Mage Veigar

Chapter 416 Great increase in strength
Great victory at Nora.

This piece of news greatly encouraged the three armies, which had been in a somewhat depressed state. The rumors of food shortage and impending defeat caused by plundering civilians' food were refuted.

Of course.

All the soldiers regarded Vega's behavior of plundering civilians as a strategy to lure the enemy into a trap, and they would not fail because of such a small matter as lack of food. Vega's invincible image became even more lofty in everyone's mind.

But you know your own suffering.

As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, Vega knew his own situation very well. He was far from being as glamorous as his subordinates imagined.

First of all.

Although he won the war, the food shortage crisis was not resolved, and he still owed a lot of debt to the civilians. Before he captured the Stone City, he was unable to repay the food he owed to the civilians with interest.

Not only can it not be repaid.

Veigar also had to use the looted food to live frugally and hold on until he could finally capture the Stone City.

This is destined to be a protracted war.

After all, there is the lesson of Theon. As long as the commander who takes over the downstream battle situation is not too stupid, he will definitely hold his ground like a frightened bird. What Vega fears most is this kind of stubborn holding out.

There is no other way to fight this kind of war except conventional warfare.

Moreover, he has lost the support of the people. Once the army comes out in full force, some organizations that intend to overthrow his rule may incite civilians to cause him to lose his rear base and become rootless.

Don't underestimate the power of civilians.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance. If Vega dares to plunder their food and infringe on their interests, these harmless civilians and those capitalists will dare to pick up knives, guns, sticks and clubs to hit you hard.

of course.

Victory in a war cannot have only disadvantages and no advantages.

In this battle, more than 2 enemies were killed, 3 escaped in the chaos, and the remaining 5 soldiers were captured.

These 5 captured soldiers are not here to waste Vega's limited food reserves. These captured soldiers are actually the people of the Holy Dynasty. Vega only needs to reorganize them into the headquarters, which is equivalent to indirectly strengthening his own strength.

In other words.

Now Vega's army has increased by 5 people, and the total number has exceeded 25.

These 5 prisoners are not so-called new recruits, but elite soldiers who have experienced wars of all sizes. Their joining not only directly enhances the combat effectiveness of Vega's troops, but also improves the enthusiasm of the entire army.

Why do you say that?
Looking around, daily training is significantly different from usual.

The difference is that the Vega headquarters soldiers, as the victorious side, are no match for these newly incorporated captured soldiers in daily training. In one-on-one confrontation training, even two headquarters soldiers may not necessarily defeat the captured soldiers.

The formation training is even worse.

The soldiers at Vega's headquarters only held back the captured soldiers, and the weekend's outstanding soldier evaluations were almost all dominated by the newly recruited captured soldiers and the imperial soldiers under Vega's command, with no sign of new recruits at all.

Everyone values ​​dignity.

In the army, soldiers regard glory as their life.

As soldiers of the victorious side, they were actually no match for these defeated captured soldiers. Doesn't this mean that they are almost useless without Vega, and they are not even worthy of being commanded by a talented general like Vega?

The huge sense of shame made the entire army breathless.

Therefore, during normal training, the new recruits of Vega headquarters began to be ruthless. They trained desperately, and even after the training, they spent more time on double training than the captured soldiers.

Just less than half a month.

In the weekly evaluation of outstanding soldiers, although the number of these new recruits is still less than that of imperial soldiers and captured soldiers, it has increased by more than three times compared to half a month ago.

Vega smiled with satisfaction when he saw this. These were all his masterpieces, including incorporating captured soldiers into the headquarters, participating in daily training, and also the weekly evaluation of outstanding soldiers.

It turns out that this move makes a lot of sense.

No one likes to be trampled under the feet of a former loser. Now Vega's army finally has a certain combat effectiveness. Although it is still far from being an elite force, it is at least close to the level of a backbone force.

Veigar was standing on the platform, looking down at the soldiers.

He muttered to himself, "To unite a group of people, what is needed is not a wise leader, but a powerful enemy. The former is passive and inefficient, while the latter is proactive and gets twice the result with half the effort."

There is an excellent enemy called "captive soldiers".

It is indeed hard for Vega's army not to be powerful.

Not to mention the direct or indirect improvement in the army's combat effectiveness, Vega himself also gained a lot in this battle.

More than 2 lives allowed him to advance directly.

The middle professional is Vega's current professional level, which means that with his current magic limit, he can learn more magic and combat skills. If you don't consider the consumption of magic, you can at least use 3 more combat skills in battle.

In other words.

Veigar can bless himself with 6 powerful buffs for a long time without worrying about his mana running out prematurely.

Therefore, Veigar immediately ordered his subordinates to find some combat rune pages, so that he could select three combat skills to focus on and use them as the main combat method for the next period of time.

Because after the promotion.

Vega found that he was still a long way from becoming a high-level professional, and estimated that it would take him a long time to use these combat skills.

In addition to the professional level.

Vega's magician level has finally improved, and now he has the strength of a lower-level magician.

However, this time the promotion was a natural process, and he did not encounter the bottleneck that he encountered in the last professional promotion. This made Vega quite confused, or was it that the bottleneck of magicians was not at the lower level?
Vega didn't think too much about it. After all, being able to advance was a good thing.

Now he can officially start learning intermediate lower-level magic. Intermediate magic is different from low-level 1-5 magic in power. This can be seen from the difference between the fire elemental mage's fire meteorite and flame explosion.

Although I advanced.

But it is difficult to learn new magic in a short period of time.

Because Shadow Mage is a rare profession, it is correspondingly difficult to collect high-level magic rune pages.

After all, magic above level 3 is difficult to replicate with current technology.

Moreover, the places where magic rune pages are sold are only in some important cities. Now the magic rune pages in the important cities on the east coast have been basically looted by the kingdom’s army. Vega can only place his hope on the Stone City.

Because this important city on the west bank has not fallen yet.

Vega kept this matter in mind, and the impending sense of crisis made him urgently need to improve his strength.

This sense of crisis does not come from the west coast of the dynasty, but from the empire.

As we all know, the Empire has a terrifying organization - the Inquisition.

This organization is only responsible for trying criminals who disobey the verdict, with treason being the most serious. Even if you escape to the ends of the earth, they will hunt you down, and it is rumored that they have never failed.

After the dynasty was unified, Vega married Shia on account of his great contribution.

Then his evil ambitions will surely be discovered by the Empire, and the Empire will inevitably order the Inquisition to purge the traitors. He does not think that ordinary guards can protect him. Vega only believes in himself from beginning to end.

(End of this chapter)