Chapter 145 In Danger
When Daenerys and Vincent rode griffins and quickly returned to Count Harris's castle in Rosby City, the first thing Daenerys did was to come to the Count's castle. In the study, I picked up a pen and wrote a few letters.
Since the general communication mark of a wizard can only communicate within a certain range, this range generally does not exceed a large city, that is, within a radius of a hundred miles.
Therefore, not only did Daenerys want to contact Hydrassil Academy across the continent, but she was unable to contact the royal capital directly, or contact the nearest college of necromancers, the Ignis School.
There are two necessary conditions for communication imprint contact. One is that the distance is within a certain range, and there must be no interference from powerful objects in the middle. The second is that both parties must leave each other's communication mark runes on each other, otherwise, contact will not be possible.
Therefore, under the current situation, Daenerys can only use this ancient method to convey information.
When Daenerys finished writing both letters, she covered them with red mud and cast a trick.
The butler of the earl in tuxedo, who had been waiting for a long time, saw that Daenerys had already written the letter, respectfully took the two letters, and immediately arranged for two peregrine falcons to carry the message.
The Peregrine Falcon is a small raptor that flies extremely fast. Although it is not a large raptor or an extraordinary species, it is superior to its extremely fast flight speed and flexible dodge in the air.
Moreover, because it is a carnivorous bird, it is not easily captured by natural enemies like other ordinary birds and thus loses letters.
However, because of their preference for eating fresh meat, the raising of peregrine falcons is quite expensive, and it is difficult for ordinary knight families to afford it. Only high-ranking nobles or large businessman families can raise them.
When Daenerys saw the peregrine falcon rushing toward the sky like a gray line, she began to arrange the second thing.
She asked Earl Harris to immediately recall the wizard apprentices and witchers sent out from various colleges, and called on all wizards and wizard apprentices in Rosby County to gather in the county.
Judging from the signs she and Vincent detected, the wizard apprentices and demon hunters who supported Tulip Town should have been killed in battle. Instead, their bodies became nourishment for the enemy and were brought back to the deep crevices.
Although I don’t know what the monsters are doing by bringing back human corpses, it’s definitely not a good thing. The corpses of wizard apprentices are obviously more precious than those of ordinary people, and they are also more useful to the mastermind behind the scenes.
Therefore, if the wizard apprentices and demon hunters are not recalled urgently, in Daenerys' view, this is an act of siding with the enemy.
What's more, judging from Goldsmith Town, the wizard apprentices who supported them in the past have most likely been wiped out.
Therefore, after Daenerys already knows that the opponent's strength has definitely reached the official wizard level, then sending out wizard apprentices and demon hunters sporadically to support is a stupid tactic to add fuel to the fire. The enemy may be eager to do this on his own side. Do.
In Daenerys' view, only by concentrating all the elite forces of Rosby County, going straight to the mysterious rift, and suddenly delivering a fatal blow can the current predicament be solved.
Simply waiting is not advisable. Maybe after attacking seven or eight small towns, the other party has collected enough human corpses to perform some evil rituals, so it would be meaningless for her to come to Rosby City to support her.
Therefore, she chose to take the initiative. Although there was definitely a risk, in Daenerys' view, the risk was still controllable.
"But if we call back all the support teams now, what will happen to the remaining towns?" Earl Harris said after a long silence.
This topic was a bit heavy. He didn't expect that the petite girl in front of him would be so decisive in killing. The opponent was a white wizard, but her decisiveness was no less than that of a black wizard.
Intellectually speaking, although Earl Harris does not want to admit it, he also knows that Daenerys's plan is the most suitable solution to solve the dilemma at present.
However, from a personal emotional point of view, the entire Rosby County is his fiefdom. He does not want his fiefdom and so many small towns to suffer heavy casualties. He hopes to have the best of both worlds.
Upon hearing the Earl's question, Daenerys looked at Harris with her clear eyes and said: "This is a difficult decision, but if we don't do it, I'm afraid we will lose more. "
After Earl Harris was silent for a while, he nodded: "Okay, Your Highness Daenerys, I will give the order to summon all the wizard apprentices and demon hunters." -
When
Richard drove the wildebeest, While speeding all the way towards Silver Pine Town.
His mood was also like that of himself on horseback, jumping up and down.
Unexpectedly, one year later, he would be able to return to Silverpine Town as a third-level wizard apprentice. This was much faster than he had expected before going there.
Although before going there, Richard considered that he would improve very quickly because he had an inspiration panel, but at that time he only thought that it would be good for him to be promoted to the second level wizard apprentice in about a year.
As a result, he did not expect that one year later, he would be a third-level wizard apprentice.
Of course, because he did not want to attract too much attention, Richard did not undergo the promotion assessment for the third-level wizard apprentice in the Ignis School, nor did he put on the unique mark symbolizing the third-level wizard apprentice. Instead, he passed the special effects of Rodrigo's meditation method. Qianxi has been dynamically adjusting the intensity of his breath according to the actual situation.
Therefore, Richard still looks like an ordinary wizard apprentice.
I don’t know what’s going on with my father, mother, and eldest brother, and by the way, my little maid Serena.
When he thought of Serena, Richard couldn't help but smile. He remembered how Serena was about to cry when they parted.
However, when his little maid Serena sees him suddenly coming back, she will definitely be very happy!
Thinking of this, the corners of Richard's mouth couldn't help but curl up even higher.
At the speed of the wildebeest, he would arrive at Yinsong Town in about half an hour. Richard, who was in a happy mood, looked at the scenery on both sides of the road and felt completely different.
I saw not far ahead, on the right side of the road, a lake as clear as sapphire.
The lake is not large, but there are various tall and short shrubs growing around it. A little further away from the lake, there are the famous silver pine trees in the silver pine forest. Each silver pine tree is tall and straight, with leaves like needle tips and always green. .
This lake not far from Silver Pine Town was named Green Pine Lake by the residents of the town precisely because the green silver pine trees can be seen reflected on the clear lake surface all year round.
Now, in Richard's eyes, this lake named Green Pine Lake is inlaid on the edge of the lush Silver Pine Forest. This beautiful picture is like an eternal sapphire engraved in his memory, reminding him of Missing my hometown and family.
However, the strange thing was that none of the many small animals that used to drink water at the edge of the green pine lake, such as hares, deer and other gentle animals, could not be seen, which made Richard frown.
Could it be that some ferocious beast has appeared in Silver Pine Forest recently, causing even small animals to be hunted down?
It shouldn’t be!
As he got closer and closer to Silver Pine Town, Richard, who was thinking on the back of the wildebeest, keenly smelled a trace of blood.
This immediately made him tremble. The smell of blood was vague, but his sensitive sense of smell was not mistaken. It should be because it was a little far away from him.
But the direction from which the smell of blood was coming at this moment was Yinpine Town, his hometown and the location of his family's fiefdom.
Richard raised his head, stared ahead, and suddenly frowned.
As if he had a premonition that something was not going to happen, Richard immediately clamped his legs on both sides of the wildebeest's abdomen and drove the wildebeest to run faster.
But the closer he got to Silver Pine Town, the tighter Richard's brows furrowed, and his expression became worse and worse, because the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.
You know, Richard is experienced in many battles, so he quickly discerned that the smell of blood was so strong that it would not be so strong even if dozens of people died!
Immediately, Richard whipped the whip hard and hit the wildebeest hard on the buttocks!
"Bah! Bah!"
The wildebeest, who was in pain, let out a high-pitched neigh, immediately spread its hooves, its speed increased by 30%, and began to run with all its strength!
"I hope nothing bad will happen, otherwise, no matter who it is, they will face my anger!" Richard held the reins tightly with both hands, and his heart was no longer calm.
——Silver
Pine Town.
Clavel Castle.
Seeing a huge mutant crab demon coming from the back door of the castle, the old baron knew that he was doing his best to deal with one now, and he still relied on the castle's geographical location and the giant crossbows he mobilized.
At this moment, there are no extra giant crossbows or extra manpower to deal with the mutant evil spirit.
If half of the front door's defense force is allocated to guard the back door, the result will most likely be that the front door cannot be defended, and the back door cannot be defended either. At the same time, the guarding force will suffer heavy losses.
Therefore, the old baron with rich combat experience thought for a moment and made an immediate decision, shouting: "Everyone, retreat to the inner fort!"
Immediately afterwards, this sentence was shouted by dozens of guards: "Everyone retreat to the inner castle!"
Clavel Castle has been built for a hundred years and consumed a lot of manpower and material resources from the Clavel family. Although it does not have the moats and suspension bridges built with the wealth of those hereditary earl castles, it is still a classic Concentric castle.
The biggest feature of the concentric castle is that it has two walls: an inner castle and an outer castle. The outer castle wall is only three meters high, but the inner castle wall is six meters high and is made of strips of stone.
Therefore, although the area of the inner fort is much smaller, the strength of the inner fort is higher than that of the outer fort. At the same time, this is also the last line of defense for the Clavell family.
If it can be defended, there is a deep well and cellar in the inner fort area. The cellar contains wheat, bacon, pickled fish, dried radish and other food that can be eaten by at least a thousand people for half a year. The old baron is still confident that he can defend it. Reinforcements from the Heron Kingdom have arrived!
After hearing the old baron's order, the Clavell family guards, the Silver Pine Town security team, and some strong young people from Silver Pine Town who were originally defending on the city wall began to withdraw to the inner fort, while the guards stationed at the gate of the outer fort were Through the tunnels of the outer and inner forts, the retreat began.
The guards, led by Levi and the Rawlins knights, fought and retreated, crossing the temporary wooden bridge from the outer castle wall, killing small monsters, and retreating to the inner castle wall. Under the cover of archers and large crossbows on the D-shaped towers at the four corners of the inner fort, the guards all retreated to the inner fort wall after losing only a small number of personnel.
Therefore, when the giant claws of the mutant crab demon knocked hard on the door of the outer castle, what was revealed in front of it was another strong castle.
This immediately made it angry and roared loudly.
Now, it must break through another gate before it can capture this area.
But during the battle just now, several pieces of its solid carapace had been cracked by heavy crossbows, which made it hesitate a little. However, thinking about the request of the master behind it, the mutant crab demon raised its pair of unparalleled powers again. The giant pincers began to attack the inner castle gate.
Seeing this scene, the old baron on the strong wall of the inner fort shouted: "Throw the rolling stones! Prepare the kerosene!"
Suddenly, dozens of huge round stones were thrown from the crenellations of the high inner fort wall by the guards. Pushed out, with the blessing of gravity, it hit the besieging monsters hard.
The smaller monsters were crowded at the foot of the city wall. Although they saw the huge rocks falling, they couldn't dodge at all, and they were immediately smashed to pieces!
As for the mutant crab demon, although it smashed several rolling stones with its giant claws, it was still repelled by several other rolling stones. After all, its strong carapace was not invincible. It was still very difficult to resist rolling stones weighing hundreds of kilograms.
The old baron thought for a while, then quickly turned his head and shouted loudly to Levi who was shooting: "Child! You immediately go with Mr. Duan to find your mother and children, and seize the time to go to the third floor of the cellar of the inner castle. , rush to Rosby City through the secret passage."
"Father, please let me stay and fight with you!" Upon hearing this, Li Wei immediately rejected the old baron's request.
Having been educated as a knight by his family since childhood, he is not afraid of sacrifice. On the contrary, this behavior of escaping from battle is no different from betrayal in Levi's eyes!
"No, child, your battlefield is still behind, and the road to Rosby City is not smooth. You and Mr. Duan have to escort women and children to Rosby City. This will be an arduous task. Are you a coward? Aren't you willing to take on this responsibility?"
The old baron's last words were in a very high tone!
Facing his father who was glaring with anger, Li Wei murmured twice, but remained silent after all!
Yes, fighting to the death in the face of a powerful enemy is a kind of bravery, but having the courage to take on arduous tasks is also another kind of bravery.
Escorting women and children, these children are the hope for the future of Silverpine Town. With them, Silverpine Town will definitely be able to rebuild in the future. As long as the children can reach Rosby City safely, even if the guards are killed in the battle, they will not be able to see their own home. If children can escape, they must be willing to do so!
But to take these unarmed women and children with no fighting ability, break through the blockade of monsters along the way, and reach Rosby City safely, to be honest, Levi himself is not confident!
But precisely because of this, it means that what my father said is right. This is a difficult task and of great significance. If you don't dare, you are a coward!
After thinking about it, Li Wei immediately straightened his face and said, "Father, I will definitely live up to your trust!" The
old baron nodded happily, patted Li Wei's thick shoulder, and said, "Hurry up and retreat immediately. We will help you attract the attention of the monster army, so that your evacuation will be much easier! Go quickly and call Mr. Duan together!" "Remember to
thank Mr. Duan for your efforts on behalf of our Clavel family!"
" Hmm!" After taking one last look at the old baron, Levi rushed to the inner castle square without looking back and began to organize the children and some women to enter the cellar.
"Pour the kerosene! Throw the torch!" Knight Rollins shouted.
The huge rolling stone attack just now did great damage to the monsters, but the number of rolling stones was limited. After they were used up, the monsters quickly surrounded them again.
Especially the mutant crab demon, which was huge in size, had suffered a lot just now and was injured a lot by the rolling stones. This made it extremely angry. When it saw that the rolling stones on the human wall were exhausted, it roared loudly. Once again, they launched a fierce attack on the gate of the inner castle.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
As the kerosene poured down, a large number of small monsters at the foot of the city wall were now covered in thick kerosene.
But they don't know what these things are, they just think that human "water pouring" attacks are meaningless.
But the next second, they knew what was on them!
"Boom!"
As dozens of torches were thrown, the fire oil on the bodies of the monsters under the city wall was ignited. In an instant, the monsters screamed everywhere, including the mutant crab demon, which had always been tyrannical. At this moment, it was also burned. Wow.
I don’t know how many small monsters died under the trampling of their companions.
The surroundings of the mutant crab demon were like mud, filled with corpses of monsters trampled to death by it!
Suddenly, everyone on the defensive wall breathed a sigh of relief! It seems that this wave of monster attacks has been resisted.
The old baron's mood has calmed down a little. It seems that the possibility of holding on to the inner fort and waiting for reinforcements from the kingdom has greatly increased!
However, at this time, the expression of the archer at the highest point of the tower suddenly changed, and he shouted to the old baron: "Lord Baron, look over there!" I saw
a large black cloud flying in the western sky. We are almost over Clavel Castle.
"No! It's a flying monster!" The old baron was horrified and couldn't help but lost his voice. At the same time, he immediately turned to the inner castle square and shouted: "Hurry and avoid! There is a flying monster!" "Quick! Enter the tower
. !" The old baron made his decision immediately, and dozens of guards shouted in unison: "Enter the tower!"
He didn't expect that his side would be able to defend only four towers so quickly. The opponent actually had flying monsters to cooperate with the attack. If he continued to carry out defensive operations on the inner wall, the swooping attacks of the flying monsters would soon cause damage to his own guards. Massive casualties.
But if we abandon the defense on the city wall now, we are actually drinking poison to quench our thirst.
Because after the two mutant crab demons break through the gate of the inner castle and all kinds of monsters pour in like a tide, there will be no food and fresh water, and the defense force divided into four towers will be eliminated one by one, leaving the rest for them. It is definitely a defeat.
But what the old baron considered was that if he died later, he could continue to contain the monster army and reduce risks for the evacuated children and Levi.
However, at this time, in the middle of the inner castle grounds, although the children of Silverpine Town had been taken to the castle cellar by Levi and Duan, there were still hundreds of women and elderly people who would not have time to escape.
As a large black mass of flying monsters flew over Clavel Castle, they were commanded by several extremely unpleasant screams.
Immediately, hundreds of blood vultures, led by more than a dozen human-faced demon birds, began to launch a swooping attack, massacring the defenseless humans in the inner castle square!
From time to time, an old man would be pierced by the sharp claws of the blood vulture, and under the flapping of its wings with a wingspan of three to four meters, the old man would be picked up high, brought into the air and then dropped violently, followed by desperate screams. Calling is the death of a human being.
In less than five minutes, less than 30% of the people in the inner castle square were able to escape, and most of them were massacred.
The guards and young men who were guarding the four towers tried to rush out for rescue several times, but they were unable to pass through the blockade of the monsters in the air. Even if they managed to rush to the inner castle square, they could not carry out rescue.
Therefore, they could only roar and use the bows and arrows in their hands to flank the crowds who were fleeing in the square.
At this time, the inner castle gate was also breached. The two mutant crab demons, covered with injuries, led a large number of small monsters to break through the Clavell family, which had been the last line of defense for more than a hundred years.
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At this time, Richard had already arrived at the last hillside. As long as he climbed over this hillside, he could see Silver Pine Town.
But when Richard rode the wildebeest to the top of the slope, what he saw was thick smoke, the dilapidated Clavell Castle under siege by monsters, and the ruined Silverpine Town.
The cries of human beings can almost no longer be heard. What this means, Richard knows best.
Richard couldn't help but feel shocked, and his vision immediately went dark!
Could it be said that all the family members have already died?
Suddenly, Richard's eyes were split with anger!
There was only one thought in his mind, which was to kill all the monsters in front of him.
Richard immediately waved the mutant summoning staff, and the nearly three-meter-tall Abomination was summoned, striding towards the group of monsters surrounding the Clavell family castle.
Richard himself quickly took off the gryphon wings on his back, activated his secret skill of rapid fire, and launched an attack on the monster in front of him.
Although the special effects of the Griffin Wings have been exhausted today, its top-level witchcraft props are very powerful in themselves. In addition, under the control of Richard's extreme level of bow skills, the arrows shot are as fast as lightning, as if he is holding a rod. Gatling gun.
"Swish, swish, swish!" the sound of piercing the air could be heard endlessly, and the monsters around Richard also began to be killed in large areas.
On Richard's route to his family's castle, the monster army was like ice cubes drenched in hot water, melting in an instant and opening a path.
It wasn't until Richard rushed to the foot of the family fort that he discovered that although the outer fort had been breached, he could still clearly see intermittent arrows shooting out of the four inner fort towers, fighting back against the monsters.
This made him feel like crying with joy.
There is still resistance in the family castle, so he should still have time!
(End of chapter)