Chapter 31: Ormond
There is no doubt that the pipe has aroused Amber's interest, and after more than two hours of small talk, Amber has already lit it three times. The tobacco pouch is made of some kind of animal skin, and the surface of the leather is stripped of the roughness of the leather and becomes shiny. According to him, the pipes and pouches were given by the royal blacksmith, and the tobacco came from the finest gold leaf of Shataros, the land of the Green Thorns. Half a year ago, the two helped Duke Mishumod of Shatarus settle a land dispute between nobles. Mishoud had an excellent friendship with the royal blacksmith, and the Duke himself gave Edith a scarf set with red diamonds. As they left the Greenthorn Realm and rushed to Windroar, they were escorted by thirty cavalrymen who wanted to help the men in black complete their mission to Windroar, but mortals who did not receive the blessing of Grevyn's stars could not withstand the threat of the undead. "The will of the ancestors cannot survive in the prosperous world of Chengping now, and I doubt how many people can face the resentment of the undead. Amber muttered.
Ormond does not deny Amber's words, and the will of the ancestors he refers to refers to the First Age of Mankind, when humans and elves coexisted peacefully until the earth elves no longer possessed large tracts of Lannia, and the Holy Lake Bay in the west became their last home in this land. Darkness came from the far east, and from then on, the Dark Ages came. The will of the ancestors could still resist the threat of death, and they formed alliances to build beacons to ward off the darkness.
"Now the world is going down. Ormond had to admit that "the people were being whipped, but they didn't know who the whip was." β
"Red Castle and Dragonfly Town. Amber spat out a wisp of smoke that turned milky white in the setting sun, "and the mysterious wizards who appeared in the north. β
"What does Maester Pesil think about this?"
"By the time we arrived at the Twilight Castle, Maester Pesil had already left, and Scordy said he had gone to investigate something, but he didn't elaborate. Amber replied, "She has received orders from Maester Pesil that no one but us should take over the Battle of the Giant's Bridge." β
"Shall you not take over?" Ormond was a little skeptical, "the focus is on leaning towards the Red Castle?"
"Presumably Maester Pesil has learned about this, perhaps he is investigating this matter in the Red Castle. β
The two of them passed through the courtyard and prepared to walk out of the city gate, when there was a movement on the battlements, and one soldier hurried down the wall into the hall, while several other soldiers shouted, "Barbarians, there are barbarians on the Giant's Bridge!" and the other soldiers ran up the wall one after another.
"Go check it out. Amber finished speaking, and blended into the crowd of soldiers. When Ormond reached the city wall, he saw more than two dozen northerners advancing along the Giant's Bridge towards the castle with bows and arrows in their hands, shooting arrows in the direction of the castle every few meters. It was obvious that they were measuring the range of the bow and arrow, but the hundreds of meters of the Giant's Bridge had to be halfway advanced to barely within the range of the bow and arrow. A soldier tried to draw his bow and draw arrows, but was stopped by the guard officer, "Don't waste feather arrows, it's still too far away, wait for my order, and you can shoot again when I tell you to." "All the archers drew their arrows at the same time and put them on the strings. The Heerking people on the opposite side approached here without looking, and the feathered arrows they shot made arcs in the air, and finally fell forty or fifty meters away from the castle.
"This is the advantage of the defenders. Amber whispered to Ormond.
"The war has begun. Ormond said, "The guards won't let these barbarians get out of the Giant's Bridge alive. He looked to the west, the sun was sinking in the west, and the sky was fiery red. Choosing this time to attack, the Heerking people had an absolute advantage, and when night came, the defenders could only shoot blindly. He looked at the dust scattered on the Giant's Bridge again, and after the rain, the dust formed a cloud of dirt on the Giant's Bridge like silt. He really doubted that a single spark could turn the Bridge of Giants into a sea of fire.
"Prepare ......," the guard officer shouted, and the archers drew their bowstrings and pointed above their eyebrows. "......Let it go!" heard a uniform whistling sound, and several bows and arrows flew out in response. There was a scream on the Giant's Bridge, and everyone was killed by the indiscriminate arrows. But no one cheered for this, because behind them were thousands of barbarians.
Amber looked at Ormond hesitantly, but didn't say a word, and finally just touched the sword hanging behind him.
"Do you need to polish your weapon?" Ormond replied for him.
"If the blacksmith here is good, I'll polish it, but forget it. Amber replied, "I'm going to call Edith and Say, it's time for them to get ready." β
Yes, it's time to prepare for this big battle, Ormond thought to himself, I didn't think that the Horkings would attack so quickly, I thought that the battle would start after the Nofio and Kairol arrived at the Giant's Bridge, but who could have guessed when the war would start.
As Ormond turned his head, there was a rumbling on the other side...... Dong Long ...... The sound of the war drums changed from one to two, and two to three, and soon gathered into a long-lasting thunderclap. The black pressed human head covered the white camp sea under the polar eye, and gathered at a great speed towards the bridgehead of the Giant's Bridge. Immediately after, black smoke rose from behind the army, climbing high into the air and merging with the fiery red clouds. The afterglow of the setting sun was replaced by black, and the sound of eardrum-tearing war drums eclipsed the rushing river of redstone.
There was chaos on the walls, and the guards looked at each other to abandon the walls, and someone shouted, "That's dark magic, it's a slave of death!" Another soldier whimpered, "We have no hope of life!" and quickly ran down the wall, followed by several soldiers. But not everyone is running away, many more are just hiding behind the pheasant moat and watching the enemy's every move, the only thing they can do is wait for the black cloud to fall from the sky, waiting for the enemy to attack the city gate.
At this time Billion and Gilly Janes climbed the wall, and a group of archers surged behind them, and under the leadership of the commander Billion, the archers scattered across the wall, each with a stack of freshly made feathered arrows at his feet, enough to deal with the first attack of the northerners, but in the case of outnumbered enemies, the castle was difficult to suppress the enemy.
Gilly Janes, who seems to be in order, led a group of brothers to carry kerosene barrels from the courtyard up the city walls, and then transported baskets of stones through hinged devices fixed to the walls. Stone the enemy when all the arrows and kerosene are exhausted. The others brought stumps against the gates until the gate to the Giant's Bridge was firmly nailed down by a dozen stakes.
Billion made his way through the crowded guards and came to Ormond's side, "Man in Black, the war has begun, what is your decision?"
"Look. Ormond pointed to the courtyard, "My companions are all here, and the weapons are all on them, and you don't really think that the men in black would sit on the walls and stand by." Dusk Castle is located on the Black Hill Mountain, which is on the south bank of the Red Rock River, south of the castle. β
Billion drew the sword at his waist and looked like he was at home, "It's an honor to fight alongside the man in black. Then he turned back to the soldiers and shouted, "Boys, the Twin Towers have abandoned us, but the men in black in the castle of dusk have not, will you fight alongside the men in black?" all the soldiers' eyes turned to Billion and Ormond, and they nodded silently. "Very well! Then teach these barbarians a hard lesson. Don't let them get near the castle, the archers obey my orders!" all the archers stationed at the castle totaled two hundred, and they lined up in a row, stretching nearly a hundred meters on either side. On the battlements of the city gates also lurked more than twenty able-bodied warriors, whose duty was to ensure that the enemy died under the gates.
Edith, Amber, and Say ran up the wall, and Ormond met him and said, "Edith, your archery skills are far better than ordinary people, and I want you to suppress them a little further away from the wings." It is very likely that the Horkings will use their shields as cover, and they will do whatever it takes to transport the battering ram under the city gates......"
β...... So their weakness is on the flanks. Edith said, looking at the sky, "I see what you mean. β
"Said, you are not needed on the city walls, I want you to defend the city gates. β
Sai turned the tomahawk in his hand and replied reluctantly, "This kind of terrain is really not suitable for me, hmph, forget it, I'll go." β
Ormond patted him on the shoulder, "Unless you jump off the walls." Then he turned to Amber and said, "These guards are weak-willed and likely to flee without a fight, and our task is to direct them to fight, I am in charge of the left, and you are in charge of the right." Amber nodded and walked away.
The bridgehead on the opposite bank was black and oppressive, and the number of enemy troops outside the bridgehead was even larger, and the war drums were like thunder, and under the rhythmic agitation, the enemy who was as dense as ants rushed to the castle. The billowing black smoke above his head seemed to contain life, and as the enemy approached, the black smoke pressed towards the castle at a rapid speed, and in an instant, the fiery red of the setting sun was engulfed, and the raging red stone river was completely hidden in the darkness. A long howl rang out over the city walls, and it was Billion. "Steady, steady!" and other than that, the trembling, the drumming, the footsteps, the roars, all the sounds came from outside the walls.
Ormond leaned on the platform and looked out, and in the dim darkness, the enemy formed a long, dark wriggling dragon with its tail extending into the northern forest. The number of enemies is by no means more than 10,000. The enemy who fought in the front was armed with a black shield and charged ahead. They had crossed the center of the Giant's Bridge and were within range of the castle, and it was time. Only to hear Billion shouting, "Release!" Hundreds of feathered arrows were fired at the same time. The enemy's advance slowed down as a result. Another rain of arrows, and screams echoed across the Giant's Bridge.
"Have no mercy on your enemies, for they are savages. Billion's voice was so firm, "Free with arrows, don't let them touch the gates!"
The black smoke pressed lower and lower until nothing could be seen clearly, and the castle's counterattack was thus put to the test, and they shot blindly, but did not produce an effective suppression. Instead, dense feathered arrows burst out from the black smoke beneath the walls, and the wooden arrows collided with the stone walls, ricocheting wantonly, sending out a bleak and dense clamor of rainfall. But in the darkness, many guards were still shot by this blind blow, and the miserable howls kept coming.
In this case, no one will be the first to ignite the flames, and in the same darkness, countless eyes are staring at the moving figure, as long as there is a ray of light, it will be hit by ten thousand arrows. Flames, dust, Ormond suddenly realized this, "aim at the black fog, aim at the sand powder on the Giant's Bridge." He shouted, "Flame, flame!" but no one cared about this in this situation of fear and confusion, and perhaps every one knew in their hearts that if a flame rose, they would be shot into a sieve by random arrows. He quickly glanced around, the soldiers had been completely suppressed by the enemy's rain of arrows, and most of them were hiding behind the arrow holes. He saw Edith at the farthest point of the city gate, with a boulder under her feet, and her foot on the wall, and she drew her bow and arrows so quickly, and moved so lightly, that every accurate shot would kill her enemies. She was in the right position, and the enemy was powerless to fight back, so he couldn't hurt her at all.
Ormond snatched a feathered arrow from the soldier's hand, stuck it with kerosene, and immediately ran to Edith, reciting a riddle about the dwarven fire, and the feathered arrow began to burn violently. He handed it to Edith, "Aim at the Giant's Bridge and dodge the figure." Edith looked at him puzzled. "The Giant's Bridge is covered with sand dust, if that heavy rain doesn't ......"
Before Ormond could finish, Edith had already put the flaming feather arrow on the string, "...... The Giant's Bridge will turn into a sea of fire, I know. β
I saw that the arrow was like a dazzling lightning bolt, and it flew straight into the black smoke that filled the Giant's Bridge. In an instant, the flames splashed everywhere, and the raging fire burst like layers of black mist, and the dancing tongues of fire were like waving flaming leather whips, entangled into a blazing light, and the fire source quickly spread on the Giant's Bridge, and a heart-rending wail came, and the unstoppable Heerjing people immediately collapsed.
At the same time, the long-lost cheers finally sounded on the city walls, and it was a long-suppressed cheer and roar. "Don't give the enemy a chance to breathe!" another voice came from the area of the fort on the city gate. The walls were filled with cheers and shouts of repulsion at the same time, and for a moment, almost all of them were friendly arrows flying in the air as far as they could see. When Ormond looked up at the Bridge of Giants again, there was nothing but a fiery figure and a fleeing black shadow on the Bridge.
They were retreating, and it was a good start, and Ormond was secretly glad. The black smoke on the Giant's Bridge gradually dissipated, and after a short time, the entire Giant's Bridge reappeared in everyone's field of vision, hundreds of corpses were burned to pitch black, and the still crawling and crawling burning man plunged headlong into the surging red stone river, and never saw a human figure again. The fire still roared uncontrollably, trampling over the corpse over and over again until its unruly wildness was quelled. The entire Giant's Bridge became a corridor of black corpses, and the smell of burnt was unusually strong.
"The enemy is only temporarily retreating, do not take it lightly. Edith shouted, then pointing to the bridgehead on the other side of the river, "When the fire on the Giant's Bridge burns out, the enemy will be back in action." She glanced at Ormond, "Elder Ormond, you see, the black smoke has not yet dispersed in the sky. β
Ormond subconsciously clenched the hilt of his sword, but he knew that he was powerless on the wall. "Ready, ready!" he walked behind each of the archers, "the enemy will not give up, and we will not be relentless, everyone prepare!" Amber shouted from the wall on the other side, while Gilly Janes and Billion commanded the guard of the fort above the gates.
The sound of war drums resounded in the sky, and less than a quarter of an hour later, the northern army regrouped, but no longer covered by the black smoke of the wizards, and the stormtroopers formed a tight shield wall on the Giant's Bridge, with spears and swords behind them. As the drums of war stopped, the enemy swarmed in, and the battle began again.
It seemed that the black smoke could hardly contain the vast sky, and the red glow on the horizon tore a big hole in the darkness, and a few stars passed through the black smoke. "See! Omond senior, it's that person, and this black magic is used by that person. Ormond also looked away. On the other side of the river, in the enemy camp, there was a man standing on the wooden frame, so far away that he could only see a vague figure.
With a sound of the horn, the enemy raised his black shield, shrunk into a long formation, and moved forward step by step, his hoarse roar was loud and orderly, roar, ......roar, roar The sorcerer on the other side of the river who used the dark magic was also using the cunning tricks, "The wizard uses the dark magic without any effect, so the castle will be strongly impacted, and you must find a way to get rid of the person standing on the platform." β
"Steady, Edith. Ormond stood on the top of the fortress and shouted, "Brave warriors, don't flinch, these black fogs are just useless tricks, wait for my orders!" At this moment, the soldiers standing on the wall did not shoot a single arrow, did not throw a stone, but waited quietly for the enemy to approach, and then approach.
The sky darkened again, time was slowly passing, and the enemy was closing in on the city gates. "It's okay, Ormond senior! Amber shouted at the other end of the wall, "This distance is enough for them to taste the pain." The soldiers were also watching Ormond, but they were slow to give orders.
Ormond seized the opportunity, and at the sound of an order, the dense arrows shot out again, and the enemy suffered a huge blow, but no one fled because of this, when an enemy fell, two people would immediately come behind, blocking the huge shield in front, and approaching step by step, with each step there would be a dozen people falling instantly, and more people would rush to the front, just like that, the enemy shouted and trampled over the corpses of their comrades and rushed to the city gates, they raised their shields to cover the seven or eight meters wide Giant's Bridge tightly, and behind the formation were swarms of archers, arrows came and went, and people fell every momentγ
A thick tree trunk suddenly appeared in the formation, and under the wave of many pairs of strong arms, it struck the city gate again and again, and if anyone was hit by an arrow, two people immediately took his place, and again and again, under the huge impact, the city gate made a deafening sound.
Finally, there were not many arrows left in the soldiers' hands, and the black-pressed enemy on the Giant's Bridge seemed to be even more ferocious, and the horn of the counterattack was as dense as raindrops. Ormond leaned down and jumped off the wall, where he saw Say and the many warriors leaning against the stakes and gates. With each impact, the crowd was bounced away and then leaned on again. If it continues like this, the city gate will not last long, and he climbed the city wall again to find the figure of the castle commander, "The city gate needs support, Billion, the city gate!"
Billion looked back at Ormond with a look of impotence, and he walked up to Ormond in two steps and one step at a time, "I will send thirty men to support the city gates." But after I have poured all the kerosene on the head of the barbarian, I will set him on fire with fire, and I will let the bodies of the barbarians be piled up in front of the city gates, I swear!"
Ormond nodded, "The archers on this side come with me, flank the enemy, and don't let the archers under the walls reach them." Edith and Amber led their superior archers to the flanks, striking from both sides, striking back at the enemy on the Giant's Bridge, barrels of kerosene pouring down from the fortress towers on the walls, and the flames burned at the touch of a button. On the Giant's Bridge and at the foot of the city walls, corpses were piled up. But the enemy continued to swarm in oblivion.
The fierce tug-of-war continued into the night, and both sides felt very tired, except for the large iron gate that separated the two armies, still standing, and continued to withstand wave after wave of strong impact, so that the city gate was knocked out of a large crater, the iron bars and door buckles were bent, and the dirt on the inner edge of the door was lifted out of a one-foot-deep pit.
If it continues like this, the gate will be slammed open, the last city guarding the south will be breached, and then a large-scale slaughter will spread from Rotten Wood to every corner of the southern continent. When the soldiers had used up the stones and kerosene in their hands, they brought hard and heavy objects from every house to throw them at, but no one could stop the northern army from attacking the city gates. At this moment, there were less than forty archers left who were lucky enough to survive, and in addition to that, there were close guards, numbering less than two hundred. Looking at the Giant's Bridge again, the entire bridge deck, the entire opposite bank was filled with a sea of fire. The long-range assault between the two sides seemed to have stopped, the castle was powerless to fight back, and the Arkins did not need to cover for the battering ram.
'Roar'...... 'Boom'...... 'Roar'......'Boom'...... With each roar of the enemy, the city gate will be impacted, and the enemies of the sea behind them will shout in unison. Victory is in front of their eyes, as long as the gate is smashed, as long as ...... Ormond looked at the pale stars and said to himself, "Rotten Wood is about to fall into the clutches of the enemy, and what awaits us will be a fierce hand-to-hand combat, Master Pesil, I can't complete the task you gave me accurately, I will listen to the prayers of the Grevin stars." β
β...... No matter what the task is, it doesn't matter anymore. Amber ran to Ormond's side, "As long as we can hold the gates, it's still too late." β
"Then we'll show our swords and slay the undead with the weapons we used to slay the undead. β
"As you wish!"
Immediately, Ormond and Amber jumped off the city wall with a roar, jumping into the black oppressive enemy, the sword light slashed through the enemy's body like lightning, and in an instant, the enemy's defensive formation was torn open by the two alive. The northern army was tall and large, and after a while, the two of them were surrounded, but the ability of the man in black was not something that ordinary people could contend with, even if the enemies were as numerous as a swarm of ants, the two of them still fought a lonely island on the Giant's Bridge, and the enemy was repelled by this ferocious impact for several meters.
The soldiers on the city wall saw the men in black fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and began to shout frantically, "The man in black, the man in black!" The two brandished their shining swords, and one by one the enemies were slain, and some were forced into the Red Rock River alive with no way to escape.
The enemy desperately retreated one after another, and the enemy behind ran to the front, hugging himself in a group and rushing to the city gate again. The two wielded long swords, blocked, slashed, stabbed, slashed, stabbed step by step, retreated and dodged, their feet were light and extremely fast. The enemy's superiority was stretched to the limit on the Giant's Bridge, and at the same time the attack was less than ten swords or ten spears. But no matter how much the man in black killed, he couldn't repel the red-eyed enemy.
"Such resistance cannot withstand the enemy's attack, and we must find a way. Amber held his sword across his head, blocking four or five broadsword spears, and shouted to Ormond. Ormond pushed the two enemies down the Redstone River and shouted at Amber to step back. The two of them were pinned down by a large crowd of enemies to the city gates, and even if the guards of the city walls kept attacking the enemies, it was useless.
"I'm coming!" the great axe fell from the walls and slammed into the chest of a tall, fat foe. Sei then leaped into the midst of the black-pressed enemy, and the two of them rushed towards the enemy again. Edith led her remaining archers on the walls to attack the enemy with their remaining feathered arrows, and in the end, the entire line of the Horkings was forced to retreat to the other side of the center of the Giant's Bridge.
And just as the warriors were rejoicing at the fierce attack just now, they heard a neat roar from the other side of the river, "True God, true God, true God......γ The voice resounded through the forest valley, paining everyone in the castle. The guards laid down their weapons and stared blankly at the dense enemy, and the fierce battlefield fell silent, and the enemy on the other side of the river was regrouping, each with torches and everyone shouting. The crimson sea of fire turned into a dazzling expanse, illuminating the black sky and piercing through the raging waves of the Redstone River. The black smoke in the air slowly rose upward, swirling and tumbling into a black vortex.
"True God?" Sei gasped and spat across the river, "Damn, finally let me see your gods, I'll see what the hell they look like!"
Amber stood to Say's right, Ormond to the left, layers of corpses piled up around the trio. "Things are not good. Amber said.
"They are summoning those mysterious wizards, look at this aura, the wizards want to solve us personally. Ormond said, "Amber, what do you think is the odds of the Man in Black winning?"
"If you're all the way to the black and white warlocks in Screaming Bay, I'm sure those wizards will be out of luck, if ...... Their capabilities are completely unknown, and above us words. β
"Don't be discouraged. Say interjected, "My tomahawk can clean up those dogs, just watch." β
"God, God, God......γ β
The gates of the city slowly opened, as if the gates had been sealed for thousands of years to meet the scorching sun, and the blazing fire shot over the mountains of corpses and shot towards the blood-spattered gates. The warriors marched out of the gates, and at the front was Billion, who held a golden sword in one hand and a black iron shield in the other, and the warriors followed closely, and there was no trace of fear or anger in their eyes, as if they were ready to meet the coming of death, and wanted to fight the enemy to the last breath. The heart was roaring, the eyes were shining, and the cry from the depths of the heart seemed to burst out with a powerful shock in an instant, and even the torches in their hands were guiding the way for the warriors.
"Now that the battle has been fought, it should be the most intense, and the sword in my hand has not yet been stained with the blood of the enemy, so let it drink it a good time. Billion walked over to the man in black.
"Haha, be careful not to accidentally injure yourself with your weapon. Sai Yipi responded to his courage with a smile, "Aim at their dick and poke it hard, they will be afraid of your bravery, maybe it is your chance to live!"
"The long sword is enough to pierce three people, so I'll give you three to try. "It's an honor to fight with you, the men in black will see the bravery of the warriors, and I'm sure you won't have any complaints." β
"I appreciate your words the most, I thought you had run to the back mountain of Rotten Wood Town, and I didn't expect to open the city gate and bring a group of warriors who are not afraid of death. Said Billion.
"Then together we will raise our swords and let them taste the pain. Ormond said.
The door behind him slowly closed again, and with a bang, it was tightly closed. Ormond glanced back, then at Billion and the warriors, "It seems that there is no way back, and the only chance is to destroy the enemy in front of you." β
"Your humor really doesn't make people laugh. "It could take a day or more, and I wouldn't be able to last the dawn." β
"That's exactly what I want, and the longer I last, the better. β
The enemy slowly retreated from the Giant's Bridge to the shore, and in the face of the castle's stubborn counterattack and huge losses, it did not attack again. But all this does not mean that the northern army will retreat in such a mess. A deep roar, a wrenched struggle, "God, God, God!" the enemy still shouted strange names.
After a while, a slender gap was made in the middle, as if the white sea of fire had been cut by invisible fangs, and two people walked out of the crack, and then the gap was engulfed by the firelight. One is a wizard standing on a platform and performing black magic, and the other is thin and thin, looking like a small child compared to the elephant. The two walked up to the Giant's Bridge and looked at Ormond, Say, Amber, and more than a hundred warriors behind them. With a wave of one hand, the black swirls above the wizard began to gather around the wizard, and soon formed a sphere several feet wide, and the others threw torches at the swirling and tumbling smoke, and the smoke turned into a fireball. Everyone was frightened by the black magic in front of them, and shouted in unison again, "True God, True God, True God......"
"I wanted to cut off your head just now, and I'll find you myself!" "Say shouted, "Don't use the black magic of the next three times!" "Say pinned the giant axe to his back, picked up a spear, and with a powerful swing of his arm, the spear flew towards the wizard like a charged arrow, but it was easily kicked by the thin little man, and the spear fell into the river of red stone.
Say gritted his teeth fiercely, "What the hell. β
Ormond was shocked by the skill and strength of these two people, and said to the people around him, "Be careful of the wizards, everyone prepare for the formation." β
The wizard raised his hands as if to embrace the big fireball in front of him, and at this moment, from the big fireball, a dense small fireball was shot, flying towards Ormond and the warriors behind him, the sturdy formation of the warriors was instantly hit by the flying fireball, and it collapsed, but the attack of the fireball did not weaken at all, like a rain of fire in the sky, hitting every corner of the Giant's Bridge, the bodies of the unsuspecting warriors burst into flames, the black smoke emitted a burning smell, the warriors kept wailing, desperately struggling, their voices became hoarse, and the last one after another was burned to black skeletonsγ
The man in black dodged quickly, using the weapon in his hand to resist the large and small fireballs, but Billion did not have such a fast reaction and speed, when he dodged the third fireball, a small fireball hit his knee, he knelt on the ground in pain, the flames burned down his knee to his thigh, and soon the lower half of his body was surrounded by raging fire, he raised his right hand straight, summoning the man in black who was fighting hard in front, but it was too late, Billion was engulfed in fire.
Under the dense fireball attack, the three of them were not repulsed, and they exchanged glances for a moment, and rushed forward with a bang, and the ground rolled up with bursts of tumbling air. Say flung the giant axe in his hand at the wizard, and the giant axe collided violently with the starry fireballs like white lightning, tearing through the air in an instant, and the scorching air currents melted the fireballs around the giant axe into a cloud of dust. The little man standing next to the wizard saw the giant axe flying, jumped forward, and kicked it again, but this time his strength seemed to be far behind the kick just now, the giant axe did not change its trajectory at all, and flew straight towards the wizard, and the little man was ejected several meters away by this powerful impact. Say shouted, "Hah! Why do you think you can kick a ball!"
With a flash of light, the giant axe flew in front of the wizard with flames, and before he could think about it, the giant axe was stuck in the chest of one of his attendants, as if the wizard was frightened by this sudden attack, and took two steps back, and the large fireball above his head also shrank, and finally extinguished in the air. At this time, Ormond and Amber also ran to the wizard's side, wanting to take the head of the dark wizard, but as the supreme "true god" of the northern tribe, how could he be easily killed by two men in black, and a dozen followers rushed up behind him, blocking the wizard to death, and then the huge army behind him once again brandished swords, guns and giant axes and rushed towards the Giant's Bridge. Suppressed by the large number of people, the three gradually retreated to the middle of the Giant's Bridge.
At this moment, more than 50 surviving warriors also joined the battle, life and death, the warriors stubbornly resisted the mighty army in the north with the purpose of seeing death as home, and the warriors on the city wall, led by Edith and Gilly Jans, fired arrows at the enemy, and the fierce battle broke out again.
The dawn rises, and the night passes quietly, but the dawn at this time makes people chill. Ormond, Amber, and Say were the only three left, outnumbered enough to help them repel the menacing enemy, who had to retreat back within the walls even though they had paid a terrible price. The blood-red horizon tried its best to dye the entire sky a dark red, and Ormond saw the cold eastern shadow, his eyes showed a glimmer of hope, and then he was swept away by the sword light and sword shadow in front of him.
Edith lifted her tired body and threw a long bundle of hemp rope onto the bridge. "Ormond Senpai!" Obund, already scarred, grabbed the rope and shouted to Say and Amber.
"Senior Sai, you go first, and I'll help you withstand the attack. Amber shouted, raising his sword and slashing at one of the enemies behind Say, breaking it in two.
"Don't talk nonsense with me, if you don't leave, I'll stay here. Say shouted.
"You still don't believe me, I'm not going to be killed easily, get out of here. β
Seeing this, Sey grabbed Ormond, and the two climbed the wall. Edith didn't hesitate in the slightest, and flung it hard again, and the rope landed at Amber's feet with no mistake.
"Aim for the enemy under the gates!" Ormond shouted, pointing at the enemies around Amber as an arrow fell, and a dozen enemies fell to the ground in an instant. Amber seized the opportunity to grab the rope, and the warriors pulled hard, and Amber soared into the air. Suddenly, a lightning-fast bow and arrow broke the hemp rope and pierced deep into the city walls. Amber fell off the city wall without a support point, the enemy swarmed and surrounded Amber to death, more than a dozen spears stabbed at Amber frantically, Amber blocked several attacks, but could not block other attacks, several spears pierced Amber's body from the back, Amber fell to the ground in pain, when he was about to raise the sword in his hand again and fight the enemy to the end, a sword light, Amber lost consciousness, and the organization also lost a very good warrior.
Edith, Ormond, and Say witnessed their old friend who had been fighting together for many years being stabbed to death by the enemy's spear, and the sadness in her heart overshadowed her anger, Edith fell to her knees, tears flowed down uncontrollably, Say wanted to jump off the wall again and slaughter the northerners, while Gilly James hugged Say, Ormond watched in despair as Amber's body was slowly submerged by the enemy, and when he came to his senses, he led the strong warrior down the stairs to defend the city gate.
The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and rays of light were shooting out from the horizon, and the dark red sky became clear and transparent, but it could not penetrate the Giant's Bridge, which was filled with gunsmoke. Huge enemies slammed the gates again and again without any hindrance, and with each impact, the enemies tore their throats and shouted in unison.
Inside the gates, the few warriors were silently praying that the gates would stand, polishing the sluggish blades with hard gravel and wiping the blades with bloodstained linen, without any verbal exchange between the warriors.
"The warriors who fought here, each of them have a story to sing, all of which can be recorded in the annals of history, so that future generations will always remember, and perhaps five hundred years later, they will be no less than those bravest kings. "The towns of West, Basswood, and Rotten Wood come from different places, and although they are alienated from each other, they all have a common purpose, to defend their homeland and the people behind them. β
"The enemy's victory is far from coming, we have already defeated them, and if we hold out, perhaps the enemy will retreat to the depths of the north. β
"In my memory, the Bridge of Giants has never been breached. "Is today going to be the moment I don't want to see?"
"Sometimes, time can give people a short pain, but it is easier to bury old memories, and time will give us a satisfactory answer, but this moment is definitely not the worst moment. Ormond's tone softened, "The world changes, and even the strongest victorious country cannot avoid such a powerful enemy, let alone their hearts are full of hatred. β
"But I never imagined that the day I died would be fighting alongside the men in black. β
Sai walked up to them and said, "There are so many things I can't think of, and I didn't expect that a person can call the wind and rain with a wave of his hand, and with a flick of his hand, he can turn the black mist in the air into a burning fireball." Say sat down beside Ormond, "In the final battle, you warriors don't rush ahead of us, or you will be pierced in less than ten seconds, just like Billyon, well, he is brave, but he is too stupid." β
"Your reminder will help the fighters live a few more seconds, but we're going to fight to the end. Geely Janshi asserted.
Eventually, the gate became tilted and cracked under the impact of one blow after another. Ormond looked at the gate that was about to collapse, got up and walked among the warriors, "The gate has fallen, it doesn't mean that the Giant's Bridge has been conquered like this, and the weapons in our hands are enough to make the enemy pay a terrible price! The archers stand on the high ground behind them, and the others stand with me, don't flinch, don't be afraid, kill all the invaders!" Sixty men resisted ten thousand, and Ormond could not imagine what was going to happen next, so he forced himself not to think, not to listen, and when the gates fell, he only had to kill every enemy who rushed in. Maybe I'll die, Ormond thought to himself, "Woragon, Woragon, what is your mission, will it be easier than what I am facing at the moment?" Irina, where are you, I hope you are safe and sound, and I hope you can find clues.
The warriors raised their swords in their hands, and the sound of weapons grinding against each other was crisp and pleasant, as if they couldn't wait for the last hearty feast. The pale sun had risen over the mountains, and with a heavy thud, the gate was finally breached by the enemy, who rushed in with a thud, and the black oppression was about to run over any resistance that stood in their way. The warriors, led by the men in black, were not cowardly, raising their swords and slashing at the enemy. The sound of weapons piercing into the body, the sound of collisions, the sound of falling, the wailing, and the fierce fighting broke out in the courtyard in an instant.
The slender short man jumped over the crowd and rushed ahead of him, despite the tight blockage in front of him, trying to find the men dressed in black, but his every move had already been discovered by the men in black, Ormond dodged the enemy's attack, pierced the enemy's chest with a sword, and shouted Say, who heard it and rushed to the enemy on the west side, and took away two enemies with an axe, and then leaped, cut off the heads of two more enemies, and ran straight for the short man, as if the enemies around him could not stop the fierce beast from rambling wildlyγ
"Damn bastard, I'm here!" By this time, Sai had already run in front of the little man, and he swung his great axe to kill all the enemies around him, as if he had set up a circle of territory around him, and those who dared to invade were looking for death. The little man held back his eyes, and then a charge, stabbing at Sai who was holding a giant axe, Sai was not afraid of the incoming attack at all, calm, holding a weapon in his hand, don't drop the blow of the little man, the little man lost his center of gravity and leaned towards Sai, Sai picked up his fist, the little man flew several meters away, crashed into two enemies, and the three of them retreated a few meters back, and the enemies behind were also hit by this unusual force. Say laughed, "I'm going to skin you." "Pick up the great axe and run away. Edith stood on the rooftop, taking advantage of the high ground to suppress the enemy archers, as if under her arrows, those archers were just screaming prey, and the enemy was roared one after another.
However, the situation of more enemies and fewer enemies, coupled with the fact that the northerners were all physically strong, the soldiers were hacked to death one by one with random knives or pierced by spears, and they had no ability to resist at all. The enemy was unstoppable, and Edith retreated to the eaves behind the roof, shouting to Say and Ormond to retreat.
In this case, Ormond and Say fought their way out of the castle, and before they could close the big black iron gates, the enemy had already followed and fought out of the castle, and Edith shouted, "Retreat to the town, and don't get entangled with the enemy." So the three men and the seven remaining warriors fled into the town in panic.
The enemy did not continue the pursuit, but set up a strong fortress in the castle, and after a while, a banner of a white hunter on a green background was planted on the dome of the castle, the flag swayed with the west wind, the Giant's Bridge was conquered, the castle was occupied by the enemy, and after a day and night of fighting, only seven warriors and three men in black survived the Giant's Bridge.