Winter Fire (4)

"I've emphasized to you before, mana consumption training doesn't mean you have to use up all the mana in the furnace. If you do, you'll lose consciousness due to the protection mechanism. That's very dangerous, so you have to leave a little bit. You have to control this yourself. After all, I can't stand fainting after one training session."

The bad words Bi Xi said seemed to still echo in my ears.

Inger blinked and saw the ceiling of his room.

There are very ancient mythological murals on the ceiling.

He lowered his head and looked around, then froze and dared not move.

From right to left: Ola, Christine, Pendeljia, Kalina, Lanmore, Bixi, Alex, all standing beside the bed looking at him.

[…This is so scary.]

Inger looked at Bixi subconsciously.

Bixi didn't smile either. She said calmly, "He's awake. He's fine. He just lost consciousness due to exhaustion of magic power."

Inger raised his hand weakly: "Teacher, there won't be a next time."

Bixi pinched his face and said, "You wouldn't dare to do that."

After she greeted the Neka couple, she glanced at Aura and Christine, turned around and left. She seemed to want to ask about the spell, but she didn't.

Lanmore was so angry that he didn't want to vent it on Inger, nor did he dare to go after Orafa, so he fired at Alex, "Hey! Alex! What did you promise me..."

Before he could finish his words, Alex interrupted him and said, "It's my fault."

Alex stared at Inger.

Inger didn't dare to look at him. He stretched out his hand to stop his brother, "Brother! Stop!" He looked at his parents again, "Father and mother, I have something to discuss with the two princesses and the ninth prince. Can you take my brother out first?"

Karena first felt him over and made sure he was fine before she and her husband took their eldest son out.

When they were out, Inger heaved a sigh of relief and pulled a pillow behind him.

Christine sat down beside his bed with the quilt pressed down on him. Alex and Ola, both nearly 1.80 meters tall, stood there with great confidence.

"Excuse me, move two stools over there and sit down."

Inger picked up the wand beside the bed, and Alex quickly grabbed him, "What are you doing?"

Inger could feel that his magic power had recovered halfway. He spread his hands and said, "How about you come?"

Although Alex is gifted, the knight who builds his body with magic power is not the same as the wizard who casts spells. He can't even cast the most basic soundproof spell.

Alex had to let go.

"Okay, let's negotiate the terms, shall we?"

Looking at the sky, it was just getting light, so he must have been unconscious for only a few hours.

Ola looked at Christine.

Christine spoke for her, "You have already paid in advance, I want to hear your requirements?"

She was obviously very grateful to them for healing her leg, but she was not too excited to agree to any request. This girl was very smart.

"Alex and I both have a prophetic ability."

Christine shook his head and said calmly, "That's impossible. There can only be one prophet in a generation."

Inger held up his fingers. "So, it's a prophetic ability. Unlike your prediction, the future we see has changed. It's about the past. But the future we see extends to 20 years later. Some major events are difficult to change."

Aura's expression became serious: "...For example?"

“Like war.”

"Twenty years?"

Christine muttered something with a rather strange look in his eyes, then looked at Ola again.

"We saw that you would eventually advocate the war in Livil, but by then, Chune would be caught between Livil and Saranqin."

Ola's frown deepened, "Salanqin?"

Alex nodded at her and continued, "Remember the refugee crisis we dealt with in October 1890? It was a failed peasant rebellion."

"I know? What does it matter?"

"In November 1891, a larger-scale rebellion will take place in Zarambula, which can also be called a revolutionary movement. After that, Zarambula will change its state system to a republic, and then it will unite with the surrounding small countries in the northwest and change its name to the United Republic of Zarambula."

"The Birth of the Republic... This book has been jointly banned by the three major empires..."

"But they succeeded. The new nation will do its best to go south to plunder the supplies and land of Chune, because their people are already hungry. That is when we go to war with Livil."

Inger listened to him and recalled the plot of the comic.

At that time, Alex was not in power, Aura was ambitious, the emperor died, the queen fled, the second and third princes died, and Livil happened to invade at the same time.

Aura is a staunch war supporter. She doesn't want to lose any of her country's land, and even wants to take back the lost Corion. This has been her wish since she was a child.

The result was that the situation on the southwest battlefield became extremely tense.

Alex was also sent to the front, but at this time, Saranqin from the north moved south, the northeast battlefield started, and the bloody Brantasa massacred the city.

Even if Qiu Nie was strong at this time, it could not withstand the pincer attack from the two countries on the battlefield.

Alex tried to persuade Ola but to no avail, so he pushed Ola out of power and became emperor himself.

There, Elena also gradually took control of the military power. In the process of confronting Alex, she changed her mind and the two made unconditional peace talks during the war.

After the war, they jointly supported Sarancin's Second Revolution and signed a non-aggression treaty with the new revolutionary leader during his tenure.

"Damn you, Li Wei'er!" Ola hammered the armrest of the chair, then said indifferently, "...I'm sorry."

Alex raised his eyebrows: "Even if Li Wei'er didn't come, you would still call him, right?"

Ola raised his chin. "So what? Corion is our land. What's wrong with taking back our land?"

Alex's voice deepened: "So do you think the ownership of a piece of land is more important or the lives of the people are more important?"

Ola said as a matter of course: "It is the duty of soldiers to sacrifice their lives for their country."

Alex said coldly: "No one deserves to die. Soldiers are also people. Besides, have you been to Corion? Have you seen how the people there live now?"

After the Corian region was occupied by Levitra, the civilians there did not become slaves or prisoners of war because Levitra had abolished slavery. The emperor beheaded the corrupt nobles and sent local governors to govern the area.

Now the people there have obtained Lebanese citizenship, the naturalization process was smooth, and at least their lives are much better than before.

Ola smiled contemptuously: "Oh, the country should not give up an inch of land. This is the most basic principle. Do you want me to charge you with treason?"

Alex said calmly: "People's lives are above national interests. People can survive without a country, but a country will no longer be a country without its people. War will only bring death and consumption. Human life is more important than any interest or dignity. The country exists to protect its people."

Inger remembered a sentence he had heard somewhere before: human history is composed of long wars and short peace.

As long as there are more than two human beings in the world, war will never disappear.

All they can do is maintain peace for as long as possible in an endless cycle of war.

Aura's idea is understandable, but that is under the premise that there is no demon invasion war. Humans can fight however they want. This is a common war situation in history.

However, the war with the demon clan was less than ten years away, and humans could not afford such internal friction.

And war itself is a pure nightmare. People who have never been to a battlefield are eager to go to the battlefield.

In response to this, he had only one comment: he was full and full.

"The only lesson mankind has learned from history is that it can never learn from it..."

By the time Inger reacted, the words had already come out of his mouth. Although the voice was very low, the two of them still heard it.

The two people who were arguing happily suddenly became quiet.

Christine suddenly spoke up: "So your request is not to initiate a war with the two countries?"

"About that, at least within the next ten years."

Ola captured this moment in time, “What will happen in 10 years?”

Alex and Inger looked at each other, and Inger put a finger to his mouth. "We won't tell you that."

"Why?"

Christine didn't understand, now that they had said so much.

Alex said: "Because you wouldn't believe it even if I told you."

Ola looked at them with a half-smile: "Even if we don't initiate a war, they will attack us anyway. You are doing nothing."

Inger said, "So we must also make full preparations before the war. Do you remember that insular rock vein?"

"...You're concerned about this? Yes. But..."

"We already have the Insulation Stone shackles and magic brakes. What do you think of using the Insulation Stone as a weapon?"

Aura immediately understood the strategic value of this, and she said in a heavier voice, "Continue."

"We already have a method to explore the insulated rocks. Let the wizard's magic extend underground. The isolated places are the insulated mines. In the next period of time, you'd better mine as much of this ore as possible across the country and put it into production."

Alex added: "There is also the construction of the East and West Fronts. We cannot stop. If we want to go to war with Levitra, the battlefield must be in the southwest. If the supply and transportation cannot keep up, the southwest front will soon collapse. There are not many military equipment and materials there. Even if there are problems with the construction, we must find ways to overcome them one by one."

Ola frowned: "How do you know so much?"

Alex didn't explain further: "Just think of it as the ability to predict."

Ola was silent for a long time. She touched Christine's head and said, "I can agree to your terms. But you also need to help me do something in a few months."

Inger was stunned for a moment, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Something seems to have happened in the southern Harenga territory. It is said to be related to a kind of herb. Several magical creatures are said to have appeared on the cliffs of the Duke of Hughes' territory in the east. There is intelligence that people are being traded in the southwestern Amiel territory. In the west, the Duke of Mond has a caravan crossing the border to trade goods with Livil. You go and investigate on my behalf."

"...Are you asking us to run across the country?"

"right."

Alex asked, "Is it because of the Queen?"

"That's partly why I'm here, but I also really need someone I can trust to help me make the trip. I'm sending you out as a deportation this time, and Inger will go with you in secret."

Alex smiled and said, "On the surface, our relationship is indeed not good. To others, it is like exile, right?"

Aura nodded and said, "I will make sure no one will tell anyone about this."

Inger raised his hands. "Wait! Why should I go with him?!"

Ola glanced at them with a fake smile: "I can't tell whether your relationship is good or bad now."

Inger said coldly, "You can understand that I don't want to have anything to do with this guy."

Alex said: "Hey! Why are you still saying that?"

After saying it loudly, he muttered softly: I have been helping secretly, but I still say one thing and mean another.

Inger was incredulous: "Huh?"

Christine couldn't help laughing beside him.

Ola didn't want to bother with the two brats' quarrel, so she said to Inger, "Although your parents and Bixi have protected you very well during this period, and you are very talented, you are still too weak. Your parents and your brother have to take care of you all the time, so they have to send you away because of this."

Inger was silent for a moment. He had lived in peace for so long recently that he had forgotten that this place was full of dangers at all times.

It's just that his family blocked all of this from him.

Inger still wants to fight. Traveling with the protagonist means that his involvement in the main plot will increase significantly, and he doesn't want to have any more contact with the protagonist.

"Then we can't go out in two batches..."

Ola replied calmly, "You are very smart. If one of my knights or yours is missing, it will arouse suspicion. If you two stay in one place, you will be discovered sooner or later. You should take this opportunity to travel around the country. If it weren't for Chris, I would not bother to care about you!"

Inger asked, "What if we are assassinated on the way out?"

"Why not just teleport you out? As long as the magic circle here can eliminate the traces of magic in time, no one will know where you landed in the first place, and how can we set up an ambush?"

“…………” Inger looked at Alex.

Alex smiled and waved his hands to him.

It seems to be saying [This is also force majeure. 】

Inger always felt that this gang had succeeded in their conspiracy, and he felt inexplicably unhappy.

The two of them decided to go on a special school trip after the spring.

Ola talked to his parents, and they agreed.

January was a holiday, and it was snowing heavily outside. Inger didn't go anywhere and stayed at home for a month.

But he was not idle either, he was studying spells and magic engraving at the same time. The latter progressed very slowly.

Bixi still taught him as usual, but would ask him about the spell that healed his leg from time to time.

Of course he could only fool her. Bixi seemed to see that he didn't want to say it, but he just liked to tease him all the time.

According to Jason, people often see a figure who is said to be Alex the Ninth Prince in the lower city. But he seems to be pretending to be a gangster and mixing with the workers and farmers.

Dietz found the inventor of the four-wheeled vehicle, and the two happily played with the magic car in the studio.

After a month, there were actually some results.

While managing her existing business assets, Norihua also found the inventors of the airplane hybrid - the Corvinos siblings.

To be more precise, it was the brother and sister who came to see her. They heard that Noriha was a very generous sponsor's agent, so they asked around and found her. They showed her the airplane model they designed.

It was just a palm-sized paper model, something made of bamboo sticks and parchment paper.

Norihua was hesitant at first, but after receiving Inger's approval, he immediately gave the siblings research funding, with the requirement that they produce the first manned flight test sample within a year.

Within a month, Inger figured out the engraving formula for the magic bullet gun.

He tried thousands of times, but there was no way to make a usable magic bullet gun using the divine language, only Chinese or English.

Some of the required vocabulary did not exist in the divine language spells he knew.

In the end, he could only engrave the magic bullet gun in the two languages ​​he was familiar with.

No trigger, no physical bullet.

After the magic power is injected, a series of spells engraved inside will be gradually triggered along the grooves, emitting extremely concentrated magic bullets.

The empty magazine is engraved with "condensation" and "compression", the trajectory is engraved with "stable trajectory", and the muzzle is engraved with "positioning", "aiming" and "fire".

There is also a magic stone inlay on the butt of the gun. If the magic power is insufficient, the magic stone can be used as a reserve energy source. Even people with insufficient magic power can use it.

Because of automatic positioning and aiming, even people who have never practiced shooting can make the bullet hit the desired target. It is not a live bullet and can even hit the target by making a detour.

However, he is the only one in the world who can make this kind of magic bullet gun, and he can only use it himself.

There is no need to worry about the insulating bullet, but because of the unique force field of the insulating stone itself, the person holding it will be temporarily isolated from all magic.

This means that the magic defenses of wizards and knights will also be ineffective. But for ordinary people without magic power, this is still a very good weapon against magic.

Professor Oubide would still "invite" him to his home from time to time. All the teachers of the mentoring project gathered together, and there were three more students. The discussion of research topics was full of a "friendly" academic atmosphere.

Uri and Cheryl often visit by post.

Cheryl especially loved rolling around in the snow with Finne.

Wu Rui liked to draw her with charcoal, and he had already finished most of the book in his hand in one day.

When asked why they came to play, they always answered in unison: "Of course, to get rid of the training!"

The fact that these two energetic siblings want to skip training every minute makes one wonder how Spartan the training at the Earl of Stella's Mansion is.

…………

Jason gently woke Inger up from where he was trapped on the table.

Inger rubbed his eyes, sorted out the pile of manuscripts at his disposal, and then looked out the window.

“Bang!”

A loud bang smashed into the window.

Inger raised the window, facing the cold wind, and smiled.

The snow that had accumulated on the tall trees for a whole winter began to fall down one after another, as if announcing that winter was leaving.