23.Tne Finale and Casualties
William remained in the tree.
Listening to the roar coming from the distance, the appearance of a large number of magical reactions and fighting aura reactions was also confirmed in his spiritual perception.
He also couldn't help but stand up from the tree branch, and looked at the wave of beasts below that were still running but their numbers had significantly decreased, and was quite relieved.
"It should be fine." William relaxed quite a bit.
It should only be at the level of 10,000 people among my senses, but Grandpa directly gave a transfer of three fully loaded magical movers, a terrifying troop strength, enough to shock those guys for quite some time.
The seventeenth group army and the original garrison on this side converge, plus each village and town's own militia and guard force, using the magic formation of the academy's teacher-teachers as the center of defense and counterattack.
With the subsequent arrival of the magician students from the Polar Star Academy, coupled with various ranged magic attacks, this farce would basically be over.
As for the rest, all that was needed was for the warriors and students to arrive and cooperate with the remaining army to clear out the scattered magical beasts.
As for the powerful beasts following the eighth order magical disaster towards ...
By the time those high ranked magical beasts of theirs coalesced, all the strong people in the neighborhood should have arrived.
At that time, even the single or multiple eighth-order magical beasts that would eventually coalesce and appear would likewise be obliterated.
After all, in the end, it was just a natural magical beast born in a short period of time in the midst of a magical disaster. There is a big difference between a natural magical beast born from a long period of cohesion and a natural magical beast born from a long period of cohesion.
Thinking like this, William was also completely relaxed.
"Help the army fight, and then meet up with the commander at the end."
"The commander of the 17th Army Group, seems to be ..."
"Tuttle Tommy, right?"
William drew two swords and muttered to himself.
At the same time, he jumped down from the tree and directly decapitated the two second-order magical beasts below, and while being discovered and enraging the surrounding magical beasts, he also directly killed towards the town of Angle, where the army was located.
He didn't care about being injured or anything else right now, his purpose was just to go and meet up with the army.
It would be better to get injured.
After all, he had to go back to the academy afterward, if he went back alone through the eighth-order magical disaster without any injuries at all, it would inevitably make people suspicious.
He didn't want to waste time solving troubles that could have been avoided!
...
On the other side.
The wave of beasts at the initial stage of the magical disaster, with the Kingdom's seventeenth group army's strenuous resistance, held out until the subsequent fifteenth group army's support arrived.
Together with the assistance of the strong magicians sent by the academy, the ranged magic bombardment targeting the large swarms of magical beasts quickly made the overall pressure decrease.
The nearby churches were also the first to support and deploy a large number of priests to arrive, actively rescuing the injured soldiers as well as pacifying the residents.
Originally, there were members of the newspaper guilds who smelled the smell and rushed here, but they were stopped on the grounds of military action, the less that group of 'canine animals' knew, the better, or else the storm of public opinion that would be stirred up would be enough to 'destroy' a kingdom!
After that came the question of the mighty tide of beasts.
The known situation circulated less clearly, but the more believable version was that the nearby reclusive powerhouses and the dean of the Polar Star Academy and the others teamed up and went directly to the source of the magical disaster, suppressing, channeling, or collapsing its chaotic and massive magical elements by some means.
And all of the fourth and fifth order magical beasts that had only coalesced for a short while were wiped out, plus the subsequent eighth order magical beasts were prevented from coalescing.
An even more outrageous version of the rumor was that there was actually a ninth-ranked demonic dragon deep in the Sage Forest that was upset about the magical disaster in its own home so it helped out as well.
The message was half true and half false, no one was too sure, in any case, before the details were officially announced, the residents of the neighborhood knew they were safe.
After all, whoever took the message seriously then William would definitely taunt him for the rest of his life.
After that it was a matter of casualty counting and post-disaster reconstruction.
...
Ten o'clock at night.
The magical disaster that erupted at three in the afternoon, the army that arrived after four only managed to rest after five hours of intense fighting, and at this moment, they were already cleaning up the battlefield.
Most of the magical beasts had already been eliminated, the remaining magical beasts needed to be dealt with by another legion, after all, the soldiers in the army were all ordinary people in the end.
Even if they have cultivated fighting qi, but at most they are only at the middle level, to the high level basically are not ordinary soldiers, and their bodies have already reached their limits.
So the task of eliminating the sporadic magical beasts in the following night was handed over to the warrior students of Polar Star Academy.
The 17th group army, which suffered more serious casualties and was nearby, was temporarily stationed in place, the 15th group army that came to support them suffered fewer casualties, and after counting the casualties and simply cleaning up the corpses on the battlefield, they returned to their original garrison point by magical vehicles.
"Lord Tuttle, the casualty reports have been tallied after being reported by each squad." The secretary officer came heavily into the tent with the casualty report.
"Read it." Tuttle said solemnly.
"Yes!"
"Due to the haste of the march, all types of soldiers had a situation where their equipment was not fully equipped, especially on the heavy infantry side that lacked heavy metal equipment and was on the front line, the number of casualties was 372, and all remaining soldiers were wounded."
"The rest of the infantry troop types had 1,223 killed in action, 546 seriously wounded, and 2,728 lightly wounded."
"There were no deaths in the archer and wizard troop types, though 25 were seriously wounded and 57 were lightly wounded due to the archer having a top front move."
"For the knights, Terry (3rd Order) Knights scrapped 13 and heavily wounded 29. Deva (2nd Order) Knights scrapped 37 and heavily wounded 56. The machine jockeys only had a few minor injuries, the rest were unharmed."
The secretary officer closed the report and bowed his head silently.
"The total number of casualties is 1,595?..." Tuttle remained serious.
Obviously being in a peaceful country, a magical disaster caused so many soldiers to die in battle!
Although the 15th Group Army had arrived later, after all, it had been involved in a three-hour battle, so the casualties were definitely still there as well.
Adding in the militia and guard units, perhaps ...
The number of people who sacrificed their lives for this reason might have reached as many as two thousand!
Tuttle couldn't help but clench his fists, but held back his emotions from erupting.
"The data is reported to the Central Military Department."
"And order the soldiers to intensify their night patrols of the villages to avoid secondary casualties caused by sporadic magical beast night attacks. At the same time, order some of the soldiers to escort the seriously injured and lightly injured soldiers to carry the Magic Mobility Vehicle back to Kesflo City for timely treatment, and not to add too much pressure to the nearby church priests."
"And in terms of ... resident casualties? Shouldn't be too big, right?"
Tuttle asked at last with a complicated, even somewhat cautious mood.
"Not much!" The secretary officer also showed a slightly pleased look.
"It can even be said to be very small, except for the small number of people who live alone in the wilderness or those who farm and hunt at longer distances, basically all of them are uninjured." Secretary Officer.
"That's good." Tattletale breathed a sigh of relief.
The losses had been heavy, but at least they had succeeded!
He was a general, but he was even more of a warrior, and for a warrior, there was no greater fulfillment than successfully protecting the people in a disaster.
...
At the very same time.
"Report, there is a high-ranking warrior teenager holding a secret order from Prince Ersha seeking an audience with Lord General Tuttle." A guard informed from outside the tent.
Prince Ersha's man? Tuttle froze.
Did he arrive on the magical moving vehicle that had only just come over?
"Let him in." Tattletale was a little curious.
"Yes!"
With that, William, who was wearing a black cloak and a large hood, entered the tent under the guidance of a guard.
The guard then excused himself.
"Please tell me you are?" Tuttle said.
William looked at the secretary officer next to him and lifted his hood to make sure he wasn't some outsider.
"Greetings, His Excellency General Tuttle, briefly introduce myself, I am the grandson of Suman Ersha, and I am currently attending Polaris Academy as a WEILIAN." William introduced himself with a smile.
Tuttle frowned.
Ursa's grandson?
How did he show up here? The Polar Star Academy ... I see!