Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 189

Green smoke rises slowly, lingering among the stalactites.

Passing through the city gate that had become ruins, Sherman walked on the devastated street, looking around.

There were faint shouts and screams in the distance, and sporadic fighting was still going on in the city, but the outcome of the war was set, and it wouldn't be long before the war was completely settled.

The process of conquering Firehammer City was extremely easy.

The dwarves built the city walls with solid black rock and watered them with melted ice iron, greatly enhancing the walls' resistance to elemental energy.

In addition, various city defense equipment were manufactured and placed on the city walls, including crossbows and catapults. The equipment was so sophisticated that it was rare in the entire underground world.

Unfortunately, they were facing an army of extremely powerful and indestructible golems.

Attacks from crossbows and catapults have limited effect on golems with hard bodies.

The city walls were also unable to withstand the massive golem charge.

Under the fierce attack of the golem army led by the Adamantite Golem, the city defense that Firehammer City was proud of only lasted less than half an hour before it collapsed.

Without the obstruction of the city walls, the golem army marched straight in and quickly defeated the defenders of Firehammer City.

Now most of Firehammer City has fallen into the control of the Star Alliance.

The Demonic Knights are currently clearing out the remaining enemy forces that are still resisting, and it is expected that they will soon be able to completely control the entire Firehammer City.

Leaving the finishing work to the Knights of the Magic Rune, Sherman and Atil took the wizard apprentices and headed straight to the palace in the center of Firehammer City.

In order to improve the efficiency of expansion, more than 40 second-level wizard apprentices of the Star Alliance were divided into two teams, led by Sherman and Atil, Corey and Ethan respectively, and led the Golem Legion in two directions, conquering indigenous tribes and city-states one way.

Firehammer City is the seventh city-state captured by Sherman's army in more than half a year.

The dwarf king had already died in the attack and defense of the city gate, and they were going to go to the palace to take over the wealth of the city-state.

They rushed into the palace unimpeded. When they opened the warehouse and saw the dazzling array of rare metals and gold coins inside, the wizard apprentices couldn't help but gasp.

"We've made a fortune!" said a wizard apprentice excitedly.

The others also looked happy.

The contribution they get from the war depends not only on the size and number of city-states captured, but most importantly on the value of the spoils.

The more valuable the loot is, the higher the contribution value they will ultimately receive.

Sherman was also very happy.

After storing all the spoils in the warehouse into the space ring, the group then searched the palace carefully again. After making sure that nothing was missed, they began to arrange accommodation.

After taking down Firehammer City, they would have to stay for a few days, waiting for the troops behind to take over the city-state and replenish their supplies before heading to the next destination.

Sherman found a study and prepared to write a battle report.

Every once in a while, he would write a battle report summarizing the recent battle situation, and these reports would eventually end up on the teacher's desk.

Artil sat aside and chatted with Sherman in a random manner.

"I heard that there is a crystal ball in Starlight Academy that can test mental and physical data. I really want to see it."

"After we capture Demon Spider City, we will be able to see it when we return to the academy."

Sherman said with a smile as he wrote the battle report.

When the academy was opened, they were outside attacking cities and plundering territories. They have not seen the situation of the academy with their own eyes so far. They can only occasionally hear some information from the apprentices who come and go from the battlefield and Long Lin.

However, this situation will not last long. The Alliance's front line has now advanced to less than 500 kilometers away from the Demon Spider City. If all goes well, they should be able to capture the Demon Spider City in a year at most.

When the war is over, I can go back to the academy.

"I heard that the three new instructors at the academy used to be from the same wizard organization as the teacher, which seems to be called the Jungle Lodge?" Artil's eyes were full of curiosity. "I wonder what kind of people they are?"

Sherman groaned and said, "Anyone who can be in the same wizard organization as the teacher must be very powerful and knowledgeable."

"That's true." Atil nodded in agreement.

Anyone who is invited by teachers to serve as a tutor in the college is naturally not an ordinary person.

“With the instructor’s instruction, it will be much easier for future students to learn knowledge.”

"It's a pity that we didn't catch up with the good times."

“That’s not the case. When we first arrived, there were not many people in the base. At that time, we could use contribution points to exchange for teacher’s guidance, which was not bad.” Xie Man said with a smile.

Atil thought so too, and at that time they could ask Lady Amy for help if they didn’t understand something.

Later students did not receive such good treatment.

Lady Amy is now obsessed with treasure hunting in the underground world and has no time to care about other people.

They only talked to her, Sherman and Corey when they met.

Now many new apprentices have only heard of Lady Amy but have never seen her in person.

"The new round of qualification tests ended a few days ago. I heard that quite a few people passed this time. This year, the college should have a large number of new students."

"That's a good thing." Sherman had a faint smile on his face.

With the teacher's promotion to wizard, the speed at which the Star Alliance grew and developed has visibly accelerated.

In particular, the establishment of Starlight Academy undoubtedly marks the beginning of a new era.

From now on, wizard apprentices will become more and more active in the Starlight Continent, participate in more events, and be known by more and more people, instead of existing only in legends as before.

The current situation of the underground world is an extremely powerful proof.

The Star Alliance's territory has now expanded to most of the southeast region. Even in the most remote corners of the underground world, people have already heard of the name of the Star Alliance, and the wizard's (apprentice's) great reputation has also spread throughout the underground world.

And this situation will most likely happen again on the surface world in the near future.

Although the surface world is calm now, Sherman is very clear that the Star Empire's purchase of large quantities of materials from the Star Alliance has never been interrupted, and there is even a trend of increasing the amount. It is obvious that the Empire is gathering strength and preparing for the next war.

In the near future, the Star Empire will most likely launch a new round of war and completely unify the entire southeast region.

And a hegemonic empire that rules the southeastern region of the continent is undoubtedly in line with the interests of the Star Alliance.

By then, the teacher might allow the Covenant to help.

Xie Man was thinking when he was suddenly interrupted by the sound of footsteps.

An apprentice wizard walked in.

"Captain, there's a new discovery over there at the Magic Pattern Knights. You'd better come and take a look."

Sherman's eyes showed doubt. It was just a dwarven city-state. What discovery could be worthy of the attention of the wizard apprentice in the team?
Out of curiosity, Sherman put down his pen and paper, got up and left the study, and went to the central square of the palace with Arthur.

Near the entrance of the square, a group of dragon antelopes were leisurely walking back and forth.

These powerful and graceful creatures have scales that range from reddish brown to bright gold, and a pair of broad wings that extend from their shoulders, with a wingspan of more than nine meters when flying.

The Dragon Oryx Knights were formed during a period when the Covenant's expansion was halted, and thus have yet to truly prove their power on the battlefield.

It was not until more than half a year ago that the Covenant resumed its expansion efforts, and the Dragon Antelope Knights had the opportunity to demonstrate their strength.

The outstanding results also surprised many people.

In the underground world, few armies can withstand the combined charge of nearly three hundred knights with legendary combat power.

In the previous siege, after the walls of Firehammer City collapsed, it was the charge of the Dragon Antelope Knights that tore through the dwarves' last line of defense and successfully established the situation for the battle.

Such an amazing performance made Sherman look forward to the future of this army.

Once the number of the Dragon Antelope Knights increases further and reaches the size of a small legion, they will inevitably become a powerful armed force that will terrify the enemy.

Taking his eyes off the dragon antelope, Sherman turned to look at the crowd in the center of the square.

There were more than a dozen fully armed knights, led by Colen, one of the vice-captains of the Magic Pattern Knights. He was also the commander of this Dragon Antelope Knight Corps.

"Mr. Sheman, Mr. Atil."

Seeing Sherman and Arthur coming, Colen immediately stepped forward to greet them.

Although he had been promoted to a legendary knight and was the deputy leader of the Magic Pattern Knights, he still did not dare to neglect or underestimate the two most outstanding students under Sunan.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Koren."

After greeting each other and exchanging a few pleasantries, Sherman went straight to the point and asked about the so-called discovery.

Kelun pointed to a dwarf sitting on the ground with chains around him and said, "We found this guy in the prison of Firehammer City. According to the prison guards, he escaped from a city-state that was conquered by the dark elves. After arriving in Firehammer City, he was imprisoned by the dwarves."

"I thought I might be able to get some information out of him, so I had him brought out of prison. I didn't expect that I could actually get some information out of him."

Hearing that it was related to the dark elves, Sherman and Atil's expressions suddenly became more serious.

Sherman turned and glanced at the dwarf.

Perhaps he suffered a lot during his escape, or perhaps he was tortured by the dwarves. This dwarf's clothes were tattered and could hardly provide much coverage. His whole body was dirty, and his face was visibly haggard, with panic on his face.

Dwarves and gnomes are the so-called "people of stone". They are good at dealing with stones and are good at prospecting, mining and smelting.

The former is famous for metal forging. There are many excellent forging masters in the tribe. The weapons or armors forged by them are very popular in the underground world.

The latter are mostly good at fine mechanical craftsmanship.

However, as both are descendants of the stone tribe, the relationship between dwarves and gnomes is very poor. They dislike each other and have many conflicts and contradictions.

It is not difficult to imagine a dwarf running into a dwarven city and being thrown into prison.

Looking away, Sherman gave Colen a questioning look.

The latter did not keep the secret and said solemnly: "According to this guy, the dark elves have suddenly intensified their offensive in the past six months and have captured many city-states. Now the area within a radius of more than 300 kilometers of Demon Spider City has fallen into their control."

Sherman and Artile frowned immediately.

Several years ago, they knew that the Demon Spider City had sent troops to attack the surrounding city-states.

Although they were somewhat surprised that the dark elves, contrary to their usual practice, did not fight among themselves but united together, the Spider City was still far away from the Star Alliance at that time and the troops they sent out were only small-scale fights, so the Star Alliance did not pay much attention to it.

But I didn't expect that the territory of Demon Spider City has expanded to this extent.

According to this, they are now not far from the territory of Demon Spider City. If they go another hundred kilometers, they will probably run into the army of Demon Spider City.

Xie Man frowned in confusion and said, "The Spider City shouldn't have enough power to take over so many territories. What happened?"

Colen glanced at the dwarf and whispered, "According to this guy, it's because the dark elves have mastered a very powerful monster, and just one of them defeated their city-state's army!"

monster?

Xieman’s mind flashed quickly through the exotic beasts that the dark elves usually raised, but none of them had such powerful strength.

Frowning, he turned around, walked up to the dwarf, and looked down at him.

"What do those monsters you saw look like?"

Seeing that the person asking the question was of high status, the dwarf did not dare to hide anything. He swallowed his saliva and stammered:
"Their lower bodies are spiders, and their upper bodies look exactly like dark elves. They are very fast, and many of my tribesmen didn't even see their movements clearly before they had their heads chopped off!"

As if recalling the scene at that time, the dwarf couldn't help but reveal a look of fear on his face.

A half-human, half-spider monster?

Xie Man frowned and thought for a moment, but still had no clue.

Atil was equally confused.

"Forget it, let's just write this down in the battle report. If it's a teacher, he should know what kind of creature it is."

With a plan in mind, Sherman ignored the dwarf and turned to Koren and said, "Captain Koren, I think we need to send more scouts to investigate the situation ahead."

"No problem, I'll arrange it right away!" Colen nodded heavily.

If what the dwarf said is true, they may have to face a strong enemy in the next battle.

Before that, we need to obtain as much intelligence as possible so that we can better prepare for the next war.

After Colen took the dwarf away, Sherman and Arthur returned to the study.

After tearing up the previous battle report, Xie Man thought for a while, and only started writing a new battle report after he had a clear idea in his mind.

This time, Artil did not interrupt. He sat quietly by the side, waiting patiently for Sherman to finish writing the battle report and seal it up before he spoke.

"Do you need help?"

Xie Man thought for a moment and nodded, "I heard from Carolina that the teacher recently refined a powerful high-level puppet and is preparing to deploy it on the battlefield. Just in case, I should write an application to get one."

Judging from the dwarf's words, the strength level of that half-human, half-spider monster is at least a four-ring legendary, or even higher. Among the golem legions on the front line, the strongest puppet is only a three-ring legendary adamantine golem.

Although it is also possible to use human wave tactics to deal with that kind of monster, for safety reasons, Sherman feels that he still has to make preparations for both scenarios.

Seeing that Sherman had thought of everything, Arthur said no more.

Damn, I forgot the chapter name and can't modify it

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