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The improvement this time is very big. Not only have all the cores been replaced with higher-grade ones, but the overall structure has also been optimized.
Dam was very surprised.
The previous experience of being crushed by the Saint level made him very frustrated, so he quickly grabbed a sniper rifle to test it.
The result was a huge disappointment.
Joffrey has never stopped developing firearms. Based on the principle that ordinary people can use them, even if the firearms have been upgraded many times, Dum can still exert their full functions.
However, this time after he fired several shots, he was shocked to find that the core of the sniper rifle could never reach a 100% charged state.
This means he can't unleash the sniper rifle's strongest firepower.
Without waiting for him to ask, Zhang Mu walked over to Le Hehe and explained.
Considering the current severe war situation, in order to increase the upper limit of the power of the magic sniper rifle, Joffrey had to make certain compromises - raising the threshold for using the sniper rifle.
The threshold is actually not high. As long as you become a magic apprentice and have a basic grasp of the three basic magic skills, you can use it easily.
But among the twenty-one people in the three special operations teams, none of them are professionals, let alone magicians.
Therefore, this not-so-high threshold became an insurmountable chasm for them.
Dam leaned the gun against the rack without interest, muttering, "It's better to use the old one."
Zhang Mu's face darkened: "Why, was the Saint-level beating too light? Don't you have any aspirations?"
"But Marshal, we..." Dam turned his head and glanced at his team members, "We are all adults. Isn't it said that we can't practice meditation after we become adults?"
"Who did you listen to?"
"That's what the professionals in the disbanded legion said."
"Hmm..." Zhang Mu put his hands behind his back and pondered for a long time. "In theory, it's correct, but the actual situation is that the efficiency of practicing meditation after adulthood is very low.
So low that it requires massive investment of resources to achieve results.
Haha, what a coincidence, I have no shortage of study resources."
The team members and Dam looked at each other and asked tentatively, "Does the Marshal mean that we should practice meditation?"
“It can’t be helped.
I asked Joffrey, if the magic sniper rifle is upgraded again, even if he adds a protective device, you will be killed by the surging magic power. "
Dam opened his mouth to say something, but Zhang Mu waved his hand and said, "Alright, stop talking nonsense. I'll send you the potion tomorrow, and you can be promoted to magic apprentices as soon as possible.
Until then, please suspend the assassination operation of the team."
After saying this, Zhang Mu was at the exit of the royal capital and left the "world".
After landing outside the royal capital, he immediately rushed to the palace and found Avril who was handling government affairs.
Seeing him coming, Avril raised her icy blue eyebrows: "Is everything alright on the front line?"
"Yes, but you are busy here too."
Avril put down the pen Zhang Mu gave her and said, "I thought there was a problem with logistics. What happened?"
"It's like this." Zhang Mu carried a wooden chair and sat next to her. "We killed some of the church clergy, or some of them ran away. There is not a single light magician in Lake now.
I plan to train a group of them.”
"Isn't it too late to train now..." Avril held her chin with her right hand, stared at the ceiling and pondered for a moment, then said, "Isn't it too late?
And I remember that only priests can understand the meaning of the words in the church's light magic book?
Also, those priests burned a lot of magic books before they fled, and we only salvaged a few.
You want to train a lot of light magicians... If so many people learn from a few magic books one by one, I'm afraid the magic text will disappear before the previous person finishes learning."
"Hey, this isn't that easy, I'll take care of it."
"How to deal with it?"
Zhang Mu felt that it was too troublesome to explain, so he took out his mobile phone from the storage bag, turned on the camera function, pointed the lens at Avril and pressed the shutter.
"Hmm?" Avril blinked when she was hit by the flash, wondering why she didn't sense the fluctuation of magic power.
"Here." Zhang Mu turned over his phone and pointed the screen towards her. "Take a look."
"Huh?" Avril took the phone in surprise and looked at the "lifelike" self on the screen, "Is this... a photo crystal?
No, that's not right. It's different from the feeling of the crystal. "
"It has nothing to do with the photo crystal." Zhang Mu took back his phone, picked up a magic book from the inventory, and took a picture of one of its pages.
"Look."
"This is..." Avril's dreamy ice-blue pupils shrank as she stared at a page of magical text on the screen.
"I have many ways to record magic words. By the way, it's too troublesome to take pictures with a mobile phone. I will bring a printer over tomorrow."
"What is a printer?"
"You'll know when I bring it to you."
"Oh." Avril nodded and prepared to stand up. "Then I will go and choose the light attribute talent right away..."
"Don't worry." Zhang Mu pressed her shoulders, "Did the teacher send back any news?"
Avril looked depressed: "I use crystal to call the teacher every day, but... I never get a response."
"Don't worry too much. Once we have dealt with the coalition forces, we will go and rescue the teacher together."
She sighed, "After we deal with the coalition forces, there is also Lagu. If we defeat Lagu, the distant empire will definitely send an expedition to Lake. We... we don't know if we can withstand it."
What Avril was worried about was that Lake wouldn't live long enough to see the day when the Empire launched an expedition against her.
Recently, city lords from all over the country have reported that a large number of people have fled their cities, and the situation is more serious the closer to the border.
For example, in the city of Kedun, all the soldiers and citizens fled together, so when the coalition forces arrived at the city, there was a strange scene that the city was empty.
Of course, not all the people in the later cities escaped. It was Zhang Mu who transferred the people away.
If the situation continued to deteriorate, Avril felt that Lake would collapse on his own without the enemy having to invade.
Zhang Mu smiled and said, "Expedition to Lake?
They don't need to go on an expedition, I will go find them."
Avril raised her head suddenly, opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but finally said: "Junior...the weapons you invented are indeed powerful, but relying on them to defeat the empire...
The empire is blessed by gods, and the top imperial priests have epic titles. "
"My weapons..." Zhang Mu bared his teeth, "What you see is just the tip of the iceberg."
If Zhang Mu only relied on light weapons such as guns, no matter how arrogant he was, he would not dare to talk about attacking the empire. The empire of the Thor Continent has something.
The confidence he had in saying this came from the extremely prosperous development of heavy weapons on Blue Star.
Of course, heavy weapons alone can hardly threaten high-level professionals.
Not long ago, Zhang Mu gave Joffrey samples of various heavy weapons and asked him to develop the magic series as soon as possible.
According to the current progress, when Zhang Mu and the Empire collide, the Empire's opponents will no longer be "bullets" and "cannonballs", but magic machine guns that can fire hundreds of fireballs a minute, magic tanks that bombard high-level magic, and so on.
"When the time comes, I will give a big gift to those empires." Zhang Mu imagined the scene of magic tanks roaring on the Thor continent.
Avril stared at Zhang Mu for a long while, revealing a breathtakingly beautiful smile: "I believe in you, junior brother."
After that, the two stopped chatting. Avril started to select talents, while Zhang Mu rushed back to the city of Kerton.
The coalition forces are going crazy; the front line can't do without him.
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Keton City.
The commander of the Third Army stood on the city wall, looking at the Allied soldiers retreating from the ground like a tide, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
This was the fifth wave of attack they had fought off.
The coalition forces seemed to have lost their minds and attacked the city of Kedun frantically regardless of casualties.
The legion commander could understand why the coalition forces were anxious.
As the gateway to the eastern border of Lake, the city of Kedun is the only passage for the coalition forces to reach the central area of Lake.
If they don't capture the city of Kedun, the coalition forces can only take the small paths on both sides.
A large number of troops crowded together and marching on a small road would undoubtedly lead to their own death.
In fact, the coalition forces would not have been blocked by the city of Kedun for so long. They had six saints accompanying the army. If any one of them was sent out, the defense of the city of Kedun would be like paper and would be broken with just one poke.
However, half a month ago, Ak, who was traveling alone, was captured, and the remaining five saints did not dare to show up casually for fear of being ambushed.
Novak is nominally the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and in fact, uh, he does have full command of the coalition forces, but the Saint level is different, and this thing is not something he can mobilize, and he can only discuss it.
Faced with the Third Army defending the city of Kton, Novak had no choice but to attack.
After the Third Army's soldiers experienced the annihilation of 300,000 soldiers by howitzers, their morale was high and their military spirit was extremely strong. Facing wave after wave of charges from the Allied forces, they firmly occupied the top of the city walls and prevented the enemy from advancing an inch.
Novak was very crazy, but he had no choice but to continue the attack. He ordered various countries to send additional troops while comforting himself in his heart.
Once we capture the city of Kedun and reach the plains, my mutant rhino cavalry will vent out all the frustration that has accumulated during this period.
In the situation where the coalition forces were fighting for their lives, the Third Army suffered heavy casualties and had no choice but to retreat.
After withdrawing dozens of miles from the city of Kedun, Zhang Mu took them back to the rear for rest. At the same time, Domit ordered the Second Army, the Fifth Army, and the Seventh Army to dig trenches at a certain distance in the plains, which would inevitably drag the coalition forces into the quagmire and make them pay a heavy price for every step forward.
So when Novak led his army through the city of Kedun, laughing wildly and preparing to send out the cavalry, what he saw was trenches all over the wilderness.
Trench warfare is a retro tactic from the second station period on Blue Star, but it is the first time it appears on the Sol Continent.
Novak didn't care at first, thinking, could a series of two-meter-deep trenches be more attackable than tall city walls?
It turns out that it is indeed easier not to have to deal with the city walls.
Lake's soldiers set up a firepower network with no blind spots in the trenches. Relying on Zhang Mu's transportation of supplies from Blue Star and the production capacity of the arsenal in the "world", they hardly had to worry about the dilemma of running out of ammunition.
In addition, there are Griffin Knights temporarily serving as the transport team. You don’t have to worry about the cooling of the machine guns. You can just replace them if they are damaged by high temperature.
Just like that, Novak, who had just overcome the difficulties and thought that spring had arrived, encountered the bitter winter again.
The heavy armor worn by ordinary soldiers is vulnerable to bullets, but high-level professionals can resist with magic shields, or dodge with their extraordinary physique and charge towards the position.
However, as the distance shortened, the senior magician's shield could not withstand the Gatling gun's terrifying firing speed.