As a magic airship with a flight path across the border between the two kingdoms, that is, the one Xia and the others are riding on now, its appearance is slightly different from the style of the magic skyships she used to ride, and on its deck, it is equipped with some ironwood mixed weapons. www.biquge.info In the past, Xia was a little curious about why there were several spinning ballistae with fixed bases on the bow and stern of the ship and along the sides of the deck ship, but now she knew that this flight route over the border between the two kingdoms was obviously not completely safe, and they needed to be used as protective weapons on the magic skyship.

Before she could rush out of the cabin, Xia heard a loud voice shouting, as if she was giving orders to someone, and when she came to the deck, she looked in the direction from which the voice came, only to find that it was the captain of the magic skyship, and she had seen the other party from a distance when she boarded the magic skyship---

"Damn it, hurry up and load your crossbow bolts!

The captain stood in a slightly elevated position, shouting to the crew guards who were controlling the ballista in all directions, his voice slightly urgent: "Remember, no one is allowed to attack without my orders! If you provoke those thorny ravens, everyone on our magic airship will be implicated by your impulsiveness and go to hell together!"

As he spoke, the captain angrily slapped the railing and stared at the group of flying monsters circling around the magic spaceship, and his tone was a little resentful: "Damn, how can these dangerous and difficult guys appear here? This is just the edge of the Shidar Forest, shouldn't these ghosts be in the deeper part of the Shidar Forest?"

In fact, if you want to fly across the border between the Kingdom of Chirod and the Kingdom of Prorentin, the Forest of Sidar is a difficult place to get around, unless you want to take a long detour. Therefore, for the sake of safety, the Magic Skyship will generally choose to fly over a familiar area on its edge as much as possible, and never go over or near the center of the Shidar Forest, because it would be very dangerous to do so!

And the captain's name is Rip, and he has been flying on this route for more than twenty years, and he has been relatively peaceful. Although he had been attacked by a monster in the middle of his flight, he had never encountered a dangerous social beast like the Thorn Raven, after all, they usually did not appear in the location of this route, but should be closer to the center of the Shidar Forest, which made him a little unsure of how to deal with it.

You must know that this kind of gregarious flying demonic beast is no less threatening than a high-level demonic beast, although their individual strength is not strong, but the number is usually more than two digits, or even as high as three digits, once they are matched, it will be very difficult!

Moreover, just now, this group of guys gathered together and swooped down towards the magic airship together, and it was not a big deal, but they almost knocked through the outer deck of the magic skyship......

"William, William, you damn thing, where did you die?"

Suddenly, Captain Rip looked away from the Thorn Crow, looked left and right, as if looking for someone, and shouted, "Come over to me!"

"Captain Rip, I'm here!"

A sweaty man came running and replied quickly, his expression very nervous, his eyes always drifting involuntarily in the direction of the thorny crows, as if he was afraid that they would suddenly pounce.

"Go to the control room and tell them to reduce the flight altitude of the magic spaceship as quickly as possible, remember, to minimize it!"

Captain Rip gave a command to the crew named William, and his tone was anxious: "Damn, I don't want to fall from such a high place and become a puddle of rotten meatloaf!"

"Yes, Captain Rip!"

The crew member looked overjoyed and hurried away, seemingly glad to be able to leave the deck and enter the cabin, away from some flying beast.

"After passing the word, remember to come back quickly!"

However, before he could be happy, the words of a certain captain came from behind him, like some kind of spell of magic.

“... Yes!"

In this regard, the guy named William could only answer stiffly, and his steps were hurried, and he happened to pass by Xia who ran out.

"It's ......"

As soon as she stepped out of the cabin and came to the deck, Xia saw these thorny crows that were still quacking around the magic skyship, and also heard the words of a certain captain, and her expression couldn't help but change, knowing that the current situation was not optimistic.

I saw that what appeared in front of her was a huge bird with a gray-black body, with a wingspan of nearly three meters long, and its eyes, beak and claws were all an iron blue, which looked very vigorous and powerful, and the feathers on their head, neck and tail were almost gray-brown, and the whole looked majestic and fierce, they were flying in circles around the magic skyship, extremely fast, and constantly making annoying quacks, she could clearly detect a certain strong desire to attack them just by looking at it, and the breath was rushing to her face.

Although she had never heard of the names of these flying beasts before, and she didn't know what their strength was, from the previous complaints of a certain captain, she also knew that these thorny ravens that were supposed to live in the depths of the Shidar Forest were very difficult to deal with, and moreover, especially since they were still riding on the magic skyship!

For these thorny crows that fly extremely fast, the magic skyship that flies slowly and leisurely is undoubtedly a live target in the sky, and it has almost no power to resist.

"This guest, please go back to the cabin as soon as possible, it's dangerous outside!"

A crew member who was controlling the ballista on the left side of the cabin looked up and noticed Natsu's arrival, and he couldn't help but wave his right hand at her anxiously, as if he wanted the girl to hurry back to the safety of the cabin.

Before his words fell, a dark crow flying over the thorns seemed to have spotted Natsu, a human who was smaller than the others, perhaps thinking that she was easier to bully, and it screamed, and actually flapped its wings and swooped down on her!

"Tsk, you crow's beak ......"

Xia glanced at the kind-hearted crew member, but couldn't help but shake her head, sighing for her bad luck, but she didn't retreat, just stared at the thorny crow that swooped down on her, and with a raise of her right hand, a dark muzzle was already quickly aimed at its eyebrows.

Her light gray eyes, staring directly at the pair of cyan eyes of this thorny crow, suddenly flashed with a cold killing intent!

"Don't ......"

Seeing this, the crew member who had just heard the order of a certain captain not to attack without permission was anxious, as if he was afraid that her shooting would anger the large group of thorny crows.

Ga!

But, as if sensing some kind of intuition of terrible danger, the thorny raven screamed again, and as if panicked, it hurriedly flapped its wings and lowered its body, changed direction, and chose to avoid it, and it narrowly grazed under the bottom of the cabin of the magic airship, and gave up this attack on her.

"Hey, this stupid bird isn't too stupid......

Natsu pursed his lips and lowered his right hand.

In fact, of course, she had heard what a certain captain had just said, but she didn't quite approve of it in her heart.

Although it is a wise choice not to take the initiative to provoke these flying monsters now, it is only on the premise that the two sides are in peace!

And this large group of thorny crows in front of them, they don't look peaceful and friendly at all, this can be known from their previous collision with the magic skyship, with the strong desire to attack revealed by these guys, they will definitely not let go of this magic skyship easily, if they hesitate again and again in the face of their threat, they dare not attack, then they will only die faster!

"Miss Xia!"

At this time, Trea Kukukel and Mary Anjka also arrived, and the two of them were in front of Xia, equally surprised by the situation in front of them.

It seemed that they knew the appearance of these flying magical beasts, but they didn't know why so many thorny crows appeared, and the tone of the two became a little nervous: "This is... Thorn Raven?!"

As he spoke, the deputy leader of a certain mercenary group had already held the one-handed small shield he was carrying on his left forearm, and he also drew his long sword in his right hand, looking vigilantly at the huge birds flying around, his expression was extremely calm.

"Miss Xia, we'd better go back to the cabin, and leave it to the people of the Demon Skyship to deal with it here!"

Mary Anjka suggested to Natsu, but her eyes were always on the lookout for enemies that could come from any direction.

"Yes, Miss Xia, it's too dangerous here!"

Treya Kukukel also saw the scene where Xia was attacked by the Thorn Raven just now, but he agreed in a somewhat worried tone, he also held a long sword, looking vigilant and worried.

"Huh...... Do you think they can handle it?"

In this regard, Xia just chuckled and shook his head and asked.

"This ......"

Hearing this, the two mercenaries stopped talking, and the two naturally saw that the situation was not good.

To be honest, Xia really didn't believe that the crew of the Demon Sky Boat could withstand such a large group of thorny crows with just six rotating ballistas, you know, just the number she saw now, there were no less than thirty, she could completely imagine how weak the resistance of these crew members would be when this group of thorny crows launched a general attack on the magic sky ship again!

Otherwise, a certain Captain Rip would not be so anxious that his eyes were bloodshot and his whole person was restless.

"Natsu, your name is Natsu, right?"

Soon, a certain girl with two ponytails also rushed over, she ran to Xia's side, and as soon as she spoke, she was immediately startled by the scene in front of her: "Ah...... Demon... Warcraft?!"

Tut... Why did this difficult little guy come along?

Xia glanced back at the double-ponytailed girl, and couldn't help but have a headache.

Suddenly, before she could speak, the magic skyboat under her feet sank suddenly, as if the control room had received an order from Captain Rip and began to rapidly reduce the flight altitude of the magic skyship.

However, before the magic sky boat could continue to descend many meters, those thorny crows also seemed to notice the 'enemy's move, and they all quacked and screamed, as if they could see that it wanted to 'escape', and they were uneasy.

Phew!

A very high-pitched chirping sounded, Xia turned his head to look, and found that it was a thorny crow that looked a little different from the others, not to mention the size of the circle, there was a pinch of golden feathers on the top of its head, it seemed to be the king of this group of thorny crows.

In this regard, Xia's expression couldn't help but change, and his heart was not good.

Sure enough, with the order of the leader of the thorn crow, all of those thorn crows became as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and a pair of iron blue eyes seemed to be about to burst out of a terrifying green light!

They no longer circled and circled, and swooped down towards the magic sky boat in unison, stretching out their sharp beaks or claws, pecking or grabbing, and directly pounced on the people on the magic sky boat.

"Ahh

A scream rang out, but an unfortunate crew member was grabbed by two thorny ravens at the same time, taken directly off the deck, and caught in midair, his hands and feet constantly struggling.

"Shh

Xia's right hand was raised, pointing in that direction, and two gunshots rang out, and he fired two shots in a row, accurately blasting the two thorny crows off their heads, and easily rescuing the critical crew member.

"Attack! Attack!"

Seeing this, the Captain Rip also knew that the conflict between the two sides was inevitable, and he roared again and again, ordering the crew to use ballistas to fire crossbow arrows at these flying monsters.

However, it was a drop in the bucket, and it had little effect, six crossbow arrows were fired, and only two unlucky thorny ravens were shot by the crossbow arrows, and with a wail, they fell to the Shidar forest below, but it completely aroused the anger of the rest of the thorny crows.

Quack, quack, quack!

The attack of the thorn crow was even more ferocious, several crew members who controlled the ballista were besieged by several thorn crows at the same time, pecked and grabbed fiercely, drenched in blood, and screamed again and again for a while, and some people were even caught out of the magic air boat, and were let go like a joke, and fell to the ground with a scream, and no one had time to rescue at all.

"Hah!"

With a coquettish shout, the one-handed shield on Mary Anjka's left hand lit up with a white glow, and I saw the deputy head of the regiment step forward with his right foot violently, and with a wave of his left arm, he knocked a thorny crow away and knocked him unconscious, and then the long sword in her right hand also flashed, and a sword fell, actually cutting off the head of the thorny crow, a series of actions were smooth and neat, so that Xia Bu's eyes lit up.

Trea Kukukel protected Natsu and a girl with two ponytails behind him, and he used the sword in his right hand to resist the claws of an attacking thorn crow, but with his left hand, he quickly swiped a sharp dagger around his waist, and he stabbed it into the thorn crow's abdomen, causing it to scream and fly away in pain.

"Miss Xia, we're still ......"

Fearing an accident, Marie Anjka just wanted to continue to persuade Xia to retreat into the cabin, but at this moment, a high-pitched chirp suddenly sounded in her ears.

I saw that the leader of the thorny crow moved, its wings flapped hard, the air flow rolled, and it rushed towards the demon sky boat at an extremely fast speed, like a swift black shadow......

. (To be continued.) )