Chapter 794: Withered Branch
"This is indeed a great opportunity, we can make full use of the information gap, prioritize the withdrawal of those who support us, if the Shadow Guild and the Bones want to find death, let them stay here and serve as cannon fodder against the enemy, if all the people who support them in Usmail City are dead, even if their leadership escapes, they will not be able to gain a foothold here, and we can still win the maximum support from General Gavin."
"Big brother deserves to be big brother, there are many ghost ideas, and in a blink of an eye, a thing that is not good for us will become beneficial to us."
"This is called taking advantage of the situation, do you understand!"
"I don't understand, I don't need to understand, the eldest brother just needs to tell me what to do."
"You're still not brainy as always."
"A snake only needs a head, and if it grows too much, it will be easy for it to fight with itself, which is why we can be brothers for thirty years."
"You didn't have a brain just now, so you turned your head and gave me such advanced knowledge."
"Haha...... This is not what I said, but the original words of the eldest brother after drinking, the things that use the brain, the big brother comes, the hands-on things, me and Felican come. ”
"Big brother, just wait for our good news!"
The three leaders of the Sword Thorn Brotherhood are not the kind of brainless people, and in a short period of time, they have developed a series of plans that are beneficial to their Sword Thorn Brotherhood.
As they got in touch with Gavin and got to know each other, the more they felt the gap between the two sides, the two were not equal opponents, and if they secretly stumbled again, there would be only one result, just like the praying mantis in front of the rut, which was directly crushed to pieces.
There's only one way to avoid this, jump in the car, follow him, and thrive with the bounty of the food you've harvested along the way.
Judging from the other party's past experience, although he is not the kind of orderly and kind holy warrior, at least he is also biased towards orderliness and neutrality, and when he eats meat, he does not mind those who are willing to follow in his footsteps take a sip of soup.
The other party did not use the power of his lineage before, but chose to ask those Lethmans for help and fight with them, just to give them a chance to reflect.
After adjusting their countermeasures, they suddenly found that everything suddenly became clear, and some decisions became extremely easy to make.
Once again, the Brotherhood of Swords showed its efficiency, and the city of Usmail, shrouded in a thick fog, suddenly became a chicken, with the voices of the gang members driving away, the disgruntled shouts of the citizens, and even the sound of fighting.
The Brotherhood of Swords is only the most powerful gang force in Usmail City, not the only one, otherwise they would not be a gang, but a ruler.
The other two guild gangs, if separated, neither of them is a match for the Brotherhood of Swordsmanship, but if they are united, they can fight against them.
They scoffed at the Brotherhood of the Sword, and did not believe it at all, only as an excuse for the traitor of the Brotherhood of Swords, to collude with Gavin, an outsider, to exterminate them and take sole control of Usmail.
This naturally gave the Sword Assassin Brotherhood a chance, and because of intelligence, they were invincible in this game.
If the other two gangs bow their heads now and obey the arrangement of the Sword Assassination Brotherhood, it will be difficult for them to have a chance to turn over in the future.
However, if they do not obey the Brotherhood of Swords, they will easily be drawn into the war if they stay in Usmail City by the time Gavin's plan is carried out.
As for Gavin, he didn't care about the little abacus of the Brotherhood of Sword Assassination, and a complete and unified city of Usmail was exactly what he needed.
Unbeknownst to the three leaders of the Brotherhood of Swords, it wasn't they who chose Gavin, but Gavin who chose them from the beginning.
Gavin had already known about the situation of several gangs in Usmael City.
Although the Brotherhood of Swords and Thorns operates in Usmail City and has high taxes, the industries involved are relatively decent, mainly based on trade, fishing, and dock handling, and their contribution to Usmail City is far greater than demanding.
The other two guild gangs are different, the shadow guild is a thief's union, mainly composed of thieves, who control many dark industries such as hotels, casinos, and joy halls in Usmael City, and they are also engaged in side businesses such as kidnapping, extortion, extortion, and slave trade.
The Bones Gang is a secret organization, and is said to have a connection to the Witch King Expedition in Damara, and they are mainly engaged in death-related industries, such as stealing and selling corpses, such as assassination, embalming corpses, and summoning the undead.
The latter two are both normal and stable cities that need to be eradicated, so how can Gavin cooperate with them?
Therefore, he will plan the small plan of the Sword Assassination Brotherhood, and let them take the opportunity to retaliate against the two old enemies.
The burning of the city is only the first half of the plan, and the second half is broken and then standing, and only when the broken city is clean enough can the city have a bigger chance to plug in.
As for himself, he was busy attacking and killing the Toucan Eagle Knights who were harassing the city of Usmail.
For the past two days, he swallowed his anger and allowed the Toucan Eagle Knight to show off his might here, not only to cast a long line to catch big fish, but also to gather their intelligence and rules of action.
It has to be said that these Toucan Eagle Knights are unique and very professional in air combat, so it's no wonder that Serge's griffin regiment wants to be deflated in front of them.
Like the Purple Dragon Knight of the Cormier Kingdom, the Toucan Eagle Knight has turned it into a specialized advanced class, and they will strengthen a portion of their magic on their steppe eagle mounts.
The life dice, attributes, feats, abilities, and size of these steppe eagles will all grow as these Toucan Eagle Knights grow, with speed being their top priority.
This caused these Toucan Eagle Knights to fly faster and more agile than those ordinary steppe eagles when they had knights.
Except for those true dragons and a very small number of special beings, there are really not many large-sized flying creatures that can compare with them.
Without using a natural sprint, the speed advantage of the Half Moon Pony is really not big in front of them.
The most important thing is that these Toucan Eagle knights are proficient in aerial skirmisher tactics, an aerial flying warband, which is maintained at the scale of thirty horsemen.
Forming a large circle in the air in units of three people, keeping them two or three arrows away from each other, allows them to both protect themselves from the blows of a wide range of attack magic and support each other.
Let Gavin's range hit the three-plate axe, and the power is greatly reduced.
The strong never complain about the conditions that are unfavorable to them, and since this is the case, Gavin decisively adjusts his tactics and uses cloud tactics to conduct blind battles.
The moment when the white fog rises and the storm of revenge descends is also the moment when Gavin strikes.
Gavin first used the demon's real name and the devil's real name to summon the dog demon and the six-armed snake demon, both of which have good air combat capabilities, the former itself has flying spell ability, and the latter matches the corresponding magic items.
However, the flight speed provided by the flying technique is twelve kilometers per hour, and there is no such thing as fast running and sprinting, so it is naturally impossible to catch up with the Toucan Eagle Knight, who can reach a speed of more than 150 kilometers.
Flying mainly provides them with the ability to stay in the air, and they mainly rely on short-distance teleportation capabilities to take the enemy by surprise.
In clear weather, this tactic is difficult to take effect, because the reason why short-distance teleportation is called short-distance is that the teleportation distance is too short, only less than 100 meters.
But under the cover of the fog, they have a place to play, especially when there is a revenge storm as an internal response, providing them with accurate positioning of the enemy, which is really a catch.
Whether it's a dog demon or a six-armed snake demon, a full combination attack, even if there is no way to kill a Toucan Eagle Knight, is enough to knock them out of the air, once they fall to the ground, they are phoenixes on the ground, they can't even catch up with a chicken, and they will be overturned in minutes.
"This is a trap, this is a trap, get out of here."
"There's a canine demon here...... Yes...... Watch out for their teleportation. ”
"There's a six-armed snake demon here......"
"The enemy's arrows are poisonous and have a powerful paralyzing effect."
"Psychic spells, one of the enemies is proficient in psychic spells!"
"There's something wrong with this cloud, they're capable of lightning attacks!"
The Toucan Eagle Knights screamed in despair, and every reminder for their teammates was paid for with their lives.
This caused the well-trained Toucan Eagle Knights to panic a bit, as they had no way of detecting the enemy's location, but rather the enemy could find them accurately.
Except for their teammates, they don't know the situation of their teammates at all, so they can only fly around like headless flies, and they don't even dare to shoot arrows easily, because if they are not careful, they will shoot their own companions.
"Fly up, fly up, the shroud range of this magic cloud is relatively limited, and it is impossible to shroud too high."
Soon, a Toucan Eagle Knight discovered the hole in the enemy's plan and desperately climbed high into the air.
Sure enough, it took less than twenty seconds for them to break through the white mist.
After all, there is no way to restore the real weather changes 100% with the weather manipulated by magic, at least in the shroud range, and when taking into account the shroud area, it is difficult to take into account the height, even with the assistance of the elemental body Vengeance Storm.
The white fog that shrouded the city of Usmail, only four or five hundred meters high, was clearly distinguishable due to the formation of magic.
Below is a thick fog that you can't see your fingers, and above is a cloudless clear sky.
In the case of palpitations, these Toucan Eagle knights frantically pulled up, making sure that they were at least one stone's throw away from the white mist, and only then did they have time to look at the surrounding situation, and they were horrified to find that their number had plummeted by two-thirds, and only a few nine horsemen remained, and from the attack to the escape, it definitely did not take more than a minute.
"What just happened?"
"How many enemies are attacking us?"
"I saw a canine demon."
"I saw it too."
"What I saw was a six-armed snake demon."
"What I saw was a Pegasus rider with four arms."
"No one can see it, how can this battle be fought?"
"What do we do now?"
"Retreat, retreat, pass the intelligence back from here, the enemy has good air defense, and other warriors can't be fooled."
"Withdraw! Remove! Remove! ”
These Toucan Eagle Knights exchanged information as they flew in the direction of the Lysle Forest.
They were now frightened birds, and they did not dare to stay here for a moment, lest a huge flying army rush out of the white mist.
Because of the obscured view, they had no idea how many enemies were attacking them, and the enemy did not chase them out of the white fog and kill them all, leaving them to flee away.
"Why not chase? In three more rounds, we'll be able to slay them all. The six-armed snake demon that stopped at the edge of the white mist shook the snake-shaped strange sword with some dissatisfaction.
As a demon, she has an insatiable thirst for killing.
"If you kill them all, who will help the lord deliver the news?" The Dog Demon grinned and explained, "The big battle is imminent, and the lord will definitely not have time to consume with these scouts, I believe that after this lesson, they will not dare to easily divide their troops to harass." ”
"Noise, I'm talking to my lord, where is there a dog to interject." The six-armed snake demon looked at him angrily, not only because of the other party's demolition, but also out of instinctive hatred for the devil.
"If you want to fight, the next thing is a chance, so you should be ready." Gavin didn't have the time to listen to a devil grind his teeth and send them all back before the time to summon them arrived, and he had a lot of work to do.
When the white fog had risen, it had never dissipated from the city of Usmail, and for the withered army that was marching mightily, the target was once again obscured by the fog of war, and their condition was no longer clear.
However, the withered army showed no signs of stagnation, and instead slaughtered the city of Usmail at a faster pace, because they had enough strength to crush the small city in one fell swoop.
The entire withered army took on a huge arc and slain out of the Lysle Forest.
But before them came a huge herd of beasts.
Tigers, leopards, elk, wild boars, hares, goats, sheep, bison, wild horses, and even humanoids are in between.
Both carnivores and herbivores are all mixed together, and there is no intention of harming each other.
At this moment, they have a common identity, predator.
The blighted army is cold, and all living things can become food in the mouth of the magic tree and the power of the corrupted forest.
Rushing out after the herd was a group of living plants not much larger than the hounds, they had the body of a human, but they were more like skeletons with flesh and blood than flesh and blood, with a very slender waist, but the limbs were thick and long, with wooden claws, and the joints, back, and head were covered with thorns and sharp thorns.
Their joints are extremely flexible and can rotate 360 degrees, so they don't have a clear distinction between front and back, or even up and down, they can walk upright like a human or run on all fours like an animal, but when they get close to their prey, they will start another forward mode - jump and spin.
Like tumbleweeds, spinning and moving forward.
But their open claws make them so lethal that they tear wherever they roll.
Despite their small size, their strength is not small, and they can easily tear apart the skins of most beasts and catch them with blood.
The captured beasts let out a desperate wail, and many began to stagger and run at a terrible rate.
The claws of this animate plant called the Wilted Monster contain paralyzing toxins, and although they cannot directly poison their prey, they can greatly weaken their strength, making them less able to resist and escape from their pursuit.
The Withered Monster that followed it surged upwards and leaped to its feet, its limbs wide open, all nailed deep into the body of its prey.
No matter how wildly the prey ran, flailed, and rolled, the wilted branch monsters that had been nailed to them were firmly nailed to their bodies as if they had taken root.
This is not a metaphor, but a reality.
When the woody claws of these withered branch monsters pierce the skin of these beasts, penetrate deep into the flesh and blood, and when they see the blood, a large number of fluffy roots will sprawl out, greedily absorbing and devouring the blood in the bodies of these prey.
This monster is born from the withering power of the ancient evil tree Gantias, and when it corrupted the forest, those small thorny shrubs were corrupted, and the ancient evil tree was born by absorbing the soul essence of the ancient vampires, so all the wilters born from it will inherit the bloodthirstiness of the vampires.
Soon the body of this prey was full of rooted dead branch monsters, and that kind of situation, like the situation of a hunting ant colony biting its prey, is now magnified countless times.
Even a strong bull can't help but fall to the ground with seven or eight witsy monsters attached to it.
The massive blood loss and the infusion of a large amount of paralyzing toxins made him extremely weak, and he could only lie on the ground in despair and wait for death.
But before the wilted monsters could enjoy their prey, a loud rumbling footstep sounded.
A group of purple demon tree people with thick arms and legs rushed up, they were like a group of bullies, they grabbed the dead branch monsters rooted in the prey, tore them off the prey alive, and threw them away directly with a flick of their hands.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Those large prey, such as bison and wild horses, are usually not completely dead at this time, and involuntarily let out a painful and desperate howl of powerlessness.
Those wilted branches were already deeply rooted in their flesh and blood, and when they were violently pulled out, large swaths of bloody flesh left their bodies together, leaving deep holes in the flesh and blood, and by the time all the wilted branches were pulled out of their bodies, they were basically exhausted.
(End of chapter)