Star Master

The mecha elite group led by Dios quickly rushed up like hungry tigers. Although Hayden thought that Dios was immature in some aspects, Dios, as a mecha warrior, had undeniable strengths on the battlefield. combat power.

In the cognition of interstellar people, the rating of physical fitness is not fixed. If you continue to train, Dios may not have the potential to challenge sss. Now, after listening to Ludwig's theory, mental strength can also be steadily improved through training. The young soldiers of the empire The future is indeed immeasurable.

Just as he was thinking, Hayden suddenly received a message from Tianhe Wanderer: [If the battle is not tense, take a look at Mr. Ludwig, he is angry and smashes things, and his body is out of tune again. 】It also thoughtfully attached a high-definition masquerade photo of the mage lying on the deck chair and biting a candy stick angrily.

There was no suspense on the front line, and Tina could completely complete the command. Hayden hurried to the laboratory, and when he entered the door, he saw Ludwig sitting on a cushion, teaching Mia.

"...A good mage should always remain calm and wise. On this point, your teacher, I made a wrong example today, and it is not worth learning..." Ludwig was very serious, "I don't know enough about myself because of my body being out of tune. Sufficient, emotional control ability declines, an excellent mage should always have enough understanding of his spiritual power and magic power, and plan reasonably, how much magic power each spell uses, and whether it will cause mental power overdraft, all need to be carefully calculated and coordinated..."

After hearing this, Mia showed a terrified expression: "Teacher, do you need to learn mathematics to be a mage?"

Ludwig continued to say seriously: "To be a mage, you need to learn everything!"

Mia hissed, and even the camouflage illusion on her face was no longer stable. Mia has now learned to cast illusions on herself to pretend to be a human, but her mental strength becomes unstable when she is overly emotional. Switching back and forth with the human girl made the corners of Hayden's eyes twitch.

He was a little surprised, but also a little funny: "Why, the Zerg are also afraid of advanced mathematics?"

Mia's face turned pale: "Whoever learns knows, anyone who loves mathematics is a pervert!"

Ludwig blinked, and an air bomb hit the apprentice's forehead: "It is good to master any knowledge, and you are not allowed to classify knowledge!"

In order to cultivate apprentices' noble spirits such as "overcoming difficulties", "studying and exploring", and "pursuing truth", Ludwig asked Tianhe Wanderer to buy and download a set of advanced mathematics exercises on the star network for Mia. Hayden's card.

The Zerg girl completely lost her camouflage, her face was pale and pale, and she cried to Hayden, "My teacher is right, Xingwang is harmful."

Hayden: "..."

He even thought absurdly—higher mathematics can defeat the sub-mother of the Zerg, why do human beings fight with them for hundreds of years? Die, die" united front.

In the end, it is not the invincible marshal who won the great victory for mankind, but the author of the textbook who loves his post and works hard to solve math problems, which makes the marshal sigh.

Hayden sat on the side, holding Ludwig in his arms. It may be similar to the affectionate call of a vegetative person waking up to a loved one. After being held by Hayden, the speed of soul recovery is faster than that of meditation. Ludwig He took out his notebook and began to record the state of his soul seriously, not caring about Hayden's childish behavior of curling his hair with his fingers.

Hayden asked him, "What kind of magic did you use earlier?"

"Stack more than ten times, and the hellfire will condense into a solid state." Ludwig said, "It belongs to the category of forbidden spells. After my soul passed through the astral world, my magic power and spiritual power seem to have greatly increased. In the past, I If you smash it like this once, you also need to drink magic potion to supplement it, but now it seems to be completely unnecessary."

That is the effect of passing through the astral world.Astral traveler is not Ludwig's self-proclaimed name. All mages who can travel to and from the astral world will become astral mages, which is the imprint of the void left in their souls.This is like the difference between observing the world from a flat ground and flying into space to overlook the stars. After entering the astral world, the overall understanding of the world is a qualitative change. Babies listen to their mother tongue, and given time, Ludwig is destined to go further than legend.

So Ludwig enjoyed the marshal brand cushion contentedly, looking forward to the changes in himself, and his mood became bright again, and he quickly forgot about his undignified behavior of smashing things to vent his emotions just now.

The mecha corps quickly captured the enemy, a large number of enemy soldiers were captured alive, and even ships that were not seriously damaged.

"Enemy" is a bit of a misnomer, they're not enough to be called Hayden's enemies.

"Your Excellency, Marshal, those are mercenaries." Lieutenant Tina glanced at them and understood the identity of the other party without even interrogating them. "In the 'black zone' of the outer star field, there are many small exiled forces like this. , They may have the silent support of certain military enterprises behind them, or maybe the interstellar fugitives spontaneously form a party and make a living by doing some gray business."

"I know that the empire is currently turning a blind eye to private military enterprises, and they don't bother to take care of them if they don't cause trouble." Hayden said that the territory of the human empire is too large. Maybe, "But mere mercenaries, dare to attack my fleet? Do they have anything to do with Marshal Joanne's loss of contact?"

Attacking the first marshal's fleet, even though the mercenaries caused some troubles with the new type of photon shells that came from nowhere, Ludwig's forbidden spell was more powerful than the opponent's troubles, but in fact, even without Ludwig, Hayden can also take down the motley crew after a few hours of confrontation.

——This is the crux of Hayden's doubts. Are the mercenaries crazy, even daring to take on the task of attacking the First Marshal's fleet?Moreover, who dares to send them such a task?

After preliminary investigation, it was found that this group of mercenaries did not come from the same organization. Some of them were illegal exiles of their own group, while the other part came from a registered and legally registered military enterprise "Venus Heavy Industry".It is not the first time that legal military enterprises have occasionally engaged in gray business, but it is really shocking to have the audacity to attack Marshal Hayden.

The members of the illegal exile organization were incorporated into the team of Jinxing Heavy Industry, using the weapons provided by the company, and the leader was also an armed commander of Jinxing Heavy Industry.

The armed commander was named Nigel, who was quite different from the stereotyped image of an exile with a beard, tattoos, no culture, no manners, and a scar on his face. Nigel sat in a sealed interrogation room, Both hands and feet are in shackles, but they still look refined and speak softly and politely, as if they are attending a high-society dinner.Only the skin around the right eye showed a little bit of metallic color. The prosthetic mechanical eye installed by this armed commander is golden yellow, and the real eye on the other side is sea blue. Coupled with a head of silver-white hair, Hayden was inexplicable. There is an illusion that I am watching and abusing Persian cats.

So he called out Tina who was struggling to slap the table and shake the whip in the interrogation room, and walked in by himself.

Nigel denies all of Tina's allegations and insists he has never met Marshal Schlegel.

Hayden sat opposite him. The arrival of the First Marshal finally changed Nigel's expression slightly, and he was no longer as calm as when he was facing the adjutant just now.But Hayden was not in a hurry, he looked down at the information on the terminal.

"Nigel, born as a commoner, used to be the commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Corps, and still... Hey, you also served in the Rose Army of Marshal Schlegel." Hayden flipped through the pages and admired, "According to the encrypted data It shows that you also have the qualifications of a senior engineer and are a promising weapon designer. In the first phase of the West German family's railgun test, you worked as a circuit engineer, but because of a low-level mistake in your work, the relay station exploded and you were expelled After leaving the army, you went to the private military enterprise 'Venus Heavy Industries' as a missile designer, right?"

Nigel smiled and corrected: "Actually, I did the explosion on purpose."

Hayden raised his eyebrows: "Why? The accident led to the death of three of your colleagues. Now you say that you did it on purpose. If you had said that to the judge at the beginning, the military court would not just sentence you to be expelled from the army, you would be exiled Prison."

"I thought I would die for my country too." Nigel lowered his head, his bangs blocked the mechanical eye, touched it, and said, "It was Officer Joanne who dragged me out of the explosion. So, ambush you Yes, ambush her, I can't do it."

Nigel answered every question, but every answer cleverly avoided the core question, and Hayden got all the strange information.

"Who are you hiring to attack me?"

"Employer." Nigel replied, as if there was no answer.

"You knew in advance that the target of the ambush was me and my troops - the Black Moon Knights?"

Nigel's eyes flickered, and after a while, he replied, "I don't know."

"Then you know now." Hayden persuasively said, "Being hired to attack an unknown target and deliberately assassinating an imperial marshal, you were also a soldier, and you understand the difference between the two, so tell me who your employer is frankly. Can bail you out in a court-martial."

Nigel seemed unwavering about this proposal, he sighed softly: "Please execute me, immediately."

Hayden frowned. He really had nothing to do with the interrogation subject who wanted to die if he didn't want to eat. He didn't mind using some extreme methods if necessary, but the desperadoes were obviously not afraid of pain and death, nor were they afraid of threats.

"You value the contractual spirit of being a mercenary and keeping secrets from your employer so much?" Hayden asked, laughing angrily.

Nigel answered irrelevant questions again, and he replied firmly: "Marshal Hayden, please order to execute all the prisoners. If you can't find any useful information, I can guarantee that the most correct and effective way is to execute us immediately."

As the polite commander said, none of the captives gave valid information.

Tina reported with a straight face: "This kind of prisoner is not easy to deal with. Mercenaries take orders to do tasks. Most of them really don't know who the employer is and what the target is. Only the few commanders who lead the team know the inside story. This is A secret method commonly used by mercenaries."

The identity information of most terrorists is simple and clear. The battle report has been sent back to the imperial capital, and they can be executed according to the law after an approval is given there. However, execution is not the purpose. Hayden is not here to fight terrorism this time.

"Perhaps, I can help?" Ludwig suddenly appeared at the door, which made Tina jump a little expressionlessly.

The high-heeled shoes hit the ground, and the female adjutant asked in disbelief: "What can you do? Even our most powerful interrogators can't pry open the mouths of these diehards. They have excellent psychological quality. That Nigel can Open your eyes to the lie detector and tell nonsense, and your physiological indicators have not changed at all."

"I have a way, but I can only use it on certain 'heinous criminals'." Ludwig explained, "I can use soul magic to forcibly read thoughts and memories, but doing so will cause the collapse of living people, and at worst Death, at least becoming an idiot."

The adjutant was quite frightened, Hayden thought for a moment, and agreed to the plan: "We have no time to delay, after all, the situation of Marshal Schlegel is unknown, keep Nigel, and find a deputy who is the most uncooperative and has a criminal record." , Let Mr. Xiao try."

Soon a bald man was brought over. He was the leader of the exiles and was at the top of the most wanted list in the empire. He had committed the crime of massacring a caravan of passing civilians, so Ludwig was merciless in his attack.

"This is one of the forbidden spells in undead magic, search for the soul, Mia, you remember." Ludwig pressed the top of the fierce and strong man's head, and said seriously, "Black magic is a kind of Dangerous spells. Throughout the ages, after mastering this dangerous power, many black mages have been corrupted by power and become slaves to black magic. You must always remember that it is the mage who controls and restrains power, not greed and ambition. , if you are not determined, as a teacher, I may clean up the door."

Mia nodded solemnly, with firm eyes. It seemed that in comparison, "the teacher cleans up the door by hand" is far less scary than advanced mathematics.

Even Tina was invited out, and the only bystanders were Hayden and the apprentice Mia. The terrorist looked fierce, and seemed to be able to bite off the fragile wrist of the mage, but when the spell started, the terrorist looked very miserable. Tianhe Wanderer almost wanted to manually make a mosaic for Mia who was still young.

The mage's silvery eyes flashed across various images, and Hayden was secretly shocked. A moment later, the strong man fell to the ground, his life and death unknown. A light and shadow formed in the mage's hand, which looked like a holographic projection to Hayden. Important memories of the terrorist were displayed.

Once again, Hayden's eyes could not restrain admiration. As an imperial marshal, he knew that making dangerous weapons is not difficult. The real difficulty is to firmly control the hand that wants to reach for the firing button from time to time.

He needs to show sss-level self-control to ensure that he will not praise Mr. Xiao regardless of the occasion.Hayden focused his attention on the more urgent battle report in front of him: "How, is there any valuable information?"

The memory flashed too fast. Even if Hayden's mental power was rated as sss in this world, it was still far from enough to compare with a legendary archmage who traveled through the star realm. Ludwig looked at the memory like flipping through a book: " It is true that they did not attack my mother. You were the first imperial legion they attacked. The position of this deputy is second only to the white-haired one, but he is not clear about the content of the plan. Come on, I want to kidnap a certain consortium lady who went to the border to do charity..."

Hayden, who didn't look like the eldest lady of the consortium, frowned again. During the interrogation, Nigel's resolute death eyes reappeared in his mind. He vaguely noticed a bit of weirdness, and multiple doubts piled up together, but he had extremely rich combat experience. The marshal felt that he might have found a way.

Ludwig paused, raised his hand, and fixed the image in his memory. It was a group of black armored soldiers who were fully armed and didn't even have faces. From the analysis of their appearance, they were covered with high-tech mechanized weapons, which could be called extremely armed. teeth.

He said: "This is the employer. It's not that the mercenaries are hiding it. It's that they really don't know who it is. The mercenaries also know the rules and are not curious about the identity of the employer."

The crowd in the picture looked more like professional military personnel than mercenaries, so Hayden became more cautious.

"Order to seal off all the cabins where the prisoners are held, focus on monitoring Nigel, and not allow him to commit suicide." Hayden issued an order, "The security alert has been raised to level one, ready for battle at any time."

Ludwig's joking comment: "A man's intuition?"

"No." Hayden clarified seriously, "This is the battle experience of the Marshal, pretending to be captured and then going to the enemy's base camp to cause trouble. I have used this tactic before, and Nigel is outdated."

Ludwig knew nothing about military affairs, but he was very convinced of Hayden's ability: "Do you need my help to watch him? Anyway, I have nothing to do. I can watch him while copying notes, without wasting time."

Hayden smiled: "Then I am completely relieved."

No matter what the opponent's purpose is, a legendary mage is guarding the door... Hayden sighed and shook his head, waiting for the opponent to be exposed automatically.

And almost as soon as the order was issued, the emergency situation was reported in the cabin where the prisoners of war were held.

"It's coming!" Ludwig showed excited eyes, "I like terrorists the most, they are the perfect black magic practice subjects!"

Hayden opened his mouth slightly, feeling that this was the strangest time he had faced the enemy since joining the army.

The author has something to say: Tianhe Wanderer: Compared with our black mage, the enemy looks more like a victim! ! !

Hayden: Nonsense, Mr. Little is very handsome!

Lulu: This is the excellent character of our black mage sect. 【Humility.jpg】

Today's Dios is of course without a name√

The Black Mage has 24 hours to arrive on the battlefield, crush them! [Please automatically fill in the lol voice]