88. Grievances in the face of death
As soon as she stepped out of the portal, she saw Caterina carefully crouching on the boulder at the top of the cliff, staring at a huge forest on the other side of the cliff.
I climbed the boulder with my hands and feet, and followed the direction of Caterina's gaze, and saw several knights surrounded by Diego and a group of nobles rushing through the woods below the cliff, and the well-trained knights looked back from time to time to observe the pursuers behind, and a magic flare shot up into the sky, exploding over the giant forest, revealing a striking light wheel, and the sound of the explosion was quickly transmitted from the trees below the cliff.
In order to ensure that this autumn hunt can be carried out smoothly, the third prince Eric also dispatched the Royal Constructed Knights to be responsible for the safety of the hunting ground, this kind of magic signal flare for help is almost in everyone's hands, and the nobles who came to Prince Eric's Villa to participate in the autumn hunt are all with their subordinates, there has never been any trace of magic beasts on the northern slope of Majaro Mountain, even large beasts have been driven out of this hunting ground by the knights, so this hunting ground has made very thorough preparations for the personal safety of the nobles.
I looked behind the knights, and a group of two-headed Hellhounds sprang out of the bushes, and these Hellhounds were covered in lava, and these lava dripped everywhere in the woodland, and immediately bursts of black smoke rose from the black smoke, and in an instant a large area of the woodland behind the two-headed Hellhounds burst into flames.
A two-headed Hellhound as big as a calf rushed forward, its huge paws on a rock, and its entire body soared into the air, and the two-headed Hellhound's head flashed with a demonic circle, and then a firefire shot out of the bloody mouth of the Hellhound.
Flying to the knight who was fleeing for his life, the knight who fell at the end saw that he couldn't dodge, turned around on the horseback and raised the knight's light shield above his head, the flame bomb exploded on the surface of the knight's light shield, and the huge impact instantly collapsed the knight, and the war horse also crashed headlong into the giant tree under this huge impact, and the whole war horse was like a pile of rotten meat piled under the giant tree, the horse stock collapsed, and the blood couldn't stop flowing out.
The knight fell to the ground, the knight's light shield in his hand was shattered by the fire bullet, and his entire arm was also blown up with blood, almost useless, the knight rolled around the ground with difficulty and quickly got up, the other intact arm drew the knight's long sword at his waist, gritted his teeth and pointed at the hellhound that pounced on him with the tip of the sword that trembled slightly.
The two-headed Hellhound pounced on the chainmailed knight like a tiger, rolling with the knight in the woodland, and the Hellhound on his side did not stop at all, continuing to track in the direction of Diego's escape.
On the high cliff, I saw the signal of response from the surrounding giant woods, and it seemed that there were knights in the Royal Knights' Formation who quickly gathered around Diego and his party from the surroundings, but before they rushed over, these two-headed hellhounds had already bitten behind Diego's group of nobles, and there were constantly knights left behind, and as long as these knights turned to fight, they would be overwhelmed by the hellhounds chasing from behind, and in the blink of an eye, three knights were dragged off their horses by the two-headed hellhounds, and these two-headed hellhounds surging with lava rolled together in hand-to-hand combatγ
The two-headed hellhound has two large mouths of blood, these knights in hand-to-hand combat basically have no power to fight back, one dog head bites the knight's sword, the other dog head bites the knight's throat, the sharp fangs cut the knight's chest, greedily devouring the knight's internal organs that have not yet completely swallowed the air, and the two-headed hellhound gathered up behind the knight in the process of fighting for food, completely tearing the knight's body to pieces.
These two-headed hellhounds whose strength is only the second-level peak of the demonic beasts, in the face of Diego, a group of pampered nobles, actually presented a scene similar to slaughter, so I can't help but sigh, there is really a reason for the continuous defeat of the plane war, there has been no major war in the Grimm Empire in recent decades, these nobles have not been tempered on the battlefield, and they dare not face the battle head-on when they meet these hellhounds with average strength.
Escaping will not completely shake off the trailing hellhounds, so the knights in charge of guarding will have to fill with their lives.
I never expected that the demon creatures of the hell realm would actually appear on the northern slope of Mount Majaro at such a time, at this time Ying Li and Xiao Ella also came out of the portal, I turned back to Ying Li and said: "You and Ella have returned to Xinliu Valley, there are some situations here, you go to Xinliu Valley to hide, and you will come out when this place is safe." β
Hearing me say this, Ying Li nodded obediently and said to me, "Then you must be careful......
I'm going to follow these two-headed hellhounds with Caterina and hunt them down one by one.
I've had several battles with these two-headed hellhounds, and I already know their weaknesses, and it wasn't too difficult for me and Caterina to chase after them and kill them one by one, but I was just worried that I wouldn't be able to protect the Lady of Win Li and Little Ella during the hunt, so I asked Win Li to take refuge in the Valley of the Willow for a while.
It's just that I didn't expect Xiao Ella to hide to the side at this time, and didn't let Ying Li pull her hand, Xiao Ella raised her little face and said to me stubbornly: "I won't go back, I want to stay and fight with you, the orc tribe of the Pai Plateau will not be like you, I will never grow up if you do this, please, Jijia, let me stay!"
Helena and Becky on the side also looked eager to try, and it seemed that they were both interested in this battle.
β...... Jijia, we want to stay too. Becky plucked up her courage and stood up to me.
I thought about it for a while, glanced at the dozens of two-headed hellhounds running under the cliff, and thought to myself that it didn't matter if I let them exercise, it could be regarded as a very good actual combat exercise, especially the two-headed hellhound in the hell realm, a demon beast.
I jumped down from the boulder and looked at little Ella, and said to her with a serious face: "Okay, since you want to stay, then when you are going to fight, you must do everything you do under the command, if you can't do this, I will let Karantso throw you to Xinliu Valley!"
"I can do it!" said little Ella, giving me a not-so-standard Imperial Knight salute.
I turned and walked into the portal in the Valley of the Willow and said, "I'm going to call out Karantso and Ruka and Justus." β
Just now we sent the big elk into the Xinliu Valley, Karantso, Ruka, and Justes have already gathered near the teleportation altar, after I re-entered the Xinliu Valley, they have not dispersed, listening to me beckoning them to go out to hunt the hellhounds, they all seem to be eager to try, these days they seem to be very bored living in the Xinliu Valley, at this time can have the opportunity to come out to let the wind out, naturally they will not let go.
Probably worried that I would arrange for someone to stay behind to protect Little Ella and the Win Li people, Karantso decisively selected ten of the strongest orc warriors to pass through the portal together, and the Minotaur Ruka also wanted to bring the barbarian slaves out, but considering that there were a large number of nobles here, I didn't want them to peek into the secrets of the barbarian slaves, so I left the barbarian slaves in Xinliu Valley.
Seeing the sudden growth of the team, I turned my head to look at the woods below the cliff, and I said to everyone, "Let's go and kill all those two-headed Hellhounds, and save Diego by the way!"
Standing on the top of the cliff with his hands on his chest and without any scruples, Karantso looked at Diego and his party under a cliff surrounded by two-headed hellhounds in the huge forest below, and asked me with a smile: "Haven't you and Diego always been on good terms?"
I rubbed my nose, smiled and said, "Even if there is a grudge between us, it won't let him die in front of my eyes." β
"Let's go save them!" I said to everyone.
After saying that, he rode an argali, and rushed down the hillside behind the top of the cliff.
The Minotaur Ruka followed me closely, while Caterina was on the right and left of Win Li, everyone was worried that there would be a Hellhound lurking in the bushes suddenly bursting out, this kind of ambush was often unguardable, although Karantso and the ten orc warriors were not on horseback, but they were the fastest, jumping from the cliff to the bottom of the cliff in a few twists and jumps, and these orc warriors successfully attracted the attention of the surrounding two-headed hellhounds.
By the time we ran down from the top of the cliff dozens of meters high, Karantso and the orc warriors had already fought fiercely with this group of two-headed hellhounds, the orc warriors were usually well-trained, they had hunted the hellhounds on the nameless island, and knew the weaknesses of these hellhounds, and by the time we ran down on argali, several hellhounds had already fallen in the woods, their signs of life were disappearing little by little, and the lava on their bodies was solidifying little by little.
Little Ella rode out on an argali, and shot an arrow at the hellhound that came out of the woodland, but when this feathered arrow was just halfway flying, it was shot down by a wind bomb spit out of the mouth of the hellhound, and little Ella for these hell beasts, only a single means of attack such as a bow and arrow, she quickly jumped off the sheep's back, hid behind a big tree, looked at the two-headed hellhound rushing towards her, without a trace of fear, her eyes were full of excitement, opened her bow and arrow, and shot out' 'Three arrows in a row', it seems that this should be the best skill of little Ella in the Warrior Academy, and the arrows chase one after the other and shoot into the eyes of the hellhound in front of him.
When the hellhound came, he didn't even dodge, but just shook his head fiercely, and the feather arrow hit the face of the hellhound, and immediately fell to the ground.
It's just that although they know the weakness of the hellhounds, as ordinary ninth-level warriors, their own strength is limited after all.
At this time, a cyan figure flashed in front of everyone, and two slender bone swords stabbed the ribs on both sides of the Hellhound from a strange angle, and as the Hellhound pounced forward, the sharp bone sword cut two huge wounds in the Hellhound's abdominal cavity, and the intestines in the abdominal cavity spilled to the ground.
Justes stabilized his figure, he held the bone sword in both hands, stood in front of Helena, turned his head and said to her: "Speed and balance are the most important things for a swordsman, the timing of your sword is too early, so it is easy for the opponent to have a backhand to predict, and you will often lose the opportunity, and the time to draw the sword will ......"
I think for Helena, it's more like a live lesson for a sword dancer, and although Justes isn't a sword dancer, he's very good at using two-handed swords.
At this time, the movement on our side has alarmed the other hellhounds in the woodland, and there are constantly hellhounds coming out of the bushes, but they are not at all the opponents of Karantso, Justus, and the ten orc warriors, with these people in front, all the hellhounds we met fell in the lava, and the forest was filled with a smell of sulfur, and little Ella, Helena, and Becky were protected in the middle of the group, and I and Win Ligen were at the back of the group, and at the back were Ruka the Minotaur and Katarina.
Little Ella stood at the center of the group, and with her keen sense of smell, she always had a glimpse of the opportunity to shoot arrows at the hellhounds that suddenly rushed out of the corner, although these feathered arrows were difficult to hurt the hellhounds, but they served as a good warning.
A huge fireball appeared in the center of the demonic array in front of Yingli's chest, and an ice spear condensed above my head, and I approached Diego's hunting team step by step, and along the way, I met the horses that had been completely eaten by the hellhounds, only the blood on the ground and the torn saddles, and the bloody armor of the knights.
When we approached Diego's group of nobles, Diego and the elders of his family took several nobles with long swords in their hands, protecting several female dependents behind them, and they seemed to be quite backbone at the last moment, Diego's face was pale, holding a magic sword in one hand, and a magic scroll in the other, the tip of the sword drew a magic pattern circle in front of him, and a belt formed by a flame covered everyone.
Karantso and Justes rushed to the bottom of the cliff first, and the heavy sword in Karantso's hand cut off the heads of several two-headed hellhounds that counterattacked, her movements were extremely decisive, without a trace of fancy, and the injured nobles on the opposite side of the cliff looked at this orc female warrior with a dull expression, as if the joy of being rescued was covered by the shock in their hearts.
At this time, it seems that you look into the woods, and there is a large group of two-headed hellhounds running out from that direction, and there is a swirling cloud condensed above the woodland where these hellhounds have run, and there are constant arcs of electricity in the rolling dark clouds, and lightning strikes from the sky towards the huge forest.
Ying Li and I couldn't help but glance at each other, and I blurted out: "The power of the laws of the plane of the Roland Continent has descended on the side of the giant forest, and it seems that there may be high-level demons in that woodland. β
"Shall we go and see?" Karantso said to me with a murderous suffrage, carrying the blood-stained black heavy sword and smashing the head of the two-headed hellhound in front of him.