After the king's party returned from the three wild boars, several bards came to the castle to ask for an audience.

However, Elizabeth and the well-informed dwarves and drow elves saw through their disguises, and sure enough, just as the king had a hunch, the bards of the whole city of Langdon did not live up to the king's expectations.

And just like that, the time came the next day.

At noon the next day, Elizabeth and the others surrounded the king on the wall.

They were waiting for Cassand, who had gone to reconnoitre, to return and report the location of the Emperor's army.

The cats built pergolas with their hands and looked into the distance against the battlements: "I can't see the Hussars of the Amur, shouldn't they wander around the city to intercept the conscripted troops that have gathered here?" ”

Wang: "Maybe they're intercepting the armed peasants right now, far from the city." ”

As soon as the words fell, the Duke of Langdon climbed the wall with his retinue: "Don't worry, I have ordered all the conscripted peasants to enter the nearby baron's fortress, where they will not be disturbed by cavalry. ”

Wang: "Good afternoon, Lord Duke. ”

Elizabeth: "You look happy, brother. ”

Bruce smiled: "Because there is good news that the army of the valley leader who is still on the river has already submitted the surrender, and they don't want to rush through the blockade of the tower ballista again and return to the valley leader, so they surrender to us."

"I've captured twenty knights with fiefdoms, and I've sent their retinue back to the valley in a clipper. I expect that soon the Valley Territory will withdraw from the war and pay the ransom for us to release them. ”

Elizabeth: "So the war is almost over, isn't it?" Then there should be no need for the king to attack the emperor's army. ”

Bruce looked at his sister and patted her on the shoulder: "How can you say that, you are the saint of Langdon, let the mage turn into a dragon to spray, how many casualties can be reduced among the people of Langdon City?" The enemy has an advantage in numbers. ”

Elizabeth: "But ......"

"Don't worry." The king interrupted the princess, "I have made all preparations for today, you see this. ”

As he spoke, he took out a head ring from the dimensional pouch and put it on his head: "This is a magic item captured from Irwin, which can defend against the instant death effect. ”

Elizabeth: "But you ...... before"

The king took out another ring: "Do you know this ring, the traitor found it, and you promised the traitor 4,500 gold coins to give me this ring." ”

Elizabeth squinted at the ring, "I remember you said this was a spell counter ring?" ”

Wang nodded: "Yes, I gave this ring to your family's archmage this morning, and he is a seven-ring spellcaster. I asked him to fill the ring with a dissociation. This way, the first dissociation technique fired at me will be countered by the ring. ”

The Archmage laughed, "I consumed a precious six-ring spell slot, but I think it's worth it. Bring us victory, Archmage. ”

I don't know why, since yesterday, everyone likes to call Master Wang.

Wang: "I'm just a rookie in the third ring. ”

At this moment, a sparrow in the air descended, and before landing, it changed into Cassand: "The Emperor's troops marched to our predetermined position, and observed a huge number of spellcasters, as many as 80 people!" ”

The barons and viscounts behind Bruce exclaimed, "Eighty? ”

"Even if they are all three-ring spellcasters, they can blow up all the city gates with fireballs!"

"The abominable emperor, do you still have hole cards?"

Bruce raised his hand to stop the nobles' discussions, and looked directly at the king: "What do you think?" Your Excellency, a disciple of the legendary archmage? ”

The king shrugged his shoulders: "The emperor did not send the magic caster to participate in the attack the day before yesterday because the priests of the good gods and all the holy warriors did not allow themselves to participate in this kind of robbery and torture against civilians. However, arcane spellcasters do not have this moral constraint.

"Actually, just by the words of a mage, there are a little more evil mages who will do whatever it takes to study. Why didn't a single arcane spellcaster sent to attack the Emperor the day before yesterday?

"I think that the Emperor doesn't have so many arcane spellcasters, and this is the Emperor's suspicious plan, so that an adult male can wear a magic robe and hang a bag around his waist, which looks a lot like a mage from the air.

"Of course, there should still be quite a lot of magic casters in the emperor's troops."

The king's words relieved the nobles who had just wavered. Bruce asked, "How can you be sure that these are the Emperor's suspicious tactics?" Maybe he didn't get reinforcements when he attacked yesterday, maybe the casters had some kind of agreement with them. ”

Bruce: "You're right, but I have other proof. Cassander, are all these casters all in one place? ”

Cassander nodded: "Yes, it's all in one place." ”

Wang turned to Bruce: "That doesn't make sense. The Emperor should have known through the fleeing knights that there was a dragon here—or a mage who could transform into a dragon.

"If he really has so many spellcasters, he should spread them out throughout the team, and once the dragon attacks, use the spell 'Common Protection Energy'. The dragon's breath attack can be judged by its appearance, and with so many scattered casters, the damage of the dragon's breath can be greatly reduced.

But he didn't. Then there is only one possibility, this 'mage team' is used to scare people. ”

Bruce laughed, turned to the nobles, and said, "Do you hear that?" This is an analysis from the disciple of the legendary archmage, the emperor is already a paper tiger, and he wants to bluff through this means. Victory will be ours! ”

The king took out the artifact from the dimensional pouch, and the blue-white light immediately flashed everyone's eyes—even in the early summer sun, the thing was so bright.

Bruce raised his hand to block his eyes and asked, "Can't you just turn the light down a little bit?" ”

Wang: "No, it's just so bright." In the future, we venture into the dungeon without lighting torches. ”

Elizabeth: "Sounds like great news. ”

The king looked up at the sun, estimated the present time, and then turned and grabbed Elizabeth's shoulder.

Elizabeth looked like her blood had stopped: "What? ”

Wang: "Get out of the way, the dragon will squeeze you off the wall, and you don't want to be the first princess to fall to her death, do you?" ”

Bruce: "It's the second one, our grandmother was thrown out of the window by her maid and fell off the tower and died in the process of seizing the heir. Since then, the maids of the female children of our family have been the wives of the absolutely loyal old courtiers. ”

Wang looked at Bruce, and was shocked by the "family affection" between the nobles: "Oh, well, I didn't expect this to be a tradition. But I still hope Elizabeth stays away. ”

Elizabeth nodded, and walked a long distance with the rest of the group.

Bruce also retreated with the nobles closer to the tower.

The king activated the artifact and transformed into a giant black dragon. With the keen hearing of dragons, he heard Archmage Bruce mutter, "This is probably the advanced dragon form of the Eight Rings, or even the ultimate dragon form of the Nine Rings, not the pediatric type of the Seven Rings." ”

After completing the transformation, Wang didn't know why he roared first, maybe because the black dragon was more brutal by nature, he liked to howl in front of so many humans.

The sour stench of corruption on him drove everyone away a little more. Only Elizabeth was still standing.

Cassander said, "I'll lead the way." ”

After saying that, he turned into a peregrine falcon and rushed into the sky first.

The king flapped his wings and took off, and Elizabeth stood still against the wind he had created.

After the king flew up, Elizabeth turned to Xiaobai and said, "You go too!" Protect him, in case he falls and turns back into human form, you're going to drag him back! Come back and I'll reward you with meat! ”

Xiaobai: "Okay! ”

With that, she jumped over the battlements and jumped off the wall, and Elizabeth stepped forward, just in time to see a bald eagle rising from under the wall, catching up with the dragon flying towards the sun.

Elizabeth was lying on the battlements, worry written all over her face.

Marika stepped forward and comforted: "He jumped on his left eyelid yesterday, why don't you believe in his fate?" ”

"I believe it. But that doesn't make me worry. Elizabeth said.

Bruce turned back to Wayne, who was faithfully guarding him, and said, "Our sister, the soul has been lost. ”