The squadron leader looked back in the direction where the thunder sound came from, and saw a humanoid flying object shrouded in golden light rushing towards it at an indescribable speed.

"What kind of monster is that?!"

The horror on the squadron leader's face froze, and a pitch-black spear stabbed at him like a poisonous dragon, piercing his breastplate and dragging a trail of blood mist down his horse.

Roland shot down the squadron leader, ignoring the frightened neighing vulture, his body shook and continued to rush forward, the "divine flight" increased from one to three times the speed of sound, and a string of white sonic boom clouds were thrown out behind him, as if a lotus flower was blooming. He soon realized that he didn't need to swing the magic spear, as the shockwaves of supersonic flight were inherently destructive, lifting the knight off his horse like a dead leaf carried by the wind and tumbling to the ground.

A little yellow halo flashed in the night sky, and it was those knights who had fallen off their horses holding the ornament on their chests and activating the "Feather Fall Technique" one after another. The cost of training an air knight is even greater than training a vulture horse to learn to obey tactical orders, these knights are a valuable resource for the Imperial military, of course, they will not be allowed to die easily, for this reason, the Imperial Military Department has formulated two insurance measures for the vulture horse knights, one is to equip each knight with a constant 1 ring "Feather Fall" pendant, once the knight falls off the horse, in a weightless state, the magic charm will automatically activate the "Feather Fall" to ensure that the knight lands safely; The second is to equip the vultures with "safety lines", if the knight ties the safety line according to the rules of the Air Combat Drill Code and secures himself to the horse's back, then no matter how strong the wind is, it will not be blown off the saddle. However, the reality did not quite match the requirements of the Imperial military, and the knights were happy to wear the "feathered charm", but few were willing to accept the second insurance measure. If the mount falls from an arrow wound and the knight is firmly attached to the horse's back with a rope, it is likely that the eagle will be dragged to the ground and killed before the rope can be untied. Because of the frequent occurrence of such accidents, most of the veterans who have participated in actual combat disdain the safety cable, and also mockingly call it a "noose".

Most of the vulture cavalry squadrons that came to pursue Evgenia did not tie the safety ropes, and they could not maintain stability on horseback at all due to the strong shock wave impact brought by Roland, and they fell off their horses one after another, and could only save their lives with the help of "feather pendants".

Roland shuttled in the air, blowing all the knights off their horses, looking back to see a little magic aura in the air, the corners of his lips hooked a cold arc, and slowly leaned forward with his right hand, the brilliance of magic surging in his palm.

Three-ring magic, area dismantling!

Roland's fingertips opened a green curtain of light, instantly sweeping over the slow-falling knights in the air. The "Feather Falling Charm" was suppressed by the spell and temporarily lost its magical power, and the yellow halo that shrouded the knights' bodies disappeared, and the invisible hand of gravity grabbed them firmly and pulled them to the ground! Desperate exclamations rang out in the air, and the knights, who had lost the protection of the "Feather Falling Technique", fell with their hands and feet to accelerate their falls, and fell into the dense forest without moving.

Roland finished casting his spell and looked back at the night sky, where at least forty vultures were still hovering the battlefield unharmed, looking at a loss. Lyudmila and the siblings ride the eagle close to the vultures that have lost their owners, and use the ranger and druid's professional ability "Animal Affinity" to calm them down.

Vultures only have the intelligence of domestic animals, unable to think as complex as giant eagles, nor do they have a firm stance against friend or foe, not to mention facing forest rangers and druids who specialize in domesticating animals, and they are easily subdued by Lyudmila and obediently join the Koras army.

The battle in the air was like a summer shower, fierce and short. The airship lowered the sling and picked up Evgenia and his party of four to board the "Dawn".

Roland helped Lyudmila collect the vultures, entrusted Zehir to pacify the frightened magical beasts on his behalf, and then took his girlfriend's hand and flew back to the cabin.

"Mom, I want to kill you!" Lyudmila rushed into her mother's arms, coquettish like a little girl, completely oblivious to the presence of Kolas and his son.

"Mira, my baby, my mother misses you too!" Evgenia put her arms around her daughter, tears of excitement in her eyes.

Rudolph patted his son on the shoulder and whispered, "Let them be alone for a while, and we'll go next door for a cigarette." ”

"Forget the cigarettes, I'll chat with you."

"Haha, good son, it's always okay to have a cup of tea with me, right?"

"Of course."

The overly luxuriously decorated "afternoon tea room" on the airship was still put to good use, and a complete set of silver samovars that Roland had picked up from the Kitland Bazaar was placed on the table, and he boiled water to make a cup of Northland black tea for his father.

Rudolph was not very receptive to adding sugar to the tea at first, but Yevgenia often entertained him like this, and over time he got used to it, and men's appetites were originally cultivated by women.

"Your tea-making technique is not authentic enough, I'll teach you."

"Don't be so picky about your old man, it's good to drink some! I don't want to think about who else is qualified to enjoy the treatment of making tea by my own hands......"

"Hey! You kid...... Forget it, it's rare that you're so filial, so I won't say anything. Rudolph smiled brightly with a cigarette in one hand and a tea in the other, but his son's next words made him unable to laugh.

"Father, you and Aunt Genia haven't seen each other for more than two years, it's not easy to get together again this time, in the future, when the situation in the Fort of Atonement stabilizes, you two should also seriously consider lifelong events, after all, Aunt Genia is not young and needs a stable family."

Rudolph squirted tea with a "poof", and his old face turned red and glared at his son: "What nonsense are you kid...... It's better to mind your own business, I don't have to worry about you! ”

"What don't you have to worry about?" Evgenia took her daughter's hand and pushed the door open, smiling at father and son.

"It's nothing, Roland and I are talking about the current situation in the Fort of Atonement." Mr. Rudolph coughed awkwardly and tried to feign seriousness, "Genia, you have come just in time to give us a brief introduction to the situation in the city. ”

"The situation in the city is more complicated, roughly speaking, there are three forces, the first is the Far Eastern Knights who currently control the city, led by the Knight Captain Klautz, all of whom are diehards who resolutely maintain the tyranny of the empire, and treat dissidents the most brutally, the reason why there is bloody clashes in the city today is that Klautz's party suppressed the people who petitioned on the streets, which aroused public indignation; The next force was the reformist faction headed by Archbishop Philippe, who was the most active before today, and Philip himself skillfully portrayed himself as a so-called representative of the public through an article published in the evening newspaper, and succeeded in seducing many citizens into illusions about him, and today's street movement was instigated by the reformists from the beginning, with the aim of using popular petitions to build momentum for Philip, as if he alone was the great savior of the people of the Far East. ”