477. Chapter 477: Trembling
Sally, or Roddy, had known that the "Viper Cross" was going to attack her, and that it was the Mirno family behind it.
Count Mirno didn't know that his correspondence to and from Elson City had long been monitored by Roddy, so the content of his negotiations with the "Pit Viper Cross" had already been leaked, and those seemingly covert actions had long since become a joke.
Roddy was well prepared for this, but when the attack did come, he found that he had underestimated the viciousness of these infidels.
As the tyrannical fire elemental quickly gathered overhead, Roddy immediately realized that this spell was probably as powerful as the dragon's breath he had ever faced!
With a strong sense of crisis, he subconsciously pulled out a quaint orange scroll and tore open the seal on the spot!
The Demon Hunting Vision could see that the "fire element" in the sky was rapidly condensed and plasticized in less than a minute, and when everyone could feel the blazing heat overhead, giant fireballs had already smashed down head-on...
"Don't move!"
When the "Meteorite Storm" was about to destroy everything, Roddy shouted at the soldiers around him not to run. At the same moment, an octagonal barrier suddenly rose above his head, blocking the meteorite...
Then, five loud bangs could be heard throughout Da Vinci's territory.
Bishop Frando held his breath slightly, his eyes fixed on the front.
When the roar sounded, his heart, which had been hanging all along, finally felt like it had landed. Looking at the large trees in front of him that were directly cut off by the shock wave, only one sentence echoed in his heart at the moment:
"This attack is secure!"
"Meteorstorm" is one of the high-level "strategic" spells that can be cast by elemental mages, and it is not cast by the two elementals who came to help this time, but is summoned through the scroll given to them by the Pope - after all, this spell is level six, and it can only be cast out of thin air by at least a "magister".
And at this time, in order to eliminate Sally, "Pit Viper Cross" is definitely out of the old book.
The heat was blowing head-on, and Frando sat motionless on his horse. He squinted ahead, and couldn't help but feel a sense of smugness in his heart.
Compared with the most stupid way of "encirclement", he did not let the soldiers run to the predetermined place to wait stupidly, but stood by in teams, relying on the watchful eye of Viscount Senna's men, and cooperating with the mage's "elemental sentry" to confirm Sally's location before taking the initiative to attack - for Sally, whose whereabouts are not hidden, this method is especially effective.
And what surprised him even more was that another army that appeared out of nowhere took the lead in attacking Roddy, although it was unsuccessful, it "blew up" all the hole cards they had ambushed in advance, and brought Sally's troops together with them...
Here's the chance!
There was only one scroll of "Meteorstorm", which was originally intended to "make the final decision", but with such a good opportunity in front of him, Bishop Frando immediately decided to use it to kick off the battle.
"What's next... All you need to do is clean up the battlefield. ”
"There are less than 200 of them in total, and more than half of them will be killed or injured if they continue like this..."
"I guess I can just rush up and cut off my head directly, and those targets may not even be able to see the ashes. ”
The red light in front of them had faded, and the black smoke was spreading, and this crisp and neat attack greatly boosted the morale of the "Pit Viper Cross" soldiers: they had thought that they would have to fight hard, but now they only had to "harvest the heads" to finish the work, because many people had already shouted the slogan "The pit viper god sanctions everything".
Half a minute after the spell took effect, the corners of Bishop Frando's mouth curled slightly and asked the soldiers to pass the order: "Infantry advance, cavalry flank cover, magician in position, spell pilot cover!"
Compared with the unsuccessful but arrogant private soldiers of Viscount Anru before, the troops of the "Pit Viper Cross" can be called "combat troops". One hundred and twenty infantry were divided into two teams, the front and back, and the fifty cavalry advanced in coordination on the flank, from beginning to end, no one fell behind or disrupted the formation, they began to accelerate slowly from 300 meters away, and after reaching about 100 meters, they collectively began to run and charge, at the same time, several "fireball techniques" also flew out from the rear, and fell straight into the position of Luo Di and others, exploding an orange spark in the thick smoke...
The sorcerers did not settle in the rear, but were in the middle of the team, constantly releasing buff spells around, and they were running fast, all mentally prepared for the enemy's "corpses all over the field"...
However, when the smoke with the smell of sulfur dispersed all around, a pile of white light in front of him made the soldiers in the front row stumble a step collectively!
"How is that possible!?"
The imaginary appearance of the enemy being crushed and covered with wreckage did not appear at all, but instead there were two rows of tall soldiers more than two meters high and covered in iron armor, dressed like iron hedgehogs, with a giant tower shield in their hands that was one meter and four meters high, and formed a steel city wall after the formation!
And the troops in their rear are also in an orderly formation, and these people do not have any scars on their bodies at all, no matter how you look at them, they are unscathed.
Rodi's Solomon's collection of "Extreme Flame Defense Enchantment" scrolls completely negated the spell damage, and at this time, the team basically did not lose any combat power except for someone burning at the edge!
This is where the importance of "strategic resources" comes in: when someone else uses a high-level scroll, Roddy is always ready to counteract. If it weren't for this harvest of Solomon's Treasure, I'm afraid that this battle would have been wiped out without even fighting!
The soldiers of the "Pit Viper Cross" knew that it was useless to exclaim, and the only thing they could do at this time was to grit their teeth and desperately crash into the tall and strong guys...
At the moment when the two sides met the enemy, Sally also finished chanting the prayer, and as she pointed the scepter in her hand to the sky, the huge golden "holy seal" suddenly appeared in the sky.
"Purify these heretics!"
Sally looked at the enemy in front of her, her tone full of anger.
Catherine's heart was irritable.
Just a quarter of an hour earlier, the procession from a nearby town had entered the forest before her eyes—a force that apparently did not belong to any of the lords, for Catherine recognized the insignia of the rosary cross on the knights' breastplates.
"What are the jihadist forces of the Rosicruce doing here?"
Not only her, but also those girlfriends and other nobles chattered about it, but everyone guessed for a long time and there was no reliable statement, the reason for this is because no one had gotten the news in advance...
The thing behind this is very intriguing. The aristocracy has always been extremely sensitive to sectarian information, and the aristocratic class is absolutely clear about any disturbance of the "Rosicrucifixion", but this time a force of one hundred and eighty people suddenly appeared, and no one knew about it from beginning to end, as far as Catherine's political sense is concerned, I am afraid that something really big will happen.
But now she had no interest in gossiping about any of this, and only wanted to see her father come out of the Da Vinci Forest as soon as possible—the news of the slaughter of several villages in the realm was in her throat, and Catherine couldn't sit still.
Think about it too... With such a large forest, my father would not tell others where he went, and he would change direction at any time if he tracked down a prey, but he just sent a team, and I am afraid that there would really be no hope of finding him for a while.
"Dolim!"
Catherine asked the butler beside her, "How many more soldiers are there here who can move?"
Hearing this, the housekeeper glanced back: "Miss, there should be twenty, twenty, uh... W-What is that?"
The butler, who was counting the number of people, was suddenly stunned, and Catherine also looked up and followed his gaze when she heard this, and then... Also stood on the spot.
She was looking to the west, geographically in the direction of several large villages and towns in the "Da Vinci Territory", and at this moment, several long trails of smoke suddenly appeared in the sky...
Although the nobles don't know how to burn their own wood, but the common sense that cooking smoke is "milky white" Catherine still knows, and this kind of ... Apparently something that only comes out of the thick black smoke that comes out of being incinerated.
Two streaks of black smoke have drifted high, and a new black smoke is slowly rising from a closer position...
"These pariahs just like to burn things indiscriminately!"
The people around her were gradually noticing this, and Catherine could hear her best friend complaining, but she was not so optimistic at all - the territory of Bolton was to the west, and the villages and towns that had been slaughtered were exactly in the direction she was currently looking at if they were marked on the map!
What's the matter... Coming over?
The uneasiness in her heart became more and more intense, Catherine felt that her fingers were trembling slightly, she took a few deep breaths, and looked around: the servants were pointing at the black smoke, the few aristocratic maidens who remained here were talking about the vulgar way of life of the untouchables, the soldiers around were resting under the tents, and the horses were grazing with their tails flicking their tails...
Everything was still the same harmonious look, but Catherine's legs were shaking terribly.
"Dolim, count all the soldiers now, and go now!
"Miss, what are you..."
"Don't ask why, let's go!"
Fortunately, she was dressed in a hunting costume today, and at this time she made a decision, and she trotted a few steps to her pampered horse, and when she turned over, she almost fell off the other side because of the excessive movement, and after trying to stabilize her body, she went towards the forest surrounded by the private soldiers who rushed by her.
"Catherine, what are you doing here?"
Seeing that she was in such a hurry, several of her best friends asked one after another, but Catherine was surrounded by the sound of horses' hooves around her, and could not hear their words at all, and soon disappeared from the sight of these people.
"Really, I don't think she's quite right today, did she fall in love with a man and go crazy?"
"Who knows..."
The others were still chatting boringly, and after a few minutes had passed, someone suddenly pointed to the distance and said:
"Huh, there's another team of people over there. ”
"What the hell... It was the 'Rosicrucius' just now, and now there's another batch..."
"The way they ride horses is so strange, how do they dangle around?"
"Looks like it's true, wait—it doesn't look like a horse, right?"
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