Although Sigurian and the wolf are powerful, they are not the masters of miracles after all.

It is their right for the masters of miracles to declare war with each other, but as their subjects, they are not qualified to take over.

The Cross Strait itself is dispensable.

Just because there was a conflict between Siglian and the bad wolf, to put it simply, for the sake of face, no one would give in.

However, it is like a quarrel between the children of the two families, calling the parents, whether it is Sigurian or the bad wolf, who cannot afford to lose this person.

"Ha."

"Why are you so serious?"

"We don't have to fight, do we?"

"you don't have to fight," said the wolf casually, drinking wine. "there are many ways, but there is not only one way to start a war."

He said so, but the evil wolf and Sieglian secretly gritted their teeth with hatred.

If had known, they should not have waited for the blue man to fight directly.

When the fight was over, the parents on both sides would not care about such a trifle, and the Duchy of Azure could not stand up for a little Christine.

But right now.

"if you dare to quarrel, I'll let the teacher call your parents!"

That's what Christine means. Nima is disgusting. Can you play happily?

In terms of strength, a stack of Christine is not necessarily a rival to the Wolf and Sigurian, but behind her stands the Blue Sangong.

In this sea, Ogselle is more powerful than Morgan, and Azure Sangong is much stronger than Ogsell. in this sea, Ogselle is more powerful than Morgan, and Azure three is much stronger than Ogsel.

Forced by helplessness, the negotiations had to continue.

Under Christine's supervision, the atmosphere was no longer competitive, and it really eased a lot. No, no, no.

However, Sigurian and the wolf hated Christine more and more: "I really want to hang this stupid woman up and fight."

At the same time, the two also made a secret decision.

If there is a next time, they will never give the blue man a chance to intervene.

Especially Siglian, who is now full of anger, waiting to vent.

If anyone dares to provoke him now, Siglian will certainly act directly to let the other side know his horrors.

A week has passed since the children arrived on the island, and the first batch of weapons and armor blessed by the leprechaun were officially put into the Arden equipment program.

First weapons, then armor.

The number is small, adding up to no more than 50 pieces, and 80% of them are weapons.

But think about it, the best defense is to attack, as long as you can defeat the enemy, that is victory.

"Sister."

Bailuo handed a cross sword to Isaac Fei Ya's hand, and the elder sister took a look at it, and then pulled it out.

"good sword."

Although the material has not changed, the vaguely flickering blessing runes above, as well as the intuition of sharp weapons, have made the elder sister pay attention to the extraordinary nature of this cross sword.

"do you want to try it?"

"Yes."

When the elder sister finished, she looked directly at Luanya.

Although the strength has become stronger, Lu Anya's admiration for the elder sister is still there.

But she also knows that she has become a miracle race, and the elder sister is still mortal.

The strength of the two cannot be compared, so Luanya has not fought with the elder sister since the sacrifice of the mysterious dragon.

However, it is different now, when the elder sister puts on a full set of goblin arms, the powerful goblin force pours into her body.

Rao is Lilith is extremely surprised: "this is too fast."

In theory, it takes time to adapt to the power of miracles, but the qualification of the elder sister is so high that she completely conquered this set of leprechaun armed forces as soon as she started.

"but my leprechaun arms are only secondary miracles after all."

Lilith said: "its strength is limited, will only simply transform the physical quality of the miracle people, in essence, the energy is limited."

In other words, the kit is more like an exoskeleton.

The cross sword, the armor on the body, the combat boots on the feet, the power of the leprechaun inside these things is limited, if exhausted, it will immediately lose its growth.

Of course, they can recharge themselves, but it takes time.

"indeed."

Sister closed her eyes and sensed the difference between goblin arms and walnuts: "compared with walnuts, the strengthening of leprechaun arms is minimal."

To put it bluntly, one belongs to common progress, while the other only relies on external forces.

If you want to be stronger, you have to wait for Lilith to create a better leprechaun force.

But the problem is that the equipment of the leprechaun armed forces needs attributes as the basis, which actually blocks this way of promotion in disguise.

Perhaps only goblins, as well as witches, can continue to break through and wear more advanced goblin armies.

"fortunately, the demand for leprechaun arms is not just the power of goblins."

In other words, the tree elves improve the power of life, as long as the attribute is up to standard, even if they have never learned goblin magic, they can also be equipped with goblin armor.

"do I need equipment?"

On this side, Lu Anya, who came to the martial arts stage, asked, "or will you just fight the eldest sister in the head like this?"

The strength of the elder sister has been recognized by everyone, and now there may be some gap with her, but that is that the elder sister really did not get the miraculous power.

With the talent of Isafiya, once she has acquired the power of miracles, she will be able to catch up immediately.

"you can wear it, too."

Sister Lu Anya also put on a set of blessings of the same level as her own: "I want to see the gap between us."

"good."

In fact, the tree elves also worship the strong, but the previous situation, even if Luanya defeated the elder sister, it would only bring shame to her.

It is best that the attributes of the elder sister and Luanya are exactly the same, and then win or lose.

As for now, the attribute of Lu Anya itself is actually higher than that of the elder sister dressed in goblin arms.

Compare with the data, that is, Lu Anya 10, Sister 8.

"is this really all right?"

After putting on the leprechaun arms, Lu Anya feels that her strength has increased by at least 60%, which is almost twice that of the elder sister.

Coupled with the life magic of tree elves, Lu Anya didn't want to fight with her sister.

"nothing."

Sister still said: "I am, try."

"come on, then!"

Lu Anya respects her sister's choice.

As a result, two women in their twenties, but with very different temperament, face to face, condensing the breath and miraculous power to the extreme.

There is so much difference in attributes that she can only use tricks to beat me.'

"step!"

"Huh?!"

Lu Anya suddenly looked up, only to find that the elder sister unexpectedly rushed forward: "No, no stratagem?" Directly reckless?! "

Luanya was only slightly surprised, but soon calmed her mind.

At the same time, she quickly calculated the distance between the two sides, and raised her left arm in an instant. There were buds sprouting on it, and the light green light immediately condensed into a delicate elf longbow.

Then the life energy gathered out several 'green stem arrows', and firmly locked the elder sister's approach, retreat, and left and right escape route.

"you can shoot at least three rounds!"

The archery of the tree elves is extremely high, and it is common to shoot a hundred shots, and in the archery developed by the old man, there are even turning arrows, arc arrows, successive arrows, breaking strong arrows and hitting weak bullets, and so on.

"Shu."

Lu Anya chose Lianzhu Arrow to hit the elder sister with the largest coverage.

However.

"miso!"

"what?!"

In Lu Anya's appalled eyes, the elder sister cut open the first arrow that rushed directly in front of her.

"here?!"

Indeed, there is a gap between the attributes of the two sides, and the power of the leprechaun released by the elder sister can not stop Luanya's attack.

But the elder sister has the advantage of attacking each other, the sword at close range, and the long-range arrow to you.

"wrong choice!"

Lu Anya frowned deeply and regretted.

If she had known that the elder sister would break through by force, she should have shot a strong arrow.

"No, it's not."

Lu Anya found that if she chose to break the strong arrow, then the elder sister was very likely to dodge and thus dodge the arrow.

A series of arrows have a wide range and are used to deal with fast and large numbers of enemies.

In contrast, the power of the broken strong arrow is great, but the condensation speed is not fast, and it is aimed at those monsters with huge size and amazing defensive power.

"I can't do either!"

Luanya found that she had been endowed, and she shouldn't have used a bow and arrow against the enemy.

This is a common sense mistake, seeing that there is a distance between the two sides, and thinking that they have remote tricks, subconsciously, they want to shoot first.

Spark stone fire room, before and after only a little more than a second, but the elder sister is less than 6 meters away from her.

In theory, Luanya can at least fire another arrow at this distance.

But the previous surprise and miscalculation made her lose a lot of time.

Also because of the erratic will, Lu Anya had to disperse the bow and arrow, and then pulled out two leprechaun machetes to defend the enemy.

"the roots are tangled."

After doing the protection, Luanya cast the magic of life for the first time.

"step!"

However, the elder sister, as if she had already known that she would make such a move, unexpectedly waved a sword to the ground that had just grown buds, and cut it all off.

Come on, it's too fast!

The fierce sword posture, as well as the figure of the elder sister galloping, have brought great psychological pressure to Lu Anya.

You will lose.'

I will lose.'

At this moment, Lu Anya thought of the scene when she fought her sister before.

Just like at that time, she was easily defeated and crushed by the elder sister, just like at that time!

"No!"

Lu Anya stared at the elder sister who was close at hand, and on the martial arts stage she stepped over, the buds danced crazily and instantly turned into tree roots.

They are still spreading around, but the elder sister is indifferent, her goal is very clear, that is to take Luanya directly!

"Boom!"

Can not retreat, also can not avoid, because of the madness of the roots, so that Luanya has no way to retreat.

"Boo!"

Luanya's machete stayed in mid-air, and in front of her neck, a sharp cross sword, cold.

"."

Lu Anya lost, in less than 3 seconds, she was defeated by the elder sister.

Or in the absolute attribute of suppression, as well as life magic, ranged attacks and melee goblins armed, the blessing of the three miracles.

But she still lost, so easily.

"I lost."

Luanya simply chose to throw in the towel.

Although the tree elf still has strong vitality, even if her neck is cut off, she will not die.

It can be turned into a tree spirit form and can be repaired before fighting.

But now it is not this problem. Rather than winning or losing, Luanya is more concerned about how she lost: "what's going on this time?"

I want to see the gap between us.

Recalling her sister's words, Luanya didn't realize what she meant until now.

"you think too much."

Sister said: "archery, magic, swords, as well as tree elves, tree spirits and other forms, Anya you will be too many, and each is very good."

"but that's why you hesitated."

From the beginning of the senior sister's choice of a positive breakthrough, Luanya has actually fallen into inefficiency.

It was obviously a battle, but every time Luanya shot, she needed to pick one of the three choices to deal with the current situation.

After being predicted and suppressed one after another by the elder sister, Lu Anya was flustered in her heart and was completely led by her by the nose.

"my attributes are very different from yours, but with combat experience, you are not as good as me."

In order to prove this point, the elder sister confronted Lu Anya again.

This time, the elder sister did not choose to suppress quickly, but adopted the form of pre-judgment.

She let Luanya shoot, but no matter how the latter aimed, she always found a deviation, as if the arrow could not be hit at all.

What is more embarrassing is that Minglu Anya predicted that the elder sister would hide to the left, but she just moved forward.

When Lu Anya completely blocked the route of the elder sister, and because the attack was scattered and the attack force was insufficient, it was easily resolved by the elder sister.

For the elder sister, her every step is a true confession.

But in the eyes of opponents and enemies like Lu Anya, every step of my sister's step is empty.

This even began to make Lu Anya doubt herself, and her mentality was broken by the elder sister.

"how do you do that?"

Luanya is very confused, really confused, she does not want to fight.

Ten games in a row, all defeated.

Lu Anya found that no matter what she did, she could not keep up with the rhythm of the elder sister, even if she was taught and instructed by her hands.

She has used up all her tricks and resorted to every means.

But in the end, it ended in failure.

"follow your feelings."

In fact, the elder sister did not take the initiative to use false tricks and practical tricks, she just instinctively made a choice, but this instinct was appropriate.

"."

It's easy to say, but it's not so difficult to do it.

Off the stage, Bailuo and Lilith, as well as Alaia, Yiniya, Bai Yinuo, who do not know when to arrive, are amazed at the discussion between the elder sister and Luanya.

"very impressive."

Bai Yinuo doesn't know why, but the steamed buns in his hands are really fragrant.

"it's really a good old sister. Awesome!"

On the other hand, Eniya is the little fan sister of the elder sister, no matter how the elder sister wins, just call 666.

Behind her, Alaia smiled.

Among the people present, I'm afraid only Bailuo and Alaia know how the elder sister won.

"Anya, you don't have enough experience, but that's not a problem."

The elder sister said, "discuss with me a hundred times, and after a thousand times, you will naturally be able to figure out the rules."

"A thousand times?"

Not much, with a master like Sister, Lu Anya promised that it was too late.

"besides, don't be discouraged. I didn't master this skill from the very beginning."

Sister told Lu Anya: "I have been defeated more times than you think, when the state of mind collapse, it is innumerable."

The elder sister is the proud student of the uncle, and so is Bailuo.

But unlike Bailuo, who is just an ordinary person in a previous life, who knows nothing about fighting and can only learn with an open mind, Sister is a proud genius.

The elder sister began to accept her father's instruction before she met her uncle.

Isaac Feya at that time was really a little defiant.

Then, the elder sister met her uncle and began a ten-year defeat.

The two sides have conducted reasonable contests in various fields and in all kinds of places.

But without exception, all ended in the defeat of the elder sister.

From the age of eight to the age of eighteen, the elder sister never beat her uncle at her peak.

"tens of thousands of defeats led to who I am now."

The elder sister is very calm, very calm.

No matter what kind of opponent she meets, she can't shake her mind.

"however, it is not difficult to be defeated again and again."

Under the training of the uncle, the elder sister became stronger and stronger, but the old man was getting older and older, and finally went downhill.

One-on-one, the uncle can no longer beat the elder sister.

Realizing this, the uncle came up with a more insidious tactic-he ran away.

Yes, the uncle escaped.

In the face of having grown up and surpassing his elder sister in the face-to-face confrontation, the uncle chose to run away for the first time.

"when I saw this, how could I give up, so I immediately chased after him."

But as a result, the elder sister fell into the uncle's trap and lost again: "after that, we fought again, and I chased it again."

"just like you, I don't know if there is a trap ahead, and whether his escape is true or false."

"because of that failure, the battle of power came to an end," said Sister. "what followed was a more terrible spiritual experience than strength."

Bailuo remembers these things very clearly.

Because at that time, he accompanied him all the way and, as a bystander, watched them fight.

"emptiness is reality, while reality is emptiness."

"emptiness and reality, like two sides of the same thing, are also the hearts of the people."

When your strength can not defeat the opponent, then use psychological tactics to defeat the enemy, this is the old uncle after the battle, teach the elder sister and Bailuo's new knowledge.

"I would like to ask, if I run away while fighting you, will you chase me or not?"

"."

Faced with this problem, Luanya was really asked.

With the strength of the elder sister, she turned around and left, is there any doubt? there must be a problem!

Anyway, Lu Anya is really afraid to chase, who knows if there is a trick ahead.

"you dare not chase, dare you?"

The elder sister's strength can defeat Luanya head-on, and her tactics and strategy are far above the tree elf patriarch: "but if I am really in a hurry, have I missed this opportunity?"

"that's what you were like in the first place."

Sister talked about the key to the collapse of Lu Anya's mentality: "because in Anya's heart, I am strong, even if I am not so strong, you will imagine me to be extremely strong and invincible."

This is the psychological shadow.

This is fear!

"the first time I confronted you, I took you by surprise and beat you by hitting your weakest place."

"after that, I can always quickly find your weakness and defeat you."

After more than a month of practice, Lu Anya initially learned to hide her weaknesses and discover each other's weaknesses.

This makes Luanya's strength improve very quickly, Rao is the elder sister because of the huge gap in attributes, can no longer fight her.

"Today, I discuss with you, we still have a huge gap in strength."

The elder sister compared herself and Luanya to two armies: "it's like a war between two armies. We have 50, 000, you have 100000, and your strength is twice as strong as mine."

But soldiers are just soldiers, it doesn't mean everything!

A recruit led by an excellent general can also defeat a veteran commanded by a rookie.

Because the latter will only command blindly, causing instability in the morale of the army and a lot of complaints.

By the same token, Lu Anya looked dignified at the thought of the elder sister in command of the army on the other side, and dared not underestimate it.

However, the elder sister's style of play was beyond Lu Anya's expectation again and again.

The other side had no intention of confronting his whole army, but sent 5000 cavalry to take advantage of the night and directly attacked her battalion and captured her alive.

In this way, there will be more soldiers and fewer soldiers, which will be meaningless!

"for the next nine battles, I know you have become vigilant and defensive against me."

"so I use false moves again and again, mixed with virtual moves, only real moves, mixed with false moves in real moves."

All kinds of play, the show Luanya doubt life, the state of mind is directly shot.

"when it comes to the eleventh scene," Sister Shi said, "the 100,000 troops you have led are already in full force. Even if I stand here alone, or even throw away my weapon, you dare not come up and tie me up."

Because Luanya was afraid of deceit, she was afraid to send someone forward, while the elder sister was just stalling for time, and her cavalry had already gone around.

"here."

Lu Anya did not expect that a simple discussion unexpectedly contains so many reasons and routines.

"my father once taught me that an one-man war is just a small fight," says the elder sister. "We should treat every battle as a confrontation between the two armies, and that is to make an army with one man!"

"all right, let's go back to the previous question."

The elder sister began to guide Luanya again: "if I choose to run away, will you chase it or not?"

Today's Lu Anya, must not dare to chase, because she has a broken state of mind.

But even if her state of mind did not break, the elder sister would beat it: "at that time, I cracked almost all of my father's means, and he also came up with the last lesson, which is also the most difficult lesson."

"there are only two words in this lesson."

The elder sister said, "win and lose!"

"win or lose?"

Can this win or lose be regarded as a lesson?

"that's the hardest part."

The elder sister said, "if the two armies are at war, if you win and the other side escapes, do you want to chase while you win?"

Did you really win?

Whether the other party is faking defeat, but you can't tell whether it's true or not.

That's why it's hard to win.

The difficulty is not how to win, but what you should do after winning.

"on the other hand, what if you lose and you choose to run, but the other party is in hot pursuit?"

Weary enemy tactics have always been the most disgusting in battlefields and battles.

At that time, the uncle used this hand and let the elder sister chase and kill.

And he just climbed over the mountains and escaped the pursuit of the elder sister again and again, so that the elder sister, who was still happy with the victory at first, became more and more tired, even to the point where he didn't want to chase any more.

Obviously have won, but choose to stop, as if they lost the same, the heart is really tired.

"the difficulty of losing lies not in how, but after."

"in this world, no one can win all the time," Sister: "one day, we will all fall into that situation."

"here."

Luanya had completely lost her pride and asked for advice with an open mind.

Not only she, but all the people on the battlefield, except Bailuo, wanted to know how they should deal with such a situation.

"although we have lost, as long as we don't give up, we will still be the enemy!"

If it can not be a fatal blow, it will become a stab in the heart of the other party, afflicting him to death!

That's right!

This is the most famous tactic of Bailuo's hometown in a previous life.

The enemy advances and retreats, the enemy is stationed and disturbed, the enemy is tired and we fight, the enemy retreats and we chase-guerrilla warfare!

"one can lose, but the heart cannot lose."

This is the core of guerrilla warfare!

Although our positive strength can not beat each other, but we will not surrender, nor will we throw in the towel.

Because no matter how many years, we will continue to fight.

"."

Lu Anya listened to the elder sister's words, and then realized how terrible the woman in front of her is.

Isaac Faiya is not just physically strong.

Her heart is like a fortress, indestructible!

"Anya, you will not be just a soldier in the future. Sooner or later, we will have to go to war."

"and all of you here, and so are you."

The elder sister is very excellent, she is the general of Aton, but she is not the only one with such talents.

Lu Anya is a good girl, and the elder sister wants to train an excellent general for Arden.

By the same token, the future Artonians will be taught the art of war.

They are the pioneers and leaders of the Duchy of Aton in the future, and they cannot be ignored by Bailuo and his elder sister.

"your Majesty, don't you think?"

There is an outsider here. The elder sister used a respectful title to Bailuo, and the latter nodded and said, "well, Anya, I am looking forward to the day when you become an excellent general."

"General, General."

Enya envies .jpg!

Fortunately, Eniya still has a little b in mind, and with her talent, the general is likely to become a lifelong dream.

"Yes!"

Luanya saluted to Belo respectfully.

And in this war, everyone also tested the strength of the leprechaun armed forces.

The elder sister was originally only one of the best among the Aton people, and she was unable to fight with Lu Anya.

But when she was armed with goblins, she instantly had the strength to crush Lu Anya, which was not universal, and most of the Aton could not be as tough as the elder sister.

But a big improvement, that's for sure.

"in any case, leprechaun forces give us the possibility of defeating the strong with the weak."

Bailuo finished and asked, "does anyone else want to try leprechaun arms?"

Do not know when, the audience around more and more.

The adult Arden, the tree elves, and the goblins, and many children.

Obviously, they were attracted by the news of the competition here.

"I, I want to try."

Bailuoben thought it would be Knowles and Gella who put forward the demand, but he never thought it would be Alaia.

"Alaia?"

"Sister Alaia?"

"here."

"that's not good, after all, Sister Alaia."

"everyone, I am also an Atonian."

Alaia smiled gently, her eyes covered with white cloth ribbons.

But this did not dim it, but added a bit of mystery to this beautiful angel-like elder sister.

"the power of miracles has nothing to do with previous physical fitness."

Alaia said, "since I went to the island, I have also received the power of his Majesty, and I am the same as you in the power of miracles."

Alaia's tone was gentle, but the Atonians who knew her knew that Alaia was serious.

"well, then give it a try."

Bailuo is not easy to stop, but still let the elder sister pay attention, do not hurt Alaia.

However.

"Hmm?"

On the martial arts stage, the elder sister looked at Alaia, who held a cross sword in one hand like herself.

The posture and state of the other party are obviously very ordinary, but they give the elder sister a very strange feeling.

"this is really."

Not only she, but Bailuo also noticed: "I met Fei Ya's most hated opponent."

"No more."

The elder sister took the sword back and walked off the stage.

People don't know why, but Bailuo knows the reason: "Alaia knows how to win without defeat."

What is undefeated victory?

The simple word is, as long as I let you not beat my city, I am the victory.

Alaia and Luanya simply seem to be two extremes, her strength is not strong, but the state of mind is terrible.

This is like the alignment in the game, she may not have the advantage, but can not make a single mistake, so that people have no way to speak.

If Alaia is compared to a general, she will definitely become the enemy of many special attacks and quick attacks, and the most annoying opponent.

She can drag you here and make you unassailable for a long time.

It is clear that one hundred thousand people beat ten thousand people, but they just couldn't get in, couldn't get it down.

"Fei Ya, that's amazing. Just take a look at it and you'll find it."

"I wanted to show you how I grew up."

Alaia smiled and knew that she had been seen through by her elder sister: "Oh, it seems there is no chance."

Alaia used to be a blind girl, so she 'sees' the world with her heart, not her eyes, judges things, and breaks through the fog and points directly to the essence.

Because of the emptiness and reality of the elder sister, there is nothing I can do about Alaia.

Because Alaia's goal is very clear, no matter what intrigue the elder sister uses, she will not be fooled.

Defend when it's time to defend, attack when it's time to attack.

For such an opponent, the elder sister knows the result even if she doesn't fight: "I can't take her down in twenty rounds."

"after twenty rounds, she will run out of strength and be easily beaten by me."

Leprechaun armed so that the attributes of the two people are almost the same, in such cases, the two sides actually play skills, tactics and mentality.

Naturally, the skill of the elder sister is far above that of Alaia.

But Alaia also has the advantage that the elder sister cannot compare, that is, she can see through the purpose of the elder sister, and then make the elder sister unable to find a place to talk.

However, the elder sister also knows what it means to win without defeat.

I won't fight you anyway.

As long as I haven't fought you, the world will never prove that you are better than me.

"is it really that good?"

"I don't believe it. I'll try."

Knowles was the first to play and chose to play against Alaia.

As a result, as the elder sister judged, Knowles failed to break through Alaia's defense after a hundred rounds.

If the elder sister is an all-round player, then Alaia is the god of defense, as long as Bailuo sends her out, even if the strength gap between the two sides is too large, Alaia can drag it out for a period of time.

"me."

Fortunately, Knowles has exercised his state of mind, otherwise he would have been manic: "Sister Alaia, what's the matter with you? how did you do it?"

Ming Knowles showed all kinds of marksmanship and swordsmanship, but he was blocked by Alaia.

There must be some injuries.

So if you keep fighting, Knowles is sure to win, and the difference is only in the three hundred rounds or the five hundred rounds.

But this kind of victory is more like suppressing people with force.

Alaia was far behind the others, and Knowles could not afford to lose him if she had won by such means.

"I lost."

So Knowles surrendered decisively.

He knew that if the two armies fought each other, he could not defeat the city guarded by the other side in the face of an opponent like Alaia.

"is Sister Alaia so good?"

Miya did not expect Alaia to be so powerful. She was very happy, even happier than she was to be a regular witch.

"it's really Alaia's sister."

Huester feels that this is normal. Alaia's qualification is not low. If she is not congenitally disabled and trained well, she will be able to compete with her elder sister, even if she is not as good as her elder sister.

"all right, let's get the goblins armed."

"because the quantity is limited, get the weapons first."

Bailuo distributed the leprechaun armed forces to everyone, and opened the martial arts stage, so that they could fight each other heartily.

When people fight, witches must act as referees and use goblin magic at any time to prevent casualties.