"I'm not dreaming, am I?!"

Garcia, who was standing at the top of the mountain, looked at the black dragon slowly falling in the sky, his legs were weak, he knelt on the ground, and muttered, "This is the messenger of God!"

Eleanor pressed her chest lightly, her face flushed, and whispered, "What a beautiful creature, this is my dream!"

On the plain of the mountain behind Lone Rock City, Cumberland, who was riding on a war horse, slowly lifted the mask on his head, pointed his bloodstained horse spear at the ground, and let the corpse hanging on it fall to the ground.

Watching the figure in the sky spread its dragon wings, listening to the thunderous dragon roar in his ears, he opened his mouth wide and said to himself, "My God!"

The dragon flicked its tail and struck the watchtower of the royal city, and the towering structure broke through it and fell to the Imperial army below.

The soldiers, who had just woken up from a dream, cried and threw down their weapons, dodged the collapsed buildings for their lives, and fled out of the royal city in a swarm and ran towards the inner city on the mountainside.

Elimu, whose face was pale, took out the musket at his waist and shouted at the deserters: "Don't run away!

No one obeyed his orders, and even the most loyal soldier had to survive in the face of the behemoth in front of him.

The black dragon flapped its wings and flew into the air from the top of the city, then swooped down and began to circle along the edge of the city.

Boom a cannon rang out.

A solid cannonball, abruptly flying into the air, cutting a trajectory in the sky.

The unscathed black dragon, looking at the direction in which the cannonball was fired, leaned slightly, spread its dragon wings, and flew quickly towards the direction of the artillery.

On the artillery position set up by the Ayyubid Empire outside the inner city walls, an imperial artillery captain who had just lit the fire and opened the cannon looked at the huge black shadow in the sky that was getting closer and closer, and his whole body trembled like chaff. He hurriedly dropped the torch in his hand and tried to turn and run away, but found that his legs seemed to be on the ground, and he couldn't take a step.

The black dragon's golden pupils reflected the frightened face of the offender.

The dragon's mouth opened, and a pillar of blazing white fire with a thickness of one meter cut through the sky and directly bombarded the artillery position.

The human body was instantly burned into black charcoal in the flames, and the stacked gunpowder was burned and caused an earth-shattering explosion.

In the blink of an eye, the artillery positions of the Empire turned into a human purgatory, with scattered fragments and soaring flames bringing death to hundreds of soldiers around them, and the towering walls finally could no longer support their weight under successive blows, and completely collapsed.

The black dragon paused for a moment and turned his gaze to the other enemies in his field of vision.

Pillars of fire erupted from its mouth and struck any armed enemy in the city, and the entire Lone Rock City suddenly turned into a sea of fire.

Under the protection of the royal guards, Saladin, who was hiding in the ruins, watched the dusty Elum stumble towards him, and said to him with a wry smile: "Take your troops, I'm afraid we will abandon this city." ”

Elem still didn't seem to believe what was in front of him: "How could there be a dragon here?!"

Saladin was much calmer: "On the battlefield, anything is possible. It's just that no one would have expected today......"

Elium nodded with a bitter expression: "Caliph, in short, this is not a place to speak, you can ride away first, don't go through the city gate, it has become a sea of fire." ”

"Horses can't be ridden. Saladin smiled bitterly and looked at the trembling horse lying on the ground not far away, and said, "We must find another way to retreat." ”

Watching the dragon fly overhead, Elium bent down, burrowed into the shadows of the building, and crept cautiously backwards.

He looked into the distance through the gap in the building, and then climbed back and said, "There is a collapsed wall to the southwest, and I will organize the remaining troops to leave Lone Rock City from there." ”

Saladin nodded in response, "Go, may Allah bless you and me." ”

Elium walked out of the ruins, took one last look at the huge black shadow flying wantonly in the sky, gritted his teeth, and said hatefully: "One day, one day I will let you fall at my feet!"

The fire in Lone Rock burned for a day and a night. When the last flame in the city turned into light white smoke, it marked the official end of the war launched by the Southern Empire.

In the small area of Lone Rock City, more than 30,000 people lost their lives in just a few days.

On the Ayyubid Empire's side, the army of more than 12,000 men when it went out was less than 2,000 on the return.

Among them, those imperial troops who landed on the northern plains, totaling four thousand people. When they lost their main commander and the siege was frustrated, their rear was suddenly attacked by the Knights of the Dusk West, and the battle was chaotic, and the battle lasted only an hour before the defeat was locked, and the entire army was finally annihilated. And the Imperial fleet, which consisted of thirteen warships of various types, was sunk six ships, and the commander-in-chief Latib did not know whether he was alive or dead.

Among the subordinates led by Emperor Saladin himself, there were only a few hundred soldiers who died in the battle, and the direct cause of death of the remaining 5,000 soldiers was the fire that burned the city, but the real reason can be said to be the black dragon that suddenly appeared.

On the Lone Rock side, there were more than 20,000 casualties.

Among them, the 3,000 reinforcements stationed on the Moon Creek Plain were broken one by one in Saladin's siege tactics, and less than one-tenth survived; the 800 defenders in the city, including the regent of the kingdom, Jennings, chose to break the jade in the battle with the imperial army, and no one survived; in addition, there were more than 20,000 people in the city, and after the battle, only more than 1,000 people actually escaped.

On the Twilight side, there are two units that really participated in the battle, namely the "Troupe Guard" led by Knight Captain Horn, with a total of 20 knights and 150 soldiers, and the main force of the Knights led by Grand Master Cumberland, who was responsible for lifting the siege of Lone Rock City, a total of 300 xenoknights.

The former held out for two days and two nights in the face of dozens of times the enemy army on the mountain road behind Lone Rock City. At the end of the war, 17 of the 150 soldiers survived, and only three of the 20 knights survived...... Not among them.

The main force of the Knights mentioned in the latter also appeared in the face of the attack of the Imperial guns, and nine knights were also killed.

In addition to these casualties, there are two key players.

One is the guard of the Golden Skylark Troupe - Randall.

The Knights led by Cumberland waited for the fire to be extinguished, and with the cooperation of the surviving people, they entered Lone Rock City and searched for several days, but they never found the whereabouts of this person, and had no choice but to announce the news of Randall's death.

As for the other character, it is the mysterious black dragon.

After suddenly appearing and dealing a devastating blow to the Imperial army, the black dragon hovered over the city for half a day, then flew into the clouds and disappeared without a trace, leaving only the imagination and rumors of those who came after it.