Heart of the Castle

Chapter 377
"Damn the gods, these guys are... wolfheads?" James let out a low growl in astonishment, almost unable to believe his eyes.The werewolf is a terrifying monster living in the rotting swamp. Its individual combat power is comparable to that of a well-trained elite warrior, and its power far exceeds that of ordinary humans.It was a tough enough opponent for a Special Operations fighter, even on a completely fair basis.

Although the werewolves belonged to an intelligent race that could communicate, these guys had brutal and ferocious personalities and were generally hostile to humans, so no one had ever heard of that caravan being able to hire a whole team of werewolf warriors.

Under the moonlight, the werewolf and the assailant were like two groups of wild beasts, attacking each other.The tomahawks and flails collided with each other, creating a majestic metal symphony. The terrifying power of the werewolves gave them a decisive upper hand in the first confrontation. In the instant of contact, there were nearly ten injured special operations soldiers. Unable to resist, the brains smashed by the flail burst, and the sternum collapsed.

The entanglement didn't take long, and the attackers rolled back like a huge wave hitting the reef, leaving behind more than a dozen corpses. The werewolf let out a strange howl to declare victory, and then continued to charge forward, the flail issued The whining sound is breathtaking.

However, this time it was the turn of the werewolf's attack to be frustrated.The strict training received by the soldiers of the special operations team allowed them to quickly switch between attack and defense. Some of them fought desperately with the werewolf man and retreated while fighting, while the other part quickly pointed the handles of battle axes and spears towards the enemy. He stood down on the ground, held it tightly with the other hand, forming a steel line of defense that was difficult to pass at will, and then used a large shield decorated with iron nails to build a barrier.

In the next moment, the opponents in front of the werewolf retreated one after another, and then hid in the shield barrier.The werewolf roared and gave chase, the flail slammed on the shield like a torrential rain, sending sawdust flying everywhere.However, that shield wall was strong enough, even though it was trembling unceasingly, it tenaciously resisted this round of onslaught.Immediately afterwards, the spear pierced through the gap in the shield and plunged into the bodies of several werewolfs who were caught off guard, almost killing them.

For this tortoise-like formation, the wolf-headed man who is not good at attacking fortified positions tried several times in a row, but failed to break through, causing many of his own people to be injured instead.At this time, a rough horn sounded in the caravan. After hearing it, the werewolf had no choice but to retreat, and joined up with the adventurers and mercenaries who had breathed a sigh of relief, besieging the attackers layer by layer.

"It's really a tough nut to crack, but it's very interesting." A particularly burly werewolf man gasped and said. He was stabbed by two spears when he was attacking the shield formation, and his chest was bleeding, but He didn't care about it, but instead showed a wild smile.

"Master Worf of the Dark Two Wolves, remember that I reminded you before the battle started. Once the opponent changes his position, he will immediately retreat. Why do you ignore everything when you start a battle?" A thin voice shouted angrily.

Hearing this voice, the burly wolf-headed man scratched his scalp in embarrassment, but he replied with a confident voice, "I'm sorry, we were bored in the caravan for a long time, and finally got a chance to exercise our muscles and bones. Get up and forget what you said."

"Hey, don't worry about this for now." Another wolf-headed man who was almost as tall came over, the flail in his hand was covered with blood, "How do we break this turtle's shell?" He pointed at the assailant The strong shield barrier formed by them cursed angrily.

"It would be great if Sir Grace was here, his armor-piercing arrows are the best for dealing with these turtle shells." Babrupa muttered, then raised his head and suggested, "Let the mercenaries go up and try, how about Sample?"

"It's not a very good idea. Wolfheads can't do it, and mercenaries can't do it." A young man's voice sounded from behind them, and then there was a fierce and high-pitched neigh, which shook the surrounding oak trees. The ice needles rustled down.

"Your Excellency Li...Liokos, why are you here? Don't you still have to be on guard against that person?" Babrupa turned his head and asked in surprise.

"I didn't notice any trace of that person's appearance. Perhaps, as you guessed, that person didn't stay here." Li Wei rode the Dark Nightmare in the North and walked slowly, followed by Donna holding a bear-headed battle axe. , They did not participate in the battle just now, but focused all their attention around the battlefield.

However, the terrifying knight who made Li Wei feel very dangerous never appeared. Although another blood-red light group that marked a strong enemy appeared in the field of vision of the probing technique, the difference from the former was obvious.

"That's great, the black actor is really powerful!" Seeing that the attackers were surrounded, and the merchants couldn't help but get out of the carriages they were hiding in, Mr. Hu Lun was the most excited, and ran to Li Beside Wei, there was a sound of admiration. "Master Twilight Knight, when these guys first appeared, they frightened me."

Li Wei shook his head and said, "It's not that simple, Mr. Hullen, the battle is not over yet."

"But it's a deal, isn't it?" said Mr. Hullen. "These people can't escape."

"But the next battle is still tough." Li Wei sighed slightly, and then the knight sword came out of its sheath with a clang.

"Why? Do these robbers still dare to continue to resist?" Mr. Hu Lun asked in surprise.

"First of all, these people are not robbers, because robbers have neither such discipline nor such equipment." Li Wei looked at the attackers coldly, "Secondly, their leader hasn't taken action yet, I don't think he will Willing to admit defeat."

In the last half of the sentence, Li Wei deliberately amplified his voice, and there was a small commotion in the opposite shield barrier, as he imagined, but what happened afterwards was beyond his expectation.The barrier immediately exploded, and every attacker let out a terrifying roar, and charged in all directions with the weapons in their hands!
No one could have expected this kind of thing to happen. The number of attackers was far less than that of the caravan's guards, and they could only hold on with the cover of their shields. Once the shield collapsed, their doom would come, but this stupid A scene happened in front of everyone.

The bloodthirsty werewolf also had beast-like intuition, and was ready before the attackers rushed up, but the caravan guards composed of mercenaries and adventurers were not so lucky.From the beginning of the battle, the attackers had been falling into the trap set by the black actor, and suffered several setbacks in a row, which made the caravan guards seriously underestimate the strength of these people.Many people believed that the outcome was decided, and the attackers would either find a way to break out and escape, or choose to surrender, so although their weapons were in their hands, they had already disarmed themselves mentally.

This night, the first victims of the caravan appeared among the mercenaries.When the attackers rushed up, they either casually waved their swords to meet them, or they were so busy talking and joking that they didn't even have time to raise their weapons.

These stupid guys died immediately under the tomahawk and heavy sword, as if the glass was hit hard with a hammer, the encirclement formed by the mercenaries collapsed outwards, and the people in the front row fell to the ground, wailing and crying for help One after another.

Li Wei turned pale with anger, "Get out of the caravan guards! The black actor comes with me!" His shout sounded from the chaotic crowd, and the silver fighting spirit burst into flames, like a huge torch lit up in the dark night, causing panic The mercenaries in the middle were awakened by the sound, separated to the left and right, and made way for a passage. Immediately afterwards, the Dark Nightmare in the North let out a hiss, and rushed towards the attacker like a black whirlwind.

The Dark Nightmare of the Northern Territory was much taller and more majestic than the mounts of ordinary knights, and when it charged head-on, it was as if a black mountain was crushing it.If it was an ordinary soldier, they would inevitably dodge and retreat in panic, even veterans who have been baptized in battle are no exception.However, these attackers were all elite fighters from the Special Operations Team of the Death Knights. Seeing Li Wei charging forward, instead of retreating, they raised their battle axes to meet them.

Their courage was rewarded with a flash of red light. The Dark Nightmare in the North launched a special skill to resist the ring of fire. A smell of black smoke and burning.

Li Wei took advantage of the victory to pursue, swung his sword and slashed at an attacker, who held up a studded wooden shield to block, but with a flash of silver light, the wooden shield and the man's arms flew apart, before the attacker had time to scream out. With a sound, the sword light flashed again, and his head, together with the iron mask, was cut in half from the middle.

Then Li Wei continued to ride forward, and the knight sword swirling with silver flames slashed at an attacker who was raising a spear. The man just saw his companion's death, so he threw the spear out of his hand, and then turned around. run.Li Wei blocked the flying spear with his horizontal sword. Before the man could run a few steps, he was trampled down by the iron hooves of the Black Nightmare in the Northern Territory, and then trampled on the snow.

Donner, Worf, Bau and others rushed forward afterwards. The attackers' final counterattack gradually collapsed under their fierce attack, and they retreated one after another. Li Wei saw Worf smashing heavily on an attacker's iron mask with his flail , the blood spurted out, and the entire face of that unfortunate guy was sunken, and he was dead when he fell to the ground.Another attacker with a spear wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack from behind, but he turned around suddenly, grabbed the spear with one hand, then swung it up with the weapon and threw it more than ten meters away.

Worf looked up to the sky and let out a terrifying long howl, so that he almost didn't hear Li Wei's hasty shout.

"Wolf, be careful around you."

The werewolf leader reacted almost as soon as the warning sound hit his ears. He swung his flail vigorously to the left, and the barbed iron ball made a whining sound of piercing the wind.The flail hit something, and there was a clang, but the impact was surprisingly small. At the same time, Worf felt a sudden light in his hand, and the thick iron chain of the flail was cut off as easily as a red willow branch.

Surprised, Worf hurriedly wanted to back away, but it was too late, as soon as his footsteps moved, the nimble figure had already slammed into the werewolf leader's chest with a sword.

The edge of the sword was pulled out, bringing up red blood, Wolf roared, struggled and staggered two steps back, knelt down on the ground, his vision quickly blurred.The man was about to come up to make another strike, when a bear-headed battle ax and a knight's sword came from left and right at the same time, forcing him to return his sword to protect himself.

Li Wei saw that Worf was severely injured in front of his eyes, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. He was suddenly enraged, and the knight's sword slashed fiercely, and the air was covered with silver-white lines of fire.However, although his opponent is tall and wears heavy knight armor, his skills are very flexible. The long sword in his hand is stable to parry the knight's sword slashing, and at the same time, he has time to block the bear-headed battle ax that is attacking from the other side. , with one enemy against two, he did not lose the wind in the slightest.

Li Wei and Donna became more and more frightened as they fought, but they didn't know that James was not much less surprised than they were.

That burly man's bear-headed tomahawk was burning with black Fiendflame, and every blow was extremely heavy, and his strength could definitely reach the level of a great knight commander; while the other knight with silver-white flames swirling around his sword looked very young, But the swordsmanship is dense and fierce, not inferior to a high-ranking knight who has experienced many battles.Only one such opponent can cause a lot of trouble, and now the two are attacking left and right, which makes James feel extremely difficult.

As the captain of the special operations team of the Death Knights, James has far more grasp of the battle situation and combat experience than Levi and Donner. He is now very clear that the attack on this caravan has completely failed.There were many factors that caused this failure, but the most important thing was that he greatly underestimated the power of the caravan guards.Especially the two people in front of him. He hadn't heard that the caravan could hire the Grand Knight Commander as a guard.

"Maybe there is some secret hidden here, I have to take this secret back." James found a good excuse for his retreat, "and the task of diverting the attention of the Northern County Sheriff has also been completed, as long as I Defeat these two guys in front of me, and no one here can stop me!" Thinking of this, James suddenly jumped back, escaped from the pincer attack of Levi and Donna, and then the black long sword turned from defense to offense, and the momentum of the sword Violent and swift, it rolled back towards the two of them.

James' long sword flicked from left to right, so fast that it was almost impossible to see, only strange black lines marked the trajectory of the blade.However, it is not easy to quickly defeat Tang Na and Li Wei. Although the two have never teamed up against the enemy before, they can communicate with each other consciously at any time with the help of the blood alliance.What it shows is that the offensive and defensive links are like one person, parrying and resisting James' weird black sword's offensive one by one, and then taking the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

"It's dangerous to go on like this! We must reverse the immediate disadvantage immediately." James quickly thought about tactics, and at the same time continued to maintain a violent attack like a storm. Although he suppressed Levi and Donner here, but in other battlefields On the ground, there are very few attackers who are still struggling, and most of them have died under the siege of werewolves and mercenaries.

At this time, a few kilometers away from the battlefield, Lord Gnat Eyes and his young attendants were observing the battle situation through a magic crystal ball. They saw the soldiers of the Special Operations Team fall to the ground one by one. Lord Gnat Eyes wore a pair of golden There is a hint of pity in the eyes, but at the same time, it is more like the cold light of the severe winter in the north.

"Your Excellency, how did Lord James lose, and how could he lose so badly?" the young attendant couldn't help asking, his voice full of doubts.

"Of course he will fail, and most of his own life will be at stake." The voice of the Lord of the Eyes was very calm, and there was no trace of emotional ups and downs. "From the beginning, he didn't understand what he was ambushing. Who is the target, it is really stupid to treat a griffin with hidden minions as a kitten."

"A griffin with hidden minions?" The young attendant's eyes flickered, looking at one of the two people who were fighting James in the crystal ball, "Your Excellency, if you are to command this battle, what should you do?" To win?"

There was a cold smile on the corner of the Lord's mouth, "I will command? No, if it were me, this battle would never be here and now. Because I never fight when the enemy is unclear or the situation is unclear. will not fight on the battlefield chosen by the enemy."

"But my lord, you once said that a snake without a head can't walk, and a soldier without a leader can't fight." The young attendant argued, "As long as you do it yourself, these two people will be dead long ago, and the rest will not matter." Is it easy to handle?"

"You know my strength very well, so you make this judgment, which is much better than James." The Lord with Eyes caressed the hilt of his waist, with a slight hint of arrogance on his face, "But it's not enough, because you Without accurately judging the strength of the opponent, if Li Weiston only has this strength, it is impossible for him to repel the demon army, even if it is just an advance force. I have a hunch that even if I do it myself, I am not sure Can keep Liveston in Duskwood."

"How is this possible?" The young attendant cried out in surprise, "Your Excellency, you think this guy is too strong, don't you? In my opinion, he might not even be able to pass James' test."

"It's very possible." Lord Gale Eyes nodded and said with certainty, "James holds a trump card in his hand. It is a magic scroll made by the great magister Karman. Although it can only be used once, it is very powerful. He is afraid." His golden pupils seemed to have flames burning, and his voice was as low as a raving, "If this card is used properly, it will definitely surprise Levi Ston and even kill him. But no matter the result No matter what, James will lose this trump card in his hand. "

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