Volume VII, Chapter 41

The Elven King stood at the head of the city like a sculpture, and his unique spiritual fluctuations surged around like water waves, wrapping the surrounding space for several thousand meters without revealing a single gap.

"King?" asked a wizard who looked much older than her behind Mercedes, tentatively.

"It's a bit quirky. Mercedes was still motionless, the ballista in his hands still flowing with a golden-green glow, "At this time, Orca's breath is not wrong - but, here, there seems to be something else familiar to me......"

The other elves looked at each other, these very few powerhouses of the various elven tribes who learned of the return of the elf king did not know anything about five hundred years ago, and their thinking could not help at all about what the elf king said in front of them. After the unannounced return of the Elven King, she traveled to Osiria and quietly informed the heads of the Elven tribes of her return. Of course, the elves are very happy about this matter, the elves without a royal clan are scattered, and in the face of the situation in Osilia, which is getting out of control, finally having a core elf clan can undoubtedly add many opportunities for their survival and prosperity. It's just that they have been wondering why the news of the Elf King's decision to let her return be kept strictly secret from the Elf Clan......

It seemed familiar, but the feeling of parting ways with her memories was a little bothering to her, even though she thought her memories had not been affected by the five hundred years of the Frozen Curse. But after learning the news that the memory of the former god of war Ai'an was almost completely lost, she also began to gradually doubt the normality of her mental space. In this familiar and already strange world, a lot of things seem familiar. But it's so different from my past memories......

Mercedes emptied her mind in an instant, and she remembered who she was fighting against. In the culture of the elves, loving life and being close to nature are their attitudes, yardsticks and beliefs in life. And Orka, who caused countless killings in the First Patriotic War. It is undoubtedly the most contrary to the traditional concept of the elves. And as the elf king, she has made this hostility and disgust reach the extreme. The hatred and disgust for the Winged Demon Supreme Orka even surpassed the hatred for the Dark Mage. The one done by the black mage was, in her understanding, at best an infinite expansion of personal ambition, and as for Orka, the commander of the First Legion, who took pleasure in killing and never had a trace of mercy for life. Mercedes could even put aside her principle issues for the time being to solve this delicate demon.

She was also aware of the gap between herself and Orka, not long ago, when she had quietly infiltrated the core of the Black Wings. I once met Orka. It was the first time in her life that she felt the threat of death, a powerlessness that she had only felt for a moment in front of the Dark Mage's seat five hundred years ago. The five-hundred-year curse had almost deprived her of a qiē strength, and it was undoubtedly a joke for her second-level strength to fight against Orka, who had recovered her fourth-level strength. Her luck was only that Orka could not appear head-on at that time for some reason, and could only stop Mercedes with her virtual image. But even so. Mercedes still feels deeply lucky that she was able to escape from the heart of the Black Wings – and it reminded her once again of her. He is no longer the elf king of five hundred years ago, and this world is not as simple as the pure confrontation with the demons five hundred years ago.

Finally, the meticulous spiritual investigation was duly rewarded, and almost at the same time, the Elf King and the mage regiment stationed in Nanyang had already discovered that the total strength of the Demon Wing Legion, which was huge in front of them, was only 30,000. The sheer scale and the shaking of the earth were all illusions of magic!

Downstairs at the city gate. A middle-aged mage suddenly shouted loudly in a voice amplified by magic, and the silent Nanyang City suddenly erupted with a long-suppressed battle intent. The blue walls of the city stretched an astonishing fifteen kilometers from east to west. But the long city defense line was still crowded with soldiers with sharp weapons. The various military flags suddenly danced with the sudden outbreak of battle intent, and the sky seemed to roll up with a fierce wind as the battle began.

"Kill, kill, kill!-"

The languages of all races shouted this simple slogan towards the battlefield ahead, and the surging sound violently bombarded the Demon Wing Legion a thousand meters away, and then disappeared silently. The Demon Wing Legion showed its true face, without the crowding of 70,000 troops, and in that black sea there were more warriors dressed in covered light armor and black coats, but there was no weapon in their hands. They were just bent on manipulating the war horses under their crotches, ignoring the slogans of Nanyang City full of killing intent, and the speed at which their war horses were running was even faster! In the sky above the army, there were dozens of magicians flying in the wind, and each magician was shining with various elemental halos around them, showing their strength that was not weak.

"City side!" Mercedes gritted his teeth and said fiercely, although they had expected it before, but when they really found out that the black-clothed soldiers lurking on the east and west sides of Nanyang City were able to burst out with such a fierce momentum in such a short distance, their full confidence suddenly lost a few points.

"You guys hold the side of the city. It's easy to defend and difficult to attack, at least give me half an hour - I have to meet Orca......" Mercedes said and flew up, and with each jump, her whole body flashed with a layer of green aura full of life, and in a few flickers, Mercedes had already jumped into the air, and then a golden dazzling light flashed, and she had appeared alone in the open space between the city wall and the army of the Demon Wing Legion.

"King!"

"King!—"

The elven clan powerhouses behind the elf king shouted in horror at Mercedes's back, they didn't dare to imagine that the elf king would put themselves in such a dangerous situation. But Wang Ling made it impossible for them to get out, and looking at the Demon Wing Legion that suddenly rushed down from the snowy mountains on both sides of Nanyang, they had to rush towards the east and west, and at the same time pull out the longbow in their hands.

"Dismount," Orka's voice rang in the ears of the soldiers of the whole army, "charge at full speed, ignoring the warning of defensive attrition overruns." ”

More than 20,000 people from the east and west of the Demon Wing Legion fiercely stabbed at both sides of Nanyang, and the battle on these two lines was even more advanced than the attack in the north of the city. It is also because of the error in judging the number of the Demon Wing Legion. Even if they had discovered the clues of the Demon Wing Legion hidden on both sides of Nanyang before, they did not expect that they would be able to hide such a huge scale of 40,000 people. They didn't have time to pay attention to the terrible individual soldiers of the Demon Wing soldiers, and they could only hastily engage with the Demon Wing soldiers who were ready to attack and had already climbed the tower.

"Attack all in. Set up a temporary base in five minutes. Ibeh, who commanded the assault force on the eastern flank, calmly ordered that the defenders of this army were much taller than the defenders of Xuantian Dao, and that they had already built temporary fortifications almost as soon as they gained a foothold. Standing beneath the city, Ibeh estimated the battle above the forty-meter-high gates from the ubiquitous surveillance of magical fluctuations.

The Demon Wing soldiers dismounted, the soldiers in black overcoats were faster than they were on their mounts, and in a few seconds, they had already broken into the attack range of the mage regiment stationed in Nanyang City. A chaotic chant like a hymn is being chanted. An overwhelming blast of fireballs and falling lightning blasted towards the Demon Wing Striker.

Even though the soldiers of the Demon Wing Legion had an unprecedented technological superiority, such a violent magical attack was far beyond the limits of their defenses. Suddenly, nearly a thousand forwards were smashed alive by the fierce fireball at a distance of 500 meters in front of the city gate. Leaving only scorch marks hidden in the chaotic elemental fluctuations.

Seeing their comrades sacrificed in front of them, the Demon Wing soldiers behind them did not retreat in the slightest, stepping on the hot ground, they continued to rush forward.

"Hurry up and ......," said Éreonor, who was barely resisting the mage group behind him, gritting his teeth. The number of the Black Wings Mage Regiment is still too different from the number of Mage Corps stationed in Nanyang. These nearly a thousand magicians. This can only be gathered by the strength of the nation, and if they cannot be stopped in time, they will be destroyed before the legion can be within range of the defenders' arrows.

In the sparks, no one noticed the crumbling sound of the heavy city gate bluestone.

Hundreds of artificial beings of the Thousand Wings Group without arms but with wings silently appeared from the hidden position in the blue bricks that pierced through the Xuantian Dao in the Black Wings, which was the representative work of the Black Wings Research Group. They are alien monsters transformed by humans based on the body structure of the Winged Demon Clan, and they have no mind and can only carry out the orders of the manipulator. The Blackwing Cadre Baroque hides itself in a dead corner under the battlements. Lightly control these artificial beings who only know about assassination.

The chanting voice of the magician standing in front of the gate tower suddenly froze, and the hundreds of magicians who were casting spells suddenly found themselves wearing a piece of blue-gray on their chests. Wings as hard as steel. They trust their guards so much that they are completely immersed in the art of magic. Only then did they remember that this was a war, not a stage for them to show their abilities - they had no time to think about why this was happening, and their once powerful bodies had fallen like a piece of wood from the tower, shattering to pieces.

But at the same time, the soldiers behind him also came to their senses, and the sharp spears stabbed forward, carrying a fierce fighting light, and several thousand-winged artificial beings who were not powerful were pierced by the sharp spears, crushing their life functions, and immediately fell towards the city. However, more members of the Thousand Wings rushed into the mages who were preparing behind them at a dizzying speed, and in their haste, the mages were only able to use magic with a huge killing radius to defend themselves, but inflicted more casualties on the soldiers and other colleagues around them. And the mages who were lucky enough to escape this unprecedented attack, and when they were rejoicing in the rest of their lives, they found an artificial life that had approached their necks.

- The magical fury that bloomed on the battlefield suddenly ignited on the castle tower again, and Eleonor sneered with relief, and immediately waved his hand forward, and the mage group of the black wings suddenly rushed forward, and the magical light filled with dark aura poured over the stalemate on both sides of Nanyang City.

"Bastard!" the Elven King's elegance could only make her curse angrily in her heart, Mercedes had not commanded any army in the First Patriotic War, so she could only control the battle as much as possible through the use of her own strength. Faced with such an opponent with outstanding field control and individual combat ability, Mercedes had to admit that there was still a gap between himself and Orca.

Behind Mercedes suddenly burst into a dazzling golden-green light, and the crossbow gun in his hand, which seemed to be composed of a pair of petrel wings, lifted up like lightning, and jumped and rotated gracefully with the Elf King. A leaf-like sheen formed a circle in mid-air, swirling into a dense rain of golden-green arrows that could not be caught with the naked eye!

The dozens of Demon Wing soldiers who had already charged at the forefront of the Mercedes had already opened their suits to the maximum defense, but they could not block the elven king's pervasive point attacks. Moment. They were all pierced by the stormy rain of arrows. Their tall, burly bodies stiffened for a few seconds compared to the elves' tall and burly bodies, and then they fell to the ground with a bang.

The beautiful face of the Mercedes on the ground was slightly pale, but after just one breath, her condition was back to its peak. The strength of the elves lies not in their talent for ranged weapons or in the flexibility that other races cannot match, but in their incredible speed. This is the only race of all the intelligent races of Osiria where severed limbs can regenerate themselves, and even if important organs such as the heart are penetrated, it will not be fatal. In the First Patriotic War. Because of the terrifying recovery ability of the royal elves, even a royal elf has the ability to change the tide of battle. Not to mention the Elven King.

"Orka, don't hide anymore!" Mercedes shouted in the standard lingua franca, his voice clear to every corner of the Wing Legion in front of him.

Immediately, Mercedes knew that Orka had heard her, and the winged soldiers who were charging at her immediately parted on either side of her. Completely abandoned the attack on her. Time. The black-clad Demon Wing Soldiers formed a complete circle around her.

But Orka did not appear.

Mercedes immediately became nervous, her spirit was at full strength, but in the violent mental fluctuations among the soldiers on the chaotic battlefield, she could not clearly feel the slightest change in the air around her.

She calmed her breath, calming her mind as much as she could, and within seconds, she saw a faint gray shadow in the space around her.

When she realized Orka, she was less than three meters away from her! Elven natural agility saved her life. It would have been impossible for any other race to have such a quick reaction speed. Orca appears to have appeared out of thin air from behind Mercedes. With a gray sharpness, the cane stabbed Mercedes in the back of the head. Orka, who knew the Elven Clan's ability to restore fù, knew that only by directly destroying the brains of the Royal Elves could he achieve a one-hit kill.

Dodging Orca's long-standing blow, Mercedes also fell to the ground in a bit of a wolf. She immediately jumped to her feet and raised the crossbow in her hand, and a field of hundreds of green arrows of light rushed like Orka.

"You're still so sinister, Captain Orca!" Mercedes unleashed the arrows in his hand wantonly, and kept coming towards Orca, who was attacking, but in high-speed motion, trying not to deliberately fend off Mercedes' incredibly fast arrows.

"Hehe......" Orka's voice came from the rain of green arrows shrouded in Mercedes, "I didn't expect you to break through to the fourth-level Cheng Dù so soon?

Mercedes continued to accelerate the speed of her arrows, and she also sensed that the strength of Orka at this moment had exceeded her third-level limit Cheng Dù, for such an enemy, the only thing that could deal with her was the experience of being a fifth-level powerhouse and the innate advantage of the elven race.

"I don't need you to be noisy!" Mercedes said coldly, "you think you can fly like this?"

Orka's figure was not clear in the green light, but her voice was as annoying as if it was echoing in Mercedes's ears, "Do you really naively think that the current elf king can defeat Orka?

"You can't do it!"

"Oh?"

Orca suddenly stopped, and to Mercedes' surprise, Orca stood in front of her with a warm smile, and no matter how Mercedes sped up the power of his crossbow arrows, the golden-green light seemed to pass through a shadow, and did not touch Orca at all.

Mercedes put down the crossbow in her hand in a daze, she hadn't touched her opponent for so long, Orka had too much time to attack herself, and why was she still waiting?

Suddenly, a sticky gray energy enveloped her body, and Mercedes immediately understood why Orca was waiting, because she was preparing!

Mercedes desperately mobilized his strength, but it was like he was stuck in a piece of asphalt, but his agile body could not move. She couldn't even turn around, she could only hear the sound of shattered glass behind her and the anxious shouts of the elven clan powerhouses in Nanyang City.

"Familiar with this, Elven King?" Orka's main body appeared behind Mercedes, "Although Siu is not here, Orka can't exert the strength of the Thousand Wings Slash to the fullest, but it is probably the safest way to kill an Elf King, right?"

Mercedes was furious and frightened as she felt the chill looming behind her, of course she knew what the Winged Demon's most terrifying skill was, which was the super attack talent skill Thousand Wings Slash, which almost ignored defense. The Thousand Wings Slash is currently the only skill known to be able to break the opponent's defenses beyond the level, and the maximum power of the Thousand Winged Slash requires the cooperation of the Winged Demon Twins at the same time, and even if the Thousand Winged Slash is used by a single Winged Demon Clan, it will have an attack power far beyond his personal strength. In the battle of the Holy Land that year, it was the Thousand Wings Slash that Orka and Siu cooperated at the same time to severely damage the former Emperor Arya. According to Mercedes' knowledge, at the end of the First Patriotic War, the Dark Mage himself deliberately transferred Orka and Siu, just because he was worried that the strength of this pair of Winged Demon Supremes would threaten the Black Mage himself.

Orka's voice changed suddenly, her sharp voice seemed to become much lower, and the space around her seemed to vibrate faintly with the attack that pierced through the qiē. The dark elemental in the sky suddenly surged towards Orka's petite body, and it was hard to imagine that such a slender demon of her size could accommodate such a huge dark element.

"Thousand-Wing-" (To be continued......)