Heart of the Castle

Chapter 448 Mountain people resist, magic shows its power
Watching the backs of the knights of the Northern Allied Forces disappear into the night, Li Wei held the sword of the knights tightly in one hand, and asked the two people around him with a wry smile. "Now it's our turn, Sir Rodriguez... No, Lord Ston, and Mr. Dish, isn't my decision very unwise?"

"Of course, it's not sensible at all. How did I educate you like this? What a failure!" Sir Rodriguez said solemnly, frowning.Seeing Li Wei's froze expression, he showed a wicked smile that belonged to the Cursed World Black Sun, and patted the Griffin Lord on the shoulder, "It's as stupid as a real knight."

"The current unfavorable situation is related to my misjudgment, and I have the obligation and responsibility to correct it." Mr. Dish's voice sounded from the other side, and the butler's clothes on the old magician did not know when it changed A dark red robe, and a pointed mage hat on his head. "Li Wei, Hei Ri, are you ready?"

Levi nodded vigorously, his lips pursed into a line due to nervousness; Sir Rodriguez's reaction was more direct, the giant iron star sword slipped out of its sheath without a sound, and a dark and shadowy fighting spirit ignited on it , "It's been a long time since I let go of my hands and feet to fight a big fight. I hope that those devil cubs will not be too useless this time, so that I can have fun."

"Very well, then let's go and have a good fight with those demons and skeletons!" The voice of the old magician was faintly angry, and he pointed the wooden cane in his hand, and the old chant sounded: "Unreal The current, the end, the end, walk and stay without hindrance, the astral gate is open!" As the incantation ended, a bluish-white light lit up, and quickly expanded into a portal as tall as a person, and the demon's roar was accompanied by loud shouts. The sound of killing immediately flowed out from inside, as if it was exploding in the ears, it was breathtaking!
To Li Wei's surprise, he originally thought that he would directly face the impact of a large number of demons. However, when he walked out of the portal with the condensed fireball in his hand, he found that although the east gate of Queensland City had been captured by the demon army Breakthrough, but not all human troops were defeated and fled.Dozens of light green light spots were scattered among the surrounding ruins, a handful of them gathered on a half-collapsed stone building, shooting at the demon with continuous bows and arrows; while more light spots scattered , flexibly attacking the demon army trying to approach that building.

The first batch of people who flooded into Queensland City were a mixed team of little devils and horned devils. As low-level soldiers in the demon army, they lacked intelligence and tended to be chaotic by nature, so their ability to coordinate combat was quite poor.In the face of insufficiently trained militias or ordinary soldiers, they can still take advantage of their strong bodies. If they fight against well-trained elite fighters, they can only rely on numbers to win.The positions occupied by humans are surrounded by collapsed houses and low walls. The obstacles formed by these ruins make it difficult for the horned demons with the same strength and body to approach quickly; and although the little devils have wings to assist in jumping, they can't move with bows and arrows. Under the blow, they looked embarrassed, and they all screamed and fell down.Even if some little devils were able to rush forward under the blockade of bows and arrows, they would be hit head-on by the troops guarding under the stone buildings, and could only retreat with heavy casualties.

However, it is not a good idea to let go of this place. The location of the stone building is very clever. The defenders on it can just use bows and arrows to block several main streets near the east gate of Queensland City. The demon team that entered Queensland City took a moment to respond It seemed helpless to be blocked here abruptly by dozens of people.

"Are those soldiers from the Northern Allied Forces? They look a bit like wolfheads." Li Wei looked at the battle ahead with some hesitation. The opponents fighting the demons seemed to be a group of brown beasts, although in the field of vision of the probing technique Now, their bodies are glowing with a green light that symbolizes friendship.

When Li Wei approached, he saw that they were not beasts, but human warriors wearing furry animal leather armor, holding long axes and short throwing spears tightly in their hands. On the leather armor, dark red marks were formed.

These human soldiers fought skillfully and tenaciously under the command of several of their leaders. Although they were small in number, they always maintained the posture of dealing with a little devil with two or three people, and effectively killed many little devils. Even Li Wei saw a horned demon warlord crashing to the ground under their siege, which made the young griffin lord startled.

"Those people are not regular soldiers of the Allied Forces, but mountain people from the remote forest, who were recruited as auxiliary militia." Sir Rodriguez glanced at the battlefield and said, "The remote forest is rich in extremely ferocious mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. These two kinds of beasts are much more threatening than ordinary little devils. Since those mountain people are used to hunting dangerous beasts, the same goes for changing their hunting targets to demons."

But this is the limit of what they can do. As the demon army gradually approaches from all directions, the space they can move in becomes narrower and the situation is precarious.Feathered arrows shot down from the stone building are also gradually thinning out. Several archers who shot all the arrows picked up short knives from their sides and held them in their mouths, and began to climb down the collapsed stairs, preparing to join the battle below. go.

An even worse situation appeared later. A small group of winged demons with bat wings growing on their backs flew in from outside the city gate, and each winged demon held a fire-throwing monster in its claws.They put these fire-manipulating demons out of the range of the archers of the stone building, and then the chanting of the demonic language sounded there.

The appearance of the fire monster announced that the resistance of the human defenders was about to come to a tragic end. The archers on the stone building also knew this very well.Then the bowstring vibrated continuously, and several feathered arrows shot from the stone building as hard as they could, but they were exhausted before reaching the building occupied by the fire-throwing monster, and fell to the ground slumped.

There was a burst of crazy roaring and cursing from the demon camp, and the demons stopped approaching, waiting for those hateful humans to be buried in the flames.There were clusters of flames on the building where the fire monster was located, and the choking smell unique to burning sulfur immediately became stronger, making many demons show expressions of enjoyment.

Commanding this fire-throwing monster team is a skinny big demon incinerator. The red and black magic lines have spread from its arms to the chest, which means that this is a mature incinerator. A guy who is about to transform into a hellfire demon.It glanced at the stone buildings guarded by the archers with its slender eyes, then raised a hand, and a dark red fireball gradually formed in its palm,

"All aim, prepare, launch..." The Burner issued an attack order in a hoarse voice, but before the words fell, a feeling of extreme danger appeared in its intuition, and the fear of being swallowed made the Burner The cruel heart can't help but tremble.There was a feeling of stagnation around the body. The fire element, which could have been flexibly manipulated like a part of the body, suddenly became very strange. It seemed that it was scrambling to get out of the control of the burner, dancing and worshiping the master in the sky.

The Burner raised his head subconsciously, and what he saw was a young knight made of flames rushing forward, riding a steed made of thick smoke under his crotch. The bright red flames were the armor worn by the knight, and the blue flames It is the bright sword light of the knight piercing the night sky...

The Burner raised his hands subconsciously, he wanted to use the fireball to resist the flame knight's sword light, but the fireball in his hand collapsed first, and his whole body was involved in the flame vortex, Burner's excellent resistance The fire physique prevented him from dying immediately. There was the whistling wind and the screams of the fire-throwing monsters in his ears, and then there was a strange feeling under his feet, and the building with a mixed structure of masonry and wood began to collapse.

This is the last consciousness of the Burner.

There was a loud bang, the flames soared into the sky, screams and the sound of buildings collapsing at the same time, and the hustle and bustle like the doomsday rushed straight into the night sky.This should be a wonderful scene that the demons love to see, but when the explosion happened around them, the entertainment was greatly weakened, and even turned into incomparable panic and fear.

The building that had just been occupied by a small group of fire-throwers was completely engulfed in flames, the sound of cracking was deafening, and thick smoke echoed like a whirlwind.The demons shrieked and backed away, and the shattered building fragments flew away like a shower. Every fragment was burned to the point of white heat by the magic flame, greedily devouring the demons who did not have time to retreat.

A Winged Demon Annihilator almost escaped into the sky by sticking to the flying building debris. Its movements were quite nimble, but it still left two burns on its body.The high altitude seemed to be its most reliable shield. Although Winged Demon Annihilator was still panting, a pair of blood-red eyes had scanned the ground ferociously, trying to find out where the enemy just now came from.

Then the Winged Demon Annihilator felt it was difficult to breathe. All it could see was chaos. The fireball descended from the sky like a grinning night owl, drawing a dark red line of fire and falling into the dense surroundings. Among the demon team.Those fireballs are not one or two, but dense like stars falling into the world, each one contains highly concentrated fire elements, presenting a thick and bright red like fresh blood.When the fireball erupted, the air under his feet seemed to be liquefied by high heat, shining brightly in the night.

The first demon team to attack the east gate of Queensland City was not elite, and there was no demon lord or other high-level demons to supervise the battle at this time, and their minds were not numb by bloodlust.So when I saw this scene, I was even more terrified, so the few demon teams hit by the fireball collapsed first, and then engulfed more demon teams, and walked along the streets and alleys of Queensland City without thinking Running wildly, as if chasing the messenger of death who was waving a sickle to harvest life behind him.

The dense fireballs indeed have a terrifying power that is not lost to the legendary messenger of death. They exploded one after another on the ground, destroying houses and clearing the ruins, spreading terror, killing and death.Exclamations and howls with a strong demonic accent rang out, "Fire, fire is coming! Run, run!" All the demons were running wildly, and countless little demons fled in all directions in the ruins. Pushing and trampling the little devil mercilessly, the Cerberus turned on all the sharp teeth that stood in front of it.

Since more demon teams are still swarming in from the east gate of Queensland City, these defeated troops have no way to escape, and the fireball sends out bursts of earth-shattering explosions in other directions, scaring them into madness. He rushed towards the east gate, which seemed to be the only way out.Near the east gate of the half-collapsed city of Queensland, the demons collided head-on like two red and black turbid streams of the same color. The sounds of cursing, cursing and screams suddenly resounded, converging into a terrifying melody praising death.

The demon team that just rushed into the city of Queensland was under strict orders to occupy the city as soon as possible and hunt down the defeated human army; while the fleeing demons ran out desperately, wanting to escape the terrible fireball attack, so they did not hesitate to fight.The two sides started a desperate struggle almost at the moment of collision, and the purple blood splashed and splashed, just like the waves on the turbid current.The army of demons killed each other in front of the city gate, and mingled together, each other was brutal and tyrannical, without mercy.The soaring flames in the city illuminated the hurricane of killing. Countless demons fell to the ground and died. The corpses were densely packed near the city gate. It was rare to see a corpse that was not crushed on top of another.

The huge change made those human soldiers a little bit at a loss. They had already prepared for the worst, that is, they had to give up the favorable terrain on the side of the stone building to fight to the death with the demon army with an absolute superiority in numbers.However, the situation was completely reversed in a blink of an eye. Terrible flame magic descended from the sky, first destroying the demons who manipulated the flames, and then severely attacking other demon teams.The violent explosion and flames turned the sky red, and the ground was full of dismembered corpses of demons. The demons that survived the intensive fireball attack were also scared out of their wits, and their fear made them run away desperately.

The warriors who were born in the mountains had sharp enough eyesight to see the saviors who suddenly appeared.They thought that the people who cast these terrible flame magics would be a whole army of magicians, but after careful identification, they found that there were only three people who came to support them.One of them was wearing a thick black steel plate armor and holding an ugly two-handed giant sword. He didn't look like a magician at all.Another man dressed as a noble lord also looked more like a knight than a magician, but someone saw him summon a human-shaped flame on the stone building, and blew up the fire-thrower team to pieces.

The most powerful magic came from the hand of the old man in the dark red robe. This is the only person who resembles the legendary magician, with white beard and white hair, wearing a pointed hat, and smiling Full of wisdom.

"Praise the goddess of life Alara, and Boji thanks the adults for their timely assistance." A burly man walked towards Li Wei quickly, with a sincere smile on his face, and then he saw Li Wei's appearance clearly, There was a hint of surprise in the smile. "Master Griffon Lord, why are you here?"

"Do you recognize me?" Li Wei asked in surprise. This big man had a particularly rough appearance, with long hair and beard, braided into countless small braids, and bells and copper rings jingled between these braids.Li Wei thinks that if he has seen such an image, he will never fail to be impressed.

"Yes, sir." The big man bowed deeply, with his head lowered to his belt, "Boji is the leader of the Orion in the Youyuan Forest Sea. He joined the coalition army with Sir Tang En. I met you a few times during the march. " Then he raised his head and looked behind Li Wei, with a confused expression on his face, "Why hasn't Sir Tang En arrived yet? He said he wanted to leave from here, but I'm afraid he can't get out of here."

"You mean Sir Tang En wants to leave, from here?" Li Wei's face changed slightly, he remembered that at the beginning of the military meeting, the city guard knight who went to invite Sir Tang En to attend the meeting reported back to Ansai The Earl of Earl, who claimed to refuse to participate because of his serious injuries. "Despicable... shameless traitor." His voice was full of resentment.

"Traitor? Lord Griffin, you are not talking about us, are you?" Boji scratched his head in confusion, and the bells on his braids rang wildly, "We have been following Sir Tang En's orders to stay here Here, even if those demons broke through the city gate, they didn't give up guarding here."

"No, there is no need for guards here anymore." Li Wei said to Bojitou, "Of course you are not traitors. The sound of the horn just now was an order to evacuate. Now you and your people should leave immediately."

"But Sir Tang En hasn't..." Head Boji's expression stiffened as soon as the words came out of his mouth.He was just straight-minded, but he wasn't stupid. The fact that the devil broke through the East Gate and Sir Tang En's delay in arriving had already explained the reason. "I see, Master Griffon Lord." He nodded fiercely and said, "Will you go with us?"

"No, we need to stay here, continue to stop those demons for a period of time, and buy opportunities for the withdrawal of the northern coalition forces."

"Understood, Lord Griffin." Boji headed up to the sky and let out a whistle, and those mountain hunters rushed out from various places quickly and gathered around him. Their agile movements were indeed like a group of wild beasts.

"Brothers, this is our savior, Dawn of the North!" Bodhi announced loudly to his companions, "Sir Tang En abandoned us, he is a bad master! But Lord Griffon also saved us , he is a good master, who shall we listen to from now on?"

"Griffin, Griffon, Griffin!" The mountain people raised their long-handled axes and spears in their hands, and their shouts were rough but enthusiastic. "Youyuan Linhai will obey your orders from now on, Master Griffin Lord." Boji said, and at the same time took out something that looked like a wild boar's tooth from his bosom. "Boji and Lin Hai's hunters will never forget your life-saving grace. As long as you say a word, we will reunite under your banner."

Li Wei nodded solemnly, took the token from Boji with both hands, and said to them: "Master Boji, you don't want to participate in the next battle, leave here immediately, those wounded also need to be killed as soon as possible." Just get treatment."

Boji thought for a while, nodded and admitted: "Yes, many of us were injured... well, Lord Griffin, judging from the powerful magic of you and this old shaman just now, we will help you if we stay. I'm not busy, so I'll leave first!" He then gave instructions to the mountain warriors in his thick accented dialect, and dozens of figures immediately followed him and rushed out at an astonishingly fast speed.

"There's a big guy coming over, he's not small, he might be a general in the demon army." Mr. Dish reminded suddenly.Hearing this sentence, Li Wei looked away from the backs of those mountain people who were about to disappear into the night, and looked at the army of demons who were still in chaos and killing each other.

A dark red light spread from outside the city of Queensland, and quickly spread to the vicinity of the city gate. Those crazy demon soldiers quickly regained their sanity in the sticky bloody abyss.The cannibalism of the demon army near the east gate finally came to an end. However, in some places, demon corpses were stacked on top of each other to the height of half a person.

"Stupid, idiots, you are all brainless worms that should be thrown into the Styx!" A thunderous curse came from outside the city, and then the demon teams trembled and separated to both sides, preferring to squeeze each other out of breath Come on, let's make a wide enough path.

A majestic figure appeared outside the city gate with the sound of heavy footsteps. The east gate of Queensland City was six meters high and wide enough to allow ten heavily armed knights to ride side by side. , but the more than a dozen huge stones with a square meter of half a meter that make up the main body of the city gate have only collapsed some corners, and the main structure is still preserved.

However, in front of the demon commander, these boulders were easily pushed away like building blocks, and the smoke and dust from the boulders rolled up and rose up.Li Wei tightly held the hilt of the knight's sword, with a dignified expression on his face. Just now, he even had to switch the probing technique to normal vision, otherwise his eyes might not be able to bear the deep purple light like the scorching sun at noon!
After the smoke and dust settled, the majestic figure of the demon commander appeared in front of Li Wei and Mr. Dish. This demon was wearing a red copper armor covered with strange runes. The surface of the armor was densely covered with sharp copper thorns.The crimson poisonous sulfurous fire spewed out continuously from the gaps in the armor, and the tongues of flame swirled and swayed from time to time, as if an orange-red cloak was wrapped around his body, making the surrounding air extremely hot .

"Abyssal Balrog...and at least a marquis..." Mr. Dish sighed softly, "Lee Wei, we are in big trouble now, this guy is completely immune to fire magic, like the meteor just now With the power of magic like Huoyu, even bathing him is too cold."

Levi took a deep breath, and when he was about to answer, Sir Rodriguez's voice came from the side, "Old Dish, do you know how to use magic like fire protection?"

"Of course, the fire aegis with fire counterattack damage, and the fire thaumaturgy that resists fire, which one do you want to bless?" Mr. Dish asked with some pride.

"The one that resists the flames is fine. I'm afraid the Fire Aegis won't have any effect on that Balrog?" Sir Rodriguez clasped his star iron giant sword tightly in both hands, with a heroic smile on his face, "I heard that the Balrog Their melee combat ability is very good? I hope to have a good battle."

(End of this chapter)