Chapter 51: The Hunt
"Can you still move? Anka, Marcas!"
Before Lucia's words of concern fell, the two of them rolled up from the ground one by one, making Kellogg's eyelids jump, with his absolute strength two and a half ranks higher, how could they not immediately fall to the ground after being punched by themselves.
Lucia reassured a little, wiped away the tears she had shed for Olves, and stood up with her sword raised, the battle for the siege and defense continued, though it was clear that the pace had slowed down and there was a vacuum around them.
Olwes was thinking about winning the battle and avoiding losses, and Kellogg was not the same.
"Kellogg, the Orman Lion, I've wanted to meet you for a long time. ”
Kellogg looked calmly at the girl in front of him wearing a red mage hat, but wearing a swordsman's light armor, her body was so full of vitality that it didn't look like a human or an elf, "This sentence is really familiar, many people have traveled thousands of miles to see me, and they have all ended up being guests in the prisons of the Empire. ”
Lucia didn't speak, but jumped out with her sword raised.
Kellogg raised his sword in astonishment, and the unmatched speed and power struck him directly into the air, and he retracted his contempt and jumped back through the rocks on the ruins, and the sword light spilled straight at Lucia who stabbed again.
When they touched, he shifted a little sideways, and the long sword slashed directly at Lucia's sword, sending a spark straight to her wrist, and even slashing her throat with a cross.
Such ingenious swordsmanship stumbled into the air, which was more than a shame and embarrassment for the half-sword saint, and Kellogg turned sharply and swung his sword, sending Lucia who somehow flashed behind him straight into the ruins.
The annoyed Duke did not stop, and rushed away with heavy and violent steps, the power of his feet accumulated on the sword without a minute, and the ground gradually began to tremble violently, and finally began to crumble and collapse under the Duke's feet.
"The legendary sword skill 'Dugu'! Yulai, stop him!", Tine shouted anxiously.
Yulai raised his sore arms, took out three arrows from the quiver at his waist, and put them on like lightning, and without warning, the arrows disappeared from the bow.
Three green whirlwinds swept down obliquely from the sky, and the sharp tips cracked through the air, and rushed straight towards the duke, but he couldn't keep up with the duke's pace, and Yulai's eyes were red, and he didn't care about his bleeding arms, and frantically shot arrows like rain towards Kellogg.
A hand gripped his bow and forced him to stop, and Yulai turned his face angrily to see that it was Olves, who had just woken up.
"I was just waiting for this moment, and it's a shame he didn't give me this opportunity before. She cupped her chest and gasped, "Mia, it's your turn." ”
The Duke was like a god of war incarnated in the mortal world at this moment, the wind and gravel roared in his body, he stared at the girl who had risen from the ruins in front of him, and slashed down, the black fighting energy on the sword that was eager to try it under the wild pressure of the adhesion energy, causing the surrounding light to begin to distort.
He felt that every muscle in his arms had been tightened to the extreme, and the sword was like a falling star, the Duke sneered in his heart, in the bloody battle twenty years ago, the sword of "Dugu" that jumped from the head of the city had split the twenty-meter-high living Titan in half from the head to the center of the feet.
It's a pity that the flesh and blood of a girl will not be as dense and pleasant as the sinews of the Titan, and the Duke even misses the feeling of the sword moving violently in resistance.
A red shadow submerged into his body from behind, and Kellogg was shocked to find that the power that was enough to split the heavens and the earth was lost in an instant, and he fell from a half-sword saint to a sword master at once, and his "sword technique" was interrupted by life.
"You!", Kellogg couldn't contain his desire to turn back, and his eyes found the little girl with the devil's vertical eyes.
Blood spurted out of his mouth in an instant, and the tip of a sword pierced through his chest from the hand of the girl with a sunny smile behind him, four blood flashes appeared, his hand and foot arteries were cut in an instant, and a thin man in a black robe fell from the air to the ground.
The three jade arrows also arrived as scheduled, and the fighting qi knot that his swordsman called the "three holes" was directly nailed through, and the strength of the half-sword saint was one step too late but it was difficult to return, Kellogg roared angrily, stopped the footsteps that were carried back by the arrows in embarrassment, and supported the knees that were about to kneel down with brute force and will alone.
"You can really underestimate the Assassins. The thin man in front of him sneered and raised his head and gently pushed him on the shoulder.
Colours crept from Kellogg's limbs to his face, and Kellogg Goldmers, the invincible Orman lion in his life, raised his sword tremblingly and fell.
Olwes stood up and raised her sword, the midday sun shining behind her, and the soldiers of Edgeton laughed and roared, brandishing their swords and shouting like a tidal wave!
Orman's elite soldiers were routed like weeds under the swords of the Knights, and the high-level swordsmen could not stop the mid-level swordsmen before they were impaled through the body with two swords.
The red-eyed Ekedon soldiers even ran down the wall along the enemy's ladder and chased down, while the magicians who couldn't escape were very consciously trembling in place and waiting for the captive, but fortunately, the soldiers of Ekedon were afraid of Enid and did not dare to swing the butcher's knife in a huff.
Morale is a wonderful thing, and Duke Kellogg's prestige is a double-edged sword, and after his defeat, his lieutenants have forgotten even the absolute difference between friend and foe, and have lost the wisdom and courage to regain their strength.
"It's been guarded, Enid. Lucia watched in disbelief as Orman's soldiers fled like monkeys and disappeared into the wilderness, leaving behind siege baggage, weapons and armor all over the ground, and a neat camp.
"Without a priest, he is confident that he is the condensation of faith, and he does not wear the glory of Rhea, just because I have never been armoured, and I will not retreat when I am ambushed, just because we are only the rank of the great swordsman, my father, why are you so proud!"
Olveis sneered and took out the seal representing the Goldmers family from his bosom, the golden and jade thing flowing in the sunlight and shining like a treasure of the world, "The famous general is defeated in the nameless hill, and the light that covers the sky is fleeting." ”
"Father?is Kellogg Goldmers your father?", Lucia asked in surprise, and suddenly she felt a little quiet, and turned her head to see that everyone except Miati, who had big eyes, and Ankka, who had scratched her head and had not yet figured out what was going on, had turned their heads in embarrassment.
"You already knew?"
Yulai couldn't resist Lucia's gaze and finally turned his face, "You know that we elves have always been very sensitive to the soul, and Grand Magician Kerivenna once took his disciple who was very young at the time to the Agatha Forest. ”
"Terrible memory and longevity. ", Ankha lamented.
"Where's Marcas?", Lucia asked curiously, "Have you seen Enid's other identity too?"
"No, I've never believed in coincidence. Marcus smiled, "When Enid first met us, she was still wearing the habits of an Orman nobility that could not be concealed, and I don't think there would be anyone else, the silver-haired and blue-eyed Olves, the flower of the Otman Empire. ”
Lucia sighed and looked at Enid with some resentment, "You never told me. ”
Olwes scratched her nose, "That's your stupidity, you didn't guess it, if I couldn't hide it, I wouldn't have told it, didn't you tell me who you are?"
She looked at her father lying in a pool of blood for a long time, sighed, and took out the "Sleeping Coffin of Goeya" from the amethyst ring, a gorgeous metal object like a silkworm chrysalis, and placed Kellogg in it.
"Your riches have always surpassed my barren imagination, Enid. Tine trotted over and knocked on the metal shell with a crunch.
"Sure enough, it's dark gold. You were willing to give him such a luxury, I thought you would slash him viciously, turned around coldly, and said coolly, "Now, I am the wolf king of the Goldmers." ”
"Something is idle. Olweis put it back into the Amethyst Ring, "And if the old creatures of the other ten families thought that my father was dead, they would have swarmed like hungry wolves and devoured the Goldmers." ”
"Missing, this is the easiest state to attract a poisonous snake hiding in the shadows without attracting a tiger. The vast fortune of the Goldmers family needs to be renovated, and the nobility of the empire needs to be completely reshuffled in the war. ”
"Well, you're thinking long-term. Tyne shrugged, "I'm just thinking about saving my life anyway." ”
"Enid, will this battle of the gods reach the Agatha Forest?", Yulai looked at the mournful battlefield after the war with a sad face, the crows hovering in the sky waiting for the last living man to breathe, blood everywhere, the walls were still burning with the flames of fire oil, and the civilization and wealth built up over the years collapsed in an instant.
"I don't know, but the human kingdom will eventually be involved, from the Safavid Empire in the far west to the Zhenwu Dynasty in the east. Olwes glanced at Marcas, and their eyes met, "It's hard for us to find patterns in the will of the gods. ”
"It is true that this war can only be stopped at the source, while it is still a spark. Marcas said with a sigh.
"You call this a spark?", Tien's eyes widened, "I understand you're figurative, but can we be more academically detailed?"
"Don't be poor, Tien. She rubbed his messy red hair and looked at the general who walked over, "How many of us are left now?"
"The garrison of Ekton, which originally numbered 3,000, was filled with 8,000 adult men during the siege, and now there are 2,000 left, all wounded. ", the general reported with a military salute.
It's a shame that you can hold my father's attack with three thousand regular troops, Olwes glanced at the general in amazement, and did not say what was in her heart, "Report your resume, General." ”
"I am Xia Zuo, a brigadier general, who graduated from the Laura Royal Military Academy, and has participated in more than ten battles such as the Lunao River, the Bagan River, and the Sagar Roman. ”
"Sagar Roman's bloody battle. The noun Olves' ears were almost calloused, "How old were you then?"
"Eighteen years old, Enid City Lord. "I was a lieutenant at that time. ”
"Then you must have seen Duke Kellogg. ”
"I recognized him at a glance, city lord, this is also the reason why I will not retreat, that man will not let go of the captives. His eyes seemed a little complicated to Olves.
"But he fell to-day on the head of the city of Achedon. Twenty years ago, the two hundred thousand iron horsemen of the Titans did not survive, you survived, you are even better than you imagined, Brigadier General Xia Zuo, remember your loyalty to me, the fear of twenty years ago is not worth keeping to this day!"
"Yes!", he only raised his head and glanced at her after Olweiss left, there was some admiration and heat in his eyes, the Titan really deserves to be the empire protected by the god of war Ares, if it was this young girl commander twenty years ago, the ending would be very different.
Olwess waved the general away with a wave of her hand, and said to her companions:
"I'm going to go out and take over the power of the Goldmels family, you can help me rebuild the city of Edgeton, if the plan fails, Orman should not send another army to this remote city, even if there are stragglers, it should be able to deal with it. ”
"Olweis, that's your name in Orman, right? Lucia laughed, "I'll go with you." ”