Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 13

2021-02-27

Chapter 13 Graduation Package Assignment, and This Good Thing (Part 1)
Taking over, Winters and Bud carried the long halberd and patrolled along the military school wall. They didn't carry muskets, because muskets were much heavier than a long halberd.

And there are no gunpowders and no projectiles at the gates, and muskets are just decorations. If Winters thinks, he doesn't even want to take this halberd.

The Luyuan is not a treasure trove. The joint-provincial army school philosophy has always been to save as much as possible, and to use the saved money to run more schools.

Such a poor place where mice go in and cry out, and it is filled with strong young men of vigorous dragon and ferocious tiger.

Not to mention thieves, even ghosts have to go around.

For the school, the main purpose of night patrol is to prevent individual students from sneaking out of the school at night. But catching two officers and students who wanted to escape from the bed would not make a move.

At the same time, it is very unreliable to let officers and students catch classmates. Winters has sneaked out a few times while his classmates were standing guard at night, and came back in the middle of the night.

Every time he walks through the front door, he doesn't need to climb over the wall at all.

The two walked for a while, the sky had turned completely dark, and the time to turn off the lights had passed.

The Luyuan at night completely bid farewell to the noise of the day. The campus in the dark is like a wild beast dormant in the shadows.

Winters' night patrol often gets the feeling that the academy isn't a dead thing, it's breathing rhythmically every moment.

Nearby neighborhoods are as dreamy as the military academy. Only the far harbour area never sleeps, and Winters can even vaguely see the lights.

It's the turf for alcoholics and servicers looking for fun.

Outside the military academy walls, there are some crude stone tables next to the residential area. The stone table is shaded by a few broad-leaved trees, providing shade on sunny days and shelter from rain on rainy days.

The stone tables are built by nearby residents, and small businessmen usually set up stalls on the table to do business with the military and students.

Winters pointed to the stone tables and suggested to Bud, "Sit down for a while."

"Okay, sit down for a while, I want to smoke too." Bard De laughed, saw that Winters didn't bother to go.

The wind is a bit strong tonight, and it is blowing from the sea to the land. The wind brought a lot of water vapor, and the sky over Jade City was already obscured by clouds.

The moonlight fades through the clouds, and the road is only slightly better than on a moonless night.

Winters frowned: "Look at the wind and the clouds, it might rain tomorrow."

Rain is nothing for a man on a journey back home good news.

The two sat on the stone table, and the wind from the sea wiped away the sweat from their bodies and took away the heat from their bodies.

The heat of the day was disappeared, now it's a cool and comfortable night.

Bud took out an old pipe from his small satchel. He first filled the bowl with some shredded tobacco, then pressed it tightly, and then repeated twice this "loading tobacco- Compression" process.

Winters watched Budd finish filling the cigarette, and with his left hand, he kept his thumb on his index finger and lit the tobacco in Budd's bowl.

This is a little perk of having a sorcerer friend. As long as Winters is around, Bud never has to worry about where to find fire.

"Ike also said that he envied me during the day. If he finds that the biggest advantage of being a sorcerer is the convenience of lighting cigarettes, I wonder if he will say envy." Winters thought to himself.

A considerable number of men in this era are either smokers or alcoholics, and many of them are both. The overwhelming majority of people who don't smoke or drink don't want to, but because they can't afford it.

Winters is one of the very few people who don't smoke or drink, and as a sorcerer, he must avoid any addictions as much as possible.

Because Antoine Laurent believes that the addictive "poison" will corrode the sorcerer's will, paralyze the sorcerer's perception, and destroy the sorcerer's spell ability.

Winters doesn't admit to worshipping anyone, but that's self-deception, because of the subtle self-esteem of young men.

Three years of pre-school and three years of Luyuan, Winters read every book, file and letter he could find about Antoine Laurent.

Public, he watched publicly; confidential, he watched secretly. If things go well, Winters should start writing a biography of General Antoine Laurent by the age of 30...

All in all, Antoine Laurent says addictions are bad, Winters Definitely not contaminated.

I saw Bud taking a puff of cigarette comfortably and exhaling slowly. Winters finally decided to speak up about a question he cared so much about.

"Have you figured out where you're going to be assigned?" Winters asked with concern.

Under the weak firelight, Bud's expression was as usual, unmoved by Winters' question.

"I didn't go to find out." Bud replied unhurriedly: "You can guess it without inquiring. It's nothing more than being dispatched overseas."

After finishing this sentence , Bud continued to focus on smoking, a recreational activity that was damaging his health.

He looked at ease and didn't seem worried at all about his imminent assignment overseas.

"Where is overseas dispatch so easy for you to say?!" Winters suddenly became anxious.

But Bud smiled at Winters as if to say "don't worry about me, it's alright" and continued smoking his cigarette.

Winters looked at Bud, at Jade City at night, at the sleeping school, and finally sighed helplessly.

Bard doesn't feel sorry for himself, but Winters is sad about Bard's situation.

Overseas dispatch, strictly speaking, means that military academy graduates are assigned to large and small nodes along the maritime trade route.

Two places close to home are the Holy Murao Empire and the Freman Empire, the capital of the Two Great Empires is a world-famous bustling city with consulates in the Alliance.

Being a military attache in the consulate of Huahua World is a beautiful job that everyone is fighting for.

But the "overseas dispatch" in Winters and Bud's mouth is obviously not such a good job, but is assigned to a farther, more sinister end of the world.

Tomorrow, Winters will embark on his journey home, where he will spend a year as a trainee in his homeland, the Ocean Blue Republic.

This time next year, Winters will be back in school. Because strictly speaking, he has not really graduated, and this year he was a trainee with the rank of warrant officer.

And the military cadets who are dispatched overseas, don't even think about going home as long as they get on the overseas ship.

Even next year's graduation ceremony don't want to participate, because it takes more than a year to come and go.

Nominally, officers were dispatched to various trade points to protect the overseas interests of the Alliance.

But many times they are bare officers. If there are no soldiers and no power in hand, there is no chance of meritorious deeds.

Want to go home? Either be put in a coffin, or survive until retirement.

To understand why Bard is sent overseas and Winters is not, it is important to understand the Army Officer Academy's graduate distribution system.

If you want to understand the graduate distribution system of the Army Officers Academy, it is necessary to start from the beginning of the establishment of the school.

One of the purposes of the old marshal's establishment of this military academy is to bridge the rift between the alliance countries, especially the differences between the armies of the republics.

Because the Confederate country is not exactly a "country", but a "confederation", her full name is the Free Alliance of the Republics of Senas. The political ecology of the Union can be described by quoting the classic quote of former Union Secretary of State Humphrey: "Nation? What kind of country are we? Aren't we five primordial tribes that hate each other?"

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