Rising from the mountains were magical creatures shaped from rocks into powerful flying monsters, with a human head and a human body, with steel hooks on their limbs, wingspans of more than seven meters, their stone skin shimmering pale cyan in the cold winter sun, covered with faintly glowing magical runes, and two dark green gems that formed the eyes of these magical creatures.

They were not in fact the most primitive gargoyles, but a type of rune golem - rune gargoyles, Brando wanted a gargoyle, and Tanya, a competent aunt, directly got him the best one, as he said, these things were nothing to the Buggas, so the artisan wizards were happy to help Brando as much as possible without crossing their line, so that he could recover the Azure Spear for them.

The griffons soaring through the sky of the Empire never imagined that they would one day face such a battle, and the dense gargoyles were rising from the mountains and filling the sky in the blink of an eye, and the screams of these magical creatures came from all directions, as if they were enveloping them. But the griffons let out a clear chirp in unison, as if there was a pride urging these brave and fearless birds of prey to spread their snow-white wings to meet their enemies, which was the symbol of the empire, and they took the initiative to attack the enemy dozens of times their size, like straight silver threads plunging into the dark clouds, but in an instant, their wings flew away and Shen Ge folded.

The soldiers of the Empire watched the scene almost blankly, watching the fierce Empire birds of prey they were proud of vanish in an instant, and it took a long time for a dry warning to come from the lookout:

"Yes...... It looks like a gargoyle ......."

Although there were still a hundred griffin knights on standby in the fortress, at this moment everyone had taken root under their feet, and not one of them ran down to the city to inform the others. Because it's too late.

The gargoyle cluster is like a dark cloud on the horizon, and after engulfing the griffins, it spreads half the sky like a flock of migratory birds; When they reached the top of the fortress, the Imperial soldiers looked up in a daze, and it wasn't until the first rock fell from mid-air and shattered the battlements that they screamed and reacted—disaster was coming. The gargoyle is under pre-set commands. As soon as they entered the fortress, they were divided into three, and in mid-air they were divided into three huge arrows pointing in different directions, the first arrow of the two hundred gargoyles pointed directly in the direction of the city wall, and the second arrow of the three hundred gargoyles pointed to the inner city, and the largest arrow composed of all the gargoyles went straight to the headquarters of the Griffin Knights in the black sword fortress, as if they already knew that place.

When the Cruz knights of the city wall saw two huge arrows in the sky crossing the city wall without stopping, they understood something at once.

Their faces turned pale, and they realized that this was definitely a premeditated war.

The inner city is in turmoil—

Those soldiers who were not on duty in the fortified areas were being driven from house to house from their quarters in the inner city, from the various entertainment establishments—from bars, brothels or even lovers' homes—or from the streets and alleys in twos and threes. Hurriedly put on their battle robes, put on helmets, and take up weapons, they rushed to the direction of the fortress in formation or scattered to gather and report, if it were in the era of glory return, or in the era of chaos, or in the half century before and after the Hu Tao Rebellion, you would never see such a scene, in that era, even in the most lax period, more than two-thirds of the soldiers of the Black Sword Barrier were in a state of combat readiness at any time.

But now. The fortress had not experienced any war in nearly a hundred years, and even the bandits of Eruin did not dare to commit crimes in the area ruled by the Empire. After a long period of slackness, they have long developed the habit of being arrogant and empty-eyed.

The soldiers of the empire are gathering from all of them, although they are not worth mentioning compared to their predecessors, but the last trace of honor and discipline as an imperial soldier has kept them from completely messing up, overall. Their reaction was at worst much better than that of the noble soldiers south of Eruin, and even inferior to the Blackblade Legion and the Harbor Guard that Brando had seen in Ampesel, and these Rogerian soldiers in red and white robes were gathered under the urging of the trumpet, and they were about to enter the fortified area.

It was at this time that they ran head-on into gargoyles that were rushing from the sky.

"Look at the sky!"

I don't know who shouted first. Then the bustling red and white crowd on the street slowly stopped, looked up at the mid-air, and the dense black dots that formed the huge arrows were scattering, and then began to dive, as if in an instant, hundreds of gargoyles swooped down.

"Gargoyles!"

"Martha is on top, and the Bugas have launched a sneak attack on us!"

The crowd was at first stunned and stunned, then turned into commotion and unease, and began to retreat close together, and finally turned into a furious run under such a terrible scream.

"Find cover!"

"These damned, cunning wizards!"

The Cruz people screamed in panic as they tried to find a place to provide shelter, and the Suzhì of the Imperial soldiers was not so frightened that they buzzed like headless flies, or turned into a rout like the noble soldiers who had been in the south of Eruin that day; As soon as the Cruz knights found eaves, low walls, stacked chests, or some other makeshift fortifications along the streets, they immediately drew their weapons and prepared to fight back after the first wave of the unnamed air force.

The Empire has more than ten centuries of military tradition, and their enemies come from all over the world, whether they are air forces, navies, monsters, creatures, or the dead, for this battle-hardened army with a deep tradition, they immediately calmed down and entered a state of imminent battle under the command of the nearby knight chief.

If Brando were to see such a scene in person at this moment, he would definitely sigh, both at the strength of the Cruz and at the same time because it was the same as the Imperial army he had ever seen.

An empire is an empire after all, the eagle of Cruz. It's not just about soaring through the skies with arrogance and arrogance.

But the tragedy of the Rogeria soldiers comes from the same reason - Brando had already seen them, in another era.

As a result, the soldiers soon saw that the gargoyles' swoop was nothing more than an illusion, and that they began to slow down as soon as they approached the sky above the inner city, and then landed headfirst on the rooftops of the inner city. "What are they going to do!?" The Cruz knights watched in amazement and inexplicability, the air force was their domain as the name suggests. If these gargoyles wanted to give them a frontal fight on the ground, it would be impossible.

Their doubts were finally answered when they saw the first wizard in robes and staff in hand jump off the back of the gargoyle.

"Wizard ......"

In the nearby streets, every knight sergeant with command felt a little sour in his teeth when he saw such a scene, and he immediately understood what the other party wanted to do.

When Demon Duncan held his duck and made the demon jump off the back of his gargoyle, he saw the stunned Cruz knights, and his heart was also full of pride. He looked back. On the rooftops near the left, there were three or four wizards on almost every rooftop that were ready, as if in an instant, an army of wizards had descended on the inner city of the Black Sword Barrier. He turned around again, and by this time, the Cruz people below seemed to be reacting from their stunned state, and the knights immediately commanded the soldiers around him to kill on the rooftops—knowing that the other party could not pose any threat to him, he couldn't help but be a little nervous—and let the wizard come to the front line. What a bold idea to fight enemy soldiers face-to-face.

Not to mention that he had never heard of such a war before. Even if I didn't think about it, the so-called wizard is naturally as far away from danger as possible.

But despite his nervousness and sweaty hands, he raised his staff and began to chant incantations to the Cruz army below. The average strength of the Imperial Frontier Legionnaires was at least above the middle reaches of the Black Iron. The low rooftops of the inner city were not too tricky obstacles for them, but in a matter of moments, some Imperial soldiers had climbed onto the roofs with the help of the terrain, and Morduncan saw that the nearest soldier was only twenty feet away from him, and he could even see the hideous face of the other man. With the flickering cold light of the long sword in his hand, he had a thousand and ten thousand willing to throw the spell he had prepared directly on that guy, but at the last moment, he still forcibly moved away from the target, raised his staff and cast a spell on the Imperial soldiers gathered on the street.

"The law of stillness and sluggishness, imprisonment!"

Demon Duncan shouted, as if an invisible wall had descended in the direction of his hand, and the air shook slightly, and all the Imperial soldiers on the street immediately remained motionless as if they were enchanted. At the same time, about a third of the hundreds of wizards who descended with the gargoyle completed the same spell, while another third failed to cast spells because they were too nervous, and a third couldn't resist throwing spells at the few soldiers closest to them.

But it was this one-third of success that made almost half of the streets of the entire inner city completely fall under the control of spells in an instant.

Demon Duncan finished casting the spell, and looked back in a sweat, only to see that the soldier who climbed up had already been slapped by the gargoyle, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and a faint sense of pride in his heart - because he knew that at least he was the first wave of wizards to throw spells under this tactic, and this alone would allow him to get rid of his apprenticeship and step into the ranks of full-fledged wizards.

The inner city was falling into a peculiar dead silence, as if it had been imprisoned for time - the Imperial troops who had gathered and crowded the streets soon lost their room to fight back under the control of the wizards, and they did not think of fighting back, but the formation was so densely exposed to the blows of magic that the result was predictable, almost immediately, they lost more than two-thirds of their manpower. And then, the wizards only need to subdue the fish that slipped through the net one by one, during which the Cruz people sporadically organized a long-range attack, but under the protection of spells, there was almost no effect, and the commando team formed by the imperial knights, under the protection of hundreds of gargoyles of the wizards, also achieved nothing, but threw themselves into the net one by one and became captives.

Of course, there are wizards in the Empire, but it is basically impossible for the wizards to be the opponents of the hundreds of wizards gathered together, after sporadic counterattacks. Soon realizing that the tide was turning, they either surrendered or simply found a place to hide and seek self-preservation.

It seemed that in just an instant, the Black Sword Barrier had lost most of its support.

……

Maria, the head of the Griffon Knights of the Black Sword Barrier, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of his office, silently watching the gargoyle in the sky leave. On the other side of his line of sight, the headquarters of the Griffin Knights was already in shambles. The griffon fortress, which was built about two centuries ago, was tragically not built with superfortifications or magical protection according to the standards of this era, and the take-off passage of the griffin cage was still directly exposed according to the air force tradition of about two hundred years ago, because everyone understood that the enemy facing the Black Sword Fortress was the Eruin, and the weak Wurm Knight air force of the Eruin could not pose any threat to the fortress.

However, it is this traditional perception that brings it an almost destructive blow.

Mary still hasn't figured out where the damn gargoyles came from. He had been sending heralds to inquire about the loud noise on the other side of the wall, and then ordering some of the knights to prepare for liftoff, but he didn't expect the attack to come so quickly. Before the first warm-up griffin knights could release their beloved griffons from their cages, the black clouds in the sky had already flown over the Knights, and what happened next was a nightmare, and Maria had never heard of such an attack before that.

The gargoyle began to swoop down and then cast pieces of glittering crystals, most of which hit the griffon's cage's passage. A small part hit the treasury of the Order, and what happened later was as he saw it now. The entire passage of the griffin cage has been completely destroyed, and there are about one hundred and sixty griffons and more than thirty knights sealed inside, and it is difficult to say how many can be saved. As for the storeroom, Maria looked at the two large pits as far as her eyes could see.

For a moment he couldn't even say a word.

And at this time, outside the ruins of the Knight's Gate, Rovac was pointing his sword at Brando. Apparently he didn't know that such a wonderful thing had happened in the fortress behind him, but even so, his face was not necessarily good to see there. Above him, the soldiers of the Empire are engaged in a fierce battle with the gargoyles, and the wizards inside the fortress have joined the battle. The longbowmen and crossbowmen also began to line up, so to speak, barely stabilizing the situation; Behind him, more than a hundred dragon knights had already completed their preparations, and these Cruz knights, dressed in heavy armor, raised their spears one after another, and the small triangular flags on the spears fluttered in the wind, like a sea of fiery red.

The Earth Dragons were restlessly adjusting their steps, facing the uninvited guests outside the city gates, as if the knights would pour out of their nests at the slightest command.

But at this moment, Rovac did not feel safe at all.

Because in his field of vision, Brando was approaching him step by step, the Count was alone, holding a sword in one hand, but he did not seem to be inferior in the slightest, he was alone, facing the heavy knights of the Cruz people, his face was light and light, as if these knights, who had been described in the past in the past, had long since disappeared in his eyes. Rovac had seen such an indifferent look before, and when the bear warrior of the Principality of Crow charged at that person, the scene of the man and his sword standing proudly on the field was still in front of his eyes almost all the time.

Could it be that it has only been sixty years since the Eruin people have another such sword master?

Rovac was covered in a cold sweat, and another possibility suddenly came to mind in his heart.

Behind Brando, Medisa was looking at the back of her lord, she silently called out the unicorn and turned over her horse, while the White City Pioneer Tiger Sparrow, Flo and others naturally lined up behind her, lining up the formation of the charge, ready to follow the attack.

But it was at this time that Brando turned around and said, "Metissa, you go and subdue that Imperial team and save the refugees." ”

"Your Lord."

Brando did not answer her, but said to Charles, "Charles, the walls are handed over to you. ”

"No problem."

Brando then turned, and the Imperial Sword Rovac was charging at him.

"Attack with me, dragon knights!" Rovac shouted.

The next moment, he couldn't make such a heroic voice, because he had seen Brando split in two in front of him.

He watched in amazement as the two Brandos walked around him one on the left and one on the right, and both Brandos raised their swords at the same time - without any tricks, they just raised their long swords and slowly moved forward, as if even a little hairy child who was a beginner in swordsmanship could dodge it lightly. Rovac also lowered his head to dodge without exception, trying to tell which one was Brando's real body between the 'two'.

But he had just lowered his head and leaned over, and the scene that made his soul fly out of the sky happened, he obviously saw that he had dodged the opponent's sword, but as soon as he looked down, he saw that the bright sword blade was still in his chest.

"It can't be!" As soon as this thought came to Rovac's mind, he felt a slight pain in his chest, a long cut had been pulled out of his armor, and he only felt a blackness in front of him, and his knees fell to the ground almost uncontrollably.

…… (To be continued......)