Heart of the Castle

Chapter 542 Demon Army Assembled, Last Line of Defense
The Death Knights have the strongest attack ability among the four major knight orders in the Kingdom of Arthur, especially the first branch led by Thomas Jansen.However, on this night, they faced the most difficult and difficult battle since the last disaster.

Hundreds of death knights formed a seemingly endless black turbidity current, heavy hooves stomped on the ground, and drove down the hills on both sides of Guangyao Avenue menacingly.The majesty of the whole knight group's condescending charge was simply indescribable, making one feel as if the earth could not bear it and was on the verge of sinking.

The Death Knights were undoubtedly an elite force, but they still couldn't avoid falling into chaos when they were caught off guard and ambushed.The frightened war horse neighed and screamed, the warning horn sounded rapidly, some cursed loudly, some drew their swords out of their sheaths, and some tried to retreat.The high-ranking death knight in charge of commanding the front army roared and gave orders, wanting to put on a minimum defensive posture when the enemy rushed in front of him, but his voice was drowned out by thousands of shouts from his throat. People hear, but no one obeys.

It looks like the Death Knights are about to die... if they get any closer to the ambush site.

Those death knights' raids were launched too early. If they waited for the death knights to continue to approach - even if it was 200 meters - before launching a charge, then even the more elite troops would have little room to resist.Maybe it was because the leader of the opponent didn't understand the principles of ambushes, or maybe it was because the death knight hated life too much. Whatever the reason, Tomad Jansen was very grateful.

Fortunately, the goddess of fate at least left them the ability to fight to the death.

The brilliant dou qi suddenly rose up, like the scorching sun suddenly descending, tearing apart the deep twilight.The death knights at the front couldn't help turning their heads or raising their shields. For a moment, they even had the question of whether the Lord of Radiance descended to the earth as a clone.

However, they came to their senses afterward. What they saw was just a knight with powerful fighting spirit. No matter how powerful he was, he couldn't stop the charge of hundreds of death knights by himself and save the inevitable defeat.

Tomad Jansen raised his long sword high, and the light of battle energy condensed on the edge of the sword, and his whole body was like a god of war bathed in the sea of ​​light.Then he slashed his arm heavily, and the long sword drew a fierce arc of light in the air, and the vindictive light roared out like a bolt of lightning, but this lightning didn't slash at any death knight, but aimed at the ground beneath their feet. ground.

There was a loud bang, and the suffocating strong wind overflowed, and the ground nearby trembled a few times because of the blow of the Lord of the Eyes. The bluestone slabs on the Guangyao Avenue shattered under the fighting spirit, and flew to the death knights. On his armor, there was a clanging sound as if countless hailstones were falling.

The four death knights were affected by the vindictive light, and even their horses and men exploded like clay puppets made of clay. The black armor and the same dark and dirty flesh splashed far away, and some of them fell into the withered yellow grass. Smoke hissed; some fell on fellows struggling to keep their balance.

Thomas Jansen's blow was undoubtedly powerful, but for the Black Hammer Knights with as many as 500 members, it was only equivalent to throwing a stone in a rushing river. There is no way to stop the progress of the river.When the follow-up death knight rushed across the uneven ground blasted by the vindictive light, his speed was not even affected much, and his horseshoe trampled on his companion's remnant body mercilessly.

The few death knights rushing to the front were about to come into close contact with the Lord of the Eyes. They lowered their pitch-black spears and aimed at Thomas Jansen's thin body sitting upright on his horseback.It only takes a few heartbeats for that powerful human knight to fall into a deep siege. At that time, no matter how powerful he is, he will eventually be torn to pieces by the steel fangs.

But suddenly, the battle situation changed drastically.

The death knights who were passing through the land blasted by the light of battle energy all stopped suddenly. This was not their voluntary behavior, but the uneven ground under their feet suddenly turned into a soft and sunken swamp, which could not withstand heavy equipment at all. The combined weight of the knight and horse.

In just an instant, the Dark Hammer Knights lost the overwhelming advantage they should have obtained, and instead turned into a chaotic scene where people and horses got mixed together.More than one death knight yelled at the horses in their crotches, trying to force them to continue running, or at least get out of the mud.However, the hooves of the horses had sunk deep into the wet ground. Although the zombie warhorses had great advantages in obeying orders and fearing no pain compared with ordinary warhorses, they still could not violate the laws of physics.The result of forcibly driving the horses forward was that these tall and haggard undead creatures broke their horseshoes, and then threw the death knight on their backs into the knee-deep black mud.

If it was an ordinary human knight order, it would have been defeated by such an accident. However, the members of the Dark Hammer Knights are all death knights. Hatred is enough to make them launch a desperate charge in the most hopeless situation.

This is the case now, the dozens of death knights charging at the front did not show any hesitation because of what happened to the follow-up troops. They brandished their long swords and straightened their spears, and ruthlessly penetrated into the ranks of the Death Knights.The screams, cursing, the collision of armor and spear points, the muffled sound of long swords being cut on shields, and the simultaneous screams of thousands of war horses suddenly burst out, accompanied by a strong bloody atmosphere filled with the boundless twilight. A particularly tragic picture of war.

At the last moment of the charge, the death knight tried his best to avoid the position where the Lord of the Eyes was. Tomad Jansen also felt a little tired because he had just released his fighting spirit with all his strength. In addition, there were only more than 30 death knights who could rush through the mud, so they just Standing on the sidelines, watching these death knights rush all the way into the ranks of the Death Knights.

In Thomas Jansen's mind, this number of death knights shouldn't have much impact on the Death Knights. His first division can easily deal with opponents that are much more troublesome than dozens of death knights.However, to the surprise of the Lord of the Eyes, the trauma these dozens of death knights brought to his subordinates far exceeded his imagination.

The Death Knights didn't have time to recover from the chaos, and only the top ten knights were barely ready to face the battle.This is undoubtedly a fatal weakness. In the next moment, accompanied by a terrible impact sound, the sharp steel teeth pierced through the flesh viciously, and hot blood and foul-smelling black blood sprayed out like a fountain.The attack effect launched by the death knight in the form of exchanging injury for death is astonishing, and the moment of contact, those knights who resisted are picked off their horses.

Of course, the damage suffered by the death knight was equally astonishing. The thick black armor was violently counterattacked, bursts of strong dark magic power were aroused from it, and then it burst with a teeth-piercing friction sound.The heavy swords, spears and battle axes that contained the power of fighting spirit chopped off heads, pierced chests, and crushed bones, but they couldn't deal a fatal blow to these undead who had already died once.

Troops on both sides struggled through copious amounts of mud and blood, and there could never have been a uglier battle.The Lord of the Eyed Eyes Thomas Jensen's eyes were darkened with anger, and the Scourge Knight Drakes was not much better. The barbed iron gauntlet pressed on the hilt even made a creaking sound under his terrible grip .

Of course, the sudden swamp was not hidden under the stone slab from the beginning.The Scourge Knight had carefully observed when choosing the ambush location. The place where the Guangyao Avenue passes is all frozen ground, and there is no possibility of any mud.Derek's cold eyes swept across the chaotic team, and then he turned his horse's head and chose another angle from the hill to charge towards the battlefield; while waving his arms, the blood-red beast that had been huddled on his shoulder The monster immediately made an unpleasant sound, spread its membranous wings and soared into the sky.

"Go, find that damn magician!"

"Magic, magic!" The blood-red monster circled twice over the bloody and chaotic battlefield, its one-eyed faintly glowing blood-red. Bleeding scars. "Magic, magic!" The scream of the monster sounded again, and then a dark red light with a strong and rancid smell shot straight down from the sky.

That ray of light shot on a somewhat thin knight. He wore the same style of iron-blue armor as the other death knights, but he didn't wear a long sword on his waist, nor did he have a shield or spear hanging beside his saddle. He just carried a A long strip-shaped weapon wrapped in layers of black cloth.When the bloody light was burning on him, the knight was obviously taken aback, and then shook off the black cloth in his hand, revealing a delicate and gorgeous oak staff.

"The eyes are undecided, three thousand flying shadows, broken, illusory, formless and traceless!" After the hasty incantation, the crystal inlaid on the top of the oak staff flashed a blue light, and the figure of the knight disappeared into the air.

Or that's not accurate, the figure of the knight has indeed disappeared, but a layer of faint blood-colored light still clearly outlines a figure on horseback.

Invisibility has completely lost its meaning.

The knight obviously noticed this too, and the voice of chanting the incantation sounded again, "Return to the origin, if the weak hand is like this, take a wisp of water and brush it away!" This time, a faint white light flashed.However, although the bloody light would not cause any harm, it was not so easy to dispel. After the white light disappeared, although the bloody light attached to the knight became dimmer, it did not completely disappear.

The condemned knight Drex who rushed from the hill saw all this, a stern light flashed in his eyes, "It's that magician!" He said to himself, and then continued to charge with his horse. Speed, while plucking a short throwing spear from the side of the saddle.The dark grudge then attached to it, causing the cruel weapon with countless serrations and barbs on its blade to vibrate violently.

The magician holding the oak staff did not see the Scourge Knight's actions, but a ring on his finger suddenly burst into scorching heat, which made him realize that an unknown danger was approaching him.He didn't have time to continue to cast the dispel technique, he jumped off the horse as fast as he could, and at the same time quickly rubbed a black crystal on the chest of the armor a few times with his hands.

Derricks found that the figure shrouded in bloody light suddenly disappeared from his field of vision, replaced by a black shadow with a diameter of more than ten meters, through which all light could not penetrate.The corner of his mouth curved upwards in a sinister arc, and then the cold voice pierced through the ears of the death knights who followed him.

"Target shadow, cover shot!"

More than twenty death knights changed into black longbows, and then put a long arrow of the same color on the bowstring. Even these powerful undead creatures could not see through the black shadow caused by the magic, but they There is no need to see through, the shadow itself is the best target.

The group of black shadows suddenly started to move, obviously the magician had discovered where the danger came from and wanted to distance himself.However, it was too late, more than twenty long arrows rolled up a turbulent wave in the air, piercing into the black shadow like countless evil snake letters, and the neighing of the war horse was shrill and piercing.Then there was another round of arrow rain, this time I heard a human cry of pain, and the black shadows gradually dissipated, revealing the corpse of a war horse pierced by dozens of long arrows and a man wearing the robes of a great magister. middle-aged man.

Some thin steel fragments disguised as armor were scattered around the middle-aged man's feet, his right shoulder and head were stained with a deep red, and blood was coiling down his right arm like a small snake.The death knight showed no mercy, and the third round of arrows swarmed in with a hissing sound in an instant, almost drowning the middle-aged man, tearing out thousands of holes.

If he hadn't activated the protective arrow magic stored in the oak staff, this would definitely be a predictable result.

A light blue mask appeared around the body of the middle-aged magician. The protective ability of the seemingly slender and fragile mask was amazing. The bow and arrow used by the death knight also contained dark magic power. It's no stronger than mud's protective ability, but when it hits the light blue mask, it can only stimulate waves of inconspicuous ripples.

The middle-aged magician finally breathed a sigh of relief seeing that the magic for protecting the arrows was effective, but he didn't dare to relax his vigilance, and started chanting magic spells non-stop. He wanted to try to cast them before those death knights rushed over. A wide-area destruction spell with huge lethality, such as continuous fireball or more powerful meteor fire rain, fire magic will deal a terrible blow to undead creatures. This is common sense for any magician.

Known as one of Death's Wings, the great magister Karman is good at lightning magic. This series of magic single attack power is very powerful, and can often trigger the effect of paralysis, but when the target is an undead creature , the effect of lightning magic is really lackluster, single-target attacks are meaningless, and the few group offensive magics can't stop the death knight's charge.

Of course, as a great magister, Kallman is no stranger to flame magic, but his casting speed and magic power are slightly inferior.But before a few words came out of his lips, Grand Magister Karman felt something hit his chest hard, and a terrible suffocation choked his next voice in his throat.

Then there was a crisp cracking sound, and the light blue mask that protected the arrow magic suddenly exploded into a ball of light powder.The great magister Karman looked at all this in shock, "This is impossible..." he thought, then covered the fist-sized blood hole in his chest and sat down slumped, lying down, the whole world plunged into absolute darkness middle.

The condemned knight Dekris withdrew his right hand that had thrown the short-throwing spear vigorously. The feeling of killing a powerful magician just now injected some emotions similar to excitement into his dark and twisted heart, "It's a pity that it wasn't with the sword. That guy was split in half alive, otherwise the feeling of blood spilling on his body would be better." Decress said to himself, and then narrowed his eyes to look at the battle situation that had gradually calmed down from the chaos.

With the death of the great magister Karman, the mud spell also lost its sustaining power, and there was no way to continue to hinder the death knight's charge.However, during this period of time, those death knights had been completely killed by the angry Tomad Jansen, and the undead bodies were also turned into blood and flesh under the brilliant fighting spirit.The Knights of Death have been given a precious chance to breathe and adjust, having recovered from the deadly chaos.

Therefore, what the Dark Hammer Knights had to deal with was no longer a force that was suddenly attacked, but the Death Knights, one of the four major knights in the Kingdom of Arthur, which was famous for its powerful attack power!
The bright green undead flames burned in the eyes of the condemned knight. He was hesitating whether to order to continue fighting. The Dark Hammer Knights were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and compared with the Death Knights in terms of the quality of the troops on both sides. There is no clear advantage.

If this battle continues, the consequences may outweigh the gains. Decrese pursed his lips unwillingly, preparing to give an order to retreat.At this moment, he suddenly saw a scene that he couldn't believe his eyes. A death knight left the team privately, and then rode his horse and galloped towards the capital of Fermeyer!

"Traitor!" The Scourge Knight Dekris roared, turning his horse's head and trying to chase after that figure, but just as he turned around, a long sword burning with brilliant vindictiveness blocked it. in front of him.

Undisguised anger was burning in the golden pupils of the lord Thomas Jansen, and he slowly raised the long sword in his hand towards the Scourge Knight.

"The shame suffered by the Death Knights today must be compensated with the blood of the dead one hundred times, the leader of the death knights, my revenge begins with you!"

(End of this chapter)