Chapter 38: Snatching
The sky was gray, the color of the smoke. Beneath the sky, in a vast and boundless field, countless warriors with weapons in their hands are fighting hard. It was a very tragic battle, with more than 100 men on both sides. The roars, the hooves of horses, the clashing of iron tools, and the chaotic battlefield are like a pot of sticky soup, and the people who are caught in it can't tell each other apart, so they can only fight to the death with the enemies around them.
And in the midst of this chaotic battlefield, a young figure was trying his best to move forward under the cover of dozens of silver-armored guards. "Lilisa!!" The handsome young man shouted someone's name loudly, and he seemed to be looking for something, but his cry was not answered by the name owner, but attracted countless fierce figures whistling with sharp knives and guns. The young man ordered the guards around him to raise their hard shields to form a thick shield wall, and the enemy's attacks hit the shield wall with a dull sound.
The young man's name is Zhencheng, and he is not from this world. It's a world of magic and cold weapons, and Shinjo comes from a world of technology and thermal weapons. As for why he came here, he himself did not know. He had no intention of participating in the fight, he had only one purpose here, and that was to find a woman named Lilisa.
"Boy, you're quite persevering. However, are you still not going to give up after all this chase? Just when Maseung was in a desperate situation of encirclement, a sharp and caustic voice came from the front. The owner of the voice was a thin man in animal skin armor, and although he was thin, a very powerful aura still burst out from his thin body. In his hand was a blonde woman, the one he was looking for.
"Lilisa!" Masamu was a little impatient, he had been chasing Lilisa for a long time, and he had too many questions to ask.
Hearing Zhencheng's shout, she slowly opened her bloated eyes in a trance and looked at the black-haired young man in the shield array in front of her. "Are you...... True. Lilisa recognized the young man, her voice hoarse, evidently tormented.
"The shield array is scattered!! Spearmen forward! Sword and shield soldier cover! Keep moving!! Looking at the haggard Lilisa, Zhencheng anxiously gave the order, and at the same time, several very dazzling bright lights flickered around him, and in the bright light, several warriors in silver armor and sword and shield walked out of it. This is the ability that Shinjo acquired after coming to this world, and he can summon all kinds of soldiers, relying on a summoning system called 'Strife'.
Warn! The summon limit has been reached, and the summon cannot be continued.
A mechanical prompt sounded in Makoto's head, and Makoto frowned and looked at the summoning interface in front of him that only he could see. Now he can only summon a combat force of 60 people, and he cannot replenish new personnel unless a new contract is signed.
Maseung closes the summoning screen and looks at Lilisa, who was kidnapped, and the man who kidnapped her. Among them, Masamu seemed to be only a few steps away, but Masamu was beaten by the surging enemy forces nearby. He clenched his fists, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"Haha, the barbarian warriors are really fierce" The man in animal skin looked at Zhencheng who was trapped by the barbarian warriors, and sneered: "How is it, little hero, have you figured out how to rescue this beauty from me?" ”
In the face of the man's provocation, Zhencheng's face became more and more gloomy.
"If you haven't thought about it, I can give you a suggestion, it's good for you and me," the fur man licked his purple lips, he let go and put Lilisa down, and the weak Lilisa fell to her knees, gasping for a big gasp.
"Say it," Masei replied, staring at the fur man with straight eyes. He wasn't going to take the man's advice, but it would take some time for reinforcements to arrive.
"Good!" The fur man stepped forward and said, "I'm not an unreasonable person, and I don't need this woman much anymore. So, all it takes is a small exchange, and I can give her to you, how about it? ”
"What to trade?" Masei talked to the man in the animal skin as he calculated the time when reinforcements would arrive.
"With the King Crystal! You should know this, it's the source of energy you use to summon these warriors. I don't need all of them, I just need you to give me a small portion. What do you think? You don't suffer. The man in the fur spoke eloquently, his eyes glinting with longing as he spoke of the crystal nucleus.
"Don't give it to him!! True!! He's just like you! It's ...... too," Lilisa struggled to get up from the ground and shouted at Makoto when she heard what the man wanted. But before she could finish speaking, the fur man pulled her up by the hair, and pressed her soft lips with his dirty hand so that she could not continue, and Liliza's eyebrows tightened and struggled, but she could not spit out another word.
"You let go of her, as long as you let go of her, I will agree to your request!!" Masei looked at Lilisa's pained expression and said to the man in a compromised tone.
"As long as you give me what I want, I'll let her go." The man in the animal skin had no intention of letting go, and still demanded what he wanted.
"Enemy Attack !!" Just as the situation was about to freeze, a miserable shout came from afar, breaking their negotiations. The one who let out this roar was a barbarian warrior, and the moment he finished speaking, he was slashed his neck with a sword by the regular army swordsman of the Grans Empire on the other side. The barbarian warrior's eyes widened as if they were about to bulge, blood gushed from his neck, and he fell to the ground.
After he fell to the ground, there was an eerie tremor on the ground. The tremors continued and spread across the battlefield like a regional earthquake. Masei lowered his head and looked at the sand flying stones that kept jumping under his feet due to the trembling of the ground, and he showed a hint of a smile, he knew that reinforcements had arrived.
"Enemy attack! Enemy Attack!! "More and more barbarian warriors felt the change in the course of the war, and some of them looked up to the northeast, where they saw the source that made the earth tremble.
I saw several soldiers in iron armor riding war horses with the same heavy armor rushing to the battlefield like a stormy wave, the war horses neighed and roared, and trampled on the ground heavily, causing tremors like earthquakes.
"Grans' Black Iron Cavalry!!" The barbarian warriors are aware of the seriousness of the matter, the area where they are fighting is the plains, and if they face the elite troops of the other side who are good at fighting plains here, the fate can be imagined. "Retreat, retreat to a nearby hillside!!" With the barbarians' retreat order, the battlefield became even more chaotic.
The barbarian warriors who were still fiercely attacking Zhencheng just now gradually dispersed and retreated into the distance. "Good opportunity! Sortie!! Seeing the opportune moment, he shouted loudly as he ordered the shield array to disperse, and the spearmen in the inner row stretched out through the gap between the swordsman's shields, piercing some of the barbarians who were still obsessed with stubborn attacks.
"Ah!!h Screams rang out one after another near the shield array. This dying scream made Zhencheng very uncomfortable, although he had been in this world for a while and had participated in a lot of wars, he still couldn't adapt to this kind of heart-rending cry when humans were dying. He looked at the furned man not far away, the distance between them was already close without the army's hindrance.
At this moment, the situation had been reversed, and the man in the animal skin, who had been in an advantageous position, was now at a disadvantage. Of course, he himself is aware of this fact. But the man in the animal skin didn't seem to be so flustered, as if he still had the chance to win. "The Ace of Spades! Plum J! The fur man suddenly shouted loudly. With his summoning, two figures flashed quickly, one left and one right, appearing beside him.
"Yes, Boss." Beside him, a hideous-looking man with bloodshot eyes replied. "Yes, Your Excellency the Ugly Emperor." On the other side of him, a seductive female figure answered his call.
"Go help our barbarian brothers!" The beast-skinned man gave an order, and the two figures attacked Zhencheng like wild dogs, and their arrival filled the vacancy of the barbarian warriors, although there were only two of them, but the offensive was very fierce, not inferior to the encirclement of the barbarian warriors, which also blocked the footsteps of Zhencheng's progress again. At this moment, the fur man dragged Lilisa and turned and retreated into the distance.
"You don't want to go!!" How could Masei let go of the victory that was close at hand, "Archer, shoot me!" Maseung shouted and ordered, and in the shield array, more than a dozen archers tightened their bowstrings and aimed in the direction of the beast-skin man's retreat.
"Can you bear it?" The fur man looked back and smirked, his suggestive hand tugging at Lilisa's hair. If Masamu orders the archery, then Lilisa will be his best shield.
Seeing this, Zhencheng hesitated, and he ordered the archer to put down his bow and arrows. The purpose of the order he had just ordered the archers to draw their bows was to test whether Lilisa was really as useless to him as the man in the fur had claimed. Now seeing that the man in the animal skin has no intention of protecting Lilisa at all, it seems that Lilisa is indeed of little use to him. The only reason the man in the hides kept Liliza's life was to trade her for his crystal core. That's fine, at least Lilisa isn't a 'hearth' anymore.
"Stop! I'm willing to make an exchange with you!! Majo stopped the fur man, his right hand reached for his heart, and then a bright light opened on his chest, and he took out a beautiful blue crystal from it, and then ripped off a thumb-sized crystal from it. At the moment when the crystal was broken, Makoto felt as if he had been sucked away from something, and a sense of exhaustion arose.
"Haha, good, throw me the crystal core!!" The man in the fur let go of Lilisa in his hand, letting her delicate body fall to the ground, and then the man in the fur reached out his hand to Mako.
Masei gritted his teeth and threw the crystal towards the man in the hide. The beast-skinned man on the side quickly caught the crystal, and he trembled and pointed the crystal in his hand towards the sunlight. Although the sunlight is very weak, the crystals that are illuminated by the sunlight still emit a strong blue light.
"I finally got you again." The fur man's voice was filled with irrepressible excitement, and he carefully placed the crystal in his arms.
"We can't hold it anymore!!" A barbarian warrior roared. Throughout the battlefield, all the barbarian warriors were divided into two groups, one group retreated up the hillside, and was resisting the onslaught of the black iron cavalry on the hillside. The other group, which had no time to retreat, was forced to make a final desperate defense on this vast plain. Thousands of Black Iron Cavalry troops poured down like a mountain flood on the barbarian soldiers who were still on the plains. In an instant, they were overwhelmed by this black torrent.
"The Ace of Spades! Plum J: It's time for us to retreat! The man in the animal skin who had achieved his goal gradually disappeared into the chaos of the crowd with a grim smile. Two of his men also stopped harassing Shinjo and retreated into the distance.
"Lilisa!!" Before Masumi had time to think about the rest, he put the remaining crystal nucleus back into the bright light that spread out in his chest. He then drew his sword from his waist and headed with his men in the direction where Lilisa was. The remaining barbarian warriors were still no match for True Inheritance, and soon they had fought their way to Lilisa.
Finally, Makoto came to Lilisa's side. But at the moment when Makoto was infinitely close to Lilisa, an arrow feather whistled past Mako's ear and plunged straight into Lilisa's chest. In an instant, Lilisa's chest burst into a bloody flower.
"It's true. Thank you.. Lilisa's parched lips were soaked with blood from her mouth, and her sensual body was finally unable to hold on after being devastated. Lilisa fell to the ground, her blue eyes flickering with the last faint flame of life.
"Lilisa!!" Furious, Masei reflexively threw the sword in his hand, and the sword swirled and fell in the air, piercing the barbarian archers who were shooting arrows in the distance. The arrow that hit Lilisa was originally aimed at Shinko.
Maseung hugged Lilisa into his arms, and with the violent trembling of his whole body, Masei breathed heavily, the cold air with a hint of blood, I don't know if this smell came from his congested chest cavity or Lilisa's gradually cold body. The fierce struggle was nearing its end, and only the frightened Makomi looked at the bloody corpses all over the ground in horror, and the smell of blood emitted by these stumps and severed bones also deeply stimulated Mako's senses. Beside him, several soldiers in hard silver armor surrounded him, blades covered in blood, and their faces were numb and sluggish, as if they were accustomed to seeing blood and death.