Although Richard was a little careless in his previous life, after crossing into this world, he quickly changed this shortcoming in the face of a dangerous environment.

After advancing to the Seventh Ring, his spiritual power has exceeded fifty points, which is equivalent to a legendary magician.

Moreover, Richard awakened the talent for danger perception, and when he was tracked by the death owl, he was vaguely aware of the danger.

After the mental power exceeds five points, the memory has surpassed that of ordinary people, and the observation ability is extraordinary, and the brain is far better than ordinary people. The spiritual power exceeds fifty points, even if it does not rely on the power of magic runes, the simple use of spiritual power can already interfere with the reality plane to a certain extent, as if it is superhuman.

So when he found out that the owl had been following him for a while, Richard immediately reacted, his brain was racing fast, and he immediately knew that someone was going to come to him for trouble.

Richard had a hundred Warcraft cavalry under his command, which was far more powerful than a barony, and even stronger than the viscount army near Nolan.

The likes of the minor nobles were no match for the Warcraft cavalry at all, and they did not dare to plunder.

At this time, in addition to the royal family, the only people who dared to come to trouble Richard were the two major multinational chambers of commerce and the big nobles who participated in the auction.

The royal family is not insane, because hundreds of thousands of gold coins are about to attack the dukes in the country.

If this kind of thing is exposed, King Roger will immediately become notorious, and if he does such a serious violation of political morality, he will immediately become a famous faint king and tyrant in history. The entire kingdom of Grant will also lose order, lose mutual trust, and the country will be in danger of extinction without cohesion.

Moreover, in recent years, since Roger became king, the Grant royal family and the Haaland family have cooperated very well, and Richard has also been helpful to the royal family, and the relationship between the two sides is relatively close and has not broken down.

So in an instant, Richard ruled out the royal family.

The two major multinational chambers of commerce, Fanxing and Cangqing, have been operating in the Grant Kingdom for many years, although some businesses are very dark after they are opened, and the multinational chambers of commerce must have done a lot of things to kill people and goods. But they also had no reason, no guts, to attack a powerful duke.

If the matter is exposed, the two major chambers of commerce in the Grant Kingdom will definitely be shouted by everyone and lose the Grant Kingdom, which is not a small market. As long as the managers of multinational chambers of commerce are not fools, they cannot do this.

The only people who dared to do such a thing were the great nobles of other countries who participated in the auction.

Of the thirty-seven great nobles, more than ten were counts. The strength of the Earl's family is very average, there are only more than a hundred attendants around him, and his combat effectiveness is obviously inferior to Richard's guards, so he does not dare to rob and kill a duke at all.

The only ones who have the guts and ideas are a few powerful foreign dukes.

In this cross-border auction, three legendary professionals were present in person, namely Vanessa, the knight of roses, Pilosa, the death knight, and the legendary warrior Salriman.

Saliman, a duke of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, held the position of commander of the Third Legion and did not participate in the great battle with the Kingdom of Grant last year. This person was originally a member of the branch of the Duke Fran family, although he did not awaken the knight bloodline, but the warrior talent was very prominent, and gradually gained an advantage in the internal struggle of the family, and after being promoted to the legend, he used shady means to get rid of the main vein and became a new generation of Duke Fran.

Vanessa, the Knight of the Roses, is a famous duchess of the Kingdom of Saxony who has been famous for more than sixty years. The age of this female duke is eighty-seven years old, and according to public information, it should be forty-two years before she is promoted to legend.

Legendary knights have strong life ability, and their lifespan far exceeds that of ordinary people, often living to be one hundred and fifty or sixty years old, and there are some legendary knights who are good at health preservation and will live more than two hundred years old.

So the eighty-seven-year-old duchess, by the standards of legendary knights, is actually just entering middle age.

The last death knight, Pilosa, was the first duke of the Stark kingdom, and it was rumored that the reputation was not very good, and he often used his soldiers to disguise themselves as bandits to raid. Richard was more suspicious of the man.

After leaving Nolan Castle and heading into the northern mountains, Richard told Soros and Baron José of his suspicions.

Because there were many craftsmen and slaves with him, Richard asked Baron José to leave first with the slaves and some baggage, and the guards led by Haaland and Soros stayed, ready to embarrass the enemy.

The caravans of Haaland's territory frequented Nolan and were familiar with the terrain in the mountains north of Nolan, and soon Richard chose a site for an ambush.

Located at a bend in the valley, the terrain is relatively treacherous, making it a good place to stop it.

The valley has crossed a bend and enters a small mountain basin with a width of 200 meters and a length of 1 kilometer. This small basin has a gentle slope, which is suitable for cavalry charges and of course for Richard's retreat, and the narrow terrain at the bend of the valley is also suitable for Richard to unleash starlight bombs.

Richard sent men to keep an eye on the valley, and after waiting for less than three hours, the Duke of Pilosa and his soldiers had appeared. Behind this group of cavalry, there were also several carriages, which contained a part of the baggage and two female slaves of the elf clan, and the number of cavalry was more than 200 people, and the mounts were also common demonic beasts in the Dawn Continent.

In the sky above the cavalry, there was also a large owl hovering in the sky.

This owl is the Duke of Pilosa's demon pet Death Owl Oram, if it is according to the grade, according to Richard's observation, this Death Owl should be the sixth order.

The Death Sowl is a monster that can use the Shape Transformation Technique, which can be used to control the size of the body. Their bodies are actually quite larger than those of giant eagles, but after releasing their transformation, they can change their size to the size of a normal owl.

The Death Owl has a fierce temperament, can inherit a variety of spells in its bloodline, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the Lion Crane and the Flying Tiger of the same level.

Sixth-order death owls are very rare in the Dawn plane.

The Death Owl was born with extraordinary vision, even if Richard and the others were disguised, hiding in the cliffs on both sides of the valley bend, hiding under the dense trees, they were instantly detected by the Death Owl.

"Dear Duke Pilosa, there is an enemy ambush at the bend of the valley. There is a small basin behind the valley, which is suitable for cavalry charges. ”

The Death Owl signed a special contract of servitude with the Duke of Pilosa. Communication between them can be done through the transmission of spiritual power. Richard's mental power is far stronger than that of the death owl, and the mental fluctuations have just appeared, and they are detected by Richard.

Feeling that his whereabouts had been exposed, and the enemy's advance team had entered the ambush site, Richard was very decisive and shouted: "Release the arrows." ”

Although the team under Richard is a Warcraft cavalry, everyone is good at archery, in fact, the most important skill of Haaland in leading every regular army is always archery. A good soldier tends to be better at archery.

Moreover, in the team, there are also sharpshooters like Richard and Soros. When Richard gave the order, he released the bowstring at the same time, and Soros fired a fatal arrow.

In an instant, the rain of arrows fell, and they shot sparsely.

Although the rain of arrows is relatively sparse, its lethality is not ordinary, and in the first round of arrow rain alone, more than a dozen enemies were wounded and five Warcraft cavalry were shot.

Nearly half of the Warcraft cavalry under Pilosa's command were professional officers, and the Warcraft cavalry suffered losses, which made Pirosa suddenly feel a sense of pain.

To make matters worse, among the officers and soldiers who died in battle, there was a fifth-order knight, who was a member of Pilosa's clan and his adjutant, who was responsible for commanding the advance team in battle. The fallen knight looked very young, probably no more than thirty years old, and was dressed in a beautiful enchanted armor, but his helmet was easily pierced, and he had an expression of disbelief on his face.

The Demon Beast Cavalry under Pilosa's command are all wearing enchanted armor, even if the quality of the enchanted armor is very average, and the defense power is similar to that of snake scale armor, they can easily block ordinary crossbow arrows. After using Dou Qi to urge, the hardness of the enchanted armor will increase a lot, and it can block multiple slashes with ordinary enchanted weapons.

But this low-end enchanted armor was easily pierced by the Harland Collar Alloy Arrow.

Although the cost of the Super Magic Alloy Arrow produced by Haaland is high, the effect is very good, and the armor-piercing ability is extremely strong, and it can easily penetrate the second-order defensive armor after testing.

Special archers like Richard and Soros use armor-piercing arrows at any cost, carefully selected, often fifth- and sixth-order alchemy props, this special arrow, more than two or three hundred gold coins. Even aristocratic high-ranking officers like Richard and Soros can equip up to twelve of them, which are dedicated to shooting valuable targets.

Using a high-level bow and crossbow to shoot this kind of armor-piercing arrow, even if it is a legendary knight, without the protection of the legendary armor, he will not dare to make a hard connection.

The slightest negligence on the part of Pilosa's adjutant killed him from a cold arrow fired by Soros.

"Beware of the enemy's cold arrows, hiding behind big trees."

The officers under Pilosa's command shouted loudly, alerting the soldiers around him. The cavalry under Pilosa's command, for the sake of the speed of the soldiers, did not carry many large shields.

Finding that the arrows used by the enemy were very sharp and hard, and could easily shoot through armor and arm shields, the officers were a little flustered in their hearts, and immediately ordered the soldiers to think of ways to avoid the arrows.

Pilosa's men were all veterans and very experienced in warfare, and they hunched over and moved quickly to hide behind big trees and stone walls.

Another round of feathered arrows struck, and this round of arrow rain caused slightly fewer casualties, killing only three officers.

The biggest result was that Richard used a precious armor-piercing arrow to successfully shoot a fourth-order officer hiding behind a large tree.

This person hid behind a tree to avoid arrows according to experience, but he didn't expect that the arrow shot by Richard would easily penetrate a large tree with a diameter of more than two feet thick, and the armor-piercing arrow penetrated this person's helmet and scattered the brain.

After two rounds of arrow rain, the casualties were close to thirty, and two mid-level professionals were killed, which made Pilosa's face change greatly.

Pilosa has a somewhat short temper and a very fierce personality. Seeing this scene on the battlefield, he immediately jumped off his horse, used the air-flying spell inherited from his bloodline, and flew towards Richard and the others with a fierce momentum.

Flying rashly in the air, as if it were a live target.

Seeing this scene, the Warcraft cavalry led by Haaland immediately turned around and fired a round of feather arrows at Pilosa.

More than 100 arrows were fired at Pilosa, including armor-piercing arrows fired by Richard and Soros.

Seeing this scene, Pilosa did not panic, and released a circle of light on his armor, easily blocking the feathered arrows shot by the demon beast cavalry led by Haaland.

Pilosa's armor is already equivalent to the eighth order, and the market price of this armor is usually as high as hundreds of thousands of gold coins per piece. Most of the time, there is still no price, and in the entire Grant Kingdom, the total number of high-grade enchanted armors does not exceed ten

The alchemist of the Mage Association of the Grant Kingdom is only the fifth order that can be refined. The armor on Richard's body is the fifth order, and the one on Soros's body is even worse, only the fourth order.

The price of the fifth-order enchanted armor has reached as high as six or seven thousand gold coins, and the price of the fourth-order enchanted armor has also reached two or three thousand. Only noble officers of higher status had the money to equip one.

After all, the Haaland family has been in business for a short time, not only does it lack high-level professionals, but all kinds of high-level resources are relatively poor. On the contrary, it is a legendary-level magic item, and three pieces have been accumulated.

On top of Pilosa's high-level enchanted armor, it comes with a force field defense effect, as long as you urge the fighting energy, you can release the defense force field, which not only has a strong physical defense effect, but also a magic defense effect that is not weak.

As long as the fighting spirit is not exhausted, the defensive force field will not dissipate.

The feathered arrow struck the aperture and made a clanging sound, falling from the sky. The only arrow that pierced the aperture was the armor-piercing arrow fired by Richard and Soros.

Two armor-piercing arrows shot fiercely at Pilosa's body, shooting the flying Pirosa back more than ten meters, and the armor-piercing arrows slammed into the enchanted armor, although they did not shoot through, they were embedded in Pilosa's armor, destroying some of the intricate magic runes drawn on it.

After the rune was damaged, the light emitted by the armor on Pilosa's body also dimmed slightly, and the strength of the defense field weakened a little.

Soros and Richard teamed up to take advantage of the knight's weakness in air combat to push Pirosa back. Wilde, Drifen, Roman and other officers commanded the soldiers and fired a third round of feathered arrows at the monster cavalry under Pilosa's command.

This round was even more effective, only one Warcraft cavalry was shot, and no more than five people were wounded.

After three rounds of feathered arrows, the Demon Beast cavalry under Pilosa's command had already jumped off their horses and found a hiding place.

Because of the terrain, the bend in the valley was not suitable for cavalry charges, so Richard placed a large number of soldiers on both sides of the valley and fired deadly crossbow arrows.

Although the Monster Cavalry has a strong impact and is limited by the terrain, it cannot exert its ability at all, and this kind of terrain can only be used as a target on a tall horse, and the Flame Horse can only be transferred to the back of the battlefield with the baggage.

Finding that the enemy was no longer showing their heads, Wilde, Drifen, and Old Roman, with a dozen capable professional officers and soldiers, grabbed the rope and swung down the hill violently, and quickly attacked and scattered the lone enemy.

Vito, the captain of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, led the remaining soldiers to continue to release feather arrows to suppress the enemy's reinforcements.

(End of chapter)