N-A-A Chapter 370 Feint to the East, Attack in the West
Chapter 370 Feint to the East, Attack in the West
Chapter 370 Feint to the East, Attack in the West
They used an unexpected tactic.
This sentence is not false at all.
However ingenious a tactic may be, it should not deviate from the original purpose.
This is what confuses Sofia the most.
Assuming the federal army's objective is to annex Swabawa, it should concentrate its forces and quickly seize the city.
If we can capture the capital of this country, Hutya, in one fell swoop.
This battle will likely end in the shortest possible time.
However, Andrei led a portion of his army in a different direction.
This is not about outflanking the enemy from the rear and launching a surprise attack.
Instead, they were searching for a place called the Spring of the Dead.
Sofia had vaguely heard that Swabawa was a place with an exceptionally strong religious atmosphere.
They believe in a unique religion, and the river known as the Mother River is the embodiment of their faith.
If Andrei wanted to seize the Mother River, Sofia could understand; it was an attempt to break the will of the nation's military and people on a spiritual level.
However, the Spring of the Dead is the complete opposite of the country's beliefs, and Sofia sees no benefit whatsoever in simply seizing this place.
The congressman said that they had ulterior motives for attacking this place.
Could it be that this is all for the purpose of seizing the Spring of the Dead?
But why?
Is there anything special about that spring?
According to that congressman, the Federation seems to have been planning this attack for a long time.
Starting with the report from the new gate city,
The Great Gate City is the western gateway to the Far East continent, and it holds extraordinary significance for the entire country and even the entire continent.
Newgate City is a city in the New World.
It was the first city and outpost established by Easterners in the West, and it had pioneering significance.
Judging from the style of the name, that new gate city seems to bear many of the Federation's hopes.
The council probably hopes that Newgate City can become the face of the New World.
As for that city far away, what will happen to it is none of Sofia's business.
What puzzled her was why such a distant city could influence the decisions of the people here.
What intelligence did the Federation receive from Newgate City before deciding to attack Swabawa?
What connection does the New World have with the Fountain of the Dead in this country?
This matter seems to be extremely confusing.
But Sofia was just an assistant officer, with little influence, and all she had to do was follow along.
It would be more practical to focus your energy on studying the book on scroll making.
These days, Sophia feels that her understanding of the book has reached a new level.
This book appears to have been written during the mythical era, at the end of the dragon-slaying event, by a female magician named Matilda. Through communication with the first magician in her collection, she learned that Matilda seemed to be the originator of scroll magic in this world.
All subsequent scroll magic was developed based on her achievements.
In other words, what Sophia is trying to learn may be the original scroll magic?
What puzzled Sofia was why Matilda said in "The Craft of Scrolls" that she had refined and summarized this magic based on the power of her predecessors.
If Matilda was the pioneer, then didn't the predecessors she learned from have mastered scroll magic much earlier?
Sofia lacked the courage to question history; she could only conclude that the author of the book had merely used Matilda's name.
Otherwise, the history of scroll magic before Matilda has been lost to the dust of history.
This is why people call Matilda the pioneer of scroll magic.
Let's assume that's the case.
Sofia remembered that the major historical event before the dragon-slaying incident was the Dragon Burning Disaster.
Are these two things necessarily related?
Sofia was unable to find the real answer from the limited clues available to her.
The truth doesn't matter to her; what matters is that she needs to gain power.
A reel is essentially a type of delayed force.
Store up your power and use it when needed.
In this respect, the function of a scroll is actually similar to that of an alchemy potion.
However, the difference is that alchemical potions, as long as the same formula is used, and the refining steps are not significantly different, are also different.
The resulting medicines would be much more effective.
But scrolls are different; the magic recorded on them is closely related to the magician's own power.
Input is just a technique; if the scroll mage doesn't know any other magic, they actually can't input magic into the scroll.
Therefore, in order to make scrolls independently, a magician needs to learn not only scroll magic but also some other types of magic.
Fortunately, the book also introduced several simple spells that didn't require much talent, and Sophia learned them without much effort.
Making scrolls also carries the risk of magic going out of control; in that case, the magician will be devoured by the magic.
Sophia didn't want to lose her life, so she wouldn't record any lethal magic until she had fully mastered scroll magic.
Even if mistakes are made, the cost will be significant.
The most frequently recorded magic spell by Sophia was light magic.
Right now, Sophia's bundle contains hundreds of light spells.
If Andrei knew Sofia's level of expertise, he would probably have executed her as a charlatan.
Fortunately, they didn't understand magic and didn't know what Sophia's scroll magic was all about.
At this moment, she was following the army through the small forests of Swabawa.
Andrei only brought five hundred cavalrymen, partly to avoid being discovered by the people of this country, and also to ensure the speed of the march.
The downside is that you can't carry too much stuff.
They didn't even bring a tent.
Not to mention the things in the command battalion.
But Sophia is the assistant officer of the command battalion. Without the battalion, is there really any need for her position?
Eventually, her job became carrying maps, stationery, and various letters.
According to the map, Sofia knew they had penetrated deep into Swabawa and were not far from the Spring of the Dead.
"Report!"
Suddenly a scout returned.
"What did you find?" Andrei asked.
"A village," the scout replied, "and it's inaccessible."
"Doesn't this mean our whereabouts will be exposed, sir? The enemy is very likely to discover our intentions!" said Igor, the assistant officer—who was also part of Sofia's collection.
Andrei laughed and said, "No, we can still sneak past."
The scout shook his head: "Impossible, sir. I've already scouted all directions. The village is strategically located; there's no way to get around it."
Andrei narrowed his eyes: "If we kill all the witnesses, wouldn't we be able to sneak over there?"
The atmosphere suddenly became incredibly cold and gloomy.
Even Igor was speechless with surprise.
Sofia, however, had a newfound respect for Andrei, and could only say that he truly deserved to be the commander of an army.
Decisive, yet cold and ruthless.
Kill all witnesses; in other words, massacre the entire village!
His lack of hesitation and pity demonstrates that he is willing to use any means necessary to achieve his goals.
Is it only people like this who can become commanders of an army?
At that moment, Sofia felt that Andrei was very manly.
Even more than any man she had ever collected.
Suddenly, she felt an intense urge to collect it.
But Sofia had to admit that it was indeed a solution.
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Sofia suddenly interjected, "Perhaps we can use a feint to the east while attacking from the west!"
Perhaps battlefields and decisive moments are the occasions and times when men can radiate their charm.
A woman's charm can only be fully revealed in bed and when she is gentle.
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Sofia.
Andrei, like a lion spotting its prey, stared intently at Sofia with his piercing eyes:
"Go on!"
Sofia replied, "Is our goal to slip past them unnoticed? If so, slaughter shouldn't be the only option."
"Furthermore, you can't guarantee that you can completely eliminate the infestation; you don't know how many people are left in the village. If anyone goes out while you're massacring, your actions will be exposed when they return."
A massacre is more likely to attract the attention of Swabawa's leadership than the discovery of their whereabouts.
At this point, Sofia observed Andrei's reaction and, finding that he didn't object, continued:
"Therefore, we should proceed in a less impactful way, ideally by drawing the enemy's attention to one place, and then we can take the opportunity to pass by that village."
“Easy for you to say,” Andrei said. “How can the attention of those fools be so easily drawn?”
Sofia smiled; she had been expecting Andrei to ask such a question:
"Of course! And as you said, they are fools! Unlike the Federation, which is fascinated by art and technology, the Swabawa people are blinded by faith."
"But precisely because of this, they are more inclined to believe in miracles. If any phenomenon leads them to believe that faith has descended, they will flock to it."
Sofia was confident in her judgment; many of the people she collected from were devout believers.
One of them even wanted to marry her before he was willing to sleep with her.
When Sofia expressed her desire, he even found other men for her.
However, while he was casual, Sofia was not.
Sofia rejected the men he offered and instead chose two men herself.
And they were all brought to his side, which he gladly accepted.
Finally, Sofia held a wedding ceremony with him and was able to keep him as a pet.
To be honest, if that man hadn't been quite handsome, and if it weren't for the fact that people as foolish as him are really rare, Sophia would have given up long ago.
And from then on, Sofia lost interest in "devout" men, and even developed a certain aversion to them.
Sofia understood these religious people and knew how to deal with them.
But the key is how to attract them.
And, just as Sofia had expected, Andrei asked, "What's the method?"
Sofia patted the bundle hanging from the saddle and grinned from ear to ear:
"The solution is right here!"
Unexpectedly, the bunch of useless scrolls she made, which were all devoid of lighting magic, actually came in handy one day!
Andrei ultimately adopted Sofia's suggestion, but to ensure everything went smoothly, he required Sofia to carry it out personally.
This was the only thing that Sofia hadn't expected.
Sophia is indeed a scroll mage, but this magical profession is at best a support role, and often only plays a logistical role.
Her fighting ability is not much stronger than that of an ordinary woman.
However, Andrei had taken this into account and ultimately assigned Sophia a bodyguard with decent martial arts skills, and also gave Sophia a few extra bottles of alchemical potions.
Only a fool would use alchemy potions; even a three-year-old knows that alchemy potions have side effects.
But to say that Sofia regrets it is not true.
Why did Sofia come to this continent? Why did she become a female military officer?
Ultimately, it's because she has a heart as unrestrained and free as a wild horse.
Rather than dying in an adventure, she would rather live a quiet, uneventful life, marrying an honest man and accomplishing nothing.
Look! She became an actress, able to travel far and wide, even crossing oceans, to places she had only heard of in passing as a child!
She had also collected countless men.
She also possessed magic!
Right now, she's willing to risk her life on a mission that could warrant an attack, and even if she dies, she won't regret it.
She was never a good woman in the eyes of the world; she was just herself!
But Sofia never considered herself extraordinary; she simply wanted to prove that an ordinary person can also have their own legend!
Sofia, with a determined look in her eyes, led the guard and the scout ahead to one side of the village.
"Is this the direction of Hutuoye?" Sophia asked.
The scout nodded: "Yes."
Sofia didn't ask any more questions, but instead opened the package and began setting up the "miracle".
Faith often has a vehicle, and in this country, the unique vehicle of faith is the Mother River.
If a remarkable phenomenon is created in the direction of the Mother River, the people of this village will inevitably associate it with the Mother River and come to worship.
Sofia had witnessed the power of "piety" firsthand; these people often chose to ostracize and suppress those who were not pious.
Therefore, without any visions to attract people, those who come to worship the visions, even if they discover the Federation's army, will be considered to have "blasphemous hallucinations" and will be rejected.
Sofia quickly completed all the arrangements, waiting only for nightfall to begin the plan.
Using this time, Sofia also made a few extra scrolls, just in case.
She also made an extra scroll containing the ignition magic in order to destroy the evidence.
Night fell, and the stars and moon dimmed.
Sofia used her extraordinary power to simultaneously drive the scroll.
Generally, when using a roller, the roller needs to be fully unrolled.
However, her power can bypass this step and act as a triggering medium.
From this perspective, Sofia is indeed the best person to carry out the plan.
Hundreds of magic scrolls were triggered simultaneously.
In an instant, red, blue, green, purple—all sorts of colors of light burst forth simultaneously.
It illuminated the night sky, so bright that even with her eyes closed, Sofia found it dazzling.
"Hahaha!"
But Sofia was laughing loudly.
She felt she was doing something amazing, something unique and thrilling.
For ordinary people, this is absolutely legendary!
Then, at noon the next day, Sofia arrived at the Spring of the Dead.