"Ah? This..." The soldiers in the warehouse looked surprised, not knowing what the other party was going to do.
What does this look like for a man’s body?Could it be that the knight master likes this?The surrendered soldiers had strange eyes, but seeing White and the three homeless knights behind him approaching with weapons raised, they still took off all the clothes they were wearing, leaving only the crotch cloth.
At first, the soldier had already touched his crotch cloth, then hesitantly raised his head and glanced at White, and asked: "Sir Knight, do you...do you want to continue taking it off?"
The corners of White's mouth twitched. He already felt that the three colleagues behind him were looking at him strangely.
"Okay, it would be rude to take it off any more." White said in a deep voice, and then carefully observed the bodies of these soldiers.
Don't get me wrong, White really isn't interested in these surrendering soldiers to take off their clothes is only to prevent the skin covered by their clothes from being tattooed with spell traps set by the magicians of the Arcane Council.
He had heard that far to the north of the royal city of Rodel, there was a demigod named "Mikayla" who had many fanatical believers who drew explosive spell runes on their skin. If they encountered someone with a disparity in strength, The enemy will rush directly over and explode.
White felt that the Offa Council was likely to do such a thing, so he asked the surrendered soldiers to take off their clothes.
But there are no magic runes on the soldiers, only some bruises or healed scars.
Wait, bruises?White's eyes swept over these soldiers again and found that without exception, they all had more or less traces of recent beatings on their bodies, and the bruises were so hidden that they would not be visible at all if they had not taken off their clothes.
As a homeless knight, he certainly knew how these wounds were is, some weak soldiers in the army are often bullied by other soldiers and become the target of their venting.
He asked: "For those of you who are staying, are you usually looked down upon in the army?"
The soldiers looked at each other and nodded.
White immediately ordered the three colleagues behind him: "Go to the warehouse we attacked before and ask the soldiers to take off their clothes and ask them if they are usually bullied in the army."
Soon, the three homeless knights came back and reported: "There are indeed signs of being beaten on them."
White nodded immediately, his inner uneasiness only kept the unpopular soldiers in the army and took away the large troops, but they did not take away the military supplies. Why would the other side do such a contradictory thing?
Chapter 184: City Explosion
When White told the three Homeless Knights to gather all the surrendered soldiers in the storage area to take a look, he quickly set out to find Roland near the city wall where the battle took place.
On the other side, the two teams of homeless knights, Fazhuang and Arthur, who were heading to the city lord's palace and the town center respectively, also encountered a similar situation to White.
However, in the town center that Arthur went to, there were still staff and guards there to accept the evacuated residents and maintain basic order. However, in the lord's mansion of the Twilight City that Fazhuang went to, there were only gardeners, servants, maids and other irrelevant personnel left. .
Whether it was the city lord himself or his family members who were missing, Fazhuang couldn't find out the city lord's whereabouts even if he asked the slightly higher-ranking housekeeper in the city lord's housekeeper only told Fazhuang that after breakfast this morning, the city lord ordered the servants in the mansion to stay in their respective dormitories and were not allowed to come out. Anyone who violated the order would be directly housekeeper also said that because they all heard explosions in the city not long ago, they really didn't dare to come out to see what was going on.
Arthur made the same choice as Fazhuang, leaving three homeless knights to look after the servants of the city lord's mansion and the staff of the town center (the guards were killed by the five homeless knights the moment they drew their weapons), He led the only remaining knight who had lost his land to find Roland and report.
Fortunately, Roland was able to notify him in time when his soldiers discovered a mutation on the battlefield, and asked Ikosela, who had been following him, to hold the flag of the golden tree high, so White and the others quickly recovered from the chaotic city wall battlefield. Saw Roland's position.
On the city wall of Twilight City, puppet soldiers with a faint blue light emitting from their bodies captured the most critical section of the city wall guarded by reinforcements from the Songyue Dynasty, but the puppet soldiers themselves also suffered heavy the elves fought without fear of death, nearly two thousand puppet soldiers were completely destroyed and could not be used again.
In the battle just now, the elves, who are known for their force, soon discovered that the puppet soldiers were not very different from ordinary human soldiers in other aspects except that they could continue to act without directly beheading them.
So the elves quickly changed their fighting methods. Instead of pursuing a single blow to the owl's head, they focused on the limbs of the puppet soldiers that were no different from normal worked in groups of three on the city wall, hacking at the arms or thighs of the puppet sharp silver blade forged by the master craftsman of the elves perfectly executed the elves' plan, easily separating the limbs of the puppet soldiers from their torsos.
Although the puppet soldiers lost their limbs, they still squirmed toward the elves under the orders given by Servis. However, their limited mobility blocked the puppet soldiers behind created a congestion and gave the elves a lot of breathing room.
This situation did not change until Blaze led the knights of the Calian royal family to the city wall.
Servis stopped the puppet soldiers' attack on the elves, and under Roland's order, began to chase the fleeing human soldiers into the city.
Blaze walked out of the space vacated by the puppet soldiers. The werewolf had a solemn expression. He grasped the hilt of the royal sword with his right hand, moved it to his chest and bowed slightly to the blood-covered elves and said, "Hello, everyone. Alien warriors. Your bravery deserves our respect."
The cuckoo knights behind him also imitated Blaze's actions and paid their respects to the enemy in front of them.
Jerolul was panting heavily. As the captain, she had been taking the lead and resisting at the stuck the chipped elf sword in her hand on the ground in front of her, and rested her hands on the hilt to stabilize her figure.
Even though her eyes were black, her throat was on fire, and her body was in burning pain, the female elf didn't want to show her embarrassment in front of the enemy.
The same goes for the other surviving elves. After the battle just now, there were only 21 of them elven warriors stood behind their captains, with calm faces on their faces, trying to maintain the innate elegance of the elves.
But their broken armor and the blood on their bodies made this elegance look sad.
"Who are you? Where is the middle-aged swordsman from before?" Jerolul asked trying to calm her breathing.
Blaze didn't appear in the city much during the founding ceremony, so Jerolul didn't know his name.
The werewolf replied: "I am Blaise, the number one warrior under the command of Her Majesty Lani and Lord Roland. The middle-aged swordsman you are referring to is Bernal, he has already rushed to the city with Roland."
Jerolul's beautiful face covered with sweat, dust and dark red blood showed a smile: "Oh, the best swordsman under my command? Does that mean you are more powerful than Bernal? I have a master like you to be my treasure before I die. The opponent is very good.”
Unexpectedly, Blaze shook his head slightly: "No, Your Excellency Bernal is indeed a bit stronger than me."
Jerolul was a little surprised: "Then you still say that you are number one...wait, oh, I understand. It seems that Roland has allies hiding in the dark, I understand."
The female elf recalled the name that Blaze had just spoken that she had never heard of before, and nodded clearly.
Then she said simply: "Don't say anything to persuade him to surrender. My friendship with Roland is not enough for his soldiers to risk their lives to capture him alive. By the way, I will tell him later to reassure him that the Geyue Dynasty knows You, the Golden Federation, do not want to be enemies with us. We are here just to fulfill the fate of the world and a certain god of the Alfa Council, which is determined by life and death. You don’t have to pity us, our souls will naturally return after death. Holy tree, go to the distant land."
The expression on Blaze's face was still serious at first, but he grinned when he heard Jerolul saying that his soul could return to the Holy Tree.
I'm afraid your souls will be cut off by the golden tree before returning to the holy tree.
Of course, Blazer wouldn't say this in a disrespectful manner now, after all, the emotions have been brewing up to this point.
The werewolf nodded, pointed the royal sword at the opponent, and waited for Jerolul and the elves behind him to also take an offensive posture.
"Kalia royal family, enter——"
However, before Blaze could finish his words of attacking, Twilight City suddenly began to shake, and then intense white light spread rapidly from the city, stinging every pair of eyes that looked at the light.
Jerolul looked at the light in surprise, narrowed her eyes, and only had time to say: "How come there is the aura of a god?" before she was enveloped by the light.
However, under the strong white light, a flash of blue light that could not be ignored flashed past.
Chapter 185: My eternal, only and dear king
Time moves forward a little bit.
The lost knights Fazhuang and Arthur were a little faster than White. They found Roland through the golden tree flag erected first, and told him all the information and speculations they knew.
After Roland finished listening, he looked at Bernal and Melina behind him and thought about what the enemy was planning to do, when White found him.
White glanced at Fazhuang and Arthur who were also reporting the situation here, and then immediately said: "Sir Roland, the military storage area in Twilight City was controlled by the team led by me. But the strange thing is that we did not encounter any decent When they saw us, the soldiers inside all dropped their weapons and surrendered. But there was no shortage of things in the warehouse, and some of the equipment was even brand new and not long after leaving the factory."
Roland frowned: "Is the same situation happening over there?"
Then he looked at Bernal and Melina with questioning eyes: "What do you think? Could it be that the Offa Council is ready to abandon this city?"
Melina shook her head slightly. She was not very good at thinking about military matters.
Bernal touched his stubble-covered chin and said: "Judging from the reports of the lost knights, the enemy does seem to do this. But why do they deploy so many soldiers at the city wall? And let almost all the reinforcements from the elves die in battle? This feels like a swordsman who has powerful skills but no target to swing the sword. We are missing key things and have not considered them, so we can't figure out the enemy's intentions. Intend."
Finally, he asked Roland: "Can you think of anything else about the information about Twilight City given by the Night Cavalry?"
Roland shook his head.
On the other side, White immediately understood the meaning of this sentence. While Roland was communicating with Bernal and others, he came to Fazhuang and Arthur and asked: "You two encountered no resistance. ?”
Fazhuang shrugged, and Arthur said that he only met some basic guards, not even soldiers.
White complained: "The soldiers I met here seemed to have been bullied and laughed at in the team, and their bodies were all covered with scars from being beaten by their own people. Unfortunately, I thought they had some kind of self-destruction spell tattooed on them by mages, so that they could I took off all my clothes to discover this situation.”
Roland heard White's words from the side, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his suddenly looked at White and asked, "What did you just say? Say it again."
White didn't know what happened to Roland, but he quickly repeated what he had just said.
Roland immediately caught the words and said to Bernal: "I think I roughly understand that the enemy wants to use Twilight City as our burial object. The Offensive Council is preparing to destroy the entire Twilight City and kill us all. Buried here. I think the missing mages of the Alfa Council are very likely to be hiding somewhere to arrange forbidden spells. No, our soldiers must be withdrawn. Bernal, go find Fernand quickly. Di, get him out of the city quickly."
Melina still showed a look of disbelief, while Bernal nodded without hesitation and immediately got on the horse without even saying goodbye.
"White, Fazhuang, Arthur, you should go back quickly and tell your team members to evacuate. Don't worry about supplies and prisoners. The speed must be fast." Roland urged the three homeless knights.
After laying out the order, Roland was ready to take Melina and Ikosela towards the city gate.
While galloping on horseback, Melina couldn't help but ask: "Roland, why are you so sure that the enemy will blow up the entire city? Aren't there many of their people in this city?"
After listening to Melina's words, Roland looked at the houses on both sides of the street where horses were galloping. He saw residents who had opened some curtains to carefully check the situation outside, and a trace of unbearability flashed in his this intolerance was immediately abandoned by him.
He patiently responded to Melina's words and explained to her: "Because the magicians of the Austrian Law Council do not regard these people as their subjects at all. In the eyes of the magicians, these are just things that can create monetary value for them and make them They can use tools to practice magic without distraction, or fresh materials for experimenting with magic. The Golden Federation has actually accepted refugees who escaped from the Arcane Council, but there are only a few. I only learned about these things from their mouths. "
Seeing that Melina still didn't understand, Roland continued: "Think about the tragic situation we saw at the Volcano Residence. At least compared to the people living in the territory of Larcade, the people in Twilight City will still be there at least until they die. I firmly believe that the Austrian Parliament can come to save them."
"So is this the reason why Mr. Bernal took action immediately without any hesitation? Because he had seen the tragic scene of the giant snake that swallowed Rakad devouring heroes and warriors." Melina sighed slightly. .
She expressed sympathy for the imminent fate of the residents of Twilight City, but it was only sympathy. Melina would not let Roland stop his horse to save these residents of Twilight City now.
And just as Roland was riding Torrett to prepare, the system, which usually had no other activity except complaining to Roland in his mind, suddenly appeared.
System: [This system recommends that you go to the underground space below the mage school in Twilight City to take a system just detected an unusual ether fluctuation there, but the energy peak level was not you can stop their conspiracy in time, this system can give you a good reward. 】
Roland asked in his mind: "What reward?"
The system replied: [I'm sorry that I can't tell you for some reason, just think of it as a task. 】
With that said, the system updated its mission interface: [Optional mission: Prevent Twilight City from being destroyed by the Arcane reward: unknown. 】
Then the system warned: [This system cannot judge whether this task is dangerous or not, so you have to let the host make your own system also doesn’t know what the reward for the task the only thing you can be sure of is that the rewards you get after completing this task will be worth it. 】
Roland curled his lips, wasn't this just tempting me to do the task?
The system continued: [This system thinks that if you feel uneasy, take the girl behind you with you and give it a try?After calculation by this system, if you, the host, take her to participate in this task, the success rate can reach . 】
Okay, okay, I'll just give it a try. If there's no way to stop it, I'll leave the city interrupted the system.
He still couldn't tell that although the system said it was letting him choose, it was actually encouraging him to complete the task.
"Ikosela, you go to the city wall to find Blaze and tell him to evacuate from the city." Roland suddenly changed the direction in which Torrett was running, turned to Ikosela, who had been riding behind him and said, "I will take Mei Linna has something urgent to do, so this important task is left to you. When I come back, I want to see that the soldiers on the wall are all well."
After saying that, without waiting for Ikosela to answer, he rushed towards the Mage Academy pointed by the system.
"Did that friend in your mind say something to you?" Melina asked.
Roland nodded simply: "Yes, it told me that there was a strange reaction in the underground space of the Twilight City Wizard School, and asked me to go and take a look. If I were alone, I would be afraid that I would not be able to deal with an emergency situation in time, so I took you and me with me. Will feel more at ease.
Melina didn't speak. She just curled her mouth slightly while sitting behind Roland.
Toret snorted happily. It was very fast and carried Roland and Melina to the mage school in a short time.
"Thank you for your hard work, Torrett." Roland touched Torett's forehead, and the latter gently cupped Roland and then turned into a burst of blue particles and dissipated in the air.
Melina lifted her hood, revealing her beautiful girl took a rough look at the mage school in front of her with her open eye. This was a place where the buildings looked very gorgeous, especially the pavilions decorated with various crystals, which looked incompatible with the luxury of the houses next to them. .
Roland and Melina looked at each other. Roland took out his sword and shield, raised the silver shield in his hand that was forged by the dwarves with mithril and was blessed by Roland with a golden tree and had inscriptions written on it, and walked in front.
When he was about to walk into the door, the cuffs of Roland's armor were suddenly grabbed by Melina's little latter reminded in a clear voice: "Be careful."
Melina drew out her mission dagger, and golden light gathered on the took a step forward and quickly waved a few times towards the place where there was nothing. The golden light seemed to block something.
With a glass-like sound, Melina said: "You can go in now."
Roland blinked and said in an apologetic voice: "My problem is that I forgot that the enemy would set up a trap."
Melina said to herself that when exploring the catacombs, she has become accustomed to letting her mind wander and stepping into the trap that she has suffered losses in the past.
With Melina's warning, the two moved forward very quickly, breaking the traps set by the magicians of the Arcane Council along the more traps Roland destroyed, the more convinced he became that there was indeed something fishy about this mage school.
There were no monsters appearing to stop the two of them along the way, like in novels or anime, and they soon arrived at the underground space of the Mage Academy.
But the underground space filled with the blue-white light of the magic crystal was empty, except for a automatically operating magic circle painted in the middle.
"Is this the magic circle?" Roland did not destroy the magic circle immediately, but looked around and asked in a low object of his inquiry was not only Melina beside him, but also the system in his mind.
"The strange ether fluctuations are caused by this formation."
[Back to the host, the source of the abnormal fluctuations detected by this system is exactly this magic circle. 】
Roland raised the shield-covered hand and scratched his head: "Isn't this too simple? There are only some traps that can be easily destroyed along the way. When we get here, there is not even a BOSS-level person, just leave the magic circle. Run away on your own. Is there someone hiding in the dark preparing to plot against us when we destroy the magic circle?"
After listening to Roland's words, Melina closed her eyes seriously and sensed the surrounding situation. Then she opened her eyes and shook her head slightly at Roland: "I have sensed it. There is indeed no one else here."
Roland took off the sentry torch hanging from his back and lit it. The light of the flame shone into the underground space as big as two basketball courts. Roland did not miss every dark corner, and indeed no one used it. Use magic or other means to hide.
"Okay, it looks like it's not." Roland spread his hands towards Melina who was watching her doing these actions, and then the blessing of the golden tree gathered on the long he deliberately dragged Melina to the entrance of the underground space. What he was afraid of was that the entire underground space would collapse the moment the magic circle was destroyed, or that the magic circle itself was set to self-destruct when destroyed, or that the door would suddenly collapse when it was destroyed. Turn off settings like this.
Roland had indeed taken precautions against all possible flags.
Then the golden sword energy went out horizontally and hit the magic circle. At the same time, the long sword in Roland's hand also cracked and shattered to the ground.
"Well, the materials temporarily found in this world are still unable to fully withstand the power of the golden tree's blessing." Roland glanced at the bare hilt of the sword with pity, explained to Melina, and then threw the hilt in. In the underground space.
The magic circle was destroyed normally and stopped functioning normally. There was no self-destruction or any trap.
Roland touched his nose and asked in his mind: "System, can this task be completed so easily?"
The system was about to speak, but immediately its own alarm system suddenly flashed system, which has always had no emotional changes, suddenly lost its voice and warned: [Host!Run! !Do not look back! ! 】
Melina's reaction was faster than the system's size. She opened her eyes, and the black-red flames of destined death instantly spread to the mission dagger in her hand.
