I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

Chapter 363 Cowardly Vampire

Annerogie rode the corpse dragon and flew back and forth, avoiding the cannon fire that kept exploding like fireworks.

"Their firepower was too strong!" Raymond used soul echo to send a message to Annie, "Gru was blown down!"

"Gru is dead?" Annie asked.

"Our dead Highness, he just fell... Oh shit!!" Halfway through Raymond's answer, a crossbow arrow passed by him, almost knocking him off the flying dragon's back.

Anne Luojie threw the Fate-Binding Reaper in her hand, and the artifact made a circle in the enemy formation. A flying dragon cavalry was unable to dodge and was scratched. The Fate-Binding Reaper's blade directly penetrated his armor and stuck on his arm. The skin was scratched, and corruption immediately spread from the wound.

He soon lost his strength, and his soul was extracted and floating. Death Knight Raymond took the opportunity to fly over and swallowed the soul to replenish his magic power.

At this time, the Endless Tower was performing a large-scale summoning spell for them. The dead knight immediately moved, picked up a spear and stabbed his mount, turning the flying dragon into a zombie. Then he rushed towards his original comrades, but was immediately shot Cannonballs from the airship exploded.

The crossbow roared, and a crossbow arrow shot through the air, hitting Annie from the side.

Annie fell off the corpse dragon's back unexpectedly, and the next moment her body turned into a mist. The crossbow arrow that penetrated her body fell through the blood mist. The corpse dragon Elmira came down to respond, and Annie was back on Shape the dragon's back.

She stretched out her right hand and turned her arm into a swarm of blood bats swarming towards the dragon knight who was approaching and firing crossbows at her.

The knight had no time to escape and waved the spear in his hand to drive away the blood bats. At the same time, his armor sprayed high-temperature steam from his shoulders to prevent the blood bats from getting into the gaps in the armor.

But then the blood bats began to attack his mount. A group of blood bats transformed into blood thorns and wrapped around the wings of the flying dragon. The remaining group merged into the cortex of the flying dragon, absorbed a large amount of its blood, flew back, and re-fused. Back to Annie's body.

Relying on this trick of blood-sucking and necromancy, she and Raymond and other death knights have been struggling to support themselves on this front, but it is still becoming more and more difficult.

After fighting for a long time, the number of imperial knights around them increased instead of decreasing.

They fought against the flying dragon knights led by Lucio under the cover of the fleet's artillery fire, and were soon crushed to death.

Not only did the imperial dragon cavalry regiment have an overwhelming advantage, but they were also covered by fierce artillery fire from the airship fleet. Those airships were not only forts that could move at high speeds, but also supply stations for the dragon knights.

The flying dragon cavalry took off and landed on it, replacing damaged equipment, replenishing fuel, and treating the injuries of people and mounts. While they kept fighting in the air, losing numbers one by one, they were soon surrounded.

Now they have not been completely surrounded and eliminated, and they completely rely on the large-scale spell support from the direction of the tower, as well as Anne Luojie's powerful combat power.

At this time, the formation of the empire's flying dragon cavalry changed slightly. Many cavalry gathered a little closer to a core. That "core" was Lucio riding on the back of the bone dragon.

"He's here, Your Highness!" Raymond reminded.

Annie tightened her grip on the scythe and became nervous. Lucio, the legendary warrior of the empire, the Knight King, officially entered the battle.

"It's okay, just cut him!" Annie reminded herself in her mind, driving the corpse dragon to rush forward.

Lucio let out a fearless war cry, and the morale of the knights around him was immediately boosted. Even the tamed flying dragon became full of fighting spirit.

The speed of the imperial flying troops suddenly increased, and the flying dragon cavalry beside Lucio took the lead to rush up and surround Annie, aiming at her with crossbows.

Annie controlled the corpse dragon Elmira to start spitting miasmatic breath at the approaching flying dragon, driving away the approaching flying dragon knight. At the same time, she watched Lucio who was closing the distance, waiting for an opportunity to turn into a swarm of blood bats and fly through. Get behind the opponent, regroup and attack with the Life-Binding Reaper.

At this time Lucio suddenly ordered: "Solley!!"

The order was conveyed in the form of a war cry to all the surrounding knights and the airships on standby.

Suddenly there was a burst of artillery fire, and all the airship cannons and knight's ballistae were aimed at Annie.

Annie lowered her body and lay on the corpse dragon's back, controlling the corpse dragon to flap its wings and rise to avoid it, but cannonballs and crossbow arrows came from all directions, making it almost impossible to avoid it.

In an instant, the corpse dragon Elmira was submerged in the smoke and dust from the explosion, and countless cannonballs and crossbow arrows hit the corpse dragon.

Fortunately, Annie herself was not hit this time. All the attacks were on the corpse dragon. The shells made several holes in the dragon's scales and lost elasticity. More than a dozen crossbow arrows were inserted into both sides of the corpse dragon's abdomen. .

This would have been enough to seriously injure Elmira if she were still alive, but fortunately she was just a corpse now.

Annie breathed a sigh of relief and searched for Lucio again, but was surprised to only see the skull dragon still in its original position, and Lucio on his back had gone somewhere.

Anne looked around in panic for a moment, then realized what she was doing.     That’s right, Watcher!

Before the battle, Ganon granted them the authority of the Watchers and taught them how to use them.

However, this is not something that everyone can quickly master in battle, especially a slacker like Annie.

She called up the projection of the Watcher to look for Lucio. She did find him, but it was already too late.

Lucio took advantage of her climbing height and used the bone dragon's tail flick to throw himself over. Then he hooked the corpse dragon Elmira's front paw with a hook and quickly approached from below.

When Annie used the Watcher to find him, he just happened to pull out the Sky Sword that was full of power.

The legendary warrior's God of War's blow, coupled with the flying blade cut by the sub-artifact, made a sharp sound through the air. It grazed the corpse dragon's front paw from bottom to top, tore the root of the left wing, and also hit the rider. One of Annie's legs on the dragon's back!

"Ah!!" Blood spattered and Annie screamed, watching in horror as her severed left foot flew out.

A vampire's sense of pain is very dull, but it is not absent, but in comparison, fear still shocks her more.

She panicked and manipulated the blood spurting out of the wound, turning into blood bats and swarming towards Lucio below.

Lucio, who had just used a full blow, cut off the hook rope very decisively, skillfully wielded the long sword, and chopped up all the blood bats that came close to him one by one.

Then he activated a mechanism, and the back of his steam armor deformed, stretching out a pair of gliders in the shape of dragon wings. Under the action of the steam propeller, it glide toward the distance at high speed, and was caught by the bone dragon he controlled.

After experiencing two tragic dragon-slaying defeats, the empire's mechanics transformed him into a new type of armor that was more suitable for aerial combat, adding the functions of high-altitude gliding and landing.

At this time, Annie was unable to pursue Lucio at all, because she found that one of the corpse dragon's wings was almost cut off by the roots and could not move at all.

Lucio knew very well that the prince-level vampire holding the Immortal Skull was almost unkillable, but as long as her mount was eliminated, she would not have much room to play on the battlefield in the air. The vampire transformed into a bat and then flew. Even the flying dragon couldn't catch up with its speed.

And slaying dragons is his strength, whether dead or alive!

Annie tried to use necromancy to simply repair the corpse dragon. At this time, the dragon knights surrounded it again under Lucio's command and launched a volley.

This time she was not so lucky, and was knocked off the dragon's back by another crossbow arrow.

When she started to fall, Annie saw Lucio circling on a bone dragon not far away, preparing for the next blow.

She suddenly became timid. She felt that she could not win against the knights of this empire. The "War Song" blessing that Ganon had previously applied had limited effect on undead like her, and at this point there was not much left.

She holds an artifact, the Life-Binding Reaper, and a secondary artifact, the Immortal Skull. In terms of overall strength, she is even slightly better than Lucio. However, the gap in combat experience between the two parties is too great. In front of Lucio, who has experienced hundreds of battles, , Annie is just a child who can only fight with others with a wooden sword, not to mention Lucio has a cavalry team and fleet that can cooperate with him in aerial combat.

"No, we have to retreat!" Annie split her body into a swarm of bats, but instead of flying towards the falling Elmira, she flew towards the direction of the Endless Tower.

"Your Highness!?" Raymond was caught off guard by Anne's easy giving up, "It can't be done at this time!"

Anne began to retreat, and they could only fight and retreat.

If they can't withstand it so early, this legendary warrior and this fleet can continue to advance. Lucio can directly attack the Endless Tower, and by the way, it can also give Anya and Isabel's troops fighting on the ground a chance. After a devastating high-altitude strike, they could also go to support the Queen and Terrast. Salil and Ganon, who were fighting the main force over there, would be under tremendous pressure.

"Annie, what are you doing?" Ganouen's voice sounded in Anne Luojie's mind.

Baphomet, who had been observing the situation, conveyed the unfavorable battle situation here to Ganon. Ganon immediately contacted Anne Roger directly. Obviously, this side was not at a disadvantage enough to give up, but Anne was timid and prepared to fight. Escaped.

"I can't beat him, Ganouen, I, I don't want to force it anymore!" Anellojie replied in frustration.

Although she was threatened by Ganouen and Salil, she still didn't take this matter so seriously. Compared with future punishment, the immediate threat obviously makes her feel more realistic fear.

The membership contract did not force her to fight desperately, but only asked her to try her best to protect the tower, and in her subjective consciousness, this was already her "best effort".

"Stop being willful, is this the time to act coquettishly?" Ganon was a little angry this time. Anne's position was still quite critical, and her easy giving up might bring about many unnecessary sacrifices.

"But I..." Annie still wanted to retort.

"Don't forget, these Imperial people are also the culprits who killed your father! In the past, you couldn't protect your father, so you could only escape to me! Now that you have the strength and a place to stay, you have never thought of being together. Are you going to protect this place?" Ganon's voice echoed in Anne's mind, loud and clear, "You keep running away like this, how long do you want to run away!?"

(End of this chapter)