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The tinnitus was so intense that she couldn't hear what the other person was saying, her eyes lost focus, and the only thing she could still feel was the harsh sunlight that was too strong. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ahem-" She coughed because of the heavy impact that caused a slight dent in her breastplate, making it difficult to breathe, but even the sound sounded like someone else was coming from her dizziness.

"Come back!"

The moving structures of the armour and hand armor collided as the arms swayed, and the knight roared hoarsely as the armor was lifted.

"Get out of the way!"

"Boom!!" the scaly forelimbs stomped on the ground, and the grass was all pressed into the dirt, leaving a deep mark.

"Hiss-" The hundreds of kilograms of war horses were bitten by its neck, and its lifeless body drooped weakly, and the leather bag fixed to the saddle was also loosened, and all the books that Mira had been carrying along the way fell to the ground.

"Uh-ahem-ahem-" The girl sat down on the ground and coughed and reached out to touch the side of her face, the warm, wet blood running down her head, the softer ground saved her life, but some small stones on it also caused some groundbreaking wounds.

"Retreat! Retreat!" cried Konstantin on horseback.

"Can you still move? Something suddenly blocked the light in front of her, and Henry stopped in front of her and said this, while Mira looked at him in a daze, and could not say a word for a long time. "......" The sage decisively turned over and dismounted, then grabbed her by the waist, and then put her directly on the horse's back.

"Tell Mikhail about the situation on his side. He told Mira, for her mind was still swollen and she couldn't even speak well, and the girl nodded reluctantly.

"Go!" he tugged at the reins and turned the horse's head, then slapped the horse's buttocks vigorously, and then turned away to get a full view of the behemoth that had suddenly appeared with the light on its back.

"Hiss-knock-" It let go of its huge mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth, and the whole cervical vertebrae were crushed, and the bloody war horse fell heavily to the ground, and the subcutaneous muscles that had lost their breath trembled like a soft gel, and the blood that had not yet been drained continued to ooze out as it stepped over the horse's corpse.

"Boom!!" the stout forelimbs stomped on the ground again, and blood seeped into the new pit as the terrain changed.

"Shhhhhh

"Roar-!!" Then there was a loud roar that deafened everyone, and the remaining four horses panicked.

"Uhhh

The surface of the huge body, which weighs several tons, is covered with countless palm-sized turquoise scales that glitter in the sun.

What this thing is, they don't need to think about it or explain it to them, everyone knows it.

Because the image of this creature is found in countless human books and legends from ancient times to the present day all over the world - yes, how much this is like the plot depicted in an adventure novel -

The stone walls are covered with the ancient castle of wind and rain, vines are overgrown, and the imperial knights in full armor are holding spears and swords, and they are majestically confronting each other.

Dragon.

Except that they can't actually slay the dragon alone, it's like going from Padrossi's stencil print to reality.

"Don't provoke it, it's a sub-adult Southern Woodland Dragon, with a more ferocious temperament than an adult. Henry didn't pull out Kramer, and even he didn't really want to face an earth dragon that weighed a few tons and a dozen meters long, he said this to Constantine and the others.

"Yacheng, this is still a teenager-" The knights swallowed, the wurm of such size was not counted as a city defense weapon, and the only threat to it in the human army was the heavy knights armed with heavy cavalry spears charging in formation. If all of them were in their heyday, and the horses were the same, then perhaps they could have been killed at the cost of a few casualties.

But with these slender and long infantry spears and one-handed warhammers and swords, to deal with this guy?

There is also a certain limit to the defense of plate armor, and in the face of a multi-ton earth dragon, how can a steel plate only 1.5 millimeters thick be supported by one foot - but it doesn't seem to be the worst thing.

"Wait, why is this guy having one black eye. The Earth Dragon continued to approach, and after officially entering the area blocked by sunlight from the outer walls of Katigali, the knights noticed more of its strangeness.

“...... Looks like I ate the wrong thing. Henry observed the area around its tiny horned head, and the scales were scratched by what looked like they had been left by ghouls—which somewhat explained why the earth dragon was here.

It was a low-level earth dragon, as it could be judged by the horns on its head. Wurms have the same characteristics as both wyverns and earth dragons, with lower ones being smaller and having many horns around their heads, similar to some higher dragon lizards. And the higher the higher, the more powerful, in addition to these short horns, there will be two large and obvious horns.

That type of wurm is not much different from humans, and in some legends, it can even speak and even take on human form. But although this low-level earth dragon also has intelligence, it is equivalent to the level of a human 10-year-old child.

Impulsive, more often than not, they eat almost anything, just like sharks in the sea, and the dragon that lives in the forest of Bao apparently ate the poisonous ghoul after the witch arrived.

Realizing that there was something wrong with his body, he came to the land, hoping to heal himself by eating the magical weeds or the beastly horses.

Although dragons are not exactly considered to be monsters in the academic world, things rich in magical powers, such as magic-rich plants, magical glands of monsters, magic crystal ores - and even magicians - do have some pharmacological effects on them.

It's just that apparently the ghoul toxin spreads a little too fast, so it's a little late, half of its face is infected, and its yellow-green eyes have turned black and shiny without pupils.

"What should I do?" Henry quickly gathered more than twenty knights from this side, making them look very impressive in terms of strength and physique, and it couldn't help but judge the situation with an intellectual curiosity that had become very anxious, and wanted to see if this opponent could fight.

But even so, at the moment they are in a dilemma.

Fortunately, Mira, who bore the brunt of the blow, was dizzy and dizzy, but after returning there, she finally recovered to the point where she could say a few words. After understanding that the situation was not optimistic, Mikhail made a decisive decision, and carried Mira to the carriage and was cared for by Margaret and Orno, and then the young knight lieutenant led the team to prepare to split in two, and the remaining ten heavy horsemen ventured forward with the last undamaged riding spears, while the mercenaries entered the long-abandoned interior of the ancient city of Katigali with the merchants.

This is actually the next step, even with the vine man fixed on the perimeter, two thousand years of weathering, how many parts of the city-state have been crumbling they have no idea at all. Huge as Wurm, it is likely that they will collapse and bury them in the event of a collision, but even then they have no other choice, and the sluggish dozen wagons will only be their meal if they stay in the exposed wilderness.

"Speed up!" Mikhail made a decisive decision, he led the other 9 knights to quickly get on the horse, and then the mercenaries helped to hand over the spears, and after sorting out the equipment, they formed a V-shaped formation and gradually accelerated forward.

"Quick, to the city. Uncle Mario roared, and Margaret flicked her whip after taking a look at Mira's wounds.

"Turn, speed up!" Mikhail's years of knightly training were not covered, he did not directly lead the team to rush to that side, but first picked up the horn on his waist, took full breath, and blew two long and one short three times vigorously.

"Woo-woo-woo-" Konstantin got the clear signal, as did all the other Imperial knights. They faintly prepared to separate from the middle, while Mikhail and the other ten heavy horsemen, who had finished blowing the horn to inform the friendly troops, made another circle in a large arc in the direction outside the main gate of the city of Katigali.

There is only one chance to attack, and if you rush directly like this, the war horse will not be fully accelerated.

"Ready!" Konstantin roared as he raised his spear on horseback, but everyone noticed that something was wrong at this moment - the long sound of the horn seemed to attract the attention of the earth dragon, and it raised its head and turned its head to look in the direction where Mikhail and the others should be.

"Not good!" shouted a knight, but Mikhail and the others, who had already turned their horse's head and reached the limit of the sprint, were like arrows from the string.

"Flat!!" the lieutenant of the Wind Rider roared angrily, and ten stout black spears with golden threads were raised one by one and pointed straight ahead.

"Disperse!" the heavy riders went hand in hand, and the already prepared foot riders could only split up from the middle to make way for them.

"Boom-" Something desperate happened, and the earth dragon clung to the ground with its front legs and leaped across its body with its hind legs.

"Squat-down!" Ferruccio, Filippo and Constantine decisively kicked the saddle from the sides to the sides, and just as they had just left the saddle and fell to the grass in embarrassment, a thick tail several meters long flung at him with a "whoosh" sound of breaking through the air.

Before he could crouch down, a knight who was half a beat slow to react was grazed on the top half of the helmet, his armor was deformed, the fixed belt of the helmet could not withstand the huge force, and the whole roared and flew out, the elongated blood was spilled all over the ground, and the throat that was directly torn by brute force was still pumping blood out.

"Stop!" Mikhail shouted the word almost screaming.

"Bang Ka-!!"

A stout tail at extreme high speed, a heavy cavalry sprinting at full speed.

Like a colliding comet in the sky.

"Roar-ah-" Blood splattered, the spears broke, the heads of the horses covered with plate armor were spilled with brains, and the three knights were directly beaten and the horses were deformed and the blood sprayed wildly, broken bones and crippled and seriously injured, but their spears also successfully pierced the tail of the earth dragon.

"Boom!!" The tail that flicked out in an astonishing voice slapped the periphery of the ancient city walls of Katigali, and the dense cyan vines made a "rustling" sound and dust fell, but this was not the end.

"Hah

"Ahh But the knight lieutenant also broke off from the saddle and fell to the ground due to the force of the shock, the thick leather gloves on the inside of his hand armor were worn out, and the armor of the tiger's mouth was also deformed and twisted due to the impact.

"Roar—" The earth dragon pulled its tail from the wall and flicked it back again. "Withdraw to the city, withdraw to the city!" all three horses died, but even Filippo, who felt most sorry for his horses, could not care about sentimentality at this time. The fierce fighting continued, and the riders on foot had to bow down and quickly retreat to the rear.

"Bang-" This all happened between the lightning and flint, and a knight who fell at the back of the charging team was hit on the right thigh by the tail drawn back in reverse, and he snorted, and the leg armor was directly deformed, and the whole leg was broken and twisted to the outside, and the heavy knight, who even had men and horses adding up to nearly a ton, was directly beaten and rolled out of the dense forest on the left.

"Knock--" "Knock-!" "Knock-" Four people were seriously wounded and died, and the remaining two missed the target because their horses were frightened and rushed forward, except for Mikhail, only the powerful riding spears in the hands of the remaining three knights hit the body of the earth dragon.

"Retreat!" Constantine gave the knights the final order, and then ran in the direction of the gates of Katigali.

"Whoa!!!" the pain that had not yet been completely lost made it roar again. Three of the seven stout and massive lances hit the tail, one deep into the inner thigh, and three in the flank and left forelimb.

It did suffer a lot, but the price paid by the group was not insignificant.

"It's going berserk, get out of here!" The horses were damaged, the knights also suffered heavy casualties, and in the chaos and blood, the group desperately evacuated towards the city, and the four hoplites in front of them who did not fall from their horses were completely targeted by the earth dragon this time, and its mind was already in a mess, and there was only endless hatred for these little things whose armor glittered in the sun.

"Haaaaa

"A-a-a "Click-Boom-" The knight, whose breastplate was deformed by the pressure of the teeth, and finally the cracked organs, weakly let go of the riding gun in his hand.

"Take!" the gun fell straight to the ground and plunged deep into the mud. "Click!" At the same time, Henry rushed to the vicinity of the earth dragon and unveiled Mikhail's mask, and the young man fell to the ground with the force of the recoil, his face covered in blood, but he was still alive despite his breath.

"Whew-" The sage decisively took out his dagger, cut the belt on which his helmet was attached, and then threw the helmet in hand, picked it up, and strode behind him.

The screams of the horses, the sound of armor colliding with humans fleeing sounded one after another.

And under this bright sun, the last thing is the end.

It was a dragon's roar of anger and pain.

The panting knights finally retreated inside, hiding in the green city of Katigali, and the people surrounded by the walls felt a sense of security that was better than nothing, and they were still unable to kill the mighty creature at such a great cost.

Thankfully, the sacrifice was not entirely useless, and after five minutes of roaring, everyone waited in fear and nervousness, and with a burst of earth-shattering footsteps, the enemy had disappeared in front of them, and the confused earth dragon seemed to have chosen to leave.

The people looked at each other, and Henry looked at Konstantin after putting together Mikhail and Mira, who were seriously injured and unconscious.

"......" The chief knight nodded silently, then quickly removed his helmet and arm armor to gain more dexterity, and then walked out cautiously with the sage.

The sun was still shining, but the blood and death on the ground only added more.

The earth dragon did leave, and even Henry couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

But Doom still doesn't seem to be trying to spare them.

"Boom-" In the depths of the green ancient city of Katigali, there were once again voices that clearly did not belong to their group.

"Damn, it's endless!" The sound of weapons and noise sounded again, and Henry and Konstantin on the periphery glanced at each other, and they all strode back as quickly as possible.