Volume 1 – Showers Chapter 112: Those Things (1)

Violetta Lilinette was like a fallen dragon, and she smashed into Piaggi's side with her broomstick, wrapped in her wings formed by flames.

With Violetta as the origin, a burst of high-temperature flames formed a ring that spread out from the center. This ring diffuses for a moment, and it spreads a huge amount of heat, so that the temperature of the inner ring is much lower than that of the outer ring.

Due to the uneven heating, when the flame ring spread to the extreme, a violent blast of wind erupted from the center, blowing everything outside the inner ring from the inside out.

The soldiers of Tangnis were thrown high and fell to the ground. Some were thrown to death, and those who survived were soon suffocated. Only those who fled in the first place, and the wise men who threw away their armor and ran away with all their might, were spared from death.

Dallux was crushed by a tree trunk and covered with floating dirt. At first glance, he looked dead, but when the embers of magic subsided, his arm twitched. After a while, he regained consciousness. Dlux shook his head vigorously and brushed the floating dirt off his head. He struggled to get up, but the tree trunk that was holding him down clearly stopped him.

He strained his hands and gritted his teeth, pushing the trunk away from his legs. After a roar, he succeeded. "Whew, that's amazing! Oops! I guess my leg is broken. Looks like he's going to recuperate. After saying that, he suddenly felt that he was being targeted by something, and as a former hunter, he sometimes trusted his instincts very much. But the sense of crisis soon vanished, and he shook his head, sloping his feet in the direction of Tangnus, gathering a number of fleeing soldiers along the way.

"Go! What a keen enemy. Forget it, rescue Piagge first. Hey, I said, little Piaggi, how long are you going to hide down there? Can I tell you up front, your ass is already burned, and the enemy soldiers might come back in a moment, or do you actually want the Tangnis mongrels to see you pouting like a little ostrich? Violetta said teasingly, quite a bit of Michael's tone and charm in it.

Piagi listened to Violeta's words, immediately pulled his head out of the pile of corpses, and said, "Oh, Lady Lilinette, of course I didn't mean that, in fact, what I want to say is, sorry, I'm in trouble again, but please Madame get me out of this hellish place, I feel like I'll be able to kill another wave if I change the griffin." Piagge knew he was in trouble this time. Moreover, in the face of Lady Lilinette, he has always been cautious, let alone swearing, he will even be careful with his words.

Piagi's approach is actually the norm for most of the young lads to do with Violeta. Among the griffin leaders, most of the young generals had mixed feelings about the lady. On the one hand, they admired this lady who was no longer young, even if she could never get back those green years, but time also made her exude the charm of a mature woman; On the other hand, young people are a little scared of this lady. Violetta is always able to come up with effective solutions to problems, always able to come up with a plan that seems to be balanced but actually takes advantage of it, of course, if you annoy her, she will not only use words to squeeze you and make you unable to get off the stage in public, even if you fight, you will not be able to beat her.

"Sit up by yourself, what, do you want me to pull you up? Piaghi? Violetta looked at the stunned Piagi and said dissatisfiedly.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Lilinette, I didn't mean to, I'll come up." With that, Piagge carefully climbed aboard the broomstick, grabbed it by its tail, and let himself be used as a pendant or a poor little marmot pulled by the griffon's paws, and was sent back to the logging fortress.

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"Balmer! Balmer! You damned servant! What the hell are you rubbing? Foster crouched in the latrine and yelled angrily.

And our Balmer has already taken advantage of this opportunity to leave the camp with the original team of his bandit group. In fact, Balmer had seen several days ago that the soldiers of Tangnis could not win. One of his former bandits was a Zanmir, and although he didn't tell the slightest thing wrong with the hunting team's prey, he smelled the peculiar aroma of bowed mushrooms when the cook cooked the prey.

Therefore, he immediately told Balmer the news, and Balmer instructed the other bandits not to touch such food, and not to reveal the news.

The Zamir man said that this mushroom is called bowing, it is very poisonous, and it only grows in an environment like the Water Mist Forest, which is relatively rare, and even the Zamir people north of Neverwinter Town do not recognize it, and the Tanganis must be defeated. He explained in detail the toxicity, onset time and antidote of this mushroom. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to patrol the camp, the members of the bandit group took the opportunity to collect some swing flowers and consume its juice. The juice of the swing flower is very bitter, and if you sit down and eat it together, it will be good to eat, but if you take it alone, it will make you vomit up your dinner.

But it is precisely because of this that they can stay in the camp under the pretext of injury and illness, instead of fighting. Now, when Balmer saw Foster go to the toilet frequently, he knew in his heart that it was the poison of the bowing mushroom that had taken effect. Therefore, with Foster's toilet skills, Balmer stole Foster's seal, secretly stamped it on a piece of paper he had forged, and then quickly gathered the members of the bandit group, and left the camp in a pretending manner, following several roads in the Mist Forest to the Griffon's Collar.

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"Sir Napolion, we can't hold on! All the siege weapons were destroyed, and our troops may have been poisoned en masse, and the soldiers and many sergeants had unbearable abdominal pain, foaming at the mouth, and feeling weak. Enemy reinforcements have arrived, a large number of cavalry are rushing back and forth from all directions, and I don't know how to raise the flag now! A herald said to Napolion.

"Alas... Unexpectedly. This must be fate. But I don't believe in fate, and for the sake of my reputation, I can't just retreat – at least not like that. Herald, flag talk! All the troops moved closer to me, gradually compressing the defensive line, tightening in front and loosening in the back, pushing up the cages with those things and letting them out! Napolion ordered.

The herald waved his flag as Napolion had ordered, and then the soldiers who had been attacking the city walls were gradually retreating, and gradually forming a defensive circle with the siege command position as the core. Two cages covered in black cloth were pushed out, all made of fine iron, reinforced and wrapped around them with thick chains. However, at the corners of the cage, twisted irons and traces of being attacked are clearly visible. Apparently, these cages contained either terrifying beasts or monsters of immense power - the obvious signs of corrosion on one of the cages illustrated.

"Open the cage." Napolion ordered.

No one stepped forward, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, looked at each other, passed the buck to each other, and were not willing to take this risk.

"You guys! Open the cage! Napolion had expected such a situation for a long time, and in fact, not to mention these ordinary soldiers, even he could not control the trembling of Napolion when he saw the terrifying appearance and suffocating overwhelming power of these things for the first time.

Several soldiers trembled towards the cage, they did not dare to approach, but they did not dare to disobey orders. It's nothing more than taking a knife and forcing them to jump into the oil pan. If you don't jump, the knife will cut you down and throw you down, jump, just struggle for a few more seconds.

However, humans, no. It should be said that the desire to survive is the strongest instinct of any living being, just like eating and reproducing. Even if they were terrified, the soldiers were not willing to die under the sword of the Overseer. Therefore they tiptoed, carefully unfurled the chains, opened the cages, and scattered from the vicinity of the cages as if they were to avoid the plague, and Napolion did not pay any attention to them, but ordered the army to retreat, far away from the two cages.

The strange behavior of the Tagenes soldiers attracted the attention of Geville, Griffinhardt Sr., and Jon, who had some foreboding, and although he did not know what was going on in the enemy's formation, he cautiously ordered all the cavalry to abandon the pursuit of the enemy and slowly retreat towards the walls of the logging fortress. For a time, the two armies were clearly separated, leaving a blank buffer zone in the middle. The atmosphere became strange for a while, and both sides quieted down, as if they were greeting something.

Violetta couldn't hold back the eerie atmosphere, she wasn't like Jon after all, who was a full-time general who led troops into battle. At the behest of old Griffin Hart, she took to the skies to check the situation. In fact, Violetta felt that the battle waged by Tanguness against Zamir was strange in every way.

Since a few months ago, the Tangnis army and military dispatch have been operating covertly. What are they hiding? Violetta didn't know, everyone didn't. But Michael Donawan, Funa Grein, Violetta Lilinette herself, and Kaudore McLagan and Jorgan all smell a hint of danger. Each of them asked about a different smell, so they prepared and deduced accordingly based on these smells. However, the Tangnis has deliberately maintained this dangerous and strange atmosphere, and no one knows exactly what the whole behemoth is all about.