"Bang!" The door was slammed shut by Evelyn.

In Nolan's room, Evelyn stared at Nolan angrily, and it took a long time to squeeze a few words out of her throat:

"I told you to stay away from Harrison, you're being used by him!"

When she was blocking people at the entrance of the alchemy workshop just now, her head calmed down a little.

Judging from all indications, Harrison was the mastermind behind the suicide march.

He has always done whatever it takes to achieve his goals, and he has sufficient motives and enough power to plan this incident.

And now the question is, did Nolan know about the suicide march?

Did he subjectively deceive himself? Or was he also tricked by Harrison into unknowingly facilitating the suicide march?

Evelyn prefers to believe the latter.

In her opinion, Noren was a strange person who had connected Yuna's legs, participated in battles, and took in refugees.

Since even Yuna believes in him, she is willing to believe in him and treat him as her friend.

She would rather think that Harrison took advantage of everyone than that Nolan cheated on her.

However, her wishful thinking was soon shattered by him himself.

"I'm sorry." Nolan didn't argue, just whispered these three words.

"You're ......!"

Evelyn's eyes widened instantly, "You really lied to me?" ”

"I'm sorry."

"Why are you doing this!"

The emotions of incomprehension, anger, and grievance churned in her chest, and the strong emotions in Evelyn's heart exploded at this moment, and she stepped forward and grabbed Nolan's collar hard, shouting:

"Do you know what the consequences of doing this are? So many people died at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion! ”

Nolan was pressed into a corner by Evelyn, and her explosive momentum oppressed him a little.

"Is it okay to continue with the status quo?"

He looked at his angry blue eyes and slowly asked, "What kind of good people are still pretending to be in the City Lord's Mansion now?" You can't defend the city, haven't these refugees outside the city already been abandoned by you?

"They died because of Ivan's inaction. Why, it's okay for them to die outside the city, but not at the gate of the city lord's mansion? Does it really make sense to be so self-deceptive? ”

Evelyn was stunned by a series of rhetorical questions, and reluctantly explained: "We are also making various efforts to resettle and accommodate the refugees under the city walls, and I am responsible for the ......"

"Then you're really a good boy, and you have to wipe your ass for your brother's irresponsible decision-making."

Nolan sneered, "But you also understand, no matter how much we do below, it is not as useful as directly changing Ivan's decision." Since moderate lobbying doesn't work, there's only one way to go.

"In times of peace, Ivan might indeed be a good city lord, but now that the war is coming, his weak character of giving in will only kill everyone!"

He took a breath and continued, "Now, the fate of Linfeng City is all in his thoughts, so someone has to push him.

"If you can't push it, then I'll come, and as for the corresponding responsibility, I'll just bear it."

"Responsibility? What responsibilities can you take on. ”

Evelyn looked at him faintly, "The war you expect is about to begin, can you still follow us into battle besides watching from behind?" ”

"Of course." Nolan nodded, "I can go to war." ”

I said he can't do it, I can do it, I'm really good.

Evelyn frowned, she looked at Nolan, and found that his expression was very serious, not like acting.

"Good, good."

After a while, she gritted her teeth and said, "In that case, I will put you into the team and send you to the battlefield, give me a good understanding!" ”

With that, she let go of Noren's collar and slammed the door.

In fact, she didn't have much resentment towards Noren in her heart, she could understand what Noren meant, and she also supported the war.

It's just that this way of starting a war is too radical, so that his brother is pointed at by Qianfu, and she falls into a moral dilemma, so she said these angry words.

Maybe I'm too naïve, and there is no such thing as the best of both worlds.

At this point, there is no point in arguing any further.

All she can do is to do her best to win this war, so that the City Lord's Mansion can save a little face in the hearts of the masses.

In the room, Nolan's body slowly slid against the wall and sat on the floor.

His amber eyes flickered in the dimly lit room, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Shortly after Evelyn left, another girl came to the door.

She saw Nolan sitting in the corner and hesitated for a moment, then walked into the room and sat side by side with Nolan.

It's like two lonely ravens who have landed and perched together after a tiring day of traveling, briefly enjoying the tranquility of being with their kind.

After a moment of silence, Nolan asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Come and sit for a while, can't you......?"

"Hmph, with a worried look on my face, isn't it just that I was yelled at by the eldest lady, and I won't be fragile like this."

"No, I just think ...... You seem to be tired lately. Yuna carefully explained, "You've been preoccupied these days, so you guess you're worried about this morning, right?" ”

"You found out?" Nolan rubbed his cheeks, "I suddenly wanted to refer to your opinion, when this multiple-choice question is placed in front of you, if it is you...... What kind of choices will you make? ”

"I don't know, I don't understand......" Yuna shook her head and said honestly, "but I trust you, I'll just listen to you." ”

"You're not very smart, you raven." "However, sometimes it's good to live a simple life.

"Scheming, calculating...... These are too tiring, I eat meat when I have it, and I take revenge when I have revenge, so happy revenge is my ideal way of life.

"To do this, we need to become stronger, so strong that no one can sacrifice for our goals, strong enough that we can freely enforce the righteousness in our hearts."

As he spoke, Nolan exhaled deeply, as if he wanted to expel all the gloom in his heart in the past few days.

He stood up and raised the corners of his mouth at Yuna:

"I believe we can do it because we are geniuses and we can do anything without difficulties in front of us......

"Now, the war is finally about to begin, are you ready?"

Yuna looked at the young man in front of him, and now he was back to his previous confident appearance.

I don't know what he's figured out, but that's fine.

Although his head is empty and he is not good at words, if his company can restore him a little energy, it can be regarded as helping him.

She then stood up, nodded vigorously, and responded, "I'm ready." ”

……

The war began.

After the battle parade that day, the lights of the city lord's mansion remained unturned out all night, and the next morning, the whole city entered a state of readiness for war.

Thanks to the full mobilization of the war a few days ago, no one in Linfeng City had any objections to this war, and everyone was cooperating with the City Lord's Mansion to mobilize the materials in the city.

The army began to move out of the city, and gradually expanded the scope of defense and reconnaissance with Linfeng City as the center.

Because of the wider range of movement, refugees do not have to crowd under the city and move into shelters with better conditions.

Five days later, a mixed army of the Knights of the Peak and the Legion of the Peak engaged a force of the steppe people on the steppe.

As a result of the battle, the army repelled the partisans of the steppes at the cost of a loss of one hundred and fourteen soldiers and ten knights, and seventy soldiers and seven knights were killed.

Although this is not a glorious record just looking at the casualties of both sides, considering that this is the first time that Peak City has repelled the steppe people in a head-on battle, it can be regarded as a memorable victory.

When the good news came back to the city, the city was full of jubilation, and the people's hearts, which were still a little uneasy, finally fell back to the ground.

The steppe people are not invincible, even in the grassland, the army of Linfeng has the strength to compete with them!

The number of steppe people is not very large, according to the intelligence from the scouts, their combat strength is estimated to be more than 20,000 people, and the army in Linfeng City is 20,005.

Although it seems that the number is almost the same, the steppe people are a tribe invasion, and the number of troops that can be taken out now is almost all of their combat power.

After entering the war mobilization, Linfeng City can continue to expand its forces in the city, and at the same time absorb idle transcendents to join the battle, and the actual combat effectiveness is stronger than the data on paper.

Once they have made up their minds to fight to the death, even if they continue to fight with this casualty ratio, it will be the grassland people who will be the first to be dragged down.

This war can be won!

And on the day the good news was reported back to the city, Nolan also received a good news from Luo Zhen:

Valkyrie backpack, successfully crafted.

After receiving the news, he immediately took Yuna to Luo Zhen's newly built forge shop and witnessed the birth of this great work destined to go down in the history of alchemy.

It is said to be a Valkyrie backpack, but in fact, it is composed of three parts: a backpack, boots, and a joystick.

Among them, the backpack is the main engine of the flight, which is equipped with a "flying spell" circle, and is used to store the magic crystals that act as a source of magic power.

The boots are auxiliary take-off and landing engines, equipped with "levitation" and "acceleration" circles.

The joystick is a left-handed cast switch that controls the spell release of the backpack and boots.

A pair of boots is connected to the backpack by two power cables, and a control cable extends from the side of the backpack to connect with the joystick in the left hand.

This was the original form of the Valkyrie Backpack.

Now that the work that existed only in his drawings and visions had become a physical object in front of him, Nolan couldn't help but feel a little excited, and he bent down to admire every detail of Valkyrie's backpack.

Seeing that Nolan couldn't put down this work, Luo Zhen was also a little proud in his heart, this is a masterpiece that he has been working overtime to catch up with in the past few days, and it is undoubtedly a happy thing to be affirmed.

But instead of showing it on his face, he clasped his hands and said in a disgusted tone:

"It's just an iron lump, what are you doing so excited, don't tell me this is the finished product."

The construction period was rushed, and the equipment didn't even have time to paint it after it was built, and the whole was plain gray.

Coupled with the fact that Nolan has not yet engraved a magic circle on it, the current Valkyrie backpack is indeed just an empty shell without a soul.

"It's really only a half-finished product at the moment, so I'll leave the rest to me, and I'll debug it."

Noren packed his equipment and put it in the carriage, and finally asked Luo Zhen, "Tomorrow I plan to go outside the city for the first test flight of the Valkyrie backpack, do you want to come with me?" ”

"Come on, why don't you come!" Luo Zhen immediately replied, "I'd like to see what tricks you can pull out of this iron lump." ”

However, as if remembering something, he added: "However, now that the city has entered a state of readiness, and the travel of everyone except the army has been restricted, do you have a way to get out of the city?" ”

"Ah, that's not a problem."

Nolan smiled back, waved his hand, and said, "Although it was a bit sudden, Yuna and I do have the military establishment of the Knights of Linfeng now. ”

Evelyn was here for real, and when she returned that day, she literally added the names of Nolan and Yuna to her squad.

They are currently nominally part of the Independent Combat Squad of the Knights of the Peak, Unit No. 621, led by Evelyn Baihart.

That being said, however, Evelyn hasn't given them any orders until now.

For Noren, alchemist is not a profession that should be on the front lines of the battlefield.

As for Yuna, since she has lost both legs, Evelyn also wants her to be on standby in the rear to avoid any more accidents.

Considering their respective circumstances, Evelyn put their names on the list, but in the end, she still didn't let them play with the team.

Of course, on the other hand, it can also be understood that Evelyn gave them the rightful status of soldiers, and they can join the battle whenever and wherever they want.

Well, although the eldest lady is clamoring to send him to the battlefield, it is really just angry words, and it is really gentle.

It's a pity not to bully too much.

Bringing the equipment back to his lab, Noren opened the Valkyrie main backpack, which was divided into two parts: the mana source and the circle structure chamber.

Luo Zhen had already prepared the mana source and installed it in his backpack, which was a blue mana crystal that had been cut into a square rectangle.

The source of mana doesn't need to be moved, what he wants to debug is this part of the formation structure warehouse.

Luo Zhen has built its shell, and what he has to do is to inject soul into it.

Removing the base of the circle reserved in the structural warehouse and placing it on the table, the book of omniscience in his mind began to flip, and finally settled on the page of "Flying Arts".

He stretched out his hand and brushed the base of the circle, and said silently in his heart: "'Projection'." ”

The next moment, his palms lit up with a pale cyan light, and a mysterious power quietly flowed out along his guidance, converging and forming.

However, in a few breaths, the light dissipated, Nolan withdrew his hand, and a circle of sophisticated and mysterious magic circles was impressively imprinted on the base of the magic circle.

Since you don't need to draw manually, you don't have to worry about any deviations in the middle of the drawing.

The most perfect circle is engraved on the carrier out of thin air, and this is one of the abilities of the Book of Omniscience: "Projection".

This circle is so streamlined and perfect, there is not even a trace of artificially carved it, and the so-called natural perfection is like this.

Even if it is shown to the world, it is influenced by theoretical techniques and drawing tools, and it is an existence that cannot be replicated by contemporary alchemists.

Of course, Nolan also made some confidentiality measures for his "intellectual property", and after engraving the circle, he encapsulated the base of the circle into a black box mechanism, and then installed it in his backpack.

Once closed, this black box mechanism can never be opened, and if it is forcibly destroyed, the base of the circle inside will be destroyed as well.

Even if there is an accident later, the Valkyrie backpack falls into the hands of others, and when others want to open the black box to get a glimpse of the mystery, they can only get the magic array beyond recognition.

And the backpack that lost the magic array also lost its soul, but it was just a useless lump of iron.

After taking precautions, Nolan concocted according to the law, engraved the "levitation" and "acceleration" circles on the soles of his boots, and sealed them.

At this point, the soul has been infused.

After inspecting the parts, he pressed the switch of the lever, and a slight magical resonance suddenly sounded inside the backpack.

"Switch Control Normal ......"

"The mana source is connected normally......"

"The circle structure warehouse is functioning normally......"

"Spell activation speed is normal......

"Everything works."

Nolan interrupted his casting, and he lowered the lever and straightened up, smiling at his finish.

The Valkyrie backpack is ready.