Knight and Wand

Chapter 41 A Last Stand

The angry sword in the girl's hand brushed past Duosen's sword, and the sharp blade rolled out a whirlwind of sword flowers, bypassing the obstruction in an unstoppable manner and attacking his head.

Duosen retreated desperately, raising his left arm and barely using the arm armor to block the dangerous attack on his face. The sword blade grazed his face, leaving a shallow mark of blood.

All of a sudden, Dawson began to regret taking off his helmet and neck guard to eat the leg of lamb.

The sword missed and the girl didn't give the opponent a chance to breathe. The cold light she stabbed out covered him like a storm.

The crisp sound of weapons colliding was like the sound of iron ping-pong in the blink of an eye. Each of the girl's stabs was as swift as a venomous snake, and the tip of the sword was pointing directly at the enemy's face, the only part that was not protected by heavy armor.

This forced Duosen to always put away his sword to protect his face in close combat, and he had to frequently parry with difficulty. At this moment, the height difference between him and the girl became a disadvantage at such a close distance.

Olivia pressed forward without stopping, making it impossible for Dawson to gain distance.

In this brief confrontation, Leon and Azerien had already drawn their swords and were moving towards Doson from both sides without stopping.

The servants and knights who turned around just realized what was happening. They grabbed their weapons and turned around, rushing back to help in panic from outside the door.

For a moment, most of the servants thought that the two "mercenaries" running towards their lord were their own people.

Only the two noble knights who could understand Feru language realized that there was a spy in the team!
"Those two guys dressed as mercenaries are enemies!! Kill them!"

Luke and another knight were blocked at the door by their men, and could only shout angrily to warn the servants who ran into the house first.

Leon and his companions rushed past Dason's sides, one on the left and one on the right, and did not try to attack from the front. They stopped, turned around, gripped their long swords, and stabbed the enemy's thighs at the base that was not completely covered by leg armor.

Even if it fails to penetrate the chain mail, the blow is powerful enough to pierce the enemy's thigh.

Glancing at the two mercenaries who had suddenly "turned against him", Duosen cursed inwardly, twisting his waist and bending his knees desperately, and using his sideways body to avoid sneak attacks on his weakly protected thighs.

With two teeth-grinding sounds, the blades of Leon and Azerien both slid across Baron Dausen's heavy leg armor, sparking sparks.

But this fleeting interruption was enough for Olivia to seize the opportunity they created.

The swords clashed.

A feint attack tricked Dosen, who was dealing with attacks from multiple directions in a panic.

The girl leaned back to avoid the opponent's hasty counterattack with the sword, and at the same time perfectly changed her sword posture.

She pulled her slender waist back suddenly, and swung her sword to launch a "furious attack" with a terrifying sound of wind.

With a bang, the Pi Tou Furious Slash smashed Duo Sen's stance hard, until the blade was stuck into the opponent's neck.

The cut skin wound immediately oozed bright red, and if the girl hadn't retracted her force in time, the sword would have been enough to cut into her neck.

Death passed by him in an instant, and Duosen was forced to kneel on one knee and stop moving with a chill all over his body.

Fortunately, he was thankful that the other party only wanted to hold him hostage and did not want to behead him, otherwise, he would not have had time to reveal his trump card.

Leon and Azerien took the opportunity to put their swords on the neck of the Kantadar noble from the side and back at the same time.

"Back off!" Azerien looked up and shouted in Uriah to the servants and knights who were nearby.

This loud shout was quite effective. The servants looked at the lord whose neck was strangled by three weapons and stopped immediately.

The leader is dead. They failed to protect their master. Even if these personal servants can return home alive, they will all be sentenced to death.

Two knights holding halberds squeezed through the crowd and looked at the hostage-held feudal lord, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Leon held down the blade with one hand, and took the opportunity to pry open the noble's right hand with his other hand, disarmed his knight's sword, and held it in his hand.

"Get out!" Azerien continued to warn: "Find three war horses and lead them to the door, then get out of our sight, or I will kill him!"

Hearing the authentic language behind the mask, Baron Doson chuckled and said, "You have learned Uriah well. Who taught you?"

"Shut up, you bastard Kantadar." Azerien turned around and cursed. The other party's question reminded the boy of his father who died in the battle on the day the city was captured.

"What are your plans for next? Are you going to take me hostage and escape on horseback? I don't believe you will release me after you get out." Not being killed immediately, Duosen couldn't help but think quickly.

"Instead of all dying, why don't we compare who has more hostages? If you don't let me go, I will have my people slaughter a villager every minute. Why don't we start with the girl's father?"

When he spoke the last few words, Duosen switched to speaking Feru and looked at the girl provocatively.

Olivia's face changed slightly. She was not worried about her father, as he had most likely been rescued by Lohak, but about those villagers who were still alive.

"You can try it." Leon suddenly interrupted contemptuously.

Since the other party used the Ferru language to provoke Olivia, he could understand it.

"My companions and I are not locals. Even if you chop up all the remaining villagers, it has nothing to do with me."

Leon sneered and lowered the blade, lowered his head and imitated the other party's tone, warning with an extremely honest and serious attitude: "And I tell you, our family has long been harmed by a Kantadar beast like you, and we can't wait to do some human cutting on you now.

How about this, let's compare, do you have more hostages or more meat on your body? If you don't order your men to obey within a quarter of an hour, I will chop off your limbs bit by bit. Hmm, how about starting with your dick first?"

Duosen frowned and fell silent after hearing this.

He could tell that the indifferent attitude in the other party's words did not sound fake. Obviously, these two guys who came out of nowhere did not care much about the life and death threats of other villagers.

When his attempt to delay failed, he looked at the blonde girl again.

Although the girl's eyes were filled with shock and anger because of his threats, she did not say anything to interfere with the other person's statement.

It's bad! Dosen thought that these two guys pretending to be mercenaries followed the girl here together, and he was afraid that the old blacksmith in the village house was no longer in his hands.

Olivia, standing by, tried hard to suppress her concern for the surviving villagers.

The girl tried to suppress the guilt in her heart, but as she was about to escape danger, she could not selfishly let Leon and others bear the threat for people who had nothing to do with them.

Seeing that the knights and servants blocking the door were still hesitant about their lord's attitude, Azerien raised his blade and put it to Dausen's ear, urging loudly: "Order them to do it, now!"

The boy looked as if he was about to cut off the other's ear.

"Okay, okay, you win."

Feeling the pain behind his ear, Duosen quickly called a halt. It would have been fine on the battlefield, but he didn't want to lose precious parts of his body due to such an unexpected situation.

As if he had compromised, he shouted to his men, "Listen to them, Luke, go get three horses, and you all go out and move away."

The knights and servants looked at each other, and had no choice but to obey. They slowly backed away and left the house again.

"Olivia, come to the back and keep an eye on him. If he makes any unusual movements, don't hesitate, just take action." Leon said, and taking advantage of this brief gap, he turned his head and said to Azerien: "Take off the armor on this guy and tie his hands."

Azerien nodded. Indeed, with the opponent's thick armor, if it weren't for Olivia's superb swordsmanship, he and Leon would have no chance of threatening the opponent, and even holding him hostage would be difficult.

The young man immediately put away his sword and worked with Leon to quickly remove the mortise and tenon joints and iron buckles of the other person's armor.

Duosen grunted twice but did not resist. He just let himself be stripped of his breastplate, the chain mail and the lining inside, leaving him with only a single layer of clothing on his upper body.

He closed his eyes, feeling the coolness of the sword tip on the back of his neck, wondering what he was thinking.

Picking up the rope that had bound Olivia on the ground, Azerien really tied the noble's hands tightly behind his back. After doing everything he could, both sides fell into a short and tense wait.

After a while, the knight outside the door brought three war horses as promised.

"go!"

Holding the knight's sword upside down in his left hand, he pressed the noble's chin to force him to stand up, with Leon in front, Azerien on the side, and Olivia behind.

The weapons of several people were placed against the noble's neck, chest, and waist, three vital parts, and they slowly walked out of the door.

Everything went smoothly, and the knights and servants did retreat far enough away.

Leon lowered his sword and stepped forward to try to lead the horse closer so that he could lift the noble hostage with his hands tied onto the horse's back.

No one noticed Baron Doson's chest, but under the cloth, there was a beetle crawling towards his heart like a cricket pupa.

Dasen's heart twitched silently.

I will remember the loss you caused me.

Under the collar, the necklace's rope was dragged by the moving pendant, swaying slightly against Duosen's chest.

The opportunity they had been waiting for had arrived. They were surrounded by their men and had nowhere to escape on the open village road.

The short-legged spikes on the pendant pierced his skin.

Baron Dausen's blood was boiling, his eyes widened, and his expression suddenly became ferocious.

The red that spread from bottom to top instantly dyed his skin all over, and the bulging blue veins made him look like a cooked shrimp.

Bang-!
The hemp ropes that bound his arms exploded.

The freed hands suddenly swung at an unimaginable speed, and a punch was thrown with inhuman force, landing on Azerien who was completely unable to react.

The mercenary's inferior breastplate dented, and the fist mark was as if it had been crushed by a war hammer. The boy was like a kite that had lost its string, his feet left the ground and flew backwards.

Olivia was surprised and immediately pushed the sword forward, trying to pierce the throat of the suddenly jumping Doson.

But the touch from the tip of the blade was as if it was pressing against thick leather armor, and the girl had to use all her strength to just penetrate a little bit.

There was no time to thrust further, and with her high-speed camera-like reaction perception, she saw the other person turn his neck to the side at an unimaginable speed.

The red fist wrapped in rolling heat waves crashed into his face.

In a hurry, the girl quickly changed her tactics and turned around to put away her sword.

She instantly realized the terrifying force. She couldn't use her sword to fight the enemy, for fear of being pushed back to the tip of the blade. She could only hastily block it with the blade facing forward.

There was a loud vibration from the collision of hard objects and steel.

The high-quality steel sword forged by the old blacksmith bent into an exaggerated arc, and the girl's petite body flew into the air due to inertia.

Leon, who had just reached out to grab the reins, heard two sudden muffled sounds coming from behind him.

The sound of a suit of armor being hit.

One is the loud noise of steel being bent!

Suddenly he felt the wind approaching from behind, and his instinctive action came before his reaction. The experience gained from many dangerous situations made Leon pounce without thinking.

Bang!
He narrowly avoided the heavy blow, but the horse in front of Leon was not so lucky.

The huge body suddenly bounced up, and the warhorse neighed in pain as if it was hit by a chariot, and fell to the ground, wailing.

Leon ran as fast as he could, and when he came to Olivia who had landed and stood firmly, he stopped and turned around, looking at the place where he had been standing in confusion.

I saw Duosen not far away, his face distorted like a demon.

He retracted his fist, and an unbearable heat swept over his body. Duosen simply tore off his shirt, revealing his red muscular upper body.

A trace of heat rose from his body, and on his chest was an insect-shaped gem pendant, tightly buckling his heart with its limbs, and densely packed veins spread over Duosen's upper body.

"Rook!"

Baron Doson, with an expression like a ferocious devil, stretched out his left hand, spread out his five fingers, and shouted at the knights running towards him from a distance.

The halberd-wielding knight, who had been through life and death for many years, was not surprised by the lord's change. He turned the halberd in his hand upside down and threw it hard.

Duosen caught the whistling long-handled halberd axe, and easily turned his fingers to relieve the force. The heavy handle hit the ground with a bang, raising dust.

"I gave you the chance to choose your bed."

Duosen's voice was hoarse. He raised his halberd, held the handle horizontally with both hands, and walked towards the blonde girl who had regained her footing in the distance.

"But since you choose to fight, I will give you a real fight."

Olivia frowned, not understanding the sudden change in the other person.

She learned swordsmanship from her father's teachings and also figured out what fighting was on her own.

But the girl had no idea of ​​the sudden change that had occurred to the enemy in front of her.

Facing the "Red Knight" who was approaching with a halberd in hand,
Olivia dropped the long sword in her hand that was bent more than ninety degrees, and took the Kantadar noble sword handed to her by Leon.

She took a step forward, adjusted her breathing, and resumed her fighting stance.

Leon glanced in the direction where Azerien flew out. He saw his partner lying on the ground, his life or death unknown. He was anxious, but he had no strength to check on him at the moment.

Then he looked at the noble Kantadar who had his shirt torn off like a second-stage BOSS.
He wondered if he had offended some local god of luck.

Magic? Or something else?

His eyes lingered for a moment on the gem pendant that was shining red on the nobleman's heart, and Leon sighed. Maybe it was that thing.

Turn around and stand behind Olivia.

Leon raised his long sword towards the enemies surrounding him from the other side, and skillfully performed the middle stance of the ancient style, giving a final reminder to the girl behind him.

"Olivia, if you can, try to destroy that glowing thing on his chest."

Standing back to back with the boy behind her, facing the enemies in front and behind, the girl replied softly, "Yes."

Although she was in a desperate situation, Olivia felt a sense of calm for no apparent reason.

"I will defeat him, I will! I will definitely let you get out alive!"

The girl assured her companions behind her.

Leon listened to the girl's promise and couldn't help but joked: "Haha, I believe you, you are the lion of Selva."

(End of this chapter)