Chapter 31: The Attack (5)
Allendo's provocation angered the attackers, who regarded Allendo's action as their greatest disregard for themselves, so the attackers focused on Allendo's body, ignoring the mortally wounded Flanna lying on the ground.
Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Allendo's heart widened, and he raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, and at the same time, with the strength of his feet, he quickly ran towards the phalanx of attackers closest to him. Allendo's move was also helpless, his speed could repeatedly sneak up on the enemy and he was unscathed, but he was still a little reluctant to take the initiative to attack the opponent's phalanx, but in order to attract the attention of these attackers firmly to himself, he had to do so.
Allendo's assault also brought to a halt the advancing attackers, who, under the orders of their commanders, clenched their weapons in their hands, stood shoulder to shoulder with the outside of the phalanx, and handed over their backs to their companions. In this way, it is difficult for Allendo to take advantage of his speed, because no matter how he moves, he will inevitably collide with the enemy's weapon, instead of being able to attack the opponent's defense directly by bypassing the opponent's defense as he did before.
Now if Allendo wants to forcibly break through the phalanx formed by the opponent, he has to face multiple enemies at the same time when attacking, although these attackers are not Allendo's opponents at all when they fight alone, and after forming a phalanx, they form an advantage in a local area, no matter how fast Allendo is, after all, he is only one person, only one pair.
The two sides were locked in a tight fight, and Allendo kept moving outside the opponent's phalanx, doing his best to attract their attention, while those attackers were on standby, and if Allendo didn't rush up for hand-to-hand combat, they would definitely not meet him, just let the shooters in the center of the phalanx keep shooting Allendo with arrows.
Allendo's speed is very fast, and he leaves afterimages everywhere he goes, which makes the attacker's shooter have no way to distinguish which one is the real Elendo, and can only shoot the arrows in his hand as much as possible with his personal eyesight, which is of course in vain, not to mention that they can't find Allendo's position at all, even if one or two arrows are lucky, Allendo only needs to flick it lightly, and let the arrow deviate to the side.
While Alendor battled the attackers, Colin and Thomas took advantage of the opportunity to shoot the attackers one by one, with cold arrows from the sidelines. Soon, the commander of the attackers noticed this, and he gave a series of orders, and the whole phalanx remained as immovable as the embankment, allowing Alendor to flash around, while the attackers with shields in the phalanx raised their shields to shield their comrades from the arrows that Colin had fired, while the archers in the phalanx began to fire back at Thomas.
Although Colin and Thomas are agile, they don't have the support of their companions, and they don't have cover to rely on like in the defense of Thor's Fortress, which makes them very disadvantaged when shooting at those attackers, and when the phalanx of the other attacker slowly walks over and forms a larger phalanx with this phalanx, Colin and Thomas can no longer support it, because the opponent's long-range firepower has doubled at once, and they don't have to aim at all, as long as a salvo at the approximate direction of Colin and Thomas under the command of the commander is enough to make the two of them avoidable。
Thomas whispered a few words in the native language of his homeland, and in the volley just now, although he rolled continuously, his right arm was still shot with an arrow. The attacker's arrows were not the same as those used by ordinary mercenaries, and the arrows were covered with barbs, and Thomas did not dare to force them out after being shot, because that would be equivalent to directly cutting off a large piece of muscle, and the consequences would be more serious.
Thomas crawled and hid behind a cypress tree on the side of the road, this cypress tree is actually not very large, most of it has been planted in recent years, and Thomas can't completely hide behind the big tree with his body on his side, but it is better than standing outside as a target. Blood continued to drip down Thomas's drooping right hand, and the sharp pain from the wound made him unable to pull his crossbow away, but Thomas had a solution, he stepped on the crossbow arm with one of his own feet, and then used his uninjured left hand to move the crossbow with force to open the crossbow.
After doing all this, Thomas held the crossbow in his left hand, his body shifted, and rushed out from behind the tree, he aimed at the phalanx of the attackers and shot the arrow in his hand, but unfortunately after being wounded, the accuracy was much worse, and the arrow only hit one of the attackers in the thigh, causing the person who was hit by the arrow to stand unsteadily and fall to the ground.
Thomas shot an arrow and immediately ducked back behind the trees, he pressed his body against the trunk and cursed in a low voice again, he was about to continue to wrench the crossbow and wind the crossbow, but he saw Colin, who was only a few steps away from him, leap out from behind the trees where he was hiding and shoot an arrow, but this also exposed himself. The attackers fired another volley, and dozens of arrows flew directly at Colin, who scrambled to dodge, but the tree where he was hiding was so thin that he was still hit by an arrow in his exposed thigh, which made Colin sit down on the ground in an instant.
The most direct effect of Colin and Thomas's injuries is that those attackers don't have to worry too much about the cold arrows they shoot, and once the shooter is injured, the accuracy of the arrows will be much worse, and the threat will be minimized. Now the leader of the attackers had turned his full attention to Allendo.
Alendor wanted to quickly break into the opponent's phalanx several times to kill the commander, but unfortunately the opponent's defense was also very tight, he was basically in vain, and once he was almost stabbed by the attacker's long sword, but fortunately Allendo reacted quickly, which made him just let the long sword slash against his forehead and cut off a few hairs.
The commander of the attacker became more and more excited, because the whole situation of the battle was becoming more and more favorable to them, this commander stood in the phalanx, holding a long sword in his hand and loudly commanded his subordinates to slowly press in the direction of Colin and Thomas, after such a long time, he had already understood the intention of Allendo's actions just now, so he made a posture to suppress Colin and others, in order to force Allendo to have to fight with them.
Of course, Alendor could desperately escape from the fight, with his speed, it would be difficult for these attackers to catch up with Allendo even on horseback, but once Alendor did not attract the attention of those attackers, Franna and they would have nowhere to escape. Since Allendo had just bravely stepped forward to save his companions, he would not leave his companions and flee alone, which was also the intention of the attacker's commander, who threw a difficult choice to Allendo.
Allendo's eyes were about to erupt with fire, he was in this dilemma of course being dragged down by his companions, but Allendo didn't blame anyone at all, but he felt that he was very cowardly, when did the arrogant druid become slaughtered?
Compared to Allendo's anger, the commander of the attacker seemed very happy, and he shouted with great ambition: "That's it, let's go over slowly, and crush them to death!" As he spoke, the commander suddenly felt a wave of heat coming over him, which made him very strange in his heart, so he turned his gaze to the direction where the heat came from.
A fist-sized fireball fell from mid-air at the commander's feet, the commander didn't understand what was going on, he wanted to say something, but before he could open his mouth, the fireball exploded, and a large amount of magical flames were released from the fist-sized fireball, and in an instant, most of the phalanx formed by the attackers was swept in.
The flames rose into the sky, tumbling high in the air, and one of the attackers screamed out of the huge mass of fire, and he desperately rolled on the ground in order to extinguish the fire on his body, but it was to no avail, the flames were still burning vigorously, so that the attacker kept screaming in pain, and soon, he was lying on the ground and never moved again.
This fireball technique also drew the attention of Elendor and the others, and they saw that not far away, Farass was standing there with his hands on Ryan. Ryan was already soaking wet, blood dripping down his right shoulder, but Ryan's face was still resolute, and he couldn't see any pain.
With Ryan's current level of magic, he no longer needs to use gestures to cooperate when releasing magic, he only needs to recite magic spells silently to prepare magic without hindrance. If it were another magician, maybe the sharp pain from the wound would have interfered with his casting spell to some extent, but Ryan was not affected, his face was resolute, and he couldn't find the slightest expression of pain.
"Ryan!" Elendor and the others shouted excitedly, and the members of the Ryan Mercenary Regiment watched as their leader unleashed fireball after fireball, engulfing the attackers with a barrage of explosions. For a densely defended phalanx, area kill magic, such as fireball, was an absolute mortal threat, and Ryan's release speed was even more jaw-dropping, and within a minute, seven piles of flames rose into the sky. As the flames slowly dissipated, there were no longer any living attackers in sight.
"Damn!" Thomas couldn't stand any longer, he dropped his crossbow, his body slowly slid off the trunk of the tree to the ground, the corners of Colin's mouth twitched, his hands already on his wounds, trying to suppress the flow of blood as much as possible. Allendo took on a human form and strode towards Flanna, who was most seriously injured.
Alendor had always carried healing herbs on his body, and using this herb to treat wounds was certainly not as good as the priest's healing magic, but the effect was not bad, and Ryan had already experienced it firsthand when he was in Giethoorn.