Iron Powder and Spellcasters

   Chapter 107 Reversing the Process

Winters attended a secret meeting in the camp the night Roster Leighton executed his captives with pickets.

The location of the    secret meeting is in the legion vault, which, like the headquarters, is located in the center of the field camp and is one of the most important buildings in the field camp. The semi-underground structure has the best sound insulation effect, so it was chosen here for the meeting.

   There were no recorders, no orderlies, and even the guards were placed as far as five meters away.

  The attendees had two identities except for the two legion commanders: Antonio and Layton's most trusted officers, and senior spellcasters.

   It is said that Winters is not qualified to participate in such a high-level meeting - the other people in the vault are at least majors, which round will get him a small warrant officer to participate in the meeting.

   But he has to come. Because... he is the most crucial party, witness and witness.

The atmosphere of the meeting was quite solemn, and Antonio warned with a stern face: "I don't need to say more about the principle of confidentiality. Being able to be called here means that you are the people that Rost and I trust most. This time I want to say The matter is very important, and even when I’m talking in my sleep, I tighten the strings of secrecy.”

   Several school officials and casters who participated in the meeting waited silently for the general to continue talking.

  Antonio and Layton looked at each other: "Then let's start... Warrant Officer Montagne!"

   "Here!" Winters stood up reflexively.

   "Retelling the battle between you and the 'suspected magic user' on the night when the Legion of San Marco attacked the port of Red Sulphur."

  Antonio's words are cryptic, not explicit. But the officers sitting here are all elites of the Veneta army, and it is impossible to understand the subtext of the major general.

   Suspected magic user? Have you ever fought with us?

   The problem here is huge.

  There may also be magicians in other distant and exotic places, but unless their brains are rotten, they will travel thousands of miles to this small island to help the Tanirians fight.

  Therefore, the only magic users who can appear on this island are the alliance spellcasters here...the only emperor's court mages.

   No matter which of the two is helping the Tanirians on the island, the deeper meaning behind it goes far beyond the fact that there are more magicians in the defending army.

So after hearing the words "suspected magic user" and "war", Winters saw that several of the schoolmaster spellcasters in the meeting immediately began to become uneasy: turning their collars, stroking their noses, and shifting their focus to On the other leg... subconscious little movements reveal their inner ups and downs.

  Winters realized that several generals were very anxious, organized the language, and succinctly described the encounter with the mysterious man in the mask during the second raid on the Red Sulphur Bay artillery base.

This time he didn't say "I seem to have killed a court mage" as he did when he told Antonio, but just objectively described the situation where the other party was suspected of using spell abilities, and the ancient phrase that was suspected to be spell singing "Ji Yan for inflammation".

  After Antoine's improvement, all Alliance spellcasters use gestures to silently cast spells. Because there is no need for "chanting" at all, Winters doesn't know what spell singing is.

   But before killing the old shaman Hestas, the enemy recited the phrase "focusing on the flames" left an indelible impression on Winters.

   That was not a roar, nor a scream. Rather, it is chanted without emotion, rhythmically, and in the ancient language.

   Winters has read in the book: During the Sovereign War, the soldiers who survived the massacre of the court mages reported after the war that the devil sang praises to the Lord of Hell while killing people on the battlefield.

  The officers called this act of "singing praises" a "spell chant", because they knew that it was not the devil, but the most murderous dog-legs of the madman Richard - the court wizard.

   Every time the court mages attack, there will be similar reports after the war. Therefore, "spell chant" was considered by the Allied Military Officer Corps to be a necessary prerequisite for the use of magic by court mages.

  Based on this perception, the coalition forces in the Sovereign War have tried various tactics to interrupt the enemy’s singing, such as suppressing the enemy’s voice with noise, singing hymns by devout believers, etc., of course, they all failed in the end.

   However, after fighting the masked man suspected of being a court mage, Winters found that the enemy was "chanting" rather than "chanting".

  Imagine: For the coalition soldiers thirty years ago, they could not understand the ancient language, this rhythmic chanting of incantations was in their ears "singing praises in the language of the devil".

   Therefore, Winters reasonably speculates that the enemy's phrase "to gather flames into flames [ancient language]" is the so-called spell singing, and it is also the so-called "spell".

  Although he didn't say it clearly until the end, the only one who chanted and cast spells was... the court mage of the emperor to the north.

After    Winters said a few simple words, someone couldn't sit still.

   Lieutenant Colonel Mag coughed twice, frowned and looked at Winters: "Warrant Officer Montagne, what do you mean...you killed a court mage?"

   After these recent events, Winters began to feel that "maybe I'm really not fit to be a career officer", he even sometimes couldn't help thinking "Is it really my own will to be a career officer?"

   So he doesn't covet this credit, but he doesn't want others to think he covets credit.

   Winters replied rigorously: "No, I'm not sure if the other party is a court mage."

   "Then let me put it another way." Lieutenant Colonel Mag touched his nose: "You killed a suspected magic user who was singing and casting spells?"

   "No, this person was killed by Hed shaman Hestas, other soldiers present and me." Winters didn't want to exaggerate his role. He knew that if Hestas hadn't interfered in time, he'd be dead.

   "Then I'll change the question." Without asking the truth, Lieutenant Colonel Mag said a little unhappily: "How did the suspected magic user die?"

   Winters couldn't avoid it, and answered dignifiedly: "I pierced his head with the flying arrow technique."

   Lieutenant Colonel Mag snorted coldly and stopped asking questions. He leaned back and leaned back on the chair.

"Warrant Officer Montagne, do you know that after more than ten years of sovereign war, we have not been able to kill or capture any of the court mages?" Another participant, Colonel Bryce, couldn't help but reminded .

   "Yes," Winters answered succinctly and forcefully.

   "But you killed one?" Colonel Bryce continued.

   "I'm not sure if that person is a court mage."

   "Are there any other witnesses present?"

   "Warrant Officer Bard was with me at the time."

   "Warrant Officer Bud... Warrant Officer? Is it your contemporaneous?"

"Yes."

   "Then you must be very close, right?"

   "Yes." Although Winters's tone did not change, there was some anger in his heart.

Colonel Bryce wanted to keep asking, but Antonio didn't speak, but Layton couldn't hold back his anger and slapped the table and cursed: "You are soldiers, just say what you want to say! Shaoyin and yang are weird! What are you bullying children for? Seeing people make meritorious deeds, you are jealous? Did you come here to talk about this? [Swearing profanity]!"

   Layton would add swear words to every sentence, spitting from side to side of the table. The others were silent, and only Leighton's furious scolding echoed in the vault.

   Colonel Bryce was scolded **** and swallowed everything he wanted to ask Winters. Lieutenant Colonel Mag bounced as he leaned against the back of the chair as if he had been struck by a nail. The other school officials were also scolded and shivered.

   All the caster captains were sitting and scolding like freshmen who had just entered the military academy, which made Winters look relieved. However, he didn't dare to show any expression on his face, just like all the school officials, he sat upright with his eyes, nose, mouth and heart.

   After cursing, Leighton put his hands on his knees, his chest heaving violently, panting heavily. After all, he is in his 40s, and scolding people without repetition and breath is also a heavy physical task.

Antonio knocked on the table and said lightly: "Warrant Officer Budd has confirmed Warrant Officer Montagne's statement. I accept the testimony of both of them. But after all, there is no direct evidence, so Major General Layton and I decided this This fight will not be recorded as a court mage kill. Warrant Officer Montagne, do you have any objection?"

   "No!" Winters replied hastily, he could not ask for anything.

"But Major General Layton and I called you here for the meeting, not to discuss Warrant Officer Montagne's determination of the victory." Antonio changed the conversation: "Last night's attack on the artillery position confirmed a concern I have always had. ."

   He spit out a sentence that shocked everyone: "The Tanirians still have a second magic user...even a third and fourth."

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   "All members of the adjacent artillery positions dozens of meters away were killed in the **** battle, but why did I not hear a single sound?"

   After waking up from the coma, Winters has been thinking about this question, but he is puzzled.

   After getting the prisoner's confession, he suddenly had a bold idea: If magic can amplify the sound, can magic make the sound disappear?

   All spells in the alliance spellcaster system are based on "input energy" as the basic principle, such as acceleration, fire, and amplification.

   But Winters, who came into contact with Antoine Laurent's subversive theory, has surpassed the knowledge of ordinary spellcasters. Antoine Laurent's new theory holds that the essence of magic is to change the state of matter and energy.

   If the input energy is to change the state of energy... what about the extraction of energy?

Isn’t    pulling out energy also changing the energy state?

   If energy can be extracted, then in theory, magic can achieve the effect of "silencing".

  Since the essence of sound is vibration, as long as the vibration of the air is smoothed, the transmission of sound can be cut off.

   This is also why the prisoners confessed that they "can't hear other people's voices, but they can hear their own voices, but it sounds a little strange". Because people hear their own speech, in addition to conduction through the air, there is also bone conduction.

Winters didn't realize that he had opened a new door, he just couldn't help but wonder: "If shock spells can be reversed, can fire spells work? If the direction of fire spells is reversed, then ...Isn't that the ice spell that the Alliance has so far failed to achieve?"

  Thinking of this, he couldn't help but start to take the initiative to try, but after tossing for a long time, Winters experienced Axel's feelings for the first time.

   For a person who is born blind, what is color?

   For a person who lives in three-dimensional space, what is four-dimensional?

   A spellcaster who has never used "Ice Spell", how can he find the feeling of using "Ice Spell"?

   Because the essence of using magic is feeling.

  The first thing a beginner spellcaster should do is to find the feeling of using magic, and then become proficient in using it again and again, and it becomes easy to find that feeling.

   Winters found that he didn't even know what it should feel like to use the "ice spell", and he didn't know how to get into that state, it was like taking a road without a "road".

   stared for ten minutes, but he couldn't make the drop of water turn into ice.

   "It's definitely not possible to do this...have to start with the easiest place..." Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Winters thought to himself.

   But he has more important things now, and he has no time to think about how to "reverse the spell".

   He had to inform Antonio that there might be another spellcaster in the tower city, or even more than one.

   That night, Antonio and Layton convened all the trusted senior officers and senior spellcasters within the Legion for a secret meeting.

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   "There are other magicians in the city, do you have any evidence?" Lieutenant Colonel Field asked aloud.

Lieutenant Colonel Field and Major Moritz were in the Corps vault at the moment.

   There were not many spellcasters in the Legion of San Marco, so Layton simply called all of them. Layton's statement is: "Although this boy Field is very mean, he is a good soldier and can be trusted... He also called his little valet."

  Is there any other evidence of the existence of magicians?

  The evidence has always been in front of everyone, but no one thought in this direction at the time.

On the day when the   The Great Veneta Legion attacked the Red Sulphur Port, the huge wave that rolled backwards from the pier and hit the Veneta people is the best proof.

   That wave of waves several meters high overturned all of Veneta's boats, and even a large galley that was turning overturned directly.

   What kind of huge waves will hit the sea from the coast? That was by no means a natural wave.

   Only magic can explain things that cannot be explained.

   So, if the nature of sound is a vibration, is the nature of the waves also a vibration? If you hit the wall of a water glass, doesn't the water in the glass form little ripples?

  Perhaps another term, ocean waves, is a kind of wave?

  If the wave is a wave, it can be amplified by magic.

"This is too... ridiculous." Field blushed, and even forgot that he was speaking to a general: "Do you know how much magic power it takes to raise a huge wave that can overturn a warship?! Don't say It's me, I can't find such a powerful spellcaster in all the republics! The power of magic has a limit! Because a spellcaster has a limit! No magician can compare to the power of nature! If you can't do it, you can't do it! What you're saying is ridiculous!"

   "Field!" Layton picked up the cup and slammed it on Field: "You bastard! Presumptuous!"

  Antonio was not angry, he asked calmly: "Then how powerful do you think... a spellcaster can make a few hundred square meters of artillery positions silent?

   I finally know why the thesaurus of the input method is cleared. Today, the bad cat pressed the power button to force the computer to shut down again, and then the thesaurus was cleared again. Never raise a cat with a case with the power button facing up! Blood and tears lessons.

   I try to make every plot reasonable, so if some plots are unreasonable, it means that there will be holes in the future... For example, the huge wave that almost drowned Comrade Winters.

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   (end of this chapter)