Extra 3. Those Two People (3)

Eric stayed in Sahe for a week and also did some brief field research in Sahe.

The development of Sahe was much faster than she had imagined, thanks to the friendly exchanges with contemporary Chugne and Livil, many advanced mechanical technologies were introduced, and while the industry developed rapidly, the fertile land was well utilized, restoring the level of agricultural production.

Without the exploitation of tyrants and corrupt nobles, people are willing to contribute to building their own homeland.

But at the same time, Warcraft activities in some remote areas of Sahe became more and more frequent, which was why Cheryl often went there to help. Of course, she herself was happy to go hunting.

Eric flew to the northern border of Chune by plane.

The Duke of the North, Noel Fontas, had responded to her request for an interview a few days ago, so she stopped by here first.

The young duke who inherited the dukedom of the northern border supported the cold north with his young body. He led the people to defend his country and territory in both the continental war and the demon war.

But she remembered that when she first came to know the North, she found that there were mostly old officials here and there, and there was a lack of young talents.

However, this time, when she entered the lord's castle, all she saw were young elite knights.

Duke Nor was very kind to her, without any of the stereotypes of northerners. He said, "It was the young Majesty who came to the north and helped me inherit the title. He taught me a lot. My uncles all supported me because I was the blood of my parents. Of course, I have always been grateful to them. Only he told a teenager that he believed he could protect the north of Chunie. From that moment on, I had already recognized that he was a monarch worthy of my loyalty."

Although the tone was flat, Eric heard rock-hard determination and sincere heart in it.

"As for the Grand Duke, ah, I always feel a little strange about him. He is like a brother to me. He brought the first teleportation stone to the North. At that time, I thought he was a genius wizard and a very far-sighted person."

At this time, the old and strong wizard beside him, Wynn, couldn't help but interjected: "He is the greatest wizard of this century, no, in the past few centuries, bar none."

Duke Noel couldn't help laughing. "Yes, but compared to those honors and titles, I really envy the true friendship between the two of them. When I was young, there was no child of the same age in the castle, and I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I privately treated them as brothers. Now I think it was a bit presumptuous. Although I don't have many opportunities to meet them, I can feel that they are both very gentle people by nature."

After two days of hospitality at the castle in the north, Eric left in a hurry. She returned to the capital and went straight to the Royal Military Academy in Nantes.

She interviewed teachers who taught the 836th class of students.

Most of them haven't retired yet.

Professor Obaid still serves as the teacher of military theory course and the principal.

According to her understanding, this professor currently has many serving senior military officers and high-level wizards as his disciples.

The magic strategic application research and combat auxiliary wizard projects of that year cultivated many talents and played a vital role on the battlefield.

Some officers and wizards even returned to their alma mater after retirement out of gratitude to serve as knight instructors and teachers, giving back to the school and devoting themselves to cultivating more outstanding talents for the country.

When she went there, Professor Obaid was teaching a class. She asked a few polite questions and he agreed.

"I've read your article. I remember you're from this school, right?"

"Well, I majored in general studies, but I dropped out of school and went straight to work." Eric felt a little embarrassed, as if he had returned to his student days, with a natural awe of teachers.

"We are seeing good developments in general science and majors here. Time flies. This era is no longer just about knights and wizards."

“I heard that Councillor Midi Bai has donated to the school many times.”

"Well, she is also a student here. She was a very good businessman at first, and later became a politician with outstanding performance. We used the money she donated to invest in the renovation and expansion of professional and academic areas. It was a great help, so we can recruit more working-class children and give them the opportunity to enroll in school."

Eric couldn't help but chat with him about many things until he finally returned to the main topic of her trip.

Opide showed a nostalgic expression: "The two of them, the reason why the competition for admission to our school has been so outrageous in recent years is mainly because of them. Those children are trying their best to get into this school. There are so many excellent raw stones. As the principal, I am very happy. However, there are so many students who come to ask me about them. I don't know how to answer them. I dare not say that I taught them. They are both geniuses in themselves. The gap in talent is beyond reach. It may take a thousand years to produce one of them. As a result, the two of them met each other."

"Alex, he was transferred from a country school, but he had no one to teach him swordsmanship. I saw him perform in class a few times. He was just hiding his swordsmanship skills. Maybe he didn't want to give other children of the same age too much of a blow, but at that time no child dared to compete with him. As for Inger, I saw him suddenly become enlightened. He used to be a knight and was an excellent child. He was very cheerful and had a good family background but was not arrogant. But one day, he came back from self-cultivation and his personality suddenly changed. He later became a wizard and had very unique insights in the military. He was not willing to face his magical talent, but everything he did afterwards was unprecedented, and there is no need for me to say more."

"They dropped out of school very early, and we didn't teach them much. Inger later came to the academy to give lectures. He may have guided the academy's future development. People didn't know until later that this was to prepare for future wars. I don't like sending my students to the battlefield in batches, but without them, more people would have died. The vision they saw is something that an old man like me would be ashamed of."

"Like most great men in history, they had already shown signs of being extraordinary when they were young, but I don't know if this was really a good thing for them. Fortunately, they both came back safely in the end."

As previously planned, in addition to focusing on interviewing people related to the two, she will also interview people from all walks of life.

She spent many days at the college, visiting students to find out what they thought of the two men.

Although there are all kinds of opinions in society, most students, especially those in this college, have roughly the same views on the two.

"He saved me when I was very young, and my whole family was able to survive because of him. I entered this academy in order to become a wizard like him."

"Your Majesty is the benchmark for knights. I will always follow his example and improve my own strength!"

"Of course it would be even better to become a member of the Knights."

"He is the first combat wizard! Who says wizards are inferior to knights?"

"I am different. I want to surpass him and become the strongest rider."

"Are you going to become a god? Hahahahaha!"

"I'm a little curious about who would win if the two of them fought?"

"There's no way they're really going to fight. Who do you think His Majesty is a knight of?"

"Is he really not going to be emperor anymore? I thought he would be emperor for a hundred years."

"Yes, everyone is happy to have him as emperor, why doesn't he do it?"

"I have never seen anyone abandon the position of emperor so cleanly."

"Does retirement mean that we won't see them anymore?"

"What a pity! Who can guarantee that the next person will do better than them?"

"The title of Chief of Parliament is just another title for the emperor, but it is no longer a successor."

"Who said that it is important not to inherit this thing?"

"I saw their statues in the Commercial Square. They are both very beautiful, as are they in person."

“Will their portraits be printed on banknotes in the future?”

"It's very possible! But we probably won't see it. Knights have a long lifespan."

As the students chatted, the topic gradually went off track.

Eric strolled leisurely around the campus with his notebook.

Looking at the peaceful and relaxing scenery on campus, she took a deep breath, as if to pull out all the cotton wool filling her chest.

She had been to the academy during both wars, when the atmosphere was tense and murderous.

She now thought that they had worked so hard just for this kind of scenery.

Students can treat war as an insignificant joke. They don’t have to face life and death decisions or the separation of relatives and friends. They can just chat about nonsense every day, don’t go hungry, and dream beautiful dreams every day.

This was the life everyone dreamed of during the war.

And it was those two people who worked hard to bring about such peace.

Eric picked up his pen and wrote whatever came to his mind.

Suddenly a figure walked in.

She looked up and saw a tall figure.

The other party opened his mouth and asked softly, "I heard from the principal that a reporter was interviewing His Majesty and the Grand Duke about something."

"Ah, you are."

She recognized him; he had often been beside Alex on the battlefield, the first civilian to be promoted to a senior officer, Kumpeu.

"I am now a teacher at the Military Branch."

Kunpeu was two heads taller than her, with short black and white hair, starry eyes, broken eyebrows, and hard facial lines. Standing in front of him, Eric only felt deep pressure, but she still smiled and shook hands with him.

The two of them found a bench and sat down.

"I... His Majesty didn't let me tell you about my background. Now everyone thinks I'm a commoner from Cune. In fact, I was a refugee from Zalambra who fled to Cune. I was a serf. My parents sold me to another noble family. Then the revolution broke out and I had to flee with the crowd. It was him... Alex who picked me up and brought me to Cune. I learned a lot in this academy."

Although many people knew he was a slave and looked down on him when he first arrived at the academy, gradually no one mentioned it anymore.

This was also the first time Eric knew about this.

She listened to Kumpeu's story very carefully.

Kumpeu talked from their academy days until the end of the war.

"Your Majesty...Alex, he asked me to call him by his name, but I'm still not very familiar with him. He always told me not to put him in a higher position, but I'm used to looking up to and following him. He's an overly dazzling person."

"Captain Neka... I don't know how to describe it. Sometimes I know that his intentions are good, but it always makes me feel sad. Sometimes I feel that he is not good at expressing himself, but he is like a good mentor and will give me a lot of advice that will benefit me throughout my life."

"I thought I would follow Alex for the rest of my life. He also told me that I am an independent person. I don't need to devote my life to anyone else. I just need to do what I want to do. I am still exploring it, but I may have some understanding of what this sentence means."

"The two of them, they didn't just save a lot of lives. They saved a lot of lives."

Eric remained silent for a long time, but just wrote down some words that came to his mind.

Eric said goodbye to Kunpeu and came to the research institute because the college and the research institute were very close.

The Science Institute and Magic Institute of Quene are collectively called the Institute, and the chief academician of the Acting Institute is Madimara Jackson, a genius mechanical wizard. He is not the kind of wizard who is good at fighting. He has spent his entire life studying machinery.

Most of the advanced magical machinery in Qiu Nei basically came from the research institute. During the war, some of the machinery and magic props he designed also provided great auxiliary effects on the war.

She originally thought that these research fanatics would not let her in, but she encountered no obstacles.

Eric saw some familiar faces when he entered the institute.

Celia Mond and Michaelica Hughes, the second son of the Duke of the West and the second sister of the Duke of the East, were also common main wizards in the war.

They were known as geniuses when they were young, and now they are all seventh-level wizards.

"Inger! I wanted to ask him some questions, but he said he was too busy!"

"Of course I'm busy, unlike you."

The two of them seem to have a good relationship, and both of them seem to have officially become researchers in the institute.

Eric had a headache being sandwiched between the two people, because they talked almost exclusively about Inger.

"Alex? He has nothing to say. My brother can't beat him anymore. He's too strong. And he likes to chase Inger everywhere, for fear that he will run away."

"A very kind and reliable officer."

Eric had no choice but to give up.

Who would have thought that after meeting Academician Jaxter, he became even more energetic: "He retired and didn't even come to the institute!!! The technological magic of this world has regressed a hundred years!!!"

The academician, who was still heavily made up and dressed up, looked miserable and regretful when he mentioned him: "Everyone thought that those teleportation stones and the piles of the magic defense net were made by our institute, but in fact, he made them himself. He later sent us many design drawings of magic props. Even though we participated in the research and production, the base map and basic design were all made by him, but he didn't allow us to say anything! It makes me so angry! Sometimes I really want to dissect his brain to see what the structure is. But I can't bear to see him die..."

Seeing the conversation was getting off track, Eric had no choice but to interrupt.

"What kind of person is he? Well, I think he is a creative and enthusiastic person. I have met him on the Magic Train before. When it first started, the Magic Train could only be manually controlled by wizards. He was still a little kid at that time, but the ideas he put forward were amazing, which brought groundbreaking improvements to the Magic Train. From that time, I could see that he really loved magic. When he later cooperated with us, he could stay up for several days to experiment with spells and formations, so it was really a waste of talent that he couldn't come to us!!!"

"The Emperor? The blond guy? I don't know. I don't care. When I first met him he seemed to be pretending to be Inger's henchman."

Eric also asked him in detail which works were designed by Inger himself or participated in the design.

Madimara was very excited about this and talked to her for a whole afternoon before letting her go.

Eric didn't have time to rest and immediately ran to the Goddess's Grand Court.

Because she received news that the two archbishops had returned to the Vatican for a rare occasion, and they were all together.

Archbishop Vito and Archbishop Leonardin are well-known for their love of traveling around the world, and now the Pope also likes to travel, and the three of them may only get together a few times in ten years.

The last time was during the funeral of Archbishop Bishop.

She should actually interview Archbishop Bisi, who was Inger's introductory magic teacher.

But she is dead.

"Alex and Inger...they are the saviors appointed by the goddess." The Pope summarized it briefly.

Eric began to wonder how she had gone from being a staunch atheist to a theist.

Even if she acknowledged the existence of God, she would still believe in human power, not to mention that God has now disappeared in the material sense.

She stroked the ring on her chest.

"The so-called new book of magic spells was not received by me from the goddess, but brought by him."

Eric was stunned. This was the first time she knew about this.

Leonardine said: "So we guess that he may be from another world. Of course, this matter cannot be made public and there is no answer."

Eric was shocked and quickly crossed out the few sentences he had written down from his notebook.

Vito: "Isn't it that his immortality has not been clarified yet? He can indeed be resurrected, but there is a limit to the number of times he can be resurrected. Once this limit is exceeded, he will be cursed with immortality. Tsk. Those people know nothing and just like to talk nonsense."

Eric had rarely seen such an expression on this man.

As for Alex and Inger, they said the same thing.

"They are ultimately human beings, not gods."

Furthermore, even if they really had the chance to become gods, they would choose to remain human for the rest of their lives. This is an indisputable fact.

Eric knew what this meant, she smiled knowingly and said goodbye to the three of them.