"Sawyer, Sawyer?"

"Uh-huh? What's wrong? What happened! ”

Suddenly hearing someone shouting to him, Sawa quickly opened his eyes and touched the corner of his mouth with his right hand without leaving a trace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Khan, you guy, obviously not very good at riding, but you first learned how to sleep on a horse. Don't wipe your mouth, you've seen it a long time ago. ”

Divo, who came from the front of the horse team, looked at Sawa helplessly, his eyes swept over Sawyer's chest, Sawa looked down at the puddle of water stains on the leather armor on his chest, and laughed embarrassedly.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm here to remind you that we're almost at the Grey Swamp Fortress ahead, and we're going to make a little detour so that we don't have to say hello to the Grey Ravens, which will save a lot of time."

"Grey Raven?" Sawyer only felt a little familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember who this gray crow was, but he still agreed to Divo's suggestion.

Sawyer shook the reins a few times, urged the horses under his seat to run a few steps, and rushed to the front of the group with Divo, and then the light of the morning sun could clearly see the outline of a fortress and some broken walls not far to the west.

After a few minutes, the team of horses gradually approached the fortress, and the nearby streams and mires increased, and Divo had to order the speed of the horse team to slow down, not only to guard against the ubiquitous mire, but also to watch out for the mirelurns that lurked in the mire, disguised as stones, this cunning crustacean creature that could easily break the leg of a war horse, and they were the most dangerous creatures in this gray swamp plain.

(Ash Swamp Fortress?) ）

Looking at the slowly growing swamp, Sawyer, who was a little confused, also came to his senses, and finally remembered where the gray crow was sacred.

At that time, he was still on his way to the Coldfall Peak, and while chatting with Nodia about the notorious bandit group in the Snow Man, he learned some rumors from Nodia.

The Crow Bandit Group, formerly known as the Crow Mercenary Group, has not completely devoted itself to the high-risk and high-income industry of bandits, and has accumulated a lot of notoriety in the mercenary world, pretending to rob the caravan as a robber, killing the employer halfway, monopolizing high-value mission items, and extorting more commissions when collecting money, almost all bad things have been done, but looking at the super scale of the Gray Raven Mercenary Group, which is full of more than 200 people, no one is willing to jump out to preside over justice.

Twenty years ago, just a few years after the end of the World War, the entire empire had not yet recovered, and in Skyrim Province, due to religious issues, some refugees and most of the disgruntled Imperial soldiers took refuge in Ufrik, who had raised the banner in Windhelm, while the other part of the refugees and a small number of ill-intentioned soldiers had taken up the bandit business, causing turmoil in the major territories.

At that time, the Ash Swamp Fortress was still under the control of Xue Man, but there were rumors that several bandit groups were ready to unite to capture the Ash Swamp Fortress, and Xue Man did not have enough troops to increase the number of troops, so several nobles privately summed up and simply hired a few mercenary groups to garrison the Ash Swamp Fortress, including the Gray Raven Mercenary Group.

Later, several nobles arrived at the Grey Swamp Fortress with the mercenary group on the first night, and the entire fortress was quickly controlled by the Grey Raven Mercenary Regiment, and the two soldier brigades originally stationed in the Grey Swamp Fortress totaled 400 people, all of whom were killed, and the remaining high-level mercenaries of the mercenary group were slaughtered, and most of the low-level mercenaries joined the Grey Raven Mercenary Regiment, and those who did not want to join were also killed.

Later, it was already a deputy commander of the Grey Raven Bandit Regiment who revealed the secret of that night, and it turned out that the rumors of the so-called robber siege were originally spread by the Grey Raven Mercenary Regiment, and at the same time, they bought off a cook in the Grey Swamp Fortress and added a sleeping potion to all the meals, which allowed the Grey Raven Mercenary Regiment to quickly control the entire fortress.

The number of the Grey Raven bandit group that controlled the Grey Swamp Fortress also skyrocketed to more than four hundred, which was not much different from the army stationed here before, and the high-end combat power even exceeded it, and Xue Man could only suffer a loss.

Later, many small bandit groups came to visit, and the Gray Crow bandit group, which had more than 1,000 elite bandits, slowly developed into the largest bandit group in Xueman, and even relied on Xueman's lack of enough troops to attack, and also reached several verbal agreements with Xueman.

(More than 1,000 people...... ）

Sawyer swallowed silently, and said that when he got the title, what if Barguf asked him to lead someone to clear the Ash Swamp fortress, and surrender directly......

At this time, the Gray Swamp Fortress also found Sawyer and his party, but seeing that Sawyer's horse team had begun to turn, he didn't pay much attention, just a few more robbers on the wall, obviously, this group of about fifty people was not qualified to make the Gray Raven bandit group nervous.

Bypassing the Ash Swamp Fortress, a low mountain appeared in front of Sawyer's eyes, but it was not so much a low hill as a large mound, and Sawyer's eyes saw that the relative altitude of this low mountain was not as good as that of the Yunding area of Snow City, estimated to be only sixty or seventy meters high, and the width of hundreds of meters made it seem more like a gentle slope.

(Wait, Dwarf?) A low hill to the west of the Ash Swamp Fortress? ）

Sawyer suddenly remembered something and hurried to Divo's side.

"Divo, where is this low mountain in front of you?"

"Dwarf? Do you mean the West Soil Slope? The people of Xueman call it Xitupo, but the specific name is unknown. ”

"Are there any other mountains nearby?"

"That's gone, it's the only place on the snowy plains that barely counts as a mountain."

"Damn! It's broken, let everyone be on alert! ”

Sawyer shouted sharply, and Divo, though a little unclear, made the team slow down and gather everyone.

Sawyer didn't know what the West Dirt Slope was, but what Sawa knew was that he had "walked" this road countless times, and there were at least a group of saber-toothed tigers, a group of gray wolves, and a group of skeletons on the top of the mountain!

Just as the crowd gathered, the team made another short march towards the western slope, and before Sawyer could explain anything, several skeletons appeared behind the horizon at the top of the slope!

"Everyone's on alert!"

Before Divo could finish speaking, a group of mercenaries had already turned over and dismounted, rushed forward a few steps to form a defensive formation, and protected the war horses behind.

As soon as the warriors at the forefront had formed the first line of defense, a rain of arrows descended from the top of the slope, and the warriors raised their shields to defend themselves, but none of them were injured except for one unlucky man who was shot in the footboard.

At this time, the enemies on the top of the slope were all exposed in front of everyone's eyes, and a piece of two or three hundred skeletons with white flowers almost shook Sawyer's eyes, but the strength was not high, most of them were white bone skeletons of more than ten levels, and the strongest were only two black iron skeletons of twenty-three levels.

"Archer cover! Mage range coverage! Warriors, follow me! ”

You don't need any tactics to deal with this group of brainless skeletons, anyway, the strength is enough, just crush them all the way.

The warriors, led by Divo, formed an arrowhead, shielded one hand to block the stray arrows falling from the sky, and began to charge towards the sea of skeletons on the top of the slope.

On the other hand, the sea of skeletons on the top of the slope, in addition to a considerable number, almost everywhere, hundreds of skeletons crowded together and began to charge, there is no formation at all, and even a few skeletons were tripped by the gravel under their feet, and then trampled into broken bones by the swarming companions, and several skeletons whose soul fire had not been extinguished rolled to the feet of a group of mercenaries with a grunt, which made the mercenaries' sharp arrow array slightly commotion, which was also an accident.

Sawyer looked funny, the sandalwood bow in his hand trembled, relying on the strength of the bow and the sharpness of the arrows, ten long arrows shot off eight skulls, and several other archers did not show weakness, before the two sides engaged, they were stunned to empty nearly a third of the sea of skulls one after another.

"Boom!"

At the moment before the two sides engaged, the skeleton archers behind the Sea of Skulls also entered the range of the mages, and the three flame mages also began to exert their might, and the nine bursting fireballs that had been prepared for a long time quickly formed three pins and roared away, and the successive explosions instantly cleared the back formation of the Sea of Skulls into a blank.

The next moment, the arrows from the skeleton side suddenly stopped, and the melee forces of the two sides also engaged in an instant, and the mercenary warriors roared in unison, and smashed their shields forward.

The skeletons in the front row were smashed to the ground like wheat harvesting, and the skeletons in the second row suddenly emptied their eyes, and before they could react, their heads were cut off by a sharp blade that shimmered with cold light.

As soon as the skeletons in two rows were killed, three waves of dozens of arrows were shot from the rear of the mercenary soldiers, and the skeletons in the center of the third and fourth rows were shot off their cervical vertebrae before they could engage in battle, and more than a dozen skeletons rolled weakly to the ground.

Before the surviving skeletons on the two wings could close to the center, a burst of cold light lit up from the void one after another, and the bodies of more than a dozen skeletons were still charging forward by inertia, but their heads had been crushed into the dirt by the assassins' feet.

As soon as the mercenaries stopped dancing and slashing, they felt that the front was empty, and the pressure dropped sharply, and they smiled knowingly, without looking back, and after picking up their shields from the broken bones, they waved their weapons and rushed towards the much weaker skeleton formation in front, killing the skeleton square bones scattered.

And Divo, who rushed to the front, swung out two cyan sword qi one after another, taking the lead in chiseling through the skull line, and the soldiers in the rear suddenly boosted their morale, roared and rushed forward, tearing the gap that Divo had broken open, and tearing apart the front of the Skull Sea in one fell swoop!

The warriors who chiseled through the line and rushed to the back of the Sea of Skulls jogged a few steps, stopped their bodies and were about to turn around to fight again, but when they turned around, they found that the skeletons behind them had already turned into broken bones, and not far away, more than a dozen archers led by Sawa were proudly plucking the bowstring, and even the three flame mages summoned a flame at their hands and looked at them with a smug face.

The soldiers who were robbed of their heads were not discouraged, and after smiling and scolding at Sawyer's group of remote outputs, they sat on the ground casually to recover their strength, and the two priest girls also hurriedly ran over to treat the wounds of several wounded.

"Go up and have a look?"

Unscathed, Divo walked over, and his energetic look made Sawyer not envious.

"Go yourself, I guess someone is dying again."

Sawyer shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he was not interested, in the past few minutes, he had directly shot the thirty long arrows in a quiver, and now his arm was still sore, and, if he remembered correctly, there seemed to be a necromancer altar on the top of the mountain, this group of skeletons should have been summoned by a few necromancers, and then I don't know what happened, several necromancers hung up, and this group of skeletons has been wandering around.

"Then I'll go up and take a look, when you're rested, you'll help collect the skulls, so many skeletons, all of them can be ground into bone meal, you can make a lot of money."

Divo didn't force it, but walked to the top of the slope himself.

Sawyer casually picked up a skull that rolled to his feet, checked it, and smiled:

"There are so many skeletons, even if a piece of bone meal is only sold for five septin, there are thousands of gold coins, and sure enough, skeletons or something, it is better to become bone meal!"