Chapter 59, Flame Bombardment
Outside the mine, the two mercenary regiments of Evil Claw and Flame, who had suffered heavy casualties, were carrying the bodies of the wounded and the victims out of the mine in low morale.
In addition to being dizzy by the fire pit viper's merciless paw when he was full of confidence, many smart mercenaries had already guessed from the reaction of the two regiment commanders that they had been pitted, which was also one of the reasons for the low morale.
This time they suffered heavy losses, and at least hundreds of Sid gold coins had to slip out of their pockets just for the pensions of the victims and the medical expenses for treating the wounded.
And most importantly, the Liberals Guild will re-examine the strength of these two mercenary groups and consider whether they need to be replaced with two more good doglegs.
This is not excessive, but reality!
Tom and Jace were in a heavy mood, and although they hated Joyce, the treasurer of the Free Guild, they had to admit that he was obviously not wrong - there were too many other mercenary groups in Black Pearl Cell City who coveted Vicious Claws and Flames.
The two of them could imagine that when the news of their fiasco reached Sayre City, they would face the usual deferential fall of the others, and the leader of the Guild of the Liberals would obviously not listen to their explanations - you said you were cheated? What about the evidence? I only saw two hundred men who cost me three hundred Sid a year in full armor lose to a brute. And you don't think about it, but you plan to fool me with a stupid excuse!
Tom and Jace couldn't help but shudder at the thought of that cruel guild leader.
At this moment, a mercenary with a longbow on his back suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to the ridge on the side of the mine and said, "Look, there seem to be two people peeping on us. ”
Tom and Jayston were shocked, and they all turned their heads to look at the ridge, but their sight could not make out that there were two figures on the ridge.
But neither of the regimental commanders would suspect that this mercenary had mistaken it, because this man was the best eyesighted archer of the two mercenary regiments, and he was born as a scout of the legion, and he had never missed anything.
"It must be those two outsiders."
Tom gritted his teeth, waved the iron claw in his hand fiercely, and roared, "Leave some of the people to escort the wounded, and everyone else will come with me!" ”
Although a group of mercenaries did not know what was going on, they still faithfully obeyed the orders of the regiment commander and rushed into the dense forest next to him with him.
On the ridge, as the archer had seen, Erwin and Susan were standing on top of a large rock, looking out at the two mercenary groups in the valley below as they were about to leave the mines.
But compared to the archer, who could only see two vague figures, Susan's better eyesight could see the movement below, including the bald mercenary captain who had met at the Victor's Tavern, who was leading a group of people into the dense forest at the foot of the ridge.
"They're here and they're rushing up with someone." Susan said, carrying a large bag full of things, turning her head to look at Erwin.
"What? It's a shame that I brought their people out alive, what a guy who doesn't know how to be grateful. Erwin shook his head and said, throwing aside the two young men who were still unconscious.
These two men were Enoch and his companions who were following Erwin, and Erwin felt that if he left them alone, he would definitely not be able to escape from the labyrinthine mine after he came to his senses, so he was kind enough to take them out.
After listening to Erwin's words with too many slots, Susan was speechless in her heart, you have made people so miserable, and you still want to be grateful?
The girl had no sense of being an accomplice at all.
The two of them looked at the ridge for a moment, then turned away, their steps brisk and leisurely, not at all worried about being overtaken. It was so far from the foot of the mountain, and by the time the mercenaries climbed up, Erwin and Susan had already gone far away, and the mercenaries didn't know the way.
However, not long after Erwin and Susan left, Enoch and his companions, who had been left aside, opened their eyes and got up from the ground.
It turned out that they had already woken up on the way back from being carried by Erwin, but they all tacitly pretended to be unconscious.
"Two idiots didn't kill us." The young man touched the shallow wound on his forehead that had been shot by Susan's arrow, and said with some rejoicing.
"You stupid! What's so fun about that? Enoch slapped him on the head in anger, if these two men were idiots, then what were their mercenaries who had been put together so badly? Mentally retarded?
"You wait here, and the commander will come up and show them the way. I'll follow, and I'll mark you along the way. Enoch said, and chased after Erwin and the others as they left.
He didn't know when he was last tracked, but the other party obviously had good anti-tracking capabilities, so this time he was careful not to get too close, and only relied on the traces left by the two men to track.
Erwin and Susan didn't know what was going on, and the two of them returned the same way. It took less time to get back because I had to identify the road when I came, and I soon found two black-maned horses tied under the trees and leisurely munching on wildflowers.
And when Susan tied the large bag of booty firmly to the horse's back, there was a dense sound of footsteps in the distant mountain road, and the bald Tom, the leader of the Evil Claw Mercenary Regiment, finally led people to catch up.
Susan's face changed slightly, and she took off the wing bow from her body, but Erwyn next to her waved his hand at her calmly, and then turned over and sat on the horse's back: "Let's go, we don't need to entangle with them." ”
The mercenaries finally appeared on the mountain road in the distance, and when they saw that Erwin and Susan were both carrying horses, especially with such a large bag of things on their backs, they immediately roared angrily, and without the regimental commander's orders, they quickened their pace and turned into a collective sprint.
The archers in the crowd, who had seen Erwin and Susan, were running with their bows and arrows, and threw both arrows high in the air at the same time with their infantry longbows.
Susan, who had already climbed on horseback, happened to see this scene, her eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, and she felt that both bows and arrows were coming directly at the target's head with her keen instinct, and if the two of them stood still, the bows and arrows would hit the bull's-eye.
Archery skills that have to be praised.
When Susan saw that she was overjoyed, she did not control the horses to run away, but stretched out her winged bow with a degree far greater than that of the archer, and shot an arrow.
The well-made wing bow was naturally much better than the infantry longbow, and the bow and arrow shot out carried a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and the strong force made it come first, directly breaking one of the two bows and arrows thrown in the air.
On the other side, Erwin drew his iron sword and slashed it upwards casually, and the bright sword light cut off the incoming bow and arrow quickly and accurately.
Susan's amazing archery skills hit the proud archer, who was able to shoot two immobile targets at the same time while running, which could only be considered excellent, but shooting a bow and arrow with only a trace of afterimage in the high movement was unthinkable.
Although the archers' throws were unsuccessful, they at least succeeded in delaying Erwin and Susan's escape, and the mercenaries were already less than fifty paces away from the two of them.
"Throw the axe!"
The bald Tom who rushed to the front roared with a hideous roar on his face, and dozens of mercenaries who followed him quickly took off the small iron axe hanging from his waist, and threw it forward at the same time, dozens of axes made a neat and continuous whistling sound in the air, forming a terrifying killing net.
This is the most common medium and long-range attack in the physical melee class, and although it is not possible to avoid enemies with thick scale armor or hoplites, it is still extremely easy to break through thin leather armor, and can often effectively kill a large number of enemies in group battles between mercenaries.
As soon as Tom the bald head used this trick, it showed that he had already started to kill Erwin and Susan.
The dense rain of axes made Susan's face change, in this case there was no other means of defense except to hide on the side of the horse, but Erwin next to him raised his hand unhurriedly.
Erwin was extremely familiar with the mercenary's combat methods, so he naturally had been on guard against this move for a long time. Originally, he just didn't want the other party to close the distance, but now he wanted to take this opportunity to try out how effective the equipment he had just arrived was.
I saw him raise his left hand and put his palm flat, aiming his palm at the dozens of axes that were speeding over, and softly shouted a spell release command from his mouth: "F1AME (Flame)"
At the moment of shouting the command, Erwin felt the [Ring of Fire] on the fingers of his left hand heat slightly, and then a few centimeters away from the front of his fingers, a small but bright flame appeared out of thin air, and then suddenly expanded and enlarged-
With a loud "boom", Erwin felt the air in front of him shake slightly, and then the hot and dazzling flames obscured his vision.
And this scene can be seen in Susan's sight - Erwin raised his arm, then shouted softly, and the next moment it was as if a fire dragon had accepted his order to appear out of thin air, roaring forward and rushing away, drowning dozens of axes that were speeding forward, the wooden handle was instantly burned to ashes, and the red deformed axes under the high temperature were all shaken out by the explosive force of the flames.
The terrifying flames only appeared for a short moment, and when they vanished, they left only a large circle of charred marks on the ground, and dozens of mercenaries who were knocked to the ground in a daze.
Because the bald Tom rushed to the front, although he was not burned by the flames, he was very stylish and his beard was missing more than half, but he was in no mood to pay attention to this, so he just shouted with a dull face: "Fa, mage, it turned out to be a mage!" ”
Erwin withdrew his hand with satisfaction, the [Flame Bombardment] one-ring spell is more than one level more powerful than the [Venom Explosion] that is also a one-ring spell in terms of power and power, after all, the necromancer's main job is to summon the undead, and [Venom Blast] is just an auxiliary spell, not the same as a fire spell that focuses on lethality.
"Let's go."
Erwin said to Susan, who was stunned, and the latter came back to his senses and nodded.
Looking at the figure of the two calmly leaving, none of the mercenaries dared to continue the pursuit.
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