Volume 1 Once Upon a Time in the South Nishiki Night Travel

It was night, and as the princess expected, the people of Tingxiao who did not give up made another move. They wanted to cut down trees to pave the road and build a mountain road themselves. When Alwin and the others boarded the airship at night, they found that these Tingxiao people had already secretly paved a third of the way up the mountain.

"These people are really not giving up. Alvin watched as figures flodged at the foot of the mountain, torches swaying.

"Huh, what are they holding in their hands, you see?" Chen Zhu shouted.

On this big night, even on the airboat with a wide field of vision, I couldn't see the specific movements of these Tingxiao people, and I saw that the lights were lit one after another, and when I looked at it again, it was already pitch black, and I couldn't even see the light of the torch.

"What's the situation, why is it all dark in an instant?" Lai Wu walked to the edge of the railing and leaned out half of his body to look.

At this time, the little girl quietly handed a single-hole telescope to Alwin.

"Huh, why didn't you take this thing out earlier, I almost broke my eyeballs this morning. Alvin grumbled with a smile.

"I also found it just after rummaging through the cabinets, I thought it was lost by those Tingxiao people, but I didn't expect to find it in the partition of the room. Aoi muttered quietly.

Alvin took the binoculars and stared at the mountain roads for a while, his face became more and more solemn, "I really can't see anything, what was that mass that exploded just now?"

"Show me it. Onien took the binoculars and looked at them for a long time without finding anything, and began to ponder.

"Could it be that these Tingxiao people are ghosts?" said Kaiba with a frown.

"Wait, could it be 'Brocade Nightwalk'?" Onien wondered.

"What's that?" Alvin asked with a puzzled expression, and the faces of the others were also the same, indicating that everyone was the same "no learning, no skills".

"Nishiki Nightwalk is a potion made from staghorn bees. Hidden in the darkest bushes of the Trastile Mountains, these staghorn bees can absorb the light from their surroundings in large numbers when they are in groups, and can even turn day into night. Onian explained.

"Does it mean that with this brocade night walk, the surrounding light is sucked away by it?" asked Lai Wu.

Onian nodded.

"That's not right, the light is sucked away by this thing, and they're in the dark, and there's no light at all, how did they walk on that narrow, rough wooden mountain road?

O'Ann shook her head and said, "You don't understand this potion, it doesn't just absorb the light sources around it. Any creature that comes into contact with this thing will have the same ability to see things in the dark as a staghorn wasp. With this potion, even in the darkness where you can't see your fingers, you can still walk in the night. ”

"You mean, now these Tingxiao people have quietly touched the mountain?" said Alwin's eyes wide.

Onian made a silent gesture, and Xia Ye and Langyun, who were on the side, were quite eye-catching, and hurriedly began to explain to everyone on the airboat.

For a moment, the airboat was silent, and only the sound of the gears in the blast furnace could be heard.

A magician like One, who has a very delicate sense of the environment, or an assassin like Qiao Zhi, who is particularly sensitive to the wind and grass around him, already senses some unusual movements in the mountains.

Then Erwin, Lai Wu, and Xia Ye also felt that something was wrong.

"Little sister, drive a little further. Alvin said to Aoi.

So the airboat sailed a little further from the place where the two sides were fighting during the day.

With a "whoosh", Alvin directly hit the airship with a flare bomb, and the white light glided in the night for a while before disappearing, Alvin looked down twice and said, "This should not have been absorbed by the brocade night walking potion, then it seems that the Tingxiao people have not yet arrived." ”

"You say, isn't the behavior of these Tingxiao people a little strange? Didn't they have been burned by Her Royal Highness the princess's monstrous meteor during the day, and now that they see that we are on guard, why are they crazy at night?" Chen Zhu wondered, "Aren't you afraid that the princess will burn them again?"

"I also wonder about this, didn't I see that our airship was on guard here, why did we still come to die?" said Lai Wu with a frown.

"Langyun, no matter how much you go down first, these Tingxiao people will eventually come out to pave the mountain road, you can now lead people directly to the hillside for a round of magic bombardment, and give them a movement to control the quiet. Alwyn commanded.

After Langyun received the order, he deployed the position of each magician, and after he gave an order, "Bang Bang Bang" The dark hillside exploded one after another magic, but this colorful color was actually fleeting, and it was almost impossible to see whether it hit the mountain or hit the Tingxiao people.

The city guard beacon who was watching from the head of Xituo City faintly heard the sound, and knew that the Xiao people at the foot of the mountain were really restless, and sighed in their hearts that it was fortunate that the princess stopped her behavior of celebrating, otherwise it was really possible to be successfully attacked by these cunning Tingxiao people tonight.

"Listen closely, is there a clanging sound?" asked Onieen, glancing at Alwin.

"Yes, it sounds like a drum, but it feels muffled, it doesn't look like a drum. Alvin replied, "What is this noise? I feel like I've heard it there." ”

"Isn't that the sound of magic smashing against a shield? Keba said suddenly, he remembered the scene when Alwyn and him were in the offensive and defensive class, and this is not the sound of Elwin's instantaneous magic hitting his giant shield.

Alwin also remembered when he said this, and looked at Lai Wu with wide eyes: "They're already down there... ”

Lai Wu's reaction was also quite fast, and he shouted an order to everyone on the deck: "All martial arts, bows and crossbows are waiting." ”

This round of arrow rain went down, and the following was no longer just a monotonous "dong dong", but a "ding dong" sound.

"It should be that position," Laiwu pointed to a certain place on the hillside in the night, "I said how dare they come up the mountain, it turns out that they are going to use the giant shield to use the magic of the princess." ”

"They're thinking too simply, relying on a giant shield in their hands, or something like a knack like the Brocade Nightwalk, just trying to bluff us?" Alvin laughed.

"That's right, don't they think that Her Royal Highness the Princess's magic can be resisted with just some equipment?" Chen Zhu also sneered.

Alvin and O'Ann looked at each other and jumped directly into the air.

But seeing her staff move, the lightning went down, and the strange dark blue lightning in the night sky directly hit the top of her staff, and the magic power erupted from her plain hand, guiding the electric light from the bottom of the staff to rapidly spread downwards into trembling rays.

Countless tiny rays shuttled in the direction that Lai Wu was pointing to, and so many shaky moon blue lines suddenly appeared under the dark night, and it was very cautious to look at.

Alvin was close enough to feel the unusual nature of these tiny thunderbolts, each of which had a high-intensity armor-piercing effect attached to it. No wonder the princess first channeled this thunderbolt magic to her wand, it turned out that she wanted to change the properties of these magical energies through her own magic power.

This is not a skill that ordinary magicians can master. Generally speaking, in order to make the magic have a high level of negative status, either use superb magic power to incorporate the negative state when transforming the elemental matter, or rely on equipment such as staff and rings, which Alwyn uses.

Like Ornien, who first transforms material elements into magical energy, and then uses magic to attach negative states for a short period of time, requires an amazing magical cultivation and enough experience. If you don't harness these magical energies well, they can go straight into the caster's body.

However, the advantage of her doing so is that casting spells with such a high negative status will be much faster than before.

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These fine dark blue electric shocks were really effective, and after they jumped in the darkness, there was a wail for help that resounded through the valley. It turned out that these tiny lightning bolts had penetrated under the giant shields prepared by those Tingxiao people, and directly hit the people. Because of the reason why these Tingxiao mercenaries were stained with brocade and traveled at night, there was still no light on the hillside, so I didn't know their casualties. But listening to this noise, the situation should be very miserable.

Erwin didn't hesitate, the purple sharpening stone staff was full of light, and the purple sword rain in the sky lit up the night sky, like a purple dome. After resting for half a day, most of his magic has recovered. I saw that with a finger of his staff, thousands of sword rains whistled down, pointing directly at the place where the sound was most dense on the hillside. Although the penetrating power of his magic armor is not comparable to that of Her Royal Highness the Princess, it is better than using the ancient magic language, and the damage is far more incomprehensible than anyone else.

The Tingxiao people, who had already been disturbed by the electric array, encountered this purple sword rain that split their heads and covered their faces, and their feet were in chaos, and the screams caused by trampling on each other were endless. In the face of these high-damage terrifying magic, the fear that lingered in their hearts struck again, and it seemed that for these Tingxiao people, the battle in the morning had caused them a serious psychological shadow.

Just as Alwyn was enjoying the fruitful results, he heard a coquettish cheer in his ears, and turned to see that Aonien's staff was actually entangled with some blade.

He looked closely, and only O'Ann's figure could be faintly seen in the dark night sky, and it was obvious that her movements were entangled with something. He wanted to go over to help, but he felt a chill in his throat, and subconsciously a crack retreated, only to hear a "huh?" from the original position.

Just when he was secretly suspicious, another killing intent came from his feet, and Alvin dodged in the air, but he still couldn't dodge, and a cut was made on his calf.

He was completely annoyed, and scolded, "What the hell is it?", and a dozen flares popped out in his hand, and the white light suddenly appeared, and the night sky suddenly lit up. But before he could blink his eyes a few times, the light was pulled into the darkness like silk threads.

However, in such a short moment, Alvin could already see clearly that there were more than a dozen martial arts around him and O'Ann, more than a dozen assassins to be exact. Thanks to his usual sparring with Qiao Zhi, he now has a fairly good understanding of the regular movements of this assassin's martial arts. These people should have wiped the "brocade night walk", and they couldn't catch their figures with their eyes in the night sky, and they could only rely on their ears or the perception of the surrounding space to roughly understand where these people were.

"These assassins actually followed the light of the magic we used just now, and killed them from the bottom into the air? Could it be that they came specifically for the princess?" Alwyn wondered in his heart, "It seems that the other party has also done his homework, knowing that O'Nien's magic requires a large amount of material elements, and it can't be satisfied at all on that empty boat, and it must be volleyed to cast spells, so so he specially arranged so many assassins?"

But his mind was as meticulous as he was, and he also sensed another thing. Just now, he and Onian's high-damage magic could continue to emit light after hitting the hillside, but the light from the dozen or so flare bullets just now was quickly absorbed.

So he had his own guess about this "Jin Night Walk" potion.

"That thing can only absorb the light emitted by ordinary magic, and if the magic energy is strong enough, it can't absorb it. Alvin reminded Aonien in a loud voice.

O'Ann was also reacted by what he said. The staff in her hand fell, and the rune essence on the staff flowed, so a ring of light spread out in all directions, and Alvin blocked his eyes with his palm, because this holy light was so bright that his eyes were almost unable to open, and he sighed in his heart how much energy this must contain to burst out in the lightless night.

"Judging by the way this magic looks, it should be inherited from Master Pierro. Alwyn remembered the scene where Pilo tamed the Zam horse in front of the gates of Salyuch.

A powerful burst of magical energy spread out around Onian, and the assassins around her were immediately bounced away more than ten meters, and one or two of them had almost fallen to the hillside, and their screams continued for a long time, as if they were slowly drawing two lines from top to bottom in the night with oil pastels.

The damage range of her magic was quite wide, and even Alvin was affected here, and he immediately put up his magic shield to barely stabilize his body, and the assassins around Alvin were also knocked away.

As Alwyn had guessed, the brocade was completely unable to absorb the light emitted by the powerful magic.

"Laiwu, bring a few Assassins over to help!" Alvin shouted into the airship.

Why ask the Assassins for their help, as only the Assassins knew the Assassins' martial arts. In the face of this trick killing technique, if you change to an ordinary martial arts, you will be sent to death.

The people on the airship could only see through the dazzling light of Onian's magic that the princess and Alwyn were under siege by the Tingxiao people, and they were still wondering why the two of them had released a round of magic figures and disappeared.

"It turned out to be Najin Night Walking, I said that the two of them couldn't see each other," Lai Wu immediately reacted, "Quick, Qiao Zhi picked a few assassins with good skills, and went with me to throw these colorful Tingxiao people down the mountain." ”

Qiao Zhi did not delay, selected a few assassins with outstanding strength, and fought into that light together with Lai Wu. On the deck, Xia Ye and Langyun were temporarily commanding the battle.

Although O'Nien's magic was dazzling, these Tingxiao assassins were not really subdued by a single move, and after a slight adjustment, they slaughtered Onian again.

Originally, Alvin also helped the princess share some people, but now the light is shining, and all the Tingxiao assassins have seen clearly that Onian is the terrifying female magician during the day, and the assassins around Alvin immediately gave him up and took the princess directly.

Onian was not flustered, and after inputting another wave of magic power into the staff, her hands were opened, her golden eyes were wide, her snow hair was flying, and four cold ice phoenixes flew out of her body. And the staff, which had been detached from its master, was still radiating light from all directions with that magical power.

Alvin remembered that on the first day of the Pillow Sword Club, Onian had used this ice phoenix to fight against Qiao Zhi.

These four ice phoenixes immediately entangled the assassins who had come to kill them, and when they heard the long roar of this ice giant in the middle of the night, they had a sense of solemnity and sorrow.

These Tingxiao assassins were also really stopped by these ice phoenixes, some of them were hit by the ice hurricane spewed out by the ice phoenix, and they were not lightly injured, and some were hit by the frost particles from the wings of the ice phoenix, and their bodies were very slow.

At this time, Lai Wu led the people to kill, and this assassin with a clear knife and a clear gun was naturally competing to see which side of the killing technique was more efficient and fierce. Although the Quartet Mercenary Group is a weaker martial arts cultivator, it has the help of Bing Feng and obviously occupies the initiative on the field.

Alwyn was injured in one arm and received a blow in the leg, so he didn't dare to fight as unrestrained as usual, so he had to cast his magic left and right from above, and sneak attack the backs of these Tingxiao assassins as much as he wanted.

The scene of the court was very passive, the people on the hillside were overwhelmed by the bombardment of the airboats, and the assassins who assassinated the female magician were in a bitter battle.

However, these Tingxiao people also seemed to have expected this, and they had already prepared for it. After seeing the Assassins in a bitter battle, dozens more figures leaped into the air on the hillside. Looking at this posture, these Tingxiao people are determined to take the life of this female magician.

Alvin could see through the light that the leaders of these martial arts that had thrown themselves into the air were the ones who had fought with him on the deck in the morning.

The situation of the aerial melee has become unclear again, after all, the number of people on the side of the court has an absolute advantage.

"Xia Ye, send some more people over!" Lai Wu roared towards the airboat when he saw this.

This time, it was Kaiba and Chenzhu who led a group of people to come to the rescue. These two people are not injured, and they have fought repeatedly, so it is no wonder that it is difficult for them.

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At this time, on the head of Xituo City, the beacon saw that the two sides were in a stalemate battle, and hurriedly led the army out of the city, although he couldn't see the battle situation in the air, but he didn't dare to be careless about the safety of the princess.

Although the mountain road was destroyed, the beacon owl knew the mountainous terrain of Xituo City well, and he could find the route of the march with the fire in his hand alone. Looking at the direction of the magic on the empty boat, the beacon duck also roughly guessed where these Tingxiao people were.

He is also a fairly experienced general, and he knows what means the Tingxiao people must have used to hide the army in the dark, so he did not lead the army to advance, and only used the bow and crossbow to cover the other party little by little.

The position of the people of Fang Cai Tingxiao was already chaotic, and there were not many people sticking to their positions, and now they saw that the defenders in Xituo City were killed a hundred steps away, and the army's morale was even more shaken.

However, the newly paved rough wooden mountain road was not suitable for large-scale retreat, and everyone was eager to retreat, and everyone rushed to retreat, and this time it was blocked on the mountain road, and what had just happened happened again, and I don't know how many Tingxiao mercenaries died tragically at the feet of their own people. This is also the disadvantage of these mercenary groups to fight together, there is no unified command, and they retreat without any rules, so Lai Wu and Alvin don't feel that there is anything terrible about these tens of thousands of people.

Listening to the movement in this mountain, the beacon owl had already sensed that the Tingxiao people had fled in panic, and with the light of the magic on the airboat, he immediately led the army to cover and kill.

At this time, the melee in the air has not yet been decided, and compared with the chaos on the hillside, these Tingxiao martial arts in the air have shown amazing synergistic combat effectiveness. Their goal was clear: to kill this powerful sorceress. So much so that Lai Wu and the people had already killed them, and they didn't care, and they all rushed towards the dazzling light as if they didn't want to die.

Alwyn didn't have the leisure to sneak up on that and sneak attack that, and he split into the depths of the light and protected O'Nian. In the face of so many deadly assassins, Alvin couldn't care so much, and with a burst of applause, the staff was held horizontally, and the light shield suddenly rose, covering the two of them inside.

Now the princess's magic that continued to glow was finally interrupted, because in the shield of light, nothing could be emitted. Although the light on the outer wall of the light shield was not as good as the diffuse ring of holy light, it was enough to illuminate the battle in the air.

Alvin felt a sigh of relief behind her, and began to gasp, apparently the continuous release of high-level magic, combined with the fight with the assassins, consumed a lot of Onian's physical strength and magic power.

And his situation at this time doesn't allow him to worry too much about the girl, these paranoid Tingxiao people are like losing their minds and slashing at the light shield, no matter what move they have, just hit it anyway.

Where could Alvin withstand so many people making a killing move together, he immediately snorted, feeling that countless surging chaotic energy was surging into the light shield. The energy that erupted from these Tingxiao people between the swords and swords was like a series of crazy hounds, smashing back and forth inside the light shield, and every impact could cause him to stir his heart. He had to close his eyes, for the impact of the strange forces had made him dizzy, and when he opened his eyes, he felt like he was about to float under his feet, and he felt sick to his stomach, like soaking in an oak barrel where whisky was made for days. What's more, he felt that the corners of his eyes were oozing blood, and he couldn't open his eyes in pain.

And his body began to tremble irregularly, as if he had epilepsy, obviously the energy outside the light shield had forced Alwin to control his body. At this time, physical strength and magic still have to support the operation of the light shield, if he is a little mentally relaxed, then he and Onian will be in a very dangerous situation.

With the last shred of consciousness, Alwyn made the shield expand inward to slow down the influx of frenzied energy. He had used this technique when he had faced Shi Jiu at the Pillow Sword Meeting, and he had never done it again. Because the closer these energies are to one's body, the more unbuffered the impact of these energies on one's body when the shield is withdrawn, and it is possible to directly kill oneself at that moment. That time, he was only facing a high-level magician from Portsley Academy, but this time he was facing a circle of Tingxiao martial arts masters.

"Are you a fool ... Ornian could naturally feel the energy wandering in this light shield, she looked at Alvin who was bleeding from the corners of her eyes with a worried expression, she wanted to blame her, but when the words came to her mouth, she couldn't speak, so she had to wipe his forehead full of cold sweat with her sleeve.

And the shield of light was still spreading inward, and at this time Onian was already close to him.

"It smells so good... Alwyn whispered as his consciousness drifted away, wondering if this would be the last thing he would say in this world.