At around seven o'clock in the evening, Ji Yijun and a group of guards were waiting in line at the door of the teleportation room. He was wearing light armor, carrying a long sword, and carrying a rifle behind him. He looked very heroic in his fully armed appearance.
There were nearly two hundred people dressed similarly to him. These people were the most elite warriors selected from the guards of Hewan New City. Their mission was to form forty interception teams of five people and send them to Cypress City, a mining center south of Suero. Then they would head north from here to support the forty or so large and small villages and towns between Cypress City and Suero. Then they would use these villages and towns as bases to intercept and kill the infiltrating imperial forces.
Now they are waiting for the mages arranged by Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen finally selected about 150 magicians based on their realm and magic proficiency. These mages were assigned to the guard teams, with three or four mages assigned to each team.
However, when Ji Yijun saw Xiao Chen bringing people in, he was dumbfounded. Although most of the mages were normal, there were a few little ones around Xiao Chen, and they were Mei Tiantian, Wu Zibin, and a few children of different ages.
Mei Tiantian and the others did not wear traditional wizard robes, but sportswear that was easy to move in. However, they all brought storage rings issued by the school, which contained magic wands, crystal stones, scrolls and other things.
"Xiao Chen, why did you bring these little guys here? Where are you taking them dressed like this?" The carefree Ji Yijun might be the person who cares the least about Xiao Chen's identity change, and his attitude remains the same as before.
Before Xiao Chen could answer, Mei Tiantian spoke up: "We are the mages who are assisting you in the battle. Brother Xiao Chen said that Wu Zibin and I will be in the same group with you."
"What the hell?" Ji Yijun looked at Mei Tiantian, then at Xiao Chen, and realized that neither of them was joking. He grabbed Xiao Chen's arm and said, "No way? Xiao Chen, are you kidding me? Do you really want to send these little guys to the battlefield? Are you crazy?"
"It's true." Xiao Chen nodded seriously.
"No, I mean, we are going to the battlefield, fighting the plague. How could you think of letting a ten-year-old child get involved?" Ji Yijun asked.
"This is something these kids strongly requested... To be honest, I tried to stop them at first, but they finally convinced me with their own strength," Xiao Chen said.
Ji Yijun asked curiously, "What's going on?"
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At the mobilization meeting in the afternoon, Mei Tiantian's statement pushed everyone's enthusiasm to a new peak. However, Xiao Chen did not agree to her at that time, and the other mages did not take Mei Tiantian's words seriously. Instead, they took it as an encouragement, which inspired many others to participate in this action. Xiao Chen's speech in the auditorium this time achieved very good results.
However, after the meeting, Mei Tiantian once again approached Xiao Chen. This time, not only herself, but also many of her classmates, asked Xiao Chen to give them a chance to participate in this action.
"I know you think we are children, but children who are always protected will never grow up." Mei Tiantian said with an air of seniority, "Don't you always say that we should put what we have learned into practice? Many of my classmates and I have reached a bottleneck in our magic ability. Our progress through daily practice is already very limited. Only by using magic in battle can we quickly improve our strength."
"But if you go to the battlefield and get hurt, we adults will feel uneasy." Xiao Chen said.
"So do we just have to prove that we can protect ourselves?" asked Umeda.
"How do you want to prove it?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Send us the wizards you choose. If we lose, we will go back to school. If we win, you have to let us participate in the action, and we can't just hide in the back and pretend."
Xiao Chen wanted to refuse, but Metatron, who came to help him choose people, said, "I don't think it's a big deal. When I was her age, I was only a warrior apprentice and a magic apprentice, but I had to participate in the outdoor trial of the Tower of Shining Wings. That was a trial in the forest, fighting wild beasts. Even now, there are many mercenaries in their teens outside. How young was your little Katarina to become a mercenary
Don't protect these children too well, it won't be good for their growth. How can we train truly powerful warriors without danger and sacrifice? This time we are facing some shaky patients. I'm afraid they won't have much strength left when we fight them. Isn't this the best opportunity for testing?"
This sentence really touched Xiao Chen. These children were not born in a peaceful world. Their future is to be spent in battle. Xiao Chen has no way to protect them all the way to the God of Nature. Perhaps the best way to protect them is to give them the opportunity to gradually learn to fight and adapt to fighting. Thinking of this, Xiao Chen said: "Okay. I will give you a test. But no matter what the result is after the test, you must accept it calmly."
Xiao Chen called a mid-level mage named Logan and asked him to bring four low-level mages to compete with Umeda Tian behind the conference center. The result of the competition was self-evident. So Umeda Tian and his party came here. —————————
Ji Yijun bent over and looked at Mei Tiantian carefully. She looked like a pink and tender little girl. "You are amazing. You are a little weak in front of this guy named Logan. We are both mid-level wizards, but you defeated us?"
"This is just the most common problem of you adults - looking down on children. I just let my classmates show a little weakness, and they thought we were a bunch of self-righteous brats. They didn't even repair their own damaged shields, so of course they were defeated by our burst." Umeda said, "You are the same now. Your expression is exactly the same as Logan's. You must be secretly looking down on us in your heart. But if we compete now, you have already lost. And it's a very miserable loss."
"What?" Ji Yijun was stunned.
He looked down in the direction of Mei Tiantian's gaze and found that she had summoned an ice cone at some point. It was floating beside him, with the sharp tip pointing just below his belly.
"Wow!" Ji Yijun screamed and quickly stepped back, knocking a soldier behind him into the wall.
Mei Tiantian curled his lips and said, "Brother Xiao Chen, can this guy really protect us? Why do I feel that he is even more unreliable than Logan?"
Now a young wizard behind her lowered his head helplessly when he heard this.
Xiao Chen said: "The best thing about this guy is that he can improve. Getting along well with different people is something you need to learn. Come on." (To be continued)