Chapter 354: The Crypt Man

In the end, the two hundred Lyra Patrol Guards and the Eight Hundred City Guards were divided into one hundred squads by Rych, with each two Lyra Guards and eight City Guards guarding one exit. In addition, Leitch even stated in front of the 800 city defense troops that these female guards are not only the leaders of each squad, but also have the responsibility of supervision - those who violate military orders will be killed!

Leitch is not worried about whether these Lyra Patrol Female Guards can control the field, you must know that the female guards who can enter the Lyra Patrol must be elites above the high-level witcher, and most of these city defense troops only have the strength of the first and second order. So at this time, these beautiful and heroic Tianqin patrol guards are like the deadly sword of Damocles hanging above their heads to hundreds of city defense troops!

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Within half an hour of the departure of the hundred squads, one bright crimson fireball after another rose vertically into the air, pulling out long strips of white smoke, like a sparse firework, gorgeous and lonely. But only the 200 Tianqin Patrol Guards and the 800 City Defenders knew that it was not a fireworks display, but the wrath of the Grim Reaper, and when the hundredth fireball rose into the sky, this rocky beach would truly turn into a place of dead silence!

"Whew!"

When the hundredth fireball rose into the air, Niza walked up to Leitch and said in a deep voice, "Lord Viscount, all the teams are in place!"

Hearing this, Leitch raised his head and looked at the remnants of Mars in the distant sky, and said in the same deep voice: "Then let's start." ”

This time Niza did not make a sound, but nodded silently, and after a moment there was a cylindrical glass bottle of five hundred milliliters in her hand, which was blocked by a thick wooden stopper, and contained a dark green liquid, which gave people a creepy feeling just by looking at it.

At this time, Leitch and his party were all wearing white gas masks. This gas mask is similar in appearance to the mask commonly found on Earth, but it is actually an alchemical item with a mysterious magic circle that automatically filters out toxic gases from the air. Although this kind of filtration is not 100%, it still has an extremely good protection for some common forest miasma and so on.

Niza uncorked the flask, placed it in the middle of the hole, and quickly retreated. Moments later, a curling turquoise smoke rises from the mouth of the bottle and spreads out to the sides like rising waves falling. But at this time, with a wild roar of "Huh-", an invisible wind blew from outside the entrance of the cave, and immediately swept all these turquoise smoke into the cave!

The wind just now was actually an apprentice-level magical wind spell released by Lucky. The wind can create a gale of half to ten meters out of thin air, and the wind can overturn the attic of the grass and wood structure in Baixi Village, and the maximum wind speed is comparable to the maximum gallop speed of ordinary horses!

The entrance to the cave where Reich was stationed was also ten men—including Richie and Davis, including Niza, Caesar, a Lyra Raider, and five city guards. Among these ten people, in addition to Leitch himself, there are also two witches who know magic, Niza and another Lyra Patrol Guard, so the difficult task of 'human blower' will undoubtedly be entrusted to the three of them.

In fact, in the minds of Niza and the other guardess, the task of 'blowing the wind' was left to the two of them, and the Viscount did not need to do it himself, as was the case with the other groups, but since Leitch had to do it himself, they could not say anything.

"Vomit-" "Vomit-"

After about a quarter of an hour, Leqi and his party suddenly heard a strange roar and hurried footsteps coming from inside the cave, and a moment later, a figure of about one and a half meters appeared at the entrance of the cave.

The figure had an almost human appearance, but its skin was grayish-white, its bare head was hairless, its ears were almost rat-like shapes, and its deep, sunken eye sockets looked like those of highly myopic people when they had their eyes removed. The creature didn't walk upright like a human, and it looked a little rickety, its palms and feet were extra thick, and each finger on its limbs had thick black nails, which looked rather hideous—it was a caveman.

The Cryptman in front of him had an extremely thin appearance, with two rows of ribs clearly visible from its bare upper body, and a black carapace wrapped around its waist, which was the Cryptman's 'clothing'.

It is not difficult to see from the shape of this cryptman that if it stands upright like a normal human, it will be far taller than the 'one meter five' in the eyes of everyone now. But this is not unique to the Cryptman in front of him, in fact, as far as Reich knows, all Cryptmen are in this 'rickety' state on a daily basis.

Why are the Cryptmen? Dwarves and goblins live underground all year round, just like these Cavemen, but these two races don't give people this weird sense of 'rickets'. Of course, these two races seem to be much shorter than the Cavemen......

From the Fast Empire to the present, there have been countless well-known mages, scholars and troubadours who have conducted in-depth research on this, and finally a widely accepted theory is that the Cavemen were not originally an underground race, and in the years of unknown years, they moved into the underground collectively for unknown reasons, and over time, the narrow caveman life greatly changed the physiological characteristics of the Cavemen, and finally the 'distorted' form of the Cavemen has long been present.

As for why the Crypt People moved into the ground en masse, and whether the Crypt People were born blind or the result of moving underground, these are still a haze that most mages and troubadours cannot see through today.

Of course, these are not the main points of Reich's attention right now, the only thing he wants to know now is - what exactly is the effect of the 'expert asthenic tear gas potion'?

Luck glanced at Caesar beside him, who whispered a 'yes', then drew his sword at his waist and walked slowly towards the caveman who had already walked out of the hole.

Hearing the sound of the weapon unsheathed and Caesar's footsteps, the cryptman, who had been coughing violently in a strange tone, immediately became manic, only to let out an unpleasant roar, and immediately took the initiative to rush in the direction of Caesar!

The word 'rush' may not seem accurate to describe it, but the cryptman doesn't run very fast, and it gives people a wobbly feeling when it runs, like the 'run' of a baby who has not fully learned to walk. This obvious feeling of weakness was obviously caused by the effect of 'weakening the tear gas potion', which couldn't help but make Leitch nod secretly, it seems that the quality of these potions is still quite good.

Caesar unhurriedly stabbed the Cryptman towards him, and easily pierced the Cryptman's right abdomen with a single sword. This caused the caveman to let out a roar of pain, and just as it instinctively grabbed its hands at Caesar's longsword, Caesar had quickly withdrawn his longsword, and between the lightning and flint, his second sword had already stabbed! This time Caesar stabbed the right thigh of the caveman, and the other party still couldn't dodge it. Caesar's incompetence seemed to discourage Caesar, and after stabbing his second sword, he quickly drew his sword and slashed at the Cryptman in a sweeping motion, which eventually fell to the ground with a bloodied neck.

"My lord, the effect of this 'debilitating tear gas potion' is so strong, it can make the enemy completely incapacitated! In this way, as long as a few bottles of this magic potion are placed on the battlefield, wouldn't it be invincible?" Caesar asked with a suspicious voice as he withdrew his sword from its scabbard.

In fact, not only him, but also the faces of several city defenders behind Caesar also showed such doubts - you must know that the cryptman just now had the level of a leader-level (third-order), but under the sword of Caesar, who only had the strength of a demon slayer (second-order), he had no power to fight back!

"It's not that simple," Retch shook his head first, then continued, "The reason why that Cryptman was so weak just now is first of all because the magic potions we use are of the expert level, and if you change to a creature above the fifth order, it will have no effect on them. ”

"And most of the magic potions like the 'Weak Tear Gas Elixir' can only be used against aliens like the Cryptmen, but they are difficult to work on the battlefield between the higher intelligent races - because both sides have long been guarding against this! This defense is multifaceted, including all kinds of alchemical ornaments and enchanted equipment that can prevent poison, to all kinds of magic potions and magic scrolls with antidote and poison, and most importantly, the existence of alchemists with the army!"

"Alchemist with the army?" Hearing this, a thoughtful glint flashed in Caesar's eyes.

"That's right, it's the alchemist of the army. Leitch nodded and said, "If you know anything about the history of warfare in the Valley of Dawn and the troops of the lords of various countries, it is not difficult to find that even the lowest-ranking baron among the nobles will have at least one or more alchemists and mages in their troops at the time of war! ”

"And I want you to remember that you should never underestimate the importance of mages to an army!"

"Yes, Lord Viscount!" Caesar was awe-inspiring when he heard this. At the same time, the conversation just now made Caesar deeply aware of one point - as a commander, he still needs to learn a lot! The viscount looks obviously younger than himself, but in front of the viscount, whether it is military strategy or knowledge, he is like a toddler baby!

PS: To be honest, the reasons for writing about the 'massacre' that will happen next seem far-fetched even to me, but after hundreds of chapters, I feel that a 'restless' lord should not lack his ruthless side. So no matter what I write, I will write it as I wish. Well, and I have to say that in the section of facial expressions and actions outside the dialogue of the characters, I always feel that I don't grasp it well, and I'm ashamed......