Section XVII

The Bull-type monster was destroyed, and the combat power in the central square was liberated, and the guards protecting the mage immediately split up to support a companion who was alone around a four-eyed and toothy companion next to him.

These people are extremely experienced in combat, and the four-eyed and toothy tail flick suddenly opened to launch an invisible attack, which can be blocked by them with a shield when they can't make a move, although the invisible attack is huge, and just one blow can break their shield-holding posture, but several people cooperate with the cover, and there is no danger in the face of the four-eyed tooth, and the warrior who fought with the tooth before already has several serious wounds, he slowly retreated while panting, replacing a fellow magician who protects the rear of the mage, Keep the number of warriors besieging Four-Eyed Tooth still three.

The mage stood silently in place as if resting, while an intact warrior and his retreating companion protected the mage in the middle, and the wounded took the opportunity to stop the bleeding from his bleeding thigh wound and put a bandage on it.

In addition to the bull-type monster that had just been killed by a mage with a Hellfire Dragon Fire in the square, there was another monster of the same model that had fallen to the side between the broken walls and ruins, its body was relatively intact, and its body was also covered with scorch marks, just outside the earthen house where it collapsed, a man in the same outfit as the mage guard fell there, his left arm holding the shield was extremely awkwardly twisted, the round shield on the left arm had obvious depressions, and the bones in the chest and abdomen should have been broken, lying there looked like half of the body had collapsed.

In addition to the brute-like monsters, there is also a kind of spider that fights with the human warriors in the city, and the human warriors who are holding their heads and faces are fighting with their fellow humans, not thinking about how to break free from the claws of the insects.

Seeing two more new monsters at once, Li Yuntao had a very complicated feeling in his heart, and he could only say that fortunately, the monsters that attacked Xiaoji Town were intercepted and killed at the beginning of discovery, and if they were allowed to successfully invade the town with a follow-up group of monsters, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

The Brute-type heavy-armored monster is obviously an extremely strong meat shield, while the spider monster can control humans, and the baring teeth can be regarded as a jack-of-all-trade-type cannon fodder class, and its number is also the largest among the monsters in the city.

The most terrifying shadow monster is not only capable of assassinating people in unexpected circumstances, but can also have a limited impact on people's sight and hearing, as for whether there is a deeper means of attacking the human spirit, it is unknown.

These monsters are probably short of powerful ranged units right now.

This is also a point that Li Yuntao is more fortunate about, the number of his crossbow arrows is limited, if he really wants to play with monsters, he must be on his side first.

He climbed a two-story earthen building, lying on a slightly sloping roof, while observing the battle situation in the small city, while loading magazines, in fact, the situation in the city has stabilized, and it is only a matter of time before humanity wants to win.

As the more monsters fall, the more human warriors will be free-handed to support their companions, and the fatigue will be equal on both sides, and whichever side has more tenacity depends on which side has a stronger desire to survive, and on top of this, the extra numerical advantage of humans has become the most important weight to crush the balance.

One by one, the crossbow arrows were pressed into the magazine, and Li Yuntao was also silently counting his remaining crossbow arrows. The two magazines were not filled, and two crossbow arrows were missing. I don't know if it fell out of the quiver while rolling to avoid the Shadow Monster, or if it was not recovered during the previous battle in the Desert Tunnel.

He didn't have time to think about it carefully, he grabbed the two magazines with his left hand, held the crossbow machine with his right hand, put his elbow on the roof, twisted his shoulders to steer his body, and at the same time gently kicked the roof with his feet, and his body flipped in the air, jumping from the roof to the ground.

Being in the air, Li Yuntao didn't have time to take a closer look, so he directly slapped a magazine in his left hand into the groove of the crossbow machine, pushed his thumb on the frame of the magazine, and a crossbow arrow entered the built-in track of the crossbow machine for use.

As he fell, he looked back at the roof from which he had jumped, and beneath the edge of the eaves, an extra shadow seemed to be smiling at him. If it weren't for his sense of crisis and timely reminder, he might have to be invaded into the shadow again.

Bang~

Li Yuntao's left and right feet landed on the ground one after another, and his body had the momentum of falling backwards, and he dissolved it with a slight kick of his hind legs.

Holding the crossbow in his right hand, he hung the extra magazine back on the leather belt around his waist with his left hand, and then took the glowing pendant hanging around his neck from his underwear and latched it in his mouth. After completing this series of movements, he began to wind up unhurriedly. There was no threat around, and the nearest one of his fangs was being slashed by four strong men armed with scimitars, obviously taking care of himself, and he didn't have the time to make a mess for himself.

The shadow saw the glowing pendant in his mouth, and his purple eyes opened violently, and the anger contained in them almost erupted.

The purple eyes only appeared for a moment, and then disappeared into the darkness under the eaves with the shadow, like a drop of water returning to the surface of the lake.

"It's really ...... to be remembered by such a guy It's going to die. Li Yuntao shook his head, and at the same time became vigilant, wouldn't the shadow monster enter the battlefield and cause fatal damage to the humans in the small city?

However, after thinking about it, it had never entered the city to fight before, but only intercepted and killed the caravans and wagons that were about to flee on the periphery.

If the idea is to follow this line, if the monster wants to deal with the humans in the city, the enemy with it is of course the first target, if it does not exist, it will inevitably choose the most valuable target in the city to attack.

What kind of goals are most valuable?

A human with extraordinary abilities, a magician!

Li Yuntao almost immediately thought of the owner with flying brown and blonde hair and closed eyes.

He quickly looked to the side of the square, where she had been fighting. At this point, it seemed that she had moved, but not far away, less than ten meters away from her previous position.

She was standing in the shadow of a tuft to hide from the sun, the warriors around her were still two, and the other three continued to besiege the four-eyed tooth five meters away, obviously this evil beast was not easy to deal with, even though it had been cut out of the criss-crossing wounds, and most of the fur that had been rolled up had been soaked in blue and purple blood, but it did not show the slightest tiredness and weakness, and it fought back and forth with the strong man with three lives.

"Hey! Get out of there!! Li Yuntao plucked up his strength and opened his throat to shout at the magician, but the roars and hisses, wails and screams in the audience mixed into a noisy noise, and his voice could not penetrate these obstacles to the other side.

"Damn it!" Li Yuntao was so angry that it was useless to grit his teeth and stomp his feet, he pulled his legs and rushed over there, looking for an uncovered gap while running, but how could there be a battle between people and monsters standing still, there would always be someone or monsters in front of his travel route.

It's too late at all, how fast the shadow monster moves, Li Yuntao knows very well in his heart. Hopefully, hopefully, it hasn't found its most worthwhile target, after all, the magician is resting now, and isn't showing anything out of the ordinary.

Just as Li Yuntao was praying in his heart, the mage in the navy blue velvet robe raised his wand again, and the moist peach-colored lips opened and closed, and each note blended into the air with a unique tone.

Then Li Yuntao felt a different change in the air around him, he didn't feel it when he was a little far away before, and at this time, the unknown energy in the air around him was becoming more and more active because the notes were constantly chanted.

It would be strange if it wasn't discovered by the shadow monsters.

Li Yuntao didn't have time to care about anything, so he directly raised his hand and shot an arrow at the magician.

Shout~

The crossbow bolt pulled an illusory straight line of cold light in the air, and the sharp sound of breaking the air failed to tear through the entanglement of the chaotic noise, and was drowned in the sea of noise.

While~!

The experienced guard keenly spotted the crossbow arrow, he stretched out his left arm seemingly at random, the shield just blocked the way of the crossbow arrow, the inclined shield trembled slightly, and the spiral arrow cluster with high speed rotation drew a few invisible sparks on the shield surface, and then turned an angle and flew upward.

The magician's chanting came to an abrupt end, her body trembling slightly, as if she was extremely uncomfortable, and with a hint of pain, weakness, and a hint of doubtful anger, she glared back in the direction from which the crossbow had come, along with two other pairs of angry eyes.

Li Yuntao didn't care so much, and he got the arrow while approaching the magician at high speed.

Seeing Li Yuntao's posture, the anger in the eyes of the three people suddenly became more vigilant and hostile. At the same time, there are more doubts, obviously it is the moment of fighting with the monster, why did this human attack his own side, could it be that he has been manipulated by the monster? But there was no head-hugging spider on his head. So, has he taken refuge in the monsters?

This is also too, a pig gives his life to the butcher, what is the difference between this and looking for death?

However, in any case, Li Yuntao's attack succeeded in arousing their vigilance and strengthening their vigilance. But this is not enough, the goal of their guard is wrong!

Li Yuntao shot another arrow, this time because he was already much closer to the magician, the accuracy of the shot was correspondingly improved, and there were more options. So the arrow shot into the shadows beneath them.

Of course, he wanted to wake up the other party in this way, but in exchange for a slightly playful look from the two-life guard on the other side.

It seems to say again: With your precision, you dare to take advantage of the assassination?

"Look at the ground, fool! What are you staring at me for? Li Yuntao shouted, because the distance between the two sides was constantly shortening, his young man's sharp voice finally broke through the entanglement of the battlefield noise, and at this time he was less than thirty meters away from the magician.

Ground? What does this word mean?

The magician looked at the dirty boy who dared to shoot arrows at him but shouted and screamed. He had clearly put on a hostile posture and launched an attack on his side, why did he shout with anxiety and concern on his face?

She glanced at the arrows on the ground, and she froze there.

In the shadow cast by the eaves on the ground, an arm wielded a sharp blade with the arc of a scimitar. But his guards were obviously not armed with scimitars, and their weapons were different from the scimitars used by the natives, short spears and long swords.

She had realized that something was wrong, but she didn't have time to react, as a magician, her own abilities were far inferior to her spell powers, and the only thing she had time to do was let out a scream.

As soon as the scream burst out of his throat, the blade in the shadow had already swung down.

The neck of the guard, which was in front of her with its body, split into two sections from the middle in front of her eyes, seemed to be a scream she had made from the sight of this scene.

The detached guard fell down, his free-falling head slamming into the dirt on the ground and rolling aside, the waves of air stirred up by the fallen body and rolling up a layer of dust.

There was no blood spray, and the ground was so clean that it was as if there was no blood flowing from his body at all.

Several other guards who were fighting with the four-eyed tooth heard her scream, and eagerly turned back to check, only to turn around, and one of them was thrown to the ground by the fang, the sharp front claws pierced the leather armor shoulder guard on his shoulder, blood gushing out of the wound, he barely relied on the instinct accumulated through years of training and battle, and used the shield to block the large bite full of jagged teeth that followed it, and the metal shield was directly pierced by the two longest canine teeth.

"Miss!"

"Let's protect Miss first!" He shouted, stabbing the long sword in his hand into the relatively soft abdomen of the four eyes and teeth, the blade of the sword slanted to the hilt, and the blue-purple blood flowing from the wound poured on him, drenched in his wound, and the corrosive white smoke rose, but he shook his teeth and pulled the long sword out in half, and then held the hilt of the sword and stirred desperately in the wound in the abdomen of the fang.

The other two hesitated for a moment, then turned back to support the mage's guards. Until this moment, they were still at a loss as to what had just happened, only knowing that one of their brothers had returned to the arms of their Heavenly Father.

The only one person left by the mage's side gritted his teeth with deep pain and anger, and he glared at Li Yuntao angrily at the agitation of his cheeks, he took the place of his companion to protect the mage firmly behind him, but the short spear in his hand was raised by him to make a forward action of throwing.

"Idiot! Look at the ground! Ground!! Li Yuntao was in a hurry, and the crisis warning had already pointed to the strong spear-wielding man opposite, but the two of them didn't have to be hostile at all.

He let go of the crossbow machine in his hand and abandoned it on the road, at this moment Li Yuntao was less than twenty meters away from the magician, and at his current speed, when he put on the arrow, he had already entered the melee range, the crossbow machine was useless at all, not to mention that it was okay to use it to deal with monsters, and it was very unwise to use it to fight with human warriors in close combat.

Now we can only count on the shadow monster's attack interval to be relatively long, even if it is only given a few more seconds.

In the face of the boy who had abandoned his weapon, the guard's movements did not stop at all, and the muscles of the arms that clenched the short spear were clenched, and the cyan veins crawled up the surface of the skin like snakes.

"Gondorf, stop, he's not an enemy!" After screaming, the magician finally spat out his first words. The guard had already finished half of the action of throwing the short spear, and the force he used was so great that he obviously couldn't stop, and for a moment he let go of the short spear's finger and lightly touched the handle of the spear that was about to leave, slightly affecting the direction in which it was flying.

The short spear and Li Yuntao walked opposite each other, the contact was only in an instant, he had a crisis warning and had already known the flight path of the short spear in advance, his body fell low and almost touched the ground, and the aura under his feet burst out while his feet stepped on the ground, and the soles of cotton cloth na's shoes instantly exploded into countless rags, and the ground he stepped on was shattered together.

He flew forward about two feet above the ground, the spear grazing against the strap of the cowhide backpack behind his back, the sharp tip of the spear cutting through the belt that bound the grain bag on the side of the leather bag, and only a small piece of naan fell out of the gap.

At the same time, the guard who had completed the throwing action bent forward slightly, because he finally saw the terrible scene after this action.

From the shadow cast by the arm that he threw his short spear on the muddy ground, the shadow of the blade stretched out from the other arm, which looked as if it had suddenly grown from his elbow.

The shadow of the blade was stretching, and the curved blade was slowly pulled up by it, making a charging motion before attacking.

The guard was almost entirely instinctive, and his body rolled in a roll in the forward motion. But the bladed shadow did not roll with him.

Li Yuntao had already flown in, he stretched out his arms, and in his left hand he held the pendant that had been removed from his neck.

Yikes~~

With a sharp exclamation, he crashed into her, and the two of them instantly rolled into a ball of dust all the way.

Kiss.

A faint ripple rippled out of the air from where the mage had stood, and then, like broken thin ice, disintegrated into countless debris and flakes of varying sizes.

After rolling in a daze for I don't know how many times, Li Yuntao finally stopped the momentum of rolling, half-squatting on the ground, and the body of the magician who was held in his arms was far more petite and light than it looked when he was covered with a robe. Almost no weight. At this time, because the force of the two of them was too great, Li Yuntao had a copper book on her chest, which made her almost lose her breath.

The long wavy brown hair and the beautiful navy blue velvet robe were covered with the sand and dust rolling on the ground, and they looked embarrassed.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief, coughing and inhaling fresh air, which made her cough even more violently.

"I'm sorry." Li Yuntao smiled apologetically, and the pendant in his left hand dutifully illuminated their shadows, in exchange for the silent angry roar of the shadow monster, he stared at it, and the smile on his face became a little bigger.

This one is one I won.

The black humanoid monster that suddenly emerged from the ground, like a liquid, frightened the guards who came back to help, and the eyes that shone with purple light, and the movement of opening their mouths to roar but not hearing a sound all made them fear and panic from the bottom of their hearts.

This thing is scarier than a monster with a physical body.

The monster's roaring action lasted only a second, and it narrowed its purple eyes and quietly looked at Li Yuntao for a few seconds, and then melted into the shadows under the eaves like water.

Li Yuntao let go of his embrace and wiped the sweat from his forehead, but only wiped the mud on his sleeves on his forehead, which was already covered with a layer of dust. When the cuffs were taken down again, there was a slimy dark red in addition to the dirt and dust.

It turned out that at some point, the skin on his forehead was scratched. There are many similar abrasions on his body, he acted too hurriedly just now, and he was holding a person in his arms, so the rolling action was naturally not so neat.

"It's safe for now." He said to the other three guards, not knowing if they understood or not. Li Yuntao pushed the coughing magician in her arms to her guards, and went back the same way to pick up her crossbow.

The three big men were a little stunned, according to the normal process, shouldn't the two sides have a friendly exchange, at least let themselves send the words of thanks here, why did he just turn around and leave?

"Help me!" The guard shouted that he couldn't stand it anymore. The two guards who had been with him before hurriedly rushed over in a few steps and killed the killer with a toothache in the four eyes.

In fact, the four-eyed teeth were already at the end of the crossbow, and they only held on to one breath and insisted on tearing the humans under them apart first, but they were blocked by the round shield.

A series of changes occurred in the field just now, from the return of the two companions to protect the magician to the departure of the shadow monster, Li Yuntao returned to the magician in his arms, in fact, it was only half a minute.

At this moment, Kung Fu Kung Fu only had time to bite the round shield in his hand, and he only expanded the wound on its abdomen several times, leaving only the inside, which would only be more serious.

Blue-purple blood drenched all over him, accumulating into tiny puddles on the ground, and even the dry sandy ground didn't have time to absorb them.

Four-eyed tooth swallowed his last breath in humiliation under the combined efforts of the three mortal warriors.

The battle in the small town quickly drew to a close, and the few remaining monsters coalesced as they fell and fled like defeated bandits through the northern gates.

The weary warriors watched them flee without the slightest idea of pursuit, but only sat down in a nearby corner to rest, and some of them never got up again.

For those who survived, picking up the pieces was another pain, and the comrades-in-arms who had fought side by side before said goodbye to them, but they didn't even have time to say goodbye.

The owner of the town died in the monster attack, and the two burning main buildings were reduced to history with their owners. Among the remaining city guards, the highest position was a vice-captain, who replaced the captain who was killed by himself as the temporary supreme power in the town.

Under his organization, the surviving members of the guard contacted the surviving officials and elders in charge of the management of the town, counted casualties, calculated damage, and arranged for the caravan to enter the city for supplies or rest.

Luckily, it can also be said that several important material storage warehouses in the small town have been preserved, which is also the biggest difference between monster attacks and human warfare. Monsters do not know how to plunder and destroy the enemy's material reserves.

Shops such as inns and taverns were largely unaffected. The real biggest losses were the 'City Lord's Mansion' and the 'Tax Center', the two white buildings that were burned to the ground.

While people were busy collecting corpses and rescuing the wounded, Li Yuntao recovered some of the crossbow arrows, dismantled some of the corpses of the barred teeth, and removed a few 'beads' found in the cranial cavity, including the wild bull monster that died in the ruins and the four-eyed baring tooth that was surrounded and killed by the magician guards.

The cloth bag he was holding food was broken, and the piece of naan that was left over for a day or two was lost somewhere. The several nuts and jerky that I originally carried in the backpack as snacks have been in my stomach for a few days.

In the small town where people were busy cleaning up the mess of his home, he walked a little dazedly, perhaps to see if he could find his piece of bread, or to find a shop that sold food to replenish. At least the ten silver ingots and twenty large copper coins that his father had stuffed into his backpack when he was leaving had not been used.

My stomach was already rumbling, and the sun was the most brilliant noon of the day.

But although some of the shops in the small town still have signs, they are taking over the various colors that were blocked outside the small town and came with the caravan, after all, the warriors in the caravan helped the small city, how can they snub their friends from afar at this time, not to mention that they are tired and hurt.

But Li Yuntao didn't know any of the words on these signboards. There are no open shops on the side of the road, so you can't see what is sold inside.

Into the store? Walking on the road a little closer, someone would pinch his nose to avoid it, and he had no doubt that he dared to drill into the store, and the people in the store would dare to blast him out.

"Depressed, am I going to starve to death in this foreign land with money?"

Li Yuntao misses the system in the novel very much.

"Honorable warrior, so you are here."