Verse XXXVIII: Monsters and Knights
"Uh-wow-" "Bang!" The intimate contact between the human knee and the solid stone floor of the temple was obviously not going to be rosy, and after a dull "click", the villager's entire foot took on an eerie angle. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info his face was so painful that he covered his legs, clenched his teeth, and rolled on the ground without stopping, but at the moment, it was obvious that no companion could pull out his hand to help him.
"Ahh
In addition to the villager who was pushed down to the bottom of the rudimentary platform and broke his leg, the other person was directly slashed into a bloody blur and died on the spot.
"You can't fight here!" The second floor of the temple was built in a U-shape along the walls rather than an entire floor, and in the past, it was apparently used to place statues and other things on the second floor, and the aisle could only accommodate three people side by side. The wooden guardrails on both sides have been completely decayed, and if you want to fight on them, you will fall down and hurt or even die if you accidentally stumble.
"Stand back, back off!" the four frantic villagers kept screaming from their mouths, and at the same time rounded their arms, waving machetes wildly, attacking without discipline or technique, but as long as they got close to this storm of blades, they would at least be cut off.
"Bang!!" The machete struck the edge of the shield and slashed into a distance of about thirty centimeters, which was deliberately done by Filippo to sacrifice the durability of the shield in exchange for a chance to attack.
"Woo!" he stabbed the frenzied villager's armed man in the shoulder, and when he drew his sword, blood soaked his clothes, but to no avail.
"Ahh
"Bang!" Mira rushed up with her sword in both hands to help Filippo block it, and although the weapon in the girl's hand was much larger than the opponent's and was a two-handed weapon, she was almost unable to stand still because of the blow.
"You can't fight here, retreat!" the highlanders behind him said to the two of them, but where did they retreat?
The frenzied villagers appeared among them, and at this moment, except for the two highlanders who had been badly injured and killed, Filippo and Mira were counted as six normal people on the left and right. The villagers on the opposite side were lucky enough to go down the stairs by retreating, but the young man and the girl were in trouble.
"Bang!-" There were two more attacks on the shield, and Filippo deftly used the shield to meet them, and although the strength was amazing, the opponent only cut a shallow mark.
"You two, pay attention. The villagers in the back found some random debris and rocks on the ground and said this to the two, Mira and Filippo looked at each other, and then both nodded.
"Ready—" The girl took a stance, and Filippo lowered her weight.
"Retreat!" "Click-click!" Knowing that this was the caseiness of her opponent, Mira slashed down with a furious blow, and Filippo followed with a shield charge to knock the frenzied villager who had been slashed in the left shoulder and was bleeding wildly, and the two quickly retreated without a fight.
"Drop!" The four villagers behind them dropped their machetes and threw the stone high above their heads, creating a parabolic heavy stone that slammed into the bodies of the two frantic villagers, who were broken in the head and bled hard. Counting the previous attacks, it was enough to make normal people fall to the ground, but these two "people" quickly got back up with amazing "vitality".
"How do you kill these things!" The highlanders, who could no longer find the right size of stones, couldn't help but panic a little because they were known for their bravery and good fighting. One of the frenzied villagers had been hit on the head by a large rock and had already deflated a piece, and the broken area was bleeding in bursts, but he was still able to stand up.
There is no way to stop the action of these monsters.
"Ahh
Two by two, two against Mira, six on one side of them, while the other two ran to deal with the remaining few. The other six villagers who were busy running and didn't even carry their shields were in a more difficult situation than their side, and the narrow terrain on the second floor, which had previously felt that it was difficult to play freely, saved Mira and them, but a few people on the other side ran to the open field downstairs and were directly caught up by two crazy villagers who jumped down and immediately suffered casualties again.
"There is no way to retreat!" But even if the situation is slightly better, it is only the difference between "dying now" and "dying later", and the six of them have retreated to the point where they can't retreat. The disadvantages of not being able to get enough rest and food for days began to appear, and the girl began to have gold stars in her eyes, and even felt weak when she stepped back, and even breathlessly when she had just swung vigorously.
"Hold on, Mira!" said Filippo with a chivalrous spirit, and though he was shorter than the maiden and far less equipped with a shield than the Loan girl, he seemed very reliable.
"What is going to be done—" But no solution was forthcoming, and the young man muttered anxiously, while Mira began to wonder how good it would be if Henry had been here.
If these monsters were to deal with him and Kramer, they would not be able to survive even a minute, and they would be easily dealt with like chopping melons and vegetables.
"No, you can't always think about relying on the teacher. She bit her lower lip hard again to concentrate - and beyond the ruined temple, another battle had just begun.
"Bang-"
The tall knight in black armor turned over and dismounted, and the off-white cloak painted with the coat of arms of the nobility behind him hunted with the breeze, and a layer of mist was disturbed by the air current, making his gray-blue eyes shine.
"Your Excellency?" another knight in silver armor behind him asked, not saying everything, but obviously referring to why the black-armored knight had the advantage of dozens of horsemen and planned to deal with this man alone.
"Now, Mikhail—" he began, and the silver-armored knight who spoke would have recognized it if Mira had been here at this moment, and it was the Zoradin Knight of the Half-Blood of Loan, the chief of the black-armored knights, who had been in trouble with him.
"Do you see him, in his posture? He said this, using "he" instead of "it" despite describing a dead man. Mikhail hesitated slightly, but finally set his eyes on the silent knight who was still alive but still alive with bloodstained armor.
--The other party stood in place in a relaxed position, holding an axe and gun in both hands, and stood steadily, but did not attack while the two were talking.
“...... Is this, waiting for Your Excellency to get ready?" the knight froze.
The tall man in black armor nodded.
"It is clear that even life is no longer possessed, but only the rigid knight observance still remembers it. The gray-blue-eyed knight said slowly in a calm tone: "Never attack an unprepared opponent, never sneak attack." ”
"As the living, if we choose a sneak attack or a group attack, won't we be looked down upon by the dead? He turned back to Mikhail and smiled slightly, and said.
"Actually, I don't really like chivalry, piles of rules and rules, in the final analysis, are just so-called honor symbols that people use to comfort themselves under the pedantic and outdated system, and in fact have nothing to do with nobility. The chief knight said, "But." ”
"It's a testament to how people tried to create something good. ”
"You go to patrol the perimeter, it is estimated that there are still some fish that have slipped through the net, and there is a lot of movement in the temple over there, there should be survivors, and it depends on you how many people you can save." ”
"As for this one, leave it to me. ”
"At the very least, send him on his way with the courtesy of an imperial knight. ”
He turned.
"Shhhh The same is true for many other knights next to him. They put their visors back on.
"Yes!" the knights nodded in unison.
"Good luck. Mikhail said before rushing towards the temple.
"Your Excellency Konstantin. ”
"Qiang—" The black-armored knight turned his head and pulled out a huge sword from his saddle that could only be carried on his head because it was too large.
The sound of the sword face rubbing against the protective metal of the sheath was clear and loud.
At least 6 centimeters wide at the bottom of the blade, with a total length of more than 1.4 meters, this large sword, which also carries two handguards in the style of Patrosi, is not much worse than Henry's Kramer in terms of visual impact alone.
But to use a sword against an opponent in full armor?
This was clearly the wrong choice when both were wearing armor, but Konstantin chose to do so anyway.
The absence of other weapons is a reason. But he'd just been able to borrow a warhammer from the other knights under his command, and still wield a sword, either he'd be a complete fool - though not at all like it was at all in his current performance.
He's a warrior with great skill.
The etiquette of tribute can still be read by the silent undead knight. After confirming that Konstantin was ready, it changed its stance.
"Bang-cluck!" the chief knight nodded vigorously, and the black armor helmet part of the visor fell smoothly and buckled.
He looked out through the fence-like visor, and although his vision was obstructed, it was much better than a fully enclosed helmet.
"Bang-boom!" After a moment, Konstantin took the initiative to close the distance.
"Click!" The broadsword slashed at the front half of the axe, and the bloodied Silent Knight used a close-range grappling grip, the tip of the axe with a metal reinforcement was not cut off by the greatsword, and then "he" twisted the weapon in his hand and tried to jam Konstantin's blade with the hook under the axe.
"......" If Mira had the time to check it out at this time, she would have felt that this black-armored knight's fighting style was so familiar - his reaction speed, physique, and strength were all top-notch, and the moment the Silent Knight stuck the blade, he changed his posture, and the blade directly circled around the place where it intersected with the axe spear, and his left hand smoothly reached out and grabbed the tip of the broadsword, and directly slammed into the side of the Silent Helmet with his handguard and counterweight.
"Bang!!" "Bang-bang-bang-!" After the loud bang, the side of the Silent Knight's helmet visibly dented. At the same time, the axe he stabbed was dodged by Konstantin's stride, and the sharp tip of the armor-piercing spear missed, only the barb on the back of the black armor grazed a burst of sparks on the surface of the black armor, leaving deep scratches.
"Click-bang-" is enough to make the average knight dizzy and even out of breath and faint to the ground, and the effect on the undead is not so obvious. After only a moment of adjustment, the Silent Knight reflected again, and he leaned over to adjust his posture again, and after Konstantin pulled away from him, the Knight raised his axe and spear in the air.
"Huh-" The black-armored knight leader decisively dodged a flying pounce next to him.
"Tear up!" the cloak behind him was cut in half by the sharp blade of the axe.
"Bang!!" The axe gun slashed at the old stone slab, smashing the stones in all directions, and the debris that ejected hit the armor with a clear and audible sound.
"It's really a strange power..."Konstantin sighed in a low voice: "It's a pity that a dead man is a dead man, although his instinct is still there, he lacks the ability to judge the situation." ”
As the dust settled, the metal guard of the powerful axe gun twisted and the wooden handle broke, and the tip of the axe blade, which was in direct contact with the stone floor, was curled and bent.
The silent undead knight destroyed his weapon with his own hands, and he remained unconscious.
"It's time to hit the road. Konstantin grasped the hilt of the sword with one hand, and the front half of the blade with the other.
"My compatriots—"
"Bang!—" He strode out, the tip of his sword stabbing straight into the gap in the Silent Knight's throat armor.
"Boom-knock!" and on the other side of the temple, the highlanders, who heard someone shouting outside, rushed over and opened the gate, and welcomed Mikhail and his party with heavily armed reinforcements.
"Long live the Empire!" the damned bastards who were still cursing the nobles of the empire in the autumn wept with joy.
"Get out of the way!" and after the heavily armed knights rode into the temple on tall horses and spears in hand, the two frenzied villagers below were quickly stabbed by several spears one after another. Two or three of the experienced knights immediately turned over and dismounted, and they drew their swords and stabbed them accurately into the throat of the frenzied villager who was being held up by the spear, and then the whole person pressed the top and severed the end of the villager's cervical vertebrae with the tip of the sword.
"Ahh
"Uhh
"There's someone up there, go and help!" Mikhail then noticed the movement above, and he led a dozen heavily armed knights towards this side.
"Ahhhh
"Whew-" "Click-" Relieved, four of the six villagers on the second floor had their weapons on the ground, and they sat down paralyzed.
"Cut off the cervical vertebrae of the infected corpses—" and Mikhail said again angrily through the sound of the visor urn of the helmet, and as soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and lifted the visor.
"Qiang-" The Roan Maiden and Filippo, who were far better than the villagers, stood despite their exhaustion, and they both wiped their weapons clean and put them back into their sheaths. And the girl with white hair, who was already very conspicuous, looked at Mikhail standing in front of her for a long time, and finally realized that this was someone she knew.
"Mira?!"
"Mikhail?!"
Both were stunned.
It is extremely surprising that the height growth of the Luoan girl has not been seen for more than a year or two, which is also the reason why the young knight has not been able to react for a long time. He just looked at the other man's familiar face, puzzled - it wasn't so common for pure-blooded Luoans to be listed mercenaries or women.
"Great-" Knowing her in a foreign country, and the other party had just saved her life, the Luo An girl finally let out a long breath at this moment.
Her whole body relaxed, and her little face, which was already exhausted, looked so pale that although she did not speak, Mikhail could guess what they had been going through before.
"Let's go outside first, it's not a good place to rest. He said this, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Get out of here!" Filippo was furious when he saw that the lost Rono was still sitting on his horse, and he pulled the highlander's eldest brother off, but immediately smelled a strong smell of urine in his saddle that could still be smelled even if he was surrounded by the smell of corpses.
"You-"
"You—" The aristocratic young man was so angry that he threw his already torn shield to the ground to vent his anger.
"Acquaintance?" said Konstantin, who had taken off his helmet and had half a long black curly hair hanging freely, standing in front of the fallen Silent Knight, wiping his broadsword as he wiped his broadsword, to Mira and Mikhail, who were walking side by side.
"Hmm-" The half-blood young knight was about to explain, but everyone was once again distracted by some great commotion.
"Attention all, take the enemy!" a knight on the border patrol suddenly shouted, followed by a dozen or so horsemen around him returning to the infantry defending the center with astonishing unity and coordination.
"It's here again!" "The damn it's over!" the villagers wailed, and all the Imperial knights quickly re-prepared for battle.
Only this time, when the voice approached, the nervous and tired Luoan girl bloomed with a bright smile on her little face that even the sun would lose color.
"Teacher!!" she strode towards Henry as if she wasn't tired at all, and Filippo let out a long sigh of relief when he noticed that the others behind him were also gradually appearing.
"Long time no see, sir. Mikhail waved at the sage and walked over.
It was extremely comfortable to finally encounter friendly troops after a series of battles, and although Henry and his party seemed to be a little dusty, fortunately they did not lose their numbers.
The atmosphere became joyful and harmonious, as if the rancid spirits around it could no longer be affected.
The crowd was chatting happily.
Only Konstantin, who was standing alone behind him, looked up and down with his gray-blue eyes, Henry, who was carrying Kramer on his back.
"Ipsimon Nstariya, Zaloxion—" he said softly in Lamangu.
"Just sent away a monster, and here comes an even more terrifying one. ”