At about seven o'clock in the evening, Ji Yijun and a group of soldiers of the escort army were waiting at the door of the teleportation room to line up, he was wearing light armor, with a long sword, and a rifle behind him, and he looked heroic and vigorous in full armor.

Dressed similarly to him, there were nearly 200 or so people, all of whom were the most elite soldiers selected from the guards of the new city of Riverbend, and their task was to form a team of forty interceptors in units of five people, and teleport to Cypress City, a mining center south of Suero, and then march north from here to support more than 40 large and small villages and towns between Cypress City and Suero. Then use these villages and towns as a base to intercept and kill the people who have infiltrated the empire.

Now they were waiting for the mages arranged by Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen finally selected about one hundred and fifty mages according to the realm and the magic he was good at, and these mages were assigned to the squads of the guards, and each team would be divided into three or four.

However, Ji Yijun was dumbfounded when he saw Xiao Chen bringing people over. Although most of the mages were normal, Xiao Chen was surrounded by a few small ones, which were Umedada, Wu Zibin, and a few children, large and small.

Instead of wearing traditional mage robes, Umeda and the others wore sportswear that was easy to move around. However, they all brought storage rings issued by the school, which contained staffs, hedrons, scrolls, and other things.

"Xiao Chen, what are you bringing these little guys for? Where are you going to take them with this outfit?" Ji Yijun, who is very arrogant, may be the person who doesn't care about Xiao Chen's identity change the most, and all his attitudes are the same as before.

Before Xiao Chen could answer, Umeda Tian spoke: "We are mages who assist you in your battle." Brother Xiao Chen said, Wu Zibin and I will be in a group with you. ”

"What the hell?" Ji Yijun looked at Umeda Tian and then at Xiao Chen, and found that neither of them meant to joke, so he grabbed Xiao Chen's arm and said, "Isn't it? Xiao Chen, are you playing with me? Do you really want to send these little points to the battlefield? You don't have a twitch in your brain, right?"

"It's true. Xiao Chen nodded seriously.

"No, I said, this is going to the battlefield, fighting the plague, how did you think of letting a ten-year-old child get involved?" Ji Yijun asked.

"It's something these kids are asking for...... I stopped it at first, but they eventually convinced me with their own strength. Xiao Chen said.

Ji Yijun was curious, "What the hell is going on?"

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At the mobilization meeting in the afternoon, Umedada's statement once again pushed everyone's enthusiasm to a new peak. However, Xiao Chen did not agree to her at that time, and the other mages did not take Umedada's words seriously, but took them as an encouragement, inspiring many others to actively participate in this action. Xiao Chen's speech in the auditorium this time achieved very good results.

However, after the conference, Umedada found Xiao Chen again, this time not only herself, but also many of her classmates, asking Xiao Chen to give them a chance to participate in this operation.

"I know you think we're children, but children are always protected, and they don't grow up. Umeda said in an old-fashioned manner, "Don't you always say that you put what you have learned into practice? My classmates and I, there are many people whose magical abilities have reached a bottleneck, and their growth through ordinary practice is already very limited, and only by using magic in battle can we quickly improve our strength." ”

"But if you go to war and get hurt, we adults will be upset. Xiao Chen said.

"Then we just need to prove that we can protect ourselves?" Umedada asked.

"How do you want to prove it?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Send a mage of your choice to fight us. If we lose, we go back to school, and if we win, you have to involve us in the action, and it's not the kind of hiding behind and pretending. ”

Xiao Chen wanted to refuse, but Metatron, who came to help him choose someone, said: "I don't think it's anything, I was only a warrior apprentice and a magic apprentice when I was her age, but I was already going to participate in the trial of the Tower of Radiant Wings. It was a trial in the forest, wrestling with wild beasts. Even now, there are so many mercenaries in their teens out there, how young is your little Katarina?

Don't protect these children too well, that will not be good for their growth, how can there be no danger and sacrifice in cultivating truly powerful warriors? This time you are facing some crumbling patients, I am afraid that when you fight them, you will not have much strength left, isn't it the best opportunity for trial?"

This sentence really touched Xiao Chen. These children were not born in a peaceful world, their future was to be spent in battle, and Xiao Chen had no way to protect them all the way to the god of nature. I am afraid that the best way to protect them is to give them the opportunity to gradually learn to fight and adapt to it. Thinking of this, Xiao Chen said, "Okay." I'm going to give you a test. But whatever the results of the test are, you have to accept them. ”

Xiao Chen called a middle-level mage named Logan and asked him to bring four low-level mages and compete with Umeda at the back of the conference center, and the result of the competition was self-evident. So Umeda and his entourage came here. ——————————————————

Ji Yijun bent down and looked at Umeda Tian carefully, no matter how he looked at it, he was a pink and tender little girl, "Amazing, this guy named Logan is a little weak, and he was also a mid-level mage and was defeated by you?"

"It's just the most common problem of you adults - looking down on children, I just asked my classmates to show a little weakness, they think we are a bunch of self-righteous little kids, even our own shields are damaged, and of course we are defeated by a round of outbursts. Umedada said, "You are the same now, your expression is exactly the same as Logan's, and you are secretly looking down on us in your heart." But if we try it now, you've already lost. It's still very miserable, miserable. ”

"What?" Ji Yijun was stunned.

He looked down at Umeda and realized that she had summoned an ice pick that was floating beside him, the sharp tip of which was pointing at the bottom of his belly.

"Wow!" Ji Yijun screamed, and hurriedly stepped back, knocking a soldier behind him against the wall.

Umeda pouted and said, "Brother Xiao Chen, can this guy really protect us?" Why do I think he is even more unreliable than Logan?"

Now a young mage behind her heard this and hung his head helplessly.

Xiao Chen said: "The biggest advantage of this guy is that he will grow up, and getting along with different people is something you have to learn, come on." ”