The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

The horses that were knocked away rolled and landed on the grass, already dead.

Fortunately, Lu Ming and his companion reacted instantly the moment the two puppet soldiers charged at them. One used lightning speed, and the other used teleportation magic, both managing to escape from their horses and avoid certain death. Otherwise, they would have been crushed to death!

Sitting on the ground, Lu Ming drew his Irithyll Straight Sword, cautiously watching the two roaring puppet soldiers, and said to Lothric not far away, "One for each of you."

"Understood." Lothric smiled slightly upon hearing Lu Ming's words, and drew his Lothric Knight's Sword from his waist, preparing to fight the two puppet soldiers.

But at that moment, Torres suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Taking advantage of the fact that the two puppet soldiers' hatred was focused on Lu Ming and Lothric, he launched a flanking attack and beheaded the two puppet soldiers!

Seeing this, Lu Ming and his companion were slightly speechless. However, although they were speechless at Tures's act of stealing kills, they still had to save her! After all, she was their boss's sister.

With no other option, Lu Ming could only use his divine speed to attack the two headless puppet soldiers, while Lothric used teleportation magic to teleport behind Tures, grab her, and then teleport away.

By the time Torres reacted, her horse had already been cut in two by one of the two strange puppet soldiers!

It's fair to say that if Lu Mingyi's Holy Staff hadn't knocked down the puppet soldier closest to Torres, and if Lothric hadn't come to his rescue, Torres would have been killed by the puppet soldier just like that horse!

"Those are puppet soldiers! They're lifeless! What's the use of beheading them?!" Lothric roared at Tures, then ran towards Lu Ming with a knight's sword in one hand and a magic staff in the other, to support Lu Ming who was surrounded by puppet soldiers.

Looking around, he saw that his retreat was blocked by a large group of ordinary puppet soldiers. Moreover, directly in front of him were the other two puppet soldiers who had been beheaded. Lu Ming took a deep breath, assumed a fighting stance, and charged towards the two peculiar puppet soldiers.

Swords and blades are useless against puppet soldiers, so Lu Ming's strategy was to parry with the Irithyll Straight Sword and then unleash the Soul Greatsword with the Aries Staff to tear the two other puppet soldiers and the rest of the puppet soldiers to shreds!

The azure soul greatsword, constructed from the light emanating from the eye atop the Aries Staff, suddenly slashed through the puppet soldiers, instantly tearing countless puppet soldiers to shreds with the intangible magical greatsword!

However, the two peculiar puppet soldiers dodged the soul sword strike in a strange manner, which surprised Lu Ming slightly.

"What exactly are these two puppet soldiers? Why have I never seen them in any spellbooks before?" At this moment, Lothric also used magic to attack Lu Ming's side. Looking at the two strange puppet soldiers that didn't seem like Amp's puppet soldiers, Lothric asked Lu Ming with some doubt.

"Sorry, there's no record of anything like these two puppet soldiers in my collection." Lu Ming frowned after casually using a reinforced Farron short arrow to kill several of his friend's puppet soldiers who had attacked him.

"So, this is a new technology that Yaru has developed after modifying Anpu's puppet soldier magic?"

"I don't know. But these puppet soldiers are definitely much better than elemental shaping. At the very least, they're more controllable than elemental creatures!"

“I don’t think they are ‘controllable’.”

"Of course, that's from Yaru's perspective. But for us, these puppet soldiers are a complete nuisance!"

Seeing that Lu Ming and Lothric were still idly killing ordinary puppet soldiers while talking, the two peculiar puppet soldiers, after picking up their heads and putting them back on, did not hesitate to attack Lu Ming and Lothric.

Seeing this, Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh and said, "It looks like the two of us won't be able to go back today."

“Miss Tures won’t let us go back! After all, only mages can deal with these puppet soldiers. And these two are not ordinary mages!” Lothric said with a wry smile as he watched the two puppet soldiers knock away the other ordinary puppet soldiers and charge towards the two of them.

“That’s true.” With a slight smile, Lu Ming looked at the two peculiar puppet soldiers, took a deep breath, and then charged towards them with Lothric!

Swords clashed, magic clashed with armor, and attacks came one after another. Lu Ming and Lothric gradually suppressed the two strange puppet soldiers.

Meanwhile, Torres, who had almost died at the hands of those two puppet soldiers, began to lead the knights of Deucalion to crush all the hundreds of ordinary puppet soldiers around Lu Ming and his companion, so as to prevent them from interfering with Lu Ming and Lothric's attack and prolonging the battle.

At this moment, the commander of the rescued knights, the vice-general of the Deucalion Cavalry Regiment, Haimir Cardotus, also arrived at the side where Toures was under the protection of the knights.

Compared to Tures, who excels in combat and charging, Haimir, who usually takes on command roles, isn't particularly skilled in combat. Therefore, her injuries are quite severe. In fact, she has a gruesome wound on her right hand, which might render it useless!

Seeing Haimir's injuries, Tures couldn't help but feel a sense of fear. If Lu Ming hadn't been careful and hadn't sent a light elemental bird to follow him, Tures might have ended up only seeing Haimir's corpse...

With a single sword strike, Lu Ming cleaved through the shield of one of the two peculiar puppet soldiers. Seizing the opportunity, without a word, he pressed the Aries Holy Staff against the puppet soldier's chest. The next moment, a Soul Spear was unleashed, instantly tearing this extraordinary puppet soldier to shreds!

Meanwhile, on the Lothric side, the same thing happened. The Lothric Knight Sword deflected the golem's shield and killed it with a spear of light.

However, these two puppet soldiers also caused them considerable trouble, as they were cut by the puppet soldiers' weapons and were bleeding profusely.

Watching the puppet soldiers around them being trampled by the heavy cavalry, then restored to their original state and continuing to fight the knights, Lu Ming and Lothric breathed a sigh of relief. After healing themselves with white magic and miracles, they had no choice but to go and wipe out these tens of thousands of puppet soldiers.

Deucalion's regiment was entirely composed of cavalry; not a single member was a mage. Their only priests numbered a mere hundred. Moreover, they were all support personnel and couldn't possibly come to the battlefield. Therefore, these countless puppet soldiers could only be dealt with by the two of them.

With no other option, Lu Ming and Lothric could only use wide-area destructive magic to wipe out all these annoying puppet soldiers!

They could no longer worry about accidentally harming Deucalion's knights. After all, there were simply too many puppet soldiers here, and if they weren't eliminated, they might even infiltrate Erebus. Therefore, they could only choose spells with the least lethality against these heavy cavalry, unable to completely eliminate the possibility of friendly fire.

Both Toures and Haimir knew this... (To be continued.)

Chapter 79 - Anti-Puppet Soldiers

Early the next morning, following the Grand Duke's orders, Mirar led seventeen professors from the magic school to the border to teach the knights of Deucalion some basic offensive magic, so they wouldn't suffer another defeat when they encountered puppet soldiers again.

Seeing the Deucalion knights around them looking at them mages as if they were monsters, Miral knew without asking that it was because the magic Lu Ming and Lothric had used to eliminate the puppet soldiers had frightened them. Otherwise, given the pride of the Deucalion knights, how could they possibly show any fear?

"What did you do?" This was Miral's first question upon seeing Lu Ming, who had to stay in the military camp for fear of another puppet soldier attack.

"It's nothing, just giving them a massive cold shower." Pulling Miral into his arms, Lu Ming held her and said with a smile as if he hadn't done anything.

"A cold shower? Did you just get hit by a massive flood?"

"It wasn't that exaggerated! The water level at the time only reached my lovely Miral's neck at most. How could it be some kind of world-ending flood?"

"..." Looking at Lu Ming's smiling face, Miral was speechless, thinking that the water level was already a standard major flood!

At that moment, Grand Duke Rael and his sister Toures came over.

Seeing Lu Ming chatting and laughing with Miral in his arms, Torreston, who had caught a cold from the flood, was furious and shouted, "Viscount Lu Ming! I hope you will allow your wife to do the work she is supposed to do!"

Helpless, Lu Ming had no choice but to release Miral, who then went to join the professors in teaching some of the more literate squad leaders of the Deucalion Knights some simple offensive magic.

"Are you happy now?" After Miral left, Lu Ming looked at Tures with a helpless expression.

"Pretty much." Seeing that Lu Ming, the jerk who had thrown her into the flood with Lothric and let her drown for half a minute, was unhappy, Tures smiled and raised her head, striking a haughty pose. But the next moment, a series of sneezes made her look somewhat disheveled.

Seeing his older sister sneezing incessantly because of a cold, Duke Rael suddenly wondered if the Deucalion Cavalry's tactic of invading the Duchy of Yaru was a bit unreliable.

-----------------------------------

Just like Erebus, Tartarus and Styx were also ambushed by Yarruan puppet soldiers.

Unlike the pure cavalry legion of Erebus's Deucalion Cavalry, the armies of Tartarus and Styx were equipped with a large number of priests and mages, and were not afraid of ordinary puppet soldiers at all.

However, Lu Ming and Lothric encountered those peculiar puppet soldiers, which caused huge losses to the armies of the two duchies.

Styx suffered a particularly heavy loss, losing thirty-nine mages to four strange puppet soldiers.

Driven by the belief that "knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory," the three duchies of Styx, Tartarus, and Erebus retrieved the remains of these peculiar puppet soldiers and began their research, hoping to find out exactly what these wretched things were and why they were so powerful.

On Erebus's side, the main personnel were the two magic advisors from the Grand Duke's mansions of Lothric and Rael. Lu Ming and Miral were temporary research advisors.

However, Lu Ming didn't have much talent for magic with puppet soldiers, so he could only offer some of his own ideas, which weren't very helpful. Miral, on the other hand, was the opposite. She didn't have much talent for elemental magic, but she had an extremely amazing talent for binding magic with puppet soldiers.

It took them an entire night to complete the replication and improvement of this peculiar puppet soldier.

However, it was discovered that no matter who was in charge, it was impossible to mass-produce these puppet soldiers. Only a small number could be manufactured to kill the mages in the armies of the three duchies!

The reason the two other puppet soldiers attacked Lu Ming and Lothric like madmen when they saw them, while they were waiting for the knights, was because the two were mages with a large amount of magical energy stored in their bodies. These puppets were specifically designed to hunt mages!

Compared to ordinary puppet soldiers, the binding magic on these puppet soldiers is much more stable; unlike ordinary puppet soldiers, they are rendered useless when hit by magic. These puppet soldiers require extremely powerful offensive magic to break through their magic.

In other words, it would be impossible to defeat them by relying solely on knights who have learned a little bit of basic magic.

This presented Lu Ming and his group with a difficult problem, a problem they could not overcome!

They thought about this for a long time but couldn't come up with a solution.

-----------------------------------

At dawn, Lu Ming dragged Grand Duke Raelers out of his warm bed and reported, "We can't effectively deal with these bone ash puppet soldiers that the Duchy of Yaru is producing. Even with Lothric and me joining the battle, we can't completely stop their effectiveness. So, Lothric and I have decided to create a puppet soldier that can counter these puppet soldiers. Using the same thing to counter them is our only relatively good solution right now."

"So how many puppet soldiers can be created to counter those puppet soldiers?" Duke Raels asked Lu Ming, shivering in the cold morning wind.

"The exact number is still unknown, but Miral is already working hard to produce them. It is estimated that with her magic power, she should be able to make about twenty."

"So, how effective will this countermeasure be?"

"Because we didn't get much data from the Yaru Principality's ash-covered puppet soldiers, the effect is only about 75%. But with some simple magically enhanced weapons, we should be able to defeat the Yaru Principality's puppet soldiers. Moreover, Kadira and Kokodora are also very effective against these puppet soldiers. However, when using Kokodora to deal with these puppet soldiers, we need to be careful in our command, otherwise Kokodora will have a hard time defeating them!"

Upon hearing this, Grand Duke Rael fell into deep thought. After a while, he said to Lu Ming, "Let's wait until Miral finishes making the puppet soldiers. Anyway, we still have plenty of time. The other two duchies will also encounter the same problem; it's impossible for us to be the only ones facing these puppet soldiers. So we don't need to worry about holding Tartarus and Styx back."

After saying that, he spoke again and asked Lu Ming, "Yaru's special puppet soldiers use bone ash. What do you plan to use for your puppet soldiers?"

Lu Ming smiled slightly and said, "We use powdered dragon scales and sub-dragon scales, as well as iron sand. The first two materials can stabilize binding magic, allowing the puppet soldiers to withstand magical attacks without disintegrating. The latter material ensures that the puppet soldiers are not at a disadvantage when fighting against the puppet soldiers of the Duchy of Yaru!"

"Very well, then I'll await your good news." Grand Duke Rael yawned, then wanted to return to his tent to take another nap.

Unfortunately, Lothric suddenly appeared behind the Grand Duke, grabbed him, and dragged him towards Toures's tent. He said, "To help Deucalion's knights better fight the puppet soldiers, your two magic advisors and I have created some ordinary puppet soldiers. So now, please go and wake your sister and have her lead the knights in training. Magic isn't something you can just learn and be done with! Without prolonged practice, the simple spells those knights learn are practically useless..."

Watching the Grand Duke being dragged away, Lu Ming was secretly pleased. But now was not the time to rest or watch the spectacle; he still had to go and assist Miral, otherwise, who knew what she might do!

However, before returning to the military tent that Miral had used as a temporary workshop, he first went to find a pot, made some food, and prepared to eat something with Miral first.

But when she returned to the enormous military tent, she discovered that the puppet soldiers Mirar had created weren't as strange as she had imagined. In fact, they were far superior to those from the Duchy of Yaru!

Watching Miral meticulously crafting the puppet soldiers, Lu Ming thought to himself that Miral's talent was quite impressive! At least in the area of ​​puppet soldiers, he was many times better than him.

After Miral finished making the first puppet soldier and put it in the armor of the Deucalion Knight, Lu Ming said to Miral, "Wash your hands and have breakfast first."

Upon hearing this, Miral put down her tools, used magic to condense a ball of water floating in mid-air, washed her dirty hands, sat down in front of Lu Ming, and ate breakfast with him.

“I suddenly realized that I’m not entirely without talent for magic. I have a great talent for puppet soldiers!” Miral boasted to Lu Ming while eating.

Lu Ming smiled and echoed her sentiments.

Suddenly, Miral asked Lu Ming in a serious tone, "What do you think about offering a course on making puppet soldiers at the magic school?"

"Let's make it a new course for second-year students. It's not really appropriate to teach how to make puppet soldiers in first-year students. Besides, if we want to offer a course on making puppet soldiers, we have to negotiate with the magicians from Amp's family. All of this takes time, so we can't rush it."

Hearing Lu Ming's answer, Miral nodded slightly and smiled, "That's true."

Then, she looked at the completed puppet soldier and smiled, "Also, I need to study it carefully. Otherwise, I might make a fool of myself when I teach my students."

Seeing the smile on Miral's face as she looked at the puppet soldier, Lu Ming couldn't help but kiss Miral on the cheek, causing Miral to blush and retaliate.

While Lu Ming and Miral were chatting and laughing, Tartarus and Styx were also working intensively on developing secret weapons to target the puppet soldiers of the Principality of Yaru.

Among them, the weapons developed in Styx, the land of magic, are the strangest, but also the most efficient!

-----------------------------------

Sitting in the Grand Duke's mansion in the city of Agamemnon in Erebus, a pair of eleven-year-old twin sisters were having breakfast under the care of Shumira.

Looking at the sisters, both Shumira and Myra felt conflicted. On one hand, they loathed the sisters, knowing that if one of them were confirmed as Grand Duke Rael's wife, she would surely steal the position of the principal wife that belonged to either of them. On the other hand, they felt sympathy for the children who had been forced to flee to Erebus by the evil cult and the remnants of Evines, now struggling to survive in solitude.

The army of Yaru is now under the control of the Evil Spirit Church, and the sisters' father, the Grand Duke of Yaru, has been assassinated. Their two older brothers and sisters have also been kidnapped by the Evil Spirit Church. If Erebus ignores them, they might starve to death in the streets...

At this moment, a guard from the Grand Duke's mansion suddenly entered and respectfully said to Shumira, "Miss Shumira, the Grand Duke said that there has been a change in the war at the border, and he will not be able to return for a few days. Therefore, he asks you and Miss Myra to take care of Miss Domina and Miss Komina."

"I understand." Shumira nodded slightly, then asked the guard, "Has the Grand Duke written back?"

"Yes, Miss Shumira, the Grand Duke has written back." The guard respectfully handed a letter to Shumira and then withdrew.

After opening the envelope and taking out the letter, Shumira glanced at it only once before hurriedly standing up and leaving the room, leaving Myra and the two daughters of the Grand Duke of Yaru completely bewildered.