Blood tax

Chapter 295 Return of the Death Knight
"Horse, give me a horse!"

Griffith's heartstrings were instantly tightened, and he shouted to the Storm Squadron beside him.

The cavalry hurriedly brought in their horses.A woman staggering in the darkness approached the cavalry.She was wearing a beautiful evening dress, like a guest at a party.Her gait faltered and she appeared to be intoxicated.

It is also very inappropriate for a lady to walk alone at such a big night. Griffith, who was worried in his heart, waved to the people around him:

"Paxiu, go see this young lady and escort her home."

"Yes, sir," Paxiu strode towards the girl, "Miss, please let me help you."

The girl stopped in her tracks, as if observing the soldier's movements.Paxiu thought he had frightened her, so he said it again in a more gentle tone.

The girl neither answered nor refused.Silent uneasiness grew in everyone's heart.

The girl walked out of the shadow by the wall without a word, and raised her head. Half of her pale face, upper jaw and neck had been bitten off, her eyes were turned white, and there were still remnants of flesh and blood in her open mouth.

"Ready for battle!" Nona yelled.

Her voice was drowned out by Griffith's louder yell:
"Blow the assembly call!"

The dead girl suddenly jumped up and rushed towards her.Paxiu hastily raised his shield to block the front.But there was a heavy shock on the arm, and the shield was almost dropped, and was thrown to the ground by the dead woman.

"Living corpse!" Gilles de Ace shouted angrily, drawing his sword and rushing to save his companion.Suddenly another figure sprang out from the darkness, jumping towards him on horseback.

"Don't be bitten by it!" Griffith rode his horse and rushed to Paxiu's side, swung his Hanguang sword and chopped off the head of the living corpse that was about to bite Paxiu.

Desai raised his lance like lightning and nailed the end of Ace's body to the ground.But the living corpse was pierced through the chest, and continued to bark its teeth and claws, trying hard to tear off two pieces of flesh and blood from the living person in front of it.

"Fix the formation!" Griffith shouted, "Where's the bugle? The bugle is a warning!"

The squadron's trumpeter was stunned by the monster he had never seen before, but he immediately came to his senses and blew with all his strength.The living corpse pinned to the ground by Desai suddenly convulsed violently, and his whole body swelled up like a balloon.

"Scatter!" Nona exclaimed.

As soon as her words fell, there was a loud explosion that made everyone's ears buzz.Shock waves and explosions exploded around the cavalry, and the entire team of armored cavalry and dragoons fell apart.

The splashed acid splashed on the armor and horses of the cavalry, making chilling noises of corrosion and white smoke. The team suddenly became a mess, and the frightened horses threw off their riders, screaming and crashing everywhere.

Weird and dense footsteps sounded from all directions.On the wide square, groups of twisted and swollen people were rolling towards the guarded cavalry and Miss Mirantis' car.

In the southeast corner at the end of the square, a group of swift and ferocious shadows appeared.Crowds of brains were exposed, claws gleamed green, and skinless ghouls swarmed around suture monsters piled up with swollen carrion.

Groups of black shadows drilled out of the sewers of the square, and suddenly rushed towards the crowd from all directions.Among the dark shadows were bloated acid monsters splattering acid.They plunged into the crowd,
"Fight!"

The loud bugle resounded through the night sky.A number of Odessa soldiers and Byeran's guards were also deployed on the square, forming formation as soon as they saw the monster appear.The officers from all over the place reacted one after another, issuing mighty battle cries and orders, and the scattered cavalry guards patrolling the summer palace square quickly started to move their hands at the charging monster from all directions.

Griffith grabbed the blood thorn that Desai handed over, and said to Nona who had just fallen off the horse: "All dismount, guard the entrance here!"

Fearing that everyone didn't understand, Griffith repeated with a roar that shook the world:
"Dismount and fight, immediately, immediately!"

Today, the armored cavalry squadron and two dragoon squadrons of the Storm Squadron were brought on duty. The light cavalry remained in the camp under the command of Lean.Upon hearing the order, Paxiu and Ace, who were caught off guard by the sudden attack, immediately gave up their plans to climb up the horse. Desai also jumped off the saddle and threw away his lance.They seized the reins of the startled horses, and helped each other take down cavalry shields and throw lances.

In an instant, the Storm Squadron became solid infantry.They stand shoulder to shoulder, holding up their shields like a wall, resisting the oncoming monsters and splashing acid without retreating a single step.Following an order, they drew their swords and swung them out. Wherever the cold light came, they set off a piece of rotten broken limbs.

Elsewhere in the square, there were explosions one after another, mixed with the rustling of acid splashing and corrosion, and screams one after another.

Amidst the creepy screams, the bursting acid corroded the flesh and blood, and the passers-by who were splashed were corroded into a pile of white bones in an instant.

The cavalry were running around, and the scene was in chaos.

The most loyal and reliable elites are deployed here, and there is no lack of Extraordinary and experienced officers.But monsters and attacks never seen before frightened the horses, and for a while they couldn't even assemble.

There was a scream on the road beside the square.The car of Miss Mirantis who left along the four-car Whitestone Avenue in front of the Summer Palace seemed to be washed by the tide.A large group of grey-brown monsters surged out of nowhere and ran straight into her guard.

"Boom-boom-boom!"

There was a series of crackling sounds in the air, and the guarding cavalry was wiped out in a blink of an eye.The rest of the monsters hit the shore like a turbulent wave, knocking over her carriage directly, pushing it and rolling on the ground.

"Nona, hold here, I'll come as soon as I go!" Griffith saw that the Storm Squadron had formed a formation, and tore off the seal rope of Bloodthorn.

Time, the most important thing is time.No matter how many living corpses come, even if the death knights come, it is impossible to substantially threaten the strong men in the summer palace, not to mention that the guards from all walks of life are elite soldiers, and they will immediately restore their organization after getting through the chaos in front of them.

What is the significance of tonight's attack?Is it Diana de Mirantis?
Griffith rode his horse and held a gun, and rushed towards the overturned carriage pushed by the crowd of corpses.

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Princess Mirantis almost vomited bile.Her carriage kept rolling like a pumpkin falling into a torrent, and parts and debris kept flying out. The maids and guards around her either fainted or fell out of the carriage.

The tumbling finally stopped, and the princess, who couldn't tell the difference between east, west, and north, stumbled to her feet, grasped her wand tightly and pushed open the car door, trying to escape.

She didn't take a few steps before she staggered, and something grabbed her skirt and was dragging it back.Looking back, I saw rotten heads crowding out the other side of the car window one by one, stretching out rotten hands with only bones and rags pulling the corners of her skirt.

Miss Mirantis only felt a buzzing in her brain.The monster she had never seen evaporated a large chunk of her sanity, and she almost vomited.

She clutched her aching chest, suppressed her nausea, and raised her wand:
"Frost configuration 16, shaping, horizontal ring; energy gathering, release."

As she chanted the spell, she twirled her hair ornament, and prefabricated psychic energy burst out, amplifying her spell.

A crystal ice ring immediately formed around her, the ice and the wind continued to grow and spread, forming a whistling force in an instant, bursting and sweeping away.The ice and frost impacted outward in a ring shape, making a loud roar, blasting the ice mist, debris and white gas all over the sky, and knocking down the carriage and the living corpses swarming outside.

The princess patted her skirt and body in pieces.A strange taste flowed into his mouth, bringing a strange bitter taste.She touched her forehead and found that half of her face was covered with blood.

The fragments and mist splashed by the impact of the ice ring have not yet dissipated.She heard the sound of heavy hooves approaching her.

"Here I am!" cried the princess, and was about to run in the direction of the sound of the horse's hooves.

There were footsteps in the haze, and several wounded soldiers came to her.Before everyone could catch their breath, a burst of Herod's neighing sound pierced the soul.

In the field of vision covered by broken ice and mist, a black knight and a large and startling horse shadow appeared, approaching slowly.

The soldiers who had just assembled suddenly let out an inhuman scream, dropped their weapons and ran away without a trace.

Miss Mirantis trembled all over.She couldn't move for some reason, and prayed with all her hopes that the knight in the shadow was a nearby guard, and the hair all over her body stood up in despair like a frog encountering a poisonous snake.Every premonition screamed, reminding her of the approaching despair.

She saw the knight's face clearly.

Under the black iron helmet is a rotten face bone, no skin on the bridge of the nose and teeth, and only the dark green flames where the eyeballs should be.Gauntlets of dead gray bone and rotting flesh lay beneath the gauntlets that held the reins.The neck of the mount under the crotch was also bitten off a large piece of flesh and blood, exposing the bones on the chest.

Death, death knight?The princess wanted to call for help, but her voice was stuck in her throat, and there was only a terrified whimper between her trembling silver teeth.She had heard of undead creatures in stories, dreamed of vague monsters when she was reading and falling asleep in class, and dreamed of sweeping these rotten bones with ice rings.

Miss Merantis was frightened out of her wits.She faced the monster on the skeleton army's horse directly, and forgot all about the spells, accessories, and escape. She just felt that she was naive, thinking that she could fight against such a terrifying monster.

"You think you can challenge me?"

The undead knight sent out an echo that hit the soul.It has no vocal cords and cannot speak, but the ghostly fire in the eye bones has infiltrated fear into the girl's brain, directly digging out the chaotic memories.

It raised its finger, and the green fire between the flame and the liquid was about to spew out.

Suddenly there was a rush of horseshoes in the darkness, one person and one rider came straight through the slanting spurs.

The knight rode a red horse, holding a lavender spear soaked in cold light, blocking the path of the undead knight like the wind, and stabbing him with the spear.

"Maggots!"

The undead roared, pointing the ghost fire in his hand at the knight.An astonishing amount of blood burst out from the knight's side, sweeping across like a sharp blade.

Each of them was struck by the other's fear, turned around together in front of the panicked princess, and fled in opposite directions.However, the knight who came to help recovered faster, broke away from the fear in a blink of an eye, and flew back to grab her waist.

Miss Mirantis just felt like she was flying.Then he was pushed on the saddle and ran wildly.The wind howled in her ears.

"Who are you!" she exclaimed, struggling to sit up, "Where are you taking me?!"

"I'm Griffith!" The knight growled, "Let's go back to the Summer Palace."

"Ah, Mr. Death Knight, that's great." The confused princess immediately breathed a sigh of relief, tightly grasping his armor and hiding in her arms.

"No, no, don't call me that." Griffith fled into the guard of the friendly army without looking back, and pointed at the monster surrounded by the surging corpses. "That guy is the real one."

(End of this chapter)