18 Fight to the end

"I didn't learn new magic spells, which is why I'm alive until now."

"Enemy Attack !!" The roar of Alista Akayi resounded through the barracks, waking the defenders who were still asleep. On the other side, Wind Chimes was having breakfast with several defender soldiers, and one soldier took out a long-cherished wine for everyone to taste, and just poured it into the kettle of several people, he heard Alista's warning sound.

"Drink again when you come back from the battle!" The defenders said, then took their weapons and went straight to the Black Gate.

The wind chimes also rushed to the city walls, but she soon saw a completely different scene from the previous one—the army of the Kingdom of Justid had gathered under the city walls, and the black pressure was overwhelming, as if the black clouds were stretching to the northern horizon, and there was no edge in sight. With flags blazing and the sound of sharpening knives one after another, the army of the Kingdom of Yousd is ready to deal a heavy blow to the defenders of the Kingdom of Spreet at the Black Gate!

But they were able to endure it, for in the midst of the black-pressed hosts, the wind chimes saw four siege trebuchets. It was the first time she had seen these powerful weapons in person, and even a few days earlier, her barracks had been bombarded by trebuchets, and the heavy siege engines were still far away from sight.

"Damn, they used the darkness of the night to move the trebuchet so close, so the accuracy of the bombardment was much higher." Abbot Tucker dragged his tired body to the city wall as well, "All apprentices, hold up the magic shield for the defenders!" At the sound of the order, the thirteen remaining apprentices stood on the city wall, silently reciting incantations, and holding up their magic shields. Wind Chimes hadn't been able to unleash her shield as quickly as the other apprentices, as she was still using the old magic spells, which were a bit more complicated than the new ones that Para Dax had reformed, but she had been able to use the old ones as fast as the others, so as not to arouse Dean Tucker's suspicions.

Soon, invisible magical shields were propped up, refracting the defenders' vision, allowing the defenders on the walls to see the distorted and blurred enemies through the shields. The archers on the city walls began to shoot arrows at the enemy who was like a bountiful harvest of rice below the city, and at that moment, four huge rocks were flying at high speed!

"Hold on!" Dean Tucker shouted.

The two boulders failed to fly over the walls and smashed under the walls, kicking up a large cloud of dust; A boulder was higher than the magic shield and smashed into a barracks inside the city walls, but fortunately there was no one inside; The last boulder smashed impartially into the center of a male apprentice's magic shield, and the people on the city wall thought that the boulder would shatter, but on the contrary, it was the magic shield that shattered! After shattering the magic shield, the stone still slammed down like a meteor at high speed, hitting the male apprentice directly in the front, his body like a tissue paper wrapped around the tip of the stone, and rushed to the ground as if it merged with the stone, but his body was torn apart before it touched the ground, and then the boulder smashed into the ground and shattered into pieces.

"Damn!" Dean Tucker shouted, "Everyone, concentrate!" When all the apprentices heard this, they tried their best to hold on to their magic shields, ready for the next catapult attack, but as a result, another apprentice was killed, and his shield was instantly smashed by stones, and his body was rushed off the wall.

"The gates have been breached!" I don't know who shouted, but I saw that there was already a mess under the city wall, and several enemy war bears could already be seen rushing in at the city gate—those war bears were turned into by magicians through transformation magic. In the face of the war bears, the defenders retreated one after another, and saw that the city gate was about to be lost......

"I'm coming!" With a loud cry, Alista jumped from the city wall, riding right on the neck of a war bear, and pierced its throat with his long sword, blood gushing out, causing several war bears next to him to tremble and be in a dilemma. "Follow me!" Alista then shouted, and when the defenders saw that the commander himself was in battle, they suddenly gained courage, and the shouts of killing rang out, and the enemy troops at the city gate were quickly eliminated, and the defenders regained the initiative.

"They're retreating!" Alysta pointed to the Yousd Kingdom army, which had already begun to flee for their lives, "Rush out with me and destroy their siege engines!" "The defenders inside the city gate have long hated the siege engines outside the city, and today the enemy is close at hand, if it is not destroyed at this time, when will it be? Thousands of people were enthusiastic, and the generals came out, killing the army of the Kingdom of Yusid to lose their armor.

On the other side, the siege engines were still firing stones, the defenders on the walls were still firing arrows, and the magic shields were still holding on...... Dean Tucker's magic shield has already resisted three boulders, while Wind Chime's has already resisted four, and the magic shields of the other students are still there, just because they were lucky not to be hit by the stones.

"Dean, be careful!" The apprentice's screams rang out, and almost instantly, Dean Tucker's magic shield was shattered! The stone struck where he stood, shattering, and he fell under the walls with a violent tremor - "Poof! The not-so-strong body landed heavily on the ground, and Dean Tucker spurted blood from his mouth, his vision blurred and pale...... In the haze, he heard the roar of his apprentice, the roar of battle, and he saw that the magic shield of the wind chimes had once again withstood the attack of the two boulders......

"Wind chimes...... You ......," Dean Tucker wanted to keep his eyes open, but he didn't have the strength anymore, "I see...... So you ......" He seemed to understand something, but he couldn't say it anymore. At this time, the wind chimes on the city wall turned their heads to look at Dean Tucker, and from the eye contact, the wind chimes understood what he wanted to express, as if he was acknowledging something, and the wind chimes nodded to Dean Tucker......

In this way, Dean Tucker of the Demon Court of the Kingdom of Sprelet closed his eyes peacefully.

Outside the walls, Alista and his men had destroyed four trebuchets, but they soon discovered that they had gone too far. Even though this was not a trick by the Yusted Kingdom Army to lure the enemy deeper, there was still enough strength in the enemy's rear, and now this force had turned into a neat array of soldiers, pressing towards Alista! To make matters worse, the retreating enemy forces had recovered and began to encircle the advancing Splett army from the flank.

Alista gave the order to begin a retreat, but the enemy behind him had already begun to pursue, and the encircled army was about to seal the encirclement.

"Withdraw! My Highness! Alista ordered the sergeants around him to speed up their retreat, and he slowed down, and several soldiers wanted to stay with the general, but were ordered to speed up and continue to retreat.

The encirclement was about to be completed, but the Yusd Kingdom Army, who was in charge of sealing the mouth, did not dare to easily provoke the large army that was retreating, and they all noticed the lone general in armor - anyone could see that this person was not ordinary.

The encirclement was complete, Alista Akayi was surrounded by enemy troops, and the rest of the Sprat's army had withdrawn to safety. The encirclement began to shrink, and Alista looked around, and instead of seeing his own people, he was a little relieved. The eyes of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Yousd were fixed on the family crest on the body of this person in the encirclement - a white shield with a red background, it was already clear who this person was, even if he was not captured alive, killing him would be a great achievement, and it would leave the defenders leaderless, and victory seemed to be at hand.

There are people inside the city walls who want to save the general, but there are more enemies, and there is no chance of winning by rushing out, and they will give up the city gates.

Arista understood that he could not be a prisoner of the enemy; The soldiers of the defending army also understood that they were about to lose their beloved commander; The apprentices of the Demon Court don't understand - where did the wind chimes go?

Alista raised his beloved long sword, put it around his neck, and faced the approaching Yusid Kingdom army, he closed his eyes and prayed: "God of All Sources, please forgive me for killing myself to meet you, I ......" Before his prayer was over, he felt that he was pulled up by a huge force, and his body left the ground!

Astany was taken aback and hurriedly opened his eyes, he found that he was already in mid-air, and he was still flying up! When he looked up, he realized that a giant eagle had dragged itself into the air and flew into the walls of the Black Gate. Surprised, the enemy fired arrows indiscriminately, but they couldn't keep up with the speed of the giant eagle, and none of the arrows hit......

The victory was gone, the trebuchets were destroyed, and the morale of the Yused Kingdom army plummeted, and they were no longer able to fight anymore and were forced to retreat.

The eagle dragged Alista back to the camp within the city walls, and slowly landed, surrounded by soldiers, who cheered and applauded in celebration of the commander's safe return. After letting go of Alista, the giant eagle changed back to its original form, in fact, Alista and the defenders had already guessed that the giant eagle was changed by a wind chime, because she had already shown her extraordinary strength when she first came here.

Praise and praise followed, but there was not the slightest joy on the face of the wind chime, and Alista did not cater to the blessings of his men, but reminded everyone to hurry up and clean up the battlefield and do the defense work in time. Alista soon learns that his old friend, Dean Tucker, has died. After visiting the body of the dean with the apprentices of the Demon Court, Alista finds the wind chimes.

At this time, Wind Chimes was in a daze by a campfire - before the battle began, the soldiers here had agreed to come back after the battle to drink together, but now it was only Wind Chimes who came back.

"We'll all lose a lot on the battlefield, so don't be too sad." Thinking that the wind chimes really missed Dean Tucker, Alista stepped forward to comfort him, "Just now...... Thank you for saving me. ”

Wind Chime turned around, his face mixed: "Don't thank me, I just did what I had to do." ”

"I'm sorry about Tucker, he's a good guy, but occasionally he's careless, but on the battlefield, you can't be careless." Alysta sat down by the campfire and picked up a glass of wine that had been left over from the soldiers, knowing that the owner of the glass was no longer there, "I have always believed that serious people can do things right, and attentive people can do things well." From this point of view, Tucker is a serious person, and you ...... You call it a wind chime, right, you're a hard-hearted person. ”

Wind Chime sat down slowly, picked up the wine glass in front of him, drank it all, and then gasped, "My heart...... Far away in the castle......"

"There's someone in the castle that you miss?" Alista asked casually, and the wind chime nodded, "Then write a letter to this person, it will make you feel better, and by the way, you will also be safe." Give it to me when you finish writing, and I'll send it back for you. ”

"Well, I'll write it." Wind Chime replied, feeling a little better than before.

……

That night, Wind Chimes finished the "magic letterhead", but without the envelope, and she remembered Alista's words and went to the camp to find him. "Don't write the address in the castle, letters sent from the battlefield will be double-checked." "Do you know anyone in the Praetorian Guard?" You can send it to them and hand it over. Wind Chime thought for a moment, and a young Praetorian Reserve Private she had helped appeared in front of her. So she wrote:

"Praetorian Guard, Reserve Entkoman Collection"

And just like that, the letter that readers had seen earlier was sent back from the battlefield.

In the early hours of the next morning, after counting all the bodies of the dead, Alista personally presided over the cremation ceremony of the fallen soldiers, and the bodies of more than a hundred soldiers, including Dean Tucker, were cremated, and the losses of the Yusted Kingdom Army were ten times that of Splet.

"If you give me fifteen thousand...... Even with 10,000 reinforcements, I can break through the gates and sweep the enemy! For the emperor, who was slow to send reinforcements, Alista complained.

There are still no reinforcements, but the enemy's general offensive could begin at any moment.

"You should evacuate early, the war here has nothing to do with you." Alista advises the remaining ten apprentices in the Demon Court.

Of course, he got a reply that he didn't want to hear.

……

"If I can't even protect this place, who is there to protect the person in the castle?"