Volume 1 The Tale of the Blacksmith Chapter 24 Show off your skills

They can indeed find a way to make the forging fail, but this is only a palliative, Chrysti will one day put the demons into the town, with the strength of the town, it is impossible to protect all the people, and then it will be a one-sided slaughter.

"So, we really don't have anything we can do?" Sain said with a wistful expression.

"Well, that's it for now." Lydia nodded helplessly.

"It's all right, Lydia, the emir has a pretty nimble mind, and he'll be able to figure it out." Sain patted Emir on the shoulder and said.

"Don't make a fuss, this incident really stumped me." The emir smiled wryly.

"Although the situation is very serious, don't worry, I will protect you no matter what." Lydia looked serious.

"Thank you, Lydia."

Emile thanked him heartily, but he would not let it go, and although there was little hope, he had to try.

After that, the three of them fell silent, all thinking about their own thoughts.

I don't know how long it has been, Lydia suddenly thought of something and said.

"Well, it's not a way to go on like this, Emir, you have a flexible mind, isn't it, so how about I take you to the battlefield next? Maybe you can think of something. ”

"What a clever mind, it's Sain who exalts me too much." The emir said embarrassedly.

"Oh, when is it, and you're still arrogant."

"Yes, Emir, admit it honestly, you are smarter than the average person." Sain chimed in.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Alas, all right," said the emir with a wry smile, "Anyway, Lydia, now that there are no demon attacks, it's useless for us to go to the battlefield." ”

"No," Lydia explained, shaking her head, "not to take you to battle, but to observe your surroundings, as the old saying goes, it never hurts to know yourself and your opponent, and to know the situation on the battlefield." ”

The emir agreed, after all, it was only noon, and they were bored in the manor, so they might as well do something meaningful.

So, after making a decision, the three of them had lunch first, and then went out in a carriage.

Led by Lydia, they made their way out the back door of the town and onto a low hill.

Surprisingly, there is a watchtower at the top of this hill, which is ten stories high.

Standing on the watchtower, you can just see the battlefield outside the main gate, a few days ago, when the emir first arrived in the town, he had seen the situation of the main gate, which was heavily guarded, and everyone who came and went would be locked up, presumably because he was worried that there were demon spies infiltrating the town.

Now from the heights, you can see the situation of the battlefield, outside the gate of the town is a large open space, on which there is no grass, and beyond the open space is a dark forest, exuding a dangerous atmosphere, no wonder the demons hide there.

The Emir had come out of that forest in the first place, which could explain why they had encountered so many monsters, as the base camp of the demons was probably nearby.

However, as soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but hold his breath, and a terrifying thought suddenly exploded in his mind, if there was an army of demons in that forest, then his hometown had also been invaded by demons?

At that time, they encountered monsters on the mountainside not far from the village, so does that mean that the power of the demon clan has spread there?

This speculation frightened the emir, and he began to worry about the safety of his grandmother.

"Emir, what's wrong with you?" Lydia noticed his anomaly and patted him on the shoulder.

The emir came to his senses, but his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

"No, it's okay, I'm thinking about things."

He didn't tell the truth, because they couldn't go back now, and even if they did, what could they do if they did, and what could they change with just him and Sain? This kind of thing only adds to their troubles.

Just as he was in a state of thought, he suddenly noticed that something had happened on the empty battlefield, first the trees in the forest began to shake incessantly, and then, black figures continued to emerge from them.

The soldiers at the city gate immediately sensed the anomaly and blew the horn, and soon, the city walls also responded one after another, and the horn sounded continuously.

"Oh no, it's the demons attacking."

Lydia secretly screamed that it was not good, because the army had said last time that there were obviously not enough people to defend the city, so even her, a trainee knight, was called over, and it seemed that she did not have time to accompany the emir and them to observe the situation on the battlefield.

"Well, I'm sorry I can't stay with you anymore, I have to go to the battlefield." Lydia said embarrassedly.

"Haha, you can go ahead with us, we are waiting for your good news here." Emir said with a smile.

"yes," Sain agreed, "and you said there was a chance for us to see how you did on the battlefield, isn't that your chance?" ”

"Well, I went."

Eventually, the two watched Lydia go to the battlefield, and when they looked at the main entrance of the town, they saw that the soldiers defending the city had begun to fight the monsters.

However, the battle situation seems to be obvious, the human side is already difficult to parry because of the small number of troops, fighting and retreating, and in the end can only close the city gate and blindly defend.

This decline continued until the knights in armor arrived, presumably the members of the Order under the command of Christy.

The knights motioned to the defenders to open the city gates, and then came to the battlefield, and the monsters did not seem to have the slightest fear, but when they were ordinary humans, they immediately launched an attack.

The Emir stared intently at the battlefield, thinking to himself that those people were worthy of knights, although they looked completely inferior to the white knight they had met in the forest before, but they could also block ten in the face of monsters.

And with the tacit cooperation, the knights actually beat the hordes of monsters to the ground, seeing that the demons were about to be unable to parry, and suddenly countless monsters poured out of the forest, all of which appeared at the beginning were humanoid monsters, and now the monsters that came to support were exactly the same as those that Emir encountered on the way to join the army.

The new monsters seemed to be stronger than those humanoid monsters, and the knights' advance was gradually blocked, and the attack became more difficult, and a stalemate was formed for a while.

The emir pinched a sweat for them, and it could be seen from here that the knights didn't seem to have discovered the key point of the monster at all, and each time they didn't kill with a single hit, which also gave the monster a chance, waving their claws and injuring many knights.

Even if they are killed in the end, there are too many monsters, and on the other hand, on the knight's side, the wounds on their bodies are still increasing, and if this continues, it won't be long before the front collapses.

There were more than twenty knights participating in the battle, but the monsters came like a tide, and as expected, just a few minutes later, one of the knights fell to the ground, and then was overwhelmed by the hordes of monsters.

The other knights didn't have time to rescue at all, and in this way, there were constantly knights who died, but because there was no order from the commander, they had no way to retreat, so they could only resist.

Emir immediately gritted his teeth with hatred, didn't he let those knights die? Why did the commander never give the order to retreat? What the hell is Chrysti doing!

However, this decline changed slightly after the appearance of a figure, and it was evident from the figure of the person that it was Lydia.

A knight's leg was scratched by the claws of the monsters, and he fell to his knees, about to be torn to pieces by the monsters, when suddenly a sword with a cold light flew over, cutting off the claws of a large group of monsters around him, and finally stuck in one of the monsters.

Lydia sprang over, kicking away the monster that was trying to hurt her companion, then drawing her sword from the other.

Perhaps because her strength had long been recognized by her peers, the knights quickly picked themselves up and reformed into formation.

The emir could tell from the watchtower that it was obviously a defensive formation, after all, there were only ten surviving knights, and if they fought alone, they were likely to be wiped out, so they all gathered around Lydia.

Whenever a monster wants to attack, a knight blocks it with a sword, and then another knight stabs the long sword into the demonic object, but unfortunately the place where the piercing is not critical, and it can't be killed for a while, and the injured monster doesn't seem to feel the pain at all, and immediately counterattacks.

Lydia was surprised that she had never fought against such a monster, but she did have a lot of strength, and she quickly reacted and swung her long sword to cut the monster's body into several pieces.

Emir secretly admired this technique, since he couldn't find the key point, he would destroy the monster's body directly, so that even if the monster still wanted to fight back, he wouldn't have the ability.

The other knights saw that the effect was good, and they did the same, and soon, under the protection of the defensive formation, the knights eliminated all the monsters that came to support step by step, and only those humanoid monsters remained.

This was easy to deal with, Lydia was in the right place, because she knew that Emile and Sain were watching from the watchtower, and more importantly, the sword in her hand became more and more convenient the more she used it, it could have been used to cut iron like clay, and then used to cut these monsters was like a cannon to fight mosquitoes.

Lydia broke away from the center of the defensive formation and rushed directly into the group of humanoid monsters, if the enemy was human, they would definitely flee when they saw that their side was gone, but these monsters did not seem to understand what fear was, and they flocked to the knights with sharp weapons in their hands.

Lydia couldn't help but snicker, as if she could do it in front of the Emir, and then she jumped to the ground, and then landed on the body of a monster, stabbing her sword into its spine, and the poor monster lost its strength and collapsed to the ground.

Lydia struck a blow, and immediately jumped on top of the other monster, killing it in the same way, and a one-sided massacre ensued, but by a knight slaughtering a large group of monsters.

The surviving knights were stunned, they didn't expect this so-called trainee knight to surpass all of them at some point, in their impression, only Chrysti had such strength.

Of course, if Christy was present, she would be shocked, but in fact, Lydia's strength is not very strong, but similar to these ordinary knights, and her strength lies in the sword.

The martial arts of the knights are basically the same, and what really makes the huge gap between the knights is the weapons.

As long as you have the weapon at hand, your strength can not only increase by one and a half stars, but also several times the original.

Only then did the Emile understand the importance of the weapon that Moswood had mentioned, which they had spent all day forging, even if it was enough to give it to Christy as a task to complete, but unfortunately Christy wanted a two-handed sword and had to have her family crest engraved on it.

At this moment, Lydia was at ease in the midst of the monsters, spinning, jumping, as if dancing, and this dance was dedicated to the Emir.

Finally, perhaps wanting to end directly, Lydia stopped, and she stood on the battlefield, slowly closing her eyes like a statue.

But the strange thing is that those monsters who don't understand what fear is, it seems that they are finally frightened, and they dare not approach the young knight standing in the middle of the battlefield.

In the next moment, Lydia's eyes snapped open, and her blade was suddenly covered with a layer of golden light.

The Γ‰mile was stunned, not understanding how it was done, until he remembered a word Moswood had mentioned, sword skills.

This is a powerful skill that knights have mastered through practice, and different knights will comprehend completely different sword skills, and they will be able to concentrate their power on one move, and then burst out, and in the end, they will often directly distinguish the winner from defeat.

Lydia is about to perform her long-practiced sword skills, and at this moment, she no longer fights for Chrysti's approval, but wants her friends to be happy.

The monsters in front of her began to tremble, but for some reason, they could not flee or attack, like lambs to the slaughter.

Finally, Lydia let out a loud cry and unleashed her sword technique, and the golden light on the blade turned into a huge range of sword qi, which quickly attacked the monster.

In the next second, all the monsters that were touched by the sword qi were wiped out in an instant, and there was not even scum left, and it was even as if it had never existed.

The onlookers couldn't help but gasp, many of them were senior knights, but none of them had obtained their own sword skills, but they never expected that Lydia, who was still a supernumerary member of the Knights, actually obtained it.

Shocked, they couldn't help but feel ashamed of themselves, but soon they picked themselves up and began to cheer for Lydia.

They were joined by Emir and Sain, who stood on the watchtower and witnessed this.

At the same time, after killing all the monsters, Lydia waved her sword in the direction of the watchtower, as if to say, "Thank you for the sword forged for me".