IX

Xiulan's words were stuck in her throat, and she opened her mouth wide and looked in the direction of the city. Seeing that his condition was not right, everyone, including Anne, immediately turned around.

The demonic dust flies and dances with the change of magic. The beautiful but deadly rainbow tail flame flew towards everyone!

"How so?!"

Edith Magnum, who had been shooting the acid ray and had always been calm, also screamed uncontrollably. She never imagined that the third-rate mage sniper she had hit would unleash this magic by mistake. The Captain scrambled to chant a new spell in an attempt to reverse the magic projectile, but could not find the right spell for a moment.

What can be done to stop that terrible magic? Those who are struck will have no bones left - and the first person to stop in the path is a dazed Danica.

Anne was the first to react. She sprang over and knocked down Danika who was in the firing line, and the magic she had prepared in her right hand was activated. Originally, she had planned to use this high-level magic, which was only effective for a short moment, to block the opponent's volley of guns.

"Reflect Field!"

A hemispherical absolute defensive field spread around her right hand, and purple and yellow demonic dust concentrated around the deflected force field, forming a refractive shield visible to the naked eye, and the compressed air mass hit it and slid away. The colorful demon dust was mixed together, and no one could see the location of the ballistic trajectory for a while-

"Shield of Glory!" "Resist Energy!" "Lucky Bless!"

Stunned spellcasters blindly threw their strongest defensive or quasi-defensive magic. Most of the magic works completely wrong, but Lieutenant Colonel Eugen made a judgment in an instant. He pulled out his collectible, the Wall of Instants, and threw it into the ground, activating its magical effects. The stone wall that had been intended to defend against the attacks of the Free Army grew out of the ground along the position of the defensive circle, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound and trembling.

"Smack", with a soft sound, the compressed air bomb did not touch anyone, and safely entered the stone wall.

Most of them let out the hanging breath, except for Anne's face turned pale. She dragged Danika to the ground, leaving only a word for the gum-chewing lieutenant colonel.

"Bastard! What are you doing! down!"

People are amazed for a moment. Immediately afterward, the continuous "crackling" crackling sound finally made them react: the stone wall swelled in its entirety—

- And the effects of the implosion extend down the stone walls into the underground structure!

First, the ground was raised, like the surface of boiling water. Immediately afterward, the demon dust soared into the sky along the extended defensive circle, and the colorful detection dust wantonly wrote the three-dimensional picture scroll of Impressionism in the defensive magic of each person and the pure silver light of the sky. What finally came was a terrible rain of debris.

The implosion hit point first exceeded its limit, cracked open, and then spread wildly in both directions like a contagion, whether it was a stone wall, a cobblestone pavement, or a circle circuit, it was washed into by compressed air, and then ......

It's an explosion that is enough to deafen everyone around it.

One-tenth of the "Lenny Great Detection Net", which took more than three hundred spellcasters for two years and cost more than three million gold pounds, disappeared into the sky-high silver pure energy flames and gravel sandstorms.

*** ***

"Create Water. ”

Enduring the intense pain of corrosion, Naimon finally raised his right hand in front of him and recited this basic magic intermittently. The water vapor in the air condensed and formed a clear stream, which sprinkled on his face. He rubbed his left hand over the area burned by the acid rays, and the remaining acid on it touched his fingers and felt a slight tingling sensation. Barely open his eyes, his left eye hurts to the bone as soon as he touches the air, and he can't see even a trace of light, and the vision of his right eye is blurry, but he can barely see clearly.

"Ha, I'm sure I'll impress people with my looks now...... It's a pity not handsome. ”

The young officer, who was very self-aware of his ordinary appearance, laughed at himself and got up from the ground. Sein tried to say something to him, but the eardrum in his ear was ringing and he couldn't hear anything. Looking down the wedge-shaped slope from the top of the city wall, you can only see the smoke and dust that does not fall and the green magic light that erupts from time to time. Naimon sped down the circular staircase of the guard tower, one by one, down five steps, falling twice, and hitting the wall three times because of his speed, but he still didn't stop. This pain is far from the acid in the left eye.

Even from the city wall three hundred meters away, he could feel the sound of the explosion, so what would happen to Anne and Danica who were close at hand?

After rushing out of the city gates, the first thing that catches your eye is the floating dust that obscures the sky and the sun, and the gravel and dirt everywhere. The cement pavement had completely sunk below the gravel and floating earth, and was mixed with bits of dull dust. The cavalry platoon soldiers who followed him and Anne were all staggered to the ground, most of them wounded and knocked down by the blast. A few unlucky eggs were hit directly by the rubble, and they didn't seem to be alive anymore, and the people on the other side must be similar.

They are all good fighters - it is their commander who is wrong. The heroism of the soldier is more counterproductive to the mistakes and incompetence of the commander.

Naimon subconsciously took a deep breath and walked into the smoke. The scene near the heart exploded: a golden light—a magic sword he knew well—drifted there, leaving a hill of rubble in front of it. This was followed by a deep groove with unusually sharp edges, clearly the work of a storm of wild magic. Two different spells have achieved the perfect protection against both physical and magical attacks, pushing Shuran, Rasta, and Olya away from the catastrophe.

He recognized Rasta and tentatively asked, "I'm sorry...... Excuse me, do you see Denica?"

There was no response. After asking two more times, Naimon reacted: the three people in front of him had been temporarily deafened by the terrible loud noise before. He left them behind and walked towards where Danika and Anne had stood. He had the impression that the place where they were standing wasn't too far away—though he didn't see the final explosion due to the acid.

"Second Lieutenant Sefir?"

Nervousness welled up in the boy's heart. Danica is indeed a genius who can control both reason and emotion, arcane and divine arts, but she is not good at improvisation, and rarely uses small means such as "preparatory magic" - of course, she will not be able to use "instantaneous" supermagic skills to save her life. He didn't know Annie's strength, but judging from her age, she couldn't be above Danika in any way, at most she would have some rare super magic techniques. If even a famous knight like Rasta had to use the special effect of the famous sword "Honor" to block it, how could the two young girls be unscathed?

"Here. A cold, short voice came from the front.

Naimon followed the sound and saw a man in black about his age, who had escaped a huge explosion that was enough to deaf him. Seeing Naimon coming, the man's icy and indifferent gaze stayed on his face for a moment, slightly surprised, and then moved away unnaturally, pointing to the road in front of Naimon: "Be careful." ”

The lieutenant in the blue uniform paused and realized that in front of him was a trench that was about a little narrower than his arms stretched out, and the black and bottomless trench!

On the other side of the trench, his former comrades-in-arms, the cavalry infantry of the company, had also fallen to the ground, and the place where they stood was still some distance away. Lieutenant Colonel Eugen and Major Coussen lay unconscious on their bodies, and Captain Edith was half-kneeling and panting, looking like his magic had been almost exhausted. Lying beside her lay Secretary of State Chase, still under the influence of paralyzing magic, and the light of the captain escaped.

Hybrid attacks with an astonishing range. Naimon thought for a moment, then understood what was happening, and cold sweat trickled down his forehead.

"Difficult, could it be that I missed the 'Lenny Great Detection Network' just now?!"

The expressionless man nodded. Naimon's legs went limp, and he knelt down against the trench. Ronnie's Big Detection Network Explosion ...... The losses of the republic were secondary. All the magic in it will be released in an instant, and it is a terrifying concept. He didn't believe that Anne and Danika could get out of the way.

Why? Why did he always fail like this? Inexplicable accidents, perhaps not all of them should be attributed to his responsibility...... But the end result is always worse and worse every time.

Could it be ...... This is what the gods intended? Perhaps, he should not have sought any position or army at all. If he hadn't been here today, this tragedy wouldn't have happened.

"Annie!

He shouted hoarsely. The sound entered the trench, echoed through it, and faded away......

"You don't have to be so loud to hear it. "Don't act like something happened to us!"

From the left and right sides, the irritable response of a crisp female voice was heard. He stood up in surprise and jumped off the unsightly deep trench without hesitation, and Pike tried to catch him, but couldn't. After jumping off, Naimon realized how wrong his judgment was.

He wanted to hold on to the ditch wall, but he was surprised to find that the ditch wall was smoother than glass!

"Oops! Forget that the circle that was detonated will turn into pure flames......"

It's pure magic than the fastest machining tools. Reason had just reacted to this, and his body was already slamming on the ground.

*** ***

"No...... Not here. ”

"I don't have it on my side. It's not so much the bottom of the trench as the hallway of the mansion, it's too clean. ”

Danika and Anne talked, giving up the search and moving from the two ends of the trench toward the center. Anne was relatively closer to where Naimon was lying on the ground and moaning lowly - so she stepped on him first. Completely unexpected, she lost her balance completely when she stepped on a stumbling block in the "mansion corridor", and fell on his body before her superior motor nerves could react.

Naimon, who was pressed to the ribs by the beautiful girl's fragrant fall, snorted, and the right eye that still had vision also rolled white.

"Soleton?!!How did you jump off?" Anne immediately recognized him from the moan, "Do you think you can miraculously not get hurt by jumping off?!"

"I guessed that there would be a beautiful girl under the cliff to save me, but I didn't expect her to step on my ribs. Naimon grumbled in the faintest of voices, his oppressed ribcage not allowing him to answer in a louder voice.

Hearing Naimon's previous name, Danika hurriedly used illumination to illuminate the surroundings and ran over quickly. When she saw Anne and Naimon entangled together, she let out a low cry and stopped in surprise.

"Don't get me wrong, we just tripped ...... accident," Anne got up in a panic and patted the dust off her body.

Danika shook her head, her left hand covering her mouth, and the illuminated one pointed at the boy's face on the ground. Anne followed her fingertips, and was taken aback, taking two steps back.

"Oh my God...... How did you get it like this again?"

What caught her eye was the black burn-back skin that looked particularly piercing, and the creepy hollow left eye. It was a wound that was hard to describe, but it was enough for the average person to not eat after seeing it. Danika held her breath and crouched down next to her badly injured childhood friend.

"I'll give it a try. Anne pulled out a dark blue potion and brought it to Naimon's mouth. Danika looked at the extravagant potion in surprise, and made the same staggering gesture as Naimon's reaction before. The young man, who had regained consciousness a little, moved his lips and swallowed the slightly sweet potion.

The white light of the treatment enveloped his body, healing almost all of the fractures and skin wounds, but his left eye did not look any better, and the color of the skin and eyelids in the vicinity was still very strange. A moment later, he woke up with a snort.

Danika immediately asked with concern, "Can you see it?"

"I'll give it a try...... Still won't work. Naimon opened his left eye, then closed it in pain, "Thank you." May I ask you what you're searching for?"

Hearing this, Danika and Anne glanced at each other. The brown-haired girl looked gloomy, while Anne's face was mixed.

"Perhaps, this time you have made a great contribution by mistake. Govar is probably dead. ”

"Dead?marshal him...... By me?" Naimon stood up with his hand against the wall, and the news didn't surprise him too much. He had been mentally prepared to see the double-digit number of dead, and now he was very relieved that there was only one dead.

"Maybe it's better to say that he chose death. That's how he finally decided to be loyal to his country. Anne continued, adding, "It's a bit extreme, but he's leaving ...... It's calm. ”

Both Anne and Danika saw Radetz Govar's final decision. Probably tired of life as a political symbol, the marshal finally chose a peaceful death. When the silver flame of pure energy rose into the sky, everyone else lay down or tried to survive with defensive magic, but he walked into the silver light against the rubble. He proved with his actions that a real soldier can die without impassioned speeches, without heroic deeds, and even without a last word. Goval chose to leave the political maelstrom calmly and without leaving a trace.

"Your Excellency, he has finally chosen this path. ”

Naimon and the former Supreme Commander of the Free Army have only a few faces. When he was given the rank of lieutenant, during the Advent revelry, when he was talking on the docks...... Every time he saw Radets, he felt that the great commander had taken another step forward on the lonely road to death. Whether he was surrounded by countless people around him, or sitting alone on the fort, his lonely expression never changed.

"Regardless, his death gives us no reason to continue fighting. Isn't that right, Danica?"

"Ahh Not having to fight you is the only thing left to be happy about. Danica looked up from the negativity and regained some of her usual optimism, "I think we should leave before your reinforcements arrive." ”

Anne was stunned. "Leave, aren't you going to come back now?"

"Give up now, I'm afraid I'll regret it forever. You're all magicians like me, and I'm sure you can understand that. Danika suddenly approached Anne, wrapped her arms around her, and whispered in her ear, "I'll pray for you at Imperial University, and hopefully we'll see each other again one day." ”

Hugging Denica's delicate body, Anne wanted to cry a little uncontrollably. The scene reminded her of her high school graduation ceremony—it was in another world, and it was so long ago that she was almost unrecalled. Even in her time, she didn't go to college. "If you're in trouble or want to do something big, come to me and Bonnie. I wish you the best of luck as a great magician. ”

"Thank you. Danika let go of her hand and turned to Soleton, "And, thank you, Soleton." This is the last time you saved me. ”

Her right hand suddenly hid behind her back, causing the light in the tunnel to go out in an instant. Taking advantage of this stunned opportunity, she gave Soleton a gentle kiss on the left cheek. The boy's right eye widened, the temperature of the skin on his face rose uncontrollably, and his cheeks turned the color of new flesh that had been induced by healing magic.

"Goodbye, my best friends. Go first. ”

Danika grabbed the rope she and Anne had climbed down and chanted a spell that suddenly shortened and pulled her out of the trench.

"Hey, hey, you're so quick to turn your face! Is it necessary to be so careful?" Anne couldn't help but laugh, "The agreement I said before is still valid!

Danica's voice was already coming from outside the trench: "I'm sorry, but I'll be suspicious of my companions if I don't go up for too long." ”

"It's the 'Chameleon Witch' Danika Vilen, it's completely unexpected. Anne sighed, and the process of preparing for the magic did not stop. Her right hand slapped on the wall of the ditch that had been compressed by the Pure Energy Flame to resemble glass, and a neat escalator appeared on the wall of the ditch.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant Soleton, it's time to go. How long are you going to be stunned? Do you need me to wake up on the right side too?"

"Ah...... No, no. ”

Nai's face turned red, and he ran to the escalator in a panic and quickly climbed to the top. Anne touched her head, shook her head self-deprecatingly, and slowly climbed up after her.

*** ***

By the time she and he returned to the ground, the smoke had fallen, and only the fainted soldiers on both sides were left around.

Danika and her companions judged that all the soldiers who had come with them and left with the passing officers. Considering the number of people and horses they had left, it would not be easy to take so many people with them, even with the mounts summoned by the knights.

Anne jumped over the trench and counted the remaining numbers, occasionally pulling out healing potions for the seriously wounded.

"Thirty-two people were lightly wounded, no serious wounded, and ninety-seven were taken prisoner. Kill Radetz Govar...... The credit should be not small. I'll leave the report to you, Lieutenant Soleton. However, the Great Detection Network has been destroyed, and there must be no medals. ”

This unexpected task made Naimon's mouth open wide: "Ah, shouldn't you be the commander of the operation? I'm not a real officer!"

"Ah, I'm just a temporary officer. The reservists will take off their uniforms after today. Anne said casually, "Didn't I tell you, I still have business to take care of." ”

(I've never heard of a reserve officer being an officer who can take off his uniform at any time...... Thinking so, his head began to hurt. He only wrote a logistics report......

"Ah, there's more. Before reinforcements arrive, bandage your wounds and don't scare them. ”

"But there are no bandages. There won't be a medical force here. ”

"Leave it to me. Anne took off her coat and pulled up the sleeve of her military uniform on her right arm, revealing the dark shirt underneath, and tore it off with a quick hand. With a flash of green light, the fibrous structure of the cotton cloth changed to a soft, breathable bandage.

"Thank you for the bandages. Naimon reached out to her to get the bandage.

Anne looked at him in surprise and didn't hand him the bandage, "Can you see the extent of the wound yourself?" ”

There was a strong persuasiveness in her tone. Naimon had to squat down obediently, and the girl in front of him wrapped the black bandage diagonally around her head.

"I have one more question...... Why black? Can't you make the bandage white?"

"Ah, that's my personal hobby, the black monocular bandage looks handsome. In this way, you don't have to worry about being nicknamed by the privates after entering the combat unit. ”

In the midst of the chatter of a match, the sound of the horses' hooves of reinforcements had already been heard. They stood up and greeted the coolies who had only had time to clean up the battlefield.

The battle is over, but the trouble has just begun.

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