When the team stood on the tower, everyone except the dwarves exclaimed.

Flint clenched his hammer and shouted, "What's wrong? What happened? Did the orcs attack the city? What are you shocking about? ”

Only Rosalie looked at the dwarves, probably not seeing how the dwarves reacted in the face of the battlements.

Again, he couldn't see the little white hands and feet below and climbed up the mage's neck to ride on it, and then made a "wow" sound.

The elf whispered, "It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 people, and probably the entire orc tribe in the wasteland has come." ”

Wang: "Not only are men in the orc tribe able to fight, but female orcs are also very powerful, and although the old orcs are not as good as the prime of life, their strength is also greater than that of ordinary human males. It can be said that the entire race of orcs is a warrior.

"And with so many middle-aged males going out to fight, the women and children of the tribe may face the dilemma of reducing the amount of prey, so when the orc tribe sets out to raid, they generally drag their families with them.

"If there are 100,000 orcs in the prime of life on this plain, it means that there are three times the strength of female orcs, old orcs and children in the back, and they will all come up and fight hard."

Rosalie looked at the king: "You...... Are you so familiar with orcs? ”

Wang: "I read a book called "Common Ethnic Surveys in Glaria", which was written by my teacher. It contains all the records of all races except the concept of marriage and love. ”

Rosalie: "Why is there a lack of marriage and love alone?" Wait a minute, is it just a view of marriage and love? So the fertility pattern is still documented? ”

Wang: "Yes. So I also have complete knowledge, and once I have a love interest in this plane, I can make sure that everything goes smoothly after that. ”

Elizabeth blushed and asked, "You tell me what went well!" ”

At this time, Rosalie's eldest brother, the eldest prince Eowin, appeared on the city wall. As soon as he appeared, he saluted the king: "When my father heard that you were leaving to visit the city wall, he specially called me to explain the situation to you. ”

Marika suddenly appeared and stopped between the eldest prince and the others: "It's amazing, you actually appeared at this time." The palace is far away from the royal library where we live, and with the time it takes to get here, you're actually behind us.

"That's what you know as soon as we go out. But I've killed all the spies who were spying on us in the alleys. ”

Iowen smiled, "You did clear our eyeliners, but you don't know, we just gave the administrator of the Wang Li Library a sounding stone. ”

Marika frowned, it seemed that he didn't have much to do about this kind of "spy" on the surface.

Wang: "The Sound Transmission Stone? Now in the current war, why should such a thing that can be used for instant command and communication be given to a librarian? Just to keep track of what we're doing? ”

Iowin laughed, "We're Monrovia, and everyone in our generals has this kind of soundstone. We have a huge command tower with countless compartments, each corresponding to five generals, with the generals' voice transmission stones, and a special person on duty. ”

Sound transmission stones are paired and can only transmit sound to each other.

Elizabeth suddenly thought of something, turned her head and asked the king, "Do you mage towers also use sound stones to communicate?" ”

"No, we use communication badges, everyone can name their badges, when using it, as long as the thumb presses the badge and shouts out the name of the badge to be connected, the other party's badge will vibrate, and the other party only needs to press the badge with their thumb to talk."

Saying that, Wang took out the badge from the dimensional bag: "This is my badge, called Communication Unit 01." ”

Rosalie: "So there's still a communication unit 02?" ”

"No, no. But it's not handsome enough to just call the communication unit, and it's much more handsome to add a 01. ”

As he spoke, the mage pressed his thumb to the badge and shouted, "Dog! ”

Then the badge did not react.

Wang: "You see, the badge can't communicate across the plane, and the badge called the dog is not on this plane, so you can't call him." ”

Nini asked curiously, "Why did you want to contact him?" Does he mean a lot to you? ”

"No, he's an orc, and he became a mage with the intelligence of an orc, and along with the man who said he wanted to be a mage no matter how lame he was, he was a legend in our tower. This legend does not refer to the ability to cast spells, but to the experience. ”

Iowin watched Wang's team discuss these with a smile on his face, and interjected at the right time, "I wish we could have this kind of advanced magic item here." ”

Wang: "There are planes that can do this without magic, but in fact, there is a view in our tower that magic limits the development of other skills in the plane.

"Some planes have no magic, but they can build ships that appear in another space in an instant and span hundreds of millions of kilometers, but on their ships, the craftsmen in red clothes often die violently, which looks like some kind of sacrificial magic.

"In other planes, magic is only telepathic, but it can create golems that can enter and exit the crystal wall system freely, and the magic ships of that plane are always damaged on the port side, as if the fate of the ship has been artificially corrected."

The king suddenly stopped and looked at the silent crowd: "What's the matter?" ”

Nini: "It's nothing, what you've seen and heard about other planes is very interesting, and I'd like to see it one day." ”

Elizabeth was shocked and immediately said, "I want to go too!" I'm going! ”

Wang: "If you haven't detached from the flow of time, going to too many planes will have side effects, and ordinary people can't afford to switch the flow of time frequently." You've got to get upgraded. There are also people in our Mage Tower who can't be upgraded, and they can only go out to study once in a while. ”

He paused and added, "I'm afraid that I'll become such a person, so I want to master the Nine Rings spell casting ability and get the qualification to pursue promotion." ”

Iowin had been listening to the king's words, and at this time he said, "So, you are going to leave this plane in the end?" ”

Wang: "The destination of a powerful mage is the stars, ah, the 'stars' here refer to different planes. ”

Elizabeth suddenly felt melancholy: "So you...... Don't want to be looking for someone to trade with you in a horse-drawn carriage? ”

"Yes." The mage replied immediately.

Elizabeth: "And what if she can't be promoted?" ”

Wang: "Ah, our Mage Tower has the technology to forcibly upgrade. ”

"Huh?" Elizabeth looked at him in surprise, "You just said that there are people who can't be promoted!" ”

"Because these techniques have side effects, basically everything except the soul has changed. The traveling mage who normally embraces the stars, the body is still the same as the original. Forcibly ascending is really just a form of lichification in the upper ranks. So some people are reluctant to choose. ”

Elizabeth sighed: "I ...... Can a warlock look up at the stars? ”

Wang: "I don't know, maybe a warlock can rely on his own inspiration and charm to know the ultimate mystery of the universe through instinct?" After all, if the warlock's bloodline is powerful, it is possible to cast the nine-ring arcane as soon as he wakes up. Since the nine-ring arcane can be used, the secrets of the universe must also be possible. ”

Flint: "If you can't, take a gamble on some wild mushrooms." ”

At this time, Rosalie said to her eldest brother, "Listen attentively, Your Highness the Prince." ”

Monrovia was not an electoral, and the eldest son of the Melward family could inherit the empire, just like other dukes and counts.

Iowin: "I love those questions, too. Unfortunately, I have no talent for magic, or I would have given up my throne to pursue the mysteries of magic. ”

Rosalie: "You're here specifically to say this?" ”

Iowin: "Of course not. But it seems that the orcs are only building siege camps and siege engines today, so the military situation is not too urgent. ”

The sergeant next to him looked like he wanted to speak, but in Monrovia, when he was of low status, he could not speak first without the permission of a person of high status.

Rosalie noticed the sergeant's expression and said, "What do you want to say, sergeant?" ”

As soon as the sergeant received permission to speak, he said: "The walls of Minos are so high, when the orcs came before, they couldn't afford to build such a high siege tower, they didn't have enough architectural and design talents, the siege tower looks like a pile of garbage, and it is very fragile and can be shot with a ballista." ”

After the sergeant finished speaking, Iowen nodded, "Thank you for your insight, sergeant. ”

He turned his head to look under the walls.

The mage also came to the prince's side, took out his binoculars, and looked down together.

The orcs were shielding themselves with shields, setting up cover in the open space in front of the walls to cover their archers when attacking.

Farther away, the orcs set up camps, put up fences to block human access, and watchtowers were being built.

However, the towers of the siege towers are not yet visible, and it may be a little too difficult for the orcs to build, as the sergeant said.

Farther away, where the king's eyesight could not see clearly, the orcs had set up a logging camp and were cutting down the bushes around Minos.

At this time, the Emperor's military governor, Clover Knight Connaughty, came out of the tower on the wall of the White City and walked towards this side with a group of generals.

When he arrived at the prince, the old general first saluted the prince, then turned to the king, and finally saluted Rosalie.

Wang: "Strange, shouldn't you bow to the two royal heirs first?" I'm just a mage passing by. ”

Connaught spoke, "Your Majesty's order is that you are the most honorable guest, and your status is higher than himself. But I have heard that you are a reasonable man, so you should know that if I really ignore the prince, I will bow to you first, and then ......."

Iowin: "Don't worry, teacher. ”

Connaught: "I'm not your teacher, and I don't dare to be a title." ”

"But I want to learn the art of military command from you, teacher. You are the hero of the last Orc War, and the 'military expert' my father found for me was basically just talking about the famous battles that had been thoroughly analyzed and studied, and had no opinions or feelings of his own. ”

Connaught: "The biggest feeling I've had since I joined the army is that I'd rather not be so familiar with war. The only thing to be thankful for is that the war is so terrible that no one will like it. ”

The two were talking, and Wang directly interrupted: "General Connaught, right?" I have a question. ”

Elizabeth sighed and teased, "You either have a problem or a plan, choose one or the other." As for the situation and the atmosphere, you don't care at all. ”

Wang: "Is there anything wrong with the air here?" I didn't notice it? ”

Nini: "She's talking about the atmosphere, not the air, and the two words in lingua franca are based on the same etymology, so it's a bit similar." ”

Wang: "Oh, I heard you. ”

Connaught: "What's your problem?" ”

The king pointed to the orc blockade outside: "As far as I can see, the orcs have not completed the blockade of the city, and this fence and sentry tower should not be completed today, right?" ”

Connaught: "Yes, the orcs are very poor at building. ”

Wang: "Does that mean a seven-person team can easily sneak out?" ”

Connaught was shocked: "Are you trying to sneak out?" ”

Wang: "Yes, we have no reason to stay in the city and fight with you. And we have got the clues we need here at the Royal Institute of Architects, and the target is in Issonzo, one of the city-states of the riverside countries, and we need to get to Issonzo as soon as possible, and then start searching for this church. ”

Connaught: "Aren't you only three rings of your own spell casting ability?" How do you deal with a sect that randomly sends a seven-ring mage to snipe you? ”

Wang: "We'll find out if we can fight against the past." And didn't the Seven Rings Mage be killed by me? Well? ”

Wang suddenly slapped his thigh, looking like he remembered something big: "I'm no longer a four-ring mage, I'm a three-ring ...... No, it's the Four Rings! One more ring than the three rings! Oh my God, I forgot! I prepared the spell this morning or prepared the spell of the third ring according to my habit, and the fourth ring was not prepared! ”（*）

Everyone else was silent.

Xiaobai, who was riding on the king's neck, expressed his opinion from a high place: "You are really smart! I'm not wrong! ”

Elizabeth: "You're right. ”

Nini: "So we didn't sneak away tonight?" ”

Wang: "Of course not, the soldiers are fast, we will leave tonight!" ”

Rosalie: "Wait a minute! Don't you want your star-chasing? ”

Wang: "My plan is the second one, the dragon attacks the orc's ballista position, and then the star chases the opportunity to kill it." But it is naturally better to sneak out without alarming the orcs than to launch an attack. ”

Rosalie: "Isn't stealth dangerous?" ”

Wang: "Stealth is not necessarily dangerous, after all, whether you will be detected depends on how well the other party 'plays'. But a dragon attack must be dangerous. ”

"I'm afraid the second option is not realistic." Duke Connaught said, "It is now reported that the orcs have erected ballistas on both sides, and there are a total of seven ballista positions that have been discovered. In addition, our army also found that the ballista positions were protected by five-ring or even six-ring spellcasters. ”

King: "Shaman? ”

Connaught: "No, it looks like a mage. ”

The king frowned: "Orc mage?" ”

"Human necromancer, with zombies."

At this time, the eldest prince spoke: "According to the reliable information we have obtained, the new co-leader of the orc tribe has a powerful nine-ring lich by his side. We're appealing to the Arcane Federation for help, and the Knights of Lancelot and Typhon in the city are already restless. For the Knights' top paladins, the Nine-Ringed Lich is their dream prey. ”

Wang: "We already know this. I mean, in the first half, the orcs had the lich to help. ”

The Prince: "Didn't your teacher say that there are several manifestations of the crisis?" Among them are the activity of the undead, and the presence of lichs in large numbers. ”

Wang: "That's the third stage, and the second stage hasn't come yet." Are there any cheap but 'excessively' effective healing scrolls and healing potions sold in the city? ”

The Prince: "No. In fact, there are no healing scrolls and healing potions for sale in the city, and we want to buy more for the city defense forces, but we can't find a place to buy them, so we can only ask the mage priests and alchemists in the city to work overtime. ”

Flint stopped trying to climb up the battlements, turned his head and asked, "Why can't you officially get the healing scrolls and potions?" ”

Connaught said in a disgusted tone, "It's all bought up by the nobles." Minos are flooding Minos these days with large numbers of nobles who don't have faith in their castles, and they procure healing scrolls and potions in large quantities. If an orc rushes in and kills a nobleman, five healing scrolls can be recovered from him.

"Your Majesty has publicly ordered the nobles to donate the scrolls to the fighting troops, and guess what? The largest nobleman donated only 20, saying that he was only so much, so His Majesty cut him down for treason, and found two hundred in his mansion.

"After killing chickens and monkeys like this, the nobles handed over a total of thousands of scrolls, and everyone knew that they still had them, but His Majesty was not good at killing them again, in this case, the standing soldiers brought by the nobles were also an important combat force."

Rosalie: "Monrovia is so terminally ill, although there will be a civil war every time a new emperor is elected, but at least everyone has a strong army, but their hearts are not aligned." ”

Elizabeth frowned: "This is prejudice. ”

Just before the two were about to start arguing, the king said, "Without cheap scrolls and potions, the appearance of the lich is just an accident, and it has nothing to do with the crisis we have to manage." ”

The true colors of the mage are used to by the team members. The Monrovians, however, looked at each other.

Wang: "We'll slip away tonight, good luck to you." ”

Grand Prince: "Our scouts have freed some of the orc slaves, because the orcs did not raid this time, so these slaves are old slaves who have been imprisoned by the orcs for many years, and they provide an interesting piece of information. ”

Wang: "What? ”

"The lich's name is Elzam Malcolm."

(End of chapter)