Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 268: Changing situation
Since living in the dormitory of the court with the little doll Nara, Lawrence has slowly recovered from the state of nerves that had been strained because of the constant assassinations before. Taking advantage of this chance to settle down, he began to study the knowledge he had previously obtained from the stone slab.
Last time, the knowledge recorded on the stone slab of the ultimate heritage of a certain genre of the Peacock Empire indeed belonged to the top knowledge that pointed to the most basic power, and the connection with Nora’s soul also allowed him to obtain similar things when studying these things. Added to the external brain. So after living in the dormitory and studying quietly for three days, he finally successfully integrated the results of the previous scattered research.
Although it was only a very preliminary understanding of the things recorded above, it also enabled Lawrence to successfully add two faint runes representing the new magic on the side of the white shadow on his mind.
The two runes representing different magic look very similar. If you want to say different things, you can only say that the rune representing the zero-level magic is slightly simpler than the rune representing the first-level magic in the details. In fact, in a way, these two magics are the same magic.
Because Lawrence does not understand the knowledge on the stone slab deeply enough, the magic named by Lawrence as the elemental arrow is just a simple magic that causes damage to the target by condensing and condensing elemental power. The only difference from the common energy-shaping magic is that the two magics that Lawrence now masters can freely adjust the ratio of various elements in the magic structure when they are released, so as to cause maximum damage to different targets.
However, due to Lawrence's superficial understanding of those knowledge, the elemental arrow made of magical elements released could not explode like fireball. Fortunately, the arrow and bullet-shaped magic he condensed according to Nora's calculations can maximize the range and accuracy of the magic, and it can also be regarded as the magic with enough lethality.
After dinner on the third day of staying at the referee's house, when Lawrence was practicing the newly invented magic with Nora in the underground practice field of the referee's court, a sudden rush of bells spread throughout the underground space. In an instant, all the magical lights in the room where Lawrence was extinguished at the same time, and the emergency lights on the wall turned on simultaneously.
"What happened?" Lawrence looked at the room that was suddenly flooded with the red light of emergency lights with a dazed expression, because no one had told him what to do in this situation before. And Nora, who was still recording new magic data just now, drifted behind Lawrence the first time the room changed, subconsciously making up for his blind spot.
"Attention to all units, attention to all units. The headquarters of the court will enter the orange alert state from now on. Please enter their respective combat positions." Soon, a voice spread throughout the room. Then the doors of all the rooms in the entire corridor opened at the same time. The members of the judges who were practicing just now walked out of the room quietly and quickly, and then walked down the corridor to the ground like a silent river.
"What happened?" Nora asked after coming to the ground in the flow of people behind Lawrence. This sudden situation made her a little confused, because everything was very normal when she had dinner just now, and it didn't look like a major crisis was about to break out.
"I also think it's a bit strange." After Lawrence came out of the underground shooting range, he walked quickly to his room. In his opinion, an institution like the referee should theoretically have excellent intelligence capabilities, and should not be as sudden as it is now. Go directly to the emergency state.
The first time he returned to the dormitory, Lawrence took out his weapons and medical kit and was ready for battle. After all, if a battle really broke out at this time, everyone would definitely need to contribute their own strength.
Within a few minutes of getting ready, Jagoda, a new friend he had made because of a **** battle with him, suddenly opened the door and walked in. He was first taken aback by the heavily armed Lawrence, and then said quickly. "Get ready so soon? This is great, come with me."
After speaking, he walked in front and took Lawrence and the others to the main building. When they passed through the open space in the middle of the building, Lawrence saw that all the metal gates on the ground before were opened, and some staff and judges were busy. Carry out boxes one by one from these underground spaces.
There are also many people on the fence now either inspecting weapons on the platform inside that wall, or arranging sandbags and barbed wire on the top of the wall, a scene of the coming war.
"What's going on?" Looking at the tense atmosphere inside the referee's headquarters, Lawrence asked Jagoda, who was leading the way, "Is there an enemy going to attack? But this is the capital, Wendo Bona, what? There may be enemies."
"You're right. This is the capital. In theory, there should be no enemies." Jagoda explained as they walked into the main building of the courthouse with Lawrence, "But now the problem lies here. It’s the capital. If it weren’t for the group of Janissaries, I don’t think it would be—"
At this point, Jagoda closed his mouth, then led Lawrence and the two into the small stairwell under the stairs of the main building, and then followed the cast iron stairs in the stairwell all the way down. Soon, the three people came to a medical room along a brightly lit corridor.
"I will trouble you to preside over the work of first aid in the field in a while. Our chief medical officer is now temporarily detained in the palace to preside over the work." Jagoda shrugged helplessly. "Originally, he went to the imperial palace this morning as the deputy director of the interrogation section of the trial office to report on what we found, but he didn't expect things to become like this."
"Can you tell me what happened?" Nora asked curiously, "I just heard you say something happened to the guards in the city?"
"The current question is indeed related to the Guards, but it is no longer just a question of the Guards." Knowing that Nora is a constructed life, Jagoda also answered the little doll's question very seriously. . "If you want to say it carefully, it has something to do with the prisoners we caught last time."
According to Jagoda, the colleagues in the interrogation room this morning finally asked some very valuable information from the captives, including the identity of the people behind the scenes. However, the real trouble broke out just after the referee arrested the instigator behind the scenes and tried to move up to the upper level.
"I can't imagine that the one who issued the assassination order to you was a major of the Imperial Guard." At this point, Jagoda shook his head in disbelief. "And after arresting him and conducting interrogation, we found that many of the gunmen who assassinated you were temporarily retired Janitor Guards. In addition to UU reading www.uukanshu.com, we also discovered that there are more prohibitions. The senior commander of the Guard seems to be planning some conspiracy."
"But because this is something that happened in the secular world, and it also involves the Emperor's direct army. Therefore, as a referee, we must report this matter to the Emperor. The Emperor is meeting with us and listening to us. After the report, at the suggestion of the Prime Minister, you will be immediately ordered to discuss the recent disturbances of the Janissaries as an excuse to invite those suspicious officers into the palace."
"But this process didn't go smoothly. It may be that our previous arrest of the Janissant Guard major had leaked out. Now the Janissaries, who were already nervous, began to gather in their camps. Under the instigation of those officers, our people were prohibited from entering the camp, and the atmosphere in the city suddenly became tense."
"What's even more strange is that even if the situation has deteriorated so much. The emperor's direct field troops just set up positions inside and outside the palace, and withdrew some personnel and materials into the palace. It seems to be allowing chaos to spread."
"This is indeed very strange." Lawrence frowned after hearing these words. In this case, the best way is to dispatch troops to maintain order and prevent the situation from rapidly deteriorating. The current practice of shrinking into the palace is indeed somewhat different. It's not like what the wise old emperor did.