"Damn, I really know magic!"

Charles lay on the hilt of the recruit's dagger on his chest, lying among the rubble, not in a single part of his body that did not hurt, but he only stared at his right hand, grinning with bared teeth.

"Again, again!" Charles, excitedly trying to give orders to the debris on the ground, but none of the debris would heed.

"Master Griffin, the rhinoceros herd is here!"

At this time, Ezek, who was covered in blood, barely stood up, looked at the billowing smoke and dust at the other end of the town, and shouted anxiously at Charles.

“...”

Charles chuckled when he heard this, thinking of the herd of rock-horned rhinoceros that had been submerged from the black pressure of the hills, and the joy of using magic for the first time was instantly washed away.

The blow he had just delivered not only exhausted the last of his strength, but also wounded his limbs, leaving him with no strength left to escape.

Thinking of this, Charleston paused, and after a short silence, he took the hilt of the half of the sword from the wooden armor on his chest, threw it to the side, slowly closed his eyes, and said lightly to the three of them:

"I can't walk, on the sword, ahem... My name is on the sword, so take it back and hand it in. ”

"What foolishness, Hawke, where's your shield?" said Cecilia, raising her eyebrows, slapping the slate.

Her hairstyle was messy at this time, revealing the cute crystalline little horn on her forehead, only to see the little horn slightly bright, she struggled to get up, stepped forward step by step, and shouted hoarsely: "Thorns!"

It turned out that she had used the last of her magic to summon the bare giant wattle and stand in front of Charles.

"Here we go!"

Hawke shook his head and got up, heard Cecilia's call, immediately responded, then put up his double shield, and staggered to Charles.

I saw that his right shield blade was fiercely inserted into the ground, and the left shield was buckled on the right shield, combining a huge tower shield, the shield surface was dark and dull in the dust and smoke, and the beast face relief was hideous and terrifying, towering but not moving, but it had its own majesty.

With an increasingly strong tremor, an earth-shattering roar was heard from the other side of Durut Town, and in the distance, it was the herd of rock-horned rhinoceros coming from afar, they crashed through countless low-rise bungalows along the way, and went straight to Charles's location.

Azek picked up his heirloom sword and stepped closer.

The injured right arm was a little weak, he simply handed the sword to his left hand, raised the tip of the sword and slashed twice, but it was the starting hand of the silver sword technique that had already been erected, and the blade pointed to the rock-horned rhinoceros herd that had appeared in the field of vision.

I only heard him say softly: "Young Master Griffin, you take a rest first, and then..."

"I don't believe it, that's what you told Hawke just now. ”

Seeing that the three of them had no intention of leaving, and that they had no tragic feelings of dying generously alone, Charles couldn't help grinning, smiled slightly, interrupted Ezek's words, and complained: "And you said this is unlucky." ”

"Ahem..."Azek choked on Charles, and changed his position a little awkwardly, "That... If you make it back alive, I'll ask you to drink. ”

This sentence is also unlucky. ”

“...”

Seeing that the furious rhinoceros herd was about to rush forward, Charles felt the earth-shattering tremor, and felt that the posture of the three Cecilia was incomparably small in the face of such a charge.

At this moment, in his perception, an unfamiliar figure suddenly appeared on a small building behind him.

"Huh?"

Charles subconsciously tilted his head, and saw an old man in noble clothes standing on top of the broken low building crawling with vines.

Looking from afar, I saw that the old man's beard was white, his face was as heavy as iron, and above his sharp eyes, a pair of white eyebrows were like a snow eagle about to flutter his wings and leave at any time, and he was holding a metal staff with a strange shape, which looked like he should be a mage.

Charles's turn was obviously unexpected by the old man, and a flash of surprise flashed in his bright eyes.

He glanced at the embarrassed young man, tilted his staff slightly, and gently spat out a word from his mouth:

"The wall. ”

At this time, the rhinoceros herd was already close in front of them, and the moment they collided with the shield guard Hawk, everyone suddenly went black.

"Boom !!"

A majestic steel wall suddenly fell from the sky, and before the Rockhorn Rhino collided head-on with the trio, it grazed Hawke's tower shield and plunged the dozen rhinos in the front row into the ground.

Hawke could even faintly hear the sound of bones shattering amid the devastating impact.

The walls appear as if out of thin air, smooth and shiny throughout, shining in the sunlight.

The city wall is more than ten meters high, and it stretches to the other end of the long stone street, spanning nearly 100 meters.

When it hits the ground, it vibrates violently, and for a few people close by, it is no less than a heavy hammer.

The three of the Silver Hand were shocked to the ground, and Charles, who was already at the end of the crossbow, simply rolled his eyes and fainted completely.

Looking at the majestic city wall, Cecilia fell to the ground with her legs limp, her face complicated and abnormal.

Surprised, excited, excited...... What's more, still in disbelief, she involuntarily covered her mouth:

"Lord, lord?"

In her understanding, there is only one person in the entire empire who can cast this kind of magic, and that is the leader of the Royal Magic Praetorian Guard, Lord of Steel:

Agu Castro!

Castro, one of the five oldest families in the Orton Empire.

Since the founding of the Empire, this family has been providing the Empire with superb forging skills.

With superior weaponry and equipment, the Orton Empire was able to stand proudly in the west of the continent for hundreds of years.

In addition to having a forging technique that even the royal family can't touch, the Castro family also has a first-class bloodline.

In history, this family has even had several Tianjiao who have reached the level of elemental lord, and each of them is a strategic-level force capable of changing the direction of a war.

Unlike most of his ancestors who became elemental lords, Agu Castro was not considered a genius from an early age, and at one point the clan even thought he had no magical talent.

This is because Ogu has not been found to have crystals on his body, and in fact, no one knows where his crystals grow.

There is a kind of Chosen One in this world, their crystals do not exist on the surface of the body, but are fused with part of the flesh and bones of the body, hidden in the body, and some people do not even know that they are the Chosen One for the rest of their lives.

In the entrance exam to the Royal Chamber of Magic, Ogu was declared to have no magical talent, and he has been forgotten ever since.

However, time has proven that Ogu is that strange existence.

How exactly he found his magical talent, no one knows.

In the extant documents, the records of the empire and the Castro family began when he returned to the attention of the people.

And at that time, his magic cultivation was far beyond his peers.

Today, Ogu has become the only elemental lord of the empire, and it can be said that the Orton Empire has been able to exist under the impact of the beast tide so far, and he has made great contributions.

As the highest combat force in the three besieged counties, in recent years, in addition to going deep into the occupied area twice a year to find opportunities to break through, Ogu usually studies magic in his mage tower, and his cultivation is even more unfathomable.

But just a year ago, Ogu suddenly felt a terrifying fluctuation, powerful and indifferent, like the gaze of the gods on all beings, without emotion.

It was as strong as Aogu was so shocked in the face of this fluctuation that he couldn't move, like a small raft in front of a monstrous flood, which could capsize at any time.

The fluctuations came from the sky, hidden in the vast ruins, and the whole process lasted only a few minutes, but it seemed like a century to Ogu.

When he came back to his senses, he found that his clothes had been soaked with cold sweat, and his legs were even more jointed due to excessive exertion.

He didn't have time to change his clothes, so he hurried to the hidden place of this miracle with awe, wanting to see where the divine power of the heavens came from.

Unexpectedly, when he went to the Fallen Zone, he ran into the terrified high-level magic beasts head-on, and it was obvious that they also felt the terrifying fluctuations.

The fear that comes from the depths of their souls drives them away from the miraculous hideaway.

Every time a magic beast appeared, it was an out-and-out disaster for the humans in the besieged area, and at this time, the oncoming magic beasts of all levels were far beyond the tolerance of the imperial military in the nearby defense area.

Ogu had to defend the steel walls he had built years ago until he killed or dispersed the beasts that had been terrified with fear.

When he freed his hands and went to the hidden place of his memory, he didn't find any useful clues.

Over the past year, Ogu has been walking back and forth in the occupied area in this direction, just to be able to find a clue about the hidden gods of the day.

Just like today.

As he left the siege again to head farther into the Fall, he noticed movement in the town of Durut, a rare small tide of beasts, and...

A battle with a huge disparity in strength.

In fact, the moment Charles was caught by the Steelbone Demon Ape, Ogu found out about their situation.

However, in order to facilitate exploration, Ogu looked down at the ground directly from a high altitude in this area where there were no magic beasts.

So at the moment when Charles was dying, Agu was still in the sky, and although his domain was strong, he couldn't cover Charles and the others.

Just when he thought that he could only save the other three people on this trip, Charles actually stabbed the iron sword to death while it was controlled by the steel bone demon ape, which surprised Agu very much.

First of all, the talent of metal elements is very rare, even in the Castro family, among the recent generations, there are few such talents.

Secondly, after getting close to a few people, Ogu found that Charles did not resonate with the steel elements around him, because Ogu could not feel the most basic "field" of a mage in him.

In other words, Charles deprived the Cyborg Demon Ape of control over the recruit's short sword without empathy, which is simply unheard of.

However, when Ogu slowly fell, and his steel field covered the whole field, Charles could no longer control the steel elements on the scene, which made Ogu's heart gradually let go.

But at this moment, something even stranger happened, when Ogu landed gently on a small building, Charles actually found him at the first time in the earth-shattering roar.

This is almost impossible to happen, in the realm of Agu, not to mention that Charles has not entered the state of resonance, even if he sends out the field, it is impossible to feel the slightest fluctuation of the steel element.

This, it's so weird.