Steel steam and flame

As the holidays approach, the military school takes on a more peaceful atmosphere. Many students from other grades have already left. I don’t know whether they left school early or for other reasons. The excitement of the upcoming holiday that existed in Cassia's head was polished away before it could be expressed in this cold atmosphere.

Then one day while lying in bed, he remembered the reason for this phenomenon. This is not a serious school to begin with. Trying to find the feeling of the schools I dreamed of before is just an unrealistic delusion.

"There are holidays in the military school, but you should be very clear about the nature of this place, right? What are the identities of the students, what can the interest chain allow them to do, how many choices, etc. are all imaginary Got it. And some of them are orphans collected from mercenaries. When it comes to going home or something, I don’t think they will have this feeling." Ye Jielin later heard Cassia inadvertently say These are the reasons that apply to most people, "And when it comes to going home, maybe for those mercenary orphans, their birthplace has been forgotten. Many of them have followed those mercenary teams since they were young. They have been wandering in places full of smoke and war for many years, and the scenes in front of them are mostly the same. Where they were brought into the team, and then helped with chores, and then slowly grew up over a few years, I think they themselves have forgotten Where did you get on the mercenary team’s truck?”

"And those people in the family..." Ye Jielin said and shook her head, "That's not the place they want to go back to. I don't know everyone, but this is definitely what most people think."

Later, it was Atuohuan who confirmed this with actual data. Those are the statistics for students who will remain in military schools during this break. Only students from their current generation accounted for about 80%.

The military school has accelerated the process of training them, but at this stage, in the eyes of those forces, they still have not grown up, and they are not yet worthy of being recalled to the family and appointed. Accordingly, many people do not want to go back to their families. It is probably foreseeable that so many students will be left in the school in the first school year.

But not all of these 80 percent will stay in school. Although I still don’t know which aspect I should develop in now, there is nothing wrong with working hard to improve my strength. Some people will go to the front, and the imperial military's recruitment-like message is not a sudden thought.

It may take less than a month, minus the round trip. But the remuneration is definitely generous, and since he is a person from the military school, the imperial military also pays attention to it and clearly stated that things on the front will be counted as military merit. Compared to those who didn't choose to go to the front, they might have a chance to get a little bit ahead. Each family trains them, and in the end either they are accepted into the family and used as a powerful private army, or they are sent to the army. Wherever there is something going on, just run there. The higher your official position, the more benefits you can seek.

Compared with working under the four forces, the military department directly under the management of the Imperial Parliament can get better oil, water and benefits there. Even though the Imperial Parliament is composed of four forces, the gap left for others to breathe between mutual restraints is definitely much larger than anywhere else.

And most importantly, the people who make up the army believe in the guns in their hands. They don't understand the rulers' tricks very well, that is to say, they don't like them very much. Since I am willing to stay in the army, there are basically a few reasons. One is because they have no choice. As ordinary soldiers who have signed the imperial agreement, they receive a salary similar to that of a migrant worker every year. As long as they don't die and persist to the end in the constant flames of war, they will have a good harvest. But there are very few such people, and their proportion is not large. It is somewhat difficult for ordinary people to survive relying on their strength. One is thinking of using military rank in exchange for profit and power. These people are like hungry wolves. If the situation is bad, it can become a dog wagging its tail, and if the situation changes, it can become a pack of howling wolves. They usually bite their prey to death first, and then attack their companions.

The last few are mostly people in high positions, and they have the opportunity to become part of the empire's rulers. But if you are not used to the atmosphere among those in power, the practice of guns in the military representing the majority is suitable for them. Therefore, under the influence of the smell of gunpowder, most tempers become more fiery, or are changing in a fiery direction.

Of course, there are people in other situations, such as the large number of believers who were brought into the army by the Holy Emperor's Hall because of their belief in gods.

And now is the time before the war is about to come. If they can survive the continuous task of skipping grades in the military school before the war, they can also join the empire's environment after leaving the military school in the future. Regardless of being torn into pieces by the whirlpool, everyone has to go to the battlefield after all, and there is no way to escape. The military school has shortened its five-year period to three years just to cultivate backbone forces during the war.

They may become the first group of people to enter the war. With such a nature, there does not seem to be much choice.

A few days after the test, the holiday announcement arrived as expected. The weather suddenly became extremely cold at the same time. Cassia, whose usual life is fixed in the cafeteria, training ground, and library, doesn't pay much attention to the changes in the environment. When my skin felt cool, I raised my head and looked at the sky through the hexagonal protective glass of the military school, and then I saw the thing that filled the sky.

Like mold growing from the rotten object of the sky, the air is obviously very dry, but they look so moist that they are dripping with water. The sun can no longer penetrate them, and this is the case over the entire Manoma sky. The cold wind blew from the Blanco Mountains, and Manoma was caught in the middle by the cold current from the Right Continent and the Endless Sea behind it.

Snow has not started falling yet, but ice particles like sea salt are falling every day. The temperature dropped sharply in a day or two, and Cassia could picture in her mind the appearance of people wearing thick fur coats on the streets of Manoma. Make sure everyone is wrapped in a warm scarf, and you also need to wear goggles when the wind is strong. Injury to the eyes due to accidental ice particles is a common occurrence reported in various newspapers at this time of the year.

When Cassia looked away from the sky, she sighed in her heart that time had finally come to this point. The weather was roughly the same and the temperature seemed to be similar. But at that time, he came wearing a thick cotton coat with a slit, but soon after, he no longer had to wear those thick clothes, and went to salute with nothing in it.

There really was nothing to take back. If there are any, other than toys for my sister or decorations for my mother, there are only guns.