Chapter Seventy-Six: Courage and Will
Under the cover of the anti-magic shield, the soldiers lined up and raised their shields and advanced forward.
Behind him is a burning pit, there is no way to retreat, Oster disregards the severe pain all over his body, recalls the magic circle and wants to cast a spell to counterattack, but the impact of the damaged bullet makes him unable to gather mana; However, the Sashu interface still shows that it is impossible to crack the defensive enchantment on the shield.
[Error, unable to parse preset protection spells, insufficient permissions.] 】
Seeing that the army had been pushed to the front, Oster gritted his teeth and tried to stand up, but he couldn't. The sword came straight at his head, and at that moment a chorus of gunfire rang out;
The soldiers at the front were fired at with crossbows and muskets, some were hit on their shields, some were pierced by their armor, and they staggered back.
Oster looked back, only to see that the villagers had picked up the weapons thrown away by the returning regiment on the ground and rushed towards the official array;
"Folks, this lord saved us, and we must not let him be harmed!" "They won't let us live, so they will fight with them!"
Although the officers and soldiers were well-equipped and well-trained, the surviving villagers were all fighting on their backs, and the hatred of the destruction of their homes and the slaughter of their relatives made them all willing to live and die.
They pounced on the soldiers' shields and forcibly broke up each other's formations. Some had one of their arms cut off and had to pounce on the soldiers and bite them, while others jumped off the fire pit with the soldiers in their arms.
Seeing that the situation had changed, the officers behind shouted loudly, "Listen to the rebels, hand over that red-masked traitor, and you can be blamed for your crimes!" ”
An old man in the village, armed with a musket, shot a soldier whose helmet had been pulled off, and said with tears in his eyes, "That's what you said when you came to the village. As a result, when we laid down our arms and surrendered the militia, you not only hanged them, but also allowed the returnees to kill us all. This time, we're not going to be tied up again! ”
The villagers roared and knocked down the oil drums, igniting the tar on the ground. In the flames and smoke, the villagers and the officials and soldiers scuffled together, and the scene was chaotic.
Seeing that the villagers were no longer fooled, and seeing Oster who could not move, the officer ordered all the remaining soldiers to move forward, and prioritized the killing of the teleporter. The soldiers who received the order immediately gathered together, raised their shields in formation, and rushed towards this side.
Under the huge gap in numbers and equipment, the villagers fought to the death, blocking the sword and shield array with their flesh and blood, and fell down one after another, blood staining the ground red.
Seeing that it was approaching again, the child on the side also grabbed the knife, glanced at the weak Oster and said, "Uncle, this time it's my turn to protect you!" With that, he rushed forward, leaned down to dodge a sword swung by the soldier, threw himself on the shield, and pushed the shield with all his might, trying to stop the other from advancing with small force.
The next second, he was swung on the forehead by the shield, and he lost consciousness and passed out to the ground. The shield-bearer then stepped on the child's chest without mercy, and raised his sword in the other hand and stabbed the child in the throat;
In that moment, time seemed to slow down. Oster tried desperately to move his body, but he still couldn't move.
Looking up at the sky obscured by thick smoke, he prayed in his heart: Mr. Sa, O Titan, O Holy Light, O Shadow, whatever it is, just this time, let me stand up, let me pretend to be the end.
At that moment, he suddenly heard a faint ticking sound. When he lowered his head, he found that on the interface of the book in front of him, the energy bar under the giant's left hand had moved at some point; It's at 50% charge and it's still rising.
[Detected to inspire the courage of the people, obtain will energy, and increase the recharge progress...... 55%,65%,75%。 Privileges unlocked, advanced caster privileges have been granted. The level of the available spells increases, and the cast range is expanded. Start repairing the magic circuit. 】
As light rose from the ground, the soldiers were enveloped in a blue circle of light. On the shields in their hands, the defensive runes were eroded by blue light, and one by one they shattered and dimmed with a thudding sound;
The soldier who trampled the unconscious child under his feet, the sharp knife in his hand was about to reach the child's neck a moment ago, and suddenly disappeared with the knife.
At the same time, more soldiers who were fighting with the villagers also turned into blue pillars of light and disappeared into thin air. The circle on the ground began to stretch rapidly, doubling in size until it covered the entire empty field and the surrounding streets, extending to the feet of the officers and mages, enveloping all the officers and soldiers;
In a matter of seconds, the mage sensed that something had changed, and immediately raised her gun to aim at Oster. But then he found that countless threads of magic had stretched out from the ground under his feet, firmly binding his feet;
On the other side, Oster was being infused with abundant energy, and blue light burst out from his seven orifices. His feet were off the ground, and he floated, a spell of great range brewing.
In the purple eyes of the female mage, the red-haired villain's eyebrows were locked behind the crosshairs; Her fingers on the trigger trembled slightly, but she eventually turned the muzzle of the gun down and fired a shot at her own feet.
At this time, Oster had already directed all his energy to the earth through his body, and released it at once with the large magic array under his feet as a medium;
For a moment, a magical light enveloped the audience.
The next second, there was silence in the empty field.
……
The child slowly opened his eyes, and Oster was bandaging the wound on his forehead in front of him.
The child asked, "Uncle, is this the Shadow Realm?" ”
Oster smacked his lips and said, "As a Mason party, I don't admit that there is a post-Pandaren version, so the Shadow Realm doesn't exist." ”
The child sat up and saw that the empty field was empty, and all the officers and soldiers did not know where to go. The remaining villagers are bandaging their wounded companions and moving the dead together and covering them with clothing.
The old man was badly wounded and lay on the ground dying. He shook the hands of the villagers on the side and said with difficulty, "Remember, never trust again...... The Jackal's lie. You have to take the force into your own hands......" After speaking, he swallowed his last breath. The people next to him wiped their tears one after another, "...... village chief"
The child muttered, "Where have all those officers and soldiers gone?" ”
Oster shrugged, "I can tell you responsibly, I don't know either. ”
In front of his eyes, the book reads: [Error, the teleportation energy has been exhausted, and the teleportation array is about to collapse. It is advisable to designate the target anchor point as soon as possible, otherwise passenger safety will not be guaranteed. 】
Oster yawned and said, "It's going to collapse, they didn't buy tickets anyway." Whether it is dead or alive, this car is not responsible. ”
Seeing that Sashu kept popping up the [Low Energy] warning window again, he sighed and said, "This has been upgraded, why is it still the same." The authority is increased, and the energy should be more or less. It's almost consumed now, and I don't know how long I'll have to wait to recharge it back......"
At this moment, a group of bandits rushed from the intersection with knives and guns, and when they saw that the field was empty and the ashes on the ground, they were terrified and shouted, "What has happened to you brothers and the people of the government! ”
Oster looked at it, and there were more than a dozen people who had been left in the middle of the road by the sheep before, and those who had been scurrying around in other parts of the village and had only just come over now. I secretly screamed in my heart, I had expected that it would be impossible for one spell to send away all the enemies, but I didn't expect to miss so much;
Now that the circle has exhausted all its energy, Sashu is once again out of power and on the verge of shutting down. The villagers were all dead, wounded, and there were few left who could stand. In the face of so many armed gangsters, what should we do?
Oster thought for a moment, wanting to fool around first, so he stood up and spread his hands and said, "They all went to the bathroom, and asked us to look at things, it's true." ”
One of the bandits said angrily, "You are a trick on a horse!" At this moment, a drop of liquid fell from the sky and dropped on his face, and he touched it with his hand and found that it was red.
The bandits raised their heads in surprise, only to see a red dark cloud appear above the sky above their heads, lightning and thunder, crackling, and several dark spatial cracks faintly appeared.
Soon a heavy rain fell from the sky with a muffled thunderclap. The red liquid that fell was not rain, but blood. Fingers, severed limbs, muscles, internal organs, and many indistinguishable pieces of human body, as well as fragments of swords and armor, all fell with hulala.
It appears that the space-time rift created by the portal continues to wander around the nearby subspace after running out of energy. Eventually, under the influence of the laws of time and space, he returned to the natural plane and spit out what he had inhaled in the form of rain. Of course, those "things" have also been compressed and disassembled, and they have been thrown down in a scattered form;
I don't know if the miserable howls of those people in the secondary space can be heard by each other. It is also unknown whether they were praying for repentance or cursing maliciously in the last hours. It doesn't matter anymore, these ruling machines that disregard human life have finally tasted the purest form of violence.
Standing in the rain of blood, Oster, who was drenched in blood, slowly raised his head and said depressedly, "It seems that sometimes it is quite dangerous to go to the toilet." ”
"Evil, demons, ahhh - "The bandits are all gone. One of them raised his musket and aimed it at Oster;
Before he could pull the trigger, his head was pierced by a flying bullet and he fell to the ground.
A squad of cavalry galloped forward, and the shooters opened fire on their horses, and the bullets were missed. It's Case, Pullman, and the Guard; After two hours of circumambulation, they finally found the village and rushed over.
The battle did not last long, and the remaining bandits were already terrified, scattered and fled, and were chased and annihilated by the convoy one by one.