The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 458 Specialization in the art industry

Fort 394 was not in a good condition, which was something Richard knew before he came. But Richard did not expect that the condition of this fortress would be so bad.

Because Fort 394 is located at a key pass in the Carol Mountains, its garrison is even a thousand more than that of a normal fortress.

But even so, Fort 394 now only has 2,000 defenders. Among them, there are only 42 second-ring wizards, and the most experienced among them have only fought five plane wars.

Mira, as the acting commander, had only fought in three plane wars. Most of her time was spent as a garrison, clearing out resistance forces from other worlds.

With such a large number of defenders, even a legend like Delis would have to abandon the fortress.

There are too few people, and the alchemical turrets cannot be fully utilized.

Fortunately, Richard is not only a powerful dark wizard, he is a mobile army himself.

In the warehouse, Richard looked at the remaining warehouse reserves and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the number of guards was poor, the warehouse of Fortress 394 was unusually full. And due to the needs of the previous commander, a large amount of alchemical potions were stored in the fortress warehouse.

These potions are all explosives with incredible power. It seems that the former commander intended to have a beautiful fireworks display as his own funeral at the last moment when the fortress was breached.

But unfortunately, his soul was severely damaged in an attack by a mayfly and has been sent to the hospital at the headquarters for treatment.

He couldn't see the fireworks.

However, these reserves of his were quite useful to Richard who took over.

The magical properties of alchemical potions are very stable, which means that the mayfly's keen perception of energy is ineffective against alchemical potions.

The previous commander noticed this and chose to stockpile so much alchemical explosives.

Therefore, these alchemical explosives are excellent trap materials.

With just an optical invisibility enchantment and a simple wind element spell, these alchemical explosives can be transformed into booby traps and lay a minefield in the air.

Of course, Richard didn't expect these things to cause much harm to the mayfly swarm.

Their biggest role is as a reminder alarm.

According to the headquarters' intelligence, a considerable number of subspecies of the Galaxy Mayflies have the ability to be invisible both optically and mentally. In addition, the Galaxy Mayflies themselves are masters of energy manipulation, so these Mayflies are quite powerful when they launch a sneak attack.

Right now the fortress has too few people and lacks the corresponding reconnaissance wizards, so we can only make do with booby traps for the time being.

In addition to alchemical explosives, the warehouse also stores a large number of alchemical materials. These materials are used to repair the fortress, and when parts are in short supply, the alchemical wizards can make some parts by hand to repair the alchemical equipment in the fortress.

Of course, after Richard arrived, these things naturally could not be left in the warehouse to gather dust.

These materials are of various types, and a considerable number of them have extremely excellent properties. If they are handed over to the Salamander craftsmen, they can not only upgrade the individual armor of the Salamander warriors, but also produce some additional practical props to assist the wizards.

Although this behavior has a sense of abusing public power for personal gain, the Salamander Warriors do have to participate in the defense of the fortress.

After understanding the basic situation of the fortress, Richard planned to modify the fortress's defense layout.

The current distribution of alchemy turrets is very unreasonable. In a short period of time, the slave support of the command center cannot reach the fortress.

So now the fortress is still short of staff.

The original layout of the artillery was to enable the two sub-forts to cooperate with the main fort for defense, but now the two sub-forts must be temporarily abandoned. In this state, the original layout of the fortress's artillery has become inappropriate.

Although Richard is not a white wizard, he is a genuine master of alchemy and energy.

He does have his own ideas about the deployment of alchemical turrets.

Richard stood on the top of the fortress, looking at the mountains on both sides, and an idea came to his mind.

"Mira, how about we set up positions in the mountains on both sides?"

As long as enough firing chambers were dug out in the rock walls on both sides, combined with the alchemical turrets on the main fort, it would be enough to form a wall of thunder in the air.

"My lord, this is indeed a solution."

Mira was well aware of the art of language, so she did not deny Richard's opinion right away.

After all, Richard is the commander of the fortress. If Richard is angered, all the wizards in the fortress will fall into the abyss of death.

"But there is a small problem with this, my lord, we are not facing only one enemy.

If you place the artillery on one side, it will be difficult for our firepower to provide timely support if a mayfly appears on the other side.

In addition, how to build such a layout is also a problem. Building a shooting room always requires enchantment construction. Otherwise, if the mayfly hits the rock wall slightly, our position will be destroyed.

Our turrets have not yet been equipped with flight capabilities."

Mira's words stunned Richard. Indeed, they were not guarding the rear now. There was no rear in the current galaxy world.

Enemies may emerge from anywhere.

He had never even considered the construction of enchantment.

"What do you think about the layout of the artillery?" Richard asked Mira.

As a dark wizard, he was indeed somewhat of an amateur on the frontal battlefield.

"Sir, my advice is not to move." Mira replied respectfully, "We just need to take back the artillery batteries of the two sub-forts.

Now is the best defensive state for our number." "This number?" Richard opened the secret realm rift, "No, no, no, it's not just you wizards who are defending, I still have some people here."

As the crack in the secret realm opened, a black light flew out from it.

"Gah, what happened again?"

As soon as Ulises came out, a blazing blue-black flame ignited on his body. The terrible pressure made Mira, who was beside Richard, pale.

She looked at Ulises and was shocked. "Could this be the familiar of Master Richard? With such a terrifying familiar, is this master a student of some great wizard?"

"Calm down, Ulises, there are no enemies."

Ulysses looked around, and the flames on his body suddenly dissipated, and his ferocious beast-like body turned into an ordinary crow.

He looked around curiously and asked, "Have you arrived yet?"

Richard shook his head. "The Great Wizard of Dusk has given me a new mission to guard a fortress. This is Mira, my secretary for the next period of time."

Ulises glanced at Mira, his eyes slightly brightening.

"You have a soul gift?"

Hearing Ulises' question, Mira quickly replied: "Yes, sir, I have a soul gift called super-speed calculation."

Richard was slightly surprised to hear Mira's reply. He didn't expect that the young soul wizard next to him had the same soul talent as him.

Moreover, Mira's talent is mostly innate.

"Nice ability, very suitable for the battlefield."

Ulises looked at Mira with interest, then turned around and flew back to the secret realm.

Since Richard doesn't need help, the Snake King's side is more important.

During this time he has been helping to stabilize the Snake King's injuries.

The self-explosion of the mayfly group caused great damage to the snake king. In the next three or four years, the snake king is unlikely to recover to its previous state.

However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the Snake King planned to take this opportunity to use his innate abilities to reshape his body.

The subspecies of dragon, the Serpent King, possesses a talent for transformation similar to the one Richard once possessed, and similar abilities.

As long as he collected enough blood of powerful people, the snake king could strengthen his body through a molting. But now his body was almost completely destroyed, and he planned to use this ability to directly reshape a new body.

This is a delicate job, and it is also the first time for the Snake King.

So he needed Ulises, the lord of the world who had become a doctor through long-term illness, as guidance - Ulises had rich experience in reshaping the body over the years.

Richard saw that Ulises was in a hurry, so he did not bother him. He entered the secret realm and led out the Salamander warrior who had recovered his ability to move.

Although the fighting power of the Holy Tree Elves was not good, they were absolutely excellent in healing. With the help of the power of the World Mushroom, the Salamander Warrior recovered from such a serious injury in just over a day and was able to move.

Watching the second-level aliens constantly walking out of the cracks in the secret realm, Mira unconsciously began to hold her breath, and the energy fluctuations on her body began to converge.

The fierce aura of these fire lizards triggered her instincts.

As a wizard who has been clearing out resistance forces in the rear for many years, Mira has an extremely keen sense of the alien's strength.

She was very sure that if five of these fire lizards attacked her together, she would have to turn around and run away. If it were those ones wearing alchemical power armor, only three would be enough to make her unable to escape.

You know, she is an elite among the second-ring wizards, otherwise she would not be the temporary commander among the remaining second-ring wizards.

"Why does this master arm so many alien slaves?" Mira couldn't help but complain in her heart.

She felt uncomfortable all over staying with the alien slaves.

Richard glanced at Mira and said calmly: "These fire lizards will assist us in guarding. If nothing unexpected happens, the future reinforcements of the headquarters should be these aliens. You have to adapt to it."

Mira's dislike for Salamanders was all too obvious.

"Using aliens as reinforcements?" Mira couldn't help but said angrily, "This is not an attack, what do we need alien slaves for? They are not even qualified to be cannon fodder... Of course, Master, yours is another matter."

Richard patted Mira's shoulder and said, "It's very simple, because the alchemical turret slaves can be used. And the spells they cast are no worse than those cast by wizards."

Mira was silent for a moment, then said helplessly: "Sir, I will draft a plan right away. I must get these alien slaves of yours..."

"Wrong." Richard interrupted, "These salamanders are not my slaves, they are my soldiers. They are different from those slaves."

Richard's tone of correction was so serious that Mira didn't dare to ask any more questions. She quickly changed the topic and said, "Okay, sir. Since your soldiers can operate the artillery, I plan to transfer some white wizards from the artillery to form a fire brigade. The reason for doing this is..."

"Don't explain so much, Mira." Richard interrupted again, "I am an outsider, and you white wizards know more about war than me.

Just do what you think is right.”

Every profession has its own expertise, and finding the right people to do the right things is an essential ability to become a qualified leader.

When Mira heard this, she secretly sighed that she had to do the work herself, but she was also secretly relieved. It was a good thing for everyone that Richard didn't try to be smart.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Commander."

(End of this chapter)