Chapter 896: Acquaintances are easy to talk to
It was an indifferent voice, but it was as clear as the whispering of the legendary phoenix, so that it took everyone several breaths to understand the meaning of the sound, but what it referred to made them even more confused.
But the confusion was gone.
The strange sound of friction and the movements of the female knight came at the same time in an instant, and almost everyone only saw the figure flashing, but before they could draw their weapons, they had already changed!
There was a dull cracking sound, then the gurgling sound of running water, like someone tearing open a dry parchment water bag, but when Anthony turned his gaze in that direction, he only had time to see one of his companions on horseback, and a look of surprise, and then fell down with a thud, a brilliant red hue in the air, like a rainbow of blood.
"You...... Huh?"
The screams turned into surprise after the exit, because two piercing metal tremors pierced the surrounding space in an instant, and the knights even subconsciously wanted to block their ears. But before that, they saw something fly out of the air—blood and colorful entrails, and then the form that emerged from the air, the ugly, huge head still wailing, even though the entrails had poured to the ground.
Those tiny bodies of red and gray were only half the size of ordinary people, but the sharp claws, the distorted appearance, and the pair of short bat wings that shook behind them were enough to make people start.
It's really demons! Demons are coming!
The fishy stench of blood mixed with the strong smell of sulfur is in this taste. The human mind also seemed to be confused, so at least half of the scouts turned their horses and galloped off the way they came. The remaining half, bewildered and froze in place—they were not afraid, but their mounts were clearly unable to withstand the pressure of the abyssal beings, and even though the enemy was dead, they refused the order to go on the road!
But not far away, a terrifying hiss has already sounded!
The continuous impact makes people's minds go blank. Anthony looked up blankly and saw the flickering light ahead......
Countless large and small lights squeezed out blue-black or purple-red figures. They squirmed like mud, fluttered their bats of different sizes, and spread their gray feathered wings...... The flames whipped up the cold wind and blew away the scattered snow in the sky. In the midst of the flames and the flowing filth. Through the cracks of those spaces in a variety of indescribable forms, it descended on this world like a nightmare.
A big attack by the devil?
Although in recent days, there seem to have been some rumors that the seat of the empire is so slow to respond under the attack of Tumenes, because there are demons wreaking havoc on the big 6, but whether it is said or heard, it is regarded as a little pastime after dinner, and the appearance of demons in the world has long been a cliché. There are countless tricks that have been turned out in the mouths of the bards, and even a few more are nothing new. Anyway, the possibility of encountering them is much lower than going out and meeting a noble lady without clothes.
But now...... Maybe I provoked the goddess Bensaba at some point, right?
Anthony's astonishment was interrupted by the shaking of his body, and as he scrambled to kick the stirrup, the mounts under his seat had already fallen forward!
After a few breaths, thick white foam erupted from their mouths, noses, ears, and even eye sockets, followed by something thick, like plasma, emitting a thick foul smell that made several bewildered knights take a few more steps back.
"It's poison, those damn demons have already scratched them!" Anthony's face changed again and again, but he immediately noticed a few scratches on the horse's belly and thighs—which matched the claws of the demons on the ground who had been split in two.
Looking at each other, several knights were already covered in cold sweat, although they had long heard that demons were terrible, but when they saw it with their own eyes, they could realize where it was terrible, and the ones who died on the ground were obviously just the most common little demons, in the legend they would only add a little trouble to the brave, but this kind of monster that would be stealthy and with a poisonous monster that sealed its throat with blood, how terrible is it in reality? It is impossible to guard against at all, and as long as the body is scratched a little oily skin, it is dead!
If that's the case with a mere little devil, what would those legendary and more powerful things look like? The legendary ones are so powerful that tearing an individual is like tearing a rag, and what's even more terrifying is that they are born with the ability to teleport, and they can reach anywhere at once......
Anthony didn't dare to think about it again. Just jerked out his sword.
"Alert! red, three-in-a-row!" he ordered.
But the order was not carried out, "which...... Captain, the signal arrow was held by Scarface, he had, already ......" The voice of a subordinate made Anthony's heart even colder - he was too careless this time, because he didn't explain anything on it this time, so he also had a little bit of fun in mind, and the result was that the rockets used for the herald were all on Scarface Quaid who had just run away, and the remaining seven or eight people didn't even have a single one on them!
Those dead mages, I knew it was such a troublesome mission, Anthony would definitely be fully armed, no, it was better to call sick and take leave, and never set foot on this stinking shit-like battlefield!
But blaming someone doesn't make any sense and doesn't change any reality...... So let's think about what can be done to deal with the current situation.
Recently, teleportation magic has been useless, and lighting a beacon fire?
There is no fire at all on the basis of this little withered grass under our feet, unless more people are sent to collect it, but how can we have that time now? Not to mention that the flame has not yet been lit in this snowy weather. Even if it's early, that little fire won't produce much smoke......
Glancing back, Anthony gritted his teeth.
It's like a real taunt. Tumenis' army was more than twenty miles behind, and when he looked west, he could almost see the dust raised by the army—in normal times, this road would be less than half an hourglass, but now, this distance has become a trench! Even if the horses are intact, can they compare to the demons who can fly or teleport?
Unless these demons are fools. Now I will choose to stand still, otherwise, as long as a demon who can teleport rushes up, the six or seven people on my hand will not be enough for those monsters!
Isn't this dead? It's like shit......
The knight cursed in his heart.
Fight as a soldier. Death is long overdue. But when death comes, it should be better to be gorgeous - although he Anthony actually doesn't have much of this awareness, after all, being a soldier in Tumenis is destined to encounter any miserable and heroic scenes in his life, he has only heard some veterans say that on the battlefield, sometimes, this death cannot be escaped.
But I didn't expect it. Today seems to be his Anthony's time.
It's a pity that this end is too different from what he imagined - when he first became a knight. He seems to have really thought about fighting with the demons or something, but according to the idea at that time, he was a hundred-man team that killed at least one demon like chopping vegetables and melons to be considered a hero, so that even if he died, he at least died as a hero, although he died a glorious death, his name was engraved on the monument and passed on forever.
But is that okay now?
"It seems to be a bit of fun this time, but I haven't seen a demon look like it yet. Seeing that the captain was silent, a man in his thirties among the knights suddenly smiled, his eyes glanced at the shadows that had been dense in the distance for a moment, he spat on the palm, rubbed it, and tightened his armor: "How about it, who wants to compare with Lao Tzu, who has killed more demons?"
"Forget it, don't look at your current face, the widow you hooked up with yesterday drained all your strength, right? ”
"The god of the brave is above, and luck is also part of the strength. The knight of the preface laughed: "Well, to be honest, if it hadn't been for the twenty-year sword, I would have shouted Timorrah's majesty by now!"
There are many gods on the Great 6, and believing in a certain god does not necessarily require any special rituals, but except for some special places, the inhabitants usually rarely really believe in a god, and most of them are cunning This god also worships, and that god also prays, and it is a little bit of benefit to get a little benefit, but everyone also knows that if a person who has no faith dies, there will be no god to support him to the end he deserves in the land of death...... Even if they suffer forever on the legendary Wall of Unfaith, they will drift along the River Styx to the devil's hell or the abyss of demons, and eventually become a member of the demons, so before they die, they will eventually determine the god who can protect them, and choose the most suitable one based on their life's actions.
Just as now, several knights had begun to proclaim their faith in loud and low voices, and they were laughing, but the laughter was somewhat desolate.
At the far end of their gaze, those glossy flickeres were no longer clearly visible—not extinguished, but already obscured by countless shadows, like a big bird, black shadows swept up from the ground, and soon became much clearer in the distant snow, and the vulture-like body spun in the air for half a circle, and then rushed in the direction of these lone humans!
"This honorable lady, can you listen to my reluctant request?"
After a moment's hesitation, Anthony gritted his teeth and spoke to the female knight who was still standing on the side. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a companion beside him:
"If you could...... Well, anyway, our army is thirty miles to the west, and if you can, can you take this companion of mine out of the way? He can show you the way, and he is the youngest of us, and I will let him take off his armor, and it will not affect your horse, and the three children of his family are just one boy. Moreover, his family is a baron, and he helped them keep this son, and they can still get paid more than a hundred gold coins. We're going to hold the crumbs here for a while. It should be enough for you to escape......"
The hand that this female knight quietly killed the three demons just now was actually shocking enough, and with that sword, Anthony knew that this knight should at least have the ability of a middle and high knight, and if he could, he actually wanted to follow her and have more safety guarantees.
But no matter how strong this female swordsman is. In the face of this seemingly endless pouring of enemies, she may not be able to protect a few people by herself...... And even if she could lead someone away, the giant horse would be able to carry the weight. How many people can you take away? Can you break through the encirclement of the demons? What's more, if you are so ignorant, is it possible to ask her to flee with her own gang and increase her burden? So after hesitating again and again, Anthony still chose the most feasible method.
The knightess didn't speak. But the guy who was assigned blew up:
"I'm also a regular garrison knight of the Kingdom of Tumenis! I won't do it!" The young man was stunned for a moment, and then realized what his captain was talking about...... This guy stalked his neck, and out of nowhere, a stubbornness came: "My father is a baron, I am a noble family, I ......"
"Nobleman, you coyote dung ball!"
Famini slapped the young man on the back of the neck and staggered him: "Those guys just now may not be able to run far, no one will go back, you want us to be attacked by these monsters." How many brothers are going to die? You have the worst swordsmanship, so what can you do if you stay? We don't want to be able to kill when we die! As long as we can get our brothers out of danger. It's worth it when we die!"
The young man wanted to say something, but Famini's gaze was fierce, and he could only remain silent, and he was slapped again before finally turning to the other side. He began to take off his armor with tears in his eyes.
However, things did not seem to be at all what Famini had thought—the woman on the giant horse seemed to be deaf to his advice, and with a slight tremble of the horse's reins, one man and one rider had already turned in a different direction, towards the demon colony that had swarmed out and had occupied half of the sky!
"This ...... Your Excellency!" Famini was startled, and wanted to say something, but now was obviously not the time for persuasion—the light and shadow in front of him flickered, the space caved as if it had been torn apart, and then it was torn open a huge gap of more than a dozen feet, and then a huge head that looked a little like a dog stretched out from it, and let out a cry of surprise, the kind of voice that seemed to contain something hoarse and ugly, but it was enough to make people cold!
It was only at this moment that everyone finally understood that they did not really realize the strictness of the things that were being born in front of them. At that moment, they held their weapons in both hands, but they couldn't feel the weight of those things, all the muscles in their bodies seemed to be paralyzed, only their eyes were still moving, and they couldn't even think about the scene in front of them when it was directly sent into their minds.
The dog-like head turned, and a pair of violet eyes nailed several sluggish people on it, and then a thick hand also reached out, pulling his huge body out of the gap in space as if grasping the void, resembling a human's body but several times thicker. The hair was entangled with the nail pieces, and a blood-like liquid flowed freely on it.
It opened its mouth, spewed a sip of sulphur-smelling fire, and laughed, incomprehensible to what he was saying, but that didn't stop humans from understanding its terrible malice—a human sword was like a toy made of wood compared to the metallic claws on its two stout arms.
More luster flickered around it, sending out figures with viscous dark red skins, each with a sword in hand, toward the humans.
"Is it just dead, though it's such a big demon......" Famini sighed inwardly.
But the sensations in the body suddenly returned.
The blood seemed to be boiling and burning, bringing a subtle pain like a pinprick to the knight, and the knight lowered his head slightly in astonishment, seeing the flames blazing on his sword...... It burned along the hilt of the sword all the way to his hands, but surprisingly he didn't feel any pain, but instead there was a hearty overflow of power.
Famini subconsciously turned her head and watched as the glow of the flame spread like a circle of water waves, and in the center of the ring, the female knight was raising her sword.
The flame-like luster dispelled the cold and haze, and at this moment, the surroundings seemed to fall into a warm sunshine, but this light was as red as blood, which reminded the knights of some myths, the legendary gods came to the world, although the appearance is no different from ordinary people, but between the actions and stops, it must bring out miracles that humans cannot imagine. And now, at the meeting of their eyes, the woman in blood-red scale armor was undoubtedly a person who lived up to this legend, and on the six-foot-long giant sword in her hand, a layer of flame seemed to be faint, but it was almost impossible to describe as 'flame'.
It was a flowing red light, a frozen stream of water, or a fluctuating crystal, and with the light downward pressure of the sword, a round of full moon-like luster flew out of the sword, forming a light curtain that spread forward in space (to be continued......
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