"Wake up!" Macduff was the first to regain his senses. The Nautilus floating ship had already teleported away, so he no longer had to worry about hiding. He yelled, "Ian, hurry up and report to Sir Leonard. We're going back to help!"
A rustling sound came from the bushes as Ian yelled at them. The guerrillas, who were ashamed of their poor performance, began to gather. Ian started to practice with his badge, while the others looked up at the clouds in the sky that had yet to disperse after gathering.
Macduff was actually scared when the big guy pinched him. He turned to look at his companions, and in order to cover up his loss of composure, he deliberately complained in a gruff voice, "That Ravenclaw actually took action personally. Why are the gods meddling in the affairs of mortals? This is so unfair. Aesop even likes this magic academy …"
His complaint successfully emphasized that the gods had intervened in the battle this time. His teammates lost interest in talking, and none of them were in the mood to respond to him. Instead, they rushed back with their heads lowered. They walked out of the bushes with heavy hearts, took out the door keys they carried, and left the area with the help of their pocket-watches.
"Idiots, what are you doing?! You don't have to wait for the door keys! We can see the base from here! " Macduff shouted angrily. "Those who are confident in Phantom Transfiguration, raise your hand. Those who are not confident, go over and let the enemy take your Phantom Transfiguration back!"
A few minutes ago, in the defensive position that Ian's uncle was in charge of, Leonard stood in front of a simple fireplace made of large bricks with a frown. He paced back and forth a few times, then rushed into the communication room and asked loudly, "Still no response?"
"Your Excellency! I was about to report to you! I've already tried to contact everyone I know in the president's defensive area, but there's no response, "the exhausted soldier replied tiredly. "The news from Sir O 'Brien and Sir Wilkinson is the same … In addition, the defensive area that Ms. Joanne is in charge of has been discovered by the enemy and has fallen. Krivat of the Magic Kingdom led her troops and conquered it within 30 minutes … Ms. Joanne did not give up and chose to hold on … Only a small number of people escaped to Sir Wilkinson … Ms. Joanne seems to have been captured by the Magic Kingdom …"
"… Just keep up the same conversation." Leonard patted his subordinate's shoulder. In fact, he had not been able to contact Chairman Piquelli so many times that Leonard did not have much hope.
Leonard walked out of the communication room, grabbed his collar, and said to his collar, "Jonah, go and cut off the flight network between us and Ms. Josie. Although there should still be some time, please hurry up …"
Then, a sudden scream came from outside, interrupting Leonard. Hurried footsteps came from the corridor outside the door. This abnormal noise made everyone in the room put down their work.
"Mr. Leonard, the illusion in our defensive zone has failed!" A panicked subordinate ran in and reported while panting.
Leonard frowned. He quickly walked to the window to check the situation outside, but the Ian's report made him understand the seriousness of the situation before he even went out. This made the old man, who could actually retire, jump out of the window.
In the sky above the stronghold, the illusionary realms that were originally set up to cover their ears like a large-scale earplugs and the like were now gone.
The base was thrown into chaos by this sudden attack. The armed forces of the defense base ran around the area and began to gather automatically. However, they had not received any clear instructions from Leonard, so these people gathered here and there in disarray.
The wizards in charge of setting up the illusion had nervously gone to check the place they had set up, trying to restore it, while more wizards raised their heads and pointed to the sky on one side and shouted.
Leonard looked in the direction of these people's fingers and saw the beautiful giant hand waving in the sky. This made his pupils widen a little in an instant. He knew the owner of this hand very well. When the floating city of Hogwarts visited France and left to approach the border of Germany, it was she who helped the floating city to teleport at the last moment, embarrassing the Germans.
After that, the goddess had not shown her divinity or participated in too many political affairs, which was why Leonard was a little frightened. After all, they were now not only facing a magic kingdom, but also the goddess behind it. Although it seemed that she only intended to use a little divine power and had no intention of descending, it also made Leonard understand that Josie's position was most likely captured so quickly because of this.
Leonard, who did not take long to recover, quickly grabbed the badge on his collar and issued an order. "Everyone, according to the arrangement during the training, go to your respective positions!"
But before he had time to emphasize a few more words, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded on the watchtower on the base, and then a warning sounded from the speakers in the defensive zone.
"Air raid! Find cover! The Magic Kingdom is attacking! "
Although Leonard and the alarm did not add the sound of "this is a drill" this time, the situation in front of them made all the American wizards in the base realize that the Magic Kingdom's fleet was about to arrive, and the battle was about to begin!
In addition to Aura and the striker, some wizards who had played Quidditch when they were young, as well as the locally popular and dangerous game in the United States, which was similar to Quidditch but would explode, immediately obeyed the order, put down everything in their hands, and found cover.
In a hurry and panic, the wizards who were used to civilian work and even responsible for manufacturing did not react as quickly and calmly as they did during training.
There were even some misers who, because they could not bear to part with the property that actually belonged to the government, tried to take too many things with them when they left, which slowed down their speed.
In the sky, the nautilus-type floating ships in the fleet of the United Kingdom had relied on their flexibility to teleport directly to the top of the base.
These small floating ships whizzed past, but their flight altitude was not low. Apart from the fact that the wizards would directly attack them with magic spells if they descended too much, the defensive area was built with many ballistae and other defensive fortifications that were enchanted with Gravity Curses and other vicious spells.
The American wizards, who had been away from war and peace for many years, could not develop new equipment like those on the floating ships in a short period of time, so they brought out the weapons that belonged to the medieval wizards to defend against the Muggle army, but the type of enchantment on the crossbow bolts was changed according to the structure of the floating ships.
These anti-air crossbows used the mountain walls as cover, and heavy stone as bunkers and roofs. The anti-air crossbows in relatively safe positions were operated by the striker, and the more conspicuous and unsafe positions that were easy to become bombing targets were operated by the magically intelligent Mr. Dexterous Hand, who was not a real life.
But the base, which had lost the protection of the illusion, was now basically exposed to the Nautilus ships. A large number of alchemy bombs and dung bombs were thrown to the ground, although the accuracy was much worse due to the height.
Although the base on the ground had taken this attack into consideration and cast defensive spells to stabilize the base, and the buildings on the ground did well under the bombardment, but when enough alchemy bombs exploded on the ground, the ground that lacked too much protection began to shake and dust began to fly, and the kinetic energy generated also caused the surrounding buildings that were still under the protection of the enchantment to tremble and shake.
Compared to the alchemy bombs, the air began to fill with military dung eggs, which made people unable to stop vomiting, began to become more unbearable for the American wizards. Fortunately, the American wizards had studied the tactics of the Magic Kingdom. Except for some wizards who carelessly left their gas masks behind, they quickly put on masks filled with magic herbs and filled with filters.
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