Elite Mages' Academy

Chapter 232: Taking Inventory

Everyone could only stare in shock and awe, having seen the entire battle with their own eyes. The orc commander’s strength surprised everyone, but the end result was even more shocking. There was no indication that the orc had died, so even Cheng Ming did not dare drop his guard.

It was only after several minutes did Xiao Lin collapse to the ground, causing Cheng Ming to rush over with a cry. He frantically checked on Xiao Lin, and realized Xiao Lin had only fainted before breathing a sigh of relief.

The other monitors and instructor went to inspect the orc’s body, even stabbing it a few times for good measure. They started to fist bump each other in celebration once they verified the orc was well and truly dead. They casually asked about Xiao Lin’s condition, but most of them did not care after learning that he was not dead, turning around to lead the other students into the fortress.

The battle that lasted less than an hour was finally at an end, but that was just the beginning. There was still a lot to do to clean up the aftermath of the battle. First of all, they had to treat the wounded. Before the examination, a lot of the students considered the possibility they would be injured and spent their points on recovery potions, but most of their points were limited, so the majority only had one or two bottles and were unwilling to use them unless the need was absolute.

After that, they had to deal with the prisoners. The majority of the prisoners were merfolk, since there were not that many orcs guarding the fortress in the first place, and most of them retreated the moment their commander was killed.

The problem with all the classes working together was also shown. With so many monitors and instructors with their own opinions not willing to give in, they ended up deciding on a voting system for their decisions. With Xiao Lin still unconscious, 11 monitors and 12 instructors cast their votes.

The results were not that surprising with 19 votes in favor of killing the prisoners. The reasoning was simple: they were about to engage in even more intense battles to defend the fortress, so they definitely did not have the resources to keep watch of the prisoners.

They were planning on interrogating the prisoners before dealing with them for information about the orc army, since they were completely empty handed in that department at that point, but unfortunately no one had really learned enough Mermish to do so, even though they did have some classes about it before the examination.

There were no big issues with handling the prisoners, but everyone agreed that adopting the voting approach would be the best way moving forward. Considering that there would be a lot more problems everyone needed to discuss in the future, they decided on establishing a temporary command structure for their alliance, to which everyone agreed. However, the voting rights would be kept to the monitors, since the instructors were still lower ranked than the monitors.

At that time, someone remembered Xiao Lin. They asked Qin Chuan about his condition. Qin Chuan could only sigh at the question; he was still an instructor in the end, so he could not interfere with a lot of things.

It had already been two hours after the battle, but Xiao Lin still showed no signs of waking up. The strange thing was, Xiao Lin did not have any wounds, looking even healthier than most of the wounded. Qin Chuan temporarily took command of Class Seven, but he maintained a low profile, allowing the two group leaders, Zhou Feng and Gu Xiaoyue, to make most of the decisions.

The temporary headquarters did quite a lot for the messy alliance of classes, and the first order of business was fortifying and strengthening the fortress.

Attacking the fortress had not been too hard, even if they almost failed in the middle. The fortress had been a lot easier to take over than they had thought. However, that also meant that they would have a harder time defending it.

The decorations on the walls definitely needed to be removed, and the walls needed to be fortified and heightened. Someone also suggested building more defensive structures outside of the fortress, such as archer towers and trenches. Remembering the wolf cavalry, they also agreed that some form of defense against mounts would be needed.

There were way too many suggestions, and everyone started to vote on each matter after some discussion. Archer towers and mount defenses were approved quickly, but the other issues were faced with intense debate and did not get approved.

The opposition actually came from the NPCs, which were the engineers that came with them on the ships. Their primary task was constructing a resurrection tower so they could help the students build some defenses, but expanding and fortifying the fortress was a time- and resource-consuming task, both of which they did not have enough of.

The other point of discussion was how they would handle the supplies. This fortress was a supply depot established by the orcs, and the largest one, based on reports. The first thing they did after taking over the fortress was to open up the warehouses to take inventory.

It took quite some time to properly note down inventory. They had started the day at dawn, but it took until noon for the inventory to take full stock. Every monitor got a list of the items, and none of them could help but have excited looks.

As expected of the largest supply depot, the supplies they had were shocking. Other than massive amounts of food, there were also a large amount of weapons and equipment. It was all prepared for the orc army fighting Dawn City on the frontlines, so compared to what the students were currently wearing, they were a lot better in quality.

Everyone’s mouths practically watered as they took stock, so the acting monitors did not feel safe. In the end, they decided to place guards at the various warehouses, certain that some students would try their luck in attempting to steal some things.

Those supplies were their main objective; they absolutely could not allow the supplies to fall to the orcs again. They would definitely need to use the supplies to defend the fortress later, and they would even destroy the supplies they could not use if needed.

Other than equipment, they even found a large amount of potions deeper inside. Even though the orcs lacked magicians, there were still some within their race that could use magic, which they called witch doctors or shamans. They could use elemental magic, and could also produce various potions.

They would obviously not hesitate to use these potions, but now came the awkward question. How would the twelve classes distribute these weapons and potions?