Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 495: School starts, war starts!
The other side of the space-time rift behind Rorschach seemed to have a lower temperature and lower pressure. The chill made him shudder, and he quickly pulled his hand away from Ella's hand.

The person who was called was about to turn around, but instead of expanding into a temporary portal, the crack suddenly closed, clearly leaving him to find a way to get through on his own.

Looking back, the apprentice and Ella clearly had an expression of "enjoying the feast".

"Well, you all have seen it, right? I have other things to do, so I have to leave first. Please make a copy of the results of the analysis and give it to me. I'm not here, so give it to the young man who has been entertaining you recently."

"Master Andre?"

"Yes. If you are leaving for Forest Tower tomorrow, we will prepare a farewell party tonight. If you want to visit other cities, you can also ask Andre and he will help you arrange it."

"Don't bother. We will set off as soon as possible. We have been stranded here for longer than expected."

"Thanks for your hard work." After saying that, Rorschach levitated quickly and then used the air cannon to sprint to school. This is the second fastest way of traveling after teleportation. For ordinary people, it may not be clear what Rorschach is running, but for the caster.
The apprentice looked at Rorschach as he walked away: "Master, why don't you use the teleportation spell?"

"Maybe it's to train the body and cast spells? The investigation team that I, Master Rorschach, and Master Humboldt participated in also stepped into the Black Forest step by step."

“Will this work?”

That day was September 10th, the day when the Special Zone Institute of Technology opened and the Luosha Mage Tower accepted a new batch of apprentices for joint training. In order to save time and energy, a ceremony was held for both parties. As the owner of the tower and the nominal president of the Institute of Technology, Luosha naturally had to attend and give a speech.

The good news for those sleepy students is that the leader who came on stage did not prepare any ten-thousand-word speech, well, not a single word.

"Master Rorschach, it's time for you to come on stage and make a good appearance." The actual principal, Caroline, helped Rorschach adjust his red robe.

Rorschach himself was wearing a bow tie: "Just call me Rorschach, it's weird for you to call me that."

"Then you should call me Senior Sister."

"No, no, no, a teacher is a teacher. Once a teacher, always a teacher." Uh, facing Caroline is a mother for life? Rorschach cleared his throat: "Anyway, it has a very important meaning."

"What?" Before Caroline could finish her sentence, she was pulled onto the stage by Rorschach.

The two of them stood on the podium together. The apprentices and some teachers in the audience were all refreshed and straightened their backs when they saw the red-robed and purple-robed apprentices. Especially the apprentices of the Arcane Tower who participated in the joint training now felt a sense of relief after being depressed - Oh, I really didn't expect it, how could Master Luosha be promoted to a great master so quickly? How did I join someone else's Mage Tower?
The students who entered the Institute of Technology were still ignorant. They had just finished the most elementary education of literacy and were allowed to continue their studies in the Institute of Technology after being screened, especially after being examined in mathematics. Most of them were children of workers and urban residents, and a few had "climbed up" from the countryside with great difficulty.

Most of the kids here couldn’t understand the importance of their principal. They just superficially thought that the people on the stage were younger than their parents, the men were handsome and the women were pretty, and the robes were so impressive that they had to cover themselves with bed sheets when they got home.

The second batch of students enrolled in the School of Engineering was also the first official opening ceremony, which was prepared with great fanfare. Rorschach scanned the prepared venue and saw thousands of teachers and students were arranged in a leisurely manner.

This is a large scale, but it is far from enough for the entire special zone. Even if a large number of college graduates are hired as teachers, the existing teachers and school scale can neither keep up with the current number of eligible people nor meet the demand for high-quality cattle and horses for future expansion of production. "Although many people know me, please allow me to introduce myself: Rorschach, male, 20 years old, born in the Empire."

That's all? Everyone was waiting for Rorschach to say the next thing, but he just paused. After a moment, Rorschach's expression became serious: "Isn't it very short? An imperial soldier named Joseph Mueller died on the battlefield. On his tombstone are only his name, age, the legion he belonged to, and the last battle he participated in.

"Many more people, whether they were young people from Bavaria, the Empire or Valois, did not even have individual tombstones. In the end, there were only nameless graves of mass burials. And you are sitting here, about to start a new stage of study, and you still have plenty of time and opportunity to give yourself a long self-introduction.

"So I just hope that everyone: cherish life, respect knowledge, and seize opportunities. This is the end of my speech, thank you."

Luo Xia wanted to leave the stage, but just as he took a step, he turned back and said, "I forgot to mention that I am very busy, so whether you call me the tower master or the principal, I am just a figurehead. To the apprentices or teachers below the stage, if I find you, it is probably to assign you a task.

"The person you are dealing with is Teacher Caroline. To be more precise, the respected Executive Principal Caroline."

Rorschach saw that some apprentices couldn't control their disappointment. After all, Caroline was only a purple-robed wizard. If she threw the book down from the upper floors of the Tower of Arcane, the probability of it hitting a purple-robed wizard was quite high. Judging from the standards of the Tower of Arcane, the level of the female wizard on the stage was really mediocre (although they were only apprentices with difficulty in promotion).

The speaker concluded by saying, “Don’t underestimate Mage Caroline. She has trained a great mage. Although it may sound a bit shameless to say so, that great mage is me.

"Teacher Carolyn's other students are also shining in their respective fields. Please work hard as well." Anyway, according to Rorschach's intelligence as of today, Richard has been awarded the rank of brigadier general. As for Bart, he will soon go down in history as the man behind the world's first female senator. All three of them have bright futures, which is cause for celebration!
Caroline only now understood the "important significance" that Rorschach had mentioned before he went on stage. She did not have a script, so she continued to speak briefly. The students who had been inspired by Rorschach also had a different attitude, and they applauded Caroline enthusiastically.

On one side, there was a cheerful, vigorous and hopeful opening ceremony; on the other side, on the southern front of the imperial occupation zone north of Valois, the National Guard was wiping cannons and gun barrels, preparing to go to war against the enemy within the motherland.

Artillery General Drouot will be in his first battle after his promotion, commanding the reorganized heavy infantry division. The National Guard's general rank should be brigadier general in the empire. His promotion was due to the help of his subordinates, but his military accomplishments were also recognized by the command.

Drouot picked up the telescope and put it down again. He saw that the wheat fields had been harvested and the imperial army had used trenches to carve several ugly wounds on the fields. The general couldn't help cursing:

"The National Salvation Committee and the National Assembly have been arguing for so long and dragging their feet for too long! I'm afraid that the imperialists are now eating the food grown by our compatriots and waiting for us to attack comfortably."

After the "Second Battle of Fort Moncado", a large number of troops needed to rest. However, after the rest, the fluctuations in Valuana affected all aspects of the army, from personnel transfers to logistical support, delaying the military operation to counterattack and recover the entire territory for a full month.

But no matter what, I have to go all out. As troops on the Eastern Front, Drouot and other troops must not only recover lost territory, but also make the Imperials think that the main force of the National Guard is rushing towards the strongest defense line in history.

His former subordinate, Paul, the artillery general who is now on the same level as himself after an exceptional promotion, and his troops will pass through the Lowland principalities from the west and advance directly to the imperial capital from west to east and from south to north via the shortest route.

Drouot looked at the "Giant Mechanical Breacher" lying horizontally covered with felt, and prayed secretly that it could play the greatest role.

(End of this chapter)