The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 94 Apprentice War (XII)
"Is the war progressing too fast, Qingshuang?" The Great Wizard of the Black Tower looked at the glass cover in front of him. Inside the glass cover was the secret realm where Richard and the others were. He could see every move of all the apprentices clearly.

The great wizard called Qingshuang by the great wizard of the Black Tower sat opposite him. He was an ice man, and his entire body was made of a light blue ice.

"It's really fast." Great Wizard Qingshuang exhaled a breath of cold air, "It's only the first day, and the three battlefields are in chaos."

"But the effect still looks very good." Beside the Great Wizard Qingshuang, a ball of brilliant light covered with a cloak emitted spiritual fluctuations - he was the Great Wizard Aurora.

"That's great indeed. We have begun to have the ability to fight as a legion." said a middle-aged man in a cloak. His mouth and eyes were stitched shut, and he looked quite scary - he was the Great Wizard of the Secret Keeper.

"The rules need to be changed, otherwise we won't be able to win." A ball of deep energy in a wizard robe said, "Once the white wizard army has fully adapted, the black wizards will have no chance of winning."

It was the first Apprentice War, and even several great wizards made some small mistakes.

They had originally planned the war to last about a year, and had planned various reconnaissance, advancement, and confrontations between the two sides, but as it stands now, the wizard apprentice doesn't need any of that.

If the intensity continues, the war will be over in two days.

They are so far away from being apprentices that they have somewhat forgotten how limited their means are.

"There's no need to be so anxious, Void." A great wizard who looked like a normal human like the great wizard of the Black Tower said, "Don't forget, the number of apprentices is also a condition for victory."

"But this is still disadvantageous to us." The Great Wizard of the Black Tower continued, "According to the simulation of the plane battlefield, the positions occupied by the black wizards are the indigenous strongmen. Their number should be greater than that of the white wizards, and the white wizards should rely on the advantages of legionary combat to defeat them bit by bit.

But now it's the other way around. When we were conquering the planes, we never encountered a war where there were more wizards than natives."

"Just say whatever you want to say, Black Tower." Great Wizard Qingshuang said calmly.

The Great Wizard of the Black Tower laughed strangely twice:

"Qingshuang, no matter how you look at it, you are the ones who are taking advantage this time. We little guys are here to serve as your whetstones. Shouldn't you show some appreciation?"

"Black Tower, you still like to take advantage." Great Wizard Qingshuang said with some helplessness, "How about one win? If the Black Wizard wins one game, you win."

After saying that, he looked at the two great wizards, Void and Annihilation.

"agree."

"agree."

Both great wizards agreed to this rule change.

"Aurora, Secret Keeper, where are you two?" The Great Wizard of the Black Tower looked at the remaining two great wizards in the White Wizard camp.

The two great wizards sent each other a mental message and agreed to the change in the rules.

The Great Wizard of the Black Tower clapped his hands, and a scroll with a mysterious aura appeared out of thin air. The Great Wizard of the Black Tower stroked it twice with his fingers, and the contents on it changed instantly.

"The contract has been revised. Let's continue."

……

In the public resource point, the black wizard apprentices also counted the casualties. In this night raid, the Void Academy suffered a greater loss, reaching about 120 people, while the Annihilation Academy suffered less loss due to the help of Aldo's undead puppets.

After the statistical structure came out, the commanders of the three academies gathered in the conference room to discuss the next strategy.

"Gentlemen, I think we need to make some adjustments to our strategy." Richard sat in the chair, tapping the table slowly with his fingers.

On both sides of him, Anderson from the Void Academy and Aldo from the Annihilation Academy were silent.

"How did you know we were under siege?" Aldo suddenly asked, "You came at the right time. Even if I sent someone to ask for help, it would be impossible."

"How did you know?"

Richard smiled and snapped his fingers. Wuni flew into the house through the window and landed safely on Richard's shoulder.

"Can't you two think of a magical pet?"

Anderson and Aldo were stunned, and then a chill arose in their hearts.

They really hadn't thought of the familiar.

Judging from Richard's appearance, it was unclear how long this magical pet had been watching them. Even their night raid was probably carried out under Richard's surveillance.

"Magic pet..." Anderson paused, "This is indeed a blind spot."

There are many monsters and the like in the secret realm, but few people would pay attention to a crow landing on a branch.

"The White Wizard's apprentice probably hasn't noticed it either. This is a good thing for us." Aldo said in a deep voice.

"It's only a matter of time before they are discovered." Richard shook his head. "The White Wizard Academy should have taught them about magical pet reconnaissance. It won't be long before they realize that something is watching them."

"What do you mean by changing strategy?" Anderson asked suddenly.

"The White Wizard Apprentices are growing too fast. If we want to win the war, we must play to our strengths." Richard's eyes flashed with a gleam of light. "We should now give up the way of capturing resource points to win. Instead, we should kill as many White Wizard Apprentices as possible.

Reducing the number to less than half is also a way to win.”

"We know this very well," Aldo retorted, "but if we trade casualties with the White Wizard Legion, we will be at a disadvantage no matter how you look at it."

Richard smiled calmly upon hearing this: "Who said we are going to fight head-on?"

"Ok?"

Anderson and Aldo looked at each other, somewhat unsure of what Richard was up to.

"You two, we are not wizards. Although we are stronger than ordinary people, we still need to eat and drink." Richard said slowly, "White wizard apprentices can solve the drinking water problem with magic circles, but they can't conjure food out of thin air.

Considering the idiocy of these white wizard apprentices, they probably wouldn't bring much dry food.

So going out to gather food is essential.”

Richard didn't say a few more words, but Anderson and Aldo already understood what Richard meant.

When the white wizard apprentice comes out to gather food, they can take the opportunity to attack.

But Anderson found a problem.

"But what if they don't delay? They choose to gather their apprentices and capture our resource points as quickly as possible. What should we do then?"

"They will definitely take a while." Richard shook his head. "Some of them have never seen a battlefield before. If we attack rashly and they flee, won't we win immediately?"

"Besides," Richard took out a magic stone from his pocket, "They also need to replenish magic stones, right?"

Due to the large number of apprentices in the White Wizard Academy, except for the top few apprentices, the number of magic stones among them is far less than that of the Black Wizard apprentices.

This also resulted in the magic stone reserves of many white wizard apprentices being exhausted after a day and night of high-intensity fighting.

"That makes sense. What are you going to do about it?"

Anderson looked at Richard. Although this apprentice and he were both apprentice leaders, Richard always gave him a feeling of being unfathomable.

This feeling does not come from strength, but more like a kind of intellectual suppression.

"It's very simple," Richard clapped his hands, "We only guard two resource points, and let the white wizards capture the other resource points.

Then we will divide some of the elite apprentices into small teams and go to the outskirts of the White Wizard resource point to harass the White Wizard apprentices who are out. Kill as many White Wizard apprentices as possible."

The two apprentice commanders thought about it for a moment and immediately realized that this was indeed a good idea.

Elite apprentices represent the ability to quickly end a battle and quickly escape from the battlefield when being pursued.

"I agree."

"I agree."

Richard stood up and said, "Since both of you agree, let's get started."

……

As Richard expected, the apprentices of Qingshuang and Jiguang did not make any big moves after their return. The Secret Keeper Academy also began to defend itself due to the consumption of magic stones. Every day, only a small group of white wizards went outside the resource point to hunt for food.

A wizard apprentice is not yet a wizard and cannot rely on magic to maintain his body like a wizard.

Therefore, food and water are still necessities for wizard apprentices to maintain their lives.

While the white wizard team is hunting for food, the black wizards will naturally not be idle either.

The three academies belonging to the dark wizard camp selected ten elite dark wizard teams, each with five members, including apprentices from five schools to deal with various situations. These people were sent to the vicinity of the white wizard resource point to hunt down the white wizard apprentices who walked out of the resource point.

The remaining dark wizards began to build fortifications.

Due to the heavy losses suffered by the two academies of Void and Annihilation, they decided to join together to guard one resource point, while the Black Tower Wizarding Academy would guard one resource point on its own.

In this way, the black and white wizards began a brief stalemate.

……

"Run! Alyssa!" A white wizard apprentice roared, turned around and rushed towards the black wizard apprentice who attacked him. His figure quickly grew larger as he rushed forward, and in an instant he turned into a strong orc covered in hair.

Obviously, this is an apprentice of blood alchemy.

Opposite him, the five black wizard apprentices worked in harmony to distance themselves from him, and then three elemental spells bombarded him. One of the remaining two apprentices pointed at the fleeing white wizard apprentice, and black chains emerged from the ground, entangled the fleeing white wizard apprentice like a parasite. The other apprentice quickly cast an elemental spell.

After the hunt was completed, the black wizard apprentice skillfully looted the body of the white wizard apprentice, and then set a magic circle trap under the body.

"Alright." whispered the apprentice who was setting up the magic circle trap.

After saying that, the five dark wizard apprentices disappeared silently into the dense forest.

Not long after, a team of white wizard apprentices found this place.

"Damn it, we let these bastards get away again!" The leading white wizard apprentice cursed angrily, and the white wizard apprentices following behind him were also filled with anger.

This is the fifth attack by a dark wizard this month.

"Captain, no trace was found." reported a white wizard apprentice.

"Damn it, collect the body, take the body back."

Just as the white wizard's apprentice was moving the corpse, the magic circle trap set by the black wizard was triggered, and the exploding fire element spell instantly blew the nearest apprentice into pieces of meat.

"Ivan!" The captain's eyes widened as he madly cast spells towards the surrounding dense forest.

But at this moment, the dark wizard team had already gone far away, and no matter how much he vented, it was of no use.

……

"The fifth murder case by a dark wizard." Bartosz handed a piece of manuscript paper to Ole, "This time the dark wizard left a trap on the body, which resulted in a member of the search team being killed in the explosion."

"Okay, I got it." Ou Lei took the manuscript paper, took a look at it, and rubbed his temple with a headache.

"Is this war?" Bartosz sat down next to Ole, his heart surging with anxiety.

In order to win, the dark wizard apprentice could set traps on the corpses of his own kind without any care, which made Bartosz find it difficult to accept.

There should be some bottom line in war.

"Yes, this is war." Ole replied casually, "The purpose of war is victory. To achieve this goal, we should use any means necessary."

"That's true, but I still can't accept it." Bartosz let out a breath, as if he wanted to let out all the depression in his heart.

"We are all apprentices, all human beings, why do we have to do such... despicable things?"

"Despicable?" Ole sneered, "Bartosz, you are too naive.

What do you think this war is about? What is it simulating?
This war is to simulate a plane battlefield. In a plane battlefield, the methods of those alien monsters will be a hundred times more despicable and brutal than this! They will slaughter wizards without any burden in their hearts, and then use our corpses as snacks.

If you can't even accept these things, how will you cope with yourself when you are on the battlefield? Do you want to apply to be transferred to the rear to do logistics for the rest of your life?"

As a descendant of a wizard family, Orei had heard from his elders about the cruelty of plane wars.

On those tragic battlefields, these wizards who had been selected through layers of selection died in droves just like the soldiers. That is to say, even great wizards could fall.

Those alien monsters have countless means, and sometimes even death becomes a luxury for wizards when they fall into their hands.

Now this is just setting a trap using corpses. How far have we come?
Bartosz was speechless and turned the topic to countermeasures.

"We can't go on like this. We have to find a way to deal with these dark wizards."

"A solution..." Ole thought for a while and said, "I have a suggestion. Let the people who go out to collect food gather together instead of dispersing and collect in small groups."

Bartos frowned, "This is too inefficient. There won't be enough food."

"Not enough?" Ole smiled grimly, "Now is a special period, we should use special methods.

Collect all the food in the camp and distribute it to each person at a fixed time and quantity every day. Just make sure no one starves to death.

During this special period, please be patient."

"Where's the captain?" Bartosz asked.

"Captain?" Ole smiled. "Even I have to ration supplies. How can the captain be higher than me?"

(End of this chapter)