Act 64: A Message to Akane IV
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Rising from the mountains were magical creatures shaped from rocks into powerful flying monsters, with a human body and a body with steel-like hooks on their limbs, with a wingspan of more than seven meters, their stone skin shimmering with a pale green luster 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 this scene almost blankly, watching the fierce Empire birds of prey they were proud of disappear in an instant, and it took a long time for a dry jǐng to come from the observation room:
"Yes...... It looks like a gargoyle ......."
Although there were still a hundred griffin knights on standby in the fortress, at this moment everyone had roots under their feet, and not one of them ran down to the city to inform the others, because it was 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 gargoyles were divided into three as soon as they entered the fortress, and in mid-air they were divided into three huge arrows pointing in different directions, the first arrow composed of two hundred gargoyles pointed directly in the direction of the city wall, while the second arrow composed of 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 Barrier, 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.
They only realized that this was definitely a premeditated war.
The inner city is in turmoil—
Those soldiers who were not on duty in the fortified area were being driven from house to house from their stations in the inner city, from various places of entertainment—from bars, jì houses, or even lover's homes—or from the streets and alleys in twos and threes, hurriedly donning their robes, putting on helmets, taking up arms, and rushing to the fortress in formation or sporadically to gather and report, if in the era of the return of glory, or in the era of chaos, or in the half century before and after the Hu Tao Rebellion, You will definitely not see such a sight, in that era, the Black Sword Barrier, even in the most lax period, more than two-thirds of the military personnel were in combat readiness at all times.
But now, the fortress has not experienced any war for nearly a hundred years, and even the bandits of Eruin do not dare to commit crimes in the area ruled by the empire, and 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 the emperor ** people has not completely messed up a pot of porridge, and on the whole, their reaction is much better than those noble soldiers in the south of Eruin, and even not inferior to the Black Blade Legion and the Harbor Guard that Brando saw in Ampesel, these Rogerian soldiers in red and white battle robes gathered under the supervision of the military horn, and they were about to enter the fortress area soon.
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, and then the bustling red and white crowd on the street slowly stopped, looked up at the air, those dense black dots that formed 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 surprised and stunned, then turned into sāo movement and restlessness, and began to retreat closely, and finally turned into a frenzy 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 at this moment the Emperor's supreme was revealed, and they were not so frightened that they buzzed around like headless flies, or turned into a rout like the noble soldiers in the southern border of Eruin; 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 it is the air force, navy, monsters, creatures, or the dead, for this battle-hardened army with a deep tradition, they have long been familiar with it, so after a short period of movement, they immediately calmed down, and under the command of the nearby knight commander, they entered a state of imminent battle.
At this moment, if Brando were to see such a scene in person, he would definitely sigh, not only at the strength of the Cruz, but also at the fact that this was the same as the Emperor ** team he had seen.
An empire is an empire after all, and Cruz's eagle doesn't just soar above the sky 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, the air force as the name suggests, the sky is their domain, if these gargoyles want to give them a frontal fight on the ground, but it is obviously 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 turned his head and saw that on the roofs near his left, there were three or four wizards on almost every roof, 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 roof—although he knew that the other party could not pose any threat to him, he couldn't help but be a little nervous—what a bold idea to let the wizard come to the front line and fight the enemy soldiers face to face.
Not to mention that he had never heard of this kind of battle before, and even if he hadn't thought about it, the so-called wizard was 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 is at least above the middle of the black iron, and the low roofs of the inner city are not too tricky obstacles for them, but in a short time, there are Imperial soldiers who climb up to the roof with the help of the terrain, and Mo Duncan saw that the nearest soldier was only twenty feet away from him, and he could even see the hideous face of the other party, and the cold light of the long sword in his hand, he had a thousand and ten thousand in his heart who wanted to directly throw the spell prepared in his hand on that guy, but at the last moment, Still, he forcibly moved his target, raised his staff and cast a spell on the Imperial soldiers who were clustered in the streets.
"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 is falling into a special dead silence, as if it has been imprisoned for time - those emperor ** teams gathered and crowded in the streets soon lost room to fight back under the control of the wizard, they didn't think about fighting back, but the formation was so densely exposed to the blows of magic, the result was conceivable, almost in the first time, 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 a wizard to be the opponent of hundreds of wizards gathered together, and after sporadic counterattacks, they quickly realize that the situation is gone, and either raise their hands and surrender, or simply find 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 gargoyles in the sky leave, while 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 a blow that is almost destructive.
Maria still hadn't figured out where the damned gargoyles had come from, and he had been sending heralds to find out what was going on on the other side of the wall, and then ordering some of the knights to get ready to take off, 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, and then threw pieces of glittering crystals, most of which hit the passage of the griffon's cage, and a small part hit the treasury of the knights, and then as he saw now, the entire passage of the griffon's cage had been completely destroyed, and about one hundred and sixty griffons and more than thirty knights were sealed inside, and it was difficult to say how many could 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, who was pointing his sword at Brando, obviously didn't know that such a 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 were engaged in a fierce battle with the gargoyles, the sorcerers of the fortress had joined the battle, and the longbowmen and crossbowmen had begun to line up, so to speak, barely stabilizing the situation; Behind him, more than a hundred dragon knights had completed their preparations, and these Cruz knights, dressed in heavy armor, raised their spears one after another, and the small pennant on the spear 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.) )