In the middle of the battlefield.

Deep pits.

With a loud explosion, the entire battlefield fell silent for a moment.

The eyes of the warriors subconsciously converged on the direction from which the voice came - the deep pit with a diameter of more than one hundred and fifty meters.

In his sight, a tall figure jumped up from the deep pit with a blood wolf beast body on his back that was no longer moving.

The tall figure was covered in blood and gray hair fluttering in the wind, the flesh and blood were blurred, the muscles were shrunken and dry, and one arm was broken, and it looked like the fire of life was about to be extinguished.

Brian looked around and was relieved to see the clarion call for victory that the war had come to an end, even though the victory in this war was so deserved.

When the will could no longer hold on, Brian's consciousness instantly blurred and fell to the ground.

Not long after it fell, three healing spells fell on the two stumps of Brian and the Blood Wolf.

Roy, Witt, and the family elder 'Butch' drove the monster mount to the front, and their brows jumped as they watched the miserable situation of Brian and his mount.

"Dalton is dead."

The dragon-blooded warrior who had gone to check the results in the pit came back to report the news, and his eyes under the metal mask were uncontrollably shocked. He looked at the emaciated gnoll lying on the ground, and a shudder and admiration rose in his heart.

Before reaching the master level, being able to fight a master warrior who has been famous for a long time is unimaginable with such ferocity and madness.

A group of bewitching figures fluttered in the sky, and one of them fell to the ground.

Ava Black Feather walked straight over, and the surrounding dragon-blooded warriors subconsciously got out of the way, and when they were guarding the patriarch and others to cast spells, they saw the terrible nature of this woman. I don't know how many warriors and spellcasters have been slaughtered and harvested by the harpy banshees she leads.

"How's Brian? Dead? Before anyone arrived, Ava's languid and charming voice arrived.

"Brian's state of leadership is not very good, but his life is saved," Witt and Butch continued to release healing techniques on the side, and Roy stepped forward to carefully examine Brian's remnants with magic and mental power, and his tone was a little heavy.

"But what? To put it bluntly, it's nothing even if you're dead. Ava came close and glanced at Brian's tragic condition, her tone casual.

As the master's guard and maid, Ava didn't pay much attention to these savage monster warriors, even the fourteenth-level Brian. Because Ava believes that with the strength and bloodline of the master, even a master-level creature can be easily subdued, and there is no need to care about the death of a high-level monster at all.

Roy glanced at Ava, although Ava was a gift from their family at the beginning, but today is different from the past, the situation and status have already changed dramatically, he bowed his head slightly, and said in a polite tone,

"Bryan's injuries are still the other side, even if the hand is broken, it can have a high-level spell recovery, but the blood in its body has almost completely burned, the foundation is damaged, and the body has become an empty shell, even if it survives, it is estimated. The strength will also be reduced a lot."

"That is, it will become a waste later?" Ava stopped what Roy wanted to continue saying, and said directly, with a cold expression.

Roy hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly, "Unless it's a superposition spell, or even a forbidden spell, there is a high probability that it won't be recovered." ”

The Transcendence Spell is the name given to the Nine Rings spells, and many of the highest-rank spells used by Archmages who have reached the Legendary rank are at this level. And the forbidden spell spell is not to mention, there are ten rings at the beginning, eleven rings, and twelve rings, at least you have to be a legendary mage to learn and release. Some terrifying forbidden spells can even overturn a Material Plane and create a new one.

"Over-position? Forbidden spells? Ava smiled, and the wide black feathered wings on her back fluttered and flew into the air.

Looking at Ava, who was leaving quickly with the Harpy, Roy didn't say anything, but Witt on the side couldn't help it,

"These monsters are really ruthless, and they are in the same camp anyway"

"Hehe, in this world, even relatives and heirs can be sacrificed, just to become stronger, not to mention the so-called same camp? Witt, you're still so naïve. Roy smiled slightly, turned his head to look at what Witt was about to say,

"Alright, let's take care of Commander Brian, maybe they will have a chance to get back up."

"Patriarch, what does this mean?" Witt frowned slightly, a little puzzled.

Didn't you just say that you need some superposition or forbidden spell to heal? And now you say there's a chance?

Do you want to ask the archmage to cast a spell?

However, Roy did not answer Witt's question, because he himself was not sure.

"The master's dragon vein power is special, perhaps," Roy groaned in his heart.

With the death of Dalton, the commander of the army of the Duchy of Cass, this sudden war also came to an end quickly.

The human army involved in this battle was about 35,000.

Among them, about 10,000 corpses were left behind, about 18,000 were captured by the monster army, and about 7,000 were scattered and fled.

On the side of the monster army, the number of participants in the battle is 10,000, as well as hundreds of elite support from the Silgrinder family.

Among them, there are about three hundred and thirty monster warriors who died, and the sum of minor and serious injuries is less than two thousand (mainly some minor injuries that are not serious).

Most of the monster warriors who died were intermediate monsters who had just entered the fifth level, and then they were unlucky enough to be shot in the head by the enchanted arrows of the human army, piercing through death, or killed by concentrated fire, of course, a considerable number of them died in the fierce battle with the Knights of Bauhinia. However, the latter was even worse, and the weave that had taken five or six years to reassemble was now crippled again, with greater losses than the last time they were besieged by the Queen of Darkness and the Centaur Hurricane Knights.

"It's a big win." Roy couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the army of monsters that were collecting corpses and driving away the captives and preparing to retreat.

Such a powerful army of monsters is simply something that a human principality can resist.

It is the kingdom of Albit that is twisted into a rope, if the legend and the master level do not end, just compete with the combat effectiveness of the army of professionals, and the victory or defeat is also unknown.

This is still assuming that it is twisted into a rope, in fact, the kingdom of Yarbit cannot be twisted into a rope at all.

Intermediate professionals are not miscellaneous fish, they have already met the minimum conditions for receiving a pioneer order from the great nobles, and once the development is successful, they will be automatically promoted to the nobles, although they are generally only the lowest knights or lords.

Creak.

The metal wine glass was pinched flat by the palm of the hand.

The owner of the palm of his hand had a gloomy look in his eyes, and he sat upright on the throne, and the noble ministers below were silent.

"Dalton is dead? There are only more than 300 people left in the 1,000-strong Bauhinia Knights? Grand Duke Bauhinia muttered to himself.

After a long time, he sighed deeply, and his spirit seemed to be ten years old at once,

"Give up the northern border, and all the remaining troops are withdrawn."

As soon as this order was issued, some nobles below instantly became anxious, "Grand Duke, how can this be allowed, the Silland family is just a viscount family, why."

Grand Duke Bauhinia glanced at them lightly, and the terrifying aura made the nobles slowly close their mouths,

"Don't talk about this kind of nonsense, if you northern nobles, if you are reluctant to retreat because of your territory and interests, then go to the Silgrinder family.

From the news I received in the southern part of the wasteland, you should know that the nobles who have taken refuge in the Hirgrinder family are still alive and well. ”

As he spoke, Grand Duke Bauhinia glanced at the nobles in the hall with a calm expression.

He made it very clear.

And the nobles of the northern realm, who originally wanted to make trouble, had nothing to say and shut up one after another.

After all the nobles and ministers retreated, Grand Duke Bauhinia's eyes narrowed, not knowing what he was thinking.

"An army of tens of thousands of monsters that have reached the intermediate level, and judging from the characteristics and aura of those monsters, they are all black dragon dragon vein creatures. Which black dragon did the Hirgrinder family take refuge in? ”

First of all, exclude the Queen of Darkness.

The breath is wrong. Moreover, the growth trajectory of the Queen of Darkness is relatively clear, and it is impossible to suddenly create such a strong army.

However, there is also an army of monsters with the same breath on the side of the Dark Lair, serving under the command of the Dark Queen

"The Dark Queen's Spouse?" Grand Duke Bauhinia could only guess in this direction.

This is also why, after the defeat of the army, the Grand Duke of Bauhinia did not personally lead the army to take revenge, but chose to forbear, and even planned to take the initiative to give up part of the country.

In the current chaotic situation - the southern part of the wasteland is occupied by a powerful black dragon force suspected to be the consort of the Dark Queen, the central part of the wasteland is occupied by the Dark Lair led by the Dark Queen, and the northern part of the wasteland is occupied by the centaur army led by the Centaur King, and there is a faint sense of cooperation between these three parties.

In this situation, if the Duchy of Cass chooses to continue to intervene, take the initiative to fall into the quagmire of war, and consume the monster army, the national strength will only decline more and more, and eventually go to extinction.

On the contrary, at this time, ceding the northern territory of the principality and giving it to the Hirgrand family to manage and rule, although it will increase the opponent's sphere of influence, but correspondingly, it will also drag down the opponent's strength.

Those nobles in the northern territory of the principality have long been not so loyal to the Grand Duke of Bauhinia because they are far away from the capital all the year round, especially in the current situation of the principality's successive defeats, they must have different hearts.

This time, Grand Duke Bauhinia is equivalent to 'abandoning' a group of nobles with different intentions along with their territories, and let these nobles who can only play tricks and conspire with the Hygrindand family toss each other, and both sides will consume them.

After the Grand Duke of Bauhinia gave this order, a group of emissaries rushed to the front line in the north overnight and met with Roy, the ruler of the Silland family.

"Give up the city of Visalia and the dozen or so towns and hundreds of villages around it?" Roy smiled slightly, and said with emotion, "It is worthy of the Grand Duke of Bauhinia, I really have the courage to agree." ”

The messenger breathed a sigh of relief, performed a noble etiquette, and hurried out with the news.

After the Principality envoy left, Roy rubbed the smooth armrests of his chair and groaned,

"Grand Duke Bauhinia is really able to endure it. But that's what I want. ”

If Grand Duke Bauhinia chooses to die and break the net, then Roy will have even more headaches, because he is not sure if the master will also make a move after Grand Duke Bauhinia makes a move. If they don't make a move, then their Heatgrinder family will be miserable.

But don't worry about it now, Grand Duke Bauhinia has already taken the initiative to back down.

This result cannot be said to be the best, but it is definitely the most secure for the Hygrindeld family.

"Now let's deal with this group of nobles in the north of the principality first, and we can't let them make a fuss, otherwise the territory we take over will only become a huge mess." Roy had a decision.

He recruited a few of his sons who were quite good.

"You will take my letter and go to Vaisalia to meet you"

"Master, the battle situation on the frontline of the wasteland"

Black Castle.

Shiki reports the results of this war to Udi.

"Alright, I got it."

The black dragon lay on the throne and said lazily.

Since Grand Duke Bauhinia bowed his head and chose to retreat, that's good.

I can develop peacefully and steadily for a while.

Udi doesn't want to make a move now, as soon as he makes a move, regardless of victory or defeat, he will put himself on the bright side, and before he has absolute strength, it is obviously dangerous to do so.

As for when is the right time to make a move?

Udi thought about it for a while, and felt that he had to at least have a barely legendary strength, and learn the spells to go to other planes. With these two prerequisites, one's own safety and retreat can be regarded as basically guaranteed.

He deeply understands that as long as he develops steadily, he will be able to sweep everything he is currently doing sooner or later, so why should he find so many hidden dangers and dangers for himself?

"By the way, master, Brian is seriously injured." Regarding Brian, Shiki also mentioned it.

"Is this guy crippled?" Udi felt a little pity, he felt that Brian's potential was still good, he had led the clan in the wasteland before, and he was oppressed by the centaurs and could survive for decades, and without much resources, he also had a thirteenth-level strength.

Brian is definitely a genius, a genius among the gnolls.

This has also been demonstrated in this war.

With the strength of the fourteenth level, he fought hard to kill a master-level professional. Although the other party is just a very ordinary warrior class, the professional level is only fifteen, and there is also the help of Roy and others. But that doesn't hide the strength of Bryan's fighting power.

"Equip Brian with a few healing spells to make good dragon vein warlocks, and then equip some mid-to-high-level monster flesh resources to see if he can recover."

Uddy thought for a moment and said.

If this kind of brave monster can recover, it is estimated that he will soon be able to advance to the master level.

And the dragon's nest power up to now, although there is master-level combat power, but there are really no real master-level monsters (top-level monsters).

Without the top combat power, many times it will be a little constrained.

"Yes, follow your orders." Shiki nodded respectfully.

Next.

A group of harpies flew outside Blackcastle, led by Ava Blackfeather.

"What a beautiful nest."

A group of harpies looked at the majestic castle glowing black and gold in the scorching sun, and they jumped with joy.

Ava couldn't help but smile on her face.

"Let's go, go see the master."

The leader gave the order, and a group of chirping banshees shut their mouths and flew after Ava to Castle Black.

However, to their surprise, the Dragonborn warriors guarding the Black Keep stopped them.

Ava waved her hand to silence the angry banshees behind her, and she looked coldly at the dragonborn warriors who stood in her way.

Unlike normal human Dragonborn warriors, the two Dragonborn warriors who came to stop Ava had a pair of bat's jet-black wings on their backs, and they looked the same, twins.

"Do you know who I am?" Ava looked away from their black wings, her tone indifferent.

The twin dragonborn warriors flapped their dark flesh wings behind their backs, their brows furrowed slightly, and one of them sneered, "This is Blackcastle, and no one is allowed to enter it without being summoned." ”

Ava's face remained unchanged and she said calmly, "We are the maids who serve our master. ”

The twin dragonborn warriors glanced at each other, their eyes were strange, but they still shook their heads firmly,

"It's true that there are harpy dragonborn maids in the Black Castle, but we haven't seen any of you."

"Hehe, I see." Ava nodded knowingly, her expression abrupt.

She waved her hand slightly.

The harpies, who couldn't bear it anymore behind them, rushed over directly and surrounded the two dragonborn warriors in the middle.

"You dare to provoke the great Black Dragon King?!" The twin Dragonborn warriors were a little furious, clearly not expecting this.

The harpys stepped forward with a sneer, and the sharp talons directly grabbed the two of them with their pair of bat wings, and without the bat wings, the two dragonborn warriors directly lost their ability to fly, fell from the sky, and smashed heavily to the ground.

The human Dragonborn warriors, who had long sensed that something was wrong on the ground, quickly stepped forward and helped the two blood-vomiting Batwing Dragonborn warriors to their feet.

"Why don't you hurry up and arrest them!" While vomiting blood, the Batwing Dragonborn warrior said viciously.

"Two adults, this." This group of human dragonborn warriors was a little embarrassed.

Some of the human dragonborn warriors even recognized Ava and them, and hesitated,

"That's Ava Commander, the master's personal maid"

And even if they weren't, they wouldn't be able to fly, and they wouldn't be able to stop it

"You guys." The face of the bat-winged drakeborn warrior turned a little blue, and the two of them gritted their teeth as they looked at the human drakescent warriors with innocent faces and even faint schadenfreude in their eyes.

With a cruel remark, the two Batwing Dragon-Descendant warriors staggered away.

Behind them, the look of ridicule on the faces of the human dragonborn warriors could not be stopped.

"I'm just two mongrels if I don't rely on Lord Isha, how dare I be so arrogant."

A brown-haired human dragonborn warrior sneered, his tone was very unpleasant, but there was still a hint of envy in his eyes.

As for envy what? Naturally, he was envious of those two bat-winged dragon warriors.

The two battered drakes were originally human like them, and they were younger than many of them, newcomers to Castle Black in the last year.

But their luck is really good, after the two of them accepted the transformation of their master's bloodline, a pair of bat wings gradually grew behind them.

When Lord Isha (the leader of a group of harpy banshees in the wild) found out about this, he directly accepted the two newcomers as servants on the spot.

And from the mouth of Lord Yixia, they also learned that the two humans who grew bat wings showed their characteristics because they had the bloodline of some kind of bat demon in their bodies, which were activated and mutated under the stimulation of the owner's bloodline.

This is certainly heresy among human beings, and it is to be discriminated against and even eradicated.

But in Blackcastle.

Having a strong bloodline means that you are more talented and will grow faster in the future.

That's why they, a group of human dragonborn warriors, feel envious and jealous.

(End of chapter)