Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 403: Continuous Message

“General Claude, the style of this grey robe is the standard formula of the Grey Tower Mage.” General Shazorak came with a gray robe on his third visit: “You see, unlike our usual outer robe covers, the collar of the gray robe is a large vertical collar with a flap and a black flare as a button, each with a slanted slip pocket on the left and right that looks simple but classic.

In addition, the fabric material of the gray robe is woven from the intersection of the specialty Higglestone and Hillos fine wool of Higglestone Island. You see, the twill side of this gray robe fabric has a silver glow in the sun, which is the hallmark of Hillos fine wool, known as silver wool. Both materials are banned from sale on Higros Island and are the best choice for making robes.

The Grey Tower Master's grey robe bears their unique logo, starting with a seven-layer tall tower embroidered with a grey silver edge on the collar, which is where the name of the grey tower comes from. Secondly, there are two fixation spells on the left and right chest collar of the grey robe, and a cleansing procedure on the left chest, which is available three times a day. The right chest is a dark deformation that allows the gray robe to change color in a dark environment, agreeing with the surrounding area, a spell that is used once every three days.

In addition to this, the Grey Tower Mage is accustomed to embroidering their magician level on the sleeve of the grey robe, embroidering the six-mounted star sign on the hem of the grey robe to complete the assassination mission... ”General Shazorak pulled out the right sleeve of this grey robe in his hand and showed it to Claude, embroidered with two black sides, indicating that the original owner of the grey robe was only a second-ring magician. The gray robe had a clean hem, which meant that the original owner had suffered from this assassination mission for the first time.

Claude asks General Shazorak, what is the highest rank of all the gray magicians killed? General Shazorak replied that apart from the three black sides on the sleeves of the three Grey Robes Magicians, the rest were all two black sides...

Claude feels a little strange. Is it true that the famous Grey Tower Sorcerer of Hercules relies on these two-ring, three-ring Grey Robe Sorcerer assassins to carry out the assassination? No wonder I had the feeling that even without a revolver in my hand, I could handle two or three Grey Robe Mages by magic...

It was clear that General Shazorak had done a great deal of work in that regard over the past two or three decades, and he told Claude that, according to information provided by several wild wizards residing in overseas jurisdictions, Grey Tower Wizards had been vigorously recruiting the children of those islanders who lacked magical talent on Higros Island over the past two or three decades to spend time and money training them into qualified magician assassins. These grey robe magicians to assassinate Claude and General Algers are probably the first new blood bred by the Grey Tower Mage in more than two decades.

Claude suddenly realized, no wonder he thought that the Grey Robe Mages were easy to deal with. Turns out these Grey Robe Mages sent by the Grey Tower Mages to assassinate were strictly secondary items, and they weren't really combat magicians, they were just one-time magician killers.

If Claude and sister Anna had a magical gift of more than 890 percent, his brother Browick had a magical gift of about 67 percent. So the magical talent of these Islander sons of the Grey Tower sorcerers who recruited from Higros Island should be only forty and fifty, belonging to the kind that can learn magic but progress very slowly without much potential for development.

But for the Grey Tower Mage, there is no way to recruit such an Islander's children, and even if they learn slower and longer, it is better than the entire Grey Tower organization disappearing into the passage of time. Higros Island, though large, has a population of less than a million and can produce one or two magical geniuses a year that have long been robbed by other magician factions on the island. It is not the Grey Tower Mage, an organization that cultivates magicians as assassins and killers.

Like Claude, it took a year to get promoted to the Circumpolar Mage, and her sister Anna only took six months. Browick, his younger brother, had the worst magic talent and was promoted to a one-ring magician after only 16 months. And the magically talented Islanders recruited by the Grey Tower Mage will succeed in promoting them to a one-ring magician for at least 35 years, and then to a second-ring magician for more than a decade. No wonder they were sent out on assassination missions after only two or three rings, because they had to be promoted to four or five rings to come out, and the Grey Tower Mage couldn't even support them...

While Claude and General Shazorak were discussing Grey Tower Master's information, General Scully broke into Claude's ward with a falcon message. He was excited, but he tried to keep his voice down: “The front line came back, General Bolonik led the Forbidden Guard Regiment, a Legion of Thunder, the Rock 1st 2nd Division most of which the night before yesterday overran the walls of Port Vibato City, entered the city, fought day and night, forced most of the enemy troops to surrender, successfully captured the entire harbour city, hereby sent a quick newspaper..."

More than seven or eight days a month, almost forty days, minus the time taken to travel and assemble the ministries, General Bolognick commanded the troops to attack almost immediately upon arrival beneath the walls of Port Vibato. Fortunately, everything went well and it took only one day and two nights to capture the port of Vibato. It is not known that the death and injury of the Guardian regiment in the siege is immense at this time, and it is hoped that General Bolognick will remember Claude's reminder to reduce some of the Guardian regiment's war damage.

“Did you hear anything from Wang Du?” Claude asked General Scully.

“No, the last time Wang recalled the first special envoy mission and then dispatched a second one, it was estimated that they should have just boarded the ship at Bai Lu City military port and it would take at least a month to get here. According to information received by Mr. Viberon last week, the members of the second mission did not participate in the mission of the first special envoy, believing that they should not have come to make our theatre difficult..."

Claudette softened her breath: “As long as it's not hard for us, it's easy for us to get through this, and then stay overseas and watch the two princes of the kingdom divide their victories and losses. From now on, we'll stop standing in line, who's king and who's loyal to us. ”

General Scully and General Shazorak looked at each other and nodded. If Claude hadn't insisted on saving himself this time, it would have been terrible to wait until Wang Du's First Envoy Mission arrived. There was a Marshal Michel sitting in town, so everyone could blame the scum generals of the Sterling royal bloodline without any hesitation.

But who would have guessed that the situation would have changed so quickly, that Marshal Michel had been stabbed and wounded and hidden, and that there was a huge deal about the assassination on this side of the battlefield, so those junk generals with Sterling's blood found a good time to target several generals in the battlefield, who could go to the battlefield to retaliate. Imagine, if the First Special Envoy's Mission had actually arrived in the war zone, it would have been a piece of tofu from which they would have been able to extract bones...

The most chilling thing about the battlefield generals was that their loyal target, Grand Prince Hansburg, did not even speak for them, leaving them to the scum generals of the Sterling royal family to throw water on them, saying that they had orchestrated the assassination in order to gain power. Fortunately, the First Special Envoy's Mission was called back by Wang Du's bosses, otherwise waiting for several generals in the theatre would most likely be an unimaginable consequence.

All thanks go to Mr. Viberon and the mining and business association for their constant assistance in conveying information from the King to the theatre of battle, so that Claude and several generals of the theatre could soberly see the King's response to the assassination and the attitude of the kingdom's powerful men, as well as information such as the members of the mission. Several generals who survived the war zone owed a great deal to mining and business associations.

It appears that it will only take patience for another month or so before the second mission reaches Lake Lan town to finalize the assassination. General Skerry, however, will need to pass on to Wang Du the news of General Bolonik's capture of the port of Vibato, believing that the King will send a third special mission to resettle all troops in the theatre. Because the colonial war is over, there's no need to keep the war zone and the big men up there need to make a choice...

Claude was finally comfortable lying on his bed and nursing his injuries, but after seven or eight days, General Scully sent good news again. Officers and soldiers of the Guardian Corps, led by General Bolognick, accidentally discovered the whereabouts of the escaped Grey Robe magicians during a mapping of residents of Port Vibato. In the face of the fierce situation, the officers and soldiers of the guard regiment also tried to resist with the cover of the terrain and the house. As a result, three or four bombs were thrown over, four were killed and three were wounded on the spot. Now the battlefield command finally has alive the grey magicians who came to assassinate them.

It is indeed good news that General Shazorak has gone to the Dolinibara River to await and greet the three surviving teams, who vowed to take the name of the assassin behind the scenes from the mouths of the three living Grey Robe Magicians.

But none of this had anything to do with Claude, and he learned from Dr. Perente, who came to treat himself, that General Beechlin, badly stabbed, recovered better than he did, and could be out of bed in two months. In addition, Sir Bennett, the chief civil affairs officer in the war zone, was unlucky and lost his left hand, which was severed by a blade spell at the time of the assassination.

When McJackie showed up in front of Claude, the second envoy was three or four days away from Lake Lang. McJackie returned this time to escort the wounded and escort the three grey robe magicians alive, and after handing over the three prisoners to the long-awaited General Shazorak on the Dolinibara River, a convoy of wounded men with magpies quickly drove back to Langhu Town.

Claude learned from McJackie's mouth that General Bolognick had led the ministry in the capture of Port Vibator City, and how to put it that way. Had it not been for the dropping of bombs, which were so powerful in the siege and city alley warfare, perhaps this port city, which the Kingdom of the Hicks has placed so high hopes of, would not have been so easily attacked. Especially after the final battle to capture the dock area, seven light cruise gunships stationed in the King's sub-fleet in Port Vibato bombarded the city that fell into the hands of the attackers, stopping the attackers from approaching, with the intention of keeping a small half of the dock area in the hands of the defenders.

General Bolognick, however, was well prepared to launch a first-name attack on seven light cruise gunships in the harbour, taking advantage of the range far beyond the enemy, starting with the five heavy field guns that had been harboured from the port of Patres and eventually sinking five enemy ships, forcing the last two light cruise gunships to surrender with white flags. Without the seven enemy ships, the enemies of the dock could not sustain themselves and surrendered quickly, and the port of Vibato fell into the hands of the attackers.

McJake told Claude that his teenage playmate, that big fat Bok Al, had done a great job in the battle to capture Port Vibato this time. All battle offensive routes that occur in urban areas are developed by information provided by Boquer, and there are even guided routes in some places. This is also why the urban alley battle in Port Vibator City lasted only one day and one night, as the guards of the Kingdom of Hicks fought and found themselves surrounded and lost contact with the rear. If they don't surrender, all they have to wait for is throwing bombs that have been thrown from all sides...

Nearly 20,000 people were killed or injured in this siege and fewer were killed in the war zone. The largest casualties were in the four main field regiments accompanying the Rock First and Second Division Sieges, which accounted for 60 per cent of casualties and almost reimbursed the two main field regiments. The rest are the Thunder Regiment and the Guardian Regiment, whose casualties are minimal, so that officers of the Guardian Regiment are embarrassed to take the initiative to assume policing duties in urban areas.

Then it was simple. Big Fat Bok Al received information from a middle-level local official who had surrendered to his former port of Vibato, and forwarded it to the Guardian Corps, which had sent people around the neighborhood to conduct a residential census, and soon discovered the whereabouts of the escaped grey magicians. Around the corner, throwing bombs, throwing all the trouble.

That's what McJackie told Claude that his teenager friend Bock-All had made a huge difference in the attack on the city of Port Vibato, and without the information Bock-All had provided and the route of the attack, the casualties in this urban alley war had at least doubled. Because Machid III of the Kingdom of Hicks rewarded the main standing regiment guarding Port Vibato, the enemy did not surrender so easily and their resistance was so fierce...

None of this makes sense, however, and the guards of the port of Vibato have long been alone, and they cannot even leave the city to detect hostilities. This weapon, which unexpectedly fell from the sky and exploded quickly destroyed the remaining courage and resistance of the garrison, is also the main reason why the port of Vibato was captured after only one day or two nights of fighting.

The port of Vibato was seized, and the escaping grey robe magician was captured, and the Special Envoy was about to arrive in Lake Lan town. Claude felt comfortable resting at last, and then nothing happened to him.

It just didn't occur to Claude that, three days later, the envoy arrived in Lake Lang town, and after attending a welcoming banquet, members of one of the envoys came to the Vibrant Estate. In the name of visiting General Claude, a large number of precious and extraordinary gifts were sent to Claude, almost filling Claude's ward. Claude could only laugh bitterly, knowing what ideas were in the minds of the members of his mission to visit him, nothing more than a revolver he had invented.

General Shazorak took the time to come and tell Claude nothing but a sneer. The three gray robe magicians who were captured admitted that they did accept the reward of the King of the Kingdom of Hicks, Majid III, for assassinating several generals in the war zone.

But ridiculously, the highest reward is Claude, whose head is worth 100,000 kilograms. And General Algers of the Kingdom, like General Bolognick, General Scully and others, has only 50,000 gold shields. That's why the Grey Robe Mages split up when the assassination took place. Claude sent seven Grey Robe Mages...

After obtaining the statements of the three Grey Robe magicians, the mission had a heated dispute. Because they were reluctant to accept the fact that General Algers' reward was only half that of Claude, they were prepared to force the three Grey Robe magicians to alter their confessions, at least to flatten their reward. They speak vibrantly, and this is about the honor of General Argers...