There are not a few wizards like Ivina who are terrified of the magic of nuclear explosions.

If it weren't for the news of the papal fiasco, they would only think that there must have been a natural disaster such as a meteorite crash and magma gushing here, which would have caused such a terrifying scene.

"By the way, I must warn you, don't go near this area!" Del said with a solemn expression. "Some time ago, a few elemental wizards didn't listen to the advice and wanted to study the elemental composition of the air in this area, but the exposed skin began to fester, and they were directly sent to emergency treatment within a few days of entering the core area."

So terrifying?

Lucas was speechless, all this time had passed, and the aftermath of the magic alone could hit several official wizards hard, and he couldn't imagine how terrifying it would be when such magic erupted.

In the crowd, a tall and thin middle-aged wizard and Ivina glanced at each other, Gu saw the solemn look in the other party's eyes, and then the wizard suddenly asked.

"Since Master Lynn has such powerful magic in his hands, why don't you just continue to conquer the Empire and completely wipe out the Holy See that hostile wizards?"

The inquiring wizard was named Monroe, and like Evena, he was a spy sent by the Holy See to the wizards.

Through the operation of the local church, the two of them successfully infiltrated the wizarding mutual aid society, and with the help of the chaotic situation, they gained the initial trust of Lucas and others in the name of a completely destroyed school.

And one of the purposes of the investigation is to find out the details of the wizards.

After capturing the city of fire oil and defeating the crusading army, according to the assumptions of the church leaders, these wizards should continue to launch large-scale attacks, and the empire has even begun to gather forces to prepare for war, and even the divine punishment army sent to the north to investigate the evil god incident has been urgently redeployed.

His Holiness the Pope was also ready to defend the Holy City and meet the terrible apocalyptic magic, and directly organized a prayer ceremony for more than 100,000 people, ready to perform the divine descent spell at any time.

But the wizards did not have the slightest intention of attacking, so that all the preparations of the church were in vain, and the other party's abnormal behavior made all the church executives confused.

Lucas and the others were also very interested in Monroe's problem, and they turned their eyes to Del with curiosity.

"Well......" Del also paused.

In fact, he was also very confused about this, and the councillors also had a lot of speculation about the reason for the cessation of the war, but Del was naturally not stupid enough to reveal this information in front of these wizards who did not know the details, but explained it to everyone from a different angle.

According to Master Lynn's words, one bite can't make a big fat man, and from the time they captured the capital of the kingdom, it was only about a year.

In the past, with the help of royal power, the local nobles cooperated and indirectly governed, which would save a lot of worry, but now it is changed to a wizard to directly manage the entire eastern territory of the kingdom, and 30,000 musketeers and thousands of wizards are far from enough, so that the believers in the remote areas have made a lot of chaos and made them anxious.

In other words, in a short period of time, their management scope has reached the limit, and they need to digest it for a while, and it is not too late to continue to attack when they have stabilized the interior.

Del's words dispelled the doubts in the minds of most wizards, but Monroe was skeptical.

This explanation sounds reasonable, but if you think about it, there are still a lot of things that don't make sense.

When the wizards defeated the crusaders, it was the weakest moment of the empire, most of the elite main forces were destroyed, the holy daughter Lucia was killed in battle, the inquisitor was captured alive, and for a while, the Pope had no time to mobilize the troops scattered throughout the empire.

And the city of fire oil is only three hundred kilometers away from the holy city in a straight line, and with the alchemy creations of the wizards can be reached in just a few hours, the other party is fully capable of using this powerful spell to inflict heavy damage on the Holy See, instead of maintaining the current stalemate stage.

A guess popped up in Monroe's mind that these wizards might just be posturing, but they didn't have the ability to release that magic again!

In other words, it is not magic at all that can cause such powerful damage, but natural disasters, and the wizards have somehow foreseen and exploited this in advance.

The more Monroe thought about it, the more likely it became.

He would never believe that a wizard could use such horrific sorcery - it was completely beyond his knowledge of magic.

That's the power of the Supreme Lord!

Monroe was in a reverie in his head, but speculation was clearly not enough to convince the Pope, and he needed to gather more evidence.

The two new patrol planes were soon back, and the electromagnetic receivers placed on the airship immediately 'tick, tick'.

"Lord Del, everything is safe, the Empire did not send griffon knights to track and intercept." One of the pilots in charge of translation reported.

"Interception? They have to have the guts! Del said disdainfully.

The Griffin Knights of the Empire are targets in front of the new fighters, and unless they can conjure up another fire dragon, they will be rewarded with merit.

Del's disdainful tone made Monroe's heart very unhappy, but he still suppressed the emotions in his heart, and focused on the flickering receiver on the airship, knocking on its effect.

Del didn't have the slightest explanation, and the electromagnetic communication magic was still a secret that could not be revealed.

The wilderness where the people fled was only a hundred kilometers away from the city of oil, and under the full speed of the airship, they reached the newly built airport in the city in just one hour.

The airport is actually a very large square, the ground is very smooth by magic, which can accommodate more than 200 airships, and there is a long runway in the center for the new warplanes to rise and land.

Ivina's expression was tense to the extreme, because it meant that they had officially entered the city ruled by the wizard.

Before that, she had fantasized about what this occupied western city would become in the hands of wizards.

The corpses hanging from the towers, the streets with unwashed blood, the people hiding in their houses in fear, the strange movements of wizards in robes, and perhaps the smell of strange potions in the air......

But when she actually stepped into the city, she was amazed by what she could see.

The streets of the city of oil looked very wide, and there were countless pedestrians coming and going, and the camel beasts pulling boxes of goods were driven by the horsemen with heavy steps, but in an instant they were overtaken by a boxy iron box full of stones, and they were left far behind.

Ivina had some impressions of this strange iron box, and from the information she received, it was called an alchemy cart by wizards, and it was a very powerful weapon of war.

The shell is made of steel, and the bows and swords in the hands of the soldiers are completely unable to break through the defense, and the speed is much faster than that of war horses, and when charging on the battlefield, they can easily crush more than ten times the cavalry......

Now it seems that in addition to war, this thing can also be used to transport goods.

Along the way, Ivina did not see the bloody, cruel, and dark scene she expected, but rather a very prosperous city, and everyone she saw was working, whether it was a wizard or a pauper, and it was completely unrecognizable that this was a place that had just been captured twenty days ago.

There are even slogans on the streets: "It is forbidden to defecate on the city streets, offenders will be whipped".

In order to let the illiterate poor people also understand the slogan, the pattern was also intimately drawn and marked with a big cross!

"What are they doing here?" Ivina pointed ahead, and several plainly dressed workers laboriously erected a slender pillar at the intersection.

At the top of the pillar hangs a transparent spherical object, which looks very delicate.

Is this an ornament? Or is it a node for some kind of witchcraft......

Ivina was secretly guessing in her mind, but the next second she heard Del explain. "It's a street lamp that provides light at night, so the night in the city of oil is as bright as the day!"

Lucas and the others were amazed, they could continue to illuminate the entire city of alchemy, they were simply unheard of, how much mana did it take?

Monroe, on the side, made a silent note in his mind - the wizards had set up light magic in the city to deal with the battle at night......

Immediately afterward, Monroe looked around the city, recording every change.

Although the entire city of fire and oil seems to be thriving, he firmly believes that this is definitely a façade, and the wizards must have a plan to maintain a superficial prosperity.

Thankfully, Monroe soon saw what he wanted to see.

Several wizards are using their magic to knock down a dilapidated house, then shouting over the paupers to load the ruins onto the truck.

Seeing this, Monroe sighed and shook his head, and made another note in his heart - the wizards brutally destroyed the houses of the poor, and enslaved the followers of the Lord, forcing them to build luxurious mansions and various war facilities for the upper echelons of the council.

Unlike Monroe, who has his own filter, although Ivina is also wary of wizards, she is still keenly aware of these working poormen, and she does not have that fearful and uneasy expression on her face, on the contrary, she can see ...... Grin?

As he was thinking about it, Del opened his mouth to complain, when they captured this city of fire and oil before, the entire slum could be described as stinking, and it was really impossible to see.

In addition, the battle destroyed a lot of houses during the raid, which seriously affected the appearance of the city, so Master Lynn proposed a major renovation of the city, which happened to widen and repair the road by the way, so that the alchemy cart could pass smoothly on the street.

"Where should these poor people who have no houses live?" Ivina asked, frowning.

"Isn't that over there?" Del pointed to a cleared area, the neat and imposing resettlement house that had just been built, and spoke.

Under Ivena's watchful eye, truckloads of stone were transported here by alchemy carts, where elemental wizards cast spells to assist laborers in erecting the framework of the house.

The walls are made of concrete and stone, and because of the shortage of steel and the inconvenience of casting, there is no steel structure inside, but it is much stronger than the original dilapidated wooden and grass houses of the poor.

When she entered the slum, Evena noticed the houses being built, but she didn't expect such a beautiful house to be for the poor.

However, the construction was not quickly demolished, and those lords who had lost their houses and had no place to live for the time being were temporarily arranged in the mansions and manors of the nobles.

It's very spacious, and there are so many rooms that you can squeeze hundreds of people at will.

Under Del's explanation, Monroe almost wondered if he had misheard that these wizards had let these lowly paupers live in aristocratic manors......

Soon, Monroe stopped bothering about this little thing, and a wave of anger suddenly rushed from the soles of his feet to his heart, because he found that the church in the city of oil had been demolished by the wizards, and the statue of the god had been unloaded and transported away in a truck.

According to the sorcerers, the statue would be thrown directly into a high-temperature boiler to melt into molten copper, which would then be used in more important places, such as to make street lamps......

Such a blasphemous act almost made Monroe faint on the spot.

Del continued with a smile. "I heard before that this god statue was built by the lord of the city of oil to show his pious faith, and the whole body was made of gold, and the alchemists who harmed him were happy for a long time, but when they smashed it open, it turned out to be only plated with gold on the outside, and it was full of copper inside!"

"But the location of this church is good, and we are preparing to tear it down and build a new train platform here!"

Del pointed to the station with no walls yet to be built, and the huge square iron box that had been transported here by several airships, and proudly told everyone about the alchemical creations that had recently been developed by the Academy of Magic.

"This is the front of the train, which is used to provide capacity, and the back carriages are used to carry people and goods!"

"A train has a total of fifteen standard carriages, and one carriage can carry a hundred people, or about sixty tons of goods!"

A railroad is already being built within the kingdom, and it won't be long before the train will be able to travel throughout the kingdom.

"And how fast is it? How does it compare to an airship? Ivina said with a solemn expression.

"Of course, the loading of cargo is not as fast as that of an airship, but it also has a speed of about 90 kilometers per hour." Del said casually.

Hearing this, Monroe's forehead was already in a cold sweat, and he simply calculated, if Del was not lying, this thing called a train could carry nine hundred tons of goods, or a legion of 1,500 people from the city of fire oil to the royal capital in one day.

Although Monroe thinks that these wizards should be exaggerating, even if this thing called a train is only one-third of the effect of what the other party said, it is an extremely terrifying threat, and the news must be conveyed as soon as possible!

(End of chapter)