Chapter 3 Sudden Battle
Hearing this voice, it seemed a bit familiar. It seemed to be the voice of the castle doctor. Richard stood up suddenly and immediately looked down the window on the second floor of the inner castle.
I saw seven or eight fully armed guards holding torches and rushing to the doctor's residence. More torches continued to light up in the castle. Under the light of the fire, it seemed that his father and brother were also alerted and walked out of the inner castle fully armed.
With a sound of "Boom!", the wooden door of the doctor's residence on the first floor was instantly shattered by several green vines as thick as a bowl. The vines stagnated for a moment before shooting directly at the surrounding guards. Two guards immediately appeared. Unable to dodge, he was hit in the chest and abdomen by the vines. He was instantly knocked several meters away and hit the wall heavily.
Fortunately, the guards all wore chainmail, otherwise the blow just now would have most likely penetrated their abdomens and killed them on the spot.
The guards around looked at each other in confusion. Because the situation was unclear, no one dared to rush into the room for a while. People have a fear of unknown creatures. In fact, the guards did not scatter and were considered well-trained.
"Thump thump thump", the footsteps of the guards kept coming from all around.
"Raise the shield, throw the torch!" The baron's voice came from behind. The guards immediately found their backbone, stabilized their emotions, and immediately followed the baron's command and began to attack.
In the blink of an eye, seven or eight torches were thrown into the doctor's room. After a while, smoke billowed into the room, and several humanoid creatures over two meters tall staggered out of the smoke.
Since he was upstairs and had a better view, Richard could vaguely make out a total of four monsters coming out.
And what is surprising is that the lower body of the humanoid creature that came out was actually wearing the same kingdom-style leggings and greaves as the guards, while the upper body had turned into a monster composed of dozens of green vines and tree trunks, including its head. It's also green.
Immediately, there were several exclamations from the many guards surrounding the monster. It seemed that they had identified that the monster in front of them seemed to be their former captain of the guard, the seriously injured Barras, and three other injured comrades.
Looking at the scene in front of him, the baron looked expressionless and shouted, "Archers shoot, keep throwing torches!"
It seemed that they were burned by the torches or angered by the attack of bows and arrows. The vine monsters let out a roar, Dozens of vines shot out from their bodies, and they attacked the guards surrounding them separately.
One after another, vines were cut off immediately by the guards' swords, but more vines wrapped around the guards, throwing them high into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.
The guard who fell to the ground struggled to get up, spitting out blood.
For a time, the battle was bloody and fierce!
At this time, seeing that the situation was about to collapse, the baron pulled out the sharp knight's sword from his waist and began to join the battle. As soon as his brother Li Wei saw his father's end, he immediately rushed forward with his sword brandished.
As a formal knight, the baron has superb swordsmanship and agile movements. Even though he is wearing thick plate armor, his mobility is not affected at all. With the wide open and close slashes of his two-handed broadsword, he quickly rushes to the front of a monster.
His elder brother, Levi, was holding a sword and shield, which effectively helped the baron defend against the vine attacks on one side, greatly reducing the pressure on the baron who was in the center of the battlefield.
Seeing the baron and the eldest young master in person, the morale of the guards rose sharply. More and more vines were cut off, but the vines seemed to be able to regenerate and were still flying all over the sky. The battle was tense.
Richard, who was on the second floor, felt anxious. The situation in front of him seemed to be beneficial to his father, but human physical strength was limited after all, and the monster's methods were weird. The longer it was delayed, the more disadvantageous it would be. "Vines, trees, burns!" The wounds on the corpse of the monster at the city gate instantly flashed a bright light in Richard's mind, and he quickly opened the door and ran upstairs.
He remembered clearly that there was a large crossbow aircraft and several barrels of kerosene on the top of the inner fort, which were placed there specifically to defend against the invasion of large birds of prey.
Sure enough, when Richard ran to the top of the building, he saw a double-fired giant crossbow machine that was more than one person wide. Two huge crossbow arrows with cold light had been placed on the crossbow machine in advance.
And all he has to do is turn and ignite the arrow, then pull the trigger and shoot the monster.
"Crack, rattle," as the sound of gears turning sounded, Richard, alone, reluctantly pointed the crossbow that required two people to operate at the same time at the monster in the field, and quickly used flint to ignite the crossbow arrows greased with kerosene. arrow.
Just when Richard was aiming at the center of the field and preparing to select a monster to shoot, he looked through the crosshair and saw that a monster had sneaked to the other side of the baron and was preparing to attack.
"No!"
Richard immediately aimed at the monster and shot an arrow at it without hesitation.
Just hearing a "swish" sound, a flaming arrow more than one meter long shot at the monster at high speed.
Unfortunately, because the proficiency of the crossbow is not high, this shot did not hit the monster, but missed the monster. This was an accidental hit and interrupted the monster's sneak attack, and also alerted the baron to the presence of nearby monsters. The monster tried to sneak up on him.
[It was discovered that the host was using a crossbow. Did/does it consume energy and gain inspiration for using the crossbow? 】
A line of text and a draggable slider appeared in front of Richard's eyes, which made him overjoyed. After a closer look, he saw that the two ends of the slider were 1 and 131. Obviously, this represented how much energy was consumed. mean.
Now that the battle was raging, Richard did not hesitate to drag the slide bar to the far right, which was the value of 131, and selected: Yes.
In an instant, Richard came to a dream space as if his soul was out of his body, and possessed a figure who was skillfully controlling a crossbow machine for shooting. The shape of the crossbow machine was exactly the same as the one on the roof of his inner fort, and there was only one person in the entire space. One target and one crossbow machine.
As the figure tirelessly fired the crossbow arrows one after another, the key points of each action such as loading, aiming, and shooting were carefully grasped and carefully studied by the possessed Richard. Every time the figure shot an arrow, Richard Almost everyone has some insights.
This dream-like process of controlling the crossbow machine and shooting took place about 130 times before the shooting figure slowly stopped.
However, before Richard could fully react, his entire soul seemed to have quickly returned to his body from the dream.
As Richard's body trembled slightly, the dream ended!
"That's it! This is how this energy point is used!" The clenched fists reflected the excitement in Richard's heart.
(End of chapter)