Carry the Ring of Elden with you

The knight replied in a serious tone: "Back to Lord Roland, we don't know the recent whereabouts of Your Highness Lani. When Her Majesty Lani exposed her whereabouts before, Lord Iggy, Lord Loretta and Lord Mugram personally infiltrated Killed by the Black Knife Assassin. From the time Her Highness Lani disappeared until we were summoned, there was no sign of the Black Knife Assassin invading."

Roland nodded. The absence of the black knife assassin's invasion meant that the two fingers behind Lani could not find Lani's specific location at this time.This news is quite crucial to Roland, as long as he doesn't have to worry about Lani's safety in a short period of time.

He reached out and patted the knight on the shoulder, and then said to Blaze: "Let's go, let's go. The people over in Pulin City should be waiting impatiently."

Blaze nodded, crossed his hands across his chest, and gave orders to the soldiers, knights and mages in front of him.One after another, the troops from the Kaliya royal family turned into golden light and disappeared next to the blessing teleportation point, and then appeared in Pulin City, which was dozens of kilometers away.

After Servis, controlled by Biddy, also brought enough potions, the tree guards led [-] troll knights to set off as the vanguard, and the Kaliya forces led by Blaze followed behind as the middle army. not far away.

Instead, the Storm Troops, which had the largest number of soldiers, walked at the back of the team as the rear army.

The target chosen by Roland for his first real expedition was the Thunder City of the Austrian Parliament.In fact, Thunder City is not the closest city to the Golden Federation. The first thing Roland's army has to face after leaving the Red Rock Mountains is the magic fortress built by the Austrian Council for the outside world - Iron Wall City.

As the name suggests, the Officine Council invested a lot of money and time in this fortress to build it into a city that could resist foreign invasion. The city was indeed built on the mountain wall, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.The Iron Wall City is said to be a city, but it is actually a pass built against the mountains. It also has a transmission network channel for research by the Austrian Parliament. It can quickly send a large number of troops to the iron wall from the headquarters of the Austrian Parliament in a very short period of time. The interior of the wall city helps with defense and even counterattack.

The previous two attacks by the Austrian Law Council had the army teleport directly to Iron Wall City, and then walk all the way from Iron Wall City to the Red Rock Mountains.

Behind Iron Wall City is Thunder City. This city is famous for producing magic materials with thunder attributes, and its status within the Arcane Council is in the middle of the pack.The reason why Roland chose it as his target was because after attacking it, he would take possession of the output of thunder attribute magic materials.

As for Iron Wall City, Roland didn't take it seriously.

From the information returned by the faded people who traveled to various places, Roland knew that Iron Wall City usually did not have many troops. There were only about 40 mages stationed in it, and there were a large number of magical equipment and magic circles inside.However, since the Offensive Council has not been invaded by other countries for nearly a hundred years, and most of the mages stationed here are those who cannot survive in the Offensive Council or have no money to continue their studies, they are not responsible for the task of guarding them. It was also a casual attitude, just going through the process every day and not being very vigilant.

This feels like the Jiange Pass in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where Roland lived on Earth. As the gate of life behind the Shu Han, only a small number of soldiers were needed to defend the attacking army.

Of course, President Alois is not like Liu Chan, and he will make the mages of Iron Wall City withdraw like the soldiers of Jiange Pass.

But just forty mages can't stop the Golden Federation's advance, because the soldiers under Roland's command are not the Wei army during the Three Kingdoms period.

Roland's plan for this was to directly raid the Iron Wall City at night, and let Yakir launch the first surprise attack from the sky, destroying the enemy's teleportation circle, and then let the big tree guards lead the mountain demon knights to charge and break open the opponent's city gate. Then let Blaze's mage troops enter the city and kill all the mage stationed there, and then control various key places in the Iron Wall City.

In fact, Iron Wall City fell as Roland expected, and even when it fell, these mages didn't know which country attacked them.Many mages thought that the dragon sent by the Charles Empire attacked Iron Wall City, and the information hurriedly sent back said so.

But after the mage who sent back the message found that the attacking dragon looked a little strange, when he tried to modify the correct message, he had already been stabbed through the heart by the Calian soldiers who entered the city.

Charles's empire was really just a show, but a big pot fell from the sky.

Then these more than 40 mages stood up again under the medicine of Servis. In addition to being unable to speak, they were stationed and defended in the Iron Wall City as if they were alive. At the same time, Oleg, who came from behind, ordered his 200 Celebrity execution soldiers hid in the pass room and were on standby.

When the sun rose the next day, many passersby looked at these silent wizards and did not feel strange. They just thought that they did not want to communicate with Muggles like themselves who did not know magic.

Last night, while many members of the Offa Council were still immersed in sleep, Roland's troops marched along the avenue. During the day, the soldiers on the walls of Thunder City looked towards the outside of the city, preparing to open the city gates to let out the merchants and travelers. When they entered, they found neat troops lined up outside the city wall, and the flag of the golden tree was floating in the air.

The soldier even thought he hadn't woken up. He rubbed his eyes and screamed in panic when he discovered that the opponent's mage troops were releasing blue light spells towards him.

"Enemy attack—!"

Panic broke out in Thunder City, and most of the residents hadn't even woken up from their sleep when they heard the shrill alarm bell.

War is imminent.

Chapter 156: City destroyed

The city size of Thunder City is not large.Because it is the place where lightning-attribute magic materials are produced, most of the city is a mining and processing factory, and only about 5 people work and live here.

In other words, Thunder City is slightly larger than Dogu City, the predecessor of Moen City.

Roland had also sent faded men to collect intelligence on Thunder City a long time ago, and the regular garrison only had 1500 people.For Thunder City, these people are enough to maintain law and order in the city, but it is far from enough to resist the army's attack.

However, the Austrian Parliament has been comfortable for too long and never imagined that a country would directly attack itself.

At this time, the biggest doubt in the hearts of the defenders on the walls of Thunder City is: How did these Golden Federation troops bypass the defenses of Iron Wall City and get here?

Roland was at the rear of the Kaliya army. He looked at the bustling scene of people on the wall of Thunder City with a serious face. He didn't know the doubts in the hearts of the soldiers on the other side. He was worried about Blaze and the others.Although they have full confidence in Blaze and the others, the enemy is the Austrian Parliament after all.He was a little worried that the enemy might have some spells whose effects he didn't know.

At this time, Blaze folded his hands on his chest and looked towards Thunder City with his wolf head, constantly commanding the troops summoned from Lienia.

100 infantrymen and knights wearing cuckoo armor walked slowly at the front of the army. Among them, 10 ordinary Carian knights dressed as cuckoo knights rode tall and majestic horses and lined up in the front row. The early morning sun shone on them. Their silver armor and shields glowed with a harsh light.

The remaining 90 infantrymen lined up in a neat square formation, following closely behind.

Then there were 300 mages from the Calian royal family, and the mages stood in a slightly looser formation.Of course, this is not because they have poor discipline, but because they are positioned so that they can release the pyroxene magic without interfering with each other.

The most surprising thing is that between the infantry phalanx and the mage phalanx, there are more than 50 things covered by Gebu. Judging from the shape of Gebu, there should be some kind of alien puppet underneath.

Of course Roland knew what was covered under Ge Bu. These things were puppets made by the group of Kaliya mages using their own knowledge and using materials from this world.

That is, the puppet soldiers with six arms holding spears or short bows on the roof that players will often see in Rhea Lucalia Academy, as well as the harpy puppet soldiers who like to hang upside down on the roof for sneak attacks.

Roland did not expect that the mages of Kallia would make these two things. He always thought that these dolls would be unlocked as a unit in a certain war later, but in the end, the mages of Kallia made them directly. .

But if you think about it carefully, it's actually not surprising. After all, the puppets in the academy were originally made by these mages themselves.In this world, it seems reasonable that they would continue to use similar materials to make them by hand.

In this way, Roland obtained a batch of useful puppets, and the mages of Kallia also satisfied their curiosity to find new materials and use them.Probably the only person who was hurt was the system that knew that after Master Kaliya rubbed the puppet, he yelled "Hmm, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah," in Roland's head.

This system is already smelly and cannot be used anymore (fog).

On the wall of Thunder City, the commanding general Tolikun hurriedly climbed up. The armor he was wearing was still crooked, and the soldiers could even smell the overwhelming smell of alcohol and rouge on his body.

It was obvious that Commander Tolikun had a very indulgent night last night.

"Damn it, am I still awake?" Toli Kun was lying next to the city wall. His originally sleepy eyes became sober after seeing the troops of the Golden Federation outside the city.

Tolikun tilted the helmet he was wearing, and ordered to the cronies beside him: "You, before the opponent attacks, go to the city lord's mansion and let that old guy Kurusue who likes to stay in bed use Thunder City's defensive magic. Start the formation."

The confidant nodded and immediately ran down the city wall to inform the city lord who seemed not to have been awakened by the alarm at this time.

"And you, call those mages over." Although Tolikun's brain was still a little sleepy at this time, he could see the troops on the opposite side: "The army on the opposite side is preparing to let the mage troops take the lead. I need those pampered councils. The mage is going to counter the enemy's spell attack, go quickly!"

After the other communication shell ran away, Tolikun looked outside the city again, this time looking towards the rear of Blaze's troops.A tall knight in golden armor and twenty even larger ferocious mountain monsters behind him were waiting there, and behind him was a mighty red and silver storm army.

"Turtle, they are the Golden Federation's Big Tree Guards, Troll Knights and Storm Legion. They are serious. Isn't that flying dragon here too?" Toli Kun swallowed and glanced upward. It's a pity that he couldn't see Aqil, who was waiting on standby with dragon wings above the clouds.

Then he looked at the soldiers around him, and he found that compared to the other side's soldiers who were all wearing armor, his own soldiers couldn't even have a complete leather armor.

Toli Kun was already thinking about how to run away. This battle was impossible to win.

On the other side, Blaze came to Roland and said to him: "Kalia's soldiers can attack at any time, Your Highness Roland."

Roland nodded and patted Blaze on the shoulder: "Be safe."

A smile appeared on the half-werewolf's furry face, and then he turned around and ordered to Kallia's army: "Start the attack!"

The sound of Kallia's horn is different from that of the Golden Tree forces in the border area. Their sound of horn is more like praying to the stars in the night sky.

After hearing Blaze's order, the enlightenment mentor of the two dwarf princes, the Calian mage Rodia, immediately closed his eyes under the hood, raised his staff and recited the spell.A large magic circle waving with azure light appeared at the feet of the Kalia mages, and the radiance it emitted continuously echoed the pyroxene ether in the Kalia mages.

【Spell·Magic Realm】

The amplification magic once used in Pulin City now covered the military formation of Kallia's army under Rodya's full chant, providing other mages with a huge increase in spell damage.

The other Calia mages were not idle either. After the [Magic Realm] appeared under their feet, a large magic circle symbolizing the magic of pyroxene and various dazzling meteors also appeared in the sky in front of the Thunder City wall. It fell from the sky and smashed into the horrified faces of the city wall defenders.

The moment Commander Tolikun saw the meteor swarm, he shouted: "Squat behind the wall and raise your shield, prepare to resist the impact.", and then immediately ran down the city wall with oil on his feet.

Just kidding, as a high-ranking officer, he knew what happened in Pulin City. The design drawings of the magic circle in the General's Mansion were provided by the Austrian Parliament.Until now, the group of people studying formations in the Arcane Council have not figured out what kind of ether properties the Golden Federation's spells use. Naturally, there is no way to make a normal magic formation that can effectively withstand the opponent's spells.

However, the Arcane Council came up with an alternative solution, which was to have mages who were good at earth-based magic raise huge rock walls to physically block the spells cast by the Golden Federation mages.

In theory, this method is feasible, but where can Tolikun find a great magician who specializes in earth-attribute magic?To say nothing of the messy meteors in the sky, it would take two epic magicians to work together to cast spells to stop them.

The azure meteor shower formed by pyroxene continuously bombarded the wall of Thunder City made of rocks and thunder soil. Each bombardment would splash up a large amount of dust and lightning, and the bodies of the defenders would occasionally be blown into the air.

Of course, it was lucky that the corpses were able to be blown into the air. Most of the soldiers affected by the impact of the meteor were directly "glued" to the city wall.

The walls of Thunder City soon collapsed under the impact of the meteor shower. Blazer was not too surprised. He had already understood that there was a huge power gap between this world and the borderland.

At least in the border area, the first round of meteor showers by the mages of Kallia will be retaliated by the army of the golden tree forces with similar spells.

"Activate the puppet soldiers and harpy puppet soldiers, and charge the infantry to occupy this city wall area and cover His Highness Roland's army." Blaze gave the order, and then looked at Purcell who was following him with an unhappy look. Weiss: "Use your method to reawaken the enemy's soldiers and why they are fighting. Remember, don't make small moves."

Servais confidently raised his chest and saluted Blaze, but then he looked at the city wall with a slightly troubled expression.

It wasn't that he couldn't turn the enemy's city wall defenders into his own puppets, but... he was thinking about how many intact corpses he could find under the ruins of those city walls.If that didn't work, he could only control the souls of those dead soldiers and turn them into phantom puppets to fight for him again.

"Woo-woo!" The majestic horn sound from the Golden Tree forces interrupted Selvis's thoughts. He subconsciously turned his head to look and found that the big tree guard was already carrying the golden halberd and the golden tree shield. , leading the Troll Knights and Storm Legion soldiers behind him to charge.

Above the clouds, Yaqir, who heard the sound of the horn, also flapped his wings, passed through the thick white clouds, and projected his huge flying dragon figure onto the streets of Thunder City.

"Aang——!" It made a deafening roar in the air.

After Yakir appeared above Thunder City, the residents of Thunder City below began to riot. The wealthy people took their families, prepared their own carriages, and urged their hired grooms to escape towards another city gate. They had no money. The poor people could only lock their doors and kneel inside the house to pray to the God of Magic believed in by the Officine Council.

Aqil invaded, and his hard black dragon scales ignored the arrows flying towards him, and spit out flames at the soldiers who were running towards the city wall to support them on the street.

Is the City Lord's Mansion that building?Yakir looked around for the building that seemed to be the city lord's palace.

It fell on a roof, and the roof collapsed under the load. Fortunately, the residents inside had already escaped in a carriage.

Then Yaqir locked on a luxurious building, spread his wings, flew high, and swooped towards the building with his dragon's breath.

Chapter 157: The puppet shows its power for the first time

When Aqil flew towards the city lord's palace with a hellish breath, the city lord Kurusue of Thunder City had just woken up from the warm velvet quilt at the urging of his housekeeper.

"What's the matter so early in the morning?" Kurusue yawned, his face full of impatience.He had his back to the window, muttering to himself as he dressed in his own clothes while being attended to by the butler.

The housekeeper's face was anxious. She quickly put on silk clothes for him while enduring Kurusue's behavior of rubbing oil on her body. She spoke quickly: "Master, it was Commander Tolikun who sent soldiers to inform you. The troops of the Golden Federation are already attacking the city, please activate Thunder City's defensive array."

After hearing this, Kurusue's brain still hadn't reacted: "What? What did Toli Kun send someone to say?"

It was obvious that the old city lord had never considered the possibility that Thunder City would be attacked by troops from other countries.

The housekeeper's face froze, and she was about to continue explaining to her master. Then she looked out of the window with her peripheral vision, and her face became horrified as she looked intently.

Kurusue turned his back to the window, not knowing what the housekeeper saw.He just felt the smooth and soft touch from the housekeeper's waist suddenly become tight.

"Huh? Cheryl?" Kurusue opened his eyes and asked somewhat unhappily.

As a result, the old city lord saw the housekeeper's ghostly expression, and quickly threw down the clothes in his hands and screamed backwards and fled out of the old city lord's bedroom.

Kurushe looked back out the window angrily, wondering what the housekeeper had seen that made her so frightened.As a result, when he turned around, his expression was exactly the same as that of the housekeeper, and he also let out a woman-like scream.

He saw a black flying dragon with flames dripping from its mouth flying towards his city lord's palace.

At this time, the manor of the City Lord's Mansion was in chaos. Whether it was servants, maids or even guards, they all dropped what they were holding, crawled and screamed, trying to escape from the City Lord's Mansion.

But even if they ran the fastest speed in their lives, they couldn't compare with Aqil's flying speed. Many people only felt a sudden heat on their backs, and then lost consciousness.

The beautiful garden began to burn, and the clean ground turned into a liquid semi-fluid due to the high temperature.The city lord's palace was completely destroyed by the sea of ​​​​fire under Yakir's dragon's breath. The old city lord and his housekeeper didn't even run out of the door, but were burned into two pitch-black corpses by the flames in the exquisite and gorgeous corridor.

Aqil slowly landed in the city lord's palace, which was burning with flames and turned into purgatory. The golden dragon eyes raised constantly checked for survivors.

It has always fulfilled the orders given by Roland, and it was the same this time.

So in order to prevent anyone in the City Lord's Mansion of Thunder City from using a method it didn't know to survive under the dragon's breath, Yaqir flew up again and smeared paint on the City Lord's Mansion. The building in the City Lord's Mansion could already be called a ruin. The object once again exhaled its own breath, completely dyeing the area of ​​the City Lord's Mansion fiery red.

On the other side of the city wall, there are many Thunder City soldiers who have been continuously receiving warnings and are coming to support the city gate.

Commander Tolikun's face was covered with dust at this time, but the dust on his face was deliberately wiped on by himself, pretending to have escaped from the spell just now.

"Team One, Team Two, Team Three! Send out crossbowmen to disrupt the enemy and aim at the gap in the city wall's collapse! The rest of them took out their thunder stones and prepared to surprise the Golden Federation's army! They must have never tried our Thunder City' The taste of specialties." As the commander, Toli Kun comforted the soldiers while issuing orders to prepare to resist the first round of the Golden Federation's attack.

At this time, Tolikun only knew that there was a flying dragon above his head. He did not know that his old friend, the Lord of Kuruxue City, had been killed by Yaqir sent by Roland, including his family.

So he wanted to organize soldiers here to resist the enemy's entry into the city, and wait for Kurusue to activate Thunder City's defensive array before escaping.

Otherwise, if the troops of the Golden Federation were to march in, Tolikun would not think that a commander of his own class would be able to escape their pursuit.

After the soldiers in Thunder City heard Tolikun's order, although their faces were still a little panicked, they still suppressed their uneasiness and took their positions according to the order.

The archers hid in the buildings on both sides behind the collapsed city wall, occupying a high point. They narrowed their eyes and drew their longbows, calculating the angle and shooting at the distant humanoid soldiers rushing towards Thunder City.The crossbowmen holding hand crossbows were on the ground together with other infantry, with the taut crossbows in their hands ready for the collapsed gap. Once an enemy appeared, they would shoot them into a human-shaped sieve.

The other soldiers wearing brown leather armor carefully took out the purple-white ore with lightning flashing from their waists.

These things that Toli Kun calls "thunder stones" are the specialty of Thunder City. Under normal circumstances, after being refined, they will become materials for making thunder attribute magic equipment, wands or scrolls, but if they are taken out directly like this If the original stone hits the ground, the violent thunder and lightning energy contained in it will be released instantly.

It can be said that each piece of thunder stone in the hands of these soldiers is equivalent to an ordinary mage specializing in the thunder attribute casting extremely powerful thunder and lightning spells.

However, there are not many such "Thunder Stones" even in Thunder City. In addition to the relative difficulty of mining, most of the rough stones have to be sold.Only the batch in Tolikun's hands can be preserved and used in city defense operations.

It's gone when used up.

Just as Tolikun was anxiously waiting for Kurusue to activate the defensive formation, and looking worriedly at the top of his head for fear that the giant dragon would fly over, he suddenly heard many rapid piercing sounds in the air and himself. The long archers here screamed.

He looked back and found that most of the longbowmen he had arranged to shoot from high places had been hit by several arrows and fell inside the building.

If Toli Kun looked carefully, he could still find that the arrows inserted into the longbowman's corpse were arranged very neatly, in a straight vertical row.

After the few other longbowmen hurriedly hid in the bunker, Torikun yelled from below and asked: "What happened?"

A longbowman stuck his head out and was about to shout back when another round of neat arrows shot out, all of which were nailed to the building in a row and passed through the longbowman's head.

Now he knew what happened without having to answer Tolikun.