The main text of the Sword of Dawn Chapter 269: The offensive of those monsters without talent was disintegrated.

However, the panic they caused will take some time to subside.

Andesa walked calmly on the wall of the Winter Wolf Fortress with her sword on her waist and her feet were walking steadily on the walls of the Winter Wolf Fortress. She was patrolling the defense line after the battle. The scene at her eyes made her frown.

Those blood-colored giants who came from nowhere did not step into the fortress. The brave soldiers of Tifeng defeated those terrible enemies on the city wall. However, the monsters' fearless posture and weird "erosion" destructive power were still frightening. Huge scars eroded by corroded energy arrows can be seen everywhere on the city wall. The soldiers directly attacked by the energy arrows either died miserably or were seriously injured. The ordinary metal armor had almost no protection against that weird attack. It seemed that only enchanted or armor made of magic metal could effectively resist the monster's attack. But how many people in the entire army could afford a complete set of magic weapons?

Andesa stood by the city wall and looked down. She saw that the huge rock wall below had a large number of mottled scars, and several huge erosion marks even spread to the height close to the battlement. In the final stage of the battle, several special individuals with extremely large sizes and strong resistance to strike appeared among the blood-colored giants. The attacks issued by the magicians failed to stop them from advancing. The monsters destroyed the magicians' defenses with a strange magic lightning. Then they climbed the city wall with rolling wood and falling rocks and rainy arrows. Although they were eventually destroyed, they left several terrifying damage on the city wall.

An adjutant came from behind and handed a report to Andesha: "General Andesha, the casualties and wounded soldiers have been counted. Please check it out."

Andesa took the report in a heavy mood. The monsters attacked very suddenly, and the soldiers had never fought with similar enemies, so the battle was not easy. The report seemed even a bit dazzling to her.

"Take it down, and follow the rules to provide the families of the dead and treat the injured. If you cannot continue fighting, you will be sent back to the country to write a certificate of heroic combat. After you go back, you can at least have enough food and clothing," Andersha returned the report to the adjutant in a irritable state, then turned to look at the plain that had been covered with a dirty and bloody color, "You said... where did these monsters come from?"

The plain in front of the Winter Wolf Fortress was originally covered with heavy snow and was covered with silvery white. However, the giants dyed the entire earth with unknown dark red. The killed monsters fell on the land. The flesh and blood melted and flowed like mud, and while corroding the earth, it rose into rolling smoke and dust. Soon there would be only huge bones left. It was intimidating that Andersa had faced various enemies, but this was the first time she had seen a similar scene.

The adjutant didn't expect the general to ask him this question. He was stunned for a moment before saying with uncertainty: "The initial sentry reported that the monsters were coming from the pass of the Dark Mountains, and that... should be Ansu's direction."

"Ansu?" Andesha's expression gradually became gloomy, "That country..."

"But it may not be Ansu," the adjutant then added his thoughts, "General, the Dark Mountains are next to the wasteland of Gondor..."

"Do you suspect that those monsters came out of the wasteland of Gondor?" Andesha raised her eyebrows and looked at the adjutant who had always been cautious, "This idea is very bold."

"We have received information that Ansu was attacked by an 'unknown monster'. The rumor is a monster that wandered out of the wasteland of Gondor," the adjutant reminded Andersha. "If more monsters wandered out of the wasteland and wandered along the natural barrier of the dark mountains, they would indeed be able to wander here..."

"But there is a magnificent wall blocking the wasteland of Gondor," Andersha immediately frowned, "Didn't the watchtower on the border also say that the barrier is fine?"

“Those watchtowers are useless, they are too far from the wasteland.”

"...Go and prepare the griffin," Andesha said after a brief pondering, "You must tell the Emperor what happened here!"

After giving the order, Andessa raised her head and looked at the hazy and shadowy mountains in the southwest with uneasy face. Although she could not see the scene behind the mountains with naked eyes, she knew that the wasteland of Gondor was in that direction, and the magnificent walls built by the elves were there.

Thinking of the magnificent wall and the Sentinel Tower that supports the magnificent wall, Andesha couldn't help but feel a little envious. It is said that those ancient magic towers have powerful communication power, which can allow information to be transmitted along the entire magnificent wall's border in an instant to the local area of ​​the Silver Empire. The elves used this incredible ancient technology to maintain monitoring of the entire barrier system. In the Gondor era seven hundred years ago, humans also had similar technologies.

However, these technologies have been severely discontinued and degenerated. The existing messaging magic is either expensive or has low effect. Most magic communication towers can only transmit information within a few kilometers, and the cost of building a tower is still very high. Magic communication can be used between several major fortresses on the border, but if the message is to be transmitted from the border to the imperial capital... they can only rely on traditional griffon messengers.

There are not a shortage of proposals to set up hundreds of magic towers along the border to convey information, and similar proposals have been repeatedly discussed in the noble parliament for many years, but after discussion, there is only one result: no money, no one.

The cost of hundreds of magical messaging towers is enough to empty the empire's tax revenue throughout the year. The magic materials used as strategic reserves in the treasury will also be huge. It is necessary to know that the magic arrays of messaging spells are extremely complex. Only with the rarest high-level materials can they be made. However, it is absolutely impossible to take out all of those materials to build hundreds of unmovable towers.

What's more, even if it is created, who will maintain and control them? Only mages can control magic, and complex large magic devices require plural casters to maintain together. Hundreds of permanent magical messaging towers mean that half of the mages in the Imperial Mage Group have to become "tower guardians". Compared with the cost of money, this part of the labor cost is even more unacceptable.

Andesha had various thoughts in her mind. As a noble officer who was young and had a history of military power, she knew better than anyone else how important the transmission of information would play in the war, but she had no choice.

After all, she has no magical talent.

Cecil, who was the director of the Rune Research Institute, put down the drawings and rune substrate in his hand and stretched his long and long waist.

She raised her head from behind the desk and looked at the apprentices who were burying their heads at the tables not far away who were calculating or gathering together to exchange opinions. She couldn't help but smile.

These apprentices are the newcomers that have been added since the establishment of the Rune Research Institute. There are very few people, but it is much better than the situation where she was the only commander here at the beginning.

Half of these apprentices came from the Cecil Territory, who were originally rune craftsmen or rune masters in the territory. They themselves had basic knowledge in the field of practical runes and were good at logic and mathematics. Therefore, after a certain "talent skills inspection", they were assigned here to serve as Jenny's assistant, while the other few were down-and-out scholars and mage apprentices recruited from other places by the lord. Because of their good qualifications, they were also sent here.

To be honest, these people need to be cultivated when they first came. After all, rune logic is a new field. No one in the world knows what they mean except Jenny, Rebecca, Hetty and Gowen. The ideas of these apprentices were still stuck in traditional magic theory at the beginning. It took Jenny a lot of effort to reverse their concepts, but after a period of hard work, these people have gradually come in handy.

When they become professionals in the field of rune logic, Jenny will ask them to take turns to teach courses at General Academy. At that time, Mr. Santis should have completed the basic courses of children's rune common sense and magic theory. After laying a solid foundation, they will learn rune logic and everything will be connected.

Then, the children in the territory will grow into a new generation with knowledge and skills, and these knowledge and skills will continue to be passed on and expand. Under the promotion of the lord, everyone will have the opportunity to learn all this.

Teaching, learning, dissemination, and the transmission of knowledge will not stop easily as long as it begins. It will continue until everyone has the right to contact knowledge, to think and explore the truth, and all this...is probably what Mr. Lavenketh wants to see.

Jenny lowered her head again, looked at the complex rune arrangement in front of her, as well as some formulas and charts that seemed to be like a heavenly book to the outsider, and fell into deep thoughts.

These things are not conventional magic array design drawings, but a special "observation record" handed over to her by Master Carmier. They include the control and output unit structure of the magical obelisk, as well as the reading of the magical energy radiated from the magical obelisk observed by Carmier through the "Eye of Arcane". This includes the regular fluctuations of magic power and a series of complex diffusion and decay data.

These things are not easy to deal with. They have gone beyond the field that Jenny came into contact with when she was studying rune logic. Even Rebecca, who has strong mathematical capabilities, had a headache when she first saw these things for a long time. They are no longer simple rune arrangement problems, nor are they examples that can be solved by simply comparing interference values. These massive, pure data make Jenny feel like she is unable to start, but she knows that mathematics will definitely not let her down.

The most essential secret of magic may be hidden in these data. The lord is also waiting for this data to uncover the mystery of "magic remote transmission" and use this as a breakthrough to find a way to simplify the transmission array. So after Jenny calmed down, she picked up the manuscript paper and pen again and devoted herself to thinking and calculation again.

Paper and pen are her bridge to the magic path. Only with this bridge can she let herself go further than others in this mysterious realm.

After all, she has no magical talent.

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