Chapter 353 352 The North Is Completely Occupied

Chapter 353 352. The North was completely occupied

Solon's northern border, Vinar City.

After the northern city-states fell one after another, this giant city-state, second to none in the northern border, became the forefront of Solon's resistance to infection.

In the vast northern border, Vinar is already one of the few correct options. Only a few of the people who escaped from the infected area arrived here, and more of them crashed into the infection like headless flies during the escape.

Theodore, the leader of the Falcon Legion, welcomed a group of important guests - a team of dozens of envoys composed of representatives from the Solon Royal Library and the Mage Tower.

At a time when the infection had already attacked twice and Vinar City had indeed suffered losses due to the infection, the envoy team was obviously not here to express condolences.

Theodore personally led them to find the lucky ones who had escaped to Vinar City sporadically during these days, and ordered them to tell the envoys what they saw and heard along the way.

The contaminated people turned into strange-behaving bodies. It would not take too long for them to become new sources of contamination. If you were to get close to them, you would feel suffocated. The images that appeared in your mind like snowflakes would make you upset.

Not only intelligent life forms such as humans and elves, but also domesticated animals and beasts appeared in the army of contamination like zombies.

Someone encountered a contaminated beast in the wild. Unprepared, he vaguely saw his dead companions. Their rotten bodies continued to rot and fall while walking, like tattered puppets. He ran away in fear while looking at his companions' festering and festering faces. Fortunately, he escaped.

Upon hearing this, the scholars of the Royal Library opened the dark brown wooden box in their hands.

Because many of the collections in the Royal Library have extremely high borrowing thresholds, many of the books in the box were seen for the first time even by the members of the Mage Tower who knew about contamination. At the same time, they saw the eye-catching mark - the mark of a giant owl with wings spread and roaring to the sky.

This is the royal emblem of Melias.

The old scholar trembled as he compared the description, carefully confirmed every detail, and finally made a rigorous judgment: "At least we have a good news."

Theodore, the commander of the army, asked hurriedly: "Is there a weakness?"

The scholar shook his head slowly: "Sir, the commander of the army, I am deeply sorry for this. All the books that study and record the impregnation know nothing about their weaknesses. The good news I am talking about is that their impregnation power is the same as it was back then..."

Theodore widened his eyes and asked awkwardly: "Can this be... good news?"

The old scholar glanced at the representatives of the Mage Tower beside him, and after finding that they looked extremely solemn, he slowly shook his head.

"The time node of the first appearance of the impregnated spirit happened to be at the end of the magic tide. Perhaps you should have heard that the magic tide brought great changes to the magician... no, to the world. If the impregnated spirit is also a kind of life that we have not yet been able to understand, do you think he will be affected?"

Theodore suddenly realized.

The old scholar said to the representative of the Mage Tower: "The Mage Tower has been very busy these days. When do you plan to announce the 'possibility' to everyone?"

The representative of the Mage Tower said in a deep voice: "It's not the time yet."

Seeing the warning in the other party's eyes, the old scholar smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying no more.

The frequent failure of magic power is likely to mean that the magic tide is coming again, but the Mage Tower and the powerful schools on the Mera continent have tacitly chosen to remain silent.

Are they really so slow to master knowledge and have no sensitivity to crises at all?

The old scholars who knew this well did not point it out, after all, they also have families to care about.

Theodore watched the soldiers coming and going in the city and the ordinary people who were helping to reinforce the city walls. He felt very heavy-hearted. He thought for a long time and asked, "What can we do and how should we do it?"

The white-haired Theodore was known for his steadiness and courage. He led the falcons to gallop outside the northern border and established the reputation of Solon Cavalry. He was deeply respected in Solon's major legions. Such an experienced and experienced old general seemed very confused at the moment.

Venar City did not gather Solon's heavy troops. In fact, Solon's army was still being dispatched. After the arrival of Theodore's highly mobile falcon cavalry, he realized what a terrible thing he was facing, and it was of little use against the infected cavalry.

Even Theodore himself, a veteran of traditional military nobles and a lifelong soldier, only knew about the infection as "it could pollute the mind, it was once a suffocating disaster on this continent, and it once destroyed many ethnic civilizations."

If the nobles were like this, you can imagine what ordinary people would be like.

The spirit of the infection has been gone for 572 years. In the first 30 years of the new calendar, all races have remained closely united to guard against the resurgence of the infection. They have repeatedly studied targeted policies and continuously replaced strategic plans. However, after the glorious era, the infection has gradually become a distant memory, and the fluke mentality that everything is over has gradually taken root.

In Mela, except for a few races with a long life span who still have a deep impression of the infection, most of them can no longer remember it and cannot find the trauma it left on this land.

The texts, records, and pictures have been buried with the passage of time, and only mentioned slightly in some dramatic plots, attracting those who are able to read and have a strong curiosity to explore.

Theodore knew that the essence of monopolizing knowledge was to stabilize the rule. As a noble and a vested interest, he could not touch on this sensitive topic. He could only express his concerns in a tactful way.

"The Falcon Legion, the refugees after the fall of the northern cities, and the soldiers who are about to come here know nothing about the infection. The complex statements and descriptions are far from enough for them to understand what it is."

"Simple, easy to understand, and convenient for them who can't read the text to quickly know the key points must be publicized now... For example, I want to know how traditional warriors should participate in the fight against the infection, then this involves the most critical point... The scope of the infection, strength, their means of attack, and whether there are effective means to block the infection. If so, what should the warriors and magicians do."

Theodore thought he could get a more detailed explanation, but his expectations plummeted after witnessing the embarrassed expressions of the representatives of the Mage Tower.

He turned his hopeful gaze to the scholars who received and kept the knowledge.

Several white-haired scholars also had subtle expressions. After a while, the old man who had taken out the book looked into the distance and closed his eyes.

"The scope and strength of the infection are unknown. The magicians at that time paid a huge price. All they did was to hide in some cities and defend hard. They faced active attacks from the infection, so many data were often lost in the chaos just after they were obtained."

Theodore had a bitter face. He could understand the difficulties of his ancestors, but at this moment he felt that he had a harder time...

"Traditional warriors, if they have long-range martial arts, then use long-range martial arts. Bows and crossbows would be good options."

The scholar's words made Theodore feel relieved, and he ordered the deputy commander to find archers with amazing archery skills throughout the city and equip them with the best equipment.

"There is no effective way to block the infection. Closing eyes, plugging ears, and applying illusions to oneself were all tried in the past, but all failed. When promoting to the soldiers, it is necessary to emphasize that only dead infection will not continue to contaminate, and if you can avoid getting close to them, don't get close to them."

The clerk quickly recorded.

"Summoned creatures have an excellent effect against infection. They are not infected, and their combat power can be expected. Many magicians who guarded the lonely city back then used summoning to remotely deploy and defeated a large number of infected spirits."

Theodore had heard a little about this: "I remember that the results were remarkable?"

"Compared to retreating step by step, compared to the inability to coordinate the accuracy and destructive power of long-distance magic, summoned creatures have relatively more highlights against infection."

A series of adjectives made Theodore hear the rigor of the scholar's words, but he was more eager to know the most important thing.

"So, where should we find summoners?"

Summoning is not difficult. The magicians under Theodore's legion can play a guest role. The threshold is not high, which is an advantage of summoning...but it is the only advantage.

More than a thousand years ago, summoning began to decline. After the various schools of thought during the period of fantasy creature conjecture against the "overly imaginative" summoners, summoners were once called for by everyone in Mela. The huge environment and public opinion pressure made the summoning school disappear, and the inheritance was broken.

Five hundred and seventy-two years ago, after witnessing the ravages of various races, the remaining descendants of the Summoning School provided some summoning templates to facilitate the quick start of talented people.

For a time, magicians from all over Mera were using the contract that has now become a "universal summoning template" to summon.

That was the last highlight of the summoner.

After the disappearance of the Spirit of Infiltration, the Summoning School still withered, and the disappearance of demand also caused the attention to summoning to plummet. After a long time, summoning in Mera was left with only scholars who preserved books and studied the past. Laughing at their weak combat power was even one of the daily routines of each school.

A representative of the Mage Tower smiled and said: "With magicians, there are naturally summoned creatures. Just like in the past, as long as all races work together and concentrate the power of magicians, the catastrophe will end faster than in the past."

His optimism was actually the idea of ​​many people present.

The Summoning School is just a weak branch. The low threshold that anyone can try to summon makes some magicians always believe that summoning should not be called a school. It is just a special magic skill. The so-called knowledge is more like a game with luck.

Even if there are no summoners who specialize in summoning, they can still stop the pace of infection.

In fact, they came to Vinar City this time from the Mage Tower to verify that the summoned creatures can still effectively block the infected spirits, and to give a reassurance to the anxious nobles in Solon.

Several scholars who needed to return to the royal city of Rodmire to report to Divik found one of the members of the Mage Tower before leaving.

For these distinguished genius magicians, his words were calm and tactful: "There is a reason why summoning is called a school. Although they have declined, we should have basic respect for the knowledge they hold."

The member of the Mage Tower curled his lips in disdain and said perfunctorily: "Thank you for your advice, I will keep it in mind."

Realizing that the other party's contempt for summoning is deeply rooted, out of understanding of the young man's excessive enthusiasm, he had to carefully add another sentence.

"Which is more powerful, the fireball magic of a thousand years ago or the fireball magic of ten years ago?"

Without waiting for the Mage Tower member to answer, the old scholar limped away with his companions, carrying his bookcase, leaving the Mage Tower member who had not yet understood the deep meaning of his words standing there.

After a long time, he spat: "You are taking advantage of your age."

He did not tell his companions what the scholars said.

He decided to use the actual results to wake up these scholars. The new era never belongs to the dying old people, but to the young ones!

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“Four days ago, the northern city of Vinar, which had gathered 10,000 troops, fell before it received reinforcements from Solon.”

“Legislature Commander Theodore moved a large number of people before the city fell, minimizing the loss of civilians. However, in order to prevent the infection, his two falcon legions were almost wiped out, and he himself escaped under the protection of several magicians.”

“The information provided by the network of believers of the Church that can still be contacted shows that there were a large number of Solon royal magicians, that is, members of the Mage Tower, in Vinar at that time.”

“Summoning is their main means of use. It is believed that they summoned powerful summons such as dragons, slime kings, elemental chimeras, and vicious tree spirits to fight against the spirit of infection. At first, it did have a good effect, but later, the summons The front line of the creatures collapsed, and eventually led to the rapid spread of the infection. "

"The members of the Mage Tower suffered heavy casualties. After the fall of Vinar, several fulcrum city-states in Solon's northern border fell one after another. Until today, Solon's northern border has been completely lost."

"Solon requested that the meeting of the tribes of Mela held in the Church be held immediately, and emphasized that this was a disaster that could affect and destroy the entire Mela, and no tribe could be immune to it."

"Solon Emperor Divik has gone to the Pope's City. At present, the leaders of the four major countries have gathered in the Pope's City, but only a few vassal races have arrived, and no representatives of the major tribes have arrived in advance."

In order to obtain information from the outside world, Sera sent Mile, the former incarnation of glory, to a city-state not far from the Pope's City. Using his former connections, he brought the latest developments of the infected spirit to the slightly closed Dawn Territory.

Lulu tiptoed, her fingers wandering on the map on the wall.

Lu Yu couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he reminded her: "You can float, genius magician."

Lulu turned back fiercely: "I want to watch it this way!"

Lu Yu really didn't know why Lulu was angry...

"It's only been a few days, and the vast land of Solon North has all fallen... It's too fast, breaking Melias's record."

Lu Yu said calmly: "Maybe there will be more records waiting to be broken by the infected spirit."