Chapter 41: The Second Wave
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"Soon there will be new enemies, and we need to get out of here right away!" , Lu Yuan said and took out the fireball magic staff again. Several people's hearts tightened, and they all stood up and looked ahead.
Lu Yuan said the information that Nini had detected, and in the four hours that the sword group was dragged, there was a bandit team of nearly 100 people on the north side and the east side to search for it. As soon as they meet up with the fleeing bandits, they will pounce on them as soon as they get the news. Lu Yuan took out a map and spread it on the package, which was a map drawn by Anne in a modern way.
The map shows this forest area, the main body is the Sharp Tooth Forest, the east side enters the mountains, and the edge of the Sharp Tooth Forest is a number of small woods - Raz Forest, Goth Forest, Pader Valley, etc. He drew a cross at the junction of the Raz Forest and the Sharptooth Forest. "Here we are, with Raz Forest on the side, Sharp Tooth Forest to the north, and Pader Valley to the south! The enemy's main force is to the north, and we had better reach the Pader Valley at noon, where it is better to defend and where we have reinforcements. β
"Reinforcements? Who is it? The eyes of the few people who were feeling desperate lit up, and Chanem asked first.
"Flame Fist" Lu Yuan replied succinctly. But Chanem and the others were at ease. In any case, the Flame Fist mercenaries of Baldur's Gate are the strongest standing force in the region and the cornerstone of maintaining balance and stability throughout the region. As long as the Flame Fist mercenaries can make a move, there will be no number of bandits. Thinking of the red-haired Flame Fist officer, Chanem felt a little warm. This time, it was all because of his excessive insistence on investigation that everyone fell into the encirclement, and in the final analysis, it was not because of the encouragement of the female officer.
"Then put all the heavy stuff into the space bag as much as possible, let's go!" Chanem finally became mature, and he skillfully gave orders and did not ask for the opinions of Jahira and Lu Yuan again. Of course. No one asked if there was a spell that summoned horses. What is stored in the mage's spell slot must be a secret that cannot be said.
After packing the heavy items such as metal armor and shields into bags, the group quickly moved towards Pader Valley. Even Ammon, who had been consumed for half a night and had very poor physical strength, was gritting his teeth and letting Chanem move forward half-embraced. Dinah Black, who is physically exhausted. Simply climbed to Minsk's back. By the way, I exchanged feelings with Xiao Ming.
A search party from the north led by Rimmond, the killer of the Iron Throne. and the Eastern Search Party, led by the Vice President of the Blackclaw Mercenaries, Rycon, finally missed the best opportunity to surround the "Sword and Rose" group. They caught the fleeing robbers, and got the news earlier than Lu Yuan had estimated. However, because the escapees deliberately exaggerated Lu Yuan's strength. And Rimon and Laiken are both humans, but they lead a team with monsters as the main force, and although the two teams, whose decisions and actions are very procrastinated, successfully converge, they can only chase after Lu Yuan and them, and watch the people of the sword group run into the swampy Pader Valley.
Although Pader Valley is known as a valley, it is actually a large low-lying forest wetland. To say that the canyon terrain is conducive to ambushes - for example, there is a path in the middle that only allows one person to pass through, which is convenient for surrounding; On both sides are cliffs with walls, which happen to fall rocks; The hay in the canyon is three feet thick and can be attacked by fire; The enemy is also brain-dead to the point of trapping himself without detection...... Not really.
It's a large, low-lying area with sparse jungle, mud ponds, and lakes of all sizes. Even the swamp is not professional enough - Minsk struggled for half a day before realizing that the swamp had just stepped on the ground without a waist. Lu Yuan, who arrived an hour earlier, directly found such a "dead land" and waited for help.
This dead land is almost a small island in the center of the lake, except that it is not surrounded by water, but by a large swampy mud pond, and only two hard surfaces at a 45-degree angle lead to here, one seems to be an extension of the hills, and the other is a natural extension of the line, and the whole small "mountain" turns a corner here, leaving this small piece of Jedi. The difference between the top and bottom of the hill is also seventy or eighty meters, and there are several stout trees on it, with curved roots and a canopy that shades the sky and the sun. It is almost impossible to shoot from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and hiding here is not afraid of the bow and arrow under the hillside, but the threat of your own bow and arrow has greatly increased.
This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the only big problem is that if there are really no reinforcements, this is a proper place to die.
Lu Yuan patted Little Nini, reinforcements...... Probably so.
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In the evening, by the time the enemy arrived, it had turned into a small labyrinth.
After only four hours of effort, the nine members of the "Sword and Rose" regiment had basically regained their combat effectiveness, and Jahira, Dinahei, and Twilight fell asleep for a while, urgently replenishing the magic and arcane arts. Except for Lu Yuan, who had to go to the back, everyone else entered the "position" and hid themselves well. So much so that the bandit group that followed did not even find their location from the complex wetland environment in the first place.
[Stone Shaping Technique: Four Ring Spells. Sculpts the stone it touches into any shape, up to a maximum of 10 cubic feet + 1 cubic feet/cast level]
After a period of battle and precipitation, Lu Yuan finally broke through to a seventh-level mage and mastered some four-ring spells, and the Stone Shaping Technique was one of them.
Based on his current strength, this spell gives him the ability to transform 20 cubic feet of stone at a time. And with the support of the vicebrain, his transformation can be extremely exquisite. Maybe this capacity doesn't seem like much, after all, it's only 20 cubic feet, which translates to 0.57 cubic meters, what is enough? A 60-centimeter-square stone can be lifted by two ordinary people, and children can climb over it......
A stone of 60 centimeters square can be processed into a stone foam structure according to the process of metal foam. When firmly combined with the stones underfoot, it immediately becomes a lightweight, sturdy 2-meter-tall and 5-meter-long "wall" that can absorb all kinds of shocks. A macho man like Xiao Ming can smash a "bubble" with a hammer, and then the impact of the hammer is absorbed by the broken bubble, and the vibration is dispersed to the entire city wall, causing negligible damage.
Such a section of the city wall is enough for two ogres to smash it for a whole day.
Six sections of such walls twisted and connected, sealing off both paths to the isolated island. And the swamp is close to the mud of the island, in front of and behind the city walls and out of sight. Those big rocks that should have been ordinary. Now it is covered with sparsely spaced and neatly arranged three-inch-long "stone thorns", which have become large nail boards that flicker with cold light and make people shiver when they look at it.
A seventh-level mage has two fourth-level spell slots at most, but Lu Yuan is full of spiritual power. Then resume the performance. Intermittently eleven! This is more than the sum of the other spellcasters on the same team. So. When he squatted obscenely on the branch with the fireball magic staff, saying that he could fight for another five hundred years, he was met with the eyes of the collective.
"Found them!" A human voice shouted. As a human being, he mixed with monsters. The aborigines are basically accustomed to it, and this world is divided according to camps rather than races, but Lu Yuan was so angry that his teeth itched, especially when he saw that the one who led the monster army over was still two humans, he was even more angry.
"Nima! Traitor! He gritted his teeth and cursed, if there was a high-level spell scroll in his hand, he promised to throw it away immediately! It's a pity that he didn't, so he can only live his life.
"You...... Want him dead? Twilight, who was in the tree with him, asked, pointing at the Blackclaw Mercenary Vice Leader Rycan. She heard Lu Yuan cursing at that person just now, and she looked very angry, this kind of expression is really rare in Lu Yuan.
"Can you?" Lu Yuan asked in surprise, only to see Twilight Star shaking his head, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed. It's only forty meters away from the guy, and it's firmly blocked by a few rocks.
Rykan is a scheming fellow, and he doesn't have the brainless command of Britik the Gnoll, who only knows how to charge in a swarm. He walked closer to the island and hid on the rocky head to observe the terrain around him. Although there are a lot of obstacles set up on the main path, it is a pity that the time left for the other party is too short, and there are still a lot of holes in the entire defense. He gathered the human mercenaries together to take command, and let the monsters who couldn't understand the complex instructions attack head-on to contain the sword group, and the others went to cut down the trees. He was ready to pave a path from the swamp and take the island in one fell swoop.
Seeing their plan unfold in an orderly manner, the monsters also gathered in front of the stone wall to prepare for an attack, but the sword group could only wait. The previous preparation was already the best effort.
"I can't shoot, but I can try something else." Twilight said, her eyes full of eagerness.
"Twilight, don't ......," Lu Yuan said anxiously, reaching out to pull, but unfortunately Twilight had already laughed and dodged his hand and jumped off the tree. Lu Yuan could only lean forward and raise the fireball magic staff. Now he still has eleven fireball spells, and as long as Twilight Star is in the slightest danger, he promises to launch them all in one go! He saw Twilight quickly unload his backpack, secondary weapons, etc., and he suddenly realized.
He rummaged through his body, and finally had no choice but to take out a spare long sword, and snap it off from the third of the blade, leaving a sword tip about twenty centimeters long, wrapped in a handful of linen cloth at the tail and counted as the hilt. Before he could finish his preparations, he saw Twilight take Nini into his arms, and the two of them jumped into the shadows together!
Nini is a shadow leopard, and when she becomes an adult, she can carry her master to shadow jump together, and this Lu Yuan is knowledgeable. But he always thought that Nini was still young, and this matter was far away. However, just as Twilight Star began to prepare, and then there was also a message from Nini's side that he was eager to try, he knew that something was wrong! In addition to the vice president of the Blackclaw Mercenaries, Laiken, there are at least two dozen mercenaries around! Again......
It was too late to think about it, and the moment it disappeared in the shadows here, people had already appeared behind the boulder over there. Twilight had not yet emerged from the shadows, and the two swords had already popped out like poisonous snakes! At first attack, it was from an unexpected angle - Laiken was almost leaning on the boulder to line up, and Twilight could be said to be squeezed between him and the boulder. As a result, Lyken is a ninth-level warrior. didn't even make a trace of resistance, but he felt a cold behind him, and with two "bangs" twice, two swords pierced out of his chest and lower abdomen. He struggled to say something, but Twilight star, who had pierced through the shadows, shook his wrists and stabbed his two swords up and down, killing him with the last trace of life. Then he kicked his corpse into the stunned Blackclaw mercenaries in front of her, and she emerged from the shadows!
The whole process is up and down, but it's just a dazzling time. The situation flipped upside down. Blackclaw Mercenary Vice President Rykan is killed! Of the two leaders of the bandits, Raymond from the Iron Throne is nothing more than a killer, and his leading skills are not much higher than that of Britick the Gnoll, and only Ryken is good at leading the team. Laiken, who was still strategizing and talking eloquently. Died in the blink of an eye. Even the mercenaries and monsters present were stunned for a moment. There stared straight at the female killer who suddenly appeared, and I didn't know what to do.
But Twilight didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, nor did he flee immediately. She made a strange gesture similar to unbuttoning her leather armor.
Lu Yuan sighed, got up, and shot a fireball into the monster group!
Just now, his brain was dizzy, as if it had been smashed by a brick, and after a little perceiving, he knew that there was something wrong with Xiao Nini. Little Nini was still small, and even though Twilight was only wearing a leather armor adventure suit and carrying nothing but two swords, she fainted after jumping with her.
"Women will fool around!" Lu Yuan shouted and jumped off the tree, and then was glared at by all the women, "Ready to answer!" "Twilight Star is only thirty meters away from here, but it is like a moat. Lu Yuan lunged two steps, a magic staff, and the long pole of the dragon's foot wood was bent like a bow, throwing him towards the twilight star like a sharp arrow. The elasticity of the staff, coupled with the difference between the top and bottom, Lu Yuan slid fiercely in the air for more than thirty meters, swept over the area that burned after being bombarded by the fireball, and fell towards the twilight star.
Twilight puts the fainted little Nini in her leather armor to protect her, and the plan to borrow the Shadow Leopard's talent to jump back is not feasible. He could only shake his swords with two swords, flash two white lights, and kill the bandits. At this moment, hearing the sound of fierce wind overhead, Lu Yuan crossed her and blocked the front, but he didn't carry anything in his hand except a broken sword! Just seeing the movement in Lu Yuan's hand flashing, the weapons in the hands of several human mercenaries in front of him fell to the ground with a snap.
didn't have time to think about what was going on, taking advantage of the time that Ah Yuan had gained, she finished reciting the prayer, and a white light landed on her body, making people tank-like "summoning holy power", Yu Yan reappeared! "Follow me!" Twilight shouted, crossed Lu Yuan, and took the lead towards the mountain. At this time, the sound of bows and arrows sounded, and the two mercenaries in front were shot through the throat by sharp arrows, covering their necks and falling, but Qi Feng, who was particularly sure, began to shoot arrows to support. Others are not sure, of course, the target is far away, so as not to be injured by mistake. The twilight star long sword circled, and two rainbow-like cold lights, the two enemies blocked in front of him were directly cut in half! At this time, with a strength of 23, she rushed forward on a rampage. Lu Yuan protected her behind, and after a few spells, a white light flashed from the palm of his left hand and slapped Twilight Star's back, and the flickering light covered both of them, and the speed of movement and action suddenly increased a lot.
Twilight's twin swords circled forward, and after the speed increased, no one could do it.
But behind her invisible, Lu Yuan held the half-truncated sword and used the rapid "Thirteen Swords of the Divine Gate", not only did he use light skills to the extreme, but also with the improvement of the three-ring spell "Acceleration Technique", his whole person's speed and body were already extremely fast, and he breathed away, and returned in an instant. The surrounding enemies couldn't see or catch his traces at all, and could only see a ghostly figure constantly flashing, leaving mercenaries and monsters who fell down one by one clutching their throats.
The distance of more than 30 meters is fleeting. Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's large army had not yet arrived, the two of them really rushed to the city wall built by Lu Yuan smoothly. The companions cooperated to attack the enemies behind them, and the effect of Twilightstar's summoning power had passed, and he was a little weak. As soon as Lu Yuan shook her palm, she understood what Lu Yuan meant, and she didn't resist.
Lu Yuan exhaled and flicked his arm, and Twilight flew up with his strength, crossed the city wall, and was caught by Jahira over there. When only Lu Yuan was left, he seemed to relax, swinging his sword with one hand and continuing to assassinate the bandits, and the other hand began to guide spells. At this moment, a short sword crept out of the shadow of the wall behind him, slowly stabbing into the back of his heart, almost exactly like Twilight Star assassinating Laiken! The dagger was still two inches away from Lu Yuan's vest, and the Iron Throne's killer Raymond stabbed the venomous dagger in his hand hard! Now that Lyken is dead. He can also solve this chase in the way he is good at!
It's a pity that he only heard a stabbing sound, Lu Yuan's body didn't turn back, and a broken sword pierced the mage robe under Lu Yuan's ribs, and slanted towards Ruimeng's throat.
"Giggles, you...... How...... Zhilu Dao...... I'll ...... in the back," Rimon asked, insisting.
It's a pity that he will never know the answer. Lu Yuan didn't look at him at all, and grabbed back and flipped his hand back like he had eyes, and Raymond's quenching short sword was in Lu Yuan's hand. He leaned his back against the wall, his legs flicked back, as if a rope was pulling on it, and his back fluttered against the smooth stone wall. Then he lightly crossed the stone wall. Disappear.
If it weren't for the temptation of the man who had been hiding on the sidelines, why would he bother so much!
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Since the dragons have no leader, the robbers have simply returned to a state of swarming and swarming.
It's because of Lu Yuan and Twilight. The human mercenary who caused the most casualties. After discussing the rest of the bunch. Directly left the battlefield and went back to move the rescuers. This case, except for those monsters who are somewhat mentally retarded. A normal IQ can already predict a stalemate.
"You rest first, and we'll come." As she spoke, she threw a few greasy spells in a row, and then released another fireball spell in the middle of the enemy, and the flames burst into flames. It's just that the enemy disperses quickly, and the effect is not good. However, the sword regiment could not pursue, and once they were out of range of the wall, the threat of the enemy's shooting would greatly increase.
In less than ten minutes, several people who were still resting took up arms again and joined the battle. The battle has reached the present, and there is no turnaround or clever plan to speak of, only the word persistence.
"Don't worry! It's almost time for our reinforcements to arrive! As soon as Lu Yuan's words fell, a large commotion began behind the enemy's ranks, and a white light burst into the enemy formation, turning the bandits' onto their backs. Then a female knight on a white horse, holding a vulture shield and brandishing a great sword, rushed in.
"It's her!" Chanem shouted in surprise, this is the female knight who stood behind the Wei Officer and encouraged him, who was secretly in love with him, temporarily ranked third, and threatened the second position of Twilight at any time!
"What she, that's my wife!" Lu Yuan said dissatisfiedly, and then spent ten seconds throwing a four-ring grand spell "Ice Storm" into the enemy's dense place, and the huge ice cube mixed with the blizzard smashed down on the head and face, and it became the Ice and Snow World Realm for a while. The Great Spell cleared Anne's path of flesh and blood.
"She, why is she your wife again!" Chanem cried out in grief. At this time, Anne, who had already rushed to the vicinity, slapped the unicorn, and Xiao Luo easily jumped over the stone wall. Seeing that everyone was embarrassed and tired, Xiao Luo was a little, and a white ripple brushed everyone's body, and in an instant, the exhaustion of the whole body was swept away, the blood stains and mud stains on the body were also cleaned, and even the wounds were quickly stopped and closed.
"It's really a unicorn!" Dropping the sling, Jahira, who was crossing and slapping the muscles of her arm, sighed.
"You need help, so we're here." Anne said handsomely, Aemon's eyes were full of little stars, and she especially admired the women who could suppress Chanem.
"Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law! Xiao Luo ran to Lu Yuan's side with Huan'er, and said flatteringly, "Brother-in-law, do you think I'm amazing?" Isn't it handsome? β
"It's handsome, it's cool, it's incomparable!" Lu Yuan patted her head and teased. Xiao Luo, who didn't know how to be teased, laughed like a donkey, and rushed out of the road again. Anne, who wanted to say a few words, had to make an apologetic gesture, brandishing the "Lake Light" sword to turn on the harvest mode again and kill the enemy.
Under her sharp Huguang sword, her hands and feet flew with weapons, and her brains and internal organs were the same color, she really cut what she saw, what she pierced, and she felt like she was holding a dragon slayer knife to cut the grass. The most important thing is that the tranquility of the lake light allows her to observe the environment calmly at all times, and she will not be carried away by the blazing battle at all.
"Keep up!", Lu Yuan waved his staff and followed behind the horse, casting control spells without stopping, and Twilight's twin swords flew out like lightning in the dark clouds, harvesting the bandits who were under control and had no power to fight back. Then Jahira and Ammon were the two of them who protected Dinah-hei in the middle, and after Chanem, Minsk, and Khalid broke off, the eight of them plunged into it like a wedge. After half a month of fighting against bandits, the combat effectiveness of the Wei Legion has already undergone earth-shaking changes, and now it is like a stone smashed into the water, smashing the remaining more than 100 bandits to pieces.
When the time fell into the night, the bandits were finally completely wiped out, and the two sides met together, and everyone rejoiced.
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"There should be more in the back," Lu Yuan said in a low voice to Twilight Star and Anne, avoiding the cheering crowd.
"You come and prepare, hold on longer, and it's better to attract them all! I'll bring new reinforcements. Anne hugged him and rolled over to Rowe. Lu Yuan saw her go to the Wei officer to explain a few words, turned over the unicorn's back, and said coolly, "Tomorrow's dawn, look to the east!" After saying that, he drove the unicorn and ran away.
"Well, that, there are still ten or so hours until dawn tomorrow, right?!" Wei said in shock.
So morale hit rock bottom.
Lu Yuan wanted to complain that it was Anne's line playing Gandalf...... But he was also a little worried, and really wanted to kneel for her.
Nothing was decided, so the few people who had discussed it could only start to lay out the task and continue to build fortifications on the island, which could be planned well this time.
PS: I can't work overtime to write a plan, but I'm too busy. (To be continued......)