A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 174 It smells so good!

The green waves stretched endlessly, while the gunfire and artillery fire from the city walls never ceased.

For a full three hours, the orcs' suicide attacks continued unabated.

"What a pathetic, pitiful, and hateful race."

This is Jiang Shuzhou's assessment.

Watching these elderly orcs sacrifice their lives to deplete the fortress's ammunition, all so that the troops behind them could breach the fortress and plunder it.

Perhaps they just wanted to survive, but their survival meant plundering others.

Feeling bored, Jiang Shuzhou decided to add fuel to the fire for these beastmen so they could feel warmth.

Oil Smear Technique, Fireball Technique.

When Jiang Shuzhou first became a mage, he used these two spells to burn warriors, and now that he has reached the intermediate level, he is still using them.

Classics never go out of style.

The main reason is that these orcs are not worth Jiang Shuzhou expending so much magic power on.

Although the spell is a low-level spell, it is by no means weak when combined with the runes that Jiang Shuzhou modified himself.

A large patch of oil appeared on the battlefield, but it didn't have the slippery feel of a typical oil-stain spell. This was due to Jiang Shuzhou's own modification.

The fireball ignited the oil, and in an instant, a large amount of flames shot up, scorching the orcs.

Soon, these orcs will die and turn to ashes. After all, the oil stain technique modified by Jiang Shuzhou is more like gasoline than oil stain, as it can exist and burn for an extremely long time.

This is enough time to burn any orcs without superhuman abilities to ashes.

"Sir, look!"

Kenstron was deathly pale; he seemed to have never witnessed such a brutal scene before.

"What's the big deal? It's just burning a bunch of orcs to death. It's no big deal."

"No, sir, look, ugh..."

Kenstron vomited before he could finish speaking.

Jiang Shuzhou looked in the direction he was pointing and saw that it was indeed quite shocking.

I'm so hungry.

Hunger gripped Mokoti's mind; he hadn't eaten for quite some time.

Suddenly, a meaty aroma wafted over.

It smells so good, so delicious!

Mokoti looked around and finally found the source of the fragrance.

It was an orc, his entire body scorched and torn by flames.

Dude, you smell so good!

Mokoti lost all reason and pounced on the orc with all his might, beginning to feast.

Then flames engulfed him, scorching his skin until it tore open, and then another orc pounced on him.

Can I let you eat it?

Mokoti sneered, then bit his own arm without hesitation.

Take control of your own body!

Similar incidents occurred in every corner, turning the battlefield into chaos, with bizarre and distorted scenes.

Jiang Shuzhou took everything in.

Good heavens, it seems these orcs aren't as spineless as they claim.

He lost his mind completely for the sake of a bite to eat.

Orcs may never be slaves, but what if Jiang Shuzhou provides them with food and lodging?

In the Mage Alliance, food is the cheapest commodity. As long as you're not an undocumented immigrant and have some strength and are willing to work, you're guaranteed not to starve.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as slums in big cities.

Food prices there are still quite high; people might starve to death.

However, Hamlet Territory is an exception. Since Jiang Shuzhou took over Hamlet, a large number of crops that have been modified by alchemists have been planted.

These crops have high yields and fast growth. The only drawback is that they consume a lot of soil fertility, but this can be replenished by planting crops that are specifically formulated to promote growth.

If someone were to actually travel to the outskirts of the Alliance, they might genuinely believe they were in the middle of the Middle Ages.

Until he met the nobleman who had come to the countryside with his men to test the children's elemental affinity.

The Mage Alliance is a civilization that highly values ​​the individual, to the point that the mages have all gone to the Astral Plane to attack other extradimensional planes, while the lower classes are so stingy that they don't even have a candle.

It's hard to imagine that this is a super civilization that has ruled over countless dimensions.

In Cyberpunk, the lower classes can still enjoy prosthetics and ride horses, but in the Mage Alliance, if you don't work hard, you won't even be able to ride a horse.

The only good thing is that the mages are too lazy to manage things and never collect taxes arbitrarily, since the amount is so small that it makes no difference whether they collect it or not.

Looking at the beastmen below who were finally in chaos, Jiang Shuzhou felt more and more familiar with them, and finally he remembered.

Isn't this the fighting style of the Abyss Demons?

It turns out that just a little bit of stimulation is enough to drive even these self-proclaimed honorable orcs into complete madness.

Kenstron was still retching. He had once thought that the screams of orcs being killed were the most stressful part of the job.

Little did I know that this was just the beginning.

Poor Kenstron, poor boy. He was the pride of the village, and he saw this after just taking office. I hope he's alright.

"Alright, it's not a big deal. It's just chaos and madness. If you ask me, you haven't seen enough."

"You'll get used to it after fighting a lot of demons in the abyss."

Jiang Shuzhou was completely oblivious to this situation, after all, he had encountered the abyss countless times.

He spends his days manipulating abyssal pus, engaging in a love-hate relationship with demons, and recently even managed to obtain a demon's life template.

Jiang Shuzhou is now more or less an expert.

"My lord, you...you've fought against demons?"

Kenstron was stunned. Fighting demons was something a normal mage wouldn't even dare to dream of.

After all, demons are too chaotic, while mages need reason. Once they become tainted by chaos, their lives may very well end there.

"Demons are nothing special, they're easy to defeat, just be careful."

Upon hearing this, Kenstron silently took a few steps back.

This guy is ruthless; you absolutely mustn't make him angry.

"Sir, I'll keep watch here. Why don't you go check on your students? I think they're on the city wall too."

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Jiang Shuzhou didn't understand what Kenstron meant at first, but then he thought of the scene below and he understood.

Oh no, my student!

When Jiang Shuzhou arrived, the students in Class 3 of Grade 1 were already vomiting uncontrollably.

Compared to Kenstown, who had pulled out a knife and attacked people, these students were less resilient.

"You've caused such a commotion just because of a war!"

"If you can't even hold a gun steady, how will you become capable mages?"

"Get up! Don't vomit! If you feel nauseous, shoot! Shoot these orcs!"

Jiang Shuzhou's reprimand had some effect; a few students, trembling, picked up their guns and began firing at the orcs below.

Others continued to vomit, and it seemed they would be unable to fight for the time being.

Jiang Shuzhou didn't force them, but secretly made a note of it.

We'll see how they perform after that.