Chapter 1047 (1/2)
Duanjieshan fortress, the fifth day and night.
”What's going on?!”
Dreisis, the deputy commander of the fortress, stood in front of the gate, almost writing anger and fear on his face.
No one dared to speak, and there was a dead silence everywhere; All the officers who came with them kept their mouths shut and pretended to be mute.
Behind him were a dozen equally panicked alchemists who dared not look into the eyes of the deputy commander;
In front of him... Is an empty warehouse.
Yes, it means literally; There was nothing left, not even a starved mouse.
When he last inspected the warehouse six days ago, there were mountains of kindling agents, alchemy bombs and kerosene that could burn quickly and be full of viscosity, which could melt into water in ice and snow and would not dissipate.
According to the original plan, that's enough to last ten days!
How did you use it up?!
The officers who looked at each other looked at each other, and then looked at the deputy commander of the fortress.
Dreisis knew, of course, that his extravagance in recent days had been nearly twice as fast as his original plan; There's no way. He must do that, or it's tantamount to letting salika Jonah and the defenders out of the city die.
At the beginning, dreisis was somewhat guilty and worried that the logistics reserve was not enough to last until the defenders arrived; But soon he had to give up this idea, because the attack momentum of the Azores was always fierce, almost like a violent attack to death. As long as he ordered the use of fire oil or alchemy bombs, he could reap the fruits that even the cavalry could not get.
Although the attempt to force the enemy to retreat with heavy casualties ended in failure; But dreisis didn't have any regrets. He even felt that he didn't release enough and was not cruel enough to avenge Seth braha and a thousand knights.
But even so, there should not be a situation that all stocks are exhausted in five days!
Duanjie mountain fortress has many alchemists and a mountain of materials. In addition, there are a group of wizards left in duanjie mountain in the reinforcements sent by Byrne. There should be no risk in logistics.
Even if you consume too fast, it doesn't mean you can't replenish it!
Even if you can't persist for ten days, seven or eight days is always OK?!
”Gentlemen, I need an explanation... Thousands of soldiers fighting for the safety of the Empire in the whole fortress need an explanation.”
Dreisis turned and glanced coldly at the alchemists' faces: ”why... Do you let the logistics reserve run out?”
Glancing at the deputy commander of the fortress whose face was difficult to see the extreme, all alchemists collectively retreated half a step, and the corners of their mouths closed tightly on their pale faces without saying a word.
”Say!”
”I, I, we... We did our best!”
A startled alchemist explained in a panic: ”we started working from the first day of the war, working day and night, but we still can't keep up with the speed of consumption! The loss speed of the front line is too fast, even double the estimate is not enough!”
”That's right! It's not that we don't want to, but that we really can't do it - even for defective substitutes, it takes a lot of time to make, and the effect can't be guaranteed!”
In the face of the alchemists' excuses, dreisis remained silent with a gloomy face until the other party stopped talking.
Of course he knows this, but that's not what he wants to know.
A quarter of an hour later, when the last alchemist closed his mouth again and the warehouse returned to silence, dreisis asked coldly:
”So, gentlemen, are you going to tell me that it's really just because of 'powerlessness'...?”
”Of course...”
”Because if you tell me so, I will tell the soldiers outside that the alchemists in the fortress can no longer provide any support for them.” dreisis interrupted impolitely:
”So I repeat, in addition to objective reasons, what other reasons... Lead to your failure to provide sufficient logistical support?”
”This...”
The alchemists looked at each other with different expressions.
…………………………
”Bang --!”
When dreisis, led by a volunteer alchemist, opened the door on the other side of the warehouse, he saw... A scene he had never seen in his life.
As an imperial aristocrat, he even visited the laboratory of the imperial wizard college and saw with his own eyes the complex ancient Rune depiction and how the alchemical creation was born.
But the scene before him was unheard of.
With a huge magic circle as the center, a dozen Bain wizards who came with the floating city formed a circle and buried themselves in work. A young man with untidy hair standing in the center of the magic circle kept shouting something; Whenever he spoke, a wizard got up and modified the magic array under his feet according to the instructions of the words.
”If the rune in the upper left corner is modified, the corresponding part must be modified again - add two runes that can play a linkage effect, and then... What is the linkage effect? Haven't you graduated from your apprentice yet?”
”Gentlemen, we have plenty of time, but don't whisper; we're making a work of art. We're artists - of course, I'm exactly the artist. You're at most a kind of brush or manuscript paper - artists don't whisper!”
”Don't look who comes in and who goes out again. You're working! Everyone can't stop without my order...”
”Everybody, stop --!”
Before Isaac finished, the roar of the frightened dreisis had sounded first.
As soon as the voice fell, dozens of Knight officers of the fortress rushed straight into the laboratory and pushed the ”busy” Wizards aside, with a faint resentment in their indifferent expression.
”Hello, this is my laboratory!”
Isaac Grantham, with wide eyes, shouted inexplicably at the knights who broke in: ”who allows you to enter... Stop, don't move, it's all mine...”
”Wizard Isaac Grantham, I need an explanation.”
Dreisis, with a black face, interrupted him and stood directly in front of Isaac: ”what are you... And these wizards doing here?”
”What are you doing?”
Isaac's expression became more baffled and suddenly opened his arms: ”don't you have eyes - look around and ask again what I'm doing?”