Knight and Wand

Chapter 280 Blood Moon Night

Shrouded in the night, the silhouette of Kilmerton Fortress looks like a giant beast lurking in the darkness.

The defenders looked solemn, every nerve was tense, and they were highly alert to unknown threats. The sudden defeat of the South made the soldiers dare not repeat the same mistake.

Countless torches and braziers lit up every corner as bright as day. Teams of soldiers moved steadily between the city walls, passages, towers and suspension bridges. The night was filled with a tense atmosphere, but the presence of comrades everywhere gave these social creatures an instinctive sense of security, gradually alleviating people's worries.

In the corner of a quiet fortress corridor, the shadows swayed eerily as if they had life.

The biting cold wind swept into the corridor silently like a ghost through the small window on the outer wall.

The candle in the wall lamp closest to the window went out with a "puff" under the cold wind of this winter night.

A small darkness enveloped the place.

Several Xiwan County guards cast their eyes towards the dim corridor where the lights were suddenly blown out by the wind.

A soldier cursed under his breath, then walked into the shadows, complaining, trying to pick up the extinguished candle and relight it from another wall lamp.

He squinted his eyes in the dim light and picked up the candlestick in the recess of the wall lamp. Suddenly, he found that the light coming from behind him suddenly dimmed.

Almost at the same time, in the corridor on the other side, the wall lamps went out one by one, and darkness suddenly came like a surging wave.

The guard felt his whole body hair stand on end, and instinctively a sense of fear rushed from the soles of his feet into his heart.

Throwing down the candle in panic, he reached for the sword at his waist. Just as he was about to swear and shout in panic, he was horrified to find that he could no longer make a sound.

The mouth and nose seemed to be strangled by something cold. Before he could even regret not putting down his armor, the soldier's head turned 180 degrees to the back with the irresistible force.
In an instant, the entire corridor fell into silence.

The darkness continued to spread quietly into the depths of the passage, and soon, a door that should have been locked tightly slowly opened in silence.

The candlelight in the room flickered. Shadows were everywhere in the fragrant bedroom. On the hard bed, a girl with cascading golden hair lay quietly with a frown on her face, as if she was in a nightmare.

The flickering candlelight sprinkled on the smooth surface of the armor on the table, but strangely, it could not reflect the slowly approaching shadow.

The invisible coldness finally reached the petite body that was sleeping soundly.

Just when danger was approaching the girl, a sharp buzzing sound suddenly sounded!

The cold light flashed across like lightning, and the sword wind was so sharp that it almost blew out the candles in the room.

The vague and invisible agile body reacted quickly, leaping up, brushing against the long sword, and avoiding the fierce horizontal slash.

The blurry shadow jumped onto the ceiling as if it had no gravity, used the force to flip over, swung its sharp claws, and swiftly grabbed the murderous female knight behind it.

With a sizzling sound, the sharp sound like metal friction echoed in the room, and the collision between the sharp claws and the sword produced sparks.

Agatha shouted angrily, and with her combat experience and sharp instincts, she raised her sword to block the invisible enemy's counterattack.

When the sharp blade collided with the swift "assassin", it suddenly and cleverly deviated from the target and slid into the enemy's fingers at a precise angle.

The steel blade cut into the flesh, and the invisible killer tried to take advantage of the opportunity to use his fingers to forcibly lock the female knight's sword.

However, Agatha swung the sword in an unstoppable manner with strength and martial arts far beyond her imagination.

The refracted halo flashed by, and in an instant, cold blood spurted into the air, and the pale flesh that was cut in half vertically also flew out horizontally, and a strong smell of blood instantly spread.

Agatha clearly sensed where the enemy would land, and she twisted her body and swung her sword again.

With an angry scream, Shadow rolled sideways, avoiding another series of consecutive slashes from Agatha.

It immediately kicked off the ground, passed through the door, and fled into the darkness.

A series of sudden changes frightened Ines, who was sleeping soundly. She opened her blue eyes in a daze, and saw the personal guard at the head of the bed suddenly turned around and threw the long sword with all his strength.

--clang!!
The sword blade pierced into the wall of the corridor outside the door.

Another terrifying scream sounded, and the long sword inserted in the wall began to tremble violently. The gray air around the sword extended with strange lines like tendons and blood vessels.

In an instant, a naked demonic body appeared, and the pale demon woman tried to pull out the weapon that pierced her chest.

Agatha stepped forward briskly, the dagger at her waist unsheathed, and her speed was so fast that it was impossible to see her trajectory.

Puff-!
The sharp short blade slashed across the banshee's neck, and blood gushed out from the broken section of her head like a fountain.

The head of a beautiful girl with a hideous expression rolled to the ground.

The head that was cut off by the female knight was not dead, and it still stared at Agatha with resentment. Its mouth full of fangs and blood slowly opened and uttered a hoarse and terrifying whisper of resentment: ". Orland people - betrayal."

Ignoring the strange hatred of the undead banshee, Agatha quickly recovered from her brief shock.

After fighting against countless resilient corpses in the Dark Cloud Realm recently, she has also become accustomed to those difficult-to-kill undead ghosts.

Although she didn't know why the strange banshee had not been destroyed after her head was chopped off even though the clouds over Kilmerton Pass had long since dissipated, she knew very well that she didn't have time to explore this question at the moment.

The female knight shouted loudly to the guards, swung her dagger and stabbed the still struggling arm of the headless body into the wall, then pulled out the long sword from the banshee's chest.

With two swipes of the sword, Agatha made a cross-like cut, and flesh and blood splattered everywhere. She directly split the headless body of the undead banshee into four parts.

Ines in the room had already rolled off the bed. She was wearing close-fitting armor and she put it back on skillfully.

Drawing out the gorgeous light sword that was better than nothing, Ines frowned and hid behind Agatha.

"Take me to sound the fortress alarm!" the princess ordered.

Under Agatha's protection all the way, Ines walked hurriedly through the dim corridor where the candlelight was extinguished.

She tried her best not to look at the West Bay County guards who fell in the dark corner. In front of her, Agatha's shouting finally alarmed the soldiers patrolling nearby.

Several Sea Eagle Knights led the soldiers and successfully met Ines at the corner of the lower floor of the tower holding torches.

Torches illuminated the entrance to the tower, and the princess's eyes fell on the body of the young West Bay noble knight nearby.

He held a bloody sword in his hand, but his face was pierced by a sharp object and he died a tragic death.

Ines felt a sharp pain in her heart. Each of these knights who followed her loyally was a precious force, but now, in this sudden attack, they fell without honor at the hands of the undead assassin.

Forcing herself to shake off her emotions, Ines continued to rush towards the nearest alarm bell. However, before she arrived, the alarm bells in various parts of the fortress were rung one after another by the quick-reacting soldiers, first on the city wall and then on the top floor of the fortress.

In an instant, the news of the enemy attack spread, and the inside and outside of Kilmerton Fortress exploded.

Countless soldiers and knights gathered together, their footsteps rumbling the ground, searching for and fending off the demons that had broken into the fortress. In a blink of an eye, fierce fighting could be heard from several corners, both in the light and in the dark, and chaos inevitably broke out in the fortress.

But the situation did not stop there. There were bursts of horn sounds coming from the city wall, indicating that a large group of enemies were approaching the fortress!

"Go to the city wall first!" Ines gave the order decisively.

The Sea Eagle Knights guarded the princess and came to the towering fortress defense building.

In an open area surrounded by guards, Ines dispatched the troops around her and sent people to find the warlocks to gather.

Coincidentally, Count Elliver's Thornflower clan and several Kantadar lords soon appeared on the city wall.

The generals guarding the fortress looked out at the dark city.

There was deathly silence on the sentry tower in the distant suburbs, and the guards' lives and deaths were unknown.

And in the endless darkness, the dense ghost lights like stars were approaching the fortress in death and silence.

Under the moonlight, the battle to invade the fortress and the battle to attack from outside the city started at the same time.

Inside the fortress, shouts and screams were intertwined, one wave higher than the other, becoming more and more intense. It was like a camp-blowing melee, and the Allied generals' ability to command inside the fortress was almost paralyzed.

The order could not be conveyed to the city.

Where did the enemy sneak in? How many enemies did they sneak in? Where did they win? Where did they lose? With the naked eyes of the generals on the city wall, it was impossible to tell the specific situation of the battles inside the fortress in the dark.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. Only the sporadic areas of fire that kept going out were like heavy hammers, mercilessly hitting the tense fighting will of the survivors.

Outside the city, the undead army was getting closer and closer, like a dark torrent, and finally launched a charge towards the fortress.

The rows of archers on the city wall let go of their bowstrings, making buzzing sounds and releasing a brilliant rain of flaming arrows. The giant crossbows and catapults on the towers roared, smashing huge stones and burning oil tanks into the army of zombies outside the city.

However, although the coalition forces were firmly holding the city defenses, they seemed to be caught in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides.

The enemies that infiltrated the city created bloody chaos everywhere, making the coalition forces defending the fortress wall system vulnerable to attacks from both sides.

Count Elliver was extremely anxious. He ran back and forth on the city wall, constantly issuing orders to stabilize the shaky situation, but this chaotic battle made him feel unprecedented pressure.

Neither he nor Ines had ever experienced such a chaotic battle.

In just two days, they seemed to be facing the same situation that Baron Balfe had faced in the town of Achelita.

It was not that Earl lacked courage, but his reason kept reminding him that this battle might end in a disastrous defeat.

Pessimistic deductions flooded into his mind like a tide, forcing him to endure the torment.

Loudly ordering the family vassals and the arriving leader of Kantadar to hold the outer wall, he hurried back to the still safe inner wall of the second fortress, and met Princess Ines standing on the top of the defense tower overlooking the battlefield.

"Your Highness, please quickly evacuate to the underground secret passage of the Baldim family in the fortress! You are the blood of the king and cannot be sacrificed here!" Elifer urged Ines seriously.

Turning around and looking at Count Elliver with a solemn expression, Princess Ines gripped her sword tightly, pursed her lips and gritted her teeth.

She hated this helpless situation, but ever since she stepped onto the battlefield belonging to men, she had been prepared to face such a situation sooner or later. Although she was aware of the extremely serious and dangerous situation, the girl thought about it quickly and shook her head firmly at the Earl of Thornflower.

"I understand your concerns, Lord Elliver, but will you retreat?" Ines asked.

"Unless you give up the fortress, I must persist!" Earl Elliver frowned and answered without hesitation.

"I know you won't give up the fight. If you leave the fortress now, not only will you lose all of Lord Leon's achievements so far... it will also mean giving up Baron Leon and his army who are still south of the pass." Ines smiled and said, "Just like you won't leave, I shouldn't leave now. I can neither abandon the Sea Eagle Knights and run away alone, nor can I take them away and leave the Orland warriors of the Thorn Flower Family to fight alone.

Moreover, if I were here, Count Runaf in the rear would definitely do his best to send troops to support me. He has no other choice, unless the Baldim family wants to face the revenge of my father and the Kingdom of Orlando while facing the undead!"

"Your Highness!" Elifer stared at the frail girl in front of him and tried to persuade her again.

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the little princess.

"Your Excellency! As a princess and the Lady of Xiwan, I am here to live and die with the warriors of Orland. I will never flee unless the last warrior standing before me falls." Ines drew her sword resolutely and stated her determination.

Although her voice was still pleasant, it now carried an inexplicable and unquestionable majesty.

The cold wind whistled past the top of the city, blowing up the girl's golden hair that she had not yet had time to braid. Her small figure looked as resolute as a knight in the wind.

Count Elliver looked at Her Royal Highness the Princess, whose voice had changed to an elegant one, and felt a surge of respect in his heart.

"It is my honor to fight alongside you, Your Highness." He bowed sincerely to the little princess.

Elifer knew that he could no longer question the fighting spirit of the noble man in front of him. The person standing in front of him was also a brave warrior.

"Then please allow me to rely on your strength. I know your performance in Magya Territory. I hope you can command the battle on the city wall. We cannot allow the chaos in the fortress to spread here. I must lead the Thorn Flower Knights to wipe out the demons that have sneaked into the fortress as soon as possible."

Princess Ines nodded slightly, and her voice returned to its former sweet and melodious sound like a nightingale: "Go, Lord of the Thorn Flower. I promise you that I will never let the undead set foot into the inner city of the fortress before I die in battle."

Elif held the thorn blade upside down and tapped his breastplate to greet the princess. After handing over the command, he turned around and held the dwarf steel sword, leading the fearless thorn flower knights down the city wall and into the bloody and dark chaotic battlefield in the city.
Inside the fortress where the flames were extinguished
Harvey stood in the ward with sweat all over his forehead, the magic power bursting out of his hands, supporting the defense and concealment spells reflected behind the door.

Beside him were unknown undead ghosts that had been burned into mummies by the magical flames, as well as several dead warlock apprentices.

Several military doctors were trembling in fear behind the young warlock master.

However, despite eliminating the blood-sucking monsters in the area, there was no relief on Harvey's face.

He extended his magical perception and glimpsed a thick and terrifying blood color slowly approaching here.

The terrifying magical reaction was like a natural disaster caused by the gathering of elements. Harvey could not imagine what kind of existence could maintain such terrifying magic without dissipating.

He did not dare to go out to fight, so he could only use all his strength to cast a spell to hide the room, and kept praying that Her Royal Highness the Princess and Lord Elliver's knights would come to the rescue as soon as possible.

suddenly.

Harvey heard the covers being pulled back behind him.

"Lord Babarf, great, you're awake. Please keep your voice down now. The undead have broken into the fortress and it's very dangerous here." A military doctor came forward in a low voice and tried to help the scarred baron up.

The next second, the military doctor's shrill scream startled Harvey so much that he turned around suddenly.

The old knight, with red eyes, opened his mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth and dug them deep into the medic's neck.

(End of this chapter)