If nothing else, this year's Christmas will be spent in war.

The battle reports on the front line are becoming more and more urgent day by day, and it is not so much that this side is fighting against aggression, but that it has given up frontal resistance and only intends to delay the enemy's march north.

The Earl of Innsbruck seems to have made up his mind to use this city as a base to fight a protracted battle against the other side.

Roads were barricaded and barricades were erected, and roofs were reinforced to prevent smashing. Even after confirming that the epidemic had completely subsided, the walls that had been torn down in the quarantine area were erected again, and they were built taller and stronger, as if they were the inner city of a city.

The wealthy merchants, nobles, and people from the earl's family who were originally outside the city also moved to live in the quarantine area.

There is an irony that this part of the city, which was once talked about, is now the safest place that all citizens envy.

In addition to renovating the city, Alfred had the buildings outside the city bulldozed and began to dig trenches frantically, posing as a meat grinder.

"The form of this war is different from what you have seen before." Taking the girls through the trenches, Aske introduced, "If in the past, dealing with mutants and supernatural monsters was a medieval-style cold weapon fight, then this time we are fighting against a hot weapon mode similar to World War I and World War II. ”

"I know you don't understand what the Middle Ages is, what is World War I and World War II, it doesn't matter, I'll explain it in detail next."

"First of all, there's no need to wear armor anymore. In addition to the military-grade protective equipment such as power armor, regular iron and steel armor can withstand the damage of beasts and otherworldly creatures, but it is extremely vulnerable to bullets, and it is better to take it off to lighten your load. ”

"Secondly, the combat in the hot weapon mode is a typical type of spear with strong and weak shield. Cold weapon combat focuses on attacking, defending, and dodging, while hot weapons remove defense and either attack or dodge. ”

"That is, either suppress the fire, or fight guerrilla warfare. Most often, guerrilla warfare is more important than fire suppression. ”

"Eleanor and Sidlifa, you have the bulletproof advantage of power armor. Peggy and I have enough strength to withstand the frontal bombardment of bullets. The four of us are very adaptable to the war of hot weapons. ”

"And the rest of the people, because they do not have the ability to withstand bullets, must have a mature guerrilla mode, that is, how to dodge the enemy's fire."

"We have blind spots." Medea and Nou looked at each other and said.

"There are many shadows in the trenches, and I can hide in the shadows." Mia replied.

"I'm a sniper." Mier's answer is the simplest, the sniper will keep the maximum distance to avoid getting within range of the opponent's automatic assault rifle.

"Sheila." Aske frowned and looked over, "Do you have any skills that can save your life?" ”

"I ......" Sheila was slightly stunned, my skills seemed to be biased.

Atmospheric pressure? No, even at the limits of the Storm's capabilities, the compressed wall of air pressure could not withstand the fire of bullets.

Gravity? It's even more impossible, gravity can't solve the bullet, and the shooter is about the same.

The same goes for Radiant I, which currently only has the effect of flashing people's eyes, and can barely be used as a flashbang.

"I'll blind my opponent with Radiance first." Sheila tried to devise a tactic, "then subdued them with a gravitational force field, and finally killed them with a barometric bullet." ”

Asker: ..................

Sheila:..................

"Why don't you stay on Hearthfire Island this time?" Asker said.

"No way!" Sheila was so angry that she dared to look down on me!

"Come to think of it, I really lack the skills to save my life." Sheila said, "Why don't you do that, how about I learn swordsmanship from you?" Learn extraordinary swordsmanship to defend yourself? ”

"Yes." Asker didn't care.

"I'm fine." Now that Asker agreed, of course Peggy won't be stingy, and more importantly, once Sheila learns the Immortal Phantom Sword from her, it means that she owes her a favor, how can she compete with her for the head of the group in the future?

So the plan was decided. Before the enemy arrived, everyone began to use these trenches to adapt to the battlefield and practice their abilities in advance, while Sheila first learned the Phantom Sword from Peggy alone.

"No, no." Peggy shook her head and said, "You're completely untalented at this." ”

Sheila was silent with her sword in hand.

There are many versions of the Phantom Sword, such as Alexander's original Phantom Sword, Hannibal's Undead Phantom Sword, and Peggy's unnamed version of the Phantom Sword, all of which essentially use their own transcendent abilities to pull the meditative mind body into reality while meditating on themselves, and at the same time materialize to have the ability to deal damage.

Meditation, positioning, and materialization are three steps.

Meditation is the easiest, and anyone can daydream. The difficulty is positioning and materialization: Alexander uses computational positioning to activate arcane abilities for materialization, which cannot be done by the most talented; Hannibal uses the superego of the deceased to locate and materialize with spirit abilities, and the improved version reduces the strength of swordsmanship, but greatly reduces the threshold for learning swordsmanship.

Peggy's stealing ability itself contains two layers of idealistic concepts of "stealing what you don't have" and "stealing it and becoming mine", so it is equivalent to just the right amount of skipping class, and at the same time satisfying the needs of "positioning" and "materialization". Otherwise, even the Mind Seed would not have been able to learn this transcendent sword technique so quickly.

Don't you see Eleanor, who also has a sequence of wills, and she can't make any progress until now?

Sheila has a smart mind and is also very strong in calculations, and naturally follows the path of Alexander's original Phantom Sword. There is no problem with positioning, the difficulty lies in the steps of materialization, and I don't know why it always fails.

"That's not right!" Peggy was also puzzled, "Alexander has arcane powers, and you also have arcane powers, why can't you if he can?" ”

"Could it be that the arcane attributes are different?" Sheila guessed, "He's fire and gravity, I'm air pressure and gravity." ”

"I don't think so." Peggy said, "It should be a matter of mind and body, I'll ask Medea and No." ”

When it comes to the mind and body, of course, you have to find an expert in this area, that is, a psychic mancer.

After listening to Peggy's explanation, the two psychic sorcerers thought for a moment and immediately came up with an answer.

"The principle that the Phantom Sword can really play a role lies in 'believing', that is, the power of the heart." Nou said, "The mind body itself is false, and because the user believes it to be true, it can possess the substance." When the mind body hits the target, convince the target that they have been harmed, so the target will take damage. ”

"But Sheila." Medea Yoyo said, "Because of religious beliefs and cultural practices, you have a certain bias against psychic abilities, and your subconscious refuses to recognize that psychic abilities can act on reality, so you have never been able to complete the materialization of the mental body. The reason why you can't learn this sword art is that you yourself are reluctant to learn it. ”

Sheila was speechless.

As Medea said, she herself was born in the purple dormitory of Constantinople, received a royal education for more than ten years, and was a complete Solomon from body to soul.

The Solomonic people admired the sequences of symbolic power such as physical, arcane, and bloodline, and resent the sequences of necromancy, psychic and other playful methods, and the Solomonic Orthodox Church regarded the transcendents of these sequences as evil heretics.

In addition, the Seljuk Empire, which destroyed Dongluo, and its main transcendents were the Saracens who mastered the psychic sequence, so it was inevitable that Sheila would be resistant to psychic abilities.

Usually get along with Nuo and Medea, because everyone is a comrade-in-arms, but there is no superficial estrangement, once it is his turn to use his psychic ability, the subconscious reluctance in this regard will be revealed.

"I've got two options for you." Seeing that Sheila stopped talking, Medea continued, "The first method is hypnosis. ”

"Use hypnosis to seal your subconscious resistance to the ability of the mind...... But I guess you won't agree. ”

Sheila thought to herself, of course she wouldn't agree, how could she easily leave her heart and soul to someone else...... Not even Medea.

"Then the second way." Medea smiled slightly, "Let's learn separately." ”

"Why don't you try the Nine Styles of the Stars?"