Although Alina had Victor's personal guidance and Faras's unwavering help, her exposure to magic was too short after all. In half a year, Alina could only release three magic missiles at a time. After finishing these three level 1 spells, Alina had to sit down and meditate to restore her mana.
When Alina excitedly used 3 magic missiles to kill an orc for the first time on the battlefield, she watched with her mouth wide open as Ryan used his hand to release 7 magic missiles and killed 3 orcs respectively. When she saw Ryan again He released ten fireballs in a row to slaughter all the orcs fifty meters around him, leaving a big gap in the orcs' neat offensive formation. The attacking orcs also tried their best to avoid Ryan's position and climb the thick city wall. , the open mouth can no longer be closed,
As the only magic apprentice in the Thunder God Fortress, it was impossible for Alina to follow the army due to her own strength. She was able to stand here entirely because of Faras. So when Alina retreated with all her strength, others He didn’t say anything. After all, a magic apprentice who had only studied for half a year, a little girl of no more than 20 years old, could stand on the city wall without fear and release complete magic in the face of an army of tens of thousands of orcs. This courage was enough for People admired it,
Of course, Ryan, who wore the arcane and fire magic apprentice emblems on his chest, was selectively ignored by everyone, because even Androkos, the magician who led the team this time, could release the level 7 magic "Scorching" alone. It is impossible for a fire mage like "Fire Wrath Flame" to continuously release hundreds of fireballs in a battle. If he relied solely on the amount of magic, Androkos would be defeated by Ryan.
Of course, although Androkos's level 7 magician takes a long time to release, the power of a single magic is definitely unmatched by Ryan. However, what depresses the fire mage the most is that the orc attack force has almost no big targets. Let him release high-level magic to his heart's content. The orcs' catapults are 500 meters away from the city wall. His magicians don't have such a long range, and the wooden siege vehicles approaching under the city wall only need a fireball spell. Just enough to blow it to pieces,
After several days of fighting, there were only 121 magicians who could actually continue to fight on the city wall. Ryan divided these magicians into two groups. He and Androkos took one group each. Taking turns to fight on the city wall, this method allowed the entire magician army to maintain continuous combat capabilities and provided considerable magical support to the human garrison.
Faras looked at Ryan with admiration. During the six months since she and Ryan were separated, Faras devoted all her energy to learning magic. Victor also spent a lot of time teaching her. Faras She originally thought that even if she was not as good as Ryan, she could still narrow the gap with Ryan, but now Farasi found that Ryan had left her far behind. Even if 10 Farasi fought against Ryan at the same time, they would definitely not be the latter. Against his opponent, Ryan's almost smooth fireball technique can completely control the situation at the beginning of the battle. Ryan's self-created "missile salvo" magic will also become a nightmare for other magicians. In the case of similar strength, there is such a How can it be possible to successfully complete a magic spell with so many magic missiles interfering
Seeing the battle end, Faras found in disbelief that Ryan had killed at least more than 300 orcs in this battle. If the human warriors wanted to achieve this effect, they would have to have five times the military strength, and there would definitely be many more. Large casualties, one to a thousand. In the history of the empire, only the Royal Knights composed entirely of holy knights could achieve this.
Ryan didn't know what Faras was thinking. It was quite hard for him to cast spells continuously. However, fortunately, he had the "mental power shock" taught by his magic teacher Delanai, which could continuously convert mental power into magic power. When the battle is over, Ryan will take out the cane made from branches from the Tree of Life given to him by Allendo from his storage pocket. The continuous life force on it can make Ryan quickly recover. eliminate fatigue,
After lingering on the city wall for a while, after seeing the 100,000 orc troops slowly returning to the camp in an orderly manner, Ryan stretched his body and fought with Faras and Allendo. With a greeting, he went straight to Orlando's command post. After the battle every day, Orlando would communicate with Ryan privately for a period of time. As the supreme commander of the Thor Fortress, Orlando must wait in the strong command post according to the rules. It was impossible. Being on the front line personally, even though Orlando is covered in the golden armor of the Holy Knight, it is basically impossible for anything to harm him. Even if it is the 100 kilogram boulder launched from the trebuchet falling from the sky, Orlando is still sure He swung his long sword to split it open, but rules are rules. Orlando is very strict in managing the army, so of course he must lead by example.
After the arrival of human reinforcements, the offensive of the orc army has not weakened, but has been strengthened. Although the number of orc warriors attacking the Thunder God Fortress every day is only 10,000 to 20,000, the number of young orcs is increasing, and the weapons and equipment are getting better and better. , the number of the orc attacking troops did not increase significantly, but the combat effectiveness increased several times, which made the human soldiers defending the city suffer. In addition to allocating some of the tens of thousands of elites brought by Orlando to cooperate with the magician troops led by Ryan, , other infantry and archers soon joined Jonas's army,
Under Orlando's arrangement, Jonas and Clark took turns to defend the city wall on a day-to-day basis. They took turns after one day and one night. Almost all the mercenaries arriving from all over the south were hired, with a total of more than 20,000 mercenaries and Keenst dispatched. The 10,000 warriors form a mixed army. The combat effectiveness of these people is naturally not comparable to that of the regular army, but it is absolutely fine to use it to do some auxiliary work, such as vigil, patrol, etc., and the 5,000 Holy Knights and the 4 under Jienst Ten Thousand Warriors became the last reserve team in case of emergencies.
Although the situation does not have much advantage for humans, General Orlando has always been very optimistic. He pointed out more than once that the orcs have killed almost 350,000 soldiers so far. As long as everyone persists, the lack of orcs will naturally disappear. will retreat, and it is absolutely impossible for the 100,000 elites of the orcs to be exhausted under the walls of the Thunder God Fortress. Otherwise, how can these orcs guarantee that they will not be invaded by other clans when they return to their pastures
But in private, General Orlando was full of melancholy. He and Ryan had individually exchanged some thoughts on the current war. This was also a private communication that Orlando specifically asked Ryan to have in order to impart Ryan's military knowledge. From Orlando's perspective, Of course, it can be seen that the orcs are definitely more than the 500,000 that General Keenst said. According to Orlando's inference, the total number of orcs who invaded the Thor Fortress is about 700,000 to 800,000. According to Ryan and others' description of the previous orc attacks, Orlando I keenly believe that this is the cleverness of the orcs. Their ruler must have used his 100,000 elites to force other clans to consume their troops. All the orc attacking troops had a high proportion of old, weak, sick and disabled some time ago. This is completely taking advantage of human beings. The defenders threw away their heavy population burden,
Now the two sides are in a stalemate, and the other orc clans have suffered considerable losses in military strength. The strength of the orc rulers should not have changed much, and it is almost impossible for the human garrison to have reinforcements. Although there are still many elites in the imperial capital, they must ensure The safety of the imperial capital, and many lords in the south have long been ready to take action, so we must retain enough strength to suppress them.
Every time he talks about this, General Orlando sighs. The empire is calm on the surface, but secretly it has long been undercurrents. Although the territory of the empire is very large, there are only a few areas under actual control. Fortunately, the other lords are not monolithic. , many of them still have deep grudges with each other and are unlikely to unite to resist. The Royal Knights led by Orlando have the most powerful attack power of the human army. Not long ago, Senat's rebellion also happened in a very short period of time. After being put down, he was able to intimidate all parties and barely maintain the current situation.
Now the orcs are pressing down on the border again, completely dragging the empire's army to the north. They are slowly being consumed every day. General Orlando wants to help Fernando XIII rebuild the glory of the empire, but unfortunately he has never been able to take action. General Orlando must maintain his position in front of others. With an indifferent expression, his words and expressions were full of strong confidence. That is what he must do as the highest military commander of the imperial capital. However, in front of Ryan, he still showed a trace of fatigue.
General Orlando also felt that it was very inappropriate when Fernando XIII dismissed Luke from his post as Finance Minister of the Empire. Luke had been in office for more than ten years and was very experienced in governing the empire. Even if Fernando XIII wanted to monopolize power, It should also be done slowly step by step. Such a sudden launch is too easy to cause political turmoil. As a soldier, Orlando said Fernando I's famous saying, "The army is the sharpest weapon in the hands of the emperor, but this weapon is absolutely useless." You can have your own thoughts" as the creed of his army, so even though he knew that what Fernando XIII did was inappropriate, he still said nothing on this matter and maintained the silence he deserved.
However, Orlando still talked to Luke in private. He didn't want Luke to leave politics just like this, both in public and in private. However, Luke lightly rejected Orlando's proposal to "apologise to His Majesty to resolve the embarrassing situation." , which disappointed Orlando, but Luke promised to transfer all the power calmly and would never cause instability. This is also the biggest reason why Fernando XIII has not encountered many problems in taking over the power. If Luke If Ke intends to cause trouble, with the overt or covert strength of his men who have been the finance minister of the empire for more than ten years, he can definitely make Fernando XIII suffer. After all, no matter how talented a king is, he can still do things badly. You have to rely on the officials below.