Chapter 5: Changes in the Royal Capital
Back to back, John ordered the three knights to close together, they clenched the long sword in their hands, fearlessly against the more than thirty attackers besieging them in front of them, John's two subordinates were the two squadron leaders of the silver lily, although their combat effectiveness was not as good as John's, but they had already reached the level of the guard knight second only to the royal knight, facing a royal knight and two guards knights, although the attackers were outnumbered, they still couldn't take much advantage, Rao was swords, swords, arrows flying sideways, and they could not hurt the three people in the center of the battlefield
Your Excellency is not a way to go on like this, a squadron leader used his sword to block a spear that pierced him, and dodged a sword slashed from the side, taking advantage of the gap in the battle, to John said: We don't wear battle armor, only ceremonial leather, we can't use all our strength
Another squadron leader split two crossbow arrows that flew over, saying that these people were very skilled in combat, and they cooperated with each other seamlessly
In fact, John Duncan himself knew in his heart that no matter how strong these attackers were, it was very reluctant for them to deal with a combination of a royal knight and two guards knights, I am afraid that they wanted to trap John, delay the time, John cut the throat of an attacker with a sword, and then put the fingers of the middle finger and ring finger of his left hand to his mouth - whistled, the two crossbowmen on the outermost part of the battlefield seemed to be flying from behind, and a sound of pedaling came, only to see a brown war horse quickly rush into the core of the battlefield, and the attacker was caught off guard, and seven people were knocked down in a row along the way
Peake struggled, and John dodged sideways with a saber slashed from behind, then stepped on the attacker's body and flipped over his horse
The brave and invincible royal knight John Duncan rode on the war horse, shouting while holding the reins of the reins, the front hooves of the war horse took off, the attacker was shocked by the momentum of the royal knight, and actually stopped moving, two or three seconds on John's body, as if emitting a halo shining on the two squadron leaders beside him, killing the two squadron leaders seemed to get more courage in the halo, and they swung their swords more forcefully than just now to kill the surrounding enemies
The royal knight John Duncan fought in and out of the small battlefield with only one man and one horse, and the two knights of the Guards bravely cooperated on foot, and soon more than thirty attackers were slashed by the three knights
After killing all the enemies, John and the others found that the enemy's commander, the black-robed man, had long since disappeared, John ordered a squadron leader named Wimber, to go near the city gate to check if there was anything suspicious, and at the same time asked another squadron leader named Johnny to help him bandage the wound that was stabbed by the dagger sneak attack, there was black blood flowing from the wound, the dagger was actually highly poisonous, these enemies were really ruthless, they wanted to kill him, John didn't snort, he endured the severe pain, let his men treat the wound in the simplest way, he didn't have time to find a priest to help him detoxify, and now there was more urgent things waiting for him to do
After a while, the squadron leader named Wimber returned, and he reported to John that several real guards had been found near the city gate, and that the bodies of the real gatekeepers had been taken off, and that John Duncan was quick to think about it, sorting out all the suspicions and suspicious circumstances that had occurred, which must have something to do with the Void Mercenary Regiment, and he quickly came to his conclusion, and then he gave an order: Wimper, you hurried back to the legion headquarters, reported the matter to the deputy commander of the Dulles, asked him to strengthen the vigilance of the whole city and the palace, and sent an additional force to the city gate to receive orders, and then Wemberley mounted his war horse and galloped in the direction of the city
Johnny looked at Wimber's figure in the distance, and John said to the remaining squadron leader, "You must hold the gates alone until I return or Wimber's reinforcements arrive."
John then mounted his horse and galloped in the direction of the mercenary group outside the city
When John Duncan came to the station of the mercenary group, he found that the whole camp was quiet, there was not a single sentry at the door, and there was no knight rushing straight into the camp, the camp was extremely quiet, only the fire plate was still hunting, burning, making a clear snapping sound, a large mercenary group of hundreds of people had long been gone, the knight could not hide the shock in his heart, he turned over and dismounted, continued to investigate inside, in a large tent, found that a flag painted with a hummingbird birch rune pattern broke the flagpole and was thrown on the ground by people at will, the hummingbird birch rune flag is the military flag of the Void Mercenary Group, a military flag has a sacred symbolic meaning for a legion, how could their soldiers possibly throw their own military flag casuallyA conjecture quickly flashed in the minds of the royal knights on the ground: this mercenary group was fake
Well, something was going to happen in the city, and John, realizing that the situation was not good, stepped on his mount and was about to leave, when suddenly there was a whistle in the air, and the tents around him shot a dozen arrows, and thirty or forty attackers who were lying in ambush in the camp rushed out from all directions......
At this time, in the imperial study of the palace, King Valivi XI was immersed in his office, reviewing daily official documents and state letters, and the king, who was known for his diligence, was now over sixty years old, but this did not prevent him from governing the country in an orderly manner
The wind blew the glass window open, so that the king, who was buried in a mountain made of Wenjiàn, temporarily stopped what he was doing, he came to the window, rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his arms, and looked out, the sultry wind began to thunderstorm, it is summer, every year at this time, it is the beginning of the thunderstorm season in the kingdom of Pole, tonight is just in time for the first thunderstorm of the year, the king seriously felt the wind outside, and then listened to the bursts of thunder from the sky in the distance
Sure enough, he is a good and responsible king, and a sudden voice at the door startled the king who was in a state of high concentration, for a large agricultural country like the kingdom of Pole, the weather factor has a great impact on the harvest, and it can be judged from the first thunderstorm of the year what impact this year has on the crop harvest, so as to take countermeasures, this is the most basic ability that the king of this country should master, right
The king recognized that this was a voice that was usually very familiar, and his heart suddenly rose high, and he turned his head and said to the visitor: "Even as an important minister of the state, it is a bit inappropriate to break into my study directly without regard for the etiquette of the palace like this, and even if there is something important, the guards should be informed first."
Hahahaha no longer needs to be informed, the faces of the visitors are particularly hideous, and the guards who are guarding outside have ushered in the end tonight, just like His Majesty and the country
What does it mean to be Prime Minister
Boom--Suddenly there was a thunderclap from the sky, drowning the king's words into the thunder
After the thunder, the rain fell sparsely and fell to the ground, and the blood splashed everywhere would soon be washed away by the coming heavy rain, and the royal knight John Duncan rode his mount, Peake, was rushing towards the city gate, and the unidentified sneak attackers just now had all fallen under his sword, although there was no royal armor and no other companions' assistance, but John was the strongest royal knight after all, and those enemies just now couldn't stop him at all, the only thing that was a little troublesome was the wound on his shoulder, the pain became more and more intense, it seems that after the fight just now, the poison has begun to spread in his body
However, John couldn't control so much, he had to race against time to get back to the king's side, Pan Alonda must be the old donkey, he was in favor of sending troops to reinforce the elves, just to weaken the kingdom's main defenses, he also used the power of the prime minister and the king's trust in him, on the pretext of assisting the kingdom's defense, to put some unidentified armed men pretending to be the number one Void mercenary group on the Brilliant Continent on the periphery of the capital, in order to wait for the opportunity to launch a coup d'état, Pan Alonda, the damn male dog, he was waiting for tonight's thunderstorm, not to mention the ordinary citizens, even the ordinary soldiers in the barracks would not go out casually, and the noisy thunderstorm soundedCovering up most of the noise, it's a good time for a coup d'état—hmph, you think it's seamless, but I know it, and when I get to His Majesty's side before you do, your plot will be completely revealed
The knight, who was bumping on the back of the war horse along the way, thought indignantly
With the full speed of running, John Duncan had already seen the city gate in front of him, and suddenly a huge object spun towards John, John grabbed Pique's reins and jumped to the side, the object smashed right where Pique was standing just now, and the rain was already quite heavy, blocking most of the people's vision, but John could still see clearly that the object was actually a man, he was dead, and he still held a long sword in his left hand, and the iron cuirass hanging on his chest was destroyed by Yanzhòng, and a clear sole-like indentation was seen on it
John didn't think much of it, and continued to charge towards the gate, and as he got closer to the gate, he noticed more and more objects flying out of the gate, with weapons, arrows, and human stumps, muffled by the sound of wind, thunder, and rain, and the sound of fighting became clearer and clearer, when John saw more than twenty people besieging a man at the gate
Knight Charge - This is the most basic combat skill that any knight can master, although it is quite common, but it is very practical, and the use of this skill generally has two states: one is to charge on foot, and the other is to charge on a warhorse, John is using the more powerful latter, and in just two seconds, John rushed to the side of Johnny, the besieged knight of the guard, and three enemies in his way were killed by the powerful impact force along the way
Your Excellency, you have finally arrived, and you have seen your boss relieve yourself, and Johnny excitedly shouted that my partner, Mina, is dead, but I haven't yet
At this time, John found Johnny's mount, the yellow female half-breed horse named Mina, had fallen in a pool of blood, and Johnny was standing next to the horse corpse to fight, and there were several circles of enemy corpses lying around him, in fact, Johnny's own situation was not much better, he was carrying a bloodied sword, and his ceremonial leather armor had long been tattered, but his knight's war spirit had been fully burned, and the cold rain dripped on his hot body, which instantly evaporated into water vapor, making a sizzling sound, and it looked like Johnny's whole body was surrounded by a white light mask, although he was covered with bruises, but exuded a sacrosanct momentum
As a knight, John was well aware of the grief that the death of his mount caused to his knight
Johnny: We don't have time to grieve that Prime Minister Pan Alonda staged a coup d'état
It's not that simple, please look at the enemies in front of you
At this time, John Duncan noticed that among these living and dead enemies, there were two groups of people who were particularly different in their clothing and equipment, one was dressed like a clergy of the Holy Illuminati, wearing dark red monk's robes, and a hat symbolizing the bishop on his head, and from the edge of the monk's robe, he was wearing a metal armor, they held a saber in one hand, a thin iron chain upside down in the other, and a silver cross the size of a palm hanging from the end, and the other group wore a set of gold-colored full-body armor, and even the face was hidden in the mask of the golden helmet, and a bright red cloak was draped behind it, holding a long, wide two-handed greatsword
The sword-babbed bishops of the kingdom of St. Auluffi and the golden guards of the Faylele Empire, how did they appear here.