Chapter 704: Traps and Traitors
For the ordinary residents of Martintown, the events of this day are destined to be something they will remember for the rest of their lives...... Provided, of course, that they can survive. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The beginning of the big event came from mid-air, almost without warning, from the middle of the air where nothing could be seen, a red dragon and a silver-gray giant wolf appeared out of thin air, and the hideous and terrifying shadow was vividly projected from mid-air into the range of Martin Town.
Of course, the original intention of Cheruth was good, what was going to happen here next was a super battle of the level of several seventh-order high-level and a seventh-order peak, for these ordinary people in Martin Town, just the aftermath of the battle might be able to wipe out their entire town. Although it is impossible to deliberately give them ordinary people time to flee for their lives, at least it is necessary to make them realize as soon as possible that something beyond their knowledge is about to happen here, so that the townspeople can also start to flee for their lives spontaneously in the first place.
However, they still underestimated what their group of people meant to ordinary people who had no fighting spirit or magical power.
If it's just an ordinary disaster, similar to a fire, a car accident or something like that, then ordinary people will naturally respond to it as much as they can run away and save their lives, but if you suddenly look up without warning and see a huge meteorite falling from the sky, or a huge monster that would have only appeared in a tokusatsu movie appears in front of your eyes coldly, I'm afraid that many people's first thought is not to run away at all, but to "wow...... The exclamations of real and false ......" are not because their hearts are strong, but because the impact of reality has exceeded their psychological capacity, making them subconsciously produce a mental escape from reality.
For Martin Town, an ordinary farming town where even small monsters are extremely scarce and there are usually no truly powerful adventurers at all, dragons and giant flying wolves exist only in the so-called adventure stories that adults in the town boast about to children (because even they and their parents have never seen real dragons and monsters). And now, the real lord has suddenly appeared, and many of the townspeople have developed the sense of escape from reality that they can't accept for a while.
- Huh, so dragons really exist?
- You're here in our town?
- Oh, I just said how did I get up this morning and walk lightly, and I thought I was sick, but it turned out to be in my dream?
...... With such a completely out of tune, the people inside and outside the town at this moment were not so much unaware of the danger that the two huge figures above meant, but rather refused to be conscious.
However, in the next second, the huge magical power that erupted from the outskirts of the town on an incomparably real scale violently pulled these people back to the cruel reality.
"Whoa, whoa, a
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For the fact that the townspeople of Martin Town did not grasp their good intentions and fled in the first place, although Cheruth regretted in her heart, it was only this degree of mood fluctuation.
Although it is a bit cold-blooded and ruthless, many times, such a thing as the lesser of two evils is indeed a matter of necessity. Compared to the harm that may be caused by hesitating to pity the townspeople, and thus delaying the precious opportunity to strike in a battle where an existence like Tafel is the opponent, the loss of life of the townspeople is indeed a relatively small "harm" for Chelus and the others.
After defeating Tafel, they can apologize to the townsfolk who were swept up in this battle and died, but now, for the sake of more creatures, for the sake of this continent, they can't be a little sloppy with this battle.
โ...... Sister Greywind, Sekaria, Nanoha, and High Priest Alain, you will also stay in the air first. Grand Elder Sumario, Sister Lurna, let's take the lead!"
Although it seems that there are no obvious dangerous traps in this manor, Cheruth finally chose a safer way to attack, except for the weakest three Gray Wind Nanohhasekalia in the team, and the so-called White Elf High Priest Alain, who is in charge of the recovery department, and the three of Cherus and Sumario Luna fell to the outside of the manor as the vanguard to confirm the safety of the people below.
Strictly speaking, this way of attacking cannot be wrong, advancing and retreating together and attacking in two batches have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Cheruth is also in careful consideration, so she will choose this method...... However, what happened next made the blood in Cheruth's body cold almost instantly.
At the moment when the three of them jumped off the backs of Selman and Heran, and seemed to land at the gate of the manor without any hindrance, suddenly from the four corners of the manor, four pillars of light rose into the sky.
The crimson of fire, the light blue of water, the blue of wind, the brown and yellow of earth, the pure magic power of the four elemental attributes instantly gathered in one place in the sky above the manor, and then from the point where the magic power converged, a huge magic array expanded all around, completely enveloping the surrounding area of the entire manor.
The transparent barrier with multicolored luster was formed around the manor and in the headspace, and it happened to cover the three Cheruth who fell at the gate of the manor on the inside, but separated the Selman and others who were still in mid-air on the outside of the barrier.
Tafel's side was prepared!
It's something that can be figured out right away. Now Tafel can only exist in the form of order, the most threatening thing for him is the team formed by the worldly seventh-order high-level powerhouses, the more the team, the greater the threat to him, on the other hand, if you can create a battle that makes the opponent's team temporarily split into several small groups with fewer people, then Tafel can break with a single click, and it is easier and non-threatening to clean up the opponent.
That's exactly what they did. Their inertial thinking made them think that Tafel's side must have set traps inside and outside this manor that was their lair, so they cautiously adopted a formation like the vanguard guard, but they didn't expect that the other party would actually seize their momentary laxity from the very beginning and launch an unknown enchantment magic, destroying the coherence of their formation at once.
It's not good to go on like this, once Tafel and his men appear at this time and start attacking the three of Cheruth, then they will be in a situation of death and death, once these three people die first or lose their combat power, then Selman and the others who stay in the sky will have no other choice but to flee for Tafel in the face of Tafel.
It's complicated to say, but due to the battle plan before this, everyone's reasoning about these conclusions almost only reached the final conclusion in an instant, so at the moment when the barrier was about to take shape, the three of them and the others on the outside of the barrier almost simultaneously sacrificed the strongest attack that could be instantaneous.
Boom Boom Boom !!
Dragon's breath, thunder storm, blazing arrows, destructive electric guns, all kinds of magic that are powerful enough to destroy even the seventh-order low-level existence or destroy small towns when taken out alone smashed on the transparent multicolored enchantment from the inside and outside, but to everyone's despair, although the enchantment that had not yet been fully formed did show fine cracks on the barrier for a moment, but soon, with the steady magic input of the four pillars of light at the four corners, the enchantment immediately began to be quickly completed, and all the cracks were restored almost the next moment after the attack endedใ
What especially shocked Herlan Sumario and several other great magicians who had a deep study of magic theory was that after this enchantment was damaged, the self-repair technique that began to activate itself in an instant was so perfect, and there was no clutter in the ratio of all the elements, although they could do such a thing when releasing a single magic, but if they wanted to ensure such a perfect composition of the spell when launching a spell of this scale in an instant like this, then they would never be able to do it.
Is Tafel's magic skills so superb......
However, at the moment when everyone saw that this transparent enchantment was restored to perfection at a desperate speed, suddenly among the four pillars of magic light supporting the enchantment at the four corners of the manor, the crimson pillar of fire magic light closest to the gate of the manor where Cheruth and the others were located suddenly stopped supplying mana, as if the power of a neon sign had been cut off and disappeared at once.
Immediately afterwards, without the magical support of the source of the fire element's magic power in the overall technique, even this transparent enchantment, which had withstood the magic attacks of many strong people, began to collapse completely in an instant, and the magic that began to run wild because of the imbalance of the elements turned into various magical phenomena such as lightning, frost, rain, and flying sand, raging around the manor.
Although I don't know what happened and what caused such a powerful enchantment to collapse on its own, it was obvious that such an unexpected situation was definitely beneficial and harmless to Cheruth and them, and Selman and Herlan, who were still anxiously hovering over the enchantment before, hesitated for more than half a second, and immediately released the magic power of guarding the enchantment around their bodies to prevent the rampage, and then immediately rushed to the ground and landed around the three of them.
You can't make the same mistake a second time.
And just as the vanguard and the defender finally converged on the side of Cheruth, from the inside of the manor in front of them, there was a sudden roar of a clash of powerful magic.
Rumble!
The blazing flames were drowned out by quicksand and wind, and a voice that was familiar to the four of the Cheruth and the Night Elf Clan's Grand Elder Sumario rang out in a dejected voice.
"Fran, you traitor slut!"
Traitor?
At the same time, Cheruth and the others took out a posture of full vigilance, but they couldn't help but look at each other.
The name Farran was familiar to those of them who had fought against Tafel's men, and of the four man-made mages, the red-haired girl was the most powerful fire-type man-made mage, and she ...... Mutiny?
Judging from the situation just now, could it be that the previous enchantment with an incomparably perfect elemental ratio was actually released by the four artificial magicians under Tafel's command, but it collapsed because of the betrayal of one of them, Fran? Well, it seems that this is really the case.
Just when Cheruth and the others were sorting out the information and watching the changes at the door, the magic battle inside the manor finally spread to the gate of the manor, only to hear a thunderous sound, a hurricane torrent exploded in front of Cheruth and them, from the point of view of power, it is obvious that this should not be the hand of Tafel, who everyone is afraid of, and the white elf high priest Alan in the team alone supported the guarding enchantment, and completely blocked all the attacks.
However, in fact, this blow was obviously not aimed at them, and in the midst of the raging storm, a fiery red figure flew out from the inside, and slammed into the ground not far from Cheruth and them.
The fragile flame magic shield around them dispersed because the magic power was exhausted, and they saw that there was not only the girl named Faran in their memory, but two people in their minds.
"Fran, slut, how dare you betray our lord, and you're going to hell with that incompetent fellow of Rogers!"
From the storm, Wood, the Fresh Wind Elemental Wizard who had fought with Chelus and the others in the Moon Valley, flew out and pounced like a terrifying falcon towards Flange on the ground and the boy who seemed to be Rogers, the water elemental magician she was holding in her arms.
Of course, Cheerus and the others would not let him succeed, not to mention that the current situation seemed to be very different from their original plan, the red-haired girl who was attacked and hunted by Wood and them was very likely to be worthy of their rescue and protection, let's just say that Wood actually dared to commit murder in front of them, this was definitely something that the seventh-order high-level powerhouses could not bear.
"Oh, shall we stop here?"
Although the tone was a little frivolous, Thelman did not slack off in his movements, relying on the explosive power of his legs blessed by the fighting spirit, Uncle Red Dragon intervened in the path of Wood's forward rush at the right time, and did not give the other party any chance to change direction halfway, and directly gathered the golden-red fire mutant fighting qi and swung it over.
Wood also knew that he had rushed out to do something reckless, and in the face of the sudden appearance of the roadblocker, Wood, who was prepared, did not panic, and controlled the wind magic around him, and Wood also used his original magic martial arts to face off with Selman's fist to fist.
Boom!