Chapter 285: Grasp the Present
On the same afternoon, Cornflower and Nina met in the fortification area south of Lunore.
Because the front line of the battle between the National Army and the Inter-Boundary Army was in the south of Runnore, and passing through Runnore and moving northward would get closer to the Royal City, a fairly complete defense had been built on the south side of the city long before the city defense army was reorganized. These included large-scale combined defense spells, full-staffed annihilation spell launchers, multiple reinforced small and medium-sized fortresses, and large areas of trigger-detonated minefields.
What Cornflower and Nina need to check and record is the integrity of the minefield and the flow of magic power in it.
The main purpose of these "land mines" is to stop those remnant beasts that only know how to charge head-on and have no wisdom at all. Therefore, they are very lethal. The power of one mine is enough to destroy the pupa shell of a pupa-level remnant beast. If a large area is detonated, even a half-molted beast will find it difficult to escape unscathed.
Although it is almost impossible to detonate the mines while flying in the air, considering their possible power, the two people who came to check still flew carefully in the air, while slowing down the activity of their own magic power, just in case.
"Hey, let me tell you, Mo He."
After completing one-third of the inspection, Cornflower, who had gradually adapted to the rhythm, took the initiative to break the silence and said, "Recently, have you been avoiding me? Did I do something that made you unhappy?"
"Ah? Eh, no... I, I didn't..."
Nina looked at the other party in confusion when her code name was suddenly called, and then she argued in a panic: "I, I didn't mean that. How could I have any objection to the captain?"
"Really? It doesn't feel like it."
Looking at Nina's expression for a moment, Cornflower raised an eyebrow. "If you don't have a problem with me, why do you always avoid me? I've seen you turn around several times when you saw me from a distance. This can't be a coincidence, right?"
"Uh, this is, is..."
Obviously, Nina herself didn't know how to explain her behavior, so she got stuck as soon as she opened her mouth.
"What is this?" But Cornflower was not in a hurry. Instead, he asked and waited for the other party to continue.
"It's because of my own problem."
After hesitating for a long time, Nina finally answered hesitantly: "I failed to complete the task assigned by the captain and failed to guide Nim well, so..."
"No good guidance? Is that a thing?"
The other party's answer caught Cornflower off guard: "I think it's good. Haven't you taught me everything I should have taught me?"
"However, I was not able to explain all this knowledge clearly, so Nim had to ask you for advice... Now, I'd rather trouble you, the captain, to guide her personally." Nina continued to explain in a low voice.
"Oh, so you're jealous? You think I'm taking up too much of your sister's time?" Cornflower was a little curious.
"No, that's definitely not the reason!"
Nina's voice suddenly rose in pitch: "The important point is not the second half of the sentence, but the first half. I feel that I have failed to live up to the captain's trust and fulfilled my original promise!"
After she shouted this, neither of them spoke again immediately.
Cornflower tilted her head, looking at Nina in front of her in a daze. Her expression changed for a while before she said hesitantly, "Well, Mo He, I really don't mean to say that, are you too strict with yourself sometimes?"
"Although the incident with the Legion Commander made me feel this way, you seem to really like to take all the responsibility on yourself and then start criticizing yourself."
As she said this, she pointed at herself and said, "But is there a possibility that others haven't blamed you yet?"
"I'm sorry." Mo He apologized.
"You see, it's like this. Even now, I haven't expressed my dissatisfaction."
Cornflower sighed: "But you have to know that if you presume on other people's attitudes, and always think negatively about things, and deal with them with a negative attitude, things might really turn out to be the worst."
"Just like this matter between you and me, if I don't ask you, do you really intend to hide from me until the battle with the enemy begins?"
"We are a small team, and we are the most closely knit group in war. If you don't contact me at all during normal times, and we don't cooperate and have no tactics in war, that would be terrible."
"And if you think like that, you will continue to blame yourself, thinking that you didn't do well enough, and become even more unwilling to face your teammates. Then your cooperation with everyone might even become worse... If it really comes to that, you might die."
Although she didn't want to intimidate the other party, Cornflower felt that she should use alarmist language when necessary: "You want to take care of your sister, right? Do you really want things to turn out like that?"
"I don't want to." Nina replied sullenly: "...I'm sorry."
"If you don't want to, the first thing is to stop apologizing, at least not all of it."
Cornflower started to fly forward again: "Apologies are made after things are really screwed up. Before you are completely sure that things are over, you might as well say a few more sincere words. Tell the other person what you are thinking now and what you are going to do next."
"Like right now."
She continued to use her magic to sense the surroundings, and noticed a minefield where magic power was leaking. She pointed in that direction and said, "It's time to work there. Be careful of explosions."
"Oh, yes."
Nina noticed the direction that Delphinium pointed to, so she raised her hand and turned the magic wand in her hand into a magic suit. The scattered magic particles attached to her right hand, and then the light dissipated, turning into sharp finger gloves embedded on her five fingers.
"Hold now."
She whispered the name of her magic suit, opened her right hand, and clenched it towards the landmine that could be detonated at any time due to external interference.
Then, the magic power that had been somewhat agitated around the mines became extremely calm.
Cornflower also took out her magic outfit and used silk thread to drag out the landmine buried underground. Nina kept her right hand clenched tightly, waiting for Delphinium to seal it in a special container before she let go.
"Done. Good job."
Cornflower dispersed the silk threads around her, and praised: "Your magic suit ability is indeed very convenient."
"Thank you, thank you." Nina responded softly.
The most common ability of her magic suit, the Grip, which is these finger sleeves, is to make a designated object "absolutely still".
Grasping with her right hand is the process of her selecting an object. Then, as long as she maintains the grip, the selected object will remain still and will never change.
The price is that when she lets go, the previously stationary objects will be given a state of "double the speed of change". When a burning candle is held and released, the burning speed will become twice as fast, and when a glass of water is held and released, the speed at which it falls to the ground will become twice as fast.
As for how long this state lasts, it is the same as the time it is held and kept still.
To be honest, when Cornflower saw Mo He's magic armor ability in the information, she had a feeling for a moment: this is an ability born specifically for the battlefield.
On a rapidly changing battlefield, being able to completely stop something, whether it's a spell about to explode, ammunition flying in the air, a certain action of the enemy in front of you, or a wound on a teammate's body... Such an ability is absolutely a dream come true for most soldiers.
Not only that, its subsequent side effects, or secondary effects, the ability of "double-speed change" can also be used, and can often catch the enemy by surprise when attacking.
It is precisely because of this ability that Nina was assigned the task of inspecting minefields during the shift schedule.
(End of this chapter)
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