Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 222 Treatment (4000 words)
It took Rhodes nearly 10 minutes to explain the current situation to Duke Ulver, and finally he agreed to order those sick soldiers to join the team of brewing medicine.

Not long after, the group of castle guards returned to the castle with bags of medicinal materials on their backs.

"Even if there is no loss at all, these medicinal materials are only enough for more than 1 people." Gilbert squatted next to the medicinal materials bought by the castle guards and said loudly.

"We've been to every grocery store in the fortress, and that's all we have." A castle guard replied awkwardly.

"Have those caravans gone far? We can entrust them to send some over for us." Rhodes suddenly thought of this method.

Duke Ulver shook his head. "They heard that a plague broke out in the fortress, and they all said that they would not come here in the near future. We were able to cut down the price because they knew that the plague broke out in the fortress, and they were in a hurry to leave here."

Rhodes began to think about how to solve this problem, and sent people to the mountain to collect?

This way of efficiency is really too low. When they come back after gathering the medicine, it is estimated that more than half of the people in the fortress will have died.

It is still only the initial stage of the outbreak of the plague, and the infection can still be brought under control. Currently, the infected people have directly drank the well water that was poisoned by others.Over time, infected people gradually became sicker and died, and those many who did not drink directly from the well water also became infected.

"Gilbert, take out the ingredients of the medicine from last time and ask them to buy it." Rhodes said again, the previous medicine still has a certain fatality rate, and even if it does not die, it may be disfigured. But there is still a chance to live after using it.

Gilbert nodded. He had obviously anticipated this possibility a long time ago. He took out the prepared medicinal materials from his backpack and handed them to the castle guards, asking them to purchase these medicinal materials again.

"If everyone drinks less, can all the infected people be given the medicine?" Baron asked suddenly.

"You can try it, but there is no guarantee that the disease will be cured." Gilbert replied after thinking for a while.

"Don't worry about so much now, use all these medicinal materials first, and cure one batch at a time. Let's start with our soldiers. If there are more, it will be the turn of the civilians in the fortress. Give children and young people a chance to heal first. Finally it will be the old man's turn." Duke Ulver gave the order solemnly.

Although this is not very humane, it is also the best choice.

"Let's take these medicinal materials to the positions of the isolated soldiers and let them help together." Duke Ulver stepped forward, carried several large bags of medicinal materials and walked towards the outside of the castle.

Rhodes also picked up several large packages of medicinal materials and followed.

Not long after, they came to a tower. After Duke Ulver called out all the soldiers, he first stood on the high platform in front of the tower and gave a speech, explaining the situation to all the officers and soldiers here. .

The soldiers who were originally pain-numbed, after they heard that there was medicine that could save them, the light of hope appeared in their eyes again.

"It's your turn, go up and teach them how to brew medicinal materials, remember to speak louder." Rhodes said to Gilbert next to him.

Gilbert was not nervous, but rather excited. He walked to the high platform outside the tower, picked up the medicinal materials and pot, and began to explain to the soldiers below how to brew this medicine.

This kind of medicinal soup is very simple to cook, just put the medicinal materials in the pot, pour clean water, cover the pot and cook for a while, then remove the water and drink it while the medicinal soup is warm.

In fact, it is not necessary for everyone to learn it, it only needs a small number of smart people to learn it, and if there are more, there will not be so many pots.

In addition to the soldiers living in this tower, soldiers living in other towers also came here to help, leaving only some soldiers who were responsible for isolating the residents of the fortress.

It is more troublesome to isolate the residents of the fortress than to isolate the soldiers. Most of them have families and their own houses in the fortress, and not everyone in a family is sick.

We can only gather those who are sick and let the soldiers control them. It is said that this kind of thing should be done by the infected soldiers.It is really not easy for them to stick to their posts with injuries.

Rhodes was a little fortunate. After Nord's army broke through the fortress, most of the residents of the fortress were afraid of being massacred or subjected to other atrocities, and they all fled the fortress with valuables. Now it is estimated that there are less than five million inhabitants.

"You did a good job just now." Rhodes praised Gilbert, "But you still have a lot of things to do later, the Duke just sent someone to find some alchemists and pharmacists, and you have to teach them later How to configure the potion that needs to be injected that you helped me make last time. Every time you make an extra bottle, one more person will survive."

Gilbert nodded seriously.

Thinking of this, Rhodes felt that he would be busy later, and he would definitely need to inject the medicine into the bodies of those infected later.

He found Duke Ulver who was gesticulating in the crowd. When Gilbert explained how to make medicine, Duke Ulver didn't listen carefully, and now he came to teach others how to do it.

"I still need to find some people who know magic. I will need their help later. Last time, the potion needed to be used in a special way. My magic power alone cannot help too many people." Rhodes said to him .

"You said magic, what kind of magic do you mean specifically?" Duke Ulver asked.

"Mage apprentice level is enough." Rhodes replied, he was going to teach some people the mage ball, and fetching objects from the air was much more demanding than the mage ball, and the mage ball could complete the use of potions.

At this time, he felt that there was no need to be self-absorbed, and it was fine to teach others the Mage Ball. The Mage Ball was just a magic with many functions that was easier to use, and there was no such thing as patent rights in this world.If he hides it, he can only know one more spell than others, and he can't get any benefits from it. It's better to teach others so that they can save one more person.

"I'll go find it for you later. Although there are only 4000 or [-] soldiers left in the army, there are still hundreds of soldiers who have the spell-casting level of apprentice mages. If it doesn't work, I can still recruit some knights and nobles to help you." busy." said Duke Ulver.

Rhodes nodded, and then he found a smooth and clean city wall. He used the mage ball to control the extremely sharp Bane of the Wise, and carved the spell model of the mage ball on the city wall
After Rhodes carved the huge spell model on the city wall, he lowered his head and more than 200 soldiers gathered below him were staring at him.

These people should have been found by the Duke of Ulver to help him, but he did not expect that he actually gathered hundreds of people.

"Hurry up and learn this magic now, and you will use it later!" Rhodes shouted while floating in the air.

However, the soldiers below did not need him to remind them, they began to consciously memorize the spell model. There are many people with magic power in this world, but it is difficult for civilians like these soldiers to get the opportunity to learn more powerful magic. What they can use now Magic is mostly something they are born with.

Each of these soldiers is eager to become stronger. Strong strength can make them more likely to survive on the battlefield, and bring them wealth and status.

Rhodes suddenly thought of using martial arts cheats as a reward in the future to gain the loyalty of soldiers.Let them compete with each other in various aspects, such as choosing whoever trains the most diligently, and giving him martial arts cheats.In this way, even those with very weak strength can obtain martial arts cheats and enhance their own strength through hard work.This approach can not only improve the combat effectiveness and enthusiasm of soldiers, but also make soldiers appreciate him and remain loyal to him.

Rhodes fell slowly from mid-air. The soldiers infected with the plague had already drank the medicinal soup, and now they were burning the vomit and excrement left on the ground.

After these soldiers drank the medicine, their physical and mental strength recovered a lot, and they didn't look as weak as before.

Rhodes felt that the poison that the poisoner used in the well was not some kind of toxin or bacterial virus, but some kind of microorganism produced by magic that could cause disease.

After these magical microorganisms can enter the human body, they can quickly make them sick and contagious, but after taking certain drugs, they will be killed quickly, and they are not as tenacious as bacteria and viruses in nature.

Rhodes found Duke Ulver among the crowd.

"Is there more medicinal soup?" Rhodes asked.

"There are still some left, and I will take the soldiers to distribute them later. Give priority to children and young people, and finally to the older ones. Literacy and craftsmen will also be given priority. You will go to inject them later. The same is true for a potion, and I will also send people to maintain order." The duke replied.

Rhodes nodded. This was a decision he had no choice but to make. He also wanted everyone to be treated, but their medicine could only treat some of them, and they could only choose to save the more useful ones.

Not long after, a Nord man dressed as an officer came over and whispered a few words to Duke Ulver, who nodded his head.

"We can start now. Someone will move the two medicines, so you don't have to worry about it." After the officer left, Duke Ulver said to Rhodes.

Rhodes followed Duke Ulver to a pile of ruins. A small half of the houses in the fortress were smashed into ruins by Nord catapults.

"Do you isolate those infected residents in this pile of ruins?" Rhodes asked looking at the ruins in front of him.

"Most of the residents suffering from the plague live in this ruin, so Earl Ace drove all the residents suffering from the plague here." Duke Ulver explained.

Rhodes silently wrote down the name, and decided not to deal with this Earl Ace in the future.

"Let those soldiers who have suffered from the plague go in with us. They should not be infected by this plague in a short time, and they will burn around the ruins later." Rhodes did not Say something more.

The two of them walked towards the middle of the ruins, surrounded by a large group of heavily armed soldiers.

Duke Ulver still has some brains, considering that those residents who cannot receive treatment are likely to do irrational things and cause them trouble.If there is such a large group of soldiers in full armor, their weapons even smell of blood, the residents will not lose their minds so easily.

"I asked someone to bring over the two death row prisoners who survived last time, and let them show their light and heat at the end. You will show the soldiers who have learned your spell on the two of them later how to use it. That potion." Duke Ulver suddenly stopped and said to Rhodes.

"You don't have to worry about distributing the decoction. You can just follow him later, and he will take you to the two prisoners." The Duke said again, pointing to Rhodes who was next to him officer.

Rhodes followed the officer to a nearby open space. Nord's soldiers formed a circle to protect the middle of the open space. Opposite them was a group of residents with bloodshot eyes and numb expressions.

Although they are somewhat weak physically, it can also be dangerous for them.

The Nord soldiers all took off the leather armor they were wearing and put on the metal scale armor of the imperial soldiers. So many Nord soldiers standing together still have a strong deterrent effect.

The two dead prisoners who were still alive stayed in the middle of the open space. They were chained and looked at Rhodes in fear.

In addition, there are more than a dozen noble knights in the open space. Rhodes should only teach them first, and then let them teach the ordinary soldiers.

These nobles should all have the experience of learning magic, so compared with commoners who have not studied magic well, they still have certain advantages, and their learning speed is much faster.

"Have I learned all the spells engraved on the city wall?" Rhodes asked the nobles in front of him.

Most of the nobles who entered the army were the second sons without the right of inheritance. If they could not obtain certain meritorious titles in the army, their descendants might no longer be nobles and become ordinary civilians.

"I have learned it, but I feel that it seems that I can use telekinesis instead. This magic is far less useful than telekinesis." A young nobleman replied with pride.

The young nobleman is right. The mage ball is a bit like pulling objects with a rope, and telekinesis is equivalent to directly picking them up. In contrast, teleportation is easier to operate.However, he obviously didn't study this spell carefully. The Mage Ball has more functions than teleportation, such as being able to detect the surroundings with mental power through the Mage Ball, and compared with teleportation, the learning requirements of the Mage Ball are relatively Low.

But what needs to be done now, only need to use a function like fetching objects from space.

"I'll just demonstrate it to you once, so pay attention." Rhodes said to the group of nobles in front of him.

Then he used the mage ball to lift the death row prisoner who had been beaten by the Duke of Ulver, and then followed the previous steps, first shaking the flame near the back of the death row prisoner's hand, and then using the mage ball to control the dagger to cut the death row prisoner Vein in the back of the hand.

"You will pay attention later, you must first sterilize them with flames, cut their blood vessels and use that spell to make their blood flow in a normal way, then mix this potion into their blood, and finally treat them with a healing technique Good wound." In order to save medicine, Rhodes did not inject the medicine into the body of the death row prisoner in front of him.

One less bottle of medicine wasted, and one more person could be saved later.

"Have you learned it yet?" Rhodes asked again.

The knights and nobles in front of them all nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing them all expressing that he had learned it, Rhodes turned around and prepared to leave here. He wanted to see how the situation on the other side was...

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