Heart of the Castle

Chapter 378 Accidental Assistance, Death Broken Wings
The black sword collided with the bear-headed battle axe, and the sound was like a crystal bursting. The black fiery fire rushed in, but was cut and shattered by countless sharp black lines in the next instant, collapsing into harmless sparks.He was at a disadvantage in fighting qi confrontation, and Tang Na could have retreated and dodged, but he gritted his teeth and refused to retreat. The black line then pierced through the protection of Li Huo's fighting qi, causing blood to bloom on his arm immediately.

A fierce light flashed in James' eyes. He had had enough of this stubborn opponent. He yanked back the black sword and made a terrible sound of metal friction. Before he could attack again, the silver sword light struck from the side, causing He had to block it with a backhand sword.

Compared with Tang Na's Fierce Fire Fighting Qi, which had reached the peak of Sanhua, Li Wei's Sacrificial Fighting Spirit was slightly weaker in terms of intensity, but it was only a greater threat to James.It had been a long time since James had been promoted to the title of knight, and his fighting spirit had stabilized at the early stage of Tianhua, and the black line formed was extremely sharp.However, the foundation of this kind of grudge is biased towards the dark power. It is easy to suppress the Fierce Fire grudge, which also belongs to the dark power, but when it comes into contact with the silver-white flame of the sacrificial grudge, what appears is not suppression, but a violent explosion. After that, cancel each other out.

Relying on the huge gap in fighting spirit strength, James swung Li Wei's sword away, and then the black sword swung a fierce slash from top to bottom.Li Wei resisted this sword quite reluctantly, the silver-white vindictive light on the knight's sword scattered like a burst, and he took a step back involuntarily.

If James can take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, he is confident that he can kill the young opponent in front of him within half a minute. However, the heavy bear-headed battle ax has already whizzed towards his neck, so he can only give up the pursuit and turn to deal with another opponent.

So the battle situation returned to the beginning.

It would have been better if he was on equal terms with another title knight. The highest of the two opponents in front of him was the Grand Knight Commander. This made the always conceited James' eyes fire, and the Black Sword's offensive was even more fierce and unstoppable.

However, Li Wei and Tang Na are not opponents that can be easily defeated. The blood alliance mark allows them to accurately understand each other's intentions without words or gestures. They are simply the best partners.In the beginning, since the two had never fought together like this before, the cooperation seemed a little rusty, but as the battle continued, the two became more and more familiar with each other's martial arts, and the cooperation was seamless.

The black sword parried the tomahawk, counterattacked, forced the opponent back, parried the knight sword again, bounced back the blow, retreated, and blocked the tomahawk again... James gritted his teeth, and the stalemate made him anxious.Although he didn't have time to distract himself from watching the battles in other places, the cursing and shouting in his ears gradually became rarer, which meant that those battles had come to an end.

Of course, the winning party cannot be the special operations team.

"It seems that it's time to use this card!" Although James was reluctant to give up, he understood a little bit more. If he still hides the trump card when he needs to play it, then he may not have the opportunity to use it at all.Thinking of this, he suddenly slashed at Li Wei with his sword.Taking advantage of the young knight's retreat and Donna rushing to rescue him, James quickly stepped back a few steps with his sword in his chest.

Both Li Wei and Tang Na knew that the other party retreated voluntarily, rather than being forced to retreat, so neither of them chose to pursue, but stood still and focused on guard.

The fight just now wasn't too long, but all three of them felt slightly tired, their breathing began to be short of breath, and the hot air they exhaled evaporated into white mist in front of them.Li Wei was grazed by the black sword on his left upper arm in a reluctant block, and the blood soaked his robe red, and then condensed into bright red blood ice.

Tang Na's injuries were more serious. His hands were ripped apart from the elbows, and blood flowed like a bloody net.His forehead was also scratched by the cutting fighting spirit. The wound was not too deep, but the blood flowing into his eyes made him feel a little uncomfortable.

In contrast, James didn't have any scars on his body, showing that he was able to do a job with ease in the battle just now.However, the overall situation is just the opposite. He has been surrounded by mercenaries, adventurers, and werewolves armed with various weapons. There are nearly a hundred corpses lying on the ground, some are negligent mercenaries, and the others are all from attacks. By.Most of the corpses had more than one wound, and the hot blood that flowed out steamed faintly, gradually congealing in the cold air, and what flowed on the ground mixed with snow and mud, forming a bloody mud.

James felt a slight pain in his heart, and there was a trace of sadness in his eyes.These soldiers of the Special Operations Team were all trained by him. Emotionally, they are not just his subordinates, but his brothers and sisters. Now they are all buried here because of a wrong judgment.But then the veteran assassin buried his sorrow with steely will, and his eyes turned cold and gloomy.

"Knight without coat of arms, you have nowhere to escape now." Li Wei said suddenly, breaking the silence, "Put down your weapons and surrender, and then accept the judgment of the kingdom's law."

James' expression was indifferent, making one wonder if he hadn't heard what he just said.So Li Wei raised his voice and said it again, but still didn't get any response.

"Bandit Knight, do you want to surrender?" Don Na's roar sounded from the side. The bear-headed battle ax was raised above his head, and the fierce flames and black flames surrounded it. The air around the battle ax was distorted by the high temperature. "If you don't surrender, you will die!"

"If you don't surrender, you will die!" Shouts like landslides came from all directions, and the weapons raised high were like a forest of steel. Many of the blades were stained with blood that had not yet dried up, shining coldly under the moonlight. shine.

James finally reacted this time, but unlike what Levi had imagined, he neither refused to surrender in a cold tone, nor put down his weapon in frustration.On the contrary, his eyes flickered with mocking light, it seemed that he was not surrounded by people and unable to fly, but that he had mastered the life and death of everyone here, and could take anyone's life with just a move of a finger.

Sure enough, his fingers moved, and he took out a sheepskin scroll from behind the thick breastplate.The corners of Li Wei's eyes suddenly twitched violently. James' figure was always shrouded in blood-red light in the field of vision of the probing technique, but when he took out the scroll, the blood-red color immediately turned into purple-red, and it hurt people's eyes. !
"Stop him!" The voice was like thunder, and at the same time Li Wei rushed forward, and the knight sword drew a silvery white lightning.Almost at the same time, Tang Na charged up with a bear-headed battle axe, followed by Bau...

However, the chance to prevent James from unfolding the magic scroll has disappeared.The ribbon on the outside of the scroll fell off almost instantly, and then a cloud of gray magic light flashed in James' hands, and a series of hoarse and weird sounds came out of his mouth.

"Ashes of death, call, answer, wither and decay, the living wither!"

This string of voices has an indescribably old taste, it sounds very slow, and each word has a long tail sound, but Li Wei was surprised to find that although he said the first word from James, They were about to rush in front of him, but when he uttered the last word, the distance between them still didn't shorten at all!
After the last word was uttered, the sheepskin scroll in James' hand burned violently, and the gray light curtain spread in all directions, engulfing everyone in it.

The world in Li Wei's eyes suddenly turned gray, everything around him seemed so unreal, the air became frozen, and he felt like he was in a thick liquid.He suppressed the doubts in his heart, and rushed towards James. Only by destroying him could this terrible magic be ended.

The road under his feet seems to never end, and Li Wei is running.But the distance between him and James has not shortened at all. Levi stopped in doubt and raised his head, only to see James stretching out a finger to him, with a group of gray and white strange runes etched on the fingertips. The finger grows bigger and bigger until it fills his entire world...

In Li Wei's last consciousness, a familiar old voice sounded in the depths of his mind.

"The silver of truth, calling, answering, piercing through falsehood, and fading away the color of death!"

A group of silver-white rays of light burst out suddenly, reawakening Li Wei's gradually blurred consciousness. It was not a finger that was getting bigger and bigger in front of him, but a black light full of dead silence!He subconsciously raised his long sword to block it, and the sound of the blades clashing was sharp and piercing, as if something had been broken. The burst of sparks made Li Wei's cheeks tingle, and at the same time, he was completely awake.

After missing a single hit, James' eyes flashed with surprise, "You...you can still move?" What came out of his mouth was not so much a language, but a strange gasp, "That old guy Kallman clearly swears To put it bluntly, only knights who have reached the level of fighting spirit can resist the effect of this magic." He looked around, and then seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, there is only you, you go to die!"

Except for Li Wei, all the people surrounding James stood there like puppets, including Donna. Covered with a thick layer of black frost.

Li Wei took a deep breath. Although he didn't know what happened, he was very aware of his situation.Just now Li Wei and Tang Na teamed up to fight against the enemy, but they were both suppressed by the knight in front of him who had no coat of arms and no surname. Now he was alone, fighting with swordsmanship alone, he might not be an opponent!
"Fireball!" Li Wei muttered silently, and at the same time stretched out his left hand. However, something happened that made him unable to contain his surprised expression. The light red light gathered towards his left hand was pitifully small. A faint red light spot appeared above the palm.

James' facial muscles twisted from time to time, as if he was enduring some severe pain, but the black sword in his hand came across the air without the slightest hesitation, and countless broken black lines were attached to the blade.

Li Wei had no choice but to disperse the unformed fireball technique, holding swords in both hands to parry.The silver sword light and the black sword light intertwined and intertwined, and the sound of sword blade clashing was endless.For a moment, the two seemed to be at a stalemate, but in the blink of an eye, the black sword light had the overall upper hand, and a black line attacked from the gap between the silver and white sword lights. Li Wei barely dodged the sword and stepped back. One step, and then continued to parry, he blocked the second sword and dodged the third sword.

The fourth sword slid under the knight's sword that was burning with silver-white light, and the pitch-black blade bit deeply into the young lord's right armpit. The thick coat didn't have any defensive effect.Li Wei snorted in pain and staggered back, a little bit of blood spilled from the wound, dripping on the ground like a raging fire.

James let out a mocking laugh hoarse like a howling wolf, but halfway through the laugh, he was interrupted by a violent cough.When he raised his head again, his eyes were already stained with blood, his cheek muscles were trembling, and all the veins on his neck were bursting out.

"Damn the gods, the side effects of this magic are worse than what that old guy Kallman warned." James cursed vaguely, and then raised the black sword towards Li Wei. "Go to die now!" He announced, and then the black sword flashed and slammed down on Li Wei's head.

Li Wei reluctantly raised his sword to meet him, but because his right armpit and left arm were injured, the severe pain caused him to feel weak just by lifting the knight sword. He couldn't block this sword at all. Can't escape.James also fully understood this, and he couldn't help but let out a victory cry.

However, his celebration was a bit early.

With a clang, the black sword was blocked by a stick wrapped in dirty linen strips rather than a sword.The person who blocked this fierce blow for Li Wei was wearing a very ordinary hard leather armor, with a somewhat lazy look on his unshaven face. He was the middle-aged adventurer who Li Wei had faintly felt afraid of.

"Hey, who is that... Twilight Knight Riocos?" The middle-aged adventurer tilted his head and said with a smile to the surprised Levi, "My hands are itchy, so give me this opponent?"

"Damn the gods, who are you?" James growled angrily. He tried to pull the black sword back from the stick-like thing, but the black sword seemed to be cast into the stick. As if together, no matter how hard he tried, nothing moved.

The middle-aged adventurer held a stick in one hand, with a rude smile on his face, "What does it matter?" He asked back, "You just need to know that I am the guard hired by this caravan. Caravan robbers, I have the right to beat them up!"

When it came to beating someone, the middle-aged adventurer's eyes lit up, and he looked impatient.James was about to yell at him, but in a blink of an eye, the middle-aged adventurer didn't give him a chance to speak at all, and the stick was knocked off the head with a whining sound.

James blocked the horizontal sword, the sword and the stick clashed, and the black sword let out a whine.His face suddenly changed, and at the same time, he felt an astonishingly strong force from his wrist. The cutting fighting energy that had reached the elementary level of Tianhua seemed to have no effect on the stick at all, and was directly shattered by this force.

"Bandit, go to hell!" The middle-aged adventurer yelled excitedly, hitting James' head and shoulders heavily with the stick in his hand.His movements seemed clumsy and not very fast, but James blocked it very hard. The middle-aged adventurer didn't seem to use the power of fighting energy, but James' cutting fighting energy couldn't hurt the opponent's weapon anyway. Only a lot of linen strips were cut off, and these strips fluttered with the middle-aged adventurer's slamming, looking dazzling.

The battle between the middle-aged adventurer and James was completely a replica of the battle between James and Levi just now, but this time it was James who barely resisted. Every time the stick hit the black sword heavily, James could feel the black sword in his hand There were bursts of mourning, as if this weapon was about to be unable to withstand more and more terrifying attacks, and was weeping for its own destruction.

James retreated step by step under the onslaught of the middle-aged adventurer, and at the same time kept looking for opportunities to counterattack.The middle-aged adventurer's attacks became more and more fierce, and he often rushed forward, hoping to go around James' side and launch an attack.However, as one of the strongest assassins trained by the Magic Mountain family, James has a very keen sense of danger. When the middle-aged adventurer turned around, he turned around. The face of the young adventurer left.

The middle-aged adventurer's footsteps suddenly slipped, his body staggered, and there was a deadly pause in his violent attack.Although he quickly regained his balance, James, who had been looking for an opportunity, had already seized this opportunity. The black sword flew up and down, and counterattacked towards the middle-aged adventurer.

What James got was a head-on blow.

The middle-aged adventurer did not retreat an inch, the stick almost made him dance into a phantom, and James slashed at the phantom with a sword.There didn't seem to be any stagnation when the black sword slashed in, but a series of blows sounded immediately, and the hilt of the sword bounced in James' hands, twisting and turning like a living snake.

"Damn the gods, is this flaw intentionally exposed?" James turned this thought in his mind, but in the next moment, his thoughts were filled with pain as if they were bursting.

The stick in the middle-aged adventurer's hand struck James' right elbow, where the armor protection was undoubtedly the weakest. The thin steel plate, like some kind of arthropod's carapace, immediately dented, and James' face turned blue with pain.But enduring pain is a skill every assassin must master. James' counterattack came quickly. He dropped the black sword in his hand and grabbed the stick in the middle-aged adventurer's hand with both hands.

"Oh, do you want to compare your strength?" The middle-aged adventurer smiled happily, but his tone became depressed the next moment, "Father God, I have no time."

Before James understood the meaning of this sentence, he lightened his hand, leaving only a flimsy part of the stick he grabbed, "This thing is actually a scabbard?" James' face changed drastically, and he saw the middle-aged adventurer A golden long sword was drawn from the stick, the sword body was coiled with ivy patterns, and the hilt was inlaid with a huge ruby ​​of the highest quality.

"This sword? Damn the gods, you are..."

There was a flash of golden sword light, and then James' voice stopped. He swayed from side to side a few times, dropped the black sword in his hand, and covered the huge gap on his neck with both hands, where blood was gushing out. Just dye his hands and his chest bright red!

James struggled and tried to escape, but as the blood flowed out, he felt it was difficult to breathe and his vision became blurred. "I don't want... to die." James muttered and knelt on the ground. He vaguely saw the middle-aged adventurer walking in front of him, and made a nondescript sword salute to him with that gorgeous golden long sword.

The unimaginably sharp blade pierced through the thick breastplate, and it took no more effort than plunging into the muddy swamp, followed by skin, muscle and bone.The severe pain exploded from James' chest, causing him to let out a miserable howl.

This was also the last sound made by Reaper's right wing, the captain of the special operations team, and the title knight James. Then the long sword was pulled out of his body, and the pain gradually disappeared, leaving only darkness in front of his eyes.

　The weekend is coming, and Shen Duxing wishes all book lovers a happy holiday.

　　
　
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