Chapter 146 Furious Rescue
At this time, in the west tower where Richard's father, the old baron, was trapped, many hyena-like monsters the size of calves had already crowded the narrow staircase in the tower.
If Richard were at the scene, he would immediately recognize these small monsters as buck-toothed hyenas. They look somewhat similar to hyenas among ordinary beasts, but their two iconic upper incisors are as prominent as the lower canine teeth, and are about 30 feet long. About ten centimeters, extremely sharp.
Therefore, the overall appearance of buck-toothed hyenas also looks uglier. At the same time, they have sharper claws and stronger limbs than ordinary hyenas, and their running speed and flexibility are also higher.
What's even more troublesome is that they are also well-organized behind them, just like an ordinary group of hyenas with a hyena queen commanding them from behind.
Small monsters like buck-toothed hyenas usually hunt in groups of dozens, and they also have buck-toothed hyena queens commanding them from behind.
However, thanks to the narrow, round staircase design in the tower, the many buck-toothed hyenas could not pounce on him all at once.
Because the narrow circular staircase around the wall can only allow two adults to walk side by side, three people must be staggered. For buck-toothed hyenas with shoulder widths about the same as adults, or even wider, at most, only one can be allowed at one time. Two or three attack at the same time.
If there are three, one of them will jump up high and attack from above the other two. If there are more, they will be blocked by the buck-toothed hyena in front and cannot attack diagonally across the circular ladder. castle guard.
The second geographical advantage is that the buck-toothed hyena attacks from the lower stairs towards the higher stairs. Baron Clavel and his guards defend from the upper stairs, perfectly taking advantage of the terrain. , hit from above.
The final reason is that the old baron has been on the battlefield for a long time and has the strength of an intermediate knight. After occupying the narrow circular staircase, it can be said that one man can't get through it.
The old baron held a sword and shield and stood firmly in the center of the stairs. With the support of the guards on both sides, he managed to prevent the many buck-toothed hyenas from rushing past. This move greatly boosted the guards in the tower. morale.
But in the tower to the east, it was a different scene.
Knight Rollins, the Sheriff of Silverpine Town, was only a junior knight in terms of strength and had only been promoted for less than two years. Therefore, after being in a hurry and managing to withstand the attack of the buck-toothed hyena, he was accidentally killed. A ferocious buck-toothed hyena fell on the stairs.
Although many guards managed to save their lives through the efforts of many guards, they suffered severe injuries due to broken muscles and fractures. Fortunately, the knight armor he wore had excellent wrapping properties. Although the buck-toothed hyenas bit him many times, he was still injured in a short period of time. But it didn't bite through the solid plate armor.
However, the hyena queen in each group of buck-toothed hyenas has a very high intelligence, which is also the most troublesome part. When the other party saw this, they immediately seized the opportunity and organized groups of fierce buck-toothed hyenas to persecute them. The remaining guards in the tower were under great psychological pressure.
The buck-toothed hyena group often does not need to directly attack the prey, but only needs to press forward step by step. When the psychological pressure of the trapped prey is pushed to an extreme, either the prey will disorder itself, or it will be forced to take the initiative to the buck-toothed hyena group. Perform a suicidal attack, or the prey will be cornered, as is the case now.
Since the core knight-level combat force in the east tower, the Rollins Knights, was severely damaged and the tower guards were missing the mainstay, they were losing ground and losing numbers. They have now retreated to the highest floor of the tower. Above that is the tower building. top.
But as soon as you go out on the top of the tower, you are looking for death. The large number of blood vultures and human-faced demon birds in the sky are worried about finding targets to attack.
There was a panicked tower guard just now. He just opened the iron cover on the top floor and stuck his head out. He was instantly penetrated and grabbed by the claws of the blood vulture. The other guards hurriedly covered the cover.
Now we are in a desperate situation with enemies from both sides!
Looking at the dark and ferocious group of buck-toothed hyenas, just as Knight Rollins and the remaining ten or so guards were desperate, it seemed that there was a commotion in the group of buck-toothed hyenas in front of them, and it seemed that the opponent's attack suddenly slowed down. .
Although they don't know the reason yet, it at least made them relieved.
After all, it’s good to live for one more second!
The commotion occurred not only in the east tower, but also in the buck-toothed hyena groups in the four towers.
The initiator is none other than Richard from outside!
——With
Hatred opening the way, the buck-toothed hyena group could not stop Richard's advance at all. With the huge hatred, every time the ax was struck, a shower of blood would be sprayed out, and the buck-toothed hyena corpses would be chopped into two pieces. They were immediately snatched away by the remaining members of the same race.
Occasionally, a buck-toothed hyena slipped through the net and tried to attack Richard from behind, but he was pinned to the spot by one of his arrows. Soon after, he was also bitten and devoured by his fellow hyenas.
This allowed Richard to rush into the castle very smoothly. As soon as he passed through the damaged gate of the outer castle, Richard saw at a glance the huge mutant crab demon that was destroying the gate of the inner castle!
The scene in front of him shocked Richard, "Isn't this the monster in the Gray Fern Wilderness - the mutant crab demon? How did it come to the surface? Could it be that" the large group of buck-toothed hyenas he just encountered
, Richard thought there was a particularly powerful buck-toothed hyena queen organizing and controlling the situation behind the scenes, but there was no way that the buck-toothed hyena queen could command such a large monster as the mutant crab demon.
Richard had a vague guess in his heart. Although he was thinking about it, the movements of his hands were not slow at all.
I saw the [Mimetic Wristband] instantly transformed into a hard metal round shield, attached to Richard's left arm, and his right hand pulled out the gleaming [Ice Guardian], a dark element shield Plus the double protection of skeleton armor.
Facing this kind of opponent he was already familiar with, Richard planned to make a quick decision!
The fat and burly abomination obviously attracted the attention of the equally tall mutant crab demon immediately.
At Richard's command, Abomination roared and immediately abandoned the fish monsters and rushed straight towards the mutant crab monster.
The mutant crab demon seemed to have a pride unique to monsters. Facing the big fat man who was charging menacingly, he neighed and waved a pair of giant pincers to meet him!
"Boom!" Hatred's two thick arms, which were as thick as the waists of ordinary men, tightly grasped the joints under the pair of giant pincers. Suddenly, the mutant crab demon's pincers were unable to exert their terrifying shearing force, and the force was high. Raise it high!
Although compared to the size of the mutant crab demon, Richard's current abomination is still not powerful enough, but at least the gap is not that big, and he does not suffer too much in terms of weight. He is a super heavyweight, or Give it a try!
Richard jumped off the wildebeest in an instant and performed the rare zero-level witchcraft [Shadow Dance] that he had recently learned.
When Richard jumped into the shadow area behind Abomination, his speed surged. He aimed a sword at the mutant crab demon that was wrestling with Abomination, from bottom to top, piercing the brain of the mutant crab demon!
Just when the mutant crab demon saw a flash of frost-white cold light and was about to dodge, he realized that he and the fat man opposite him were wrestling with each other and could not move at all.
This leaves the mutant crab demon with no choice but to take advantage of Richard's sword!
The thick defensive carapace of the mutant crab demon was no more than a piece of thick paper to the sharp [Ice Guardian], and it was directly stabbed to the end by Richard's extreme swordsmanship!
Before he even had time to scream, this sword killed the mutant crab demon on the spot!
With the death of this mutant crab demon, there seemed to be a commotion among the group of buck-toothed hyenas besieging the tower. And the buck-toothed hyena queen, when she saw the scene of Richard killing the mutant crab demon in disgust, also became Some hesitated and mobilized many buck-toothed hyenas for defense.
Suddenly, the offensive of the buck-toothed hyena groups in the four towers began to slow down. At this time, the guards in the towers also realized that there must have been some kind of change in the castle that was not conducive to the monsters, otherwise they were originally vicious. It is impossible for a group of extremely buck-toothed hyenas to be in this state.
This scene instantly made the old baron's eyes light up. At that moment, he seized the opportunity and launched a wave of counterattack, forcing the group of buck-toothed hyenas besieging the western tower out of the tower.
When the old baron kept slashing the knight's sword in his hand, and with the support of his guards, he walked out of the tower to check what was going on, he saw the man in black robe wielding the sword at first sight.
The man in black robe is so skilled in swordsmanship that the buck-toothed hyena next to him is no match for him!
Huh! This swordsmanship is so familiar, just like the family's Cornell swordsmanship.
No, this is Cornell's swordsmanship!
The old baron has also practiced Cornell's swordsmanship for decades, and he is very sure that the man in black robe in front of him is performing Cornell's swordsmanship.
Just when the old baron was thinking hard about who among the people he knew could have such advanced swordsmanship in Cornell, he saw the side face of the man in black robe. For a moment, he couldn't believe his eyes!
Yes, this familiar figure looks so much like the dead second son Richard.
Rubbing his eyes again, when the old baron could clearly see the opponent's face under the hood, he couldn't help but burst into tears and shouted: "Richard!!!" Suddenly,
Richard was still killing the monster. , immediately looked up towards the door of the west tower and saw that tall, familiar figure!
"Father!" Richard shouted in surprise.
But as the mutant crab demon's body suddenly fell to the ground, the movement on Richard's side finally attracted the attention of many flying monsters in the sky, especially those human-faced demon birds, which stared at Richard and issued extremely loud noises. A high-pitched, eerie cry.
Suddenly, like boiling water being poured into a pan, hundreds of blood vultures began to scream noisily in the sky and circled rapidly over Richard.
The circling of hundreds of blood vultures caused a huge change in the air flow, which made Richard's black robe rattle. The huge group of blood vultures also began to gradually change their formations under the command of the human-faced demon bird, adjusting to The arrow-shaped arrow array seemed to be swooping down from top to launch a fierce attack.
"Richard, be careful!" When the old baron saw this scene, his heart suddenly thumped. He knew that these blood vultures were extremely fierce, but he could not get away to help Richard.
While hesitating, a strange and piercing sound came from his ears.
"Not good!"
Sharp-eyed Richard immediately pulled out a vulture-tailed arrow and shot it a few meters above the old baron.
Suddenly, a human-faced demon bird was hit in the abdomen by a vulture tail arrow, screaming and falling from the old baron's eyes.
"Father, hide quickly, don't worry about me!" Richard shouted.
After seeing the old baron begin to follow his instructions and retreat while fighting, Richard felt reassured.
Richard's first thought was to temporarily avoid the sharp attack of the blood vultures. He would first avoid the swooping attack of the opponent's sharp arrow array, and then look for opportunities to kill them one by one.
But just as he was about to move, Richard changed his mind. This killing speed was too slow. Besides, now that he was not just alone, but also wanted to show off his momentum, he might as well go head-on and give everyone a boost. morale!
After thinking about this, Richard immediately stopped moving, and while quickly reciting the incantation of Shadow Grasp, he took out dozens of Fire Dance Stars and Silver Moon Dust from his arms, and made a bundle of "cluster bombs" ". When hundreds of blood vultures in the sky adjusted their formation, they planned to launch a fierce and continuous dive attack under the leadership of an unusually huge blood vulture-headed bird.
Richard yelled: "Go to hell!" In an instant, he controlled the dark element's big hand and slammed the bundle of "cluster bombs" into the sky above his head, on the blood vulture-headed bird that was preparing to launch a cluster charge.
"Boom!!!"
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the air!
A fireball with a diameter of tens of meters was generated out of thin air. The heat shock wave visible to the naked eye was instantly transmitted hundreds of meters away. All flying monsters hit by the shock wave fell down one after another like dumplings.
Many guards in the four towers were also shaken by the loud noise!
They stared blankly at this scene, feeling horrified in their hearts. You must know that it was these flying monsters that forced them to retreat from the inner castle wall to the tower for defense, and dozens of brothers died in cunning. in the hands of a harpy bird.
Unexpectedly, the second son of the baron, his own young master Richard, could wipe out almost all these fierce flying monsters in just one move.
Many of the guards were soldiers trained by the Clavell family since childhood. They had known Richard for a long time, and saw that the originally slender and frail young master Richard had turned into a mysterious wizard who could easily defeat the monsters in front of him. The army was immediately amazed.
The old baron, who had already had his heart in his throat, felt even more relieved at this moment.
He didn't expect that the second son, whose death had been reported for a long time, not only came back from the dead, but also had such amazing strength. When the Clavell family was facing a desperate situation, he was like a god coming down to earth and directly turning the situation around.
In his opinion, the strength of his second son Richard seemed to be far greater than that of Duan, the second-level wizard apprentice of the Ignis School who came to guard the family.
This made him a little unbelievable. After all, he was still somewhat impressed by Richard's wizarding qualifications. However, the old baron shook his head and stopped thinking about this problem, because it was not important. What was important was that his second son Richard came back alive. Got it!
Long before the violent explosion occurred in mid-air, Richard had already hid behind Abomination, but his ears were also shocked and could not hear anything for a short period of time!
After all, the power of more than twenty tubes of "cluster bombs" mixed with Fire Dance Star and Silver Moon Dust is absolutely comparable to, and even slightly surpasses, the attack power of a first-level wizard.
Although the few human-faced monster birds that were originally responsible for commanding in mid-air did not suffer direct trauma because they were far enough away from the explosion point, they were almost shaken by the shock wave and the deafening roar, and were about to fall from the sky. Falling down in mid-air.
Not to mention the hundreds of blood vultures, especially the dozen or so blood vultures in the center of the explosion point, their corpses were already gone.
Almost all the blood vultures within a hundred meters from the center point turned into roast turkeys. In an instant, it was like a rain of turkeys falling in the sky above Clavell Castle, and they fell to the ground of the castle with a "dong dong dong". .
The unique smell of "roasted turkey" began to spread throughout Clavel Castle!
The buck-toothed hyenas were so excited when they smelled this fragrance that they immediately spread out and began to devour the roasted vultures. Even the buck-toothed hyena queen couldn't resist this.
This gave the guards in the four towers a chance to breathe, but Richard did not expect such an unexpected effect.
Richard instantly put away the [Ice Guardian] covered with frost flowers, then quickly took out the [Gryphon Wings], and aimed his arrow at the same time.
This time, each of the arrows he pulled out were eagle-tailed arrows, and they were aimed at the dizzy human-faced demon bird in mid-air. Suddenly, there was a burst of "swish, swish, swish!"
Under the guidance of the secret skill guiding arrows, it can be said that the arrows are all fired. Each eagle tail arrow will hit the vital part of a human-faced demon bird, and take away a human-faced demon bird with one arrow!
A few seconds later, Richard swept away the remaining flying monsters above the castle.
At this moment, Richard remembered that there was something he had not done, and immediately released the Soul-Eating Demon Spider in his arms. The crystal-colored Soul-Eating Demon Spider quickly began to crawl towards the mutant crab demon and began to devour the mutant crab demon. soul.
Taking advantage of this gap, Richard glanced at his inspiration panel, and a flood of energy point information came into view:
[Acquire 78 energy points. 】
【Get 74 points of energy. 】
【Get 79 points of energy. 】
【Acquire 8333 points of energy. 】
【Get 128 points of energy. 】
【Get 123 points of energy. 】
【Get 566 points of energy. 】
【Get 126 points of energy. 】
【Get 578 energy points. 】
Because Richard was too excited just now, he ignored the energy points. A few dozen points belong to the bucktooth hyena, the one with more than 100 points should belong to the blood vulture, and the one with more than 500 points should belong to the human-faced demon bird. The highest one , or more than 8,000 points from the mutant crab demon!
Originally, the inspiration panel needed Richard's confirmation when absorbing energy points, but after spending some time in the Gray Fern wilderness, Richard discovered that he could automatically absorb energy points by silently chanting in his mind, and the inspiration panel would absorb the relevant energy on its own.
This really saved him a lot of time, especially when encountering such a large number of monsters.
At this time, an ownerless spiritual force as thick as a thumb was transmitted from the Soul-eating Spider to Richard's spiritual sea, accompanied by a trace of pure soul energy, which immediately made him feel slightly tired. His mind was immediately filled with a hot spring, and he felt very energetic instantly.
After the soul-eating demon spider finished devouring it, it began to control the huge mutant crab demon and attack the numerous buck-toothed hyenas around it, which made the group of buck-toothed hyenas even more frightened!
How is this going? The original leading monster actually killed them in turn!
At this time, the back door of the inner fort suddenly shattered!
A Crab Demon, slightly smaller than the mutant Crab Demon just now, rushed in aggressively waving its large pincers, but when the pair of small eyes looked forward, they were stunned!
He saw his "big brother", who was one size bigger than him, killing the buck-toothed hyenas around him, which made him a little confused. This was not what his master told him.
Richard took a look and said, "Hoo!" There is another one, not bad, with more than 8,000 energy points. He has been searching in the Gray Fern Wilderness for a long time, but he has not encountered many mutant crab demons. Unexpectedly, at home today, he actually encountered two of them!
With the cooperation of the Abomination and the Soul-Eating Demon Spider, Richard used the same method to kill the mutant crab demon in an instant with a sneak attack.
Suddenly, all the monsters seemed to be leaderless, and the remaining buck-toothed hyena groups began to retreat in large numbers.
The crisis is over!
The guards in the four towers also began to launch a counterattack, rushing out from the towers to eliminate the remaining monsters.
Richard also climbed up the inner fort wall immediately and headed towards the western tower where his father was.
The joy of meeting relatives is beyond words!
Looking at the old baron's gray hair, if it weren't for that familiar voice, Richard would have been a little afraid to recognize him for a moment.
"Father! Your hair?" Richard lost his voice.
"Just come back! Just come back!"
Looking at his excited father, Richard understood instantly. In an instant, he hugged his father tightly!
At this moment, all the family guards in the four towers, the garrison forces of Silverpine Town, and the young men left behind in the town all cheered!
Cheer for your own survival!
Cheers to avenge your family!
Cheers for finally driving away the monster!
Richard, who calmed down a little, let go of his father and asked, "Where are my mother and eldest brother?" The
old baron realized at this time and said immediately: "No! Richard, hurry up and catch up with your mother and eldest brother. They passed through the cellar. The secret passage on the third floor is heading to Rosby City!"
Leaving Rollins Knight behind, the old baron quickly took Richard and ran into the cellar like flying.
Along the way, the old baron was worried that the team escorting the children might have walked out of the secret passage of the castle and entered the main road to Rosby City. By then, Levi and the others would inevitably be attacked by monsters.
When Richard heard this, he immediately began to speed up. In the dim secret passage, Richard, blessed by the shadow dance steps, shot forward like a sharp black arrow.
After a while, Richard saw what seemed to be a bright exit in front of the secret passage.
Apparently, the eldest brother and mother had led the team out of the secret passage.
This made Richard suddenly worried.
(End of chapter)