Chapter 989 After the War

Of course, it is unheard of. If the devil had such an ability four hundred years ago, the Witch Empire would have been driven out and exterminated by the devil within one or two years, let alone ten more years.

After all, a small number of extraordinary beings alone cannot compete with the endless stream of enemies. Once a Stone of Divine Punishment is placed at each outpost, the witch will have no choice but to sit back and wait for death.

Roland naturally knew how difficult it was to cut out such a divine punishment stone pillar. The characteristic of the divine stone is that the more complete it is, the stronger it is. Even if the native boulder at the bottom of the mine on the north slope is hit directly with a musket at close range, it will only leave a few white spots. The only way to mine it is to use magic blood to erode and peel it off bit by bit and then cut and polish it. Therefore, larger sacred stones are valuable.

But even the temple stone placed in the Hermes Cathedral is not that big - judging from the ice witch's description, the devil actually seemed to have directly cut off a section of the original stone with some kind of sharp weapon. If it weren't for the other party, Mastering the incredible processing technology is a deeper understanding of magic.

And neither is good news for humanity.

"Judging from the devil's new weapons, they have not been idle in the past four hundred years..." Roland knocked on the table and said, "The third battle of divine will may be more difficult than expected."

The initial fears have come true. Compared with the devils in the Federation era, they are not only more cunning now, but also have made great progress in technology. Hybrid life forms like crawlers are simply weapons specially designed to deal with ordinary combat witches. The two-kilometer range is enough for them to strike without the opponent being prepared. By the time the witch army reacts, it is basically too late to use them. Able.

Even with an observer like Sylvie, as long as the enemy carries out a covering strike, how many teammates can the Witch, whose defense capability is limited to five meters, protect?

"Although I don't want to admit it, the devil's evolution speed is indeed faster than ours." Zoe said, "If this was a war in the Federation era, we would have been completely defeated."

Roland could naturally imagine that being flanked on both sides, with his escape route cut off, with high-level demons in the sky supervising the formation, and on the ground with far more crazy demons than witches, plus new types of demons capable of large-scale destruction, there were probably only a handful of them. The witch was able to escape the ambush alive.

The question now is, are these five crawlers the devil's only trump cards, or are they a small part of the advance army? In addition to aliens like the Creepers, have demons developed other weapons of war? What will they look like and how to deal with them?

This is information that Neverwinter City urgently needs to know right now.

After reporting the results, the next step was the casualties of the First Army.

Regarding this part, Roland already knew a rough idea after the battle, and the detailed statistics four days later were not too different. There is no doubt that this is all the work of Nana and Lily.

A total of more than 190 people in the entire army were wounded and 75 were killed. Most of the casualties were caused by crawling monsters - stone needles shot from above the trenches made it impossible for the soldiers to avoid them, and they were penetrating The human body was submerged into the soil, almost pinning the person in the trench. In order to send the injured to the rescue camp, the first aid team had to pull out the one-meter-long stone needle, which resulted in massive bleeding. Multiple vital injuries and incorrect rescue methods caused many people to stop breathing within minutes.

Of course, Roland would not blame the ambulance personnel - in fact, the first appearance of the first aid team had already bought a lot of time for the injured soldiers. What's more, Nana's magic power will definitely not be able to treat so many injuries at the same time, so the only way to do it is to use a streamlined method, starting with fatal injuries in order. This makes emergency treatment of minor injuries even more important.

In the future, as the scale of the war continues to expand, Nanawa will be able to take care of fewer and fewer wounded people. The First Army will eventually have to rely on its own strength to solve the treatment problem.

"Bring back the ashes of the fallen warriors," he said solemnly, "Greycastle will not forget them."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Iron Ax replied solemnly.

"So... do you have any plans for the First Army's subsequent actions?" Northland Pearl asked, "The enemy's losses obviously exceeded their expectations. According to Miss Lightning's observation, the patrolling terror beasts near the Taquila ruins are all It was much sparser, and she had been approaching until within a hundred kilometers before encountering the intercepting devil. In addition, Miss Sylvie also confirmed this - except for those iron-framed monsters like towers, the remaining magic radiance was less than Numbers of a thousand. In other words, their foothold on the fertile plain is currently empty.”

Roland pondered for a long time before deciding, "After the injured have healed, we will break camp and return to Neverwinter City."

"Are you worried about not being able to keep up with supplies?"

"If we can't capture the ruins, there's no point in continuing to move north." He took a sip of tea, "And...winter is coming soon."

Although the evil moon is not based on the season, for people around the wilderness, the never-ending heavy snow and the dark clouds that cover the sky are the real cold winter.

At that time, the First Army not only had to face an extremely harsh climate environment, but also had to be wary of evil beasts that were everywhere. Fighting so far away from home, Neverwinter City could not guarantee the supply of food and cold-resistant materials, nor could it provide enough ammunition for the army to carry out a multi-faceted war.

Therefore, staying in the wilderness for the winter is extremely risky.

When the heavy snow falls, it will not be so easy to retreat.

"I understand," Edith responded, "The staff will work with the commander-in-chief to formulate an evacuation plan."

"Safety is the most important thing in everything." Roland was about to end this "remote meeting" when Agatha's voice suddenly interrupted.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing you need to know."

"Oh? You said."

"That's right, the high-level devil defeated by the God's Punishment Witch is still alive..."

After listening to Agatha's story, Roland couldn't help but be stunned.

"Is it possible to let Carmilla connect to the devil's mind?"

It’s not just consciousness, it’s even perception sharing, becoming one, in a sense. In other words, the subject can experience the feeling of being a devil when the soul resonates, and this is not a new and interesting thing - the experience of the Taquila witch when she possesses the carrier can illustrate the problem: she does not belong to humans. The sensory information will cause confusion in one's own thoughts. Once familiar with it, it will be impossible to return to the normal state, let alone the impact of two completely different minds colliding together.

This made him think of the term spiritual pollution.

"The risk is very high, so after repeated discussions with Zoe, I came up with a more feasible method."...