The wind blows like a knife.

The mud flowers bloomed under the flying hooves, the horses snorted heavily, and Todd could clearly feel its drum-like heartbeat through the saddle. If he continued like this, the good horse from Andalshire would be wasted, but Todd didn't care, the infiltration mission told by Lord Negus had failed, and the cavalry had been lost, and he didn't care about any of this, just like he didn't care about killing the escaped miners in order to get the Duke of Erikson's training potion, and in order to restore his reputation, he didn't care about mixing with the stinky freemen.

Todd had always believed that a bastard of a small nobleman like him with no background could only get ahead by unscrupulous means, and he would not mind changing masters if the pursuers accepted the surrender. But Todd knew very well that the attackers were going to kill them all, and not one of them would be left behind!

The night attack was without warning, and by the time Todd and his men woke up to the time they were decked out, the attackers had already stormed the camp. The chaotic situation left Todd unable to organize an effective resistance, and he scolded the incompetence of the soldiers on duty while engaging the enemy. After getting up close, he was surprised to find that his opponent's strength was far beyond that of mortals, and even better than his own. The soldiers believed that the enemy were all probationary knights, but Taud knew that the attackers were not.

Although Todd relied on the refining potion to be promoted to the rank of apprentice knight, after all, he personally experienced the characteristics of the fighting spirit and the elemental position. The resonant earth element of Dou Qi greatly increases his strength and physique, the resonant wind element level can greatly improve perception and agility, the resonant water element level greatly increases physical strength, slightly increases self-healing power, and effectively improves strength and agility, and the resonant fire element level improves spirit and dominance. Due to the affinity of the elements, the characteristics of the trainee knights are different, in general, the male trainee knights generally have strong strength and tenacity, and the female trainee knights are mostly long-lasting, both strength and dexterity, and the number of resonances of the elemental bits also affects the individual differences of the trainee knights. However, these enemies are all flexible, perceptive, and only average in strength, which is an obvious affinity for the wind element.

The bloodline of knights with affinity with the wind element was originally rare, how could there be dozens of trainee knights with affinity with the wind elemental? Not to mention that there was almost no difference in their personal strength! Their martial arts skills were as determined as they were, and they were ruthless, even if their arms were cut off, they would kill the enemy desperately, and they would not let out a scream until they died.

Todd concluded that these attackers were not trainee knights, they were arcane dead men trained by the Gambis, comparable to the arcane dead men of trainee knights!

Todd shuddered at the secret, and the attackers could spare the uninformed servant soldiers, but they would never let go of the apprentice knights who knew how to fight. In the same way, if he brought this secret back, he would not only be restored to his reputation and title, but he would also be summoned and rewarded by His Majesty the King.

Escaping your life means soaring!

Therefore, Todd did not hesitate to give up his responsibility to guard the gate of the wall, sat back and watched the apprentice knight Weimar die in battle, and persuaded Sir Farol to lead 30 cavalry to flee together, and he must survive!

It is not easy to ride a horse at night, and Todd has taken his equestrian skills to the extreme, holding the reins and crouching down on the horse's back, acting as the eyes and ears of the mount, maneuvering it to pierce the darkness, crossing babbling streams, falling dead trees, and the howling of the wind in his ears, and the scenery on both sides is fading rapidly, only the hazy moonlight follows closely.

"Ang", "Ang", "Ang".

The strange and loud cry made Todd's face change greatly, and when he turned his head, he saw the bushes on the hills swaying like water, and four black shadows were catching up at a speed faster than the war horse.

"Damn!" Todd gritted his teeth, he knew that Sir Farol and the cavalry were finished, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

Soon after leaving the Free Camp, they were embellished by these enemies riding giant birds. Todd is no stranger to this large chocobo, known as the swift bird, and in addition to its delicious flesh, they are short-tempered and explosive like a brown bear, they can walk through obstacles like walking on the ground, they move quickly and flexibly, their powerful claws can easily kick off the ribs of soldiers, and their hard, sharp beaks are like axes, and Todd never wants to be pecked by them.

The Eriksons had been planning to domesticate the Giant Bird Warhorse, but their bad temper and miserable load-bearing capacity ruled out this possibility, so the Swiftbird was killed in the Kingdom of Dord.

Now, the attackers have turned the impossible into reality. These swift bird cavalry followed all the way up the hillside of the hill, and they condescended, shooting the cavalry at the end of the line with their crossbows, and whenever Todd and the others tried to counterattack, the swift cavalry ran to the high part of the hill, and any action of the cavalry to ask for help from their comrades would only cause more casualties. The fugitives panicked, scrambling to get ahead of the line, and two of the unlucky ones even broke their horses' legs. In a short 3-kilometer pursuit, Todd and Sir Farol lost eight of their cavalry, leaving the enemy unscathed!

Faced with a desperate situation, Todd deliberately lagged behind, and suddenly made a suggestion to flee for his life, and then he rode his horse into a narrow valley without hesitation. This road is not a road, it is rugged and difficult, without excellent riding skills and excellent eyesight, ordinary people have no way to ride through it, and the other cavalry has to follow Sir Faroll to continue to flee north.

Todd won the bet, and the Swiftbird cavalry let him go, biting Farol's team all the way north, but he knew that it was temporary, and the enemy had solved Farol and would have to chase him sooner or later. In order to lighten his load, Todd threw away his rich wolfskin cloak, jeweled scabbard, iron spear, crossbow, hard bow, and all the feathered arrows, and he crossed the valley, turned around and ran two kilometers north, and finally the pursuers appeared.

"Hurry, hurry! It's coming soon. ”

Todd whipped the right side of his mount with his whip, and the cry of the swift bird grew closer, and he could almost imagine the swift bird cavalry raising his crossbow and aiming. The horse seemed to hear its master's heart, and rushed to sprint, and a fierce crossbow grazed its hind legs and sank into the bushes.

The horse burst out of the mountain stream, and a low forest came into Todd's eyes, and he lifted his adamantite sword and round shield and leaped off the galloping horse's back, and threw himself into the dense woods with both feet on the ground, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye. Todd breathed a sigh of relief in the dim forest, darting through the crowded trees, the thick humus on the ground absorbing the footsteps, but the nimble night owl revealed his whereabouts with a strange scream.

Todd smiled contemptuously, he went deep into the woods, surveyed his surroundings, plunged his purple sword deep into the ground until it was out of handle, threw away the rotting leaves on the ground with his bare hands, smeared the blue iron scales with silt, and rolled in the mud puddle a few more times, the scales became as dark as the forest, and then stopped. He then took out a bundle of thin wire from his satchel and tied it between several low trees, just right to be neck-level with him. With all this done, Todd drew his long sword covered in silt, put down the visor from his helmet, and sat quietly under a low tree, waiting for the enemy to arrive.

It was Todd's predetermined graveyard to bury his enemies, or to bury himself.

After a few moments, the night owl's strange screams came to an abrupt end, and Todd sat motionless, the sound of insects in the woods seemed to be cut off by an invisible hand, and only the fallen leaves whispered in his ear, telling of the footsteps of death. A crossbow bolt shot from the darkness, and with a "ding" sound, it was bounced off by the arc of the iron helmet, Todd raised a round shield to block the face door, and another crossbow bolt was in his chest, the tip of the arrow penetrated into the scale armor but failed to completely penetrate the crusty inner armor, feeling the stinging pain on his skin, Todd laughed and said: "The crossbow can't hurt me, use your sword to take my life!"

Todd responded with one crossbow after another, and suddenly a blurry black shadow flashed in against the ground, and in an instant it was in front of him. Todd couldn't catch his opponent's movements, only saw a faint ghost light slashing at his chest and abdomen, and he didn't hesitate to slash at his sword. The surging force pushed the long sword to slash out, the sword body did not shake or deform in the slightest under the squeeze of the air, and the strong air pressure took away the mud on the sword body, revealing an indestructible purple, and the viscous air was cut by the sharp blade, emitting a sharp sound like a crack.

This sword is the most ordinary oblique slash, this sword is like a long river straight down, like thunder and lightning, this sword does not dodge, does not move, does not fight, and lives to death. However, it fell short, and the black shadow was like a qualitative ghost, an invisible breeze, flashing behind Todd with the sword.

Todd came from a humble background, his blood was not pure, and he relied on refining potions to be reluctantly promoted to the rank of apprentice knight, and his swordsmanship was not as smooth as that of knights, but he was harder than the vassals and soldiers. The knights of the House of Erikson once praised Todd: There is a god in the sword, like an arm. For more than 30 years, Todd has swung his sword more than 100,000 times, and the most basic sword skills have long been engraved into his soul and become an instinct.

The blade flies, chasing the moving air, turning behind him, slicing through the leather armor, flesh and bone, and splitting the enemy in two.

The ordinary diagonal slash turns into an ordinary return slash, ending a formidable opponent. But Todd couldn't be happy, blood was oozing from the wounds, one in the chest and abdomen, one in the back, and one in the thigh. Before he could kill his opponent, his opponent's iron scimitar hit him three times, and if it weren't for the sturdy scale armor, he would have been dead.

As soon as Todd pulled out the crossbow bolt from the scale armor, a wisp of cold suddenly struck from above, and he didn't have time to think, so he pounced on the spot, using both hands and feet, and jumped forward a meter in a very ugly posture.

This is the distance that determines life and death.

The enemies who swooped down from the treetops were hung in the air by the wires that Todd had tied beforehand. The sharp wire sliced into the enemy's thigh, but it failed to cut the leg bone, and the weight of the enemy and the momentum of the attack caused the flesh on the thigh to be sliced off the whole down the wire. Warm blood poured on Todd's face, and he saw a pair of indifferent eyes and a dark blue scimitar, and the cold and piercing killing intent almost froze his soul. Todd screamed wildly, raising his sword and stabbing hard.

"Puff" "Puff"

The sword pierced the head from the bottom up, and the scimitar stabbed Todd's abdomen from the top down. Todd endured the pain, pulled out the scimitar in his abdomen, and then drew the bloodied sword, and struggled to his feet to check his injuries.

The wound is not deep or shallow, but it hurts the intestines, and if there is a fierce battle, there is no doubt about death.

Todd shook his head and smiled bitterly, he knew that he was not the opponent of the attacker, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big, he tried his best to solve the two enemies, but he was seriously injured, and there were at least two more attackers in the forest, and there were even more attackers who rushed over.

The Swift Bird Light Cavalry has an absolute advantage in terms of numbers, individual strength, and tactical coordination, and Todd knows that if he can't recover the disadvantage, he will have no way to survive. He ordered each to flee for his life, breaking away from the group to disperse his pursuers, hiding in the woods to prevent the Swift Birds from working together, and forcing the attackers to choose close combat. Smearing mud is good for concealment, and attackers have to split up in search of targets, and strapping thin iron cables can reduce the attacker's mobility.

Todd knew that the swift bird had poor weight-bearing capacity, and that the attacker could only be equipped with light armor. He is to use the terrain and equipment, turn disadvantages into advantages, create a situation of facing a lightly armored enemy at a time, and then fight to the death of the opponent with the same end of play. To the east of this grove was a ridge on which the Viscount had set up an observation post, and the beacon tower in the Free Camp had been lit, and Lord Negus would surely send knights to reconnoiter the camp. Todd planned to take out the opponents who were in hot pursuit, and try to join the Viscount's knights before the large force of pursuers arrived. Now, he had to gamble his luck.

The monsoon wind blows through the woods, and the shadows of the trees sway like demons. Todd tightened the wound in his abdomen, carried his sword and walked out into the woods, he always felt that his every move was being watched, and at this moment he just wanted to get out of this eerie place as soon as possible.

Outside the woods, the low-hanging silver moon struggled to give its last rays of light, and the whole world was about to fall into pre-dawn darkness, and Todd's heart was like ashes. A dozen assailants, straddling sturdy swiftbirds, were wandering outside the woods.

Todd retreated into the hidden bushes and lay limply on the ground, quietly savoring the last days of his life. At this moment, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard outside the woods, followed by the furious hissing of the swift bird, and Todd's heart moved, and he looked over, and he saw the slender figure on the ridge, like a sharp knife.

"Lord Negus?"

"Todd, just come here. ”

The distant sound came with the wind, like the cold moonlight, dispelling the gloom in Todd's heart, and he laughed out of the woods and charged towards the ridge four hundred meters away.

With the Swift Bird rider behind him, Todd fearlessly drew a few blue streamers across the ridge, piercing the hearts of his pursuers and killing them one by one. The swift bird cavalry chased their prey, one after the other, and their speed surpassed Todd, but Todd didn't care, in the face of the resistance of the great knight of the wind system, these dead soldiers didn't want to touch a single hair of his hair. Todd ran three hundred meters at the speed of a galloping horse, and there were already 4 cavalrymen, and 5 swift birds fell under the arrows of Viscount Negus.

If you run more than 100 meters, you can escape, and the nearest swift bird cavalry is still more than 60 meters away from him, and the adults will shoot him to death immediately, as well as the swift bird. By the way, Lord Negus hasn't tasted the Swiftbird meat yet, and when the battle is over, I will collect these delicacies, and the Lord will definitely be even happier......! Why don't you do it......?

In Todd's stunned eyes, Viscount Negus first moved his position lightly, then looked to the side, and then hesitantly put away the keel mythril bow that terrified his enemies, and then made a graceful knightly salute deep into the woods, and disappeared into the ridge without looking back.

A chill spread from the bottom of Todd's heart to his body, and he slowly stopped his stiff steps, and received a vicious kick on his back, kicking him several meters away, and the axe-like beak pecked at his helmet. Todd's consciousness sank into darkness.

A long arrow stuck in the position of Viscount Negus just now, from the low woods five hundred meters away.