NOVEL NEXT Chapter 23: Chapter 23 Casualties
This is Su Lian.
Listening to the roar coming from afar, a large number of magical reactions and fighting spirit reactions were also confirmed through spiritual perception.
He couldn't help but stand up from the branch, looking at the beast tide below which was still rushing but in significantly reduced numbers, and felt a little more at ease.
"It should be okay." Su Lian said to himself.
From my perception, it should be at the level of tens of thousands of people. It seems that grandpa directly dispatched three fully loaded magic trains.
The 17th Army Group joined the garrison here, and together with the militia and guards of each village and town, they used the magic circle of the teachers in the academy as the center for defense and counterattack. The subsequent arrival of the magicians from the Pole Star Academy, combined with various range magic attacks, basically ended the situation.
All that was left was for the warrior students to show up and cooperate with the rest of the army to clear out the sporadic monsters.
As for the elite beast dynasty that followed the eighth-level magic disaster...
By the time those fourth and fifth level monsters are gathered together, the powerful people nearby should have arrived.
At that time, even the single or multiple eighth-level monsters that will eventually appear will be wiped out.
After all, it was just a natural monster born in a short time during a magic disaster. There was still a big difference between it and a natural monster born after a long period of condensation.
Su Lian thought about this and felt completely relieved.
"Help the army fight, and then reunite with the commander at the end."
"The commander of the 17th Army Group seems to be..."
"Tuttle Tommy?"
Su Lian drew out two swords and muttered to himself.
At the same time, he jumped off the big tree and directly killed two second-level monsters. After being discovered and angering the surrounding monsters, he headed directly towards the town of Angli where the army was.
He no longer cared about being injured, as his only goal was to join up with the army.
It would be better to say that I was injured.
After all, he had to go back to the academy. If he went through an eighth-order magic disaster alone and came back without any injuries, it would inevitably make people suspicious.
…
Follow-up.
The beast tide at the initial stage of the magic disaster was resisted vigorously by the Kingdom's 17th Army Group, which held out until the subsequent 15th Army Group arrived for support. In addition, the powerful magicians sent by the academy assisted in the range magic bombardment of large groups of magic beasts, which quickly reduced the overall pressure.
Nearby churches also provided support and dispatched a large number of pastors to rescue the injured soldiers and comfort the residents.
The members of the newspaper guild who had smelled something were rushing over but were stopped on the pretext of a military operation.
Then there is the issue of the elite beast tide.
The known situation is not very clear, but the more credible version is that the powerful people living in seclusion nearby and the dean of Polaris Academy and others joined forces and went directly to the source of the magic disaster, suppressing, channeling or dispersing the chaotic and huge magic elements by some means.
It also destroyed all the fourth- and fifth-level monsters that had just been condensed, and prevented the subsequent eighth-level monsters from condensing.
A more outrageous version of the rumor is that there is actually a ninth-level magic dragon deep in the Sage Forest, which is very dissatisfied with the magical disaster in its own home and thus helps out.
It is not clear how much of this is true and how much is false, but before the details are officially announced, nearby residents know that they are safe.
Then comes the issue of casualty statistics and post-disaster reconstruction.
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Around ten o'clock at night.
The magical disaster broke out at around three o'clock in the afternoon. The army that arrived after four o'clock went through five hours of intense fighting before they could rest. At this moment, they were already cleaning up the battlefield.
Most of the monsters have been destroyed, and the scattered monsters are not something that the army can handle with heavy casualties. After all, the soldiers in the army are ordinary people. Even if they have cultivated fighting spirit, they are at most at the middle level. If they reach the high level, they are basically not ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, the subsequent sporadic monster elimination tasks at night were handed over to the warrior students of Polaris Academy.
The 17th Army Group, which suffered heavy casualties and was located nearby, temporarily stayed where they were, while the 15th Army Group, which came to support them, suffered relatively minor casualties. After counting the casualties and simply cleaning up the bodies on the battlefield, they took the magic car back to their original garrison point.
"Lord Tattle, the casualty reports have been submitted by each team and counted." The secretary came into the tent with a heavy casualty report.
"Read it," Tuttle said.
"yes!"
"Due to the hasty march, each branch of the army was not fully equipped, especially the heavy infantry, which lacked heavy metal equipment and was on the front line. 372 people were killed and the remaining soldiers were all injured."
"The rest of the infantry troops suffered 1,223 casualties, 546 serious injuries, and 2,728 minor injuries."
"There were no deaths among the archers and magicians, but because the archers took the initiative to charge forward, 25 were seriously injured and 57 were slightly injured."
"As for the Knights, 13 Terry (Level 3) Knights were scrapped and 29 were severely damaged. 37 Dewa (Level 2) Knights were scrapped and 56 were severely damaged. Only a few Mecha Knights were slightly injured, and the rest are fine."
The secretary closed the report and lowered his head silently.
"The total number of casualties is 1,595..." Tattle sighed slightly.
They were in a stable country, but a magical disaster caused the death of so many soldiers!
Although the 15th Army arrived later, it participated in the battle for three hours after all, and there must have been casualties.
Add the militia and the guard, maybe...
The number of people who sacrificed their lives for this may have reached as many as two thousand!
Tuttle couldn't help but clench his fists, but he resisted the urge to explode.
"Report the data to the Central Military Department."
"And order the soldiers to intensify night patrols in the village to prevent sporadic night attacks by monsters from causing secondary casualties. At the same time, order some soldiers to escort seriously injured and slightly injured soldiers back to Kesfulo City on magic vehicles for timely treatment, so as not to add too much pressure to the priests of nearby churches."
"And... the casualties among the residents? Not big, right?"
Tuttle finally asked with a complicated and even cautious mood.
"Not big!" The secretary also showed a little joy.
"It can even be said that the number is very small. Apart from a small number of people living alone in the wild or those who are farming or hunting at a long distance, basically no one was injured." Secretary.
"That's good." Tuttle breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the losses were heavy, at least they succeeded!
…
Just at this moment.
"Report, a high-ranking warrior boy with a secret order from Prince Ersha wants to see General Tattle." A report came from the guards outside the tent.
Prince Ersha's men? Tuttle was stunned.
Did he get here on the magic car that just arrived?
"Let him in." Tuttle,
"yes!"
Then, Su Lian, wearing a black cloak and a large hood, entered the tent led by a guard.
The guard then withdrew.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Tuttle said.
Su Lian looked at the secretary next to him, confirmed that he was not an outsider, and then lifted his hood.
"Hello, General Tattle. Let me introduce myself briefly. I am the grandson of Suman Ersha, and I am currently studying at Pole Star Academy under the identity of Su Lian." Su Lian introduced himself with a faint smile.
Tuttle was slightly stunned.
Ersha's grandson?
How did he appear here? Pole Star Academy...Oh!