From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 298
"Grab him, grab him! Never mind a warlock, grab the lion first!"

The first time Duke Darcy saw Lane, he shouted impatiently at his warlock leader, Albrecht, and immediately pulled him out of the sensing state of the portal.

Everyone can tell the priorities. In terms of Nilfgaard's strategy, Lann is more important than Queen Miwei and Demavi III combined.

In the next moment, chaotic energy surged, and several bolts of lightning shot towards Lann's direction.

"Don't kill him, idiot, I want a living lion!" Duke Darcy became anxious when he saw the attacks of these warlocks, and when he turned his head, he saw his own guards shooting at Lann one after another, shouting angrily , "Don't shoot arrows!"

Warlocks naturally knew it well, they deliberately controlled the power, this level of electric shock was enough to stun and disable people, but definitely not enough to kill people.

It's just that these lightning bolts didn't even have such a weak effect.

In everyone's eyes, a bright yellow circular shield spread out around Lann as the center, firmly blocking all attacks aimed at him.

"Magic protection!" A member of the warlock team exclaimed, "The lion really knows magic! But he was an orthodox knight a year ago..."

There was not only surprise but also deep jealousy in that voice.At this stage, most of the warlocks who join the warlock army and go to the front line are the dropouts from the warlock academy who are not talented enough. They know that the cycle of magic learning is long, and many people have studied magic for several years, but they will only finish learning magic from books. Just float.

Holding up a magic shield that can harden several warlocks like now will only appear in their dreams.

And what Lann used was not a magic shield, but something more advanced.

[Active Shield]: The Quen Seal can be transformed into a shield form, and magic power is required to resist attacks and maintain the shield.Damage absorbed by the shield restores the Witcher's health. (2/5)

Many of Lann's early skills for survival and armor stacking purposes have not appeared for a long time, such as [Undead], which can be exempted from death damage.

Using offense instead of defense, tossing and dodging is always Lane's first choice, and he rarely takes injuries in place foolishly.

But now, [Active Shield] is working just right.

As the lightning rippled on the bright yellow shield, Lann's face, which had become pale due to the poison of the potion, suddenly began to turn red again; at the same time, his mind was cleared, and the dizziness caused by passing through the portal disappeared completely. without a trace.

At the same time, although each attack would cause Lann's magic power to drop by one notch, this was only a drop in the bucket compared to Lann's huge total mana, and the consumed mana was quickly absorbed by the potion. Mana regeneration rate is replenished.

Lann was in better condition than when he led the team just now. Lan looked around, his eyes fixed on those coalition elites who had bought time for him to recover, his mind collided, and he suddenly had a plan in his heart.

……

On the other side, the Nilfgaardian warlock saw that his attack could not break through Lan's shield, and the chaotic energy he encountered began to surge more and more.

The fiery temperature rises in their palms. This is the most lethal and violent fire magic among the four magics!
With a "bang", a huge explosion suddenly sounded from the place where Lann was, and massive shocks spread out from that place.

Duke Darcy was even more nervous than the soldiers of the coalition army, his heart was in his throat.But the smoke and dust dissipated, and there was only the scorched ground with a layer of skin hanging on it. Where is the lion of Cintra?
"what!"

Shouts and screams sounded, and riots suddenly broke out in the barracks.Duke Darcy followed the sound, only to see the lion of Sintra, who was still in the attacking direction of the warlock, suddenly crossed a distance of dozens of yards and came to the side of a coalition soldier, carrying the wounds that had not yet dissipated. Yingying magic light spot.

A few arcs of light flashed across, and Lane easily split the several black-clothed soldiers surrounding the coalition elite into two halves like chopping melons and vegetables, and then patted the coalition elite lightly, giving Duke Darcy and The warlocks disappeared again before they could react.

Afterwards, this situation was repeated many times. Lan turned into a golden streamer and danced repeatedly in Nilfgaard's central army.

The speed at which he jumped and swung his sword was too fast, and everything happened only in the blink of an eye.

Before the Nilfgaardians could react, Lan had already walked around all the coalition soldiers as if taking a leisurely walk, and then flashed for the last time.

This time, Lan did not appear before the eyes of the Nilfgaardian soldiers. Instead, all the coalition soldiers had bright emerald light.

【Transmission】

……

The light in front of him was extinguished, and his sight was restored. Lan stepped onto the walls of Livia's capital.

With the time slowing effect attached to the skill, Lan quickly looked around the situation.On the city wall, soldiers in black have begun to replace Livia's soldiers, but the handover is not over yet, and the number of soldiers in black is less than one-third of the total number of soldiers on the wall.

well.

Before his greaves were firmly stepped on the city wall, Lan flickered again, and this time he rushed directly into the Nilfgaardian team.

Stretching steps, turning shoulders, twisting waist, and spinning——【Whirling Sword Dance】!
Lane also unsheathed Alice's scimitar at this moment. He held both weapons and danced in the crowd accompanied by lights and swords. The sharp blade bypassed all the Livia soldiers as if they had eyes, and entered In the gaps in the army's armor.

The Livia soldiers guarding the city didn't react until Lan had turned around in the crowd.Seeing the Nilfgaardians around them fall to the ground after spraying their faces with blood, they looked at Lane's back and muttered to themselves:
"Is it... reinforcements?"

It was also at this time that the coalition soldiers who were teleported to the city wall by Lann were relieved.

Lan En threw a coat of arms that he had asked for from Queen Miwei in advance to a Livia knight who followed him.

"Receive the defenders in the city and organize a counterattack. After I kill their commander, I will cooperate with the troops outside and defeat the Nilfgaardians together. Is there a problem?"

Those who followed Lan En to carry out this mission were elites from both countries, and the one Lan En chose was a member of Queen Mi Wei's Imperial Guard.He himself has the rank of a mid-level officer, so organizing a temporary counterattack is definitely not a problem.

Before coming here, I made the worst plan of "Livia has fallen". Now that Livia still has the power to fight back, it is natural to make the most of it.

Seeing that the Livians were still a little dazed, Lan frowned, and suddenly shouted: "For Queen Mi Wei!"

The muscle memory of all Livians was awakened at this moment, and the body thought ahead and responded: "For Queen Mi Wei!"

"Okay, very energetic." Lan nodded in satisfaction, and returned to the battlefield with a flick of his cloak.

The Aedirians who survived being dragged to the city wall were a little agitated. Herrera yelled at Lann, "Duke Lannister, what about us? Are you going back to face the enemy alone?"

Lann paused and shook his head: "The organization of the defeated army needs as many officers as possible, and you can play the greatest role here."

"I really don't want to say that, but if you are by my side, you are a little in the way."

After speaking, the bright emerald light flickered, and Heleila, who was in a daze, lost the figure of the lion in front of her eyes.

……

On the other side, the soldiers in black who had lost Lann's trace were standing guard everywhere.

Under the urging of the commander, Duke Darcy, the warlock Alberiki is re-feeling the teleportation fluctuations in the space, trying to lock onto the figure of Lan who suddenly disappeared.

"We must not let Lannister just run away like this!"

Albrecht was sweating profusely, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, because he could only feel the traces left by Warlock Aediren's portal at the beginning, while the movements of the Lion of Cintra had no trace of magical fluctuations to follow. .

It's like he never used magic to flash around here.

But Albrecht definitely couldn't report like this, he just said: "Duke Darcy, since they chose to make a surprise attack and paid so many lives, they must have a conspiracy, and they will definitely not just escape..."

"Do you want the success rate of our operation to depend on luck and the enemy's plan?" Duke Darcy has completely lost the demeanor of a court aristocrat, "We must hold the direction in our own hands, and find it quickly!"

A sudden voice sounded.

……

"You two are very reasonable, are you thinking of me?"

The actions of Duke Darcy and Warlock Albrecht paused in unison, and they turned their heads, only to see the lion of Cintra returning at some point.

He squatted halfway, with a little bit of golden light on his body that hadn't dissipated, and opened his left hand facing the ground.

Surprise appeared on Duke Darcy's face, and Albrecht began to grow alarmed.

Warlock can clearly feel the surging, oppressive, chaotic energy in the surrounding air!
[Alder Fayin Alder Sweep Bone Biting Magic Burst]!
It was completely different from the power of the cavalry unit before, the magic power in Lann's body fell by half like diving, and then continued to evaporate, turning into an ancient freezing wind that swept across the battlefield.

This is the severe cold that even the ice giants would feel is too much, and they just want to hide in the mountains and hibernate to survive.

The ice and snow spread out everything in sight in an instant.

The screams sounded one after another, but they all stopped abruptly after only a moment.Flesh, air, and metal turned into ice cubes at this moment, becoming fragile in the face of the mighty power comparable to nature.

One tent after another was set off and swept into the sky, and the banner of the blue fox and black sun was uprooted like an old tree, waved chaotically in the midair, and then was torn into pieces.

Lann's face paled slightly, except for the last time when the Siren was killed by the Skellige group, he had never tried so hard to cast the seal.

But soon the alchemy potions in his blood vessels began to stimulate the potential of his body. The mixture of various potions and decoctions not only strengthened his mana recovery speed in the conventional sense, but the stronger the magic seal he cast, the faster his mana recovery speed also increased. faster.

Even the whistling wind in his ears couldn't cover the heavy breathing. Lan stood at the eye of the wind, but he didn't put away the weapon in his right hand.

In front of him was a vast expanse of whiteness like a deep mountain blizzard, but Lan could feel a little fluctuation of chaotic energy in it.

With trembling hands, Albrecht tried his best to prop up the protective shield with the warlock troops behind him, precariously protecting the few remaining senior officers of the Eastern Group Army.

With a "boom", another wave of mental power tilted from the front of his eyes, like a giant dragon roaring, and the powerful impact made Albrecht even more shaky.

[Alder Fayin·Magic Explosion]

This time, the seal did not have the ability to bless the wind and snow, and dispelled the obstruction of sight, so that everyone in the field could slightly see the surrounding scene clearly.

……

Duke Darcy's face was paler than the snowy land.He knew Army Group Eastern was doomed.

Even if they can get through this experience, the subsequent combat missions will definitely not be completed.After he returned to the empire, a more serious liquidation was waiting for him.

Just now, the surrounding area was surrounded by camps of the black-clothed army, but now only broken ice sculptures remained.

His own guards, his own staff, those noble allies who went out with him, the descendants of allies, and almost half of the middle and senior officers who did not return to the command of their respective companies, all of them were hit by the lion of Cintra. Turned into a wronged soul.

"Blow the horn... blow the horn..." Only his deputy and a few confidantes were protected by the warlock's protective shield because they were close to him.

At this moment, Duke Darcy ordered to them tremblingly: "Blow the horn! Let the troops return to help, and block Lannister!"

"Albrecht! Portal, open the portal!" The blue fox of the empire was terrified, no one could maintain reason in front of such a scene, "This is your duty, perform your duty! "

Albrecht's face became even uglier. He looked at Lann, who was at ease in front of him, and suddenly began to fluctuate a huge amount of chaotic energy.In addition to the necessary manpower to maintain the protective shield, the warlock troops behind him also began to chant magic spells at the same time.

Immediately, five extraordinarily huge portals appeared in front of Lann, and disappeared in a flash.

Such a huge portal is difficult to maintain, but it is enough for things from the other side to come.Appearing in front of Lan was a monster with a tall rock body nearly two stories high, and four similar monsters around it that were one size smaller than it.

The body was cast from granite, the chest, joints, and crevices of the body burst out with flames, as if lava flowed.

Fire Elemental Golem.

A warlock would definitely not be able to make up a fortune of this level.For the first time since the Battle of Soldon, when the soldiers of the North, with the support of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers, repelled Nilfgaard, the Emperor of the Empire has given magic his full attention.

He has learned the lessons of failure and vigorously supported the domestic magic academy, and these five golems are the result.

Lan raised his head slightly, even the smaller golems were much taller than the ones he had seen in Thomas Molu's laboratory, not to mention the one in the middle, which could almost reach The upper abdomen of the ice giant.

As expected of Nilfgaard, he is indeed rich and powerful.

With a flash of golden light, Lan launched 【Flash】.

After crossing the five golems and the protective shield erected by the warlock troops, Lan came to Albrecht.

Warlock is supporting a real portal, but unfortunately he has no chance to step into it to escape, the golden light that is brighter than the portal in front of him is already lying between him and the way of life.

Impassable.

In the warlock's terrified eyes, Lann chuckled and swung his sword.

Blood splattered.

(End of this chapter)