Chapter 324 What Feige didn't know
The dizziness caused by spatial teleportation still hadn't subsided, but Xia Ni could still remember the location of the moon in the sky before she was thrown into the teleportation. Now she didn't need to look up, and the snake hair told her that Mingyue had barely moved, indicating that the teleportation hadn't taken much time.
Rush out of the tent, use paralyzing gaze, and be thrown into the spatial rift. Although it was a short time, Shane was sure she saw Broomfield. There is only one Thunder Army near the front line, and his commander is only one man. Although Feiqi and Xia Ni have been staying on the south side of the mountain, and the main camp of the Thunder Army is on the northwest side, if there is any movement in the camp, they can't hide it.
The Eagle Eye Meditation Technique combined with the Eye of Koktar, no less than the wolf's sense of hearing, coupled with a keen perception of spell energy fluctuations, the Thunder Army would not be able to hide it if it was a reorganized army. If the Thunder Army had not prepared in advance, how could they have left the camp to attack, and how could they have been detected by the elves? In terms of time, it was impossible for the King's Army to know that the Thunder Army was in action before they were dispatched......
Shani felt cold all over, and it was clear that a conspiracy was surrounding the King's army. "No, I must catch up and warn the Count!"
The Earl had left the camp with his most trusted soldiers, and the rest were the lesser lords who had been on the edge of the United Kingdom. They couldn't count on it, not because of their relatively loose discipline, but because the lords couldn't be fully trusted. Xia Ni looked around, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, did she want to grab a war horse to catch up?
"Oh, your brains aren't so good! Sam, Merry, Pippin! You'd better not sleep!"
Merry and Pippin have been recuperating from their injuries, Sam has taken care of them, and the three of them have become very good friends day and night. As the camp outside began to prepare for battle, the noise woke all three of them from their sleep. They had begun to think that the camp was under surprise attack, so they rushed out in their shirts and carrying shields and swords, making a big joke. Then the three of them discussed it and thought that today's events were unusual, and it was better to be careful. So when Shani found the three men, they had already prepared the carriage.
"Madame Channie, the horses have all been taken away by Lord Count, and we only have two pack horses, so we can only use this four-wheeled vehicle. Merry grabbed the fur hat in his hand and said a little nervously: "We just think that this can help in case of a fight, and we are definitely not preparing to escape......
"Ready to escape? I thought you were going to the front to help carry the wounded and bring some loot back. Pippin's wide-eyed eyes were full of bewilderment.
"You two shut up!" Shanny jumped into the carriage and said to Sam, "The situation is urgent, catch up with the Earl's team as fast as you can, and I'm going to warn them." ”
Sam nodded, grabbed the handrail and quickly climbed to the coachman's position, expertly picked up the reins, and flicked the horse's head. Pippin and Merry glanced at each other, grabbed the weapons and armor stacked on the ground and threw them into the car, then ran to catch up, tugging at each other and finally falling into the van. The carriage immediately began to accelerate, and the bumpy road made the entire cargo compartment tremble, and Xia Ni's stomach began to feel uncomfortable again. She clung to the edge of the carriage with both hands, trying not to look at the rickety earth.
The dark clouds climbed up, the starlight was blocked and disappeared first, and the bright moon was unbearable, leaving only a hazy shadow on the horizon. Merry shielded herself from the wind, and Pippin managed to light the bull's-eye lantern. By the light of the lantern, Sam could barely see the road ahead. Although Shani was urging, Sam didn't dare to drive blindly, and besides, he had to track the traces of the Earl's army, and his speed couldn't be improved.
Skirting a low hill and crossing a small bridge over the river, the traces of the passage of the army pointed to the woods on the eastern side. It was a sparse birch forest, from which the King's army received most of its firewood. Sam glanced at Shanny, the expression on her face still firm and determined, so he could only drive the carriage into the woods.
It was silent, no insects or birds could be heard, only the whisper of the breeze blowing through the leaves and the crackling of the wheels over the branches. It's a bumpy place, with low shrubs, scattered dead branches, and tree stumps hidden under fallen leaves all obstructing traffic. Pippin felt that he had never been shaken so badly in his life, and his internal organs were all turned into a mass of substance that did not distinguish between them. "Sam, can you drive well? Be careful not to ......"
Before the words fell, only a "snap" was heard, and the car fell to the ground suddenly, and the left wheel flew out like a wild dog, crashed into the tree, and fell apart. The two horses were frightened, neighing, and scurrying forward, dragging the broken cart with only one wheel left, rubbing and spinning all the way forward. Sam strained the reins, but the two usually tame horses ignored his commands as if they had lost their minds. In desperation, he could only draw a short knife and cut the rope.
The horse ran away, and after a few rabbit-like leaps, it disappeared into the darkness. The car finally stopped, and several people slowly recovered from the shock. By the light of the bull's-eye lantern, several men treated the skin wounds and then picked up weapons and armor from the carriage.
"I hit a tree stump and got the wheel stuck, and then I broke the shaft. Merry kicked Pippin in the ass and became angry: "It's all your nonsense, this car is broken, and the horse is gone!
"I'll clean it up when I get back. Shani sighed. Due to the hurry of coming out, they only had a bull's-eye lantern, so it was impossible to split up. "We can only hope to find the Count as soon as possible. Grab your things, and find some branches on the way that can be ignited to make torches, so that the Count can spot us as soon as possible. ”
They continued along the horseshoe prints on the ground, and soon came to a bush, in which the footprints disappeared. "What's going on?Why wasn't the bush kicked down by the horse?" said Shani, holding a simple branch torch in one hand and drawing her sword in the other, stabbing at the bushes in front of her. The blade stabbed into the air, as if it were piercing into the air, and Xia Ni didn't feel the injury at all. Obviously, these shrubs are illusions.
"Ma'am, what the hell is going on?" Sam became very nervous, and he raised his shield and approached Shanny, shielding her behind him. He used Feiqi's connections to audit both the magic school and the Hell Knights, and also learned some magic knowledge, so he said: "I feel that there are some strange energy fluctuations here, and someone should be casting spells." But I don't have Master Feige's skills to determine the source and type of spells. ”
"I reckon the Earl has fallen into someone else's trap, and I must hurry to warn him. Xia Ni took a closer look at the messy horseshoe prints on the ground and said, "The shrub's illusion is fake, and the horseshoe prints are real." Only by following the footsteps can we find the Count. Follow me!"
Shani swung her sword and stepped into the bushes, as if she were really cutting through the thorns. Feige once told her that the most important thing about illusion is to cover up the truth, and the second thing is to provide illusions to confuse. If you think that everything in front of you is false after discovering the hallucination, you are more likely to fall into the trap. Xia Ni wielded her long sword, but it actually played the same role as a blind man's pathfinder. Since you can't tell whether what is in front of you is real or fake, it is better to treat it as if you can't see anything.
The bushes were quickly crossed by her, but a thick layer of fog continued to obscure the ground. She found herself in a clearing, flanked on either sides by gently grassy hills that were slightly higher, with a few small trees growing alone at the top. The moon cast a bright light through the gap in the dark clouds, and Shani took advantage of this light to crouch down and use her hands to clear the fog. There are no footprints on the wet grass, the green grass leaves are smooth and intact, and no one has trampled on it.
"Where is the Earl?" said Charney, who had indeed followed the direction of her footprints. At this moment, a hot and warm wind blew through the snake's hair, mixed with a hint of fishy smell. Xia Ni looked in the direction where the wind was blowing, and saw some tiny bright spots emerge in the thick night. She squinted vigorously, and the snake's hair gathered together, poking her head out from under the veil to help inspect it.
"What's that?" the others noticed something was wrong, and some silhouettes of leaping and running appeared in the darkness. After about a few seconds, they saw a cavalry unit marching rapidly, the emblem of the Goddess of Thunder and Truth reflecting slightly on the knight's chest. The "Thunder Army" was silent and fast-moving, their mounts and knights shrouded in a veil of shimmering starlight, which looked like the effect of divine magic, but no one could tell what it was. As if they had just flown out of a dream, they quickly approached Shani.
"That's not right!" Shani's eyesight is much better than the average person, and the snake's hair is able to distinguish the different colors formed by temperature like a cold-blooded animal. She saw a group of knights with her naked eyes, but the snake's eyes saw four long-necked snake lizards with seven heads! At the same time, in the opposite direction of the group of snake lizards, there was a low roar of "launch" in the wind. All they could hear was the whizzing sound of arrows raining down, and black shadows flew over their heads, heading straight for the snake lizard.
"Ignition, second round shooting!"
The familiar voice was supposed to be the Count's, and Xia Ni only saw a thick fog, but she couldn't see the Count's location. She was convinced that she had fallen into a large illusion, and her vision was severely cut off. She suddenly remembered Feiqi's words, and threw the torch in her hand with all her strength towards the place where the rain of arrows had been fired, and then watched intently.
The light of the fire swirled and crashed into the low hill, and the hill vanished. Xia Ni found herself no more than twenty meters away from the Earl's military formation, which had only been blocked by the terrain created by illusions. Count Hall was directing the knights in a second round of shooting, and he held aloft the emblem, and the thunder that fell from the sky ignited the brazier that had been prepared in advance, and the soldiers lit arrows from the brazier and fired them in order to illuminate the entire battlefield.
"Count, it's a trap! Go, go!"
Shanny's cries were drowned out by the noise of the bowstrings, but she broke some of the illusion with her torch and let the Count see it. There was no one more surprised than Earl Hall, and the moment he saw Shanny, a suffocating sense of fear suddenly enveloped him.
The arrows of fire streaked through the air like meteors, and the illusion on the other side vanished. When a snake lizard appears on the battlefield, there is no one who does not feel terrified. It was a four-headed red pharyngeal snake lizard, the size of a long-extinct plesiosaur, except that it had a wider body and more heads, and those heads were capable of spewing fire. They lined up in a horizontal line and charged with thunderous force, and the flaming rockets that landed on them were all ricocheted, and only a few shot through the crust, but these monsters were not afraid of fire at all.
"The Goddess of Truth and Thunder is with us!Destroy these monsters for the sake of all mankind!" Count Hall held aloft the emblem, a bright blue glow shining on each of the warriors. "Chop off the heads of these snake lizards, no matter how fast they regenerate, keep cutting off their heads, and they will die of exhaustion!
The best way to deal with the Flame Snake Lizard is cold, which can completely inhibit its regeneration and make its movements rigid and no longer threatening. Acid is also a good way to do without the power of ice, as acid etching the wound will prevent it from growing new heads. But Feige, who is proficient in the use of various elemental magic such as ice and acid, is not here, and Count Hall can only settle for the next best thing, using brute force and sharp weapons to solve everything.
The use of bows and arrows was too small, so the knights put away their longbows and prepared to meet the enemy with swords and shields. Count Hall raised his sword aloft to boost morale, and at the same time signaled to Xia Ni and the others with his other hand, and quickly circled the edge of the line and ducked behind. But before he could finish the gesture, there were suddenly two small red dots in the air.
What's that? A lot of people are looking up. The red dot suddenly grew larger, brighter and hotter, and in just a few seconds, it became two huge fireballs. "Goddess, protect us from the flames!" the Count shouted as he cast his magic, and in the next moment, the crowd finally saw what was behind the fireball.
They were two red dragons, hidden in the shadows behind the bright flames, with only two menacing eyes reflecting a hideous light. Just as the knights put away their bows and arrows, the two dragons attacked the king's army with impunity under the protection of night and illusion.
The waves of fire crashed against the rocks formed by the knights, and the reefs exploded in screams, and the men and horses were thrown helplessly into the air, turning into silent fuel when they landed. Count Hall's spells couldn't protect the entire legion, and with a single charge, the dragons disrupted the knights' battle formations with fire and fear. Panic and chaos spread, and only the soldiers in the vicinity of the Templar and Royal Earl Kanter Hale remained fully capable of fighting.
The snake lizard rushed towards them, and Shani was halfway through their charge. She said calmly: "Let's fight, there are no bad breeds in the Hall family. You can be behind me, but don't look at my face anyway. ”
The veil fell in the hot night wind, and the snakehair attacked the snake lizard. Sam, Pippin, and Merry heard a terrifying hiss, as if the sharpest scream in the whole world was happening right in front of them. Warm blood flowed out of the ear holes, and the world became much quieter, and not far away, a flame snake lizard seemed to be drunk, its whole body lost its balance, swayed, and fell to the ground with a bang. The other snake lizard, four of the seven heads also drooped down in an instant, like a seedling that had been drained of water. It's just that its other three heads slammed into it, spewing flames at Shani.
"Protect me!" Shani raised her left hand, and the earth elemental command ring glistened. A wall of earth rose from the ground, like a giant shield in front of the flames. The snake lizard slammed into it, its huge body turning the earthen wall into pieces, but it didn't see Xia Ni and the others behind the smoke.
The snake lizard shook its head, and the paralyzing sensation spread from the position of the four heads to the other half of its body, and it felt bad. At this time, the only way to hope is that you can perform well and get a new life from the act of destruction. So, dragging half of its paralyzed body, the snake lizard stubbornly rushed to the burning position of the king's army.