Shadow Covenant

Chapter 106 "Night Attack"

The night is already deep.

The crashing rain in the air covered up all the sounds and traces. If it wasn't close to the fence of the wooden house, even Woody would not be able to detect the approach of the sahuagin for a while.

but……

How did they appear here?

Woody looked at the sahuagin, whose numbers quickly exceeded one hundred. Judging from the direction they came from, they should have come from that cliff.

but……

The first time he found the sahuagin, Woody was very surprised, but after the surprise, he became confused.

Logically speaking, the sahuagin seldom attack nobles on land.

Because in their view, it is also meat, and the meat of a nobleman may be more and tastier than that of the poor, but the harvest is not a little bit more difficult than that of the poor, and the price-performance ratio is not directly proportional.

Unless, they come with a purpose, either the gods behind them want to set off a looting of land cities, or...

Woody looked at the group of sahuagin who aimed straight at the wine estate and ignored the mansion on the side road, and knew that this must be a conspiracy against the Edith family.

But who is behind the scenes?
But no matter who it is, Woody knows that the top priority is to pass the current level safely. Instead of entangled in the real culprit behind the scenes here, it is better to repel all the sahuagin who dared to invade the land, and then Talk about something else that is more realistic.

Woody took a deep breath, his head hidden in the wet soil again.

He had to remind the guards of the Edith family before the group of sahuagin had fully entered the wine estate.

In addition, he had to call the patrolling guards in the noble area. He remembered that there were guard posts executed by them nearby. With them, as long as the sahuagin did not attack aggressively, they could basically defend.

Woody walked through the dirt, quickly bypassing all the foundation stones that hindered his progress, and returned to the garden of the wine estate. Due to the construction of the surface road, Woody chose a faster method.

run.

Traveling through the mud is just to pass through those difficult obstacles. Compared with speed, it is far faster than moving on land.

Woody quickly canceled the effect of the stone walking technique, and while putting on the shark lizard leather armor in the ring, he rushed towards the nearest mansion.

He remembered that Cromwell lived in one of the rooms, and if he was notified, the defense force would not simply collapse.

But before he approached the room, he heard someone in the room asking vigilantly.

"Who?"

"I!"

"Master Woody? It's so late..." The door opened a gap, revealing Cromwell's astonished face. He stared at Woody's attire in a daze, especially when he heard the next words, I stayed even more.

"A large number of sahuagin have come ashore and are gathering outside the manor! Now I need you to organize guards to prevent them from breaking into the mansion!"

Woody told the butler the current situation of the manor in simple words.

"okay, I get it!"

Cromwell acted swiftly and resolutely. He almost didn't even put on a coat, so he went out with him directly, divided the work, and he went to notify the guards of the manor.

As the leader of Palermo's liquor transportation industry, Susan naturally has a group of trustworthy family guards. Generally, the guards stationed in the manor are the guards on vacation. The number is not large, but it is definitely more than ordinary noble manors. .

While Woody went to the largest mansion, the safety of his aunt and Willandot was also very important, and it would be more effective to notify them to take refuge if necessary.

The landing of the sahuagin was like a sudden undercurrent, without giving anyone any chance to prepare, they were about to drag them into the water.

……

When Susan was awakened by the knock on the door, she subconsciously glanced at the night outside the curtains, it was extremely dark.

She rubbed her forehead subconsciously, wanting to ask who it was, but found that the voice she was most familiar with already came from her mind.

"aunt!"

"Woody?"

This voice from the heart directly knocked most of Susan's drowsiness away. She was now thinking about how her nephew found her in the middle of the night, but what Woody said next surprised her.

"Is what you said true?"

"seen it myself!"

She got off the warm bed, hurriedly put on a coat against the cold, opened the locked door, and found Woody standing in front of the door, not only wearing the hunting leather armor, but also stained on his forehead and clothes. It was full of drops of water, and it had obviously just been exposed to rain.

She didn't care too much at the moment, and she didn't doubt the authenticity of Woody's words at all when she heard the shocking change. Soon the two rushed to Veranduo's bedroom while communicating on the way.

Before knowing that Woody was here, he went to find Cromwell, and he didn't hesitate at all for her praise. Obviously, this step of his can organize the power in the manor earlier.

"I plan to go out and find the noble guards on the road later, and let them come as soon as possible." Woody told his next plan, he never thought of fighting alone, the battle of the legion, his profession is on the battlefield Wandering on the edge is almost the same, and a frontal conflict is completely suicidal, but unexpectedly, his plan was vetoed by Susan.

"It's still too slow, the efficiency of the noble guards is very low, and we don't know whether the group of sand murlocs are targeting our place, or many targets, maybe they are too busy to take care of themselves."

"How about this, let's split up, don't go to the guards, go and take Weilando to the basement, protect her, I'll go to the study, there is a powerful flash scroll, you can tell everyone that there is an attack here , although the rescue cannot come immediately, but as long as you persist, the next step will be easy!"

After listening to Susan, she found that Woody thought too much about the efficiency of the noble guards. The noble district is so big that it takes at least 15 minutes to mobilize manpower to come here, and 15 minutes is enough time for these demons in the ocean. Looted here several times.

Woody also found that he was taking things for granted, and since his aunt had another way of notifying them of an attack in the city, there was no need for him to dive into the ground again to inform them.

"Okay, then do as you say."

He also agreed decisively, and the two immediately parted ways at the end of the corridor, one went to the study, and the other went to Veranduo's room at the end of another corridor.

There was also commotion downstairs. It seemed that some servants had already known about the situation and began to wake up those who hadn't woken up. In less than a minute, the mansion quickly came to life.

However, under the violent storm, the manor has actually become an island.

Veranduo was more difficult to wake up than her mother. At least after Woody found the door locked, he directly used the curved sword and broke open the wooden door with one knife. The mouth seems to be dreaming a sweet dream.

Woody stepped forward to shake the sleeping girl. After a while, Verando opened her misty eyes and looked at the person who suddenly broke into her room.

Seeing Woody's face, she first rubbed her sleepy eyes, then looked around and asked in doubt.

"Is this a dream? Cousin? Why are you in my room?"

Woody didn't have time to explain, and directly pulled a heavy coat from the open wardrobe.

"Put it on quickly and follow me, the manor is in danger now!"

Woody opened the curtains and looked out the window under the thunderstorm, frowning. He had already seen the silhouette of the sahuagin at the wall and the door.

They are here!

"Ah! What's the danger?"

Although Weilando was surprised, she subconsciously obeyed Woody's words, grabbed the coat and put it on her body, her tone full of doubts.

Barefoot and overcoated, she stood at the window with Woody, only to find that she couldn't see clearly.

But at this moment, accompanied by a thunderous roar, she found that the originally pitch-black night instantly brightened like day, and a group of blazing light sources suddenly bloomed above her head.

"This is... ah! What is that!"

Before Weilando could be shocked by the powerful flash scroll that lit up above her manor and dispelled the darkness, it was recorded in noble lore that it was used for communication. After a brief day, she saw a human figure moving in the garden under the window... ...fish monsters.

Its scales are darker in color than the trees and flowers in the garden. Weilando can see clearly that it is a fish with hands and feet and a tail that walks upright. Know what bone the spear is made of.

According to the knowledge imparted by the Palermo Women's College, Verando reacted quickly and understood what these guys who appeared in her manor were.

——"Sahuagin"

Most human beings actually have a certain understanding of some common monsters, especially in coastal cities, there are many sahuayu who went ashore to attack fishing villages and kidnap humans for food. Everyone has basic monster knowledge, but Wei Lan Duo was still a little unbelievable as he watched the darkness gradually sinking into the window where he could no longer see the sahuagin clearly.

"How did they appear here?"

"Don't worry about it, get out of here first, it's not safe here!"

Woody noticed that Vilando's gaze attracted the attention of the sahuagin just now, and their climbing ability is also excellent. Woody will definitely not let Vilando stay here alone, at least to Find a safe place first.

For example, the basement.

When Woody led Verando down the stairs, he found that most of the people in the mansion had woken up and gathered in the hall.

One of the servants was blocking the door with sofas and other objects, obviously trying to delay time.

The most eye-catching one should be the team that Cromwell brought back to guard the manor. They are all guards hired by the wine manor for a long time. They are more like well-trained soldiers than unruly adventurers. .

Some of them are wearing leather armor similar to Woody, holding long swords or shields, while others are adjusting bows and crossbows, and quenching poison for short and delicate feathered arrows.

After seeing Woody come down, Cromwell immediately greeted him with a middle-aged man in full armor.

"Madam has already told you and miss to go to the basement. She has already gone down. The defense of the mansion is handed over to Sangbo, and the guard team can handle it."

At this time, Cromwell's face no longer had the previous consternation, but a flash of resoluteness. It was obvious that the butler was extremely calm in the face of major events.

"This is not enough people, they can't stop them."

Woody felt that although this group of guards were well-trained, they might not be able to deal with the sahuagin battle group outside.

After all, most of them are guards with a professional level of 2-3, and this leader may have a professional level of 5. Although there are more than 20 in total, compared to the number of sahuayu that Woody witnessed just now People, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist for a long time, not to mention that there may be spellcasters or stronger ones in the group of sahuagin, such as the four-armed sahuagin encountered last time.

"How do you know if you don't try?" The guard captain named Sangbo seemed a little unconvinced.

"Can you stop at least two battle groups? There may be spellcasters among them!"

Woody raised his eyebrows, looked at the captain of the guard in front of him seriously and said.

"You should know what the concept of two battle groups is."

"I can't stop it, but I know that my team and I can hold off for 15 minutes!"

When the guard captain said this, he didn't show any fear on his face. Obviously, he knew that this number was enough to annihilate their guard team of less than 30 people.

"We should have given our lives when the Edith family needed us!"

Now it was Woody's turn to be silent, but he didn't continue to answer in the end, but turned his head and said to the noble girl behind him.

"Vilando, can you go to the basement alone?"

"Can't we go together?"

Vilando's sea-blue eyes showed hope, with a look of reluctance.

"I have more important things!"

"But……"

"You said last time that you believed in me, don't worry, I will pay attention to safety!"

"Okay... I'll wait for you!"

Seeing Woody being so determined, Weilando could only say unwillingly.

Seeing Verlando's back disappearing down the stairs, he stopped hesitating and said directly to Cromwell.

"Go and call some courageous servants, I'm useful!"

After giving the order, he turned to Sangbo.

"Now bring your people and follow me! Even if you die, you should die with more value, instead of falling down on this little difficulty."

……

Cavill felt the salt water drop by drop on his scales, and scratched its back scales with his tail comfortably.

As the priest of the menarche tribe, it looked happily not far away. Its warband brothers were climbing over the high wall of humans one by one. Behind the high wall was the goal of their trip.

A human estate called the Edith family.

The only pity is.

This time, just to be on the safe side and to ensure that no mistakes were made, the baron also sent two other priests in the clan besides him, which was considered to have mobilized about half of the tribe's effective force.

Four battle groups, more than 200 sahuagins against a human manor, can be said to be a big deal.

He felt that it would not be long before this human manor would fall completely. After all, their timing was so perfect, and in addition to the remote corner they chose, there was only one unremarkable wooden house within a hundred meters nearby.

When this group of stupid humans find out that their brothers have already spread all over the manor, the humans inside will be unable to escape, and can only obediently become their flesh!
Thinking of this, Cavill couldn't help laughing, but the next moment, the white light that bloomed in the center of the manor in the sky made him froze immediately.

And not long after, Cavill and several other sahuagin priests were surprised to find out.

The most central manor house has not waited for them to capture it.

There was fire in the window.

The mansion...it's on fire.

(End of this chapter)