"Master Blair. Alva's message. An assistant dressed in a high-level magician's robe handed a small ball of parchment to Master Blair, who was enjoying lunch, and Blair took the parchment, slowly opened it, and after carefully reading the whole content, asked, "How many copies?"

"That's all there is to it. ”

"Oh, this news came from the morning when the sun had just risen, and it's already noon, a full seven hours, counting the time, it's only five or six hours at most from Seker City here?"

"Ah, yes, even if a person is on foot, it will take more than ten hours to travel overnight, and it will not take more than six hours if a carrier pigeon flies in the air. ”

"Only one of the three messages was received, and it seems that the people surrounding us are very tightly arranged. Oh, by the way, Clifford, how are our little friends?"

Clifford walked over slowly, sat down at Blair's table, and a servant immediately served him a fine lunch, Clifford picked up the cutlery, cut off a small piece of fried egg with a knife, and replied to Blair's words: "Shrink completely, but the encirclement is still tight." As a result of the Magic Vision, the other party is as usual, but our scout has brought back a little interesting news. ”

"Oh, what's that?"

"Magicians, our children also have magicians, and their strength is not bad. Clifford put the severed fried egg in his mouth and tasted it slowly, and after he swallowed the food, he continued: "It's funny to use illusion to interfere with our detection with magical eyes, hehe." ”

"Hahahaha," Blair laughed, laughing as he said, "How ...... dare to use these tricks in front of an archmage It seems that we are usually too low-key, and we don't take many adventures, and maybe the world has long forgotten about us. ”

"That's right. Clifford began to cut a piece of fried steak again: "They used illusions to cover up the constant stream of backups, and now there are at least 20,000 to 25,000 soldiers around the entire Valen peak, and the scouts have seen them cutting down trees to make stone throwers." ”

"I see. Faras, who was sitting on the side eating lunch, couldn't help but speak: "Their reinforcements actually arrived in the morning, but they were only the vanguard, and they endured until now, just to wait for backups, and to make weapons that can be fought from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain. ”

"Yes, that's right. Blair nodded, and said, "I'm afraid they can't make a very good stone throwing cart in a hurry, right?" Ryan, Faras, you used to fight the orcs in Thor's Fortress and the Imperial Capital, do you think that if you use the trees in this mountainous area, the finished product can probably shoot how many stones can be fired, and how far can you fight?"

Ryan thought for a moment and replied honestly: "If it were us humans, we could probably throw 100 kilograms of stones out of 2,000 meters, but after all, it was a finished product of fine workmanship, and I estimated that those people under the mountain couldn't do it in a hurry, but they could hit 1,000 meters." ”

"1,000 meters?" Blair and Clifford looked at each other, and Blair said: "If that's the case, then we may have to change our strategy, after all, this Valen Mountain is only a few hundred meters high, if they approach about 500 meters down the mountain, they can not only avoid our magic strikes, but also attack the mountain, although we are not afraid, but those servants and horses will still be frightened." ”

"I'll go. Clifford dropped the lunch he had only eaten a few bites, wiped his hands with a casual napkin, stood up and left immediately, and Blair said to Lane, "When we're done with this lunch, we'll go over there and find a good spot to watch the show." ”

"Okay. Ryan replied loudly.

"Okay!" Nelson cried out, standing in front of him was the commander of the last of the 20,000 troops led by Nelson this time, Nelson turned his head to the man who had analyzed "why Blair didn't leave" before, that is, Samir, the leader of the magician guards that Senat specially sent with him, said: "Our vultures captured two carrier pigeons this morning, but the information on them is a mess of a lot of things, I can't understand it. ”

Samir, a man about thirty years old, said: "That's a secret letter, something developed by a magician, if you don't know what those secret runes mean, it's like a person who doesn't understand magic to look at those high-level magic arrays, you know every pattern on them, but you don't know what the combination represents." ”

Nelson also knew a little bit about the matter, and said, "I'm afraid we won't be able to find out what is written on the parchment in a short time, but according to the scouts, one of the pigeons has escaped so that they already know what their companion wants them to know." And we traveled lightly last night, and the supply lasted until tomorrow night at most, and it would be not good for us to drag it out like this. ”

Samir thought for a moment and said to Nelson, "We've already made those ten stone throwers, aren't they? But in a hurry it can't be compared to the one on the walls of Seker City, and I remember that when I tried it, I hit 800 meters at most." Now we're going to attack the mountain from below, and in order to be lethal, we must push the catapult to the bottom of the mountain about 400 to 500 meters without being detected by the enemy's magic. There are only ten of us here, and it is too difficult to cover the catapult with magic and protect the soldiers from magic attacks, and if the enemy is an ordinary person, don't forget, they have 3 archmagisers and 11 magisters. ”

Nelson looked at the people around him, they were all his henchmen, there were no irrelevant people, and the nearest guard was also more than twenty meters away, so he lowered his voice and whispered: "In the first wave of attacks, I will transfer the non-main force up, don't care about their life or death." Many of these second-line armies are cobbled together by those small lords and some bandits attached to the banner of adults, and their combat power is very poor, but their supplies are almost the same as the main elite troops, otherwise they will make trouble or simply harm the place, and the adults have long wanted to rectify it, and now there is a chance to ......"

"I see. Samir nodded slightly: "Since this is the case, it will be easy to do, but the Overseer is essential, as long as they find that they will definitely die if they retreat, and pushing the catapult with all their strength will have a chance to live, but it will make the catapult move faster." ”

"This is natural. I've also been through a hundred battles, please rest assured, it's your own safety, you have to take care of it, you still need you. Nelson said.

"Don't worry, we may not be able to win against those great mages in a head-to-head battle, but it is more than enough to protect ourselves. Samir said in a confident tone: "According to the plan made by our wise Lord Senate himself, we magicians have not taken the promotion test of the Magic Guild, and we are only proficient in the magic that is beneficial to the war, but when we are in the base, magicians like us who have been specially trained to protect the adults have the strength to resist the bombardment of two high-level magicians at the same time." ”