Chapter 254: The Road to Escape
"Your Excellency!" the white-robed warlock shouted eagerly to pull Serena back from her trance to reality, but fortunately she was sitting on the back of the gargoyle and flying with her, otherwise the long delay just now would have been enough for the ghost beast chasing behind her to tear her apart.
"I've already ruled over Mr. Esquil with the teleportation scroll in the case of the defeat of the war, and it will really be too late to make a decision!" In his eagerness, the white-robed warlock even ripped off his cloak, revealing the face inside, which was also covered in heavy blood.
From the vague facial features, you can vaguely see some Xiuqiao, and she is also a woman.
Serena was gloomy when she heard this, the white-robed warlock Anya was not only an assistant arranged for her by the teacher, but also her fellow junior sister, and Anya had suggested that she abandon the wounded to speed up the march two days ago, but she stubbornly believed that defeat was an unforgivable sin, and she couldn't forgive herself even more if she abandoned all the wounded in order to save her life, so she insisted on taking all the wounded with her, and even spent the power of iron men and gargoyles to make them carry them on their shoulders.
However, for two days, they were constantly overtaken by the barbarians' pursuers, and after several battles, the wounded escaped in several battles, and eventually all of them turned into shredded meat in the belly of ghostly beasts and ogres, and now only a few seriously injured Titans and Naga basiliens remained.
However, these are all important strategic forces of Bracada, whether it is a snake demon or a titan, the gold coins spent on cultivating into the army are enough to enable ordinary people to live a stable life in the last life, but she also understands that if this continues, not only the Titan giant, but even if she wants to save her life, she is helpless like a dead leaf between responsibility and survival.
"What did the teacher say?" Eventually, Serena chose to rely on the elder's wisdom.
"Non-war crimes, evacuate immediately. Before leaving, Esquire had reminded Anya that Serena was fine with everything, but as a commander, she had a fatal flaw - indecision, and told her to remind her more at critical moments.
But Anya didn't expect Serena to be indecisive to such an extent, and she couldn't let go of the obsession in her heart when she was dying and dying, the teleportation scroll that Esquil gave her was a one-off, and this kind of long-distance teleportation scroll was quite troublesome to make even for the archmage, so where would there be any echo to her, the so-called non-war crime was just made up by her in a hurry.
However, with Serena's current mental state, she naturally can't detect anything wrong, and everything will have to wait until she returns to Bracada, and I believe that the teacher will also understand her hard work.
"Ahh "So be it. After that, she looked back at the team behind her apologetically, her sad pupils were full of guilt and reluctance, but she finally condensed a magic seal in her hand under Anya's urging.
As the seal fell and dissipated, the hundreds of gargoyles behind them slowed down one by one, and after gently lowering the badly injured giants and snake demons on the sand, they crouched beside them like wolfdogs and stood guard.
However, even Serena herself knew that this was just a request for psychological comfort.
"Let's go. Anya gave a low sigh of reassurance, no longer having to worry about these injuries, with the speed of the two mages themselves, it shouldn't be difficult to escape.
In the darkness, two giant bat-like gargoyles carried two light figures on their backs, and under the arch of the accelerometer and the other two spare gargoyles, they sped towards the deeper darkness, and behind them, the roar was getting closer.
The cold sand wind kept cutting on the body, except for a piece of darkness, there was no reference around to learn from, and Serena didn't know how far she flew out in which direction, but fortunately, the alchemy circle engraved in the gargoyle's body would automatically adjust, and she didn't have to worry about the danger of getting lost, but the sand wind brought by the gargoyle's high-speed movement was not much better than the blade, and she and Anya could only hold up a thin air shield as a last resort.
Although the amount of mana consumed is small, they don't dare to let the gargoyle slow down or reduce their flight altitude in this kind of escape, so it will be a huge burden for them to continue the shield technique.
The noses of those ghost beasts are more sensitive than those of the wolves, as long as they smell something, even if they hide in the air for a few days, it is difficult to hide, Serena was driven down by the thunderbird in the sky a day ago, and judging by the intensity of the barbarians' pursuit of them in the past few days, I am afraid that only after escaping all the way to the peak of the wall can it be considered truly safe.
However, the Soros Desert is thousands of miles away from the Wall Peak, and the road is full of vast sand seas and depleted rocky beaches, can this escape route really take them back to their hometown?
It's just that soon they don't have to think about it anymore because someone shoots them off.
As the gargoyle flew faster and faster, its dark body had completely melted into a silhouette in the night, and the edge of the desert gradually showed traces of ruins, but Serena continued to fly forward without any notice, and when they approached the sky above the ruins, four sharp arrows suddenly pierced the night sky and shattered the gargoyle's wings with lightning speed, but they were so clever that they just brushed the edge of Serena and Anya's robes.
However, in the next second, the two of them felt at the same time that they were locked by a cold killing intent.
It's not that I can't shoot you at the first time, it's just that I don't want to, if I don't want to die, I can come down honestly, this is the meaning passed from that killing intent.
"Ahh
saved.
However, Serena just grabbed her hand and slowly descended with her, during which she didn't even dare to make any drastic movements, although flying with a person would consume a lot of mana, but with Serena's magic level, it was enough to fly out for thousands of meters.
But she didn't dare to do anything, she couldn't do anything, because the killing intent was embedded in her chest like an iron nail, and it was clear to her that as long as she moved at the slightest change, a blood flower would immediately bloom there, leaving a black hole to bring her endless darkness and death.
It was only after falling to the ground that Serena felt that she might as well fall to her death with Anya, because it was a barbarian who was waiting for them with a flame in her hand on the ground.
Strangely enough, however, the barbarian looked at them with a wary look but no obvious hostility, and when she got closer, she realized that the flame in the barbarian's hand was not a torch at all, but a fireball rising directly in his palm.
A barbarian who knows magic?
And at this time, Serena finally saw the source of the killing intent that shot them down - a handsome man standing a hundred meters behind the barbarian with a bow and arrow, judging from the pointed ears of the other party's temples, it should be an elf, but the elf's gaze never left her heart, she could feel that as long as the bowstring that had been broken into a full moon was slightly loosened, she would say goodbye to this world forever.
Behind the two men were hundreds of human warriors armed with strange iron rods.
"Who are you?"
The same words rang out from the mouths of Serena and the barbarian at the same time, and both were stunned.
Serena's mind was spinning rapidly, she remembered that Palofodi had been burned to the ground after being conquered by Brandon, and due to the geographical location, neither Krurod nor Tartaglia had any garrisons here, where did this army come from and what kind of camp did it come from?
It seems that the other party is not a barbarian who is waiting here to hunt him down, so it is not difficult to get out of trouble as long as he does it properly, and the barbarian in front of him does not seem to be particularly smart, maybe with a little use of it, he can become a powerful escort to escort him back to Bracada?
In a matter of seconds, Serena experienced a violent storm in her mind, there was no doubt that she was a good magician and a good commander, and indecision was only a weakness that manifested itself when she was faced with that dilemma, and in such an existential moment she immediately became extremely conscious.
"Woman, I advise you not to think about things that you shouldn't think about, and to answer our questions honestly. ”
However, before she could speak, the wood elf on the other side spoke coldly, his eagle-like eyes showing a stunning brilliance even in the dark, as if he could pierce directly into someone's heart like his arrow.
.......... Today's resumption of the fourth watch, sorry for this time.