Mercenaries and Adventurers

The blue light skimming over the ground is naturally from Kiel.

"That kid!"

Knight Rumi grinned, thinking that this exceptionally young boy is really good, and Crowe did not misunderstand the person he accepted as a knight apprentice this time.

‘It would be great if this kid was my apprentice, he would have something to say after drinking and bragging. '

This thought flashed across him, of course he knew it well, don't look at Kiel, a kid from a bad background, wandering around and taking people's money to do things for others. But whether it is the potential and strength in battle, or the spirit, they are not ordinary civilians and soldiers.

He himself is just a knight who can't see much ahead, and he is not qualified enough to accept an unpolished gem like Kiel.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have secretly turned to the church in the Warrior Hall.

The blue light came from the ax. At this time, the ax flew straight up against the wind, spinning and making a sound that was far louder than the roar of the strong wind. It went straight from bottom to top, brushed against the wings of a harpy, and hit it. The belly of a horse lifted by a monster of many heads.

The blue light fell in, and then there was a moment of silence.

With a bang, the horse burst into two from the middle of the abdomen, and a large amount of intestines, stomach and viscera mixed with blood and body fluids splashed out. The first to bear the brunt was to drench several harpies around them all over their heads.

This is not the key point. What really caused trouble to the monsters was that the monsters grabbed the horse's body from head to tail, left and right, but the detonation of the power of Keel's ax blasted the whole horse into pieces. The two monsters, all of which were flapping their wings vigorously, seemed to be in a tug-of-war with someone, but the other party suddenly let go, and the whole body retreated in a mess.

The two monsters pulling the upper body of the horse, one pulls the horse's head and lifts its body upwards violently, while the other pulls obliquely upwards. At this time, the force suddenly loosens, and the mutual force between them changes from the original combined force Contain each other.

The two blame you rise and the other falls, and I fall and you rise, but they both fall together.

At the same time as they fell, the two monsters were still yelling at each other, and the ferocious screams of Guajia kept gushing out towards their companions, falling into the eyes of Knight Rumi. Knowing that the shouts yelled at this time are not good words.

The same is true for the one pulling the lower body of the horse on the other side. A harpy firmly grasped the horse's buttocks with its claws, while the other end was originally grasping the horse's abdomen.

At this time, the horse broke from it, and the two guys also violently pulled half of the horse's corpse and flew down obliquely.

Because the internal organs in the horse's belly kept splashing and exploding, the claws of the monster holding the belly lost the point of grasping, and the claws were sharp. God.

It looked down, only a little bit of broken horse belly fur was caught in its paws, it was empty.

This side grabbed the air and flew into the sky, but suffered from the Harpy who grabbed the horse's **** meat on the other side.

The carrying capacity of a single monster is limited. Even if it **** its wings with all its strength, the original four monsters can lift the weight of the horse's whole body. If you give it half of it, it can't lift it up.

Therefore, no matter how hard it tried, it was still being carried by the lower body of the horse and quickly fell down.

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After Yueshui's head exploded, the two-handed ax blasted the horse's body, and then it was nailed and rotated in the air. Kiel on the ground ran past, turned around and stretched out his hands and shouted: "Come back!"

The slightly dim blue light shook, knocking away all the blood and body fluids stained on the surface of the axe, and then swished and flew towards Kiel at a faster speed.

"Good job!" Knight Rumi came galloping fast on horseback. First, he gave a loud praise. Then he grabbed a throwing spear with both hands, and shot at the baron guards who were dodging monsters on the ground not far away.

Of course it wasn't to kill one's own people, it was to relieve the siege.

The knight was full of strength, and as soon as he dropped his spear, it turned into a phantom, making a loud whistling sound to push back a Harpy that was attacking.

The monster was slowing down to avoid the first thrown weapon, but the second throwing gun saw the timing of its slowing down, and then hit the monster's wings.

"Squeeze—"

The monster wailed, and then fell to the ground, turning its head towards the galloping Rumi knight and screaming vigorously.

"What's the name of the ghost? Go to hell!"

The horses of the Rumi knights not only have the fifty throwing spears that Kiel bought before, but also the set of knight swords and shields commonly used by the Rumi knights.

He didn't take the shield, and he drew his long sword when he was approaching the monster at a fast speed, and slashed the steel knight's long sword of about 50 kilograms across the monster's neck.

The monster didn't understand until his death, why his deafening sound, which was all-purpose, didn't work?

Knight Rumi had just beheaded a harpy, and before he could cheer, another baron's bodyguard exclaimed next to him.

It turned out that the two baron guards who fell from the horses were both riding a horse after all. The monsters spotted the first one and wanted to catch it and bring it to the sky and throw it down to bomb the human army.

But it was reversed in one fell swoop by Kiel with an axe.

However, the harpies who hold the initiative on the battlefield are obviously not so easy to give up. Under the order of the leader monster who gave up chasing and killing Kiel, immediately scattered other harpies gave up the baron on horseback who had been chasing and killing. The personal guards gathered together to see another uncontrolled horse.

They chirped briefly and communicated, and then they all jumped down, surrounded the frightened horses, grabbed the whole body of the horses with their sharp claws, and flew up with flapping wings.

What's more, people are stunned. Under the command of the leader Harpy, these monsters obviously learned the experience just now. They didn't directly catch the horse and immediately flew upwards. After a little distance, take the horses into the air again and bombard the human army.

"Keil! Do it again!"

Knight Rumi yelled loudly, but got no response from Kiel. He turned his head and looked, only to find that the blue light of the ax in Kiel's hand was slightly dim, and it seemed that he hadn't heard his shout. He rushed to the baron's bodyguard who had fallen from his horse, brought him to the horse, and seemed to return to the army temporarily.

"Oh, I forgot."

The knight slapped his head and let out a "dang" sound. Only then did he remember that Kiel and the other baron's personal guards on the scene at this time did not have the physique and resistance of the knights far beyond ordinary people.

Under the particularly annoying deafening call of the harpies, they must have been injured and deaf, and could not hear anything.

"Damn, what a hassle."

He muttered a word, and immediately drove the horses to catch up with the flying monsters, but they couldn't let them get what they wanted.

But as soon as he accelerated, a strong guy who seemed to be the leader of this wave of harpies rushed towards him along the strong wind. He seemed to know how difficult the knight was, so he didn't confront Rumi directly from the knight. Instead, he spotted the horse and wanted to attack the horse to limit the knight's mobility.

The knight turned his head to look, and immediately greeted him with a throwing spear, but the guy dodged sideways, getting out of the way of the deadly throwing spear flying over his head.

"oh?"

Knight Rumi became slightly interested, and was about to see if the opponent could escape the next shot.

At this time, Knight Crowe's order came from the middle of the army: "Knight Rumi, catch up with the monster group ahead!"

Rumi came back to his senses at this time, and remembered that he should not entangle with the other party, and interrupting the plans of the monsters was the first priority.

But before he could urge the horse to speed up, the monster leader grabbed his horse in a mean way.

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Kendall Army Center, on top of the carriage.

Seeing that Rumi was entangled by the monster, and the monster didn't seem to be able to be dealt with in a short time, Knight Crowe immediately ordered, "All crossbows on the right side!"

Even with the whistling sound of the strong wind blowing continuously, the voice of Knight Crowe was not at all lacking, and it was clearly transmitted to all the militiamen.

"The farthest angle!"

Knight Crowe identified the actual distance between the army and the monsters. The monsters flying close to the ground with their horses were about to run out of the maximum range of the crossbow.

"Monster swarm! No need to aim, shoot!"

Among the 100 militiamen on the right, 50 people held crossbows in their hands. At this time, they heard the clear order of Knight Crowe, followed the knight's words, and raised the bows that had already been stringed and bolted. With the shoulders as the center of the circle, lift them up obliquely at an angle of 40 to 50 degrees.

They took a deep breath, then adjusted the crossbow to the direction where the monsters flew away from the ground, and finally pulled the mechanism under the crossbow.

Bang-hum!

The flicking sounds of dozens of crossbows and bowstrings will become the same sound.

At the same time, the crossbow bolts that were shot suddenly crossed across a large area of ​​air, passing over the heads of Kiel and the others, the monsters fighting with Kiel and the others, and the heads of the Rumi knight and the monster leader.

First it rises obliquely, and then falls obliquely after crossing the highest point.

They projected towards a large area almost in no particular order.

It is a large area, but the crossbows of the Kendall militiamen are not bad. This wave of shooting happened to cover the few harpies flying close to the ground with their horses.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, the sound was one piece, just breathing, many monster wings and bodies were hit by more than one crossbow arrow.

Either it hit the wing, causing the feathers to be penetrated and affect the airflow, or it hit the Harpy's back, drilling into half of the crossbow arrow.

This is also the reason why the monster's body is extraordinarily tough. If humans were not wearing armor, the crossbow arrows would not be pierced in by a little bit.

But even so, this also affected the flying movements of the monsters. Some harpies were shot to the chest cavity and lungs, and pink blood froth came out of their wide-open mouths during their breath.

The monster lost its strength in an instant and couldn't flap its wings, causing the entire horse's corpse to fall to the ground.

In the distance, the order of the human tin woodman sounded again, and the impatient harpy yelled loudly at the injured monster.

"Squeeze! Squeeze!"

The injured monster was a little aggrieved, and when he retorted, he was slapped on the head by other monsters with their wings.

"Squeeze! Sip! Squeeze!"

After being taught a lesson, the injured monster immediately became ruthless, its back muscles exerted strength, and it clamped down on the crossbow arrow that had hit its lungs. Then it flapped its wings and flew up again with other companions.

"Sip!"

Some monsters proposed to fly directly, and the other monsters immediately agreed.

Immediately, the claws of all the monsters grasped the flesh and saddle of the horse, flapped their wings vigorously, and quickly flew up with the heavy horse corpse.

At this time, the projected crossbow arrows will be one step behind, and shot obliquely on the empty grass, but they just missed from under the monsters.

"It's too late. Huh, do you want to let the team disperse?"

Knight Crowe, commanding on the top of the carriage, whispered to himself, disappointed that he failed to stop the monster from moving.

"What's too late?"

On the top of the nearby carriage, Baron Kendall's voice suddenly came.

Knight Crowe naturally knew that the baron had stepped out of the carriage just now, but Baron Kendall, who has always been praised for his wisdom and knowledge, would come out to watch the battle, which surprised Knight Crowe.

He stretched out his arm and pointed to a small black spot rising in the distance.

"The monsters are taking a dead horse into the air, and are about to throw it down and bomb us right away," Knight Crowe explained.

Baron Kendall raised his head and squinted his eyes to look in the direction of the knight's finger, and then showed a surprised expression.

"Fortunately, there are no exposed stones on this grassland, otherwise it would be all over." After the baron finished speaking, he fell into thinking again.

Knight Crowe was a little surprised. He didn't expect Baron Kendall to be able to think deeply at this time.

While commanding the militiamen to shoot crossbow arrows at the Rumi knight, he asked the baron, "What are you thinking? At this time?"

Baron Kendall watched the large number of crossbow arrows projected by the militia hit the Rumi knight and the monster leader who confronted him, and murmured, "I want to understand how the local knight lord was defeated before. Those people started If you don't do a good job fighting, then everything is heading towards a rout."

"What???"

Knight Crowe didn't understand what nonsense the baron was talking about, it was all about it.

"Explain, explain, don't say things you don't understand."

The baron watched the battle in the distance. The young man in Kiel put down his guard who had lost his horse, then grabbed the spear of a militiaman, and rushed to another guard who had lost his horse.

The Rumi knight and his war horse were unscathed under the intensive projection of the militia's crossbow arrows, and at most knocked off some decorative paint on the surface of the armor, but the strong monster leader was hit by seven or eight crossbow arrows and was seriously injured.

The offensive and defensive postures of the two before changed immediately.

Knight Rumi even yelled loudly for Knight Crowe to command the militia to listen to his signal, do it again, and next time he will be able to clean up the monster leader.

"Facing our human army, monsters, besides fighting head-on, is there any other way to defeat the army?"

The baron withdrew his gaze and looked at Knight Crowe.

Knight Crowe shrugged his shoulders, raised his chin slightly, and pointed to the height that was already unreachable in the air, the horse corpses that were flying over quickly and the monsters above them.

"That's right, throwing heavy objects, like trebuchets. And unlike trebuchets that are fixed and slow, these harpies are the best trebuchets by themselves. But their biggest problem is that they have no ammo!"

With a wave of his hand, Crowe immediately ordered the militia team on the right to disperse as they had trained before. This was originally a means of avoiding large-scale magic strikes by magicians and reducing losses.

But here it happens to avoid the horse carcasses falling from the sky.

"So, how did they defeat the previous army? With this trick?" Knight Crowe asked.

Baron Kendall first said: "You can call out the priests accompanying the army, and rush to treat the injured militiamen later." Then he continued with the previous words: "Just rely on this trick, but you have to have it first, then you have to accumulate less. Lots of it. I'm talking ammunition thrown by the monsters."

Knight Crowe raised his eyebrows. He understood what the baron said: "Is it a corpse? A killed corpse? Not just a horse, but also the corpse of a dead soldier?"

After asking, the knight ordered loudly: "Scribe, invite the priests of various religions who accompany the army out, and rush to the front line immediately, preparing to treat the wounded."

Baron Kendall straightened his magic crown, then pulled out the magic gem short staff from his waist, twirled it flexibly in his hand, and held it tightly in his hand.

"Crow, maybe both, all corpses, or anything they can pick up. Horse corpses, human soldiers corpses, even their own corpses, armor, weapons, iron pots, luggage, even heavy wagons Maybe. Anything of some weight caught in the air and thrown into the dense army phalanx, even a ball of clothes covered in mud, should be able to crush and kill the most valiant soldier."

While talking, the baron lowered his head and used his right thumb to move the mechanism of the magic gem scepter.

The crisp clicking sound from the mechanism was covered by the strong wind around it.

"Magic missiles? Blue sky wind clusters? Or aurora scorching rays?" The baron muttered in a low voice, as if he didn't know what to choose at this moment.

The Claw knight in the carriage next to him saw the baron's appearance and shook his head: "My lord, can you be more generous? When we arrive at the capital of the southern province, there must be a magician appointed by the council to recharge it. My sword is confiscated. , weapons, deserve to be used, not shelved."

As if being teased by Knight Crowe, Baron Kendall smiled slightly, and didn't mutter any more choices. He just tapped his magic gem crown, and then tapped his magic gem scepter.

A red magic line visible to the naked eye connects the two magic props together.

"As you said, let's be extravagant and use energy-gathering magic missiles."

As soon as the words fell, he looked serious.

The magic gem crown on the baron's head lights up several magic gems one by one, and the magic gem scepter head gem he holds in his hand, a three-dimensional complex magic circle emerges on the surface, with slender cyan magic fibers Passing through the magic circle, it seems that some information has been taken away from the magic circle. The information is then connected along the magic power with the cyan magic fiber, and directly connected to the magic gemstone crown.

Seemingly ready, the baron looked at Knight Crowe.

"when?"

"It's now!"

As soon as the knight finished speaking, the baron raised his magic gem short staff, stretched it out, and pointed the staff head at the dead horse hanging in the sky not far away. His eyes were fixed there too, and a short high noble language came out of his mouth.

"Permission to shoot!"

In an instant, the crown of the magic gem projected several clusters of thick magic power. In less than a blink of an eye, these magic powers were transformed from mixed thick magic power to orderly under the guidance of magic fibers with more information. functional areas, some for building, some for constraining magic, and some for instilling magic.

Like a small factory made entirely of energy, these magic power aggregates quickly produce fist-sized energy **** that radiate magic power at a speed that is indistinguishable to the naked eye.

These spheres were produced in a line and then flew around the body of Baron Kendall.

In a short period of less than a second, at least twelve brightly glowing magic **** appeared around Baron Kendall, and the temporary magic 'factories' that produced them gradually disintegrated. Instead, the disintegrated wreckage was absorbed by the last magic 'factory', and finally produced three luminous magic spheres as best they could.

And this last temporary magic power 'factory' finally dissipated, turning into a relatively harmless magic power-enriched air mass~www.readwn.com~ The magic power fiber that completed the task shrank back into the baron's own crown jewel. But at this moment, the crown officially took over the control of the luminous magic ball flying around in a way that is invisible to the naked eye.

In the baron's own perception, he faintly seems to have fifteen flying attack magic that can be directly controlled by consciousness.

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All of the above was completed in the blink of an eye, but to outsiders, it was just a flash, the surroundings of the baron standing on the roof of the carriage lit up instantly, and then a cloud quickly surrounded it, even to the naked eye, it seemed that a circle appeared. Circle protects the illuminated hood of the Baron himself.

That is actually the afterimage left by the magic missile flying too fast in the human eye.

All this, only the Crow Knight who was not far away could see the whole process of the magic, and was secretly shocked by the battle magic.

Ordinary people have the impression that magic is the kind of magic that slowly gathers power and appears after the magician recites a spell.

But that's actually just the appearance that was deliberately changed for the sake of expression in bards and dramas. Real combat magic, not to mention fixed trigger magic items, this kind of attack magic that needs to be manipulated by humans, is actually magic power that is prepared in advance, and the speed of activation does not appear based on human cognition of.

It appears according to the complexity and type of magic.

Judging from the knowledge Knight Crowe learned and contacted in the knight order, the magic power emitted by the baron at this time is actually not bad, but it only takes a short blink of an eye to cast it.

Other less powerful magics are even faster, and they are often cast in a very short time before humans can react.

The knight looked up, and the baron should have released his magic.