In September, the warm but short-lived summer wind dissipates, and the leaves of the forest on the border fall yellow and fall sporadically.
A leather boot stepped on the dry leaves, making a crisp sound, and then a young man Mage wearing a brown windbreaker appeared on the hillside. He opened the windbreaker, revealing a row of potions hanging on his waist and lenses in the inner pocket. He took out a frame embedded on the bridge of his nose and looked around through the single lens.
The lenses made by "Appraisal School" can detect the weak Aspect Power aura, which is particularly useful for investigation. The Witchs of the Woodland have treacherous methods, but various secret techniques will always leave a strange Aspect Power aura. Traps and curses that are usually difficult to guard against become clearly visible and no longer fearful under the light of this lens.
"Those Black Witch haven't been here yet." There was a bit of joy in his voice, then he put down his backpack, took out a small tripod, fixed it on the hillside, then placed a small steam drill on the tripod and started it, turning the head downwards and Rotation continuously, digging a deep and secret hole.
Then he took out a glass bottle from his waist, which was filled with clear liquid.
After burying the glass bottle in the ground and then re-burying it, the young Mage stood up and left.
For Mage, fighting is not just about throwing spells and abilities at each other on the battlefield, they will try various methods and means to increase their winning rate and solve their opponents.
The medicine bottle buried this time may never be used, but if you happen to encounter an enemy nearby, your Mage can easily sense the medicine bottle buried here. If you are not expecting it, you can use this prepared method to give the enemy a sudden attack. Weaken and defeat opponents. Moreover, compared to the ancient and primitive trap curse of Witch, before this potion is activated, because of the seal of the glass bottle, the breath will not leak out, and it is buried deep underground, even Transcendent is difficult to detect.
After two months of fighting, both "Mist Spirit School" and "Black Finger" have accumulated a lot of experience against the enemy and understand the opponent's common methods and fighting methods. At this time, Mage began to gain the upper hand.
They can always find means and methods to target, and can constantly adjust the spells and props they use according to their opponents. Even if only the members of "Mist Spirit School" participate in the battle, they can borrow "Appraisal School" thanks to the huge system of the Mage Alliance The reconnaissance lenses made by "Four Salts School", the amplification potions purchased from "Four Salts School", the elite firearms equipment made by "Fire Spirit School", etc., with the help of various targeted props and methods, the advantages Witch had created in the early stage were quickly wiped out.
At this time, Woodland Alliance's loose structure, as well as the weaknesses of fragmentation, poor information transmission and poor circulation of props, began to be exposed. In November, the battle between "Mist Spirit School" and "Black Finger" began to gain the upper hand, and the black fingers Witch who came to support were defeated and killed in large numbers.
Seeing that there was nothing they could do, the "Black Finger" Witch faction began to shrink its front and gradually retreated.
In December, when the mountains were covered by heavy snow, the Black Finger Witchs launched the largest mobilization attack in an attempt to kill the leader of the team led by "Mist Spirit School". However, the result was not ideal. The originally planned attack was exposed before it even got close to the target. The Witchs, who were forced to launch a fight at an inappropriate time, had to face the members of "Mist Spirit School" and Aesius Kingdom. The siege of Knight.
In the end, this battle ended with "Black Finger" losing four fourth-level Witch and seventeen third-level ones. After suffering this disastrous defeat, the "Black Finger" Witch faction will support All the Witchs of Mide Duchy withdrew, and Mide Duchy was annihilated by the Aesius Kingdom in an isolated and helpless situation, and eventually the entire country was merged into the Aesius Kingdom.
Although this small-scale conflict only affected a small area, it brought quite a shock to both the two major forces the Alliance.
Mage Alliance's confidence has greatly increased, but they also realize that Woodland Alliance has many factions. If they really want to defeat it, they may have to be prepared to lose a lot of personnel and combat power to smooth out the information gap and gain the final advantage and victory.
Woodland Alliance has once again confirmed that Mage Alliance is an extremely threatening opponent. It is a very correct decision to integrate small countries and forces from all parties, but it is a little late and not enough.
On the nineteenth day after the conflict ended, this year's Silver Bell Festival celebration went on as usual, and the Woodland Alliance representatives who came to watch the ceremony had a week-long negotiation with the Mage Alliance. The final results of the negotiations were as follows.
Woodland Alliance expressed its willingness to support gardeners and food and help Mage Alliance overcome Season of Sinking Fog's difficulties, but in exchange, Mage Alliance must also provide corresponding resources and commodities at 50 times the previous market price.
This price is slightly lower than the previous 60 times, and after knowing the crisis and difficulties caused by famine, the internal opposition of the Mage Alliance has become much smaller.
However, new content was also added in the second half of the contract.
In the list of goods that Woodland Alliance requested Mage Alliance to provide in exchange for food, most of them were metals, gems, mechanical artifacts, scrolls, elixirs, etc. Among them, mechanical artifacts were the focus of procurement and introduction, which could assist Woodland Alliance in developing mining resources in various places, building workshops for production, etc. However, the daily maintenance of these mechanical artifacts must rely on skilled manpower, and some high-end machinery must "Gold Steam" Aspect Power's Mage control and debugging. This requires Mage Alliance to provide a lot of personnel for maintenance, and for this point, Mage Alliance also made requirements. Woodland Alliance must provide generous salary subsidies to these supporting technicians and Mage.
Although the Woodland is reluctant to receive the personnel subsidy required by the Mage Alliance, it also understands that if it does not pay a penny, it will be difficult for the maintenance personnel to do their job to the best of their ability, and they may only send some novice apprentices over, wasting the advanced mechanical creations exchanged.
However, Woodland Alliance was not willing to give in so easily. They demanded that Mage Alliance must send enough outstanding personnel to guide and train Woodland Alliance, so that Woodland Alliance could also own part of Mage in order to In the future, they will maintain, control and even manufacture all kinds of mechanical creations by themselves. As for which talents are good enough and meet the requirements of the Woodland Alliance, they also made a list, which selected Mage Alliance well-known figures in various fields, and the name "Hedra" happened to be among them.
Regarding the names on this list, the two parties conducted several negotiations and consultations, with many people added and deleted. However, the discussion on "Hedra" reached a deadlock every time.
Mage Alliance stated several times that "Hedra" is the core of the new generation of the Alliance and it is absolutely impossible to exchange it for the Woodland Alliance. However, Woodland Alliance also refuted it with various reasons and questioned the sincerity of the Mage Alliance.
"It's just an exchange. A fourth-level Mage was sent to the Woodland Alliance to guide the training. Why did Mage Alliance react so violently? Does this mean that Mage Alliance has no sincerity in cooperation at all, and the other personnel are just abandoners who can be thrown away at will."
Of course, Mage Alliance will not admit such doubts, but it cannot clearly say that "Hedra" is the successor of the Mage Alliance in the future. This will attract prying eyes from all parties and cause various problems. Now is far from the time to reveal his identity.
Finally, the discussion ended with Named One issuing an order, and Mage Alliance agreed that "Hedra" should go to the Woodland Alliance for guidance, training, and management of the system. Together with those Mage who were also sent to support the Woodland, but currently "Hedra" is about to advance, and needs to be delayed for one year, waiting for the girl to complete the advancement before she can travel.
Moreover, in exchange, Woodland Alliance also needs to send excellent horticulturists to the Mage Alliance for guidance and training. Through intelligence research in the past few years, Mage Alliance already knows that for the Mage Alliance Why the Woodland was able to carve out fertile soil in World of Shadows is because a talented new gardener appeared a few years ago, and the "Bright Flame Cornflower" she cultivated could be Purification Distortion eroded the soil, allowing fertile soil to expand in the World of Shadows land.
In this regard, Mage Alliance said that when "Hedra" goes to the Woodland Alliance, Woodland Alliance needs to exchange the gardener "Xilu Tia" who is sent for retreat to go to and from the Mage Alliance.