Knight and Wand

Chapter 373 Trap
In the wilderness of the valley, Leon looked down at the military off-road motorcycles speeding past.

The plate-armored knights armed with guns rode their mechanical mounts that replaced their war horses, galloping across the rugged plains of the underworld.

The car lights looked like ghost lights with tails under the dim night sky.

Considering that the people riding the motorcycles are not alive except for the leading girl, this can perhaps be called a true ghost fire rider.
After circling around the entrance of the survivors' underground bunker for a few times, Olivia, dressed in black, stepped on the accelerator and rushed onto the mountain road.

She leaped with the motorcycle, and the motorcycle's suspension made a buzzing sound when it fell. The girl held the motorcycle steadily and swung the rear wheel. The motorcycle tilted sideways. She just stretched out her left steel boot to press on the rock to leave a footprint, and then she turned the motorcycle sideways and stopped it next to Leon.

"This mechanical warhorse is so interesting, why don't you try it?" Olivia looked at Leon with shining eyes. Her golden ponytail swaying due to the shaking made her look particularly excited.

Seeing that she was so happy these days, Leon smiled and waved his hand: “That’s not necessary, you can play more. As long as you learn to drive as soon as possible, I can use this thing anyway, so I won’t waste the energy of the locomotive.”

The training time was limited and lasted for a few days. After much thought, Leon felt that motorcycles were the only means of transportation that the riders could master the fastest.

He cast his eyes towards the convoy speeding down the mountain.

The horse riders were transformed into motorcycle riders, which inexplicably fit the identities of the heroic spirits, and they now looked more like the original "Raven Wing" Knights than the Raven Wing Cavalry of Avalon.

At this moment, a call from Colonel Sasha suddenly came through the headset communicator.

After hearing this, Leon responded and told Olivia to continue leading the team in driving training, then turned and walked towards the hidden entrance of the underground bunker.

Leon passed through the layers of fortified gates in the long underground tunnel and returned to the shelter.

The scene of a large number of people coming and going came into view. Compared to the dead and desperate atmosphere when I arrived here the day before, the fortress was now much more lively and the atmosphere was full of hope.

When passing through every passage and area, people would bow to Leon and the soldiers would greet him with a military salute. These days, he was no longer surprised or used to it.

With his help, tens of thousands of survivors in the entire underground bunker were temporarily freed from their illnesses, and this large military base began to operate at full capacity like a small city.

Many patients who were originally unable to perform their jobs have now returned to the positions they are good at, allowing the various facilities in the shelter to gradually resume operations.

The Falcon gunboat also kept traveling back and forth to other shelters in various places, giving priority to transporting those high-tech personnel suffering from illness here to receive his treatment and shelter. In the past few days, Leon even saw some uniformed soldiers and logistics teams inspecting the long-dusty military aircraft in the hangar of the maintenance base.

I believe there are many air force pilots among these people who are capable of flying military aircraft.

Arriving at the base's medical center, Leon smelled the unique scent of medicine in the air and saw Sasha and several men and women waiting outside the observation glass.

Inside the ward, there were several babies on ventilators.

Leon quickly walked into the room and cast a spell to carefully absorb the magic elements in the baby's body one by one.

The doctors on the side were delighted as they watched the baby's vital signs on the medical instruments gradually return to normal, and the parents watching outside the window were crying with joy.

In today's doomsday situation, every surviving baby is the only remaining hope for this race.

However, Leon in the ward was not optimistic.

Even if he was trapped in this world forever, the number of people he could save in this way was very limited, and it was just a solution to the urgent need. As the concentration of magic in the environment increased, this method would lose its effect sooner or later, and his body's magic capacity was not a bottomless pit.

The real key is to find a way to stop the current situation where the two planes are intersecting.

But even though the Dawn Order has mobilized intelligence forces from all over the country as much as possible at his request to collect traces of the alien god cult, and even used spies who are devoted to the living within the vampire race, the information they have about the mysterious alien cult that arose when the end of the world came is still limited.

The only thing that is certain is that the evil cult that worships alien gods is now entrenched in another continental plate of this planet, an area where the blood clan forces have not intervened.

This world is not that big. After these days of understanding, Leon estimated that this planet is probably only one-third the size of the Earth. The area that was occupied by the alien cult and fell into silence is not too far from here. He plans to help the Dawn Cult heal tens of thousands of patients in the next survivor base as planned, and then immediately track down the devil's traces.

However, as soon as he left the ward, Leon saw Sasha coming over with a heavy and apologetic look on her face: "I'm sorry, sir, we may need your help."

"Are we setting off for the next fortress now?" Leon asked in surprise.

"No, there were some other accidents."

Soon, Leon followed Colonel Sasha to the command center, where Mr. Rousseau and the top leaders of the cult were already waiting.

Seeing them come in, Rousseau looked a little embarrassed.

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest. You have helped us so much, and we didn't intend to trouble you again for this matter."

Leon raised his hand to stop him from speaking, and said seriously: “Forget the politeness, what’s going on?”

Sasha quickly pointed to a marked location on the map on the monitor for Leon. "In the past few days, we have been contacting shelters in various places to transport important patients. Basically, all bases have responded. Only a large fortress located in the former Solden Kingdom has not received any response so far. There are at least 20,000 surviving compatriots living there."

"We even risked using the main frequency band of broadcast communications to try to make contact, but still received no response. We then sent a Dawn team on a Falcon to investigate, but..." Rousseau said, with a hint of uneasiness in his eyes.

Sasha continued in a deep voice, "After the soldiers entered that area, they also lost contact. Communications have been interrupted for more than two days."

“We can’t just abandon so many survivors, so we decided to send another team to investigate there. Your men are the strongest warriors I have ever seen in my life. We hope to get your help and accompany our soldiers.

Of course, this is just a request, not a demand, and you have every right to refuse." Rousseau sighed.

He was deeply disturbed by the disappearance of a group of Dawn Warriors, but he couldn't just let tens of thousands of survivors lose contact without any explanation.

This is the first time the cult has experienced such a serious loss of contact since it took refuge in underground military facilities around the world.

Leon was not entangled. He looked at the map on the screen and asked, "I can help you check, but I'm afraid your falcon gunboat can't accommodate my knights at once. There are enough falcons in the hangar, but are there enough pilots?"

Hearing the other party agree without hesitation, Rousseau was delighted at first, then stunned.

"Are you planning to send all the soldiers with you?" He had expected that it would be generous enough for the other party to send a dozen people to assist in the operation.

"That's right, but do you have a better way of transportation? For example, the large transport plane in the hangar."

Leon knew what the old scholar was surprised about, but it was not that he did not want to send a team to investigate first. It was just that the Neti brand heroic spirit could not be so far away from him in a foreign place. The spirit beyond the limit of magic connection could not maintain its existence, so he either did not go or had to follow them all to avoid wasting magic power and the team's combat effectiveness.

"The transport plane is still undergoing a comprehensive inspection and maintenance. There would be many risks if we take off rashly. However, the small landing ships used by the base to transport supplies and personnel are large enough to accommodate hundreds of people. We can go there by sea," Sasha replied.

"Then tell me the route and the situation there without delay." Leon decided without hesitation. After learning the location and internal structure of the destination from the two high-ranking members of the cult, the base immediately became busy preparing for everyone's action.

Colonel Sasha, the only communicator who understands the Lorelit language, will lead the team personally.

She had originally planned to increase the team of a dozen people to the same number of companies to match the efforts of the foreign allies, but was dissuaded by Leon in time.

He had no choice but to mobilize such a large army. The Crusade Knights were already dead souls. As long as he, the holder of the Neti Card, did not die, there would be no need to worry about casualties.

But the soldiers of the Order of the Dawn, especially the racially mutated individuals who have adapted to magic to a certain extent, are precious lives that can be sacrificed at any cost, and there is no need to rush into danger without knowing the situation.

After some persuasion from Leon, he saw that Colonel Sasha, who didn't know the truth about the Neti Cards, seemed to be full of admiration for his efforts to help. He was a little overwhelmed and quickly took his leave to gather the soldiers.

The soldiers of the Crusades quickly returned to the base with the roar of motorcycles, and under the leadership of Leon and Olivia, they boarded a small landing ship hidden in the secret fjord port.

The logistics personnel had already loaded enough ammunition and supplies for a company-sized group of soldiers into the ship's hold. Under Colonel Sasha's command, the ship sailed out of the huge man-made canyon and headed forward at full speed.

The brightly lit cabin was very spacious. Even with more than a hundred people on board, it was not fully loaded, so it still did not feel crowded.

Canis and a dozen other Knights of the Order of Arms were fiddling with the huge heavy machine guns in their hands. The rest of the Crusade Knights were also holding standard rifles and checking their weapons in the way they had learned in the past few days. The sounds of metal colliding and bolts clicking could be heard constantly.

Looking at the marvelous sight of hundreds of soldiers in plate armor, carrying swords and guns, not only the special warfare soldiers of the Order of the Dawn frequently paid attention to these "armed knights", Leon himself also had a feeling of time and space confusion.

This is despite the fact that their situation is indeed facing a literal dislocation of time and space.

Leon dropped the weapon in his hand with a bang and glanced sideways.

Olivia beside him had also finished the inspection and put down the portable automatic cannon that the cult's armorer had modified for the two of them.

The heavy machine gun with a caliber of about 20 mm has a huge ammunition belt hanging on one side of the magazine connected to an ammunition backpack. This heavy weapon, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people to operate alone, exudes a solemn and cold industrial beauty.

Of course, even with the ammunition backpack, this automatic cannon is still far less heavy than the Holy Sword of the Sun. It is still easy to control for both Olivia and himself.

With this firepower combined with the human fire control of him and his little lion, they would not be afraid of being helpless even if they were chased by those armed helicopters again.

He leaned back in his seat with his head raised and his eyes closed to rest. The ship sailed for nearly ten hours before crossing the sea and reaching the target area.

The troop transport ship was anchored two kilometers away from the destination facility. The landing capsule landed, and Canis and a dozen motorcyclists were the first to drive onto the mudflat. Leon and Olivia carried ammunition and equipment, and walked out of the cabin with the holy war knights carrying automatic cannons.

The engines on the landing ship deck above roared, and the Falcon gunboat carrying a squad of soldiers from the Order of the Dawn took off into the air, directing the motorcyclists to go ahead as a vanguard to scout the way ahead.

Leon and his men followed on foot, leading the soldiers who were divided into small groups.

While marching in the wilderness, before reaching the tunnel entrance of the shelter, he heard the report sent back by Canis in the front through the headphones.

We found the gunboats left behind by the first group of Dawn Warriors that arrived earlier.
When arriving at the entrance of the underground facility, Leon saw two falcons on the left and right.

One of them was the vehicle of the team that lost contact a few days ago.

He walked into the gunboat's cabin and saw Sasha holding a rifle and checking the cockpit in the nose of the plane, her face looking a little grim.

The female officer turned around and shook her head. "It's so strange. There are no signs of fighting around, the airship is not damaged, there is plenty of energy, and no bodies of soldiers or pilots were seen."

Upon hearing this, Leon looked around the intact cabin and the open cockpit, which was empty, as if the pilot and weapons operator had voluntarily left the gunboat.

This is obviously unreasonable.

Since the shelter did not respond to the communication to open the hangar entrance, the gunboat driver who temporarily landed near the ground entrance would not have voluntarily left his post. Even if the team of soldiers who entered the shelter lost contact due to some accident, the pilot should have taken off urgently and fled back to the fortress.

After leaving the cabin, Leon looked at the shelter tunnel entrance where the lights were off and it was completely dark. He felt something was a little weird.

Seeing Sasha was about to command a squad of cult soldiers to enter the facility, he stepped forward to stop her.

"Let my men go down to scout, and everyone else stay outside and wait." Leon said in a serious voice, unconsciously adopting the attitude he had when commanding the Crusade Army.

The unquestionable aura made Sasha stunned for a moment, as if she was facing a general. Her military instinct made her unwilling to disobey the other party's orders, but she still suggested:

"At least let me send a few soldiers with me. They are more familiar with the roads and some technical operating devices of the shelter than your knights."

Leon nodded after thinking, then turned to look at Canis, and ordered the young master of the Wolf family and a group of military knights, accompanied by two dawn warriors, to enter the shelter to investigate the situation.

The Crusader Knights patted their chests upon receiving the order, then turned on the strange searchlights hanging on the side of their weapons and walked into the tunnel carrying guns of all sizes.

The figures of the armed knights quickly disappeared into the darkness, and through the earphones, there were uninterrupted regular reports in both Feru and Tassa.

The inside of the tunnel seemed to be unobstructed, and the entire shelter seemed to be completely undefended, open to the vanguard reconnaissance team.

Until suddenly, after the last report, there was a buzzing sound on the communication channel, and then no sound came back.

The sudden interruption of communication caused silence. Colonel Sasha's face changed slightly. She repeatedly asked the soldiers to reply, but there was no response.

She looked at Leon and felt something was wrong.

Leon was not panicked, and waved to the female officer: "Don't worry, my knights are still alive, and they are still moving forward."

Although the communication was blocked for unknown reasons, the magic connection between him and the Holy War Knights such as Canis was still continuing. He was still supplying magic to the heroic spirits, and he could sense that the distance between them was getting farther and farther. It was obvious that they were still going deeper underground without fear.

At this moment, he couldn't help but be thankful for his own caution and the convenience of Neti's cards.

But why does this strange encounter seem more and more like some kind of trap?

Leon frowned suspiciously and fell into deep thought.

如果
Assuming this is a trap, what is the enemy's purpose?
Is it just to attract the surviving soldiers to come and die?
After a long time, Leon suddenly felt a huge surge of magic power, and his heart skipped a beat.

wrong!

(End of this chapter)