What is this, what is this? Sterns stared blankly at the snake-man-like creature next to Wei Lun, speechless for a long time. "Little, boy, when did you go to the orc tribe and kidnap a snake man and come back?

Viren rubbed his head blankly, not knowing how to explain.

"My lord, this is not a snake man!" Kelly beside him said excitedly, "This is a water elemental summoned by Viren through elemental magic!

"Elementals? ”

"You can interpret it as a puppet who will only act on Viren's orders. No matter what command Viren says, this elemental man will obey unconditionally!According to our deduce, the elemental man should have something to do with the magic element we are good at, for example, Viren first learned water magic, so what he summoned was a water elemental. And I'm good at fire magic, so I'm supposed to summon a fire elemental. ”

"Wow~!How many of these elementals can be summoned at one time? We need these powerful things to help us fight!"

"Well, my lord, with my current ability, I can only summon one, and I won't be able to sustain much time. ”

"What about you?" Stearns pointed to the five magicians.

Kingston shook his head awkwardly, "We won't be right now... ”

Sterls suddenly felt incredulous and asked, "How is that possible!You can all be considered Viren's teachers, why can't you even be!" Kingston whispered, "And we never thought that the magic element would be able to do that... Fortunately, it was Viren who came out to resolve the embarrassing situation and said to Sterls: "This is actually very simple, I think they just don't like to be cranky as much as I am." I think once they figure it out, they'll be quicker than I am. ”

Just then, Hill hurried into the tent. "Something is not right! I think the reason why those invaders have not attacked us these days is because they have ulterior motives! And now I think I've found out what these plots are!"

In the midst of everyone's stunned gaze, Hill told everyone about his discovery.

It turned out that when he heard that Stells wanted to train a new batch of archers, Hill had picked out some of the more physically fit soldiers to teach them archery. Although these few days do not make them any first-class archery masters, it is still easy to train these soldiers to be able to shoot arrows on the city walls. And in just a day or two, Hill was rewarded. In this group of soldiers, there were about twenty or so archery skills that completely exceeded Ciel's requirements, although they were not quite the same as the skill of the arrows that Viren had shot Katena last time, but they were not much closer. Keep in mind that these soldiers had almost never been exposed to archery before. However, it wasn't until yesterday that Hill finally realized that something was wrong. Just yesterday, Hill suddenly discovered that the weapons used by these soldiers, who were far more skilled than the other new cadets, were not standard longbows provided by the state, but all of them were longbows discarded by the previous apostles. Hill looked at the soldiers from a distance and noticed that their bodies had the same black lines as his own, and Hill knew very well that it was caused by the blood vessels corroded by his own purple longbow. It's just that because he has a magic master who is one of the four pioneers of the Holy City, he handles the longbow for himself, so the consequences are unimaginable. And these soldiers are different.

"Ciel, if they're all corrupted by these weapons, what will happen to them?" Steles' duties made Sters know better than anyone the consequences of this. He knew that perhaps the greatest crisis in the history of Hão Sophie was coming. Perhaps any previous crises are not worth mentioning compared to this one.

Hill didn't answer Sterns directly, but pointed to the water elementals that were still there, and asked Viren, "This is the water elementalist you summoned, right?"

Viren looked excited and replied, "I think it's not bad, although it won't last much now, but the main thing is that he will only listen to my instructions." ”

"That is, like a puppet. ”

Viren nodded.

"Your Excellency, do you know how many weapons left by the apostles our soldiers have picked up this time?"

Sterlsmo counted for a moment before returning: "I don't know how much. Because our melee weapons don't seem to do much damage to those invaders, many soldiers are using the weapons left behind by the apostles. The weapons were a bit heavy, but they didn't add much weight compared to repelling the invaders. I estimate that more than 500 of my troops used these weapons, while the total number of other defenders who used them was probably more than 5,000. ”

"Your Excellency, may I ask how many garrison sergeants we have now?"

"I also calculated yesterday with the other defenders that at the beginning of the war, the number of our guards was almost 40,000, and as the war lasted for so many months, there are only about 20,000 sergeants left. In addition, we have about 300,000 people, and we can select about 60,000 or 70,000 reserve troops from them. ”

"So!" Hill pondered for a moment before saying, "Maybe in a day or two, there will be at least three or four thousand or so Apostle Puppets like Viren's Water Elemental People in our city. And unlike the water elemental of Viren, these apostolic puppets are scattered throughout the city, and they will never disappear unless they are killed. ”

What? The crowd was stunned... "Ms. Hill, can you tell me it's just a not-so-funny joke you're making?"

"I hope so, too. Hill smiled like his trademark faint smile again, but with a hint of helplessness. "But all that I said was true. My master told me that without his corrosive power to deal with my longbow, I am afraid that within a month I would have been completely a walking corpse, completely at the mercy of the apostles. And even so, I guess a year later, I still can't escape the fate of being corrupted. And they ~. Hill pointed to the outside of the tent and said in a deep voice, "They don't have an elf-like physique at all. I estimate that by tomorrow at the latest, even if some of the soldiers will die on the spot because they can't bear the violent corrosive force, there will still be at least 3,000 or so able-bodied soldiers left. And they will use the weapons that the apostles deliberately left for them, and swing them at their former comrades!"