Almost every one of these veterans who followed Annan from Starmoon Bay to Liberty City can be named.

But everyone did not have time to be sentimental, because the war continued.

In the afternoon, the Mad Dog Grand Duke began a second attack.

This time, no cavalry appeared on the battlefield, only soldiers in metal armor and carrying wooden shields that blocked their bodies advanced slowly.

The bronze bullets of the magic musket struck the wooden shield, sending sawdust flying everywhere, and the soldiers behind the shield were unharmed. Even if you shoot through the wooden shield from the same spot in a row, you will only be bounced off by the Soldier's metal armor.

Thankfully, the magic cannon worked—a slow-moving, dense shield array that acts as a target, and can take down several shield soldiers with a single shot. The mages unleashed both greasy and incendiary spells to slow their advance and clear the wooden shields, while Elimoas led thirteen white dragons through the air. The battle continued into the evening, when the enemy dropped hundreds of corpses and retreated.

But the proportion of casualties has changed.

In the second battle, the number of casualties of the Mad Dog Grand Duke decreased, while the number of casualties on Annam's side increased, with 25 killed.

Lord Lorain said that Davy Swan, the leader of the Knights of the Lionheart, was an old nobleman who had experienced many wars, and war was to him like a spinning wheel in the hands of a female worker, like paint on a painter's pen, like the words of a poet, like ......

"You're using too many ratios." Annan interrupted.

"Not much at all. Lord David Swan is the man I have the most respect. Lord Loran said seriously.

"You're in luck, then." Annan replied to Lord Lorraine's puzzled gaze: "There is a chance to defeat the person you respect the most. ”

At night, Annan and Olmedo held a "funeral" for the thirty-eight dead soldiers in the square in front of the lord's palace.

According to the wills written by all the soldiers before the start of the war, in addition to dividing the inheritance among their relatives and friends, they all want to continue to be residents of Liberty City after death - living in skeleton form.

Of the thirty-eight soldiers, twenty-six were willing to be peasants, and the remaining three wanted to be woodcutters, five wanted to be workers, and four were all about it.

Annan and Ingrid temporarily added a Heroic Soul Protection Law to the Code of Liberty City: all beings who gave their lives for Liberty City and voluntarily became undead will become Heroic Spirits. They retain honor, have cemeteries, are serviced once a week, and earn a salary that goes to their families and future generations.

This somewhat reduces the pain of parting.

"If only we had resurrection." Annan regretted.

The resurrection of the dead can only be mastered by priests above the legend.

In any case, they did not die, but accompanied Liberty City in a different way. Maybe in a few decades, a new spirit will be born in their bones.

The gray-robed mage offered to preside over the transformation ceremony, and after climbing up thirty-eight skeletons, one of the skeletons was a little special-

Its hollow eyes swelled with soul fire, and instead of standing still like the other skeletons, it looked around blankly.

"Cluck-la-" saw Annan's skeleton move its jaw.

The gray-robed mage gave him a lingua franca mastery, and the skeleton made a sound of bones colliding: "Lord Annan? ”

It preserves the memories of the living life.

"This is the prophecy system, and we can always choose between good and bad." The gray-robed mage responded to Annan's shock.

Annan became suspicious again, and the gray-robed mage took refuge in himself, whether it was also part of the "prophecy......

This lucky guy is called Claire, and when she learns that she has come back from the dead, she can't wait to go home and tell her only sister the good news, and Ormedo laughs and suggests that he go back to the camp to see his comrades first, so that his family can be a little mentally prepared - after all, as soon as he learns of his brother's death, a skeleton comes to visit her and says that he is his brother, and he is afraid that it will scare her.

Before Krar ran to meet his former companions, Annan took out the medallion he had worked on and hung it on the third rib of their left chest—the honor they had had for hunting nezumi was painted on it.

Annan also arranged for Krar to be given a position: as the only Heroic Spirit who retains his memories, he will be the captain of the other Heroic Spirits.

The reunion was short-lived, and the next day, they faced another brutal war.

Early in the morning, Davey Swan, who commanded his soldiers in a new attack, tried to stretch the line - theoretically, the last thing the musketeers feared was the enemy standing in a row. But today they put a layer of iron plate on the outside of the wooden shield, forming a shield wall hundreds of meters long and pressing towards the front line......

In the end, it was thanks to the magic cannons and Elimoas and the White Dragons that the third wave of attacks was retreated. During this period, the three young dragons also wanted to make money and were driven back by Annan and Elias.

The unknown advantages of the magic musket are gradually disappearing, and to make matters worse, several magic muskets have been snatched from the morning battle.

Annan was not worried that they would imitate the magic musket, and by the time they developed it and then mass-produced, the war would be over. Annan was genuinely worried that they would use it to master the power and shortcomings of the magic musket.

It's too late to improve the magic musket!

Annan found the copper whisker and discussed while drawing the drawings: "The magic musket should be able to fire continuously, referring to the spindle of Susan's spinning machine, we will use a wheel-type mechanism......"

After the early morning battles, there were only a few sporadic Ranger infestations until the evening. But when late night came, the forces of the Mad Dog Grand Duke suddenly launched a near-general attack.

Davy Swan found the shortcomings of the musket that needed to be aimed. His late-night attacks in the midst of his insightful attacks allowed the elongated shield men to advance in the darkness.

The cavalry stood by in the rear, ready to charge after the shieldmen had cleared the rejecting horses.

A deafening roar and flickering light enveloped the outskirts of Liberty City, as if the fire dropped by the gods was scattered across the battlefield, and the smoke rose into the sky and merged into the deep night.

Annan almost begged Dean Brehim to intervene, but Olmedo stopped him. Neither Shvaro nor Brehim, Dahl, she said, they don't belong to Liberty City. You can't protect the inhabitants all the time, you have to teach them to fight for what they are protecting. True faith is born only in the tempering of iron and blood.

David Swan is a good, suitable opponent and Annan must learn to beat him personally.

Annan did exactly that: he climbed onto Elimoas's dragon back in the silence of Olmedo, personally went around the enemy's rear, opened the portal, and drove away David Swan, who immediately retreated at the sight of the portal.

Annan and Olmedo, who returned, unanimously decided that they could no longer be allowed to eat away little by little, and they had to take the initiative.

However, last night's experience did scare Lord Lorraine's idols, and his camp was guarded by mages and archers, and Elimoas could not get close......

Annan raised his head and asked Lord Loraine, "What does that Davy Swan like?" ”

(End of chapter)