Chapter 974: Escape (II.)
"There was a large flock of vultures and horses flying in the air, forty or fifty of them!" Eleanor's voice was unusually sharp from nervousness.
Evgenia calmly stood up, lifted the curtain and glanced up, and confirmed: "That's the vulture knights under Klautz, judging by the number of at least one squadron, obviously coming at us." ”
"Teacher, what are we going to do next, do we try to get rid of those vultures, or lure them down and do it!" Jacqueline, who is aggressive by nature, is clearly more inclined to the latter option.
"Vulture knights aren't that easy to deal with, so there's no need for us to entangle them here." Evgenia took out three bottles of "Invisibility Potion" and distributed them to Jacqueline, Eleanor, and Werther, "You drink the potion and leave the carriage immediately, there is a bush in front of you, hide there and wait for me." ”
"Teacher, aren't you going with us?" Jacqueline asked, a little uneasy.
Evgenia smiled and shook her head, "Don't worry, I'll try to lure those vultures away first, and then I'll meet you." She pulled up her cloak to cover her face, and took Eleanor's place at the front of the carriage, whipping the horse at a gallop.
The three people in the carriage used the magic of the potion to disappear. Two agile female rangers helped Witt jump off the speeding carriage, the trees on the side of the road swaying slightly, and in the blink of an eye, calm returned.
Evgenia drove alone, holding the "Higher Communication Stone" in her left hand, and sent a message to Rudolph informing her of her current situation. At this moment, a strong wind blew in the air, and the half-eagle and half-horse monster swooped down, and the knight on horseback held a large crossbow, aimed at the galloping horse and pulled the trigger, and the steel arrows whistled down with the wind.
Evgenia's ears twitched slightly, and she suddenly raised her hand and swung her whip, the tip of which tore through the air and stirred up a small sonic boom cloud. The crossbow bolt that fell from the sky was whipped upside down by the whip, and thud into the vulture's belly with a pop. The bloodsplattered vulture and the horse screamed and fell from the sky. The knight on horseback hurriedly held the magic charm on his chest with his backhand, activated the "Feather Fall Technique", and a cloud of yellow light surrounded him and slowly fell to the ground.
The vulture knights in the air noticed that their companions were being attacked, and they swarmed around them, their heavy crossbows full of bowstrings, and their crossbows raining down.
Evgenia drove towards Lin**, jumped up before the crossbow bolt approached, and struck the trunk of a tree on the side of the road with one palm.
Burst! The orange ** magic aura representing the spell school emerged from her fingertips, instantly connecting her with the poplar tree.
4 rings of natural magic, melt deep into the forest!
Swish! Evgenia vanished into thin air, the bolt shooting through her remnant towards the galloping horse. In the blink of an eye, the four horses were shot like hedgehogs, fell to the side of the road with a scream, and the carriage stopped. The vulture knight in the air circled and landed, turned over and dismounted and rushed to the carriage, pushing the window to peek in, and the carriage was empty.
At the same time, three thousand feet to the left of Lin **, Werther, Eleanor, and Jacqueline were hiding in the dense forest, and the "invisibility potion" had exceeded the time limit, and there was no news from Yevgenia. Just as she was worried, the poplar tree beside Jacqueline suddenly trembled, alerting her.
"Who's there!"
"It's me." Yevgenia's voice came from the poplar tree, and the magic flashed, and the tall and plump figure of the Ranger Mentor emerged from the trunk. The Ranger 4-Ring Magic Technique "Melting into the Forest", also known as "Wood Escape", can use trees as a medium for short-range teleportation, as long as she is in the woods, Yevgenia can come and go freely, and no amount of pursuers can touch her shadow.
Temporarily free from the pursuit, Evgenia did not have a relaxed expression on her face, looking up at the night sky thoughtfully, as if expecting something.
Eleanor, Jacqueline, and Werther didn't dare to disturb her, and they all looked at the night sky with curiosity. After half an hour, she didn't notice anything unusual, and when she was impatient, Yevgenia suddenly spoke: "Beware, the vulture knight is back." ”
Werther's eyes widened in surprise and he saw a large group of dark shadows moving towards the trees in the night sky. In this long day, he had experienced more thrilling changes than the previous half of his life combined, and his tense nerves were already overwhelmed, and he couldn't help but feel hopeless when he saw his pursuers approaching again.
Jacqueline took out the compound longbow from the storage bag and waited for it to be armed. Eleanor was still lucky, muttering in a low voice: "We are hiding so closely, they shouldn't be able to find ......"
"One of the most important functions of the Eagle Horse Knight is aerial reconnaissance, this squadron may be carrying the 'Detection Crystal', the four of us are not good at blocking the detection spell, sooner or later they will be discovered."
Evgenia's suspicions were soon confirmed, and the vulture knights in the sky spread out their wings and searched towards the woods, led by the squadron leader holding a crystal ball in his hand, searching for the whereabouts of four important fugitives through this magical artifact.
The encirclement in the air gradually narrowed, but Evgenia was not very concerned about the imminent crisis, and still looked up at the night sky, as if there was something more important besides the Vulture Knights that deserved her attention.
Jacqueline and Eleanor don't have the same concentration as their teacher, and the enchanted longbow is already full of bowstrings, and they only need to wait for the vulture to get close and snipe. Werther is also mentally ready to fight, even though the attack type magic he has prepared today only has a 3-ring "Scorching Radiance......
The group of vulture knights in the air suffered a big loss when they were chasing Yevgenia just now, and they knew that those people hiding in the woods were not easy to mess with, so they did not rush to dive down, and under the command of the squadron leader, they loaded the heavy crossbow with a pointed iron cylinder as thick as an arm, and shot out of the bushes locked by the "Detection Crystal".
A pointed iron cylinder landed near the four men, and exploded with a thud after hitting a hard object, and the flying metal shrapnel forced everyone to lie down and dodge, and the fiery glue in the iron cylinder erupted, igniting the bushes.
The incendiary grenades fired from the crossbow kept falling, and in the blink of an eye, the woods where Yevgenia and his party were living turned into a sea of fire. Thick smoke and heat surged, Witt choked and coughed violently, and hurriedly blessed himself with "protective flame damage", and performed a "water making technique" to extinguish the fire burning in front of him.
Jacqueline and Eleanor also hurriedly blessed the magic to resist the heat, and used the "digging technique" to dig a hole in the ground and temporarily shelter from the smoke and fire.
Evgenia did not hide in the hole, and her eyes, which had been staring at the sky, suddenly flashed with joy.
"It's finally here!"
What is it that deserves her such excitement?
Werther, Jacqueline, and Eleanor probed out of the cave one after another, trying to look up through the smoke, and were surprised to find a silver airship in the sky, draped in the hazy moonlight across the night, and rushed straight towards the group of vulture knights who were setting fire to the forest.