Chapter 24: The Audience
I have to say. Andy's choice of this hand will be very good, at this time the mirror image next to Ryan has been broken by the bow and arrow, so Andy does not need luck to guess which one is the real Ryan, and the moment Ryan turns from movement to stationary will make his body react a little sluggish, not to mention that Andy's dagger blade is completely pitch black, almost does not reflect light, when Ryan found this dagger, the dagger has already slashed at Ryan's throat.
Andy looked at his dagger with hope and hit Ryan's throat, he almost shouted out loud in excitement, but he soon found that things were not going as he imagined, there was no blood, no screams, the dagger directly penetrated Ryan's body, flew out more than ten meters and fell to the ground.
Andy was very surprised, it was the first time he had seen such a situation, but he didn't have time to think about what was going on, because a scorching flame had enveloped him in it.
"Ahh But today Andy has seen too many unreasonable things, no matter how he rolls, the flame on Andy's body just does not go out, but burns more and more.
Under the high temperature, Andy quickly lost his mind, he lay on the ground, his hands unconsciously clasped tightly in the dirt, and soon his whole body was completely engulfed in flames.
Ryan walked out of the passage of the city gate, he put his hands behind his back, and looked at Andy who was about to be charred with pity, from Ryan's heart, he was not willing to kill more, but he couldn't help himself in many things, he couldn't watch the rebels seize Seabreeze City, not to mention who could guarantee that these rebels could treat the residents of Seabreeze City well, they did not hesitate to set fire to the city.
The sound of dull footsteps came from the passage behind him, and Ryan didn't turn around, but just flicked his backhand, and a fireball flew directly into the passage of the Sea Breeze City's city gate. "Bang!" and flames filled the gates, then erupted from the exits on both sides.
Ryan didn't dodge, just stood there, and the spewed flames flew less than a meter to Ryan's side, and then they encountered an invisible wall, and they could no longer move forward. When the flames had cleared, Ryan turned around, looked at the smoke-filled passage of the city gate, and shook his head with a smile.
The sound of footsteps came from the thick smoke, and Ryan waved his arm again, and sent the three fireballs in a zigzag shape, this time the more muffled explosion completely drowned out the footsteps, and the flames that erupted from both sides of the passage were more than ten meters away.
On the side of the passage near the city of Seabreeze, Ryan blocked the flames that were spewing out so that they would not accidentally injure their companions and soldiers who came up from behind, but on the side of the passage near the outside of Seawind City, the rebel soldiers of Senate did not have this kind of good luck, they hurried here, and desperately squeezed into the passage of the city gate in an orderly manner, but they were destroyed when they took it.
These two explosions alone killed at least 200 people, demoralizing the rebels and forcing them to slow down their advance and retreat under the outer walls of the city, giving way to the entrance to the city gate for fear of being affected by the next explosion. The leader of these rebels was in a hurry, and tonight's plan went quite unsmoothly, first Andy's sneak attack was discovered, and then a magician came out of nowhere, and single-handedly blocked thousands of people from the city gates, unable to move an inch.
Seeing that the momentum here is getting louder and louder, I'm afraid that the entire Seabreeze City already knows what is happening here, right? If this stalemate continues, by the time dawn comes, these thousands of people will have nowhere to hide, and there is a large plain outside the city of Seabreeze City, they have no danger to defend and do not have enough supplies to continue fighting, and basically their fate is to be destroyed.
Anxious and anxious, but the leader of the rebel army had nothing to do at all, he didn't have any large siege equipment at hand, so he couldn't use people to build a ladder to climb the smooth city wall, right? Although the wall of Sea Breeze City was not very high, it was still four or five meters, and the time had passed, and the walls were covered with moss, which increased the difficulty of climbing.
If the rebel leader had enough courage, his best option was to leave a few hundred men behind to defend the city gates, evacuate with the others, try to get away from the city before dawn, and then slowly hide his whereabouts and return to the secret military camp of his master Senat.
Unfortunately, the rebel leader didn't dare to make his own decisions at all, and he only had one order from Raphael, which was to capture Seabreeze City. Whether it is Senate or Raphael, the most important thing about their subordinates is that they do not like their subordinates to act without authorization, and they must strictly follow their orders, otherwise they will be punished by death even if they get the merit.
Although this kind of harsh means maintain the majesty of the person in the upper position, it also makes the subordinates lack the ability to adapt to the situation, which may be very effective in ordinary times, but once it encounters something unexpected by the superior, it will lead to such a situation where it is not up or down: it cannot enter and dare not retreat.
As the minutes ticked by, Seabreeze City's reinforcements arrived one after another, and the mercenary guilds in Seabreeze City slowly organized themselves and went to the city gate area to help defend. In fact, it is not so much about defense as it is about enjoying a passable musical and dance show, and even if they want to participate, they can't intervene at all, because Ryan's fire magic is enough to fill the entire passage with scorching flames, and no one can pass through this passage of death.
"Ahh
"Wow!"
"I, I'm not dreaming, am I?"
"Well, this is the little magician from yesterday, right? I remember him saying he didn't like to go to the theater the most. ”
"I see, in fact, the real reason why he doesn't like to watch plays is that he prefers to be the main character. ”
"Look, that man is the one who single-handedly defeated the Twin Axe Mercenary Group, why is he watching the show from the side, and he doesn't go to help. ”
"Idiot, have you forgotten? You forgot such a classic sentence when you were still in the 'first glass of wine' yesterday at noon. ”
"Which one?"
Actually, he said, he was just a trickster. ”
"I see. ”
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The large number of mercenaries watched from afar as Ryan single-handedly kept the rebels out of the city gates, and they kept talking as they watched, and the cacophony of voices reached Ryan's ears. Ryan didn't like to be in the limelight, but he couldn't stop now. And Franna also saw Ryan's embarrassment now, he frowned, and quickly came up with a solution.
Flanner walked up to the Seabreeze army commander and coughed lightly, waking him up from his "petrified" state, the Seabreeze infantry commander had seen this strange battle scene for the first time, and he stood as stiff as his subordinates, as if he had been under the "petrification" magic.
"Ah, hello, do you need help?" Because of Lane's relationship, this commander is very respectful to Lane's belonging, and he doesn't know what kind of ability the middle-aged man in front of him has, but he can be paired with such a powerful magician, and he is by no means a weak person compared to it.
Of course, Franner didn't know what was going on in the heart of the commander in front of him, if he knew, he would definitely laugh in his heart, in fact, among the entire Ryan mercenary group, Flanner was the worst, he didn't know any magic, and he was not familiar with the most basic martial arts, if it wasn't for Ryan to make some magic scrolls for him, Franner wouldn't even be able to beat an ordinary soldier.
"You see, now that the situation is under control, are you going to let your men take over here?" Franner's tone was very calm, without the slightest condescension or arrogance, which made the commander very comfortable in his heart, so he also had a good impression of this Lanner of the Ryan mercenary group in his heart.
"Is this?" The commander hesitated, after all, seeing Ryan in the limelight over there, but if it were himself, most of them would have suffered heavy casualties, in contrast, this commander would rather be a spectator, anyway, as long as he guarded the city gate, Seabreeze City was safe and sound, a considerable reward was necessary, so why bother.
Franner sensed his thoughts from the face of the commander in front of him, and for this, Franner had already thought of a countermeasure: "Now there are definitely no less than 1,000 mercenaries here, plus your soldiers, look, another batch of reinforcements has come, I estimate that it will definitely not be less than 2,500 people, right?"
"Let us cooperate with you, and together we will wipe out those rebels outside the city, we are no worse than our opponents in numbers, and our morale is at the right time. Seabreeze City is nothing more than paying a little bit of gold, which is regarded as the cost of hiring these mercenaries. You must also understand that if you let these mercenaries benefit from this, then next time, they will be more proactive in helping you and your army, won't you?"
Under Franner's clever persuasion, the commander had fully accepted his offer, and the commander had his own soldiers shout together, drawing the attention of everyone present away from Ryan.
After learning that killing a rebel outside the city could get a reward of 5 gold coins, and capturing a person alive was a huge sum of 10 gold coins, everyone present was boiling, even those soldiers of Seabreeze City were no exception, thousands of people shouted in unison, and rushed towards the city gate in a chaotic manner, Ryan's fire magic had no place in their hearts at all, and was replaced by yellow and shiny gold coins.