Chapter 90: The Battle in the Air
More than a dozen griffons surrounded the airship and were constantly approaching.
Although the sound is particularly chaotic at high altitude due to the air currents, the sound of so many large birds of prey flapping their wings at the same time still overshadows the irregular noise.
"Lie down!"
Joica, who is a bounty hunter, immediately senses the danger, and he subconsciously pushes Sophia away from him.
Just to hear the glass breaking, a javelin smashed through the window and nailed to where they had stood.
A large amount of cold air poured into the cabin, and the kerosene lamps hanging from the ceiling swayed from side to side, and the lights were almost extinguished, and the cabin flickered and dimmed. At the same time, the griffons circling the airship seemed to have received an order to launch a general attack, and the continuous barrage of javelins shattered the other strings of the airship, smashing the main cabin where Joyka and Sophia were located.
At this time, Joyka and Sophia are hiding by the fireplace in a javelin out of reach. Joyka's longbow and quiver were placed more than 3 meters away, but in the face of the dense attacks of the knights outside, Joyka was never able to cross this short distance.
"Who are these people? We are now deep in the territory of the Equal Revolutionary Army, and it stands to reason that they should not have any air power. Although she was attacked suddenly, Sophia is no longer one of those little girls who have just started to spearhead, and now her first thought is that she must first find out the identity of the enemy, and only by understanding this key information can she make the most reasonable judgment for the actions she will take later.
The "Equal Revolutionary Army" that Sophia refers to is actually one of the major forces on the battlefield of the Fayele Empire: the armed forces under the control of the People's Autonomous Commune, which two months ago officially announced that the militia they had gathered would be reorganized into a regular army, and adopted such a name. However, due to the fact that the whole of Olopa was shocked by the "Battle of the Sanctuary" and horrified by the emergence of the Truth Society, no one cared about these filthy people composed of a group of poor people - of course, it was precisely because people's attention was drawn elsewhere that the Equal Revolutionary Army seized this rare opportunity to storm the city and plunder the land, doubling the base of the Popular Autonomous Commune, and now almost all the important cities in the southern part of the Fayele Empire are under the rule of the Popular Autonomous Commune and the Equal Revolutionary Army, except for the coastal ports.
"I'm not sure. Wouldn't it be clear to handcuff one or two people?" His gaze never took his eyes off the bow and arrow 3 meters away.
Joeyka grabbed a wooden chair that had fallen right next to him, smashed it smashed, then picked up the back of the chair and smashed it against the kerosene lamp on the ceiling. Only a "clang" was heard, and the kerosene lamp fell to the ground, and the fire inside was extinguished, and the cabin was dark.
The sudden shift of human gaze from light to darkness takes at least 2 seconds to adjust. The air knights outside suddenly lost their aim in the dark night, and their attack had to be halted temporarily. Joika seized the brief gap and rolled forward, his eyes not needing to see, because he had already calculated the distance between him and the bow and arrow before extinguishing the kerosene lamp, and grabbed the weapon of the counterattack as soon as Joika's body stopped.
"Whoosh", "Whoosh", "Whoosh", "Whoosh", ...... Joyka shot several arrows out the window.
In the darkness, even a marksman like Joyka couldn't locate his target, so the arrows he fired didn't expect to shoot down the griffons or knights flying outside, but at least the sudden counterattack could disrupt his opponent's position.
"Joika, I'll help you!"
Sophia's voice came from around the corner. Joyka looked over and saw a faint white light glowing in the place, which Joika knew was Sophia's reaction to sending magic to the cross.
"Don't come here!" Joyka refused, shooting a few more arrows out the window, "You go to Cassius and change him back from the driver's position!"
"But ......"
"Your magic and combat skills aren't meant for aerial combat, but the Dead Fat Man can do much more. ”
"Okay! I'll go, hold on!"
Sophia didn't hold on either, she understood her shortcomings, so she took advantage of the opportunity that Joyka had created for her, found the doorway, half-crouched, and stumbled in the direction of the cab.
"Come on, fools, your uncle, I'm here!"
Joyka's provocative shouts could be heard in the cold night sky, muffling the unguardable sound of cold arrows shooting out of the string window.
The air knights outside responded to Joika's provocation with a more aggressive and suppressive attack. Powerful javelins were hurled into the ship's cabin through the shattered string windows, and some of the javelins were nailed to the hull of the flying ship, making the large man-made flying object shake even harder.
Joika listened to the sound and moved left and right in a javelin raid, leaving no room for counterattack, but his provocation worked, at least attracting all the enemy's firepower and buying time for Sophia to get Cassius back.
However, the effect of this enraging did not last long, and the Javelin attack soon stopped, apparently realizing that blind attacks were useless. So, immediately after a white light shone into the cabin through the window, a griffon riding his griffon and approaching the window, holding a mirror in his hand, reflecting the light of the moon into the cabin, illuminating the otherwise dark cabin, revealing Joyka's position.
"Idiot!" Joika snorted dismissively.
While the other party tries to expose Joyka's position, he also exposes his own position in front of Joyka.
The sharpshooter, who had been gathering momentum for a long time, released his taut bowstring, and with a scream, the knight in charge of holding the mirror was shot.
In order to reduce the weight of the flight, the armor worn by the air knights was already relatively thin, and Joyka was fired at close range, and the arrows penetrated the two layers of armor on the abdomen and back, and the body was full of muscles. The knight did not expect to be hit so hard as soon as he came up, and immediately lost consciousness, and a heel fell off the griffon's back. His faithful griffon swooped down to save his master before he could be crushed.
As for whether the griffon would eventually be able to save the hapless knight, Joika didn't care, he only knew that there was one less troublesome enemy. The fat man, who is no different from a living target, must be kept out of danger as much as possible before he returns.
However, what happened next made Joyka frown, for another griffon rider took the place of the fallen companion, flew to the window, abandoned his arms, and took the mirror, reflecting the moonlight into the cabin.
Before the mirror's light swept across her, Joyka fired another arrow, which also shot the knight down with great precision. However, what happened next made Joyka dumbfounded. Because the third knight quickly took the place of the first two companions with a mirror.
"Bastard, aren't they afraid of death?" Joyka cursed with a furrowed brow.
If you continue to let them shine like this, you may be able to shoot a few of them, but in the end, not only will you not be able to reduce the danger for the fat man, but you will expose your hiding place, which is extremely disadvantageous to Joyka, who is good at sniping.
Just when Joyka was worried, a childish voice full of innocence suddenly came into his ears: "What's the noise in the middle of the night?
This left Joika quite confused.
Through the moonlight, Joyka saw with her own eyes that the annoying creature that had been following them (in fact, it was Sophia), the winged elf Beth, was lying leisurely on a broken window, ignoring the javelins flying over her head, stretching and yawning, and complaining about waking and dreaming