Lear eventually left Palofodi, after Brandon had fallen into complete madness.

Old Carey's deathbed shower of meteors inflicted immeasurable damage on Bracada's army, as hundreds of violently burning boulders exploded one after another among the Wizard King's supporters.

Those who were smashed into meat sauce by the boulder were lucky, for they felt only a moment of pain, and they could not see the purgatory-like misery caused by the splatters of fire and rubble, which even caused the Tatarians and magicians guarding the walls of the Palofodi courtyard to turn around and look closely.

Hundreds of boulders exploded like bombs in the dense crowd, the first to die were those who were directly hit, and then the violent magic and power shockwaves from the boulders landing on the boulders harvested the second group of unjust souls.

The third group was killed by the splattered rubble through the body, but many of them were wounded, and after a terrible wail and struggle before they died, even until their arms were lowered and their eyes were completely dissolved, there was still a strong desire to survive in the eyes of these people.

But the ones who were ignited by the flames were the worst, they wailed, they screamed, they rolled on the ground, desperately trying to hold everything in front of them, whether it was a catapult or a living person, they wanted someone to share the pain or relieve their pain, so more things and people were set on fire.

The scorching sand did not ease their pain, and even as soon as they lay down, they could feel their skin burned by the flames, adding an unbearable stinging pain, and many people ran to the oasis because there was a water source there, and water could extinguish the fire, which was the most basic common sense.

But the road to the oasis was covered with corpses, because the flames produced by the magical elements were hotter and more violent than normal flames, and the sand dunes lined by the oasis and Bracada armies were a full three kilometers away.

This at least ensured that the oasis' water source was not contaminated, and that if an army returned triumphantly, it would be able to roost there.

A rough estimate of the forbidden spell caused at least 10,000 casualties to Bracarda's invaders, giving Lear a definite idea of the gap between magic and forbidden spells.

It's a completely two-world concept.

He had heard old Carey chanting the incantation, and had felt the intense fluctuations in the air when the magical elements were summoned, just as Mr. Dean had hoped, but Rome was not built in a day, and he knew he shouldn't be in a hurry.

But Brandon didn't want to wait any longer.

Although the expedition was nominally led by Christine, His Majesty the Wizard King would inevitably ask him to give a reasonable explanation after such a huge casualty, if he could not take Palofodi quickly, he would face the same punishment as he had suffered after his last defeat at Tanan's hands, and Brandon shuddered at the thought of His Majesty Magnus's angry eyes.

So he's crazy.

Despite the fact that the morale of the army had just fallen to the bottom, he forced Christine to continue the siege, and the other party finally chose to give in under his bloodshot gaze, while he himself led the mage regiment of Bracada to advance under the walls of Palofodi.

If there is anything in this world that is stronger than the walls made of magic stones, it must be the will of man.

If there is anything in this world that can be destroyed even by the will of man, it must be the will of the enemy.

So when the mad Brandon braved the darkness to attack Palofodi, the roaring griffons rushed into the corner tower, the infantry driven by the overseers and swordsmen climbed the wall without fear, countless crossbow arrows were thrown on the narrow passage of the wall, and the monks began to pray to the god of war and the goddess of light.

With the enchantment of superiority inflicted on the Bracada warriors, the divine light of Ardis and Bronna shining on their faces, the vast army of ordinary people began to grow in great courage, roaring and screaming up the walls of Palofodi, dragging lizard warriors and werewolves out of corners, and slashing them to pulp with a knife in defiance of their fearful eyes and pleas for mercy.

The five hundred academy guards at the gate below quickly formed a rout, because the red-eyed Bracadas actually blasted the gate open with magic, and almost pushed the giant ballista into their faces.

Flames began to glow in the sky above Palofodi, and West retreated as soon as the gates of the academy were breached, and decisively abandoned his subordinates who were still fighting the invaders on the walls.

At the last moment, the Academy Mentors stopped West and demanded that he take all the magic apprentices and the remaining students of the Sword Fighting Academy, as they would not be protected by the Continental Mage Treaty.

Only Lear refused Alyriel's order and insisted that the female teacher go with him, for his sense of foreboding had not yet dissipated, but had only grown stronger by the sudden rout.

Aliriel rejects her student's request and says that they will meet again as long as Lear lives, but as the brazzle and roar of the Bracada get closer, she has to ask the professor of the Sword Fighting Academy to knock Lear unconscious.

She had never seen her student so stubborn, and the time was too short for her to find a good reason to convince him.

As the north door of the academy slowly closed before Aryriel's eyes, and she watched her students strapped to horses and follow Vest's guards into the darkness, she turned around and wiped her forehead with her sleeve.

It doesn't matter, the day of reunion must not be too far away.

......

Lear is woken up by the jolting of a galloping horse.

In fact, only half an hour had passed between the time he was unconscious and when he woke up, but he knew he couldn't go back.

Adela and Valenque rode by his side, flanked by several grim-faced lizardman warriors, while Mrak and Guina ran after the group.

Magicians or apprentices who might become magicians are a valuable resource in the kingdom of Tartaglia, but warriors are not treated like this, because no matter where they are on the continent, the crowd that can pick up a weapon and go straight into battle is a handful.

This is troubled times, and troubled times are like this.

"Are you okay?"

Seeing that a few minutes had passed since Lear woke up and still hadn't said a word, Adela couldn't help but ask worriedly.

"I? well, of course I'm fine. ”

In fact, what he didn't want to say to Adela was that he was very bad, and it felt like a sharp dagger had been cutting his heart, and the knife had been piercing into his heart so persistently, as if something important had to be ripped out and then ruthlessly discarded on the side of the road.

"Where are we going?"

He didn't want to continue the conversation, and casually asked Adela questions.

"I already asked when you were unconscious, there is a swampy fortress Mudstone City five hundred kilometers from Palofodi, and we are now on our way there. ”

"So we've become a glorious bunch of lost dogs. ”

Lear laughed to himself.

"If you have to say that, I don't want to accuse you, but I don't agree with you either. ”

After a pause, she continued: "In the face of an irresistible enemy, it is a wise choice to retreat strategically, this world does not have an innate strong man, learn to hibernate when he is young, and seize every opportunity to grow, the weak can finally stand on the top, the principle of impermanence I originally thought you would understand." ”

At this time, Adela finally began to show that she would be a great diplomat.

"I will accept your criticism with sincerity and keep it in mind. ”

"As a leader, that's what you should have. ”

Adela didn't seem to want to dwell on the issue, and as soon as she said that, she began to look straight ahead.

Although there was only a faint light of fire in the hands of the werewolf warrior in front of him.

"You just said, Leader?"

Lear was a little surprised, and although he wanted to take Adela under his command, the plan had not yet been implemented.

"Do you think I joined your team just for fun? I knew from the first time I saw you that my destiny would be linked to you in this life, oh I forgot to tell you that I was from the Bitter Orchid Heights, and I wish you had heard of it. ”

Lear certainly knows what Bitterland Heights is.

There was a strange group of people living in that plain, who were incommunicado with the outside world, who had been self-sufficient for generations and who had fanatically believed in Filtero, the goddess of fate, and only when they were guided by fate would their people go down to the top of the mountain to find the one who revealed their fate.

So I've found a treasure?

The sudden surprise finally diluted some of Lear's worries, and he straightened up from his horse, his eyes in the darkness no longer so confused.

The whirlpool of fate still swept him into this chaos, and luckily gave him a sailboat and oars to struggle in the storm.

In that case, let me lift your veil and see what you really want.

Lear looked up at the night sky far away, and a fire lit up in his heart.

......