I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Every day, thousands of guns are destroyed on the front lines and need to be replaced with new barrels, and a large amount of consumed ammunition needs to be replenished.

Now all the factories in the territory are operating at full capacity, and resources are only just enough to sustain the horrific consumption on the front line.

To force Lord Astar to this point, Nipalmo's army paid an extremely heavy price.

After more than 100,000 auxiliary troops filled the trenches and barbed wire arrays of the Hal Line, they were almost wiped out. Only a little over 50,000 of the 100,000 regular troops that Nipalmo brought with him when he set out were left, more than half of which were lost.

But at this time, Nipalmo's face was full of smiles, because the second batch of auxiliary troops transporting supplies had arrived, followed by the Royal Mage Corps.

"Lord Pue, the final outcome of this battle depends on you!"

Nipalmo bowed to the middle-aged man who headed the mage group and spoke solemnly.

Pue quickly helped Nipalmo up and said, "Your Excellency, you are too kind. As a noble of the kingdom, I will naturally do my best. Everything is for the kingdom."

Nipalmo smiled and nodded, and discussed with him the plan he was going to implement.

Puey Lalor

The elder brother of Queen Lalor. His family has been intermarried with the royal family for generations. He is in charge of the mage group that guards the royal capital. He is the most loyal guardian of the royal family and a true member of the royal family.

Late night

Mitia put down her pen, stretched gently, leaned back in her chair and said lazily: "Anna, what time is it now?"

Anna walked forward and held Medea's head, pressing her temples gently with both hands: "Miss, it's a quarter past three, you need to go to bed."

Medea, who closed his eyes to rest, murmured, "Three o'clock... This is the time when ordinary people rest and sleep the deepest, right?"

Anna understood what he meant and immediately replied, "The soldiers on the front line have just completed their rotation, there will be no problem."

"I hope so."

As soon as the voice fell, Medea opened his eyes instantly, and the next moment he disappeared in front of Anna and appeared in mid-air.

She looked up at the sky. There were more than a dozen lights in the sky far above Hal Town. Many soldiers who were changing shifts for the night shift also noticed the abnormality in the sky:

"Hey! Look up in the sky, what's that?"

"It's a shooting star, nothing special."

"...That's not right. Why do I feel like they are brighter than before?"

"It's not that they're getting brighter... They're getting closer! They're coming right towards us!!!"

Chapter 20 No matter how noble he is, can he have more lives?

"They're coming towards us!"

These words coming from the soldiers were like a huge rock thrown into the lake, causing violent splashes, and panic spread among the army in an instant.

Looking at the meteor showers getting closer and closer in the sky, they realized that this was magic! Someone had cast a spell on them!

Magic... Meteor Shower! Ninth Level!

The strongest combination attack magic under the forbidden spell, its destructive range can barely reach the range of the forbidden spell.

Midair, Medea looked at the meteorites in the sky that seemed to be moving slowly but were actually moving very fast. After calming himself down, he shouted loudly:

"Everyone, lead the sergeant immediately and gather towards the center of the hospital. Hurry up!!!"

After saying that, he returned to the house in a flash, picked up the dazed Anna, and flew towards the temporary field hospital.

After landing on the roof of the hospital, she threw out high-grade rare magic crystals as if they were free: "Anna, help me see if they have arrived!"

Anna also saw the meteorites falling rapidly from the sky, and hurried to the edge of the house to check. At this time, the first group of Astar's soldiers were entering the hospital downstairs under the leadership of non-commissioned officers.

But not many people were able to get in, and most of them were still standing outside.

Anna's brain was working at high speed, and she quickly calculated the approximate number in her head: "A group has arrived! There are about 2,000 people!"

"There's another batch on the way! The number is almost the same as the rest in the city, so there's still enough time! It's just that..."

Anna hesitated for a moment, but finally swallowed her words.

The huge meteorite in the sky suddenly exploded, turning into light spots all over the sky and accelerating towards the bottom.

At this time, Medea was already standing in the center of the magic crystal pile, with her hands stretched out and her eyes closed, and the crystal pile under her feet lit up with dazzling light.

Her long silver-white hair moved without wind, and her feet slowly left the ground and floated in the air. Strands of elemental threads emitting cold air spread out from under her in all directions at an extremely fast speed.

The galloping threads began to link with each other after spreading to a certain range, and finally formed a huge light blue magic circle around the hospital, covering everyone in it.

"Kakaka..."

A strong light burst out. Anna looked back and saw bursts of crystals exploding under Medea's feet. A line of bright red blood flowed from the corner of her mouth: "Get up!"

An invisible wave of magical power erupted with her as the center. The huge light blue magic circle was replenished with magical power and turned into ice blue in an instant. An ice wall rose at the edge at an extremely fast speed and closed towards the center.

Less than ten seconds after the ice wall closed into a hemispherical defense wall, bursts of dense roars like a storm were heard.

The surface of the ice wall was shaking violently, and time seemed to slow down at this moment.

After an unknown amount of time, the noise outside disappeared, and the semicircular ice wall slowly shrank and dissolved. The soldiers who survived the disaster could not help but collapse on the ground.

At this time, the town of Hal was in ruins, with holes of all sizes everywhere, and almost all wooden houses were crumbling and had become dangerous buildings.

"Miss! How are you? Are you okay?"

Seeing Medea fall, the anxious Anna immediately hugged her and looked around. Medea reached out to stop her, holding her stomach and frowning, she replied:

"It's okay, I just ate too much..."

She was able to cast the magic just now by herself, but it was impossible for it to be so fast and over such a large range.

So she took a different approach by absorbing a huge amount of magic crystal energy, and then bursting it out all at once to replenish the magic array.

Even a witch, a natural darling of magic, could not handle the act of using herself as a power bank to charge and discharge like this. It was enough to make her feel uncomfortable for several days.

"how is the situation?"

"No one was hurt except you..."

Medea shook her head: "I'm fine. I was careless this time. I didn't expect them to be so willing to do that."

She was able to capture the elemental fluctuations only after the large-scale ninth-order combination magic was released. There was no other possibility except the magic scroll.

This is only true for magic sealed in a scroll. After replenishing it with enough magic power, you can tear it open and release it.

Fortunately, she is also at level nine, otherwise she would have to run away with Anna.

Just outside the city...

Medea looked towards the outside of the city. Judging from the trajectory of this magic, smashing into the city was actually a byproduct, and the main direction of attack was the defensive position outside the town of Hal.

The good news is that Meteor Shower is only level nine after all, which increases the range of damage, and the single-target damage will inevitably be weakened a lot.

So even though the number of falling meteorites was very dense, their size was very small. Wooden houses and human bodies could not withstand it, but the concrete positions outside the town could.

The premise is that the soldiers have time to hide in the fortifications...

Below, without Medea noticing, the soldiers, covered in dust and dirt after the holiday, looked blankly at the devastated streets and houses.

Holding tightly in their hands the spear that had changed their fate, they felt more and more powerless. The same ridicule they had heard countless times before seemed to echo in their ears:

"Do you know what this is? It's magic!"

"Untouchables are untouchables, useless trash with no magic power."

"Only those of us with noble bloodlines can possess such power. You of lowly origin should serve us like slaves."

After a while, Medea brought Anna down from the roof. She then felt that the atmosphere around them was not right. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

The soldiers around saw Medea and saluted subconsciously:

"Commander!"

"Lord Commander!"

Medea waved her hand. "Just call him commander. No need to call him a great general. Didn't the soldiers' committee tell you that officers and soldiers are equal? ​​Go on, what happened? Frick, you tell me!"

Frick stood up and raised his head subconsciously when he heard Medea's name, but the next moment his voice became lowered again: "If it weren't for the commander, all of us who don't know magic would have died."

She didn't say anything, but continued to ask the people around her: "What about you? Do you think so too?"

"...Yes, I think so too. If it weren't for the commander just now, we would all be dead now."

"Only magic can fight magic. We...will never be able to use magic in this lifetime."

"..."

Medea listened to their story quietly:

"You are right, but have you ever thought about thinking about this problem from another perspective? For example, what kind of magician would die under this magic?"

"He is a nobleman with at least the title of Viscount, who has the right to rule the town right under our feet, and can decide the life and death of tens of thousands of people like you."

"But he will die just the same under such powerful magic! Just like you, his noble bloodline won't give him an extra life."

"So, what has kept us going through this war? My magic?"

"You know very well that it is not! It is the weapon in your hand! It is the huge cannons on the wall! They were made by comrades like you."

"Even if we don't know magic, we can still have magical abilities."

The more Mitia spoke, the brighter the eyes of the people around him became. "The explosive power of our heavy artillery is already enough to kill such a noble magician at will. In the future, our guns will also be able to do so."

"So why are you so depressed? Look up at me. Now tell me again, even if you don't know magic, are you afraid of them?"

“Don’t be afraid!!!”

"Then take up your weapons now and respond to their magic!"

Chapter 21: Shock the Gods! Glory to our King!

By the time they rushed out of the town and headed towards the defense line, Nipalmo's soldiers had launched another attack.

The town was destroyed by large-scale magic, but the fortresses outside the town were the first batch of cement-concrete bunkers put into actual combat by Astell, and they withstood this wave of magical attacks.

But because the incident happened suddenly, many soldiers walking in the trenches were crushed to death with no place to hide. The scattered limbs and debris made the scene look like hell, and all the heavy artillery on the city walls were destroyed.

When planning the defense line, Medea fell into a thinking error.

Thinking that the enemy had no heavy artillery or other offensive weapons, she did not dig many holes in the trenches to save time. The price she paid for this was the lives of nearly 4,000 soldiers and the loss of more than half a division.