Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle on the Ice
Fern kept looking at the ice around the four of them, and the footprints that had been disorganized suddenly disappeared in the middle of the river. "The footprints are gone!"
"I found out too, hell, I don't feel good, don't stop, keep going!" Enoch also found out, but he knew that even stopping at this time was useless, and the only thing he could do was to keep moving forward and try to cross the river as quickly as possible.
Just then, Miluria saw something dark beneath the ice a few yards away, as if it was hiding something, and she rode a few steps to the right to make sure. The scout slowly approached the area, and suddenly his mount was so frightened that he threw her to the ground and fell to the ice. "Demon ...... Under the ice...... The eyes are still glowing. ”
"Fern, you and the old man hurry up, I'll help Miluria!" Enoch cried out, having already jumped off his horse, the ice was so slippery that the warrior could not run with all his might, but trotted over with broken steps.
Instead of listening to him, Fern jumped off his horse and ran towards the two of them. As Enoch ran to Miruria's side and tried to lift her up, the ice exploded, and the demon that the scout had seen slowly rose from the hole in the ice, with an eerie purple light in his eyes.
"Don't look at him, Miruria, leave the horses alone, go, hurry!" Enoch pulled the scout past her and pushed her towards Fern, and then ran towards him himself, but he couldn't run fast on the ice, and he couldn't use his strength.
Fern caught Miruria, and when she was on her feet, he drew his sword and rushed over, the mercenary's eyes fixed on the warrior, he knew that he didn't have Bared's skills yet, and he must not meet the demons.
Enoch ran in small steps, turning his head sideways to look at the feet of the demon behind him out of the corner of his eye, and he was puzzled that the demon hadn't caught up. Just when he thought he would be able to run back to his companion, there was a whistling sound behind him, and a biting cold blew from behind. The thought crossed the warrior's mind, but he didn't have time to dodge it.
At the last moment, Fern stepped forward to block the warrior's back, and raised his sword in the stone blocked an ice arrow aimed at the warrior. The cold magic quickly formed a thin layer of ice on the sword body of the sword in the stone, and frost was also glued to Fern's hands and chest. "Hurry up, Enoch, this demon can magic, you can't stop him!"
"Want to go?" The demon in front of him made a sound, and Fern didn't dare look at his face, but it was almost certain that the demon must be smiling now, smirking.
There was an explosion around the four of them, and the ice in several places exploded together, and the shattered ice crystals were scattered in the air, and the golden sunlight shone on them, reflecting a dizzying light.
"There's an ambush!" Enoch shouted. "There's no time to get on the horse, run over, follow me, don't look up!"
Fern didn't care about the demon in front of him, turned around and ran after the warrior, the three of them formed a column, their feet quickly trampling on the ice, but the speed of the march was not fast. The demons around them quickly surrounded them, their feet on the ice, but they showed no sign of slipping, and each step was very solid, and in a short time the three of them were surrounded in a circle twenty yards in diameter.
"Hell, is there no hope?" Enoch looked down, and he saw ten pairs of feet in torn shoes.
Miruria didn't answer him, but raised her short bow and drew the bowstring and shot it in one direction, a howl came, and at the same time there were ice arrows flying, and Fern blocked the ice arrows again, but the huge impact and the cold breath brought by the ice arrows made the mercenary's hands almost frozen, and he could no longer hold the sword.
"If they fire another ice arrow, I'm sure I won't be able to stop it, I almost can't feel my hands. Fern stared at the demon's feet in front of him, and the stubble on his chin was frosty. At this moment, he suddenly remembered someone, and immediately raised his head to look in the direction he had before, and the mercenary remembered that he didn't even know what to call the bard. "Hey, come and help us!" saw that the bard was still fighting with his mount, unable to take a step forward. "Hell, that old man is really unreliable when it matters most. ”
The demons gradually narrowed their encirclement, and they were only ten yards away from the three of them, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry to kill their prey like trapped beasts. "You were able to escape in Icahn Village and Durham, thanks to your luck. The demon's voice was hoarse and slow, as if it came straight from his throat. "Wait, there's another mage? the girl who was with you. ”
Fern still had his head down. "She's nearby, we've already laid down the barrier, so you'd better not act rashly. ”
The demon burst out laughing, a stiff laugh that sent creeps out into the cracks of the trio. "She's just a mage, we have ten mages, she can deal with us, and our mana is much stronger than human mages, even if it's ten archmages, it's not our opponent. ”
"What do you want? Don't talk nonsense, kill if you want!" Enoch raised his sword to his chest, and Fern faced in two directions, shielding Miruria in the middle.
"I thought I could catch them all, but it's good to be able to solve three, and I can hand over to the master. The demon laughed again.
All the demons chanted the incantation at the same time, and the chanting ended at the same time, and ten ice arrows flew in all directions.
Fern felt the overwhelming cold quickly envelop him, and the air around him was suddenly so cold that he couldn't breathe, even colder than jumping into a river to the north. It's over, is this time finally going to die?
Suddenly, he felt a person standing beside him, and the colorful cloak that he glimpsed from the corner of his eye was tumbling rapidly, and the extremely cold air disappeared in an instant, followed by the scorching air.
Enoch opened his eyes and found that he was still alive, and the warrior looked behind him in surprise, and the chantrer stood majestically between him and Fern. "How dare you make a mistake before me that is filthy. ”
"Who are you?" said the demon's tone, which he thought they were fearless, but now it seems that the demon and the human are the same, they will panic and be afraid.
"I've been sent by the Seven Gods to eradicate your filth, and you shouldn't be in Wallis!" the chantrer seemed to be a different person, as if he had been born to deal with demons.
"The tone is really not small, don't think that you can defeat us if you can block the ice arrow, I said it, the strength of the demon mage is beyond the reach of even the archmage. The demon who spoke seemed to be enraged, and began to cast the spell again, and the other nine demons followed him in casting the spell at the same time.
"Stand down!" roared the chanter, and a shockwave quickly spread from his mouth in all directions, interrupting the demon's spell casting.
"What!?" Demon was surprised to find that his spell casting was interrupted by a simple roar from the other party. "Who the hell are you? Why have you never been brought to our attention? ”
The chant did not answer him, but turned to look at the three. "I'll cast a spell to send you and your mounts to the other side first, and then you can leave me alone and go straight to Valdosta. ”
"No, no matter how strong you are, you can't face ten demons alone, we will fight with you!" Fern rejected the bard's offer.
"Fern, you can rest assured, they can't hurt me at all, I sent you to the other side just because if you stay here, it will only hinder me from casting spells, my mana is too strong, and it will accidentally hurt the people around me. The chanter looked at the mercenary with a blank expression. "If you're not at ease, you can wait on the other side, but I don't think it's necessary, so I'll let you go to Valdosta first. ”
Enoch and Miruria looked at the bard in amazement, and at this moment, it was no longer the confused old man standing in front of them, but like a savior.
"Who the hell are you? I want to know this more than the demons. Fern stared into the bard's eyes, deep eyes that once again made him feel peace from within.
"Don't waste time, let's go. The chantrin exhaled, and slowly raised his hands, and all three of them were surprised to find their feet off the ground, and flew toward the other side of the Zane, and the four horses flew after them.
"Don't let them go, stop them!" the demon roared, and several ice arrows flew towards the trio, but the ice arrows shattered in the air when they were still five yards away, and countless pieces of broken ice fell from the sky and fell on the ice with a crashing sound.
"Your opponent is me. The bard looked up at the demons in front of him with contempt, and he did not hide from their gaze, as if he had not taken them seriously at all. "Go back to where you belong, you don't belong here, you don't belong to this world. The chantrer began to glow with a soft golden light, enveloping the whole person, and he raised his hands above his head, and the golden light in his palms became brighter and brighter, more dazzling than the golden sunlight.