If there was anything worse for Nirod than having his leg broken, it was to see the magician Rosen standing alive before his eyes.

"Hi~ I really didn't expect us to meet here again." Rosen's voice was faint, without a hint of emotion.

Nirod seemed to have seen a ghost, he supported the ground with his hands, struggled desperately with his broken legs, and withdrew five or six meters in the blink of an eye: "You...... You're alive? ”

"I know why you're surprised, and I know what you're expecting, but I still have to tell you cruelly, you guessed right, I killed the tree demon Donassis."

"Ah!!h Nirod's arm suddenly weakened, and he began to tremble violently, barely able to support his body: "How can the Tree Demon be defeated?" Why did you kill him? Why is this happening? Why can't you die! Why are you still alive? ”

He was incoherent, his eyes glazed over, and he had a nervous breakdown

Rosen waved his hand at the two musketeer warriors: "Capture him in the fortress and lock him up!" ”

Two warriors stepped forward, grabbed Nirod's arm, one left and the other right, and dragged him towards the fortress like a dead dog.

Nirod's broken leg dragged to the ground, pulling out two long blood streaks, but he didn't seem to feel the pain, and his mouth still muttered, "Why? Why? ”

Lawson ignored him, turned to the crowd behind him and shouted, "Go, follow me into the academy!" ”

Everyone responded, quickened their pace, and walked towards the gate of the parapet.

This last section of the road happened to be the previous battlefield, and the ground was full of broken corpses of monsters, the most striking and tragic corpse was the iron orc, whose strong body was torn in half, and there was a long intestine dragging on the ground around him, and the death was extremely tragic.

The survivors who returned with Rosen had all experienced the catastrophe of the Blessed Night of the Gods, and they hated the monsters to the extreme, but they were also full of fear. The monster corpse on the ground naturally attracted people's attention at once.

"What's going on here?"

"That's a lot of ghoul corpses?!"

"You smell a peculiar smell in the air, exactly like Master Rosen's musket."

The musketeer Grod heard the discussion of the people nearby, his body unconsciously straightened, and he said with a proud face: "Don't guess, I'll tell you what's going on here." ”

A large crowd immediately gathered around him, waiting for him to answer his questions.

Grod puffed up his chest, raised the rifle in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "Just now, nearly 700 monsters wanted to sneak up on us. We beat them with muskets and bombs! ”

"Really? More than 700 is not a small number. ”

"Is the musket really that powerful?"

"Then you must have suffered a lot of losses, right?"

There was a sound of doubt, and Grod was immediately unhappy, patted his chest hard, and said loudly: "I tell you, we unfortunately killed two brothers in battle, but we killed at least more than 400 monsters. Especially our captain, who killed at least 300 alone! Did you see the body? That guy was an iron-skinned orc when he was alive, with black hair all over his body, taller than both of you, and he was directly beaten in half! ”

"Huh~~So powerful~~"

"It should be true, you see the ground, there are a lot of small holes, and this is what the musket made."

"Wow~ Look, I dug up a musket bullet, oh my God, it's bigger than my thumb!"

"No wonder it's so powerful!"

"The fortress here is so high, and there are such powerful musket warriors, now it's safe."

There was a lot of talk.

This unexpected battle turned out to be a reassuring pill with miraculous results, and quickly gave people who were in a state of anxiety a sense of security.

Then things are much easier.

In order to accommodate more survivors, many bungalows were built in advance within the parapet walls of the college, which can accommodate more than 2,000 people. With more than 6,000 people, squeezing into one night is not a big problem.

Lilith was in charge of arranging the survivors' quarters, while Anne led the musket warriors to maintain order, and more than 6,000 people were broken into pieces and quickly integrated into the academy fortress.

In the middle of the night, everything was arranged for the time being.

Of course, this is only temporary, and suddenly there are more than 6,000 people, more food, more housing, a lot of daily necessities, and public measures such as the construction of bathrooms and toilets, otherwise the fort area will soon stink.

In short, for the foreseeable future, it will be very busy just to deal with the trivial affairs of the residents.

In the hall on the second floor of the fortress, Lawson gathered all the magicians together and began to discuss the next steps.

Rosen doesn't like to deal with trivial matters or give public lectures, and the meeting is usually led by Lilith, and Rosen's role is to 'town' in the conference hall.

"More than 6,000 people, food consumption has increased by more than 20 times, which is not a small number, and it cannot be delayed for a moment. Xiuma, the potato cauldron must be expanded quickly, and the food production must quickly keep up. ”

The magician Shuma's combat ability is average, but this guy is very talented in making magic food, and the flavor of the magic potatoes he makes is not as delicate as Lawson's, but it also has a unique flavor. And he is very interested in food making, and a few days ago, he made several flavors of magic potatoes, which were well received by everyone.

Gifted and fond of doing it, he naturally became the logistics supervisor for making Magic Potatoes.

Lilith said again: "If there are more people, there will be problems with security, but the power that can be used is also much greater. 40 musket warriors, it is definitely insufficient, more fighters must be raised. Judging from the governance experience of Nilogaard City, more than 6,000 people, at least 300 musket warriors must be enough, in addition, we also have to defend against the attack of monsters, so the number of warriors has to be a little higher, I suggest that it be calculated according to 500 for the time being, Rosen, what do you think? ”

"Yes." Rosen nodded.

Lilith then turned to look at Anne, "Anne, I'll leave this matter to you." ”

"No problem. However, the supply of muskets must be sufficient. Anne said.

"Musket...... Is it possible to increase production rates? Lilith looked at the magician Lance.

The magician Lanster was once punished by Lawson with dozens of lashes for manslaughter, and at the instigation of the magician Tarot, he had an unpleasant quarrel with Lawson at that time, but this matter has become a thing of the past, this guy is also a magic genius, and he has a pretty good talent in alchemy.

Now that he is able to make a musket with acceptable performance on his own, and has many unique ideas for the design of muskets, he has naturally become the supervisor of musket production.

Now Lilith asked, but he had a bitter face: "I'm afraid this is difficult." The components of the musket are very dimensional, and there can be no error in the critical parts. All of this can only be corrected by magic, but magic is limited. We currently only have 3 people producing muskets, and at our current capacity, we can only produce a maximum of two rifles a day, and then we want to improve ...... Unless there are more alchemists. ”

Is an alchemist so easy to find?

Among the magicians left that day, there were only 3 of them who had talents in alchemy, and the other magicians had their own tasks, so they couldn't spare manpower at all.

"Ah~ Is there no other way?" Lilith was a little disappointed, and she looked at Rosen for help.

Rosen thought for a moment and said, "I'll solve this matter." Annie, you don't have to worry about the musket, you can pick someone for basic training first. At most half a month, there will definitely be a sufficient supply of muskets. ”

"Understood." Anne nodded. Since Rosen said that there is a way, there must be a way.

Lilith breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the wizard Biggs again, "There are so many people, more housing is needed. And it is impossible to live in the fortress forever in the future, and the production of gray powder has to be accelerated. ”

Gray clay powder is actually ordinary cement.

Biggs is a fairly young magician, in his early 20s, and since Rosen invented the building material 'gray sticky', he has been fascinated by the magical powder that turns into hard stone when added with water. Now, he's all made of the gray gooey powder in the fortress.

"Of course that's fine. Of course, I need more people to carry raw materials and firewood. By the way, Master Lawson, I found a defect in the gray sticky powder, after this thing solidifies, it is very similar to stone, it is resistant to compression and not tensile resistance, and it is especially easy to break. I think that if you add a very tough bamboo strip to the gray clay before it sets, you can fix this defect very well. ”

This Biggs is a nerd, three sentences do not leave the business, talking and discussing the matter of gray clay with Rosen, the key thing he said hit the key point of gray clay at once, and the method of improving with bamboo strips is indeed feasible, but it is not the best.

Rosen smiled: "Bamboo strips are okay, but the strength of bamboo strips is still not enough." ”

"So what's it for?" Biggs looked curious.

"Why not steel?"

"Steel...... Steel...... Good idea! It's a great idea....... It's just too extravagant, it's too extravagant. Biggs looked pained.

In this world, the production of iron is very low, and the best steel is more expensive, such as the alloy steel that Lawson used to make muskets, which is definitely more expensive than gold if it were put elsewhere. Even if it is ordinary carbon steel, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can afford to use to build a house.

"Ahem~~" Lilith coughed lightly and said, "Gentlemen, I must interrupt your academic discussion, we now have a very important and very urgent issue to discuss, this issue is related to the future of Nilogaard, it is very urgent, and it must be resolved immediately. ”

Everyone looked at Lilith with bated breath.

Only then did Lilith say: "In Nilogard City today, ordinary monsters are no longer much of a threat, and the terrifying tree demon has also been defeated by Master Lawson. Now, the last threat in the city is the mysterious monster lord. This monster lord is the culprit of the destruction of Nilogaard, the source of all instability. If we want to rebuild Nilogaard, we must at least drive this Great Lord out of Nilogaard! What do you think, Rosen? ”

Rosen thought deeply: "This monster lord is a huge threat, and it must be eliminated as soon as possible!" The problem now is that we don't know much about it, but luckily we have caught the Phantom Assassin Nirod. That guy is the monster lord's right-hand man, and he has a nervous breakdown at the moment, and it should be an easy thing to pry his mouth open. ”