Chapter 309: The Snake Sect’s low-key beheading method.
Fire, screams, and shouts of killing continued to come from the front positions.
One after another, guerrilla detachments and Nilfgaardian battalions came in and immediately withdrew after causing a commotion.
As the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas, Lei Suo was still hiding in the darkness, closing his eyes and resting, motionless.
Major Mopka thought that the Cintra guerrillas had received new reinforcements and launched a general attack on them, but in fact it was still just a hundred-man detachment led by Geralt, and the huge momentum relied entirely on Yennefer's magic.
The real reinforcements are behind Letho.
Julia, a member of the Free Corps nicknamed "Little Pretty Cat", looked at the back of the bald man in front of her and was secretly speechless. The visual pressure of this man is no less than that of the bear-like demon hunter.
Behind Julia were a thousand Free Legion soldiers under her command. During this period, they were broken into parts and parts, and they escaped the Nilfgaardian blockade through various paths in the forest explored by the guerrillas. We were able to join forces with the forest guerrillas.
Just for this battle today.
"Leso...Commander." Julia looked at the bald man in front of her with his eyes closed and concentrating. His breath concentration skills were so good that she couldn't bear to disturb him.
He had been motionless since he arrived at the meeting point. Anyone who didn't know the inside story would probably think it was just a corpse. If she hadn't deliberately focused on Lei Suo earlier, Julia even suspected that she would have forgotten the existence of him as soon as she turned her head.
How come such a visually arresting and muscular man looks like a poisonous snake?
"Aren't we going to take action?" Little Meimao asked tentatively.
With a long breath, Lei Suo finally opened his eyes.
Julia looked at each other with those amber snake eyes for two seconds and couldn't help but look away.
"Colonel Julia, we still need to wait a little longer."
"What are you waiting for?"
"Puff, rustle—"
The sound of wings flapping in mid-air attracted Julia's attention. A bird that was so late at night was completely unfamiliar. The attention-grabbing crow landed not far from the team and tilted its head towards the crowd.
The crow was expecting something, but Leisuo just stared at it silently and made no move.
"We...were waiting for it?" Julia said in disbelief. After watching Bill turn into a bear and go on a rampage in Blochlon, she felt that she was more accepting of everything.
Could it be that this crow was also transformed into someone else?
Leisuo did not answer, but continued to be silent towards the crow.
Until an explosion in mid-air broke the awkwardness, a red portal opened in mid-air, Julia and the soldiers behind her entered the alert, and then saw Yennefer and a dizzy Geralt stumbling through it. walk out.
Leisuo let out a long, inaudible sigh of relief.
Waves of chaotic energy surged across Yennefer's body, making the crow on the branch finally meet its expectations. The feathers all over its body faded away like ice and snow, until a clear crystal skull was left, floating in the air towards Yennefer's palm under the influence of magic.
As the sorceress's pupils dilated, she communicated with another consciousness and began to read the scene seen in another field of view.
While Yennefer was casting a spell, Geralt shook his head and reported the situation to Reso: "Yennefer and I made a big fuss. The other side thought we were a general offensive force and seemed to want to lure us deeper. "
I asked the guerrillas to throw the bombs and then withdrew. After that, Yennefer and I fought inside for a while, and went deep into the enemy camp to make sure that they had gathered their main force on our side. Do you want my help after that... Wait, what are you wearing?"
Geralt's eyes widened as he spoke, and he saw that Leisuo was actually wearing a black armor. In the dark night with insufficient light, people almost mistook him for Nefer. Gadrian.
Leisuo did not answer Geralt's last question, and nodded to himself: "I really need your help. I will hand over the command to you later, and you will lead the Free Corps to burn food and grass. I will try to see if I can You can't achieve greater results. Other guerrillas will still be looking for opportunities around you, and will support you after you succeed - Do you have enough [Dragon Dream] and [Dancing Star]? I don't think I will need them in a while. , I’ll give it to you first.”
Geralt stared at Leisuo’s outfit for a long time, and sighed: “Although this is indeed your old profession, don’t tell me that you did it on the spur of the moment.”
Leisuo Geralt's guess was confirmed: "I have indeed planned this for a long time."
Geralt sighed again.
At this moment, Geralt and Letso suddenly felt that the badges on their chests began to tremble violently again.
Yennefer let out a long sigh of relief, and with a violent fluctuation of chaotic energy, the crystal bird skull in her hand turned into a smart crow again.
"I saw it - the enemy's main force has indeed moved towards the direction where Geralt and I were, but there is only one place where the defense has not been reduced, and it must be their granary." The sorceress's face turned pale slightly
. After tonight's series of activities, she also felt that her magic power was drying up.
"It will take you to the direction of the granary." Yennefer pointed to the crow, "I won't go there."
Leisuo nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
Geralt showed a rare look of worry, Yennefer, on the other hand, responded sarcastically to the white wolf's changing expression.
"Don't show that expression to the little girl. I have completed all the tasks tonight, but you haven't yet."
After saying that, Yennefer shook her long hair and opened the teleport again amidst the scent of lilac and gooseberry. Door, leaving only a long message:
"Remember to bring my things back -"
The crow transformed from the crystal skull landed on Geralt's shoulder, watching the proud sorceress disappear into nothingness, tilted Tilting head.
Lei Suo put on his hood, hiding himself completely in the shadows, unable to see his expression: "Sorceress, huh?"
The white wolf did not answer Lei Suo's teasing, shook his shoulders and let the crow fly: "Work."
...
"You What do you mean by missing? Such a big movement! So many enemies!"
Major Mopka shouted uncontrollably, and the orderly soldier who was grabbed by his collar also looked incredulous.
"We found a lot of fragments, and the enemy used a lot of alchemical bombs. We did see a lot of Sintra people when we first narrowed the encirclement, but they suddenly disappeared, as if they were phantoms... "
Major Mopka took a deep breath: "If your guys on the front line weren't extremely poisoned...then it was magic." The
major let go of the messenger and forced himself to calm down.
Magical tactics are not uncommon to southerners. The Warlock Corps is no secret. With the rank of Major Mopka, he has access to many of the empire's high-end weapons.
Including warlocks, various alchemical bombs, fire scorpion siege crossbows, corpse throwing machines, catapults, etc., the empire's war concepts were more than an era ahead of the north.
But due to various reasons such as logistics, none of these damn things were equipped with the Eastern Group Army!
Now the Nilfgaardians are suppressed by a small Cintra in terms of tactical diversity!
Mopka was unwilling to give in, but then a cold air came up from his tailbone.
The status of warlocks in the north is very high, and those who can make such noises can also lead an army of warlocks in the south. Then why did such a warlock make such a big fuss?
He turned around suddenly, and the firelight from the sky illuminated his eyes.
In that direction is the granary.
It's over.
"Major!"
"I saw it..." Mopka muttered to himself, "How did they light such a big fire?" "
Oh yes, they have warlocks, bombs, and demon hunters. ..."
"Major!"
The messenger wanted to awaken the commander's will, but Mopka had already collapsed on the ground, turning a deaf ear to the calls around him.
His adjutant gritted his teeth and took over the command, and the hierarchical Nilfgaard military camp would not be paralyzed at any time. The dull horn sounded, and almost all the soldiers who could move rushed towards the granary.
Of course, everyone knows which direction to run at this time without using the horn.
The fatigue that Major Mopka had previously suppressed with pain and willpower burst out at this moment, and his vision blurred for a while.
In a daze, he saw a pair of amber snake eyes flashing before his eyes, and a dim but dazzling sword light.
With a "poof", Major Mopka never had the chance to stand up. A handful of blood spilled from his body and he fell heavily to the ground.
Although tonight is not a dark night, the visibility is still very low. The fire not far away was not enough to provide the line of sight needed for keen observation, and the swaying shadows that burned out would disturb the line of sight.
Coupled with the figures running around and the panicked orders, no one would even pay attention here.
Major Mopka's fall was not even noticed by his bodyguards.
After taking down a bottle of [Cat] potion, Leisuo's vision became clearer. The dazzling firelight dimmed, the heavy black shadows became brighter, the colors of the world began to become consistent in Lei Suo's perception, and all the lines became more distinct.
He looked at the adjutant who had taken over the command, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then stuck to him like a flexible snake.
It wasn't until ten breaths later that a shrill scream rang out.
"——The Major has been assassinated!!"
The flames were blazing, smoke and dust were everywhere, and all the guards' faces turned earth-colored.
With a "click" sound, the black sun flag located in the central army made a heart-stopping sound, and collapsed to the ground with a "crash" wind.
The flames began to trace the golden frame of the black sun on the big flag, burning the sun.
——
"The sun is up, how can this damn thing be used?"
Stephen Skellen, a special agent of Nilfgaard's intelligence department, nicknamed "Gray Owl", was extremely anxious.
He had been fiddling with a small silver box in his hand for nearly a quarter of an hour.
"There is no switch, no other gaps... damn magical creation!"
The silver box in Stephen's hand is called the "sound transmission box".
He once hired a sorcerer named Riens at the emperor's command to find Cirilla, the young lion of Cintra. But in the process, he discovered that Reigns seemed to be a double agent. In addition to serving the Empire, Riens appears to be in the employ of another powerful warlock in the North.
Stephen tried to communicate with the powerful warlock through Riens, but was repeatedly rejected. Later he learned that the warlock was a "former friend" of His Majesty the Emperor.
It wasn't until Riens died in Novigrad that the warlock gave him the box in front of him that could transmit sound over long distances as a communication link.
But this damn magic device is one-way. You can't use it yourself, only the warlock can!
After a while, Agent Stephen finally lost his patience and started shouting behind him: "Kenna, think of a way to help me activate this damn box!"
While the gray owl was busy, Ten Several people dressed in different costumes rested beside him in boredom. Their equipment is not standard, but all of them are quite sophisticated. A knowledgeable person can also identify the material of magic-resistant gold from the daggers they are equipped with.
This is a team that was put together temporarily, but the members of the team are all absolute elites in their original groups. It was also because of this that they were selected by Stephen to go north to carry out His Majesty the Emperor's "last mission."
However, although most of these dozen people have quite a military temperament, there are still two people who seem completely out of tune with the team.
One of them was an extremely tall and thin man dressed as a bounty hunter, with a gray mustache that looked like a catfish, and silent eyes like dead fish.
The other one was a woman dressed as an ordinary traveler. She didn't have any armor on her body. She only wore a cloak and a hood. She had a pretty face.
That woman is Kenna. After hearing Stephen's inquiry, she showed a rather helpless expression: "Mr. Coroner, I am a psionicist, not a warlock. I am not afraid of magic, but that does not mean that I am good at magic..." In addition to the
mainstream In addition to the warlocks, the chaotic energy of this world also gave birth to many other scattered people. They are not as talented as warlocks, but they can always have some other specialties.
They use their favorite names to establish their professions, such as: psychics who can enter dreams, prophets who can see into the future, astrologers who can obtain information from the celestial sphere, etc.
Stephen knew that going north would definitely encounter magic problems, but all the warlocks in the empire were either forced or voluntarily recruited into the army. In order to piece together his own team, he could only resort to other magic-related professions.
It's a pity that this "psionic master" who is said to be able to read minds couldn't even satisfy Stephen's first request, which made him even more irritated.
"Damn the North, damn Cintra! Why did a Lannister appear!" "
He also defeated the Eastern Group. If he had the ability, he could also defeat the Eastern Group!"
The leader of the knight was furious because the plan did not go well. , which made everyone in the team silent.
"Ha." Only the guy dressed as a bounty hunter laughed sinisterly. He kept wiping a few things that looked like necklaces on his hands. "Gray Owl, are there any problems with our itinerary?
" The golden hunter's tone was malicious, even a bit like he was deliberately looking for trouble. This made several other team members with military backgrounds frown when they heard this.
Stephen Skellen is the Empire's Royal Coroner and intelligence agent, nicknamed "The Gray Owl". You can judge their respective positions from the names that the people in this team call him.
"Your Excellency." An androgynous-looking man dressed as an officer approached Stephen and gestured toward the bounty hunter.
"No, thank you, Nelatin." Stephen took a deep breath and waved his hand to the officer as if he didn't care.
"Thank you for your active participation in our mission, Leo Bonnet." The gray forest owl muttered, suddenly raising his voice, "But if you still want to get your damn bounty safely, you must learn Shut up!"
Leo Bonnet shrugged, laughed sinisterly twice, and stopped talking.
It was at this time that the small silver box in the Gray Owl's hand suddenly vibrated.
"Good day, hello to everyone present." A distorted voice came from inside, "Especially you, Mr. Skellen."
(End of this chapter)