Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Lion Leader

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There is a different sound at night, which seems to be the churning of the breeze and the clouds, but it is more set off by the tranquility.

Hearing the king's call, almost all the ministers and nobles came to the palace.

Woo woo woo -

Three whimpering trumpets sounded, and a group of Praetorian guards armed with swords, escorting the head of the Holy Knights, Morte, stood in front of the palace.

"Now, you can look at it. As your king and uncle, I will bury you with royal etiquette. God of War is on top, oh no! It should be the Lich King! Prepare for execution! ”

A pair of tan eyes sunken into the socket.

At a glance from the side, the king of the southern kingdom has an eagle hooked nose and a long chin, like two hooks almost stuck together. Greasy hair is half white and half black. Tightly wrapped in a heavy black cloak, like an old bear.

Under the light of the lights, the expressions of the ministers and nobles of the Southern Kingdom were numb. After all, the king controlled everything in the city.

Throughout the vast southern kingdom, the cities in those oases have fallen, and most of the loyal and brave counts have been killed in battle. Nowadays, no one dares to oppose the king. There is no power to oppose it.

At the moment when the old king ordered the execution, the Praetorian Guards raised their swords.

Bang ――――――

It sounds like the gunfire of a Mauser crossbow, but it's a little different. The sword in the hands of the Praetorian Guards was knocked out.

With the flapping of wings, five hundred paladins lined up in the night sky, each holding a Garand crossbow in their hands.

"Edgar, you have betrayed the kingdom and betrayed humanity. In the name of the unicorn family, I will take your place. Become the new king! ”

Moult pushed away the stunned Praetorian Guards at gunpoint and rose from the ground. But even so, the old king still looked contemptuous.

"Morte, even if you kill me. You are also a sinner who killed the monarch, and no one in the Southern Kingdom will submit to your rule. Yes, even if I betray the precepts. But in the tradition of the unicorn family, even if the king is guilty, no one is now qualified to punish the king. I advise you to ............"

"Shut up. Today, it's not me who will punish you! Moult interrupted the king. And knelt on one knee in the empty position beside him, his face reverent.

A strange scene fell in the eyes of the old king. and the eyes of many ministers and nobles were full of doubts and incomprehension.

Hum――――

Removing the Void Enchantment, Aaron, with silver hair and silver eyes, stood in the pupils of everyone.

"Betrayer of humanity, blasphemer of the kingdom. I will condemn you to death and strip your soul from your body! ”

With a Spartan blade in hand, Aaron strode up the steps. In the meantime, there were Janissaries blocking it. As soon as the golden combat boots were kicked, the opponent's right thigh cracked, and then in a cold light, the opponent's throat was slashed.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

More Janissaries swarmed out from both sides of the steps. Raise the sharp blade of the spear in your hand. However, a layer of golden armor quickly covered Aaron's whole body.

Whew――

A god of war banner appeared in Aaron's other hand.

"In the name of Augustus, the god of war!"

A hoarse voice echoed through the empty porch. Ignored by the god of war, the Praetorian Guards kept retreating, and finally bowed their heads and avoided both sides.

Old King Edgar. Eyes straight at the god of war. Because there were few teeth left in his mouth, his lips were deeply deflated. Faced with the fear of death, the old king's whole body trembled.

Unicorns are particular about tradition and royal precepts. Almost every member of the royal family received this kind of education from an early age. Old King Edgar at the time of his coronation. In front of everyone, he swore an oath to the statue of the god of war.

So, in the face of Aaron's butcher's knife, I saw him trembling and slipping from the golden throne, and then bowed his head, knelt down reverently, and stretched his neck.

The price of betraying the oath is to face the personal punishment of the god of war. This was something that the old king Edgar would never have expected.

There was not a trace of mud and water, at the moment when the sword was waved. Aaron felt that the literacy of the unicorn royal family was incomparable to many people. and the status of the god of war in the minds of mankind, which is somewhat beyond his imagination.

Can you think about it, the influence of the god of war can make a traitor kneel down and be killed!

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So far, the southern kingdom has been cowering in a corner of the steppe, with 500,000 subjects and an army of 100,000 men.

Aaron moved all the remaining stocks out of the Temple of War, enough to equip a 50,000-strong Garand infantry regiment.

A new mode of warfare, with a new king in the Southern Kingdom.

There is no trumpet of the charge, no shouts of the charge.

As the leader of the lions approached, the assault team lying in the thorn forest leapt up, and a thousand Garand crossbows opened fire at the same time, forming a dense net of fire, and the unsuspecting howling soldiers were beaten into smoke and dust under the dense rain of bullets.

After a round of shooting, the howling soldiers regained their formidable nature, and they stood in the open space screaming and firing back, but their faces were not afraid.

The commando fighters kept falling, and the alternate shooters behind quickly made up for it, and both sides were red-eyed. Perhaps realizing that it was difficult to escape in an open field, some of the howling soldiers actually carried trench bayonets to face the rain of bullets without any hindrance, but they were instantly beaten into a honeycomb shape, and in a short impact distance of 30 meters, a large number of corpses of the howling soldiers fell.

All the close commanders, including the leader of the lion, were killed, and the 6,000 Howling Legion did not survive, and the battle was extremely fierce. However, on the side of the Southern Kingdom commandos, due to the fact that they were waiting for work, plus the ambush in advance, and the cover of the Thorn Forest, they lost a total of less than 500 people.

Cleaning the battlefield, a squad of soldiers, seized the Mauser crossbow next to the enemy's corpse.

King Moult's eyes were on the god of war. After getting Aaron's nod and permission, the entire thorn forest, which stretched for tens of kilometers, immediately had no less than 50,000 people, and the legions equipped with Garand crossbows swarmed out.

Fifty thousand Garand soldiers, two thousand knights of the air.

Target: The closest oasis city to the grassland, Shazhou, less than five kilometers away. Only by retaking the sand boat will it be possible to keep the Howling Legion of the lion leader at bay in the long desert.

At dawn, "Smack!" ――

A red magic crystal flare rose into the air. The howling soldiers of Shazhou City only then understood that the southern kingdom, which was about to surrender, had launched a counterattack at this time.

The howling soldiers raised the crosshair of the Mauser crossbow in their hands and aimed it at the dense front.

No one showed their heads. However, the captain of the Howling Brigade who was in charge of the guard was cursing in his heart. "Damn, the Southern Kingdom has announced its surrender, and the entire legions in Shazhou City have gone around to the oasis of riots in the rear to suppress it. Now, there are less than 30,000 people in the entire Shazhou City. ”

Suddenly, 30 meters away, in the trench, the "sky is falling apart" roared into the eyes of the howling soldiers. Even the sky was shaking.

Suddenly, on the trench line, the sound of short and continuous concussions was deafening, and the flying rock fragments roared down with the breath of death, and the panicked howling soldiers could not find a safe corner, and many soldiers were directly hit by a pile of rocks at the same time, and their bodies were shattered and their heads were in different places.

The outer defense line laid by more than 10,000 people fell on all fronts in an unknown and frightening battle. But in two minutes, the lethality of a full blow from 10,000 Templars in such a small area was undoubtedly terrifying.

Aaron used the Wyvern Transformation to directly smash open the gates of Shazhou City.

When 50,000 Garand infantry launched a group charge. Coupled with the air support of 2,000 paladins, in less than two hours, the 30,000 Howling Legion regained control of the city in the oasis.

"It turns out. The Legion of Evil is not invincible. They will bleed and die the same. And all we have to do is have the courage to fight. ”

The tone of the god of war, and the encouragement of the god of war. All of them gave King Moult enough confidence. In particular, the 60,000 Mauser crossbows captured from Shazhou City, a large number of magic crystal storage, and a thousand boxes of ammunition.

Before leaving the Southern Kingdom, Aaron planned to personally decapitate the head of the lion leader, which was considered a gift to the new king.

Possess a large number of Legions of the Howling, the three major leaders of the Lich King's empire.

Among them, the leader of the eagle and the leader of the blue wolf are extremely cunning existences.

And the high profile of the lion leader, as well as his self-confidence, allowed Aaron to grasp his specific position.

Stretch open the void barrier and fly towards the depths of the desert.

At noon, the desert spreads out all the way to the horizon, where heaven and earth meet, undulating jagged sand dunes. The relentless scorching sun spewed like flames into the earth, and the vast desert was baked like a steamer, and the heat was overwhelming.

The vast Gobi Desert is like a yellow sea, and the sun shines on it, and ten thousand points of light shine brightly.

In the four layers of the Wyvern's eyes, there is a huge structure made of millions of granite blocks, without any adhesive material in between. And the stones fit seamlessly with each other, and not even a sharp knife can be inserted between the cracks of the stones.

Each block weighs an average of 3 tons, with the heaviest reaching more than 100 tons. How did the mysterious lion leader mine the huge rocks and transport them here? And how do you build them up?

And his enslavement of the humans of the Southern Kingdom can be said to have reached a heinous peak. The ground was covered with yellow sand, and sometimes the breeze made it impossible to open your eyes.

A golden triangular pyramid with a bronze gate covered with sand. Remove the Wyvern transformation and land in the stealth state of the Void Enchantment. In Aaron's pupils, a line of small words was seen, "Humans are afraid of time, and time is afraid of the pyramids!" ”

The stone statue is 80 meters long and 30 meters high. The stone statue has a human face, nose, ears and beard. But at the same time, it has the lower body of a lion.

A touch of sunset, brushing past the edges of the pyramid, slid down the sphinx's melancholy eyes. The sky was dyed blood-red, bewitching, bewitching, sad, mysterious.

"This lion leader may be able to explain for himself why the Mauser crossbow is on this continent......"

The wood was bald and Aaron had a smile on his lips. Weird, unusual, excited, or something. Even Aaron himself couldn't tell.

But the memory of his past life gradually recovered, and Aaron had a more vivid memory of the buildings and stone statues in front of him, "The ancient Egyptians worshipped lions, and they believed that lions were the embodiment of power. The body of the lion and the head of the pharaoh are a symbol of wisdom and strength. At the same time, this peculiar image is also in line with the ancient Egyptians' belief that pharaoh was both a god and a man. Although it is not known why this lion leader built the pyramid, at least, everyone will have a little common language. ”

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On the side of the huge already completed pyramid, two pyramids are under construction.

On the other side of the dusty sky, under a sand dune that protrudes from the ground.

Blending in with the blue sky and sunset, the narrow oasis looks vast and picturesque, which really makes Aaron wonder if this is a 'mirage'.

The truth is that a verdant oasis is in front of you, like an emerald set on the edge of a great desert.

Densely packed with humans. Driven by the howling soldiers of bony skin, enslaved.

The location of the leader of the male lions is easy to identify. Because there is only one entrance in the entire oasis.

Following the paws of a sphinx, Aaron walked to an underground palace, where the fire boiled at the heart of the painted walls depicting a heroic image of a muscular warrior hunting a hippopotamus, and under the steps of a three-story stone man fountain with only a skull.

The refreshing fragrance rises through the inner wall of the incense burner, rendering the entire exquisite and luxurious magnificent palace into a dreamy atmosphere of drunken gold.

In the middle of the main hall. On the dazzling golden candlesticks reflected by the flickering firelight, the bright candlelight illuminates the entire hall as if it were day.

In what should have been darkness underground. Seeing such a holy and dazzling brilliance made Aaron even more curious about this independent lion leader.

Continue down the aisle.

The tops of the cobweb-like bifurcated candlesticks are set with huge cat's eye gemstones, which are rare in the world. The entire candelabra is carefully wound with linen ribbons dyed with the most precious spices of the Southern Kingdom.

There was dark green malachite underneath, and there were no ugly howling soldiers to be seen. In Aaron's eyes, every time a maid in a one-shouldered tight dress came up in sandals and rekindled a few of the faltering candles.

The maid's floor-length skirt. Stir up a breeze and gently pluck these bells, making a crisp sound in the air.

Although Aaron is aware of his invisibility, he may have been noticed by the sound of the bell.

In a moment, a lion? To be exact, a living sphinx appeared in Aaron's vision.

"Who is it? Who would dare to trespass into the underground palace of the lion chief? ”

The sphinx-faced monster, with a round head, a palm-sized piece of hair on its head, and two provocative ears, looked like it was grinning from any angle.

"Oh! Strange, I can smell an unfamiliar smell but can't capture your location. Stealth? What a strange creature. However, if you can solve one of my riddles, not only will you not die because of it, but you will also become my Sphinx friend! ”

In Aaron's eyes, the head of the lion leader is a little funny, but his lion body can be said to be strong and powerful.

So far, Aaron has not been able to determine that this thing called the Sphinx, he is indeed from the same place as himself. Hearing the riddle, Aaron suddenly became interested, and as he kept changing directions in the stealth state, he responded, "Say the riddle!" ”

The leader of the male lion, who was ostensibly non-threatening, but was actually named the Sphinx, had already flashed many ideas in his mind, and he was thinking about how to catch this 'creature' in an invisible state.

"What is four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs when the sun goes down?"

"This ......" Hearing the other party's riddle, Aaron hesitated on the surface, but in fact he was almost able to determine that the lion leader named the Sphinx was indeed from a familiar place. Because of this old riddle, Aaron remembers it very clearly.

"Hurry up!" As he spoke, the Sphinx opened his bloody mouth, eager to swallow the 'Invisible Man' in one gulp.

But he thought that the other party would definitely not be able to escape, so he would better see if anyone could solve his riddle.

"Yesβ€”people."

"What?" The Sphinx was terrified, but still did not give up, "Why people?" ”

"Because man is not yet born to walk, he crawls on the ground with his hands, which is four-legged. When people grow up and learn to walk, it's two legs. When people are old, they must walk with crutches, isn't this just three legs? ”

With a small smile on Aaron's lips, he continued, "And I'll say, Sphinx, that your riddle is a trick. Because in this world, no old man can use crutches. ――――Do you think this is Africa or Egypt? ”

The leader of the lions, the Sphinx, trembled all over, his mouth half-open, and let out a hoarse scream, a sound of panic that sounded like a knife had slashed through his chest.

The Sphinx was dazed with fear, his face was so frightened that he was suffocated in an instant. It's like a wounded person instinctively shaking when a finger approaches his wound.

A head searches for the empty kilometer, and fear gripped the Sphinx.

Aaron can speak, say what he says, and a few words. Let the other party be completely surrounded by fear, which makes his limbs shrink together, his claws and heels under his abdomen, and take up as little space as possible, and absorb as little unnecessary air as possible, a fear that no one can personally experience. (To be continued......)