Chapter 269

The offensive of those monsters was disintegrated.

However, the panic they caused will take some time to subside.

With a sword on her waist, Andersa walked steadily on the wall of the Winter Wolf Fortress. She patrolled the defense line after the battle, and the sight of the sight made her frown.

Those blood-colored giants who came from nowhere did not step into the fortress. The heroic Typhon soldiers repelled those terrifying enemies on the city wall. However, those monsters were not afraid of death when attacking. "The destructive power is still shocking. Huge scars eroded by corrosive energy arrows can be seen everywhere on the city wall. Soldiers directly attacked by energy arrows either die miserably or are seriously injured. Ordinary metal armor is against that kind of weird attack. There is almost no protection, and it seems that only enchanted or magical metal armor can effectively resist the attack of monsters - but how many people in the entire army can be equipped with a full set of magic weapons?

Andersa stood by the city wall and glanced down, she saw a lot of mottled scars on the surface of the megalithic city wall below, and several huge erosion marks even spread all the way to the height near the wall - in the final stage of the battle , among those blood-colored giants, there were several special individuals with extraordinarily large size and strong anti-strike ability. Their defense, and then climbed the city wall with falling rocks and arrows like rain. Although it was eventually eliminated, it left several terrifying damage on the city wall.

An adjutant came from the rear and handed a report to Andersa: "General Andersa, the number of dead and wounded soldiers has been counted, please take a look."

Andersa took the report with a heavy heart. The monster attacked suddenly, and the soldiers had never fought against similar enemies, so the battle was not easy to win. The report was even a bit dazzling in her opinion. .

"Take it, and according to the rules, give relief to the families of the deceased, treat the wounded, and send those who can't continue to fight back to the country - write them a certificate of heroic fighting, and at least they can have food and clothing when they go back," Andersa said. He returned the report to the adjutant irritably, and then turned to look at the plain that had been covered with a layer of filthy blood, "You said... Where did these monsters come from?"

The plain in front of the Winter Wolf Fortress was originally covered with snow and was white, but the giants dyed the entire land an ominous dark red. The killed monsters fell on the land, and their flesh and body melted like mud. , flowing, rising into billowing smoke while corroding the earth, and soon only a huge skeleton will be left, which is daunting-Andersa has faced all kinds of enemies, but she still has a similar sight. Seeing for the first time.

The adjutant didn't expect the general to ask himself this question. He was stunned for a moment before saying unsurely: "The original sentinel reported that the monsters were coming from the pass of the Dark Mountains, so...it should be Ansu's direction."

"Ansu?" Andersa's expression gradually darkened, "That country..."

"But it doesn't have to be Anzu," the adjutant then added his thoughts, "General, the Dark Mountains are next to the Gondor Wasteland..."

"Do you suspect that those monsters came out of the wasteland of Gondor?" Andersa raised her eyebrows and looked at the adjutant who had always acted cautiously, "This idea is very bold."

"We once received information that Ansu was attacked by an 'unknown monster', and it was rumored that it was some kind of monster wandering out of the wasteland of Gondor," the adjutant reminded Andersa, "if more monsters come out of the wasteland wander out,

And if they walk along the natural barrier of the Dark Mountains, they may indeed wander here..."

"But the Gondor Wasteland is blocked by a magnificent wall," Andersa frowned immediately, "Didn't the watchtower on the border also say that the barrier is okay?"

"Those watchtowers are useless, they are too far from the wasteland."

"...Go prepare the Griffin," Andersa said after a brief pondering, "You must tell His Majesty the Emperor what happened here!"

After giving the order, Andersa raised her head and looked at the hazy mountains in the southwest with uneasiness. Although she could not see the scene behind the mountains with the naked eye, she knew that the wasteland of Gondor was there. direction, the magnificent wall built by the elves is also there.

Thinking of the magnificent wall and the sentry tower supporting the magnificent wall, Andersa couldn't help but feel a little envious - it is said that those ancient magic towers have powerful communication power, which can make information travel along the entire magnificent wall in an instant. The border of the wall was passed back to the mainland of the Silver Empire. The elves used this incredible ancient technology to maintain the monitoring of the entire barrier system. In the Gondor era 700 years ago, humans also had similar technology.

But now, these technologies have been severely dated and degraded. The existing communication magic is either expensive or ineffective. Most magic communication towers can only transmit information within a few kilometers, and the cost of building a tower is still terrifying. The main fortresses on the line can still rely on magical communication, but if the news is to be transmitted from the frontier back to the imperial capital... it can only rely on the traditional gryphon messenger.

The proposal to set up hundreds of magic towers along the border line to the imperial capital to transmit information is not without, and similar proposals have been discussed repeatedly in the noble council for many years, but the discussion has only one result: no money, no one.

The cost of hundreds of magic communication towers is enough to empty the empire’s tax revenue throughout the year, and the magic materials used as strategic reserves in the treasury will also be depleted. Only grade materials can be manufactured, but it is absolutely impossible to take out all those materials to build hundreds of immovable towers.

What's more, even if they are created, who will maintain and control them? Only mages can control magic, and complex large-scale magic devices require multiple spellcasters to maintain together. Hundreds of permanent magic communication towers mean that half of the mages in the imperial mages have to become "tower guards" , Compared with the cost in money, this part of the labor cost is even more unacceptable.

Andersa had all kinds of thoughts in her heart. As a noble officer who was in charge of the military at a young age and at the same time had a family background, she knew better than anyone how important the transmission of information would be in the war. However, There was nothing she could do about it.

After all, she has no magical talent.

Cecil led, Jenny Perrault, the director of the Rune Research Institute, put down the blueprint and rune base plate in her hand, and stretched a long lazy waist.

She raised her head from behind the desk and looked at several apprentices at a few tables not far away who were burying their heads in calculations or huddled together to exchange opinions, and couldn't help but smile.

These apprentices are the new recruits that have been added since the establishment of the Rune Research Institute. The number of them is small, but it is much better than the situation where she was the only bare commander at the beginning.

Half of these apprentices are from the Cecil Territory, and they are "transferred" from the original rune craftsmen or rune masters in the territory. They themselves have basic knowledge in the field of practical runes, and they are talented in logic and mathematics. Therefore, After a certain "talent skills inspection", they were assigned here to serve as Jenny's assistants, while the other people were destitute scholars and apprentices recruited by the lord from other places. Because of their good qualifications, they were also sent here.

To be honest, these people need to be cultivated when they first arrived. After all, rune logic is a brand new field. Except for Jenny, Rebecca, Heidi and Gawain, no one in the world understands what they are. What do you mean, the thoughts of these apprentices (assistants) were still in the traditional magic theory at the beginning, and it took Jenny a lot of effort to reverse their ideas, but after a period of hard work, these people have gradually come in handy.

When they become professionals in the field of rune logic, Jenny will let them take turns to teach courses at the General Academy. By that time, Mr. Santis should have also completed the children's basic courses in rune common sense and magic theory. After laying the foundation and learning the logic of runes, everything can be connected.

Then, the children of the land will grow into a new generation with knowledge and skills, and these knowledge and skills will continue to be passed on, and continue to expand, and everyone will have the ability to learn it all, driven by the lord. Chance.

Teaching, learning, dissemination, the transmission of knowledge will not stop easily as long as it starts, it will continue until everyone has the right to access knowledge, have the right to think and explore the truth, and all this... That's what Mr. Vincase hoped to see.

Jenny lowered her head again, looking at the complex arrangement of runes in front of her, as well as some formulas and charts that seem like a book to the uninitiated, and fell into deep thought.

These things are not conventional magic circle design drawings, but a special "observation record" given to her by Master Carmel. The reading of the magical energy escaping from the magical obelisk as observed by the "Eye of Magic", which includes regular fluctuations of magical power and a complex series of diffusion and decay data.

These things are not easy to deal with. It has exceeded the field that Jenny has been exposed to when she studied Rune Logic. Even Rebecca, who has strong mathematical ability, had a headache for a long time when she first saw these things— - They are no longer a simple rune arrangement problem, nor are they an example that can be solved simply by comparing the interference values. These massive and pure data make Jenny feel that he has no idea what to do, but she knows that, Mathematics is bound to live up to its own.

The most essential secrets of magic power may be hidden in these data, and the lord is also waiting for these data to uncover the mystery of "magic teleportation", and uses this as a breakthrough to seek a way to simplify the communication circle, so Jenny decided After concentrating, he picked up the paper and pen again, and threw himself into thinking and calculation again.

Pen and paper are her bridge to the magic road. Only with this bridge can she make herself go farther than others in this mysterious field.

After all, she has no magical talent.

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