experience of being knocked down by artillery fire, but I have seen some similar scenes.”

As Xiuge spoke, he used magic patterns to construct a temporary “magic pillar” and helped several soldiers lift a collapsed wall. At the same time, he asked: “However, compared with the real battlefield, such shelling It must be just a trivial matter, right?”

“Of course.”

Krauts nodded: “The shelling on the battlefield often leaves people with nowhere to hide. In that case, you can only trust your bunkers and trenches, or you can believe that the magic ritual set up can block the shells for you. There is no other way to trigger an explosion of magic power.”

As he spoke, he looked to the other side, where several female students from the Medical College were struggling to save a clerk from the college. However, half of his body was shattered by the magic explosion, even though After accepting the healing magic and the potion from the academy, there was no way to hold on.

The loss of life of the injured had a certain impact on these young and naive doctors. Looking at their appearance, Krauts shook his head: “Just think of it as teaching them a lesson in advance. With this experience, Maybe they will feel better when they actually go to the battlefield in the future.”

After saying that, he lightly patted Xiuge on the shoulder: “Okay, our work here is almost over… We can rescue as many people as we can at the first time, and the rest will be Leave it to the secret ritual of the Council to handle it, it can help us find more survivors.”

After saying this, the river valley level mage paused slightly, and then suddenly lowered his voice: “The girl who helped us before is very nice. You should stay with her for a while before she goes to the battlefield.”

Crouz’s words surprised Shouge.

In his impression, the chief military mage of the Fifth Chasseur Regiment had always been ruthless and business-like, but this time, he revealed his emotional side.

Intuition told Xiuge that what happened here today most likely touched some of this mage’s memories.

Although he was a little curious, Xiuge also knew that not everything could be inquired about at will, so he decisively obeyed Krautz’s arrangement and found a shabby-looking doctor among the medical trainees who had just been replaced to rest. Sally had a lot of blood on her hands.

Next, the help that these ordinary students could do was very limited. The college ordered all students who were still here to leave. So Shuge and the two slowly started to move along with the panicked crowd. move.

Looking up, everything was in a mess.

Sally lowered her head and allowed Shuge to lead her outside. The scene in the college now reminded her of the city of Salem. She learned from newspapers and other people’s reports that the city she was very familiar with was now It had become a closed hell city, and now, when this disaster-like scene appeared in front of her, it inevitably aroused the fear and panic in her heart.

The Jaeger Regiment is very efficient. They have set up a temporary rescue center, and the people who rescue the injured here are basically senior doctors, many of whom are professors and lecturers in the college – and Mai Professor Yael is among them.

He had just finished treating an injured person, and his white apron was stained with blood.

In a hurry, his eyes fell on Shuge and Sally, and finally there was a smile on the scholar’s tense face. He nodded to Shuge from a distance, and then turned around and returned to the rescue. Inside the office, continue the unfinished work.

“Let’s go, we can’t help you now… Leave it to your mentors and the healing mages of the Council.”

Xiuge glanced at the girl next to him and saw that her mood was extremely depressed, so he reached out his hand and gently held her.

Xiuge’s move was beyond Sally’s expectations, but it finally eased her heavy heart, so she was slightly half a body behind Xiuge, and followed Xiuge obediently and quietly toward him. Go outside.

Near the exit of the college, Shuge saw Duden, who was already going crazy with anxiety.

The young guard was very lucky. Two consecutive rounds of shelling did not cause any damage to him. He even relied on his own judgment to save a group of panicked citizens.

However, Shuge did not appear for a long time, which made Duden suspect that the target he was guarding had disappeared in the previous magic explosion. Therefore, when Shuge appeared with Sally in hand, Duden almost shed tears. .

Because not only does this guy seem to have nothing to do, he even holds the hand that is coveted by many soldiers of the Chasseur Regiment!

“These writers are just not simple!”

…

The soldiers are constantly evacuating and driving away the people gathered at the entrance of the Alchemy Physician Academy. They are not allowing anyone to stay here now.

Although a large number of reporters have arrived at the scene, except for a few officially recognized newspapers such as the Bolden Daily News, no one is allowed to enter. Facing these soldiers who are infinitely close to combat status, the reporters do not dare to say more. What can I say? After all, Votel’s soldiers strictly abide by military orders at all times – they really know how to shoot.

Therefore, these reporters found those students who had evacuated and left the college, as well as citizens who came to participate in the recruitment and survived.

Spellcasters and members of the nobility like Shuge were naturally their first interview targets.

But Shuge was always too lazy to pay attention to such things. With Duden’s help, he quickly took Sally back to the car and asked the driver to drive away.

Soon, they came to a street not too far from the Alchemy Physician College. Members of the Ernst family owned a shop here, so Shuge and the two were able to wash away the dust and blood stains on their faces and hands here. , and changed into clean clothes.

Sally flinched slightly at this kind of treatment. Although she had come to Bolden from Salem and her living conditions and environment had greatly improved, she had never left her identity as a “civilian”.

Shuge noticed her discomfort, so he quickly took her away from here and went to an ordinary beer hall that focused on the flavor of the Kingdom of Hain.

Logically speaking, Duden should not be taken with him in this situation, but after experiencing the morning’s shelling, the poor guard now dared not let Shuge leave his sight, so Shuge had no choice but to let it go. He followed.

Because of the previous incident, they were delayed in the college for a whole afternoon. It was already approaching evening, so the number of customers in the beer hall gradually increased.

Everyone was discussing what happened at noon.

Xiuge and others are naturally no exception.

As a student in a medical college, Sally’s perspective is not much different from that of ordinary people. When she recovered from fatigue and loss, she first began to feel angry.

Sally’s eyes were slightly red because of the surge of emotions. She took a sullen sip of the ice drink brought by the waiter and said: “The Kingdom of Walter has not officially declared war! How can they do this? And …And how on earth did those people avoid Bolden’s guards and secret rituals? This is too strange.”

“The identity of the attacker will probably have to wait for the next news and notification.”

Shuge delivered a dessert to Sally and replied: “Bolden was bombarded. The seriousness of this situation can be said to be unheard of. No force in the kingdom will allow such a bad thing to happen.” He slipped away right under his nose.”

As he said that, Shuge suddenly turned his head and asked Duden, who was sitting on the other side and kept quiet all the time: “Duden, let me ask you, if you were asked to shoot Bolden, which ones would you give priority to?” Target?”

“What?”

Duden was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that Xiuge would ask him such a disloyal question.

“Based on your knowledge of Bolden, if you were asked to organize today’s attack, where would you bombard? Don’t consider the accuracy and power of the artillery shells, just mention the target.”

“If that’s the case, there are actually a lot of choices.”

Duden hesitated for a moment, and then replied: “Our corps is stationed on the outskirts of the city, and there is a large warehouse for storing ammunition… If it were me, I would definitely bombard this place first.”

“Well, the ammunition depot…then what?”

“Then it should be the workshop area in the city, right? It has been transformed into a production site for wartime supplies, and then there is the royal palace of Bolden…”

After that, Duden reported several locations that he considered to be “high-value targets.”

After listening to his words, Xiuge nodded slightly: “A total of two rounds of shelling were launched at noon today. In total, more than ten shells fell into the Alchemy Physician College. When I left the college, I made a special observation. These The impact points of the artillery shells were extremely accurate. They did not hit the laboratories, libraries or classrooms in the college, but targeted the recruitment points where crowds gathered heavily.”

Hearing these words, Sally, who was originally angry, seemed to realize something, so she looked at Shuge blankly, waiting for him to continue his analysis.

“All the artillery shells are old-fashioned high-concentration crystal ammunition… This shows that the crystal cannons used by the attackers should all be ‘classic styles’. However, traditional crystal cannons have always had serious flaws in range and accuracy. They must be passed Senior mages use magic and ritual guidance to accurately hit the target.”

“In other words, the initiators of this round of bombardment must have the support of mages, and what they want to hit is the most ‘meaningless’ target in the entire Bolden.”

Xiuge tapped the table with his fingers and narrowed his eyes slightly: “The military camp, ammunition depot, workshop, alchemy medicine warehouse… and even the palace of the Walter royal family, the value of any target is much higher than conscription. Yeah, but they didn’t do that, which is weird.”

During the discussion, several people in formal attire walked in – they were minstrels and musicians hired by this Hain beer hall, and they would play here every dinner time on weekdays.

Soon, the light and lively Hain ditty was playing in the beer hall, but before the song ended, some customers were already whistling and even stood up from their seats.

“Hey! Hey! That’s enough, stop!”

Those guests had obviously drunk a lot of wine, their faces were red, and their dissatisfaction was written directly on their faces.

“No one wants to listen to this kind of music now, let’s change it to something else!”

“that is!”

“We want military music. Do you know the marching music?”

“Bourden’s Song would work too!”

More and more people agreed, and the musicians and minstrels on the stage looked at each other. After getting the permission of the beer hall owner, they sat down again, and then the song that Shuge had heard the soldiers of the Chasseur Regiment singing before “Bourden’s Song” was played in the beer hall.

At this moment, people in the beer hall, whether they were ordinary citizens or soldiers like Duden, all raised their glasses.

“Where the giant eagle is.”

“Passion to defend the motherland.”

“For the freedom the people pursue.”

“Like a plateau mountain.”

“Like a blazing fire.”

“Our light will accompany the motherland and will never be extinguished!”

Shuge sat in the corner, silently watching the Votels singing loudly along with the bards on the stage.

There is no doubt that from now on, these people’s enthusiasm for war and their anger at their enemies will be as high as ever – even if they did enjoy a period of peace in the past, they will now unconsciously join this new wave. go.

The anesthesia of alcohol, the yearning for Walter’s military culture, the hatred and anger towards the enemy, and the piety towards the royal family and the plateau faith… all of these are mixed together and form a real force on people’s hearts and emotions. The “magic” on.

It is exuding its own unstoppable, fascinating and crazy power.