Chapter 44: Advent, First Confrontation (1)

Thanks to Intix, Louvre's Yali for the tip.

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Less than an hour after following the heavy cavalry out of the city, Morana regretted it.

There is no place to call the black environment a landscape, along the way is horseback riding, horseback riding, and then horseback riding, these people around them don't dare to get too close to her because of the status gap, even if she forcibly accosting her, she looks like a promise.

There is no way, these people are only selected from the aborigines to be used as regular cavalry reserves or city defense forces.

Floris originally recorded more than one hundred and sixty countries, but today, when they are either descended or destroyed, the group of people who can act as military strength in the entire Holy Realm - in fact, that is, young and middle-aged men, have long been dead and crippled, and it is a border area, and it is already lucky to be able to make up more than 100 guys with heavy cavalry qualifications, and Morana is embarrassed to force more.

It's so boring...... I knew that I would have promised those girls to go to the hot springs together, and I could do some ...... Well, love to do things.

The brown-haired female knight began to miss what she could enjoy in the city.

With a Terminal Necromantic Support, this mission was not difficult at all, and I really wanted to follow along-Molana had thought so until she saw the white-haired woman and the red-tailed girl surrounded by knights.

"Interesting, am I having the right jerking today......" Molana muttered to herself, sensing the other's meaningful gaze.

Obviously he had deliberately hidden behind the crowd but was still found by the woman with long white hair, which is not a situation that can be explained by coincidence.

The other party is consciously looking for the person with the highest status in this team......

Morana looked at her side speechlesslyβ€”there was still a distance of space, and although it was difficult to detect it under the cover of the people in front of her, if you deliberately searched for it, the anomaly here was quite a flaw.

"Okay...... "Okay" Riding her horse to squeeze through the temporary subordinates in front of her, letting them get out of the way, the brown-haired female knight rode up to Li Bai and Lilith alone, looking at them condescendingly.

"Two unnamed ladies, can I have the privilege of knowing why you're here?"

As the commander of the "Dark Side of the Moon", one of the four elite regiments of the Empire, Morana does not particularly value her posture and is ...... Or that ordinary women are different, her personality is very casual, a little arrogant, generally as long as she doesn't really provoke her, she is very good at talking...... That's it at this point, although it is a condescending overlook, but it does not make them feel aggressive.

On the contrary, Li Bai and the others each felt quite weird, because the female knight was obviously about the same age as herself, but that tone and expression were completely out of place.

The other party was like a gentle and elegant aristocratic young master, who was trying to invite the two of them to the ball in her house.

(Delusion, this guy's eyes are simply incomprehensible.) οΌ‰

Li Bai couldn't help frowning.

This woman is also in her early twenties, looking at her figure and the corners of her eyes, she will not be more than thirty-four years old, and she is not bad, well, although her face is sharp and angular, it is still very tasteful...... But how do you look at her in the same way as a man? Just staring at the legs and chest?

Because she has to walk a lot of time in the wild in the wind and sand, for convenience and warmth, she deliberately added a pair of white silk tights underneath, and directly put on a moon-white coarse cloth dress and a coarse cloth cloak purchased in Riyao Town, this skirt is said to be made of materials that can shine in the dark, which is quite scarce, especially dresses belong to women's clothing, and the price is relatively expensive, so the one she bought can only barely get out of the range of miniskirts, and a large part of her legs are exposed outside.

Usually there is a cloak to cover it, plus there are no male creatures in this group, Li Bai doesn't feel that there is anything wrong, but at the moment, because she is holding a rabbit with both hands, the cloak is stretched open by her elbows, and she is looked at with colored eyes, which can only be said to be unavoidable.

But there was a woman among the guys who looked at her, which made her a little confused.

(If I'm not mistaken, she wants to...... Soak me? …… Is Floritis's custom to be gay? οΌ‰

Being stared at by Li Bai and Lilith with ghost-like eyes, Morana unconsciously reached out and touched her tall nose, and coughed awkwardly: "Uh...... Do you think it's abrupt? Also, it seems that I should give my name first, so that it can be polite. ”

"I am Molana Moon, 22 years old and commander of the dark side of the moon in the Mithra Expeditionary Force...... Well? What are you laughing at, is there anything funny? ”

This time it was Morana's turn to be confused, and before she finished her introduction, the white-haired woman in front of her couldn't hold back and covered her mouth, her shoulders trembled slightly, and a pair of beautiful red eyes bent into crescents, obviously snickering blatantly.

"I didn't ...... I just thought of something very interesting and I didn't control it, not because of you. Li Bai just made up for the other party's introduction that the next thing he was going to say was "unmarried", and he couldn't help laughing for a while, and he was a little embarrassed at the moment, so he added one more sentence: "Really." ”

(Thankfully, she didn't seem to have seen Nellofa's face, otherwise her expression would have been revealed as soon as they met.) οΌ‰

"My name is Lipel, and this is my sister, Lilith." Under Molana's suspicious gaze, she quickly regained her previously slightly cold appearance and began to introduce the two of them.

"We were separated from our companions outside of the town of Sunshine, and because we lacked the lights and tools to show us the way, we had to choose a path and follow the way, and we met the commander of the corps...... It should have been just an accident. ”

This statement was something she dared to say after considering it, the first paragraph can indeed be regarded as the truth, but it is not separated, the whole team of five groups of people left earlier than the people in the town got up, even if the other party carefully sent his subordinates to the town to ask, he couldn't get the truth, and judging from the feeling of new contact, this woman didn't have much to think about...... Maybe they could use this to send them back to Sunshine.

Now that there are enemy armies moving around, their first priority now cannot be on finding John, but gathering together to avoid a crisis; Besides, she and Joker promised to keep the students safe.

"Oh?" Molana replied clearly, and didn't seem to take Li Bai's faux pas just now to heart.

"That's right...... Then you're lucky to meet me, it's dangerous to get lost in the Evil Spirit Desert, where people die every week. She tugged at the reins, turned her body slightly to look at the centaurs behind her, "Get two horses out!" ”

"Wait!" Li Bai suddenly interrupted her, and under the gaze of Molana and the others, including Lilith, she was a little embarrassed: "That...... I don't know how to ride a horse. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Then you'll have to ride with me. The brown-haired female knight was stunned at first - Li Bai's temperament and previous conversation made her think that this might be a ranger with a good background, but now it seems that she should only have a good background, or rather, even better.

There is no ranger who can't ride a horse, she is probably the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town.

Or, the daughter of a nobleman who fled incognito to a remote area.

Molana curled the corners of her mouth imperceptibly, if it was the latter kind, it would be really fun, she wanted to take down the rabbit and send Li Bai and the others back to Riyao Town, but at this moment she changed her mind.

In the later stages of the war, the kings and nobles of a country who saw the disparity in strength fled with their families, leaving a large number of supplies and cities that they could not take with them to the enemy, and they themselves only carried a small number of family members, guards, and some heavy treasures that were convenient for transportation, and hid in some sparsely populated areas, in an attempt to prolong the status of the superiors.

It wasn't uncommon for a down-and-out king to be searched by the Rangers last month.

"I'm sorry, can I be with my sister?" Seeing that Lilith had already stepped on a horse with a smile, Li Bai had no choice but to come to Morana with a hard head, she remembered the abnormality of the woman in front of her, and instinctively rejected riding with the other party.

"I think this should be ......"

"I'm afraid you can't do it as you like!" Morana laughed evilly, and without waiting for Li Bai to finish speaking, she quickly bent down, reached out and grabbed her waist, and then used another force to beat her horizontally and hug her to the horse.

Poor Li Bai, she couldn't recover from this rude way of acting, and she didn't react for a while, obediently nesting in each other's arms like a rabbit she was holding, staring in a daze.

"I'm very confident in my riding skills, and Ling Mei is definitely not as good as me in bringing novices, so please rest assured." After saying this to Li Bai, Molana motioned for the knights to disperse, and she waved her horsewhip, making an explosion in the air: "Go!" Go back to Jiang Cheng! ”

With her order, the Knights of the End, who were still around everyone, took the lead in scattering, turning into fragments, silently blending into the surrounding darkness, and the rest of the heavy cavalry with torches also followed, escorting the leader to turn their horses and embark on the way home, and whether intentionally or not, their formation was a hollow circle, enclosing Morana and Lilith's two horses in the middle.

"Jiang Cheng!?" Hearing this place name, Li Bai came back to her senses, and she suddenly found that she seemed to have miscalculated!

"Sure enough, you're not ordinary people, are you?" Morana, who had been paying attention to her, took in the changes in Li Bai's expression, and smiled like a **fox at the moment: "I was suspicious when I was called by the title of corps commander before...... I seem to have only mentioned the dark side of the moon, even in our own camp, there are few people in our army who know the details, and honestly, you are the child of a nobleman in Montana? Or is it simply Her Royal Highness the Princess? ”

Montana, the name of the kingdom that originally sitted on this land, is now naturally dead, the king died in battle, and only a few nobles are missing, including a few princesses.

Li Bai's previous vigilance against Morana was not just sensitive.

The Dark Side of the Moon is the most special of the four elite legions, and this special does not just refer to their personnel composition. The fact that all the men were women made them often criticized by the other three corps.

They are the protagonists of drunken meat jokes, but also jokes in their spare time, and the battles with other corps on weekdays are mostly caused by the ugly words they heard, the girl soldiers in the corps are elite soldiers who have been tempered by hardship, and they are not pure little sheep, so under the pressure of various public opinion and extreme views, many of them will be unconvinced of the rebellious mentality.

Like what...... The real knife and the real gun began to play with the friends around you to play forbidden-broken love.

Morana is the most determined of these people.

Her words and character, which resembled a man, as well as her characteristic physiognomy and temperament, fell into the eyes of the rest of the girls, and it was simply a fatal temptation. There is a rumor within the Dark Side of the Moon about Morana, and that is that almost a tenth of their less than 5,000 people have a crush on their Captain; And half of these people have been in a relationship with her; In the end, half of the people who had been in love with her were counted...... These girls have her chuang.

It can be seen that Morana is not substantially different from those ** young masters in other aspects except for gender.

Li Bai's current feeling is like this.

The brown-haired woman looking down on her still maintained her in the position of "being held by the princess", and Molana did not lie to her at all, her equestrian skills were indeed superb, because her hands did not touch the reins at all during the gallop, and she relied entirely on the power of her legs to control the horse.

As for where her hand was-

"Can you keep your hands in order, Commander Moon?" Li Bai no longer intended to force himself to endure it, the other party's claws were simply unscrupulous, and the left hand holding her upper body was barely safe, and the right hand was ...... If she hadn't desperately clamped her legs, she wouldn't have known where she would have touched!

She couldn't figure out the detailed meaning of the other party's questioning, but it seemed that she had been misunderstood as a fugitive - but since she had already been misunderstood as a fugitive, what did she still wrong!?

"Who made you happen to bump into me?" Molana stared at the woman in her arms with the eyes of her prey, but her movements did not stop, "I said that you are lucky, but I am not laughing at you, because today happens to be my whim and traveling with those rough people, if it were not for me, you and your sister met them, and in such a deserted place, I don't need to say more about what would happen." ”

"Indeed......" Li Bai suddenly lowered his head and relaxed his control over his legs, as if resigned to his fate.

But Molana suffered a cardiac arrest for no reason, she instinctively felt the danger, and immediately stepped on the stirrups without hesitation, jumped off the horse's back, and at the same time she didn't have the heart to do anything to Li Bai again, and threw it out without waiting for it to land.

She could feel that the other party was the source of danger!

"If your team didn't have you this time, it would really make me work a lot harder!"

Before she finished speaking, Li Bai's right hand already had an extra thin sword that was constantly emitting white light, and with a flick of her wrist, the thin sword shone towards Morana like a match under the moonlight.

She had made up her mind to capture this creature who had been rude to her so many times, and then use her as a hostage to force the soldiers to turn around and go to Sunshine!

"Who can you deal with at your level? You can't even win if I let you have one hand. Molana almost didn't laugh when she looked at Li Bai's flawed moves, judging from her kendo experience, the opponent's sword moves were empty, but in fact, they were revealing their own empty door to the opponent to stab, but she didn't plan to end this farce immediately, it was rare to meet such an interesting prey, wouldn't it be a good teasing-teasing-drama to be sorry for the arrangement of fate.

"Let me teach you what the real ...... Hey, you're ...... Light Path Rapier!? ”

Le Ji said that it was almost Morana's current situation, she wanted to use the short knife on the cuff to pull away the opponent's sword, and then deceive herself in close combat, but her short knife just touched the opponent's sword body and was cut in half like butter, and the head of the knife flew out smoothly, leaving only a few remaining blades with handles to be held by her, which looked extremely cold.

"Ahem......" Li Bai almost fell after landing, and gave herself an instant blessing of "gravity lifting" before staggering to stand firm, compared to Morana's steady landing without panting, she actually began to cough.

Strength and explosiveness have always been her strong points, if it weren't for the super body brought to her by her super regeneration ability, and the weapons in her hands that were much better than the other party, she would not have been sure to play such a white soldier battle.

"The Light Path Thin Sword, it's actually the Light Path Thin Sword!" Muttering such words in her mouth, Morana looked at Li Bai's eyes from stunned to solemn, and finally reversed, revealing a relieved smile.

"It seems that the person mentioned by His Majesty in the oracle is you...... Yes, snow-white hair and bright red eyes, which are characteristic of the royal family of Mithra, I should have noticed it a long time ago. ”

"Majesty?" In the face of this smile, Li Bai couldn't relax, and that title was like a thorn, piercing her chest, "...... Do you mean Nalofa! ”

"Who is it that gives you guts...... Call Majesty XiΓ  name! A black shadow of whip legs struck me.

Li Bai didn't expect that her casual opening was like opening Pandora's box.

Brown-haired female knight, crazy.

She dodged Li Bai's raised light path thin sword, pressed one leg in front of her, and made a sound similar to a broken mirror, kicking her "D2 shield" and still castrating, smashing hard into her lower abdomen.

"Woo......!" A stream of blood spilled from between Li Bai's teeth, and she was smashed by this leg several meters away, and she relied on "gravity lifting" to avoid being injured by the ground for a second time; As soon as she stood up, she found that the female knight had approached her again in an instant, almost facing her.

"...... of Light Uh-"

"Do you think I'm going to give you a chance to use magic?" grabbed Li Bai's slender neck, and Morana lifted her up with a cold expression, and her strength was so great that she almost lost her breath.

Then, quite crisply, she grabbed Li Bai's right wrist with her free left hand, twisted it slightly, and the piercing pain forced Li Bai to let go of the hilt of the sword, and also lost her last defense.

From the moment the female knight erupted in vain, it took her only 3 or 4 tick seconds before and after, but the enemy had been almost completely subdued by her.

(so strong...... All my defenses, even my magic, were several beats slower than hers...... οΌ‰

(This is the strength of a commander-level warrior who has truly experienced and survived the war between the realms...... οΌ‰

(That's a lot...... I was still thinking about taking her hostage...... οΌ‰

"Hey, you don't care!" Lilith's anxious cry was heard not far away, and she could hear that she was quite flustered now: "Didn't you say that it could be settled......"

The moment the confrontation between Li Bai and Morana began, the surrounding heavy cavalry spontaneously divided a group of men and horses to intervene between them and Lilith, and the whole army stopped their steps, and the original "O" formation was replaced by an "8" formation, which made Lilith unable to break through their obstruction to make any help.

In the final analysis, she is just a girl over 17 years old, and she is pinned down by the military formation at close range, and her magic strength cannot be exerted by 5%, no matter how talented she is, it will not help.

"I've changed my mind about you four times." Morana held Li Bai with one arm and said to her word by word.

"The first time was to change the specific itinerary."

"The second time is to change the evaluation of your strength."

"The third time is to change your plan to play casually."

"The fourth time, it's to change the mind of killing you."

"You should thank Your Majesty for your kindness." She said, "She had expected you to be easily subdued by me, and she had expected that I would want to kill you...... So she sent me an edict very early on, which was a vague description of you, only mentioning the light path rappier, and the core requirements were two, and asking me not to kill you was just one of them. ”

"And the second ......" Morana gave a rare sickly and crazy smile, and she reached for her right wrist with her left hand, pulling out the dark jade bracelet from her sleeve.

At the moment when the bracelet was pulled out by her, Li Bai felt a burst of coldness penetrating her soul coming, beads of sweat dripping from her forehead, and the sense of crisis was put to the maximum at this moment...... She wanted to struggle, but she couldn't muster any strength.

"I really didn't expect that I would have the honor of being a temporary container for His Majesty's arrival." The brown-haired female knight's eyes radiated unparalleled fervor.

"From this point of view, I have to thank you, hahahahaha!"

Li Bai closed his eyes in pain.

It was as if her soul was about to tear her body apart.

The scariest thing.

It's happening.