Dark clouds converged in the north, and it was pitch black in the direction of Port Ampesel. Beyond the harbor, however, was a spark of spark, as if lava was flowing across the ground, the hallmark of the demonic scorched lands, and the portal apparently connected the river of brimstone to Eruin, with overlapping sights on both sides.

In the Scorched Lands, the transformed portal emitted a scarlet hue that was clearly visible from this direction, like an agate scattered across a velvet black carpet.

It was an apocalyptic sight that made everyone hold their breath. Brando, on the other hand, listened to Her Royal Highness's question and was looking down to think about what to do. But then the 'dark clouds' in the sky suddenly changed direction like a roar. The princess and the others were slightly stunned, feeling a little wrong in their hearts, and the knights couldn't help but look at each other, and then subconsciously set their eyes on the young lord on the side.

After all, none of them had actually seen the creatures of Jogandigan, and the one who seemed to be the most knowledgeable here was undoubtedly the lord from Tonigal.

Brando came back to his senses, he raised his head and noticed the change in the sky, his face suddenly changed, and he shouted, "Quick, cover the reflective things on your body with a cloak." ”

Harpies have a wide field of vision and are very sensitive to light, and they also like to collect glittering knick-kams to decorate their nests, similar to their winged counterparts. And for the same reason, they were able to easily catch faint reflections from dozens of miles away, which made them excellent scouts - the lightning reflected by someone's armor caught their attention. It was also his negligence that he forgot to mention it to others.

I think it's because I saw the army of Jorgane before. The reason why the mind is lost for a while.

The crowd hurriedly wrapped their cloaks around their armor and fastened the ties around their necklines. But it seemed to be a little late, and when they looked up, they saw that a few 'dark clouds' in the northern sky had begun to move southward, and the strange creatures with pairs of wings scattered in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, they were already overwhelming.

Brando turned around and saw that the faces of the crowd had completely lost their blood. Princess Griffiin is no exception. Together, there were only seventeen of them, and there were thousands of harpies on the other side.

Even a knight subconsciously wanted to draw his long sword, but Brando was startled and hurriedly rushed over and held down the opponent's hand. "Don't even move! They haven't found us yet! He shouted loudly, for fear that someone would pull out his sword in a panic, and once the reflection of the blade was issued, it would be too late.

"Quick. Find a place to hide! ”

Brando was well aware of the Harpy's habits, and these cautious creatures must have been noticed and checked, they liked to move in groups, but they didn't necessarily really spot them. After all, it was still more than ten miles away, and the harpy might not be able to detect the slightest movement under the forest.

But the knights had long since lost their minds, and Brando's words were their only lifesaver, and they retreated behind the black pine forest to find a place to hide. Brando pulled the princess to hide under a huge rock that lay across the top of the hill and was covered with damp moss.

Brando first placed Her Royal Highness the princess in. And then they stayed at the entrance of the cave. He looked up and saw Count Outin hiding behind a rock opposite him, shouting at him, "Horse! ”

Brando then remembered that the horses were still at the foot of the mountain, and suddenly one head and two were bigger, but it was obviously unrealistic to rush down the mountain now. One can only hope that Martha will let the harpy not find those horses.

Within a few minutes, the Harpy was already roaring.

The sound of flapping and flapping wings passed overhead, making it clear that the winged creatures were close at hand. His heart was pounding, but Brando didn't dare to look out, and he looked back to see Princess Griffien sitting beside him and looking at him. Although there was some nervousness in her expression. But when he looked at him, his eyes seemed very calm.

"Don't worry." He said to her with a mouth shape.

Princess Griffiin nodded slightly, one hand resting on the hilt of her sword.

He raised his head again, and the Earl of Outin opposite him was also pale, and the two couldn't help but smile bitterly at each other, he must have been no better. He dared to fight Williams, but it was because he had Trisiman in his hand, but now it was seventeen men facing a thousand harpies, and ten times that number in the distance had drowned him.

But fortunately, although the harpy is very sensitive to light, her own eyesight is extremely average. Not to mention, they are very cautious creatures, and they certainly do not descend under the canopy to check.

Brando, who knew this, was a little relieved.

But at this time, a trace of throbbing flashed in his heart. It's like a sudden heartbeat, and someone is peeking into their secrets.

The others were fine, but Brando, who didn't know how experienced he was, immediately realized what it was - magic! Discover the magic! He was sure that a pair of malicious eyes were looking through the crystal ball, and the blood-red robed demonic sorcerers from beneath the Brimstone River were the best at it.

Her Royal Highness the princess beside her turned pale, and her weak body trembled, as if she had sensed something. Brando subconsciously felt bad and immediately reminded her, "Quick, don't think about anything you're most worried about right now!" Think about what to eat tonight, nasty carrot stew or oatmeal! ”

The half-elf girl's silver eyes looked at him in bewilderment.

"It's a demonic spell, black magic, and it affects your mind, and through your mind you see what it wants to know. The more you fear, the more negativity accumulates, the more it sees what you fear the most right now. That would reveal our location! ”

"But I don't hate carrot stew." Princess Griffiin replied with a little grievance.

“…… That's impossible. Brando was dumbfounded.

But no matter whether it was impossible or not, just when the two of them were a little more at ease, a scream suddenly came from the distant rain curtain. Someone was discovered, and Brando's heart went cold. He knew that he should let everyone hide together, after all, he was the only one here who had the experience to evade detection spells.

"Mr. Brando." Her Royal Highness the Princess shouted in a low voice.

Brando's hand clenched the hilt of the Sword of Earth for a moment, should he rush out now? The Harpy Banshee is just a monster in the upper reaches of the silver, and all the knights he brought are at the peak level of silver, and at this time, they may have time to save each other's lives.

But what about Her Royal Highness the Princess? If he did it, would he be able to lead these people to fight their way out of the thousands of harpys?

Brando was completely unsure.

But he immediately felt a cold finger pressed against the back of his hand. "Mr. Brando, I understand your thoughts. Thank you," said Princess Griffiin softly, "but in any case, please do not go against our ideals and pursuits. This is the value of our deposit. ”

She nodded to him.

Brando's heart moved slightly.

He suddenly understood why Otares had warned him to be careful of the princess. He would have disagreed. Princess Ingrefain has never changed, and if she had chosen to compromise, she would not have broken with the royal party in the first place. In the face of ideals and reality. She has always been Her Royal Highness the Holy White Princess. Brando has never seen a man who can combine wisdom with conviction and belief.

Players in Eruin had never seen it before.

He made up his mind at once. Raising her sword and rushing out, a harpy swooped down on him from above—the blood-red eyes of her beautiful female skull glittered with resentment, and her sharp claws were spread like eight knives scraping at him.

Brando was unhurried, his lips pursed and he took a step back, and with both hands, he pulled out the sword of the earth and swept it upward, and the blade of the sword suddenly slashed off a pair of claws of the opponent. The unbalanced Hippogriff screamed and fell backwards, crashing headfirst into the trunk of a black pine tree and bursting its brain.

Only then did Brando see that the knight who had been captured was in a bad situation, and he was being besieged by seven or eight harpies. He didn't want to. Raising his hand, a wind bomb shot in that direction, and the wind bomb swirled and grazed the treetops, slamming into the two harpies, instantly tearing each other's wings and spilling a rain of blood.

The sudden attack startled the harpies, and they scattered with strange screams. The knight finally found a respite. He glanced back at Brando gratefully.

"You shouldn't have come out, my lord." He laughed.

"I don't want to be like those northerners as shrunken turtles, you're a king, right?" Brando saw that the other party should be a Lantonilan.

"Exactly."

Brando nodded and shouted, "I heard that the royal party never leaves behind its companions, in that case, everyone. Why don't you listen to my orders and face the enemy head-on? Today we fight our way out, and these monsters can't stop us! ”

The knights were agitated and couldn't help but say yes. They drew their swords one after another, and soon gathered together.

Everyone was now exposed to the Harpy's vision, and they croaked in the air, but the power of the Brando's Wind Bomb kept the cautious creatures from trying again.

Brando then reached out to help Her Royal Highness, and he had the impression that this strong princess would definitely stand up on her own. But this time Princess Griffiin put her hand on him, smiled politely at him, and stood beside him by his strength.

"Thank you, Mr. Brando." She said softly.

Brando heard unreserved trust from these words.

The Harpy began the second attack, and they rained down. Brando hurriedly led the knights back, and behind them was a dense woodland, the canopy of the black pine forest naturally holding back the harpy's attack.

Sooner or later, though, they would attack them through the layers of branches, and Brando knew he had to find a way down the hill to get back on his horse. Harpys are good at fighting in the sky, and their specialty is flexibility, but they are not outstanding in speed and endurance, so they have to find a way to get rid of them.

By this time several harpies had descended from the canopy, and Brando looked up, and the claws of these monsters were sharp and sharp, and they clung to the trunks of the trees and jumped forward, not slower than they could fly, and came to the top of their heads in a few clicks.

It was a scene reminiscent of the first time he had fought these flat-haired beasts in the wetland forest near Greyhaven. He subconsciously shouted, "Shoot them down, shoot them in the back as much as you can!" ”

The knights immediately removed their short bows or four-armed crossbows from their waists and aimed them at the monsters. The Harpy is terrifyingly nimble. They circled left and right between the trunks of the trees, and almost all the crossbows they shot missed.

However, the knights soon found the trick, they found that the harpy likes to stretch a distance behind when dodging, and with Brando's reminder, the knights in the second round of shooting first calculate a advance behind these monsters, and this time the harpy who was hit by the arrow was more than half at once.

The knights were suddenly excited: "My lord, how do you know?" ”

"Knowledge is power. The world's "answers" are all in the books. Brando's stubble.

This sentence sounded almost like an unfathomable wizard, and the knights suddenly showed a look of awe. But it also reminded Her Highness of what Lewoods had taught her, 'Wisdom sharper than the sword is hidden in the scrolls', an old Cruz proverb. It is said that the mages all advocated the same idea.

Her hand was tightly grasped by Brando, and she ran forward with all her might, but her mind was quiet. I thought that Mr. Knight was worthy of being a Danielle, so he respected the knowledge of highland wizards.

At this time, Brando noticed that the experience points of the harpy banshees killed by the knights also had to be counted on his head, a 60 experience. This is obviously the number after calculating the team penalty and level penalty, but the Harpy Banshee he killed alone only had about 90 experience points.

This experience is nothing more than a drizzle for him at the moment, but the key is to further prove his previous speculation about forming a team. It seems that as long as it is an alliance side, it is considered to be on the same team as him, but I don't know what the upper limit of distance is.

The group had already passed through half of the woods at this moment, and there were more and more harpies climbing down from tree trunks in all directions. So much so that they didn't dare to stop and rest for a moment, as long as they were a little slow, they would fall into the encirclement, and two knights had already been dragged out of the periphery by a moment of negligence. The fate of what awaits them can be imagined.

Seeing that the end of the woods was approaching, there was an open clearing outside, a hundred meters wide, and it was obvious that the harpy would launch the fiercest siege on them as they passed, and in fact Brando already had some harpy waiting to hover in the sky over there.

"Brando. What's next? Apparently Count Outin also noticed the next predicament. But Brando looked around, and he was at a loss for a moment. The cards in his hand were almost useless, and there were and they lacked elements, and the black wolf had summoned him once, and he had only the concealment cloak of the King of Giants, Punic, to escape this fate.

But the Punic's cloak could only hold ten people, and it only lasted less than five minutes.

"Everyone. Hand in hand! Be careful not to be dragged out! Brando activated the conflict aura, and a pale yellow aura circle immediately spread out from around his body. Most of the knights recognized the Templar's signature skill and immediately understood what he was up to.

Now it seems that there is only one way to rush out.

Brando looked out of the forest and decided to put a water mist or something like that first. Anyway, he has an elemental level, and the water mist technique is just a two-ring spell, and it is not difficult for him. The only trouble is that he is still wearing armor while galloping, and the chances of casting a spell failure are frighteningly high. Brando tried three times in a row before finally casting the spell.

The water mist spell is actually just creating a confused water mist, and this spell is extremely effective in preventing the enemy's precise long-range strikes, and Brando wants to use this spell to prevent the harpy from using her numerical advantage. Unexpectedly, the moment he released the spell, an unexpected scene happened-

I saw that what emerged in the clearing was not a mist, but a dark cloud, which seemed to cover the entire hillside in a blink of an eye, and the surroundings suddenly fell into the darkness of the five fingers that could not be seen.

"What's going on?" The knights were immediately in a panic, and Brando was also startled, this was not some kind of water mist. Fortunately, it wasn't the first time he had fought in the dark - he had to be prepared to deal with all kinds of dark spells after fighting the corpse witch of Madara for a long time in the game - Brando had to be quite calm, subconsciously grasping the hand of Her Royal Highness the princess to make sure that the wizard who cast the spell was not coming at the most important target around him, while holding his breath to listen to the sounds around him.

The rain rattled in the distance, but in the midst of the rain was the equally panicked croaking of the Harpy.

It looks like the comer is not the enemy.

At least not a demonic warlock.

He relaxed a little, but it was this time. He felt an old voice in his heart: "Please come with me." My king. Ignore the dangers around you, head north, I'll be waiting for you over there. ”

Brando was slightly stunned, "Who are you, how can I trust you?" He asked subconsciously in his mind.

"Feel it with your heart, the darkness has no secrets in front of you, and you should be able to feel that I have no malice."

Brando took a soft breath. He really didn't have a premonition of danger. The other party obviously made a move in such a situation to help him, but Yi Qiqi was still cautious, and he hesitated. Only then did he say to all the people around him: "Everyone listen to me, hand in hand, follow me." ”

Then he reached out. Grabbed Count Outin on the other side. Everyone held their hands together, and Brando didn't know which direction the north was, but he vaguely felt that one direction was safer, so he subconsciously walked in that direction step by step.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, the Harpy's screams in the darkness grew farther and farther away.

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at this moment. After all, if they could not die, no one would want to die, and because of this, the knights couldn't help but be inexplicably grateful to Brando who took them out.

"Mr. Brando," said Princess Griffithine's voice behind him, "Is this your spell?" ”

"Nope. I don't know. Brando replied. Because in fact, he really didn't have a bottom, he had already opened a spiritual connection in his heart, and began to contact Charles on the other side. God knows if this is another trap, he has to be on the safe side.

"Charles, you damn thing, do you hear that......"

……

In the pine forest. The cadets have set up a makeshift camp sheltered from the rain, and a wooden wall built of felled pine wood and a waterproof canvas on both sides form a simple tent. In the tent, Makaro and others of the royal party are in the midst of a cold war with Overwell.

It looked as if the royal party was about to break with the princess again, but those who had been here all along knew that it was just a disagreement over the battle plan for the future.

Overwell supported Brando's view that it would be better to divide the defense zone with the Northern Coalition for the time being. Macaro, on the other hand, could not trust the northern nobles at all, and in his opinion, the northern alliance could be used as the main force and the Cruz to resist the attack of the demons. And they flanked the demons -

The parchment map, which had been drawn many times, was now on the wooden table. A nearby bonfire was blazing, and Antitina was whispering to Earl Ferry, Earl of Swallow Castle, who was not interested in the nobles' battle plans; Dilferry looked down on the royal party, and Antitina only had absolute trust in Brando, and naturally looked down on the nobles.

However, the tired look on the face of the noble daughter was very obvious, but she couldn't hold back and didn't yawn.

Macaro seems to have been born to be an adversary with Overwell, and the two disagree on the future of the royal party, and now they disagree on how to cooperate with the Northern coalition. But fortunately, they all know the current situation, at least they didn't fight, otherwise the kingdom's cunning fox and lone wolf are estimated to have another duel here.

Some of the courtiers of the older generation of the kingdom may still remember the last duel, when the two of them were young; But at that time, it was for the beloved girl, and this time it was for the ideal faith.

And just as they were about to speak again, Charles walked in from outside, and he glanced at everyone in the tent, and said, "Your Excellency, your lord, is in trouble." ”

Everyone was stunned.

"Well, that's true. Her Royal Highness the Princess and Lord Lord have been spotted by the Harpy Banshees of Jogandigang and are currently under siege by the demon army. Charles had to re-explain.

"What did you say!?"

……