Time flies by in Eritusa Academy, more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, with the exception of the occasional sneak out with Triss on his back and a few times with the very tall Principal Margarita, Wayne spent most of his time studying magic and secretly copying magic books in the library.

With that intimate relationship with Margarita, almost all the books in the library were open to Wayne, and he could flip through the books he wanted at will, except for those that were forbidden and forbidden, and no one supervised him.

The agreement with the witch Lani is also half completed.

Of course, Master Wayne is not the kind of person who likes to prostitute for nothing, and he has taken such a big advantage, he always has to pay something to be appropriate.

After an in-depth exchange with the current president, Ms. Margarita, with the support of the president, the Wayne Chamber of Commerce will replace the supplier who provided supplies to the college in the past, and establish a chamber of commerce base in Qiaotou Town, near Erethusa College.

Not only will it provide some security services for the female students in the college, but also more goods from all over the world will be supplied to the college.

In order to show his sincerity, the Chamber of Commerce has given the academy preferential prices, not only the quality is guaranteed, but also the variety of goods is definitely more comprehensive than in the past.

Of course, this is a win-win policy, not only for the Chamber of Commerce, but also for the College to give a lot of support to the Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

One of the most important is that the female students in the academy will be hired by the Chamber of Commerce to use what they have learned in school to provide magical services to the Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

Although these students are limited in their abilities, not all of them can become an elite sorceress like Triss or Yennefer.

But as magical apprentices with spell-casting abilities, they are still able to do things that ordinary people can't.

For example, magic divination, magic communication, psychic rituals, magic rituals, and even teleportation, they can all use them to a limited extent.

In such a barbaric and backward Middle Ages, even a magic apprentice can play a very important role in a special place, and it is worth winning over from the Chamber of Commerce.

Moreover, by the time these sorceress apprentices graduated, not every sorcerer would be able to become royal advisors, and most of them would have to work in other jobs that they could not do.

If you can build a good relationship with them during their apprenticeship, they will be easier to use in the Wayne Chamber of Commerce after they graduate.

It's a sure-fire deal.

During this month, Wayne lived a rather leisurely life, almost ignoring the outside of the window, and only reading the books of the sages.

But the entire northern kingdom was attracted to attention because of an unexpected war.

A month earlier, the defeat of Earl Karn had caused half of the kingdom of Kodwin to fall into the hands of King Demawi of Aden, something that the other northern kings had expected.

However, only half a month later, just as Demawi was triumphantly looting the spoils of war in the south of the Kingdom of Kodwin and dealing with the chaos after the war, a powerful black-clad army suddenly crossed the Pontar River, defeated the defenders of several cities in the Kingdom of Aden, defeated several great nobles, and occupied those cities.

It's so fast that almost everyone can't react.

By the time Demavi got the news, almost one-third of the territory of Aden had fallen into the hands of this army, and the whole of Aden was in chaos.

To the shock of Demavi and the other kings of the North, the army was far larger than they had imagined.

Just like this time when the Aden army went to Kodwin, the battle between the two great powers was already the largest battle in the north in recent years.

However, the number of armies on both sides was only over 10,000, and almost half of the soldiers were farmers who had been improvised and the real elite soldiers were only a few thousand.

The amount of grain and grass consumed during the war was unimaginable to ordinary peasant households, and an army of this size was the norm in the Middle Ages, after all, in this world, after most peasants paid their taxes, it was difficult for them to even feed themselves, let alone provide a large number of soldiers.

In addition to those noble lords who can afford to raise a group of off-duty soldiers and knights, probably only some wealthy merchants can raise some guards as a guarantee.

Even those kings could hardly raise an army of more than 1,000 people in a short period of time, and they had to go through a month or even a month of mobilization to be able to do so.

However, this group of troops who came from the south across the river not only had sophisticated weapons and equipment, but also more soldiers than most people imagined.

Judging from the news reported by the scouts alone, there are more than 40,000 soldiers in this army, far exceeding the total number of soldiers in the Kingdom of Aden at this time, and more than doubled, which is almost overwhelming.

Even if King Demawi did not need to regroup his soldiers and could immediately set out from the country of Kodwin and return to the kingdom of Aden, with their disparity in strength, it would be impossible to defeat this southern army and regain his territory.

Suddenly, King Demawi's excitement vanished, and he was even directly stunned.

He didn't even understand why the army that suddenly appeared this time would attack Aden, and because of the suddenness of the incident, he still didn't know which country the other party's army came from and what force it belonged to, but he heard that it was from the south, but he wasn't sure which kingdom in the south it was.

In the northern countries, because of territorial disputes, although there are constant wars, and various disputes often arise, most of them are petty fights and cannot be put on the table at all.

Moreover, most of these kings are short-sighted, and their eyes are always on their own acres and thirds of land, at most they only pay attention to the surrounding other countries, and they know very little about the intelligence of the Southern Kingdom, and basically do not pay attention to it.

So this time, it was not only the king of Demawi, except for a few kings who had trade relations with the southern kingdom, most of the rulers in the north were confused, and they couldn't figure out the origin of this army at all, so they could only immediately discharge a large number of scouts and use all their connections to investigate the origin of this army.

However, Lord Wayne, who is far away on Sunnid Island, is not among these people.

As early as a few years ago, he began to lay out in the southern kingdom like the elven sorceress Francesca, laying many trade routes and burying many intelligence officers.

Originally, according to the estimation of the two, the Civil War should be a few years before it broke out, so they did not focus on it.

However, what Wayne didn't expect was that for some reason, the usurper, who was obviously not fully prepared, suddenly began to mobilize the army a month ago, which opened the prelude to the Civil War.

And this southern emperor, who rebelled by officers and managed to sit on the throne, is indeed quite shrewd.

Successfully taking advantage of this expedition of the king of Aden, Demawi, taking advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's army going out and the country empty, he achieved quite a huge result with almost no effort.

It was a good start for the Civil War.

(End of chapter)