It must be admitted that Julian has a unique eye for discerning horses, and the horse he rides is quite good in terms of body and speed. The two fleeing assassins didn't expect Julian to take the initiative to catch up, and without even putting up decent resistance, they were chopped off one by one.

Julian stopped the horses. By this time he was about 2 or 3 kilometers away, the carriage was out of sight, and Julian should return immediately, but the sound of "ping-pong" weapons crashing ahead disrupted his thoughts. After a few seconds of thought, Julian decided to ride over to see what was going on, and he didn't allow anything unsafe to be left behind.

Stopping in front of a steep slope, Julian saw that beneath the slope was a low-lying field, which ran through the river that Ipeia had spoken of, and on the banks of the river the two groups were fighting to the fullest.

There were more than twenty people on one side, wearing the same gray robes as the five Assassins who attacked Julian and the others, and their faces were covered—which was enough to indicate that they were the Assassins from the "Sun-Eater", and on the other side, there were three men surrounded by them in the middle.

Among the three people who were besieged, the young man in the middle looked quite young, about his early twenties, wearing a tattered cloak, blood was coming out of his forehead and body in many places, his right foot was stuck by a trap, and the blood was flowing like a stream, and he could not move, but he held a longbow wrapped in linen cloth tightly in his hand, and only a few arrows left in the quiver at his waist The man who was chasing and killing was the same, wearing a knight's armor of a similar style and style, but even more tattered, the two of them clenched their swords and shields, and there were many scars on their bodies, and they were covered in blood, and they couldn't even stand steadily, but they were stubbornly guarding the young man with the bow.

Around the battlefield, there were more than a dozen corpses of the "Sun Devouring Pupil" assassins, from the fatal wounds, some were killed by swords, some were smashed in the head by shields, and some were pierced through the heart by an arrow, and among the corpses of the gray-clothed men, there were four knights' corpses lying sporadically. Blood flowed into the river, staining the originally clear river water into a bloody red, and it seemed that a brutal battle had just been experienced. Instinctively, Julian, having served as a military commander in the regular army, looked into the woods behind him, and sure enough, he found the corpse of a gray-clad assassin lying under each of the three large trees, with a heavy catapult in his arms and an arrow stuck in his chest.

"Bastard, it looks like I'm going to die here today!" Julian heard the desperate exclamation of the young man with the bow, though far away. From his determined eyes, Julian saw not greed for life and fear of death, but regret for not completing an important task.

"Young Master, as long as we are alive, we will never let these guys touch a single hair of you. A knight next to him was not so much a consolation as his last oath on earth.

"Hmph!" the conversation between the two drew a sneer from a gray-clothed assassin standing on the periphery of the encirclement armed with a sword, and his saber swung forward, and the assassins immediately swarmed forward, apparently this person was the commander of this group of assassins.

From the three people who were besieged, especially the young man with the bow, Julian seemed to see a shadow of his past self, and fought desperately to the death in order to defend what he valued, and he joined the Templar Order with this pursuit in the first place......

Julian didn't care about it at once, shouted "Guard the light", and drove his horse down the slope. As for his original intention in doing this, whether it was "the enemy of the enemy is a friend", or whether he was just infected by the spirit of the three people, even he couldn't figure it out afterwards.

This shout, like thunder on the ground, was the Templar Order's signature front shout. The Assassins who were rushing up stood still, why were the Templars here?, but when they saw that Julian was alone and riding, they let go of their high hearts.

But on the battlefield, a flute is enough to kill you. The four Assassins in Julian's path instantly became the ghosts of his sword. Because of the rush from top to bottom, coupled with the acceleration of the horse, a "strong wind" is not enough to describe Julian's speed. As the horse's hooves trampled over the corpse, Julian charged faster and faster, his target quite clear: the Assassin leader who commanded the command outside the encirclement.

However, due to the distance of the Assassin leader, there was still enough time for Julian to react before he could even rush to his side, and after two more of his companions were cut off by Julian's blades, the Assassin leader dodged the attack, but dodged the attack from the moment before he was impacted, causing Julian to look at his strength differently.

And he didn't just dodge, with the momentum of his body spinning in the air, he handed the saber from his right hand to his left hand and threw it out with force. He did not dare to resist the knight's full-speed charge head-on, but he knew that the knight's wings in the charge were the most vulnerable. At such a close distance, at such a high speed, it was impossible for any knight to stop this qiē...... The Assassin leader calculated. However, he underestimated Julian's adaptability, and the latter sank the sword in his left hand in time, and the saber collided with the iron sword and dragged out a dull metal crash, which caused a burst of sparks, which avoided the fate of the mount's belly being cut open and his left leg being permanently scarred.

Julian's charge was running out, and although he had killed six Assassins at once, since his mount was not a war horse and had never been on the battlefield, the charge had terrified the beast and paced back and forth with restless steps.

Apparently, the Assassin leader saw this opportunity and threw a throwing knife at the back of Julian's neck!

Just as Julian sensed the horse's panic, he subconsciously leaned forward, lowering his center of gravity, and the knife grazed his back. Now that the horses were frightened and could no longer fight on horseback, Julian pressed his hands on the horse's back and leaped in front of the Assassin leader with a backflip. The two of them held swords and faced each other in the air.

If he had just wondered if the cry of "Guard the Light" was a trick of the Knights Templar, the Assassin leader was now sure that the other party was a member of the Templar Order, because Julian's left chest was engraved with the emblem of the "Pillar of Light", one of the four major legions of the Templar Order. However, because Julian did not wear the Mithril alloy armor given by the Pope himself to represent the status of a blessed knight, and still only wore the ordinary armor of his previous time in the Templar Order, the Assassin leader mistakenly thought that he was only a legion knight at most, so he sneered a few times and attacked Julian with strange footwork.

Since he knew that he was a knight of the Knights Templar and dared to rush up to fight, Julian also understood that the other party could have such courage, backed by his own strength, and did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so he waved his double sword to meet him.

On the other side, those gray-robed assassins are not confused, they have confirmed that Julian is the only one to save the soldiers, and they have been surrounded by the leader of their own side, they know the strength of the leader, the boy who does not know the height of the sky, even if he is not killed by the leader, he will not be able to get out in the short term, enough for them to continue to complete the original work.

The assassination mission, which had been halted for a moment due to this small change, was re-executed, and the three people who were besieged suddenly felt more pressured. Although the two knights desperately protected the young man with the bow, they were helplessly outnumbered, and the knight who finally swore an oath finally fulfilled his duty, and was dismembered by a random knife and died a tragic death in a pool of blood. The other knight couldn't hold out for long, and 7 or 8 short swords pierced him in the abdomen at the same time. "Less...... ......The knight looked at the young man with the bow with unwilling eyes, and died with resentment at the failure to save the latter from the siege.

Although he was very grateful to Julian for the rescue of the stranger, he saw that Julian had been entangled by the leader of the enemy, and could not get out for a while, and his foot was caught by the beast weapon, and it was impossible to escape, and he had foreseen his death in this desperate situation;

"Ho ......"

The Assassins flocked from all directions, and the young man with the bow closed his eyes, facing such a fate, he had already returned to the sky......

However, in despair, the young man with the bow was waiting for not the pain of the sword remnant, but a series of strange cries of panic and anxiety. He also knew that something had changed, and when he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that the Assassins besieging him were trapped in a ring of quicksand. Seeing that they could not get closer, several Assassins threw their weapons at the young man with the bow, but unexpectedly, a "barrier of sand" suddenly stood on the ground, and after the thrown weapon passed through the sand wall, the kinetic energy was reduced to the weakest, and it fell weakly at the feet of the young man with the bow.

Some of the Assassins who were quick to react noticed that something was wrong, and quickly looked around, and sure enough, a man and a woman on two horses appeared on the slope that the Templars had rushed down earlier. The woman covered herself under a cloak, and her appearance was unrecognizable, but the Assassins could clearly see that the woman was holding a short, one-handed staff in her hand.

With the swing of the staff, several pillars of sand as thick as hugging suddenly rose from the otherwise calm ground, gathering in mid-air to form "fists of sand" larger than the heads of oxen, smashing the assassins into their heads and faces. Despite the fact that the fists were made of sand, the hardness was staggering, and the heads of several Assassins who were running slower were smashed to the ground, red blood and white brains splattered everywhere.

Knowing that if the sand sorceress was not defeated in time, the "quicksand trap" and "sand barrier" that protected the young man with the bow would not disappear, and their assassination plan would fail, so a temporary death squad of 7 or 8 assassins rushed up the slope without fear.

The one-armed middle-aged man standing next to the sorceress jumped off his horse and stood in front of the sorceress, taking advantage of the terrain and holding off the assassin's attacks with a long sword that was suffocating. Those assassins never dreamed that the hard bones were harder to gnaw than the other, and with the fact that they were attacking from the back, it was even more difficult to solve the mage by relying on the advantage of numbers.

However, they didn't even have a chance to retreat down the slope and regroup, because on the ground behind them, several small pillars of sand quietly appeared, and instead of forming huge fists, these pillars of sand converged into sharp knives, and by the time they sensed the threat from behind, it was too late, and the "sand blade" penetrated through their bodies.

Julian, who had fought fiercely with the Assassin Leader, had never seen such a strange footwork, and the opponent was always able to dodge his sword when it was impossible to avoid it, and then scurry into his defensive corner to attack, and the Assassin Leader's situation was even worse, although such a short battle time was not enough for Julian to burn his fighting spirit, Julian's flawless swordsmanship allowed him to find no chance to deal a fatal blow. The battle between the two was indistinguishable for a while.

However, a good fighter cannot focus all his attention on the opponent in front of him, he must always see and listen to all directions. The appearance of Ipeia and Dante surprised both of them, especially Ipeia, whose magic shocked them even more.

Why would the clergy join forces with the atheists, weren't they mortal enemies? Julian's surprise was simpler: who would have thought that the empress who ruled an empire would be an elemental mage who was proficient in earth magic?

In fact, anyone who thinks about it can know what the problem is. A powerless princess is either forced to marry a foreign royal family and become a victim of a political marriage, or dies in the process of growing up, but Yipeiya can become the empress and survive for 9 years under the noses of the three powerful princes, will she have no means to protect herself?

If Julian had investigated Ipeia's information, he would have found that she had been completely blank in the royal records between the ages of 8 and 17. Because of the terrible palace struggle, Ipeiya encountered many assassinations when she was very young, in order to preserve her only bloodline, at the age of 7, Ipeia was secretly sent to the Snowy Federation by her biological mother, in the harsh environment of the ice and snow, Ipeia hid her royal identity, as an ordinary magic student penance was rejected by the Central Church of the elemental magic. This secret of Ipeia's girlhood, even in the upper echelons of the empire, is known by no more than 20 people.

The addition of Ipeia turned the tide of events. Originally, the Assassins' fighting method was to kill with one blow and kill instantly, and the reason why the Assassin leader dragged on for so long was to temporarily control Julian, and after his men had cleared the mission objective, they would join forces to eliminate this nosy uncertainty. However, man is not as good as heaven, and seeing his men being killed by magic one by one, the Assassin leader knew that he had no chance of winning. He stabbed Julian twice and then jumped out of the circle, a series of strange whistles coming out of his throat.

Julian froze for a moment, thinking that the other party was going to use some kind of trick, but instead of pursuing it, out of the corner of his eye, he saw four assassins who had survived the attack of sand magic rushing towards him. Julian hurriedly took the enemy, but did not take his attention off the Assassin, but he found that the latter did not take the opportunity to plot or besiege him, but turned and fled into the woods, and he immediately understood that the strange whistle issued by the leader of the Assassins turned out to be a desperate cover for his men to escape.

Julian was extremely disgusted by this act of risking the lives of his companions and fleeing by himself. He continued to engage the four Assassins with the Tears of Repentance in his right hand, and threw his sword at the fleeing Assassin leader with his left hand......