As one of the best recruits, Naxi, who had just become the captain of the second team of the Guards Battalion, was thinking about a problem. Their squad no longer needs the supervision of a veteran, and the entire squad is under his leadership. He felt the need to take advantage of this good time to teach his men something other than combat techniques.

As a magician, he is well aware of the power of magic, and in the process of training, he has also discovered many good seedlings with magical talents. It's a bit late to teach them magic, but if you learn some elementary magic, you can still use it as a life-saving skill in times of danger.

After the training, Naxi summoned a dozen people he thought had the potential to become mages or battle mages to rest in the shade of a tree. Recruits who have already become familiar with each other always like to get together, and spitting out bitterness and scolding veterans is their only pleasure.

Although autumn was in full swing at this time, everyone who had just undergone high-intensity training still liked to lie down in the shade of the trees for a while, but their sleepiness was disturbed by Naxi.

"Were there any magicians before you came to the Frontier Guards?" asked Naxi casually, his eyes fixed on everyone around him, lest he miss the expressions on their faces.

After some ideological struggle, two men silently raised their right hands and admitted that they were magicians. They had heard that Legion Commander Ronio didn't like magicians, so they didn't say who they were as magicians.

Seeing that two of them had admitted that they were magicians, Naxi looked at the others who were still hesitant. He found that they were still quite wary of their sudden questions, and refused to reveal their identities.

Magicians rarely trust their peers, especially in the current environment, who knows if Naxi is a guy sent by the top to deliberately talk nonsense.

Naxi first showed them kindness: "To tell you the truth, I am actually a magician. ”

"How is that possible?" someone exclaimed, "you look more like a mercenary returning from Monaris!"

In this short period of training. Everyone felt Naxi's outstanding fighting skills, and three or five veterans were also beaten down by him. How could such a powerful existence be a magician? This deepened everyone's suspicion of Naxi. The tacit crowd did not express the doubts in their hearts, because Naxi was their direct commander after all, and the circle of people around them estimated that they might not be able to beat the person in front of them together.

"Hah, I just said I missed something. Naxi clearly sensed everyone's suspicion of him, "In addition to being an ordinary mage, I am also a mage. ”

After the title of war mage was thrown out by Naxi, the few team members who had never admitted their identities finally solved the question just now. If Naxi was a war mage, then everything made sense.

"War Mage. Haven't you been to Yephalan, Captain?" said one of the magicians. He knew very well that Carantok had only Yefaran an had an academy for war mages, and he had never heard of any other sideline.

"Well, because of this war, I just came back from Yefaran. ”

"What? Since you're in Yefaran, don't come back. Our country can't manage an independent city-state, so just stay there. Why did you come back? ”

"I want to, too, but I'm a bohemian anyway. You can't throw away your obligations at this time. Naxi suddenly remembered his days in the Ivy League. It's been almost two months, and he's finally starting to miss those happy days

"Well, if it were me anyway, I wouldn't have come back from Yefaran, because there is no hope for this war. A well-informed recruit spoke of his conversation with veterans, "I learned from those veterans yesterday. Our military operations in the mountains of Monlia have long been defeated, and now there is only the 2nd Frontier Regiment in Bohemia, and the so-called regiment confronting the enemy on the front line has long ceased to exist. ”

"What, a lump is long gone?"

"I'll just say that since the front line is in a standoff. I should have thought about why there were so many veterans to train us, and the commander of the regiment stayed in the barracks all day long!"

"Hey, that's a problem. A regiment of veterans can't deal with the enemy, so what's the use of us going up. ”

Naxi found that everyone in front of him was full of pessimism about the ongoing war, let alone winning, and no one even thought about how to survive the battlefield. Going into battle with such pessimistic emotions does not help at all, except for dying more quickly.

"Do you know why I called you here?" Naxi interrupted the crowd to complain about the future, "I know there should be magicians among you, there are so many magic academies in our country, how can we have five or six magicians on our team?" ”

"Some of you are magicians, others have no experience with magic, but they still hope to become magicians. If we are all magicians, then we will face a problem," Naxi looked at the few who did not reveal that they were magicians, and continued: "How can we magicians show our true strength in this war!"

As soon as these words came out, someone immediately stood up and retorted: "Captain, as a magician, shouldn't we first consider how to survive this war? Our country does have many magic academies and a good base of magicians, but the border guard regiment has never paid attention to us magicians. In the eyes of the corps commander we are liars, and for veterans, we are the best cannon fodder to attract the enemy. ”

This robbery revealed the worries in the hearts of many magicians, and what they feared most was that they would be sacrificed by their superiors and wasted on that cruel battlefield. Because so far, the veterans of the 2nd Frontier Regiment have not seen the former military magicians at all. Many people had already guessed the fate of those magicians, and they were afraid that such a thing would happen to them.

However, what Naxi wants to discuss today is not the fate of those magicians who accompany the army, but to instill some hope in everyone present.

"I've been thinking a lot these days that magicians should unite and make the most of the war in a way that is different from the norm. "If the outcome of the war had been changed because of our efforts, then I believe that the status of the magicians in the military would have improved." Some people will no longer use us as cannon fodder. ”

Someone was not very interested in Naxi's blank words: "Captain, we all understand what you said, but what can we do to change the old man's prejudices?"

It is true that Legion Commander Ronio's discrimination against mages is the main cause of mage's low status. As for the reason for this bias, there is no way to promulate.

"I've learned some of the mage's quick skills in Yefaran, and I've also learned the theory of simple connection magic circles from a young magician with a very high magical talent. ”

Naxi intends to teach what he has learned in Yefaran to the people in front of him.

"Some of the pre-training of the battle mage, I have added it to my daily training, if you want, I can carry out the next training. ”

After hearing Naxi's words, everyone suddenly understood that there was so much difference between the other two teams for their own team's training, and it turned out that it was all arranged by Naxi.

"Learning the application of the Demon Flow and some mage skills will give us the ability to survive on the battlefield. "But that's just to improve our individual survivability." In order to win the war, we also need to use magic to support others to ensure that every war is won. ”

"I have some magic geniuses on hand to design the Connecting Magic Arrays, these simple magic arrays don't require too many magic specialists, and even only a few junior and intermediate magicians can complete them. If you're interested, we can take some specific time to try out the conjectures of these geniuses. ”

Naxi told everyone about his plan while breaking the fingers of his right fist and telling everyone present: "Learn the skills of a mage to strengthen your abilities, and then use the mage's expertise by connecting magic formations." I think by enhancing the role of the mage in both of these ways, we must show those who despise us that the mage is not what they call it!"

"Is this going to work?" Although Naxi drew a big pie for them, some people were still not very comfortable with Naxi's suggestion.

"Trust me, it will work!" Naxi said confidently. (To be continued......)

PS: I deleted it many times, but I was not very satisfied with the writing, and in the end I could only write it like this.