Mage Veigar

Chapter 48 The battle begins
A child?
No, it should be said that it was a young child.

He was wearing a military uniform of the Nolan Empire and holding a sharp dagger in his hand. The rank of second lieutenant on his shoulder clearly told him that this young boy was an officer of the empire.

"It's ridiculous."

Theodore smiled with disdain: "The Imperial Army has reached the end of its rope and has to send a child to the battlefield. It seems that only an ignorant child would give the order to fight back."

He felt he had earned it.

A child officer who didn't know the consequences of his life issued an order that was futile. Wasn't it really because they thought his military merits were not enough, so they let a child lead a troop to give him military merits?

Theodore responded with a new order from Vega.

"Deploy the 312 formation."

Vega looked straight ahead. He did not even blink at the mighty 500-man army. He raised his right hand slightly. When the enemy entered the attack range, his childish voice lingered in everyone's ears: "Attack!"

Give an order.

The crossbowman behind the giant shieldman pulled the trigger of the crossbow.

shhhhh--

Arrows were shot out one after another.

Because it was fired from a sophisticated crossbow, the powerful penetrating power enabled a single arrow to penetrate the soldiers of two United Kingdoms.

Puff puff——

The blood dyed the white snow on the ground red.

The Kingdom Army lost more than 60 soldiers before they even charged to Vega.

312 formation.

This is the most basic small-scale combat formation of the Empire, with shieldmen blocking in the front and our crossbowmen waiting for an opportunity in the middle of the formation. When a round of volleys is completed, the spearmen at the end will take over the crossbowmen's position to defend, giving them time to reload arrows.

After waiting for the crossbowmen to finish reloading, they can turn around to cover the spearmen and shieldmen in their battles.

The cannon fodder troops of the United Kingdom had no idea about this. Their fighting style was still based on a swarm charge. Not only did they not have a crossbow squad responsible for cover, they also did not have any defensive front row of shieldmen. Naturally, this round of volleys caused them to suffer a great loss.

"Damn it."

Theodore, who was leading the way, was forced to stop by a crossbow arrow.

Although he was a professional and the crossbows could not cause any harm to him, the huge impact force still made him retreat several steps. At this time, he was no longer naive enough to think that the Imperial Army was really a cannon fodder like him.

This is basically the backbone of the Imperial Army.

First, look at the other side's sophisticated equipment, strong combat capabilities, and psychological quality of not panicking in the face of danger, and then look at our side, except for the advantage in numbers, which is almost equivalent to the naked soldiers running...

This looks a bit miserable indeed.

If the quality is not good, the numbers will make up for it.

Although the overall quality of the soldiers is indeed far behind that of the Imperial Army, Theodore has never thought of letting the cooked duck fly away. Can more than 500 soldiers not defeat the 130-man backbone force of the Imperial Army?

What's more, he is a professional.

Thinking of this, Theodore burst into fighting spirit, and rushed towards Vega's troops with a cross sword in hand.

He was moving very fast and was seriously out of touch with the troops.

But Theodore did not think so much. He wanted to destroy the imperial army's battle formation before the crossbowmen launched the second round of volleys. Otherwise, no matter how many people he had, he could not withstand the consumption of the crossbowmen.

At this time, Vega stood in front of him.

Theodore was not afraid at all, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Although he sensed a hint of magic from Vega and was certain that Vega was a professional, he did not think that a child of around ten years old could be that strong.

A sword flew across the sky and rushed down.

The sword came down from top to bottom like a mountain, chopping off Vega's head.

Since the cross sword was very powerful, if Vega used the dagger to block it, he would probably fly out with the sword. If he chose to dodge, Theodore had already prepared a follow-up move to kill him.

3 meters, 2 meters, 1 meters...

Just when Theodore thought he had victory, Vega moved.

He did not choose to dodge or use the dagger to block. Instead, he gave up any defense and swung the dagger straight towards Theodore's heart.

What do you want to do?
The long sword was obviously longer, so if they wanted to die together, it would be impossible. The final result would probably be that the long sword chopped off Vega's head instead of Vega's short sword piercing his heart first.

After all, he is still a child.

Theodore seemed to see the goddess of victory waving at him.

boom.

A loud bang echoed.

Theodore's sword struck a translucent shield.

what is this?
As a professional, he certainly understood that this was the mage's exclusive defense - the mage's shield.

Theodore's smile froze, he never expected that Vega was actually a magician. A magician who crushed the opponent without using spells. He actually pretended to be a pig and eat the tiger, pretending to be a professional and attacking at close range. Do you still have any shame?

flutter.

Vega's dagger struck back and stabbed Theodore in the heart.

Kill with one knife.

If the script was followed and they attacked in a mutually destructive manner, then Veigar would definitely be the one to die. However, Theodore did not expect that Veigar actually had a magic shield that he could use at any time, and coupled with the level crushing, he did not even have the chance to use a second move and died directly under Veigar's sword.

His whole body was shaken.

After killing Theodore, the unknown power in Vega's brain became stronger.

A thought came to my mind.

Veigar discovered that his Mage Shield was even more solid, and the speed of its release was 1/5 faster than before. It seemed that killing ordinary units could gain mana, and killing professionals could gain the "unknown power" in their brains. This was certain.

He turned his attention to the approaching Kingdom Army.

Vega couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Sure enough, the regiment's order was not wrong. There were no powerful professionals in this cannon fodder unit. A second-level trainee was already the best. It was in vain that he was still worried about encountering an opponent that he was no match for.

A sinister smile appeared on Vega's face.

After harvesting the 'unknown power', it's time to start harvesting magic power. I think these 500 lives will be enough for him to be promoted to a level 4 apprentice professional.

The dagger is tucked at the waist.

Vega used the captured cross sword as a scepter and placed it on the ground. "Order, all soldiers of the 232nd Company, retreat 300 meters. I will be responsible for clearing out these 500 Kingdom troops alone."

"what?"

The adjutant was stunned for a moment, then said excitedly: "Captain, we understand your good intentions in taking care of your subordinates, but even if you are a professional, this is too risky. After all, your magic power will be exhausted if you fight for a long time. Please let us fight together."

The soldiers were moved and said in unison: "Please let us fight together."

Sometimes it is not a good thing for subordinates to be too loyal. Vega rubbed his temple helplessly: "These 500 Kingdom soldiers are more than enough to be eliminated with my strength. There is no need to make fearless casualties."

"But……"

Vega said in an irrefutable tone: “Adjutant, follow the order!”

(End of this chapter)