Chapter 1 is a prologue
In a world known to locals as Razfield, the war between the two powers of the Saint-Sch League and the Salturin Empire has been going on for more than a decade. Originally, the two sides were hostile to each other, but because they were too many big forces, they never evolved into wars, but when there are only two forces left in the world, no matter how much they maintain restraint, it is still inevitable that there will be a misfire, not to mention that the new emperor is still an unwilling to be lonely.
In order to defeat the opponent and unify the whole of Razfield, the two sides have been secretly stepping up their combat reserves while maintaining a superficial politeness and peace. When the emperor who thought he had the strength to level the alliance and attacked with his army, the alliance also thought that its own strength could take over the empire, so the battle entered a white-hot battle from the beginning, and the two couldn't do it even if they wanted to quit after that.
The newly invented light muskets and powerful heavy artillery replaced the plate armor, iron swords, and longbows used by the old armies in the century-long confrontation between the two sides.
As you can probably guess, the outcome turned out to be a trench war.
Having broken through the so-called defensive line of old stone forts and old armies, and seeing that the army was about to flood into the heart of the Alliance, the Imperial army was stumbling on the plains with trenches, mines, barbed wire, and so on. The Emperor, who was unwilling to eat such meat and bite back the dust on his mouth, began to continue to increase his troops in anger, and the alliance, which was determined to annihilate the main force of the Empire and push back the opponent, naturally did not show weakness, so that the front line, which was full of artillery fire every day, completely turned into hell.
Ten years have passed, and the two sides have been tearing each other apart on the intertwined positions, but neither of them has made any substantial progress, but has consumed a lot in vain. As problems in materiel, soldiers, and the economy affected the fighting on the front lines, the voices of peace talks with the Empire gradually emerged in an alliance of several nations.
After all, the situation on the Empire's side is certainly not much better than that of the Alliance. After fighting for so long, both sides are already very tired, as long as the empire returns the occupied territory of the alliance, everyone can naturally release the prisoners of war amicably and end this tiresome war with dignity.
Herein lies the problem - ten years of erasing the Emperor's spirit, but not his pride, this guy did not agree to return even an inch of land, and threatened that the soldiers of the Imperial army were standing where the frontier of the Empire was, and then drove back the allied envoys with black lines.
So far everything has been normal, and if nothing else, the two sides will continue to fight until one of them has exhausted the last of its strength and can not get up again, but the truth is that it didn't take long for everything to become completely abnormal.
Knights, spearmen, and archers have been eliminated by firearms, but there is an older profession that has not been eliminated in recent years, despite its lack of attention in recent years: magicians. In the world of Razfield, magic is a very rare thing, but due to the lack of magic elements in the atmosphere, it is said that the most powerful magic is no more powerful than a 105 mm cannon, making it almost as valuable as chicken ribs.
What's more, on the battlefield where bullets are raining, who will give the magician time to prepare spells slowly? A magic shield that can block a bow and arrow can't stop bullets, and an enemy's heavy machine gun will be mosaic on the spot with a little care.
So, in the eyes of most people, the mage, while mysterious and worthy of respect, is not even a vase in today's war of firearms, artillery, and even nascent steel chariots and flying machines.
But the emperor didn't think so, and while spending a lot of money on the technophils to tinker with tanks, planes, ironclad ships, etc., he also secretly funded a few magicians to tinker with some strange things and research, of course, they were basically war-related existences, such as powerful and wide-ranging spells, drugs that can make enemy soldiers incapacitated, and so on.
To put it simply, something like black technology, or is it more appropriate to call it black magic?
Unlike other superficial people, the Emperor was well aware that magic was just as much a technology as science, so he was always funded. It's a pity that from before the start of the war until now, those old guys who hide in the tower all day long and don't come out to bask in the sun have not been able to make anything useful, and His Majesty's patience has been almost exhausted.
Luckily, these old guys have an apprentice who likes to hang out and do things instead of doing research in the lab.
Eleven years after the outbreak of the war, just as the Alliance and the Empire were gathering a large number of newly developed steel chariots on the front lines to break through the opposing positions in one fell swoop, the young magic apprentice found the Emperor. No one knew exactly what the two had been talking about at the time, but the next day, the [Magic Research Club], which was supposed to be hidden in the dark and supported by His Majesty the Emperor—just listen to it—stood in front of the public and began a series of actions.
However, before that, a new round of large-scale battles between the Alliance and the Empire had begun, and unlike in the past, this time it was the Alliance that took the initiative to attack. One of the nations in the alliance also recognized the role of magic, and with its long-term support, they finally came up with something this time before the campaign was launched.
It was a gaseous drug that could quickly make people fall asleep, and when the war began, it was loaded in shells and hit many of the Empire's positions, instantly breaking down the opponent's defenses. Although the Imperial army quickly found ways to resist with wet towels covering their mouths and noses, the defeat in the first battle eventually led to a chain of defeats, allowing the Alliance to regain all the territory previously occupied.
Moreover, there is also a posture of preparing to enter the territory of the empire.
At this time, the empire was busy gathering the rout, and it was unable to organize effective resistance, just when everyone thought that His Majesty the Emperor would send cannon fodder troops to prevent the enemy from exchanging space for time, that inexplicable magic research club also brought their epoch-making products that could even be said to have changed the whole world.
As the young apprentice magician who had spoken to the Emperor traveled from place to place, he discovered a rather magical place. The very rare magical elements in the atmosphere gathered in a pool of water, thick enough to make any magician go crazy on the spot. Of course, the exact location is not known to others, but there is also a huge problem in how to use the spring water, because no one can withstand so much magic if you drink it directly, and diluting the spring water will not achieve the desired effect.
And it would be too wasteful to use it for mass production of blue medicine, not to mention that magicians would not play a role in the war.
So, the apprentice did not use the spring water on people, but on animals. There are many strong animals in the world of Razfield, and there are always some people in it who have a physique suitable for magical transformation. After many experiments and numerous failures, the apprentice and his teachers have finally come up with a monster that can distinguish friend from foe and follow orders.
When the alliance invaded the territory of the empire, with the idea of giving it a try, the emperor sent the apprentice who took the initiative to invite Ying and his monsters to the front line. There were only a group of routs and temporary rookies who were in charge of cooperating with him, and he didn't prepare much weapons and equipment, and his combat power was infinitely close to zero, so he couldn't stop the menacing allies at all, at most it was just a little delay.
But the outcome of the first battle shocked everyone in the world and shattered their glasses: the only one monster was transformed into an eternal nightmare for the Allied soldiers with its magical powers, its minions could easily tear steel to shreds, its skin was nearly invulnerable, its speed and reflexes were fast enough to dodge cannonballs flying from afar, and it was even able to use magic that could be easily exaggerated with a large amount of mana bonuses.
Although in the end, with the cooperation of the air force, the alliance finally killed the monster with numbers, but also lost the strength and courage to continue the attack. The Alliance and the Empire, both of which had been damaged in battle, began to seize the time to recuperate, and the two returned to a state of confrontation.
Surprisingly, no one expected that this kind of confrontation would last for a whole year, and neither the Alliance nor the Empire had taken the initiative to launch a large-scale battle, except for the frequent shooting between soldiers on both sides.
Both knew what the other was preparing for, but His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire thought that his chances of victory were greater, because the most critical spring was located deep in the hinterland of the Empire, and it would be difficult for the alliance to conquer it with an army, and even spies would be able to infiltrate it.
However, as a black-bellied girl, the goddess of fate always likes to joke with people, and what the empire doesn't know is that the same spring has been found in the territory of the alliance, which has accelerated the progress of the alliance's research on Warcraft.
It's a pity that it's still a little late, and when the Kaichun Empire began to counterattack with the main force of Warcraft in the second year, the number of Warcraft used by the alliance to fight against was much smaller in comparison. The lethality of ordinary weapons against Warcraft is simply tearful, but fortunately, it still has some effect after all, and the alliance can barely block the Empire's attack after paying huge sacrifices.
If the battle continues like this, there is no doubt that the alliance will eventually be the first to be dragged down. However, although there are no geniuses like the magic apprentices on the other side of the Alliance's magic research department, they are also an elite group from various member countries, and everyone gathered for a meeting to discuss and discuss, and they really came up with a way to turn the tide of the war.
The monsters that have been transformed by the spring water have extremely exaggerated strength, and they can distinguish between friends and foes, not to mention that they can also give orders to them with stable manual control, so they can also cooperate a little easily when fighting. However, there are some troubles in manually controlling Warcraft and issuing orders and instructions, such as delays, Warcraft not hearing orders on the noisy battlefield, and even inability to understand orders or misunderstand them, which has also caused a lot of trouble to the Imperial Army.
To put it simply, these monsters are difficult to ban like a well-disciplined and well-trained army, and their performance in battle can be described as completely chaotic, and there is no difference between being ugly and fighting indiscriminately. And once you find the controller who is hiding around the monster and kill it, it will also make this guy stupid because he can't get instructions and don't participate in the battle in front of him, which is the most important thing, and the Alliance and the Empire often do this.
It's easier to choose to kill the opponent's controller than to take out a Warcraft with all your might.
Therefore, the method chosen by the alliance is to combine the controller and the monster, "stuff" the former into the latter's body for protection, and establish a spiritual connection between the two, using the human brain instead of the beast brain to command the body to carry out the battle.
It's a crazy and dangerous idea, but when the regular troops follow after the attack of the Imperial Warcraft army and beat the huge alliance into a swollen nose and face and retreat, no one cares about these things. After paying the sacrifice of a few unlucky people who were absorbed by the assimilation of the Demonic Beast, the Alliance finally got this special Demonic Beast out before the Imperial Army launched an artillery bombardment on the capital of the Confederacy's initiating country.
In September of that year, the new Warcraft unit that debuted on the scene successfully repelled the Imperial Army with the cooperation of the regular army, and then encountered the large-scale Warcraft troops that had re-entered the battlefield after the enemy's replenishment and recuperation, and started a fierce battle. In this battle, the cooperation between the new monsters and the use of weapons and armor specially created for them by the alliance completely blinded the Imperial soldiers, and as a result, despite their numerical superiority, they failed to form a real advantage, and were finally defeated.
The Alliance, which had pushed the battle line back, was once again on the same page as the Empire, but surprisingly this time the Empire did not try to fight back, because something very serious had happened in its country. The emperor was assassinated by unknown people, and the new little emperor was only a teenager and far from ready to control the country, let alone face war.
So the Empire proposed peace, but this time it was the Empire's envoy who was driven back by a black line.
The war was in its fourteenth year, and the Confederates had made their way to the outskirts of the imperial capital. However, the triumphant alliance could not have imagined what the genius magic apprentice who first came up with the Monster was doing for so long in a low-key manner.
This guy has actually figured out the Alliance's new Warcraft for a long time, and can start mass production at any time, and he has not done anything before because he founded an academy in the Imperial Capital that specializes in cultivating new Warcraft controllers - yes, when the Alliance was still selecting controllers in the army, the empire had already begun to "mass-produce" these controllers through the academy.
This year, it happened to be the time when the first batch of students completed their first year of training and could go to actual combat to accumulate more experience.