Chapter 0239: Rainy Night Invasion
At night, Scandre has lost the bustle and noise of its former royal capital.
Except for the sporadic lights that can be seen in the upper town and near the royal palace, the rest of the city has been plunged into deep darkness.
After nightfall, it began to rain lightly in the city.
As a result, the dilapidated streets are even less populated. The displaced residents huddled in crumbling houses, barely accommodating themselves against the half-roofs that had not collapsed.
This is the 11th day of Scandre City's "Dragon Attack".
In the early days, the dragons only targeted the wealthy merchants and magnates in the upper city, and rarely attacked the lower city and civilian areas. But when the dragons snatched up those high-value targets, finally, their eyes fell on the civilians who made up 60% of the city's population.
In the first few days of the raid, all the adult dragons flew in, and with their great individual strength, they completely crushed the guards of the merchant houses and the powerful guards, smashing open one warehouse after another full of supplies and treasures.
Although Scandre City has the most powerful ground armament in the Knights Continent, the weak Edward VII has strictly ordered all the high-ranking knights to be stationed near the palace, strictly forbidding them to clash with the dragons.
As a result, without the protection of the kingdom's armed forces, the city of Scandre has become a dragon hunting ground, and every day dragons fly thousands of miles here to take it.
And as the number of cities that dragons need to infest, the adult dragons of Dragon's Nest are running out of options. Even some of the young dragons who were about to reach adulthood were sent out to practice the basic skills of hunting and predation behind the adult dragons every day, sharpening their claws.
Under this harsh devastation, Scandre City is like a terminally ill patient, struggling on the edge of life and death every day, waiting for his last breath to be swallowed.
Wrapped in a thick black traveler's cloak, Grim was like a midnight ghost walking in the dark, following behind the leaves and blades, silently shuttling through the dark alleys of the lower city.
Leaf is the same thin boy who brought him to Prophet Mars last time, no, girl! I'm sorry, because of severe malnutrition in her childhood, the 14-year-old girl Leaf is so thin that she can barely tell the slightest gender characteristic from her appearance. And after she was found by the Prophet Mars, her awakened innate abilities were somewhat similar to the mind control of the Cursed Wizard.
Due to the lack of systematic cultivation and the rational use of resources, this also led to the fact that after Ye Zi's talent awakened, she couldn't find a spell caster who could give her guidance. This also caused her to have almost no other spells to learn except for a few talented spells.
So after carefully examining her body, Grim had to shake his head and sigh, this little girl who originally had an innate talent for spell-casting had a quasi-witch-level strong spiritual power, but she was even inferior to some ordinary people in terms of various basic attribute parameters of her body.
As for the other 13-year-old teenager blade, it is basically similar to her.
The blade has an extremely special metal affinity, and can naturally manipulate some metal weapons. He also has quasi-witch-level strength, but the magic he has mastered is almost zero, and his physical fitness is a mess.
As street beggars who were once inferior to pigs and dogs, they have no relatives and no official names. Even the names they are now called were improvisedly by the prophet Mars after they were taken in.
However, although their strength is very poor, their familiarity and understanding of Scandre City is difficult for outsiders to match. And what Grim needs is a snake like them!
In the dark, I turned through countless alleys, and even climbed over two or three abandoned houses along the way. Soon, a 3-story watchtower building appeared in front.
They want to sneak in from the lower town to the upper town, and this kind of watchtower building must pass through.
Looking from afar, inside a small arched doorway, under the dim torch, three city guards were gathering together to hold guns and chat.
While the leaves stepped forward to get rid of the guards, the blade once again approached Grim.
"Hey, big man, is your world really that powerful? Listen to the old man, you wizards are powerful enough to dominate the multiverse!"
Two silent flames burned in the shadow of Grim's hood, and he didn't reject this little guy with too much curiosity. Because there is not much difference in age, there is an inexplicable closeness in his heart.
Many times, he also had to sigh that fortunately, when he crossed over, he was born in a wizarding world where wizards are respected. If he is unfortunate enough to fall into such a terrible region as the knight plane, I am afraid that even if he has the assistance of chips, it will be difficult for him to get ahead so quickly.
"Wizards aren't as powerful as you think. In the entire multiverse, there are countless powerful races and powerful planes that can surpass wizards. You should also be glad that it is only us wizards who have come this time. If it's those Calamity Lords from the Calamity World, your entire plane together won't be enough for them to swallow!"
It wasn't until the leaves in front of them beckoned that the two of them walked quickly to the doorway illuminated by the light of the torch.
The three city guards were dressed in old standard leather armor, holding spears in their hands, and they were leaning on the wall, still maintaining a chatting posture. Their eyes were wide open, but their eyes were sloppy and unrefreshed, and they didn't react to the approach of Grim and the others.
Grim could see it clearly, and each of them had a strange rune flickering slightly on their foreheads.
The three of them quietly passed through the doorway, and after they disappeared into the darkness in the distance, as Ye Zi removed the runes in his hands, the three city guards who were controlled woke up like a dream to break free from the sluggishness. However, the short pause just now obviously did not affect the interest of the three of them in chatting, and they continued the topic just now and still chatted happily.
"Quite a good ability!" said Grim with a rare appropriation.
Of course, the little girl was able to figure out such a peculiar way of using her talent without anyone to teach her, and she was obviously a gifted person. It's a pity that she was born in this hapless knight plane. If she is lucky enough to be born in the wizarding world, she may be able to become a powerful wizard too!
"Of course. The blade obviously had a special affection for this Ye Zi, and when he heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "Sister Ye Zi is an indispensable and important person in our team. Aside from the old man and those mentors, her abilities are already the strongest!"
"Blade, shut up!" Ye Zi, who was walking in front, turned around and scolded in a low voice: "If you can't control your mouth anymore, I'll leave you speechless all night!"
With her special ability to control her thinking, it may only take a simple psychological cue to make others temporarily lose the ability to speak. After all, people in this world do not have such simple and practical witchcraft ornaments as the mind brooch to protect the mind and mind.
Hearing the boss's anger, the young blade stuck out his tongue at Grim and quickly shut his mouth.
Mentor?
Grim smiled faintly and savored it silently.
Ye Zi is already a quasi-wizard-level mind manipulator, so the mentor in the blade's mouth can only be a formal wizard-level existence. To be able to successfully advance to the rank of official spellcaster under such a brutal blow and oppression of the demon hunter knights, how talented these guys are!
After passing through the doorway, they had already entered the so-called Upper Town.
In contrast to the low-rise bungalows and dilapidated wooden houses that stretch out in the lower town, almost the entire upper town is a collection of fine villas with garden lawns. The villa where their target lives is closer to the palace area, so it can be difficult to sneak there.
Grim's terrifying sorcery ability can indeed turn this place into a sea of fire with a single move, but it is difficult for a strong man to let him quietly sneak into the heart of the enemy. His flame jumping was indeed a good maneuver of sorcery, but the sky-high flames and the sudden burst of flame aura were difficult to hide.
If he didn't want to attract the entire uptown guards, then the ability of these little land snakes was inevitable!
The trio walked and stopped, occasionally burrowing into the dark areas, hiding from heavily patrolled guards.
The dragon attack for more than ten consecutive days has also made this uptown city full of devastation, with ruins everywhere, and collapsed houses can be seen everywhere.
This area, on the border between the Upper Town and the Royal Palace, is a place where some of Scandre's strongest and noblest people can live.
And at this moment, in the small two-story building of a beautiful villa, a faint candle flame is shining through the bedroom window. This fully shows that even on such a miserable rainy night, the owner of the bedroom still did not sleep.
Daphne gently pushed open the wooden window and leaned on the lattice, silently looking at the dark night sky.
It was only at this moment that those damn dragons would not whistle and fly and disturb her peaceful and happy life.
The previous block had just been attacked by a dragon yesterday, and Grena's house had been bulldozed, and I heard that even the domestic servants had been killed and wounded a dozen. The John's house on the right block was also patronized by the dragon, and the family's valuables were almost swept away.
Every day, they gather and hide in the palace, so that they can avoid being harmed by the dragon. At night, they have the opportunity to return to their homes to see if they are still alive.
It's terrible to have such a depressing day!
The thought that her father would have to stay in the harsh and noisy demon casting camp day and night, unable to protect her and her mother's side, Daphne's heart was full of resentment.