The defenders suffered heavy losses.

Before the start of the war, there were 29 mercenaries and militiamen, but now there are less than 18 left, including 4 seriously wounded.

Fortunately, the enemy's losses were even heavier.

45 bandits, except for 5 riders who remained indifferent, survived no more than 12 people. They did not have any wounded, or rather would not withdraw from the battle as long as they did not die.

The fence was littered with human corpses, blood flowing from under each corpse and gradually joining together, a blinding blood-red color reflected in the sunlight.

There are a few black spots in the sky, which are scavenging birds perched in the wolf's kiss forest, which should be waiting for the humans on the ground to finish the fight and fly down to enjoy the feast all over the place, they are very patient, and often wait for days for a rotting corpse without giving up.

The battle continued, and although the number of people plummeted to about one-third, the tragic Cheng dù did not diminish in the slightest. The enemy strangled the lives in front of them at any cost, and the living mercenaries were also stimulated to the point that their eyes were red, and they numbly raised their weapons again and again, and only the word killing was left in their minds.

"What are these people for, how can they be so crazy......" Although Leon was a little accustomed to the cruel scene, he still didn't understand the purpose of the bandits, why did they fight to the death with such huge losses, was it because of the four riders behind, or was it really for the property of Rock Town?

"Generally speaking, the bandit mob and other creatures that wander in the Pale Mountains will gradually be invaded by dark forces if they have low willpower, and their delirium, personality changes, physical degradation, and strength evolution are all reflections of the invasion, and these people are easily caught up in endless desires, bloodthirsty, crazy...... It's very similar to what is happening now," Caterina quickly cleared the three enemies on her left, and when she returned, she heard Leon's muttering, so she explained what she had learned.

"So...... The five people over there look even stranger, don't you think," Leon asked.

"It's not surprising," Caterina said solemnly, "The dark power on the periphery of the Pale Mountain Range is very thin, and the higher the rank, the less it will be affected, and the two second-order professionals just now are an example. ”

Li Ang suddenly gasped, "Isn't that ...... like that?"

"That's right," the knight girl said with an unchanged face, "It's what you imagined, they are at least second-order professions." ”

"!" Li Ang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth in his heart, "Is this still worth it? two second-order professionals can lead the bandits to stir up the defensive position into a pot of porridge, if one or two more second-order people appear in the remaining people, the script is quite acceptable, and now you sue me that they are likely to all be second-order professionals?"

Leon suddenly had a feeling of being abandoned by the world.

At this time, Caterina did not care about the situation of the battle, she was squinting at the five riders with expressionless faces, and from the direction of Leon, she could just see her side. The knight girl's eyebrows were long and slender, raised like a small sword, and her thin lips were tightly pursed, and there was no despair or despair in her bright watery eyes, just calm.

"It's too late for you to take Sophia with you," she said suddenly.

"No, we've all decided to stay," Leon said, knowing that the shape behind him would be a hundred times more difficult than just now, but he still refused the other party.

"I retract my previous opinion," the knight maiden's voice was crisp and pleasant, "you have no less faith in your heart than a knight. ”

She smiled back, "My friend, no matter how it ends, let's do what is in front of us first." ”

With that, she raised the long sword in her hand and rushed to the battlefield on the other side.

Li Ang also clenched his sword, he finally spoke his decision at the last chance, and at this time he was extremely comfortable, and there was no longer the regret of slowly closing his eyes in helplessness when he was pushed into the emergency room for the last time in his previous life.

He looked back at Sophia not far away, the priest girl seemed to know what he had just said, her smile was like an angel, she clenched her fists and gestured at her chest, her eyes full of encouragement and recognition.

Well, let me now fully immerse myself in the world, to experience their faith and perseverance, their pain and joy, their gloom...... and brilliance.

......

There are 12 bandits left and 13 defenders left.

Poma was about to lose his hand, his level was obviously lower than that of his opponent, but he had held out for a few minutes, and he could still help the nearby mercenaries when they were in danger, which was not something that could be held out by relying entirely on will, he had already exhausted his life force.

"Assault!"

Katerina's voice was like a rain to the mercenary leader at this time, and the tall strong man on the opposite side immediately blocked the broad-bladed sword at his side.

After the dull crash, the strong man took a few steps back with a flushed face, and several cracks appeared in the blade of the sword, and finally turned into fragments and scattered to the ground.

He was also almost at the end of his crossbow, but if he continued to fight, he would definitely die in his hands first, and now he was being intervened by a woman, and he was so angry that he roared angrily.

The strong man threw away the broken sword and rubbed his hands together as the joints exploded.

"Captain Poma, you go to the support of the others, and I'll deal with him," Caterina said.

Poma nodded, he was out of breath and couldn't speak coherently for a while, but after taking a few deep breaths, he forced himself to join the other warbands and help the mercenaries deal with the enemies who were just as overdrawn.

The three surviving militiamen rested for a while and then rushed to this side.

And Li Ang was already in the middle of the battle, and the long sword in his hand flashed and stabbed the bandit who had just broken the throat of a mercenary.

"Gain 25 XP"

"Gain 10 XP"

"Gain 10 XP"

......

A series of hints came into view, and Li Ang barely paid attention to it, the current level was no longer meaningful to him compared to the battle situation.

The number of bandits was slowly but surely decreasing, and although the tall man swung his fists vigorously, he could not touch the movement of the knight girl, but added a few scars to his body.

Sophia had just recovered part of her spirit, and immediately recited two divine techniques, one to help Poma recover her body, and the other was a range of micro-healing techniques, the effect of this divine technique was one-fifth of that of a single body, but it was better than covering about ten people.

For the time being, it seemed that the tide of battle was developing in a good direction, and then there was a sound of horses' hooves in everyone's ears, which was slow but like a hammer striking at the bottom of everyone's hearts.

The enemy's riders are up. The person in the middle walked in the front, and the other 4 people moved slightly back, slowly approaching the battlefield in a uniform manner, and when they were fifty paces away, the next 4 people stopped again, and only the person in the middle wearing a burqa continued to move forward.

Leon's muscles tensed immediately, he had just harvested the life of another enemy, and he stopped to look up, only to find that he still couldn't see the rider hiding in his hood.

But as if to satisfy Leon's curiosity, the man raised his hand and slowly lifted the hood back, revealing a rather unexpected face.

It was a young man, with long blond hair and beautiful eyebrows like a woman's, which should be described as bewitching when combined with a pale complexion and lips that were as red as if they had been smeared.

The young man looked at the battlefield and did not pay attention to Poma's harvest of the bandits, let alone that the tall warrior was being suppressed by a female knight. His eyes shimmered with a reddish light, but the direction of his attention was an inconspicuous position in the corner of the battlefield.

There was a badly wounded bandit wriggling on the ground, his legs cut off from his knees, and his left hand gone, leaving only one right hand waving at his mouth.

Since he was already a dying man in the eyes of everyone, and he had no combat power to speak of, no one paid attention at all, only Li Ang, who was observing the young man, noticed it and turned his head to look over.

The bandit was stuffing some pieces of minced meat into his mouth, and it was a dead man's meat!

No, Leon took a closer look, only to find that he wasn't actually eating meat, but was sucking the blood that was attached to it......

It's a familiar scene.

Aren't the vampires described in the movies and television in the past life just dark creatures that feed on blood? Could it be that this bandit is actually a vampire?

The young man had come to the fence.

Caterina struck a solid blow with the tall man, and the other man's fist was slashed by the sword to reveal a terrible wound, and she jumped backwards with the force of the impact, landing in front of Leon.

The knight girl's face was pale, and almost no one could notice it except for Leon, who didn't care about her internal injuries, and her gaze fell on the face of the bewitching young man, and her face became extremely solemn.

"Pure-blooded vampires!"

Leon didn't know what the meaning of these words meant, but based on the knight girl's appearance and the distorted expressions of the rest of the mercenaries, it seemed that a terrible figure had appeared.

The young man jumped off his horse, his graceful movements full of beauty, and he stood near the fence, politely pressed his right hand to his chest, and bowed slightly to the crowd.

"In view of your indomitable fighting spirit, Leonardo Federline would like to express my sincere respect to you," the vampire's mouth raised slightly, "and this farce can be over." ”

As soon as he raised his hand, the fence more than half a meter wide in front of him silently dissolved into shreds, and disappeared with the breeze one after another, and then he continued to walk slowly with the standard aristocratic etiquette.

The pressure that this blow brought to the mercenaries can be imagined, and as the vampire walked, an increasingly heavy sense of oppression gradually permeated everyone's perception.

The two nearest mercenaries bore the brunt of the attack, stimulated by the might of the strong, they could no longer bear this silent sense of oppression, and rushed out screaming, brandishing their swords straight at the vampire.

"Don't go over!" Boma shouted, and he flew out to pull the two back, but it was too late.