Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 59: The End of Maltan (3)
"You're too impulsive!"
It was the Duke of Dimmonry and Swift Virgil who pulled Calval apart, and with Antonidas in the camp, Mantein was finally able to send these two legendary forces out without any scruples.
"He fled! I can't feel the lich's breath anymore! "Swift Virgil is a legendary archer, better in perception than the knightly Duke of Guimonry," he fled! Leave behind his men and army! ”
"A common tactic for the undead!" Duke Guimonri, who participated in the last faction war, is not surprised by this, heroic combat power is not uncommon for undead with long lives, but when they become legends, they will begin to cherish their lives, so in the faction war, unless they are in a desperate situation, it is rare to see a legendary undead die in battle.
Calva's face was grazed with a bloody streak from the shards of exploding wood, and the shadows and toxins carried on the shards quickly made half of the handsome knight's face swell, but as if he was unconscious, he struggled to get up from the ground and asked Swift with a pant, "Where is that lich?" Where will he go? He's my prey! I'm going to kill him with my own hands! ”
"Alas!" The two legendary-level powerhouses glanced at each other and sighed softly, the fall of the Sbein family had caused this young man to endure too much pain and pressure, and Calva's mental state was on the verge of collapse, which was barely supported by the desire for revenge on Martan. Whether his revenge succeeds or fails, the young man's vitality will disappear as quickly as a candle in the wind, as he has completely squeezed out the potential that will be slowly unleashed in the coming decades in just a few months.
Swift couldn't bear to let him continue to suffer like this: "Go find Lord Antonidas!" Before he unleashed the Skyfall Ice Blast, in order to prevent these undead from escaping through the teleportation array, he had planted spatial interference around this battlefield in advance. Maybe he can tell you about the lich. ”
As soon as the words fell, Calva rushed out without looking back.
The castle of Radley, which once made Mante's eyes pierce, easily fell into the hands of the coalition forces. Compared to a few days ago, when countless soldiers were lost and they could not advance an inch, with the help of Dalaran, these human soldiers were like tourists, and they swept away those undead in a leisurely stroll. Bunker, who occupied the southern camp, also fled with all the gargoyles after the hail began to fall, and most of the hundreds of thousands of undead cannon fodder left behind were turned into bone and rotten meat, and those who survived were exterminated by the humans who followed.
At the same time that the Duke of Guimonri made a move and slashed Steyr under his sword, Yu Bin was following Les, waiting at the Jedar Pass. There used to be a simple pass, but when news of the fall of the Krk fortress came, the officers in charge of guarding it gave the order to retreat and burned the pass. The broken pass and the large number of rocks deliberately piled up by the defenders made this pass impassable, so that the undead army staying outside the pass had to make a detour to Marshall Mountain, more than a hundred kilometers away, and still did not enter the territory of the Virgil Kingdom.
"How do you know that idiot is going to run away from this direction?" Les played with the gadget in his hand, which looked like a small phalanx that no one would look at even if it was thrown on the ground, but in Rice's eyes, it was a treasure full of charm.
That's right, this is the life box that the archsorcerer Griman has spent hundreds of years making, and now, a small piece of Maltan's soul is sealed inside.
Yu Bin didn't know why Les was so kind to him, and in the excavation field of Casvator before, this lich had no resistance to his request to find the life box. Even Marduk refused to obey Bin's orders at first, let alone Les Frost, who was second only to Kel'thugad in strength. To be honest, Yu Bin was even mentally prepared to be rejected, but in the end, he didn't expect this lich to agree without hesitation.
Even after finding the life box, Les agreed to personally accompany Yu Bin here and act as a backer for him in order to have a sufficient advantage in the negotiations with Martan.
"After escaping from Radley Castle, the other directions are either deep into the kingdom of Virgil or no one answers, Bunker and Ingman are good helpers, but one is only a few kilometers away from him, and the other does not know which corner of the city he is hiding in, with Maltan's timid personality, he will never choose these two guys when fleeing. All that remains is to enter the Minas Kingdom to the west, or to the south, relying on the complicated situation on the border between the Almeria Empire and the Minas Empire, and find an opportunity to make a comeback. Besides, there are also Drake and Hills wandering here with a group of undead, and no matter how you look at it, he has the highest probability of escaping in this direction. ”
"And then?" Les didn't seem to care whether Yu Bin's guess was reasonable at all, "Even if he escapes from this direction and finally joins those undead, how are you going to drive him to the underground world?" I don't think that idiot is going to get out of here just by lip service. ”
Yu Bin smiled, if the raid on Krk Fortress was his temporary play, then from now until Martan entered the underground world, it was his carefully planned conspiracy.
"It's not that I'm driving him to the underworld, it's that he'll eventually find that he has no choice but to go there!" This is a step that Yu Bin is most satisfied with, and even happier than the victory of the Krk Fortress, because this is the first time he has used his own hands, like a puppet, to let a legendary lich follow his baton to make movements, "Steyr and Enrique are estimated to be dead at this time, Drake and Hills are two idiots who can obey orders, they are a pair of waste, and Martan, who has just escaped from the shroud of death, has settled down a little, Surely he was very eager to have a capable subordinate to give him advice, and at this time, Ingeman, who had escaped from the province of Barria, had traveled thousands of miles to bring the bad news of Bunkerek's heroic death, so Martan looked around and finally found that there was only one Ingman around him who could be trusted to help him. ”
"Then Ingman will find an opportunity to suggest to Maltan to leave here for a while and go to the underworld to regain his strength. And in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Dalaran will definitely support the Virgil Kingdom to continue to pursue Maltan, and it is obvious that staying here needs to worry about being caught by those archmages at any time. Les followed Yu Bin's words and said what was going on, and it was clear that this lich was not really unaware of the conspiracy planned by Yu Bin, but more like using this method to induce Bin's desire to talk.
Yu Bin didn't care, he didn't underestimate Rice's thoughts: "It's not just that. Since Dalaran has made a move, then Queen Fiona of Almeria naturally has no excuse to attack the Kingdom of Minas, so what about the 200,000 troops she has stationed on the border? Dissolution in place? Or are they all in the defense zone? If I were Her Majesty the Queen, who wanted to save face, and heard the news of the victory at the Battle of Radre, I would immediately order the troops on the border to go out and destroy the two wastes, Drake and Hills, and preferably catch the fleeing Maltan, so that the behavior of the Almerian soldiers on the border would not be to take advantage of the fire, but to save the rivers and lakes. No one can blame her. ”
"At that time, no matter how unwilling that fool is, he will have to leave the Ntagri Continent for his own life and go to the underground world to recover his strength." Les threw the phalanges in his hand to Yu Bin, "Okay, the guest you were waiting for is here!" I'm looking forward to seeing how you're going to convince him to give you what he regards as his life. ”
Yu Bin looked down from the mountain pass where he was, and just saw two figures chasing and fleeing along the foot of the mountain. Running in front was of course Martan, who escaped from Radre's Castle, where was the scene of Martan at this time, his robes were tattered, and he could even see an obvious crack extending from his shoulder blades to his abdomen, if it was extended a little further, I am afraid that half of the lich's body would be split. Except for the staff in his hand that seemed relatively intact, there was basically nothing intact on his body.
Behind Maltan was Calva, a young knight who wanted to kill his enemies with his own hands, his whole body glowed with blood-red, which was a blessing from the god of war, and the price to pay was so great that he often prayed to the god of war for this blessing only when he was desperate to kill the enemy at the cost of his own life.
Obviously, Maltan has legendary strength, and Calva is just an ordinary hero, but in Yu Bin's opinion, no matter what the situation in front of him, the identities of the two people seem to be reversed.
Having lost his equipment, Maltan was unable to move with ease at all, and it was obviously a terrible decision to make a quick run up the mountain road, perhaps with the aim of crossing the Jemar Pass as quickly as possible, but the mountain road allowed Calva to catch up with him.
"Death!" A blood-red sword light with a sky-high anger erupted behind Maltan, and it was the first time that Yu Bin saw a knight who could have such a powerful anger like a warrior. In the face of Kalva's full force, Maltan could only raise the staff in his hand and quickly chant a few syllables, summoning a thick wall of earth to block the sword light.
But the distance between him and Calva narrowed, and seeing that revenge was in sight, the young knight kicked his legs and rushed towards Maltan like a cannonball, not caring that he would be hurt by it.
Two ice arrows hit Calva's body, but the ice elemental that could have frozen Kala's body was dissipated by the anger on his body in an instant, and these two ice arrows did nothing to help Maltan except for leaving two magical wounds on Calva's shoulder and chest.
"Evil! You will pay for what you do! With a roar, Calva successfully crashed into the magic shield that Maltan had urgently summoned, and his angry sword pierced the magic shield like tofu, stabbing between Maltan's ribs, extending the wound a few more points downward.
"Fuck off! Crawler! Maltan slammed the staff in his hand into Calva's chest, don't look at the lich as a spell-casting unit, but its strong strength also gives it enough power, even if the attribute bonus brought by the level alone is enough for Maltan to compete with an ordinary heroic knight. The jagged bone claws smashed a piece of Calva's chest, and Yu Bin believed that the blow had broken at least three ribs for the human knight.
At the touch of a button, at this time, Maltan finally saw Yu Bin and Les, who were standing on the ruins of the pass, after dozens of meters of driving, and Calva also noticed these two guys who suddenly appeared.
No matter what aspect you look at, Rice's appearance is an out-and-out uncompromised, so there is naturally no need to ask what the identity of Yu Bin standing next to Rice is. Maltan was overjoyed at this, and Calva didn't say a word, and stepped forward with his sword, trying to take advantage of the two undead to intervene before the two undead could interfere.
"Help me! Help me! I'm willing to pay you enough! "For a miser to be able to say such things, it has to be said that Calva has driven him to a corner.
Just as he was asking for help from Les, Calva slashed another sword into Maltan's thigh, although it was not cut, Yu Bin could still clearly hear the crisp sound of fractures.
"Maltan! Before I save you, shouldn't you pay off the debt you owed me first? Les didn't seem to mean to speak, so Yu Bin had no choice but to come forward by himself.
Martan once again forced Calva away from him and said to Yu Bin, "No problem! I don't know who you are, and I don't know how much I owe you, but as long as you can help me kill this human, I will not only pay you back all that I owe you, but also give you an additional satisfactory reward! ”
"That's great! But I think it's important for you to remember how much you owe me! Yu Bin took off his helmet, revealing his pale face.
"It's !! you" Maltan was shocked, he never imagined that he would meet Yu Bin here. For a while, he was attracted by this little undead with a treasure map, and the memory of wading through mountains and rivers to find the great wizard Griman was instantly recalled by him, and he also remembered why the other party would say that he owed him a debt.
Indeed, in the original agreement, it was agreed that once he successfully obtained Greman's inheritance, he would give one-third of his wealth to the other party as a reward. At the beginning, he was in high spirits and was not ready to fulfill this promise at all, but he didn't expect that this little undead would endure until now and seize such the best opportunity to collect debts.
"Good! Ice Whisper • Dry Bones! I admit it! As long as you kill this human, I will not only pay you back everything I owe you, but I will also give you another third! ”
"Not enough! You have been in arrears for so long, shouldn't you pay liquidated damages and interest? ”
"And how much do you want?" Martan fended off Calva's attacks, and the human knight clearly knew that his time was running out, and if he didn't kill Maltan before the two undead could make a move, his revenge would fail, and the Sbein family would be wiped out here.
"All!" Yu Bin's tone was smug.