"Teacher, thank you for your teaching. I will work hard to practice them."
Polaris calmed down from his excitement and said in a deep voice.
Bang!
Everyone just heard a snap of fingers.
Cards flew out of thin air in Jack's hands, just like a magic trick. With a continuous rustling sound, dozens of cards flipped and rotated, catapulted into the air in the tent, and began to fly around him again.
Finally, the cards piled up neatly like birds returning to their nests and landed in Jack's palm.
"The Western War will continue for some time. You can use this opportunity to hone your combat skills and gradually become familiar with the abilities of a magician..."
Chen Lun put the deck of cards in his palm into Polaris's hand.
"Next, I am looking forward to your performance."
"Yes, teacher."
Polaris held the poker tightly and said solemnly.
Although he knew that this was just a deck of cards that couldn't be more ordinary, it contained his teacher's expectations for him.
Polaris takes this expectation very seriously.
At this time, the curtain of the tent was lifted, and in the astonished eyes of everyone, a dozen short figures walked in from outside.
They were black cats walking upright, wearing leather armor, with a string of tactical bags hanging around their waists, and even carrying swords that were clearly not suitable for their body size.
The player couldn't help but check it out, but what was displayed was a series of unknown horizontal lines. Only the bright red name indicated that they were not easy to mess with. The leader was a black cat with a brown leather eye patch on its left eye and a giant axe on its back. There was a name hanging on its head -
Captain of the circus black cat warrior team - Nada
The black cats ignored everyone and came straight to Jack's table. The black cat saluted the leader like a human and said:
"Mr. Jack, Miss Floin and the others have completed their mission. They asked us to return and report to you first."
“Well done.”
Chen Lun nodded and praised.
Nada briefly recounted what had happened, how the circus cadres had bypassed the defense of the bridgehead according to the plan, found the underground passage hinted by the leader in advance, and lay in wait there, eventually intercepting Anlong's defeated army.
Some accidents happened during the process, but Flo Yin was very smart and solved the problems easily.
As Nada continued his story, a smile appeared on Chen Lun's face.
Although he had already secretly observed these things through the Pale Mark, hearing the process again from his men gave him a completely different feeling.
At the same time, the players in the tent were all surprised after hearing these words. They did not expect that the enemy was defeated so thoroughly in this battle because of Mr. Jack's early arrangements.
“—No wonder I didn’t see the circus cadres before. It turns out they had been hiding in the bridgehead for a long time.”
"—I thought it was too coincidental. Anlong's army had just shown signs of retreating when we received the mission to go to the underground passage and surround the enemy."
"—As expected of Master Jack, I'm afraid he had predicted all this a long time ago, or maybe it was 'the guidance of fate'? Hahaha..."
Dongyang and others were communicating in the channel, and Su Keying spoke at this time:
"—By the way, have you looked at the game forums? Players from the Miracle Guild posted some posts, sharing their faction's missions... One of the things that sparked a lot of discussion was that there was actually a large amount of explosives buried under the bridgehead. The Anlong Army was originally going to detonate them when they evacuated, but for some reason they couldn't light the fuse, and even using open flames to burn the gunpowder at close range didn't work."
“—Ah? There’s such a thing?!”
"—According to that, Anlong actually had a trick up his sleeve. Luckily the explosives didn't explode, otherwise the Imperial Army would have suffered heavy losses... We would probably have died in the explosion as well."
"—Those bastards of Anlong are so cruel..."
"—Hey, since Jack knew where the enemy retreated, he couldn't have been unaware of the explosives... Do you think he was the one who caused the gunpowder to fail to explode?"
"—Hey! That makes sense! Brother Beizi, you are Jack's student, just ask him, maybe you can trigger some tasks..."
Polaris glanced at the comments in the channel, thoughtful.
There are still a lot of explosives under the bridgehead? !
Does the Imperial Army know about this
So…
Where is the teacher
He was silent for a few seconds, and finally decided to ask out loud. If the teacher didn't know, it would be considered a reminder.
"Teacher, I have something to report to you."
Polaris raised his hand and spoke like a student asking a question in class.
Chen Lun sat on the chair, turned his head to look at him, and then smiled:
"Go ahead."
"It's about the Hercule Bridgehead... We got some information from other Undead Strangers through some special channels. Someone found a large amount of buried explosives under the bridgehead."
All the players looked at Jack's expression, trying to find some clues from it, but to their surprise, Jack just nodded indifferently.
The next second, the other person's eyes swept over everyone, and radiating patterns seemed to bloom in his eyes, which was intoxicating.
The players present received prompts from the panel one after another—
You are affected by Jackspeight's abilities!
Immediately, the scene inside the tent in the players' sight changed and turned into a terrifying scene... Under the dim red sunset, the bridgehead standing on the other side of the Benavides River in the distance exploded in the gloomy environment, and countless soldiers were torn to pieces by the flames in an instant without even a scream.
Several deafening noises were heard in succession, and the bridgehead was shrouded in smoke and explosions, turning into a horrific sea of fire and ruins!
Immediately.
Everyone came back to their senses and found themselves still in the tent. Jack's voice came slowly:
"Well, according to the original destiny, more than 20,000 soldiers of the Imperial Army will disappear along with the Hercules Bridgehead, destroyed in a horrific explosion..."
The players looked shocked, then looked up to see Jack with a calm expression.
"But fate has been changed."
Although he didn't say it explicitly, more than a dozen players had already heard the subtext from his words...
"—Is it really Jack?! He was the one who prevented the huge explosion that was about to happen!"
“—Fuck… So there is such a hidden plot. If Su Keying hadn’t mentioned the forum post, we wouldn’t have known about it.”
"- Do you think there are many major events in these two versions that have been changed by Jack long ago, but we don't know about it? Or are there other fate masters hiding in the dark?"
"—Hiss, it's really scary when you think about it..."
"—Brother Beizi, can you help me ask if Jack is still accepting students? I can open a new account to practice the Destiny Department... As long as I think about being able to reverse the world line like Jack in the future, I feel so damn cool!"
"—Yes, this ability is really powerful! I also want to change my job to play the fate system!"
Polaris just rolled his eyes and pretended not to see it.
Not long after, Jack said to the players:
"Well, the battle at the bridgehead just ended, and I'm a little tired. I want to take a break."
Everyone heard the subtext, looked at each other, and then stood up and left.
After the players left, Chen Lun gave some trivial instructions to the black cats. Nada took the lead and meowed twice, responding respectfully.
Until Chen Lun was the only one left in the tent.
"Huh..."
He let out a breath, leaning back in his chair and rubbing his temple.
The first battle of the Western War finally came to a perfect conclusion. Through advance preparation, I gained a lot of benefits from it... The most important of which was experience points.
Chen Lun opened the panel to check and immediately smiled.
Experience: 214W/45W
'During this period, through the accumulation of reading books and the kill rewards in the Battle of Hercule Bridgehead, I have accumulated more than two million experience points... A considerable part of this comes from the efforts of players, who can also share a little experience with me when they kill enemies. '
Without hesitation, he added the experience points to his main occupation, Acrobat, LV40, and raised it by four levels. The remaining 200,000 experience points were not enough to continue the upgrade, so Chen Lun had to give up.
As your main occupation level increases, you feel that your body has been strengthened: Health limit +200, physical limit +200, sanity limit +2, strength +2, endurance +2, dexterity +4, intelligence +4!
You gained 4 skill points and 4 attribute points!
Chen Lun looked at the panel and sighed that it was becoming increasingly difficult to upgrade.
"I hope that through the next battle, I can upgrade both the juggler and the engraver to the maximum level... Only in this way can the conditions for triggering the promotion mission be met."
He shook his head.
The next few days.
Chen Lun led his men to stay in the Hercules Bridgehead, which had been cleaned, swept and repaired by the Imperial Army and was gradually becoming brand new.
Perhaps the rear had received the good news sent by General Vance, and began to send advance supply troops from the cities on the border of the empire.
Chen Lun secretly guessed that perhaps what would happen next would be just as General Vance said. The Imperial Army would send troops continuously through the Hercule bridgehead and march straight to the heartland of the Principality of Yaco, thus greatly affecting the front battlefield.
That day, he was chatting with his subordinates such as Flo Yin in his temporary residence when he suddenly received a prompt from the control panel -
Because of your actions in the "Battle of Hercule Bridgehead", your deeds are spread among the 14th Army of the Imperial Western Expeditionary Force...
The regional reputation increased by 3 points! Currently 140 points! (Also: 4 points for epic reputation)
"What's wrong?"
Flo Yin refilled his tea and asked in confusion.
Chen Lun came back to his senses, smiled slightly and shook his head.
"nothing… "
But I secretly thought:
'It's not too far from the 5 epic points required for promotion...'
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The smoke of war continued to spread in the West.
Although residents in cities far in the interior of the empire could not see the specific process, many dedicated war correspondents followed the army and recorded many details on the front line.
After being checked by the military's audit department, the news articles were then passed through the operations of various media companies, printed out from the factories, and sold to every household.
"Great victory for the Empire!"
"The sun's rays shine across the entire continent!"
"The rebellious child will eventually return to his father's arms!"
"Three hundred and twenty years, the lost territory is back!"
Various exciting headlines filled the daily news in various newspapers. Countless aristocrats and wealthy businessmen from the upper class talked about the war in public, and no one felt disgusted by it. On the contrary, pride and superiority filled the hearts of every citizen of the empire.
Time flies, and nearly a month has passed since Chen Lun joined the expedition.
The Imperial Army was divided into several army groups and launched a full-scale attack on the United Kingdom of Anlong.
The 14th Army Group, where Chen Lun was located, relied on the Hercule bridgehead to continuously compress the Principality of Yaco's sphere of activities and occupied one town after another.
Through this, he could also get a glimpse of the situation on other battlefields... The situation in the United Kingdom of Anlong was probably already extremely critical.
Perhaps in less than half a month, the other side will be defeated and surrender.
This was not a fair fight to begin with. Looking across the entire continent, even the three kingdoms of Beelzebub, Byron and the City of Shuoli were merely vassals of the Trisul Empire, not to mention the United Kingdom of Anlon, which existed in the cracks.
The Trisur Empire was recognized as the strongest country, and it had almost unified the continent four thousand years ago. It was very surprising that Anlong could hold out for more than a month.
That day, Chen Lun followed the imperial army, which had been reinforced to more than 50,000 soldiers, and came to a forest that looked like a primitive land.
This area is already the heartland of the Principality of Yaco. Another sixty kilometers ahead will lead to the Nabil Forest Castle, which is the largest city besides the capital of the Principality of Yaco.
"Captain, we have received news from the military that the capital of the Principality of Sherol was breached by the Imperial Army yesterday evening and surrendered overnight... The Principality of Tsbleba is being surrounded by four legions and I'm afraid it won't hold out for much longer. The other small countries were easily swept away by the Imperial Army a long time ago. Now as long as we win, the war should be almost over, right?"
Senator Frey raised his glass in the carriage, took a sip, and asked Chen Lun respectfully.
"Well... if nothing unexpected happens, that's probably the case."
Chen Lun nodded slightly.
He turned his head and looked out the window. Although this was a forest, the trees were not lush, but rather short and sparse... He didn't know if it was because of the species or the geographical environment.
Dense groups of soldiers marched silently in sight, followed closely by countless giant carriages. The animals in the forest seemed to sense the danger and did not dare to make any sounds or calls. There was complete silence all around.
Recalling his experiences during this period, Chen Lun drank some milk out of boredom.
He led his team and participated in several battles of varying sizes, but nothing special happened. This was mainly because the battle was going in his favor and there wasn't much he could do.
At most, they would constantly issue some enemy-killing missions to players through the panel to encourage them to gain experience points for themselves. The harvest was quite good, and millions of experience points were earned.
Chen Lun leaned his head out of the car window and looked ahead.
Beyond the moving figures of the army, all one could see were trees blocking the view and some crooked gravel and dirt roads.
It is now mid-to-late June, the temperature is gradually rising, and the environment is filled with stuffiness.
Through the forest, Chen Lun seemed to see the castle in the distance, and thought to himself:
'This should be the last battle I can participate in, but it may not be that simple...'
The reason why he had such an idea came from the reminder of spiritual intuition and the prediction of dream divination last night.
In the dream, the forest castle was covered with roses, and the corpses of countless soldiers were also covered with bright red flowers, which was a beautiful sight.
"Behind the United Kingdom of Anlong is the Kingdom of Beelzebub's support... The Rose Royal Family will not sit idly by and watch them be defeated so easily."
Chen Lun's eyes were deep.