From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 103 Sintra

"About 300 people." The royal steward bowed. "They are all royal family members and guests who were too late to leave. The other lords took up their weapons and stayed outside, and the citizens only sent some children and women in."

"The lions of Cintra..." Mossak sighed, and then ordered the royal steward, "Go and check if the supplies are enough."

The manager nodded in response, turned and walked out of the room.

Turning around, Shirley looked at Mossak in disbelief, with tears in his eyes: "What does it mean that the people of Nilfgaard... have entered the city? Where are grandma and grandpa?"

Mossak hesitated for a while, but still said: "The scouts who escaped said that a group of Skellige sailors intervened in the battlefield and rescued the king and queen. I just don't know why they haven't come back yet."

He said in relief: "They must not have fallen into the hands of the Nilfgaardians, otherwise the Nilfgaardians must have used this as a threat, instead of choosing to attack."

Shirley's young body couldn't stop trembling. She was about to say something when she suddenly heard a loud noise from outside the city.

Everyone in the house was caught off guard and shook their shoulders, and hurried to the window to check the sound source, only to see a shocking hole in the outer wall of the castle at this moment, and the soldiers of Nilfgaard were like the tide Usually come here.

"Why so fast!"

When Mossak heard the soldiers screaming, his eyes became sharper, and the natural and peaceful qualities of the druid disappeared in an instant.

He took his oak staff in his left hand, and closed his right hand in the shape of a tiger's claw.All the plants around the city wall seemed to come to life in an instant, connecting to each other and enclosing the castle tightly.

The soldiers of Nilfgaard seemed to still want to enter through the gap, but when they crossed the plants, they suddenly bumped into a green light curtain, and they flew out backwards.The soldiers who had entered the city wall panicked and wanted to go out, but were firmly stopped.

Cintra's Janissaries rushed forward.

Everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief, but Mossak knew that things were not that simple at all.

"Sward!" The sword guard heard Mossak call his name, "Geralt is outside the north gate of the castle, Ernes and Hardy have my warrant, tell them to fetch Geralt .I need the white wolf to locate the portal to Kaer Morhen!"

"Sir, go get Ciri's cloak!"

Mossack looked around at the guards and said, "I know the queen gave you an order to cut off the head of the witcher if you saw him, but now he is here to protect the princess, I believe you can distinguish between serious and serious."

The guards nodded, and a man dressed as a captain walked out of the room with Sward, notifying all the soldiers along the way to let them go.

"Wait, Uncle Mossack." Ciri suddenly panicked, "Where am I going? Don't wait for grandma and grandpa? Where is Kaer Morhen?"

"Listen to me, Ciri." Mossack said softly, "This may be difficult for you to understand—although you have fought against fate all your life, fate is still on our side now, We have made many wrong choices, and now we must rein in the precipice.

Geralt will take you one step ahead, I will continue to wait for the king and queen here, and help as many people as possible to evacuate.I'll come back to you later, okay? "

Ciri shook her head fiercely, and couldn't hold back her tears anymore: "You all think I don't understand anything, and you are all lying to me. Lane lied to me, grandpa and grandma lied to me, and now even you are lying to me ?”

"Shirley, listen to me..."

"I'm also a lion of Cintra!" Ciri suddenly said loudly, "I'm not going anywhere!"

Her voice was surprisingly high, not screaming or roaring, but it shook everyone's eardrums.

Immediately afterwards, an invisible wave spread out around Ciri, shattering all the cups, vases, and mirrors in the room.

The magic wave in Mossack's hand swayed for a while, and it was finally stabilized by him.He stared at Ciri with wide eyes, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Shirley... at this time, why is this time..."

At this moment, behind the tide of soldiers, a group of people who were obviously not dressed like soldiers suddenly appeared.The leader was a short-haired woman who was dressed uniquely, and behind her were men and women wearing cloaks whose faces could not be seen clearly.Druid seemed to have sensed it, and immediately turned to look over.

Although only the leading woman was dressed up gorgeously, and although the men and women behind her were as square as attendants, the magic fluctuations could not be wrong, these people were all warlocks!
Mossack gritted his teeth, there are so many!

Seeing the astonishing range of defensive spells of Mossac, Fringila exclaimed: "It's amazing, Druid. Although I don't know what happened to the fluctuation just now, but——I found it!"

Then she tilted her head to signal, and the warlocks behind her unleashed waves of chaotic energy, turning into more than a dozen beams of elemental attacks of various shapes and bombarding the green screen in mid-air.

Huge pressure acted on Mossak's body, and the natural energy in his body poured out like a pool with a gate opened.Mossak thought it would be enough to last until dawn, but now it seems that he may not be able to survive dusk.

What's worse, his magic power was stuck so tightly by the dozen or so warlocks that he couldn't even free his hand to open the portal.As long as he stopped, the dozen or so beams of magic could penetrate the protection and kill everyone in the room in an instant.

"There is no time, guard, take the princess and leave immediately!"

"Ciri, go north, and go to Brokiron with Geralt! There is the junction of the four kingdoms, and there are dryads, and it is very close to Temeria. If Nilfgaard doesn't want to go to war with the entire northern border at the same time, Never go near there!"

"Uncle Mossack!" Ciri cried and was carried away by the guards.Immediately, only Mossak and a royal knight were left in the room.

The knight hadn't spoken just now. At this moment, he looked at Mossak's ferocious expression and sweating profusely, stepped forward with a sigh and asked, "Advisor Mossak, is it time?"

Mossack was silent, he was unwilling to affirm such a question, and he strongly opposed it when Calanthe issued such an order.But the order passed unanimously among the others.

What kind of a group of lions is this...

To keep quiet is to acquiesce, and the knight nodded, facing Mossak and retreating to the door to stop.

"Advisor, Your Majesty told me to convey this to you—" he said solemnly, "Mossak, it is an honor for everyone in Cintra to have your help."

The knight bowed deeply to Mossack, turned and disappeared into the corridor.

Mossak was silent for a while, and his expression gradually became sad. He responded softly to the direction where the knight left: "Me too, Your Majesty."

The protective shield in front of her eyes became weaker and weaker, and it seemed that Fringilla Vigo finally had the time she wanted. She opened her hands, and a wave of magic that was far more powerful than those of the warlocks behind her boiled at this moment— —

In the castle, everyone in the room finally evacuated at this moment, and Mossack, who had no scruples, withdrew his hands, and the natural energy re-condensed in another way——

"boom!"

The violent explosion directly blew off a corner of the castle, and a large area of ​​the city wall was overturned from the inside out. Countless Nilfgaardians were crushed to death by falling rocks. Closing his ears, fresh blood continued to flow from his fingers.

The entire battlefield was paused because of this violent magic collision, and the crowd was quiet for a short moment.Then Black Sun and Lion seemed to have accumulated enough strength during this pause, and each roared louder!

The knight who conveyed the Queen's message for Mossack walked out of the room without stopping, and neither the shouts nor the explosions disturbed him at all.

He walked to the door of the nearest room and nodded to the two guards guarding the door.The two of them drew out their long swords and walked towards the outside of the castle. Their mission here was over.

"Ma'am, Miss." The knight looked at the royal family members who were attracted by his actions, and took out a small bottle from his arms, "It's time."

The royal family in the house understood something. The mother hugged her trembling daughter and gently took the vial handed over by the knight.She pretended to be calm:

"Essek...you're my cousin, if I remember correctly."

The woman in the room said softly, and when she saw the knight nodding, she forced a smile and said, "Then, you must let the people of Nilfgaard see...the might of the angry lion."

The knight's eyes fluctuated slightly: "Of course."

Knight Essex passed through one room after another, and the guards who guarded the door left one by one. Their footsteps were accompanied by the sound of glass bottles breaking and human bodies falling to the ground.

The knight went all the way until the gate of the castle.In front of them was a tide of Black Sun soldiers, and the Three Lions banner retreated again and again.

He drew out the long sword in his hand and threw himself into the crowd without hesitation.

…………

A group of black-armored soldiers ran past the castle. After walking away, a secret door of the castle opened. Two royal guards first came out to check the situation, and then two more guards guarded Xi. Li ran out in a hurry.

At this moment, the princess was wearing a brown griffin fur cloak, holding a reddish-brown cloth bag in her arms, which contained a long strip of things.

This secret door is next to the stables, and there are still fast horses inside that are too late to take away or stay on purpose.

"Horse, princess. Get on the horse!"

The leading guard held Xili in his arms, and the five of them ran towards the north gate, but they didn't notice a group of black-armored soldiers appearing around the corner behind them.

Ciri crouched against the cold plate armor of the commander of the imperial guards, and suddenly felt something stinky spraying from his head. When he looked up, it turned out to be the blood from the commander of the imperial guards' neck.

An arrow pierced his neck from behind, and following the trajectory of the arrow, a knight in black armor with gold patterns and a winged helmet slowly lowered his long bow.

The knight commander fell from the horse's back to the ground with the screaming Ciri in his arms. He used his last bit of strength to control the center of gravity, using himself as a pad to prevent the princess from falling, leaving the empty horse on his back to come out all the way. .

The remaining three imperial guards were frightened and reined in their horses. Princess Gongwei tried to fight back, but was easily annihilated by enemies several times her size.

"Count Cassirer, she is Princess Sirilla, I saw him at the banquet once!"

Hearing that the Winged Helmet Knight stepped forward and picked up Ciri, who had fallen to pieces, the voice from the gap in the armor was full of joy: "Finally found it!"

(End of this chapter)