259, ambush (below)
A trace of panic flashed in his heart, but the brown-haired man's face remained calm, only to see the double knives in his hands protecting his body one after the other, cautiously guarding the surroundings. He knew that his opponent had gone into stealth again after missing a single blow, crouching in the shadows, ready to strike a fatal blow at him.
At this moment, the brown-haired man's mind was focused on his ears, trying to listen to the movements around him. Since he can't see through the opponent's invisibility, he can only try his best to detect any movement that the opponent may make. However, trying to distinguish the footsteps of the other party in the chaotic and noisy background sound of the battlefield at this moment is undoubtedly a difficult challenge. But he didn't have any other choice.
Suddenly, the two knives in the brown-haired man's hands flashed brightly, and then he turned around three hundred and sixty degrees on the spot, and at the same time as he turned around, countless Douqi slashing blades shot out in all directions. The sudden attack finally achieved his goal - almost all of the Dou Qi blades were empty, except for one that shattered as if it had hit an invisible wall, and then he saw a figure emerge from the air where the air blades shattered.
"I didn't expect you to use this kind of trick to break my 'Wind Step', and sure enough, there were two hits." Shi Jinxin, who held the sword horizontally with both hands (although Shi Jinxin's inheritance weapon 'Slashing Array Long Sword' is called 'sword', it is actually a Tang knife shape with an extended handle, so it doesn't look too weird to hold it with both hands) did not have a look of frustration on his face, but showed a look of admiration.
The brown-haired man stared at Shi Jinxin vigilantly. "You're not from Prailly."
"I didn't say I was." Shi Jinxin pursed his lips when he heard this.
"Who the hell are you?" The brown-haired man asked in a deep voice.
"Tut-tut......" Shi Jinxin said in his mouth to signal his veto, and at the same time changed the posture of holding the sword to one hand, and shook his free hand lightly at the brown-haired man's index finger. Before asking the other person to say their name, should they first tell the other person their name? ”
The brown-haired man did not let his guard down when he saw Shi Jinxin put away his fighting stance, nor did he think that this was a good time for him to launch a counterattack against Shi Jinxin. After listening to Shi Jinxin's rhetorical question, he was silent for a moment, and finally decided to answer.
"Manchado Collar, Knight of Count Bilgard, Maris Nord."
"Xuanyuan Adventure Group, Shi Jinxin."
"People from the Xuanyuan family?!" After hearing Shi Jinxin's name, the brown-haired man 'Marix Nord' was taken aback.
As a hostile force of the Leopold family, the Bilgaard family naturally pays attention to the situation in the Leopold family's territory. The town of Prailly has recently added a family force that calls itself the 'Xuanyuan Adventure Band' (the Travelers are considered to be from the same family because of their common physical characteristics), and this family is currently attached to the Leopold family, and its core members are all 'guest secretaries' worshiped by the Leopold family.
In order to enhance the strength of the forces, the lords of all parties will not only actively cultivate the strong people within the forces, but also vigorously attract the idle and strong people outside the forces to join. Even derived a title used to call this kind of idle powerhouse who joined the aristocratic forces - 'Keqing', whose identity is equivalent to the doormen raised by those gatekeepers in ancient China on the earth. However, in the world of Iber, the relationship between the master and the guest is not a master-servant relationship, but a loose cooperative relationship of mutual benefit. The main family provides these Hakka with the resources they need to cultivate and live, and the Keqing uses his ability to provide armed protection for the main family or come forward to solve some troubles that the main family cannot solve.
Saint-rank warriors are undoubtedly the top existence among the human powerhouses (ethereal god-level powerhouses are not counted), but unless they are saint-level cultivators within the force, saint-rank powerhouses are not something that earl-level noble lords can recruit. Therefore, the idle high-ranking warriors naturally became the targets of the lords of all sides.
Malis had read the information related to the Regulus family and questioned some of its contents. According to the intelligence, all the members of the Xuanyuan family are warriors, and they all have the strength of the middle level or above. This was simply impossible in Malis's opinion. Although there is a high probability that the descendants of the fighters will become new fighters because of the continuation of the bloodline, it is not 100%. If there are more than 30 direct family members in the same generation of a family who are war officers, then the number of family members must be at least hundred. With such a large family, would the Leopold family, who are thin, dare to take it in? What's more, the more than thirty members also have the information that 'all have the strength of mid-level fighters'. There are more than thirty mid-level warriors, which is equivalent to half of the knights' combat power in Prairly's domain. The resources required to cultivate such a group of people are not a small amount, can the Leopold family afford to cultivate them? Taking a step back, even if you can afford to cultivate, then why use it to cultivate 'Keqing'? Wouldn't it be better to train the knights under your command?
Questioning after questioning, Malix still paid attention to the 'Xuanyuan family' force belonging to the Leopold family. According to his thoughts, even if the other party is not as exaggerated as the more than thirty mid-level fighters mentioned in the intelligence, there must always be eleven or twelve middle-level fighters, and there may be one or two high-level fighters among them. Otherwise, the Leopold family would not have co-opted them.
However, after actually facing off against his opponent, Malix found that he seemed to despise the opponent.
Able to take out more than twenty soldiers in the blink of an eye, and in less than a minute, the combined attack of three low-ranking fighters can be leveled;
In a heads-up with a mid-level upper-level fighter, he was almost beating the opponent the whole time;
As a high-ranking warrior, he was completely unaware of the traces of the other party's sneaking.
Can a mid-level officer do these things? What are you kidding?!
The combat power displayed by the three people who appeared in front of him on the other side was clearly comparable to that of high-level fighters! And each one is as good as itself!
Especially Shi Jinxin, who confronted him, judging from the short fight just now, Malis felt that he might not be able to win the other party.
At the time of the initial ambush, Malis believed that the vanguard of the Prairly Army in the ambush had been destroyed.
Now he found that now he had to rely on the combat power of three knights of one high-level and two intermediate ranks to fight against the combat power of six knights of the other party's three high-level and three intermediate ranks? Although there are more than 70 fighters on their own side to help them fight, the opponent only has more than 20 fighters. But with this level of numerical superiority, it is useless to face the opponent's combat power advantage!
Maris's back was already covered in cold sweat at this time, and he originally thought that the Prairie Leader vanguard who was ambushed was nothing more than a short-eared rabbit that fell into a leash, but he stepped on the trap but was a ferocious saber-toothed tiger!
The ambushed Manchado led the ambush force from hunters to prey in an instant.
Ambush? Who ambushed whom?