my armed maid

Chapter 39 37: The Hunting White Raven

Randy Mathers, captain of the second detachment of the 500th Brigade of the Linfeng Legion, is responsible for commanding the [-] people of the second detachment and [-] workers and logistics to build fortifications in Baiyun Village and expand the defense range of Linfeng City.

I think he was also an arrogant training genius back then. After graduating from the Knight Academy with good grades in the top three and enlisting in the army, he quickly took the position of captain of the second team.

And when he was in his early 30s, he achieved a breakthrough in strength and was promoted to a sixth-level knight.

Originally, with his strength as a sixth-level knight, there was no problem in serving as the captain of the first detachment in the Linfeng Legion. However, several years later, he was still hanging around in the second detachment without waiting for a chance to be promoted.

After more than 70 years of peacetime accumulation, the number of talents in Linfeng's army is close to saturation. In other words, it is too busy.

What counts is not strength, but qualifications.

In peacetime, soldiers do not have the risk of dying in battle, and the old guys in front have not yet abdicated, so the rising stars naturally have no chance to rise to the top.

Having lost his promotion channels, he occasionally thinks about the future when he drinks with his comrades at night:

Ah, if only there was a war to be fought.

As a soldier, there is no faster way to get promoted than to achieve great military exploits.

Those old guys who have polished their blood in peacetime are best to die in the war, and let them, the new generation of soldiers, take over the army.

Then they will reverse the situation, save Linfeng and become heroes!

Haha, thinking about it makes my blood boil!
At that time, Randy thought that such scenes were just his delusions after drinking. The Roland Empire was at its peak, and the grassland people had not dared to act rashly for decades.

There is no war on the border and peace in Linfeng City!
But things are unpredictable. In just two years, Roland I suddenly passed away, the empire was in turmoil, and the grassland people were waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback.

At the beginning, everyone was filled with righteous indignation and wanted to defend their country and the territorial integrity of Linfeng City.

However, they were restrained in the city by the city lord's no-fight strategy and were unable to use their fists.

As a result, dissatisfaction spread. When they first built momentum in the city, most of the people in the army were militants, and he was one of them.

Later, a suicide march broke out and Linfeng City officially entered a state of war.

Randy and his men are gearing up, preparing to show off their fists in the war and make great achievements.

But as the army left the city and officially fought with the prairie people on the grassland, they gradually discovered that something was wrong.

The strength of the prairie troops... seems to be stronger than imagined?
Although more than 70 years of peace have produced many talents in Linfeng's army, these talents are all embroidered pillows who have never experienced actual combat. They have no training level and combat theory, but they fall down at the first touch when they go to the front line.

In the week since the war began, Linfeng's army had actually experienced more than a dozen encounters with the grassland people, but in the end they were able to repel only a few, and each time they paid a heavy price.

There is no such thing as a true victory.

The dozen or so battles that failed resulted in almost the entire army being wiped out, so they were suppressed as scandals, while the ones that won the battles were widely publicized in the city as good news, even if the results were not good.

This caused people in the city to be blindly confident about the situation, while people outside the city became increasingly pessimistic about the war situation.

But they could not retreat. After releasing their heroic words of defending their homeland and country, they were already riding a tiger.

And now, at this very moment.

Randy Mathers, the captain of the second detachment of the 20th Brigade of the Peak Army, his [-]-year military career (seven days of actual combat career) is undergoing the most severe test in history——

"Captain, I can't hold on anymore!" The adjutant's voice was hoarse from shouting, "They have already invaded!"

This prairie force was well-equipped, powerful, and numerous in number. With just one encounter, they destroyed all the defenses outside the village and rushed directly into the village.

"Hold on, hold on!"

The Bauhinia flag of the Roland Empire was planted in the center of the square in Boyun Village. Randy mounted his horse, raised his sword, gathered the remaining troops here, and shouted loudly, "We have no way to retreat, behind us is Linfeng city!"

Yes, they can't retreat now even if they want to. No one can outrun the iron hoofs of the prairie people.

In this case, why not turn around and bite them hard? What if you persist and reinforcements arrive?

The prairie people's troops surrounded the square. The leader, a prairie people knight wearing gorgeous feathers, took the lead, waving a machete and killed them.

Randy knew that this was the captain of this prairie army, and like him, he was also a high-level knight.

He was the Linfeng soldier who had killed the most just now, and he was the only one present who had the strength to compete with him.

In other words, as long as the opponent's captain can be killed, there is a chance for a comeback in this battle!

Thinking of this, his eyes sharpened, he clamped his horse's belly, raised his knight's sword, and faced his opponent.

Fighting to achieve great military exploits?Fighting for promotion and title?Fight to protect your country?

These noble reasons were forgotten in his mind at this moment.

He just wants to live now.

Live!
The knight's sword in his hand shone brighter. In the desperate situation, Randy unleashed all his strength and slashed at his opponent with a single blow.

Unlike Randy, who looked ferocious, the prairie captain just watched his every move with calm to indifferent eyes, and then swung his knife.

In his eyes, Randy wasted too much expression, energy and magic power on things other than necessary, like a rookie who had no strength but could not use it skillfully.

This knife accurately hit the fragile spot of the knight's sword. The captain of the prairie man shook his wrist and swung Randy's sword away, and then struck straight at the door with the knife.

He has experienced many battles and is already familiar with efficient killing methods.

Randy didn't expect that he would be defeated by his opponent within three moves, and his eyes could not help but reveal deep frustration and despair.

There is also a gap between the sixth level knights.

The cruel war will indeed screen out those embroidered pillows with empty qualifications, but I didn't expect that those people screened out would include myself.

Seeing that he was about to succeed, the prairie captain's eyes became even more murderous.

But at the next moment, the hairs on his back suddenly stood up, and the sharp noise of wind blades cutting the air came from behind.

He immediately stopped the attack, jumped sideways from the horse, and rolled to the ground.

"boom--"

The next moment, the sharp wind blade cut the horse in half, raising a cloud of dust.

The prairie man loved horses more than his wife. Seeing his horse being dismembered on the spot, his usually indifferent face twitched violently.

Spells require chanting and casting time, but the corresponding power is extremely powerful. This is why the upper limit of mages of the same level is higher than that of knights.

Even if it is a fourth-level spell, if a sixth-level knight is unprepared and does not wear armor of sufficient strength, he will be severely injured by one blow.

He became wary and looked up with squinted eyes.I saw a figure floating in the sky under the dazzling sun. She wore a white raven mask on her head and a cyan magic circle on her feet. She held a strange alchemy weapon in her right hand and was pointing the muzzle of the black hole at it. he.

Who is this?Reinforcements from Linfeng City...

Being pointed at the black hole with a gun, the prairie captain felt a chill in his heart.

The next moment, a light cyan magic circle was deployed at the muzzle of the gun, and another wind blade was fired at him. He bent down and rolled to avoid the wind blade, and then threw himself into a nearby house in embarrassment.

With obstacles covering him, attacks from the sky cannot hit him.

High-level knights are agile and have keen senses. With the current strength of the Unit-[-]'s armament, if the opponent hides, it will be difficult to kill them all.

However, he can run, but others cannot.

Yuna turned the gun and shifted the target to other prairie people.

Those less agile shamans and low-level knights had no ability to resist in the face of the high-speed wind blade. They were called out by Yuna one by one, and both men and horses were cut in half by the wind blade falling from the sky.

Who is this?Reinforcements from Linfeng City...

Randy stared blankly at the figures of death wind blades scattered in the sky, and he had the same question in his heart.

He didn't even know that there was such a wind mage who acted alone in the army.

A low-level wind mage cannot fly in the sky and release the wind blade at the same time. This means that she can cast two spells left and right at the same time. Her level is at least level five, maybe even level six!
And if you look closely, you will see that this mysterious person is different from ordinary wind mages. Orthodox mages do not summon magic circles when casting spells. What she holds in her hand is not an ordinary staff, but a strange-shaped alchemy. arms!
Is she really a mage?
Who is she?

Noticing his gaze, the figure wearing a white raven mask lowered his head and looked at him. Their eyes met for a moment, and Randy subconsciously clenched the knight's sword in his hand.

The white raven raised his hand and released the spell again. The wind blade passed over Randy's head and split a prairie man in half who climbed to the top of the building in an attempt to shoot an arrow for a sneak attack.

Now everyone woke up, and the adjutant shouted excitedly: "Captain, she is here to help us, she is our reinforcement!"

Randy no longer hesitated, raised his arms and shouted: "Reinforcements have arrived, let's fight back together!"

"kill!"

Everyone's morale was greatly increased and their will to fight was renewed.

Under the cover of the white raven wind blade in the sky, they took advantage of the situation and pushed back, and actually defeated the prairie troops in one go!

"again."

Yuna flew through an arc in the air, avoiding the ice spear shots of the shaman on the ground, and at the same time cut him into two pieces with a backhand wind blade.

The reason why the ground troops were able to successfully push back the front line was because she attracted the attention of most of the extraordinary people in the prairie troops.

They either used spells or shot with bows and arrows, trying to shoot the white raven down from the sky.

But Yuna had been maintaining irregular aerial maneuvers at an altitude of nearly [-] meters, easily evading all their shots.

And because they were concentrating on aiming, they were just like fixed targets on the ground, and they were killed by her wind blades one after another.

The enemy could easily kill him, but he could not hit the enemy. After this despair lasted for a while, the morale of the prairie people collapsed.

They began to evacuate from the village in a hurry. Randy seized this opportunity and led his troops to pursue them.

After firing several wind blades in succession, the magic gun's magic power was exhausted. Yuna stopped in the air. She pressed the button of the magazine, threw away the magic crystal that had consumed all magic power, and took out a new piece from her waist pocket. took a photo.

In this chaos of attacking and defending, a figure stood in the shadow of the house. He fully pulled the bowstring in his hand and silently pointed the arrow at the white raven in the sky.

After being delayed by the White Raven for so long, Linfeng's reinforcements were about to arrive. This surprise attack had failed.

However, if you can shoot her down, it will at least be considered a military achievement. If you can seize her body, you may even be rewarded by "Heavenly Father"!

A hint of sinisterness flashed in the prairie captain's eyes. He caught the pause moment when White Raven was operating the alchemy weapon, and the sharp arrow in his hand came out of the string!

"Soon-"

Yuna turned her body slightly to one side, and the arrow missed her.

"I see you." She raised the magic gun towards the prairie captain.

The prairie captain was the most likely threat to her in the entire battle, so since she couldn't pinpoint his exact location, she had been secretly wary of his sneak attacks.

She had just deliberately betrayed a flaw in the air, and the prairie captain was indeed fooled, exposing her position.

With one missed hit, he knew that he had missed his only chance. With the White Raven's mobility, he now had no chance of shooting her down.

If the entanglement continues, he won't be able to leave until Linfeng's reinforcements arrive.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, climbed over on an ownerless war horse in the chaotic battlefield, and drove it towards the outside of the village.

He ran in another direction than the prairie troops, so he was far away from the pursuing Linfeng army.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard a sharp sound breaking through the air.

When he turned around to look, he felt despair in his heart and his whole body felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar.

The white raven caught up.

Yuna kept locking him in the air and fired the wind blade in the direction he was heading.

He could react, but the horse couldn't. The prairie man captain was forced to abandon his horse and roll to the ground again. The wind blade that came soon split the horse in half.

He lay on the ground breathing heavily, looking at the white raven following him in the sky.

This white raven is like a ghostly soul on the peak of the mountain. She follows you like a shadow, shrouding you in her shadow. You can see her, but you can never touch her.

He wanted to escape, but couldn't.

At this time, the cheers of Lafeng's army could be faintly heard from Baiyun Village behind him, and then an army came galloping in the direction of White Raven.

He knew that reinforcements from Linfeng had arrived.

After losing his horse, under the guidance of the white raven, reinforcements will soon arrive to surround him. Now he is no different from the dead.

His heart was filled with despair and he closed his eyes in despair.

Only the white raven in the sky stared at him indifferently. She aimed at the prey at her feet and pulled the trigger again.

"I got you."

　I forgot to set a scheduled post. Sorry, I just got home and posted the post OTZ.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)