Chapter 106: Turnaround
At the back of the hill camp, six ropes had been put down, each of which was the thickness of an egg, and was very strong.
The first to go down with the help of hemp rope were not women and children, but dozens of young people. The back slope of the hill camp is about seventy or eighty meters high, which is very steep. If there is no one below to hold the rope, most of the women and children will fall to their deaths with their physical strength. Although these young men were the first to withdraw from the camp, they had to meet the people who came down on the ground, and they had to be on the lookout for movement around them at all times.
According to the Alchemy Crow's reconnaissance, Victor designed an escape route for the retreating lords, and after they descended to the ground, they first went south, then east, and after a large circle, they turned north and fled for their lives in the direction of Blackcastle. As long as they can escape to Blackcastle, they will be safe, and the 30-meter-high walls of Blackcastle are by no means something that these Ant-Men can break through. Victor gives them two pieces of advice, break them down and avoid the monsters. At this time, if there are still people who want to flee for their lives, they are looking for death. If someone is willing to take the women and children on the road, of course, it is the best, and if they choose to flee for their lives, there is nothing wrong with it. As for what will happen on the road, Victor can't care so much, every time a disaster occurs, the weak are always eliminated first, even on the earth, "women and children go first" is just a legend.
No one knows yet that Ant-Man has no interest in the defenseless and weak, and that it is Ant-Man's mission to destroy the enemy's resistance. If the hill camp hadn't been the first to attack Ant-Man, nothing would have happened.
Organized by several village chiefs, the retreat was astonishingly efficient, and Victor was impressed by the composure of these natives in the face of the monsters, and in less than an hour, half of them had already descended to the ground and began to flee for their lives along the ravine.
The 200 soldiers on the brick wall are still fighting, but as more and more people leave, their mood will inevitably suffer. In particular, the ant-man below was still reluctantly throwing wet soil into the trench, and the flames were already much smaller, and in order to prevent the wall of fire from being extinguished, Barrett had dumped the last few barrels of fire oil into the trench. Everyone understands that sooner or later the flame will be extinguished. At that time, it was only a matter of ten minutes for the fence to be breached. Fortunately, Victor patrolled back and forth on the city walls, and he looked so calm that the soldiers could grit their teeth and hold on.
Victor raised his hand and shot an ant-man who was transporting soil to death, looking indifferent, which caused a burst of applause from the War Bear mercenaries. Victor knew that these guys were deliberately stirring up the atmosphere, he only shot an arrow once in a while now, and he needed to conserve his strength in order to escape.
Even if he retreats in the end, Victor is confident that he will be able to escape smoothly, but if these soldiers can't retreat as soon as possible, it is estimated that they will be more than lucky. Seeing that the flames are getting smaller and smaller, Victor is also secretly anxious, 7 months of getting along has allowed Victor to establish a deep relationship with these people, especially those war bear mercenaries, they really support themselves, Victor can't bear to watch them die. Victor roughly estimated that there would be 30 minutes at most, and the flames would be extinguished by Ant-Man, which was not enough time for all the soldiers to escape, and the War Bear mercenaries must be the last to withdraw.
How can we create a chance for these people to escape? Victor has been thinking about this question for a long time. If it is an ordinary lord, it will definitely give priority to preserving the veterans, even if the army is crushed, as long as the veterans are still there, they can quickly rebuild a new army. But the problem with Victor is that most of the soldiers standing on the brick wall are militiamen, and if it weren't for the encouragement of the War Bear mercenaries, they would have collapsed long ago.
Victor was unmoved on the surface, but restless on the inside, raising his crossbow and shooting an arrow at a stunned Ant-Man. The Ant-Man raised his hand and grabbed the bolt that had been shot at its skull, and then it let out a high-pitched hiss at Victor, as if to provoke, as if to announce that it had set its sights on the marksman who had shot hundreds of Ant-Men!
Victor was shocked, it was the first time he had seen a creature catch a crossbow shot by a crossbow! The crossbow was made of fine iron, the arrow body was short and hard, although its range was shorter than that of a bow, but the crossbow flew at a speed of 230 meters per second, and the penetration power was twice that of a bow and arrow, and this Ant-Man easily caught the crossbow arrow that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye!
"Your Excellency!" Barrett yelled at Victor, he had noticed this scene immediately, this Ant-Man must be the commander!
Victor raised his hand to signal Barrett to calm down, but his heart was terrified.
Physique 30, Spiritual 523, Perception 20, Life 30.
This Ant-Man's stats are so high that Victor has never seen before, especially since its mental attribute is 523 points! What does 523 points of spiritual attribute mean? Victor didn't know. But the highest stat he's ever seen was Bruce's 27-point physique, and when Bruce was fighting the ogre, the ground was in shambles with just the aftermath, as if it had been bombarded by mortar guns. This kind of inhuman combat power made Victor envious for a while. So, this Ant-Man is definitely the strongest creature Victor has ever seen!
Whether this Ant-Man is the commander or not, Victor must shoot it, and once the flames are extinguished, no one can escape it.
"Heavy crossbow!" Victor whispered.
The well-wound Thursilver heavy crossbow was handed to Victor's hand, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. This giant heavy crossbow is blue and white, glowing with a faint cold light, like a work of art made of metal, full of cold and hard beauty. The one-meter-long Thorsilver crossbow bolt is sharp and heavy, and even steel armor can easily pierce through it.
Holding the silver crossbow, Victor suddenly had a pride in the world, and he was sure that as long as he held this big killing weapon, he would definitely be able to shoot the ant-man.
Over-limit opening, super-sensing opening, infernal opening, Victor entered the state of apocalypse, and everything was slowed down in Victor's perception, giving him a sense of invincibility in control of everything. Ant-Man's head continued to enlarge in Victor's vision, and he could even see the sharp cold light of the silver crossbow bolt in Ant-Man's compound eyes, and the breeze surrounded Victor and happily attached to the crossbow arrow. Victor pulled the trigger of the heavy crossbow, and the silver bolt the thickness of a pigeon egg shot towards Ant-Man at a speed of 727 meters per second, and the streamer reached Ant-Man in a flash.
However, Ant-Man dodged, and the lightning-fast bolt missed! The bolt shot straight through the bodies of the three ordinary Ant-Men behind Ant-Man, bringing out a large canopy of green sap, and finally sinking deep into the trunk of a large tree.
The Ant-Man let out an angry roar, and the speed at which the other Ant-Man filled the trench immediately sped up, and the soldiers around Victor were all colorless, Victor was the strongest marksman they had ever seen, and he had never missed, but today, Victor missed! It was a huge blow to everyone's morale.
Victor's face was pale, this Ant-Man's perceptual attributes were almost the same as his, and his spiritual attributes were dozens of times his, it was not that Ant-Man dodged the silver crossbow arrow, but that it clearly observed Victor's movements, and the moment he pulled the trigger, Ant-Man began to dodge in advance.
"My lord, one more arrow!" Barrett looked at Victor expectantly, shooting this Ant-Man might be a turning point in the battle, and he couldn't give up no matter what.
Victor took the silver crossbow and looked at the ant-man, and saw that it was staring at him. Obviously, the Thorsilver Heavy Crossbow could inflict a fatal blow on it, but Victor knew he couldn't have shot it under Ant-Man's gaze.
The raindrops in the sky kept falling on Victor's body, and the water droplets slid down his head and face until he rolled down his neck, and the shirt inside the leather armor was wet and sticky to his body, which was very uncomfortable. Victor looked up at the sky and had an idea in his mind.
"Black Feather!"
Under Victor's command, the alchemy crow Black Feather croaked, flew to a height of 100 meters above Ant-Man's head, hovered directly above Ant-Man in a very small circle, and kept making loud chirps.
Victor was short and immediately hid under the fence, at this time he could no longer see the Ant-Man, and Ant-Man could not see Victor who disappeared behind the fence.
The breeze surrounded Victor, he lowered his body, bent his hand on the brick wall, and slid silently out for more than ten meters, and after another support, he had already left the position just now more than twenty meters. Victor leaned against the fence, crouched against the brick wall, slowly closed his eyes, and adjusted his breathing according to the method of the golden toad's secret form. His breath was like nothing, his heartbeat became slow and weak, and the breath of the whole person merged with the environment, as if he had lost his life, which was exactly the method of hiding in the secret form of the golden toad.
The purpose of the Golden Toad's secret form is to help practitioners get rid of distracting thoughts, understand nature, and achieve the so-called subtle state of reflecting the scene with the mind, but unfortunately no practitioner on earth can enter this strange state. But in this world of strange laws, Victor was able to trigger his blind sense talent by practicing the Golden Toad Concealment Method, and now he has entered the state of hiding again, and his perception has become more and more acute.
X-3 shielded all sound signals on the battlefield one by one, leaving only the sound of black feathers circling and chirping. 374 meters is the distance between Black Feather and Victor, and Victor also knows that more than 100 meters below Black Feather is the location of that Ant-Man. Victor entered the state of apocalypse again, his hearing suddenly increased dozens of times, and along the position of the black feather, Victor captured many raindrops dripping downward, and these raindrops fell on Ant-Man and made a slight "poof" "poof" sound, at this moment, Victor locked his target from among the hundreds of Ant-Man!
Countless rains fell from the sky and dripped on Ant-Man's body to make various slight noises, and these sound signals formed a clear and three-dimensional image in Victor's mind. Victor "saw" that the Ant-Man was constantly scanning the fence and looking for its place.
When Victor hides under the fence, Ant-Man can't see Victor, and Victor can't see it. But Victor can hear it! Black Feather gives Victor an approximate location, and the rain helps Victor find a target from hundreds of Ant-Men, who are now nowhere to be found!
When Ant-Man's gaze turned to the other side, Victor flicked, turned, and fired, and the silver crossbow bolt was wrapped in the breeze, as fast as a bolt of lightning, and instantly shot Ant-Man's head through the head.
The crossbow bolt shot in from the compound eye, and then stabbed out from the back of the head, and the one-meter-long silver crossbow bolt pierced through the ant-man's head, making it staggering as if drunk, and the hideous mouthparts made a sharp hiss, and after struggling for a while, this monster with a body of 30 points finally fell to the ground and died.
As soon as the monster died, the hundreds of ant-men below underneath underwent an astonishing change, their neat formation immediately became chaotic, the ant-men dropped the soil in their hands, let out a seeping hiss, fiercely fought together, pincer-like sharp mouthparts fiercely cut the bodies of their companions, many ant-men rolled into the fire pit in a ball, so that the gradually faint flames burned again.
Victor and the soldiers looked at each other as Ant-Man killed each other, and after a while, the soldiers let out a cheer, hugging their comrades and patting each other's shoulders, and the atmosphere of despair and oppression was swept away.
"My lord, these monsters really rely on the control of the commander. However, we can't rejoice too soon. Now it can only be said that the time for the extinguishing of the wall of fire has been temporarily delayed. Barrett whispered to Victor.
Barriet's opinion, Victor deeply believes, even if Ant-Man no longer extinguishes the flames, there will be a time when the fire oil will run out, and the number of Ant-Man is still in the thousands. However, this change did buy the soldiers more time to retreat.
Victor has a deeper understanding of the changes that have occurred in Ant-Man, after the Ant-Man was shot, the mental attributes of other ordinary Ant-Man also changed, from the original 1 point to 2 points, and then they began to attack their own kind indiscriminately.
Victor guessed that the commander Ant-Man's more than 500 spiritual attributes were used to control these ordinary Ant-Men, and the control method was to extract a unit of soul fire from each Ant-Man's body, and when the commander Ant-Man died, these soul fires returned to the soul of Ant-Man, and then these ordinary Ant-Men who lost control began to kill each other. To put it another way, in fact, these hundreds of Ant-Men are just one unit! This also means that there are at least a few hundred Ant-Men, the commander of the Commanding Ant-Man with extraordinary attributes!
"Don't be careless, I'm afraid the ant-man in the back will come up to put out the fire. Victor said in a deep voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of Ant-Men rushed up and began to slaughter the chaotic kind. Soon, the runaway Ant-Man was slaughtered. But instead of continuing to extinguish the fire, the Ant-Man retreated.
Seeing this scene, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Victor was thoughtful.
"It seems that the Commander Ant-Man has a certain distance limit on the control of ordinary Ant-Men, and it is clear that they do not want to be exposed to the strike range of the Thur Silver Heavy Crossbow. Victor thought to himself.
Without Ant-Man's interference, the oil burns much longer. After all the people in the camp had withdrawn, it was finally the turn of the soldiers to retreat.
Every 20 minutes, 50 soldiers managed to retreat from the hill camp, and as the flames wore out, the War Bear mercenaries began to retreat.
"Your Excellency, you can get out of here, let's get Ant-Man's attention here. Barrett said to Victor sincerely.
Victor shot an arrow to kill an ant-man who was leaning up, turned his head and smiled at Barritt: "Don't drag me back here, don't you know my strength?
Victor's words moved and frustrated Barrit, who vaguely knew that the lord had a secret power in his hands. Now these people are standing on the brick wall, and in addition to Renault, there are more than two dozen powerful soldiers. These people, Barry's unique knowledge, some don't know, but he has to admit that these people are stronger than the War Bear mercenaries. These elite soldiers will accompany Victor to the end, buying time for their evacuation.
In addition to the alchemy militia, Victor also has 18 alchemy auxiliaries under his command, these auxiliaries are equivalent to elite soldiers, especially Victor has also loaded them with spirit monkey secret forms and long-range weapons to master, and their combat effectiveness definitely exceeds that of most war bear mercenaries. It's just that it's still unknown whether these auxiliaries can escape from the upper camp, which is more than two hundred meters high.
Victor made a gesture into the air, and two alchemical crows immediately landed on his shoulders. Victor said to Barrett, "These two Dust Falcon will help you avoid Ant-Man, and I hope you all will meet alive." ”
After briefly teaching Barrett how to recognize the message from the Dust Falcon, Victor said, "Evacuate!"
Although these veterans are ordinary people, Victor very much hopes that they will survive, and in a sense, they are more valuable than the alchemy militia.
"Your Excellency, you are a true knight!" the mercenaries saluted Victor before neatly removing the brick wall.
After Barrett had gone with the mercenaries, Victor jumped off the brick wall, and he had to hurry up and ask the king what was going on.
Victor walked into the Alchemy Tower, and immediately connected to the tower spirit in his consciousness, and before he could ask the king a question, the king took the first step to send a message to Victor.
"My lord, 71 minutes ago, the upper limit of the Alchemy Tower's soul fire was increased by 50 points, and the gold coin reserve was increased by 23,895!"