If anyone could overlook the island of Gayola from the highest vantage point, he would surely feel like he was watching a herd of sheepdogs driving away the starry flock, and the Duke of Colonna's army swooped down in terror from the sky, constantly pouring hard ice picks, scorching flames, and huge meteorite rains down on their sides, forcing them to concentrate in one place. Staying in one place is no different than going to a prison, especially if the enemy is on high ground, even if they raise their wands back to back, like a hedgehog in unison, it is useless to the outside - magic can be shot high, but like arrows, the higher you go, the less powerful it becomes.

Colonna's mount is a black nightmare, almost twice the size of a normal horse, with fangs in its mouth, and although Gayola has nightmares, it is by no means so dangerous and unpredictable, but it is only a gift. The Duke of Colonna, while stroking the mane of the nightmare that shimmered with a dark red light, remembered that Prince Amon of Tsmich who wanted to be his godfather wholeheartedly, this neurotic vampire had deliberately "invited" Louis XIV into the inner world twenty years ago, which was of course impossible, so Prince Amon pinned his hopes on the king's descendants, of course, the so-called "laws" of the outer world and the inner world were not allowed to be broken, but when the king had almost regarded the island of Gayola as a bag- It's like a fiction.

The intersection of the world and the world of the world began perhaps earlier, but at Louis XIV the speed was quickened, and the Duke of Colonna remembered the reluctant muttering of Cardinal La Rivière, that the king never repented or celebrated private masses except for the necessary prayers, and that the clergy around him were more like another form of bodyguard and servant, and that the king never allowed them to intervene in the affairs of the government.

Many people know this, but they don't dare to say it, that this king may have never believed in such a thing, raising werewolves, sheltering wizards, falsifying holy miracles, and even besieging Rome...... It was so calm, so calm that it was like dealing with another ordinary official business.

The Duke of Colonna sometimes felt that his father was teasing Prince Amun, like teasing a ferocious poisonous snake, and among the thirteen clans of vampires, only Tsmich and Lesenlu were the only members of the Secret Party, and the others were neutral or moderate members of the Secret Party, even so, Tsmich and Lesenlu could still make the Secret Party and the neutrals retreat, not because of their madness - but it was such a terrible figure...... It can only be said that Louis XIV was the only mortal who dared and was able to play games with Amon and keep him interested until now.

The Duke of Colonna had little contact with Amun, who had the impression that Amon was a very charismatic ...... The Bloods, and at the same time have an indescribable deterrence, Louis tells him that this is the natural ability of the Bloodlines, and simply put, humans are terrified when they see a vampire - even before he realizes what danger he is in, in fact it is no different from a frog that has encountered a poisonous snake, it is instinct, although natural evolution gives this instinct to the weak so that it does not run around in a panic but attracts the attention of the hunter...... Of course, it's hard to say whether there is a presupposition for the appearance of such a strange being as vampire......

Even Amon felt helpless about the king's use of science to explain the invisible suppression of humans by vampires, and Duke Colonna only remembered that when his father was still thinking about how to explain whether the appearance of vampires could be explained by natural evolution, the shackles that made him feel unable to breathe suddenly loosened, and then disappeared, and never appeared since.

The sound of Amun's laughter seemed to be still in his ears, and the Duke of Colonna guessed that perhaps it was from that time that Amon gave up his coveting of him, because he remembered fondly that the vampire showed a trace of regret before leaving, to his father and not to him - the Duke of Colonna closed his eyes slightly, since Marie Mancini was no longer in the Palace of Versailles, many people thought that he and his mother had lost the favor of the king, only he knew- Originally, the king could solve a lot of problems by simply pushing him to Amun, and half of him originally belonged to the inner world.

King, Father......

"Your Highness!" a voice interrupted the Duke of Colonna's recollection, "How's it going?" the Duke of Colonna asked.

"We have won," said the wizard who had come to repay the service, with a star shining on his shoulders that represented ranks, "but Your Highness, as we entered the Cornerstone Wall, the parents of Agnelli, Gagne, Delon, and some wizards entered Mancini Castle with the magic of water and fire. ”

"Are they still fighting?" asked the Duke of Colonna, looking at Mancini's castle, where it was daylight, and the windows of the castle were dark and daunting, like the mouths of life-devouring monsters.

"If it's Bufandi," Vesalius leaned over, "they must have set up traps in the castle," the wizards who came to Gayola had special talents, such as Delon could drive magical creatures, Mancini could charm all things, and Bufandi was good at setting magic traps—"Can we contact the wizards in the castle?"

"It could," Vesalius said, "but now I doubt they would have been able to hold on to the crystal ball." ”

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Agnelli turned into flames and landed in a room, he was lucky not to receive any disturbance when he froze from the flames, but he immediately heard a scream from not far away, it was from his nephew, Agnelli rushed there without hesitation, a Bufandi wizard was half-kneeling there, holding a sword covered with frost, with his back to Agnelli's nephew, facing Agnelli, his face was vigilant, and it was only a few seconds to freeze his body from the flames or water, and his reaction was not unpleasant.

Agnelli's nephew fell to the ground, losing most of his body, from his shoulders to his crotch, the peritoneum that wrapped his internal organs was gone, and his intestines and liver flowed all over the ground, and Agnelli knew at a glance that there was no hope—even if there was potion or magic, he did not hesitate to shoot a magic bolt, and the arrow of magic pierced Agnelli's nephew's chest after piercing the wizard of Bufandi.

Wizard Bufandi's face was full of surprise, and he must have wondered if Agnelli had not stepped forward, and he collapsed, the preset trap was activated, and a puff of acid melted him and Agnelli's nephew clean.

Agnelli didn't even see this scene - After making sure that the other party was certain to die, he caught the little three-tailed rat that Delong gave them, the three-tailed rat is of little use, but it is extremely sensitive to the breath of life, they run around the corridors and rooms, and once they find a wizard or other living creatures, they will scream and scream, Agnelli as a powerful wizard, his arrogance is not without reason, sometimes even separated by one, two rooms, his magic can also lift the floor, destroy the wall, and directly hit another wizard.

The pain of losing his nephew made his spirit more focused and his will stronger, and one sharp magic after another came out of his hands, snatching the lives of Bufandi, Mancini, or other wizards willing to crawl at the feet of mortals, accompanied by a groan, Screaming and wailing, his blood burned like a buttered fire, but he had not forgotten Madame Gagne's arrangement, and in a barely intact room, he stepped on the back of a Bufandi, drew his blood, and cast a spell in the air, first coagulated into a ball, and then drew a rudimentary map with a twist: "Not far away." Agnelli said that he was at the meeting point with Gagne and the others, but at that moment, a loud bang came from the outside in, and a sudden burst of air slammed him and the dying wizard into the wall behind him— Before the light outside, the room was dusty, visibility plummeted, and Agnelli could barely grasp his wand when he felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and he looked down to find that the wizard of Bufandi had turned into a weasel, and not only slipped away from his feet quickly, but also had time to bite him.

Agnelli pointed at himself and turned into a large owl with a wingspan of more than five feet, and in the dust, it might be difficult for a wizard to find a weasel, which is also gray, white and black, but the owl is a hunter who hunts for prey by hearing, and he has already caught the trail of the weasel— It was only a few seconds, and with a piercing scream, the big owl's claws had already pressed deep into the weasel's fur, and the wizard wanted to roll or regain his human form, but Agnelli only needed a single force to break his spine.

But at this moment, another loud noise burst out at their feet, Agnelli realized that he had made a mistake, he didn't care about the prey under his feet, and as soon as he turned over, he returned to his original form, the effect of the loud noise on the wizard was only a ringing in the ears, but it was a great injury to the big owl, he stood up against the wall, blood meandered out of his ears and nose, and at this time the dust had slowly fallen, and although there were countless dust floating in the sunlight projected outside, it was enough for people to see the situation inside.

Agnelli snorted.

The wizards of the Duke of Colonna, riding on pegasus or nightmares, wands in hand, were pressed tightly at him, and the lucky Bufandi had already crawled to the breach, and was rescued by two wizards - although scarred, the vitality of the wizards was much stronger than that of mortals, if Agnelli...... He was willing to save his nephew, and he could be spared death, but ...... He looked up, and hundreds of feet in the air from them, on a nightmare that was stronger than the other mounts sat a richly dressed young wizard who also looked like he was just an adult, probably no less young than his nephew.

The loud noises and tremors continued, and Agnelli realized that it was the mortal cannon that had broken the castle's outer wall, and they were dragging it with Pegasus, and that several other wizards were manipulating the murder weapon as skillfully and quickly as mortals, and the cannonballs it used were not simple—mortal shells could not do so much damage to the wizard's fortress.

"If it'......," Vauban couldn't help but say.

"No, you can't. "Didn't you think of your majesty when you thought of it?" and "this is Gayola, it's the inner world," he paused, "In short, it's where magic is condensed and concentrated, and where magic is scarce, cannonballs don't have such power." ”、

Vauban is palpable.

"But......" Vesalius endured for a long time, and finally felt that he had to say it, "the Duke of Colonna has many similarities with his father. ”

"Isn't it good?" said Vauban said.

Vesalius roared in his heart, although this fortress was called Mancini Castle, it was a temple for wizards twenty or thirty years ago, and it was the crown of the entire Gayola - he had thought that the Duke of Colonna would not allow his soldiers to rush into the castle and fall into the trap of Agnelli and others, but he did not expect the Duke of Colonna to adopt such a ...... It's like a child's way of digging through an ant's nest, poking out holes everywhere in this castle built on a hill. Yes, this way of using powerful fire to destroy enemy fortresses minimally reduces the loss of personnel, but ......

Despite Vaisalius's insults, the Duke of Colonna's method of "digging through the ant's nest" was very effective, and the castle was built on a hill, so many places were no more than fifty feet deep, and after divining and predicting the possible location and route of the rebels, after all, there were only a few places where there was always fire and water.

All the labyrinths are worthless when opened, and neither are the castles.

The wizards of Mancini and Bufandi can be rescued even if they fall through the gap, but the rebels are like ants exposed to the light of the sky, no matter how fast they are, they can't compare to Pegasus and Nightmares, even if the cannons are fired slowly, the range and accuracy of the muskets are far better than most spells, they are like hunted animals, and they can only run in the corridors and rooms in a hurry.

Although it will take a little time.

When Madame Gagne was brought to Colonna, her hair was unkempt and bloodied, but she was still very calm: "I want to talk to the head of the Mancini family!" "Right now!"

The Duke's wizard glanced at her, but just shook his head.

Madame pursed her lips, "What a pity. She said, "It doesn't matter if it's about Mary or Mancini." ”

This made the wizard subconsciously turn around and glance behind him.

At that moment, a three-tailed rat leapt from Madame Gagne's body, and when it landed on the ground, it became a wizard, with two poisonous snakes coiled around his neck, and pounced like lightning on either side, biting the throat of the wizard who was watching over them, and they immediately turned black and died without a word.

It was only when they fell that the wizard turned around.

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